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Great Han
Authors: Carrico Kevin
Published: May 2018

The Great Han: Race, Nationalism, and Tradition in China Today is an ethnographic study of China’s Han Clothing Movement, a racial nationalist and neo-traditionalist group that has emerged in cities across China since 2001. The movement’s stated mission is promoting a purportedly ancient style of ethnic clothing for the Han race, to revitalize tradition and thus revitalize the Han and its nation, China. The first half of the book examines the movement’s origins, tracing its emergence within the cracks and contradictions of Han and Chinese identity. Caught between the boundless and romanticized rhetoric of five millennia of traditional culture and the limiting and disillusioning reality of everyday life in China’s metropolises, the Han Clothing Movement and its images of greatness have arisen as a symptom of these tensions within the national experience. The second half of the book demonstrates how this symptom also provides a fleeting cure. The movement’s cultural products aim to transcend the reality of China to realize an imagined “real China”- a land of rites and etiquette where society and life function flawlessly. These aspirations are unfolded through detailed examinations of movement practices surrounding clothing, ritual, etiquette, and, somewhat less predictably, conspiracy theory and digital photography as steps towards the construction and stabilization of an idealized image of Han glory. In their war on reality, the movement’s fantasy image of Han-ness and Chineseness can only ever be realized fleetingly- identity, The Great Han argues, is a paradoxical self-reproducing system fueled by the very affective tensions produced in its failure.
The Personal Origins of Collective Identity
Authors: Carrico Kevin
Published: May 2018

“The Personal Origins of Collective Identity” presents life stories of individual movement participants, demonstrating that the collective identity and ideals of the Han Clothing Movement are cultural products of and responses to personal desires emergent within the challenges of reality. This chapter presents four detailed case studies of participants’ disenchanting everyday experiences in cities across China, alongside their re-creations within the movement overcoming their distance from the “great Han.” Analyses of these process highlight how personal aspirations and dilemmas are expressed and imaginarily resolved through individuals’ reinvention via movement fantasies of a coherent, glorious, and eternal majority identity. “Personal Origins” concludes with the discussion of a particularly self-mythologizing branch of the movement that is broadly derided by other branches, arguing that this derision is precisely a product of this particular branch’s rendering the personal desires inherent within the movement too explicitly.
Reenacting the Land of Rites and Etiquette
Authors: Carrico Kevin
Published: May 2018

“Reenacting the Land of Rites and Etiquette” develops a close ethnographic analysis of three primary Han Clothing Movement media: ethnic clothing, ritual, and photography. Each is deployed to overcome the challenges described in the preceding chapters and thereby stabilize the Great Han imaginary in the material world. Tracing the application of these three media in movement activities, each medium is found to enact growing abstraction from participants’ living environments towards the fleeting realization of their ideal images. Eternal Han tradition thus ironically finds its most stable embodiment via the most modern of technologies: the cell-phone camera, which combines the materiality of clothing with the framing capabilities of the ritual space. Participants digitally capture their ideal moments of self-representation, with all contradictory elements safely edited away, for time immemorial, under the legitimizing rubric of tradition.
Producing Purity
Authors: Carrico Kevin
Published: May 2018

“Producing Purity” examines the sole acknowledged split within the homogenizing image of the Han Clothing Movement: the distinction between male and female. This divide produces drastically divergent gender roles, forcing women into outdated, normalizing images of purity, chastity, and loyalty, while rationalizing corresponding misogynistic male fantasies of domination as “culture” and “tradition.” Building upon research in a traditionalist “Ladies’ Academy” dedicated to transforming modern city women into proper and traditional “ladies,” this chapter analyses the implications of the movement’s simultaneously constraining and fulfilling identity visions for its future. In seeking a solution to the dilemmas of identity in the source of these dilemmas, the Han Clothing Movement’s solutions can only, in the end, generate further and deeper dilemmas.
Sanitized Sex
Authors: Kramm Robert
Published: May 2018

Sanitized Sex analyzes the development of new forms of regulation concerning prostitution, venereal disease, and intimacy during the occupation of Japan after the Second World War, focusing on the period between 1945 and 1952. It contributes to the cultural and social history of the occupation of Japan by investigating the intersections of the ordering principles of race, class, gender, and sexuality. It reveals how sex and its regulation were not marginal but key issues in the occupation politics, as well as in postwar state- and empire-building, U.S.-Japan relations, and American and Japanese self-imagery. An analysis of the “sanitization of sex” uncovers new spatial formations in the postwar period. The ways and means in which the sexual encounter between occupiers and occupied was regulated and experienced were closely linked to the disintegration of the Japanese Empire and the rise of U.S. hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region during the Cold War era. An analysis of the sanitization of sex thus sheds new light on the configuration of postwar Japan, the process of decolonization, the postcolonial formation of the Asia-Pacific region, and the particularities of postwar U.S. imperialism. More than a book about the regulation of sex between occupiers and occupied in postwar Japan, Sanitized Sex offers a reading of the intimacies of empires—defeated and victorious.
Predicting Context-Dependent Cross-Modal Associations with Dimension-Specific Polarity Attributions Part 1 – Brightness and Aggression
Authors: Schietecat Anne C. , Lakens Daniël , IJsselsteijn Wijnand A. , de Kort Yvonne A. W.
Published: May 2018

