bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Cluster analysis on Malaysian student’s achievement goals orientation in mathematics from multiple goal perspective
Authors: Rustam Mohd Rameli Mohd , Mohd Kosnin Azlina , Kee Jiar Yeo , Mohamad Ashari Zakiah
Published: May 2018

This study examined students’ achievement goal orientation by applying multiple goals perspective in learning Mathematics. This person-centered approach study involved 969 Malaysian upper secondary school students from 20 selected schools.  Results of correlational analysis showed that all the four goal orientations (mastery-approach, mastery-avoidance, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance) correlated moderately (r=.151-.475) to each other.  This suggests that students could adopt more than one goal orientation simultaneously.  By means of cluster analysis, the notion of simultaneous adoption of goal orientations is supported from which five distinct clusters were extracted, namely mastery-oriented (mean value is higher for the mastery-approach and mastery-avoidance goal), approach-oriented (mean value is higher for mastery and performance-avoidance goal), avoidance-oriented (mean value is higher for mastery and performance-approach goal), demotivated (low mean value for all types of goals) and success-oriented (high mean value for all types of goals).  Success-oriented cluster had the highest frequency of students (f=271, 28.0%) while only 3.6% (f=35) of the students were in the demotivated cluster.  This study extends the knowledge of how students adopt multiple goals in Mathematics learning.  The results have significant impact on mathematics education context of Malaysia.
Item analysis on the effects of study visit programme in cultivating students’ soft skills: A case study
Authors: Rustam Mohd Rameli Mohd , Abd Hadi Bunyamin Muhammad , Joo Siang Tan , Hassan Zainudin , Mokhtar Mahani , Ahmad Jamilah , Jambari Hanifah
Published: May 2018

Experiential learning programme is an important platform in the process of cultivating student's self-development. The teaching approaches that apply experiential learning are widely implemented in higher education. The Faculty of Education in UTM has organised many of such experiential learning activities for students, however the effect of the programmes towards students' self-development is still under researched. Hence, it is still unable to fully identify their effects on cultivating students' soft skills through the process of organizing the programme and students' participations. Therefore, this study was conducted to identify the effects of experiential learning programme namely UNESA Study Visit Programme of the State University of Surabaya (UNESA) organized by the Faculty of Education UTM towards developing participants' soft skills. This case study involved 39 masters students currently majoring in Primary School Education at State University of Surabaya. The data were collected through a questionnaire involving 20 items which consist of 7 soft skills constructs. Item analysis using the Rasch Measurement Model shows that the most dominant effect is from the aspect of critical thinking and problem solving skills (logit = -1.335). Meanwhile, the positive effect is also reflected in the aspects of Professional Ethics and Moral (logit = -0.495), Communication Skills (logit = -0.410), Lifelong Learning and Information Management (logit = -0.058), Leadership Skills (logit = 0.080) and Team working Skills (logit = 0.435). Lastly, the effect on Entrepreneurship Skills is weaker with logit value = 1.440. The findings show that experiential learning programmes do provide positive effect to students and should be conducted more widely in education.
Crowding perception: A case study of developed systematic literature review procedure with multiple software programs as management and synthesis tools
Authors: B Alsolami , M R Emb
Published: May 2018

The aim of this paper is to presents a case study that implements a proposed procedure for conducting a systematic literature review (SLR). The case study is in the field of crowding perception. Following the traditional data processing model, the proposed procedure consists of seven stages: 1) planning the review, 2) conducting the review, 3), organization and preparation for synthesis, 4) actual coding, 5) data extraction & organization, 6) data synthesis, and 7) reporting the review. In addition, the proposed procedure includes the usage of four software programs as supporting tools. The paper includes detailed steps on how each stage has been implemented to systematically review the crowding perception literature. The proposed SLR procedure and the case study presented in this paper offer an effective process of literature review. A specific contribution of this study to SLR is expanding the tools usage to include other software programs.
Structural equation modelling assessment of personal and social factors on hajj crowding among african pilgrims in Mina
Authors: B Alsolami , M R Embi , W I Enegbuma
Published: May 2018

