ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Laparoscopic Surgical Treatment of Severe Obesity Combined with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: A Pilot Randomized Two-Arm Controlled Clinical Study
Author: Ospanov, Oral B.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Obesity,Diseases,Surgery,Intervention,Body Composition,Body Weight,Quality of Life,Surveys,Questionnaires,Patients,Diagnostic Tests,Statistical Analysis,Foreign Countries,Randomized Controlled Trials

Obesity and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) are serious medical, social, and economic problems of modern society. A pilot randomized two-arm controlled clinical study was conducted to compare laparoscopic plication of the greater gastric curvature combined with Nissen fundoplication (LFN+LGP) versus only Nissen fundoplication (LFN). The study included 114 patients with GERD with a body mass index of 30.0-39.9 kg/m[superscript 2]. The following indices were used to assess efficacy: 24-hour pH-metry with calculation of the DeMeester index, percentage of excess weight loss (EWL%), and patients' quality of life, for which the Bariatric Analysis and Reporting Outcome System with the Moorehead-Ardelt Quality of Life Questionnaire II scoring key was used. Postoperative evaluation of quality of life and the dynamics of key GERD symptoms was conducted with the GERD Health-Related Quality of Life questionnaire. All operations were performed laparoscopically. No significant difference was noted in the anti-reflux function after surgery between the two groups. The bariatric effect (EWL% after 12 months) was better in the LFN+LGP group (45.26 ± 5.80%) than in the LFN group (18.43 ± 4.60%) (p &lt; 0.0001).
Analysis of Pre-School Teachers' Views on the Importance of Education for Sustainable Development by Means of Location and Household Type in Childhood
Author: Öztürk, Deniz Kahriman
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Preschool Teachers,Sustainable Development,Educational Attitudes,Attitude Measures,Likert Scales,Statistical Analysis,Geographic Location,Family Environment,Consciousness Raising,Thinking Skills,Problem Solving,Decision Making,Life Style,Preservice Teacher Education,Environmental Education,Teacher Attitudes,Preschool Education

This article explores views of pre-school teachers in Turkey regarding the importance of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). It also explores how pre-school teachers' views on the importance of Education for Sustainable Development can be explained by their experiences with nature in childhood. The study sample consisted of 838 pre-school teachers currently teaching in the Ankara, Eskisehir, Istanbul, and Antalya provinces across Turkey. A scale developed in 2015 by Park, Kim and Yu called &quot;Pre-School Teachers' Views on the Importance of ESD&quot; was utilized to collect data. In addition, demographic data were also collected. The study results revealed that the vast majority of teachers emphasized that ESD is necessary for the pre-school period and reported that the purposes of preschool ESD were: raising awareness about SD and ESD, acquiring creative and holistic thinking skills in problem solving and decision making stages, and acquiring a sustainable lifestyle for SD. The teachers emphasized the inclusion of ESD into teacher training programs and preschool education curriculum as pillars of crucial importance for the launching of ESD practices in the pre-school period. The results also indicated that preschool teachers' views on the importance of ESD varied according to their relationship with the environment in terms of childhood location and household type. In the light of the results, it is recommended that this study be the pioneer for future studies on the importance of ESD in both Turkey and the world, particularly with reference to experiences with nature.
Participation of a Representative of a Foreign Country in the Procedure of the Legal Proceedings in the Republic of Kazakhstan
Author: Akhmetzakirov, Nail R.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Crime,Legal Problems,Foreign Nationals,Law Enforcement,Freedom,Laws,Foreign Policy,Court Litigation,Civil Rights,Statistical Analysis

The paper deals with the problem of foreigners' rights and freedoms protection during the criminal procedure in The Republic of Kazakhstan. The comparative analysis of national and international legal framework shows that principles of legal defense of foreigners' interests do not have a practical application. Examining the content of requests on legal assistance received by the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2012-2015, the authors determine that about 20% of the orders relate to the admission of representatives of the competent authorities of foreign states. The study also proposes the amendments to the determination of rights and duties of a representative of a foreign state. The practical value is that the research can be a theoretical basis for further development of effective legislative mechanisms of the foreign citizens' interests' protection in Post-Soviet countries and other states referring to the Romano-Germanic legal system.
Q Workshop: An Application of Q Methodology for Visualizing, Deliberating and Learning Contrasting Perspectives
Author: Yoshizawa, Go
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Workshops,Q Methodology,Visualization,Science and Society,Concept Mapping,Reflection,Learning Processes,Scores,Case Studies,Graduate Students,Heuristics,Factor Analysis

