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Teachers’ Perception of Motivational Strategies in the Language Classroom
An Empirical Study on Italian FL and L2 Teachers
Authors: Cucinotta Giacomo
Published: July 2024

Motivation can determine success or failure in second language learning process, however there is a limited number of published investigations dedicated to motivational strategies in a European context. The purpose of the present study is to replicate Cheng’s and Dörnyei’s (2007) research to test the validity of their findings in a different cultural milieu. 101 foreign language (FL) and second language (L2) teachers were asked to rate a list of 47 motivational strategies according based on the degree of importance they perceived. In addition, they were also invited to specify how they acquainted with each strategy. The results of the study suggest that, even though the use of motivational strategies is decidedly context-dependent, the prevailing importance of some strategies might be cross-cultural. In particular, strategies related to classroom climate could also be considered as preconditions to employ further strategies. The highest-rated strategies are also indicated as acquired mostly through experience, which highlights the far too little attention that motivational strategies have so far received in education programmes for the formation of language teachers.
Validity and Reliability of a Test Used for Assessing University Students’ Academic Language Proficiency
Authors: Mezzadri Marco , Sisti Flora
Published: July 2024

This article presents a test model developed to assess university students’ academic language proficiency. The context is that of Italian universities, which are required by law to assess first year students’ initial preparation. Drawing on the literature regarding test construct, it explores the validity and reliability of the test through the analysis of the data collected during an experimental implementation phase carried out at the Universities of Genova, Parma and Urbino.
The Promotion of Italian FL in the World
Authors: Sholkamy Abdelgawad Mohey Eddin
Published: July 2024

The present study tackles the initiatives via which Italy is promoting the Italian language and culture abroad. It is aimed at compiling these initiatives in one place; this is profoundly important in the linguistic history of Italian as addressed to people outside Italy and familiarising researchers with these initiatives. This study analyses 9 initiatives that directly contribute to promoting the Italian language and culture outside Italy. The final conclusion of the study is that the Italian government and people are keen on supporting these initiatives and publicising them among non-Italian communities in Italy as well as abroad, which brings about disseminating not only a language or a culture but a whole state system (language, culture, economics, politics, etc.).
Post Nature and Ecocritical Epic in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift
Authors: Mondo Costanza
Published: July 2024

Although in postcolonial ecocritical literature the agency of animals finds full recognition, representations of insects are so rare that curiosity arises about their untapped ecocritical meaning. Interestingly, in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift, a chorus of mosquitoes takes centre stage. In the first section of this paper, I argue that Serpell’s novel recontextualises classical references, placing them between adaptation to the conventions of epic poems and innovation. In the second section, the ecocritical meanings of the chorus of mosquitoes are analysed and framed in relation to the concepts of ‘simulacrum’ and post nature.
Il volgarizzamento veneziano del «Tractatus de locis terre sancte» di Francesco Pipino OP (XV sec.)
Authors: Puliero Jessica
Published: July 2024

This paper presents the critical edition of the vernacular version of Tractatus de locis terre sancte, the Latin travel chronicle to the Holy Land written by Francesco Pipino (about 1270-1330), a Dominican friar best known for his Latin translation of Devisement dou Monde. The edition is based on the codex VI 56 (6140) (Venezia, BNM), which contains the only still known copy of this vernacular version.
Azione del socio investitore contro la Banca
Competenza del tribunale delle imprese o della sezione ordinaria?
Authors: Mancuso Carlo
Published: July 2024

The author comments on a recent decision of the Court of Verona concerning the powers of the “court of businesses” in a case of purchase by an investor partner, of bonds convertible into shares of the bank. Starting from the case decided by the judgment in question, the discussion highlights some problematic aspects related to the different nature of the ordinary court and the court of businesses.
Oltre la scissione subsocietaria: i patrimoni destinati costituiti eclusivamente mediante apporti di terzi
Authors: Brighenti Stefano
Published: July 2024

The topic of the paper concerns the protected cell companies, that is those companies whose asset is composed of two or more segregated cells. The paper wonders whether it is possible for a company limited by shares to create segregated cells exclusively by mean of contributions provided by third parties and how such hypothesis should be regulated.
Between Reason and Madness
Hallucinated Detectives in the Narrative of Juan José Saer and Ricardo Piglia
Authors: Macedo Rodriguez Alfonso
Published: July 2024

This paper analyses intertextuality between two novels, Juan José Saer’s La pesquisa and Ricardo Piglia’s Blanco nocturno, in the context of detective fiction, that both writers explore in their narrative. The paper is divided in four parts: “Cruces introductorios” is an introductory form to produce connections between the most important authors of the last quarter of 20th-century Argentine; in “Primeros rastros” communicating vases are set between both poetics in detective genre; in “Subgéneros policiales” some important aspects of La pesquisa and Blanco nocturno are analysed while some differences are identified: the first work belongs to enigma novel and the last work connects with hard boiled; finally, the paper analyses Detective Morvan and Detective Croce aiming at identifying opposite pairs: intelligence and dementia, reason and madness, civilisation and barbarism. Thus, these concepts are establishing new relationships between Saer and Piglia based on their approaches to detective genre and their criticism to capitalist system.
To Read Looking. Elements for Understanding and Analysis of Latin American Electronic Literature
Authors: Gómez Verónica
Published: July 2024

