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Higher education challenges in Brazil
Authors: Sampaio Helena , Carneiro Ana Maria , De Andrade Cibele Yahn , Knobel Marcelo
Published: April 2020

Following the international trend, higher education in Brazil is going through important transformations, including the widening of access and the growth of enrollment numbers. From the beginning of the century the number of enrollments tripled, reaching more than eight million students in 2015. Here we discuss some factors that converged to cause this expansion, and we try to indicate the main challenges of the Brazilian higher education system. We begin with a brief analysis of the federal program of loans for students enrolled in private institutions, and the program for increasing the number of places in public institutions. We then point out, in some detail, the current challenges that the Brazilian higher education system faces: i) maintenance of the pace of growth of enrollments; ii) improvement of efficacy, with a reduction of dropouts and a larger number of graduates; iii) development of access mechanisms; and iv) awareness of the diversity of the offer of post-secondary education in the country. Although these challenges are also present in most of the systems that made a move towards the democratization of access to higher education, in Brazil these challenges are faced in the context of a wide privatization and commodification of this level of education, together with a strong economic and fiscal crisis. Besides that, there is a rather strong valorization of a unique model of higher education based on the research university, which in fact corresponds to a small part of the national system.
 
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SAMPAIO, Helena; CARNEIRO, Ana Maria; DE ANDRADE, Cibele Yahn; KNOBEL, M. Higher education challenges in Brazil. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, [S.l.], v. 1, n. 1, p. 39-59, sep. 2017. Available at: . Date accessed: 12 sep. 2017.
 
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Demystifying research methods: everyday experiences as socio-cultural co(n)texts for effective research methods in teaching and learning in institutions of higher learning in Africa
Authors: Banda Felix , Banda Dennis
Published: April 2020

The aim of the paper is to demonstrate how everyday knowledge can be incorporated into the classroom practices of institutions of higher learning to inform inclusive outcomes for linguistically and culturally diverse students. Using a metaphor of a marketer’s everyday interrogation of market conditions, a postgraduate guide to proposal writing and the funds of knowledge socio-cultural framework, we illustrate how forms of everyday and school knowledge can be used concurrently in the construction of socially responsive dialogic pedagogy. We argue for scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) in the South in which knowledge and theory generation is not a preserve of English only, but more so, of the complex interactions between English and the multiplicity of languages that students bring to the classroom. We conclude that SOTL in the South needs to be founded on the transfiguration of everyday knowledge and formal academic knowledge to facilitate the production of new and more powerful knowledge in multicultural postcolonial society. This would allow for inclusive pedagogy that caters for diversity in classrooms, and activity-based teaching and learning, networking students’ experiential, community/home and formal academic knowledge in the construction of new and powerful knowledge.

 

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BANDA, Felix; BANDA, Dennis. Demystifying research methods: everyday experiences as socio-cultural co(n)texts for effective research methods in teaching and learning in institutions of higher learning in Africa. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, [S.l.], v. 1, n. 1, p. 60-77, sep. 2017. Available at: . Date accessed: 12 sep. 2017.

 

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The significance of SOTL in the South
Authors: Leibowitz Brenda
Published: April 2020

This editorial was written by SOTL in the South's editor-in-chief, Professor Brenda Leibowitz, for the inaugural issue of the journal.

 

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LEIBOWITZ, Brenda. The significance of SOTL in the South. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, [S.l.], v. 1, n. 1, p. 1-3, sep. 2017. Available at: . Date accessed: 12 sep. 2017.

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Envisioning a socially accountable doctor: a three-axis curriculum emerging from final-year medical student reflections
Authors: Green-Thompson Lionel , McInerney Patricia , Woollard Robert
Published: April 2020

Social accountability in health professions education is important for the reduction of health disparities. There is a need for the development of curricula which begin to produce graduates who are responsive to community needs. These curricula need to include dialogues with communities, deep reflection and a transformative perspective. This study used a grounded theory approach to explore the perceptions of social accountability amongst final-year medical students. These students grappled with the definition of social accountability but described it as the tension between obligation and a willingness to serve. Five themes regarding social accountability were drawn from the students’ feedback: ‘it’s poorly defined’; ‘web of interconnected relationships’; ‘losing my heart and losing my compassion’; ‘more wide-angled view of things’ and ‘if I don’t go there, then who will go?’. These themes are connected through relational statements of three curricular axes of reflective practice, complexity and meaningful relationships. In each of these axes, participants identified catalysts and detractors for the progressive development of an accountable medical graduate.