African pilgrimage to the Mecca date back to the early years of Islam through the Sahara desert. The perception of this group of pilgrims as they embark on the sacred Mina prayer rituals directly translates to how they perceived crowding in Mina. Hajj rituals are carried out at Mina for a minimum of three days. The optimum provision and continuous improvements of the facilities for pilgrims determines how this group reacts to the crowded environment which invariably affects their psychology. This paper assesses the impacts of personal factors (control, expectation, mood and sociability) and social factors (interpersonal similarity, provision of information and activities) on crowding levels perception among pilgrim groups from African origins. A self-administered survey instrument was used in the collection of data from the African origin Hajj group totaling 156 in number. Data analysis was carried out utilizing SPSS on the descriptive data and AMOS for multivariate Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The survey instruments internal consistency, sample adequacy Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) found that the validity was within acceptable thresholds. The pilgrim groups from African origins measurement model revealed that sociability and interpersonal similarity had the highest correlation while level of perceived crowing and activities had the lowest correlation. Furthermore, for personal factors, sociability had the highest inverse impact and for social factors, interpersonal similarity. The authorities formulating policies to managing crowd levels and perception will invariably be affected by adapting these research findings to improve the Hajj experience. Subsequently, assessing several other factors, which effect Hajj pilgrims such as physical factors, provides an avenue for future research.
Neuroresearch: Another form of mixed method
Authors: . Sasmoko , Indrianti Yasinta , Karsidi Ravik , Wuisan Dewi , Ruliana Poppy
Published: May 2018

Research in the field of Social Sciences is an interesting and complex academic study. Social Science research becomes more and more careful when researchers are not stuck with the only focus on the relationship between variables, but more than that is also deeply reviewed dimensions or indicators or items. For those researchers need a complex method that is a mixed method. One form of the Mixed method is called Neuroresearch. Basically, this Neuroresearch method uses content analysis method as qualitative research (exploratory), then deepens the result of content analysis with quantitative research method (explanatory and confirmatory research). Further explanatory and confirmatory research results are deepened through qualitative research in the form of implications of research results to create new policies, new strategies and new efforts through focus group discussion.
An Optimal Path Identification in the Intermodal Freight Transportation Network
Authors: Gohari Adel , Nasir Bin Matori Abdul , Wan Yusof Khamaruzaman , Toloue Iraj , Cho Myint Khin
Published: May 2018

Intermodal transportation is a research topic of great interest at present. This paper presents a route choice analysis on an intermodal freight transportation network. The aim of this study was to determine the optimum route and mode of transportation based on least distance and least time criteria for the movement of containers from origin to the destination. Geographic Information System (GIS) was adopted to build the hypothetical freight transportation network and MATLAB software was used to model the travel distance and travel time. The results showed that the model can be used effectively to identify the shortest path and modes of transportation according to objective functions.
Underwater Self Deployment of Wireless Sensors for Maximum Coverage and Connectivity using K-Means Clustering
Authors: Kaur Gurjaspreet , Singh Surinder , Kaur Ramanpreet , Garg Gaurav
Published: May 2018

By virtue of abundant research being executed in terrestrial wireless sensor networks, we get enlightened about the different advantages of using wireless sensors and implemented these wireless sensors in underwater to probe the area below the sea for its various applications. The most crucial task in underwater 3D space is the node deployment such that sensors can cover the maximum area while simultaneously maintaining the connectivity with the base station. Due to the advantages of self deployment where no pre calculations and no human interventions are needed, we proposed a distributed move restricted self deployment underwater wireless sensor network. The main emphasis is on maximizing the coverage area by the sensor nodes and simultaneously maintaining the connectivity with the base station. Firstly, the maximum coverage has achieved by removing the interference between the sensor nodes which minimize the coverage overlap and thus more area can be covered which improves the network coverage. Then by using K-Means clustering, all the sensors nodes were divided into clusters, having one centroid for each cluster. Further all these centroids have been interconnected and then by finding the centroid which is nearest to the sink by Euclidean distance formula, we connect it to the sink.
Harnessing Potentials of Social Media in Transforming Businesses
Authors: Gaur Loveleen , Anshu Kumari
Published: May 2018

Media and technology has undergone radical transformation with time pertaining to change in requirements, technology up gradation, usefulness, using ease, accessibility etc. The main objective of mass media is to propagate facts and figures, generate consciousness and inform the community. Social media is regarded to be the subsequent prime revolution in the arena of communication. Social media is also an integral component of promotion and advertising campaigns, disseminating consciousness, marketing which is efficiently applied by startups and adept companies to generate a launching pad or stage for themselves. Progress in technology has enabled many businesses to reach mass or their fundamental customer base in no time and more effortlessly communicate with them which ultimately determine their goals and incline them towards buying judgments.
Consumer Preference Analysis for Websites Using e-TailQ and AHP
Authors: Gaur Loveleen , Anshu Kumari
Published: May 2018

