Important Moment Research Articles

Implementasi Metode Fuzzy Mamdani Untuk Menentukan Tingkat Jumlah Pernikahan Dini Tahun 2022 Kabupaten Barru

Marriage is an important moment in the life of every individual that connects physically and emotionally between a man and a woman as husband and wife, with the aim of forming a balanced and lasting family based on belief in God Almighty. Early marriage is a marriage that takes place in their teens, who have not yet reached or have just passed their teenage years. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the age range for adolescents is 12-24 years. In this research, we will implement the Mamdani fuzzy method to determine the level of the number of early marriages in 2022 in Barru district. In this research, we will implement the Mamdani fuzzy method to determine the level of the number of early marriages in 2022 in Barru district. In conclusion, by combining statistical data obtained with the implemented Fuzzy Mamdani method, we can determine the level of the number of early marriages in 2022 in Barru district based on the input variables provided.

Playful literacies and pedagogical priorities: digital games in the English classroom

PurposeThis paper aims to explore the characteristics of playful literacies in case study research examining digital games in secondary English classrooms. It analyzes how educators use play as a resource for meaning-making and the impacts of play on student learning.Design/methodology/approachThe authors used a keyword search in relevant academic databases to identify articles within specified search parameters. This was followed by bibliographic branching to identify additional articles. Following the identification of 30 articles, two rounds of open coding were used to identify themes for analysis.FindingsThe literature revealed five types of playful pedagogical practices: single-player gameplay, turn-taking gameplay, multiplayer play, play-as-design and little or no gameplay. Discussion of these findings suggests that classroom play was a highly social activity across case studies. Furthermore, boundaries between types of play and their contributions to learning were blurred and often disrupted normative approaches to curriculum and teaching.Originality/valueGiven the novelty of replacing traditional texts with digital games in English classrooms, this study represents an important moment to pause and review the literature to date on a particular, understudied aspect of digital games in English curricula: their playfulness. This is especially important given the innovative ways in which digital play can shift thinking about meaning-making and narrative, two historically dominant concerns within the discipline of English.

Tailored Prevention of Functional Decline through a Multicomponent Exercise Program in Hospitalized Oncogeriatric Patients: Study Protocol for a Randomized Clinical Trial

BackgroundCancer mostly affects older adults, causing a wide variety of diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas. One of the most important moments in cancer patients is the hospitalization period, in which older patients usually remain bedridden for many hours and this may lead to the appearance of sarcopenia and disability.MethodsWe present the research protocol for a randomized controlled trial that will analyze whether an intervention applied to older patients (≥ 65 years) who are hospitalized for acute medical conditions in an Oncology Department improves function. A total of 240 hospitalized older patients will be recruited in the Hospital Universitario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, and they will be randomized. The intervention consists of a multicomponent exercise training program that will take place for 4 consecutive days (2 sessions/day). The control group will receive usual hospital care, which will include physical rehabilitation when needed. The primary end point will be the change in functional capacity from baseline to hospital discharge, assessed with the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB). Secondary end points will be changes in cognitive and mood status, quality of life, fatigue, strength (dynamic and handgrip), pain, nutrition, length of stay, falls, readmission rate and mortality at 3 months after discharge.ResultsBasal data of the patients included in the RCT are described. The foreseen recruitment will not be achieved due to the context of the Covid pandemic and the significantly different responses observed during the clinical trial in oncogeriatric patients compared to our previous experience in older adults hospitalized for medical reasons.DiscussionIf our hypothesis is correct and shows that a multicomponent, individualized and progressive exercise program is an effective therapy for improving the capacity of acutely hospitalized older patients compared to usual care, a change in the current system of hospitalization may be justified in oncogeriatric patients.

Communication Model of Three Indonesian Presidential Candidates Ahead of the 2024-2029 Election on Social Media Twitter

Government communication is an instrument used to disseminate information to the public. Political communication is any form of communication that involves political messages, political players, or anything related to authority, executive branch, or public policy. The percentage of Twitter users in Indonesia is increasing rapidly from year to year, along with the increase in social media users. Even 6.43 million users, or around 52% of all social media users in Indonesia, were Twitter users in 2019. The holding of elections is an important moment in the democratic process in Indonesia. This research looks at existing communication patterns between exhibitionists and the public in conveying information about the communication patterns of the three 2024-2029 presidential candidates through Twitter media. This research uses qualitative methods with a descriptive approach to data analysis using NVivo Plus 12 software, starting with data input through the NCapture Nvivo feature on the official accounts of the three presidential candidates @aniesbaswedan, @ganjarpranowo, and @prabowo, then coding, exploration, data visualization and, data presentation and conclusions. The result is that Ganjar Pranowo is the most active presidential candidate on Twitter social media compared to Anies Baswedan and Prabowo Subianto, with a percentage of 9.15% in the April-June 2023 quarter.

