Dead End Research Articles

Eğitimde Denetim Çıkmazı: Bir Kısır Döngü

The supervision system is one of the most important pillars of the education system and undoubtedly plays an important role on its development. However, new regulations made almost every year cause constant questioning about whether it works or not in the supervision system and its practices. In this study, it was deemed important to evaluate the supervision system from the perspective of those who directly supervise. Therefore, detailed interviews were held with education supervisors regarding the changes and regulations. It was determined that the majority of the participants evaluated the current structure negatively. The results of constant changes in the supervision structure affect both the supervisors and the whole system, and cause a great deal of damage in many ways. The supervisors mostly stated that there is uncertainty in the supervision system and that it damages the independent structure of the system and so this creates a vicious circle. The fact that changes and innovations made to improve the system are constantly putting the system into a dead end. It is recommended to make changes that will ensure the development of educational supervision in a stable manner.

Creating a Pathway for a Dead End: Horse Shoe Flap Vaginoplasty for Mayer–Rokitansy–Kuster–Hauser Syndrome: A Case Report

Creating a Pathway for a Dead End: Horse Shoe Flap Vaginoplasty for Mayer–Rokitansy–Kuster–Hauser Syndrome: A Case Report

Implementation of Religious Moderation in the Non-Formal Education in Forming a Multicultural Society

Sharia has taught moderation through several verses in the Qur'an, such as surah Al-Baqarah verse 256 and surah Yunus verse 99. Meanwhile, Prophet Muhammad taught moderation during his stay in Medina, as stated in the Medina Charter. This charter has given enough space for non-Muslims to worship without interference. Today, moderation is often preached at both institutional and cultural levels. However, its implementation is usually a dead end. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the implementation of moderation in shaping a multicultural society. The results of this study show that religious implementation can start from the most minor institutions, such as TPQ and family. In addition, religious moderation is also the basis of cultural life because moderation will bring justice, balance, and compassion. The implementation of religious moderation within the framework of a multicultural society must be done from an early age. Good habituation will form a good and strong character that is shown by mutual respect, appreciation of differences, and love for the nation and state. Among the habits to form a moderate character are memorizing short letters that explain the interpretation of bismillah, praying in the congregation as a symbol of unity and integrity, then for confirmation of faith, and khatmil Quran, which begins with singing the national anthem.

The Force-Velocity Profiling Concept for Sprint Running Is a Dead End.

In this commentary, I present arguments against the use of the force-velocity profiling concept in design and adaptations of training programs targeting sprinting. The purpose of this commentary is to make sports practitioners more aware of the rationale behind the concept and explain why it does not work. Force-velocity profiling is a mathematical way to present the velocity development during sprint behavior. Some details of this behavior may be accentuated by transforming it to other variables, but it does not add any new information about sprint performance. Thus, contrary to what is often claimed, the force-velocity profile does not represent maximal capacities (ability of force and velocity generation) of the athlete. It is claimed that through force-velocity profiling one may identify the optimal ratio of force and velocity capacities. Furthermore, proponents of the force-velocity profiling concept suggest that through directed training force and velocity capacities can be altered (inversely dependent) to obtain this optimal ratio, without changing the capacity to express power. Fundamentally, this idea is unfounded and implausible. At best, force-velocity profiling may be able to identify between-athletesdifferences. However, these can be more easily deduced directly from performance time traces.

‘Prototypical autism’ research is likely a dead end

‘Prototypical autism’ research is likely a dead end

Why Professor Habermas Would Fail a Class on Dialectic of Enlightenment

Would Habermas’s “The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightenment” pass muster as coursework in a class on Dialectic of Enlightenment? Using this polemical thought experiment setup as an estrangement device, I critically discuss Habermas’s essay that was pivotal in his repositioning of Critical Theory in the 1980s. I argue that it is philosophically and biographically unreflective; and that he is engaging in underhanded politicking. I sketch an alternative reading of Dialectic of Enlightenment: instead of viewing it as the dead end that Habermas presents it to be, we can see as a self-therapeutical exercise in destabilizing a complacent self-conception whereby modernity is the pinnacle of moral progress—an exercise which might have a certain exemplarity for others in the ongoing quest of making use of our own understanding. The contribution is rounded off with a postscript by a second assessor of Habermas’s essay, discussing both the proposed assessment and the polemical thought experiment.

Characters' Motivational Status Level and Dead End in Anglophone African Literature

Characters' Motivational Status Level and Dead End in Anglophone African Literature

It might be a dead end: immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy in EGFR-mutated NSCLC.

Despite innovative advances in molecular targeted therapy, treatment strategies using immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) for epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have not progressed significantly. Accumulating evidence suggests that ICI chemotherapy is inadequate in this population. Biomarkers of ICI therapy, such as programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), are not biomarkers in patients with EGFR mutations, and the specificity of the tumor microenvironment has been suggested as the reason for this. Combination therapy with PD-L1 and cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 (CTLA-4) inhibitors is a concern because of its severe toxicity and limited efficacy. However, early-stage NSCLC may differ from advanced-stage NSCLC. In this review, we comprehensively review the current evidence and summarize the potential of ICI therapy in patients with EGFR mutations after acquiring resistance to treatment with EGFR-tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) with no T790M mutation or whose disease has progressed on osimertinib.

