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A Structural Approach to the Monomyth in Contemporary Action Cinema: Dredd, John Wick, and Mad Max: Fury Road
Authors: Veleski Stefan
Published: April 2019

The aim of the thesis is to provide an overview of three contemporary action films: Dredd 3D, John Wick, and Mad Max: Fury Road, through a so-called "bio-structuralist" approach - combining archetypal criticism, literary Darwinism, and narratology, into a unified, holistic theoretical model.The thesis is divided into four main parts: (1) an introduction, that gives a rationale for the aim, scope, and the design of the thesis, (2) a theoretical framework, which provides both an overview of the theories and fits them in the general model, (3) a part including the case studies, that puts the theoretical approach to the test, and finally (4) a conclusion that gives a verdict on the feasibility of the model and summarizes the findings.A particular emphasis is put on the monomyth as a story paradigm that all the films in the case studies share, whose combination of a biologically dictated scaffolding, and cultural brickwork is an excellent testing ground for the theoretical model.In addition to the attempts of revealing glimpses of our evolved nature in the plots, narrative conventions, cinematography, themes, motivations, settings, and character networks in the films, the thesis attempts to balance the hardliner literary Darwinist stance of the dominance of biology over culture, with an acknowledgment of the existence of cultural transmission and stylistic evolution. Thus, the thesis proposes terminology that differentiates between cultural units totally dominated by biology, partially tied to it, and completely independent of it, albeit spread in ways reminiscent of biological evolution.The proposed theoretical model is shown to be a viable alternative to post-structuralist approaches as far as the study of action cinema is concerned, with its ample scope serving as its principal advantage.
The Incidental Learning of Feature Distributions in Supervised Classification
Authors: Thevenow-Harrison Jordan T.
Published: April 2019

Categorization allows us to organize and extend our knowledge to make predictions about new things in the world. My dissertation presents series of experiments about how the statistical properties of stimuli incidental to a supervised classification task influence later learning. After exposure to task-irrelevant but statistically varying features, do people “transfer in” such knowledge to new problems where that information is suddenly applicable, or do they learn nothing at all in the first place such that they have nothing to transfer out of the first learning situation. What information about irrelevant features bias people when they move to another task where those features become relevant?The literature is unclear about how irrelevant features are used in later tasks, and most studies use categories that are binary: either the feature is present or absent. Few studies present continuous features with many distributions, and no study has systematically compared different distributions between tasks, especially with a large number of participants recruited online.These findings will inform how we can structure environments and tasks to prepare people to learn without explicitly teaching them before the task. This could make learning well-designed curricula and tasks more efficient. Another outcome of this dissertation research will be a number of open-source projects making online psychology experiments easier to perform, analyze, and replicate.
THE EFFECT OF USING CABRI 3DV2PLUS SOFTWARE WITH COOPERATIVE INTERACTION SETTING LEARNING MODEL ON STUDENTS' MATHEMATICAL UNDERSTANDING IN TRANSFORMATION MATERIALS
Authors: Batubara Nur Asiah
Published: April 2019

This study is aimed at identifying the effect of using Cabri 3DV2Plus software with a learning model of cooperative interaction settings of students who get conventional learning seen from the level of students' abilities (high, medium, or low). The research uses a quasi-experimental method. The population in this study were students of class XI. The sampling technique was done by random sampling, and a sample of 182 students was obtained. The instrument used in this study was a test of mathematical understanding. The data collection techniques for mathematical understanding were carried out by giving a pretest and a posttest. The statistical analysis carried out was a normality test and a homogeneity test as a condition for taking the treatments, and a t-test to see the average difference in each class. From the t-test, the tcount and ttable values were obtained respectively. tcount1 = 11.20

 ttable = 2.042, tcount2 = 9.819

 ttable = 2.042, and tcount3 = 4.861

 ttable = 2.042 then overall H0 is rejected; meaning that there is influence of using Cabri 3DV2Plus software with the learning model of cooperative interaction settings of students who get conventional learning in terms of the level of students' ability (high, medium, or low).
Comprehensive study of ovarian tumours in Kathmandu University Hospital
Authors: Tamrakar Suman Raj , Makaju Ramesh , Shrestha Abha , Kayastha Suresh
Published: April 2019

Background: Ovarian tumours account for 15% to 25% of all primary malignancy and the leading cause of death from gynaecolgical malignancies. There are limited publications related to ovarian tumours from Nepal. Ovarian related surgeries are the common surgeries in Kathmandu University Hospital. This study aims to provide basic information related to ovarian tumours from this geographical region of Nepal.

Objectives: To review the nature of ovarian problems and certain socio-demographic information namely: caste, age, address and co-morbid condition of the patients presenting with ovarian problems.

Methodology: This is a retrospective study of patients seeking surgical treatment of ovarian lesions in Kathmandu University Hospital from January 1, 2011 to June 30, 2018. This study was undertaken by reviewing the inpatient, outpatients and OT records in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and the records from Department of Pathology. All the files and computer records were reviewed and analyzed for nature of ovarian problems and certain demographic variables.

