Brilliant Student Research Articles

PENTINGNYA SARANA PENDIDIKAN DALAM MENUNJANG KUALITAS PENDIDIKAN DI SEKOLAH

<p>Indonesian constitution mandate regarding the effort to improve the nation’s education level is not an easy thing to do and not to be regarded merely as a political product. The mandate is a prerequisite of the glory of The Indonesian republic, and therefore no bargaining should be made over it. The National education Act as the implementation of the mandate in the Indonesian Constitution, has already followed by the increase in the National Education Budget into 20% of the National Income and Expense Budget. Such a fantastic move and this writing will elaborate the use of such fund in real life to accommodate the needs of the students.<br />The vital means of education, starting from the classroom, teaching and learning aids, learning medias, books, journal, and encyclopedia as the source of learning should be improved. Therefore the implementation of the constitution should be based on the empirical needs of education. Brilliant students, the improvement education of Indonesia should be the goal of a great nation such as Indonesia.</p><p>Key words : Education means, quality, school</p>

Brilliant but Needy Students Selection Using Fuzzy Logic

It is famous that, one of the ways to break even the inequality between richer students and Brilliant but Needy Students(BbNSs) is via scholarships. However, the selection process of brilliant but needy students is often entangle with uncertainty, lack of transparency and unfairness from the experts and the vagueness of the experts’ language used linguistically. The fuzziness inherent in human reasoning couple with the biases of human by nature preclude some highly qualified brilliant but needy students from getting selected for scholarships. This study deploys Fuzzy Logic Approach(FLA) to develop an evaluation model for selecting brilliant but needy students for scholarships. The paper uses the Mamdani Inference algorithm with four input variables that constituted the input membership function and the output membership function is made of one output variable. The research concludes that; FLA objectively select the truly qualified brilliant but needy students for scholarships based on degree of membership.

Cajal and the Spanish Neurological School: Neuroscience Would Have Been a Different Story Without Them.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal was still young when he came across the reazione nera, discovered by the Italian Camillo Golgi. Cajal became absolutely entranced by the fine structure of the nervous system this technique revealed, which led him to embark on one of the last truly epic endeavors in Modern History: the characterization of nervous cells, and of their organization to form the brain. Cajal remained in Spain throughout his scientific career, working for years alone. With international recognition, Cajal began recruiting brilliant students as collaborators. A handful of his pupils also made decisive discoveries that served to lay the foundations of modern Neuroscience. Cajal’s brother Pedro, Tello, Domingo Sánchez, Achúcarro, Lafora, Río-Hortega, de Castro and Lorente de Nó worked side by side with El Maestro. While Cajal himself pronounced some of the basic rules that have helped us to understand the nervous system (the neuron theory, the law of dynamic polarization of the neuron), as well as providing innumerable details about the histological organization of the different neural structures, it was Pío del Río-Hortega who identified two of the four main cell types in the CNS (oligodendrocytes and microglia), and Fernando de Castro who described the innervation of the blood vessels and identified the first chemoreceptors in the carotid body. Together, this group of scientists is known as the Spanish Neurological School, and if they had not existed, the History of Neuroscience would surely have been quite a different story; and proof that Cajal was a truly exceptional scientist but he was not an exception for Spanish Science.

A new character-level encryption algorithm: How to implement cryptography in an ICT classroom

Students who are studying their last year at High School face the problem of deciding their professional future. It is evident that the society in which we live will demand more and more qualified and specialized positions in the different branches of engineering.The aim of this paper is to explain how we solved a real problem - ensuring the confidentiality of information - with the knowledge acquired by students during their two years studying information and communication technologies (ICT).Three brilliant students were voluntarily provided with the mentoring service in which the algorithm was designed. As a result, we could design a symmetrical character-level encryption algorithm in the classroom as a final project that we named Azrael.Unfortunately, we did not have any scholarships or funding to do the extra work we had to do, only the personal satisfaction of seeing how the different skills were successfully applied to solve a real problem.

