bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Effectiveness of Quranic Reading Teaching and Learning Methods on Private University Students in Malaysia
Authors: Abu Bakar Basirah , Binti Ibrahim Ashlah , Binti Ibrahim Adnin
Published: May 2023

Quranic Reading is a compulsory assessment for Islamic Studies subject offered to Diploma and Undergraduate students at Management and Sciences University (MSU). This study was conducted to identify the effectiveness of Quranic Reading in teaching and learning (T&L) in this private university. This study was a quantitative study involving 124 students from seven programs as a sample for the study. Questionnaires were distributed at the end of the teaching and learning session for students to assess the effectiveness of this subject. Other than that, observation methods were also used throughout this study starting from February 2017 until July 2019. The results show that teaching and learning methods that had been conducted for Quranic Reading are at a satisfactory level. Besides that, it is proven that these T&L methods can help students to learn better in their al-Qur'an and tajweed rules.
Üreme Çağındaki Kadınların Fiziksel Aktivite Düzeyi, Obezite Sıklığı ve Egzersiz Engel/Yarar Algısı Arasındaki İlişkinin Değerlendirilmesi
Authors: BAYRAK Asın , MERCAN BAŞPINAR Melike , BASAT Okcan
Published: May 2023

Amaç: Bu çalışmada üreme çağındaki kadınların fiziksel aktivite düzeyi, obezite sıklığı ve egzersiz engel/yarar algısı arasındaki ilişkinin değerlendirilmesi amaçlanmıştır.
Gereç ve Yöntem: Ocak 2021- Nisan 2021 tarihleri arasında üçüncü basamak bir sağlık kuruluşunda Aile Hekimliği Polikliniklerine başvuran kadınlarla gözlemsel kesitsel bir çalışma yapılmıştır. GODIN Boş Zaman Aktivitesi Ölçeğini kullanarak fiziksel aktivite düzeyini, Egzersiz Faydaları/Engelleri Ölçeğini kullanarak egzersiz algı inançlarını ve beden kitle indeks ölçümü ile obezitenin varlığını sorgulayan yüz yüze görüşmeler yapılmıştır. Bulgular: Çalışmada yaş ortalaması 34,00±9,04 yıl olan 529 kadın incelenmiştir. Olguların %75,6’sının (n= 400) spor yapmak için bireysel imkanlarını kullandığı, %24,4’ünün (n= 129) bir spor salonuna giderek spor yaptığı saptanmıştır. Obezite sıklığı %19,5, sedanter aktivite düzeyi %39,0 bulunmuştur. Obez kadınlarda egzersiz engel ve egzersiz yarar algısı puanları obez olmayan kadınlara göre anlamlı düzeyde daha yüksek bulunmuştur (sırasıyla; p= 0.037; p= 0.038). GODİN Boş Zaman Aktivite düzeyi obez olanlarda olmayanlara göre anlamlı olarak daha düşük saptanmıştır (p= 0.029). Yapılan lineer regresyon analizinde; olguların tümünde fiziksel aktivite düzeyine egzersiz engel algısının, egzersiz yarar algısının ve VKİ’nin istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bir etkisinin olduğu (sırasıyla p= 0.039, p= 0.000; p= 0,002), yaşın istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bir etkisinin olmadığı (p= 0,282) belirlenmiştir (F= 10,974 p < 0.001, R²= 0,27). Sonuç: Obez kadınlar arasında daha yüksek egzersiz yararı inancına karşı daha düşük fiziksel aktivite seviyelerinin gözlenmesi, gelecek çalışmalar için bir müdahale olmadıkça egzersiz yarar algısının fiziksel aktiviteyi artırmak için yeterli olmayacağını göstermiştir.
From Gone with the Wind to The Spring River Flows East
Authors: Kwan Ng Kenny Kwok
Published: May 2023

Melodrama refers to a historically discredited film genre that has witnessed a passionate revival over the past decades of film scholarship. This chapter examines how The Spring River Flows East (Yi jiang chun shui xiang dong liu, 1947) enriches and complicates the western notion of melodrama as the Chinese film exploited the genre’s capacity for wider sociopolitical embrace. The Spring River was produced in an inherently globalized market when Chinese filmmakers had to respond to the pressures of nationalistic sentiments, local tastes, and a worldly cinematic regime of Hollywood in China. The Chinese melodramatic input helps us to rethink the intricacies of gender, commercialism, historical memory, and social identity as much as it casts light on the new age of globalized media public.
Spatial Perception
Authors: Liu Xi W.
Published: May 2023

This chapter aligns with the aesthetics of yijing proposing a new mode of analysing film perception beyond national boundaries and questions of geographical cognition in transnational cinema. Yijing literally means the state of ideation. The perception of yijing in the film-watching experience refers to particular sensory feelings such as the sense of emptiness, tranquillity and stillness that goes beyond the intellectual cognition of the visual images. This chapter engages with the idea of yijing via its embodiment in spatial perception that charts how cinematic techniques create spaces to relax the emotional cognition of the film. Through comparing the spatial perception of the snow scenes in The Grandmaster and the flower scenes in Kung Fu Panda, this chapter suggests that the global audience’s perception can be charted beyond cultural recognition of the meaning of flower and snow in transnational contexts. Within a transnational trend, the perception of yijing is more than the cognition of a genre and the image of a specific cultural icon.
The Sound of Chinese Urban Cinema
Authors: Feng Lin
Published: May 2023