Results: Out of the 860 cases, about 61% were non-neoplastic while benign ovarian tumours and malignant ovarian tumours were 35% and 3.7 % respectively. Almost one third of the cases were of Brahmin/Chhetri (37.3%) and 58.3% of the patients were from Kavre district. Mean age of the patients with ovarian problems was 34.89±11.15 years (range 12-72 years). There was no statistically significant difference between the mean age of patients with non-neoplastic ovarian lesions and neoplastic ovarian lesions (p value = 0.3371). There was statistically significant difference between the mean age of patients with benign ovarian tumours and malignant ovarian tumours (p value = 0.0001). And malignant ovarian tumours were significantly high among patients above 41 years in comparison to benign ovarian tumours of same age group (p value = 0.0008). Out of 32, ten malignant ovarian tumours occurred in relatively young age group. Of the 860 ovarian lesions, 438 and 422 ovarian lesions were removed through open technique and laparoscopic techniques respectively. Mature cystic teratoma (64.1%) was the commonest benign tumor and serous cyst adenocarcinoma (43.8%) was the commonest malignant tumour in this study.

Conclusion: Ovarian tumours are one of the gynaecological diagnoses in Kathmandu University Hospital. If only ovarian neoplasms are considered, most of the ovarian tumours are benign and few are malignant. Minimal invasive surgeries are possible, except that for malignant ovarian tumours.
A case report on an unusual degeneration of uterine leiomyoma: Myxoid degeneration
Authors: Paneru Rupa , Thapa Meena
Published: April 2019

Background: Leiomyomas are benign smooth muscle neoplasm that typically occurs from the myometrium. Most of the women with uterine leiomyoma remain asymptomatic. Various degeneration including hyaline, cystic, myxoid and red degeneration and dystrophic calcification occur in leiomyoma, among them myxoid degeneration occurs rarely. Here is a case report of 40 years with one living child and two abortions who came with complaints of feeling of heaviness and pain at lower abdomen for six months, palpable lower abdominal mass for four months and difficulty in passing urine since 15 days. Multiple fibroids with cystic degeneration were suspected in Computed Tomography scan report. The patient underwent Total Abdominal Hysterectomy with Bilateral Salphingectomy. On cut section there was a cystic area on the body of uterus containing 1. 1 liter of straw coloured fluid. Final histopathological findings concluded multiple leiomyoma with myxoid degeneration.
Marla Carlson. Affect, Animals, and Autists: Feeling around the Edges of the Human in Performance.
Authors: Mehrishi Rishika
Published: April 2019

Marla Carlson’s Affect, Animals, and Autists presents a comprehensive survey of affective responses to performances that involve the simulated, symbolic, and actual presence of animals and people on the autism spectrum in order to critique the processes that reaffirm or trouble the homogenized boundaries of the “normate” human.
Laura Edmondson. Performing Trauma in Central Africa: Shadows of Empire.
Authors: Williams Joshua
Published: April 2019

In Performing Trauma in Central Africa: Shadows of Empire, Laura Edmondson illustrates the pervasive effects of western appetites for African suffering – what she calls the “empire of trauma” – on the cultural and political life of Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the aftermath of war and genocide.
S.E. Gontarski. Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett’s Decadent Turn.
Authors: Rabaté Jean-Michel
Published: April 2019

These wide-ranging essays on Samuel Beckett cover the career of Stanley Gontarski. Personally acquainted with Beckett, he offers an original thesis by foregrounding Beckett’s subversive side, manifested by his interest in Sade, his collaboration with Barney Rosset of Grove Press, and all the plays and texts that were considered offensive in English-speaking countries.
S.E. Wilmer. Performing Statelessness in Europe.
Authors: Meerzon Yana
Published: April 2019

Performing Statelessness in Europe is essential reading material for students and scholars of theatre who are deeply engaged with and disturbed by today’s social and cultural practices of migration and rising nationalism.
Interrelation Between Conceptual and Linguistic Worldviews (Based on the Economic Lexical Item ‘CLIENT’)
Authors: Kushmar Lesia
Published: April 2019

This article presents a theoretical approach to the concept interpretation “worldview” which expresses human knowledge about environment. The difference between conceptual and linguistic worldviews has been determined. Associative meaning represents the conceptual worldview. Vocabulary definitions reflect the linguistic worldview. To identify main peculiarities in conceptual and linguistic worldviews the lexical item ‘CLIENT’ was selected according to criteria: contextual conditioning, frequency, information, presence in dictionaries and encyclopedias of different areas, expressing relevant concepts nowadays. 915 respondents took part in the experiment. Obtained results (1,600 reactions) have been processed using statistical methods. The application of modeling allowed creating the associative field structure defining core and periphery. Items representing essential features of the concept form the core; secondary features of the subject form the periphery. The core and periphery combine associative meaning of the item. Comparison of lexical and associative meanings has been made according to algorithm: defining main components in the lexeme structure using structural-semantic principle; calculation of core reactions because the lexicon core of the native speaker reflects the actual worldview; establishment total number of core reactions that are connected with vocabulary; determination the level of lexical and associative meanings’ approximation. The economic lexical item ‘CLIENT’ is on the edge of incomplete coincidence according to association and lexical meanings. This fact allows arguing that the conceptual worldview is more dynamic than linguistic. Changes in reality are reflected in core reactions of the associative field only with time being reflected in the lexical meaning.
Synonymic Syntagms and Utterances as Phenomenologically Reconstructed Discourse Innovations (on the material of modern French fiction)
Authors: Lepetiukha Anastasiia
Published: April 2019

