134 research outputs found
Language learning through critical pedagogy in a “Brave New World”
After passing their university entry exam, students who wish to study a subject at one of the Turkish universities offering English-medium courses attend a one-year preparatory class. At the end of this, they need to pass an English language proficiency exam in order to be admitted to their chosen course of study. The existing curriculum for such preparatory classes is designed to be taught in English only and very much oriented towards passing the concluding standardised language proficiency exam at the end. This approach does not teach the students any of the skills they will need for their further study, such as how to think critically or to question their own conditioning and political attitudes. Using a different methodology, the author of this paper conducted an in-class project with students learning English in a Turkish state university's preparatory class. The project was carried out within a framework of critical pedagogy and used both Turkish and English during the phases of research and discussion. Evaluating the students' own reflections on the experience as well as their final presentations which were prepared in English, the author suggests that the critical pedagogy approach in combination with a maximum use of students' means of expression and language resources led to a more meaningful learning experience - both for the students and for herself - as well as a more efficient and lasting English language proficiency. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V
Monitoring While Drilling for Investigating Critical Rock and Rock Mass Properties for Blast Design and Underground Support
The aim is to investigate critical rock and rock mass properties for modern blast- and support design and identify potential relations to parameters recorded in conventional Monitoring While Drilling (MWD) applications.Resource EngineeringGeoscience & EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
BOBURNOMA - IS INTERESTING SOURCE
This article investigates major points of the Boburnoma as one of the interesting source. Therefore, heritage of this classic novelty, the way of the learning features and points of the analytical and practical aspects were investigated by author. Moreover, as of the respected individual Zahiriddin Muhammad Babur got illustrated with major aspects of the person. Finally, paper points out both outcomes and shortcomings to get detailed illustration go both Boburnoma and Z.M. Babur to all around the world
The role of environmental education in sustainable consumption and lifestyle: Survey results in Hungarian higher education and high schools
Environmental education is expected to have significant influence on environmental awareness, everyday lifestyle and consumer behavior of the participants. Our paper aims to explore how content, intensity and ways of environmental education reflect in the knowledge, values, attitudes and actual behavior of university students and high school students in Hungary. The questionnaire-based survey was conducted by the Department of Environmental Economics and Technology at Corvinus University of Budapest (CUB), supported by the EEA and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism. The results give space to a wider comparative study both among universities representing different professions and between higher education and secondary education level. Results show that higher intensity of environmental education gradually increases the environmental knowledge of involved students \u96 at both analyzed education levels. Environmental knowledge at secondary education level was definitely higher than expected; the results at higher education level were not surprising in this sense. Environmental awareness, however, depends rather on commitment reflected in the choice of an environmental specialization at the university level. This phenomenon is more complicated at secondary school level as there is no similar specialization there. Consumer behavior is even more complex; the impact of environmental education is only one reason behind. However, the focus of environmental education is very important in the attitudes toward reducing consumption. Respondents are classified into clusters according to their consumer behaviour, environmental awareness and attitude to consumption. Interestingly, university students reported to be significantly more conscious about the negative environmental impacts and the necessity of behavioural change than respondents from secondary schools
The social class struggles concept with an interdisciplinary approach: a paramount concept for research in library and information science (LIS)