Urban films inquire cinematic construction of a city’s consciousness, experience, and identity. Taking Lee Kwok-lap’s urban comedies Shanghai Fever (1994) and Four Chefs and a Feast (1998) as two key case studies, this chapter argues that during the 1990s there was an attempt in Chinese urban cinema to re-engage Shanghai’s local experience with cosmopolitanism through multilingual filmmaking under the context that Shanghai was experiencing a fast urban regeneration and re-globalization after decades of China’s centralized planned economy. However, the deployment and restriction of these films’ use of Shanghai dialect also reveal the city’s struggle to negotiate between the local and the national.
Implicit Sexuality
Authors: Hou Yushi
Published: May 2023

In classical Hollywood noir, the figure of the femme fatale arouses the self-awareness and self-identification among modern female audiences, and reflects the profound impacts of the postwar feminist movement. However, the Chinese femme fatale’s sexuality in Black Coal, Thin Ice is implicit and differs from the iconography of the Hollywood femme fatale, such as big curls, red lips, high heels, provocative clothing, and cigarettes. Simultaneously, in Chinese neo-noirs, the male erotic gaze also disappears with the absence of the female character’s sexy image. In other words, the male protagonist’s libido is rendered invisible and concealed. I argue that the conservative iconography of the Chinese femme fatale and the male anti-hero in Chinese neo-noirs emphasize the powerlessness of these figures, since both are spiritually oppressed by the alliance of a patriarchal society and a political system. I finally argue that the absence of romantic love and normative family relations in contemporary Chinese neo-noir relates to the destruction of the dominant ideology in post-socialist China.
Whose Difficult Heritage?
Authors: Ang Roslynn
Published: May 2023

Roslynn Ang examines Hokkaido, Japan’s northern frontier until the Meiji period, and a region not fully brought under central government control until then, when it was seen as essential to the country’s defense against Russia. The extension of Japanese administration on the island brought with it a thoroughgoing programme of assimilation for the Indigenous Ainu. Ang argues that the contested representation of the Ainu illustrates the difficulties in achieving nuanced, accurate treatment in today’s Japan of the ways in which disparate transnational, national, and local actors have interacted within a settler colonial framework. Focusing on how Ainu have been represented in relation to the discourses of Japanese nationalism that have evolved from the Meiji period onwards, Ang shows that the difficulty of representing Ainu culture and history is a symptom of broader problems resulting from the legacy of conflict and tension between settlers and Indigenous populations in this region, and the lack of critical public reflection on this legacy, in a context where any official acknowledgement of distinct Indigenous heritage has come only recently.
Taipei’s National Martyrs’ Shrine
Authors: Pan Lu
Published: May 2023

Lu Pan’s chapter focuses on the National Revolutionary Martyrs’ Shrine in Taipei as a case of difficult heritage in the matrix of colonialism, nationalism and war memories in East Asia. Tracing back to the topological history of the Martyrs’ Shrine, Pan scrutinizes the space-making process of the Shrine’s surrounding Yuanshan Area, in which Taiwan Jinja and Gokoku Jinja (Shinto shrines) were built in the Japanese colonial period. Pan also analyzes the aesthetic and spatial style of the Martyrs’ Shrine and its nearby Grant Hotel in relation to war mobilization, commemoration and national building through architectural form. The changing nature and symbolism of Yuanshan and the actual space of the Martyrs’ Shrine reveals how various forces tried to “iconize” the area with their own modernization agendas and ideals, constituting identities of being Japanese, Chinese and Taiwanese.
The Prison Gate as Leftist Heritage?
Authors: Ako Tomoko
Published: May 2023

Addressing another aspect of the heritage of incarceration, Tomoko Ako’s study of the gate of Nakano Prison in Tokyo—the only remaining vestige of this infamous prison’s original structure—deals with an attempt to suppress an aspect of Japan’s difficult pre-1945 past, and local efforts to resist this suppression. As one of the local activists resisting efforts to remove this landmark, Ako argues that preservation of the gate allows the history of the prison to be openly debated and reflected upon. However, her experience shows that the forces in Japanese society ranged against such openness remain formidable.
Introduction
Authors: Yu Leqi
Published: May 2023

The introductory chapter clarifies how the jiehua concept has changed over time, why translations such as “boundary painting” and “ruled-line painting” only emphasize certain meanings of jiehua, and why we need to reassess the artistic and historical position of Yuan jiehua. Then, this chapter makes a detailed examination of the life and oeuvre of the professional artist Xia Yong, who is the linchpin for understanding previously ignored aspects of Yuan jiehua. Xia’s jiehua showcase how meticulous observation and accumulation of architectural details can be brought to perfection.
Painting and Architecture
Authors: Yu Leqi
Published: May 2023

This chapter begins with a dilemma: in two versions of the same composition, the professional painter Xia Yong left both the man-on-crane image and a rhapsody on the Yellow Pavilion, two contradictory clues reflecting different themes. This chapter examines a broad range of textual and visual sources in order to answer the following questions: To what extent do Xia Yong’s two-dimensional jiehua images represent contemporary three-dimensional buildings? How did Yuan jiehua masters deal with the complex relationships between architectural verisimilitude, preexisting jiehua stereotypes, and painters’ original creations? This chapter makes a detailed investigation of modular organizations, prefabricated motifs, and standardized components in Xia’s works and explains why Yuan jiehua so easily seduce viewers into believing that they are accurate depictions of real architecture.
On Saving Face
Authors: Keevak Michael
Published: May 2023

