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The use of peer questioning in foreign language classes at university
Authors: Kurchenkova Elena A.
Published: November 2024

Students currently studying at universities are representatives of generation Z, who have been accustomed and adapted to communication online since childhood using instant messengers and smartphone applications. In the age of digital technology, one of the pressing tasks in educating the younger generation is teaching them personal communication. The aim of this research is theoretical substantiation of the importance, description of the practice of application and experimental test of the peer questioning technique in foreign language classes with information technology students. Peer questioning refers to techniques used as interactive methods of teaching a foreign language. Interactive learning is a mandatory requirement of the Federal State Educational Standard for higher professional education of the latest generation. The main results of this work were: the structure design, the preparation stages, methodology for conducting and evaluating the technique of peer questioning of lexical material as a form of teaching a foreign language to students the of Mathematics and Information Technologies Institute at the Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education «Volgograd State University». The paper describes the main features of conducting a peer questioning and its advantages in the development of professional foreign language competence of students. Methods such as review and theoretical analysis of scientific literature, generalization of scientific information, and experimental method were used as research tools. As a result of the study, the use of peer questioning technique was proposed as one of the forms of interactive teaching a foreign language, which contributes to more effective learning of scientific and technical terminology.
Electronic course of a discipline as a structural element of the digital educational environment of a university
Authors: Loginova Ludmila A. , Tkachenko Ekaterina V.
Published: November 2024

In recent years, digitalisation has been actively implemented in all spheres of life, and higher education is not an exception. Digital educational environment appears in universities: digital libraries, educational process support systems and distance learning (Diskurs, Flora LMS, Moodle, Docebo, Open edx, etc.), new forms of educational process construction (online courses, video lessons, etc.), various courses to improve digital literacy of university teaching staff, which contributes to the intensification of the learning process. Digitalisation contributes to the activation of independent cognitive activity of the student, provides individually oriented learning. This research deals with the use of digital technologies in teaching mathematical disciplines to students of the Federal State Autonomous Higher Education Institution «South Ural State University (National Research University)», especially for students of Architecture and Construction and Polytechnic Institutes. The use of digital technologies in teaching mathematical disciplines requires teachers’ large time expenditures for the choice of necessary elements of information educational resources and pedagogical technologies. The positive results of digitalisation of education in our study include the possibility of building individual educational trajectories for students, starting from the stage of learning new material to the stage of controlling the formation of competencies; continuous monitoring of educational results of students’ learning activities based on the rating, tracking of gaps with subsequent correction of the learning trajectory. It should be noted that in order to organise the learning process in a digital educational environment, students need to be prepared for self-dependent learning activities.
The contribution of Orenburg scholars and educators to the development of a system for preparing students for a conscious choice of teaching profession in the late soviet period
Authors: Alyoshina Svetlana A.
Published: November 2024

The relevance of the research is due to the dynamically increasing need of schools for teaching staff. Today, such a socio-pedagogical phenomenon as "psychological and pedagogical classes" is being revived. Orenburg State Pedagogical University has extensive experience in the theory and practice of introducing new forms of vocational guidance for schoolchildren to the teaching profession, including the organization of psychological and pedagogical classes. The purpose of the research is to reconstruct the process of vocational guidance of adolescents and high school students for teaching professions in Orenburg region in the late Soviet period. The choice of research methods is determined by the peculiarities of historical and pedagogical knowledge. The methods of scientific research were: theoretical analysis of normative documents, study of primary sources, comparative historical method, method of reconstruction, systematic analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature on the problem of research, generalization of theoretical and practical data. Theoretical significance the research consists of defining the theory and practice of career guidance for schoolchildren in the teaching profession in the 70–80s of the 20th century.
DEPREM BÖLGESİNDEKİ BİREYLERDE SOSYAL DESTEĞİN GENEL SAĞLIK DURUMU ÜZERİNE ETKİSİ
Authors: Çiftçi Kıraç Fatma
Published: November 2024