The Life and Mathematics of Jaroslav Smítal

Jaroslav Smítal was a distinguished Czech and Slovak mathematician. The first part of the article is devoted to important moments of his life. In the second part we briefly discuss some of his scientific results.

Роль А.И. Зилоти в формировании творческой личности С.В. Рахманинова-пианиста

The article distinguishes and describes important moments of S.V. Rachmaninoff’s creative biography. It is emphasized that the key role in the process of his personal and professional development as a musician and composer was played by his cousin A.I. Ziloti – pianist, musical and public figure, organizer of the legendary entreprise “A. Ziloti’s Concerts”, comparable in its national significance to European events of the XIX – early XX centuries, focused on contemporary music and premieres of works by the latest schools of composers. The motives behind A. Ziloti’s actions are analyzed, as well as his role in the culture of St. Petersburg-Petrograd in the early XX century. A brief overview of the entreprise’s concert programs is given. It is stated that Sergei Rachmaninoff’s works – “Second Piano Concerto” and “Second Suite for Two Pianos” – were announced in the program of each concert season. Conclusion dwells upon the fact that A. Ziloti and S. Rachmaninoff's names are iconic in the history of musical art, mutually inseparable, as are the destinies of their bearers.

Institute of Concrete Social Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Development of the problem of the social structure of Soviet society

The genesis of the development of Russian sociology is a process whose complexity was caused by the political and ideological collisions of the Soviet period. At the same time, starting from the middle of the twentieth century, a qualitatively new stage begins in the development of sociology, which is called the "golden age" of Russian sociological thought. During these years, not only theoretical and applied methods of the pre-war period are revived, but also a powerful theoretical and methodological scientific base is being created, which laid the foundation of sociology as an independent science. One of the important moments was the activity of the Institute of Concrete Social Research (ICSI) of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Within the framework of ICSI activities, multi-scale work was carried out, including on the problems of the social structure of Soviet society. The development of sociological science in the Soviet period can be called the most ambiguous and, to some extent, tragic page in the history of scientific thought in Russia. On the one hand, sociological research, especially regarding the social structure of Soviet society, has become in demand from both a political and an economic point of view since the emergence of the Soviet state. In a relatively short period in the young Soviet state, an extensive network of sociological laboratories was created, in which large-scale research was conducted in various directions. The activities of ICSI and its predecessors - the Sector of Research on New Forms of Work and Life and the Department of Sociological Research of the Institute of Philosophy of the USSR Academy of Sciences – allowed Soviet sociologists to unite into a team of like-minded people, and, despite ideological prohibitions and sanctions, to formalize sociological research into a multi-scale and complex theoretical and methodological basis of sociology.

Ethical dilemmas of teacher research in applied linguistics

Teacher research (TR) is teachers’ systematic examination of their pedagogy and/or their students’ learning within their own classrooms. Language TR presents different ethical dilemmas from other applied linguistics research due to the researcher's positioning and TR's situatedness. Teacher-researchers’ dual roles as instructor and researcher allow unique perspectives but also raise questions of subjectivity. Because TR is situated in specific contexts, teacher-researchers’ ethical decisions require special attention to interpersonal effects not captured in institutional ethics reviews. This article presents qualitative analyses of data collected during a semester-long graduate course introducing language teachers to classroom action research. We documented participants’ development as researchers through recorded class discussions and their reflective writing. We analyzed the data recursively, focusing on ethically important moments. Some ethical issues paralleled those in the TR literature while others were specific to each participant's context. Participants’ reflexivity was crucial for managing these context-specific dilemmas as some situations lacked a clear answer. We illustrate our findings with vignettes from participating teacher-researchers exemplifying these dilemmas. We conclude by discussing ongoing challenges in language TR and by recommending future directions.

Too Close to Home: Photoelicitation with African Diasporic Communities, Ethical (Un)preparedness and the Importance of Critical Reflexivity in International Development Research

Photoelicitation is a creative and multidimensional visual methodology used to stimulate participant subjectivities and situated knowledges. International development research documenting this method often amounts to methodological ‘how-to’ discussions around procedural ethical considerations (e.g. of consent, confidentiality, anonymity and dissemination). Notwithstanding their instructions and recommendations, scholarship is almost exclusively concerned with ethics with respect to participant produced photographs. Less considered are elaborations around unanticipated ‘ethically important moments’ that occur unexpectedly in the here and now dynamic of researcher-supplied photoelicitation. Appropriately, this article presents a methodological reflection of the author’s unpreparedness for participant confessional stories and emotional responses about identity and racism evoked by INGO fundraising photographs of Black African poverty in a qualitative study with British African diasporic communities. It concludes with a two-pronged recommendation of critical reflexivity as an ethical safeguard whereby researchers 1) interrogate their positionalities, and 2) assess the ethical appropriateness of using photos with audience groups who share racialised identities and relationships with those featured in the fundraising imagery. Here, critical reflexivity is defined as the process through which researchers examine who they are and their role within the research context. While ethical safeguard refers to a certain ethical discernment and responsiveness that guards against some of the potentially harmful implications of ethical unpreparedness.

