Golden Moment Research Articles

Analysis of the Application of Storytelling and Flashcards

The need for English language learning for early childhood is very high, especially in the context of developing students' skills at the PAUD level. The progress of a nation requires its people to be proficient in using English. Therefore, the Indonesian education system is currently trying to introduce English as an international language to early childhood students. English language education is highly recommended if introduced to young children. Especially before the age of 12 years. The early childhood category includes those aged 2 to 7 years. This age stage is a golden moment for the development of children's language skills. They can understand various languages like native speakers, so this opportunity needs to be utilized to the maximum. Therefore, learning English requires an effective and appropriate teaching process and methods. There are several methods used to teach English, including context which includes game media, experience using cards, namely the flashcard method and storytelling methods using songs and story methods. Storytelling and flashcard methods are suitable and successful methods in the English language learning process for early childhood.

Women Reservation Bill in Lok Sabha: A Century Long Struggle for Gender Equality

Women in India have been granted various rights over the years to establish gender equality and to improve their number in decision making. Efforts were started when the demand for separate political reservation for women was made in 1920 during the national movement for Independence. It was the Government of India Act, 1935 by which reservation of seats for women was given. The issue was debated at length during the debates of Constituent Assembly. Committee on the Status of Women in India (CSWI) 1971, recommended reservation for women in local bodies. National Perspective Plan for Women 1988-2000 recommended reservation for women in all elected bodies from Panchayats to Parliament that resulted in 73rd and 74th Amendment. To ensure their presence in national and state legislatures, a Bill seeking to reserve seats for women was introduced in 1996 in the Parliament. But due to narrow political interests of different political parties and lack of consensus among them, it could not succeed to get the approval of the Parliament. Finally, the passage of Women Reservation Bill in September 2023 with conditions is a golden moment in Indian Parliamentary history.

Impact of climate and environmental change on the menopause.

The huge impact of climate change on humankind is multidimensional, and includes direct and indirect challenges to the physical, psychological and socio-cultural wellbeing. Women may be more vulnerable to climate-sensitive diseases, but little attention has been paid to specific needs and challenges associated with the menopause transition. The increase in average and extreme temperatures may modulate the manifestation of vasomotor symptoms; in particular, environmental temperature and seasonality may affect hot flushes and night sweats. However, more research is needed to define the impact of climate-related factors among the determinants influencing the individual experience of menopause. In addition, increased exposure to environmental pollution and toxins may also have a role in the modulation of ovarian aging mechanisms, possibly influencing timing of menopause. Finally, both air pollution and menopause transition are associated with unfavorable modifications of cardio-metabolic, bone and cognitive health, and account should be taken of these in the evaluation of the individual woman's health vulnerabilities. Overall, the evidence reported in this narrative review supports the need for specific strategies aimed at reducing the burden of climate and environmental change on menopausal women. Healthcare providers should promote behavioral measures that reduce anthropogenic climate change and at the same time have a beneficial role on several domains of physical and psychological wellbeing. From this perspective, menopause represents a golden moment to implement virtuous behaviors that will benefit at the same time women's longevity and the planet.

The Early Treatment Phase in Parkinson's Disease: Not a Honeymoon for All, Not a Honeymoon at All?

The discovery of levodopa in the late 60 s of twentieth century was a 'golden moment' for people with Parkinson's disease (PD). Unfortunately, clinical experience showed that some symptoms escaped from symptomatic control, and long-term complications developed. Back then, neurologists coined the term "honeymoon period" for the early phase of uncomplicated response to levodopa, and it continues to be used in scientific literature. However, medical terms are no longer restricted to professionals, and few people with PD relate to the notion of a "honeymoon". We examine the reasons why this term, once helpful, but inaccurate and inappropriate, should be abandoned.

