Declarative Form Research Articles

Forms of culture in the implementation of school reform efforts: A conceptual framework

Despite concerted efforts to improve educational practices through reform, classroom implementation remains a persistent challenge. This theoretical article draws on recent work in cultural sociology to offer a fresh perspective on this problem. It introduces a framework that differentiates between declarative, procedural, and public forms of culture, highlighting their unique mechanisms of internalization and enactment. This multidimensional understanding of culture reveals the cognitive challenges inherent in translating reform principles into classroom practices. More specifically, the article contends that the common assumptions of convertibility and transferability between these forms of culture underlie the limited success of many reform initiatives. By attending to the cognitive dimensions of cultural dynamics, the proposed framework opens new avenues for understanding and addressing the difficulties of educational change. This article concluded with an agenda for future research to test and refine the framework.

The Essential and Optimal Analgesic and Anti-Inflammatory Medicines for Athletes at the Olympic Games

BackgroundIn 2019, the International Olympic Committee published the first Olympic and Paralympic Model Formulary (OPF), which defined the standardised set of medications required at every Olympic and Paralympic Games for the treatment of athletes. This study aimed to test the OPF to determine whether it meets the clinical needs of the athlete population with respect to medications used for pain and/or inflammation (PI), and to present a revised set of essential PI medications for the OPF based on prevalence of athlete use. Medication-use data of athletes at the Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022 Olympic Games (n = 6155) from three sources were used to establish prevalence of PI medicine use and to revise the OPF: (i) doping control forms, (ii) pharmacy dispensing reports, and (iii) injection declaration forms. This revised list was further validated through (iv) medication importation declarations by teams (n = 156), and (v) survey of team physicians (n = 382).ResultsOverall prevalence of PI medication use was 36.7%, with higher use by female athletes (female: 44.1%; male: 30.0%; p < 0.001), with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs being the most used class (27%). Use of medications with safety risks were identified, including nimesulide, piroxicam and metamizole. A revised list of 48 PI medications was recommended for the OPF.ConclusionThe research led to a revised set of essential medications for the treatment of pain and inflammation to be available for athletes at the Olympic Games, which would lead to a 7% improvement in the numbers of athletes who could have their exact PI medication requirements met by the OPF.

Limit values in LCA-based regulations for buildings – System boundaries and implications on practice

Rapidly reducing the climate impacts of the construction and use of buildings is acknowledged as a key lever to meet European and national climate goals. Life cycle-based regulations, in the form of mandatory declaration of the climate impact of new-build, are being introduced, often planned to be or already complemented with performance-based limit values. This development has increasingly raised questions on how different system boundaries for similar limit values applied in various countries might lead to diverging implications in practice. A sample of 50 real-life case buildings of different typologies, representative of contemporary Swedish construction, is used to compare implications of two different system boundaries for embodied GHGe assessment: SB1) life cycle modules A1-A5 i.e. initial, that is upfront GHGe and SB2) life cycle modules A1-A5 + B2–B4, i.e. adding recurring GHGe, according to the European EN 15978 standard.The results show that for the two system boundaries applied, no difference is seen concerning the sample buildings' ability to perform below a limit value as defined in current Swedish regulatory plans, nor would it lead to different design choices to ensure that a building performs below the limit value. The results of sensitivity analyses along with the relative nature of the results, suggest these conclusions are also relevant for other regulatory contexts. As a conclusion, this study shows that implementing LCA-based regulations focusing on initial embodied GHGe is an important step to rapidly and effectively address GHGe associated with new-build.

Speech Act Analysis of Teacher Talk in EFL Classroom

This research aimed to classify the structural forms of utterances in locutionary acts, illocutionary acts types, and the impacts of perlocutionary acts on the students in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classrooms. This research used qualitative research to analyze the data. The subject of this research is a teacher who actively teaches in the English and Literature Department, at Universitas Islam Negeri Alauddin Makassar. Data were collected through observation checklists in the classroom and semi-structured interview with the teacher. The results showed that based on finding by Yule’s theory, the researcher found three forms of locutionary acts used by the teacher in the teaching and learning process, such as declarative form, imperative form, and interrogative form. Second, based on Searle’s theory, the researcher found the types of illocutionary acts produced by teachers during the teaching and learning process, namely representative (explaining, informing, announcing), directive (commanding, requesting, asking, suggesting), expressive (greetings, thanking, praising), and commissive (assuring, undertaking, promising). Third, based on the utterances performed by the teacher in the EFL classroom process, the researcher found perlocutionary acts such as the students asking questions, and doing something. The research concluded that language has a function in the speech act especially for facilitating communication skills of language learning and shaping the classroom dynamic.

