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Psychedelics and Health Behavior Change - Journal of Psychopharmacology (in press)
Authors: Teixeira Pedro J. , Johnson Matthew , Timmermann Christopher , Watts Rosalind , Erritzoe David , Douglass Hannah , Kettner Hannes , Carhart-Harris Robin
Published: March 2021

Healthful behaviors such as maintaining a balanced diet, being physically active, and refraining from smoking have major impacts on the risk of developing cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and other serious conditions. The burden of the so-called “lifestyle diseases” - in personal suffering, premature mortality, and public health costs - is considerable. Consequently, interventions designed to promote healthy behaviors are increasingly being studied, e.g. using psychobiological models of behavioral regulation and change. In this article, we explore the notion that psychedelic substances such as psilocybin could be used to assist in promoting positive lifestyle change conducive to good overall health. Psilocybin has a low toxicity, is non-addictive, and has been shown to predict favorable changes in patients with depression, anxiety, and other conditions marked by rigid behavioral patterns, including substance (mis)use. While it is still early days for modern psychedelic science, research is advancing fast and results are promising. Here we describe psychedelics’ proposed mechanisms of action and research findings pertinent to health behavior change science, hoping to generate discussion and new research hypotheses linking the two areas. Therapeutic models including psychedelic experiences and common behavior change methods (e.g., Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing) are already being tested for addiction and eating disorders. We believe this research may soon be extended to help promote improved diet, exercise, nature exposure, and also mindfulness or stress reduction practices, all of which can contribute to physical and psychological health and wellbeing.
Move together, bond together: Visuomotor synchrony and social bonding in children and adults
Authors: Howard Ellen M , Ropar Danielle , Newport Roger , Tuncgenc Bahar
Published: March 2021

Interpersonal synchrony is a fundamental part of human social interaction, with known effects on facilitating social bonding. Moving in time with another person facilitates prosocial behaviour, however, it is unknown if the degree of synchronisation predicts the degree of social bonding. Similarly, while people readily fall in synchrony even without being instructed to do so, we do not know whether such spontaneous synchronisation elicits similar prosocial effects as instructed synchronisation. Across two studies, we investigated how context (social vs non-social stimulus) and instruction (instructed vs uninstructed) influenced synchronisation accuracy and bonding with the interaction partner in adults (Study 1; 34 women, 6 men, Mage = 20.38, predominantly White undergraduates) and children (Study 2; 27 girls, 26 boys Mage = 8.80, from predominantly White middle-class families). The results revealed improved visuomotor synchrony within a social, compared to non-social, context in adults and children. Children, but not adults, synchronised more accurately when instructed to synchronise than when uninstructed. For both children and adults, synchronisation in a social context elicited stronger social bonding towards an interaction partner as compared to synchronisation in a non-social context. Finally, children’s, but not adults’, degree of synchrony with the partner was significantly associated with their feelings of social closeness. These findings illuminate the interaction of sensorimotor coupling and joint action in social contexts and how these mechanisms facilitate synchronisation ability and social bonding.
Exploratory graphical analysis of SCED effect sizes at different levels: Sensitivity analysis using modified Brinley plots
Authors: Manolov Rumen , Tanious René , Fernández Belén
Published: March 2021

The data gathered via single-case experimental designs usually lead to obtaining more than one effect size, quantifying the difference between each baseline condition (A) and intervention condition (B). These effect sizes resulting from the A-B comparisons present a nested structure, as there can be several effect sizes for the same participant, or one or several effect sizes per participant if there are several participants in the same study. There is no single optimal way to quantitatively aggregate these effect sizes within a study without making assumptions. Thus, in the current text, we propose to depict several possible means of effect sizes, weighted and unweighted, at different levels. Specifically, we propose to extend modified Brinley plots, so that they can be used for performing a sensitivity analysis, in order to explore the degree to which the conclusions about intervention effectiveness would vary according to how the aggregate value is computed. We focus on exploratory or descriptive quantifications and plots, in order to avoid using inferential tools requiring parametric assumptions or any sophisticated analytical techniques that may not be fully and correctly understood. The proposals are illustrated with previously published behavioral data and implemented in a user-friendly freely available website.
Using Advances from Cognitive Science to Understand the Etiology and Maintenance of Psychopathology
Authors: Teachman Bethany , Daniel Katharine E , Eberle Jeremy William
Published: March 2021

