Neurobiological Determinants as Barriers to Housing Stability | Author : Willie W. Jackson Jr , Dr. Aruna Jha, Ashlee A. Gethner, Dr. Jennifer Anderson | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :This dialogic-centered—discussion explores the neurological and biological determinants often identified as psychiatric disorders and/or medical conditions measured through non-invasive brain imaging. Improved measures within housing stability; specifically Housing First models, sets the stage for a range of additional screenings to be incorporated as a means to better diagnose and treat comorbid conditions of persons struggling with housing stability. Contemporary conceptualizations of chronic homelessness need to be challenged as advanced neurobiological imaging reveals astounding correlations between neurological health and housing stability. |
| Monuments and their Consequence on Culture & Scholarship | Author : Scott Aker | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :All monuments have a dynamic and complex relationship with time, place, culture, and scholarship. The root of monument architecture, and the earliest known human made structure, are the pre-history megaliths located along the coastlines of France and England. This paper traces back a 100-year historical thread of text and drawings made on megaliths by explorers and scholars such as LT S P Oliver (1879), Edgerton (1944), Hawkins (1966), and Service & Bradbery (1979). Recent scholar on megaliths constructs our "modern" understanding of these mysterious stones. The central framework for this paper positions monuments as "metaphorical mirrors of culture”, with each megalith scholar informs the next and builds upon a "story," searching for an explanation as to why these stone monuments remain with consequences on culture and scholarship. |
| Micro Globalization: Methodological Consideration | Author : Jiaming Sun | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Micro globalization refers to globalization based on ordinary people. It is a people-oriented global connection, covering a mixture of social and spatial relationships worldwide, such as overseas investment, world travel, and even immigration. People cross-border, social and spatial transactions and connections are usually based on the connection between the source area and destination. This connection has become more and more frequent and close. The current global pandemic of COVID-19 fully shows that, in other words, this virus globalization is based on extensive and intimate human-to-human cross-border exchanges. And such micro globalization is expanding all over the world and has a profound impact on our daily life. How to distinguish the micro globalization related to our everyday life from the macro globalization we often talk about? What are the essential characteristics of micro globalization? This papers main content seems to be a new angle for us to study globalization. This paper attempts to provide some thoughts for such efforts. |
| Assessing Writing in the Digital Age | Author : Aparna Sinha | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :This paper reviews the history of writing assessment and then reflects on ways our current assessment practices should evolve and adjust to the ways we make meaning today. The paper proposes that with the increased amount of reading and writing we do on the web using images and texts, it is important to ensure that writing assessments account for these emerging and perhaps dominant forms of literacy. The paper defines and analyzes digital literacies: visual and internet and what they would look like in our writing assessments |
| A Narrative in Search of an Author: The Hypnerotomachia and its Authorial Criticism | Author : James O Neill | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, published anonymously in 1499, has long posed puzzles for historians and scholars as to the full depth of its meaning, such as, the name of the illustrator, why it was published through the Aldine Press in Venice, but perhaps most notably in twentieth century research, why it was published anonymously and who the author actually was. There are by now numerous suggestions for authorship, ranging from Cosimo d Medici to Leon Battista Alberti, the Francesco Colonna of Venice to the Colonna of Rome. This paper, however, does not posit a new suggestion but rather critiques the suggestions made over the last century and the present one and suggests a narratological method of biographical research for authorship profiling for future authorial research. |
| Geografia nuovamente di Moda: il protocollo Gucci | Author : Marco Bizzarri , Emanuele Poli , Anna Rosa Candura | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Si pongono in evidenza i legami fra Geografia umana ed economia della Moda, attraverso un’analisi di ciò che si propone di definire il protocollo Gucci, un caso di studio utile a evidenziare l’ampia messe di possibilità a disposizione delle Aziende, per mettere in pratica quella sostenibilità tanto decantata, ma spesso solo a livello teorico. L’intento è dimostrare come sia necessario affiancare a normative e linee-guida tecniche, una precisa volontà aziendale (un tempo definita buona volontà) che sappia coniugare rispetto e profitto, attraverso l’utilizzo virtuoso delle competenze; il settore della Moda si presta particolarmente ad un ragionamento sull’immagine della sostenibilità |
