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Territorial governance of cultural heritage through spatial planning in Albania and Kosovo
Authors: Allkja Ledio , Dhrami Kejt
Published: February 2022

Cultural and historical heritage is inextricably linked to territorial capital. Over the years, the recognition of its importance has increased in the political and policy discourse. This paper examines these challenges considering spatial planning policies and instruments, namely “how effective spatial planning instruments are in addressing the goal of protecting and enhancing cultural heritage.” The research is focused on two Western Balkan cases of Albania and Kosovo, and takes a comparative approach, considering the ever-present conflict between “the old and the new”, and between growth and preservation, in the respective capital cities of Tirana and Pristina. Both countries have gone through drastic transformations in their planning systems over the last two decades, with an attempt to shift from traditional rigid urbanism approaches towards more comprehensive and integrated ones. Additionally, the two countries are in similar stages of socio-economic development, which include a trend of concentration and rapid urban development. The findings suggest that while cultural preservation and valorisation is ranked high in terms of planning policies, both countries fail to preserve these values when it comes to land development practices.
The Slovenian planning system 30 years later: Lessons learnt and lessons not learnt
Authors: Marot Naja
Published: February 2022

After gaining independence, countries such as Slovenia put a lot of effort into adapting their legislations to new market conditions. While concentrating on legislation, they often dismissed several other factors which influence policy and decision making. Among them, a particularly important role is played by the Europeanisation of planning, and the turn towards a higher flexibility of processes and land uses as opposed to the predetermination via zoning. While shedding light on these issues, this paper reflects on the incremental evolution of the Slovenian spatial planning system from the approval of the first Spatial Planning Act in 2003 towards a territorial governance approach characterised by a mix of regulatory processes and plans.
The impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative on the Western Balkan Region: An erosion of EU conditionality?
Authors: Cotella Giancarlo , Berisha Erblin
Published: February 2022

The EU integration process contributes to influence the ongoing institutional changes in the Western Balkans. At the same time, the incremental inflow of Chinese capital in the region that followed the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative is progressively reshaping power relations there. This article sheds light on the interaction between these two processes, discussing whether the increasing inflow of resources may gradually erode EU conditionality and hinder the overall integration process. To do so, the authors draw on an extensive review of academic and policy documents and on selected expert interviews, upon which they compare the actions of the EU and China in the region.
Collaborative communities as a selling point? From community-driven to service-purposed coworking spaces
Authors: Orel Marko , Bennis Will
Published: February 2022

Coworking spaces emerged in the mid-2000s as collaborative workplaces that actively supported teleworkers and self-employed knowledge workers who shared various (work) environments to interlace themselves in supportive networks, tackle isolation, positively influence well-being, and collaboratively participate in knowledge-sharing activities. However, with the swift popularisation of the coworking model by 2020, newly established flexible office spaces have begun to refer to themselves as community-based workplaces even though they lacked the capacity to support their users’ interactions and collaborative work. Therefore, the purpose of the paper is to explore how coworking spaces have transformed from community-based environments to a flexible place of work where establishing a collaborative community is not an organisational priority. The following exploratory research investigates a sample of 13 coworking spaces in Prague, the Czech Republic, and considers their capacity for supporting interactions and collaborative processes between their users. The results uncovered significant differences between coworking spaces, their spatial designs, the presence of mediation mechanisms, and the frequency of interactions between users, and suggest that the handful of sampled coworking environments misuse the notion of community. In that context, the following study indicates that contemporary coworking spaces can revert to community washing to deliberately pursue economic self-interest rather than support decentralised peer-to-peer exchange that would lead to developing a coworking community. * The research was funded by the Czech Science Foundation (GACR), grant number 20-06716S.
The plague’s impact paleodemographic and genetic measures in 15th to 16th century Gdańsk
Authors: Budnik Alicja , Pudło Aleksandra
Published: February 2022

Yersinia pestis caused plagues and haunted Gdańsk several times during the 15th and 16th centuries. This study focuses on the following demographic effects: 1/ distributions of deceased by age in a plagued city, 2/ parameters of the life tables, 3/ estimation of the natural increase. To assess genetic effects of the plague, measures of the opportunity for natural selection were considered. Skeletal remains of 283 people from the 15th – 16th century ossuary 3009 from the Dominican Monastery in Gdańsk provided research material. Yersinia pestis DNA in this skeletal material has already been found (Morozowa et al. 2017, 2020). Distributions of the deceased by age in the study sample were compared with those for Gdańsk before the plague and with those for the mass burial of plague victims in the 14th century Lübeck. Neither catastrophic mortality was found in the material studied, nor selective nature of the plague with regard to sex and age had been demonstrated. Using the Weiss method, the rate of natural increase r=–0.005 was reconstructed. With the wide dating range of the ossuary and the fact that it contains results of both the epidemic and “normal” mortality, the natural increase value at this level seems justified. There was a deterioration in the values of life tables parameters, especially life expectancy. Newborn life expectancy dropped to 19.5–22.6 years and for a 20-year-old to 17.7 years. The measures of opportunity for natural selection also deteriorated primarily due to child mortality: the biological state index Ibs values were low (within the 0.3–0.4 range) and values of the Im Crow’s index about 1.0. Natural selection also acted on adults as evidenced by values of the gross potential reproduction rate Rpot below 0.7. Demographically the study sample was at the level of the early Middle Ages rather than the Rennaisance.
Usefulness of the analysis of the average ridge width of fingerprints in archaeological research
Authors: Gromnicka Daria , Wałecki Bartosz
Published: February 2022

