bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
COMPETITIVENESS OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS IN THE MULTILEVEL ENVIRONMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Authors: Katane Irēna , Troškova Marina 
Published: May 2021

One of the tasks of modern education is to ensure the sustainability of higher education in the ever-changing environment in the context of globalization and glocalization. Under these conditions, cooperation in higher education is becoming more important as one of the manifestations of competitiveness. Socio-economic changes caused by globalization, internationalization and digitalisation of higher education, as well as the current demographic situation in Europe, including Latvia, raise the issue of the competitiveness of academic staff in a multi-level, multi-context and multifunctional higher education environment. The aim of the study is: based on the interdisciplinary approach, including transfer approach from economics and business sciences to educational sciences, to theoretically substantiate the competitiveness of university teachers in interaction with the multi-context and multi-level higher education environment, as well as the competitiveness of universities. The following research methods were used: study, analysis, and evaluation of scientific literature (theoretical research method); the reflection of own (the article authors') academic and scientific experience (empirical research method). The results of the research show that two tendencies can be distinguished in the substantiation of the competitiveness of university academic staff: 1) economists and business scientists, based on competition theories, use basic knowledge, findings in the development of the substantiation of competitiveness; 2) representatives of educational sciences and psychology develop a philosophical methodological base for research of specialists' competitiveness within their branches of science. In their research, the authors combine both of these approaches in conducting interdisciplinary research. Research results show that the competitiveness of the academic staff can be viewed in several aspects: 1) as a set of different characteristics (qualities) which are considered to be competitive advantages: 2) characteristics of competitive activities manifestations in the higher education environment. Three levels of the higher education environment are important in assessing the competitiveness of university teachers: the level of the local higher education environment (university level), the level of the national higher education environment and the level of the global higher education environment.
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF GYMNASIUM TEACHERS’
Authors: Peciuliauskiene Palmira 
Published: May 2021

The article deals with the associations of transformational leadership of gymnasium teachers’ and their emotional intelligence. The operationalization of the concept of emotional intelligence in this study is viewed as the interaction of four determinants: Self-Emotional Appraisal (SEA); Others’ Emotional Appraisal (OEA); Regulation of Emotion (RE); Use of Emotion (UE). The aim of the article is to explore how profile gymnasium teachers’ transformational leadership is associated with their emotional intelligence dimensions. Wong and Law’s Emotional Intelligence Scale (WLEIS) was used to measure the emotional intelligence of gymnasium teachers. Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) was used in the research of leadership expression. The collected data were analyzed using structural equation modelling (SEM). The findings confirm that the transformational leadership is statistically significantly associated with emotional intelligence of gymnasium teachers from Lithuania. SEM analysis revealed that the use of emotions is statistically significantly associated with gymnasium teachers’ transformational leadership.
STUDY OF THE EMOTIONAL COMPONENT OF PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN VALUE ATTITUDE TO ECOLOGICAL SITUATIONS OF THE REGION
Authors: Solovyeva Tatiana , Vitkovskaya Irina , Ovchinnikova Alexandra 
Published: May 2021

Unfavorable forecasts of environmental scientists regarding environmental changes actualize the problem of environmental values importance in the process of children upbringing.The article theoretically substantiates that emotions caused by perception of ecological situations of their region leave unconscious "imprints" in the child's life and therefore can serve as a psychological foundation for the formation of these values in primary school children. For children of primary school age, when they assess environmental situations, circumstances, events they encounter in their lives, the emotional reaction often outstrips the cognitive one, reflects the personal meaning, value attitude of a child towards them.The aim of the article is to study the emotional component of primary school children’ value attitude to the ecological situation of his region in order to introduce core value of "ecological safety" into his/her system of values. The study was based on the analysis of philosophical, psychological and pedagogical literary sources, testing, interviewing primary school children and pedagogical experiment.Managing the emotional development of primary schoolchildren can significantly change their value attitude to nature. Under conditions of the experiment, 61% of children began to realize their need for vigorous activity, and 17% of junior schoolchildren became psychologically ready for joint environmental protection activities.
REFLECTION AS A WAY TO FORM THE LEARNING COMPETENCE OF FUTURE PRE-SCHOOL TEACHERS
Authors: Bagdonas Algimantas , Sauleniene Sigita 
Published: May 2021