| EXPLORING TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION IN ARABIC EDUCATION | Author : Donna Hess | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :This review examines technology integration in Arabic language education research within a variety of contexts—such as traditional in-person classes, face-to-face classes, hybrid courses (synchronous and asynchronous engagements), and finally, fully online CALL environments. Specific characteristics from theoretical frameworks of CALL, second language acquisition, and education are explored within the context of the Arabic classroom that uses technology. It is shown that in the research, six themes emerge in the teaching and learning of Arabic and there is a need for more studies to emphasize the importance of technology integration within course development to benefit both instructors and learners of Arabic. This synthesis of current research will be helpful to Arabic educators and researchers in determining best collaborative and comprehensive strategies for designing effective Arabic language learning environments to propel the field into the future. |
| Breaking the Gender Barriers of Femininity and Masculinity: Developing a Trans/ Queer Identity in The Danish Girl through a New Historicist Lens | Author : KENNETH R. HINTON | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :The Danish Girl, a novel written by American author David Ebershoff, was initially published in 2000 and adapted into an awarding film in 2015 starring Academy Award-winners Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander. The Danish Girl is loosely inspired by the true story of the painter Einar Magnus Andreas Wegener who wrote a partial autobiography, Man Into Woman in 1933, which focuses on his transition to becoming the first person to receive the gender affirmation surgery. In 2017, The Danish Girl was named by the New York Times one of the 25 books that have shaped LGBTQ Literature in the past twenty years (Ebershoff, Bio). This novel has shaped LGBTQ Literature because it gives an identity to the first person that went through a gender affirmation surgery in the 1930s before it was previously thought that Christine Jorgensen was the first person to receive said surgery in 1952. The Danish Girl tells the story of Einar Wegener and his wife, Greta, a girl from Pasadena, California, and the journey of Einar discovering that he longs to become a woman, first sparked by being asked by his wife to pose for her in womens stockings and shoes. David Ebershoff is originally from Pasadena, California and uses his extensive knowledge of the Pasadena area to give the character of Greta Wegener a background story founded in America. The real-life wife of Einar, Gerda Wegener, was not from the United States at all however, she was a woman born and raised in Denmark, where she met Einar Wegener, her then painting professor. |
| THE PHILOSOPHICAL POETIC ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE OF TRANSFORMATIVE HERMENEUTICS | Author : R. D. Walsh | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Philosophical poetics, as explored in this paper, is a personally transformative, intuitive, hermeneutical practice of meaning appropriation that is attitudinally open and vulnerable to the unsaid and infinite textual horizon of the text, the latent and emergent senses of the text, rather than on the analysis of objectively manifest content. It is distinguishable from other hermeneutical practices of interpretation by its prioritizing of an attitude on the part of the aspirant reader that entails an affective, non-representational intentionality independent of or prior to any scientific, calculative, reductive, propositional, objectivist thinking, and the positivist interpretive attitude associated with that orientation. The practice of this attitude of open and vulnerable receptivity as way of allowing unsuspected dimensions of the text to reveal themselves is the main subject of this inquiry. Attitude is construed as the relative positioning or posturing of an intentionality in relation to the infinite horizon of the textuality of the text. Following an introduction to the idea of philosophical poetics as a transformative, therapeutic, hermeneutical attitude of the reader that allows the unsaid heart of the matter behind the said of the text to emerge and show itself, this hermeneutical practice is deployed in an interpretation of Platos Sophist. The reading of the Sophist sketched here strives, not to be definitive in relation to the long and robust history of interpreting the ever-enigmatic Sophist. Rather, my more limited aim is to demonstrate the practice of the phenomenological poetic attitudinal strategy as an interpretive orientation while at the same time showing, as if incidentally, that the Sophist itself, considered as a literary and philosophical work of art, is a non-representational depiction of the necessity for the kind of philosophical poetic practice of transformative reading described herein. |
