bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Workaholism and its symptoms in individuals manifesting mental disorders: a clinical analysis based on a case study
Authors: Dobrowolska Małgorzata , Izydorczyk Bernadetta
Published: October 2017

Workaholism is an exceptionally complex psychological phenomenon that has been widely described in the literature from numerous theoretical perspectives. The common assumption in describing psychological profiles of individuals characterised by the so-called workaholic attitude to work and life pertains to the presence of many various mental disorders manifested by a given person. These include depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, psychosomatic disorders and personality disorders. Persons who manifest different stages of inner compulsion are characterised by the absence of control and distance to increased professional activity. Over time, psychopathological symptoms become displayed in the psychological functioning of such individuals, which requires treatment. Moreover, a workaholic patient needs also medical, psychological or psychotherapeutic assistance. The aim of this article is to determine the significance of differential diagnoses of workaholics’ psychological profiles by means of examining clinical case reports to provide a broader and a more in-depth view on treatment and directions to be taken in psychological assistance. By presenting the theoretical grounds of workaholism, the authors focused primarily on presenting clinical aspects of an individual’s negative functioning (detrimental to his or her development and health) in the organisation and structure of a given work situation. Clinical cases reports pertaining to patients suffering from workaholism are not common in the literature. For this reason, the article aimed primarily at describing three psychological profiles of individuals who manifested workaholism with comorbid mental disorders.
DDP EFL Student Teachers’ Perceptions About the Qualities of a Professional Teacher
Authors: Bekereci Melike
Published: October 2017

This study explores how EFL student teachers of an undergraduate dual diploma program describe the qualities of a professional teacher after spending a year in their partner university in the United States, and after experiencing international and local practice teaching contexts. As a case study, the data were obtained through in-depth interviews, student teachers’ observation journals, and a survey. The interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. In addition, student teachers’ observation journals were gathered on a weekly basis. As a supplementary tool, International Survey (TALIS) was administered to all participants. The collected data suggested that study abroad and international short-term fieldwork experience made contributions to their perceptions about the ideal teacher thanks to broadening their worldviews about multiculturalism and diversity, and improving their personal skills, including human relation and communication skills. As a result of these experiences, the prospective teachers re-shaped their perceptions and attributed new features indicating interpersonal skills to the image of a professional teacher. The study also revealed that after returning to Turkey and completing Practice Teaching course in one of the cooperating schools, their perceptions were re-shaped again under the influence of experiencing a real teaching context with the same students for a long time. They indicated that while international fieldwork and study abroad experience showed them being fluent in English, patient, eager to raise human beings, and being able to address individual differences in a classroom, thanks to local practice teaching experience, they added new features to them, including love of teaching, motivating students for life-long learning, being a facilitator to help them find their own path, attending to the learner, getting along with students within the framework of respect, kindness and temperateness, dealing with disruptive behaviors and accomplishing classroom management by developing techniques to create a safe and pleasant learning environment for students.
Integration of Technology Through Digital Portfolios in Transformative Foreign Language Teacher Education for Professional Development
Authors: Hamiloğlu Kamile
Published: October 2017

Foreign language teacher education has been having a shift from a transmissive into a transformative and progressive perspective with which pre-service teachers (student teachers) have become more aware of their own learning, growth and progress since the beginnings of the 2000s, in particular. What transformative teacher education is designed for today is that a prospective teacher is to be aware of how they are learning to teach by themselves. Transformative teacher education focusses mainly on pre-service teachers’ awareness of how they are becoming a teacher and what is happening throughout their becoming since they can transfer all of that experience into their own future careers and their prospective students’ lives. With the integration of technology, we, teacher educators, have more opportunities today, to witness our student teachers’ (pre-service education teachers’) awareness situation and their stories of becoming teachers. Digital portfolios which provide them to save all of their written work as a digital copy throughout months, even years, help us be constant witnesses of their professional growth and development throughout the years they attend the faculty of education. This also gives way to make our evaluation from many different perspectives: we can see how they prepare their paper work as lesson plans, worksheets, reports, checklist and so on and besides, we can read their digital journals where they write their thoughts, opinions, ideas and feelings about their own practices, experience and learning, which would make their becoming stories a very humanistic cooperation and collaboration work. This paper intends to present a longitudinal research on the digital portfolio of pre-service (student) teachers of FLTE in a state university, İstanbul, Turkey for two years from 2015 to 2017. During their final years (year 4), approximately 120 student teachers kept a digital portfolio in which they saved their lesson plans, observation checklists, and teaching reports about and in a practicum course at the faculty and the practicum in primary and secondary schools in İstanbul. This paper evaluated the process and outcomes of these portfolios in terms of their contributions to the student teachers’ professional developments regarding pre-service teachers’ reported reflections. The results showed that the digital portfolios, especially their digital journals provided quite positive outcomes relevant to their awareness on their professional development.
The Visibility Of Masculine And Feminine Languages In Columns
Authors: Arslan Berna , ARSLAN Erhan , SEZER Taner
Published: October 2017