In today’s scenario when the world is going online, websites are the first point of contact for the consumers. It has become a necessity to have a website nowadays to be effective and successful in this internet infiltrated world. A well-thought-out web design plan generates an extraordinary customer experience. In this paper we study the various scales and model given by researchers at different point of time related to website service quality. Here we have taken into consideration the e-Tail Quality (e-TailQ) scale for our study purpose. The model has five factors of online retailing customer experience: website layout, website information, reliability/customer service, fulfilment and security/privacy. These factors were then tested based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) model which is based on an exponential scale to calculate each criterion’s relative weight. The research is an endeavor to move further in measuring customer preference towards the service qualities offered by the websites and developing a more focused approach.
Development of Framer/Deframer for 5Gbps JESD204B Soft IP
Authors: B. Escabal Ingrid , G. Raffiñan Edzel , A. Hora Jefferson
Published: May 2018

This paper aimed to modify and redesign theJESD204B Full System of Lattice Semiconductor, particularly the TX deframer and RX framer modules used for the 3Gbps JESD204B soft IP to support the recently released 5Gbps JESD204B Soft IP. The modified full system instantiating the new 5Gbps JESD204B Soft IP had to be tested for functionality through RTL and gate simulation and tested for timing through Static Timing Analysis. The transaction layer’s RX framer, TX deframer, and the clock generator modules were identified to be the major blocks of the full system affected by the change in the soft IP. These were redesigned, followed by RTL and gate simulation of the full system. STA was checked through the Lattice Diamond tool. The system passed the simulation tests. Also, STA results showed that timing was still relaxed even if the lane speed was increased, ensuring that timing requirements are achieved by the device. It is recommended that the full system’s other blocks, and the testbench for the JESD204B and other soft IP products be investigated to operate at a higher clock frequency without violating the timing requirements and constraints of the ECP5 device.
Feature Selection using Genetic Algorithm for Clustering high Dimensional Data
Authors: Kouser Kahkashan , Priyam Amrita
Published: May 2018

One of the open problems of modern data mining is clustering high dimensional data. For this in the paper a new technique called GA-HDClustering is proposed, which works in two steps. First a GA-based feature selection algorithm is designed to determine the optimal feature subset; an optimal feature subset is consisting of important features of the entire data set next, a K-means algorithm is applied using the optimal feature subset to find the clusters. On the other hand, traditional K-means algorithm is applied on the full dimensional feature space.    Finally, the result of GA-HDClustering  is  compared  with  the  traditional  clustering  algorithm.  For comparison different validity  matrices  such  as  Sum  of  squared  error  (SSE),  Within  Group average distance (WGAD), Between group distance (BGD), Davies-Bouldin index(DBI),   are used .The GA-HDClustering uses genetic algorithm for searching an effective feature subspace in a large feature space. This large feature space is made of all dimensions of the data set. The experiment performed on the standard data set revealed that the GA-HDClustering is superior to traditional clustering algorithm.
Optimization of Physically-Aware Synthesis for Digital Implementation Flow
Authors: E. Geralla Leo , Joey de Guzman Melvin , A. Hora Jefferson
Published: May 2018

Synthesis is very important to have a high-quality implementation of every design. However, more accurate results could not be achieved if we will not consider the expected effects of routing delay introduced by placement and routing. This delay causes the poor timing correlation between the logical-only synthesis and Place and Route. . Now, tools with physical aware synthesis allow the user to integrate the physical information much early in the process. While such technique is readily available in the tools itself, there is no established flow to utilize the use of physical aware synthesis to the whole ASIC design process. Moreover, there’s lack of in-depth experimental analysis, specifically on commercially available designs, on the correlation of physically aware synthesis to the subsequent steps in the backend of the whole design process such as the place and route (PnR) and Timing Closure (STA). With this study, optimal flow for synthesis run is achieved through several experimental setups. Effects in place and route (PNR), and Static Timing Analysis (STA) is also observed and documented. Two different physically aware synthesis methodologies are proven to have improved timing correlation between the synthesis and PNR results. Power after signoff also improved significantly. Total runtime from synthesis to timing closure reduces because of much lesser violations in the first iteration alone.
A Millimeter Wave Antenna using Slots for Defense Applications
Authors: Negi Deepa , Khanna Rajesh
Published: May 2018

In this paper, a rectangular dual band millimeter wave (MMW) microstrip antenna using U and circular slot is designed for defense applications. The antenna operates in the (57-64) GHz unlicensed frequency band. The proposed antenna is designed using RT/duroid substrate having dielectric constant 2.3, thickness 0.04mm and strip line feeding technique. The proposed antenna results are simulated and optimized using Computer Simulation Technology (CST) simulation software. The maximum return loss achieved is -15dB and -25.45 dB respectively for both U and circular slot. Simulation results show that the antenna having circular slot gave better results. The antenna simulation results such as return loss, gain and directivity are presented in this paper.
Design of Squarer Circuit in Sub-threshold Mode
Authors: Thakral Bindu , Vaish Arti , Koteswara Rao Alla Rama
Published: May 2018

