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AN ANALYSIS OF LOGICAL CONSISTENCY IN THE APPLICATION OF LEAN TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE BUSINESS PROCESSES AND SERVICE DELIVERY: A CASE OF DEPARTMENT OF FIELD SUPPORT (DFS), UNITED NATIONS
Authors: Kemokai Michael Boima 
Published: March 2021

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to establish the logical consistency in the application of lean techniques to improve the DFS business processes and service delivery and to create logistical pinch-points that improved the logistics and physical distribution of goods from the GSC and RSC to Field Missions.Methodology: The study employed a qualitative research design. The study targeted all the senior managers at Director Levels at the GSC and the RSC and all the senior operational staff from supply chain and service delivery pillars in three (03) large Field Missions. These field missions are namely United Nations Stabilization Mission in Congo (MONUSCO); United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS); and the United Nations Support Office for AMISOM (UNSOA). This study used purposive sampling technique. The researcher purposively sampled fifteen (15) personnel; with three (03) participants each from the GSC, RSC, and three (03) participants each from the three (03) Field Mission. Primary data was obtained from the original sources using questionnaires and interview.Findings: The respondents indicated that the logical consistencies observed needed an understanding, through measurement, a reordering model that included lead time, reorder point, and safety stock. The respondents also indicated that the consistencies observed mainly relates to the overall approach of being more customer oriented while trying to optimize business processes and workflows. However, the respondents indicated that there were limitations in how the various organizations diversely applied lean concepts. There was no clear guidance provided on areas requiring higher prioritization; consistency throughout the departments, divisions and, missions when changes are applied (i.e. in structures, and functional organizational units). Additionally, lean analyzes were conducted mainly by internal resources that may not have been completely objective on areas being investigated, therefore bringing bias and subjectivity. Internal resources using lean techniques may not have been complete. Finally, the respondents indicated that there is no clear guidance yet. Policies and training have to be provided to staff prior implementing lean techniques.Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: The study recommends that there is need to establish formal strategic plans to direct and align the work of the organization and supported by objectives and data-driven performance monitoring, analysis, and reporting. The study also recommends that there is a need for more efficient monitoring and evaluation of all GA resolutions and audit recommendations. The organization needs to monitor the manner of compliance with the provisions of the memorandums of understanding.
Ha-Balkan Ha-Bo‘er (The Balkans in Flames)
Authors: Ginio Eyal 
Published: March 2021

Ha-Balkan Ha-Bo‘er (The Balkans in Flames), the memoirs of Yitzhak Halperin, are at the center of this article. Born in Palestine in 1890, Halperin was part of the so-called “first generation” – meaning Jews, natives of the newly established colonies in Palestine, who conversed in the Hebrew language and whose life and social productivity embodied the Zionist vision of the nation. Halperin volunteered to serve in the Ottoman Army in November 1911. Later, during the first weeks of the First Balkan War (October 1912-May 1913), he served on the Macedonian front before fleeing to Salonica, where he deserted. Published in Hebrew in 1932, Halperin’s memoirs can be read against both Zionist and Ottoman contexts. They shed light on various personal experiences and perceptions that can enrich our understanding of his particular ideological and ethnic group. In addition, his memoirs are unique as they describe the daily experiences of an Ottoman rank-and-file soldier who served in the Balkan Wars. As such, it offers different insights into the broader Ottoman context. Halperin’s memoirs expose two main topics: the related issues of identity, sociability, and friendship as they developed among the conscripts during his military service; and his clear disappointment with the poor performance and low morale of the Ottoman army before and during the Balkan Wars.
Cpt. Robert Hofmann, Austrian Artillery Officer and Artist with the Ottomans in World War I
Authors: Schull Kent F. 
Published: March 2021