The objective of this article is to define, contribute and analyse to what is called nowadays Latin American electronic literature. Under a predominant global visual culture and following the visual poetry tradition, we aim to define these technopoetics – what –, the reasons to study them – why – and the possibility to develop a method – how. Particularly, we analyse Tatuaje (2014), a work that belongs to the Latin American field regarding the specific context of production and diffusion in this region.
Stolen Lives and the Limits of Art
Authors: Sampedro Aiora
Published: July 2024

What we know about the horizon of possibilities in the writers’ discourse is largely influenced by two relevant scholars studies who defined literature as a field in which many pressures converge. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the aims and pressures that have Harkaitz Cano has to cope with when writing about the Basque context. In the aforementioned discussion I thoroughly identify different cycles of literary recreation by taking into consideration three essential stages: first, reflections from a novel’s main figure, secondly, an essay on artist and character building and finally, conversions based on metaliterature. To conclude, the single most striking observation to emerge from the analysis might be the correlation between the artist’s necessity and impossibility to represent reality around him.
Transformation of Identity in the Basque Narrative of the 20th Century
Authors: Esparza Iratxe
Published: July 2024

This article discusses how economic, political and social changes linked to postmodernism have caused a transformation in the subject’s identity in recent Basque narrative. It shows the appearance a new type of postmodern characters. Postmodernity offers a set of tools to analyse the concept of identity and its alteration in narrative, in an attempt to make a global description of current society and postmodernism as a framework in which artistic creations are materialised. This research delves into the postmodern subject in the Basque literary context. Results obtained attest that an identity crisis experienced by main characters corresponds to an identity imbalance that postmodernity generates in Western culture, resulting in a multiple and transitory identity.
The “Hispanic American Things”. Italo Calvino as an Editorial Reader of Latin American Writers
Authors: Carini Sara
Published: July 2024

This article deals with Italo Calvino’s work as reader Latin American writers for Einaudi during the 1970s. Through specific case studies of editorial mediation taken from Einaudi’s archive we will outline the principles used by Calvino to assure publication edition of Latin American works. That will help us to include Calvino’s activity into the field of Latin American literature reception and editorial mediation studies in Italy during the second half of the 20th century.
Paradoxes and the Scandals of Logic: a Borgesian Look Over Juan Rodolfo Wilcock Critical and Journalistic Articles
Authors: Ferrante Florencia
Published: July 2024

In recent years Juan Rodolfo Wilcock has been the subject of renewed critical interest. This article focuses on the relations between some of Wilcock’s and Jorge Luis Borges’ philosophical conceptions, especially regarding their reflections on the concept of ‘paradox’ and its repercussions on literary representation. This article examines a series of texts that have remained, so far, practically unexplored: Wilcock’s newspapers and journal articles. It is in fact here, in this specific corpus, that the impact of Borges’ work on Wilcock’s thought becomes more explicit, therefore opening a new critical perspective for the interpretation of Wilcock’s place in the Italian literary field.
Maurizio Fabbri. Nel “Giardino del Mondo”. Saggi su diari e relazioni di viaggio in Italia di spagnoli e novohispanos dal Settecento al Novecento
Authors: De Cesare Giovanni Battista
Published: July 2024

Recensione di Fabbri, Maurizio (2018). Nel “Giardino del Mondo”. Saggi su diari e relazioni di viaggio in Italia di spagnoli e novohispanos dal Settecento al Novecento. Rimini: Panozzo Editore, pp. 270.
Mario Martín Gijón. Un segundo destierro. La sombra de Unamuno en el exilio español
Authors: Domínguez Gutiérrez M. Carmen
Published: July 2024

Reseña de Martín Gijón, Mario (2018). Un segundo destierro. La sombra de Unamuno en el exilio español. Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, pp. 352.
Juan José Millás. Que nadie duerma
Authors: Guarino Augusto
Published: July 2024

Recensione di Millás, Juan José (2018). Que nadie duerma. Madrid: Alfaguara, pp. 200
Gossip and Vanity: Two Possible Ways of Discerning Death in Los dos retratos by Norah Lange
Authors: Concolino Mariana
Published: July 2024

In this article, death is linked to the very fleeting nature of time, and to how time has something of uncontrollable and fluid. In the context of a wealthy family, dying means that memories (as foundations of a solid family life) become distorted, and physical beauty vanishes: to die is to disfigure, dying is disfiguring oneself. In order to carry out this analysis, it will be essential to study the function of some elements that indicate permanent presence in the text such as photographs, mirrors, gossip. Thus, we will use reflections by Schnaith regarding death, Berger’s writings that allow us to meditate on the action of looking, Barthes’ text analysing photographic images and Cozarinksy’s works regarding gossip.
T.S. Eliot and Josep Carner in Dialogue
Allusions to Eliot’s Poetry in Nabí
Authors: Serra Margalit
Published: July 2024