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GREEN-THOMPSON, Lionel; MCINERNEY, Patricia; WOOLLARD; Robert. Envisioning a socially accountable doctor: a three-axis curriculum emerging from final-year medical student reflections Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, v. 2, n. 1, p. 76-94, Apr. 2018. Available at: Available at: http://sotl-south-journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=27

 

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Ways of knowing and the possible contributions of curriculum to the decolonising project
Authors: Ballim Yunus
Published: April 2020

In this reflective piece, Prof Yunus Ballim argues that we need to develop a more coherent position and understanding of the meaning of curriculum transformation in higher education and how this process may contribute to decolonising the curriculum.

How to cite this reflective piece:

BALLIM, Yunus. Ways of knowing and the possible contributions of curriculum to the decolonising project. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, v. 2, n. 1, p. 136-144, Apr. 2018. Available at: http://sotl-south-journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=54

 

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Book review: Samuel, MA, Dhunpath, R & Amin, N. (eds.). 2016. Disrupting higher education curriculum: undoing cognitive damage.
Authors: Bhamjee Muaaz
Published: April 2020

Dr Muaaz Bhamjee, a senior lecturer at the University of Johannesburg's Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, reviews Disrupting higher education curriculum: undoing cognitive damage (2016) edited by Michael Anthony Samuel, Rubby Dhunpath and Nyna Amin.

How to cite this book review:

BHAMJEE, Muaaz. Book review: Samuel, MA, Dhunpath, R & Amin, N. (eds.). 2016. Disrupting higher education curriculum: undoing cognitive damage. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, v. 2, n. 1, p. 145-147, Apr. 2018. Available at: http://sotl-south-journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=55

 

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Socially just pedagogies: perspectives from the ‘global south’
Authors: Hlengwa Amanda , Naidoo Kibashini
Published: April 2020

In their editorial for this third issue of SOTL in the South, Amanda Hlengwa and Kibashini Naidoo contextualise the papers in relation to socially just pedagogies in the ‘global south'. The articles in this issue focus on the scholarship of teaching and learning in 'southern' contexts such as New Zealand, South Africa, Botswana and Chile, and were double-blind peer-reviewed by local and international reviewers.

 

How to cite this editorial: HLENGWA, Amanda; NAIDOO, Kibashini. Editorial: Socially just pedagogies: perspectives from the ‘global south’. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South. v. 2, n. 2, p. 1-3, Sept. 2018. Available at: http://sotl-south-journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=83&path%5B%5D=23

 

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Introduction to the special issue of SOTL in the South: advancing student engagement in learning – experiences from Pakistan
Authors: Khamis Tashmin , Van Gyn Geraldine , Rarieya Jane
Published: April 2020

Tashmin Khamis, Geraldine van Gyn and Jane Rarieya edited this special issue of SOTL in the South. This publication is one of  the noteworthy outcomes of the September 2017 SoTL Conference on Active Learning Pedagogies in Higher Education, hosted by the Network of Teaching and Learning at the Aga Khan University (AKU), that was held in Karachi, Pakistan. The theme which unites all the articles in this special issue is Advancing Student Engagement in Learning. 

 

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KHAMIS, Tashmin; VAN GYN, Geraldine; RARIEYA, Jane. Editorial: Introduction to the special issue of SOTL in the South: advancing student engagement in learning – experiences from Pakistan. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South. v. 3, n. 1, p. 1-5, Apr. 2019. Available at: https://sotl-south-journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=102&path%5B%5D=33

 

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Book review: Berman, KS. 2017. Finding voice: a visual arts approach to engaging social change. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Authors: Gunter Elizabeth
Published: April 2020

In this review of Kim Berman's Finding voice: a visual arts approach to engaging social change, Elizabeth Gunter explains how art-making may play a role in bringing about social change and transcending institutional norms.

 

How to cite this book review:

GUNTER, Elizabeth. Book review: Berman, KS. 2017. Finding voice: a visual arts approach to engaging social change. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South. v. 3, n. 1, p. 111-112, Apr. 2019. Available at:

https://sotl-south-journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=103&path%5B%5D=37

 

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Students’ perspectives regarding clinical preceptors (CPs) in the baccalaureate undergraduate nursing programme in Karachi, Pakistan
Authors: Khowaja Amina Aijaz , Dias Jacqueline Maria
Published: April 2020

Introduction

Clinical practice is considered an integral part of nursing education. It is in the clinical area that the students integrate the theory learnt in the classroom into practice. An enabling clinical environment with the assistance of a clinical preceptor (CP) ensures that student nurses become independent practitioners and competent in their roles and responsibilities.

DesignA comprehensive study was undertaken to explore the emerging role of CPs in Pakistan. This research has been reported in the literature. This paper will deal exclusively with the perceptions of nursing students when working with CPs in the four-year undergraduate baccalaureate program at a private school of nursing (SON) in Pakistan. Through focus group discussions, the perceptions of undergraduate students were explored.