The phenomenon of syntactic synonymy in mono- and polypredicative utterances of modern French fiction prose is considered in this article from the standpoint of phenomenology. The phenomenological method of cognition of being and its structures and categories, which is based on the human tendency to study objects of observation in the form they appear in consciousness, is aimed at ontology. It is proved that in the process of learning about being relations mind → language correspond to the first phase of polyoperations of reconstruction of phenomenological organization of the universe; the continuum language → discourse corresponds to the second phase. Three stages of phenomenological construction of synonymic structures at the levels of primary and secondary consciousness are distinguished: 1) destruction and reconstruction of being as the result of observing its structures and categories (primary consciousness (inconscious mental operations)) → sublinguistic schemes (subconscious stratum of secondary consciousness); 2) sublinguistic schemes → primary syntagms and propositions (surface stratum of secondary consciousness); 3)primary syntagms and propositions → secondary reduced, extended and quantitatively equally componental transforms (surface stratum of secondary consciousness) actualized in the form of grammatised and typical or atypical agrammatised functionally transposed and notransposed mono- and polypredicative discourse innovations. The typologies of: а) functionally transposed co(n)textually pertinent structures with linear transposition: with the change of volume, equal quantity of lexical elements or with conversion of components of synonymic structures; and b) notransposed compressed, extended and quantitatively equally componental synonymic co(n)textually adequate transforms of primary syntagms and propositions are established. In the course of analysis of utterances with syntactical synonymy a large number of the structures with polysynonymisation at the level of one syntagm or proposition is revealed.
Probing into Native and Nonnative Students’ Mental Lexicon: a Case of Word Association Comparison
Authors: Marzban Afrooz , Sadegh Bagheri Mohammad , Sadighi Firooz , Rassaei Ehsan
Published: April 2019

The present study compared British English speakers’ (native) and Iranian EFL learners’ (nonnative) mental lexicon structure focusing on how words are selected and used by the two groups. The types of word association links, syntagmatic and paradigmatic, more frequently applied by the two groups of the participants, were probed into. To this end, 40 native and 40 nonnative college students, both male and female, were compared as far as mental lexicon was concerned. Accordingly, through the Oxford Placement Test (OPT), the nonnative subjects were assigned to three ability levels; namely, high, mid and low. Next, the Word Association Test (WAT) was administered respectively to all native and nonnative participants. The comparison of the WAT results through a series of Chi-square tests and a test of Mann-Whitney indicated that the employed word association links varied among the native and nonnative participants. The findings revealed that the low and mid level nonnatives which comprised a majority of Iranian EFL learners employed the syntagmatic relation to a greater extent than the high level nonnatives. However, only one resemblance was observed between the natives and the high level nonnatives who frequently applied the paradigmatic link. Thus, it was concluded that the advanced Iranian learners performed in a similar way as that of the native English speakers; as a result, it was suggested that the improvement in the proficiency level could lead to a change in making mental links. The findings would contribute to the psychological concerns in language teaching and learning in most academic contexts of higher age ranges.
The Mediating Effect of CSR on the Relationship between Authentic Leadership and Organization Citizenship Behavior
Authors: Khattak Sajid Rahman , Saeed Imran , Batool Saima
Published: April 2019

The current research investigated authentic leadership and organization citizenship behavior relationship in the presence of mediator corporate social responsibility in services organizations of Pakistan. Data from the respondents were gathered through structured questionnaire. The instrument validity and reliability were ensured. A total of 220 respondents participate in the study. Participants were informed about the aim of the study. Based on regression and mediation analysis, it was found that authentic leadership was significantly related with organization citizenship behavior. We also found that corporate social responsibility partially mediates authentic leadership and organization citizenship behavior. It was concluded that managers should treat their employees fairly as a result their citizenship behavior towards organization will increase which lead to overall organization performance.
Analysis of Reading Preferences of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Teachers’ Educators
Authors: Ayub Saddaf , Khan Muhammad Saeed , Ashfaq Umbreen
Published: April 2019

English is a global language and it plays its role as the second and official language in many countries. Untrained teachers, rote learning, grammar translation method and overcrowded classrooms are the factors which affect the process of language learning in the school sector. The study was designed to analyze reading preferences of literary and language habits of Teacher Educators of RITE colleges and faculty members. The sample of the study comprised 119 faculty members i.e. teachers' educators of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Responses were collected through a questionnaire. It was found that reading material has a positive relationship with the preferences of faculty members and teacher educators. It is suggested that faculty members may be provided with a variety of reading material and sources for their professional grooming of teaching.
Chinese World Order and Pakistan: Emerging Trends and Prospects
Authors: Qasim Hafiz Muhammad Shahzad , Fatima Noor , Iqbal Musharaf
Published: April 2019

