bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
ВИКОРИСТАННЯ ІННОВАЦІЙНО-ІНФОРМАЦІЙНИХ ТЕХНОЛОГІЙ НА УРОКАХ МУЗИЧНОГО МИСТЕЦТВА
Authors: Потапчук Тетяна Володимирівна
Published: June 2019

Процеси інформатизації сучасного освітнього простору нерозривно пов’язані з активним упровадженням інноваційно-інформаційних технологій, що урізноманітнює форми навчання й виховання. Застосування цих технологій в освіті завдяки їх специфічним властивостям значно посилює наочність у навчанні, емоційний вплив на учнів, сприяє поглибленню міжпредметних зв’язків, інтенсифікації роботи учнів, покращує організацію навчальної діяльності. Інноваційно-інформаційні технології відкривають нові можливості використання на уроках  текстової, звукової, графічної та відеоінформації, збагачують методичні можливості уроку. Сьогодні використання цих технологій стає невід’ємною складовою вивчення будь-якого предмета. Використовуючи в навчальному процесі створені учнями мультимедійні презентації, публікації та веб-сайти, можна розвивати в них навчальні вміння та навички. Як зазначають дослідники, існує безліч мультимедійних програм для роботи з комп’ютером на уроці музичного мистецтва, а саме: музичний програвач, програма для співу карооке, музичний конструктор, музичні енциклопедії, навчальні програми, табличний процесор. Використання інноваційно-інформаційних технологій стає невід’ємною складовою вивчення будь-якого предмета. Упровадження інноваційно-інформаційних технологій у систему музичної освіти дозволяє розширити можливості навчання.
ОСВІТНЄ СЕРЕДОВИЩЕ ПОЧАТКОВОЇ ШКОЛИ: CУЧАСНІ ПІДХОДИ ТА ВИМОГИ
Authors: Боровець Олена Віталіївна
Published: June 2019

Анотація. У статті розкривається сутність поняття «освітнє середовище», що є складною системою інтелектуальних, культурних, методичних, організаційних, технічних ресурсів. Доведено, що освітнє середовище впливає на особистісний розвиток учня та результати його навчальної діяльності. Автор акцентує увагу на тому, що у Новій українській школі освітнє середовище повинно стати таким, що належить учням, де кожна дитина незалежно від її фізичних та психологічних особливостей почуватиметься комфортно. Тому в умовах реалізації Концепції «Нова українська школа» важливого значення надається створенню інклюзивного освітнього середовища, характеристикою ефективного функціонування якого є забезпечення сукупності педагогічних, психологічних та соціологічних умов.

У статті розкриваються сутнісні ознаки фізичного та психологічно безпечного освітнього середовища, організація якого передбачає реагування на нові виклики та вимоги, реалізацію системи принципів. Психологічно безпечне середовище сприяє задоволенню потреб у особистісно-довірчому спілкуванні, створює референтну значущість середовища та забезпечує психічне здоров’я учасників освітнього процесу. Автор зазначає, що створення ефективного фізичного середовища досягається через організацію навчальних осередків, які передбачають забезпечення умов для навчально-дослідної діяльності школярів, для індивідуальної та групової роботи.

Окреслено роль учителя початкової школи в організації фізичного та психологічно безпечного освітнього середовища. Доведено необхідність застосування педагогами різноманітних інноваційних методів, прийомів, форм роботи у освітньому процесі Нової української школи.
НАВЧАННЯ ІНШОМОВНОЇ ПРОФЕСІЙНО-ОРІЄНТОВАНОЇ ЛЕКСИКИ У НЕМОВНИХ ЗВО
Authors: Коваленко Валентина
Published: June 2019

Анотація. З розширенням міжнародних зв’язків та академічної мобільності виникла значна потреба підвищити вміння студентів вільно спілкуватися з представниками різних країн з метою розвитку професійних, ділових та особистих контактів з закордонними партнерами, а також необхідність читати професійну літературу іноземною мовою. В зв’язку з цим в Україні існує зростаючий попит на випускників, які мають хороші знання іноземних мов і спроможні застосувати ці знання в своїй професійній діяльності.

 У статті автори торкаються питання навчання студентів немовних вищих навчальних закладів іншомовній професійно-орієнтованій лексиці, як формі опанування іноземною мовою. Запропонована класифікація вправ та завдань необхідних для вдосконалення лексичних навичок ґрунтується на засвоєнні лексики на перед текстовому, текстовому та після текстовому етапах. Такі форми навчання на думку авторів сприяють формуванню вмінь і навичок іноземної професійної мовленнєвої діяльності.

Результати використання розглянутих форм навчання фаховому мовленню показують, що правильно організована робота з вивчення іноземної мови для спеціальної мети дає можливість студентам вільно володіти іноземною мовою.
Positional vs. sonority-driven stress in Gujarati: New experimental evidence
Authors: Bowers Dustin
Published: June 2019

Stress in Gujarati (Indo-Aryan, India and Pakistan) has been alternately claimed to be strictly positional or sensitive to vowel sonority. The latter analyses figure prominently in arguments for scalar markedness constraints (de Lacy 2002, 2006). This study presents acoustic measures and speaker intuitions to evaluate both the positional and sonority-driven stress hypotheses. The acoustic results support weakly cued positional stress, though speaker intuitions for primary stress placement were inconsistent. This replicates Shih’s (2018) negative findings, and indicates that Gujarati stress should not figure in discussions of sonority-driven stress or associated theoretical proposals.
IMPACT OF MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS ON PUBLIC DEBT OF SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Authors: Knapková Miroslava , Kiaba Martin , Hudec Samuel
Published: June 2019

