Development Of Research Activities Research Articles

Polyblends and composites of poly (lactic acid) (PLA): a review on the state of the art

Polymers obtained from renewable sources are gaining popularity over their petroleum based counter parts in recent years due to their capability to address the environmental pollution related concerns emanating from the widespread usage of synthetic polymers. Even though the polymers from renewable sources are attractive in an environmental point of view, some of the property limitations and the high cost of these materials pose limitations for their extensive commercial applications. These aspects opened the door for a large chunk of research activities in development of polyblends and composites containing polymers from renewable sources as one of the components. Poly (lactic acid) (PLA) is one of the most discussed and commercialized polymer originated from renewable resources. Even though it has many useful properties, certain disadvantages like high brittleness, low impact resistance etc. limit the wide spread commercialization of PLA. In this review article, the recent research activities which are aimed to fill this gap by various modifications of PLA are discussed with special emphasis on the latest research advancements in the field of biodegradable and non biodegradable systems containing PLA.

A Review of Action Research Component in the Pre-Service Teacher Education for Elementary School in Malaysia

Abstract: This paper attempts to outline the needs for action research component for the elementary pre-service TESL teachers in the institute of teacher education in Malaysia. The action research component used to be the compulsory final assessment for the pre-service teachers. However, the curriculum revamp in 2015 provided the pre-service teachers with the options of doing action or conventional research. It is a worrying development as the potential for most students to opt for convenional research over action research is great due to the perceived difficulty of the later. This will reduce the role of the teacher in research as a mere observer rather than an active agent of change. This paper would present a case for action research by providing the background information on the development of action research in Malaysia and also the issue of teacher quality. The case is further supported by a discusssion on the concept of action research and also the significance of action research in the context of teacher professional development.

ІНФОРМАЦІЙНО-КОМУНІКАЦІЙНІ ТЕХНОЛОГІЇ ЯК ОДИН ІЗ ЗАСОБІВ РЕАЛІЗАЦІЇ НАУКОВО-ДОСЛІДНОЇ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ СТУДЕНТІВ ФІЗИКОМАТЕМАТИЧНИХ ФАКУЛЬТЕТІВ

The publication discusses the main trends in the organization and development of research activities in modern educational institution of higher education. An outline of the types and forms of scientific search of student's youth of physical and mathematical faculties is considered. There have been identified ways to encourage students to conduct research. Key words: research activities, information and communication technologies, training of students of physical and mathematical faculties.

L’utilisation des données de recherche-action par un médecin de district au Mali

The development of action research is one of the major strategic axes of the Mali sectoral health and population policy. Action research is designed to improve priority health interventions in the light of acquired knowledge. This policy allows offers district doctors to develop research subjects related to population health promotion interventions. In this context, the author conducted action research activities concerning the community funding of emergency transport expenses, and caesarean section in remote rural health centres. However, this research had to overcome difficulties in terms of insufficient time, information, training for literature searches, supervision of the production of valid information and sponsors.The development of close relations with research support institutions and organizations and the development of networking can help to increase the interest of district doctors. These actions will be used to structure ongoing research initiatives and can guide the necessary changes to achieve the objectives of research programmes and improvement of the population's state of health.

White Book on Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM) in Europe. Chapter 10. Science and research in PRM: specificities and challenges.

In the context of the White Book of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM), this paper deals with Research, the future of PRM. PRM students and specialists are mainly involved in biomedical research, investigating the biological processes, the causes of diseases, their medical diagnosis, the evaluation of their consequences on functioning, disability and health and the effects of health interventions at an individual and a societal level. Most of the current PRM research, often interdisciplinary, originates from applied research which, using existing knowledge, is directed towards specific goals. Translational medical research, research and development, implementation research and clinical impact research are in this field. PRM physicians, mainly master or PhD students, are nowadays increasing their participation in basic research and in pre-clinical trials. PRM physicians are involved in primary research, which is an original first hand research, but also in secondary research, which is the analysis and interpretation of primary research publications in a field, with a specific methodology. Secondary research remains an important activity of the UEMS PRM section and it will be the field of the new created Cochrane Rehabilitation. Secondary research with interest for persons with disabilities, will be developed world wide on the basis of evidence based medicine, with the participation of PRM physicians and of all other health and social professionals involved in rehabilitation. The development of research activities with interest for PRM in Europe is a challenge for the future, which has to be faced now. The European PRM schools, the European master and PhD program with their supporting research and clinical facilities, the European PRM organizations with their websites, the PRM scientific journals and European congresses are a strong basis to develop research activities, together with the development of Cochrane Rehabilitation field and of our cooperation with European high level research facilities, European and international scientific societies in different fields. PRM will be a leader in this field of research.