A Cultural History of the 1984 Winter Olympics: The Making of Olympic Sarajevo by Zlatko Jovanovic (review)

Reviewed by: A Cultural History of the 1984 Winter Olympics: The Making of Olympic Sarajevo by Zlatko Jovanovic Bojan Aleksov Jovanovic, Zlatko. A Cultural History of the 1984 Winter Olympics: The Making of Olympic Sarajevo. Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. 2021. ix + 265 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. £79.99. Western media outrage over Qatar's hosting of the FIFA World Cup in 2022 rarely dwelled on the fact that the previous event was held in Putin's Russia, and others before that hosted by the Argentinian Junta (1978) and Mussolini (1934). The history of the Olympics has been even more controversial, however, from Hitler's infamous spectacle in Berlin 1936 to the Games being held to ransom throughout the Cold War. The Sarajevo Games remain the only Winter Olympics ever to have been held in the Balkans and the only Games organized by a Communist-run, non-aligned country. The event was exceptionally celebrated both in Sarajevo's host country, Yugoslavia, and hailed around the globe as a great sporting success devoid of controversies. Soviet and American athletes competed after a long series of boycotts. Probably the most iconic memory of the Games was Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean's 'Boléro', which was awarded nine perfect scores for artistic impression and won the Ice Dance Gold medal. Eight years on, Sarajevo's golden moment was overshadowed by war and the longest siege of a city since World War Two by forces supported by Milošević's Serbia. While the Games made all Sarajevans proud, its bloody aftermath loomed large over their legacy. Unsurprisingly, a great deal has been written about these events. In the monograph under review here, Zlatko Jovanovic confronts and criticizes much of this literature, looking at the political, economic, and especially 'cultural' aspects of the Games, surveying their media, print and audio-visual coverage, and also personal letters and popular culture sources, notably song [End Page 185] lyrics. Driven by the local political elite's desire to modernize and strengthen the city economically, the Games, according to Jovanovic, made Sarajevans more aware of their city's particularity, and helped to position them in the popular-cultural space, both in Yugoslavia and abroad. Jovanovic charts his agenda first by showing the continuity of Sarajevo's development in Socialist Yugoslavia, which was hastened by the bid, initiating urban transformation, modernization of its infrastructure and a campaign to reduce pollution. It also turned the city, which had no winter sport tradition despite being nestled in mountains, into a potential bidder for the Olympics. Yugoslavia's unique geopolitical position and prestige in the Cold War provided an antidote to Sarajevo's 1914 notoriety, framing it as a 'truly Yugoslav city'. No longer relying on its heroic acts in World War Two, which had been a key tool of legitimacy in Tito's Yugoslavia, by the 1980s Sarajevo was promoted as a modern alpine destination. Locals, for example, began playing ice hockey and only a few years later became one of the top clubs in the Yugoslav league. While Jovanovic elaborates on numerous economic, infrastructural and cultural benefits, one is still left to wonder whether Sarajevo did in fact become a global winter tourism centre, as had been envisaged, before it fell victim to nationalist exclusivism. On the other hand, Jovanovic shows how Sarajevo's newly propagated image exposed it during the protracted political crisis and re-emergence of nationalism as a 'leftover oasis' of Yugoslavia. The image promulgated of Sarajevo was that of a meeting place of the old and the new, 'a mosaic of the preserved traces of various cultures and epochs' (p. 59), where even the city's Oriental heritage was reevaluated through the idea of a historic harmonious coexistence, even though the political and cultural elites in Socialist Yugoslavia had previously emphasized the country's Mediterranean and Central European cultural and architectural heritage. The Games in Sarajevo also provided the setting for the emergence of an authentic art and music scene driven by its youth — its own version of the 1980s global New Wave, known as Nju primitivizam (New Primitivism) — which by the end of the decade became a...

