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Consequences of the Totalitarian past on the Albanian Post- Communist Society
No full textEnver Hoxha's communist regime lasted 45 years, leaving unstudied long-term consequences in the Albanian society. Still today, after 26 years of transition, the path of democratization of Albania remains unclear. Albania has been for more than four decades under one of the most isolated communist regimes in Europe. The transition from a communist totalitarian state to a democratic state is still incomplete even after 26 years since the fall of communism. Annual reports carried out by Freedom House noted a delay in the processes of democratic governance in Albania. In these reports, since 2007, based on the democratic indicators, Albania is defined as e hybrid regime. The aim of this paper is to argue that one of the reasons delaying democratization is the missing detachment, or the non-separation from the mentality of communist past. The methodology of this paper is qualitative nature, based on the international philosophical and political science literature. Also the author has studied countries, who have had similar experiences of totalitarian regimes and who later embraced democracy. This paper attempts to explain, that the bad governance is linked to the anti-democratic character of governance in Albania. Throughout Eastern Europe, Albania was the most radical, on the adaptation of Stalinist totalitarianism type, and nevertheless still today, is not seeking punishment of crimes of communism and has not implemented a law on lustration. The past can become an obstacle to the future when is not studied, recognized and confronted with.</jats:p
Piero della Francesca and the construction of the perspective image - Analysis and virtual reconstructions for the illustration and comprehension of the procedures described in the De prospectiva Pingendi
No full textPerspective is known and practiced today as a direct and independent method of representation, developed over the centuries thanks to the contribution of artists, mathematicians and architects that have outlined in different times and ways its principles and have proposed various possibilities of use.
The Tuscan painter Piero della Francesca, author of the well-known book De Prospectiva Pingendi, is the first one that tells us in detail about the process of construction of the perspective image of both plane and solid figure, which includes two different procedures. The first one, direct and faster, concerns the simple figures shown in the first two books – e.g. polygons, polyhedra and several volumes that derive from the addition/apposition of them – instead the second one, explained in the third book, is used for the representation of more complex solid objects, as the human head or the Italic capital.
In this last procedure, Piero della Francesca synthesizes the projective principle that generates the perspective image and characterizes all of the perspective machines built from the Renaissance period, as the famous Dürer’s Door. The physical model proposed by the Tuscan painter is a more refined system, which allows to reproduce the spatial operations of projection and section on the plane – the sheets – by using the double orthogonal projections and obtain the data – registered on different rulers, some made of wood, other of paper – that are required to reach the perspective representation of the subject in the final drawing.
This study aims to draw attention to the comprehension and illustration of this refined mechanical procedure introduced by Piero della Francesca to reproduce the principles of perspective representation and that will be crucial for the development of the famous indirect process known as the method of the architects
HAUPTFIGUR UND IHRE CHARAKTER IN DEM DRAMA DIE KINDERMÖRDERIN VON HEINRICH LEOPOLD WAGNER
No full textABSTRACT
Literary work is a reflection of the reality. Literary works do not just exist. In creating a literary work, an author is not only imagining things, but there is the underlying life.Drama is a literary work that tells the story through dialogue of the characters. There is no narrator in drama just as in others literary (prose and poetry).Therefore, the whole story is expressed through dialogue of the characters or the actors of the story. The dialogues have some purposes, one of which is to describe the characteristics of the characters. In this study the researcher will examine the drama that give more attention on the determination of the main characters and characteristics. In the play that researcherinvestigates, there are many characters which have different characteristics. Therefore, the statement problems of this research are 1) Is Evechenthe main character in the drama Die Kindermörderinwritten by Heinrich Leopold Wagner, 2)Howthe main character is being portrayed in the play Die Kindermörderinwritten by Heinrich Leopold Wagner. The objectives of this study are 1) proving whether Evechen is the main character or not in the play by Heinrich Leopold Wagner,Die Kindermörderin, 2) describing the characteristics of the main characters in the play Die Kindermörderin composed by Heinrich Leopold Wagner.