The aim of this article is to show that Nabí’s poem, written by Catalan poet Josep Carner, contains allusions to the works of T.S. Eliot The Waste Land as well as to “Burnt Norton”, the first poem of Four Quartets. Allusion is a literary resource which is recurrent in both authors, to whom literary tradition is pivotal in the process of poetic creation. A thorough analysis of the main allusions of Nabí to these two poems of T.S. Eliot demonstrates that by means of allusion a dialogue between works of different times, languages and authors may be established.
The Internationalization of the Catalan Novel
The Case of Pedra de tartera by Maria Barbal and its Reception within the German Speaking Countries
Authors: Jané Lligé Jordi
Published: July 2024

This article analyses the translation and reception within the German speaking countries of Maria Barbal’s novel Pedra de tartera (Stone in a Landslide). The article focuses on two main issues: on the one hand, external factors that determine the projection abroad not only of Maria Barbal’s work, but more generally of Catalan literature; on the other hand, literary factors that define the novel’s reception abroad. For the first set of factors, this study describes the role played in this process by the Institut Ramon Llull, several publishing houses, literary agencies and international book fairs. For the second set of factors, it analyses the reaction of academia, literary criticism and the media, and, equally important, the opinion of Heike Nottebaum, German translator of the book, and Rainer Nitsche German publisher.
Sara Robles Ávila y Antonio Moreno-Ortiz (eds). Comunicación mediada por ordenador
Authors: Trovato Giuseppe
Published: July 2024

Reseña de Robles Ávila, Sara; Moreno-Ortiz, Antonio (eds) (2019). Comunicación mediada por ordenador: la lengua, el discurso y la imagen. Madrid: Cátedra, pp. 337.
María Sanchez’s Ecofeminist Poetry
Authors: Frühbeck Moreno Carlos
Published: July 2024

This article aims to study María Sánchez’s poetry from an ecofeminist point of view. In particular, her work Cuaderno de campo is interpreted – following her last essay Tierra de mujeres – as an attempt to create a new feminine voice through the transgression of fixed discursive patterns. Specifically, we will focus on how poetry can ‘sabotage’ scientific discourse in order to build a new narrative that is able to overcome an approach to the natural world based on domination and exploitation. In fact, from its closeness to Nature, this voice claims a new identity based on the ethics of care and the understanding of the world as a web where all living things depend on each other.
Ida Vitale. Shakespeare Palace. Mosaicos de mi vida en México
Authors: Domínguez Gutiérrez M. Carmen
Published: July 2024

Review of Vitale, I. (2019). Shakespeare Palace. Mosaicos de mi vida en México. Barcelona: Lumen. 234 pp.
José Joaquín Parra Bañón. El oído melancólico y Arquitectura de la melancolía
Authors: Bou Enric
Published: July 2024

Review of Parra Bañón, J.J. (2018). El oído melancólico. Expresión e imágenes de la acufenolipemanía. Sevilla: Athenaica Ediciones, pp. 234; Parra Bañón, J.J. (2019). Arquitectura de la melancolía. Sevilla: Athenaica Ediciones, pp. 312.
Luis Landero. Lluvia fina
Authors: Guarino Augusto
Published: July 2024

Review of Landero, L. (2019). Lluvia fina. Barcelona: Tusquets, pp. 272.
María Hortensia Troanes. El límite y la gracia
Authors: Serafin Silvana
Published: July 2024

Review of Troanes, M.H. (2019). El límite y la gracia. Buenos Aires: Vinciguerra, pp. 130.
Nocilla Dream (2006) by Agustín Fernández Mallo
A ‘Heterotopography’ of a Globalised World
Authors: Cattaneo Simone
Published: July 2024

El presente trabajo profundiza en la representación que Agustín Fernández Mallo (La Coruña, 1967) brinda del mundo globalizado en su novela Nocilla Dream (2006). De hecho, la conciencia de que nuestra realidad se construye a través de unas relaciones en red, le permite crear un espacio narrativo apto para acoger un acopio heteróclito de materiales, logrando trazar un mapa articulado de nuestra contemporaneidad global y digital. A partir de ahí se ha intentado definir tanto el plano trazado por al autor como su manera de proceder recurriendo al neologismo ‘heterotopografía’, surgido de la fusión del concepto foucaultiano de ‘heterotopía’ y del término ‘topografía’ en su doble acepción.
Antigone’s Collective Body
Myth and Rewritings in Sara Uribe’s Antígona González
Authors: Alicino Laura
Published: July 2024

In this article we will analyse the use of intertextuality in Sara Uribe’s Antígona González. From a theoretical point of view, we will focus on the relationship between Antígona González and both Sophocles’ myth and other European and Latin-American reinterpretations of it, trying to set the structural function of myth as a textual device, which tries to undermine its permanent structure. This specific use of myth will be therefore connected with the thematic dimension of Antigone’s body, in order to investigate the meaning of its collective re-use in the Mexican recontextualisation proposed by Uribe, together with all the esthetical, ethical and political implications derived from that.
Enrico Di Pastena, Valerio Nardoni (a cura di). Federico García Lorca: Poema del cante jondo, seguito da Architettura del cante jondo
Authors: Londero Renata
Published: July 2024