Problem of the research: what reflective technic strategies do the teachers use in their work in order to achieve a quality of teaching and which of them they recommend to their students for learning; what reflections do the students use? Aim of the research: to find out how the students use the reflective methods in the learning process, when improving their learning and what approach to the learning in the long-life perspective is. Objectives of the research: to reason the importance of reflection in the education process. To determine the students’ and teachers’ approach to the usage of reflection in the education process. Methods of research: analysis of documents and scientific literature, content analysis, written survey. The research has shown: The teachers and students positively evaluate the usage of the reflection method in their activity. Reflection is a good device for seeking of education quality. During this process the students overtake the teachers’ experience, develop their competences by getting the consultations. During the consultations the teachers give relevant information about the usage of the most effective learning methods in the study process. The students actively use some of the reflection types, most of which are rarely used. This indicates that in the study process not all the possibilities that could improve the learning process are used.
THE EXPERIENCE OF SOCIAL PEDAGOGUES AND SOCIAL WORKERS WHEN PROMOTING POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR IN CHILDREN AT DAY-CARE CENTRES
Authors: Raudeliunaite Rita 
Published: May 2021

The article presents the study, the purpose of which is to reveal the experience of social pedagogues and social workers when promoting positive behaviour in children at day-care centres. The qualitative type of research was chosen when applying the method of semi-structured inteview. The data of the study were processed by applying the method of data content analysis. 3 social pedagogues and 5 social workers, who work at children day- care centres, participated in the study. The data of the study revealed that when promoting positive behaviour in children at day-care centres social pedagogues and social workers create positive relationships with children and strengthen positive interrelationships between children, have individual conversations with children. Meaningful use of children’s leisure time plays an important role when promoting positive behaviour in children. In this case, it is important that the activities, which are organised for children, would be personally and socially meaningful, that they would encourage independence and responsibility in children and humane relationships. When promoting positive behaviour in children social pedagogues and social workers encourage the culture of teamwork and cooperation in order to maintain partnership relationships with parents of the child and other specialists by sharing their experience and rendering assistance to other.
OVERCOMING SOCIAL ISOLATION WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AMONG AGEING POPULATIONS DURING COVID-19
Authors: Reine Ieva , Ivanovs Andrejs , Mieriņa Inta , Gehtmane-Hofmane Ilona , Koroļeva Ilze 
Published: May 2021

During Covid-19 social isolation has become more common worldwide, however, some groups, especially elderly people, might have experienced dramatically limited communication due to the lack of skills and access to digital technologies. In this paper, we examined if education was associated with the use of digital technologies to maintain contacts with a family, friends, other social networks and services. The survey was conducted in June-August 2020 by doing 1089 computer-assisted telephone interviews. The questions examined how people aged 50 years and older coped with socioeconomic and health-related impact of COVID-19.We used logistic regression analysis to study the association between the use of digital technologies and the level of education by gender and age. The higher the education was, the more it strongly associated with the use of digital technologies (OR 5.85; 95% CI 3.78-9.03). As expected, age was a strong explanatory factor, however, we did not find consistent age and gender differences. Among those who used digital technologies, analyses showed that overcoming social isolation was related to the education level. The conclusion of the study is that education has inevitable impact on the use of digital technologies and social contacts, however high education level is not crucial for the acquisition of information. It seems that digital technologies are important tools to prevent social isolation and are related to education that includes digital access and competencies.
THE ONLINE TEACHING VIS-À-VIS THE CLASSROOM TEACHING (ON THE BACKGROUND OF COVID-19)
Authors: Tvaltvadze Darejan , Gvelesiani Irina 
Published: May 2021