Bu araştırmada Kahramanmaraş merkezli depremlerden etkilenen bireylerde sosyal desteğin genel sağlık durumuna etkisi incelenmiştir. Çalışma kesitsel nitelikte olup araştırmada nicel araştırma deseni kullanılmıştır. Araştırmanın evreni Kahramanmaraş merkezde yaşayan ve depremden etkilenen bireylerden oluşmaktadır. Araştırmada kolayda örneklem yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Araştırma kapsamında 381 katılımcıya ulaşılmıştır. Çalışmada Sosyal Destek Ölçeği ve Genel Sağlık Ölçeği olmak üzere iki faklı ölçek kullanılmıştır. Sosyal Destek Ölçeği, Zimet vd., (1988) tarafında geliştirilmiş Eker ve Arkar (1995) tarafından Türkçe geçerlilik ve güvenilirliği yapılmıştır. Genel Sağlık Ölçeği Goldberg ve Hillier (1979) tarafından geliştirmiş Kılıç (1996) tarafından Türkçe’ye uyarlanmıştır. Araştırmaya dâhil olan katılımcıların %61,9’u kadın, %42,5’i 18-24 yaş aralığındadır. Katılımcıların %56,4’ü bekâr, %47’si lise mezunudur. Araştırmadan elde edilen bulgulara göre depremden etkilenen bireylerde sosyal destek genel sağlık durumunu pozitif yönde etkilemektedir. Bireylere verilen sosyal destek arttıkça genel sağlık durumu da iyileşmektedir. Sosyal destek afetlerden sonra bireylerde oluşabilecek olan rahatsızlıkları önlemede bir tampon görevi görmekte ve yaşam kalitesinin iyileştirilmesine katkı sağlamaktadır. Hükümetler afetlerden sonra sosyal ve psikolojik destek sağlamak adına acil durum planlarını ivedilikle hayata geçirmeli ve devamlılığının sağlanmasını kontrol ve koordine etmelidir.
Del Estado unitario al Estado Autonómico: el principio dispositivo
Authors: Cebrián Zazurca Enrique
Published: November 2024

Reseña de Carlos Garrido López, Del centralismo a la generalización de las autonomías, Aranzadi, Cizur Menor (Navarra), 2023, 457 pp.
Fecha de envío / Submission date: 12/03/2024
Fecha de aceptación / Acceptance date: 22/04/2024
Constitución y Pacto Nacional en el Líbano. Una reflexión político-constitucional
Authors: Gonzalez Fernandez Borja Wladimiro
Published: November 2024

Ejemplo frecuentemente citado de estado fallido, el Líbano ha mantenido, a lo largo de sus ochenta años de independencia y a pesar de su agitada evolución política, una sorprendente estabilidad institucional que choca con los frecuentes cambios de régimen y múltiples normas constitucionales adoptados por sus vecinos árabes. El presente artículo arguye que tal estabilidad hunde sus raíces en un peculiar sistema político en el que la norma escrita y la tradición constitucional se entrelazan íntimamente hasta resultar incomprensibles por separado. Así, se concluirá que la constitución histórica libanesa, de innegable sabor anglosajón, bien podría clasificarse como una norma estructural en el sentido definido por Lombardi.
Enviado el (Submission Date): 20/05/2023
Aceptado el (Acceptance Date): 27/06/2023
La misión de Ricardo Ferrer Barbero: una primera impresión de la justicia republicana en los territorios españoles del Golfo de Guinea
Authors: Nagy Laurent
Published: November 2024

« Les hommes naissent et demeurent libres et égaux en droit », l’article 1er de la Déclaration des Droits de l’Homme jette les bases d’une nouvelle société en France. Pour ancrer dans le temps cette espérance commune, la jeunesse est très vite soumise à une intense éducation citoyenne. Ainsi, pendant dix ans (1789-1799), les enfants et les adolescents de France se construisent sur cet idéal.
À Gray (Haute-Saône), au sortir de l’enfance, Claude-François Cugnet (1778-1824) apprend et assimile ces principes d’égalité et de liberté avec une telle force qu’il ne cessera jamais de les célébrer et de les défendre, en France comme en Espagne durant le Trienio liberal (1821-1824).
L’étude des années d’apprentissage de Claude-François Cugnet, fils d’un meunier comtois, vise à comprendre comment l’acquisition d’un recueil de principes théoriques se transforme chez lui, en une cause susceptible d’animer chaque instant de sa vie. Par ses mots, ses pratiques et ses espérances politiques sans cesse répétés, Claude-François Cugnet, en bon élève de ses premiers éducateurs, nous éclaire modestement sur l’impact, la permanence et l’adaptation de l’idéal révolutionnaire bien après la Révolution et bien au-delà des frontières nationales puisqu’il meurt fusillé après l’échec de l’expédition libérale des Coloraos à Almería (septembre 1824).
Fecha de envío / Submission date: 24/07/2023
Fecha de aceptación /Acceptance date: 17/08/2023
Effects of Transformational and Transactional Leadership Styles and the Use of Enabling and Coercive Managerial Control Systems in Creative thinking
Authors: De Oliveira Everton Lucio Soares , Klein Luciana
Published: November 2024

This study aims to analyze the effects of leadership styles and the use of a management control system on creative thinking. Descriptive research was carried out using a survey with 215 mid-level managers from the Brazilian textile industry and hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling. Results show that transformational leadership is significantly related to divergent thinking and enabling and coercive approaches. Moreover, transactional leadership is significantly related to convergent thinking, besides coercive and enabling approaches. The enabling approach exerts complete mediation in the relationships between transformational leadership and divergent thinking, as well as the coercive approach mediates between transactional leadership and convergent thinking.
Algorithms of the hybrid projection method and integral equation method for analysis of wave focusing by Mikaelian lens in 2D case
Authors: Kushneryov M.M. , Skobelev S.P.
Published: November 2024