Historically, analog designs have been assumed as a voltage mode based signal processing. However, the necessity of high speed circuits operating at reduced supply voltage has lead to a development of new circuit topology referred as current-mode designs. For low power low voltage designs the applications using translinear principle based circuits has become an area of research and interest. It has wide application in nonlinear signal processing and to build basic active elements. Mode of MOS transistor used in analog circuit realization of is important parameter deciding the performance of the circuit. In this paper, a squarer circuit is proposed based on sub threshold-mode MOS transistors exhibiting the exponential current-voltage characteristic. The simulations have been performed on model files of TSMC 0.18 micrometer technology with the help of ELDO Simulator.
An Empirical Study on the Perception of Consumers about Green Products in Delhi
Authors: Trivedi Prachi , Shrama Meghna
Published: May 2018

Green is the talk of the town. Every other day new strategies and technologies are being invented to fight the deadliest consequences of environmental degradation. The pace at which our Planet is being exploited and environmental problems are increasing, Green Marketing and Green Products have become a necessity. But this ‘green concept’ will only be successful when the awareness level will be high and perception is positive. In this paper perception of consumers about green products in Delhi is being studied. Is the overall perception negative, positive or neutral? Do they appreciate the packaging of green products? Or is there any correlation between perception and various demographic variables of consumers? All these questions are answered in this paper with detailed analysis. Structured and undisguised form of questionnaire was prepared which was distributed to 120 respondents out of which 106 were found to be usable. Any sample above 30 is considered large. Statistical tools like mode, median, frequency distribution, Kruskal-Wallis and One way ANOVA are used to test the hypotheses. This paper will be beneficial to other researchers to get the insight of consumers’ perception about green products, to companies in making the right strategies and policies according to consumer perception and to other organization and institutes who are interested in studying the consumer behaviour regarding Green Products.
The Effectiveness of Online Advertising on Consumers’ Mind – An Empirical Study
Authors: Rashid Farooqi Md , Faiz Ahmad Md
Published: May 2018

This paper helps to investigate the effectiveness of online advertisement on consumers' mind. The data, which has been obtained from the respondents of Hyderabad, showed an impact on the consumers’ perception about the online advertising. A survey was conducted through structured questionnaire to obtain the data from the respondents of University of Hyderabad (UoH) and Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) situated in Hyderabad. A sample of 200 respondents were gathered with in a time frame of one month and their responses were analyzed with the help of Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) by using different statistical techniques in order to know the effectiveness of online advertisement on consumer mind. The outcome shows a positive impact of advertising on consumer’s mind.
Role of Social Media Optimization in Digital Marketing with special reference to Trupay
Authors: Sahai Seema , Goel Richa , Malik Priyanka , Krishnan Chitra , Singh Gurinder , Bajpai Chitra
Published: May 2018

Social media optimization has been used by many organizations in the recent years, after the growth of Internet, for enhancing the growth and profits of their business. This paper discusses some of the strategies of digital marketing adopted by Trupay after the period of demonetization in India.SMO (Social Media Optimization) can be defined as the process of increasing the popularity and awareness of the product in the minds of the people. It is basically a marketing tool which helps in the promotion, marketing and sale of the product. Digital marketing is the method of promoting a product or a brand using electronic media like Mobile marketing, E-mail marketing etc..
WTO: As an Instrument of Dispute Settlement in the International Trade
Authors: Bajpai Chitra , Malik Priyanka , Krishnan Chitra , Sahai Seema , Goel Richa , Singh Gurinder
Published: May 2018

The World Trade Organization is a platform which is primarily responsible for the rules and regulation related to the world trade for the member nations. This research paper is an effort to measure the effectiveness of the WTO as a Dispute Settlement Body (DSB). In relation to that the first objective of the research paper is to understand the nature of the International Trade Dispute among the member nations. The second objective of the research paper is to analyze certain International Trade Disputes which were reported to the WTO. The third objective of the research paper is to find out some common features among the analyzed cases.
Wearable Sensors for Monitoring Vital Signs of Patients
Authors: Kaur Parminder , Singh Saini Hardeep , Kaur Bikrampal
Published: May 2018