A CHILD UPCOUNTRY DOCTOR - BY THE LABOR AND MERCY OF GOD

Data on the history of children’s health in the Samara region and the establishment of the Pediatric Faculty of the Samara State Medical University are presented. The initiator of the creation of the Pediatric Faculty in 1970 was prof. A.I. Miloserdova, who was in charge of the Department of Children’s diseases from 1957 to 1981. She both actively used the clinics of the regional children’s hospital as a base for the training pediatricians and made a great contribution to the development of the pediatric service of the Samara region. For many years her leadership of the Department of Children’s Diseases contributed to the formation of unforgettable principles of the activity not only of the Department but also of the regional children’s hospital: love for pediatrics, academicism, benevolence, decency, aspiration for new knowledge. A.I. Miloserdova prepared a whole galaxy of brilliant students, who both head the Departments of the Pediatric Faculty and implement new technologies for teaching, diagnosis, and treatment in all branches of the pediatric service of the city and the region.

Francesco Lo Coco, a distinguished hematologist and a friend.

Professor Francesco Lo Coco passed away on March 3rd. The hematology community has lost a dear friend, a respected colleague and an enlightened scientist. Francesco was a brilliant student of Franco Mandelli and made a substantial contribution to the field of translational and clinical research,

A comparison of the effectiveness of group reality therapy and positive psychotherapy on irrational beliefs and psychological hardiness in brilliant talent students

Background and aims: Irrational beliefs in brilliant talent students can influence their psychological hardiness and lead to adverse social and academic outcomes. The present study mainly aimed to compare the effectiveness of group reality therapy and positive psychotherapy in improving the irrational beliefs and psychological hardiness of male brilliant talent high school students in Shahrekord during 2017. Methods: The present experimental research, used pretest and posttest design including intervention and control groups. The study population included all the male gifted students in Shahrekord (N=276) who were first screened and then, 60 individuals were selected by convenience random sampling. Next, the individuals were assigned a number and then divided into two experimental groups (each containing 20 students) and one control group (including 20 students) using a random number table. Afterward, group reality therapy and positive psychotherapy interventions were performed within eight and ten weeks for the experimental groups, respectively. In addition, Jones Irrational Beliefs Test (IBT) and Kobasa’s Psychological Hardiness Scale were employed to data collection. Six months after post-test implementation, the students were followed up. Finally, the data were analyzed using repeated-measures ANOVA and Bonferroni post hoc test. Results: The findings revealed that group reality therapy and positive psychotherapy led to a decrease in irrational beliefs while such therapies improved psychological hardiness in brilliant talent students (P<0.001). Conversely, the results of the post-hoc test indicated no significant difference between the effects of group reality therapy and positive psychotherapy on irrational beliefs and psychological hardiness in brilliant talent students (P>0.05). Conclusion: In general, group reality therapy and positive psychotherapy reduced irrational beliefs whereas they improved psychological hardiness of the brilliant talent students and therefore, these therapies can be used as effective interventions for the intended population.

BPS Professional Practice Board Award for Distinguished Contributions to Practice – Dr Vivien Swanson

We are very pleased to announce that Dr Vivien Swanson has been awarded the BPS Professional Practice Board Award for Distinguished Contributions to Practice for her pioneering work in health psychology training, including delivering the only nationally-funded practitioner health psychology training programme in the world (NHS Education for Scotland). Dr Swanson was nominated by Hannah Dale and Jo Hart on behalf of the Division of Health Psychology and an abridged version of her nomination is included below. Upon receiving this award, Dr Swanson said: ‘I’m delighted to have received this award, and to be able to highlight the really important contribution that health psychology makes to improving health and well-being. What I have achieved in health psychology is down to positive and innovative collaborations between the NHS and DHP, practical support from the University of Stirling, and most importantly the brilliant trainees, students and colleagues I’ve worked with’.