Skin ridges (dermatoglyphs or fingerprints) are a characteristic pattern of sulci on the skin of primates which appear on the entire hand palm and on the soles of the feet. Fingerprints are unique, irremovable and invariable which allows bio-identification of specific individuals. The aim of the study was to investigate the usefulness of the analysis of the average width of the skin ridges in archaeological research by analyzing the foot and hand prints found on 7 artifacts dating from the Middle Ages.

An attempt was made to describe the preserved skin slate prints, as well as details of the construction of the prints. The fingers used in forming the pottery were recognized. Attempts were made to read the context of individual impressions. In the study, the following features were analyzed: legibility and suitability of the left imprint for the analysis, the possibility of determining the type of figures (whorls, loops, archs), the possibility of determining the minutiae, the density of the skin ridges left on the surface of the ceramics and the width of the skin ridges left on the surface of the ceramics. The classification of fingerprint minutiae proposed by Czesław Grzeszyk (1970) was used as well as classification of epidermal ridges peoposed by Lestrange (1953) and modified by Bochenska (1964) and Rogucka (1968).

Analysis of the material allowed to conclude that imprints left on building ceramics can be as useful as those imprinted on utilitarian ceramics, despite differences in the composition of the raw material used in production. However, they require more skill to examine, as the impressions are often incomplete which may be related to the fillers added to the mass. Minutiae were evident on the impressions examined, and single bifurcation was the most common form. The tactile figure most commonly found on the fingertip impressions was the loop. It was not possible to delineate Galton lines due to the wiping of the triple ray. Due to the high illegibility of the prints, it was assumed with a high degree of uncertainty that the fingerprints belonged to adults, but the gender could not be determined. Noteworthy were the prints printed on the brick belonging to children. On the mentioned artifact, there is a footprint of a child aged 1–3 years and a handprint of a crawling infant, which allowed us to conclude that the children were under the care of craftsmen.
Wybrane konteksty wizerunku nauczyciela wczesnej edukacji. Na podstawie badań nauczycieli i rodziców sześciolatków w Polsce
Authors: Walasek-Jarosz Barbara
Published: February 2022

The article presents the empirical material proving the similarity of early education teachers’ views to the views of children’s parents on shaping the desired features of children in future. The resaerch was carried out as part of the research project „A six-year-old child on the threshold of school learning” (financed by Europejski Fundusz Społeczny i Ministerstwo Edukacji Narodowej – European Social Fund and Ministry of National Education Ministry). The research was conducted twice, in the year 2006, on the selected sample of six-year-olds in Poland and their parents (altogether about 70 thousand, which makes 8–10% of the population depending on the province). The samples were chosen by the author. The article showes the data concerning the cohesion in spite of differences in the education levels, views of children`s parents and their teachers in the scope of: 1. the assessment of the possibility of teaching children so called „art of life” by their parents 2. features which, nowadays, should be given to children, 3. the sources of knowledge of parents about the methods of bringing up children, 4. recognised by the subjects the environments of bringing up own children, 5. the subjects’ opinions about the sex as a factor differentiating bringing up children. In conclusion, one should pay the attention to the life context („empirical image of a teacher”) as an important factor of fulfilling „the desired image of a teacher” of early education at which numerous eductional ideas point.
Rozpoznawanie i wspieranie kreatywności uczniów zadaniem nauczyciela wczesnej edukacji
Authors: Bonar Jolanta
Published: February 2022

A basic idea of the author is to indicate that recognising and encouraging pupil’s creativity is one of the main tasks of modern school. It thereby requires teachers to have an appropriate knowledge, regardless the level they are working on. Enormously important are first years of an education. On them mostly depends who in a sense of personality and intellect the students are going to be, what thinking strategies they will have developed and which, maybe even most importantly, they will be deprived of.
Modele wychowania dziecka we współczesnym świecie – komunikat z badań
Authors: Wyszyńska Marta
Published: February 2022

During mutual interactions, adults have specific images of children, they have different expectations towards children and influence them in an active way. According to Swiss educator Hans Saner, there are different types of relations between educators and children: based on subordination, equivalence and relative independence. On the basis of these relations, Hans Saner distinguishes three models of child’s upbringing in contemporary world: the model relying on something that a child ‘has not been yet’, the model of equivalence in relations between a child and an adult and the model of child’s self-upbringing. In the article I present the results of my own research about preferences of the teachers from early school education and from common rooms in the field of child’s upbringing models according to Hans Saner’s typology.
Kształtowanie rozumienia sfery życia uczuciowego u przedszkolaków – nowe rozwiązania
Authors: Górecka-Mostowicz Barbara
Published: February 2022