ResultsFour main themes emerged. These included the creation of a conducive clinical environment, development of competencies, engagement in patient care, and personal and professional development.

ConclusionBased on the study findings, recommendations for strengthening the role of CPs in supporting undergraduate nursing students in their clinical practice are presented.

 

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KHOWAJA, Amina Aijaz; DIAS, Jacqueline Maria. Students’ perspectives regarding clinical preceptors (CPs) in the baccalaureate undergraduate nursing programme in Karachi, Pakistan. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South. v. 3, n. 1, p. 26-35, Apr. 2019. Available at: https://sotl-south-journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=68&path%5B%5D=39

 

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Blended learning: call of the day for medical education in the global South
Authors: Jamil Zehra , Naseem Azra , Rashwan Eman , Khalid Sumrah
Published: April 2020

Blended learning (BL) is an e-learning approach that combines the strengths of both online and face-to-face learning, creating meaningful interactions between students, teachers, and resources. This paper explores students’ expectations and satisfaction with, and participation in, a basic science course offered through BL approaches in an undergraduate medical education programme in Pakistan. Developmental anatomy (embryology) was redesigned as a BL course and offered to a hundred first-year students. Both online activities and technology-assisted face-to-face interactive discussions were used in each topic. Students’ expectations were gathered at the start of the course and perceptions regarding their satisfaction with the course was collected at the end of the course via questionnaires. A temporal analysis of the website use was conducted to determine any changes in use across the course. The data shows that students were satisfied with their experience in the course. Their expectations regarding technology and pedagogy were met. Online individual learning activities were rated higher than collaborative discussions. Face-to-face discussions received a high rating compared to online learning activities. Students’ access to the website varied throughout the course and declined over time. However, some activity was noted before the exams. Students made extensive use of WhatsApp. In basic science subjects, BL has the potential to offer learners some control over content, learning sequence, and pace and time of learning. Unless made part of an assessment scheme, online discussions and other activities are not likely to be seen as useful learning strategies by students. Teachers’ skills in designing and facilitating BL courses are critical to the success thereof.
 
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JAMIL, Zehra; NASEEM, Azra; RASHWAN, Eman; KHALID, Sumrah. Blended learning: call of the day for medical education in the global South. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South. v. 3, n. 1, p. 57-76, Apr. 2019. Available at: https://sotl-south-journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=73&path%5B%5D=35
 
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Mixed metaphors, mixed messages and mixed blessings: how figurative imagery opens up the complexities of transforming higher education
Authors: Belluigi Dina Zoe , Alcock Andrea , Farrell Veronica , Idahosa Grace Ese-Osa
Published: April 2020

Dina Zoe Belluigi, Andrea Alcock, Veronica Farrell and Grace Idahosa reflect on figurative imagery in their research practices to expose the “hidden curriculum of higher education”. Their reflection recounts discursive processes in an attempt to “make sense” of “the modes of politics” in which they engage.
 
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BELLUIGI, Dina Zoe; ALCOCK, Andrea; FARRELL, Veronica; IDAHOSA, Grace. Mixed metaphors, mixed messages and mixed blessings: how figurative imagery opens up the complexities of transforming higher education. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South. v. 3, n. 2, p. 110-120, Sept. 2019. Available at:  https://sotl-south-journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=105&path%5B%5D=50
 
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A design review session protocol for the implementation of immersive virtual reality in usability-focused analysis
Authors: Mastrolembo Ventura Silvia , Castronovo Fadi , Ciribini Angelo L.C.
Published: April 2020

Research and applications related to Virtual Reality (VR) in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Facility Management (AEC/FM) industry are steadily increasing, being considered as one of the current trends in digital innovation. A convergence is currently on-going between Building Information Modelling (BIM), VR implementation and the soft landings principles, which highlight the need for a smooth transition from design to operation through the early involvement of clients and end-users. In particular, immersive virtual environments could allow stakeholders to experience the full-scale representation of a virtual facility prototype in an intuitive and engaging manner through immersion and sense of presence, promoting feedback collection during usability-focused design review meetings. On the other hand, despite the renewed interest in immersive VR, both technological and procedural challenges to its effective implementation still exist. The latter are within the scope of this study, which aims to address them in a systematic way as a comprehensive guideline for clients and design teams. This study describes the development of a VR-aided usability-focused design review session protocol for implementing immersive VR when clients and end-users are involved in design review meetings. It is the result of an inductive approach associated with qualitative research methods for data collection and data analysis. A case study has been selected as a main research method for facing the first step into the research problem. A further iteration of data collection and analysis was adopted to guarantee the validity of the research, including talks with experts and literature comparison. Finally, the session protocol has been developed in the form of a process map representing all the necessary phases and activities to consider for the effective adoption of immersive VR to evaluate design intents with clients and end-users. As a comprehensive summary, the session protocol fills a gap in the research on the adoption of virtual reality in the AEC industry, which was lacking a prescriptive and structured process to drive the effective use of this technology in collaborative meetings and decision-making processes.
ROADELS: discrete information objects for production planning and control of road construction
Authors: Haronian Eran , Sacks Rafael
Published: April 2020