| Using the art of medical illustration to enhance anatomy education | Author : Valerie Weiss , Krista Casazza | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :The pairing of science and art represents a practical approach to simplify the complexity of anatomical education. Medical drawing allows learners to develop a deeper understanding of the bodys functions, thus optimizing higher education in the health sciences. During the first half of the semester, the central learning objective was two-fold: becoming acquainted with the field of medical illustration and its many facets as well as learning the fundamentals of drawing. Discussions focused on decision-making in the composition design process as well as in the effectiveness of artistic elements. During the second half of the semester, necessitated by COVID-19, the course transitioned to online synchronous meetings via Zoom. All the students continued to draw, collaborate, and share feedback of their progress. The students found that their learning by drawing was therapeutic, especially while self-isolating. Student feedback was 100% positive. Indirectly, we aimed to nurture the students problem solving and investigative skills. This learner-centered elective course represented a unique experience for scientifically minded students to use skills other than the traditional modalities for their academic learning. Collectively, these principles support self-directed, life-long learning. In summary, this multi-disciplinary learner-centered approach to teaching anatomy motivates and reinforces student learning within the health sciences. |
| Preparing preservice teachers for rural and remote schools: Is classroom readiness enough? | Author : Sue Hudson , Kenneth Young, Catherine Thiele, Peter Hudson | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Staffing rural and remote (RR) schools in Australia is an ongoing issue. Universities and schools need to investigate preparing preservice teachers for teaching in such contexts. The aim of this research is to describe preservice teachers perspectives of their readiness for teaching in RR schools within four constructs, namely: self, classroom, school, and community. One-to-one semi-structured interviews were undertaken to investigate preservice teachers (n=6) experiences for teaching in RR contexts within these constructs as a result of their in-school experience. Findings indicated that despite little holistic induction processes, these preservice teachers reported they were supported to varying degrees across the constructs. Five of the six participants had a sense of belonging and connectedness (self), all were provided with pedagogical support, in particular behaviour management (classroom), most had understandings about systems and procedures (school), and there were general understandings about the communities roles in school settings (community). The four constructs present a model with a potential lens for structuring teacher readiness for teaching in RR schools with self (e.g., wellbeing, self-efficacy, psychological state) at the centre. Developing university-school programs that target the four constructs may help to advance preservice teacher readiness for teaching in RR schools towards addressing teacher shortages. |
| Accessibility of information for the prevention of the spread of SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus as a necessary element of social inclusion and change | Author : Varvara Vamvoura , Lefkothea Kartasidou | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :The purpose of the paper is to explore the views of the Greek people with and without disability regarding the conditions and changes inflicted in their everyday lives due the COVID-19 pandemic, and to examine whether the need for the provision of accessible information to people with disability is understood and accepted. Data were gathered by electronic questionnaire, which was constructed ad hoc and completed by people with and without disabilities (N = 138). It was found that the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented global crisis, can leverage the inclusion of people with disability to public space. The rapid changes caused by the pandemic and the social distancing measures enforced, made clear that the constant flow of accessible to all information is a matter of imperative necessity. This new common understanding is considered important for the general production of accessible information and, therefore, the protection of the rights of people with disability in general. |
| SUBALTERN MIGRANT CHILDREN’S TACTICS TO LEAK THROUGH CRACKS IN EVERDAY LIFE: AN EXAMPLE OF A NEIGHBORHOOD IN ANKARA | Author : Dr. Aytul Kasapoglu | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Turkey is one of the countries that feel the pressure of an intense and rapid irregular migration that started with the 2011 Syrian civil war and continued with Afghans in 2021. The main problem of this research is the relationship between forced migration and subalternity, in relational sociological terms, by avoiding a linear determinist view. In this context, the main question that the research seeks to answer is how Syrian children manage their daily lives in a foreign country. In de Certeaus terminology, it is how they practice the art of making to do with or art of presence. The study was based on the assumption that immigrant children are subaltern as well as their parents, and each childs situation is unique. The importance of the study stems from the critical look at the strategy-tactics and time-space duality, which is frequently used with reference to De Certeau in the current literature. In addition, the fact that migrants or refugees are not viewed as passive and weak, but rather in a liminal status makes the study unique. In the article, the serious struggle policies developed by Syrian children at a level that cannot be seen only as tactics are tried to be understood and interpreted with a relational and reflexive point of view. In the study, while the grounded theory methodology was applied in all its stages as open, axial and selective coding, immigrants were narrated with the stork metaphor. It has been understood that subaltern children do not pursue tactics only by being cunning, on the contrary, they develop very serious struggle policies, and they are in liminal status when they leak from the cracks.