The paper focuses on impact of macroeconomic indicators on the development of public debt in Slovakia. The aim of the paper was to identify those macroeconomic indicators which influence the most significantly public debt in Slovakia and to elaborate and verify simple model for public debt prediction. Research was based on the analysis of chosen macroeconomic indicators. Selection of macroeconomic indicators resulted from theoretical knowledge and study of various research papers. Authors used several scientific methods, such as content-causal analysis, comparison, mathematical and statistical methods, including simple linear regression. Macroeconomic indicators, which authors proved to be statistically significant, are GDP growth rate, openness of economy, size of public sector, government bond yields, and unemployment rate. Authors elaborated model of the public debt development in Slovakia by using a simple linear regression model. Regression model was calculated using the data for 1995-2016. Authors confirmed correctness of the model by using data for 2017. Research was limited by the fact, that there are limited data available for analysis (time series of 22 years) because of short existence of independent Slovakia. It will be necessary to continue with the research and to verify correctness of chosen indicators in longer period.
Extreme-ultraviolet Late Phase Caused by Magnetic Reconnection over Quadrupolar Magnetic Configuration in a Solar Flare
Authors: Zhou 周振 Zhenjun 军 , Cheng Xin , Liu Lijuan , Dai Yu , Wang Yuming , Cui Jun
Published: June 2019

A second emission enhancement in warm coronal extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) lines (about 2–7 MK) during some solar flares is known as the EUV late phase. Imaging observations confirm that the late-phase emission originates from a set of longer or higher loops than the main flare loops. Nevertheless, some questions remain controversial: What is the relationship between these two loop systems? What is the heating source of late-phase emission? Does heating accompany the main-phase heating or does it occur quite later? In this paper, we present clear evidence for a heating source in a late-phase solar flare: magnetic reconnection of the overlying field in a quadrupolar magnetic configuration. The event is triggered by an erupted core structure that eventually leads to a coronal mass ejection. A cusp feature and its shrinkage motion high in the late-phase emission region are manifestations of the later phase reconnection following the main flare reconnection. Using the enthalpy-based thermal evolution of loops model, we reasonably reproduce the late-phase emissions in some EUV lines. We suggest that continuous additional heating is responsible for the appearance of the elongated EUV late phase.
A Large-field J = 1 – 0 Survey of CO and Its Isotopologues toward the Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant
Authors: Ma Yuehui , Wang Hongchi , Zhang Miaomiao , Li Chong , Yang Ji
Published: June 2019

We have conducted a large-field simultaneous survey of 12CO, 13CO, and C18O J = 1 − 0 emission toward the Cassiopeia A (Cas A) supernova remnant (SNR), which covers a sky area of 3.°5 × 3.°1. The Cas giant molecular cloud (GMC) mainly consists of three individual clouds with masses on the order of 104−105
M
☉. The total mass derived from the 13CO emission of the GMC is 2.1 × 105
M
☉ and is 9.5 × 105
M
☉ from the 12CO emission. Two regions with broadened (6–7 km s−1) or asymmetric 12CO line profiles are found in the vicinity (within a 10′ × 10′ region) of the Cas A SNR, indicating possible interactions between the SNR and the GMC. Using the GAUSSCLUMPS algorithm, 547 13CO clumps are identified in the GMC, 54% of which are supercritical (i.e., α
vir < 2). The mass spectrum of the molecular clumps follows a power-law distribution with an exponent of −2.20. The pixel-by-pixel column density of the GMC can be fitted with a log-normal probability distribution function (N-PDF). The median column density of molecular hydrogen in the GMC is 1.6 × 1021 cm−2 and half the mass of the GMC is contained in regions with H2 column density lower than 3 × 1021 cm−2, which is well below the threshold of star formation. The distribution of the YSO candidates in the region shows no agglomeration.
Carbon Isotope Ratios in M10 Giants
Authors: Maas Z. G. , Gerber J. M. , Deibel Alex , Pilachowski C. A.
Published: June 2019

We measured carbon abundances and the 12C/13C ratio in 31 giant branch stars with previous CN and CH band measurements that span −2.33 < M

V
 < 0.18 in the globular cluster M10 (NGC 6254). Abundances were determined by comparing CO features at ∼2.3 μm and specifically the 13CO bandhead at 2.37 μm, to synthetic spectra generated with MOOG. The observed spectra were obtained with GNIRS on Gemini North with a resolution of R ≈ 3500. The carbon abundances derived from the IR spectra agree with previous [C/Fe] measurements found using CN and CH features at the near-UV/blue wavelength range. We found an average carbon isotope ratio of 12C/13C = 

for first generation stars (CN-normal; 13 stars total) and 12C/13C = 

for second generation stars (CN-enhanced; 15 stars). We therefore find no statistically significant difference in 12C/13C ratio between stars in either population for the observed magnitude range. Finally, we created models of the expected carbon, nitrogen, and 12C/13C surface abundance evolution on the red giant branch due to thermohaline mixing using the MESA stellar evolution code. The efficiency of the thermohaline mixing must be increased to a factor of ≈60 to match [C/Fe] abundances, and by a factor of ≈666 to match 12C/13C ratios. We could not simultaneously fit the evolution of both carbon and the 12C/13C ratio with models using the same thermohaline efficiency parameter.
Spectral Analysis and New Visible and Ultraviolet Lines of Ar v
Authors: Pagan C. J. B. , Raineri M. , Gallardo M. , Reyna Almandos J.
Published: June 2019