Morphologie, Transformation und Übersetzbarkeit

The comparison of Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of symbolic forms and Levi-Strauss’ structural anthropology requires a clarification of their definitions of morphology, transformation and translatability. We will expose the morphological field where Cassirer’s aesthetics emerges in relation to Goethe, who represents an important source for Levi-Strauss as well. Defining the concept of transformation is supposed to follow his modifications of the key ideas of the German poet and biologist, by taking account of the new point of view provided by the theory of groups of transformation which the mathematician Felix Klein developed in the ≫circle of Erlangen ≪. Then we will show how Edgar Wind, a brilliant student of Cassirer, invents a kind of morphological aesthetics to provide art history with a methodology, and we will give some examples for the application of the concept of building series of pictures in the field of art history. We will examine the global function of the tables of Aby Warburg’s Atlas Mnemosyne, Erwin Panofsky’s wellknown iconological interpretation of Durer’s Melencolia I and then, by contrast, the creation of a virtual series of masks through an imaginative variation which Levi-Strauss creates to give sense to a particular Ameridian mask found during his investigations. Finally, we will investigate the problems appearing by the definition of transformation as translatability in both Cassirer’s and Levi-Strauss’ semiologies. We will ask for their uses of the model of translation in linguistics to compare different forms of structural homologies

Socio-Economic Status Of Parents And Its Effects On The Academic Performance Of Students Of Yamfo Anglican Senior High School In The Brong Ahafo Region Of Ghana

The purpose of this research was to investigate the effects of parents’ socio-economic status on the academic performance of Yamfo Anglican Senior High School Students in the Tano North District of the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. In order to have an adequate representation of the population of the study, eighty (80) students were selected from the second year class using a simple random sampling technique. The total population of second year class was 213 students. The study was a survey type and therefore a self-designed questionnaire was adopted to collect data. The data was therefore analysed via simple frequencies, tables and percentages. The socio-economic status of parents for this study was denoted by parents’ educational level, parents’ occupational level, parents’ income level and parental care. The findings of the study were that, parents’ educational level, parents’ occupational level, parents’ income level and parental care have an effect on the academic performance of students of Yamfo Senior High School. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that unemployment should be controlled. Also, needy but brilliant students should be provided with scholarships, free textbooks and stationery. In addition, government should take steps to raise the socio-economic status of its citizenry.

Steps on the Path to Unity: Courage to Pray Together

“Who are you? As a Catholic, I don’t know if I want reunion with the Orthodox until I really get to know you.” So said a brilliant graduate student, in response to a panel I hosted on the status of...

ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry: Brian M. Stoltz

Sponsor: MilliporeSigma Citation: For the development of efficient methods, particularly cascade reactions, that allow for the efficient synthesis of complex organic molecules. Current position: professor of chemistry, California Institute of Technology Education: B.S., chemistry, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; B.A., German, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; M.S., organic chemistry, Yale University; Ph.D., organic chemistry, Yale University Stoltz on what gets his creative juices flowing: “Creativity is the beauty that underscores the science. I’ve been incredibly lucky to have had a number of critically important mentors throughout the course of my scientific development. Additionally, I have benefited from exceedingly talented and quite brilliant students and colleagues in my 17 years at Caltech. It is the collective of these individuals that inspires and pushes me to a higher level.” What his colleagues say: “He is well recognized as one of the young leaders in organic synthesis and is one of the few who not only develop both new catalytic methodology but also demonstrate the methods in complex total synthesis.”—Robert H. Grubbs, California Institute of Technology.