Vital signs of a person are the indicator of basic bodily functions and provide critical information for accessing a patient's state of health. The four Vital signs are: Blood Pressure, Pulse Rate, Body temperature and Respiration Rate. In some cases, blood oxygen saturation is also measured. Vital signs help in identifying an already existing medical condition, diagnosing new disease and can also be very helpful in providing critical care to patients in time of emergency. Traditional ways of Vital sign monitoring are being replaced by more technical methods employing the use of wearable sensors. Not only are wearable sensors an aid for getting vital signs accurately but a multitude of parameters can be obtained by using an assembly of wearable sensors. With the help of wearable sensors, telemonitoring of patients has become a reality. This paper discusses the Vital parameters, their normal ranges and different wearable sensors to measure these parameters.
Classification of cargo lifting machines and mechanisms
Authors: V. Sergeev Vyacheslav , M. Lyashenko Yuri , K. Mulukhov Kazbek , V. Gegelashvily Mikhail
Published: May 2018

The studied problem urgency is caused by the fact that now days the cargo-lifting transport machines and mechanisms are considered to be 1 machines group, impeding the study and analysis of the cargo-lifting machines and mechanisms. The article is aimed at the division of the wide class of the lifting-transport machines into 2 classes: cargo-lifting machines and mechanisms and the transport facilities, machines and mechanisms and also the analysis of cargo-lifting machines and mechanisms. The leading approach to this problem study is the collection and generalization of the main information concerning all known constructions of the cargo-lifting machines and mechanisms by classification development of these machines and mechanisms. The cargo-lifting machines and mechanisms, providing the cargo-lifting from one level to another one with the possible shifting in space, restricted by the machine construction were picked out from the transport machines, providing the cargo shifting in the unlimited space one level (horizontal and slightly inclined conveyors, automobile, rail road, sea and river, hydraulic and pneumatic transport ets), resulting in the classification of the cargo lifting machines and mechanisms.
Free Vibrations of Thin-Walled Box-Section Bars Allowing for Shear Strains
Authors: Gavrilov Aleksandr , Grebenyuk Grigoriy , Morozov Nikolay , Grehov Andrey
Published: May 2018

Purpose. The purpose is to study free vibrations of thin-walled bar with combined bisymmetrical section allowing for the effects of shear strains.Methods. We used the main hypothesis of V.Z. Vlasov concerning thin-walled bars. Solving motion equations analytically, we used the method of initial parameters and the known methods for differential equations solution. In the natural experiment we applied Autodesk Inventor system. In the course of the natural experiment on shaker, we used the method of smooth change in the frequency of sinusoidal vibrations.Results. We provide the analytical solutions of the shapes and the natural frequencies of thin-walled bar with combined bisymmetrical section allowing for shears caused by bends and constrained torsion. We compared the results of the calculations conducted in CAE system and the results of the full-scale experiment to determine the frequencies of vibrations of box beam.Conclusions. The results showed that the analytical calculations are in good compliance with the results of numerical and physical experiments and can be used for dynamic calculations of thin-walled structural elements, in particular, for the prevention of the destruction of structures in the event of resonance phenomena.
Maintenance of Russian secondary school students’ health (organizational and administrative aspect)
Authors: V. Tretyakov Natalia , A. Fedorov Vladimir , V. Ketrish Evgeniya , M. Permyakov Oleg
Published: May 2018

The relevance of the investigated problem is caused by the need to ensure the quality of educational institutions activities aimed at students’ health maintenance through the creation of conditions for the organization and management of the activity.The purpose of the article is to develop organizational and pedagogical conditions of maintenance management process, to preserve students’ health. Leading methodological approach to the study of this problem is systematic approach that allows considering educational organizations activities aimed at health maintenance as a certain system, to identify a specific set of its constituent elements and show their relationship. The article presents a structural-functional model of health service and according to management principles 1) covers the main areas of activity (labor division principle); 2) identifies the basis of their structural units (structuring principle); 3) the functions of health service activity as a whole, its subsidiaries and certain performers (functional operations accounting principle); 4) provides integrative management performance criteria for health service activities. The information contained in the article may be useful to teachers in terms of the organization of activity on health maintenance in educational institutions by changing organizational and management component of this activity.
Sky Lanterns And Aviation Safety : A Study At The Mae Fah Luang Chiangrai Airport
Authors: Charoensook Chartchai
Published: May 2018

The purpose of this research is to study explore the challenges emerging due to use of sky lantern at the Mae Fah Luang Chiangrai Airport, which has threat to aviation safety. The current pertaining is qualitative research done by in-depth interview of aviation personnel at Chiangrai Airport. The finding of the study can be summarized as follows:  1) Lantern obstructs visibility of flight path posing challenge to both pilot and air traffic controller.  2)  Lantern can accidentally slip into aircraft engine and it could jam the engine or could cause engine explosion.  3)  Lantern slips into aircraft controlling equipment, this could cause aircraft unable to control its direction.  4)  Lantern that floats and sticks with aircraft body, could cause fire to aircraft body.  5)  Lantern that falls onto runway or airport drive way, may endanger aircraft while takeoff and landing or it could damage aircraft during taxiing on the runway. However, it is opined by respondent to jointly organize community awareness campaign to educate people and mitigate the associated threat.
Educational research networks principles of organization.
Authors: N. Davydova Nataliia , M. Dorozhkin Evgeniy , A. Fedorov Vladimir
Published: May 2018