Far too often, psychologists stay isolated in their particular area—we identify as a cognitive psychologist or a clinical psychologist, but rarely as both; we attend clinical psychology conferences or cognitive ones, but there is little overlap in attendance; we recruit graduate students in one area or the other, but seldom advise across areas. Yet, so much of the exciting work happens at the intersection between areas and disciplines, as we integrate (and beg, borrow, and steal!) theories, paradigms, and methods from across fields to create a novel synthesis. This has been especially true in the marriage between clinical and cognitive science, and the results have taught us a great deal about how thinking changes along the continuum from mental health to mental illness.The aim of this special issue is to bring together reviews of cutting-edge research that illustrate how advances in cognitive science have improved our understanding of the etiology and maintenance of psychopathology, while also highlighting the many questions that remain unanswered. Authors were asked to consider how the application of cognitive science theories, methods, and paradigms has increased understanding of the etiology and maintenance of a particular clinical domain in light of the evidence related to distal and proximate risk and vulnerability. They were also asked to consider gaps in our understanding, such as the limited evidence for causal relationships between cognitive changes and onset of psychopathology. Beyond etiology, authors were encouraged to discuss how cognitive science has altered the ways we prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat each clinical domain, and they were asked to envision how these advances might alter clinical practice over the next 5, 10, and 20 years. Recognizing that we have far more questions than answers at this stage, we also asked authors to consider how to remove the barriers to making more rapid progress; that is, what methodological, theoretical, and infrastructure advances are needed to optimize the contributions that cognitive science can make to reducing the burden of mental illness? Along these lines, to make salient one obvious example of a gap in our knowledge that is hindering progress, all authors were asked to discuss what we currently know (and more importantly, don’t know) about the ways individual differences and identities, such as demographic characteristics tied to race and ethnicity, age, sex, and so forth, interact with cognitive processes to alter the expression of and outcomes for a given clinical domain.The authors rose to the challenge. They wrote about a wide variety of cognitive processes and clinical problem areas, and their papers make clear not only the tremendous progress that has occurred in this subfield, but also the long way that the marriage between clinical and cognitive science has to go to fulfill its promise.
Introducing the Brief Reverse Correlation
Authors: Schmitz Mathias , Rougier Marine , Yzerbyt Vincent
Published: March 2021

The reverse correlation (RC) is an innovative method to capture visual mental representations (i.e., classification images, CIs) of social targets that has become increasingly popular in social psychology. Because CIs of high quality are difficult to obtain without a large number of trials, the majority of past research relied on CIs extracted from samples of participants (average CIs). This strategy, however, leads to inflated false positivity rates. Using the representation from each participant (individual CIs) offers one solution to this problem. Still, this approach requires large numbers of trials and is thus economically costly, time demanding, demotivating for the participants, or simply impractical. We introduce a new version of the reverse correlation method, namely the Brief-RC. The Brief-RC increases the quality of individual (and average) CIs and reduces the overall task length by increasing the number of stimuli (i.e., noisy faces) presented at each trial. In two experiments, assessments by external judges confirm that the new method delivers equally good (Experiment 1) or higher-quality (Experiment 2) outcomes than the traditional method for the same number of trials, time length, and number of stimuli. The Brief-RC may thus facilitate the production of higher-quality individual CIs and alleviate the risk of false positivity rate.
PROHIBITED EDUCATION A PATHOLOGY OF CAPITALISM
Authors: PEREZ ISRAEL MALLMA , VÁSQUEZ LITA SALAZAR
Published: March 2021

Forbidden education reviews and collects in its various points the history behind education as we know it, talks about the dynamics and roles that function in the classroom and the teaching, industrial or governmental imposition of repeating an educational paradigm that obeys other structures that They are alien to a real education, and it may be closer to students and to the development of their most human needs. Which shows us a series of arguments by various specialists, professionals, authors, mothers and fathers and there are a series of deep reflections regarding traditional education. We see in a forceful way that their views coincide in stating that traditional education is static, without movement, does not seek other development than curriculum development, is focused on the contents themselves, it is an education where the teacher is the central figure in the process of Learning and the distribution of knowledge is conceived in such a way that it is reproduced, copied, repeated and in these conditions do not allow any search process, and makes the individual an object man incapable of taking critical, reflective and transforming positions in front of his reality
A new social conflict on globalisation-related issues in Germany? A longitudinal perspective
Authors: Teney Céline , Rupieper Li Kathrin
Published: March 2021

We draw on cleavage theory to assess the emergence of a social conflict on globalisation-related issues among the German population between 1989 and 2019. We argue that issue salience and opinion polarisation are key conditions for a successful and sustainable political mobilisation of citizens, and thus for the emergence of a social conflict. In line with globalisation cleavage theory, we hypothesise that issue salience as well as overall and between-group opinion polarisation on globalisation-related issues have increased over time. Our study considers four globalisation-related issues: “Immigration”, “EU”, “Economic liberalism” and “Environment”. While the salience of “EU” and “Economic liberalism” remains low during the observed period, we find a recent increase in the salience of the issues of “Immigration” (since 2015) and “Environment” (since 2018). Furthermore, our results point to rather stable attitudes on globalisation-related issues among the German population: we do not find any consistent evidence of an increase in overall or between-group polarisation over time. In conclusion, the idea of an emerging conflict around globalisation-related issues among the German population finds very little empirical support.
Measuring the direct population impact of COVID-19 in Scotland, 2020: estimating disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) during the first full calendar year
Authors: Wyper Grant Mark Andrew , Fletcher Eilidh , Grant Ian , McCartney Gerry , Fischbacher Colin , Harding Oliver , Jones Hannah , de Haro Moro Maria Teresa , Speybroeck Niko , Devleesschauwer Brecht , Stockton Diane L
Published: March 2021