On Saving Face traces the Western reception of the Chinese concept of “face” during the past two hundred years, arguing that it has always been linked to nineteenth-century Western colonialism. “Lose face” and “save face” have become so normalized in modern European languages that most users do not even realize that they are of Chinese origin. “Face” is an extremely complex and varied notion in all East Asian cultures. It involves proper behavior and the avoidance of conflict, encompassing every aspect of one’s place in society as well as one’s relationships with other people. One can “give face,” “get face,” “fight for face,” “tear up face,” and a host of other expressions. But when it began to become known to Western trading communities in China beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, it was distorted and reduced to two phrases only, “lose face” and “save face,” both of which were used to suggest distinctly Western ideas of humiliation, embarrassment, honor, and reputation. The Chinese were judged as a race obsessed with a fear of “losing (their) face,” and they were constantly resorting to vain attempts to “save” it in the face of with Western correction. “Lose face” may be an authentic Chinese expression but “save face” is different. “Save face” was actually a Western invention.
Diplomatic “Face”
Authors: Keevak Michael
Published: May 2023

By the end of the nineteenth century, the idea of “saving face” had become so generalized that it began to appear in every variety of scholarly and popular commentary -- not just about China but indeed any context in which a person (or a government) might try to avoid humiliation through some form of appearance, pretext, or falsehood. But this usage was very far from the way “face” was actually employed in the Chinese tradition, as is shown in contemporaneous diplomatic documents included in the Chouban yiwu shimo or “The Complete Management of Barbarian Affairs,” where matters of “face” were often mentioned. One searches in vain, however, for anything like the Western version of “saving face.”
Ráz v českém projevu u mluvčích s ruštinou a ukrajinštinou jako L1 ve srovnání s rodilými mluvčími češtiny
Authors: Veroňková Jitka
Published: May 2023

Abstrakt: Ráz nemá v češtině statut hlásky, nicméně může mít nezanedbatelný percepční dopad. Nerozlišuje sice význam slov, ale jeho užití přispívá k větší srozumitelnosti projevu. Je jedním ze zvukových jevů, kterým se může lišit projev rodilého a nerodilého mluvčího; produkce rázu v českých projevech nerodilých mluvčích v porovnání s rodilými mluvčími je předmětem této studie. Materiálem pro výzkum jsou nahrávky čteného textu o délce 216 slov, který obsahuje 29 pozic s potenciálním výskytem rázu, rozdělených do 4 typů. Skupiny respondentů tvoří mluvčí (ženy) s mateřštinou ruštinou (12 osob), ukrajinštinou (9) a češtinou (13).
Strukturované debaty v hodinách odborného anglického jazyka: realizace řečových aktů a modifikace výpovědní síly studenty informačních technologií
Authors: Ellederová Eva
Published: May 2023

Studenti informačních technologií (IT) jsou specifickou diskurzní komunitou, jejíž mluvený projev v odborném anglickém jazyce (OAJ) převažuje na všech úrovních jejich vysokoškolského studia a budoucích pracovních aktivit v nadnárodním IT sektoru. Pragmatická kompetence studentů IT je při realizaci komunikačních funkcí nezbytná pro jejich efektivní komunikaci v akademickém a globálním pracovním prostředí, proto je důležité tento aspekt jejich jazyka systematicky a pečlivě zkoumat. Tato studie se zabývá řečovými akty a modifikací výpovědní síly studenty IT ve strukturovaných debatách o kontroverzních otázkách souvisejících s jejich studijním oborem. Strukturované debaty jsou založeny na spontánní komunikaci studentů a jejich okamžitých reakcích, proto se zdají být vhodným nástrojem pro získání vzorků studentského jazyka. Analýza řečových aktů, intenzifikátorů a modalizátorů byla provedena manuálně a prostřednictvím korpusové analýzy přepsaných debat ve Sketch Engine. Analýza odhalila, že studenti používali širokou škálu řečových aktů a různé intenzifikátory a modalizátory pro intenzifikaci a oslabení výpovědní síly. Způsoby, jakými studenti IT používali intenzifikátory a modalizátory, reflektují, jak předpokládají a sdílejí ve své diskurzní komunitě odborné znalosti a zkušenosti.
Visual Exploration of Large Multidimensional Trajectory Data
Authors: Telea Alexandru , Behrisch Michael
Published: May 2023

Several visualisation methods have been recently proposed to aid a wide variety of users in the exploration of geographical trajectory, or trail, datasets. Such datasets consist of thousands up to millions of spatio-temporal trails that are also attributed by many additional data variables related to the identity of the tracked items, type of motion being recorded, data provenance, and more. As both data size and data dimensionality grow, finding efficient and effective ways to answer concrete questions, as well as discover unknown insights, from such data become increasingly important. We present an overview of recent information visualisation and visual analytics developments in this direction, with the aim of bridging the gap between Technical developments in this area and actual users and use-cases that can benefit from them. In this overview, we discuss strengths, limitations, assumptions, and other important characteristics of such visualisation methods, so as to help domain experts find optimal methods for their given application contexts. We illustrate our discussion with several examples of visualisation of large-scale, real-world, trajectory datasets related to migration data and use-cases.
Combining Mobile Call Data and Satellite Imaging for Human Mobility
Authors: Bozcaga TuǦba , Cansunar Asli
Published: May 2023