Road construction is fundamentally different to building construction, in terms of its products, the types of work and operations, and the resources used. One of the key differences from the point of view of planning and control of production flow is that roads are composed of geometrically continuous courses rather than discrete ‘products’, making work packaging difficult. Clearly defined work packages that comprise work performed on distinct products are central to lean construction methods of planning and control, such as the Last Planner System. We therefore propose a product schema which models road sections with distinct road course segments that are dynamically defined aggregations of 'roadels'. A roadel is a fine-grained vertical triangular prism object that can be dynamically aggregated with other roadels to represent a road course segment associated with a work package, a planned task, or an as-built section. The schema represents the continuous nature of road construction, and its discrete entities enable representation and computations of as-made work using the raw data obtained from machine-mounted sensors and land surveys. We describe the information schema and illustrate its use for computation and analysis of lean production flow metrics. The schema has been tested using case study data from a 25,000 m2 parking lot project, which was modeled with more than 560,000 roadels with as-made status data collected from 33 working days over a period of two months.
KOMPARASI ANTARA TEMA EKOLOGI, EKONOMI, SOSIAL DAN BUDAYA DALAM FOTO LANSKAP BUDAYA SUBAK HASIL PHOTOVOICE MAHASISWA CALON GURU
Authors: Maheyeti Candra Manik , Surata Sang Putu Kaler , Puspawati Dewa Ayu
Published: April 2020

The subak system comprises four aspects, namely economic, ecological, social, and cultural aspects. It is important to have the abilities to understand these four pillars, especially for higher education in preparing students-teachers as educational facilitators. The aim of this study is to compare the frequency of photo themes in relation to ecological, economic, social, and cultural aspects yielded from photovoice results of student-teachers. This study was conducted from November 2018 to January 2019 at UNMAS Soka campus and several subak sites in Denpasar. This study was conducted in mixed methods where two approaches were utilised: qualitative and quantitative with community-based participatory action research (CBPR) as its design. There were 18 student-teachers (4 males and 14 females) of Biology Education Study Program, Universitas Mahasaraswati, Academic Year 2018/2019, participated in this study. The data analysis technique used was analysis of variance (ANOVA). The finding of this study showed that there was a significant difference (F = 6.973 and P = 0.000) among the frequency of ecological, economic, social, and cultural themes of the student-teachers’ photovoice results, with the frequency value of each theme in the following order: ecology = 35, economy = 46, social = 26, and cultural = 63.
AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTIC STUDY: LANGUAGE AND GENDER IN EFL CLASSROOM
Authors: Maharani Anak Agung Putri
Published: April 2020

Gender differences are pivotal in EFL (English as A Foreign Language) classroom. The aims of this anthropological linguistic study are to figure out the extent of female and male learners’ differences in EFL classroom, the factors which affect the gender differences in the EFL learners’ language use, and the effects that learners’ gender differences in language use bring to the EFL classroom. Having been designed as a conceptual study, several research findings were scrutinized to answer the research questions. It can be wrapped up that both male and female are distinctive in using English as an international language due to the reasons in communication. Further, it was revealed that multiple factors affect gender differences in using language within the EFL classes; such as: classroom environment, cultural, and social impacts. Finally, the findings definitely convey positive impacts towards the future EFL teaching and learning process.
Konsep Dasar Pendidikan Nahdlatul Ulama KH. Hasyim Asy'ari
Authors: Ahmad Ainun Najib
Published: April 2020

The concept of Nadhaltul Ulama's education did not escape the development of da'wah and the process of Islamic boarding schools in Java, in this case KH. Hasyim Asy'ari as the founder of the organization along with other kyiai took part in the education of Nahdlutul Ulama, Nahdhltul Ulama organizations which became the largest organizations in Indonesia at the beginning were categorized as traditionalists, as well as early translations made by KH. Hasyim Asy'ari, which began in Islamic boarding schools so as to renew the understanding of education both formal and informal through the basic concepts of epistemology and learning anology as well as methods in learning.
Rekonsepsi Pendidikan Tahfiz Al Qur'an melalui Model Learning Styles pada Anak Usia Sekolah Dasar
Authors: Ahmad Shofiyuddin Ichsan
Published: April 2020