Background: Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) combine the impact of morbidity and mortality and can enable comprehensive, and comparable, assessments of direct and indirect health harms due to COVID-19. Our aim was to estimate DALYs directly due to COVID-19 in Scotland, during 2020; and contextualise its population impact relative to other causes of disease and injury.Methods: National deaths and daily case data were used. Deaths were based on underlying and contributory causes recorded on death certificates. We calculated DALYs based on the COVID-19 consensus model and methods outlined by the European Burden of Disease Network. DALYs were presented as a range, using a sensitivity based on Years of Life Lost estimates using: cause-specific; and COVID-19 related deaths. All estimates were for 2020.Findings: In 2020, estimates of COVID-19 DALYs in Scotland ranged from 96,500 to 108,200. Direct COVID-19 DALYs were substantial enough to be framed as the second leading cause of disease and injury, with only ischaemic heart disease having a larger impact on population health. Mortality contributed 98% of total DALYs.Interpretation: The direct population health impact of COVID-19 has been very substantial. Despite unprecedented mitigation efforts, COVID-19 developed from a single identified case in early 2020 to a condition with an impact in Scotland second only to ischaemic heart disease. Periodic estimation of DALYs during 2021, and beyond, will provide indications of the impact of DALYs averted due to the national roll-out of the vaccination programme and other continued mitigation efforts, although new variants may pose significant challenges.
Sorting it Out: The Effects of Charter Expansion on Teacher and Student Composition at Traditional Public Schools
Authors: Sorensen Lucy , Holt Stephen B
Published: March 2021

Since their introduction in the 1990s, charter schools have grown from a small-scale experiment to a ubiquitous feature of the public education landscape. The current study uses the legislative removal of a cap on the maximum number of charters in North Carolina as a natural experiment to assess the impacts of charter school growth on teacher quality and student composition in traditional public schools (TPS) at different levels of local market penetration. Using an instrumental variable difference-in-differences approach to account for endogenous charter demand, we find that intensive local charter entry reduces the inflow of new teachers at nearby TPS, leading to a more experienced and credentialed teaching workforce on average. However, we find that the entry of charters serving predominantly White students leads to reductions in average teacher experience, effectiveness, and credentials at nearby TPS. Overall these findings suggest that the composition of the teacher workforce in TPS will continue to change as charter schools further expand, and that the spillover effects of future charter expansion will vary by the types of students served by charters.
Formy realizacji aktu mowy ODMAWIANIE w języku niemieckim na przykładzie listów odmownych na podania o pracę
Authors: Szczęk Joanna
Published: March 2021

Odmowa to akt mowy, należący do tzw. krytycznych aktów mowy. Jego realizacja powoduje zagrożenie dla równowagi interakcyjnej między nadawcą i odbiorcą. Z tego też powodu użytkownicy języka stosują różne werbalne i niewerbalne strategie związane z realizacją ODMAWIANIA. Szczególnym przypadkiem realizacji tego aktu mowy są listy odmowne na podania o pracę, w których powinna – pośrednio lub bezpośrednio – zostać wyrażona odmowa. Nadawcy wskazanego gatunku tekstu formułują ją w różny sposób. Przedmiotem artykułu są formy realizacji aktu mowy ODMAWIANIE w języku niemieckim na podstawie wskazanego gatunku tekstu. Celem jest skierowanie uwagi na strategie stosowane w realizacji tego aktu mowy oraz próba stworzenia typologii form używanych w językowej realizacji ODMAWIANIA.
The Imperative for Justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in Post-Civil War Sri Lanka
Authors: Sarvananthan Muttukrishna , Sivakaran Navaratnam
Published: March 2021

Between 2015 and 2019 Sri Lanka has been in the process of drafting a new Constitution in the aftermath of the civil war that lasted from 1983 to 2009. In spite of the very high human development in Sri Lanka, public expenditures on education and health as a proportion of the GDP have declined since the 1960s. Besides, it is argued that democracy in Sri Lanka is patronage cum greed based, and hence a case is made for inculcating a merit cum need based democracy for which justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ESCR) is a sine qua non. Moreover, we argue a case for incorporating ESCR as justiciable rights in the proposed new Constitution not only on its own right but also as a means of durable peacebuilding in the aftermath of a savage civil war.
Eksperimen Pengenalan Wajah dengan fitur Indoor Positioning System menggunakan Algoritma CNN
Authors: Hartiwi Yessi , Rasywir Errissya , Pratama Yovi , Jusia Pareza Alam
Published: March 2021