This article investigates the life, artwork, and experiences of Cpt. Robert Hofmann, an Austrian artillery officer and artist who fought with the Ottomans in the Levant from 1917 to 1919 during World War I and its immediate aftermath. His experiences and artwork provide powerful and vivid insight into the life, times, and situations of war in the Middle East. Unlike those of most of his European compatriots fighting with the Ottomans, his work and perspectives were from a distinctly non-Orientalist perspective as he sketched the flora and fauna, cityscapes, landscapes, and people he encountered while in the Ottoman Empire, particularly in the Levant. His attention to detail and captivation by the everyday and mundane without an imperialist or Orientalist gaze begs explanation, particularly since he was a classically trained artist from the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. This article asserts that the combination of his own marginalized identity as an assimilated Jewish soldier, his gifted artistic talent, attention to detail, and his direct and sustained experience in the Middle East enabled him to develop a deep sense of empathy and appreciation for the peoples, places, and environments of the Middle East. This enabled him to transcend the bigotry and dehumanizing views of non-Western peoples so prevalent among his compatriots and European powers of the time.
Penugasan Pembuatan Tik Tok untuk Mencapai Kompetensi Menafsirkan Instruksi dalam Pembelajaran Jarak Jauh
Authors: Moerni Sri 
Published: March 2021

Penulisan best practice ini memiliki tujuan: 1) Siswa dapat menerapkan instruksi dalam bahasa Perancis bagi siswa kelas X IPS SMA Negeri 10 Yogyakarta tahun pelajaran 2019-2020 dengan lafal, intonasi dan sikap yang benar. 2) Dapat diketahui langkah-langkah pelaksanaan pembelajaran dengan penggunaan strategi pembuatan Tik Tok video pendek yang berisi tentang pemberian instruksi untuk tetap tinggal di rumah selama pandemi Covid-19. Instruksi yang disampaikan dalam video Tik Tok berkaitan dengan sosialisasi salah satu protokol Covid-19, yakni tetap tinggal di rumah, demi meminimalkan penularan virus Corona. Dengan pembuatan video Tik Tok yang sangat digemari anak-anak milenial dan meluasnya penggunaan media sosial, momentum ini harus dapat dimanfaatkan untuk mengoptimalkan pembelajaran online. Pembelajaran inidilakukan secara mandiri dan kolegial, Dalam penilaiannya, penekanaan pada ketepatan lafal, intonasi dan sikapi. Berdasarkan analisis penilaian, diperoleh rata-rata nilai siswa 87,80. Sebanyak 82,14% siswa dapat melafalkan kalimat imperatif dengan benar, 94,05% siswa dapat menggunakan intonasi dengan benar, dan 92,86 % memiliki kepercayaan diri yang baik. Langkah-langkah pembuatan video Tik Tok ini dapat diketahui dari perencanaan, pelaksanaan, dan penilaian hasil. Dalam menyelesaikan tugas, siswa melakukan secara individu dan menggabungkannya dalam kelompok besar, sehingga menjadi satu karya yang merepresentasikan produk kelompok, kolaborasi antar siswa di kelas dapat terlihat secara jelas. Dengan pembuatan video Tik Tok terjadi peningkatan kompetensi dalam menafsirkan instruksi melalui pembelajaran online.
Improving Learning Achievement in Normal Distribution through Cooperative Learning Model of Jigsaw Type
Authors: Muchayat Muchayat 
Published: March 2021

The purpose of this Classroom Action Research is to know how the teaching and learning activity of cooperative learning model of Jigsaw to increase the students’ learning achievement at lesson material of normal distribution at XII MIPA 1 SMAN 1 Bantul in academic year 2019/2020 that applies Semester Credit System. This research was done in January–March 2019 with the students of XII MIPA 1 SMAN 1 Bantul as the subject of the research. This Classroom Action Research was done in two cycles, every cycle was carried out in some steps namely planning, implementation of the action, observation, and reflection. The data were collected by using observation sheets to know how effective and successful the teaching and learning activity was, and the tests were used to measure the students’ learning achievement. After the data were collected, they were analyzed to know the success of this Classroom Action Research. This research will be successful if it fulfills the following indicators: 1) minimum learning mastery standard and the average value ; 2) score of teacher’s performance is categorized very good. The result of the Classroom Action Research shows that the teaching and learning activity by using Cooperative Learning Model of Jigsaw can: 1) increase the success and effectiveness of teacher in teaching, indicated by its increasing score from 71.4 (good) to be 92.9 (very good); 2) increase the number of the students who pass the minimum learning mastery standard and the students’ learning achievement, indicated by the increasing number of students in class who pass class minimum learning mastery standard from 78.78% to 93.93% and the increasing scores of students in general from 81.09 to 91.15.
Optimalisasi Pembelajaran Jarak Jauh pada Pelajaran Prakarya dengan Penerapan Blended Learning melalui Kegiatan Tilik Siswa
Authors: Prasetyaningtyas Susi 
Published: March 2021