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| Digital Disruption under the Covid- 19 Situation: Impact on Thai Education Management | Author : Thitavan Hongkitiyanon , Boonleang Thumthong | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Digital Disruption is a change that brings a more efficient approach. Lets destroy the existing pattern. This is a result of the rapidly evolving digital technology. Coupled with the arrival of enormous resources that can be accessed by internet communication that is connected all over the world. Causing the world to change in all aspects unpredictably Thailands education even if Covid-19 As an accelerator, the education system needs to be completely changed. by using lessons from the international community to adapt to the context The learning management model of educational institutions used in the Covid - 19 situation during the semesters opening period were classroom learning management (on -site) , learning management via television (on -air), learning management. Through online (Online) teach management by home visit (On hand) the management style will vary depending on the area and risk of infection. And for online learning management there are different platforms to use.
Positive effects on learning management were found. Educational institutions have adjusted their plans and goals in educational management. The Internet network system has been improved to be of higher quality. New learning management styles and technologies are being used, and new assessment methods are being used more and more. Executives develop themselves to have knowledge and management skills. Teachers learn and develop more technology skills. And teachers change the way of teaching appropriate measurement methods Students spend more time with their families. Students can reduce the time, risk and cost of commuting to school. As for the negative effects, it was found that the internet network and communication are insufficient and the signal is unstable. Most educational institutions do not receive budget support from their respective agencies. The quality of teacher learning management declined. Teachers are concerned about the new learning arrangements. And students academic achievement will decline. Students receive less practice skills and are unable to do study activities with their peers. And lost the opportunity to learn from real practice and parents have to pay for the provision of materials, equipment, technology and the Internet for learning. |
| On Korean Pronouns and Korean Null Arguments: a Merge-based Analysis | Author : Namkil Kang | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :The ultimate goal of this paper is to explain the difference between Korean overt pronouns and Korean null arguments in terms of Merge, and Transfer. A major point to note is that Korean pronouns are sensitive to phi-features, whereas Korean null arguments are not. The Korean pronouns ku he and ku-tul they match their antecedents for phi-features, whereas Korean null arguments cannot. A further point to note is that there are differences in interpretive behavior between Korean pronouns and Korean null arguments. First, the Korean plural pronoun ku-tul they and Korean null arguments function as a bound variable, whereas the Korean singular pronoun ku he cannot. Second, the peculiar property of Korean pronouns and Korean null arguments can be observed within opaque contexts. Third, the Korean pronoun ku-tul they can have overlapping reference, whereas Korean null arguments cannot. Fourth, the Korean pronoun ku-tul they and Korean null arguments permit split antecedence, but they are different from each other. Fifth, the Korean pronoun ku they induces an indirect thought, whereas Korean null arguments yields a direct thought. This paper argues that these five properties of Korean pronouns and Korean null arguments can be captured by embedded predicates, Merge, and Transfer. |
| INTERNATIONALISATION: AN ENCOUNTER BETWEEN HOME AND OTHER THEATRE CULTURES | Author : NGUYEN DINH THI | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Nguyen Dinh Thi, the Director of the Hanoi Academy of Cinema and Theatre, in this paper, outlines his theory of Internationalisation, where traditional forms of Vietnamese theatre encounter theatrical forms from other cultures. The processes of intermingling of differing cultural performance practices and expressions and the degree to which these are assimilated with traditional forms influence the cultural heritage maintained in Vietnamese theatre. Referencing prominent performance studies theorists, this paper reflects on the difference between Vietnamese and American concepts of cultural exchange. Offering a range of examples, this paper differentiates between the maintenance or loss of cultural meaning in contemporary Vietnamese theatre productions where cross-cultural influences are at play.