With the beginning of the feminist movement, gender studies developed over the "woman phenomenon” and focused only on woman researches for many years. Gender and media relations investigated in the main axis of “women's representation in the media”. The "representation of women in media texts" tried to problematized in the perspective of content analysis, discourse analysis and semiology and over these representation forms, "the image of women in patriarchal society" tried to be revealed. In recent years, as the stereotyped roles attached to man and woman underwent a change, the concept of gender has begun to be examined in different dimensions. Researches about media professionals show the existence of a male dominated media structure is still out there. As of March 2014, according to bianet.org and based on mastheads, women journalists were represented by 19% whereas men 81% in Turkish newspapers. Therefore, the news language still regenerates sexist representations as it carries masculine characteristics. The columns, that the agenda is interpreted from different angles and presented to the readers, are accepted as an important and effective content of the newspapers. Columnists examine the agenda, propose solutions to problems and present their ideas in a specific narrative and linguistic style of their own. This study studies how male and female stereotypes attributed to man and woman in social life are represented by columnists. A specialized corpus, named “TS Column Corpus” was build by 9982 columns harvested from online versions of Turkish Internet Newspapers between 2014 and 2015. The data studied over the frequency of word choices by male and female columnists and analyzed by using corpus linguistics, content and discourse analysis methods, to figure out the reflections of masculine and feminine features in the texts.
The System of Temporal Adverbs in the French, German and Croatian Language
Authors: Frleta Tomislav , Pintarić Anita Pavić
Published: October 2017

This paper aims to determine the typology and to compare the systems of temporal adverbs in the French, German and Croatian language. The approach proposed by Klum (1961) for the French language is used for the analysis of all three languages, in order to show the microstructure of the adverbs now and today. We argue that all three languages have developed very stable and very similar paradigms of temporal adverbs, which can be easily compared using Klum’s approach. It will be shown that the paradigms differ only to some extent in the systematization of the representation of the period of the action.
Analysis of ESP Courses Profile: Bridging the Gap Between ESP Challenges and 21st Century Skills
Authors: Gashi Bardha , Jusufi Jasmin
Published: October 2017

English has the status of a global language and nowadays, it is “a must tool“. In order to be successful in any field of study you need to know the language that is spoken or known worldwide. Therefore, English should be included in any fields of study or disciplines. English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Courses have been offered at the public universities in Kosovo as an elective or compulsory course at many departments, at least for two semesters. Teaching English courses in higher education should be designed based on students’ needs by analyzing their level of English and study disciplines, concretely, English for specific purposes courses. Even though, ESP looks as an “easy peasy” issue, in this study has been involved the challenges that ESP teachers and students come across during the complexity of teaching and learning process. In general, this paper also presents an overview of the current situation of ESP courses profile at three public universities in Kosovo. The study has been carried out using three different evaluative research instruments, concretely, has been included a quantitative questionnaire with students and ESP teachers, a qualitative questionnaire (interview) with ten ESP teachers, currently teaching English specific courses at the three universities and also a class observation at three main public universities in Kosovo (Prishtina, Peja and Prizren). Based on the findings, the course content affects directly beliefs, motivation and interests of the students. Hence, ESP courses should be designed based on students’ specific language and professional needs in each discipline, while studying at Higher Educational Institutions.
The Novel in Lesson Hours (Classrooms)
Authors: Muhaxhiri Gentiana , Doli Kryeziu Sindorela , Muhaxhiri Venera
Published: October 2017