Comparatives of CPEC in Region and its Future

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was launched in 2015 when 51 agreements and MoUs (Memorandums of Understanding) worth USD 46 billion were signed between China and Pakistan. This grand-scale bilateral project is a flagship constituent of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). CPEC started with the goal of modernizing Pakistan’s road, rail, air, and energy transportation systems and enhancing connectivity between its Gwadar and Karachi ports to the Chinese province of Xinjiang and beyond. For Pakistan, CPEC not only meant an opportunity to address its existing challenges like the energy crisis but also a golden moment to emerge as a hub for economic activities in the region. This article discusses comparatives in Geo-Strategic countries, which can suggest the future course of CPEC projects. India, Russia, and Iran have agreed in 2000 to construct a route between Mumbai and St-Petersburg through Tehran and Moscow to facilitate the movement of energy resources from Central Asia. Likewise, China-Pakistan Corridor will increase economic activity between both countries and the region. This Corridor may also be beneficial to “String of Pearls” that China’s “culture” to save its sea lives of communication catering to protect oil and gas supplies, which are emerging from the Gulf of Persia, Middle East, and China. Investors will take advantage of various economic-related activities to promote the agriculture industry, tourism, construction activities, vehicle industry, information technology, etc. Corridors will fulfil the energy resource needs of many countries through the Caspian Sea and Central Asian Republics. However, this project is facing internal and external threats, Pakistan is facing terrorist attacks, and the Chinese province Xinjiang is facing threats. Serious security threats to this project are likely to emanate from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran. The Uighur terrorists have a close relationship with the Taliban in FATA, which is a serious and adverse threat to Chinese interests in Pakistan. This thesis is an effort to find reasons and suggest suitable measures for the Government to sort out challenges to avoid delays in the implementation and completion of the project.

Minerva’s French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France

Minerva’s French Sisters pairs imaginative reconstruction with meticulous archival research in order to illuminate the lives of six women scientists of the Enlightenment. Practitioners of diverse STEM disciplines, from astronomy to mathematics to chemistry to anatomy, these women cannily navigated the homosocial worlds of Ancien régime science and found varying degrees of recognition and success ‘in the golden moment before the Revolution sent women back into their homes, disenfranchised and out of sight’. Well-known in their own day but probably unknown to each other and certainly little-known today (especially in Anglophone scholarship), they symbolize the successes and failures of the French Enlightenment to make the natural sciences a more hospitable place for women. The book develops across five chapters, each one offering a rich and lively biography of one of the six women, with the exception of the third chapter’s double portrait of the group’s two botanists. One of the...

The great reset of management and organization theory. A European perspective

In mid-2020, the World Economic Forum (WEF) announced the Great Reset, an initiative launched to assert, describe, and shape the direction of an epochal transition brought about by the global coronavirus crisis. Rooted in a European tradition of social theory, this article aims to articulate the broader social context of this scenario and pinpoint its implications for management and organization theory. One of these implications is that our fields face a significant risk of co-performing rather than studying the looming “great transformation” from an economy-to a health-dominated society, thus merely replacing one reductionism with another. It follows that what is required are management and organization theories that analyze rather than ride the macro social trends that shape organizations and their environments. The article concludes that if crises are the golden moments of alternative mainstreams, then for those interested in alternatives to the emerging “new normality” the golden moment to develop the next alternative mainstream theories is now.