A capillary discharge tube was used to record the Ar spectrum in the region of 330–4400 Å. We analyzed a set of 109 lines of Ar v, with 10 of them being classified for the first time. Part of these newly identified lines (six in total) corresponds to electric dipole transitions in the visible and ultraviolet regions of the spectrum. We calculated weighted transition rates (gA) for all experimentally observed lines and the corresponding lifetimes using a relativistic Hartree–Fock method with configuration interaction. The equations were modified to consider core polarization (CP) effects. A study on the Si isoelectronic sequence found that considering CP effects is essential for the correct description of the Ar v structure.
Trophic level and edge history modulate the depth of edge influence
Authors: Magura Tibor , Tóthmérész Bela
Published: June 2019

Habitat edges are increasingly important worldwide because of forest fragmentation and the loss of natural habitats. Reduction in habitat area, increased isolation of fragments are considered to be the primary cause of species decline and extinction in fragmented landscapes. Edge effect is a key determinant, since most effects of fragmentation attributed to patch area may be scaled-up edge effect. Moreover, the isolation of patches is basically determined by the filter function (permeability) of edges. The distance that edge effects extend into the adjacent core (interior) habitat (the depth of edge influence, DEI) is a central issue in edge studies, as it fundamentally influences environmental properties, composition and structure of core habitats, all which significantly control species occurrences. Most previous studies on DEI neglected the impact of origin and the processes maintaining edges, although the structural and functional properties of edges determined by their history may modulate the permeability of edges, and consequently DEI. Evaluating available information on ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in forest edges, we show that both species traits and edge history affect DEI on ground beetles. We found that DEI on abundance of herbivore, omnivore and predator ground beetle species is similar in natural edges, and edges maintained by agriculture, while it is generally penetrated over greater distances into the forests across edges repeatedly disturbed by forestry or other anthropogenic interventions than across edges maintained by natural processes. We found extreme edge effect across edges under forestry activities, as DEI on abundance of predator species is penetrated into the forest interiors up to ≤ 300 m. According to our findings DEI is more pronounced for predators and across edges created and maintained by forestry operations, suggesting outstanding sensitivity of higher trophic level organisms to fragmentation caused by forestry activities. Our result suggests that in planning the optimal size and shape of fragments for ecosystem-based forest management, to provide a core zone, a minimum area of 50 ha of circular forest fragments is required for maintaining an intact ground beetle assemblage.
Conflicts in sperm: how do genitalia coevolve with elaborate sperm?
Authors: Gomez Antonio , Maddison David
Published: June 2019

Some sperm traits are now recognized as ornaments akin to peacock’s tails evolving under cryptic female choice or weapons in sexual conflicts, but there are still few studies addressing patterns and process in sperm-female evolution. We are studying sperm-female evolution in ground beetles of the genus Dyschirius. Male Dyschirius make groups of sperm, termed conjugates, by pairing sperm to non-cellular rods, or spermatostyles. This pairing creates a conflict for storage space in the female’s reproductive tract between sperm and the spermatostyle, which is incapable of fertilizing eggs. We speculate that the conjugates of some Dyschirius that include large spermatostyles with few sperm are ornaments. We hypothesize that increased spermathecal storage volume is positively correlated with larger spermatostyles and that male genitalic complexity is negatively correlated with elaboration of sperm. We gathered morphological trait data on sperm conjugates and male and female genitalia from several species of Dyschirius. We analyzed these data in a phylogenetic framework using a robust Dyschirius species tree derived from DNA sequence data. We present preliminary results from this ongoing study and solicit feedback from the ECM community.
Embedding Computer Vision in Citizen Science
Authors: August Tom , Terry J , Roy David
Published: June 2019

The rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods has presented new opportunities for those who work with biodiversity data. Computer vision, in particular where computers can be trained to identify species in digital photographs, has significant potential to address a number of existing challenges in citizen science.

The Biological Records Centre (www.brc.ac.uk) has been a central focus for terrestrial and freshwater citizen science in the United Kingdom for over 50 years. We will present our research on how computer vision can be embedded in citizen science, addressing three important questions.

How can contextual information, such as time of year, be included in computer vision? A naturalist will use a wealth of ecological knowledge about species in combination with information about where and when the image was taken to augment their decision making; we should emulate this in our AI.

How can citizen scientists be best supported by computer vision? Our ambition is not to replace identification skills with AI but to use AI to support the learning process.

How can computer vision support our limited resource of expert verifiers as data volumes increase? We receive more and more data each year, which puts a greater demand on our expert verifiers, who review all records to ensure data quality. We have been exploring how computer vision can lighten this workload.

How can contextual information, such as time of year, be included in computer vision? A naturalist will use a wealth of ecological knowledge about species in combination with information about where and when the image was taken to augment their decision making; we should emulate this in our AI.

How can citizen scientists be best supported by computer vision? Our ambition is not to replace identification skills with AI but to use AI to support the learning process.

How can computer vision support our limited resource of expert verifiers as data volumes increase? We receive more and more data each year, which puts a greater demand on our expert verifiers, who review all records to ensure data quality. We have been exploring how computer vision can lighten this workload.