A value-centered approach to science, technology and society (STS) education illuminates the need of reflexive and relational learning through communication and public engagement. Visualization is a key to represent and compare mental models such as assumptions, background theories and value systems that tacitly shape our own understanding, interests and interactions. Yet conventional approaches including concept mapping and multi-criteria value elicitation methods often have little suggestion or implication as to how participants themselves can address and deliberate the incompatibility of their perceptions, preferences and perspectives. This study proposes Q workshop as a legitimate eliciting and deliberation technique that can be employed in pluralistic discourse, exploring systematic divergences of perspective by constructing the participant's self in a formative, emergent and contingent manner. For this it introduces Q mapping as a novel visualization tool for the hybridity of qualitative and quantitative methods derived from Q methodology. Q mapping is a two-factor solution that transforms the similarities in participants' individual Q scores into distances represented in two-dimensional space, for the sake of illustrating the relative positioning and partitioning of perspectives in a schematic figure. A case study on STS education for postgraduate students demonstrates that Q workshop can play a heuristic and abductive role in providing independent illumination of distinguishable perspectives and facilitating individual and collective learning among participants, suggesting a schematic two-dimensional basis for resolving the key differences.
Psychological Peculiarities of Judge Professional Activity and Decision-Making
Author: Uspanov, Zholdybai T.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Psychological Patterns,Judges,Decision Making,Professionalism,Ethics,Stress Variables,Attitudes,Emotional Response,Court Litigation,Efficiency,Justice,Administration

The article considers the psychological peculiarities of judge professional activity and decision-making, judge's mental set and requirements to ethical and moral requirements and quality. Moreover, this work offers original job analysis and competency model of judge professional activity. The authors have studied the problems concerning the psychological features of professional activity and deformation of judges, psychological features of decision-making, the determination of psychological discomfort or stress causes, and peculiarities of judge's attitude to his/her professional activity and to the representatives of the parties. The aim of this work is to detect specific emotional states in the course of court proceedings, to describe the stress factors and situations that cause the greatest psychological difficulties for judges, and to find ways of resolving them. Currently, these issues are becoming increasingly relevant, and the results of their successful resolution may influence the efficiency of the justice administration in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Conflict Humanitarian and Natural Knowledge: The Way to Exit from It
Author: Masalimova, Alfiya R.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Humanities,Cultural Influences,Social Influences,Global Approach,Surveys,College Faculty,College Students,Attitude Measures,Foreign Countries

The urgency of the problem, which is developed in the article enclosed in an emerged reducing tendency, and sometimes a complete rejection of importance of the humanities knowledge at the current stage of scientific development. The article shows that in the context of the overestimation the role of natural and technical education by modern society, it is clearly underestimated importance of humanities education. Paper is aimed at creating prerequisites for the study of contemporary place in science of humanities and culture in general. As the leading methodological approaches of this study the author uses the cultural approach and the principle of determinism. The article substantiates the proposition that without an understanding of human nature and the sake of what a man lives on the earth, the solution of all other problems and technical quests are meaningless. In other words, the humanity stands as a mainstay of human in culture. As a result of the systematization and generalization of facts, the author offers a new universal metasubjected approach in cognition of the social reality that allows evaluating the possibilities and prospects of the global human survival. Because of the article's methodological nature, it is aimed at the creation of a theoretical basis for future researches of the humanities in general and for those whose scientific work is not indifferent to the fate of the humanities.
Information Technologies in the System of Military Engineer Training of Cadets
Author: Khizhnaya, Anna V.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Information Technology,Military Training,Military Personnel,Engineering Education,Competency Based Education,Program Effectiveness,Models,Comparative Analysis