A simple form could prevent authorship issues in Cochrane manuscripts: A cohort study

AbstractAimWe aimed to investigate authorship issues after the implementation of an authorship declaration form in a Cochrane Review Group.MethodsThe Cochrane Colorectal Group uses an authorship declaration form that consists of three parts: (1) manuscript information, (2) documentation for roles according to the four authorship criteria of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and (3) identification information of individual authors and signed approval. The manuscripts' contact authors were responsible for collecting the forms from all coauthors. This observational cohort study reports on all authorship issues in authorship declaration forms collected from February 2020 to December 2023.ResultsWe received 276/277 authorship declaration forms or replies from authors (response rate 99.6%) from 44 manuscripts, including 52% protocols and 48% reviews. There were authorship issues present in 14/44 (32%) of the manuscripts, and the most common issue was that not all authors fulfilled all four ICMJE authorship criteria. Six gift authors were removed from by‐lines. Issues in nine of the 14 manuscripts were resolved by the author group when informing them about the ICMJE authorship criteria and guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The issues in the remaining five manuscripts were unresolved since the manuscripts were transferred or rejected, thus, ceased to be developed by the Cochrane Colorectal Group.ConclusionAuthorship issues were raised in almost one‐third of manuscripts. Most issues were resolved and six gift authorships were prevented. The awareness of authorship criteria is sharpened when all authors are individually asked to fill out and sign a form. This could help decrease the rate of unethical authorships in Cochrane publications and contribute to more ethical and robust evidence production.

Separate legal aspects of movement of vehicles for personal use by natural persons across the customs border of Ukraine

The article is devoted to revealing the specifics of the practical and theoretical problems of moving vehicles for personal use by natural persons across the customs border of Ukraine, certain aspects of their customs control and customs clearance within the framework of customs regulation. Definitions of the categories "goods", "vehicles", "personal vehicles”, "commercial vehicles", "natural persons", "citizens", "personal use of a vehicle", "commercial" use of a vehicle" are defined. It was established that commercial vehicles are not goods according to the requirements of the Customs Code of Ukraine. The types of individual prohibitions when natural persons import vehicles for personal use into the customs territory of Ukraine have been clarified. It was established that customs clearance when citizens import vehicles for personal use into the customs territory of Ukraine is possible for the purpose of free circulation, and the first state registration of imported vehicles in Ukraine, new and those that were in use, or manufactured in Ukraine, is carried out on the condition that they comply with environmental standards not lower than the "EURO-2" level in accordance with technical regulations. The declaration form used by citizens to declare vehicles for free circulation has been clarified. It was revealed that in the case of citizens importing vehicles for personal use, which are imported into the customs territory of Ukraine and are subject to state registration, a customs declaration in the form of a single administrative document is provided for declaration. Features of the passage and movement of land vehicles for personal use across the customs border of Ukraine by natural persons who are not their owners are highlighted. The grounds and conditions for exemption from taxation with customs payments upon importation (forwarding) to the customs territory of Ukraine by natural persons of vehicles for personal use have been defined.