Relevance. Modern society has global transformations; as a result, the level characteristics of its system development are changing, new opportunities and new situations to implement a self-organizing system to solve problems of self-government appear. Thus, there is the need to organize the multiplicity of interactions in the new environment, including education. The success of the development mechanisms, organizing innovative activities in the educational systems of different levels is largely determined by the active development of interaction network forms and interaction effective management. The article is devoted to development of theoretical ideas about the processes of network interaction in education to justify and describe the principles of modern scientific-educational network on the basis of system-synergetic approach. A leading approach to study this problem can be considered as system-synergetic which allows studying network interaction within the scientific and educational network as a holistic entity consisting of interrelated elements, structured and complex. The results of the study showed that described principles of effective networking and the conditions of scientific and educational networks development allow you to combine and re-combine the accumulated actors of this knowledge and practical experience interaction, turning them into the means of its innovative activities. The article can be useful to heads of educational institutions of different levels, as well as researchers of innovative processes development problems in education.
Vocational training in sport and recreation micro-enterprises as an education project
Authors: V. Komleva Svetlana , V. Andryukhina Tatyana , V. Ketrish Evgeniya , V. Tretyakova Nataliya , P. Korotkikh Irina , S. Okrimenk Tatyana
Published: May 2018

This study appears urgent due to the need to create new jobs in the sport and recreation sector and to update the existing approach to vocational training in a micro-enterprise. This paper proposes an education project as a form of vocational training in such conditions. The authors aim to comprehend the current issues of pedagogical design for the transfer of experience within a micro-enterprise of the sport and recreation sector and to determine the conditions for effective educational interaction of micro-enterprise employees. This problem is addressed with a combination of the systematic approach and activity-based learning. This makes it possible to present the process of pedagogical design of vocational training in the conditions of a micro-enterprise as systematic activity of individuals in developing the professional competencies of a sport and recreation worker. The authors used theoretical and empirical methods. The theoretical methods were analysis of the psychological, pedagogical, sociological, scientific-methodological and specialized literature on the studied problem; the systematic approach to the definition of the problem and the formation of the research terminology; and analysis of the legal acts. The empirical methods were pedagogical observation; study and generalization of pedagogical experience; pedagogical design; questioning; conversation; interview; performance analysis; and expert evaluation method and integration of expert opinions.
Specifics of defense and coping behavior among teachers experiencing a professional identity crisis
Authors: O. Sadovnikova Nadezhda , B. Sergeeva Tamara , S. Kotova Svetlana , I. Khasanova Irina , A. Domoratskaya Valeriya
Published: May 2018

The issues addressed in the article are of particular relevance due to the necessity to provide research background for creating the system of psychological and pedagogical support for the professional development of teachers in the conditions of permanent changes in the system of education. The aim of the article is to describe specific interrelations between the reflection and the parameters of the teacher's axiological sphere (in particular, life-purpose orientations). The following research methods were used: theoretical analysis of psychological and educational literature, phenomenological method, questionnaires, and methods of mathematical and statistical data processing (descriptive statistics, comparative analysis (the Mann-Whitney U test). The results of the theoretical and empirical research provide adequate grounds for the conclusion that there is a definite interrelation between the parameters of reflection and the parameters of life-purpose orientations. It is proved that in the conditions of a professional identity crisis the teachers experience a significant reduction in the levels of life-purpose orientations, which in turn leads to intensification of reflection processes. At the same time, the obtained results suggest that the teachers can successfully overcome their professional crisis in case of formation of the cognitive component of the biographical reflection, aimed at the analysis of actions and means of understanding and organizing their life events. Implications of the research results. The research results expand our understanding of the essence and emotional experience of the professional identity crisis. They can be used in the designing the process of psychological support for the activities and professional development of teachers.
Civic consciousness as a matter of disciplinary discursive practices in Russia
Authors: Shevchenko Olga M. , Volkov Yuriy G. , Lubsky Anatoly V. , Dyachenko Angela N. , Glushkova Svetlana A.
Published: May 2018