Interview with Novelist Sarah Bird

Interview with Novelist Sarah Bird Richard J. Golsan (bio) Richard J. Golsan (RJG): What is your favorite novel? Sarah Bird (SB): My comfort food novel, the one I pulled out back in those high anxiety days when we were bleaching our groceries was Dog of the South by the inimitable Charles Portis. RJG: When did you first discover this novel? SB: Charles Portis arrived at a golden moment in my reading life. I was in my late-twenties, so this would have been late-Seventies, early eighties. Though I wasn't exactly conscious of it, I was groping my way toward writing comic novels. I was probably set on this path early by my wildly idiosyncratic family. We were six children in a military family that moved far, far too much for our group of pathologically shy introverts. In endless drives, flights, and ocean crossings to an endless succession of new bases we formed a sort of six-way twinship. The only humans we were actually comfortable with were each other. We were able to endure the purgatories of our new schools with their bewildering assault of strangers because, at the end of each day, we could go home and lose ourselves in books. Books seemed to simply filter into our lives the way food, borne on underground ocean currents, filters into an amoeba. We'd reach out and ingest whatever reading matter a sib introduced into our biosphere and it would be digested and absorbed into our hermetic little world. My sisters who adored all non-human animals infected us with Watership Down and we all joyfully re-entered our lost childhood worlds of talking animals. To this day we will praise an exceptionally fine meal in Lapine, calling it "flay-rah." Or note that a surprised or perplexed sibling has "gone tharn." If feeling particularly frisky we might even pretend to freeze in fear, "go tharn," at the sound of the rabbit's greatest enemy, those gas-powered monsters, the "hrududil." We re-enacted Eliza's escape on the ice floes from Uncle Tom's Cabin with flattened packing boxes from our latest move strewn across the backyard of whatever base house we'd been assigned. At the Base Pool [End Page 178] we pretended to be either Karana from Island of the Blue Dolphins or the dolphins she befriended. We all wept together while reading Sophie's Choice and Confessions of Nat Turner. But the novel that marked the Before and After in our hive mind reading was Confederacy of Dunces. RJG: What was it about "Confederacy" that spoke to all of you? SB: This is simple: It made us laugh. I probably would have chosen Dunces as my pandemic comfort food book except that I've read and re-read it too many times. Also, it feels a bit too claustrophobic for a pandemic. Dog, a road trip novel, is far more expansive. I'm going to have delay speaking of my love of Dog for a moment to set the stage for its arrival, so back to Dunces. I had the glorious experience of encountering John Kennedy Toole's masterpiece without knowing a thing about it when my youngest brother, who was studying bio-chemical engineering at the time, stuck it in my hands, and said, "Read." One way to understand how sui generis Dunces was is to consider the authors Toole's posthumous 1981 Pulitzer was sandwiched between: Cheever, Updike, and Mailer. Imagine going, for example, from Cheever's overachieving characters awakening to the emptiness of their lives in the suburbs to Ignatius J. Reilly, the ultimate outsider, an oafish, obese, scabrous gargantuan, as dedicated to self-abuse as he is to the Middle Ages. This novel plugged into my family's genome like a missing strand of DNA. We lived that novel like no other. We christened our mother "Santa Battaglia," took to cursing "Fortuna, that vicious slut," and excused any dyspeptic behavior by explaining that our "valve had plopped shut." For a very long time after, all our reading sought to duplicate the experience of Dunces. My youngest brother introduced Sotweed Factor into our literary food stream and we milked a few...

Frame-Wise Cross-Modal Matching for Video Moment Retrieval

Video moment retrieval targets at retrieving a golden moment in a video for a given natural language query. The main challenges of this task include 1) the requirement of accurately localizing (i.e., the start time and the end time of) the relevant moment in an untrimmed video stream, and 2) bridging the semantic gap between textual query and video contents. To tackle those problems, early approaches adopt the sliding window or uniform sampling to collect video clips first and then match each clip with the query to identify relevant clips. Obviously, these strategies are time-consuming and often lead to unsatisfied accuracy in localization due to the unpredictable length of the golden moment. To avoid the limitations, researchers recently attempt to directly predict the relevant moment boundaries without the requirement to generate video clips first. One mainstream approach is to generate a multimodal feature vector for the target query and video frames (e.g., concatenation) and then use a regression approach upon the multimodal feature vector for boundary detection. Although some progress has been achieved by this approach, we argue that those methods have not well captured the cross-modal interactions between the query and video frames. In this paper, we propose an Attentive Cross-modal Relevance Matching (ACRM) model which predicts the temporal boundaries based on an interaction modeling between two modalities. In addition, an attention module is introduced to automatically assign higher weights to query words with richer semantic cues, which are considered to be more important for finding relevant video contents. Another contribution is that we propose an additional predictor to utilize the internal frames in the model training to improve the localization accuracy. Extensive experiments on two public datasets TACoS and Charades-STA demonstrate the superiority of our method over several state-of-the-art methods. Ablation studies have been also conducted to examine the effectiveness of different modules in our ACRM model.