A saviour or a dead end? Reservation of rights in the age of generative AI

A saviour or a dead end? Reservation of rights in the age of generative AI

Motion of microswimmers in cylindrical microchannels.

Biological and artificial microswimmers often have to propel through a variety of environments, ranging from heterogeneous suspending media to strong geometrical confinement. Under confinement, local flow fields generated by microswimmers, and steric and hydrodynamic interactions with their environment determine the locomotion. We propose a squirmer-like model to describe the motion of microswimmers in cylindrical microchannels, where propulsion is generated by a fixed surface slip velocity. The model is studied using an approximate analytical solution for cylindrical swimmer shapes, and by numerical hydrodynamics simulations for spherical and spheroidal shapes. For the numerical simulations, we employ the dissipative particle dynamics method for modelling fluid flow. Both the analytical model and simulations show that the propulsion force increases with increasing confinement. However, the swimming velocity under confinement remains lower than the swimmer speed without confinement for all investigated conditions. In simulations, different swimming modes (i.e. pusher, neutral, puller) are investigated, and found to play a significant role in the generation of propulsion force when a swimmer approaches a dead end of a capillary tube. Propulsion generation in confined systems is local, such that the generated flow field generally vanishes beyond the characteristic size of the swimmer. These results contribute to a better understanding of microswimmer force generation and propulsion under strong confinement, including the motion in porous media and in narrow channels.

Was Freedom Road a Dead End? Political and Socio-Economic Effects of Reconstruction in the American South

Was Freedom Road a Dead End? Political and Socio-Economic Effects of Reconstruction in the American South

STRUKTURNO-SEMANTIČKI ODNOSI BORHESOVE PRIČE „VRT SA RAČVASTIM STAZAMA „I PAVIĆEVOG ROMANA „UNIKAT“

The subject of this paper is re-examination of the semantics and structure of Borges’ short story The Garden of Forking Paths and Pavić’s novel Unique Item. The aim of the research is to point to the similarity of the abovementioned works through the elements of postmodernist poetics, especially through observation of the topos of labyrinth, the role of dreams and oneiric experience in Pavić’s Unique Item, where the death of opera singer, Disteli, is being resolved through dreams. In Pavić’s novel Unique Item and Borges’ story The Garden of Forking Paths, the labyrinth is both a potential exit and a potential dead end. The novel Unique Item poses a paradoxical question to readers: does а novel with a hundred endings really have a finite end, or is it just a large labyrinth that forks in different paths? The reader has a universal opportunity to choose one path which leads him to a unique ending where he will find a killer, an accomplice or himself.

A Dead End of History? C. L. R. James and the Problem-Space of American Trotskyism

A Dead End of History? C. L. R. James and the Problem-Space of American Trotskyism

Ensuring the safety of transport processes based on improving the infrastructure of railway stations

In the process of organizing transportation on the world railway transport, the issues of ensuring a high level of safety of trains and equipment do not lose their relevance. In this scientific article, a mathematical model has been developed for determining the braking distance of wagons after putting on shoes using an automatic stopping device in front of a spontaneously departing rolling stock, taking into account the number of wagons and the state of congestion. As a result, dependencies were obtained indicating the possibility of braking the rolling stock at safety and trapping dead ends.

Analysis of railway transport snow-blowing equipment operating modes by diesel generator operation parameters

Ensuring the transportation process in the Siberian region during the winter months involves protecting the railway infrastructure from external climatic factors, such as snow drifts and icing. To ensure timely clearing of tracks, a wide fleet of snow removal equipment on rails is used, the most numerous of which is the snow removal train type SM-2 and its modifications. The technological cycle of such trains can be reduced to three operations: clearing the track and loading snow mass, transportation to the unloading dead end, unloading and returning to the work site. Reducing both fuel and time resources in each technological link is an urgent task for railways. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the capabilities of monitoring the parameters of a diesel generator for more effective planning of operating modes of snow removal equipment. The current strength of three phases of a diesel generator was measured in various operating modes. The values of the current strength when starting electric drives of various train powers are estimated. The duration of operation of a diesel generator in nominal mode is compared with the operational need to set the operating mode in the technological cycle of clearing tracks from snow.

ОПРЕДЕЛЕНИЕ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЙ ИДЕОЛОГИИ СКВОЗЬ ПРИЗМУ КОНСЕРВАТИВНОЙ ПОЛИТИКО-ПРАВОВОЙ ДОКТРИНЫ

The article is devoted to the issues of defining state ideology through the prism of conservative political and legal doctrine. The authors note that one of the most important problems of modern Russian society is the search for a unifying state idea. However, no one creates an ideology from scratch; in its search, society uses the spiritual experience of previous generations. The connection of the concept of "ideology" with the concept of "state" reflects a social process in which an idea significant for the majority of the people is recognized and protected by the state as a guiding one. According to the authors, Russian society is currently in need of consolidating ideas more than ever. The dominance of liberal ideology leads to the atomization of society and leads it to a dead end. In this regard, the epoch of the XIX - early XX centuries is of interest, when the battles of Westerners and Slavophiles (liberals and conservatives) were fought not only in theory, but also in practice. The 19th century in the state and legal history of Russia is characterized by repeated attempts at liberal reforms, the formation of legal science focused on Western political and legal thought, the tendency to systematize knowledge about law, careful development of issues of legal technique, broad scientific generalizations, and the comparative method. The authors conclude that the conservative political and legal doctrine provides answers to many challenges of our time. It is time to recall the words of St. Theophan the Recluse: "The fundamental principles of Russian life are expressed in three familiar words: Orthodoxy, autocracy, nationality. That's what you need to keep! Russian Russian people will cease to be Russian when these beginnings change."