The elaborate concerns the problems with understanding of the emotional life sphere by the young children in the infant school. It was conveyed the measurement of the Emotional Intelligence of infants within the limits of the model MSCEIT (Marc. A. Brackett, P. Salovey, 2008). In the range of: perceiving, understanding and managing of the emotions. The data concerning the conceptualization of the feelings in the language and art works of the six years old children. The results of such research allowed us to estimate the way in which they interpret the events that cause our emotions and also how they emotionally take an attitude towards them. It was established that the proposals of the solutions connecting problematic situations were based on the children’s opinions. There were proposed ways of emotional upbringing of infants in the following spheres: ● Creating the emotional insight that realizing itself in the skill of reading own emotions (drawing up the map of emotions which were experienced by them); ● Creating the understanding of other people and the social world (drawing up the emotiogram of the interpersonal connections).
Avaliação
Authors: Pires Aparecida Carneiro , Corrêa Adriana Moreira de Souza , Borba Valéria Maria de Lima
Published: February 2022

Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar a experiência de uma docente na disciplina Avaliação da Aprendizagem, oferecida nos turnos diurno e noturno, aos estudantes do curso de Pedagogia do 5º período, do Centro de Formação de Professores (CFP), campus de Cajazeiras, da Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), no semestre 2017-1. Em face do exposto, suscitou-nos as seguintes inquietações: quais são as experiências docentes que influenciam na construção do conceito de avaliação da aprendizagem? Como esses saberes da experiência interferem nas atividades voltadas para a formação do licenciando para a realização da avaliação da aprendizagem considerando as variáveis (concepções, estratégias e instrumentos)? Metodologicamente, realizamos uma pesquisa bibliográfica, com dados documentais, coletados a partir dos diários de classe, de campo e fotografias, os quais foram analisados em uma abordagem qualitativa. Para isso, apoiamo-nos em teóricos como Hoffmann, Luckesi, Vasconcellos, entre outros. Como resultados identificamos que a percepção do educador sobre a temática e as suas experiências com o tema influenciam na seleção da base teórica e na abordagem dos conteúdos referentes à avaliação da aprendizagem. Outrossim, com as intervenções propostas pela docente (estudo de textos, de recursos audiovisuais, debates, produção científica e atividades de extensão), os discentes refletiram sobre as suas concepções sobre a avaliação da aprendizagem que eram, inicialmente, voltadas para o exame/classificação e, progressivamente, construíram visões/percepções acerca da avaliação formativa e diagnóstica na perspectiva de promoção social em prol do aprendizado.
A disciplina de didática, o racismo e a educação para as relações étnico-raciais
Authors: Ratusniak Célia , Dias Lucimar Rosa , Almeida Ranna Emanuelle
Published: February 2022

Este relato de experiências parte das vivências de três mulheres — uma escritora, uma professora da disciplina de Didática e uma aluna. Foi produzido na tessitura que o trabalho com a Educação para as Relações Étnico-Raciais (Erer) no curso de Pedagogia da UFPR foi capaz de articular. Apresenta e problematiza as legislações e diretrizes que determinam a obrigatoriedade do tema como componente curricular nas diversas etapas da educação, inclusive nas licenciaturas, conforme consta nas Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais para a Formação Inicial em Nível Superior. O texto está organizado em três momentos: inicialmente, a escritora- militante-professora, traça uma rota das normatizações que tornam a Erer um direito e a literatura um instrumento para efetivá-lo. Em um segundo momento, a professora de Didática problematiza o racismo como um elemento estruturante na produção do fracasso escolar. Por fim, a aluna relata sua experiência quando o tema foi abordado por meio de uma atividade realizada na disciplina que une a Literatura, a Erer e a Didática. Esses relatos permitem concluir que a formação inicial pode abarcar o que prescreve a legislação no tocante a Erer, articulando-a com os conhecimentos previstos no campo da Didática. Dessa forma as participantes da experiência, ao entrecruzarem suas histórias de vida, produzem saberes que fundamentam e potencializam práticas educativas antirracistas.
Robotic radical prostatectomy in post HIFU salvage setting: tertiary center experience and review of the current literature
Authors: De Luca Stefano , De Cillis Sabrina , Piramide Federico , Alessio Paolo , Russo Filippo , Amparore Daniele , Volpi Gabriele , Granato Stefano , Manfredi Matteo , Fiori Cristian , Checcucci Enrico , Porpiglia Francesco
Published: February 2022