The necessity of enhancement of the information component in the military engineer training is determined by the result of a comparative analysis of global and national engineering education standards. The purpose is to substantiate the effectiveness and relevance of applying information technology in the system of military engineer training of cadets. The methodological part of paper includes analyses of the problem information approach, system integrity and competency-based approaches. The article proves the effectiveness of using information technology in the system of military engineer training of cadets; describes the conditions and results of using information technology in the system of military engineer training of cadets. The obtained results can be used in the system of military engineer education, as well as in general in the system of military education when providing military engineer training of cadets.
Psychology of Personality in the Conditions of Modern Migration Processes
Author: Artemyeva, Tatiana V.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Migrants,Immigrants,Migration,Immigration,Migrant Workers,Psychology,Social Support Groups,Psychological Services,Models,Case Studies,Coping,Personality Traits,Suicide,Adolescents,Surveys

The relevance of the research problem due to the fact that, together with a positive influence on the demographic situation, the consequences of migration processes have a negative impact in all areas of social life and become a source of social tension and destabilization of the economic and political situation. The purpose of the article is to describe the process of implementing an eclectic model of individual psychological support to the younger members of the families of migrants. The leading approach in the provision of psychological assistance is multi-modal multidimensional model of restoration of internal stability, allowing to provide comprehensive and targeted psychological effects. The article presents a case description of the practice of psychological help, which revealed the potential of this model, it disclosed the specifics of its application and justified the use of the model as a tool for studying the effectiveness of psychological correction. The materials of the article are of practical value to the professional psychologists, since the implementation of the model described above allows to record personal experience of the practice of psychological help, making it available for analysis and systematization, as well as improve the competence of psychology students by solving problems of various types that are based on this model.
Reducing the Risk of Postoperative Genital Complications in Male Adolescents
Author: Dossanova, ?ssem
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Adolescents,Males,Surgery,Human Body,Prevention,Statistical Analysis,Risk,Computation,Correlation,Prediction,Statistical Significance,Diseases,Age Differences,Foreign Countries,Nonparametric Statistics

The reproductive system of adolescents is exposed to a high risk of anomalies. In spite of the successes of surgical correction, the percentage of postoperative complications remains high. Special attention should be paid to circumcision, which is regarded as a religious tradition in many countries and carried out with sanitary violations. This research developed a systematic algorithm for the prevention of complications of surgical interventions in case of external genitalia anomalies. The article describes results of a statistical analysis related to the main risk factors of postoperative complications in primary genital surgery in male adolescents. The analysis implied calculating the frequency of value occurrence, the percentage of value occurrence, and cumulative frequency. Using the Spearman criterion, we carried out correlation analysis; 11 predicts of complications in the postoperative period during manipulations on the genitals were determined with regard to logistic regression. Comparison of the interdependent variables by using the Chi-square method and the Wilcoxon test gave the possibility to determine statistically significant differences in the frequency distribution of patients in terms of complications of the main group. A set of necessary measures for preventing postoperative complications was presented in the form of a prevention circle.
Pedagogical Modeling of the Competitive Activity of Athletes in Russian Lapta
Author: Gabdrakhmanova, Rashida G.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Competition,Athletes,Models,Athletics,Teaching Methods,Foreign Countries,Team Sports,Physical Fitness,Control Groups,Experimental Groups,Physical Activities,College Students,Secondary School Students,Observation

The rationale of the problem stated in the article is defined by the fact that in the sphere of sports modeling is a new method of investigating of the work-out sessions construction on the basis of the definition of the different characteristics of sports training and rational methods of its structural parts construction. The purpose of the article is to develop pedagogical modeling in competitive activity of athletes on the example of Russian lapta. The leading method of research of this problem is the modeling method that allows considering this problem as a targeted and organized process and corresponds to the specificity of competitive activity in the Russian lapta. The structure of the provided pedagogical model includes a number of elements: external and internal factors that determine the functioning of the modeled object; training process; playing activities; control unit; set of criteria of effectiveness of lapta players training assessment. Quality of the developed model is expressed in a logical relationship of its structural elements, correspondence of the model to the specific conditions of its implementation, flexibility of the model to make the necessary adjustments to the training process. The model is aimed at improving the efficiency of competitive activity in the Russian lapta, which is a system formed of a plurality of elements that are in conjunction with each other and have a common goal--to increase the impact of competitive activity by the directional pedagogical influence to the components of the sports fitness players condition.
On Certain Aspects of Acts of Corruption Countermeasures
Author: Mamitova, Zhanat A.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Legal Problems,Deception,Trust (Psychology),Foreign Countries,Prevention,Crime,Laws,Government (Administrative Body),Law Enforcement,Real Estate,Public Officials