We will present work that addresses these questions including: developing machine learning techniques that incorporate ecological information as well as images to arrive at a species classification; co-designing an identification tool to help farmers identify flowers beneficial to wildlife; and assessing the optimal combination of computer vision and expert verification to improve our verification systems.
Developing a High-speed Imaging Set-up for Small Herbaria: a case study from a national herbarium of Nepal (KATH)
Authors: King Sally , Adhikari Bhaskar , Chalise Pratikshya , Dhakal Sajita , Thapa Til Kumari
Published: June 2019

The Himalayan region is recognised as one of the ‘hottest’ global Biodiversity hotspots, with a third of all species within its range occurring in Nepal. The documentation of the Flora of Nepal is therefore of great importance both nationally and internationally (National Herbarium & Plant Laboratories (KATH) 2019).

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) leads the Flora of Nepal project in collaboration with the Department of Plant Resources (DPR, part of the Ministry of Forests and Environment), Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University (CDB-TU) and the Society of Himalayan Botany, Tokyo (SHB) (Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh 2014).

The National Herbarium and Plant Laboratories (KATH), Kathmandu, Nepal – part of DPR – contains approximately 165,000 herbarium specimens, representing 50% of vascular plant species and 25% of lower plant species known to exist in Nepal. The digitisation of herbarium specimens held at KATH will facilitate access to specimen data, expedite the flora writing process, and make it possible to update species distributions to inform conservation priorities.

The existing rate of digitisation was slow with 70-75 specimens being fully digitised a day by three digitisers. Specimen collection labels were fully databased in a Microsoft Access database and imaged at 600 PPI using a single Herbscan. At the current rate of digitisation it will take 7 – 8 years to completely digitise the KATH herbarium.

As part of the Darwin Initiative project: Science-based interventions reversing negative impacts of invasive plants in Nepal (http://www.darwininitiative.org.uk/project/23031), a new camera imaging set-up and workflow was devised at RBGE, with installation and staff training provided on-site at KATH herbarium (Fig. 1). This has almost tripled the rate of digitisation to 180-200 specimens per day.

The decision making processes that took place regarding hardware and software are discussed including: speed versus quality, some on-site considerations, the installation process and the proposals put forward to further improve the rate of digitisation.
Des jeunesses sous uniforme : trajectoires, ressources et origines
Authors: Coton Christel
Published: June 2019

Cette contribution se propose d’apporter quelques éléments de cadrage susceptibles de renseigner le lecteur sur l’institution militaire, ses missions, ses membres et les perspectives qu’elle offre à celles et ceux qui rejoignent ses rangs, notamment parmi les plus jeunes. Tout d’abord, les évolutions récentes des missions et des configurations institutionnelles des armées sont mises en perspective avec les nouvelles configurations d’emploi et d’engagement qu’elles ont dessinées pour les jeunes amenés à souscrire un contrat d’engagement depuis le début des années 2000 et la professionnalisation des armées. Ce sont ensuite les principales caractéristiques professionnelles, sociales et scolaires des jeunes engagé·e·s dans les armées qui sont données à voir à travers la mobilisation des rares données statistiques existantes.
Un mot d’ordre : « fidéliser »
Authors: Guillaume Mélanie
Published: June 2019

Dans le cadre d’un recrutement massifié et d’une politique de contractualisation généralisée mise en œuvre à la suite de la professionnalisation des armées à partir de 1996, l’institution militaire a constitué la question de la « fidélisation » de ses engagés volontaires en défi de première importance. Pour s’assurer de conserver dans ses rangs ses personnels les moins gradés, elle a redéfini ses modalités de formation autour d’un modèle pédagogique d’instruction, à même de prendre en compte leur hétérogénéité, en valorisant un apprentissage progressif et peu coercitif. La création de centres de formation ad hoc , ainsi que la conjugaison d’une emprise totale et d’un travail de différenciation des recrues sont par ailleurs des composantes essentielles de ce nouveau dispositif de formation.
Un environnement militaire pour recadrer une jeunesse en décrochage
Authors: Kounasso Michel Ange
Published: June 2019

Les établissements publics d’insertion dans l’emploi (EPIDE) sont des dispositifs créés afin de favoriser le raccrochage scolaire de jeunes adultes (18 à 25 ans) ayant quitté prématurément le système scolaire sans avoir obtenu de diplômes ou qualifications. Le dispositif s’apparentant aux écoles de la deuxième chance a la particularité d’utiliser certaines composantes de la culture militaire dans le but de resocialiser les volontaires. Après avoir décrit le cadre singulier de ce dispositif, l’article analyse la manière dont les valeurs militaires participent à la resocialisation du volontaire. Les différentes données empiriques ayant permis de réaliser la recherche ont été collectées lors de temps d’observation de la vie quotidienne du centre, d’entretiens avec les professionnels du dispositif ainsi qu’avec des volontaires.
La nature de l’affirmation dogmatique
Authors: Rouvier Clémence
Published: June 2019

Pour dépasser les postures dogmatistes, nous avons besoin de revenir aux débats de la crise moderniste. Ces derniers permettent d’éclairer la nature de l’affirmation dogmatique par le fait même que le dogme n’a de valeur qu’expérimenté au cœur de nos existences. Aussi il n’y a pas d’affirmation de foi qui ne soit une tâche dans et pour nos existences.
Penser Dieu présent dans le réel : quelques réflexions sur la notion de « signes des temps »
Authors: Cholvy Brigitte
Published: June 2019