Facial recognition work combined with the facial owner's position estimation feature can be utilized in various everyday applications such as face attendance with position detection. Based on this, this study offers a system testing experiment that can be run with facial recognition features and an Indoor Positioning System (IPS) to automatically check the location of the owner of the face. Recently, deep learning algorithms are the most popular method in the world of artificial intelligence. Currently, the Deep Learning algorithm toolbox has provided various programming language platforms. Departing from research findings related to deep learning, this study utilizes this method to perform facial recognition. The system we offer is also capable of checking the position or whereabouts of objects using Indoor Positioning System (IPS) technology. Facial recognition evaluation using CNN obtained a maximum value = 92.89% and an accuracy error value of 7.11%. Meanwhile, the average accuracy obtained is 91.86%. In the evaluation of the estimated position tested using DNN, the highest value of r2 score is 0.934, the lowest is 0.930 and an average is 0.932 and the highest value is MSE is 4.578, the lowest is 4.366 and the average is 4.475. This shows that the facial recognition process that is tested is able to produce good values but not the position estimation process. Keywords: Face Recognition, IPS, CNN, MSE, Accuraccy.
Introduction: Race and Performance in the US-Canada Borderlands
Authors: Daniher Colleen Kim , Zien Katherine
Published: March 2021

This special issue of Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches théâtrales au Canada (TRIC/RTAC) explores sites of contact and exchange between racial discourses in Canada and the United States. We begin with anecdotes from our vantage points as scholars of race and performance? one a US citizen living and working in Quebec, Canada, and the other a Canadian citizen living and working in San Francisco, USA. Over the years, we have heard observations like these from students, peers, and acquaintances:
Ô Kanata
Authors: Durand Yves Sioui , Joncas Catherine
Published: March 2021

Les intentions de Robert Lepage et de madame Mnouchkine avec le spectacle théâtral Kanata pourraient paraître nobles. Nous sommes devant deux maîtres indéniables du théâtre.
Princess White Deer’s Show Blanket: Brokering Popular Indigenous Performance Across International Borders
Authors: Bold Christine
Published: March 2021

This article focuses on Esther Deer, also known as Princess White Deer, and her family of Mohawk performers from Caughnawaga and St. Regis (now Kahnawà:ke and Ahkwesáhsne) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period often considered the nadir of genocidal policies and practices against the Peoples of Turtle Island. Working, as a settler scholar, with the Princess White Deer Collection in the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center and with voluminous non-Indigenous press coverage, Bold reconstructs and reads details of the Deers’ acts on the international circuit. In their choreography of spectacle and control of theatrical space, their management of their own labour and their address to their audiences, they seem not only to seize agency in the entertainment marketplace but also to sustain intergenerational family, kinship, and community relations. The most visible marker of their border-crossing mobility and cultural brokerage lies in the layers of their performance attire—the topmost of which is the show blanket, especially as wielded by Princess White Deer.
Citizen in Exception: Omar Khadr and the Performative Gap in the Law
Authors: Jones Matt
Published: March 2021

In May 2015, former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr was released from the Bowden Institution in Alberta. Khadr’s return to society followed 14 years of incarceration for an act that he may not have committed, which may not have been a crime, which took place while he was technically a child, and which was judged by a military tribunal that has questionable status in Canadian law.

This article argues that Khadr’s long imprisonment was a political decision by US and Canadian authorities that required them to use performativity to suspend the law, depriving Khadr of his rights under American law, the Canadian Charter, and various protocols of international law. This use of performance to undermine law exposes a performative gap in the law: a space in the law that allows it to be moved and shaped by performative acts. Through these acts, Khadr became effectively stateless for a period in time: a citizen-in-exception. Building from Giorgio Agamben’s theory of the state of exception, this paper draws out the role played by performativity in the suspension of law by law. Importantly, the process that led to Khadr’s situation was racially charged from beginning to end. His situation is one manifestation of the way that Muslims have been “cast out” of Western law, as Sherene Razack puts it, since 9/11.
Rhizarthrosis Bilateral – Trapeziectomy Versus Arthroplasty with Dual Mobility Prosthesis: Case Report
Authors: Comitini Saverio , Comitini Saverio , Mobilia Giuseppe , Berti Matteo , Amendola Luca , Assenza Andrea , Barca Paolo , Caponnetto Marco , Castiello Emanuela , Ganci Marco , Commessatti Matteo , Silluzio Noemi , Tigani Domenico
Published: March 2021