Understanding the internal migration patterns of refugee and migrant populations is critical to designing effective policies in host countries. What factors explain refugees’ and migrants’ settlement and relocation choices? Why are they drawn to some districts and not others? Which types of economic activities are most likely to attract refugees and migrants? We investigate these questions by combining mobile call data and satellite imagery for refugees resettled within Turkey. Specifically, we analyse how employment opportunities in different economic sectors shape refugee mobility patterns using data on geo-localised call detail records from 2017 and high-resolution CORINE land cover maps that identify land-use patterns. While most current work on the push and pull factors focuses on the aggregate employment opportunities within administrative units, we focus on the effect of the distance from different types of economic activity on settlement decisions. We find that the results obtained using a ’distance’ approach are substantively and statistically different from the conventional approaches that employ measures aggregated by administrative units. Moreover, our findings relying on the distance-based approach are more consistent with existing literature on internal migration. Specifically, we find that refugees are more likely to relocate to districts geographically closer to urban zones and industrial-commercial zones, but when these two zones are measured by their density, they do not predict the across-district movement patterns.
Using Machine Learning and Synthetic Populations to Predict Support for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in European Regions
Authors: Arcila-Calderón Carlos , Amores Javier J. , Stanek Mikolaj
Published: May 2023

The massive arrival of forced immigrants in Europe is generating an unprecedented political and demographic impact. In recent years, organisations such as UNHCR have made efforts to resettle and relocate these displaced people within the European borders. This work aims to predict on a large scale which regions are most likely to support refugees and asylum seekers through big data analysis techniques, understanding that this is an indicator of social acceptance and, in turn, an important variable to consider in the resettlement and relocation processes. To do this, we modelled data from public opinion surveys (Eurobarometer) on attitudes towards these groups, using supervised machine learning algorithms to estimate the probability that an artificial citizen supports the reception of asylum seekers in their country. Subsequently, we used simulation to build synthetic populations based on Eurostat census data (at NUTS 2 level) throughout Europe to estimate the aggregate probabilities for each geographic region. We specifically simulate the sociodemographic characteristics of 2,710,000 European citizens, corresponding to 10,000 in each of the 271 NUTS 2 regions. In the results, we generate the first articulated data that estimate the future social integration of refugees and asylum seekers in all basic regions of Europe.
Forms and Narratives of Sovereignty in Early Imperial China: Beyond Heaven’s Mandate, All-Under-Heaven, and So Forth
Authors: Habberstad Luke
Published: May 2023

The ‘Mandate of Heaven’ (Tian ming), a heaven-endowed right to rule over ‘All-Under-Heaven’ (Tian xia), receives most of the attention in contemporary discussions of pre-modern Chinese politics. Upon unification under Qin in 221 BCE, however, the ‘Mandate of Heaven’ played no role, with Qin declaring an entirely new imperial order. Nonetheless, its titles and terms drew upon pre-imperial concepts, including the metahuman powers of the ancestral temple and practices of royal gift-giving and punishment. As the centuries passed under Western Han, Xin, and finally Eastern Han rule, such concepts continued to receive pride of place, even while new ideas, including the ‘Mandate of Heaven’, rested on top of them. This chapter analyses four different sources, composed over the early imperial period, to illustrate this conceptual layering over time. The effort provides not only a more accurate understanding of early Chinese imperial politics, but also highlights a feature of all sovereign claims: they inevitably entail call upon history and rest in tension with previous narratives that never entirely go away. Attempts to establish and build political power and institutions must explain away such contradictions and construct narratives which render that power natural and sensical.
Scalar, Spectacular, and Subaltern Sovereignty: Colonial Autocracy, Democracy, and Interwar India
Authors: Legg Stephen
Published: May 2023

This chapter opens by introducing three recurring characteristics of contemporary debates regarding sovereignty in colonial India. The first concerns scale, the way in which the sovereignty of the Government of India was positioned between that of the Indian village and the imperial capital in London. The second concerns spectacle, the accentuated role of the visual and of violence in the Raj. The third debate emerges from subaltern studies and regards the popular sovereignty of the Indian non-elite. These three types of sovereignty will be shown to have been renegotiated at the Round Table Conference which took place over three sittings in London between 1930 and 1932. A new federal hybrid of autocracy and democracy was devised, a new spectacle of interwar colonial sovereignty was manufactured, and vying claims were made to speak not only of but for Indian subalterns.
Chinese World Order, Sovereignty, and International Practice
Authors: Jones Catherine , Zhang Chi
Published: May 2023

In the traditional Chinese World Order, the term sovereignty is an irrelevant term and concept. Yet China’s current foreign policy rhetoric simultaneously seeks to affirm the traditional World Order as a route to a ‘new type of great power relations’ and uphold an idealised view of Westphalian sovereignty. Ostensibly, this presents a puzzling relationship between the development of a Chinese School of international relations and China’s international practice. The use of the term and application of sovereignty is at the heart of this puzzle. This paper then asks the question: what is the relationship between China’s emerging theory and its practice in relation to the concept of sovereignty?
Contested Privatisation: On the State of Monetary Sovereignty in the Euro Zone
Authors: Sahr Aaron , Müller Carolin
Published: May 2023

The euro zone is characterised by an experimental privatisation of monetary sovereignty. This arrangement has been proven flawed by the financial and recent COVID-19 crises. To elaborate on this deconstruction of state agency and its challenges, we apply an agential understanding of monetary sovereignty that differs from the territorial version of the concept commonly used. While from a territorial understanding a monetarily sovereign actor issues and controls the means of payment in its territory, monetary sovereignty in an agential sense means controlling one’s own ability to pay. We show how the potential for an independent ability to pay arises with the hyper-elastic supply of modern money provided by the banking system, followed by a description of the monetary agency of euro zone nations and a brief sketch of its recent changes due to the crises.
The Musical Aesthetic of Robert Gerhard (1914–1938)
Authors: Pujadas Magda Polo
Published: May 2023