À partir de la notion de « signes des temps », devenue un classique de la théologie catholique au xx e siècle, l’auteur propose un parcours historique, biblique, théologique et politique. Les points forts de l’argumentation sont la place donnée à une théologie de l’histoire et à une théologie de la souffrance. L’articulation proposée par le pape François entre approche apocalyptique et approche sapientielle est le motif déterminant de la réflexion.
Le salut chrétien, un dynamisme critique dialogal au sein des existences
Authors: Courau Thierry-Marie
Published: June 2019

Comment l’homme est-il sauvé ? Le pape Paul VI a eu cette intuition assez peu connue du grand public de considérer que l’histoire du salut pouvait être qualifiée de « dialogue du salut ( dialogo della salvezza ) ». Le salut advient par le Christ dans le concret des existences humaines comme dialogue. Il est le marqueur essentiel de toute activité humaine, en creux comme une attente, ou en plein quand il a authentiquement lieu. Il réalise leur réconciliation, les rend capable de se tenir à l’écoute, d’accueillir sans conditions. L’Église en dialogue de salut se laisse elle-même travailler, interroger, déplacer par la parole de tous, découvrant et questionnant des réalités qu’elle n’aurait même jamais imaginées. Loin de sombrer dans le relativisme, elle s’approfondit au contact de ceux-là mêmes qui la font sortir de « sa boîte ». Par ce travail dialogal critique qui lui est intrinsèque, à l’égard du monde et d’elle-même, elle pose à nouveaux frais les discours et les actions qui disent son être et sa mission pour le salut en son temps.
Une théologie de la Tradition. De l’école historique à l’herméneutique
Authors: Holzer Vincent
Published: June 2019

On pourrait aisément écrire une histoire de la théologie moderne à partir de l’usage polémique du concept de tradition. Il suffit, pour s’en convaincre, de prendre connaissance du décret Sacrosancta du concile de Trente promulgué le 8 avril 1546 et de sa réception complexe à la veille du deuxième concile du Vatican. Si la conception théologique de la révélation comme tradition finit par s’imposer chez un grand nombre de théologiens, cela ne se fit pas sans de profondes mutations, philosophiques et philologiques, mutations ayant intégré le facteur décisif de la distance temporelle et de l’historicité des représentations qui affectent la vie de l’esprit. Dans ce domaine, bien des préjugés ont dû tomber. L’étude que nous présentons a pour but de décrire et d’interpréter ces phénomènes sous la forme d’une esquisse synthétique et prospective.
U susret drugoj mitologiji. Porod od tmine: Jokastine kćeri i unuke
Towards the Other Mythology. The Offspring of Darkness: Jocasta’s Daughters and Granddaughters

Authors: Lozica Ivan
Published: June 2019

The author presents the situation and tendencies in contemporary mythological research. The paper starts out from the mythos-logos antithesis and from the twofold conception of the myth as a fabricated and as a sacred story. On the basis of a review of Croatian and mainstream mythological trends, the author perceives two main orientations in mythological research: the historical reconstruction of the proto-Slavic myth, and research into the myth, mythic awareness and mythic language in contemporary everyday life.
Kurze Bemerkungen zum baltischen und slawischen Modell der Seele
Notes on the Baltic and Slavic Structure of the Soul

Authors: Gliwa Bernd
Published: June 2019

A new etymology of Lithuanian sveikata ‘health’ is provided. The imperative *sueiki! ‘go together!’ developed regularly into sveiki! ‘be healthy!’ having the behaviour of an newly created adjective sveikas ‘complete, healthy’. Health results if the soul is fixed within the body. Therefore, Lithuanian siela ‘soul’ and the cognate Sl. *sila ‘force’ is related to I.-E. *seH-i- ‘to connect, bind’. This indicates the soul being well incorporated into the body and names the physical part of the soul, leading to health and strongness of a person.
The Story of the Grateful Wolf and Venetic Horses in Strabo’s Geography
Pripovedka o hvaležnem volku in venetskih konjih v Strabonovi Geografiji

Authors: Šašel Kos Marjeta
Published: June 2019

Strabo (the Greek historian and geographer of the Augustan Age) reported that the sanctuary of the Greek hero Diomedes, to whom the ancient Veneti used to sacrifice a white horse, was located in the area of the sacred site at the Timavus River where it flows into the Adriatic. In this passage Strabo also narrated the (aetiological) story of a wolf, which had been saved from the nets of hunters by a well-to-do man. As an act of gratitude, the wolf (which may be regarded as a prototype of a figure corresponding to the Master of the Wolves) drove off a herd of unbranded horses and brought them to the stable of his benefactor. These horses proved to be a superior breed, and indeed the Venetic horses were well known in the Graeco-Roman world as excellent racing horses; horse-breeding and trade in horses were two important economic activities among the Veneti. Strabo’s data are confirmed by other literary sources, as well as by archaeological and epigraphic finds.
Das Würzburger Sondersendrecht für christianisierte Slawen und sonstige Nichtfranken. Ein Rechtstext aus der Zeit König Konrads I. (918?). Einführung, Edition und deutsche Übersetzung
Würzburško pravo posebnih odposlancev za pokristjanjene Slovane in druge Nefranke. Pravno besedilo iz časa kralja Konrada I (918?). Uvod, edicija in nemški prevod