The novel as a complex fictitious form in which is projected the life totality has begun to lose new readers, with special emphasis on pre-university level. This study, through a survey conducted in the schools of the Republic of Kosovo, aims to show why and to what extent this phenomenon is manifested at the aforementioned level; How much and what is read; how is read. The recognition of new reader- novel reports, namely the recognition of the practical situation, becomes into the function of the possible solution of this problem that increases its magnitude day by day.
Languages, Symbolic Power and Multidimensional Poverty in the Context of Pakistan
Authors: Tamim Tayyaba
Published: October 2017

This paper engages with the question of languages in education and language policy in the multilingual context of Pakistan, from the perspective of its impact on multidimensional poverty. Poverty is interpreted as ‘capability deprivation’ following Amertya Sen’s capability approach, while Bourdieu’s social critical theory inform the analysis. The paper is based on findings from a 3-year qualitative study, funded by Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP). The methods of data collection included participant observation, documentary analysis and interview data from 16 cases of private and government school graduates, in two provinces. Each case comprised of a final-year secondary school student and his/ her same sex 5-6 year older sibling. The findings reveal that the symbolic power of English in the country, in contrast to its restricted access, and the concurrent devaluation of the local linguistic capital reinforced the structures that nest inequality and poverty. This restrained the agency and of the already socioeconomically disadvantaged government school participants to achieve valued goals as inequality was unleashed in the multiple dimensions of their lives: cognitive, social, affective, economic, and physical. The paper argues for more inclusive language policies and languages in education.
Technical Terms Generated upon Meaning of Words Indicating Kitchenware or Utensils
Authors: Pllana Gani , Pllana Sadete
Published: October 2017

The process of generating the general lexicon into terms, also named process of terminology, relates to the semantic source of the word. This process enriches terminology not only on the level of the form, by embedding in a specified terminological system, but, mainly in that of the content/substance, supplementing it with concepts that maintain links with its base meaning (with the general language). The word thus appears as a bridge between the general and the terminological lexicon, such as: knife, sieve (common words) and terms: knife1 (filet carver) (mechanic); knife2 (engraver) (mechanic); sieve1 (vibratory) (construction, mechanic), sieve2 (mortar) (construction). Terminology as a special lexical subsystem in itself enters into a relationship with the layers of the general language lexicon and exchanges with them, by borrowing some of them and by utilizing it for its needs. This lexicon, deriving from outside of the terminology, consists of lexical units that enter into it in an invariable form, but with modified content; by meeting the needs of the terminological systems with terms. In this paper, we present groups of terms formed on the basis of the meanings of common words, presented in the 1980 Glossary and related to different elements of ordinary life, such as tools and kitchen appliances.
Some Legal Aspects of Abbreviated Trial in Albania
Authors: Mëçalla Naim
Published: October 2017

The Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Albania, as amended, came as an expression of the society's need for a more effective fight against criminality, a process that should go hand in hand with respect of the human rights and fundamental freedoms. This code, among other things, brought a new concept with regard to the possibility of applying special proceedings, as alternatives to the ordinary proceedings of investigation and judgment in the criminal cases. Thus, after nearly half a century, is reinstated in the Criminal Procedure Code, the special proceedings institute and for the first time in the history of the Albanian procedural law, an abbreviated trial, is foreseen as an alternative judgment. In this context, this paper gives an overview of the abbreviated trial, its legal meaning and the advantages it brings to the parties in particular and to the criminal process in general. The paper also contains a synthesized review of the abbreviated trial, under Albanian legislation and addresses some of the issues of judicial practice, as well as a brief presentation at a practical point of view of the abbreviated trialcases, answering some of the problems arising from the practice.
What Future for Specialized Teachers for Support Activities?
Authors: Salmaso Irene
Published: October 2017

The article examines the training of specialized teachers for support activities starting from L. 517/977, the milestone of Italian school integration, to the establishment of the Bachelor's Degree in Primary Education Sciences until it comes to the Decree on Good School and Law Proposal C-2444. The trained teacher for support activities must have the capacity to collaborate to fully involve pupils with disabilities together with curriculum teachers, with co-responsibility and sharing of all pupils.
Napoleon Bonaparte: His Successes and Failures
Authors: Sultana Zakia
Published: October 2017