A two-dimensional problem of plane electromagnetic wave scattering on dielectric and magneto-dielectric Mikaelian lenses is considered. A new algorithm based on the hybrid projection method is developed for solution of the problem with an option of accounting for not only variable profile of the lens dielectric permittivity as it has already been realized earlier but also variable profile of the lens magnetic permeability. There is also developed a new algorithm of the integral equation method in the case of H-polarized wave scattering on a dielectric Mikaelian lens allowing reduction of the problem to a system of linear algebraic equations of smaller order in comparison with the known cases by means of involving only one component of the magnetic field strength vector. Some numerical results characterizing both effectiveness of the developed algorithms and comparative features of wave focusing by a purely dielectric lens and magneto-dielectric lens with identical profiles of permittivity and permeability are presented and discussed.
Calculation of wind load on an axisymmetric reflector antenna with arbitrarily oriented reflector relative to the wind flow
Authors: Yanukyan Z.A. , Stets E.D. , Ventsenostsev D.L.
Published: November 2024

One of the main factors in assessing the strength and stiffness of parabolic reflectors of stationary antenna systems is research of the force effect of the wind flow. The magnitude of the wind load depends on the wind speed and aerodynamic characteristics of the structure, which are determined by the geometry and orientation of the reflector relative to the direction of the wind flow. In order to determine extreme values of output parameters, calculations must be performed over a wide range of positions of the reflector and directions of wind flow.

The paper proposes a method for estimating the loaded state of an axisymmetric reflector antenna with an arbitrary orientation of the reflector relative to the wind flow. This method is based on the analytical dependence of the angular position of the antenna relative to the direction of the wind flow, which allows to determine aerodynamic loads, with an arbitrary orientation of the reflector relative to the wind flow. It does not require CFD modeling for a given wind direction, and is based on predefined loads calculated in the basic coordinate system.
Assessment of technical and economic indicators of restoration repair of multichannel receiver-transmitter modules of active phased antenna arrays
Authors: Levitan B.A. , Nevokshenov A.V. , Tushnov P.A. , Kazakov A.V.
Published: November 2024

The article describes the content of unscheduled restoration repair of a batch of multichannel transceiver modules operated as part of the AFAR of a mobile radar complex and exposed to damage.

The classification of MPM by the nature of damage is presented and an analysis of the possibility of restoration repair is carried out.

A repair route has been developed.

Using a previously developed simulation model of the technological process, recovery repair indicators are determined: recovery repair duration for a given batch of products and labor intensity per unit of product.

The optimal recovery repair strategy has been chosen for the conditions of a particular production.
Construction of a Doppler radar target tracking zone in conditions of active noise interference
Authors: Byaloshitsky I.E.
Published: November 2024

In modern military conflicts, unmanned aerial vehicles flying at low and extremely low altitudes are massively used to solve various tasks (reconnaissance, strikes on special and military equipment of the enemy, places where personnel gather, etc.). At these altitude ranges, signals (interfering reflections) formed by reflections of radio waves from the earth's surface, trees, clouds, birds, etc. create significant difficulties for detecting aircraft.

Doppler radars make it possible to exclude interfering reflections from processing and successfully detect aircraft flying at low and extremely low altitudes. However, the specifics of radar signal processing in Doppler radars can lead to disruption or inability to track targets with low radial velocity relative to the radar.

The article considers the features of the construction of the Doppler radar air target tracking zone, taking into account the trajectories of aircraft movement, as well as the influence of active noise interference on the configuration of the tracking zone. To visualize the radar tracking zones, a program for performing engineering and scientific calculations Mathcad was used.
Compact antenna device for receiving glonas signals in frequency ranges L1 and L2
Authors: Khodunov V.A. , Kulikov S.S. , Bashketov A.A. , Orlov D.A. , Prosetsky V.N.
Published: November 2024

Problem statement. The article presents the material on the development of compact antenna devices designed to receive GLONASS signals in the frequency ranges L1 and L2. The basic requirements for the design and characteristics of compact antenna devices designed to receive GLONASS signals are described. Aspects of the fundamentals of the design of a compact 25x25x7.5 mm dual-frequency three-layer patch antenna, where the third layer (bottom board) is a power amplifier, which has not been used before, are discussed. Simulation results of the developed compact antenna device are presented and recommendations for the power amplifier are given.

Objective. To develop a compact dual-frequency patch antenna with circular polarization, providing a high level of reception of GLONASS signals in the frequency bands L1 and L2, which includes a power amplifier.

Results. On the basis of methods of electrodynamic modeling, computational methods of technical electrodynamics, methods of full-scale experimental measurements of antenna characteristics and methods of computer processing of data of full-scale experimental measurements, a compact antenna device with circular polarization is developed, providing reception of GLONASS signals in frequency ranges L1 and L2. The developed compact antenna device is made on the basis of a three-layer patch antenna, having one common point of voltage supply and located in a dielectric case on a metal base, where each layer is a printed circuit board. The upper printed circuit board provides reception of GLONASS signals in frequency ranges L2, the middle board provides reception of GLONASS signals in frequency ranges L1, the lower board - power amplifier significantly increases the gain in radiation of the compact antenna device. The use of this development for the reception of GLONASS signals in the frequency ranges L1 and L2, including as part of the antenna array, will provide significantly more space for placement of payloads, due to its small mass and dimensions.