Economic recession of 2009 marked the end of the US dominance in the world. The subsequent period brought transition in the global order. China stepped forward by taking “Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)”, establishing Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and creating alternative forums to engage various regions by assuming a global role. Chinese World Order here is not aimed at referring to the world dominated by China but Chinese sphere of influence with its greater role. Pakistan’s profile has improved with success against terrorism, Chinese investment and interest by other countries to invest under China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). CPEC is a flagship project of BRI which enables Pakistan’s growth and extend it economic integration with China. Pakistan’s close partnership with China enables it to play a greater political role in South Asia, Central Asia, Middle East, the Islamic world and the world at large.
The quality of atmospheric air of Russian cities in 1991–2016
Authors: Klyuev N. N.
Published: April 2019

The analysis of quality of atmospheric air in Russian cities for 2000-2016 has been carried out. Four cities (Bratsk, Magnitogorsk, Chita and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) during this period almost every year fell into the “black lists” of Roshydromet – of both chronically and extremely polluted cities. As far as regions are concerned, the cities with high level of atmospheric pollution are allocated in Irkutsk oblast, Krasnoyarsk krai, as well as Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk oblasts. The leading factors of formation of environmental situation in cities depending on their localization, specialization and population size have been revealed: 1) large industrial emissions and transport emissions; 2) emissions of mostly unidentified sources of pollution; 3) high natural potential of atmospheric pollution; 4) “import” of pollution from external sources due to an unfavorable ecological and geographical location. The author believes that the cardinal solution of the problem of dirty air is possible only on the basis of regulation of territorial development of Russia.
Contemporary erosion and suspended sediment yield within river basins in the steppe of the Southeastern part of the Russian Plain: A case study of the Samara River basin
Authors: Gusarov A. V. , Sharifullin A. G.
Published: April 2019

The paper presents the results of contemporary trend assessment in general erosion intensity within the southeastern steppe sector of the Russian Plain, a case study of the Samara River (the upper reaches) basin (22,800 km2, Orenburg oblast, European part of Russia), based on the long-term studying of river suspended sediment yield dynamics. The assessment is supplemented by accumulation rates field study of the soil-rill-gully erosion products in a typical small catchment (the catchment area is 1.92 km2) of the river basin using environmental radioactive caesium-137 (incl. Chernobyl-derived 137Cs) as a chronomarker. The results obtained clearly show that the Samara River’s suspended sediment yield has been reduced at least twice over the last 30 years compared with 1940–1960s. The marked decreasing trend in the erosion intensity in the Samara River basin is confirmed by a decrease (by 3.0–3.6 times as a minimum) in accumulation rates of the erosion products over the past 60 years within the dry valley bottom of the studied small catchment. The main reason for such significant erosion rates reduction was a decrease in surface snowmelt runoff within the basin area since the early 1980s, associated with a reduction in a soil freezing depth and a general increase in air temperature during spring months.
SISTEM OPTIMASI PENJADWALAN KERETA API JAKARTA-YOGYAKARTA DENGAN METODE ALGORITMA GENETIKA
Authors: Fachreza Sodi , Komala Sari Ratih Titi , Fauziah Fauziah
Published: April 2019

Keberadaan komputer telah menggantikan banyak tenaga kerja manusia, baik di bidang bisnis,industri maupun transportasi. Hal ini tidak bisa disalahkan karena memang terbukti bahwa sistem komputerisasi jauh lebih efisien dan menguntung kan bagi perusahaan dibanding dengan sistem manual (dengan tenaga kerja manusia). Hampir setiap perusahaan, khususnya yang sedang berkembang dan maju saat ini berlomba-lomba untuk mengkomputerisasi sistem yang dimiliki perusahaannya, untuk meningkatkan efisiensi dan efektivitas kerja. Dengan perancangan yang dilakukan dalam pembuatan penelitian ini adalah penjadwalan keberangkatan kereta yang akan diatur dalam sistem komputerisasi. Kemudian pengaturan jadwal keberangkatan dengan kereta api yang berbeda, hari dan jam keberangkatan yang ditempuh untuk sampai pada tempat tujuan ditata seoptimal mungkin dengan menggunakan metode Algoritma Genetika.
PERIODISASI PERKEMBANGAN USHUL FIQH
Authors: Zulhamdi Zulhamdi
Published: April 2019