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), also known as Napoleon I, was a French military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century. Born on the island of Corsica, Napoleon rapidly rose through the ranks of the military during the French Revolution (1789-1799). After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d’état, he crowned himself emperor in 1804. Shrewd, ambitious and a skilled military strategist, Napoleon successfully waged war against various coalitions of European nations and expanded his empire. However, after a disastrous French invasion of Russia in 1812, Napoleon abdicated the throne two years later and was exiled to the island of Elba. In 1815, he briefly returned to power in his Hundred Days campaign. After a crushing defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, he abdicated once again and was exiled to the remote island of Saint Helena, where he died at 51.Napoleon was responsible for spreading the values of the French Revolution to other countries, especially in legal reform and the abolition of serfdom. After the fall of Napoleon, not only was the Napoleonic Code retained by conquered countries including the Netherlands, Belgium, parts of Italy and Germany, but has been used as the basis of certain parts of law outside Europe including the Dominican Republic, the US state of Louisiana and the Canadian province of Quebec. The memory of Napoleon in Poland is favorable, for his support for independence and opposition to Russia, his legal code, the abolition of serfdom, and the introduction of modern middle class bureaucracies. The social structure of France changed little under the First Empire. It remained roughly what the Revolution had made it: a great mass of peasants comprising three-fourths of the population—about half of them works owners of their farms or sharecroppers and the other half with too little land for their own subsistence and hiring themselves out as laborers. Industry, stimulated by the war and the blockade of English goods, made remarkable progress in northern and eastern France, whence exports could be sent to central Europe; but it declined in the south and west because of the closing of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. The great migrations from rural areas toward industry in the towns began only after 1815. The nobility would probably have declined more swiftly if Napoleon had not restored it, but it could never recover its former privileges. Finally we can say that many of the territories occupied by Napoleon during his Empire began to feel a new sense of nationalism.
Some Characteristics of Communication Verb Ask in Newspaper Discourse
Authors: Tomić Božana
Published: October 2017

This paper deals with communication verb ask in newspaper discourse. Analysing examples from our corpus we wanted to show lingustic characteristic of the verb ask in this type of written discourse. The analysis shows that the verb is used in more or less similar structures as elsewhere. However, the colligation patterns it occurrs in are something of a novelty and typical of this type of discourse.
Impact of Microfinance on Socio-Economic Conditions of the Borrowers: A Case Study of Akhuwat Foundation (Lahore)
Authors: Zaidi Hassan Hamza
Published: October 2017

Akhuwat Foundation is the leading microfinance institution in Pakistan which provides interest free loans for small businesses to the poorest people of society. Since its launch in 2001, it has disbursed a sum of $110 million to 1.9 million families without any collateral and with a recovery rate of 99.93 %. Such a remarkable achievements by a nonprofit organization makes it a leading interest free (Qarze e Hasna) institution in the world. This study attempts to find the impact of Akhuwat Foundation’s microfinance on socio-economic conditions of the borrowers. Based on primary data collected from old and new borrowers, the study analyzes the impact of microfinance on wellbeing of the borrowers’ households in terms of their housing conditions, food security, children’s education, poverty status, monthly income and expenditures of the borrowers before and after the loan with the help “with or without approach”. Moreover, a non-parametric approach is used to test the difference between old and new borrowers in terms of their consumption expenditure, income, poverty status, housing improvement, access to education, and access to medical facilities. Our results show that Akhuwat’s loans have significantly improved the conditions of the borrowers in terms of their monthly income, expenditures, access to education/ health, and household assets. The impact was much larger for old borrowers than new borrowers. In the end we concluded that Akhuwat’s non-traditional approach of lending to the poor and its model of mutual brotherhood between lenders and borrowers presents great lessons to bring positive change in the society.
Growing Importance of Machine Learning in Compliance and Regulatory Reporting
Authors: Dey Dhrubajyoti
Published: October 2017

Machine Learning is unquestionably one of the most exciting technology fields in the world today. The pace of discovery is almost unimaginably fast, and it seems each day we learn of new advancements, new technologies, new applications, and new opportunities. It’s inspiring, but also overwhelming. In this paper we will take a examine the role of Machine learning in Financial sector
Statistical Analysis and Evaluation of Changing Trend of Woman Employment in Turkey in Globalization Conditions
Authors: KAYHAN Necati
Published: October 2017