You good?: Examining the role of intonation and eyebrow movements in sentence type distinction

By analyzing the pitch accents, edge tones, and eyebrow movements of African American English (AAE) speakers, this study examines the coordination of prosody and co-speech gestures. Twelve self-identified AAE speakers engaged in scripted dialogues with an AAE-speaking confederate via Zoom. Half of the dialogues contained the polysemous AAE idiomatic phrase “you good” which has declarative and interrogative forms hypothesized to be distinguished by various eyebrow and intonation patterns. The other dialogues included non-idiomatic phrases semantically related to their “you good” equivalents. These dialogues were designed to explore whether the coordination patterns for the idioms occur with non-idiomatic utterances of the same sentence type. Acoustic data is prosodically annotated using the MAE-ToBI transcription system and visual eyebrow data is tracked using OpenFace 2.0, a facial landmark detection toolkit. The derived eyebrow movement trajectories are time-aligned with the pitch trajectories for the semi-automatic labeling of multimodal signals. The temporal relationship between eyebrow movement landmarks, pitch accents, and edge tones is examined to investigate how different meanings and sentence types are created through their coordination. Preliminary examination indicates intonationally similar contours for the idiomatic and non-idiomatic interrogative phrases, but shared and consistent intonational contours are not evident in the declarative data.

TAX DECLARATION ON INCOME TAX: PROBLEMS OF FORM AND CONTENT

Purpose. The aim of the article is to study the actual problems of the form and content of the income tax return and search for ways to improve them. Methodology of research. General scientific and specific methods were used in the research: logical analysis, systemic approach, synthesis, induction and deduction, theoretical generalization and grouping, abstract and logical – when generalizing theoretical propositions and forming conclusions and proposals. Findings. Changes to the declaration form for the period of martial law are analysed and summarized. Attention is focused on the importance of submitting annexes to the declaration, in particular financial reporting. The actual problems of submitting financial statements to the controlling body as part of the income tax return are substantiated. Common errors in filing income tax returns are analysed and summarized, tax consequences and possible ways to prevent errors are determined. Proposals regarding the improvement of the income tax declaration process are formulated. The necessity and directions for its simplification are proposed and substantiated. Originality. The urgent need to simplify the income tax declaration process for taxpayers is substantiated, and proposals for its improvement are developed, which will ensure a reduction in the amount of time spent by taxpayers on preparing and submitting reports and avoiding errors and risks. This, in turn, will contribute to the reliability of tax reporting and the correctness of calculations with the budget. Practical value. The obtained research results and developed proposals can be used for further scientific research, in the development of regulatory documents and implemented through legislative changes, as well as by income tax payers in the preparation and submission of income tax returns. Key words: Tax Code, reporting period, tax declaration, corporate income tax, tax obligations, financial reporting.

Народний характер поляків у філософсько-педагогічних експлораціях на зламі ХІХ–ХХ століть (на матеріалі спадщини Юліана Леопольда Охоровича)

There is proposed the analysis of conceptual foundations in researching of Poles’ national character on materials of Julian Leopold Ochorowicz (1850-1917) scientific heritage connected with philosophical and pedagogical implications of his ideas. Ochorowicz’s contribution to interdisciplinary approach on Poles’ national character is emphasizing. The heuristically potential of this approach is explicated using reconstruction and systemizing of his views, which had played a significant role in determining intentionality in discussions on the matter «What philosophy do Poles need?” for the successful self-statement in their national being. Critically evaluating of this experience there is combined with verifying of his theoretical assumptions that should be actual also in Ukrainian social and cultural contexts. Ochorowicz belongs to the group of outstanding Polish scholars with wide scientific interests and original achievements. This article presents his research on history perceived as a collective psychological process. In Poland, Ochorowicz should be regarded as a precursor of psychohistory. An important role in his conception is played by the theory of the so-called residual symptoms, on the basis of which he developed the concept of Poles’ national character with its educational implications. The question about the rudiments of our national character sharpens in border situations, in which those traits, previously presented in a declarative form, are verified. The strength of a nation is encoded in the irreal sphere, i.e. in the sphere of values around which people group themselves.

Language Acquisition of Declarative and Imperative Sentences in five-year-old Children

This study aims to describe the language acquisition of a five-year-old child. This research focuses on declarative and imperative sentence forms, using a descriptive qualitative approach with recording techniques. The analysis results show that the syntactic acquisition in declarative sentences has four forms, and imperative has five. The category of language acquisition at the syntactic level is good enough because there is minimal deviation from the form of speech produced. In summary, five-year-old children will likely use declarative and imperative sentences as they develop their language skills. They may start to use declarative sentences more naturally to convey information and use imperative sentences to express commands or requests, although their usage of these sentence types may vary in complexity and grammatical accuracy. Shortly, the results showed that children's utterances dominate in imperative sentences.