Practical significance consists in providing a high level of reception of signals of the network radio navigation satellite system GLONASS in frequency ranges L1 and L2, designed for global operational navigation of ground mobile objects. The developed compact antenna device with circular polarization and antenna arrays based on it can be used for electronic warfare and can also be used for civilian purposes.
The method of "joint" determination of coordinates of radio-emitting objects by aerial radio monitoring systems based on the principle of two-channel Petrov
Authors: Kashevsky P.A.
Published: November 2024

Problem statement. The growing use of information received by airborne radio monitoring systems (VRM) in real time also places increased demands on the accuracy of determining the coordinates of radio-emitting objects (RIO). An important, and in some cases the main reason preventing the achievement of the required levels of accuracy in determining the coordinates of RIO by VRM systems using classical bearing methods are all kinds of interfering factors in the observation channel. Solutions known in the field of VRM to reduce the influence of interfering factors on the accuracy of determining the coordinates of the RIO are based on the use of various ways to eliminate (weaken) them, as a rule, in places of occurrence, the implementation of which does not always provide the required efficiency, and in some cases is problematic.

Goal. To develop, based on the Petrov two-channel principle, a new method for determining the coordinates of terrestrial RIO by VRM systems, which would ensure a reduction (compensation) of the influence of interfering factors on the accuracy of estimating their (RIO) location.

Results. The necessary conditions for the applicability of the Petrov two-channel principle in passive VRM systems are substantiated; a method has been developed to reduce (compensate) the influence of interfering factors on the accuracy of estimating the coordinates of terrestrial RIO, including the operations and variants of the proposed method; a methodology has been developed for the analytical synthesis of optimal algorithms for calculating the values of errors in determining the coordinates of RIO at certain points in the state space of objects according to their known values in others; for a special case, algorithms for the implementation of the proposed method are synthesized using the example of the angle-measuring method for determining the coordinates of ground-based fixed objects; the results of the computational experiment confirmed the operability and higher (compared with the classical angle-measuring method) efficiency (in terms of the size of the working area and accuracy) of the proposed method.

Practical significance. The proposed method for determining the coordinates of RIO by VRM systems can be used both independently and as an addition to classical passive radar methods to increase their working areas and (or) accuracy.
The method of threat assessment and interference distribution within the framework of cognitive electronic warfare
Authors: Kalyabin E.V.
Published: November 2024

Problem statement. Electromagnetic spectrum control (EMC) plays an important role in conflict radar. The EMS operational area has unique characteristics that can be used to gain superiority over the enemy. The use of advanced developments in cognitive electronic warfare (CRAB) makes it possible to achieve a dominant position in the use of EMS. The combination of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies with advanced electronic warfare (EW) technologies has made it possible to take an important step in ensuring maneuverable operations in a duel situation aircraft (LA) – radar station (radar). The presented approach demonstrates the increased efficiency of the CRE due to the use of the threat assessment and interference distribution method (SDR).

Goal. The purpose of the article is to show how modern technologies provide a noise distribution strategy that allows aircraft to survive in a dueling situation, despite its complexity.

Results. It is shown that the ESD method uses various radar jamming modes, such as: interaction between types and sources of jamming, relative frequency and bandwidth, uncertainty of the threatening environment, and also models the evaluation of radar effectiveness from search to guidance.

Practical significance. The article confirms that the conflict radar scenario, which takes into account threat assessments for aircraft and determines the distribution of interference for radar, allows us to determine the optimal interference strategy.
Research of the main parameters of optical crystals in acousto-optic modulators
Authors: Sharapov G.A. , Kryukov A.I. , Silivonik P.V.
Published: November 2024

Formulation of the problem. Acousto-optic modulators (AOMs) are important components in optoelectronic systems used for controlling light beams with sound waves. The efficiency and performance of AOMs largely depend on the properties of the crystalline structures used. This study investigates the main parameters of crystalline structures that influence the characteristics of AOMs.

Target. To identify and analyze the key optical parameters of crystals used in acousto-optic modulators, such as refractive index, acousto-optic quality coefficients, thermal stability, and other important factors.

Results. The most significant characteristics affecting AOM operation have been identified, and the refractive index and optical density of various crystals have been obtained, along with an evaluation of the acoustic interaction coefficient and thermal properties of the crystals.