Sejak zaman Rasulullah saw., sahabat, tabi’in dan sesudahnya, pemikiran hukum Islam mengalami perkembangan. Namun demikian, corak atau metode pemikiran belum terbukukan dalam tulisan yang sistematis. Dengan kata lain, belum terbentuk sebagai suatu disiplin ilmu tersendiri. Penulis mencoba mengulas tuntas tentang sejarah perkembangan ushul fiqh mulai zaman Nabi hingga sampai ushul fiqih menjadi sebuah disiplin ilmu tersendiri. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif deskriptif, dengan penelaahan dokumen. Periodisasi perkembangan ushul fiqh di mulai sejak zaman Rasulullah SAW sumber hukum Islam hanya dua, yaitu Al-Quran dan Assunnah, semenjak masa sahabat telah timbul persoalan-persoalan baru yang menuntut ketetapan hukumnya. Untuk itu para sahabat berijtihad, mencari ketetapan hukumnya. Selanjutnya pada masa tabi’in, tabi’it-tabi’in dan para imam mujtahid, di sekitar abad II dan III Hijriyah wilayah kekuasaan Islam telah menjadi semakin luas, sampai ke daerah-daerah yang dihuni oleh orang-orang yang bukan bangsa Arab atau tidak berbahasa Arab dan beragam pula situasi dan kondisinya serta adat istiadatnya Dengan semakin tersebarnya agama Islam di kalangan penduduk dari berbagai daerah tersebut, menjadikan semakin banyak persoalan-persoalan hukum yang timbul, yang tidak didapati ketetapan hukumnya dalam Alquran dan As-Sunnah. Untuk itu para ulama yang tinggal di berbagai daerah itu berijtihad mencari ketetapan hukumnya.
АНАЛИЗ МЕТОДОВ ПОСТКЛАССИФИКАЦИОННОЙ ОБРАБОТКИ МНОГОКАНАЛЬНЫХ ИЗОБРАЖЕНИЙ
Authors: Васильева Ирина Карловна , Лукин Владимир Васильевич
Published: April 2019

The subject matter of the article is the methods of morphological spatial filtering of images in pseudo-colors obtained as a result of statistical segmentation of multichannel satellite images. The aim is to study the effectiveness of various methods of post-classification image processing in order to increase the probability of correct recognition for observed objects. The tasks to be solved are: to select a mathematical model describing the training sets of objects’ classes; to implement the procedure of statistical controlled classification by the maximum likelihood method; to evaluate the results of objects’ recognition on the test image by the criterion of the empirical probability of correct recognition; to formalize the procedures of local object-oriented filtering of a segmented image; to investigate the effectiveness of rank filtering as well as weighted median filtering procedures taking into account the results of the classification by k-nearest neighbors in the filter window. The methods used are methods of empirical distributions’ approximation, statistical recognition methods, methods of probability theory and mathematical statistics, methods of local spatial filtering. The following results were obtained. A method for synthesizing a universal mathematical model has been proposed for describing non-Gaussian signal characteristics of objects on multichannel images based on a multi-dimensional variant of Johnson SB distribution; this model was used for statistical pixel-by-pixel classification of the original satellite image. Algorithms for local post-classification processing in the neighborhood of the selected segments boundaries have been implemented. The analysis of the developed algorithms’ effectiveness based on estimates of classes’ correct recognition probability is performed. Conclusions. The scientific novelty of the results obtained is as follows: combined approaches to the pattern recognition procedures have been further developed – it has been shown that the use of methods of local object-oriented filtering of segmented images allows to reduce the number of point errors for element-wise classification of spatial objects.
ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ ЯКОСТІ РОЗРОБКИ ПРОГРАМНИХ СИСТЕМ З ВИКОРИСТАННЯМ КОМПОНЕНТНОГО ПРОЕКТУВАННЯ ТА ТЕХНОЛОГІЇ P-MODELING FRAMEWORK
Authors: Федорович Олег Євгенович , Бабич Олена Володимирівна , Бабич Олександр Вікторович
Published: April 2019

This publication describes the results of the study of creating modern software systems (SS) process using the component approach and P-Modeling Framework design technology. The urgency of a modern method of project management for the creation of a SS, which will ensure the quality of the design process and the final product in the form of a software system, was substantiated. The aim of the work is to study the quality assurance of designing software products and SS by developing an application information technology for the development of a component architecture of SS using the modern the P-Modeling Framework technology. With the help of system analysis, a multi-level architecture of the SS has been formed. Expert estimation methods have been used to predict and evaluate the quality of the created SS. Models of optimization of the architecture of the SS are developed. Methods of the theory of precedents have been used to form a plurality of alternate variants of the subsystem. Formalized and improved the method of reverse semantic tracing (RST) to ensure the quality of the design process of SS. The structure and features of the applied information technology created using the P-Modeling Framework are described. The developed models and methods of information technology are a scientific and methodological basis for solving the problems of quality assurance in the process of creating software products and systems using the positive experience of past projects as reusable components.
МЕТОД РАСШИРЕНИЯ МОДЕЛИ ЛОГИСТИЧЕСКОЙ ЦЕПИ ПОСТАВОК, ПРЕДСТАВЛЕННОЙ В ФОРМЕ ДВУХУРОВНЕВОЙ ВЛОЖЕННОЙ СЕТИ ПЕТРИ
Authors: Шостак Игорь Владимирович , Rahimi Yashar
Published: April 2019