That is not done

Abstract Spanish third-person reflexive clitic se allows for passive and impersonal uses that can sometimes be pragmatically interpreted as directive in spite of their declarative form, e.g. Eso no se hace ‘That is not done’. This paper explores the grammatical, semantic and referential factors that promote such an interpretation, using a corpus of oral and written Peninsular media discourse and adopting a qualitative approach. Deontic readings are shown to be connected with more general uses of reflexive constructions as evidential and/or modal markers. Agent defocusing and imperfective verbal aspect construct an objective viewpoint of discourse whereby the event is detached from particular communicative circumstances. At the same time, contextual elements acting as space builders counter such objectivity by guiding the interpretation of the utterance as primarily concerning the direct participants. The analysis suggests that the inherent meanings of grammatical constructions are at the basis of their pragmatic potential in specific contexts.

Value history jako instrument przedłużenia autonomicznego charakteru decyzji terapeutycznej poza moment utraty świadomości

The concept underlying the institution of pro futuro declarations is the will to extend the possibility to determine one’s own fate beyond the moment of unconsciousness. Subsequent generations of such declarations have been the result of a search for solutions to adequately reflect the individual’s aspirations while at the same time securing their effective "enforcement". Currently, particularly within Anglo-Saxon legal culture, there is a growing interest in the institution of value history as an instrument providing justification for first- and second-generation anticipatory declarations by referring to the patient's hierarchy of values, worldview and beliefs. It is recognised, however, that such declarations make it possible not only to extend the patient's ability to determine his or her own future beyond the moment of unconsciousness, but also to attribute to such a disposition the qualities of an autonomous decision, i.e. one made by a competent person, freely exercised, informed and intentional. However, the possibility of exploiting the full potential of value history declarations is conditioned by the appropriate design of the form (in terms of both content and design) and an adequate information procedure that should precede the drafting of the declaration. Remarkably, the purely theoretical reflection that has been present since the 1980s regarding the desirable features of third-generation pro futuro declaration forms is now increasinglytaking the shape of considerations supported by consultations and research involving the participation of patients. Nevertheless, the fact that the institution of a living will or a power of attorney for health care has not yet been regulated at a statutory level in the domestic legalframework is a serious obstacle to the use of the possibilities offered by value history declarations within the Polish health care system.

Analisis Tindak Tutur Ilokusi pada Daftar Putar Maudy Ayunda’s Booklist dalam Kanal Youtube Maudy Ayunda

Illocutionary speaking acts are frequently used in social interactions. The discovery is significant because illocutionary speech acts can influence others to take action. The purpose of this research is to classify the form, function, and kind of illocutionary speech actions in addition to providing information about illocutionary speech acts that are employed in daily life. In this study, a pragmatic theoretical approach and a qualitative descriptive methodological technique were both used. Five videos from the Maudy Ayunda's Booklist playlist on her YouTube channel serve as the data source. The process of reviewing the data involved using note-taking and listening strategies. As data analysis tools, distributional method and identify method are employed in the interim. The results were achieved by finding forms of illocutionary speech acts with a declarative form which contains information, an imperative form which contains a command, and an interrogative form which states a question. Based on the types of illocutionary speech acts, the assertive types of telling and stating, the directive types of ordering and suggesting, the commissive types of promising and offering, the expressive types of congratulations and thanks, and the declarative types of agreement and decide are found. Meanwhile, based on the function of illocutionary speech acts, the fun function of praising and thanking was found, as well as the function of working together to teach and express.

Prevalence of Congenital Anomalies of the Upper Limbs in Brazil: a descriptive cross-sectional study.