ABSTRAK

Penelitian bertujuan untuk mengungkapkan bagaimana merekonsepsi pendidikan tahfiz Al Qur’an peserta didik di usia sekolah dasar, khususnya di Madrasah Ibtidaiyah, melalui model learning styles (gaya belajar) mereka masing-masing. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan deskriptif analisis. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa model learning styles (gaya belajar) dalam proses menghafal Al Qur’an dapat dianalisa melalui model Memletics Learning Styles Inventory, yakni gaya belajar (baca: menghafal) yang dibagi menjadi tujuh bagian, antara lain: 1). Gaya Menghafal Visual, 2). Gaya Menghafal Aural, 3). Gaya Menghafal Verbal, 4). Gaya Menghafal Kinestetik, 5). Gaya Menghafal Logikal, 6). Gaya Menghafal Sosial, dan 7). Gaya Menghafal Solitori.

Kata Kunci: Pendidikan Tahfiz, Learning Styles, Sekolah Dasar
Finite Element Analysis of Structural Concrete Insulated Panels Subjected to Dynamic Loadings
Authors: Khitab Anwar
Published: April 2020

Human population is growing around the world day by day, necessitating highly sustainable and energy efficient building systems. In conventional building systems, significant amount of energy is consumed for providing thermal comfort to the occupants. Materials used for thermal insulation not only increase the cost of the buildings but also increase the dead weight. Structural concrete insulated panel system (SCIP) provide thermally efficient, light weight, and low-cost solution as compared to the conventional systems. SCIP system is new innovation in which, insulation material is placed between two layers of concrete. Due to low weight, it can be easily handled and transported to project sites. In present research, the performance of SCIP walls in a typical school double story building is examined by three-dimensional finite element analysis, using SAP2000. The response is evaluated by varying the thickness of the insulation layer in terms of safety and serviceability. The results show that the buildings incorporating SCIPs are capable to withstand high dynamic and earthquake loads and are significantly economical as compared to the conventional building systems.
Remdesivir, the antiviral hope against SARS-CoV-2
Authors: Reina Jordi ,   Unidad de Virología, Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Son Espases, Palma de Mallorca
Published: April 2020

On December 31, 2019 a pneumonia outbreak caused by a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was detected in the city of Wuhan (China). Due to the high capacity of diffusion and human infection it has become a new zoonotic pandemic. The absence of a vaccine has determined the search for antiviral drugs with the capacity to inhibit the replication of the new virus. Among them, remdesivir, an analogue of adenosine, is what seems to have a more promising future. This drug has shown in vitro and in animals a high capacity to block infection and viral replication with attainable concentrations in human plasma. Although all studies have been carried out with SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, it seems that by virological and functional analogy, remdesivir is one of the few antiviral drugs with proven efficacy.However, studies and clinical trials in humans are required to know the result of their application in them.
Building a NIDS Using a Two-Stage Classifier and Feature Reduction through Statistical Methods
Authors: Raj Raghuvansh , Gupta Somya , Lohia Manan , Taneja H. C.
Published: April 2020

Today, data is produced, transmitted and stored across the internet in abundant quantities. In such a world, modern-day network security systems have had to develop at an equally astounding rate in order to keep up with the data deluge. Subsequently, companies spend a substantial amount of money, time and effort in developing intrusion detection systems to ensure timely detection and prevention of malicious activity in order to preserve system security. In our paper, we propose a two-stage algorithm to solve the problem of NIDS resulting in fewer false positives and false negatives. We built and evaluated the performance of our IDS using the benchmarked NSL-KDD dataset, which consists of 41 features, of which 3 are categorical and the remaining numeric. Categorical features have been transformed via One Hot Encoding due to which the feature space explodes to 122 features. Our aim henceforth is to reduce this feature space through methods of feature selection and dimensionality reduction to develop a computationally inexpensive classifier capable of operating on the reduced feature space using sequential models. The work has involved using autoencoders for feature space reduction followed by a feed forward network, and has delivered encouraging results. We have then extended our analysis to identify features which can be eliminated without any substantial loss of information available for the classification algorithm. The remaining set of features can then be input into a different model to possibly provide better results or reduce training and evaluation time.
The Influence of Green marketing, Syariah Compliance, Customer’s Environmental Awareness and Customer’s Satisfaction towards Muslim Consumer Purchasing Behaviour in Kedah
Authors: Sulaiman Yaty , Mohd Jamil Nur Aina , Othman Abdul Rahim , Musa Rusnifaezah
Published: April 2020