Comprehension of theoretical discourse devoted to study of civic consciousness in Russia will make it possible to identify methodological alternatives in researching this phenomenon and construct the most optimal multidimensional and methodological field for investigating civic consciousness devoid of paradigm limitation within the context of tasks facing the country related to formation of civic patriotism and civic identity. In order to implement this research conception, a critical analysis strategy of civic consciousness knowledge with the identification of paradigm features that have arisen in the scientific and research practices obtained in various subject domains, is proposed in the article. The discursive analysis results have shown that the concept of civic consciousness as an integral social phenomenon, which determines the cognitive need for the development of a multidimensional methodological construct of the wholism study of civic consciousness in Russia is being lost in the disciplinary scientific and research practices.
Patriotism and solidarity in the west and in Russia
Authors: Grigoryevich Volkov Yury , Vladimirovna Vereshchagina Anna , Vladimirovich Lubsky Anatoly , Olegovna Vagina Viktoriya , Viktorovich Gubarev Ivan
Published: May 2018

The article considers the peculiarities of the formation and development of patriotism and solidarity in the West and in Russia. The nature of these phenomena is revealed from the point of view of their socio-cultural and historical dependence. The article analyzes the prospects for the emergence of civil patriotism in Russia in the context of solidarity practices as a way to strengthen the state-civil identity and unity of all the nations in modern Russia. Given the existing differences in the development of patriotism and social solidarity in the West and in Russia, as well as the sociocultural foundations for the formation of civil patriotism in the context of solidarity practices, civil engagement and moral responsibility of citizens to the civil community are singled out as a determining condition
Patriotism as the subject of discursive practices in Russia
Authors: Grigoryevich Volkov Yury , Vladimirovna Vereshchagina Anna , Vladimirovich Lubsky Anatoly , Viktorovich Gubarev Ivan , Olegovna Vagina Viktoriya
Published: May 2018

Discourses of the patriotism in Russia represent presentations of its study results in the framework of such scientific disciplines, as philosophy, history, political science, sociology and psychology. Within the framework of these disciplines, the patriotism is studied, taking into account various paradigmatic preferences, first, ontological, axiological, identification and behavioural content. The diversity of the paradigmatic foundations of research practices generates in the discourse the most diverse ideas about the patriotism in Russia. These representations, filled with the specific content, are, as a rule, of disciplinary unilateral and paradigmatic limited nature. The conceptual comprehension of the patriotism in Russia, as an integral social reality presupposes the development of a multidimensional methodological construct of its holistic scientific study.
The program me of Pyatigorsk state university on counter extremism activities on the territory of the educational organization and student dormitories
Authors: D. Kondrakova Elvira
Published: May 2018

The relevance of the research is conditioned by the necessity to arrange countermeasures against extremism on the territory of the educational organization and student dormitories, and by the absence of a scientifically justified model for operation of universities in this direction. Research goal: theoretical justification and elaboration of the programme on counter-extremism activities on the territory of the educational organization and student dormitories. The leading research methods were the analysis and generalization of the pedagogic experience, statistical processing of the quantitative data concerning the problem state in the educational organization, and simulation. The research results contribute to further scientific comprehension of the problem of preventing extremist manifestations among the youth in the present socio-cultural situation and to creation of the required conditions for successful fulfillment of the anti-terrorist and anti-extremist line of the government. The programme for extremism prevention in the student environment was presented, the introduction of which will allow achieving a positive effect in educating a personality that can express the Russian spiritual and moral imperative, has a proactive attitude with regard to opposing asocial phenomena, radicalism, extremism, and terrorism in all forms; the socio-cultural conditions for preventing the extremist attitudes that contribute to pedagogic correction in the process of educational and leisure activities were revealed. Research value: the research showed that applying a complex of preventive measures with due account for the organizational-pedagogic, socio-psychological, professional socio-cultural conditions largely optimizes the activity on introduction of conceptual provisions of the state youth policy, and reduces the level of destructive behaviour in the student environment. The materials of the paper can be useful for the heads of educational structures of different level and other subjects of educational activity, and can be used in the outreach and volunteer activities of the youth non-governmental organizations.
Emerging trends in mobile technology: a 5g perspective
Authors: Sourav Mohanty Mr , Chandrabhanu Das Dr
Published: May 2018

Fifth Generation technology is proposed to be launched in India around 2020 and it is estimated to resolve the technological barriers to 4G technologies. The increased use of digital technology in all spheres of life has necessitated the use of efficient and reliable mobile communications. 5G has advantage over 4G in optimum use of technology. The paper discusses the legal and regulatory issues, feasibility in rural areas and architectural framework. The article highlights about the proposed 5G Architecture requirements, need of 5G, its launch in India and other suitable innovative technology that will suffice 5G operations smoothly. The article is basically written as a twofold. Extensive literature reviews on past studies of 5G and its assumed to be architectural features in near future are discussed based on current technological trends, innovations. Moreover, it is a descriptive and conceptual perspective. It is purely based on secondary data available in Internet and various other topic related research article publications. Lack of empirical data and 5G is not officially released worldwide, but except in some countries, it is given on a basis of beta testing unit. Practically 5G Mobile Technology will be launched in India around 2020 and only after that, comments would be taken into account. This paper discusses vividly about 5G penetration in rural India and its use in Big Data Analysis as small-scale cells called Heterogeneous networks.
Civic patriotism in the context of solidarity practicesin western european countries
Authors: Murzinov V L. , Murzinov P V. , Murzinov Yu V. , Buyanov V I. , Popov V A.
Published: May 2018