Background: The trapeziometacarpal joint is the second joint affected by osteoarthritis in the hand. The symptoms and clinical presentation are characterized by pain, limited range of motion, muscle weakness with loss of strength, bone deformities and disability. The symptomatology often is not related to the radiographic grade of osteoarthrosis. Therefore, in addition to the radiographic stage of the disease, the treatment is influenced by multiple variables such as age, functional requirement, symptoms and stability of the joint.
Objective: There are several options of surgical treatments. Although trapeziectomy and its technical variation is the gold standard for treatment, prosthesis replacement can be used with good results. This case report discusses the case of a 70-year-old male who presents bilateral trapeziometacarpal osteoarthrosis treated with two different techniques with different timelines.
Methods: The patient underwent a trapeziectomy on the right hand and arthroplasty with implant on the left. In both TMC the stage of the disease was grade III according to the Eaton Litter classification and the results were evaluated according to clinical and radiographic criteria. The NPRS pain scale and the Quick Dash functional scale were used in subsequent checks. The mean follow-up was 12 months.
Conclusion: There were no significantly different results with respect to pain, activities of daily living, mobility or strength. No complications were observed. The patient is satisfied with the treatment having found a better and earlier resumption of daily activity of the left hand treated with prosthesis replacement.
Long-term Performance of Epic and PERIMOUNT Mitral Bioprostheses in Young Rheumatics
Authors: Chowdhury Ujjwal
Published: March 2021

Objective: We compared the long-term cossmposites of valve-related reoperation, morbidity and mortality following two types of mitral bioprostheses in young rheumatics aged <45 years. Methods: Retrospective comparative analysis of structural valve-related reoperations, and survival data were performed on 260 propensity matched patients, undergoing bioprosthetic MVR between 2000 and 2019, using Epic (Group I, n=130) or PERIMOUNT bioprostheses (Group II, n=130). Results: The median age was 34.5 (IQR: 28-39) and 34 (IQR: 29-40) years for group I and II respectively. Hazard regression for mortality included HR (95% CI) preoperative congestive heart failure (CHF) 4.70 (1.76-12.56), p=0.002; renal failure 66.91 (12.88-347.59), p<0.0001; low left ventricular ejection fraction <0.25, 3.76 (1.72-7.27), p=0.004; and valve-related reoperations 3.82 (1.81-9.56), p=0.001. Although the structural valve degeneration (SVD)-related reoperations were more among the perimount group, propensity score matching did not exhibit any difference between the groups [8.5% (Group I) vs 14.6% (Group II), SMD -0.23, p=0.5]. At a median follow-up of 134 (IQR: 99.5-178.5) months, actuarial survival was 96.36%±0.01% (93.11-98.10), and there was no difference in survival between the groups (Log rank p=0.70). Conclusions: Both Epic and PERIMOUNT mitral bioprostheses provide similar long-term clinical outcomes and are an appealing alternative to mechanical prosthesis in younger rheumatics.
FAKTOR PENENTU KEBERHASILAN REHABILITASI SOSIAL BERBASIS KELUARGA: STUDI KASUS PADA ANAK-ANAK PEKERJA MIGRAN KABUPATEN INDRAMAYU
Authors: Rinda Rini Hartini , Azzasyofia Mira
Published: March 2021

Rehabilitasi sosial anak berbasis keluarga menjadi salah satu unggulan program pemerintah Indonesia saat ini, menggeser rehabilitasi sosial berbasis lembaga bagi anak-anak yang membutuhkan dukungan dan perlindungan. Didasari pemahaman bahwa anak terbaik berada dalam pengasuhan keluarga. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui faktor-faktor yang menentukan keberhasilan rehabilitasi sosial anak berbasis keluarga, khususnya studi kasus pada anak-anak pekerja migran Indonesia yang terpisah dari pengasuhan orang tua kandungnya. Selain itu, juga untuk mengetahui karakteristik anak pekerja migran, bagaimana karakteristik keluarga besar yang memberikan pengasuhan serta bagaimana proses rehabilitasi sosial anak berbasis keluarga yang telah dilakukan. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dan metode deskriptif, jenis penelitian studi kasus pada anak pekerja migran Indramayu yang berasal dari Taiwan dengan 6 orang informan yang ditentukan menggunakan teknik purposive sample. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa seluruh anak terpisah dari pengasuhan ibu pada usia dini, keluarga besar yang memberikan pengasuhan adalah nenek kakek dan bibi serta paman. Proses rehabilitasi sosial dilakukan dengan meningkatkan keberfungsian keluarga dalam pemenuhan kebutuhan dasar anak dan perawatan pengasuhan. Faktor-faktor yang berpengaruh terhadap keberhasilan rehabilitasi sosial adalah penerimaan keluarga, kelekatan yang dibangun oleh figure pengganti, komunikasi yang terus dibangun antara anak dan ibu, adanya tenaga pendamping keluarga yang berperan menjadi fasilitator proses rehabilitasi sosial, serta adanya dukungan lingkungan terdekat.
Anthropological determinants of humanistic educational concepts
Authors:   Vinnitsa National Technical University, Stoliarenko Oksana , Stoliarenko Olena ,   Vinnitsa National Technical University
Published: March 2021