Философия и жизнь Эвальда Ильенкова

The article reveals the ideas of the Soviet philosopher Evald Ilyenkov in the context of the characteristics of Soviet philosophy. The reason for the rejection of Ilyenkov’s ideas by official Soviet Marxism was his non-orthodox understanding of Marxist philosophy as materialist dialectics, the main task of which he considered to be the discovery of the laws of knowledge. Ilyenkov was accused of “epistemology,” “idealism,” and “positivism,” although it was him who consistently criticized the idealistic and positivist tendencies in Soviet philosophy. Evald Ilyenkov, being a convinced communist, nevertheless clearly saw the tragic dead end of Soviet history. This caused both his close attention to the problem of communism as a genuine and historically objective ideal of human development, and his personal tragedy of bitter, mortal disappointment. The dialectical-materialistic concept of thinking is analyzed on the basis of the Ilyenkov’s work Dialectics of Abstract and Concrete in Scientific and Theoretical Thinking. This work is a complex, theoretical reworking of Marxist dialectics, a personal and at the same time truly scientific understanding of it. This philosophy allowed Ilyenkov to formulate the most important provisions about the nature of personality. Ilyenkov was convinced that the key to understanding personality development was not in physiology, but in the content and characteristics of sensory-concrete activity. The article also outlines Ilyenkov’s understanding of the category of “ideal” as the essence of an object or phenomenon.

О кантовском понятии человеческого достоинства сегодня

Although Kant was born three hundred years ago, his practical philosophy is still relevant and helpful for understanding difficult and crucial issues of today. One example is the strange transformation the concept of human dignity has undergone in post-Soviet Russia — in everyday language, in ideological doctrines, and in legal documents. While in ordinary life dignity is increasingly reduced to access to material benefits, in its legal sense — above all in the 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation — anti-communist ideology has turned it into the “right” to enjoy comfortable living conditions, being almost totally divorced from duties and from morality. Such interpretations of human dignity lead to a dead end, creating problems for its perception and for its relationship to other constitutional provisions — problems that are impossible to resolve in the framework of such an interpretation of right. By turning to Kant, one of the pillars of the modern egalitarian universalist conception of human dignity, we can trace the idea of personal dignity back to its origin as an absolute inner value which, unlike external material benefits, has no equivalent, and involves self-legislation, restriction of freedom, and the fulfilling of moral duty.

Host shift to non-native species or ecological dead end? Endangered branchiobdellidans (Annelida: Clitellata) found on introduced Signal Crayfish in Japan

Symbionts, including parasites, are usually small and thus have been overlooked for their existence and scientific research. In the context of biological invasion, host shifts between native and non-native species occur. Since symbionts often affect host behaviour and survival, it is important to reveal the cryptic invasions and host shifts of such small symbionts. Here, we report the first evidence of the potential host shift of a native endangered branchiobdellidans, ectosymbiotic crayfish worms, to a non-native Signal Crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus (Dana 1852), in Hokkaido, Japan. Pacifastacus leniusculus is native to North America and was recently introduced to the Atsubetsu River system in Sapporo. In addition to the North American ectosymbiont, Sathodrilus tetrodonta (Pierantoni, 1906), we found an endangered Japanese species, Cirrodrilus cirratus complex on P. leniusculus. However, C. cirratus complex as well as S. tetrodonta were not found on the native Japanese Crayfish, Cambaroides japonicus (De Haan, 1841), in the same river system, indicating a host shift of the ectosymbiont to invasive crayfish. It remains unclear whether C. cirratus complex will persist for a long time with the non-native host or if this is only a transient leading to local extinction.

Redesign of Roads for the optimization of Urban Space, integrating a Sustainable Mobility

This paper addresses “Redesign of the rural roads of the municipal capital of Huichapan, Hidalgo”, in order to generate the optimization of the Urban Space and integrate a Sustainable Mobility, through the analysis of the case study of Huichapan, Hidalgo, Mexico, which is a rural municipality, is characterized by being dispersed, faces specific mobility challenges such as coverage and availability. Together with its structure of narrow, winding streets that sometimes lead to dead ends. This paper addresses the implementation of a cycle path as an integral solution that benefits mobility, health and local economy, as a reference for the restructuring of dispersed urban-rural settlements. The initiative seeks to adhere to the national goals of sustainable urban development, considering the image of a magical town and the rich history of Huichapan, as an initiative that adapts to the context and exalts its qualities.