Day to day Muslims and non-Muslims customers are seeking for clean products and services which follows Islamic Shariah compliance principles. The purpose of this study is to identify the influencing factors of green marketing, Shariah compliance, customer’s environmental awareness and customer’s satisfaction towards Muslim purchasing behaviour at Kedah, Malaysia. A random sampling technique used to collect the respondents in Kedah, Malaysia also with quantitative approach through structured questionnaires developed from previous research. A total of 403 online survey questionnaires were distributed through Whatsapp application and Facebook pages. Data analysis were done with SPSS 25.0. Methodologies such as Pearson Correlation and Multiple Regression Analysis were used to analyse data collected. Findings revealed that consumer purchasing behaviour has a positive and significant relationship with green marketing, Shariah compliance, customer’s awareness and customer’s satisfaction. Finally, this study is concluded with discussion, limitations of the study and some suggestions for future researches
Perpetual Finality
Authors: Koehl Robert L.
Published: April 2020

Immigrants who have been ordered removed may challenge their final removal order by filing a motion for the court to reopen their case. Motions to reopen removal cases are common within the immigration system, but offer little chance for an alien to actually receive relief. These motions are typically subject to strict time and numerical limitations. And the legal bases for reopening an immigrant’s case render the alien’s chances unlikely.

Current statute and case law provide seven grounds for an immigrant to reopen a case. These grounds stem from United States Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, and the Board of Immigration Appeals’ precedential case law. Some of these grounds require such a perfect storm of unlikely circumstances that reopening becomes de facto impossible for an alien to attain. Some grounds are confusing, with requirements that are difficult for aliens, their attorneys, or even judges to understand. The remaining grounds have bright-line rules but are couched in ambiguous language. This leads attorneys to pursue reopening in cases that do not merit reopening, but seem to merit reopening because of the ambiguity.

This Comment outlines the current legal bases for an alien seeking to reopen a removal case. It will explore the problems and shortcomings inherent to these bases. And it will recommend reforms to the current structure which will render the immigration post-conclusion structure fairer to the alien, clearer for the private attorneys, and more efficient for the government.
Editorial 5.2
Authors: Goodbody Axel Howarth
Published: April 2020

Editorial
Book Review of Ecogothic // Reseña de Ecogothic
Authors: Gifford Terry
Published: April 2020

Book Review
Book Review of William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship // Reseña de William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship
Authors: Malla García Noelia
Published: April 2020

Book Review
Trash Returns to Being // La basura vuelve a ser
Authors: Anderson Mark
Published: April 2020

Poem written while observing trash on beach at Huanchaco, Peru. Resumen      Poema escrito mientras observaba la basura en la playa en Huanchaco, Perú.
Precautionary Readings // Lecturas cautelares
Authors: Levihn-Kutzler Karsten
Published: April 2020

Review essay of Sylvia Mayer and Alexa Weik von Mossner's The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture and Molly Wallace's Risk Criticism: Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty. Resumen      Ensayo reseña de The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture de Sylvia Mayer y Alexa Weik von Mossner, y de Risk Criticism: Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty de Molly Wallace.
Book Review of Umwelt-engagierte Literatur aus Island und Norwegen: Ein interdisziplinärer Beitrag zu den environmental humanities // Reseña de Umwelt-engagierte Literatur aus Island und Norwegen: Ein interdisziplinärer Beitrag zu den environmental humanities
Authors: Sullivan Heather Isabella
Published: April 2020

Book review of Reinhard Hennig's Umwelt-engagierte Literatur aus Island und Norwegen: Ein interdisziplinärer Beitrag zu den environmental humanities.Resumen      Reseña de Umwelt-engagierte Literatur aus Island und Norwegen: Ein interdisziplinärer Beitrag zu den environmental humanities de Reinhard Hennig.
Book Review of Ecocriticism and Italy // Reseña de Ecocriticism and Italy de Serenella Iovino
Authors: Longo Abele
Published: April 2020

Book review of Serenella Iovino's Ecocriticism and Italy.Resumen      Reseña de Ecocriticism and Italy de Serenella Iovino
Book Review of Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies // Reseña de Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies
Authors: Filipova Lenka
Published: April 2020

Book review of Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies. Resumen      Reseña de Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies.
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Authors: Villanueva-Romero Diana
Published: April 2020

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Malthusian Biopolitics, Ecological Immunity, and the Anthropocene // Biopolítica malthusiana, inmunidad ecológica y el antropoceno
Authors: Bergthaller Hannes
Published: April 2020