The article describes the anthropological concept, its role in the organization of humanistic education based on the anthropocentrism principle. In the article the theoretical and methodical principles of humanistic education studies based on anthropocentric ideas are scientifically proved; the scientific-methodical system and the research concept are developed on methodological, theoretical and practical levels; the level of the psychological and pedagogical scientific studies, educational practice development and subsequently the peculiarities of youth’s humanistic education based on anthropocentric ideas and its role as the main factor of the education humanization process is investigated, the main principles of the humanistic transformations methodology in education is clarified. The notion and structure of a value-centered attitude to a person as a universal, complex personal quality were defined. The criteria of mastering basic humanistic values by modern youth in order to form personal value-centered attitudes ​​(cognitive, motivational, operational and productive), indicators (external and internal), levels of the quality under study were developed. Organizational and pedagogical conditions were defined, proved and implemented, methodological approaches of solving the problem were improved. An important role is played by the subject-to-subject interaction, cooperative creative activity, humanization of partner relationships, scientific and methodological provisions, content, forms, methods and means of educational work. Anthropological educational concepts are described in the article, a fragment of the study concerning the improving the pupils’ level of a value-centered attitude to a person process is presented, the results of work are summarized. The dynamics analysis of teaching a value-centered attitude to a person to pupils of different age groups has proved the suitability of the author's technology. At all stages of the experiment positive changes concerning basic humanistic values mastering, which was implemented in behavior and value-centered attitude to a person took place in the personality’s structure by the cognitive, motivational, operational and productive criteria.
The current state of professional training of mechanical engineering specialists in Ukraine
Authors:   Vsa National Technical Universityinnit, Dembitska Sofiia , Kobylyanska Iryna ,   Vinnitsa National Technical University, Puhach Sergii ,   Vinnytsia Educational and Scientific Institute of Economics of Western Ukrainian National University
Published: March 2021

The article analyzes the features of professional training of future employees of the machine-building industry in higher education institutions of Ukraine. The existing developments on the research problem and practical aspects of training future specialists in mechanical engineering are analyzed. The object of research is the process of professional training of future specialists in mechanical engineering. The purpose of this article is to analyze the features of professional training of future specialists in the machine-building industry with further identification of problems and prospects for improving the professional training of future specialists in mechanical engineering. Based on the analysis of curricula for bachelors and masters of mechanical engineering, the structure of the study load by cycles of disciplines is established. In particular, the share of humanitarian, natural, professional and practical training of future workers in the machine-building industry is determined. The directions of improvement of professional training of future specialists of mechanical engineering by the analysis and adaptation of general didactic principles concerning definition of the maintenance of education are defined: the account of social conditions and needs of a society; compliance of the content of education with the goals of the chosen model of education; structural unity of the content of education at different levels; unity of semantic and procedural aspects of education; accessibility and environmental compliance. Prospects for further research are the development of methodological support for the training of future specialists in engineering specialties on the basis of a competency-based approach
Witnessing and Testimony as Event
Authors: Grinberg Omri
Published: March 2021

This article shows that human rights NGOs sustain their relevance not by producing testimony texts and witness subject positions, but rather through the social and performative dimensions of events in which witnessing is transformed into testimony. The interactional dimensions between witness and documenter are usually omitted from textual representations due to NGOs’ rigid bureaucratic writing, and are also largely overlooked by scholars. Witnessing and testimony are analysed as spatiotemporal sites and occasions of contending with violence and colonialism. Through the peculiar case of Palestinian witnesses and Israeli NGOs’ sustained commitment to witnessing and testimony, despite shared acknowledgement of the failures of human rights, the event is theorized as malleable enough to be reshaped by its participants. These additional interactional layers may undermine the very logics of human rights witnessing and testimony.
"Computer crimes": some features and characteristics
Authors: Stratonov Vasyl
Published: March 2021