Authors: Kahl Hans-Dietrich
Published: June 2019

Briefly dealt with in the 2004 Studia Mythologica 7, this source had been now published and supplemented with the translation from Latin to German. Believed to have originated during the period of King Konrad I (918 ?), the text had obviously been adopted in Würzburg, and in the presence of the ruler. Together with the Tribur Synod of 859 and the Hohenaltheim Synod of 916 it represents the tendency from the late period of the Carolingian rule to obtain, by means of the Church, the power in the area that had a large share of the Slavic population. Particularly emphasized is the trebo ceremony. Content comparisons with other ecclesiastic legal texts are clearly evident.
Mitologiziranoto gumno vo slovenskata tradicionalna kultura - II
The Mythologized Threshing Floor in the Slavic Traditional Culture - II

Authors: Čausidis Nikos
Published: June 2019

In this part special place is given to the “Myth of the Metallic (Copper / Bronze) Threshing Floor”, present in the toponyms, legends, magical stories and in the mediaeval apocryphal texts. It contains analyses of the next mythical elements: the metallic components (threshing floor, castle, field, plants, food …); the connection between the mythical threshing floor and the cosmological myths about the first mountain; the relation between the “metallic threshing floor” and the “metallic shrine”. The similarity between the threshing floor and one type of the Slavic pagan shrines with circular form, and the representation of the threshing floor on the ritual loaves from the 19th century are also discussed. Elaboration is given to the chthonic and “outer world” location of the metallic threshing floor, and the basic actions that take place on it: the fight between the hero and the dragon; the holy marriage between the hero (=sky / cosmic axis) and the Earth, (=ground upon which the threshing floor lies).
Procopius, De bello Gothico III 38.17-23: A Description of Ritual Pagan Slavic Slayings?
Procopius, De bello Gothico III 38.17-23: οpis ritualnih pobojev slovanskih poganov?

Authors: Luján Eugenio R.
Published: June 2019

Procopius' Gothic War is generally assumed to be the oldest source for the study of pagan Slavic religion. However, only the ethnographic excursus on the Slavs and Antes (Procop. Goth. III 14.22-30) is mentioned in works dealing with that subject, while no attention has been paid to another very interesting passage of the same work (Procop.Goth. III 38.17–23). In that passage Procopius describes the three ways in which the Slavs used to kill their enemies – impalement, tying their hands and feet to four stakes and beating them to death and, finally, burning them together with cattle and sheep. The analysis of the text, as well as the comparison with other sources, shows that those practices can best interpreted as various sorts of ritual slayings.
Svätý Blažej ako „vlčí pastier“ v textovej tradícii z českého, slovenského a maďarského prostredia
Saint Blaise as a “Wolf Shepherd” in a Text Tradition from Czech, Slovak and Hungarian Surroundings

Authors: Golema Martin
Published: June 2019

The author of the study, working with less known texts from Czech, Slovak and Hungarian surroundings, tries to confirm conclusions about a mythological couple of “wolf shepherds” (its origin goes back to the early Slavonic text horizon) published up to the present, but he also shows some other ways of reconstructing of the old myth linked with this mythological couple. St. Blaise was evidently established in the place under research as a common interpretatio christiana of demonic and magic related member of this couple – the Slavonic god Veles.
O Turkih, ajdih in cerkvah, ki nočejo stati pri miru. Zgodnji srednji vek Moravške doline, kot ga kažeta arheologija in ljudsko izročilo
The Turks, the Ajdi and Moving Churches. Early Medieval Period in Moravška dolina according to Archaeology and Folklore

Authors: Osredkar Meta
Published: June 2019

The article focuses on Early Medieval archaeological finds from the multi-period archaeological site of Križevska vas and on the oral tradition from that village. The second part of the article is dedicated to Moravška dolina, the wider spatial context of Križevska vas. The interpretation of oral tradition showed that stories about the Turks can suggest earlier, Late Roman and Early Medieval events, while the stories about churches moving from one place to another reflect migration of settlement.
Folklora v vlogi označevanja vaških mej kot prostorskih vrzeli v onstranstvo. Primer Rodika
Folklore in the Role of Demarcating the Village Limits as Spatial Openings into the »Other« World. The Case of Rodik

Authors: Hrobat Katja
Published: June 2019

The article is part of a wider research into the perception of space in oral tradition. The qualification of space relies on the constitution of a border, which acts between the opposites it divides. The research focuses on the cadastral boundary, which is the main mediator between the worlds. In the case of Rodik it is defined by apparitions, sacrifices, and burials of creatures, which inhabit the world in-between (»bloody leg«, vedamec, snake, blacksmith, the impure dead, strangers, etc.).
Svetniki in galjot v ljudski pesmi
Saints and the Oarsman in Folk Song

Authors: Nartnik Vlado
Published: June 2019

Because Folk songs are constantly changing it is hardly surprising that the same name may refer to several persons from different historical periods. Izidor, who is depicted in the legend Sveti Izidor (Saint Izidor), only partly relates to soldier Izidor from antiquity. There is another soldier who, like Izidor, gave his life for Jesus Christ. This act is depicted in the legend Jurij sojen (Jurij Is Tried) in which soldier Jurij refuses to acknowledge the secular trial against him and proffers three offerings: Virgin Mary’s cloak, Saint Florian’s chalice, and Saint Michael’s bell. The significance of these items becomes even greater when compared to the three offerings made to three saints at the beginning of the ballad Galjot (The Oarsman). The three saints correspond to the names of three of the four successive hills situated in the Ljubljana Moor beneath the constellation Orion that is in the shape of three stars framed by four more stars.
Arhaičeskij obrjad – libacija u drevnih baltov v sopostavlenii s dannymi slavjanskoj religii
Arhaični obred libacije pri starih Baltih v primerjavi s podatki slovanske religije