Review of Di Pastena, E.; Nardoni, V. (a cura di) (2019). Federico García Lorca: Poema del cante jondo, seguito da Architettura del cante jondo. Firenze: Passigli, 186 pp.
Marisa Martínez Pérsico. Il cielo tra parentesi
Authors: Tarquini Francesco
Published: July 2024

Recensione di Martínez Pérsico, M. (2019). Il cielo tra parentesi. Roma: Edizioni Fili d’Aquilone, 130 pp.
Milton Santos. Per una nuova globalizzazione
Authors: Irineu Fernandes Paulo
Published: July 2024

Review di Santos, M. (2016). Per una nuova globalizzazione. A cura di J. Falconi. Salerno: Edizioni Arcoiris, 172 pp.
Hernán Sánchez Martínez de Pinillos. Poemes en ondes hertzianes de Joan Salvat-Papasseit
Authors: Bou Enric
Published: July 2024

Review of Sánchez Martínez de Pinillos, H. (2020). Poemes en ondes hertzianes de Joan Salvat-Papasseit: una lectura iniciática. Madrid; Frankfurt: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 381 pp.
La fête et le spectacle carnavalesques dans Le Mât de cocagne (1979) et Hadriana dans tous mes rêves (1988) de René Depestre
Authors: Alvarez Domenech Irene
Published: July 2024

The aim of this article is to bring together two of René Despestre’s novels, Le Mât de cocagne (1979) and Hadriana dans tous mes rêves (1988), and place them within the tradition of the carnivalesque as it was discussed by Mikhail Bakhtin in L’œuvre de François Rabelais et la culture populaire au Moyen Âge et sous la Renaissance. By taking into account this wider perspective, I intend to show that the presence of a diegetic spectacle reinforces the subversive value of the two works by including a moment of utopian relief that invites both the characters and the readers to engage in a fight for freedom.
Edward Elgar’s Masque The Crown of India
Resonances of the Raj at the London Coliseum
Authors: Pucciarelli Edvige
Published: July 2024

The music for The Crown of India was written by Edward Elgar in 1912 to accompany an ‘Imperial Masque’ with a libretto by Henry Hamilton. The impresario Sir Oswald Stoll had commissioned Elgar to compose the Masque music for the lavish celebration of the coronation of King George V as Emperor of India as part of a larger entertainment in the Coliseum Theatre in St. Martin’s Lane. The Masque was part of an ample music-hall programme, involving shows as different as mime, pantomime and music. Elgar’s ‘Imperial Masque’ was meant to be an assertion of the British Empire, bringing to the London stage the crucial political happenings behind all the pageantry of the Delhi Durbar for the crowning of George V as Emperor of India in December 1911. This event had marked the climax of the only royal tour of India undertaken by a reigning King-Emperor and had caused much public excitement in England. The Durbar ceremony itself was an adaptation of a court ritual of the Mogul Empire, an event where the ruling princes used to meet to discuss politics and legislative changes. To listen to works such as Elgar’s The Crown of India (Opus 66), it is necessary to acknowledge that at the beginning of the 20th century the British nation believed in the Empire and in its concept.
James Joyce’s ‘Linguistic Musicality’
A Short Insight into Some Linguistic Musical Patterns in the First Chapter of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and their Echoes in “Sirens”
Authors: Autieri Arianna
Published: July 2024

The central aim of this paper is to show the similarities of some stylistic features of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man with musical code. A second purpose is to verify how these musical features are echoed in “Sirens”. In order to initially describe the common properties of language and music and to define how their acoustic and rhythmic similarities are relevant in written texts, the paper will draw on the theories of the Science of Rhythm – a non-academic discipline that has influenced many modernist writings, and also studied the common rhythmic features of music and language. After detailing a musical method for the analysis of the linguistic texture of written prose, I focus on the first chapter of A Portrait. Hence, I identify the musical characteristics of the novel’s style through a comparison between some Joycean scholars’ theories on music in A Portrait and the principles of the Science of Rhythm. Finally, a few examples of the musical language in “Sirens” will provide a benchmark for a comparison with A Portrait.
Illuminating an Armenian Collection of Manuscripts
A Forgotten Treasure in the Layard Collection
Authors: Riva Cecilia
Published: July 2024

In 1902 Enid Layard bequeathed four illuminated Armenian manuscripts, belonging to her late husband, to the Armenian Mekhitarist College of Venice and to the Correr Museum. This survey retraces the manuscripts’ earlier provenance and their arrival in the Venetian collections. Austen Henry Layard’s private papers and publications attest to a close relationship with the Armenian community, both in Constantinople and Venice. The aim of this paper is not only to show more fully the early reception of Armenian artworks in a Western context, but also to present a first study of these manuscripts by providing some comparisons.
Armenian Art and Culture from the Pages of the Historia Imperii Mediterranei
Authors: Riccioni Stefano
Published: July 2024