Starting from the premise that music reflects the society in which it is composed and performed, this chapter examines the shifts in Gerhard’s musical aesthetics regarding folk music, pure music, and absolute music during the period from 1914 to 1938. What this chapter proposes is that, despite focusing only on his life and works up to 1938, Gerhard’s long compositional career always demonstrates a sense of aesthetic coherence, a sign of his thoughtful evolution regarding musical language and the role of music in society. This chapter considers what may be considered the first half of Gerhard’s career from his time in Barcelona, between 1914, at which time he composed his first works, the Lied ‘Still Mitternacht ein losgelassner Wind’ and Sonatina a Carlos, to the beginning of his exile in 1938, when he chose not to return to Catalonia.
Memoir of the Spanish Civil War: A Political Reading of Roberto Gerhard’s Ballet Pandora
Authors: Desrosiers Judy-Ann
Published: May 2023

‘Pandora […] evoked affairs of our country’ wrote Roberto Gerhard (1896–1970) about his ballet Pandora (1943–50). But how does Pandora evoke Gerhard’s perception of the political situation in Spain? This chapter examines the way Gerhard articulates political discourse in Pandora that reflects the Spanish Civil War and its outcomes for Catalans by using thematic material drawn from Spanish and Catalan popular songs. It considers how Gerhard handles this material to show that his music brings out an alternative narrative that is superimposed on the one presented in the storyline conceived by the ballet’s choreographer, Kurt Jooss (1901–79). After the cuts made by Jooss while the ballet was on tour, Gerhard reworked Pandora’s musical material to derive a five-movement orchestral Suite version (1950) that was independent of the ballet. The overall structure of the ballet is nevertheless retained, and the broad strokes of the storyline can still be seen in the 1950 Suite. In fact, this ultimate Suite by which the composer hoped to re-establish his message highlights his own reading of Jooss’s storyline that referred to the Spanish political situation of the 1930s and 1940s.
Roberto Gerhard’s Cantares : Seven Songs of Absence … and a Presence
Authors: Castillo Belén Pérez
Published: May 2023

Far from being a minor work, the collection of popular melodies Cantares, composed by Roberto Gerhard between 1956 and 1957, constitutes an interesting case study that raises important questions regarding the composer’s roots, his compositional style, his relationship with, and integration into, English musical culture, and the development of the music of his time. Despite their conventional appearance, these pieces constitute a milestone in the guitar repertoire of the twentieth century, which had predominantly ignored the instrument’s usual accompaniment function focusing rather on the highly virtuosic, as embodied by Andrés Segovia. This chapter aims to investigate the composition of Cantares as an example of sympoietic process that explains the creation of a work of distinctly Spanish character within the core of support for British—and especially avant-garde—music.
‘Smiling Bravely at the Night’: Roberto Gerhard’s Symphony No. 3, ‘Collages’, and Albert Camus’s ‘Retour à Tipasa’
Authors: White Julian
Published: May 2023

This chapter offers a hermeneutic approach to one of Gerhard’s 12-note works, the Symphony 3 “Collages” (1960), unique amongst his putatively abstract compositions in having an ‘official’ programme supplied by the composer which goes some way towards explaining the work’s dramatic structure and extraordinary sound imagery. The chapter argues that a second, ‘secret’ programme—derived from Albert Camus’s essay Retour a Tipasa (1954)—may lie behind the work. It explores the striking correspondences between Symphony and essay, both of which unfold a dawn-to-advanced night narrative proceeding from a vision of the rising sun over the sea; communing with nature at mid-morning; reflecting on human suffering at noon; responding in the afternoon to this suffering; looking into the distance as a wind rises at dust and a final, passionate statement of defiance in the ‘dead of night’.
Bell Beaker Mobility: Marriage, Migration, and Mortality
Authors: Fitzpatrick Andrew P.
Published: May 2023

This chapter discusses recent work on mobility and migration, factors long ascribed great importance in understanding the Bell Beaker network that linked much of Central and Western Europe in the later third millennium BC. The first large-scale DNA study interpreted major genetic replacement in Britain as being caused by large-scale movement from the Continent, while more detailed studies in Germany emphasise marriage as a reason for mobility. These studies employ models of Bell Beaker society in which social statuses were rigidly prescribed according to gender and age, but their results challenge these assumptions and also ones about family groups and households. There is no incontrovertible archaeological evidence to support large-scale migration, and the DNA results indicate that some similarities across the Bell Beaker network are not due to genetic relatedness, but shared ideas and religious beliefs, topics that have been neglected in recent work, but which deserve renewed attention.
Mobility and Migration in Bronze and Iron Age Britain: The COMMIOS Project
Authors: Armit Ian
Published: May 2023

Current scientific advances are transforming our ability to understand the nature and complexity of past human societies. In particular, recent breakthroughs in isotope and ancient DNA analysis have opened new vistas for understanding the diversity, mobility, structure, and social dynamics of past communities. If we are to grasp fully the dynamism, subtlety, and complexity of the human past, however, the emerging potential of these techniques must be integrated with cultural archaeological analyses, drawing on approaches from the humanities. The ERC-funded COMMIOS project sets out to create an interdisciplinary framework within which to integrate these methods to provide a new vision of Bronze and Iron Age societies in Britain and adjacent areas of continental Europe. This paper provides an overview of our approach and preliminary results.
How Available are Panoramic Radiographs in the Diagnosis of Interproximal Caries? A Study with Dental Students and Dentists
Authors: KAYGISIZ YİĞİT Meryem , AKYOL Rıdvan , YALVAÇ Beyza , DİLEK Fatma , CANGER Emin Murat
Published: May 2023

Purpose: It was aimed to investigate the usability of panoramic radiographs without bitewing radiographs in the diagnosis of interproximal caries and to compare the performance of trainee dentists and dentists in the diagnosis of interproximal caries on panoramic radiographs.