Unfortunately, along with positive achievements, informatization also has negative manifestations, namely, the possibility of using computer technology to commit crimes. The world has long been talking about "cy-bercrime" about "computer crime," and chapter 16 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine deals with crimes in the use of computers, computer systems and networks, as well as telecommunications. Therefore, we can state that a unified approach to the definition of a concept does not exist. However, the introduction of certain norms into the law does not solve the problems. Problems arise with the direct implementation of these standards in everyday life. Since “computer crimes” are transnational in nature, we must join forces to combat such crimes. In developed countries, this type of crime leads to huge losses, significant funds that are spent on the development and implementation of software, technical and other means of protection against unauthorized access to information, its distortion or destruction. With this in mind, it is fundamen-tally important to study methods of committing crimes using computers, computer systems and telecom-munication networks. Therefore, we characterize some of the most common ways of committing computer crimes. Such crimes are characterized by the following features: the complexity of their detection and in-vestigation, the difficulty of proving in court, the high damage even from one crime. Therefore, based on the analysis of both theory and the results of practice, we primarily focus on individual methods of committing “computer crimes”. We reveal in the article the content, forms and methods of committing computer crimes in the realities of today. We focus on the main methods of unauthorized receipt of information, namely: the use of a device that listens (bookmarks); deleted photo; interception of electronic radiation; hoax (disguise for system requests); interception of acoustic radiation and restoration of printer text; theft of media and industrial waste (garbage collection); reading data from arrays of other users; copying storage media with overcoming protection measures; masking a registered user; use of software traps; illegal connection to equipment and communication lines; failure of defense mechanisms. We characterize the most common both methods and methods of unauthorized receipt of infor-mation from computer and information networks. Knowing the ways of committing crimes will help to further prevent the commission of crimes, take preventive measures.
Le pouvoir de veto présidentiel: Guide introductif à l’élaboration d’une constitution nº 14
Authors: Bulmer Elliot
Published: March 2021

La série des Guides introductifs à l’élaboration d’une constitution d’IDEA International vise à assister l’élaboration ou la révision des constitutions, en aidant les citoyens, les partis politiques, les organisations de la société civile, les représentants et les membres des assemblées constituantes à prendre des décisions avisées dans ce domaine. Ces Guides introductifs donnent également des conseils au personnel des organisations internationales ainsi qu’aux autres acteurs extérieurs qui cherchent à fournir aux décideurs locaux un soutien technique adapté au contexte et étayé par des informations fiables. Chacun d’entre eux est conçu comme une introduction à l’intention de lecteurs non spécialistes, et constitue un aide-mémoire pratique pour les personnes disposant de connaissances ou d’une expérience préalable en matière d’élaboration d’une constitution. Les Guides introductifs, organisés par thématique en fonction des choix concrets que doivent faire les personnes responsables de l’élaboration ou de la révision d’une constitution, visent à expliquer des enjeux constitutionnels complexes de manière simple et brève.
IDENTIFIKASI POTENSI UNTUK PENGEMBANGAN WISATA ALAM DANAU TAJWID DI KELURAHAN LANGGAM KECAMATAN LANGGAM KABUPATEN PELALAWAN PROVINSI RIAU
Authors: Febriani Ririn , Hadinoto Hadinoto , Insusanty Enny
Published: March 2021

This study aims to identify potential in the Lake Tajwid Nature Tourism area in Langgam Village and analyze the Lake Tajwid Nature Tourism potential in Langgam Sub-District, Langgam District, Pelalawan Regency. This research was carried out in Lake Tajwid Nature Tourism in Langgam Sub-District, Langgam District, Pelalawan Regency, this research was conducted for two months from August to September 2018. Lake Tajwid Nature Tourism has quite good potential and many such as the potential of flora and fauna, potential beauty nature, the potential for uniqueness, the potential for cultural attractions such as the annual event that is often held, namely bathing in balimau potang mogan and togak tonggul. The results of the analysis of the potential of ODTWA in Lake Tajwid Nature Tourism area obtained the highest value, namely on the assessment criteria for Land-Based Tourism Objects of 98.97%.
APLIKASI TEKNOLOGI UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV) UNTUK MENGIDENTIFIKASI TUTUPAN HUTAN DAN LAHAN DI UNIVERSITAS LANCANG KUNING
Authors: Ikhwan Muhammad , Tri Ratnaningsih Ambar , Lestari Ika , Ikhsani Hanifah
Published: March 2021

Lancang Kuning University Campus (UNILAK) is one of the campuses that has a fairly wide area and has enormous potential, especially related to the use of space whose potential has not been maximally utilized to support the Tridharma activities of higher education.  The lack of land use is due to a more detailed inventory of land cover types that have not yet been carried out so that data and information related to existing land cover types are still very minimal.  So it is necessary to identify the type of land cover and land cover characteristics at the Unilak Campus, to obtain information and data for further use.  Land cover is the mention of biophysical appearance on the surface of the earth consisting of areas of vegetation, open land, built up land, water bodies and wetlands. One of the activities carried out for land cover data collection is land cover inventory activity using applications in the senses and GIS to collect data on land cover types in the study area coverage.  Information on the types of land cover can be obtained from land cover data inventory activities through ground check activities or data collection on land cover conditions in the field.
Exploring the Effects of Bullying on Primary School Pupils in South Africa
Authors: Muthevhuli B.J. , Obadire O.S
Published: March 2021