Authors: Usačiovaitė Elvyra
Published: June 2019

/The Archaic Custom of Libation and the Slavic Religion/According to written sources, ancient Balts and Slavs practiced libation, a ritual pouring out of mead, beer, animal blood or other sacral liquids in order to honor and make an offering to a god, goddesses, or ancestral soul. An important integral part of a religious cult, libation could signify ritual supplication or express gratitude for some kind of help. There were also instances of human sacrifice. A symbolic relic of libation is the pouring of a liquid on the floor, a custom that had been preserved in rural parts of Lithuania to the 20th century.
Bogi i Titany v Teogonii Gesioda
The Gods and Titans in the Hesiod’s Theogony

Authors: Yevzlin Mikhail
Published: June 2019

Analysed is the exclusively masculine origin of Titans in Hesiod’s “Theogony”. The author demonstrates that Titans were generated by Heaven himself without the participation of the Earth, as described by Apollodorus. This masculine, and also impersonal Titans’ quality permits to consider them as a special class of primordial beings.
Jakob, Jelena, and Bogdin – Three Miniatures on the Assigned Theme
Jakob, Jelena i Bogdin – tri minijature na zadanu temu

Authors: Goss Vladimir Peter , Mikić Vesna
Published: June 2019

Building upon the research of cultural anthropologists, archeologists and linguists in the area of the Southern Slavs, in particular in Croatia and Slovenia, the authors offer three examples of so far unnoticed paradigms of the “mythical landscape,” and link them to the phenomenon of the cultural landscape and its creation, as seen by the field of the history of visual art. The cultural landscape could have as its matrix a number of old sacred spots, well correlated with the later important human interventions into the environment, something to be born in mind in any environmental modification. In those terms a few words will be also said about a program at the School of Architecture at Zagreb, applying the new humanist research to study of architecture and design.
Dragon and Hero or How to Kill a Dragon – on the Example of the Legends of Međimurje about the Grabancijaš and the Dragon
Zmaj i junak ili kako ubiti zmaja na primjeru međimurskih predaja o grabancijašu i pozoju

Authors: Marjanić Suzana
Published: June 2019

Through interpretation of oral legends about the Čakovec pozoj, or Dragon, the emphasis is placed in this paper on the differential determinant in relation to the final status of the Dragon (live status/cosmic renewal – dead) in proto-Slavic legends, in the oral legend about the Čakovec pozoj and in the legend of St George, who slays the Dragon. Namely, Christianity installs a once-only saintly finishing off of the Dragon, while it is a matter of cyclic killings in the Indo-European myth of the conflict between, for example, Indra and the so-called Cosmic Monster (Vṛtra, Vala) the Snake/Dragon.In the conclusion of this article, the Međimurean legends of the meteorological binomial, made up of the grabancijaš and the pozoj, are interpreted by way of the ecofeminist key as legends in which an effort is made to conceal inconvenient historical truths (Christianisation, colonialism). In other words, the legend of the Čakovec Dragon – as is the case with all similar legends of the vanquishing of so-called monsters – demonstrates what Roland Barthes differentiated in mythic structure: that the myth can be very simply modified into a tool of political demagogy that confers a “natural” appearance upon a particular ideology. True enough, the case of the legend of the Čakovec Dragon is a weak myth, which Barthes denotes in relation to the strong myth. Namely, in the former the political quantum is immediate, the depolitisation is abrupt, and in the latter, “the political quality of the object has faded like a colour, but the slightest thing can bring back its strength brutally”. Needless to say, the slightest thing, trifles, are not at all unimportant.
From Tradition to Contemporary Belief Tales: The “Changing Life” of Some Slovenian Supernatural Beings from the Annual Cycle
Od tradicije do sodobnih zgodb: spreminjajoče življenje nekaterih slovenskih bajeslovnih bitij letnega cikla

Authors: Kropej Monika
Published: June 2019

The article addresses the oral tradition and tales about certain Slovenian supernatural beings that accompany the annual cycle and its turning points: midsummer and midwinter solstice as well as spring and autumn changing shifts. Discussed are the changing images of these folk belief narratives resulting from continuously changing cultural and social contexts, while supernatural figures or spirits acquire a demythicised image in contemporary belief tales and urban legends.
Vostočnoslavjanskie bogi Kievskoj Rusi: Stribog (sopostavitel'nyj analiz dannyh slavjanskoj i baltijskoj mifologičeskih sistem
Eastern Slavic Gods of Kiev Russia: Stribog (Comparative Analysis of the Slavic and Baltic Mythological Data)

Authors: Kregždys Rolandas
Published: June 2019

The article deals with the topics of etymological analysis and brief nascency (consequently, hierarchical position in the Eastern Slavic pantheon) of Kiev Russia or the so-called Vladimir pantheon theonym Stribog which is mentioned in the most ancient and significant sources of Slavic mythology and religion (Nestor’s chronicle transcriptions; epos Slovo o polku Igoreve).
Folklore in Mass Media: National Garb, Places of Identity and Fairies in (Post)communist Advertising
Folklora v množičnih medijih: narodna noša, krajevne znamenitosti in vile v (post) komunističnem oglaševanju