The issues related to the development of adequate network models of the processes of creating, deploying and supporting the functioning of the full logistics supply chain of dried fruit (SCDF) in Ukraine are considered. It is shown that the creation and operation of the SCDF, compared to other SCM class systems, raises a number of specific problems caused by the complexity of the interaction of raw material suppliers (fresh fruit), manufacturers of final products (drying, packaging), storage terminals, distributors, 3PL and 4PL providers (retailers). These problems are due to the fact that the interaction of participants in business processes in the SCDF generates a lot of material, financial and information flows, as well as flows of services from sources of raw materials to the final consumer. The variety of world regions from which dried fruit is delivered to Ukraine, a wide range of products supplied, yield, currency fluctuations, seasonality are the causes of a high level of uncertainty in the processes of formation and decision-making by the SCDF participants. The urgency of the problem is substantiated, the essence of which is to develop a temporal component in the network model of the SCDF, which adequately reflects in time the logistic processes that take place during the operation of the supply chain. A model of a full SCDF in the form of a two-level nested Petri net (NPN) is considered. At the same time, the network model of SCDF functioning in the form of a NPN includes two types of objects - the central link reflecting the activity of the focusing company on processing raw materials (dried fruits), and a number of subnets that simulate the activity of suppliers of raw materials and distributors of finished products. It is indicated that to predict the consequences of the current (or some predetermined) situation and to respond to inquiries about the future state of elements of the SCDF, a predictive model can be used that explicitly takes into account time dependencies. In this case, requests can be about the time of occurrence of certain events, and the fact that certain circumstances are present at a certain point in time. A method is described for extending the network model of the SCDF to comply with the 'just-in-time' principle when modeling business processes that take place supply chain.
A Survey on Efficient Concurrency Control Algorithm in Distributed Database Systems
Authors: Nyasuguta Arika Rebecca , Cheruiyot W.
Published: April 2019

Transaction commit protocols help in reaching an agreement among the participating nodes when a transaction has to be committed or aborted. To initiate an agreement each participating node is asked to vote its decision on the operations on its transactional fragment. The participating nodes can decide to either commit or abort an ongoing transaction. In case of a node failure, the active participants take essential steps such as running the termination protocol to preserve database correctness. This paper sought to investigate the current distributed databases commit protocols such as 2PC and 3PC in order to pin-point their shortcomings. For instance, 2PC suffers from blocking of participant site in case of coordinator failure and increased latency due to forced writes of logs. On its part, 3PC suffers more communication overhead due to extra pre-commit phase. Based on these setbacks, an efficient protocol is suggested towards the end of this paper that it believed to address some of the challenges such as blocking and extra message exchange between communicating nodes.
Indicadores de sostenibilidad para hoteles cinco estrellas, medición dimensional social, cultural, ambiental, política y económica
Authors: Aguiar López José Gregorio
Published: April 2019

El presente estudio aborda la medición dimensional de las operaciones hoteleras cinco estrellas, a partir de la creación de indicadores de sostenibilidad, actividad realizada en la ciudad de Caracas. El objetivo de la investigación es el de diseñar indicadores de sostenibilidad, a partir de los dispuestos por la OMT y el GSTC, adecuados para hoteles cinco estrellas. Los nombres de los hoteles seleccionados para este estudio han sido sustituidos por letras, a los fines de proteger su confidencialidad operativa. La metodología aplicada es de paradigma cuantitativo, de diseño, no experimental, de tipo de campo, de nivel descriptivo. La población a bordar serán los hoteles afiliados a AVECINTEL, asociación que representa los intereses de las empresas hoteleras cinco estrellas en Venezuela y se utilizará el soft ware e – encuesta y el SPSS para los análisis de los resultados obtenidos en el presente estudio. Se han omitido los nombres de los hoteles por solicitud de alguno de ellos, respetando así, su derecho a la confidencialidad de sus operaciones. Los resultados que se obtuvieron fueron los siguientes, en la dimensión social: 3,14, cultural: 3,33, ambiental: 3,99, política: 3,93 y económica: 3,99. La media global fue de 3,68 en la escala de Likert.
Desarrollo regional a través del mejoramiento continuo de la educación superior
Authors: Moreno Vallejo Jaime Rodrigo , Fajardo Romo Frank Gabriel
Published: April 2019

Con el ánimo de impulsar la misión social de la educación superior, esta investigación tiene un enfoque cualitativo, y tiene como objetivo estudiar el contexto normativo y los principales referentes teóricos para mejorar continuamente la calidad de la educación superior en Colombia y Ecuador, y propone estrategias metodológicas que contribuyan a realizar dicho propósito como aporte al desarrollo regional, de manera sistémica, objetiva, medible y alcanzable en el tiempo, tales como la gestión por procesos y el cuadro de mando integral.
Ecuador and bilingualism a "mirage or reality?" a critical look at english as a foreing language
Authors: Obiajulu Joe Halim Austin
Published: April 2019

A critical review  of  government  program  on  amplifying  knowledge   acquisition and  professionalism in  Ecuador  to meet international  standard and challenges.  Based on  this  policy program, english language  is  required  in every facet of education.  Since  inception,  this  cyclopean  task has  received  accolade  on the other hand a  perverted  criticism  equally  with  an iffy  of   excuses probably a  consequence  on how the  herculean  curriculum  is  being managed mainly  due to quality and caliber  of   apostles  of  this project.  Before  now however,  this program  was an absolute  sham due to quack until  government  demonstrated  unimaginable  concern  and  decision  to purge the program and  rejuvenate    teaching  and learning of english proposed  and  execute  capacitating programs  as  well  as  seasonal evaluation of  teachers , teaching  tools,  strategies  and approaches that  gave a   face-lift  to the program  and it`s  administration.
Olympism and the Olympic education: history, modernity, future
Authors: Bulatova Maria , Platonov Vladimir
Published: April 2019