Practical significance. A foundation has been laid for creating a more realistic mathematical model of the acousto-optic modulator that describes all internal processes and distortions during its operation.
Practical recommendations for the design of receiving antenna systems of aviation electronic warfare complexes
Authors: Zamarin A.M.
Published: November 2024

Currently, the task of individual protection of attack aircraft from electronic weapons controls is very urgent. At the same time, a large number of modern and promising high-potential and ultra-wide-band electronic weapons control devices appear, for the electronic suppression of which, especially at short distances, the creation of high-energy interference, aimed both in frequency and direction, is required. The creation of such interference, coordinated along the spectrum with the suppressed signal and directed in space strictly at the source of the suppressed signal, requires the receivers of aviation electronic warfare complexes to perform them in the form of direction finders with high accuracy of bearing and low RMS error. This makes it possible to form a narrow beam of an interference signal, which is precisely aimed at the suppressed radiation source and holds the suppressed electronic weapon control device in this beam, which allows you to achieve maximum interference energy potential. As you know, the quality of the direction finder is determined by its receiving antenna system. To ensure the required interference conditions, it is necessary to determine the design procedure for the receiving antenna system of aviation electronic warfare complexes.
Analysis of the effect of multiplicative noise on the conditions of signal resolution according to a statistical criterion
Authors: Artyushenko V.M. , Volovach V.I.
Published: November 2024

We analyzed the effect of multiplicative noise on signal resolution characteristics when a statistical criterion for processing is used in the receiving device. The receiver is optimal for resolving two signals in the sense of detecting against the background of additive white noise. It is shown that the complex envelope of the signal at the output of the analyzed receiver can be considered as a flat vector with correlated components having different variances. However, with fast multiplicative noise, the named components become uncorrelated, and their variances become equal. It is shown that the delay time resolution intervals and frequency shift resolution intervals with known statistical characteristics of signals, additive and multiplicative noise are uniquely determined by the probabilities of correct and false resolution. It is pointed out that the use of a statistical criterion allows us to determine quantitative values of resolution intervals in a fairly wide range of changes in the parameters of additive and multiplicative noise, significantly exceeding the Woodward criterion for example. Thus, the use of statistical criteria leads to an increase in the efficiency of radio systems.
Wormball as a cause of acute intestinal obstruction: a case report and brief review
Authors: Agrawal Himanshu , Kumar Vivek , Tanwar Himanshu , Maurya Shailender Kumar , Kumar Shubham
Published: November 2024

Soil transmitted helminthic (STHs) infection are mainly caused by Ascaris lumbricoides (AL) and commonly affect children worldwide and in India by ingestion of embryonated larva. It can cause various gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary complications. We are presenting a case of 25 years old gentleman who presented to emergency department with feature of intestinal obstruction. Patient was subsequently undergoing emergency exploratory laparotomy and obstructing worms were recovered. Patient did well in postoperative period and discharged after deworming with albendazole. There have been multiple reports of AL causing intestinal obstruction in endemic areas. Acutely sick patient presenting in emergency require resuscitation and may require emergency laparotomy followed by deworming with albendazole. In a patient presented with symptoms and signs suggestive of bowel obstruction, ascariasis should be considered as a differential diagnosis for those from endemic areas.
Thyroid hormone imbalance and the mechanism by which it causes memory loss
Authors: Riaz Faiza , Javed Eman , Ali Maida
Published: November 2024

Thyroid hormone imbalance is the cause of many cognitive dysfunctions such as memory loss, anxiety and depression. A study conducted by Yu et al suggests that hypothyroidism as well as hyperthyroidism causes depression, anxiety and hippocampal dysfunction in rats. The mechanism of these dysfunctions is not yet completely understood.
Researching YouTube Shakespeare: Literary Scholars and the Ethical Challenges of Social Media
Authors: Fazel Valerie
Published: November 2024

YouTube as a site of research raises ethical issues that have yet to be addressed within Shakespeare studies. Complex debates about whether online communications are private or public underline concerns that previous ethical boundaries, guidelines, and applications of literary and performance research and citation methods may not sufficiently protect the researcher, study subject, or both. This essay examines scholars' responsibility in the research process and dissemination of YouTubers' information within published scholarship. Guidelines recommended by the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) and the Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP) offer matrices for deciding whether or not researchers' ethical priority is in protecting or publishing YouTubers' and/or their commentators' identities in academic publications. These rubrics are put to the test by two YouTube Shakespeare videos as case studies. New media makes it possible to contact Shakespeare video posters and adaptors, prompting the question of whether or not Shakespeareans should cross into this brave new world of participatory research.
The Past is a Foreign Country: World Musics Signifying History in/and Elizabethan Drama
Authors: Preston Leonard Kendra
Published: November 2024

Research on global Shakespeare has focused on the ways in which the plays have been adapted for indigenous languages and customs. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which non-British directors have treated the Elizabethan drama. Yet there are a number of works that create direct musical dialogues between Elizabethan drama, history, and the cultures of England's colonies. In Tim Supple's 2003 Twelfth Night, Indian music signifies the divide between Viola and Sebastian's origins and a British Illyria; a 2006 Danish Ur-Hamlet uses music from former British colonies and a faux-medieval score that serve as "an exchange of cultural manifestations." And both the BBC's Virgin Queen (2005) and Kapur's 2007 Elizabeth: the Golden Age use Indian music to represent the empire's colonial enterprises. I examine how these musics function in the context of screen works, and what their use might signify in Elizabethan drama and historical pieces overall.
Hermione Sessions: Dancing, The Winter's Tale, and the Kinaesthetic Imagination
Authors: Dickson Lisa , Downie Andrew
Published: November 2024