Преференции мотивов при выборе профессии студентами КрасГМУ им. проф. В.Ф. Войно-Ясенецкого

Choosing a profession is one of the most important and critical moments in personal development. The purpose of the study was to determine the leading type of motive in choosing a profession among second-year students of the KrasSMU. We found that 60% of respondents preferred to make a choice of profession based on internal socially significant motives. In decreasing order of preference indicators, the following sequence was observed: internal individually significant motives, external positive and external negative. Internal individually significant motives in terms of high significance for the respondents took the second place — 39%. The external positive motive was preferred to be highly rated when choosing a profession — 17%, and external negative motives were preferred by 5%. The types of motives chosen by the respondents are not static. In order to maintain the correct choice of a profession associated with internal socially significant motives, as well as changing preferences for external positive and negative motives, we suggest that teachers actively use incentives and motivations, such as: regular monitoring of knowledge in the form of an oral answer at each lesson; solving situational problems from clinical practices in theoretical departments; performing creative tasks (layouts, posters, diagrams, creating videos on the topic under study) to develop existing abilities and acquire new skills, participation in research activities of departments, presentations at scientific and practical conferences with the results of research, i.e. using existing and development of new skills for the formation of an active, developing personality of a professional doctor.

ВПЛИВ КОМПЕТЕНТНІСНОГО ПІДХОДУ НА ФОРМУВАННЯ ОСОБИСТОСТІ МАЙБУТНЬОГО ФІЛОЛОГА-ПОЛОНІСТА В ОСВІТНЬОМУ ПРОЦЕСІ ЗАКЛАДУ ВИЩОЇ ОСВІТИ

The article examines the formation of a future specialist's readiness for professional activity in the process of studying at a higher education institution. The influence of the competence approach on the cognitive and activity organization of the educational process is clarified. The relationship between the competency-based approach in education and the personally-oriented and activity-oriented approaches to learning is analyzed, since, on the one hand, it concerns the student's personality, and on the other hand, it can be implemented and verified only in the process of a specific student performing a certain set of actions. The importance of using active learning methods in a higher education institution for the purpose of forming professional and personal competencies, awareness of problem situations, fighting motives, revaluation of values and their use in specific real situations during the study of the main components of professional training is considered. It is emphasized that the choice of values significant for the subject is carried out in accordance with his value competencies and is made under the influence of the sociocultural experience of the individual. It is emphasized that values are the objective basis of the formation of value competences and are learned only under the condition of acceptance by the individual, compliance of needs and interests with value competences, that is, if the individual identifies himself with them, reveals a personal meaning in them. An analysis of the respondents’ value orientations was carried out. It is emphasized that values are motivating competences, certain directing and accelerating motives of human behavior, activity, in particular professional. It is highlighted that providing a professional direction to the life aspirations and behavioral motives of a higher education seeker is an important moment in the formation of the personality of a future Polish specialist, the formation of stable life views, and professional beliefs.

Tracing a genealogy of ideas, seeing, and not seeing bias: Legacies in science and society of Charles Seligman's biocultural theory of Africa (Hamitic hypothesis) and Ashley Montagu's on race

AbstractSome ideas about populations in Africa that were called “races” are addressed in the works of two influential scholars of the twentieth century: Charles Seligman and Ashley Montagu. Seligman is remembered for his notable students and a discredited theory called the Hamitic hypothesis. Montagu is primarily known for his early public interrogation of the term race. There are inconsistencies in aspects of both their works and lives. Seligman recognized and critiqued the problems in Aryanism/Nazi theories and practices, but not in his theory about Africa or colonialist behavior. Contrary to common understanding, Montagu did at one time postulate the existence of biological races, while simultaneously and trenchantly rejecting a race construct that linked non‐biological traits to ancestry or phenotype. However, at an important moment in sociopolitical history Montagu contradicted this latter position in uncritically citing Seligman. Aspects of their work can be found to have continuing and sometimes unrecognized influence in academic and non‐scholastic contexts.