Tujuan best practise ini untuk mengoptimalkan pembelajaran jarak jauh melalui kegiatan tilik siswa, mengevaluasi pelaksanaan kegiatan tilik siswa, dan mendeskripsikan kendala dan solusi pada pembelajaran jarak jauh melalui kegiatan tilik siswa. Subjek best practise ini adalah peserta didik kelas VII SMPN 1 Semin tahun ajaran 2020/2021 sejumlah 145 peserta didik. Pembelajaran dengan penerapan blended learning melalui kegiatan tilik siswa mampu mengoptimalkan pembelajaran Prakarya. 90,3% peserta didik lebih memahami materi budidaya tanaman sayuran melalui kegiatan tilik siswa selama pembelajaran jarak jauh. Sebanyak 92,4% peserta didik senang jika guru melakukan kegiatan tilik siswa selama pembelajaran jarak jauh sebagai pengganti tatap muka di sekolah. Kendala kegiatan tilik siswa ini antara lain tidak bisa menjangkau semua peserta didik karena keterbatasan waktu, keterbatasan kemampuan guru dan kondisi geografis tempat tinggal peserta didik yang jauh dari sekolah dan agak sulit dijangkau. Solusi yang diterapkan adalah pelaksanaan kegiatan bisa dilakukan di luar jam pelajaran, dilakukan secara berkala dan tidak hanya pada satu materi saja.
Pengembangan Kesadaran Keberagamaan dan Pembentukan Karakter Siswa Melalui Pembiasaan Shalat Dhuha’
Authors: Yudabangsa Adrian 
Published: March 2021

Religious awareness and the formation of student character was an embodiment results of studying and habituation implemented by students, either at home, school or environment. When students at school were very limited time, habituation should be maximized as optimal as possible. One of the habits that brings positive change for students was praying Duha. This article developing religious awareness and gaining students’ character through the habituation of praying Duha. This research was qualitative method which obtained data from observation and interviews. The results of this study indicate an increase and positive change during the students performing the Dhuha prayer. These changes occur in aspects of religious awareness, character, intelligence and character of students.
Key words: Religious Awareness, Education Character, Praying Duha’
Validation of Neural Network Predictions for the Outcome of Refractive Surgery for Myopia
Authors: Balidis Miltos , Papadopoulou Ioanna , Malandris Dimitris , Zachariadis Zachos , Sakellaris Dimitrios , Asteriadis Solon , Poulos Marios , Gatzioufas Zisis , Anogeianakis George 
Published: March 2021