Material and Method: 20 4th grade, 20 5th grade students studying at Erciyes University Faculty of Dentistry and 20 general dentists were included in the study. In the study, images of 11 individuals who had both panoramic and bitewing taken on the same day within the indication in 2020 were used. Initially, radiographs were evaluated by three Oral, Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology research assistants, and caries on the interproximal surfaces of posterior teeth were recorded with a consensus on bitewing radiographs. Second, the participants who agreed to participate in the study evaluated only the panoramic radiographs and coded the lesions at the interfaces of the premolar and molar teeth as “0”, “1”, “2”, and “3” according to their depth. Statistical analyzes were performed with SPSS v.22 software. Results: Dentists were the most successful in terms of correct evaluation of teeth in terms of the presence or absence of caries (80.52%). This was followed by class 5 (67.29%) and class 4 (60.12%) students. (p
Dijital Tam Protezlerin Üretiminde Kullanılan Sistemler
Authors: GEDİKLİ Çağla Nur , BİLGİN Tayfun
Published: May 2023

Diş hekimliğinde 20 yılı aşkın süredir meydana gelen gelişmeler sonucunda tam protezlerin üretiminde dijital teknolojiler kullanılmaya başlanmıştır. Dijital tam protezler klinisyenler, teknisyenler ve hastalar için birçok avantaj sunar. Zaman alan laboratuvar prosedürleri azaltılır veya ortadan kaldırılarak diş teknisyeninin tekrarlanabilir, verimli ve doğru protezler üretmesi sağlanır. Dijital protezlerin üretimi için

çeşitli sistemler mevcuttur. Bu sistemler, randevu sayısı ve her birinin sunduğu prova seçenekleri bakımından farklılık gösterir. Mevcut sistemlerin çoğu eksiltici üretim tekniğini kullanırken sadece birkaç sistem eklemeli üretim tekniğini kullanır. Bu derlemenin amacı, dijital tam protezlerin üretimi için şu anda

mevcut olan sistemler hakkında bilgi sağlamaktır.
Self-assessment of adults with acquired hearing loss in the context of self-esteem and psychosocial functioning
Authors: Karić B. Jasmina , Kordić B. Milena , Vuksanović Gorica , Mitrić Jana
Published: May 2023

Introduction. The consequences of acquired hearing loss in adults condition their psychosocial functioning and imply changes in the quality of life related to disorders in social and emotional functioning. Hearing loss is considered a risk factor for reduced psychosocial functioning and self-esteem. Psychosocial well-being and preserved self-esteem imply having a positive self-image and realizing that a person is an important part of the social community in which he/she lives. The paper deals with self-esteem and psychosocial functioning of adults with acquired hearing loss. The aim of this research is to determine the level of self-esteem and the degree of expression of consequences in psychosocial functioning, that is, the connection between the level of self-esteem and the degree of expression of consequences in psychosocial functioning in adults with acquired hearing loss. Methods. The research was conducted on a sample of 60 adult subjects with acquired hearing loss and 60 subjects with normal hearing. The average age of the respondents with hearing loss was 54.1 (SD = 10.84), and the sample consisted mostly of male respondents (56.7%) with moderate hearing loss (25.4%). The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and the questionnaire for the subjective assessment of the hearing condition - the HHIA questionnaire (Hearing Handicap Inventory for Adults) were used as instruments. Results. The results showed that the respondents expressed moderate or average self-esteem and that there was a connection between self-esteem and psychosocial functioning in adults with acquired hearing loss. Conclusion. Future research could be directed more towards examining self-esteem in more detail in more specific domains of psychosocial functioning of adults with acquired hearing loss.
Developing a method for determining the natural frequency of a structure using multiple combined measurements in the frequency domain
Authors: Vu Dinh Huong , Ta Duc Tuan
Published: May 2023

Modal identification of structures using vibration measurement data has attracted considerable attention. Current identification methods can be divided into several groups: single-degree-of-freedom and multi-degrees-of-freedom methods; time domain identification, frequency domain identification. In which, the simultaneous determination of many natural frequencies of the structure from a single measurement data remains a complicated problem, in particular in the presence of noise. The article develops the rational fraction polynomial method using combined measurements in the frequency domain to identify the natural frequencies of structures. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated by numerical simulations and experimental tests of steel beam.
Facilitating School-to-Work Transitions of Vocational and Technical Education Graduates Through Work-Based Learning
Authors: Saba T. M.
Published: May 2023