Aim: The purpose of the study was to describe our surgical technique of salvage robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (sRARP) in patients who underwent primary high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) and to report the perioperative, functional, and oncological outcomes during the first year follow up. The secondary aim of the study was to review the current literature evidence on this topic. Methods: We retrospectively extracted, from our prospective RARP database, all the patients who underwent sRARP for biochemical recurrence after primary HIFU. All the surgical interventions were performed by a single surgeon following our total anatomical reconstruction (TAR) technique. Demographics, perioperative, functional, and oncological results were collected up to one year follow-up. Results: Eleven patients underwent post-HIFU sRARP with TAR technique at our institution. All the surgical procedures were uneventful. All the complication recorded were classified as Clavien-Dindo Grade I. Continence rate at 1-, 3-, 6-, and 12-month post intervention was 36.3%, 45.5%, 63.6 %, and 81.1%, respectively. Medium PSA at 12 months follow-up was 0.2 ng/mL (SD 0.01), with no Biochemical Failure (BCF) recorded. Conclusion: sRARP with TAR technique is a safe and feasible procedure in patients with BCF after primary HIFU. No major complications were recorded, with good oncological and functional results after one year follow up.
A breath of fresh air in microbiome science: shallow shotgun metagenomics for a reliable disentangling of microbial ecosystems
Authors: Lugli Gabriele Andrea , Ventura Marco
Published: February 2022

Next-generation sequencing technologies allow accomplishing massive DNA sequencing, uncovering the microbial composition of many different ecological niches. However, the various strategies developed to profile microbiomes make it challenging to retrieve a reliable classification that is able to compare metagenomic data of different studies. Many limitations have been overcome thanks to shotgun sequencing, allowing a reliable taxonomic classification of microbial communities at the species level. Since numerous bioinformatic tools and databases have been implemented, the sequencing methodology is only the first of many choices to make for classifying metagenomic data. Here, we discuss the importance of choosing a reliable methodology to achieve consistent information in uncovering microbiomes.
Marketing Policy of the State Public Scientific Technological Library of the SB RAS in Relation to Library and Information Resources and Services
Authors: Rykhtorova A. E.
Published: February 2022

An important factor for not only development, but existence of the library, is its work to attract the audience, for which varieties of marketing technologies are used. However, the larger and more diverse the library audience becomes, the more difficult it is to monitor and regulate the completeness of the use of marketing techniques aimed at different segments of users. The purpose of this article is to provide an example of an analysis of a library’s outreach activities through the prism of a marketing policy, allowing the library the streamline of its marketing tools and resources, monitoring of their effectiveness in a comprehensive way, and the identification of possible gaps in the implementation of such activities. The analysis revealed two main gaps in the marketing activities of the SPSTL SB RAS, related to the completeness of the marketing technologies used and the analysis of the audience outside the scientific community. In addition, the grounds were noted, worked out as a part of the development strategy of the library and allow to combine the achievements of the projects implemented by the library in the marketing policy in the future, after the closure of the gaps found. This approach to analyzing the formation of marketing policy is available for replication by other types of libraries, and its use will improve the level of their marketing work.
Electronic Guides on the Website of the Library of Congress: Types, Subjects, Structure
Authors: Valyalina A. S.
Published: February 2022

The article is a continuation of a comprehensive study of domestic and foreign electronic guides (EG). As the previous analysis showed, they are the most important form of electronic information resources created by modern libraries. The purpose of this article is to analyze EG presented on the official website of the Library of Congress (LC). The types of EG presented on the website of this Library in terms of multidimensional classification have been identified. The three-part structure of these EG was analyzed, including an introductory article, the main part and auxiliary pointers and/or a search string. It has been established that both Russian and American EG are created on such fields of knowledge as social sciences and humanities, history, literature and, to a lesser extent, on health, agriculture and technical sciences. The advantages and disadvantages of Russian and American EG are identified, the most important are the following: the lack of unity in the interpretation of the concepts “electronic guide” and “guide” is characteristic of both Russian-language and English-language terminology; American EG from the point of view of the information medium of of reflected objects have mainly a mixed nature, they include information about both printed and electronic information resources; The advantage of EG presented on the LC website is the active use of internal hyperlinks to the library’s own resources.
Development of gaming practices in popular science text
Authors: Bruev A. A.
Published: February 2022

The popular science text is described by the author in the context of competition with other media products: films, TV series, video games. Under these conditions, a popular science text acquires new communication characteristics, one of which is a play. The concept of play is viewed through the prism of Johan Huizinga’s work «Homo Ludens, a Study of the Play Element in Culture». The work highlights the main features of play. There are four such characteristics: a play brings pleasure, provides for the presence of special (play) behavior and establishes order, and is also characterized through the tension that arises in the process of playing activity. The play brings pleasure to the player, which in a popular science text is realized through the comprehension of new knowledge, as well as through the awareness of the abundance of sences and interpretations of the text, «flickering of meanings», realized with the help of metaphors. Play behavior is a «play with the addressee»: the use of professional vocabulary allows a reader to identify himself with a researcher. A special playful order is achieved through the use of special narrative schemes that makes it possible to avoid automatism in perception and help to assimilate the content of the text in the most productive way. The tension inherent to any play is interpreted as an intellectual tension associated with the comprehension of new sences, and as an emotional tension, which is achieved via the use of means of artistic expression and strengthens the reader’s emotional involvement in the events described in the text. Each statement is illustrated by examples from popular science works presented in the Russian book market. The author comes to the conclusion that modern popular science texts demonstrate a new property – a playful beginning.
Natural Law in Editions of the 18th Century from the Library of the Irkutsk Theological Seminary as a Historical Source
Authors: Ovchinnikova O. A. , Moreva O. V.
Published: February 2022