Congenital Anomalies of the Upper Limb (CAUL) are a group of structural or functional abnormalities that develop during intrauterine life and can lead to limb dysfunction. To analyze the prevalence of congenital anomalies of the upper limbs in Brazil and assess maternal and neonatal variables. A cross-sectional, descriptive study was conducted on congenital upper limb malformations among live births across Brazil. The study spanned from 2010 to 2019. Data were sourced from the Department of Informatics of the Unified Health System (DATASUS) and the Live Birth Information System (SINASC) portal. Analyses focused on the information reported in field 41 of the Live Birth Declaration Form entered into the computerized system. The most common anomaly in Brazil was supernumerary fingers, classified as ICD-Q69.0, affecting 11,708 children, with a prevalence of 4.02 per 10,000 live births. Mothers aged over 40 years had a 36% higher prevalence of having children with CAUL than mothers under 40 years old (OR = 1.36; 95% CI 1.19-1.56). Newborns weighing ≥ 2,499 g were 2.64 times more likely to have CAUL compared to those weighing ≥ 2,500 g (OR = 2.64; 95% CI 2.55-2.73). There was an observed increase in the reporting of CAUL cases over the decade studied. This trend serves as an alert for health agencies, as understanding the prevalence of CAUL and its associated factors is crucial for preventive medicine.

LEGAL ASPECTS OF ENERGY COOPERATION OF THE SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION MEMBER STATES

Energy is the main area of cooperation among the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). From project cooperation to "Energy Cooperation Club" agreements, the member states' desire to jointly build energy cooperation has achieved certain results. The existing SCO energy cooperation takes the form of declarations, agreements, statements, meeting minutes and memorandums of understanding, as well as principle provisions that lack clear responsibilities in treaties. It is soft at the level of international law, and it does not fully constitute a comprehensive legal cooperation mechanism. The laws of each member state lack stability and uniformity, and existing treaties do not have corresponding mechanisms to ensure the implementation of dispute settlement solutions. There is also a lack of interest coordination mechanisms accepted by member states, making it difficult to meet the needs of current and future SCO energy cooperation. In the future, only by giving full play to the role of the "Energy Cooperation Club" and establishing a comprehensive and effective legal mechanism for energy cooperation, including energy cooperation information sharing mechanism, energy cooperation environmental protection legal mechanism and energy dispute settlement mechanism can we fundamentally solve the problems in mutual energy cooperation. To strengthen the reciprocity, stability and standardization of cooperation, to create conditions and opportunities for energy cooperation among member states.

Reducing Error Rate in Property Tax Declaration Forms through Simplification and Highlighting Instructions

Abstract The paper is mixed-method research on reducing administrative burden and, more specifically, the learning costs of filling out a property tax declaration form. It presents the development process of a guidebook, which simplified the instructions and experimentally tested the effectiveness of the guidebook in lowering the error rate. Young Slovak adults (N=43) were divided into two groups; the treatment group worked with the guidebook, and the control group used the official instructions the Ministry of Finance provided. The guidebook aimed to decrease learning costs using behavioural support (simplification, highlighting, examples, and the like). The results suggest that the guidebook helps significantly decrease the number of errors compared to the complex instructions the Ministry of Finance provided. However, while the guidebook is very effective in reducing errors in simple tasks, it may not be sufficient help for more complex tasks such as mathematical calculations. Therefore, simplified instructions must go hand-in-hand with interventions such as pre-populating of forms.

Difusi Inovasi DJBC dalam Menerapkan Pelayanan e-CD di Penerbangan Internasional Bandara Kualanamu Medan

Technology that continues to develop has encouraged various agencies and companies to transform towards the digital era, one of which is the Directorate General of Customs and Excise (DJBC). The internet-based application Electronic Customs Declaration (e-CD) developed by DJBC, is an information that transforms the Customs Declaration form which was previously filled out manually on paper by international passengers at a number of international airports in Indonesia, one of which is Kualanamu Airport. . This research aims to determine the application and impact of the innovation diffusion of the Customs and Excise Supervision and Services Office (KPPBC) Type Madya Customs B Kualanamu in applying electronic customs declaration services on International Flights at Kualanamu Airport, Medan. The methodology used in this research uses library or literature studies by collecting, reading, evaluating and analyzing various references such as books, journals and other literature that are relevant to the topic of this paper. The results of this research show that the application of e-CD can make the customs process easier on arrival to Indonesia, especially at Medan's Kualanamu Airport, to be more efficient because it no longer uses a piece of paper as was done previously.

The role of digital surveillance during outbreaks: the Ghana experience from COVID-19 response.