Objective. Study of the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement as an aggregate of phenomena and processes of historical, socio-economic, political, educational, and purely sports character in their organic relationship, with due account for achievements and issues, positive and negative aspects, risks and development prospects.
Results. Most of the modern initiatives and educational resources implemented in the modern Olympic education system are focused only on obtaining general ideas about the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, active promoting the ideals and values of the Olympic philosophy, which has been peculiar for the policy of the IOC and IOA in this area for several decades. Traditionally established concept of the Olympic education, peculiar for most countries, lags behind the needs of the time, is characterized by weak sociocultural content, limited criticism and commitment to emotional rhetoric, especially in the part that relates to the universalism of the Olympic values, claims to the global educational potential of the Olympic education.
However, the Olympic movement and the Olympic Games do not need artificial idealization. Their value is in the greatest history, bright modernity, diversity and popularity, difficulties and contradictions, numerous interrelations with politics and economics, culture and art, education and upbringing.
Versatile and objective consideration and study of the Olympic movement and, above all, the Olympic Games various aspects, with account for all strengths and weaknesses, achievements and issues, weak points and drawbacks can in no way adversely affect the popularity and significance of this phenomenon, including as an object of the Olympic education. On the contrary, the idealization of the Olympic sport and the Olympic Games, outstanding athletes and their role in the process of educational and upbringing, ignoring issues, difficulties, contradictions, negative phenomena and risk factors are a direct way to the devaluation of the Olympic education, to skepticism regarding its potentials and significance.
The management of elite athletes’ returning to play: a multidimensional perspective
Authors: Martirosyan Anna
Published: April 2019

Returning to sport after an injury can be a difficult process for competitive elite athletes.
The purpose of this study was to examine the experience of competitive elite athletes returning to sport after an injury in order to identify critical, and possibly new, factors which can help them to recover and return to play as soon as possible. A number of factors have been identified by several researchers. These factors include medical, physiological, emotional and others. The literature also highlighted the importance of social support, which includes support from people around athletes, such as family, friends, coaches, trainers, teammates and so on.
Through this research I wanted to find the most important and helpful to athletes factors.
The data of this retrospective qualitative study were collected through interviews. Eleven elite athletes, from six countries and different kind of sports took part in this research. Athletes were interviewed through semi-structured interview and asked to answer some questions and share their experience of recovery from sports injury and returning to play.
The collected data were analyzed through the coding method. All similar answers were put together and finally key factors for athletes’ recovery and return to play were identified.
This study confirmed the accuracy of a number of helpful factors for athletes’ recovery and return to play which were already known from literature. Moreover the study discovered several new and key factors, like support from government, sport organization employees, and athletes’ own motivation to achieve their goals. The sport manager should pay attention to all these factors when he or she is planning a recovery program for the injured athlete.
Keywords: Sport, Olympic Games, injury, management, recovery.
La evaluación ex-ante. Una visión de la Oficina de Coordinación y Calidad Normativa
Authors: Sánchez Puente Ramón , Bueno Rodríguez Fe , García Vidal Andrea
Published: April 2019

El informe relativo a las Perspectivas de la OCDE sobre la Política Regulatoria 2018, sitúa a España en el grupo de países en estado intermedio en los rankings de mejora regulatoria. La experiencia del primer año de funcionamiento de la Oficina de Coordinación y Calidad Normativa (OCCN) confirma que, con carácter general, en prácticamente todos los ámbitos de la evaluación ex ante existen márgenes de mejora
Monitoring of Students’ Quality in the Context of Economic Education
Authors: O. Lutsenko Kateryna , H. Ostanina Hanna
Published: April 2019

The article deals with the monitoring as the way of measuring students’ quality in learning the socio-humanities disciplines in the context of economic education. It is proved that it can become a way of measuring and evaluation of the efficiency of educational process, gathering practical information concerning improvement of the quality of learning. The monitoring helps to find defects and weak points in educational process. The theoretical fundamentals of the investigated problem give an opportunity to the authors to present their own interpretation of the monitoring of the quality of learning as permanent, systematic supervision, control and diagnostics of the quality of future specialists’ educational achievements. The analysis of pedagogical scientific studios gave an opportunity to define the following indexes of quality of learning: quality of educational process; a motivational sphere; creation of comfort educationally-emotional climate. The quality of educational process by means of the system of mutual visits of lessons of the social-humanities disciplines according to the detailed indicators of quality of learning has been analyzed. Special attention has been paid to the motivational sphere to the learning by the students of economic specialties as one of the main sphere that influences the quality of knowledge of future economic experts. The existence of emotionally favorable climate has been investigated at the lessons of the social-humanities disciplines. The author’s methodical recommendations for improvement defects according to the indicators of quality of learning have been offered. The research results show the urgent necessity to find the efficient ways of reorganization and updating the existing mechanism of evaluating the quality of learning the social-humanities disciplines by students of economic specialties. The efficiency of the received results is confirmed with the help of pedagogical experiment data.
A ABORDAGEM DA EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL NOS PCNs, NAS DCNs E NA BNCC
Authors: Branco Emerson Pereira , Royer Marcia Regina , Branco Alessandra Batista de Godoi
Published: April 2019