This essay argues that Michel Foucault’s original introduction of the concept of biopolitics should be seen as responding to Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie’s notion of a “Malthusian curse” which during medieval and early modern times kept the French population in check. Biopolitics was, in its original conception, the management of human and nonhuman populations, securing them against famine and disease so as to allow for continuous growth. During the second half of 20th century, however, Neo-Malthusian thinkers pointed out that these strategies for immunizing human life against the vagaries of ecological existence had come to endanger the basic conditions of life precisely to the degree that they had been successful-ushering in the new geological epoch we have lately begun to refer to as the Anthropocene. This paradoxical dynamic can be understood in terms of what Roberto Esposito has described as an “immunitary double-bind”: existing immunitary defenses can no longer be dismantled without causing significant harm to human life, yet failure to dismantle them will increase the risk of incurring even greater harm in the future. Such an account, it is argued, yields a more ambivalent picture than the starkly negative views which continue to dominate biopolitical theory. Resumen      Este ensayo sostiene que la introducción original de Michel Foucault del concepto de biopolítica debería entenderse como respuesta a la noción de “maldición malthusiana” de LeRoy Ladurie que durante la época medieval y moderna mantuvo bajo control a la población francesa. La biopolítica era, en su concepción original, la gestión de poblaciones humanas y no humanas, protegiendolas frente a la hambruna y la enfermedad, y permitiendo un crecimiento continuo. Durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX, sin embargo, los pensadores neo-malthusianos apuntaron que estas estrategias de inmunización de la vida humana frente a los antojos de la existencia ecológica habían terminado por poner en peligro las condiciones básicas de la vida precisamente hasta el punto de que habían tenido éxito—marcando el inicio de la nueva época geológica que recientemente hemos denominado Antropoceno. Esta dinámica paradójica puede entenderse como lo que Roberto Esposito ha descrito como una “atadura doble inmunitaria”: las defensas inmunitarias existentes no pueden desmantelarse sin causar un daño significativo a la vida humana, pero fracasar en desmantelarlas aumentaría el riesgo de sufrir aún más daño en el futuro. Tal explicación, se argumenta, ofrece un retrato más ambivalente que las vistas claramente negativas que continúan dominando la teoría biopolítica.
Editorial
Authors: Goodbody Axel H.
Published: April 2020

Editorial 9.1
Внутригородская ономастическая лексика как отражение истории русского языка (на материале парных именований и двандва в коммерческих урбанонимах)
Authors: Pimenova M.V. , Wu L.
Published: April 2020

В статье рассматривается внутригородская ономастическая лексика как отражение истории русского языка. На материале коммерческих урбанонимов г. Владимира и Владимирской области (современных названий магазинов, ресторанов, кафе, салонов, фирм и т.п.) демонстрируется функционирование древних парных именований (хлеб-соль, гуси-лебеди,стар имлад,черноеибелоеи др.), а также случаи использования их семантических и структурных моделей в нейминге.

The article deals with intracity onomastic vocabulary as a reflection of the history of the Russian language. On the material commercial urbanity of the city of Vladimir region (the contemporary names of shops, restaurants, cafes, salons, firms, etc.), illustrates the operation of the ancient of paired names (bread and salt, geese and swan, young and old, black and white, etc.), as well as use cases and their semantic and structural patterns in the naming.
Эвфемистические единицы в персидском и русском языках
Authors: Rezvani V.
Published: April 2020

Статья посвящена рассмотрению некоторых способов образования эвфемизмов в персидском и русском языках, а также классификации сфер их применения.

This article focuses on some of the ways in which Persian and Russian euphemism can be formed and classified based on the scope of their application. In an adversarial analysis, I tried to answer this question. With the help of which linguistic resources are used to produce euphemic turns in the languages being studied And no doubt in the era of communication, familiarity with such a linguistic unit will help to translate them as closely as possible and more accurately in order to avoid confusion.
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE „JAPANESE TRACE“ IN THE WORK OF NIKOLAY STOYKOV
Authors: KROTEVA Nikolina
Published: April 2020

e contemporary Bulgarian composer Nikolay Stoykov is extremely attached to the image world of the Bulgarian musical folklore. Colorful as an author, he reconsiders and liberates authentic folk material with modern compositional language and thus breaks the traditional boundaries of musical structures. The subject of my monograph1 was the questions related to the artistic imagery in the choir work of Nikolay Stoykov and the original composer techniques usedby the author. While I was researching and writing about the rich heritage of the composer – about 100 opuses, I encountered various unique and turning points of his life. Stoykov was taught composition by the unsurpassed Pancho Vladigerov. I thought this was the most important fact that largely influenced and shaped his compositional style. In one of the chapters of themonographic survey „Vocal Landscapes“ (Кroteva 2017, pp. 20 – 27), I point to a little-known fact – the meeting of Nikolay Stoykov with the Japanese lyrical art. Back in 1966 he wrote four exquisite pieces of „Tanka“ for a male voice and piano on poems by Ishikawa Takuboku. Nikolay Stoykov has various creative appearances. In addition to musical works, he has published three books with haiku poetry and poetic messages in which he has expressed himself „without notation“. The question of the influence of the short Japanese poetic forms on the composer’s creative invention was not in the focus of my work, and remained unexplored in depth. The theme of the International Science Forum „The East – So Far, So Close“ provoked me to trace the creative predisposition of Nikolay Stoykov to the Eastern cultures and to add extra touches to the portrait of this extremely interesting composer.
VISUAL MEDITATION IN THE CONTEXT OF EAST-EAST OR THE UNACHIEVABLE EXHIBITION OF TAI-JUNG UM IN THE GALLERY "ARARIO"
Authors: IGNATOVA Ralitza
Published: April 2020