Развитие исследовательской активности дошкольников в разновозрастной группе

Развитие исследовательской активности дошкольников в разновозрастной группе

Methodology of Research Activity Development in Preparing Future Teachers with the Use of Information Resources

The modern paradigm of education development has new demands on the professional and personal traits of a teacher, in particular, the ability to organize research activity of schoolchildren and to support their interest in science. The research competence of future teachers is a key characteristic that provides these skills. Properly organized research activity of future science teachers contributes not only to their research competence development, but also to their self-confidence as a professional, and thus, supports their motivation for further improvement in the field of teaching. This article presents a developed model of a methodological system for organizing the research activity development in training the future biologists at the pedagogical university. Based on the model, we have developed a comprehensive program for student’s research competence development, which was tested at two courses of a pedagogical university. Comparison of the nine experimental groups (220 students) and nine control groups (218 students) showed that our program designed to develop student’s research competence is effective. The paper also discusses the conditions, under which the program is effective, in particular, the importance of continuing education of teacher educators, as well as the necessity of interaction between educational and scientific institutions.

Co-creación, participación y redes sociales para hacer historia. Ciencia con y para la sociedad

La tendencia hacía la participación ciudadana en los procesos de investigación científica ha llegado para quedarse. La involucración de personas y colectivos vinculados a las temáticas de estudio permite el acceso a información privilegiada a nuevas fuentes primarias; puede llegar incluso a modificar los objetivos y la metodología de un proyecto, marcando el rumbo en el desarrollo de las actividades. Estos factores se incrementan cuando hablamos de proyectos en ciencias humanas y se potencian todavía más a través del uso de las tecnológicas digitales, plataformas web, aplicaciones y redes sociales, que recortan las distancias y amplían las herramientas a disposición del investigador.

FORMATION OF KEY COMPETENCES WHEN STUDYING DISCIPLINE «WORLD ART CULTURE»

In this article questions on creation of conditions for development of the creative person of the student, her self-determination and self-realization are considered. The main objectives of teaching World art culture are marked out: development of research activity of students which will serve achievement of one of the most important purposes of education - to think independently, to be able to put and solve problems, attracting knowledge from the different fields of science, acquisition of own cultural experience. The aspects promoting formation of complete system in perception of art and an art picture of the world, allowing to enter the identity of the trainee into space of art culture, to create in are considered it is mute readiness and ability to independent spiritual development of true, art values. The problem of knowledge of students in the field of art isn’t solved adequately used today textbooks on world art culture. In the course of socialization and interaction with mass culture and media at students own cultural experience is formed and they become objects and subjects of vigorous cognitive activity. The program of training in world art culture provides to the student some kind of “construction material" for forming of own course of life of development. In the light of it the role of the teacher who is competently directing cogitative activity of the student increases.

СЕТЕВАЯ ФОРМА РЕАЛИЗАЦИИ ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНЫХ ПРОГРАММ ПРИ ПОДГОТОВКЕ БАКАЛАВРОВ ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОГО ОБУЧЕНИЯ: ПРОБЛЕМЫ И ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ

<p>The article provides an overview of research relating to various aspects of networking, especially network interaction models, used in educational practice institutions. Here are considered some of the existing concept of networking. The article offers a detailed considering of networking in higher education, which is characterized by several basic processes, namely the development of distance education, academic mobility of teachers, distribution of student exchange programs, the development of research activities, including the international level. As an example, we consider the networking of vocational training in the preparation of bachelors in the branch FSAEI HE (Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education) "Russian State Vocational Pedagogical University" in Kemerovo. The purpose of training teachers of SVE (secondary vocational education) in accordance with the professional standards of the teacher and the federal state educational standards is to design the network of educational programs and the participation of educational institutions in networking. The author offers criteria of efficiency networking IBD (Integrated base department) (VTE) (vocational teacher education) and base organizations.</p>

A Bibliometric Analysis on Publications of Utkal University, 2005–2014

This study is a bibliometric analysis of the research output of Utkal University, Bhubaneswar during the period from 2005 to 2014. This paper describes the growth, contribution and impact of research carried out by the faculties, research scholars and students of Utkal University. An attempt has been initiated to analyse the growth and development of research activity of the university as reflected in publications output covered by SCOPUS database during the studied period. The study assumes to examine the content of papers published, including the annual average growth rate percent, organisational affiliation of papers with the geographical distribution and author's affiliation to different academic institutions. Bradford's law is also used to find the core journals as per the interest of the authors accordingly.