Background: Refractive surgery (RS) for myopia has made a very big progress regarding its safety and predictability of the outcome. Still, a small percentage of operations require retreatment. Therefore, both legally and ethically, patients should be informed that sometimes a corrective RS may be required. We addressed this issue using Neural Networks (NN) in RS for myopia. This was a recently developed validation study of a NN.
Methods: We anonymously searched the Ophthalmica Institute of Ophthalmology and Microsurgery database for patients who underwent RS with PRK, LASEK, Epi-LASIK or LASIK between 2010 and 2018. We used a total of 13 factors related to RS. Data was divided into four sets of successful RS outcomes used for training the NN, successful RS outcomes used for testing the NN performance, RS outcomes that required retreatment used for training the NN and RS outcomes that required retreatment used for testing the NN performance. We created eight independent Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ) networks, each one responding to a specific query with 0 (for the retreat class) or 1 (for the correct class). The results of the 8 LVQs were then averaged so we could obtain a best estimate of the NN performance. Finally, a voting procedure was used to reach to a conclusion.
Results: There was a statistically significant agreement (Cohen’s Kappa = 0.7658) between the predicted and the actual results regarding the need for retreatment. Our predictions had good sensitivity (0.8836) and specificity (0.9186).
Conclusion: We validated our previously published results and confirmed our expectations for the NN we developed. Our results allow us to be optimistic about the future of NNs in predicting the outcome and, eventually, in planning RS.
How to Face COVID-19 in Ophthalmology Practice
Authors: Pei Xiaoting , Jiao Xinwei , Lu Dingli , Qi Di , Huang Shenzhen , Li Zhijie 
Published: March 2021

Background: The novel coronavirus pneumonia has attracted considerable attention from the international community. With the spread of outbreaks around the world, the WHO characterized COVID-19 as a pandemic.
Methods: Relevant studies in PubMed were searched from January 1, 2020 to April 12, 2020, using the following search strategy: (“novel coronavirus pneumonia” OR “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2” OR “coronavirus disease 2019” OR “COVID-19” OR “novel coronavirus pneumonia”) AND (“ophthalmology” OR “ophthalmologist” OR “eye” OR “conjunctiva” OR “conjunctivitis” OR “corneal” OR “keratitis”).
Results: SARS-CoV-2 can spread through aerosol and is detected in tears of patients with COVID-19 infection. Notably, some infected patients had conjunctivitis, and conjunctivitis was the first symptom in some patients later diagnosed to have COVID-19 infection. This would increase the risk for ophthalmologists through inpatient consultations or regular clinical practice. When dealing with seemingly regular ophthalmic patients, the vigilance of ophthalmologists and associated staff tends to be reduced.
Conclusion: Ophthalmologists must continuously update their knowledge regarding COVID-19 and take effective measures to prevent COVID-19 transmission.
Political laws of pedagogy as a distortion of the historical mission of education (P. Blonsky)
Authors: Смирнов И.П. 
Published: March 2021

Автор подвергает критике выведенные Павлом Блонским законы педагогики марксизма: «О классовой сущности педагогики», «Соответствие школы определенному общественному строю», «Цель школы – производственное образование». Заложенные в них, а также в выдвинутой Крупской и поддержанной Блонским концепции «трудовой школы» принципы образования рассматриваются как сознательное отступление от научных основ педагогики и пример выполнения ученым политического заказа.
В статье доказывается, что педагогика, как и любая наука, должна быть свободна от политики, подчиняться исключительно законам объективного познания. Для утверждения педагогики в статусе науки, она обязана выдавить из себя «политического раба», а ученый – перейти от педагогики страха к педагогике чести и достоинства.
Блонский Павел Петрович (1884–1941 г.г.) – русский и советский философ, психолог, педагог, один из основоположников советской педологии. Окончил историко-филологический факультет Московского университета, оставлен на кафедре философии для подготовки к профессорской деятельности, работал приват-доцентом. По рекомендации Н.К. Крупской становится членом научно-педагогической секции Государственного ученого совета, участвует в разработке учебных программ и в школьной реформе. Пользовался поддержкой А.В. Луначарского. В конце жизни работал в Институте психологии в Москве.
The author criticizes the laws of pedagogy of Marxism derived by Pavel Blonsky: "On the class essence of pedagogy", "Correspondence of the school to a certain social order", "The goal of the school is industrial education". The principles of education embedded in them, as well as in the concept of “labor school” set forward by Krupskaya and supported by Blonsky, are considered as a deliberate departure from the scientific foundations of pedagogy and an example of the fulfillment of a political order by scientists.
The article proves that pedagogy, like any science, should be free from politics, subject exclusively to the laws of objective knowledge. To establish pedagogy in the status of science, it must squeeze out of itself a "political slave", and a scientist must move from the “pedagogy of fear” to the “pedagogy of honor and dignity”.
Blonsky Pavel Petrovich (1884–1941) is a Russian and Soviet philosopher, a psychologist,a teacher, one of the founders of the Soviet pedology. He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Moscow University, remained at the Department of Philosophy to prepare for professorship, worked as a privat-docent. According to the recommendation of N.K. Krupskaya, he becomes a member of the scientific and pedagogical section of the State Academic Council, participates in the development of curricula and in school reform. Enjoyed the support of A.V. Lunacharsky. At the end of his life he worked at the Institute of Psychology in Moscow.
Ontological model design of a vocational education system identity
Authors: Бенин В.Л. , Плешакова А.Ю. 
Published: March 2021