The article gives a historical and book review of Western European publications of the XVIII century on natural law, preserved in the Scientific Library of the Ural State Law University (previously in the collection of the library of the Irkutsk Theological Seminary). Books are considered as a complex historical source with an inexhaustible source-study potential for studying the history of book culture. The facts of the history of the formation of the Irkutsk Theological Seminary library fund at the end of the XVIII – early XIX century and the geography of the spread of the ideas of lawyers of Western Europe, obtained by studying readers’ records, library labels and book signs, are presented. The article not only presents bibliographic descriptions of book rarities of the Enlightenment era (five books in 13 volumes), but also describes in detail all traces of their existence. As a result of the study, the picture of the development of book distribution, librarianship and reading in Siberia in the XVIII–XIX centuries is supplemented.
M. McLuhan’s Media Theory and Contemporary Book Science Discourse: Points of Confluence
Authors: Mutyev V. A. , Elyashevich D. A.
Published: February 2022

Intensive transformations taking place in the system of book communications require the updating of scientific approaches and methodological tools used by book researchers. At the same time, the Russian school of book studies faces a number of difficulties. Geographical and disciplinary isolation of research practices that narrows the possibilities of a comprehensive sociohumanitarian analysis of the social phenomena takes the primary place and can be emphasized among them. The need to include and to interpret conceptual medialogical works in the modern book science discourse determines the relevance of this study. The purpose of this article is to articulate the inherent cross-disciplinary nature of book and reading research and its connection with communication science as a metatheory that explains the historical and cultural development of societies. The subject of the analysis is the work of the Canadian scientist H. M. McLuhan. The research has established the essential characteristics of transitional periods in the history of the dominant means of communication: reformation of society members’ perception and the values shared by them, partial deinstitutionalization and adjustment of functions, goals, tasks of previously existing structures of management and control, integration and cumulation of the cultural and resource potential of communication technologies. Concurrently, the inaccuracies of a purely media-deterministic understanding of the M. McLuhan conception and the impossibility of hierarchical classification of modern media theories have been proved. The practical significance of the research lies in the formation of a pedagogical book science strategy focused on the study of «pre-established» reading models in various communication channels, taking into account the varying degree of influence of micro- and macro-environment factors that determine the polyphony of modern media practices, the structure of educational trajectories, as well as their effectiveness.
Activities of the Publishing and Printing Enterprises of the Siberian-Far East Region at the Early XXI Century
Authors: Lizunova I. V. , Stepanov E. A.
Published: February 2022

The article concerns the problems of functioning the publishing and printing industry in Siberia and the Far East at the early XXI century: peculiarities of its infrastructure forming, entering the country’s printing services market, the place of a region in it. The paper objective is to represent the modern publishing and printing industry in Siberia and the Far East, its structural components, and determine the likely directions for further development of the regional market to printing product and service producers. The article reveals that, at the region territory, there are printing enterprises of various forms of ownership, production scale, printing technologies used, producing practically all types of publishing products of a wide range – from text editions to special ones. The leaders of the modern printing industry in the region are still the largest regional/area printing houses/media holdings - the flagships of the printing industry of certain territories in terms of provided products and services. At the same time, small printing enterprises start to play an increasing role, responding more flexibly and quickly to changes in consumer demand, changes and challenges of the printing services market. Their number in the region is quite large. The basis of small printing enterprises are district/city printing houses, print shops, advertising agencies, mini-printing houses, publishing centers. One can observe the continuation of the activity diversification of the largest printing houses in the region and the general digitalization of the activities of enterprises in the industry.
Evaluating the Work Efficiency of the Library in the Web Environment
Authors: Udartseva O. M.
Published: February 2022

The article deals with assessing the efficiency of website management (EWM) in order to its development and increase the efficiency of its functioning. The concept “efficiency” in relation to the activities of the library in the web environment is analyzed It was concluded that the efficiency of a library website development can be measured by assessing the dynamics of webometric data, and one can get important information on positive or negative effect of the library website management process. A point-based methodology for assessing EWM has been developed, which makes it possible not only to control the process of managing the library own website, but also allows one the comparison of the evaluation coefficients of the EWM in other libraries, regardless of their type. The obtained coefficient for the evaluation of the EUS library indicates how effectively the website is being developed in the information web space. The proposed methodology is quite flexible and can vary depending on the set of key tools.
Impact of MOOC on increasing student interest in the learning process in the context of blended learning
Authors: Ivashkina Tatiana Aleksandrovna , Sidorenko Valentina Nikolaevna , Sukhova Elena Ivanovna
Published: February 2022