L'insoumise de la porte de Flandre by Fouad Laroui

Reviewed by: L'insoumise de la porte de Flandre by Fouad Laroui Joseph A. Reiter Laroui, Fouad. L'insoumise de la porte de Flandre. Julliard, 2017. ISBN 978-2-260-03041-6. Pp. 131. The reader follows a young woman's physical and psychological trajectory from her Moroccan neighborhood in Brussels (Molenbeek) to the city's center, where she finds uncommon freedom. A brilliant student, Fatima has often made clear to her professors that she is a modern and liberated Belgo-Marocaine. Suddenly, however, she abandons her university studies and takes to wearing both djellaba and head scarf—surprising, since neither religious nor cultural reasons drive her. As we surmise quickly, her dress is to spare her the constant stares and disapproval of the men in her street: "Ceci, dit-on, est mon quartier, dans ma commune. [...] Mon quartier? Plutôt le leur. Celui des hommes" (8). As Fatima heads to work over the canal and through the porte de Flandre, she meets taunts from motorists and others. One calls her a corbeau, which causes her to smile hearing a word play and musing that her immense djellaba indeed covers un corps beau. This is a prelude to what is to follow. Laroui cleverly uses the topography of Brussels to mirror Fatima's transformation, from her North African bazar-like neighborhood, through a street of political billboards, and then across a city which becomes steadily more elegant. At one moment she disappears in a side street at a friend's house and emerges in stylish European fashion. And she continues to walk past shops, pausing before a lingerie boutique, and passes the nude statues hugging the Brussels Bourse, and others further on. Finally she enters"une espèce de sex-shop" (71) and goes to work. One day, Fatima does not realize that she is being followed. Fawzi Stitou, cell-phone shop owner in Molenbeek, has proclaimed himself her fiancé, is very proud of her recent submission to Islamic dress, and very curious of her destination. He arrives at rue de Malines and uneasily pays his entry fee for a peep show. Immediately afterward he dashes frenzied to Molenbeek, arms himself with a knife and is intent on killing Fatima:"[L]'honneur se lave dans le sang" (89). The same streets are traversed, and the billboards and statues seem to mock and jeer Fawzi. Fatima is no longer there when he reappears, but uncontrollable rage and frustration lead him to kill nonetheless. Police squads arrive, and Fawdi shouts "Allahou Akbar!" (95) before being shot dead. The novel takes a detour here, and attention is turned to this latest attentat terroriste. Experts at a Brussels forum (actual scholars and citations from their written and spoken commentaries) speculate on the reasons for the radicalization of yet another Belgian-born Muslim. Irony abounds, and along with it Laroui [End Page 214] masterfully satirizes press, government, and academics. The resolution in the last chapter might seem strained, with the author overly eager to have his "insoumise" transcend "le contrôle social" (33) and the world of men in general, but this does not detract from an otherwise fascinating and very timely tale. Joseph A. Reiter Phillips Exeter Academy (NH) Copyright © 2018 American Association of Teachers of French

An Unintended Effect of Financing the University Education of the Most Brilliant and Poorest Colombian Students: The Case of the Intervention of the Ser Pilo Paga Program

In this paper, we show an unintended effect of the program Ser Pilo Paga (SPP) that was a flagship program of the Colombian government between 2014 and 2018. It was designed as an intervention in the Colombian Higher Education System (CHES) by awarding, in the steady state, individual funding to about 40,000 students. Every year, 10,000 new students were chosen from the best applicants in the top decile of the population in the entrance exam to higher education in Colombia that also came from families that live under the level of poverty according to a national survey. Our approach, based on an intensive study of the changes in the statistical distributions of the exam scores during these four years, provides evidence of student performance improvements not only of the beneficiaries of the program, but also of the whole student population. This shows that the program opened similar opportunities for all the students, especially for the poorest ones. The program drove a reduction in the gap between students of the upper strata of the population and those of the lowest strata that usually did not access a high quality institution of higher education due to the lack of funding. This result has opened a debate about the optimal way of funding higher education.

Effectiveness of Vedic Mathematics in the Classrooms

Vedic Mathematics was discovered by Indian mathematician Jagadguru Shri Bharathi Krishna Tirtha in the period between A.D. 1911 and 1918. Later the findings were published in form of a book on Vedic Mathematics by Tirthaji Maharajwho was also known as Bharati Krsna. Bharati Krsna was born in 1884 and died in 1960. He was a brilliant student, obtaining the highest honours in all the subjects he studied, including Sanskrit, Philosophy, English, Mathematics, History and Science. When he heard what the European scholars were saying about the parts of the Vedas which were supposed to contain mathematics he resolved to study the documents and find their meaning. Between 1911 and 1918 he was able to reconstruct the ancient system of mathematics which we now call Vedic Mathematics.