The high unemployment rate among Vocational and Technical Education (VTE) graduates is disheartening, hence the study facilitates the School-to-work transition of VTE graduates through Work-Based Learning (WBL) as the rate of unemployment among VTE graduates are growing geometrically. Two research questions were utilized for this purpose. In the methodology, the type of design used was a descriptive survey. The study was conducted in higher institutions in Niger State, Nigeria; specifically, in the higher institutions offering VTE programmes. The population of the study was 455 which comprised 146 Lecturers and 309 Employers. A simple random sampling technique was used to sample 265 participants which comprised 102 Lecturers and 163 Employers were selected using the normal selection process. A questionnaire was used as the data-collecting tool. Three experienced researchers in VTE checked the data collecting tool for the appropriateness of the content. The index for the internal consistency of the data collecting tool based on parts is 0.901 for Part 1 and 0.862 for Part B. The index for the internal consistency of the data collecting tool for the total content was established as 0.912. The study found that WBL is beneficial and can enhance the school-to-work transition. It was recommended among others that, an enabling environment should be created between schools and industries, to enter into partnership for effective teaching and learning in institutions and Government through Industrial Training Fund and Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) should jointly build and furnish industrial training villages in each state of the federation where students of various VTE programmes can learn skills.
SISTEM PEMBAGIAN HARTA WARIS 2:1 ANTARA ANAK LAKI-LAKI DAN ANAK PEREMPUAN (Studi Komperatif Pemikiran Muhammad Syahrur dan M. Quraish Shihab)
Authors: Muthmainnah Tri Atik , Muntaqo Lutfan
Published: May 2023

Hukum kewarisan Islam telah diatur sangat rinci dan sistematis. Hukum waris Islam mengatur siapa pewaris dan ahli waris, dan apa saja yang diwariskan pewaris dan bagian masing-masing ahli waris secara detail. Asas hukum dalam kewarisan Islam, tidak memandang perbedaan antara laki-laki. Semua ahli waris, baik itu laki-laki maupun perempuan mempunyai hak yang sama, meskipun porsi haknya berbeda. Karena yang ditekankan dalam hukum waris Islam adalah keadilan berimbang, bukan keadilan sama rata. Prinsip tersebut sering kali memicu polemik dan tidak lepas dari kritik, karena adanya diskriminasi pembagian harta warisan antara laki-laki dan perempuan. Dan yang sering mendapat perhatian khusus adalah pembagian harta waris 2:1 antara anak laki-laki dan anak perempuan. Hingga akhirnya Muhammad Syahrur dan M. Quraish Shihab menawarkan produk hukum waris berkeadilan gender. Penelitian ini termasuk jenis penelitian pustaka (library research) yaitu dengan mengadakan telaah terhadap dua sumber diantaranya sumber data primer dan sumber data sekunder. Data yang penulis gunakan dalam skripsi ini menggunakan data kualitatif, sedangkan dalam menganalisis penelitian ini penulis menggunakan deskriptif analitik. Berdasarkan analisis yang dilakukan, diperoleh kesimpulan bahwa: Pembagian harta waris 2:1 menurut Syahrur dan Quraish menekankan bahwa bagian perempuan menjadi tolak ukur bagian anak laki-laki. Menurut Syahrur, bagian laki-laki merupakan batas maksimal dan bagian perempuan merupakan batas minimal dalam hukum waris, dan bagian tersebut bisa berubah sesuai dengan kondisi obyektif yang melingkupinya. Sedangkan menurut Quraish, pembagian harta waris 2:1 adalah ketetapan Allah yang telah disesuaikan dengan kodrat, fungsi, dan tugas yang dibebankan kepada laki-laki dan perempuan. Pembagian harta waris tersebut bisa berubah sesuai dengan kehendak dan kesepakatan dari semua pihak ahli waris, dengan syarat bahwa berubahnya pembagian tersebut bukan karena ketetapan Allah itu tidak adil.
El compromiso ecológico en Central eléctrica de Jesús López Pacheco
Authors: Erraguig Naima
Published: May 2023

La ecocrítica, nueva escuela de la crítica literaria, que se encarga de estudiar la relación entre la literatura y el medioambiente constituye un campo de estudio muy virgen en la literatura española. Frente al estado « no ecologista » de la modernidad de la literatura española, se nos ofreció la posibilidad de volver atrás y proponer una lectura ecológica de la obra social titulada Central eléctrica de Jesús López Pacheco. Nuestros objetivos se centran en rastrear el compromiso eco- lógico de Jesús López Pacheco a través de esta obra, y también enfatizar el peligro de la crisis medioambiental. Para ello, el estudio se basó en el método de análisis ecocrítico de Central eléctrica (1958). El resultado fue que Central eléctrica admite una lectura ecológica ya que se dejó muy obvia la defensa de asuntos medioambientales por su autor. Esto significa que su preocupación medioambiental es al menos tan vieja como la social. En conclusión, se confirmó que la novela social española de posguerra, en el siglo XXI, es un vehículo eficaz para comprometer al ser humano con el bien del medio ambiente.
Traducción literaria como factor de cohesión en el mundo: Brodsky en español
Authors: George Tatiana K.
Published: May 2023

El artículo estudia procesos de la osmosis intelectual, creación de la imagen del territorio, en los que las tareas del traslado de referencias culturales de un idioma a otro, recreación en la traducción de las peculiaridades lingüísticas, histórico-culturales con fidelidad e idiomaticidad son primordiales. La autora analiza el poema “Ingresé a la celda en lugar del salvaje animal…” de Brodsky (1980), que tiene más diversidades interpretativas. En esta poesía detrás de los aspectos muy concentrados personales subjetivos, en gran parte autobiográficos, se vislumbra el fondo matizado histórico ruso. Se crea un cuadro muy extenso, lo que significa un paso hacia la épica y dificultades adicionales en el momento de traducir. La autora subraya que el conocimiento de otras culturas facilita relacionarse con ellas de manera tolerante y con el entendimiento mutuo, así que la traducción desempeña un papel importante en el desarrollo y mantenimiento de las relaciones interculturales.
La enseñanza del español en China
Authors: Segura Zariquiegui Ainhoa
Published: May 2023