Women in the status of a milestone in a family, who can also become the mother, are given more responsibility compared to man. In this sense, working woman has some very crucial responsibilities both individually and socially and economically. Besides these roles, the involvement of women comprising almost half of the population in working life actively and contribute to production is of importance in the development of country and fight against poverty. Therefore, in the current time, a great many incentives have been given in socio-economic sense recently in order to increase the woman employment in Turkey, which is much behind OECD data, to the desired level. However, even though the activity in woman employment has partly improved quantitatively in recent years despite these measures, necessary improvement in providing them a proper job qualitatively have not been obtained. Some reasons for this could be summed as follows: gender discrimination, inadequate growth, scarcity in proper job, lack of innovative and entrepreneurial education model for labour market, rapid urbanization, qualitative labour force, job experience etc. Women could only find an opportunity for a job in atypical working forms such as easiest one, without a union, without protection, demanding a cheap labour force with sub-employers. In this sense, in the current study that was carried out to describe women employment in Turkey, it was aimed to investigate involvement in labour force, working types and conditions. The method to be used in the study was planned as determining and evaluating the condition in the working life of women and changing trend in the country with a basis of examining current national and international studies and statistical data with regard to woman employment in the last five years.
Innovation and Sustainability
Authors: GÜNERİ Mukadder
Published: October 2017

When we look at the history of humanity, it is seen that mankind has been experiencing a process of change that has not lived to this day. This process we are in is called globalization. There are many opinions about the happiness and the unhappiness of mankind related to globalization. Globalization is on the verge of questioning what sustainability will bring when it is thought of in the long run. On this result, when we search for answers to questions about what you can sustain; when we look for answers to this question, what is sustainability? Innovation comes to the forefront, which is two dimensions, technical and organizational. Whether the individual the private or the public the conditions of innovation are reflected in education and training. In the process we are in today (the developments in economic, cultural and socio-economic relations between countries), it is evident that it is imperative to have education and training to respond to the sustainability of innovation conditions. All these principles make life, life style. That is, to acquire information, to produce information, to produce common values, to protect social and individual values in the common values produced, to adapt to the rapid development of technology, to increase quality of life in existing conditions, to produce added value in existing conditions and to maintain its sustainability. In this work, the relevance of innovation to sustainability has been examined in a classical way.
A Sociological Radiography of the Communist Movement from 1921-1923
Authors: Sebastian Fitzek , Maria Stănescu Simona , Daniela Fitzek Cătălina , Gabriela Neagu
Published: October 2017

:In this article I approached the emergence and Comintern origins of the Communist Party of Romania.The conflict between communist leaders and the Romanian State authorities started from the critical Movement position towards the Great Union on 1st of December 1918. Among other causes that led to the conflict was the affiliation of the new party to Comintern. The party subordination to a foreign authority involved a new dilema regarding the sociological concept of political party. In this sense, the research goals were determined by analyzing two factors: a. Comintern beginnings of PCdR; b. the position taken by founding leaders towards the Great Union from 1921 – 1923. As part of the research, I conducted three analysis sets: a. a documentary analysis of the files present in the National Archives of the State; b. a leadership analysis of three key-personalities, who played an important role in the movement’s rise; c. A secondary analysis which for I consulted various articles, books and important studies directly related to this subject.
The Reflection of Apartheidic Trauma / Traumatic Apartheid in None to Accompany Me by Nadine Gordimer
Authors: KIZILTAŞ Şahin
Published: October 2017

The world has gone through a trauma for centuries. Almost all nations have experienced all sorts of traumatic events and feelings in this period. Among those nations, the black seem to be the most unlucky and ill-fated suffered from traumatic disasters. However, among those black nations, the natives of South Africa have been the most piteous and wretched ones. Their misfortune began in 1652 with the arrival of white colonists in the country. Since then, the oppression and persecution of white European colonists and settlers on natives increasingly continued. Those native people were displaced from the lands inherited from their ancestors a few centuries ago. They were not allowed to have equal rights with white people and to share same environment in public premises. The natives have put up resistance against the racial and colonial practices of white settlers which excluded them from all living spaces; yet, they could not manage, even they came into power in 1994. Today their exclusion and violence victimization still go on and they are still subjected to inferior treatment by (post)colonial dominant white powers. As a white intellectual and writer who had European origins, Nadine Gordimer witnessed the repression and torturing of European settlers on native people in South Africa. In her novels, she has reflected the racial discrimination practiced by white people who have considered of themselves in a superior position compared to the black. This study aims to focus on how Gordimer has reflected the trauma which the black people of South Africa have experienced as a consequence of racist practices. This will contribute to clarify and get across the real and true-life traumatic narratives of native people in the colonized countries.
Social Media Use Among African Youth: a Step Toward Globalization or Cultural Setback?
Authors: Ngwainmbi Emmanuel
Published: October 2017