The paper links civil patriotism in the context of solidarity practices to citizens’ civil activity and moral responsibility to a civil community. In the epoch of early modernity, there were such types of civil patriotism as liberal and revolutionary patriotism and national patriotism in Western European countries. In the epoch of late modernity, liberal civil patriotism prevails in the Western democratic countries. It involves a historical and cultural model of civil patriotism and a model of constitutional patriotism with a political dimension.
Practices of solidarity as a subject of intellectual traditions in Russia and the west
Authors: V. Kovalev Vitaliy , G. Volkov Yuriy , V. Lubsky Anatoly , K. Bineeva Natalya , Z. Gubnelova Nona
Published: May 2018

This article attempts to make a comparative analysis of the assessment of solidarity practices in the intellectual tradition in Russia and the West. In the foreign intellectual tradition, four paradigms are highlighted in the study of solidarity practices: sociological, philosophical, ideological and religious. The Russian intellectual tradition includes religious and ideological paradigms. In the West, sociology and philosophies have played a major role in the study of solidarity practices, in which scientific knowledge or normative knowledge has been developed and used to put social reality under control. In the Russian intellectual tradition, practices of solidarity have been given a moral or axiological dimension.
Constructive basis for the development of the extreme zones of Siberia and the Russian arctic
Authors: Sarvut Tat'yana
Published: May 2018

The paper describes the constructive basis for building and structure designing in the difficult regions of Siberia and the Russian Arctic and development of a new approach to the design of buildings and structures in the Russian Arctic in the face of climate change. Severe climate and weather conditions of the northwestern territories of Russia are rapidly changing due to the global warming. The structural changes in development and construction, following this irreversible process, are highlighted and discussed in relation to the foundations and constructive systems. The paper provides an overview of methods and technological approaches to the extreme zone construction. The application of modern methods of design and construction with the involvement of competent "practitioners" increases the pace of construction and reduces its cost; Architectural and constructive solutions should focus on the developing areas of business and tourism. We suggest the possible protective measures against the transgression of the World Ocean and thawing of the permafrost. The term “special Arctic bases”, denoting the new type of settlements in the Russian Arctic, is introduced. The introduction of constructive solutions and the development of planning solutions for the bases will help to ensure a stable activity in the region.
Detection of copy-move image forgery using SVD and cuckoo search algorithm
Authors: Kashyap Abhishek , Agarwal Megha , Gupta Hariom
Published: May 2018

Copy-move Copy move forgery (CMF) is one of the straightforward strategies to create forged images. To detect this kind of forgery one of the widely used method is single value decomposition (SVD). Few methods based on SVD are most acceptable but some methods are less acceptable because these methods highly depend on those parameters value, which is manually selected depending upon the tampered images. For different images, we require different parameter values. In this paper, we have proposed a novel method, which uses both copy-move forgery detection using SVD and Cuckoo search (CS) algorithm. It utilizes Cuckoo search algorithm to generate customized parameter values for different tampered images, which are used in copy-move forgery detection (CMFD) under block based framework.
Experimental performance analysis of multipath TCP path characteristics in streaming UHD HEVC-dash over wireless networks
Authors: S. Wejin J , Amca H
Published: May 2018

The multiple interfaces in modern devices today have given great promise in enhancing multimedia service delivery over wireless networks. However, the IP coupled nature of the TCP/IP protocol inhibits the simultaneous use of these interfaces. Multipath TCP (MPTCP), a protocol undergoing IETF standardization has been developed to simultaneously use multiple interfaces for service delivery over the Internet. In this paper, we studied the effect of MPTCP paths characteristics in streaming Ultra High Definition, High Efficiency Video Codec (UHD HEVC-DASH) while connected to multiple wireless access points. The findings though specific instead of general, reveal that under balanced and unbalanced network paths, MPTCP offers good Quality of Experience (QoE) compared to SPTCP. However, with variability in latency, and packet loss between paths, MPTCP underperforms compared to SPTCP in terms of video buffering in the unbalanced network case, and high packet retransmission rate in either balanced or unbalanced network paths.