The article studies the editorial series called “Historia Imperii Mediterranei” (HIM) that was directed by Lauro Mainardi, an official of the National Fascist Party, in cooperation with the Armenian Committee of Italy. Between 1939 and 1941, the HIM published a series of booklets entitled Armenia that contained not only articles on Armenia but also “essays on Oriental culture”. According to Mainardi, the HIM had a wide cultural interest in art and architecture but also in literature, poetry, philosophy, and politics. The series published two significant essays: the article by Josef Strzygowski, where he innovatively affirmed the role of the East in Christian art and where he employed “Aryan” racial theory; and Giuseppe Frasson’s article, which shows that Strzygowski was recognised as an innovator but, at the same time, that Byzantine studies in Italy were confined to the nationalistic purpose of affirming ‘Italian’ elements in Roman art. In conclusion, the HIM illustrates the political and cultural strategy of the Fascist party with respect to the Caucasian question in addition to its support of the strategy of the Armenian Committee of Italy for protecting Armenians in Italy before the Second World War.
The Representation of Holiness Between Realism and Devotion in the Polyptych of Montefiore dell’Aso by Carlo Crivelli
Authors: De Carolis Francesco
Published: July 2024

The article seeks to draw attention to the saintly bodies depicted by Crivelli in the polyptych for Montefiore dell’Aso, considering them from different points of view. As written in the introduction, the figures painted by Carlo Crivelli are not simple representations of people, but contain deep religious meanings. The second part of the article focuses on the importance of the technical process of gilding used in the Montefiore panels for the definition of the holy figures, and its significance for a more precise dating. In its third part, the paper suggests a new identification for the Franciscan saint painted in half length with St. Anthony of Padua; the final section looks into Crivelli’s mode of representing the holy bodies of St. Francis and, above all, of St. Louis of Toluse, who wears a ring in which the artist left a previously unnoticed inscription.
Aesthetics of Infection: From Cyborg to Theriomorph
Authors: Marchesini Roberto , Andersen Karin
Published: July 2024

As long as cultural history has been passed on, art and science have always been connected. However in the past decades, while it has become more and more evident that traditional anthropocentric and humanistic values have led to a huge and unprecedented environmental crisis, the dialogue between scientific research and artistic production has been increasingly focusing on a new vision of humanity as an open, undetermined and transitory entity. This essay examines how recent technoscientific advancements and relating artistic imagery have boosted the evolution of a posthumanistic idea of identity, moving away from the concept of human cultural self-sufficiency and gaining consciousness of our dependance on interaction and blending with alterity. A series of selected examples evidence the wide range of mutation spreading in contemporary audiovisual culture, oscillating between the two archetypical concepts of the Cyborg and the Theriomorph. The viral diffusion of hybrid contents, as the emerging idea of organisms and technology invading each other, suggests that we are approaching a paradigm of infection, not in the sense of a dangerous invasion of human health, integrity and purity, but in terms of a deeply necessary hybridisation with otherness.
Application of POE (Predict, Observe, Explain) Learning Model to Improve Understanding of Concepts
Authors: Dewi Imega Syahlita , Rahmawati Maylinda Dwi
Published: July 2024

This research aims to determine the POE (Predict, Observe, Explain) learning model in improving students' understanding of concepts in the Chemistry subject at SMA Negeri 1 Gondang. This research method uses a class action research model. The research subjects were 35 students in class X-4. This research has a good impact on students' understanding of concepts, this can be conveyed through the results of cycle I and cycle II research. Cycle I completed 25 students with a completion percentage of 71.4%, while cycle II completed 28 students with a completion percentage of 82.9%. So in cycle I and cycle II there was an increase in students' understanding of concepts in the Chemistry subject.
Keywords: POE, Concept Understanding, Chemistry
Identification of Student Misconception Level Through The Four Tier Dignostic Test as A Result of The Implementation of E-Module Development
Authors: Prafitasari Aulya Nanda , Pipit Candrasari
Published: July 2024

Learning in Kurikulum Merdeka guides students not only to wait for information from the teacher, but also to independently obtain good learning resources. Each student's literacy skills will influence their ability to understand material. Students having a misconception still becomes a big threat, therefore the students need specially designed learning media based on materials needed which is listed on the teacher's lesson plan. The learning media was developed in e-modules that can be used both offline and online so as to help reduce misconceptions in the material being studied. This study aims to identify the level of students' misconceptions between classes that use e-modules and those that do not. The research design used a posttest only control group design with questions of the type of four tier diagnostic test. Students answered by google forms and analyzed based on the Certainty of Response Index (CRI) criteria. The results of the implementation of e-modules, that have been developed based on the needs of the teacher's lesson plan, show differences in the level of misconceptions between classes that use it and those who don't. In the experimental class, 33.4% of students stated misconceptions, while in the control class it was 51.7.
Application Creative Problem Solving to Improve Junior High School Students' Creative Thinking Skills in Environmental Pollution Materials
Authors: Izzatina Sabila , Rosdiana Laily
Published: July 2024