This essay traces the development of a solo modern dance interpretation of the final scene of The Winter's Tale, in which Hermione "awakens" to be reunited with Leontes and Perdita. Part diary, part dialogue between dancer and choreographer, the essay, like the dance itself, also conducts a critical analysis of Hermione's embodied history in order to understand the moment of choice and agency revealed in her final gesture, the open hand. Engaging with Shakespeare's play from the perspective of dancer-researchers, we take up Ann Cooper Albright's assertion that dancing is "physical thinking" and that the "kinaesthetic imagination" is a powerful interpretive tool. We draw on phenomenology and the history and philosophy of modern dance in order to explore the ways in which dancing, as an art that exists dynamically and ephemerally in time and space, opens up the possibility of feminine agency through a resistance to the reification and erasure that characterizes Hermione's representation in the play. The insistence of the body counters the power of Leontes' reifying language. To breathe in and as Hermione is to emphasize the insistent expression of her suppressed, embodied self.
Review of Succeeding King Lear: Literature, Exposure, and the Possibility of Politics, by Emily Sun
Authors: Alice Joubin Alexa
Published: November 2024

Emily Sun, Succeeding King Lear: Literature, Exposure, and the Possibility of Politics. New York: Fordham University Press, 2010.
"Thou Art Translated": Peter Sellars's Midsummer Chamber Play
Authors: Mejia LaPerle Carol
Published: November 2024

For over sixty seasons, the Stratford Theatre Festival in Canada has annually showcased notable performances in dramatic arts and musical theater. Peter Sellars's chamber-play appropriation of A Midsummer Night's Dream, performed for Stratford's 2014 season, broadens the experience of Shakespeare to invite divergent, and often troubling, interpretive strategies. Appropriating the sprawling comedy to convey instead unsettled intimacies and disconcerting eroticism, the chamber play suspends the mirth a seasoned Shakespeare audience member expects from watching one of the bard's most frequently performed comedies. Closely considering festival audience expectations in the context of the largest classical theater repertory in North America, I furthermore illustrate the ways the performance challenges the principles of privileged access and inviolable universality underwriting the festival experience. By creating internal fissures in the Shakespeare experience, the chamber play underscores the possibilities for reassessing what we mean by the Shakespeare experience.
Beds, Handkerchiefs, and Moving Objects in Othello
Authors: Iyengar Sujata
Published: November 2024

This paper argues that a viewer watching Othello in an unfamiliar language, without subtitles, can more narrowly focus upon the life of things in the play and in adaptations or appropriations of it. Jane Bennett argues in Vibrant Matter for a renewed vital materialism — an emphasis on objects in the world and on attributing agency or actantial ability to them. In Shakespeare's Othello, two objects dominate the play: most obviously, the handkerchief; less obviously, because it is sometimes part of the stage, the bed in which Desdemona is smothered. I consider the ways in which three films, a South Indian art film, a North Indian "Bollywood" musical, and an Italian "Shakesteen" adaptation of Othello permit these objects to act expressively. These adaptations (Kaliyattam; Omkara; Iago) indigenize and transform both the handkerchief and the "tragic loading" of the bed, in the last case turning (or returning) the Shakespearean source from tragedy to comedy.
From Face to Facebook: Levinas's Radical Ethics and "Shakespeare Friends"
Authors: Starks-Estes Lisa S.
Published: November 2024

In this essay, I employ Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy to examine intersubjectivity in social media and to reflect on the Facebook group "Shakespeare Friends," which I created and administer. Levinas's "face-to-face" theory provides a radical way of thinking about ethics in social media and mediated communication, one that points to their transformative effects while avoiding the now commonplace notions that social media and other computer technologies are either entirely liberating our identities and relationships or completely eroding them. Levinas's theory of communication (the "saying" over the "said") relies on his concept of "substitution" and "proximity" between people, which may be — and has been — applied to analyses of online as well as offline relationships. This theory, I contend, is especially relevant to social media like Facebook, as evidenced in the exchanges on "Shakespeare Friends." I employ Levinas's radical ethics to analyze the group "Shakespeare Friends" as a kind of "walled garden," a community with its own boundaries and dynamics — a "networked public." Levinas's theory seems especially relevant to this group, as many, including Levinas himself, have seen his ethics as deeply implicated in Shakespeare's texts and appropriations of them. Using current social media theory to study the functions and affordances of social media sites in general, Facebook in particular, I focus on "spreadability" and "coaxed affordances," which allow for this active interaction. I observe that "Shakespeare Friends" upsets traditional hierarchies and barriers and crosses geographical boundaries, making it possible for members to exchange ideas with fellow Shakespeare scholars, educators, and practitioners all over the world. In effect, the group is a virtual microcosm of the global nature of contemporary Shakespeare studies, a supportive means of exchange between Shakespearean scholars, educators, or practitioners in theatre or other arts.
A "Merry War": Synetic's Much Ado About Nothing and American Post-war Iconography
Authors: T. Cavanagh Sheila
Published: November 2024