Although researchers have repeatedly shown that the meaning of the same concept can vary across different contexts, it has proven difficult to predict when people will assign which meaning to a concept, and which associations will be activated by a concept. Building on the affective theory of meaning (Osgood, Suci, & Tannenbaum, 1957) and the polarity correspondence principle (Proctor & Cho, 2006), we propose the dimension-specificity hypothesis with the aim to understand and predict the context-dependency of cross-modal associations. We present three sets of experiments in which we use the dimension-specificity hypothesis to predict the cross-modal associations that should emerge between aggression-related concepts and saturation and brightness. The dimension-specificity hypothesis predicts that cross-modal associations emerge depending upon which affective dimension of meaning (i.e., the evaluation, activity, or potency dimension) is most salient in a specific context. The salience of dimensions of meaning is assumed to depend upon the relative conceptual distances between bipolar opposed concept pairs (e.g., good vs. bad). The dimension-specificity hypothesis proposes that plus and minus polarities will be attributed to the bipolar concepts, and associations between concrete and affective abstract concepts that share plus or minus polarities will become activated. Our data support the emergence of dimension-specific polarity attributions. We discuss the potential of dimension-specific polarity attributions to understand and predict how the context influences the emergence of cross-modal associations.
Genome-Wide Analysis of Multidrug and Toxic Compound Extrusion (MATE) Family inGossypium raimondiiandGossypium arboreumand Its Expression Analysis Under Salt, Cadmium, and Drought Stress
Authors: Lu Pu , Magwanga Richard Odongo , Guo Xinlei , Kirungu Joy Nyangasi , Lu Hejun , Cai Xiaoyan , Zhou Zhongli , Wei Yangyang , Wang Xingxing , Zhang Zhenmei , Peng Renhai , Wang Kunbo , Liu Fang
Published: May 2018

The extrusion of toxins and substances at a cellular level is a vital life process in plants under abiotic stress. The multidrug and toxic compound extrusion (MATE) gene family plays a large role in the exportation of toxins and other substrates. We carried out a genome-wide analysis of MATE gene families in Gossypium raimondii and Gossypium arboreum and assessed their expression levels under salt, cadmium and drought stresses. We identified 70 and 68 MATE genes in G. raimondii and G. arboreum, respectively. The majority of the genes were predicted to be localized within the plasma membrane, with some distributed in other cell parts. Based on phylogenetic analysis, the genes were subdivided into three subfamilies, designated as M1, M2 and M3. Closely related members shared similar gene structures, and thus were highly conserved in nature and have mainly evolved through purifying selection. The genes were distributed in all chromosomes. Twenty-nine gene duplication events were detected, with segmental being the dominant type. GO annotation revealed a link to salt, drought and cadmium stresses. The genes exhibited differential expression, with GrMATE18, GrMATE34, GaMATE41 and GaMATE51 significantly upregulated under drought, salt and cadmium stress, and these could possibly be the candidate genes. Our results provide the first data on the genome-wide and functional characterization of MATE genes in diploid cotton, and are important for breeders of more stress-tolerant cotton genotypes.
Epidemiology and Risk Factors of Infection in Early Childhood
Authors: Vissing Nadja Hawwa , Chawes Bo Lund , Rasmussen Morten Arendt , Bisgaard Hans
Published: May 2018

BACKGROUND:

There is a large, unexplained variation in the frequency of childhood infections. We described incidence and risk factors of infections in early childhood.

METHODS:

Simple infections were captured during the first 3 years of life in the Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood 2000 birth cohort. Environmental exposures were analyzed by quasi-Poisson regression and sparse principal component analysis.

RESULTS:

The 334 children experienced a median of 14 (range 2–43) infectious episodes at ages 0 to 3 years. The overall rate of infections was associated with the number of children in the day care (adjusted incidence rate ratio [aIRR] 1.09 [1.2–1.16]) and the m2 per child in the day care (aIRR 0.96 [0.92–0.99]). Upper respiratory infections were also associated with the number of children in the day care (aIRR 1.11 [1.03–1.20]) and the m2 per child in the day care (aIRR 0.95 [0.91–0.99]), whereas lower respiratory infections were associated with caesarean section (aIRR 1.49 [1.12–1.99]), maternal smoking (aIRR 1.66 [1.18–2.33]), older siblings (aIRR 1.54 [1.19–2.01]), and the age at entry to day care (aIRR 0.77 [0.65–0.91]). The sparse principal component analysis revealed a risk factor profile driven by tobacco exposure, social circumstances, and domestic pets, but could only be used to explain 8.4% of the infection burden.