The history of mankind will depict 2020 as the beginning of the new era – the era of the pandemic, which has invaded the world countries. The life on the earth has changed drastically. A partial or complete lockdown, numerous infected citizens, an increasing economic crisis, devaluation of a national currency, paralyzed cultural and social lives – this is a partial list of the challenges faced by the majority of the world countries that have made efforts to survive. The paper depicts the challenges of Georgia’s educational space in the environment of the pandemic. The major emphasis is put on the transition from a classroom teaching to an online lecturing as well as on the (dis)advantages of a face-to-face interaction and a virtual communication. Moreover, the paper presents some strategies of the “peaceful” transition (creation of a student-oriented virtual-classroom atmosphere, timely informativeness, usage of appropriate technological means, replacement of written-type exams with hybrid-type examinations, flexible site-oriented means of an extracurricular communication, updated criteria of assessment, etc.) elaborated at the Faculty of Humanities of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. The methodology of research includes observation, analysis and evaluation of the recent processes.
EFFECTS OF SOCIAL ISOLATION ON MENTAL HEALTH DURING COVID-19 IN THE CONTEXT OF AGEING
Authors: Koroļeva Ilze , Sniķere Sigita , Aleksandrovs Aleksandrs , Reine Ieva , Trapencieris Mārcis , Ivanovs Andrejs 
Published: May 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic brought significant changes to the usual rhythm of life. Reduced opportunities to meet with family members and friends in a situation of heightened stress leads to increased feelings of loneliness and social isolation, as well as increases the risk of mental health problems. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effect of social contacts on the changes in psychoemotional states in the elderly population in Latvia during the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis draws upon quantitative data collected by the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe within Wave 8 in Latvia (n=1207). Measurements of the frequency of social contacts were used to construct social isolation indexes. Changes of psychoemotional state, characterized by sleeping problems, nervousness, frustration during the pandemic were included as dependent variables in multinomial logistic regression models that were run to identify the effect of social isolation on psychoemotional health in the context of other factors: age, gender, perceived health status, affluence and feelings of loneliness. The results show that in the group of those aged 50+, close to one-fifth of respondents experienced the effect of the COVID-19 crisis on their mental health. The link between reduced social contacts and changes in psychoemotional states proved to be statistically significant. In the group with the highest level of social isolation, irregularities in psychoemotional health are three times higher compared to other groups.
Wywiadówka jako przestrzeń procedur i rytuałów. O oficjalności i obligatoryjności
Authors: Lulek Barbara 
Published: May 2021

<p><strong>Wprowadzenie </strong></p><p>Relacje rodziców i nauczycieli ujęte są w wielu szkołach w ramy grupowych i indywidualnych form współpracy. Jednym z elementarnych, utrwalonych tradycją sposobów komunikowania się wymienionych osób jest wywiadówka, prowadzona według stałej formuły obejmującej przywitanie, sprawy organizacyjne, podanie wykazu ocen, wolne wnioski. Wywiadówka przebiega zatem według określonej społecznej praktyki, złożonej z sekwencji działań uczestników. Charakteryzuje ją oficjalność, obligatoryjność i często jednokierunkowy przepływ informacji. Dostrzec należy także wyraźny podział kompetencji oparty na rozgraniczeniu „my-oni”.</p><p><strong>Cel badań</strong></p><p>W niniejszym artykule przedstawiono grupowe spotkania rodziców i nauczycieli w kategoriach powtarzających się, stereotypowych zachowań o przewidywalnej formie, łączących się z realizacją wartości. Celem badań jest opisanie wywiadówki w kategoriach zidentyfikowania i nazwania rytuałów występujących podczas spotkań grupowych.</p><p><strong>Metoda badań</strong></p><p>Prowadzono badania zorientowane na ujawnianie typowych praktyk społecznych, w postaci procedur i rytuałów. Zgromadzono dane empiryczne w oparciu o obserwację uczestniczącą oraz wywiad. W toku badań skoncentrowano się na doświadczeniach rodziców związanych z tłokiem, oczekiwaniem, walką na argumenty oraz władzą nad mową.</p><p><strong>Wyniki</strong></p><p>Na podstawie zebranych danych dokonano kategoryzacji zachowań uczestników wywiadówek szkolnych i wyodrębniono: zagubienie w nadmiarze wydarzeń i informacji, rutynę, nawyk, brak refleksji oraz pomniejszanie poczucia efektywności działania innych osób.</p><p><strong>Wnioski</strong></p><p>Podkreślono, że sztywność, powtarzalność i rytmiczność zachowań oraz odwoływanie się do autorytarnego porządku sprzyja podporzadkowaniu, a tym samym utrudnia, niekiedy uniemożliwia budowanie bliskości pomiędzy współpracującymi dla dobra dziecka stronami.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p>
Mediatization of Social Reality and Media Experience of Seniors
Authors: Kukier Joanna 
Published: May 2021