This study is a qualitative research, in which the descriptive data will be rich of words and utterances from the characters dialogues which is analyzed in the play Die Kindermörderin written by Heinrich Leopold Wagner. The data source of this study is a play entitled Die Kindermörderinwritten by Heinrich Leopold Wagner. Data analysis techniques conducted in this study include 1) Collecting data from the dialogues in the playDie Kindermörderincomposed by Heinrich Leopold Wagner. 2) Grouping the data that has been collected based on the statement of research problems to facilitate the analysis. 3) Analyzing and interpreting the data using the theories and concepts that have been described previously. 4) Consulting the resultof the analysis. 5) Reporting the analysis data which is suitable with description of data. 6) Creating a corpus of data to make it easier to know the results of the analysis data according to the data that has been grouped. Researcher uses Sudjiman theory to determine the main character and the theory Sumardjo and Saini in determining the characteristics of the main character. The result of the analysis concluded that Evchen is the main character of Die Kindermörderin who has an honest character
Embodied-Visual Practices during Conversational Repair : Scoping Review
No full textRepair organization provides a powerful mechanism for handling problems of mutual understanding in natural conversation. Our study reviews past research on repair initiation and resolution practices involving embodied-visual practices, including eye gaze, facial expressions, hand gestures, and head and body movements. We charted details of theoretical background, methodology, and main findings for 31 studies. Embodiment was studied equally in connection with self- (SIR) and other-initiated repair (OIR); gaze and gestures were the most commonly studied embodied-visual practices. In OIR sequences, research has focused on upper body and gaze. In SIR sequences, more gestures were examined, but this may be specific to word search, which was predominant in SIR studies. In addition, embodied-visual practices can form gestalts independently from talk, and can occur early in the repair sequence, even pre-trouble source. Data were in Argentine Sign Language, Cha’palaa, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Turkish, and Yélî Dnye.Peer reviewe
Monitoring and evaluation of education in Nigeria: challenges and ways forwards
No full textThe article discusses the challenges preventing effective monitoring and evaluation of education in Nigeria. Secondary data was used to support the points raised in the article. The secondary data were sourced from print material and online publication by recognized institutions and individual author. There are many challenges militating against effective monitoring and evaluation of educational programme in Nigeria. Some of the challenges include; inadequate funding of monitoring and evaluation programmme, inadequate professional monitoring and evaluating officers, poor capacity development of monitoring and evaluating officers, corruptions, insecurity, inadequate monitoring and evaluation tools, political instability and lack of political support. To solve this challenges, this article recommends the following: the government should provide: adequate funding for monitoring and evaluation programmme, employment of more professional evaluator and monitors, constant capacity development programme for monitoring and evaluating officers, fight all institution corruption, provide security for Monitoring and Evaluating officers, provide adequate monitoring and evaluation tools, ensure political stability and the political officeholders should support the activities of monitoring and evaluation in the country
NONSENSNO PJESNIŠTVO U KONTEKSTU HRVATSKOG DJEČJEG PJESNIŠTVA
No full textNonsens i jezični ludizam, odnosno poigravanje smislom i jezikom, temeljne su odrednice suvremenog dječjeg pjesništva. Cilj rada jest ukazati na važnost upoznavanja djeteta sa suvremenim, drugačijim stihom, koji mu je, iako zahtijeva složeniju metodičku obradu, u svojoj vedrini, zaigranosti i nepredvidivosti blizak i privlačan. Nakon kratkog prikaza strukture rada i definiranja cilja u uvodnom dijelu, prvo poglavlje autorica započinje određivanjem pojma dječje književnosti. Osvrće se zatim na namjenu i žanrovsku podjelu, ukazujući pritom na razilaženja u klasifikacijama različitih autora. Drugo je poglavlje posvećeno pojmu i osnovnim odrednicama dječjeg pjesništva, a slijedi povijesni pregled dječjeg pjesništva uz predstavljanje ključnih autora. U četvrtom poglavlju u kontekstu suvremenog dječjeg pjesništva autorica definira pojam nonsensa, smještajući ga zatim u povijesni kontekst na primjerima opusa Edwarda Leera i Lewisa Carrola. Prikaz nonsensnog pjesništva u kontekstu hrvatskog dječjeg pjesništva započinje pregledom primjera iz opusa Grigora Viteza i Zvonimira Baloga, a nastavlja ukazujući na značajke jezičnog i misaonog ludizma u pjesništvu njihovih suvremenika i nasljednika; Paje Kanižaja, Luke Paljetka, Stanislava Femenića, Branka Hribara te Josipa Ivankovića. Ukazuje pritom na sličnosti i razlike njihove poetike i pjesništva njihovih prethodnika. Sljedeće poglavlje rada usmjereno je na odnos poezije i djeteta, odnosno na problem recepcije i interesa djeteta za poeziju. Autorica upućuje na aktivnu ulogu djeteta pri recepciji, naglašavajući važnost upoznavanja djeteta s poezijom koja mu je bliska i za koju pokazuje interes.