CONCLUSIONS:

Children experienced around 14 infections during the first 3 years of life, but incidences varied greatly. Environmental exposures only explained a small fraction of the variation, suggesting host factors as major determinants of infectious burden.
Los apóstoles del desarrollo y la modernización de la industria azucarera guatemalteca
Authors: Fuentes García Alberto
Published: May 2018

El presente estudio desarrolla un marco teórico que combina dos esquemas. Primero, se sugiere que, a partir de 1970 y hasta principios de 1980, la industria enfrentó la amenaza existencial de una serie de condiciones de vulnerabilidad, incluidas la movilización de sus trabajadores y el colapso de sus principales mercados. Segundo, de acuerdo con el esquema de “lógicas institucionales” se arguye que en esta búsqueda un pequeño grupo de profesionales o “apóstoles del desarrollo”, inspirado en la lógica institucional religiosa, desarrolló un conjunto de novedosas prácticas y estrategias en un ingenio de la industria. Seguidamente, estos mismos apóstoles del desarrollo divulgaron las prácticas y estrategias, promoviendo su adopción en otros ingenios y transformando la industria. El artículo concluye con una discusión de las implicaciones teóricas y prácticas del caso.
Transformaciones en las élites económicas, Estado y el proceso de democratización y desdemocratización: El caso de Honduras, 1990-2017
Authors: Sosa Iglesias Eugenio
Published: May 2018

En el presente artículo se exponen los cambios en las elites económicas desde los años 90 hasta la actualidad. Se evidencian las mutaciones en su composición, la pérdida de peso de algunos grupos económicos en el escenario nacional, como los dedicados a la agroexportación; y la emergencia de otros en el contexto de la globalización neoliberal, como los grupos dedicados a las telecomunicaciones, la energía, al sector financiero y a los servicios en general. Además, se establece la relación que existe entre estas elites económicas y el Estado y cómo se producen los procesos de desdemocratización de la sociedad hondureña.
Doris Stone y el Museo Nacional de Costa Rica. Historia social y cultural del siglo XX. Eugenia Ibarra Rojas, San José: 2016
Authors: Díaz Arias David
Published: May 2018

Doris Zemurray Stone (1909-1994) es un nombre familiar para las Ciencias Sociales de Costa Rica y Centroamérica. Durante varias décadas, ella fue una incansable investigadora del pasado y el presente de las comunidades indígenas en Costa Rica, Honduras y Nicaragua, y se desempeñó como activista en la producción de políticas específicas dirigidas a las poblaciones que estudiaba. En ese empeño, Stone alentó la educación en esas comunidades aborígenes y produjo no solo textos especializados, sino también dirigidos específicamente a esos grupos o a popularizar el conocimiento que se tenía de ellos. Asimismo, Stone colaboró de forma activa en la Junta Directiva del Museo Nacional de Costa Rica y, se podría asegurar, diseñó esa institución y la proveyó de sus primeras posesiones muebles. Con esas credenciales, Stone merecía desde hace tiempo un estudio pormenorizado de su vida, obra, trabajo académico y combates sociales.
Los murales de la Nicaragua revolucionaria, 1979-1992. David Kunzle. Managua: Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica de la Universidad Centroamericana (IHNCA-UCA), 2017
Authors: De Rooy Fidel
Published: May 2018

Debieron transcurrir veintidós años para que, finalmente, se confabularan los esfuerzos y los recursos necesarios para producir la edición en castellano de The Murals of Revolutionary Nicaragua, 1979-1992, el conocido estudio de David Kunzle publicado por la University of California Press, en 1995. Producto de un extraordinario trabajo colectivo del programa editorial del Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica de la Universidad Centroamericana (IHNCA-UCA) en Managua, y con traducción a cargo de Frances Kinloch y David Traumann, vio la luz en mayo del 2017 el libro Los murales de la Nicaragua revolucionaria, 1979-1992. Esta publicación recoge el estudio –enriquecido– que el Dr. Kunzle realizó sobre el muralismo nicaragüense entre 1981 y 1993, doce años en los cuales el autor se dedicó a registrar, catalogar y reflexionar en torno a más de trescientas obras de arte público monumental con las que la Nicaragua revolucionaria vistió las avenidas, calles, caminos, escuelas, parques, instituciones y demás espacios públicos tanto de sus ciudades como del interior del país.
“Casa en tierra ajena”. Un documental sobre migración forzada en América Central. Producción: Ivannia Villalobos Vindas y Carlos Sandoval García. Dirección: Ivannia Villalobos Vindas. Basado en el libro “No más muros. Exclusión y migración forzada en Centroamérica” de Carlos Sandoval García. Costa Rica: UCR-UNED-CONARE, 2016
Authors: Quesada Avendaño Florencia
Published: May 2018

Desde hace muchas décadas, y especialmente provenientes del llamado Triángulo Norte (Guatemala, El Salvador y Honduras), miles de centroamericanos pobres migran intentando llegar a los Estados Unidos. La migración forzada en Centroamérica –de un 10 a un 12 por ciento de la población– es uno de los dramas humanitarios más desoladores e invisibilizados que enfrenta la región.
Aquí está todo: Ratas, evolución y honor. Cuadrillas juveniles y barrio en Costa Rica. Onésimo Gerardo Rodríguez Aguilar. San José, Costa Rica: Editorial Arlekín, 2017
Authors: Torres Vindas Javier Antonio
Published: May 2018

En el 2017, la Editorial Arlekín (San José, Costa Rica) publica el libro Aquí está todo: Ratas, evolución y honor. Cuadrillas juveniles y barrio en Costa Rica, del Dr. Onésimo Gerardo Rodríguez Aguilar, el cual es fruto de su trabajo doctoral desarrollado en la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (México); Unidad Iztapalapa en posgrado en Ciencias Antropológicas.
Democracias posibles: Crisis y resignificación. Sur de México y Centroamérica. Coordinadores: María del Carmen García Aguilar, Jesús Solís Cruz y Pablo UC. Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas: Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas (UNICACH), 2016
Authors: Rovira Mas Jorge
Published: May 2018