В статье представлены теоретико-методологические основы построения онтологической модели идентичности системы профессионального образования, которая может быть использована для разработки качественных методик педагогической компаративистики. Основой для онтологической модели послужили принцип трансдисциплинарности, контекстный и коммуникативный подходы с соответствующими им методами «веерной матрицы» и «сети», в рамках которых разработаны структура, основные элементы и алгоритм пошагового построения онтологической модели. Основными элементами онтологической модели являются контексты, подконтексты и их производные, которые раскрываются при воссоздании онтологической модели идентичности конкретной национальной системы профессионального образования. Описана инструментальная функция онтологической модели, реализуемая в процессе образовательного трансфера и прогнозирования трансформации идентичности системы профессионального образования. Эмпирическая часть исследования была проведена в ФРГ, Турецкой Республике и Российской Федерации.
The article presents theory and methodology bases of ontological model design. The ontological model of vocational education system identity is supposed to be used as a comparative education study tool. The ontological model is based on the trans-disciplinary principle, context approach and communicative approach, fractal matrix tables method and the "network" method. The structure of ontological model, the “step by step” algorithm are developed according to the fractal matrix tables and "network" methods terms. The ontological model consists of contexts and sub-contexts, which are supposed to be revealed in derivatives in the process of recreating the ontological model. The article describes the instrumental function of the ontological model in relation to comparative analysis, the process of educational transfer and identity transformation forecast. The empirical part of the study was carried out in the Federal Republic of Germany, the Turkish Republic and the Russian Federation
Increasing the practical significance of the Points, Badges, Leaderboards triad in the educational process
Authors: Панарина С.Н. , Сапожникова А.В. , Яковлева Н.Л. 
Published: March 2021

Статья посвящена вопросам совершенствования игровых методик в образовательном процессе вуза. Актуальность исследования обусловлена необходимостью модернизации процесса обучения в соответствии с задачами цифровизации образования. Анализируются проблема и возможности использования компонент PBL(Points, Badges, Leaderboards) в образовательном процессе. Показано, что существующие механизмы применения указанных компонент не в полной мере отвечают целям и задачам внедрения геймификации как средства повышения мотивации в учебной деятельности. В связи с этим целью работы является разработка системных подходов и механик для повышения практической значимости и переосмысления элементов триады PBLв образовательном процессе вуза. Предложена модификация компонент PBL, позволяющая увеличить вовлеченность студентов в процесс обучения. Полученные результаты могут быть интересны преподавателям вузов, использующим в своей профессиональной деятельности игровые технологии.
The article is devoted to the issues of enhancing game techniques in the educational process of the university. The relevance of the study is due to the need to modernize the learning process in accordance with the tasks of digitalization of education. The problem and possibilities of using PBL components (Points, Badges, Leaderboards) in the educational process are analyzed. It is shown that the existing mechanisms for using these components do not fully meet the goals and objectives of introducing gamification as a means of increasing motivation in educational activities. In this connection, the aim of the work is to develop systemic approaches and mechanics to increase the practical significance and rethink the elements of the PBL triad in the educational process of the university. A modification of the PBL components is proposed to increase student involvement in the learning process. The results obtained may be of interest to university teachers who use gaming technologies in their professional activities.