Synetic Theatre, a Washington, D.C. area theatrical company with artistic roots in the Republic of Georgia, has achieved significant renown for its ongoing series of "wordless" Shakespeare performances. Highly choreographed, these "physical theater" productions vary dramatically in tone and presentation, although they each use distinctive costuming, music, and movement in order to offer nuanced interpretations of Shakespearean drama despite the absence of spoken language. Although their style closely resembles dance, they push against those definitional boundaries and encourage audiences to view their presentations as movement-based genre pieces that defy ready categorization.
Possible world semantics meets metaphysics
Authors: Pelman Alik
Published: November 2024

Possible world semantics has been gradually fine-grained over the years. First, simple extensional semantics was fine-grained by relativizing it to worlds considered as counterfactual, thus generating standard possible-world semantics, which was later further fine-grained by relativizing it to worlds considered as actual, thus generating two-dimensional semantics. However, worlds considered as actual were only considered with respect to the empirical facts obtained in such worlds. This paper shows that no less of an important role is played by another feature of actual worlds, namely, the criteria of identity that obtain in such worlds.
The formation of a unified social morality under conditions of ethical relativism
Authors: Abisheva Klara , Umirzakova Lyazat , Aubakirova Saltanat , Nurgazina Aiman
Published: November 2024

The article discusses the problems of moral differentiation of society in the conditions of the coexistence of value paradigms based on moral imperativism, tolerance, and pluralism. The relationship between morality, ethics, and moral values is characterized, and the types of moral values and ways of moral regulation in society are identified. Attention is focused on the causes of spiritual degradation of part of society and possible ways to build a humane society. The aim of the research is to study the causes of moral degradation and ethical relativism. Research methods include historical-philosophical, ethical-categorical, philosophical-conceptual, contrastive analyses, and sociological surveys. The results of the research describe the ways of moral regulation in society, the possibility of studying ethical knowledge based on methods of cognitive ethics, and the paths of humanizing individuals and society. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the application of complex research methods, the examination of the problems of ethical relativism in the information society, and the emphasis on the ethical teachings of philosophers of past and present. The conclusions drawn from the research are that: 1. the moral factionalism of society is inevitable in the conditions of coexistence of value paradigms of different orientations and groups based on professional and corporate relationships. 2. the study of a unified public morality in society is possible through the education of a humane individual and a stable society.
Confucian ethics and politics: meritocracy in Vietnam during the Early Le Dynasty (1428-1527)
Authors: Hanh Than Thi
Published: November 2024

Confucianism, a widely used philosophical system in Vietnam at the period, had a major impact on the Early Le Dynasty's philosophy of appreciating and using gifted people. This was the time when Confucian intellectuals had clear ideas of gifted people who were supposed to have moral qualities in addition to their skills. These people were skilled in the arts and culture but, more significantly, they were political and administratively savvy. This philosophy of appreciating gifted people helped the Early Le Dynasty go through an amazing period of progress and was important for later Vietnamese historical eras.
Precarious Partnership: Student Perceptions of Generative AI in Post-Secondary Learning
Authors: Miller Mariel
Published: November 2024

Generative AI (GenAI) technologies offer both potent possibilities and significant risks for learning. As such, post-secondary learners require critical competencies for strategically regulating learning with AI. While student beliefs about GenAI impact their interactions and decisions, research of students’ perspectives is emergent. This study aimed to examine post-secondary students’ perceptions about the effective use of GenAI for learning. Participants were 125 undergraduate students at a university in Canada. Results indicated students were confident in their ability to use GenAI for learning, perceived GenAI to be effective for learning, and reported using GenAI in a wide range of academic tasks, particularly when faced with cognition and time management challenges. Finally, access to information, personalized learning support, new learning approaches, and time were considered benefits of GenAI. However, students expressed concerns about academic integrity, information accuracy, and the impact on personal learning. Implications for scaffolding learners’ development of skills for self-regulating interactions with AI critical for post-secondary and beyond are discussed.
CALCIFICO-TE SOBRE MIM; LIQUEFAZO-ME EM TI
Authors: Amoras Mauro Ícaro Pereira de Oliveira , Lima Penélope Lopes de
Published: November 2024