The present study aims to substantiate the necessity of using MOOCs in the learning process in higher education institutions, as well as to develop and describe the particular components of a method for using MOOCs in organizing blended learning. The article substantiates the relevance of using MOOCs in the conditions of blended learning and presents various approaches to the definition of MOOC and blended learning. The results of comparative analysis of world MOOC platforms, a model for the integration of a MOOC into the structure of an academic discipline, and the results of an empirical study of engaging students in the use of MOOCs in the conditions of blended learning are presented. MOOCs can be used at different stages of studying academic disciplines in higher education institutions: in laboratory classes or individual assignments, in the process of students’ independent work, their preparation for mid-term and final tests. The study concludes that MOOCs are advisable for use in the educational process and it is important to engage students to take them.
Принятие мер по недопущению распространения новой коронавирусной инфекции, динамика заболеваемости и смертность в разных субъектах Российской Федерации в период с 01/09/2021 по 15/01/2022
Authors: Гольдштейн Эдвард
Published: February 2022

Актуальность: Меры по недопущению распространения новой коронавирусной инфекции могут иметь значительное влияние на динамику заболеваемости и смертности. Например, после указа Президента об установлении нерабочих дней в период с 30 октября по 7 ноября 2021 г., и сопутствующих ограничительных мер, принятых главами/правительствами ряда субъектов Российской Федерации, пик заболеваемости по Российской Федерации в целом был зафиксирован 6 ноября 2021г. Методы: Мы установили хронологию принятия ограничительных мер главами/правительствами 82/85 субъектов Российской Федерации осенью 2021 г. Результаты: В среднем по 82 субъектам Российской Федерации, длина периода роста заболеваемости до принятия первых, популяционно значимых ограничительных мер была 20.6 дней, а количество дней с момента принятия ограничительных мер до пика заболеваемости было 29.9 дней. Более своевременное принятие ограничительных мер (после более короткого периода роста заболеваемости) было связано с менее высоким уровнем смертности – так, для 82 субъектов Российской Федерации, корреляция между длиной периода роста заболеваемости до принятия ограничительных мер и избыточной смертностью от всех причин на 100,000 человек в период с октября по ноябрь 2021 года была 0.42 (0.21,0.58). Выводы: Своевременное принятие ограничительных является одним из факторов, влияющих на смертность от новой коронавирусной инфекции. Дополнительные критерии для принятия мер по недопущению распространения новой коронавирусной инфекции -- например, принятие ограничительных мер после двух недель роста заболеваемости – могут способствовать уменьшению последующей заболеваемости и смертности от новой коронавирусной инфекции. Также, наши результаты говорят о влиянии совокупности различных ограничительных мер на последующее распространение новой коронавирусной инфекции.
« Ne pas parler à la place des premiers concernés ». Étude d’une pratique politique d’éthique langagière chez des militants politiques pour les droits des étrangers en France
Authors: Veniard Marie
Published: February 2022

Les mobilisations pour les droits des étrangers sont parfois le cadre de pratiques langagières reposant sur une idéologie langagière caractérisant la parole politique comme une voie d’émancipation possible. On s’intéressera en particulier à une pratique, celle de « ne pas parler à la place des premiers concernés » telle qu’elle se réalise dans ce champ de luttes. Ce travail se situe à l’articulation entre analyse de discours et sociolinguistique. Loin d’être une simple exigence morale, « ne pas parler à la place des premiers concernés » est une pratique politisée qui prend sens, pour les militants, en opposition à ce qu’ils identifient comme l’appropriation ou de l’invisibilisation, par les groupes dominants, de la parole des groupes minorés dans l’espace public. On pose l’hypothèse que le langage est, pour ces militants, une ressource pour exprimer leur solidarité avec les étrangers sans-papiers. Cette pratique d’éthique langagière se manifeste à différents niveaux langagiers. Elle imprègne les interactions, les mises en discours, et les actes. On la conceptualise comme un registre (Agha 2007) en ce qu’il s’agit d’une norme interactionnelle pervasive qui se caractérise par sa multi-modalité. Nous illustrerons ses manifestations aux niveaux mimo-postural, pragmatique et interactionnel.
Réfléchir à la notion de « voix » à l’aide des travaux sur l’enfance en sciences sociales
Authors: Farmer Diane
Published: February 2022