COUNSELING SERVICES BASED RESEARCH TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LEARNING THROUGH COUNSELING

The purpose of writing this article is to describe the subject of study and reason as well as research-based counseling service management. Counseling services based on research carried out to improve the quality of learning through counseling. The discussion of this article are (1) the background of the counseling service based research, (2) understanding the tasks and activities of counseling teacher or counselor, (3) reason for the existence of counseling in education, (4) the differences and similarities counseling services with research PTK-BK, (5) the motivations and goals of research-based counseling services, and (6) management of research-based counseling services. Among the benefits of this article is to (1) raise awareness counseling teacher or counselor about the importance of developing a counseling service that is integrated with the research, (2) develop a research culture for counseling teacher/ counselor, (3) encourage educational institutions both school/ madrasah/ pesantren for developing research-based counseling services, (4) encourage universities that provide education academic and professional counseling to develop research activities and community service through mentoring research-based counseling services. Keywords: counseling services, research, quality of learning, PTK-BK.

Seven alternative opportunities to overcome the "Valley of Death" for CNS drug candidates developed by academic researchers

The pharmaceutical industry has been facing tremendous challenges in recent years. Its Research & Development activities for innovation and drug development have significantly slowed down. Researchers in academic institutions often collaborate with pharmaceutical companies by providing them with new innovative products. However, the type of funding that they normally have access to does not ease drug development beyond discovery level. Here is a list of seven alternative opportunities that may help scientists, in North America, Europe and Asia, developing further their products and overcoming the so-called Valley of Death. This may contribute bridging the gap between them and what Big Pharma is looking for, especially for the development of central nervous system products.

Sociocultural determiners of scientific activity transformation

Transformation of modern society affects all fields. The goals and objectives of social development as well as the means to achieve them require science-based mechanisms, methodological support for studying social phenomena and their philosophical and sociological analysis. Both integrative and differential processes characterize modern scientific activity. The key reason for science institutionalization as a sociocultural phenomenon is its social inclusion. In this process science integrates with such social institutions as education, management and etc.The paper deals with research activities in higher education institutions. The importance of this study is determined by the increasing role of research activities in social, economic, political, legal and cultural development of society. In a modern society the process of institutionalization requires its dynamic development. Science has issues that should be examined. The socio-cultural basis of scientific activity changes is a key one for studying. The goal of this study is to analyze the historical validity of the characteristics of research activities in terms of sociocultural determinants. The authors carried out system and comparative analyses and a logical-historical study of the transformation of research activity phenomenon. In conclusion, sociocultural determinants of research activity formation and development are revealed in today’s changing conditions of social factors; the definitions to such concepts as “research interest” and “research needs” are given.

Molecular characterization and population structure study of cambuci: strategy for conservation and genetic improvement.

Cambuci (Campomanesia phaea) belongs to the Myrtaceae family and is native to the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. It has ecological and social appeal but is exposed to problems associated with environmental degradation and expansion of agricultural activities in the region. Comprehensive studies on this species are rare, making its conservation and genetic improvement difficult. Thus, it is important to develop research activities to understand the current situation of the species as well as to make recommendations for its conservation and use. This study was performed to characterize the cambuci accessions found in the germplasm bank of Coordenadoria de Assistência Técnica Integral using inter-simple sequence repeat markers, with the goal of understanding the plant's population structure. The results showed the existence of some level of genetic diversity among the cambuci accessions that could be exploited for the genetic improvement of the species. Principal coordinate analysis and discriminant analysis clustered the 80 accessions into three groups, whereas Bayesian model-based clustering analysis clustered them into two groups. The formation of two cluster groups and the high membership coefficients within the groups pointed out the importance of further collection to cover more areas and more genetic variability within the species. The study also showed the lack of conservation activities; therefore, more attention from the appropriate organizations is needed to plan and implement natural and ex situ conservation activities.