<p align="justify"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="en-GB">The demographic changes taking place in the most developed countries in Europe show a dynamic process of aging societies. Seniors (i.e. according to WHO, people over 65 years of age) are sometimes affected due to the limiting conditions of constantly progressing social changes. One of the most significant transformations is the presence of media in the everyday life of individuals. Development of technology and media communication lead to the spread of the mediatization of social reality. Many media recipients build their idea of the world based on what they learn from the mass media. It then influences their understanding of themselves and their role in the world. The purpose of this article is to analyse mediatization as a social process and to explain how it affects older people's experience of the media.</span></span></span></p>
Post-Convergent Mediatization: Toward a Media Typology Beyond Web 2.0
Authors: Ramírez Rubén 
Published: May 2021

In this article, I argue that the concept of convergence, as is still applied to media theory, has become an insufficient way for examining the current state and future of media phenomena. This is substantiated by the fact that digital media continue to exponentially percolate into human experience in ways that transcend mere integration. I contend that a recognition of post-convergence as a theoretical realization is crucial to future developments in media theory because it presumes that digital media are progressing toward a “digitization of life” in ways that are envisioned within the very logic of digitality. As post-convergence continues its way to become a theoretical realization, media theory should begin posing its questions about the digital not in terms of how traditional media and its attributes prevail in the digital, but of how digitality as an objective reality engenders experiences of the real requiring approaches that can only be formulated from the logic of post-convergence. From such theorization, I propose a working typology for conceptualizing the possible nature and direction of post-convergent media: hyper-mediation, bio-digitality, hyper-connection, and hyper-simulation.
Kepadatan Populasi Wereng Coklat (Nilaparvata lugens, Stal.) dan Musuh Alaminya Pada Berbagai Varietas Padi di Bantul Yogyakarta
Authors: Sudarsono Darmawan Suryo 
Published: May 2021

A research to observe the population density of brown planthoppers (Nilaparvata lugens, Stal.) and their predator and parasitoid natural enemies has done on the rice field in Bantul regency of Yogyakarta. The research was conducted to observe the hoppers and its natural enemies on three local varieties and one superior brown planthoppers resistant variety of rice. The three local varieties of rice were Rejosari, Sri Kuning, and Sri Ayu, while the hopper resistant variety was IR 64. The observation were replicated three times. The result showed that population of brown planthoppers in the three local varieties of rice were higher than in the resistant IR 64 hybrid variety. The population of predators and parasitoid were relatively high in order to control the development of brown planthopper population. The predator Lycosa sp. and the parasitoids Anagrus sp. were commonly found in the ecosystem.
Kajian Aktivitas Infeksi Rhizobium sp. Indigenus Pada Kerandang (Pueraria phaseoloides)
Authors: Triwahyuningsih Nike , Pristiwantoro Eko Cahyo , Utari Lilik 
Published: May 2021