Les voix d’enfants n’ont pas toujours été sollicitées en sociologie. Il a fallu un changement de perspective dans l’étude des processus de la socialisation pour ainsi prendre l’enfance comme fil conducteur. Je tracerai l’évolution du concept de voix d’enfants sur trois décennies. J’évoquerai d’abord deux défis initiaux recensés dans la littérature savante : la reconnaissance des voix d’enfants en recherche et le développement de méthodes d’enquête. Les enfants se sont beaucoup exprimés, ce qui restera un apport important. J’aborderai ensuite les critiques soulevées au sein de la discipline concernant les notions d’authenticité et d’inclusion ainsi que l’idée de se sentir autorisé à prendre la parole en tant qu’enfant. Je conclurai par l’exemple d’un projet de recherche à grande échelle où les voix prennent vie sans que les enfants soient interrogés directement. La finalité souhaitée demeure la même soit de faire en sorte que ces voix mènent au changement dans l’expérience de vie des enfants. Une voix sans écoute est une voix privée de son action.
Quand la « voix » des nouveaux·elles arrivant·e·s est exprimée et entendue grâce à la photographie : réflexions sur la méthode de recherche « photovoice »
Authors: Goudet Anna , Paquette Catherine
Published: February 2022

Cet article propose un retour réflexif sur la démarche Photovoice et son potentiel à faire émerger la « voix » de personnes immigrantes, au terme d’un projet de recherche portant sur les perceptions et les expériences de l’accueil de nouveaux·elles arrivant·e·s dans deux territoires montréalais (Canada). L'objectif était de faire identifier aux participant·e·s des lieux accueillants ou moins accueillants par la prise de photographies. Nous revenons ici sur deux éléments qui permettent de réfléchir à la démarche Photovoice  : d’une part, l’importance donnée à la dimension émotionnelle et symbolique des lieux pour les participant·e·s, ce qui détonnait de notre revue de littérature de départ sur les « collectivités accueillantes » (Esses et al) ; d’autre part, les différentes modalités d’appropriation de la démarche Photovoice par les participant·e·s. Nous concluons sur les défis et certains enjeux épistémologiques liés à l’emploi du Photovoice dans le cadre d’une recherche dont le point de départ se veut être la « voix » des participant·e·s.
Hydrogeochemical and Isotopic Analyses of Deep Geothermal Fluids in the Wumishan Formation in Xiong’an New Area, China
Authors: Zhu Xi , Wang Guiling , Wang Xiuyan , Qi Shihua , Ma Feng , Zhang Wei , Zhang Hanxiong
Published: February 2022

Medium-low temperature geothermal resources in the Wumishan Formation, which is the geothermal reservoir, are local enrichment resources in Xiong’an New Area, North China. In this study, 35 water samples were collected from the bedrock of Taihang Mountains and Wumishan Formation in Xiong’an New Area and display the chemical compositions of water samples as well as the stable isotope compositions for hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, sulfur, and strontium. Hydrogeochemical characteristics and isotope compositions of water samples are analyzed to understand the origin and circulation processes of these geothermal fluids. Our results of cold groundwaters in the bedrock of Taihang Mountain indicate a more open oxidation environment, and the HCO3-Ca·Mg-type groundwater also indicates a prevailing carbonate dissolution condition. The deep geothermal fluids in the Wumishan Formation beneath Xiong’an New Area indicate a closed reduction condition, and their hydrochemical types are mainly Cl·HCO3-Na type. The diagram of hydrogen vs. oxygen isotope indicates that the recharge for the deep geothermal fluids in the Wumishan Formation of Xiong’an New Area is mainly from atmospheric precipitation. The high δ13C values (-3.4‰−-4.9‰) are notably controlled by the eluviation of the carbonate rock layers. The δ34S values vary from 18.02‰ to 27.01‰; the relatively high values indicate the eluviation of sedimentary rock layers. The high 87Sr/86Sr ratios (0.70806−0.71270) and the high Sr2+ concentrations (0.69−2.92 mg/L) suggest that the Sr in the deep geothermal fluids originates from the eluviation of both silicates and carbonates. According to the multimineral equilibrium diagram, chalcedony is saturated at the measured temperature of geothermal wells; therefore, we chose chalcedony as a geothermal thermometer for the calculation of the reservoir temperature of the Wumishan Formation, and the results vary from 68.63 to 89.10°C. Our study identifies the geothermal type of the deep medium-low temperature hydrothermal systems and also recognizes their water-rock interaction processes. We get a comprehensive understanding that the geothermal resources in the Wumishan Formation beneath Xiong’an New Area is convection-conduction type, for which potential of geothermal development and utilization is enormous.
Topographic Controls on the Distribution of Coseismic Landslides: A Case Study Using the Coefficient of Variation of the 2014 Ludian, Yunnan, China, Ms6.5 Earthquake
Authors: Chen Xiaoli , Wang Mingming , Chuan Yijian , Wei Yankun , Zhang Pengfei
Published: February 2022