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| Militiamen, Putschists, Terrorists an Outline of the History of the Activities of Radical Right Wing Secret Organisations and Paramilitary Formations | Author : Balazs Kantas | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :In the 1920s, paramilitary violence was an almost natural phenomenon in Hungary, like in many other countries of Central Europe. After the dissolution of the Austro Hungarian Empire the new right-wing government, establishing its power with the help of the Entente powers, could difficulty rule the quasi anarchistic conditions. In 1920 to 1921, Hungary was terrorized by irregular military formations that were formally part of the National Army, and radical right wing soldiers committed serious crimes frequently by anti-Semitic motivations. Although paramilitary violence ceased in 1921, the militia movement lived on in the form of secret paramilitary organizations. The government used up these units, since the right-wing elite was afraid of another communist takeover, using them as auxiliary police forces, and they also wanted to circumvent the limitations of armament of the Treaty of Trianon, also aiming to cooperate with Austrian and German radical-right paramilitary groups including Hitlers National Socialist movement as well. Irregular soldiers became concerned in political terrorism, several bomb outrages. Although the police did its best to investigate the cases, most perpetrators interestingly were not sent into prison. The age of the bomb raids, as the press of the opposition called this period, finally ended with the fact that murderous, anti-Semitic terrorists remained at large, and found their places in the authoritarian conservative regime of Hungary of the 1920s. The article, as an extract of a long monograph published in Hungarian by the author, briefly reconstructs certain political crimes committed by the members of irregular military formations based on archival records of criminal suits. Furthermore, beyond the analysis of the individual cases of three different, but interrelating bomb outrages, it intends to draw general conclusions about the controversial and complex relationship between the early Hungarian paramilitary radical right wing movements and the government, considering that several paramilitary commanders operated as influential radical right-wing politicians as well. |
| Measuring students’ attitude towards Poetry | Author : Aliki Symeonaki , Maria Symeonaki , Aggeliki Kazani | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :This paper develops a valid and reliable Likert scale for measuring students attitude towards poetry which is constructed and implemented through an empirical study that captures the attitude of 225 high school students towards poetry and their knowledge concerning poetry-related issues. The research thus proposes a scale to measure students attitude using Likert scaling theory, which can be used in other empirical surveys that aim at measuring attitudes towards poetry. The psychometric properties of the proposed rating scale are examined, and the findings show that the measurement of the attitude towards poetry produced is both valid and reliable, while statistical analysis reveals that the final scores are highly associated with a number of socio-demographic indicators. More specifically, the results reveal that a more positive attitude towards poetry would appear among students with highly educated parents, where poetry books are present in the house, when students read poetry in their free time and when parents have read literature books to the students when they were growing up. |
| MAURICE BOURGEOIS: John Millington Synge and The Irish Theatre (second edition) Constable & Company LTD: London. Press, 1913.Pp.xix,337 | Author : Turkan KAPLAN | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :John Millington Synge and The Irish Theatre by Maurice Bourgeois is a book dealing with the life and works of Synge within the framework of Irish history and theatrical background. This work is most likely to appeal especially to the students in their research or to the ones who are interested in Irish Literature. The author explores not only Synges life beginning from his childhood to his death but also his plays overall in seven parts. In this book one of the main concerns of the writer is to present some facts which have not come to light about Synge and to set the circumstances in which he created his works, by giving some samples of experiences from his life besides the Irish Theatre of the time.
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