Este libro es un producto del trabajo académico que ha venido desarrollando el Observatorio de las Democracias: sur de México y Centroamérica (ODEMCA), localizado en el Centro de Estudios Superiores de México y Centroamérica (CESMECA, 1995), en San Cristóbal de las Casas (Chiapas, México), una instancia de investigación y posgrado de la Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas (UNICACH, 1944). El CESMECA, entidad hasta el presente poco conocida en el sur centroamericano, ha venido desplegando diversas actividades que la posicionan y visibilizan cada día más en el ámbito académico regional e internacional.
Migraciones en América Central. Políticas territorios y actores. Carlos Sandoval García (Ed.). Costa Rica: EUCR, 2016
Authors: Gómez Chavarría Eddson
Published: May 2018

Migraciones en América Central: Políticas, territorios y actores es un esfuerzo de 24 autoras y autores de toda la región para articulas sus estudios, investigaciones y aproximaciones alrededor del tema de la Migración en este libro editado por Carlos Sandoval García, en un intento muy bien logrado de pensar en grande, de pensar en la región como un entramado de dinámicas cambiantes y transformadoras de la realidad centroamericana. El trabajo se divide en siete partes constituidas por artículos académicos de toda índole y, también, por cinco testimonios e historias de migración que pretenden articular y complejizar lo académico con lo experiencial, con lo que pasa en el día tras día de las migraciones.
El imaginario del canal y la nación cosmopolita. Nicaragua, siglo XIX. Frances Kinloch. Managua (Nicaragua): Instituto de IHNCA-UCA, 2015
Authors: García Buchard Ethel
Published: May 2018

En este texto la autora realiza una lectura de la historia de Nicaragua a lo largo del siglo XIX e incluso su proyección hasta el presente, a partir de un sueño recurrente: hacer realidad el ansiado proyecto de un moderno canal y así convertir a ese país en una nación cosmopolita. En esta visión el canal atravesaría los poblados y regiones nicaragüenses, de esta forma se une a ambos mares y se acercan estos territorios al“mundo civilizado”, convirtiendo en realidad una aspiración condensada en un imaginario compartido y reproducido a lo largo del tiempo como la única vía posible hacia el desarrollo, la modernización y el cambio. Esta una imagen ha estado presente en las variadas coyunturas y ha permeado los diversos proyectos políticos, e incluso ha orientado las luchas de distintos sectores a lo largo del tiempo.
Estado y seguridad privada en Costa Rica. Análisis de coyuntura
Authors: Muñoz Guillén Mercedes
Published: May 2018

Estudio del vínculo entre el Estado y las Empresas de Seguridad Privada en Costa Rica, con el finde dar respuesta a las siguientes interrogantes: cuánto se destina en la coyuntura 2006-2008 paramantener la prestación de este servicio en algunas dependencias del sector público; cómo se percibeen la contabilidad los montos que el Estado destina a los servicios privados de vigilancia,como ungasto o una inversión, y, finalmente, por qué la expansión geográfica de la seguridad privada es, enparte, el resultado de la vinculación del Estado con ésta.
IGLESIA Y POLÍTICA EN CÓRDOBA: LA BÚSQUEDA DE UNA SOCIEDAD CATÓLICA
Authors: Moyano Sara Alejandra
Published: May 2018

El propósito de este artículo es analizar las relaciones entre el gobierno provincial de la dictadura de 1966-1973 (conocida como “Revolución Argentina”) y la Iglesia Católica de Córdoba, durante el período 1969-1973. Este trabajo busca matizar las interpretaciones tradicionales sobre la relación entre la institución eclesiástica y la política, que han sostenido que existió una legitimación de esta institución a los gobiernos de facto. Si bien se considera que dicha legitimación existió, aquí se busca aportar algunos elementos que contribuyan a aclarar las formas en que se llevó a cabo y los intereses que la promovieron. Esto implica incluir las divisiones y tensiones en el interior del campo católico cordobés a partir del surgimiento de corrientes renovadoras, ligadas al Concilio Vaticano II.
Base de Datos de los Testamentos de Cartago, Costa Rica, del Siglo XVII
Authors: Alfaro Gutiérrez Félix , Velázquez Bonilla Carmela
Published: May 2018

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Escola de Tempo Integral em uma Perspectiva de Educação Integral: um novo olhar para o Ensino Aprendizagem
Authors: Ramos Adenilza Lopes , Lima Francisca Cunha
Published: May 2018

Este artigo tem por objetivo, fazer uma abordagem de como se deu a implantação do Tempo Integral na Escola Estadual de Tempo Integral Professora Roxana  Pereira Bonessi, fazendo uma respectiva história revelando que de acordo com a realidade do local onde a Escola está inserida, há uma grande mudança socioeducacional. Além de se tornar uma escola de resgate para algumas crianças que viviam e vivem em situação de vulnerabilidade.
Teologia como sensibilidade crítica sobre a (hétero)práxis. Desafios hermenéuticos para a teologia da libertação
Authors: Panotto Nicolás
Published: May 2018