Zaključuje kako nonsensno pjesništvo zahtijeva više interesa i angažmana kako od književnih teoretičara, tako i od učitelja i nastavnika, naglašavajući pritom potrebu za što većom zastupljenošću suvremenih poetskih obrazaca u odgojno-obrazovnom procesu.Nonsense and ludism, i.e. playing with meaning and language, are the fundamental determinants of modern children's poetry. The aim of the paper is to point out the importance of introducing the child to a modern, different verse, which, although it requires more complex methodical processing, in its cheerfulness, playfulness and unpredictability is close and appealing to it. After a brief presentation of the structure of paper and the definition of the aim in the introductory section, the first chapter begins by determining the term of children's literature. Author then refers to the purpose and genre division, pointing to differences in the classifications of different authors. The second chapter is dedicated to the term and the basic determinants of children's poetry, followed by a historical overview of children's poetry with the presentation of key authors. In the fourth chapter in the context of contemporary children's poetry, the author defines the term of nonsense, placing it in historical context on the examples of Edward Leer's and Lewis Carrol's work. The depiction of Nonsense poetry in the context of Croatian children's poetry begins with an overview of the poetry of Grigor Vitez and Zvonimir Balog, and continues by pointing to the features of words and meaning play in the poetry of their contemporaries and successors; Pajo Kanižaj, Luko Paljetak, Stanislav Femenić, Branko Hribar and Josip Ivanković. In doing so, author points to the similarities and differences between their poetics and the poetry of their predecessors. The next chapter focuses on the relationship between poetry and the child,
i.e. the problem of reception and child's interest in poetry. The author points to the active role of the child in the process of reception, emphasizing the importance of introducing the child to poetry that is close to it and for which he shows interest.
Author concludes that nonsense poetry requires more interest and engagement from both literary theorists and teachers, while stressing the need for as much representation as possible of modern poetic patterns in the educational process
Loss-of-function SMPD1 gene variant in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy-Richardson Syndrome patients of Chinese ancestry
No full textLysosomal dysfunction plays an important role in neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's disease (PD) and possibly also Parkinson-plus syndromes such as progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). This is exemplified by the involvement of the GBA1 gene, which results in a deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme glucocerebrosidase, and is currently the most frequently identified genetic factor underlying PD worldwide. Pathogenic variants in the SMPD1 gene are a recessive cause of Niemann-Pick disease type A and B. Here, we provide the first report on an association between a loss-of-function SMPD1 gene variant present in heterozygous state (p.Pro332Arg/p.P332R, which is known to result in reduced lysosomal acid sphingomyelinase activity), with PSP-Richardson syndrome in three unrelated patients of Chinese ancestry
The 7Ms pedagogy model: Instructional design for learners with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This study presents a new framework for designing pedagogy in an informed and controlled way. It considers the importance of progression of pedagogy during a learning episode, so that an instructor can modify the pedagogical approach as well as the content in a lesson. The significance and novelty of this research lie in the proposals to provide support for ADHD learners and assist them to overcome their academic weaknesses/challenges through appropriate pedagogically sound interventions. Therefore, in order to contribute to the development of a suitable pedagogical approach for children who diagnosed with ADHD, issues of having ADHD are discussed within the scope of the research. In this respect, an aetiological model of ADHD has been developed to identify different levels of impairments as well as to clarify areas in which educational pedagogies must address the limitations of ADHD learners. Early stage results described here consider evidence to determine the viability of two literature-based models, named the ‘6Ms pedagogy model’ and the ‘aetiological model of ADHD’. In identifying the need to explore an accurate pedagogical model for ADHD children, two models have been evaluated. The analysis is based on a combination of secondary analysis, qualitative, and quantitative data analysis, which covered data, collected from expert advice, including that from professionals, coaches, and teachers and from those involved in the education of learners with ADHD and parents. Evidence from findings on ADHD is married to a new model of pedagogy named the ‘7Ms pedagogy model’. The ADHD pedagogical model is then evaluated by SEN teachers serves to facilitate well-informed and targeted design decisions about pedagogy, which could provide children with support and help them overcome academic limitations.
Keywords: Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder; 6Ms Pedagogy Model; 7Ms Pedagogy Model; learning theories; aetiological model; typically developing learners (TDLs); and special educational needs (SEN)
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Global uncertainty in the diagnosis of neurological complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection by both neurologists and non-neurologists: An international inter-observer variability study
No full textIntroduction: Uniform case definitions are required to ensure harmonised reporting of neurological syndromes associated with SARS-CoV-2. Moreover, it is unclear how clinicians perceive the relative importance of SARSCoV-2 in neurological syndromes, which risks under- or over-reporting. Methods: We invited clinicians through global networks, including the World Federation of Neurology, to assess ten anonymised vignettes of SARS-CoV-2 neurological syndromes. Using standardised case definitions, clinicians assigned a diagnosis and ranked association with SARS-CoV-2. We compared diagnostic accuracy and assigned association ranks between different settings and specialties and calculated inter-rater agreement for case definitions as "poor" (kappa <= 0.4), "moderate" or "good" (kappa > 0.6). Results: 1265 diagnoses were assigned by 146 participants from 45 countries on six continents. The highest correct proportion were cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST, 95.8%), Guillain-Barre ' syndrome (GBS, 92.4%) and headache (91.6%) and the lowest encephalitis (72.8%), psychosis (53.8%) and encephalopathy (43.2%). Diagnostic accuracy was similar between neurologists and non-neurologists (median score 8 vs. 7/10, p = 0.1). settings with few neurologists. However, encephalopathy, encephalitis, and psychosis were often misdiagnosed