Formação, pesquisa e extensão na inserção ao campo da Educação Infantil

In conjunction with the discussions on the initial training of teachers in the field of Early Childhood Education (EI), we focused on learning resulting from the development of research activities, articulated extension, arising from the partnership with a childhood institution. The partnership with a center of EI was established under the umbrella of the actions of one of the groups of the area of education, linked to the Program of Education Tutorial. Affirming Bakhtin’s theoretical-methodological principles, guided by the idea of formational meetings, we discussed the experiences with the institution of EI carried out with the meetings between professionals and undergraduate training. In a perspective of qualitative exploratory study, we analyzed data from the documents drawn up for the period from 2010 to 2013 by the group. The results indicate that the constitution of a formative process expanded, mobilized in conjunction with the training of teachers in the field of EI, which is one of the problematization of the multiple relational possibilities between the university and the institutions, with implications to the formation of groups involved. Keywords : training of teachers, Early Childhood Education, Education Program Tutorial.

Evaluation of Technological Trends and Demands of the Manufacturing Industry to a Center of R & D & I

The manufacturing industry is fairly representative in the Brazilian economy. The research activities in technology, development and innovation promoted by technology centers are of great importance to boost the competitiveness of this segment. In this context, this work aims presenting the development of the strategic planning for a Center of R&D&I (Research & Development & Innovation), looking 20 years ahead, on a macro level, creating a master plan which summarizes the future focus areas of competence for technology research, development and innovation, coping with manufacturing trends, using a participative workshop approach. Thus, it is expected that this center offer integrated technological solutions with high added value that promote the development and competitiveness of the manufacturing industry, in the prospects for medium and long term. In order to achieve the project objectives taking the principle of strategic planning was followed. On the one hand, focus was placed on the internal perspective analyzing the current status of the Center. On the other hand, the environment of the Center (external perspective) was analyzed. Matching the analysis results regarding both perspectives future competence areas were derived, according to global technological trends as well as national and local industrial demand. Thus, the competencies required to be developed by a technology center to meet the manufacturing industry over the next twenty years would be derived.

PRACTICAL ASPECTS IN THE ACQUISITION OF THE EDUCATIONAL CONTENT PUPILS WITH DISORDERS OF MENTAL DEVELOPMENT

The article reflects two parts of the study – theoretical that reveals four aspects in the acquisition of the educational content of pupils with disorders of mental development in special education institution. It presents the analysis of theoretical ideas (N. Geidzs, D. Berliner, E. Geyser) about ensuring the emotional context in everyday life and the development of research activities. The views expressed by different scientists (A. Adler, H. Gadamers, A. Bandura) about the importance of imitation skills for pupils with disorders of mental development compared. The practical study summarizes and analyzes the results of the survey the participants of which were 27 special education teachers as well as the analysis of how the above mentioned aspects are expressed in the teaching/learning process.

TINJAUAN METODOLOGI INDOMATH STUDY

Abstract This paper discusses the various aspects of development research activities in the IndoMath Study. This study was developed along lines of formative research: orientation, design and evaluation of intervention, and evaluation of its effectiveness. The research has been conducted during the three fieldworks Yogyakarta. In the first and second fieldwork, the focus was mainly on the design and evaluation of adapted RME exemplary curriculum materials as well as in-service education program. In the third fieldwork, the focus was on the effectiveness of intervention to introduce Realistic Mathematic Education (RME) to mathematic teachers. Keywords: formative research, development research, indomath study

Exploring the Utility of Collaborative Governance in a National Sport Organization

This paper presents the outcomes of an 18-month developmental action research study to enhance the governance capability of a national sport organization. Bowls Australia, the national governing body for lawn bowls in Australia, includes nine independent state and territory member-associations. An intervention was designed and implemented with the Bowls Australia Board. The purpose of the intervention was to enact collaborative governance to overcome a perceived cultural malaise in the governance of the sport. This study is one of the first to examine collaborative governance in a federal sport structure. Results demonstrate the utility of collaborative governance to overcome adversarial national, member-state relations for the purpose of establishing a common and unifying vision for bowls, while also enhancing governance capability. This study identified the importance of collective board leadership in governance decision-making throughout the sport. It also highlights future research directions in relation to collective board leadership in federal governance structures.