The golden moment after an adverse event

The golden moment after an adverse event

Contributions Management of Parenting and Education Program to Strengthen the Service Three Early Childhood Education Center

Early age is a “golden moment” which will not be repeated in the period of child development. A rare opportunity must be utilized to provide the best education and care in three centers, namely; school, family and community environment. The purpose of this research is to; 1) Describe the contribution of parenting education management; and 2) Describe the practice of parenting education in three education centers. This research method uses a qualitative approach with a multi-case study design. These informants were teachers, principals, and parents of students from the two Early Childhood Education institutions in the West Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. Data collection is done by in-depth interviews with informants, participatory observation, and documentation review. The results revealed that; 1) a positive contribution to the management of education and parenting in three education centers with the following stages; first, Plan-collaboration in designing the parenting education program; second, Do-collaboration in the parenting education program at school and inactivating it in the family and community environment, and third, Check-control and evaluate program achievements, then make a follow-up plan for the program; 2) Implementation, in; first-family environment strengthens the relationship between mother and child, the growing sense of self-confidence of parents in educating and caring for their children; second kindergartens environment by holding parenting education activities, holding days of child development consultations, building relationships, support and trust in schools; and third-community environment is the application of local wisdom values by community members.

Healing Hurt People: Breaking the Cycle of Violence through Golden Moment Trauma-Informed Interventions

Healing Hurt People: Breaking the Cycle of Violence through Golden Moment Trauma-Informed Interventions

All in the Timing.

Born a heart warrior, I was diagnosed at birth with myxomatous mitral valve prolapse, a degenerative heart valve disease. When I was 15 years old, my pediatric cardiologist broke the news. “You’ll need a valve replacement someday,” he warned, but then reassured me: “Not until you’re in your sixties.” Oh, good, I thought. Not for a long time. Some 15 years later, in 2006, when I was only 30 years old, I underwent my first surgery, a valve repair. After landing in the emergency room with severe shortness of breath, I saw my cardiologist. My symptoms were swiftly accelerating—I could barely load a dishwasher without getting out of breath—and my cardiologist, unconvinced that my valve was failing 30 years ahead of schedule, tested me several times over the next few weeks. First an echocardiogram, then a heart catheterization, then a transesophageal echocardiogram, and finally a pulmonary function test. All with the same reluctant reply when I asked him if it was time for surgery. “No. I don’t want you to have surgery.” “I do,” I protested. Valve surgery had always been lurking in the shadows of my life, and I wanted to get it over with. However, my cardiologist thought the valvular regurgitation was not severe enough. He referred me to a surgeon anyway. “The surgeon will be your second opinion,” he said. A few weeks later, I met with the surgeon, who told me bluntly: “Your valve is bad and something needs to be done about it.” Shortly thereafter I had the valve repair. Minimally invasive heart valve surgeries, often referred to as “thoracotomies” had only been possible for about a year when I had surgery, and I have a tidy little scar tucked away on my right side near my ribs. It was about 4 years after that …

Image Acquisition and Techniques to Perform Image Acquisition

In the present scenario images have become the most suitable way to keep our past alive. Nowadays people are very busy in earning their livelihood and day to day life, even though they want to keep their golden moment alive for the rest of life. Images have touched almost all the fields like medical, sports, social networking and many more. It is the need of time to know how the images are being captured and stored into memory. To deal with images and before analyzing them the most important thing is to capture the image. This is called as Image Acquisition. Image Acquisition is achieved by suitable camera. We use different cameras for different application. If we need an X-Ray image, we use a camera (film) which is sensitive to XRays. If we want Infra Red image, we use cameras which are sensitive to Infra Red radiations. For normal images (family pictures etc.) we use cameras which are sensitive to visual spectrum.