Kudzu, a kind of legume cover crops (LCC), plays important roles in soil and water conservation. It is effective for inhibiting erotion, compaction and leaching of nutrients, as well as to suppress weeds. Plants growing with legume ground covers usually show better nutrition, growth and yield. Recently, this cover crops have been widely used to prevent the negative effects and to improve soil physical and nutritional characteristics. As a legume, bacterial inoculation is to enhance the infection and nodulation activity. A research to observe the role of indigenous Rhizobium on infection and nodulation activity of kudzu was carried out in September till December 2004. The research was done in Regosol volcanic soil in Tlatar Village of Sawangan in Magelang district of Central Java. A pot experiment was arranged in 4x2 factorial completely randomized design which was repeated three times. The seedling innoculation with root nodules endophytic bacteria was to increase nodulation and to enhance Kudzu plant growth. The seedlings were inoculated with 1, 2 and 3 ml/pot of grinded root nodules of wild plants containing endophytic Rhizobium sp. The wild kudzu plants were taken from coastal sandy land of southern Yogyakarta. All treated seedlings were planted in a sterilized medium to be compared to the unsterilized one in order to examine the role of indigenous bacterias. Observation on bacterial infection activity, nodulation, and plant growth were taken at week 4, 6, 8, and 10. All the datas were variance analyzed and the treatments average were tested with 5% level of Duncan's multiple range test. The results showed that application of 2 ml/pot of innoculum significantly increased the infection activity, nodulation and plant growth. Sterilized soil decreased the infection activity. Since the innoculation of endophytic Rhizobium sp. in unsterilized soil significantly increased the infection actifity, nodulation and plant growth, so the indigenous Rhizobium sp. in rhizhosfer was needed to sinergisticaly worked well with inoculum to increase infection activities and root nodulation.
Ulasan (Review) Pemasyarakatan Penggunaan Pestisida Nabati Dalam Mendukung Agribisnis
Authors: Wiranti E. W. 
Published: May 2021

Pestisida sintetis hingga saat ini masih menjadi andalan dalam meminimalkan kehilangan hasil akibat serangan organisme pengganggu tanarnan (OPT). Meskipun dampak negatif dari penggunaan pestisida sintetis banyak ditimbulkan, namun petani masih sangat membutuhkannya. Oleh karena itu media media diperlukan alternatif lain, yaitu penggunaan pestisida yang ramah lingkungan agar aman bagi manusia dan lingkungan, salah satunya adalah dengan menggunakan pestisida nabati yang bahan dasarnya berasal dari tumbuhan. Di Indonesia penggunaan pestisida nabati mempunyai prospek yang baik, selain menghemat devisa juga mendukung agribisnis dan kelestarian lingkungan. Oleh karena itu pemasyarakatan penggunaan pestisida nabati perlu dilakukan.
Study of carbon dioxide hydrogenation to hydrocarbons over iron-based Catalysts: Synergistic effect
Authors: Shahroudbari Isa , Sarrafi Yaghoub , Zamani Yahya 
Published: May 2021

The full article will be published in the English version of the journal "Catalysis in Industry" No. 4, 2021.Hydrogenation of CO2 to CO and hydrocarbons is carried out over a wide range of catalysts. Group of VIIIB transition metals have proved high conversion and selectively for CO and methane. Meanwhile, low cost and effective catalysts are preferable in an industrial scale. In this work, the synergistic effect of iron content on the catalytic performance were investigated in carbon dioxide hydrogenation reaction. Incipient wetness impregnation procedure was used for the preparation of four γ-Al2O3 supported iron-based catalysts. BET, XRD, H2-TPR and TEM techniques were employed for the catalyst characterization. The evaluation of catalysts were carried out in a fixed bed reactor at the process conditions of temperature of 300 °C, pressure of 20 atm, H2 to CO2 ratio of 3 and GHSV of 3 nl.h–1·gCat–1. It was found that the promoter addition improves the activity of Fe catalyst for both Fischer – Tropsch synthesis (FTS) and Reverse Water Gas Shift (RWGS) reactions. The results showed that conversion of CO2 was from 15.6 to 35.6 % with major products of methane, C2 to C4, C5+ and CO. It was also found that impact of K and Ce promoters into iron catalyst showed the highest conversion and hydrocarbon yield due to the synergistic effect.