Education is an effort to improve the quality of life and human resources. One of these educational goals is to increase student creativity in learning at school. The purpose of this study was to determine the increase in students' creative thinking skills, learning implementation, and the responses of class VII E students of SMP Negeri 2 Semen after implementing the learning process by applying the creative problem solving learning model to environmental pollution material. The research method used is Pre-Experimental Design with the experimental design used is One-Group-Pretest-Posttest. The research subjects in this study were students of class VII E with a total of 34 students at SMP Negeri 2 Semen Kediri. Data collection using tests (pretest-posttest), observation sheets of learning implementation, and student response questionnaires. Based on the results of the study after carrying out learning by applying creative problem solving it was found that students' creative thinking skills increased with an N-Gain value of 0.75 with very high criteria. The application of the creative problem solving learning model in class VII E of SMP Negeri 2 Semen was carried out well, this can be seen from the mode value of the results of observing the implementation of learning, namely 4. Student responses to the application of creative problem solving learning models in environmental pollution material received a value of 85, 10% with very high criteria which means students give a positive response. The conclusion from this study is that the creative problem solving learning model influences the creative thinking skills of class VII E students of SMP Negeri 2 Semen Kediri.
The Influence Of Students' Reading Interest On Indonesian Language Learning Achievement In Pakel I State Primary Schools
Authors: Widiyaningsih Nunuk , Sudigdo Anang , Santosa Wijaya Heru
Published: July 2024

The author observed that interest in reading among Pakel I State Elementary School students is very low. This is based on observations made when the author carried out observations throughout the time at SD Negeri Pakel I . The aims of this research are (1) to prove the influence of reading interest on student learning achievement, (2) to describe the influence of reading interest on student learning achievement. This research is qualitative and quantitative research using development methods or Research and Development (R&D). The instruments used were interviews, questionnaires and observations. The research subjects were students in grades 4, 5 and 6 of Pakel I State Elementary School, totaling 31 students. The author observed that interest in reading among Pakel I State Elementary School students is very lowThis research methodology is based on the development model of Borg & Gall (2003: 775). The development procedure used in this research consists of 10 stages, namely: (a) research and data collection, (b) planning, (c) development of the initial form of the product, (d) initial field trials, (e) product revision, (f ) field trials, (g) operational product revisions, (h) operational field trials, (i) final product revisions, and (j) dissemination. The results of this research are (1) the results of the Kolmogrov-Smirnov normality test show that the value obtained is 0.104 ≥ 0.05) so that the data is normally distributed, the homogeneity test results show a result of 0.621 in the range of 0.60-0.799 or interest in reading with learning achievement has strong relationship. Meanwhile, the t test results show results of 0.722 and 0.046 < 0.05 or it can be concluded that H0 is rejected and Ha is accepted. (2) Thus, the research conclusion is that there is a significant difference between the average student learning outcomes before and after literacy. So that interest in reading has a significant effect in increasing the learning achievement of students in grades 4, 5 and 6 at Pakel I State Elementary School.
Study of microbiological activity of topical antibacterial agents for treatment of combat injuries
Authors: Kutasevych Ya.F. , Dzhoraieva S.K. , Lyapunov M.O. , Khoroshun E.M. , Honcharenko V.V. , Nehoduiko V.V. , Kondakova H.K.
Published: July 2024

The problems of combat injuries are determined by the issue of treatment of purulent complications, because wounds received during combat operations are usually infected, and the most serious complication of such wounds is the development of purulent infection.
Objective — to study the features of the aerobic component of combat wounds, the sensitivity of causative agents of wound infection to antibacterial drugs, and the antimicrobial activity of individual drugs in relation to extensively resistant and polyresistant microbial agents in order to develop external therapy algorithms as part of the complex treatment of these injuries.
Materials and methods. The data of microbiological studies of patients with combat wounds were used in the work.
Results and discussion. Based on the results of monitoring causative agents of purulent­inflammatory complications of wound injuries, a range of leading types of microorganisms was revealed. The isolation of flora resistant to most antibiotics from wounds dictates the need to change the strategy of infection control with strengthening measures to prevent nosocomial transmission, which should be considered when prescribing antibiotic therapy.
Conclusions. Based on the results of monitoring the causative agents of purulent-inflammatory complications of wound injuries, a range of leading types of microorganisms was revealed: K. pneumoniae, E. faecalis, S. haemolyticus, P. aeruginosa, E. coli. The dominant microorganisms (by isolation frequency) in the wound contents were: staphylococci (3.0—5.69 lg CFU/ml), enterobacteria (4.69—7.0 lg CFU/ml), enterococci (3.0—4.69 lg CFU/ml). In addition, aerobic bacilli (3.0—3.69 lg CFU/g) and pseudomonads (5.69—7.0 lg CFU/g) were determined in the wound contents, which did not have a dominant character.The use of a topical agent containing dioxidin can contribute to the improvement of the effectiveness of the local treatment of purulent wounds infected with strains of gram-negative bacteria, in particular E. coli, K. pneumoniae and P. aeruginosa, with poly and extensive resistance to antibiotics both in monocultures and in microbial associations, in particular with strains of S. aureus, including MRSA.
MODEL KONTROL OTOMATIS PENGAIRAN HIDROPONIK DENGAN METODE FUZZY
Authors: Prihono Prihono , Febryanto Indra Dwi
Published: July 2024