Det gyldne øjeblik i parforholdet

A substantial amount of knowledge has recently been generated on the potential of psychological practices such as mindfulness, that cultivates the individual’s capacity to become more consciously aware of the mind’s present experiences. Yet, we know less about the potential of conscious awareness of those present moments when the minds of twopeople meet, moments that Stern (2004) defines as moments of meeting. This paper presents the ‘The Golden Moment’ intervention; a 15-minute guided couple interaction exercise that brings the couple’s memories from everyday moments of meeting into the“now” of the therapeutic setting. The purpose of this exercise is to emotionally evoke a positive interaction in the couple, increase emotional intimacy and strengthen the sharedcouple narrative and identity. In this paper we illustrate the potential of ‘The Golden Moment’, both theoretically and practically through a case analysis. We discuss the potential and limitations of the intervention in relation to existing evidence based couples therapies. We conclude that the intervention has potential, primarily as a strength-focusedelement to be integrated with existing couples therapies, and secondly as an interpersonal alternative to cultivate the individual mind's journey to self-awareness. ‘The Golden Moment’ can be understood as a simple, though not always easy to implement, intervention that can assist the individual to become more aware of the partner's state of mind.

Emma's Touch: Capitalism, the Body and the Interruption of America's "Golden Moment" in Doctorow's Ragtime

Emma's Touch: Capitalism, the Body and the Interruption of America's "Golden Moment" in Doctorow's Ragtime

DIMENSI GENDER DALAM KEHIDUPAN PENDUDUK LANSIA DI INDONESIA

Retirement could become the golden moment in life for those who already prepared for it, but it could also become a disaster for those who did not. Retirement could be as the moment to relax, to enjoy the earning they made while they were still in their cariers. The preparation will be more needed for those elderly who did not have family or relatives. Sometimes they were forced to still go to work to make through the day. Many studies have been done to study the welfare of the eldery in preparing their retirement. Data for this paper was based from IFLS 3 which analized elderly gender dimension in Indonesia in their retirement. The theme will be coverd around jobs and health insurance, marriage life and living place pattern.

Socio-Racial Sensibilities towards coloured subaltern sectors in the Spanish Atlantic

This article studies from a longue duree perspective the articulation of anti-slavery sentiments and other socio-racial sensibilities within the Spanish Atlantic, from the first theological criticisms of the 16 th century to the efforts to abolish slavery in Cuba, Puerto Rico and Spain, in the second half of the 19 th century. We focus on the most significant cases of individuals who shared a white identity and who advocated against slavery, slave trade and socio-racial discrimination of Free Coloureds. We argue that the many egalitarian proposals made during the Spanish American revolutions and at the Cortes of Cadiz represent a second golden moment (after the ‘Mulatto Affaire’ during the French Revolution) in the struggle for the granting of political equality to subaltern sectors the Atlantic World. In the end, we expect to provide a clearer picture of how the socio-racial sensibilities contributed to accelerate, or to postpone, the introduction of abolitionist or equalitarian measures vis-a-vis the coloured subaltern sectors in the Spanish Atlantic in the Late Modern Age.

A Golden Moment to Keep in the Loop - Introduction to the special issue

The Chukchi Sea was sampled in August of 2011, a year of near-normal sea ice among recent years, and again in August 2012, a year of all time record low sea ice. We exploited this sampling to test the hypothesis that different sea ice conditions are associated with differences in abundances or species composition of microzooplankton through an examination of tintinnids and radiolarians. From 18 stations in 2011, and 19 stations in 2012, organisms were enumerated in plankton net tow material, and chlorophyll determinations made (total and ≤ 20 µm) from discrete depth samples. We found that the low sea ice conditions of 2012 were associated with higher chlorophyll concentrations (both total and the ≤ 20 µm size fraction), compared to 2011. However, tintinnid ciliates and radiolarians were much lower in concentration, by about an order of magnitude, compared to 2011. In both years the radiolarian assemblage was dominated by Amphiselma setosa. The species composition of the tintinnid ciliates was similar in the two years, but there were distinct differences in the relative abundances of certain species. The 2012, low sea ice assemblage, was dominated by small forms in contrast to 2011, when large species were the most abundant. We present these findings in detail and discuss possible explanations for the apparent differences in the microzooplankton communities associated with distinct sea ice conditions in the Chukchi Sea