Authors: Klaus Simona
Published: June 2019

There are many ways in which folklore elements, motifs and events appear in the mass media. I will try to put forward some examples in Slovenian advertising and analyse the elements of folklore used. The advertisements in question have been made between the 1970’s and the end of the 20th century and for better understanding of the broader social situation in those various times, the political situation is also mentioned.The aim of the article is to show the variety in using the folklore motifs in Slovenian advertising through a longer period of time. The advertisements in a way reflect the social climate in which they were made and the folklore motifs are also used to express a particular agenda. It has to be pointed out that the connections between folklore motifs, advertisements and political agendas are made from the subjective viewpoint of the author.
Triglavca, kraj češčenja plodnosti. Poizkus etimologije Divače
Triglavca Rock Shelter, Cult Place of Fertility. An Attempt at the Etymology of the Place Name Divača

Authors: Placer Ladislav
Published: June 2019

The first known mention of the village of Divača (feminine gender) dates from 1308/1320, where the word is of masculine gender, either Devač, Dovač or Devač(o) and 1331 Devača. Medieval and later writers supposedly wrote down the reduced vowel in the name mostly as i, rarely with other vowels, or it was even omitted, which allows us to interpret the records in the following centuries. These appear of the type D¼vač/D¼uač, D¼uača/D¼vača, Deuača and Divača the latter being the official name today. The current pronunciation of the name by the oldest inhabitants born in Divača is that of Devača and D¼vača, rarer Deuača or D¼uača. This led to the supposition that the original vowel of the first syllable was e (Devač, Devača) and that the name originated from either the pre-Slavic expression deva for the mythical creature or Deva divinity. Both name variants are hypothetically related to the cult of fertility taking place in the cave or rock shelter with the mythological name of Triglavca up to the first half of the 19th century. The latter, in fact, contains a unique stalagmite formation in the form of a vulva (devača), above which a less suggestive stalactite formation hangs in the form of a phallus (devač). The existence of the two mythical creatures or the two animistic objects, devač and devača in Triglavca rock shelter, point to the symbolic sexual unification and fertility.
Motiv trikotnika s podaljški na glinenem posodju v pozni bronasti in zgodnji železni dobi. Razmislek o njegovi okrasni in simbolni vrednosti
The Motif of the Triangle with Extensions on the Ceramic Vessels of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age. The Reflection towards Its Ornamental and Symbolic Value

Authors: Škvor Jernejčič Brina
Published: June 2019

The following article is an attempt at interpretation of the so-called triangle with extensions that appears as an ornament on prehistoric ceramic vessels (end of the 2nd and beginning of the 1st millennium BC). According to archaeological and further ethnological analogies within Eurasian territory, we presume that the ornament–symbol in question not only presents a feminine figure, as discussed in preceding studies, but can also be read as a house, home, oven or a posture of crossed arms. Furthermore, it seems that this sign has a symbolical function to protect and to shelter.
Spinning – the Myth and the Reality
Mit in stvarnost preje

Authors: Pavlič Katja
Published: June 2019

Processing fibres into textile used to be one of the main domains of women. Many myths and tales talk about these procedures, mainly breaking flax and spinning. The latter has especially strong symbolic meanings. Many female mythical creatures are mentioned in these myths. It seems that they are but different variations of Mokoš, the Slavic female goddess that is understood as the mistress of nature’s cycles and everything that is typically female. Women even seem to identify themselves with those characters in some stages of fibre-processing.
The Mythic Cyborgs of Croatian Oral Legends and the Fantasy Genre
Mitski kiborzi hrvatskih usmenih predaja i fantasy žanr

Authors: Marjanić Suzana
Published: June 2019

Within the above topic, our intention is to examine the links between animal and supernatural female (mora – fairy – witch) phenomena in Croatian oral legends. Namely, certain characteristics of the mora and witches can be defined by the term zoopsychonavigation (navigation of the soul in an animal form), and we can differentiate three types of zoopsychonavigation – zoometempsychosis, zoometamorphosis as well as witches’ riding, or flying on astral animal vehicles. Further, we will also consider within this topic the zoomorphic characteristics of fairies as mythic cyborgs, who often have feet (hoofs/ungulae) like donkeys, horses, goats and oxen within the Croatian folklore imaginary, thereby creating the iconographic paradox of the fairy’s body – the upper half of the body is ornithomorphic (with wings) and the lower half of the body is tellurian (with hoofed feet).In brief, we shall endeavour to research the transfer of the animal characteristics of mythic beings as mythic cyborgs (cf. Donna J. Haraway, Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century, 1985) from classic myths and oral legends into fantasy films.
Is There a Place for the Other in Fokloristics?
Ima prostora za drugog u fokloristici?

Authors: Polgar Nataša
Published: June 2019

An attempt will be made in this paper to identify the frameworks within which it is possible to introduce the concept of the Other into folkloristics. The Other is discussed primarily as a psychoanalytic term coined by Jacques Lacan, a notion that is very productive in the interpretation of diverse aspects of culture and folklore phenomena, which are not, for their part, fully explicable only with the help of historical, political and social factors.This paper deals with the ways in which Lacan’s categories can be used in reading narratives and oral stories about supernatural beings, especially witches. The psychological dimensions of the construction of witches have not been properly taken into consideration, although witch-trial records, narratives about witches, oral stories and Malleus Malefi carum in particular would allow such analysis. Witches are represented as an extreme, as particularly evil or harmful, as beings that undermine the social order. Their construction as the Other can be read as a means of establishing the social order, a way of maintaining and preserving cultural norms.