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La recepción de Althusser en México: el caso Carlos Pereyra

The reception of the thought of Louis Althusser in Mexico took place between 1960 and 1970. The first to assimilate his theory and argue with her was the marxist thinker Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, who dedicated several essays and a fundamental book: Science and Revolution (Marxism of Althusser) (1978), besides always be a benchmark of constant controversy in most of his books where poses a different interpretation of the marxism of Althusser. Also in the decade of the seventies and eighties, a brilliant student and disciple of Sánchez Vázquez: Carlos Pereyra, published several texts influenced by Althusser thought that led him to critically assimilate many of his thesis, but also to question them when considered insufficient. The aim of this paper is to assess the althusserian influence on the work of Pereyra, particularly in his essays: Politic and Violence (1974), Settings: Theory and History (1979) and The Subject of History (1984).

Activating entrepreneurial learning processes for transforming university students’ idea into entrepreneurial practices

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore how collaborative entrepreneurial learning (EL) processes between entrepreneurs and university students can enhance the entrepreneurial practices in the context of knowledge-intensive enterprises. These learning processes represent a valuable source for entrepreneurship development in incumbent enterprises in the forms of innovative products, services, processes or organizational renewal.Design/methodology/approachAn extreme case study is the project “Mimprendo” (www.mimprendo.it), an initiative promoted by the Italian Conference of the University Colleges and the Italian Association of Young Entrepreneurs in collaboration with Italian universities. This is analyzed in the period 2009-2015, during which seven editions were developed.FindingsA framework is presented based on collaborative EL processes to perform relevant entrepreneurial projects in knowledge-intensive enterprises. The framework provides a coherent and systematic approach to generate, select and implement entrepreneurial practices in incumbent companies starting from a project competition involving creative students and innovative entrepreneurs. EL processes in the community composed of entrepreneurs, experts and university students are grouped into the entrepreneurial phases of inspiration, exploration, exploitation, acceleration and growth, and include the learning processes of “intuition and sensing,” “contamination,” “experiential and contextual learning,” “experimenting and acting” and finally “thinking and reflecting.”Research limitations/implicationsImplications for research can be identified according to many perspectives to deepen the centrality of the learning process in the research on knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship.Practical implicationsThe framework results to be a promising approach to diffuse an entrepreneurial culture both in incumbent enterprises and in university students through a synergic collaboration among industry, university and institution. Practical implications could be derived for enterprise, students and educators involved in the design of innovative learning initiatives to sustain the development of an entrepreneurial mind-set.Originality/valueThe framework contributes to extending an emerging research area exploring entrepreneurship as a never-ending dynamic learning process. The involvement of brilliant university students in activating EL process with entrepreneurs in incumbent enterprises represents a novel aspect in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation.

ATVB Named Lecture Review-Insight Into Author.

ATVB Named Lecture Review-Insight Into Author.

Phil Majerus: Champion of low-dose aspirin therapy

On June 8, 2016, the field of hematology lost one of its giants, Phil Majerus, who died after a long illness. Phil was truly one of a kind: a biochemist extraordinaire with a passion for life, a quick wit, and a colorful personality, whose discoveries changed the practice of medicine. Phil Majerus. Image courtesy of Elaine Majerus (photographer). Phil was born on July 10, 1936 in Chicago and grew up in Quincy, Illinois, where his father owned a five-and-dime store. An outstanding athlete, Phil attended the University of Notre Dame on a tennis scholarship. Upon graduation in 1957 with a Bachelor of Science degree, Phil entered Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was immediately recognized as a brilliant student who was unafraid to challenge his professors when he disagreed with their opinions. Phil graduated at the top of his class and went to the Massachusetts General Hospital for residency training in internal medicine. He then secured a research associate position at the National Institutes of Health, which allowed him to work in any laboratory he selected. Phil chose to join the laboratory of P. Roy Vagelos, who was doing groundbreaking work on fatty acid biosynthesis. Although he had no background in laboratory research, within a year Phil published his first paper on the purification and properties of acyl carrier protein, the key intermediate in fatty acid biosynthesis (1). Over the next two years, Phil, working alongside Al Alberts in the Vagelos laboratory, produced a series of classic papers that defined the steps that occur during the synthesis of fatty acids. This training in biochemistry provided the foundation for his subsequent research. When his time at NIH was nearing its end, Phil entertained a … [↵][1]1Email: skornfel{at}dom.wustl.edu. [1]: #xref-corresp-1-1