This paper analyses the social class struggles concept with an interdisciplinary approach to be used by theorists and practitioners of library and information science (LIS). This concept emerged as part of the theoretical framework employed by the author in his doctoral thesis (Muela-Meza, 2010): An Application of Community Profiling to Analyse Community Information Needs, and Providers: Perceptions from the People of the Broomhall Neighbourhood of Sheffield, UK. This concept is complemented from philosophy (Marx and Engels, [1848] 1976a), and the natural sciences (Hauser, 2006; Sagan and Druyan, 1992), and it served the author to understand better the bigger dimensions of the underlying issues behind social classes and human conflicts. It also served to understand better the contradictions between people (e.g. LIS users with contradictory and mutually exclusive information needs to be provided by libraries and other institutions of information recorded in documents), and how these intensify when these are interrelated with the social class they belong to (Muela-Meza, 2007). This paper also criticises some competing views whose proponents by pretending fallaciously and deceitfully to deny the presence of social class divides in society, such as those rhetorical ploys of post-modernism that propose capitalist-class-driven ideologues of “community cohesion” based on “social capital” (Putnam, 1999). It shows evidence of how those followers (e.g. Pateman, 2006; Contreras Contreras, 2004; Bryson, Usherwood and Proctor, 2003) of capitalist-class ideologues, by doing so they aligned their discourse to that of dominance hierarchies and hegemony against working class people, in LIS and other sciences, and the humanities. It also criticises the postmodern pseudoscience because it pretends to undermine the logical rationality fundamental in LIS and all other sciences. It recommends that LIS theorists and practitioners employ the social class struggles concept as configured here in order to understand better contradictions, conflicts, and struggles within LIS theory and practice, and also to search for broader epistemological aims such as justice and wisdom (Fleissner and Hofkirchner, 1998), concealed by the capitalist or bourgeois and middle classes for their benefit against working class
Rzeczpospolita Polska a współczesne wyzwania (globalnego) terroryzmu. Przyczynek do zrozumienia relacji terroryzmu, polityki i (edukacji dla) bezpieczeństwa
This article is a combination of reporting and analysis, constituting a relatively innovative approach in the scientific literature. It combines a report on a science-topical conference with the author’s attempt to weigh up and analyse the 16 years (as of 2017 – Z.M.) of the “war on terror” in terms of security (both external and internal) and the Republic of Poland’s raison d’état with particular emphasis on what are termed “contemporary challenges and threats”, dynamically occurring in the so-called “broad security environment” (in the perspective of Central and Eastern Europevs. the EU and NATO) (see: Summary and Conclusions). The author has used his own holistic analytical-synthetic and predictive method in accordance with the analytical paradigm proposed by Col. dr hab. Mirosław Banasik (Ph.D.), professor at UJK (Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland) (2018 – see especially: p. 13).This article is a combination of reporting and analysis, constituting a relatively innovative approach in the scientific literature. It combines a report on a science-topical conference with the author’s attempt to weigh up and analyse the 16 years (as of 2017 – Z.M.) of the “war on terror” in terms of security (both external and internal) and the Republic of Poland’s raison d’état with particular emphasis on what are termed “contemporary challenges and threats”, dynamically occurring in the so-called “broad security environment” (in the perspective of Central and Eastern Europevs. the EU and NATO) (see: Summary and Conclusions). The author has used his own holistic analytical-synthetic and predictive method in accordance with the analytical paradigm proposed by Col. dr hab. Mirosław Banasik (Ph.D.), professor at UJK (Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland) (2018 – see especially: p. 13)
Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator treatment for COVID-19 associated ARDS and acute cor pulmonale
Existing literature highlights the fact that patients with COVID-19 exhibit alterations in the coagulation process and are associated with respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, including acute respiratory distress syndrome and acute cor pulmonale. In this report, we describe the effects of systemic thrombolysis on acute cor pulmonale in a patient suffering from COVID-19. We demonstrated that systemic thrombolysis successfully improved the hemodynamics of our patient and resulted in a prominent reduction in hypercapnia, alveolar dead space, and ventilatory ratio. © 2020 The Author(s
Four primary tumors of lung, bladder, prostate, and breast in a male patient
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Additions to rust and chytrid pathogens of Turkey
WOS: 000357283100003Uromyces bornmuelleri on Bongardia chrysogonum and Physoderma maculare on Alisma plantago-aquatica have been recently discovered in Turkey. Morphological data obtained by light and scanning electron microscopy of identified fungi are presented.DUBAP (Dicle University)Dicle University [DUBAP 12ZF71]The author thanks Prof. Dr. Z.M. Azbukina (Vladivostok, Russia) and Dr. Yuri Tykhonenko (Kiev, Ukraine) for critically reading the manuscript and serving as presubmission reviewers. Especially we are grateful to Dr. Shaun Pennycook (Auckland, New Zealand) for detailed linguistic help and nomenclatural review of the manuscript. We would like thank DUBAP (Dicle University Research Projects Coordinator) for financial support of this Project (DUBAP 12ZF71). We also thank Prof. Dr. Mecit Vural (Gazi University, Ankara) and Prof. Dr. A. Selcuk Ertekin (Dicle University, Diyarbakir) for his help with the identification of the hosts
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