Identifying the locations of potential landslide areas is fundamental for disaster prevention and mitigation. Considering the close relationship between landslides and geomorphic evolution, a new approach is proposed to predict which areas are prone to landslides based on the analysis of topographic features in the area affected by the 2014 Ludian, Yunnan, China, Ms6.5 earthquake. In our method, the expected slope angle (ES), which is related to the local relief in a grid cell, is defined to describe the terrain features within grid cells. Based on the relationship between the expected slope angle and the average slope, the cells in the study region can be classified into 3 different terrains. Our study shows that large landslides triggered by the Ludian earthquake are prone to occur in regions where the expected slope angle and average slope angle show obvious differences, which means that the region has sharp changes in relief and slope. In comparison with the coseismic landslides triggered by the 2017 Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan, China, Ms7.0 earthquakes, preliminary analyses infer that the distribution of coseismic landslides follows the general mass transportation features of a special region and that their occurrences are the kind of simultaneous adjustment of excess geomorphicity of hill slopes to a steady state.
Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Coupling Processes in Carbonate Geothermal Reservoirs and Their Numerical Simulation
Authors: Liu Yanguang , Huang Ziliang , Wang Yan , Wang Wanli , Wang Jianguo
Published: February 2022

Reinjecting low-temperature tailwater into geothermal reservoirs leads to complex thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling processes, making it more difficult to predict the thermal breakthrough of the reservoirs. By taking the example of the deep carbonate geothermal reservoirs of karst fissure type in the Xianxian geothermal field in China, this paper studied the thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling processes in the case of reinjection based on previous tracer tests. It established a thermo-hydro-mechanical three-field coupling model based on a two-dimensional discrete fracture network and further verified its suitability through inversion analyses. Moreover, this paper discovered the regularity of the effects of temperature and pressure changes on the deformation of the rock masses in geothermal reservoirs and clarified the mechanisms of the seepage and heat transfer in thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling processes. Meanwhile, it presented the effects of the pressure and temperature on the heat extraction efficiency and production well temperature of the geothermal production-reinjection system in the Xianxian geothermal field. As indicated by the results, the pressure and temperature of geothermal reservoirs increased and decreased, respectively, in the initial phase of the reinjection, leading to an increase in fracture aperture and reservoir permeability. Then, they tended to gradually stabilize, and the amplitude change of the reservoir permeability decreased as the reinjection proceeded. Finally, this paper proposed an optimized reinjection scheme of the study area, aiming to provide scientific support for geothermal reinjection.
Impact of COVID-19 on ESG risk, stock returns, and firm performance: Evidence from Japanese firms
Authors: Murashima Miho
Published: February 2022

This study examines the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance on stock returns and firm performance with the interaction effect of COVID-19, focusing on businesses with low ESG performance. We applied difference-in-differences regression to evaluate how these indicators changed after COVID-19, studying 7,868 samples of 882 firms from June 2016 to March 2021. Our analysis revealed that the impact of ESG risk on long-term firm valuation, represented by Tobin’s Q, shifted in the years after COVID-19. We also found that there was a change in the magnitude of ESG risk, especially the impact of high ESG risk on sales as well as return on equity, before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. In the post-COVID-19 climate, our study suggests that managers should place greater emphasis on ESG efforts, which allow businesses to keep consumers and investors engaged and financially secure, even during unanticipated external shocks. More proactive sharing of information on a company’s ESG operations will be essential, particularly for consumers and investors who may be influenced by the signaling effects of ESG ratings.
Exogenous plant growth regulator and foliar fertilizers for phytoextraction of cadmium with Boehmeria nivea [L.] Gaudich from contaminated field soil.
Authors: peng Wenxian , He Yejun , He Si , Luo Jingfeng , Zeng Yi , Zhang Xiaoyang , Huo Yingyi , Jie Yucheng , Xing Hucheng
Published: February 2022

(1) Background: As a enrichment plant, ramie can be used for the phytoremediation of cadmium (Cd)-contaminated soil. However, it is worth exploring the role of plant growth regulators and foliar fertilizers in the process of plant growth and development and Cd adsorption. (2) Methods: By measuring the agronomic traits, Cd content of aboveground and underground ramie, calculating the Cd transfer coefficient (TF) and Cd bioconcentration factors (BCF), and the correlation between various indicators. This study examined the effects of plant growth regulators and foliar fertilizers on ramie’s capacity for Cd accumulation and transportation, (3) Results: Plant growth regulators and foliar fertilizers increased the Cd content of the aboveground ramie, reduced the Cd content of the underground ramie, and increased the TF. Among them, GA-1 increased the Cd content of the aboveground ramie to 3 times more than that of the control and reduced the Cd content of the underground ramie by 54.76%. Salicylic acid (SA) increased the Cd content of the aboveground ramie to 3 times more than that of the control. The combination of GA and foliar fertilizer reduced the Cd content of the aboveground and underground ramie and the TF and BCF of the underground ramie. After the hormones were sprayed, the TF of ramie had a significant positive correlation with the Cd content of the aboveground ramie; the BCF of the aboveground ramie had a significant positive correlation with the Cd content and TF of the aboveground ramie. (4) Conclusions: The results indicate that Brassinolide (BR), gibberellin (GA), ethephon (ETH), polyamines (PAs), and salicylic acid (SA) have different effects on the enrichment and transport of Cd in ramie. This study provided an effective method to improve the capacity for ramie to adsorb heavy metals during cultivation.