This study investigated the causes and effects of bullying on primary school pupils in Waterval village in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Qualitative method with purposive sampling was used as a subtype of non-probability sampling. Data were analysed using thematic content analysis which identifies and summarises message contents from respondents. Participants in the study were parents, teachers, community members and the pupils with the permission from their School Governing Board (SGB). The study found that it was difficult to know about cases of bullying at school as many of them were not reported. It was revealed that bullying affects school pupils’ performance and concentration in class as many of them are traumatised. The study recommends that creation of awareness and providing a conducive environment for recreational activities at schools and community, while encouraging and rewarding well-behaved pupils at schools and in the community will curb the menace of bullying at schools.
The burden of foster children in Nigeria : deconstructing their existential realities and the will to survive
Authors: E. Nwokocha Ezebunwa , O. Michael Turnwait
Published: March 2021

Child fosterage is one of the major manifestations of lack of capacity to cater for young family members in several societies of sub-Saharan Africa, which is reputed for prolific and sustained childbearing in the context of poverty. In Nigeria, the practice remains rife, with attendant negative consequences for foster children and communities in some cases. This paper, therefore, examined the challenges and coping strategies adopted by foster children in Bayelsa State, which was identified as one of the areas with high rates of child fosterage in Nigeria. Ethnomethodology and the rational choice theory were adopted as the theoretical framework. A total of 408 copies of a questionnaire were administered on respondents through a multistage sampling technique. Six in-depth interviews and two focus group discussions were conducted with foster children. The challenges reported by these children included physical abuse and maltreatment, lack of love and care, and lack of freedom of speech and boldness. Among the coping strategies identified by the foster children were endurance and silence, obedience and humility, and the uptake of paid jobs. There is, therefore, an urgent need for sustained fertility decline in order to discourage unnecessary child fosterage in Bayelsa and other states in Nigeria.
African Scholarship and its Integration within the Global Knowledge Economy : Reflections from within the University of KwaZulu-Natal
Authors: Njanjokuma Otu Monica
Published: March 2021

Over the decades there have been continuous efforts to position African scholarship within the global knowledge economy. Against the backdrop of marginalisation and domination, the champions of African scholarship have been engaged with political, ideological, and philosophical agendas that attempt to legitimise the African knowledge enterprise. Using an anthropological lens, this paper presents the nuanced local/global dialectics related to the recognition of African scholarship. The paper is based on the reflections of a selected number of academics of African origin from the College of Humanities at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. It highlights their subjectivities towards the elusiveness of this concept and attempts to seek its relevance as a knowledge space within the global knowledge economy. Branded as the premier university of African scholarship, UKZN has embarked on vigorous curricular, pedagogical and research initiatives that seek to bring the meaningful transformation needed to position the institution as a truly African university. This meaningful transformation can only be achieved if knowledge production in on Africa is cognisant of an African worldview, encompassing African cosmological, ontological, and epistemological perspectives. Interviews with those who participated in this study revealed the need for African scholarship to go global. Although this was emphasised, the approach to it revealed three streams of scholars who are termed in this paper as the idealists, the moderates, and the extremists. Despite their varying subjectivities, the conclusion drawn from the interviews pays allegiance to Afrocentric paradigms as the only way African development can be achieved as it connects with other global knowledge systems.
Lived Experiences of Teachers on the Integration of Values Education in Learners in South African High Schools
Authors: Lamlani Khathi Joseph
Published: March 2021

Value education is seen as one of the necessary tools for addressing moral deterioration in the South African society of today. The school is viewed as one of the key change agents in nurturing children into adulthood, where teaching of values can give the growing generation the needed moral development. The aim of this study is to explore teachers’ experiences on the integration of values education into learners in South African high schools. Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development was used as a lens to understand the integration of values education in a semi-structured focus group interview with five purposively selected teachers from each school. A total of 25 teachers from five public schools in King Cethswayo district in KwaZulu-Natal province participated. The collected data was thematically analysed and themes were interpretively discussed. The findings revealed that teachers’ perception of values education affect its integration in schools. The role modelling of the learners by both teachers and parents is central to saving the society from moral decadence. However, limitations such as over crowded classes, single parenthood, and social media affect the effective integration of values education in schools. The study therefore, recommends mutual cooperation between the school and parents, the Department of Basic Education should provide adequate professional development training for teachers on the integration of values education, and schools should be provided with counselling psychologists to correct learners’ misbehaviours and promote effective integration of values education in schools.