El tema de la enseñanza del español en los países asiáticos y más concretamente en China va tomando relevancia en estos últimos años. En este artículo se analiza la estructura del sistema de educación china entorno a la enseñanza del español y su coexistencia con el sistema occidental. El primero se encuentra más centrado en un continuismo de raíces confucionistas y el segundo, más orientado hacia el método comunicativo. Ambos deben coexistir y tienen su cometido en la organización de este sistema. Por ello, en el artículo se habla de la necesidad de conocer las raíces culturales que mueven las actitudes de los estudiantes chinos y el origen de las mismas. Además, se sugieren algunos ejercicios emocionales con videos que ponen de manifiesto la importancia de construir puentes que acerquen ambas culturas.
Tratamiento del cuento en manuales
Authors: Labrador Piquer María José , Morote Magán Pascuala
Published: May 2023

Nos acercamos en esta investigación a los manuales de ELE con el fin de poner en claro si se trabaja o no el cuento como algo fundamental o queda relegado a un papel secundario. Partimos de su concepto y del bagaje del alumnado de los cuentos de su propia lengua y cultura, de este modo el cuento se convierte en el germen vehicular para desarrollar competencias esenciales como la comunicación eficaz oral y escrita, el incremento del vocabulario, la práctica de una sintaxis correcta y del uso de unos recursos de lenguaje figurados y ricos como metáforas, paradojas, reiteraciones, imágenes… Esperamos de esta contribución sirva de reflexión a los docentes de ELE para que incluyan cuentos en su actividad profesional y no se ciñan solo a los de los manuales. Sugerimos igualmente que aprovechen las TIC para fomentar actividades y ampliar puntos de vista, porque el cuento, como es sabido, es cultura universal, patrimonio, historia, estética y técnica.
La enseñanza del español en China: El confucionismo como base cultural
Authors: Segura Zariquiegui Ainhoa
Published: May 2023

La enseñanza de idiomas extranjeros es de gran importancia en todos los países tanto occidentales como orientales. En este artículo se van a desarrollar varios puntos en los que se trata el tema de las dificultades que podemos encontrar los docentes en un contexto chino. El texto trata de hacer comprender el origen de varios problemas que tenemos que afrontar los profesores extranjeros y que tienen relación con la base confucionista de la cultura china. Al final del artículo se ofrecen soluciones para llegar a un buen entendimiento, y también un conjunto de ejercicios para poner en práctica estas medidas.
El español y el vasco en el marco de las lenguas emparejadas: una mirada sociolingüística
Authors: Del Moral Rafael
Published: May 2023

Las lenguas se emparejan sin consentimiento, no lo pueden evitar, sin ceremonia, sin oficiante, sin testigos, sin invitados y sin posibilidad de divorcio. La recién llegada comparte el domicilio de la ya establecida. Lo extraordinario es que se llevan bien incluso cuando una empieza a flaquear mientras la otra se robustece. La pareja vasco-española no es una excepción. El castellano, tan casquivano como seductor, vive hoy también en pareja con el valenciano en la Comunidad de Valencia, con el náhuatl en México, con el quechua en Perú, con el guaraní en Uruguay, con el inglés en Estados Unidos y con muchas novias más. El artículo indaga en las razones y usos de la convivencia ambilingüe o uso de dos lenguas con similar destreza en la vida cotidiana, y señala los principios que acomodan (o deben acomodar) la convivencia en el respeto a los hablantes monolingües (castellano) y a los ambilingües (castellano y vasco).
La multiplicidad de las traducciones Vs. corpus nacional
Authors: George Tatiana Konstantínovna
Published: May 2023

El artículo se basa sobre un enfoque analítico comparativo del corpus de las traducciones al español de una poesía rusa bien conocida y las obras de la literatura clásica romántica española. Se emprende la tentativa de determinar la causa de la aparición de la cantidad extraordinaria de estas traducciones, que es la evidente cercanía de la poesía a la tradición poética española. Se muestra el hecho de la orientación de los traductores hacia el corpus romántico de su propia literatura y la continuación de la línea trazada desde principio de la inclusión del poeta en el contexto nacional del receptor, en el cual abundan modelos originales similares.
¿Enseñar o no enseñar estrategias comunicativas orales en clase de ELE?
Authors: Viñas Quiroga Ingrid , Villagra María Candelaria
Published: May 2023

El tema de este estudio son las estrategias comunicativas orales en estudiantes universitarios extranjeros de nivel intermedio que cursan español en la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Nos propusimos determinar si una intervención en enseñanza de estrategias de comunicación oral con énfasis en la metacognición mejora la calidad de la producción final. Es un estudio experimental con un muestreo de conveniencia. Participaron 24 estudiantes (hombres y mujeres de entre 19 y 30 años), de lengua primera inglés, divididos en grupo experimental y control. Hallamos que en el grupo experimental hubo un aumento en el desempeño oral, en una escala en que las mejoras más notables se dieron en léxico, luego en adecuación gramatical, seguidos por progresos en interacción, fluidez y en menor medida en pronunciación. Confirmamos que el fomento sistemático y sostenido de la metacognición conlleva progresos comunicativos orales.