e article concerns the question of the reincarnation and the development of ideas in visual arts - from form to form and from one world to another. The affirmation of the abstract idea in the contemporary American art and presumably the prototypes related to this process - the works of K. Brancusi and K. Malevich. Certain ideas characterize the creativity of these authors - Konstantin Brancusi and the folk presentation of ideas and forms, Kazimir Malevich with thematerial "Form, Color and Sensation" in "Contemporary Architecture", issue 5 of 1928. Meditation practice must be considered as reflection, concentrating attention on an object that is external to the body to help achieve the visual image and the meaning of the idea. The exhibition (in the “Arario”gallery) by the South Korean author (sculptor) Um Tai-Jung isat the core of the study, in some of his works are found prototypes or quotes from works by K. Brancusi and K. Malevich.The movements of ideas in the context of East - West, West - East and East - East, as well as the works of Um Tai-Jung "Mandala" and "Stranger Holding Two Wings" are analyzed. It might be concluded that these works as new objects themselves have been created as giving rise to meditation. Based on Malevich’sstatement that the achievement of the world is inaccessible to the artist, it can be said that just as reality cannot be achieved, the artist’s creativity is also unattainable to the viewer, except as meditation.
THE SYMBOLS OF WISDOM IN VISHNU PURANA AND “THE THREE BROTHERS AND THE GOLDEN APPLE” (ON SOME GENERAL PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS IN THE BULGARIAN FAIRYTALE AND VISHNU PURANA, CHAPTER 2)
Authors: KALTSEVA Anna
Published: April 2020

e article draws parallels between the Bulgarian fairytale “The Three Brothers and the Golden Apple” and the second chapter of Vishnu Purana. The general philosophical aspects of these texts, which serve as a basis for the proposed hypothesis, are discussed. These are narratives of wisdom as a basis for the creation, development, existence of life, and human civilization. The gold thread in Vishnu Purana and the golden apple in the Bulgarian magic fairytale are symbols of knowledge and wisdom, with the power of which the visible world and the human society were created. If in Vishnu Purana this symbol is wrapped in a philosophical narrative about the creation of life, in “The Three Brothers and the Golden Apple” philosophy is hidden behind the seemingly concrete images and characters of the fairytale. In “The Three Brothers and the Golden Apple”, the tree with golden fruits symbolizes the tree of knowledge - an image that is present in all the sacred texts of the religions around the world. The tale is a story of the trials that one goes through in order to overcome one’s weaknesses, to know oneself, to understand the spiritual possibilities and qualities that make a person close and equal to God. The third brother continues his journey in the world, having a faithful companion - his intuition, symbolized by the most beautiful and intelligent princess. The third brother, or the symbol of the man who has overcome his weaknesses, can always benefit from the eternal Divine wisdom, symbolized by the golden apple.
THE EAST AND “THE LAST JUDGMENT” IN THE BULGARIAN ORTHODOX ART
Authors: PENCHEVA Zhana
Published: April 2020

e paper deals with two similar symbols – “The Judgment of the Soul” in the art of Ancient Egypt and “Weighing the Souls” from the scene “The Last Judgment” in the Bulgarian Orthodox art. They are part of the eschatological understanding of the afterlife. These symbols were analyzed and the paths of their movement were traced. The visual image of the supreme check of every deceased is the weighing of the heart and the judgment of God Osiris. It is related to spell 125 of the Book of the Dead. The article analyzes the iconography of this scene, which was widely used during the New Kingdom in Ancient Egypt. The “Judgment of the soul” of Ancient Egypt was probably transmitted by the Jews in Asia, and later entered the Christian iconography of the composition “The Last Judgment”. The formation of the iconographic image type in Byzantine and Western European art was traced. During the Bulgarian Renaissance, “Weighing of Souls” became a major motif and was interpreted by a number of painters in Southwestern Bulgaria. Images in the temples of Blagoevgrad, Rila, Bistritsa, Selishte, Dobarsko, Teshovo, Zlatolist, Dolen and others have been preserved. The analysis of the iconographic images makes it possible to summarize the results which show a number of similar elements in the two scenes. Such are the holy characters God Anubis and Archangel Michael, the two exits for the soul of man - eternal life or eternal torment. The long life of the symbol under consideration leads to the conclusion about the continuity of the moral evaluation of human earthly affairs.