Este artigo tem como objetivo propor uma radicalização da aplicação do método desenvolvido pela teologia da libertação, através da identificação de novas sensibilidades em três elementos centrais em suas hermenêutica, ou seja, o lugar do sujeito, a prática histórica e conceito de Deus libertador. Para este efeito, um diálogo com diversas correntes filosóficas contemporâneas que propõem uma ontologia hermenêutica das categorias de acontecimento e desconstrução de novas mediações epistemológicas, como são estética, o corpo, a poesia, entre outras.
Para uma hermenêutica indígena Wiwa
Authors: Gil Ismael Sabayu C.
Published: May 2018

Este artigo foi escrito por um teólogo indígena Wiwa. Mostra como os jovens indígenas lêem a Bíblia em diálogo com suas próprias tradições. Para eles, as narrativas de sua cultura não precisam ser corrigidas pela narrativa bíblica. Eles querem estabelecer um diálogo entre horizontes hermenêuticos para aumentar a espiritualidade e o conhecimento mútuo.
Ucieczka od umiaru. Polityka w erze mediów masowych
Authors: Drelich Sławomir
Published: May 2018

Zasadniczym celem tekstu jest wykazanie, że w dobie mediów masowych dochodzi do zmiany postrzegania i funkcjonowania zjawiska, jakim jest polityka. Jednym z przejawów tejże zmiany jest ucieczka od umiaru, czyli wyrugowanie cnoty umiaru z katalogu wartości kluczowych w działalności politycznej. Polityka zatraca swoje klasyczne znaczenie jako działanie, którego celem jest realizacja jakiegoś dobra wspólnego (publico bono). Z punktu widzenia problemu ucieczki od umiaru współczesna polityka jawi się jako: (1) polityka postrzegana jako rozrywka, (2) polityka postrzegana jako „spektakularna” kłótnia, (3) polityka postrzegana jako manipulacja masami.
Umiarkowana pochwała klasycyzmu
Authors: Nowak Witold
Published: May 2018

Artykuł jest poświęcony relacji między pięknem i umiarem w estetyce klasycyzmu i romantyzmu. Dobierając przykłady, staram się pokazać, że umiar był kluczowym pojęciem estetyki klasycznej, a także sztuki życia w dobie antyku. W drugiej części artykułu traktuję klasycyzm i romantyzm jako paradygmatyczne postawy życiowe i staram się ocenić ich przydatność w warunkach życia współczesnego.Słowa klucze
Minimalizm życiowy – umiar i substytut zdrowego rozsądku we współczesnym społeczeństwie konsumpcyjnym
Authors: Wąż-Bigos Paulina
Published: May 2018

Minimalizm życiowy jest współczesnym trendem, który zaistniał w odpowiedzi na współczesny konsumpcjonizm. Obecnie staje się wyrazem wolności i świadomego życia oraz eliminowania z niego tego, co niepotrzebne. Esencją minimalistycznego stylu życia staje się umiar i zdrowy rozsądek, dzięki czemu zyskujemy więcej wolności, więcej czasu i miejsca na to, co jest naprawdę dla nas ważne w życiu. Wydaje się, że w życiu minimalisty każdy przedmiot powinien mieć swoje przeznaczenie i konkretną funkcję, oczywiście w przeciwieństwie do konsumpcjonizmu, który z kolei polega na zdobywaniu dóbr materialnych bez odniesienia do rzeczywistych potrzeb. Jednak zauważa się, że każdego dnia wzbudza się w nas fałszywą potrzebę posiadania czegoś, co jest nam zupełnie niepotrzebne i zaczynamy niekończącą się pogoń za zdobyciem nowych przedmiotów i dopasowaniem swojego wizerunku do aktualnej mody. Należy pamiętać, że minimalizm niekoniecznie sprowadza się do tego, aby wszystkiego było mniej, wręcz przeciwnie – można dzięki niemu wiele zyskać. W referacie zastanowię się nad zaletami i wadami życiowego minimalizmu.
The Significance of the Country of Origin Principle for the Conflict of Laws Issue of Unfair Commercial Practices
Authors: Figura-Góralczyk Edyta
Published: May 2018

The article discusses the country of origin principle in the TFEU, the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, the Directive on electronic commerce and the Polish regulations that implement them. The analysis allowed for the conclusion that the country of origin principle, as expressed in the TFEU, cannot indicate the applicable law. Art. 3 paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Directive on electronic commerce does not provide a basis to indicate the law applicable to unfair commercial practices, and nor does the Polish legislation implementing the Directive. These provisions have only such a meaning that at the stage of the application of law, determined by means of conflict of laws rules of Rome II Regulation, a court of a Member State undertakes an interpretation of the provisions of the applicable law, having regard to these provisions in such a manner so as not to restrict the provision of services for the information society in the internal market.
Znaczenie poczucia wpływu na organizację w kształtowaniu zaangażowania pracowników
Authors: Adamska-Chudzińska Małgorzata , Pawlak Justyna
Published: May 2018