Recently, many hydroponic farms have emerged. This is due to the increasingly limited agricultural land and also as a way to fill time during the Covid-19 pandemic. In hydroponics, the role of water as a planting medium plays a very dominant role. This is because air is a solvent for the nutrients that plants need. So air is a key factor in poverty in the Hydroponic farming system. That need to be considered when choosing water for hydroponic cultivation is that it is based on the air acidity value. The air acidity value is important as a parameter that influences plant growth in the hydroponic cultivation method. The ideal temperature value ranges between pH 5.5-6.5. In Cangkringsari Village, Sukodono District, Sidoarjo Regency, Karang Taruna Tunas Cangkring has tried to develop hydroponic farming, but because the supply of acidic air with a pH that is not ideal causes plant growth to be poor. Therefore, an automatic control model for hydroponic irrigation is needed. The method developed uses the Fuzzy method. The Fuzzy method applied functions to control the air pump automatically, so that the Arduino Uno microcontroller and the 4502c pH sensor combined can detect the pH of the nutritious air that will be given to hydroponic plants in the range of 5.5 to 6.5. The application of the Fuzzy method can be applied to drive the nutrient pump perfectly so that with its application it can maintain the air pH in the specified range.
EVALUASI KUALITAS LAYANAN UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KEPUASAN PELANGGAN DI LANGGENG SARI
Authors: Hakim Daffa Falih , Winati Famila Dwi , Ramdhani Ade Yanyan
Published: July 2024

A business's success can be determined by the business actor's ability to evaluate influencing factors to determine the level of customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction can have an important influence on companies where, in these highly competitive business conditions, the level of intense competition gives rise to a variety of product and service differentiation. Therefore, efforts need to be made to manage customer satisfaction by evaluating the factors that influence satisfaction. Data processing in this research was carried out using the CSI and IPCA methods. The results show that there is still a level of interest and expectations that Langgeng Sari still needs to fulfill. The results can be seen based on the Customer Satisfaction Index value obtained, which is 76.45%. It consists of 25 attribute questions, which include service quality, tourism products, prices, and food quality, with recommendations for improvements to the attributes in quadrant III (urgent action). Proposed improvements are used as considerations for creating SOPs for Langgeng Sari services to reduce employee negligence and errors to the specified standards.
Wind speed prediction using LSTM and ARIMA time series analysis models: A case study of Gelibolu
Authors: Demirtop Adem , Sevli Onur
Published: July 2024

Wind energy stands out as a prominent renewable energy source, characterized by its high efficiency, feasibility, and wide applicability. Nonetheless, the integration of wind energy into the electrical system encounters significant obstacles due to the unpredictability and variability of wind speed. Accurate wind speed prediction is essential for estimating the short-, medium-, and long-term power output of wind turbines. Various methodologies and models exist for wind speed time series prediction. This research paper proposes a combination of two approaches to enhance forecasting accuracy: deep learning, particularly Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), and the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model. LSTM, by retaining patterns over longer periods, improves prediction rates. Meanwhile, the ARIMA model enhances the likelihood of staying within predefined boundaries. The study utilizes daily average wind speed data from the Gelibolu district of Çanakkale province spanning 2014 to 2021. Evaluation using the root mean square error (RMSE) shows the superior forecast accuracy of the LSTM model compared to ARIMA. The LSTM model achieved an RMSE of 6.3% and a mean absolute error of 16.67%. These results indicate the potential utility of the proposed approach in wind speed forecasting, offering performance comparable to or exceeding other studies in the literature.
Political Turmoil in ECOWAS: When Politics Prevails Over Law
Authors: Adu Yao Nikez , Mezyaev Alexander
Published: July 2024

Several military regimes have recently come to power within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). This article on the political crisis in ECOWAS examines the main causes of these developments in the region and the approaches of regional organizations to address them in the African context, taking into account the practices of the OAU and the African Union. In the first phase, ECOWAS imposed a series of sanctions against these states for violating their international legal obligations in the areas of democracy, human rights, the rule of law, and good governance. In addition, the community decided to use military force in the Republic of Niger in order to free M. Bazoum, and, in response to this threat, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger decided, on September 16, 2023, to create the Alliance of Sahel States (ASS) for self-defense to repel the aggression of the ECOWAS troops. Furthermore, on January 28, 2024, the ASS countries announced their withdrawal from ECOWAS, and, in order to prevent a split in ECOWAS, on February 24, 2024, the community decided to lift the sanctions previously imposed on Niger, Mali, and Guinea on humanitarian grounds. This article examines in detail both the political and legal sides of the decisions taken by ECOWAS. Based on their analysis, the authors conclude that democracy remains an important tool for promoting stability in African multinational societies. According to the authors, attempts by the AU and ECOWAS to address political instability through normative means can be encouraged. However, ECOWAS’ sanction policies against offending countries should be based on existing community norms, humanity, and real facts in order to avoid dividing the community.
Russian Fertilizers as an Element of Strengthening Africa’s Food Sovereignty
Authors: Sviridov Vsevolod , Andreeva Tamara ,   Institute for African Studies RAS
Published: July 2024