When rich countries opened up access to information and communication technology (ICT) for all types of people and countries around the world several decades ago, it was not clear to developing nations that it could transform the cultural fabric of their fragile communities and impact the economic aspirations of young people in those countries. The imbalance in cash flows between users of ICT in industrialized regions and those in poor regions, especially marginalized communities and youth cannot be compared to the general frequency of the use of, particularly social media gadgets. However, it is thought that young people aged (many 18-35) in both regions rely on social media to communicate their raw emotions (rage, love, worries and sympathies) and their political views or share data on socio-politcal and economic flaws in their national governments . In poor countries, many young people now have access to Android phones. However, it is not clear whether their use of such technology is preventing them from following their local customs or advancing the drive to compete for opportunities in the world. The study seeks to know which one of the devices was more likely to promote their understanding of and participation in the globalization process, i-phones or the internet. It examined whether the ‘internal socialization,' ‘inter—extra personal socialization’ or ‘personal advancement’ is the primary reason for ownership of the devices. Some respondents in four communities (2 cities and two rural areas) in Cameroon and S. Africa will be randomly sampled using open and close-ended questions accessible in 6 internet cafes and on the streets, and cross-analyzed. The study is expected to show a heavier use of i-phones and reliance on ‘foreign news and entertainment content’ by rural residents compared to urban populations. The study expects that results might help non-profit organizations involved with strengthening indigenous communities and foreign businesses in packaging and disseminating messages tailored for the targeted group.
Banking Sector Reforms and the Performance of the Nigerian Industrial Sector
Authors: ISHIORO Bernhard O.
Published: October 2017

The Nigerian economy has been experiencing a lot of reforms in the banking subsector. Despite these reforms that ought to have enhanced the performance of the industrial sector of the economy, the weak performance of the industrial sector has survived unscathed and prolonged. Therefore, the major interest of this paper is to investigate the long and short-run relationships existing between banking sector reforms and the performance of the industrial sector in Nigeria. The study begins with a review of the banking sector reforms and the link to the industrial sector performance. Time series data from 1982-2015 are used to empirically assess the long-run relationship between banking sector reforms-targeted variables and the Nigerian industrial sector. The Modified PANTULA Principle was adopted in the selection of the most suitable variant of the Johansen Cointegration technique and found that model three was only suitable in the determination of the long-run relationship between commercial banks credit to the industrial sector and industrial production, and not manufacturing capacity utilisation.Summary of the variants of the Johansen cointegration equations were provided to facilitate a robust discussion of the long-run relationship between the indicators of banking sector reforms and industrial sector performance. A modified variant of causality test was adopted in the investigation of the direction of causality that exist between the reforms variables and industrial sector performance indicators. Various lag selection techniques were applied and found the Final Prediction Error(FPE) as most suitable. The Vector Auto Regression (VAR) impulse response and variance decomposition were applied to determine the effects of the reforms shocks on the industrial sector performance variables. The results shows amongst other that in the era reforms, the shocks from the banking sector credit to the industrial sector is higher than other reforms indices. This makes credit to the industrial sector a potent force in the enhancement of industrial sector performance in Nigeria. Therefore, banking sector reforms should be designed to enhance the consistent flow of credit to the industrial sector of the economy. Structural breaks were also applied to see the effects of the changes in reforms on the performance of the industrial sector.
In the Process of Educational Diagnosis of and Educational Intervention in Specific Learning Difficulties: Primary School Teachers’ Opinions and Experiences
Authors: Kuruyer Hayriye Gül , Çakıroğlu Ahmet
Published: October 2017