With competitiveness on the rise and conditions for the functioning of modern organisations changing rapidly, it has become more and more important to recruit and retain employees who, in addition to being highly competent, will also be ready to identify with the goals and mission of the organisation. An important factor in this respect is employees having a sense of influence on the organisation. The aim of the article is to present and discuss the results of research on the relationship between the sense of influence and readiness of employees to engage in work and their commitment to the organisation. Two ranges of the sense of influence at work were distinguished. The first involved the possibility of submitting one’s own innovative proposals to improve the operational processes while the second consisted in entrusting employees with a certain scope of autonomy at the workplace. The results confirmed a correlation between the sense of influence and commitment in its affective and normative aspects. At the same time, it was found that experiencing a sense of influence on one or the other level influences one’s commitment to the organisation to a similar degree.
Yabancı Dil Olarak Türkçenin Öğretiminde Duygu Durumu Bildiren İfadelerin Öğrenilme Düzeyi
Authors: TEMUR Nezir , ARSLAN Hatice
Published: May 2018

Duygular
bireyin bireysel ve sosyal yaşantısının özünü oluşturmaktadır. Her dilde
insanın iç dünyasını yansıtan duygu sözcükleri mevcuttur. Yabancı uyruklu
bireylerin hedef dile hâkimiyet kazanmaları açısından duygu bildiriminde sıkça
kullanılan dil unsurlarını (ünlem, kalıp
sözler, deyim, atasözü, ikilemeler) öğrenmeleri gerekmektedir. Bu
araştırmada, Türkçeyi yabancı dil olarak öğrenen orta (B1-B2) seviyedeki bireylerin
duygu durumu ifadelerini öğrenme düzeyinin tespit edilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Bu
doğrultuda duygu ifadelerinin yer aldığı çoktan seçmeli bir başarı testi Gazi Üniversitesi TÖMER’de öğrenim gören B1-B2 düzeyindeki
82 öğrenciye uygulanmıştır. Nicel araştırma deseninin kullanıldığı çalışmanın verileri
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Selection of Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle Using Expected Value Analysis
Authors: Gülgönül Şenol , Sözbir Nedim
Published: May 2018

Selection of launch
vehicle for a geostationary satellite is an important decision for satellite
operators. Depending on only to the cost of the launcher may result unexpected
consequences. Lifetime of the satellite is determined by the orbit parameters
of the launcher. Success probability of the launcher can be deduced
statistically by previous launches or using the insurance rate of the market
for the selected launcher.  Insurance
rate will be used in this study, which is also added to the cost of the
satellite project besides satellite and launcher costs. Design life time of
communication satellites are currently 15 years, means that manufacturer
warrant the operation of the satellite for 15 years via performance incentive
or warranty payback mechanisms. But satellites continue to generate revenues
during their maneuver lifetime, which is more than 15 years. Expected value
analysis is a powerful tool to include probabilistic nature of satellite
projects. Satellite and launch costs, insurance rate and lifetime parameters
will be utilized in expected value analysis to be able to select the best
launcher for a given satellite program.
Mechanical Properties of Trip Aided Bainitic Ferrite TBF Steels in Production and Service Conditions
Authors: BİLLUR Eren , KARABULUT Semih , YILMAZ İmren Öztürk , ERZİNCANLIOĞLU Samet , ÇELİK Hafize , ALTINOK Evren , BAŞER Tanya
Published: May 2018

In the automotive industry, one of the most common methods to reduce the weight of the body components is to downgage the sheets using higher strength steels. In the design phase, engineers typically use the material properties of the incoming material, such as the yield strength and the elongation. For forming analyses, however, more detailed characterization is required flow curves, anisotropy, forming limit curves, etc. . Once the components are formed in the press shop, the yield strength increases due to work strain hardening. The parts are then welded in the body shop, and the body-in-white goes to the paint shop where it is baked to cure the paint. Most steels’ yield strength changes during this paint bake cycle, which determines its final properties in service. Bake hardening and in some cases, bake softening is measured by Bake Hardening Index BHI as defined by EN 10325-2006. The standard dictates relatively low pre-strain 2% and baking temperature 170°C . In real production conditions however, higher strains are achieved and baking temperatures may exceed 170°C to shorten the baking time. In this study, a new generation Advanced High Strength Steel AHSS grade TBF 1050 was characterized for metal forming purposes and its bake hardening response was studied both as the standard suggests and as the real production cycle dictates
FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMPETENCE OF THE CITIZENS OF POLAND AND CZECH REPUBLIC WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF CURRENT ALL-EUROPEAN LINGUISTIC
Authors: Gromov Yevhen , Kolomiiets Alla , Lazarenko Natalia , Zhovnych Olesia , Biretska Liliia
Published: May 2018

The comparative analysis of the foreign language competence among the citizens of Poland and Czech Republic has been accomplished. The received findings were compared with current observations of all-European linguistic tendencies. Having analysed various statistics the authors succeeded in assembling the social portrait of an average multilingual European. The authors have also considered the fact that over the past years the official percentage of multilingual citizens, both in Poland and the Czech Republic, has significantly decreased due to intensive emigration processes. In the authors’ opinion, this problem is mostly of the socio-economic nature and demonstrates rather not the weakness of educational systems, but the ability of educational institutions of both countries to prepare competitive specialists who are able (due to the high level of foreign language competence) to find decent job in the labour-market of the United Europe. It has also been stated that since the foreign language competence has become a professional and cultural prerequisite for creation of the unified globalized Europe, and multilingualism has become a part of the European identity, the future specialists’ foreign language training in Ukraine should be conducted precisely taking into account the prospects of European integration.
IDENTITY EDUCATION
Authors: Juszczyk-Rygallo Joanna
Published: May 2018