ResumoNeste ensaio, descrevem-se os processos de concepção poética da obra “Calcifico-te sobre mim; Liquefazo-me em ti” videoperformance executada e gravada em Belém-PA, em novembro de 2021. Duas figuras, representando corpo e mente, digladiam-se numa dança que ressalta tanto sua mútua dicotomia quanto sua indivisibilidade. A obra, representada adiante em imagens, segue acompanhada pelo detalhamento das etapas de sua feitura.AbstractIn this essay, the creative process behind “Calcifico-te sobre mim; Liquefazo-me em ti”, a video-performance work executed and recorded in Belém-PA, in November 2021, will be further described. Two characters, representing body and mind, fight one another in a dance that highlights both their mutual dichotomies and their indivisibility. This work, represented here through still images, is approached through details concerning its production.
A complexidade da sociedade de risco e suas conexões com meio ambiente
Authors: Zacarias Fabiana , Guimarães Leonardo Aquino Moreira
Published: November 2024

Do cenário atual, marcado pela conjunção da produção industrial com o avanço do conhecimento científico e tecnológico, emergem novos riscos, típicos da sociedade pósmoderna qualificada pelo risco. As ameaças que a sociedade de risco produz não são circunscritas a um indivíduo ou mesmo a uma coletividade de pessoas determinadas, mas à humanidade ou gerações inteiras. Este artigo traz, com base na teoria da sociedade de risco, uma abordagem multidisciplinar referente aos contornos da sociedade pós-moderna. Discutir-se-á, por meio de uma pesquisa bibliográfica e quantitativa, o desafio do desenvolvimento sustentável e a exigência da gestão de riscos pelo direito ambiental frente aos avanços ocorridos na pós-modernidade.
Does the COVID-19 pandemic have an impact on fears and concerns among pregnant women?
Authors: Zabochnicki Mateusz , Wikarek Agnieszka , Pędrys Karolina , Pokora Karolina , Skulik Michał , Zabochnicki Konrad , Wikarek Tomasz , Lemm Magdalena , Nowosielski Krzysztof
Published: November 2024

Wprowadzenie

Objawy lękowe i depresyjne są powszechnymi objawami w okresie ciąży. Wystąpienie pandemii wirusa COVID-19 jest wyjątkowym stresorem, który wpłynął na psychologiczny aspekt przebiegu porodu. Celem pracy jest ocena wpływu pandemii COVID-19 na przebieg ciąży i porodu w populacji polskiej.

Materiał i metody

Grupę badawczą stanowiło 2186 kobiet. Badanie ankietowe zostało przeprowadzone w okresie od listopada 2020 r. do grudnia 2020 r. za pośrednictwem Internetu. Kryterium włączenia do badania były ciąża i poród w okresie pandemii COVID-19. Do oceny stopnia poziomu strachu i obaw wykorzystano pytania stworzone przez autorów z zastosowaniem pięciostopniowej skali Likerta.

Wyniki

U kobiet hospitalizowanych w czasie ciąży występował większy poziom strachu i obaw związanych z ciążą (średnia 30,9 vs 29,6; p = 0,007). Podobną zależność stwierdzono w przypadku kobiet, u których wykonano cesarskie cięcie (30,6 vs 29,5; p = 0,006) lub które były hospitalizowane > 7 dni (31,8 vs 29,7; p = 0,012). Stwierdzono również istotną statystycznie, choć słabą korelację pomiędzy średnimi wynikami pytań dotyczących obaw a liczbą hospitalizacji w czasie ciąży (współczynnik korelacji Pearsona r = 0,1654; p < 0,000).

Wnioski

Badanie wykazało alarmująco wysoki poziom lęku u kobiet w ciąży podczas pandemii COVID-19, co może mieć długoterminowe konsekwencje dla ich dzieci.
Gobernanza y gestión ambiental: a modo de introducción
Authors: Tostes Vieira Marta Lucía
Published: November 2024

En este número 14 de la revista Kawsaypacha, organizamos los artículos en tres grandes bloques para tratar las principales tendencias en las investigaciones en nuestro entorno sobre gobernanza y gestión sostenible: el primero, con seis investigaciones vinculadas a las herramientas de gestión sostenible para la gobernanza, tales como la gestión de riesgo de desastres, construcción de escenarios, conservación de áreas naturales protegidas y aportes de las ciencias económicas en ciudades como Áncash, Piura, Ica y Chosica; el segundo, con tres investigaciones nacionales relacionadas con gestión social en la gestión ambiental, en Tacna, Lima (Ancón) y Loreto; y, finalmente, cuatro estudios de casos internacionales muy interesantes en México, Guatemala, Argentina y Ucrania. En este sentido, el rol de la Revista Kawsaypacha: Sociedad y Medio Ambiente se centra en ser difusor de conocimiento científico validado que permita dar luces sobre los principales debates que la academia debe aportar tanto en la formación de profesionales comprometidos, como directamente al diseño e implementación de soluciones para los problemas sociales ambientales, con el impulso de un diálogo alturado. Es por ello que esperamos que las personas que lean estos artículos se lleven reflexiones sobre la gobernanza para la gestión sostenible, con herramientas de gestión social para la gestión ambiental, desde una perspectiva territorial a nivel nacional e internacional, que sirva de legado, así como para la promoción del desarrollo sostenible.