Over the past few years, amid the pandemic and other crises in the world markets, food security in Africa has once again become a key issue in international relations. However, what is important for the food sovereignty of the continent is not only the uninterrupted supply of food but also the gradual localization of food production in Africa, which requires increased fertilizer consumption, making the transition from the concept of “food security” to “food sovereignty” relevant. In general, it can be argued that the problem of Africa’s food sovereignty is not related to land scarcity but primarily to Africa’s position in the global value chains in the world’s food markets, as well as its dependence on imports of semi-finished food products. The key role in maintaining import dependence is played by influential lobbying and financial groups, intermediaries linked to transnational corporations, traders, and a number of other international actors. Structural imbalances in economic development have so far prevented most African countries from producing fertilizers domestically, which has led to an increase in fertilizer imports. In recent years, Russian exporters have managed to significantly strengthen their presence in African food and agricultural markets, bringing their share of the African fertilizer market to 20%. This article deals with the main trends of the movement toward food sovereignty in Africa, primarily considering the role of fertilizers in this process. For the first time, an analysis of the strategies of major Russian fertilizer suppliers in Africa is provided.
Collective Self-Reliance: Restarting the Concept in the Sahel in the Context of a Multipolarizing World Order
Authors: Degterev Denis ,   Institute for African Studies RAS
Published: July 2024

This article is devoted to restarting the concept of “Collective Self-Reliance” (CSR) taking into account the emergence of a multipolar world. Particular attention is paid to the attempts of African countries to get out of the center-periphery model of dependent development through the implementation of this concept. The theoretical foundations of the CSR concept, enshrined in the Arusha Declaration of 1967, the Arusha Program for Collective Self-Reliance and Framework for Negotiations of 1979, and in a number of documents of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and the African Union (AU), are presented. The attitude towards CSR is shown in the works of Western experts, scholars from the USSR and Russia, as well as contemporary researchers from the former republics of Yugoslavia. Interpretations of the concept are given, based on the works of Johan Galtung, Samir Amin, and German experts. The practice of applying the concept in Burkina Faso and the neighboring countries, as well as in Tanzania, is shown. A critical analysis of the results of the implementation of the concept and the possibilities of its implementation in the modern realities of global capitalism was carried out. Particular attention is paid to the levels of implementation of the concept as well as the theory and practice of delinking – a temporary decoupling of economic ties with the countries of the “collective West”. It is concluded that, in the 2020s, multi-level implementation of the CSR concept (local, country level, Alliance of Sahel States level, “World Majority” level) seems even more realistic than at the time of its development. This is facilitated by the dominance of non-Western economies in the global framework, macrohistorical processes of decoupling, as well as the key role of the “World Majority” countries in the current economic ties of the Sahel countries. A limiting factor in this is the large-scale flow of Western aid to the region.
Fundamentals of State Sovereignty in Africa: Theoretical Perspective
Authors: Loshkariov I.D. Ivan
Published: July 2024

In the context of the ongoing scientific debate about the essence of state sovereignty and possible directions of its transformation, there is a need for a comprehensive analysis of regional specifics. Traditionally, the analysis of sovereignty was based on the historical experience of European states, and the Westphalian model of sovereignty was considered as almost universal. At the same time, this approach does not provide a much-needed framework for the local and regional specifics of sovereignty. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to identify and reveal the main characteristics of the sovereignty of African countries according to four parameters: integrity, immutability, carriers, and direction. Such an analysis will not only allow African political experience to fit into academic research, which still relies heavily on Western (European) cases of sovereignty. An important task of this article is also to show the features of sovereignty and variability of African states. The specificity of the sovereignty of African states is historically determined by the imposition of different types of sovereignty. Most of them were developed on the continent and were introduced from outside. This implies a noticeable variability in the practical implementation of sovereign rights and the specificity of the actual bearers of sovereignty. In contrast to Westphalian sovereignty, Africa has developed a wider range of sovereignty holders, which is not limited by formal state decision-making mechanisms. Due to the peculiarities of supranational integration and external borrowing, African countries have developed some constraints on external sovereignty and have retained the ability to deal with other states, including extra-regional ones. However, this process still has little impact on internal sovereignty due to its heterogeneity, multi-level nature, and complexity.
The Problem of Russian Human Trafficking Legislation Division into Periods: Legal Trade Stage
Authors: Voronin Mikhail , Pavlichenko Nikolay , Volodina Natalya
Published: July 2024

The article provides a historical analysis of the Russian legislation on human trafficking. The research carried out within the legal stage of human trafficking framework has provided an opportunity to single out time segments, i. e. the stages connected with the legislation changes in the area under consideration, which have been examined from the perspective of the Russian statehood periodization. The provided time systematization has enabled to treat human trafficking as a social and legal phenomenon and process being a part of historical facts of life.