O presente artigo objetivou analisar a Educação Ambiental (EA) no Brasil, enfatizando a legislação, o papel e organização curricular e a abordagem da EA nos documentos norteadores da Educação Básica elaborados nas últimas décadas: os Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCNs); as Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais (DCNs); e a Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC). Para isto, discutimos a trajetória da Educação Ambiental, a legislação na área ambiental e diferentes abordagens da Educação Ambiental nos documentos norteadores supracitados. Esse estudo justifica-se pela relevância de compreender as especificidades do ensino da Educação Ambiental na Educação Básica, que amplia sua complexidade no processo de ensino e aprendizagem nas escolas, e nas crescentes demandas acerca do tema frente às questões urgentes sobre a preservação do meio ambiente, e necessidade de superação de injustiças sociais, econômicas, de subsistência e de qualidade de vida. Ao comparar a BNCC com os documentos anteriores verifica-se que tal proposta não apresenta novidades significativas para a temática. Num aparente reducionismo, a Base relega o tema e não desperta expectativas sobre avanços significativos que proporcionem uma educação mais efetiva nessa área e a superação de suas demandas. O que se almeja é que a Educação Ambiental seja valorizada e efetivamente consolidada na Educação Básica e na formação de professores, garantindo o acesso ao conhecimento e a condição de participação sobre questões que interferem na vida de comunidades, países e do planeta. A educação, neste sentido, é um passo importante para concretizar objetivos e metas legalmente estabelecidos, teoricamente publicados e apresentado em discursos.
MARX E ENGELS, DURKHEIM E BOURDIEU: CONTRIBUIÇÕES PARA COMPREENDER A RELAÇÃO ENTRE EDUCAÇÃO E SOCIEDADE
Authors: Castro Solange , Rossetto Elisabeth
Published: April 2019

Este artigo traz uma reflexão dos principais pressupostos teóricos de Marx e Engels na Obra Ideologia Alemã, de Durkheim na Obra Educação e Sociologia e de Bourdieu na Obra A Economia das Trocas Simbólicas. Assim a partir de um estudo teórico/bibliográfico, busca-se compreender as divergências e semelhanças entre as ideias dos autores. Considerando-se que a educação apresenta duas vertentes, pode transformar como conservar a sociedade. Nesse viés, o objeto desse estudo centra-se na seguinte problemática: a educação transforma ou conserva a sociedade? O estudo foi realizado através de leituras individuais, coletivas e discussões, com intenção de compreender aspectos importantes nesse processo, além de recorrer a outros autores, com a finalidade de alcançar respostas ao objeto de estudo. Como resultado foi possível compreender que a relação entre educação e sociedade se dá por meio da contradição. Os autores apresentam a educação como elemento fundamental no desenvolvimento da consciência e como forma de transformação do ser humano, porém, na história da educação brasileira não se percebe preocupação com um processo educacional emancipatório e, na atualidade, podemos observar reformas educacionais com intenções nítidas de reforçar o descompromisso com o público e de qualidade. Dessa maneira, a educação considerada elemento de transformação social aliena o homem e, a serviço do capital descaracteriza o lócus da luta de classes acirrando a desigualdade social em que o sujeito não reconhece o seu lugar na sociedade. Ainda, defende a burguesia que o mantém refém do capitalismo e da ignorância intelectual.
EDUCAÇÃO ESCOLAR, ALTERIDADE E A JUDICIALIZAÇÃO DA VIDA NA CONTEMPORANEIDADE
Authors: Silva Rafael Bianchi , Malinowski Millien Lacerda
Published: April 2019

Este artigo busca apresentar uma compreensão sobre a construção das expectativas referentes à judicialização do cotidiano escolar e como estas refletem as relações sociais no contemporâneo. Para tanto, buscou-se analisar esse fenômeno a partir do discurso de uma crise da alteridade no contemporâneo que parece predispor as pessoas a apostarem na judicialização como saída para os problemas vivenciados no ambiente escolar. Entende-se que a escola consiste em locus privilegiado para a criação de espaços relacionais que propiciem o exercício da alteridade, o convívio com as diferenças e o reconhecimento do outro, podendo ressignificar as relações segundo uma lógica que escape à mercantilização da vida. Desse ponto de vista, considera-se que tratar a questão exclusivamente de acordo com a perspectiva da judicialização pareceria desperdiçar esse espaço privilegiado da escola (e cada vez mais escasso na contemporaneidade) de encontro com o outro. Conclui-se que, sem pretender que a escola ofereça respostas totalizantes, por outro lado, que a terceirização da resolução desta problemática ao judiciário, que atuará conforme uma lógica de subsunção dos conflitos escolares a uma parametrização legal, bem como de delimitação de vítimas e culpados, tampouco poderá alcançar a eficácia de uma prática educativa comprometida com a questão da alteridade.