Students with a specific learning difficulty are students with low achievement and difficulties in the fields of reading, comprehension and language use, writing, listening, thinking, speaking, or mathematical thinking and operational skills. Identification of specific learning difficulties is the first stage in the development of educational intervention programs. In order to be able to make regulations, it is necessary to determine the strengths and weaknesses of these students in terms of their educational needs. Therefore, it is important to explore primary school teachers’ experiences and classroom applications as well opinions and knowledge about the concept of specific learning difficulty and students having such difficulties because determination of interventions to be made to improve a state depends to a great extent on knowledge about the issue. Thus, the purpose of the current study is to explore primary school teachers’ opinions and applications related to educational diagnosis and education intervention processes followed in case of specific learning difficulties. A grounded theory methodology was used. The study group of the current research consists of 8 primary school teachers. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews and observations. The collected data were analyzed by means of the constant comparison method. The analysis yielded four super categories: specific learning difficulty, problems, tasks and process. As a result of the study, it can be maintained that the primary school teachers have both knowledge deficiencies as regards the educational diagnosis of specific learning difficulties and development of educational intervention programs and conceptual fallacies that make diagnosis more difficult. In addition, it was observed that the teachers experienced difficulties in the process of development and application of educational intervention programs.
Is Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Performance Moderated by Employees’ Individual Beliefs of Social Responsibility?
Authors: Saeidi Sayedeh Parastoo , Othman Mohd Shahwahid Haji , Saeidi Sayyedeh Parisa
Published: October 2017

Many studies reported in the literature to date, have looked into the benefits of CSR, specifically focusing more on the financial aspect but relatively less on employees. Therefore, CSR research with regards to employees’ perspective can be considered as almost an uncharted path. Accordingly, our key research objective in this study is to find out whether employees’ individual perception and beliefs of social responsibility can play a moderating role on CSR-sales growth relationship. A total of 328 SMEs in consumer product and manufacturing industry from Tehran (capital city of Iran) were engaged in this study. Structural equation methodology based on AMOS path modeling was applied to test all hypotheses of the study. The first part of the results reveals that the CSR has a positive but weak effect on sales growth as firm performance measure. The second part discloses that the positive effect of CSR on sales growth is improved when moderator (high level of employees’ individual beliefs of social responsibility) is included.
The Agreeableness Type of Personality and the Basic Personal Values
Authors: Abdi Fitore Bajrami
Published: October 2017

The goal of this study is to discover the relationship between the agreeableness type of personality and the basic personal values, analyzed through non-experimental methodology and quantitative approach. The sample of this study is the Albanian high school seniors in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia which consists of 479 subjects, randomly selected from the total sample specified. The subjects’ willingness to participate in the survey and their anonymity was respected by following all ethical norms. The results of correlative statistics show that there is association between the agreeableness type and all basic personal values, while the comparative statistics indicate statistically significant differences between the basic personal values related to the agreeableness type of personality and the highest mean score was reached by the value universalism. The Eta square agreeableness type of personality results showed a relatively low effect on the values stimulation as well as hedonism.
Re-Defining Polyphony in Media Text for Public Relations Discursive Practices in Organization
Authors: Teodorescu Ana-Maria
Published: October 2017

The research explores the new media tools manifested in communication and public relations discursive practices in organization, marked by Bahtinian polyphony in media relations texts. The study of organization theory can be defined, analyzed and evaluated as dialogic organization constructed in and by dialogues as discursive practices [Hatch 2006, Grunig, 2002, Castells 2011]. Redefining polyphony consists in analyzing the original definition as “one self - concept is formed part from the social relationship we have with others and from others’ responses to what we say and do…….Because the self is constructed out of our need to balance on our own needs with those of others, the self is necessarily dialogic or make in concert with others”.[Bahtin, 1981] But having the keys for reading the self – concept as the social identity of an organization, the social relationships with others, namely the public(s) as groups of interests validated in the public sphere, and the roles and relations starting from the organization to and from the public(s). Thus evaluating the main levels offered by the framework in organization, the current research has identified: the intentional level created in the communicative contract by the organization in the context the new media have been used; the impact upon the public(s) - audience and/or communities throughout the means of new media and social media, analyzing their posts, comments; the rules of structuring the sequential configuration of the messages in media text as dialog, trilog or polilog in the polyphony of discursive media relations practices in organization’s site, blog, social media units-Facebook, Twitter, You Tube.
Enculturation of Ambon’s Public Spaces as a Tool of Building Inclusivity of Segregated Communities
Authors: Sunarimahingsih Yulita Titik , Dewi Yustina Trihoni Nalesti , Pancasiwi Heribertus Hermawan
Published: October 2017