Family was the basis of socialization in traditional society. Older generation transmitted values to younger generation. Individuals accepted the social roles defined in the society. Nowadays, the socio-cultural conditions changed, which released individuals from the social destiny, but also shook their belief in traditional values. Now, children try to eliminate this loss of sense of identity through interactions with surroundings. However, they always look for more attractive development environment, therefore their interactions concern rather the virtual world than the real one. All personal relationships are weakened in virtual society. The influence of primary environments (family, neighborhood, peers) is marginalized. Thus, it is more and more difficult to achieve relatively stable points of reference – role models – which enable children to find who they want to be. Currently children search them beyond primary social structures, mostly within the scope of virtual communities. Thus, the most important role model for a child is the Internet with its resources, which sometimes does not support normal development. Therefore, defining oneself by the child is more reflexive and subjective. Hence, socialization of children becomes individual, personal and unique. Consequently, there is a need to establish a new space for socialization – the process of identity education. This article is an analytical description of the complex socialization of a child in the contemporary world. Against this background, it attempts to characterize conditions necessary to base this process on identity education as an act of self‑knowledge.
LEARNING FROM THE KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE OF OTHERS
Authors: Marzano Gilberto , Ochoa-Siguencia Luis
Published: May 2018

There is a broad consensus that the digital revolution is moving towards the reshaping of traditional professions and jobs. The key idea emerging from expert opinion is that continuing education and learning are essential to help people stay employable in the labor force, and this idea is behind most of the programs and projects co-funded by the European Union over the last decade. Experts are also persuaded that education systems should be adapted to prepare individuals for the changing labor market, and that technological advances will offer new widely available ways to access education.  From this perspective, new forms of learning that harness digital technology should be explored.Recently, we have been seeing an increasing interest from researchers in the engagement of connected people in initiatives and processes with social relevance, such as crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, and crowd sensing.  Crowd learning is a new topic whose borders are not still well-defined.This paper focuses on internet social learning and crowd learning, which appear to be closely related to two new topical fields of investigation: ubiquitous learning and smart and connected cities. It will present some preliminary results from an ongoing research on how interconnected citizen can use, share, remix, and co-construct learning and cultural resources.
THE INTEGRATION OF THIRD-COUNTRY NATIONALS IN THE LATVIAN EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT: THE CURRENT SITUATION AND KEY ISSUES
Authors: Jurgena Inese , Keviša Ingrīda , Līduma Anna
Published: May 2018

Due to the European migrant crisis, the issue concerning the integration of refugees, third-country nationals, into Latvia’s society has become increasingly topical in the last years. Since a lot of refugees are under 18, schools also must be ready to accept learners of other nationalities and cultures and help them integrate into the community of the host country. According to studies conducted in Latvia, the system of education needs to change the attitude towards the integration of immigrants in the school environment. Therefore, the incorporation of inter-cultural experience in the curricula of teacher-training institutions is a significant factor that could enable pre-service teachers to prepare for their professional life and the implementation of the approach of inclusive education at school. The aim of the article is to analyse the current situation and the main issues concerning the integration of the children of third-country nationals in the Latvian school environment and the multi-cultural Latvian society. The study is based on the analysis of scientific literature, documents, academic research data as well as student essays. Having analysed the opinions of 166 respondents, the authors of the article concluded that it is important to promote the development of a positive attitude to the inclusion of third-country nationals in the Latvian education environment in the process of teacher training, focussing on cross-cultural communication and the principles of inclusive education.
ENOTOURISM AND SUSTAINABLE TOURISM IN POLAND
Authors: Cichy Andrzej , Ochoa Siguencia Luis , Marzano Gilberto
Published: May 2018

This paper presents a research conducted in three Polish regions, Dolny Slask, Malopolska, and Pod Karpacie, within the EU funded project “Innovation and Capacity Building in Higher Education for Cultural Management, Hospitality and Sustainable Tourism in European Cultural Routes” that aims to provide profitable solutions for sustainable tourism problems and focuses on how developing enotourism in places that have to improve their tourism capacity building. Based on literature analysis and the study of key cases, this article presents the reasons why enotourism is an important tourism opportunity in Poland. Our research was grounded on a cost and profit analysis of the enoutourism business and we considered a few of relevant cases of wine tourism experiences. Indeed, the principal aim of our research was to find innovative successfully ideas for this form of tourism. From our research, emerged that the most important factors for enhancing enotourism are incentivising laws, an effective cooperation between vineyard owners and tourist operators (e.g. hotels, restaurants, travel agencies, etc.) as well as the integration of enotourim with other local attractions.
COMMUNICATION WITH STUDENTS OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM & INTERNATIONAL TEACHING AND LEARNING
Authors: Radin Michael Alexander
Published: May 2018