One of the biggest problems of developing countries, including Kazakhstan, is corruption. Corruption significantly decelerates the development of economic and social institutions, which may cause distrust in the authorities and a social crisis. Therefore, fighting corruption is a top-priority task of the government of Kazakhstan; this task consists in forming an effective anti-corruption system with the involvement of the general public and a legislative reform. The research analyzes the corruption countermeasures in the Republic of Kazakhstan. This includes a critical study on the legal regulation of the detection of corruption. In addition, the research found new forms of this phenomenon (influence abuse and illicit enrichment), which the research offers to criminalize in the criminal law, studied the issues related to the improvement of the penalty system for acts of corruption, and investigated the practice of penalty infliction and property confiscation. The research paid special attention to public participation in the fight against corruption.
Preservice Science Teachers' Attitudes toward Environment
Author: Koc, Isil
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Preservice Teachers,Science Teachers,Student Teacher Attitudes,Environment,Gender Differences,Instructional Program Divisions,Attitude Measures,Statistical Analysis,Activism,Population Growth,Public Policy,Positive Attitudes

The purpose of this study was to determine preservice science teachers' attitudes toward environment and to investigate whether their environmental attitudes differ in terms of gender and grade level. A total of 197 preservice science teachers participated in the study. Personal Information Form and the Environmental Attitudes Inventory (EAI) developed by Milfont and Duckitt (2006) were utilized as data collection tools in the study. The data were analyzed using the PASW Statistics 18 (SPSS Inc.). According to the results, preservice science teachers displayed moderately favorable attitudes toward environment. Furthermore, a significant gender difference favoring female preservice teachers was found in terms of total and environmental movement activism, environmental threat, and support for population growth policies dimensions of EAI. In addition, according to grade level, significant differences were found in favor of senior preservice teachers in total and human utilization of nature, and support for population growth policies dimensions of EAI. Results were discussed based on the findings obtained from the study.
A Structural and Functional Model of Teachers' Monitoring Skills Development
Author: Masalimova, Alfiya R.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Skill Development,Models,Progress Monitoring,Pedagogical Content Knowledge,Teaching Skills,Educational Quality,Computer Uses in Education,Questionnaires,Interviews,Task Analysis,Content Analysis,Teacher Education,Foreign Countries,Faculty Development

The relevance of the present issue is caused by a strong need to conduct monitoring processes in all types of teaching processes and a poor development of theoretical, content and technological, scientific and methodological material for teachers' monitoring skills development during their teaching practice. The aim of the article is to create and test a structural and functional model of teachers' monitoring skills development based on a systematical activity-oriented approach. Modelling is the main method in the research as it helps to consider the present problem as a process of a directed and conscious acquisition of monitoring skills by teachers trained. The article presents a fully elaborated structural and functional model of teachers' monitoring skills development which consists of interconnected motivational and aim-oriented, content and procedural, result-oriented and estimation components. The model adapts teachers to new conditions of modern education and encourages for further high quality education monitoring process.
Modern Trends in Teaching English at Comenius University, Bratislava
Author: Ibragimova, Elena N.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Educational Trends,Trend Analysis,English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,College Students,Best Practices,Case Studies,Universities,Preservice Teachers,Preservice Teacher Education,Language Teachers,Teaching Methods,Global Approach,Language Skills,Speech Skills

Recent changes in the Russian system of higher linguistic education, introduction of the two level education for future teachers of foreign languages according to the Bologna agreement, alterations to the existing university syllabi necessitate a close study of the international experience in this sphere. Therefore careful evaluation of the best practices of European universities in organizing teaching of English to future teachers of foreign languages at the undergraduate and graduate levels has become significant and crucial. The article aims at systemizing some approaches to the English instruction of future teachers of foreign languages, which are used in Slovakia. It is based on the observations and the module analysis conducted at the Comenius University (Slovakia). The article brings to light some modern methods of teaching English in Slovakia, a country in Eastern Europe which has already passed a long period of transition from a Soviet like system of education to the latest innovations in the EU education policies. The facts and conclusions referred to in the given article can be used in upgrading higher linguistic and teachers' training education in Russia as well as other countries.