Beside having significant values that would enrich the Indonesian nation, tribal, cultural, and religious diversity brought seeds of conflicts that could potentially disrupt social order and threaten national unity. The conflicts that occurred in Ambon from 1999 to 2004 were conflict examples that were caused by religious plurality that had appeared many societal problems that could not be fully resolved until today. The trust among Ambon's plural communities had not returned well and it was even worsened by settlement segregation separating Muslim and Christian communities that factually brought potential for further conflicts. In the present life of Ambon’s segregated societ today public spaces inspired by brotherhood and “unity in diversity” spirits thatt could be meeting and socializing means of the communities and to reduce the social polarization were to be absolutely necessary. Unfortunately, the existing public spaces in Ambon for the time being served only as stages of activities and they did not connect with the communities’ social spectrums so that the public spaces remained meaningless. A public space here served just as a witness, not as a means of socializing in accordance with the communities’ cultures and characters. This paper would discuss how to integrate the communities’ cultures and characters into a public space design that had significant meaning in overcoming the polarization of Ambon’s segregated communities. The public space would be designed by taking into account a location choice where two segregated communities could easily meet. In the public space a macro space concept where the sea as the front page of Ambon communities should be applied and even forwarded since such a concept tended to be forgotten. Beside the spatial format, the public space should also be designed by facilitating various cultural-based activities so that the communities’ characteristics that were integrated in the urban culture and daily activities would appear in the public spaces.
A Study on the Evolution of Crowdsourcing Websites
Authors: Mourelatos Evangelos , Frarakis Nikos , Tzagarakis Manolis
Published: October 2017

Today hundreds of millions of Internet users are using crowdsourcing platforms either to work to an online job as workers, or as a model of problem solving and production as requesters. This growing workforce makes it necessary from the perspective of the online platforms, to fully understand the factors which contribute on this emerging and innovative “online labor”. We present a study comparing how crowdsourcing platforms have evolved over two time periods. The study explores in addition the effect of several factors of such websites on their traffic data and attention seeking. The results show that several website’s characteristic are strong indicators of its attempting to get and optimize potential workers’ or requesters’ attention.
How to prevent youth crime in Macedonia?
Authors: Arifi Blerta Ahmedi
Published: October 2017

This research paper analyzes the policy of Republic of Macedonia on preventing youth crime. It gives a focus on some main points of the topic, such as: The institutional measures there are implemented to prevent youth crime, such as the legislation and the national strategies of the state; The analysis of the special and general preventive effect of the penal sanctions for children. Also, there is presented the analysis of the influence of some social factors as preventive measures for the youth delinquency, such as: The education system; The free time of the youth people; The role of their family; The economic level of the children’s families; The circle of persons who they accompany and the access to the mass media. During this study there are used some methods, such as: The literature review for this topic and the interpretation of the legal provisions for youth crime; The survey and the interviews made with secondary school pupils and the comparative method used for some social factors, as some like more relevant beside others for preventing the youth crime. The results and conclusions of this research paper will contribute on finding the most relevant measures on preventing the youth/child crime in Macedonia.
How much space is given to women in local Kosovo newspapers competing for mayors?
Authors: Nimani Arbenita Sylejmani
Published: October 2017

The purpose of this paper is to identify the space that was given in the local newspapers to women that competed for mayors during the election campaign held on November 3, 2013, in Kosovo, and to see if the newspapers can be one of the factors that in this election there were fewer women that competed and that only one was elected. On November 3, 2013, the local elections were held for 37 municipal mayors in Kosovo. From 37 municipalities there were 206 man and 8 women Cand idates. In all municipalities only one woman was elected as a mayor of municipality. We are waiting for the new local elections that will be held on October 2017, and again there will be fewer than 3 % women who will compete. The methodology of this article is the content analysis. An analysis of the articles from three daily Kosovo newspapers was used, which are the most read, such as: Koha Ditore, Kosova Sot, and Zëri. The sample for the analysis included: the month of October, since on October 3rd the election campaign was officially started. In addition, it includes the first week and the last one of the month of October, 2013. From the analysis it is noticed that women who competed were given very little space in the newspapers. For example, the most widely read newspaper "Koha Ditore" during this period on the first page only mentioned 1 woman competing while men mentioned 42 times. With the very small number of women mentioned on the front page there is also the second most widely read newspaper in Kosovo, "Kosova Sot", which only once mentions a woman, while men are mentioned six times. The third most widely read newspaper, the "Zëri" newspaper, first page men mentioned 29 times while women 4 times. Considering the fact that patriarchal opinion prevails in Kosovar society, and when the newspapers do not give space to women who are competing, then it is conceivable that we have very few women to vote. Also, this tiny space given to women during the race implies that we have too few women competing because the biggest newspaper space would make women aware and stimulate them to compete, and of course we will have more women voted.