128 research outputs found
Language learning through critical pedagogy in a “Brave New World”
No full textAfter 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
No full textThe 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
No full textThis 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
Recent trends and future directions of congestion management strategies for routing in IoT-based wireless sensor network: a thematic review
No full textThe rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) has paved the way for the development of smart systems, with Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) serving as the underlying infrastructure. While it exists in a miniature form, IoT-based WSN today stands as the revolution of the future, promising tremendous influence on society. However, the limited resources of these networks pose various challenges, particularly in routing, with congestion being a significant issue that affects their efficiency. Although previous studies are available on congestion management in WSNs, research specifically focused on IoT-based WSNs and addressing the root causes of congestion is none. In order to address this gap, this article conducts a thematic review of the current literature to identify congestion management strategies and forecast future trends. The search identified 86 studies, among which 47 articles were analyzed. The six final themes were discovered: artificial intelligence approach, customized classical method, hybrid approach, cross-layering approach, SDN-based approach, and RPL routing advancement. The findings establish a comprehensive taxonomy model as a conceptual framework for future research in congestion management strategies for IoT-based WSNs routing. This taxonomy aids academic researchers as well as industrial practitioners and highlights crucial areas for future research on congestion issues from the perspective of Industry 4.0. © 2024, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature
The role of environmental education in sustainable consumption and lifestyle: Survey results in Hungarian higher education and high schools
No full textEnvironmental 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)
No full textThis 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
No full textThis 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
No full textExisting 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
Probing mechanism scheduling for connected coverage wireless sensor network.
No full textSensing coverage and network connectivity are two main requirements which maintain perfect operation of wireless sensor network. Joint scheduling method has considered both requirements by using random scheduling for sensing coverage, which divides sensor nodes to k subsets. Each sensor nodes randomly selects one defined subset. Then, the algorithm turns on extra sensor nodes, if necessary for network connectivity. As Extra-on sensor nodes participate in other nodes routing, some of them may be subject of many times transmission and reception. Furthermore, some of Extra-on nodes should be active the whole time to create network connectivity. Both mentioned reasons can drain out energy of those extra active nodes and may lead to network partitioning. Hence, reducing number of Extra-on nodes is important. In this study, we utilize probing mechanism scheduling in joint scheduling method to reduce the number of extra on sensor nodes. By using probing mechanism that some nodes change their working schedule, number of extra on nodes reduces by 20
Four primary tumors of lung, bladder, prostate, and breast in a male patient
No full textWe present a very rare case of quadruple cancers in a 65-year-old male patient. It is a case of both synchronous and metachronous primary malignant neoplasms occurring in four different organs. Immunohistochemical stains showed tumor cell nuclei to be negative for p53 over-expression. To our knowledge, this is the first documented case with this combination of primary tumors. The tumors included an adenosquamous cell carcinoma of the lung, transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder, and adenocarcinomas of the prostate and the breast. We also review the medical literature for the possible causes of multiple primary malignant neoplasms. Copyright © 2005 by The Southern Medical Association.BILLROTH T, 1989, 51 VORL HDB STUD ART, P14; CASELNOV.DA, 1968, OBSTET GYNECOL, V32, P826; CLEARY JB, 1975, AM J SURG, V129, P686, DOI 10.1016-0002-9610(75)90346-3; CULOTTA E, 1994, SCIENCE, V264, P16; Demandante CGN, 2003, AM J CLIN ONCOL-CANC, V26, P79, DOI 10.1097-00000421-200302000-00015; DoussisAnagnostopoulou I, 1996, J PATHOL, V178, P170, DOI 10.1002-(SICI)1096-9896(199602)178:2170::AID-PATH4483.0.CO;2-Z; FADHLI HA, 1963, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V185, P757; Gao JP, 2000, INT J ONCOL, V16, P469; Horwich A, 2004, BRIT J CANCER, V90, P294, DOI 10.1038-sj.bjc.6601499; Ireland AP, 1997, ANN SURG, V225, P17, DOI 10.1097-00000658-199701000-00003; Kony SJ, 1997, LANCET, V350, P91, DOI 10.1016-S0140-6736(97)01116-1; Luciani A, 2004, SEMIN ONCOL, V31, P264, DOI 10.1053-j.seminocol.2003.12.035; Merimsky O, 2001, CANCER, V91, P1363, DOI 10.1002-1097-0142(20010401)91:71363::AID-CNCR11403.0.CO;2-F; Mitchell ME, 1996, J CLIN GASTROENTEROL, V23, P284, DOI 10.1097-00004836-199612000-00009; MOERTEL CG, 1961, CANCER, V14, P221, DOI 10.1002-1097-0142(196103-04)14:2221::AID-CNCR28201402023.0.CO;2-6; PICKREN JW, 1963, NEW YORK STATE J MED, V63, P95; Ries L. A. G., 1994, SEER CANC STAT REV 1; Sasco AJ, 2004, LUNG CANCER-J IASLC, V45, pS3, DOI 10.1016-j.lungcan.2004.07.000; SPRATT JS, 1966, ANN SURG, V164, P775, DOI 10.1097-00000658-196611000-00001; TSUKADA Y, 1964, CANCER, V17, P1229, DOI 10.1002-1097-0142(196410)17:101229::AID-CNCR28201710023.0.CO;2-I; Warren S, 1932, AM J CANCER, V16, P1358; Weiss JR, 2005, CANCER EPIDEM BIOMAR, V14, P20; Yancik R, 2000, HEMATOL ONCOL CLIN N, V14, P17, DOI 10.1016-S0889-8588(05)70275-684
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