Over the years, Ghana has made notable strides in adopting digital approaches to address societal challenges and meet demands. While the health sector, particularly the disease surveillance structure, has embraced digitization to enhance case detection, reporting, analysis, and information dissemination, critical aspects remain to be addressed. Although the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) structure has experienced remarkable growth in digitization, certain areas require further attention as was observed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ghana during the COVID-19 pandemic, recognized the importance of leveraging digital technologies to bolster the public health response. To this end, Ghana implemented various digital surveillance tools to combat the pandemic. These included the 'Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS)', the digitalized health declaration form, ArcGIS Survey123, Talkwalker, 'Lightwave Health information Management System' (LHIMS), and the 'District Health Information Management System (DHIMS)'. These digital systems significantly contributed to the country's success in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. One key area where digital systems have proved invaluable is in the timely production of daily COVID-19 situational updates. This task would have been arduous and delayed if reliant solely on paper-based forms, which hinder efficient reporting to other levels within the health system. By adopting these digital systems, Ghana has been able to overcome such challenges and provide up-to-date information for making informed public health decisions. This paper attempts to provide an extensive description of the digital systems currently employed to enhance Ghana's paper-based disease surveillance system in the context of its response to COVID-19. The article explores the strengths and challenges or limitations associated with these digital systems for responding to outbreaks, offering valuable lessons that can be learned from their implementation.

TINDAK TUTUR PERLOKUSI DALAM ANIME MOVIE YURU CAMP KARYA SUTRADARA YOSHIAKI KYOUGOKU

Perlocutionary speech acts is a speech act that provides information uttered by a speaker where the utterance contains intentions and objectives that cause an effect or influence based on the utterance. However, there are still many people who find it difficult and confused about the meaning conveyed by the speaker and the meaning understood by the speaker is different from the intention conveyed by the speech partner. This study aims to describe perlocutionary speech acts based on types and sentence forms in the anime movie Yuru Camp by Director Yoshiaki Kyougoku. This type of research is a qualitative research with a qualitative descriptive method. Qualitative research was chosen because the data studied is in the form of utterances that neeed to be explained and described in words. Data collection technique using tapping, listening, and note-taking technique. This research uses the theory of perlocutionary speech acts types and sentence forms according to Yule, and context theory according to Hymes. From the research results, it wa foun that there were 63 data of perlocutionary speech acts which were divided into 5 types and 3 forms of perlocutionary speech acts, namely: 3 data of declaration speech acts, 22 data of directive speech acts, 20 data of expressive speech acts, 11 data of representative speech acts, and 7 data of commissive speech acts. while the forms of sentences are: 42 data of declarative sentence forms, 10 data of imperative sentence forms, and 11 data 0f interrogative sentence forms.

Outer Space Public Law: the 1958-1963 period. Part 1.

This is the third article in the study related to analyzing the process of regulation of space activities. Considering the results of previous studies of documents adopted by the international community during the 1958 -1963 period in the field of regulation of space activities, this article pays special attention to the formation process of Outer Space Public Law.&#x0D; The article describes the international community`s initiatives, including the UN General Assembly, which can be considered the first elements in the general design of Outer Space Public Law.&#x0D; At the same time, the form of these elements may seem non-standard and even controversial, taking into account the fact that at this stage Outer Space Public Law was just in its infancy.&#x0D; However, as has already been discussed in previous studies, we should not expect from the “Outer Space Law” the form in which this “Law” is accustomed to consider, due to the exclusivity of the environment to which this new “Law” was formed.&#x0D; Summarizing the study of legal documents on space activities during the 1958-1963 period, we can state that already in this period the first principles, concepts, and rules of space activities were formed, which led to the emergence and development of a completely new area of law, namely, the so-called Outer Space Law.&#x0D; At the same time, it was established that at the end of 1963, the Outer Space Public Law already existed, which mainly consisted of Conventionalis stipulatio, developed in the form of Resolutions and Declarations of the UN General Assembly.&#x0D; Certainly, it is necessary to recognize that the Outer Space Law had many gaps, shortcomings, and unresolved issues at the early stage of its development. However, it is these nuances that today make it possible to understand how this field of law should be further developed.