Professors encourage and expect students to learn outside the classroom and demostrate their competence; in fact, 80% of the learning occurs outside the classroom (Brown, 1958). Now it is of paramount importance to address the following questions: How should professors teach students and interact with students outside the classroom and enhance their comptence (Ostman and Wickman, 2014)? How should professors get started? What opportunities and resources are available to professorsto ehance the students’ competence? How should faculty encourage students to come to office hours and how should faculty increase and retain the attendance during office hours (Radin, 2016)? By how much percent will these new innovative ideas increase the class attendance and enhance the students’ academic performance? How to extend our teaching boundaries outside the classroom and internationally (Shields, 2003)? What new challenges will professors experience (Von Glaserfeld, 1989)? How will this change and affect professors’ future teaching style(s)? Will these techniques work on the international level outside the U.S.? What adjustments will be necessary to acclimate?Acknowledgements:American Mathematical Society.American Mathematics Teachers of Rochester AssociationNew York State Department of Education.Rochester Institute of Technology Faculty Institute on Teaching and Learning.Rochester Institute of Technology Faculty Learning Community.
TRANSNATIONAL PROJECTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: DEVELOPMENT OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS BY MEANS OF JOINT RESEARCH
Authors: Gradaleva Ekaterina , Houston Maria
Published: May 2018

The article analyses the efficiency of implementing transnational virtual projects in higher education. The research aims at defining the most appropriate ways of developing intercultural communication skills among students in the process of doing joint research. The authors describe the International Conference Project on Global Issues held at Samara State Technical University (Russia) and Notre Dame College (USA). Special emphasis is laid upon the stages of the project programme worked out by the authors, difficulties in communication faced by students in the course of collaboration and the ways to eliminate them. The authors assess project efficiency not only by analysing psychological and cultural factors, but also by examining the data of the questionnaire survey held among Russian and American students who have finished their joint research. This kind of multifaceted approach helped identify advantages and disadvantages of the project programme and reveal the friction points that can arise in the process of professional interaction of the representatives of different cultures. The authors conclude that transnational virtual projects give valuable opportunities to develop intercultural communication skills as students learn to make adaptive behavior changes in different cultural contexts, analyse friction points and construct effective strategies for their solution. They gain the ability to synthesize the cultures/languages/rhetorics/spaces in conflict for a constructive communicative outcome.
CULTURAL HERITAGE AS A BASIS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM (AS EXEMPLIFIED BY A SMALL TOWN IN CENTRAL EUROPE)
Authors: Bakota Daniel , Płomiński Arkadiusz , Rzętała Mariusz
Published: May 2018

The purpose of the study has been to identify the elements of cultural heritage of Hasids in Lelów. A landscape heritage inventory method has been used and a variety of attractions and objects have been identified attributed to traces of everyday life of David Biderman's dynasty Hasids. Attractions from among seven groups of physical classification were identified, namely: environmental objects; archaeological objects; monuments of architecture and urban planning; historical places of remembrance; museums, archives and collections; folk culture facilities and centres; and modern facilities (established after 1945), including events. In addition to the landscape heritage inventory an interview was also used to obtain information. It was found that the core of local and regional tourist product is the annual pilgrimage of Hasids to the tzadik David Biderman's grave, which is the largest and most glaring proof of Lelów's multiculturalism, similarly to the festival of Polish and Jewish culture (Festival of Ciulim and Cholent) organized since 2003. Cultivating traditions of this lineage in the annual celebrations involving thousands of foreign guests is unique on the scale of Central Europe, or at least Poland, a cultural and social event, stimulating the development of tourism.
PROBLEMS FOR FORMATION OF CIVIL IDENTITY AS A SOCIO-POLITICAL PHENOMENON OF CIVIL SOCIETY
Authors: Когiakovtseva Olga , Bugaychuk Tatyana
Published: May 2018

The article presents the material revealing the problems of the formation of civil identity and civic position in children and youth and determining the features of the socio-political development of the individual in the conditions of the educational organization and the family in the period of social transformations. The authors of the article emphasize the development of "activity of the spirit," that is, the basic value orientations, which should precede the development of "activity of action", therefore attention to civic-patriotic education in the conditions of educational organizations and family should be a priority.
APPLICATION OF THE THEORY OF LATENT VARIABLES TO PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT METHODS
Authors: Averina Tatiana , Barkalov Sergey , Moiseev Sergey
Published: May 2018

One of the main tasks of the human-resources (HR) department is the qualitative management of personnel, which is the basis for effective work of the organization. The paper presents models of personnel management based on the theory of latent variables. Research objective is to use the Rasch model for assessing latent variables to evaluate the competence of employees and  their suitability for certain positions and also quality control of their work.Three problems of personnel management are considered.Organization of qualitative selection of candidates for vacancies by objective assessment of the degree of professional suitability of candidates with a view to selecting the best employees. Multilateral monitoring as the quality of performance of duties of each employee on the one hand, and the efficiency of the work of the whole team on the other. A dynamic comparison is made between the quality of performance of their duties in different periods of time. Effective appointments of specific employees to certain positions. Based on the criteria of the employee's suitability for certain positions, the integral degree of the employee's suitability for each vacancy is calculated. In addition, the model makes it possible to assess the degree of influence of the criteria on the evaluation of employees.The models proposed in the paper allow obtaining estimates on a linear interval scale, which can be translated into any other scale, for example, probabilistic. Estimates do not depend on a set of criteria and the set of evaluated employees.