Is biodiversity promoted in rift-associated basins? Evidence from Middle Jurassic conifers from the Otlaltepec Formation in Puebla, Mexico

The Jurassic Period is an important moment in the origin and evolution of modern conifer lineages. They dominated most of the land plant communities, as reported in different high latitude floras worldwide. However, there have been few reports of Middle Jurassic conifers from low latitude regions of Western Laurasia, such as Mexico. Most data on the composition of these Jurassic Mexican floras come from other plant lineages that thrived in different rift-associated basins, like the Tlaxiaco Basin and the Ayuquila Basin. Here we describe six new fossil conifers from the Middle Jurassic Otlaltepec Formation, Puebla, Mexico. Based on morphological features, we identify the following genera: Brachyphyllum, Platycladium, Podocarpites, and Masculostrobus and propose two new species (Brachyphyllum dimorpha Morales-Toledo & Cevallos-Ferriz, sp. nov. and Platycladium mexicanum Morales-Toledo & Cevallos-Feriz, sp. nov.). The description of the first ovulate cone for the Middle Jurassic of Mexico is provided, as well as a conifer foliage of uncertain affinities. Based on the available data we discuss the implications of the fossil record from the Otlaltepec Formation in context of the break-up of Pangea and how the conifer diversity seems to be increased by the rifting process through separating plant communities in different basins. Finally, this work contributes to the knowledge of conifer diversity at low latitude floras from Western Laurasia during the Middle Jurassic.

Orthodoxy and Ecumenical Dialogue after Crete Synod (2016) and Social Ethos Document (2020): History, Critical Positions and Reception

In this study, I will analyse the position of the Orthodox Church(es) towards the ecumenical dialogue in accordance with the documents approved by the Synod of Crete (2016), but also with the social document For the Life of the World of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (2020). After a brief presentation of the important moments of the historical journey for the meeting of the Synod, I will present the most important internal and reception issues of it. In the following, I will present the reason for the publication of the social document and the relation with the Synod of Crete. In the last part of the study, I will deal critically with a theological synthesis on the following topics: ecclesiological self-identity, Trinitarian baptism, the quality of being a Christian, the Orthodox Church and the Churches, ecumenism for dialogue, for witnessing, and cooperation. Of course, in the end, I will present the most important conclusions.

Mental Health Professionals' Views on the Regulation of Psychotherapy in Ontario

In Canada, statutory regulation for the mental health professions is a provincial or territorial matter. In 2007, the Ontario government introduced the Psychotherapy Act (PA), which details the scope of practice as well as the authorized act of psychotherapy. The PA established the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO) to regulate its members in the service of protecting the public. Given the long history of contestation and ambiguity surrounding the definition of psychotherapy, the PA represents an important historic moment for practitioners in Ontario. However, little research has been conducted on psychotherapy practitioners’ experiences and perspectives on professional regulation. This study qualitatively explored perspectives on, and experiences with, the PA among regulated mental health practitioners who have access to the act of psychotherapy in Ontario, including psychotherapists, nurses, physicians, occupational therapists, psychologists, and social workers. The study provides insights into the ways that these professional groups are impacted by the regulation of psychotherapy and has implications for the future implementation of statutory regulation.

‘Kalli in the ship’: Inughuit abduction and the shaping of Arctic knowledge

ABSTRACT This article examines the contributions made to Arctic knowledge by Kallihirua, a member of the Inughuit community of Northern Greenland who was abducted by the crew of the Assistance during the 1850–51 expedition in search of the missing ships Erebus and Terror. Unpacking this important moment of cultural encounter, the article explores the ways in which Kallihirua’s presence on board the ship became embroiled in wider scholarly debates pertaining to the ‘origins of the Inuit’ and to the historical migrations of human beings around the world. Furthermore, it studies the ways in which this ‘indigenous intermediary’ became an important influence on the emergent scholarly disciplines of anthropology and geography which were undergoing a process of institutionalization and professionalization during this period. The article therefore contributes new insights into the fundamental, yet overlooked, roles that Arctic indigenous peoples have historically played in shaping non-indigenous knowledge about the region.

On the V2G capacity of shared electric vehicles and its forecasting through MAML‐CNN‐LSTM‐Attention algorithm

AbstractShared electric vehicles (shared EVs) could be treated as energy storage and participate in electricity market services. In that case, the schedulable capacity that shared EV provide to grid in future time needs to be predicted accurately. Based on open data provided by a shared vehicle rental project, this research firstly proposes a method to build up schedulable capacity data set to prepare sample data for the deep learning‐based forecasting task. Secondly, a schedulable capacity forecasting model by MAML‐CNN‐LSTM‐Attention is proposed. Through the model, ultra‐short prediction (1 h) of aggregated schedulable vehicle‐to‐grid capacity of shared EVs is performed. The proposed model uses model‐agnostic meta‐learning (MAML) to optimize initial parameters of network to quickly adapt to changes in characteristics caused by different travel habits of different functional communities; uses two‐layer convolutional neural network (CNN) with long short‐term memory neural network (LSTM) and Attention mechanism to extract temporal‐spatial features of schedulable capacity for important historical moments. Simulation results show that the proposed model has a mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of 1.13% and goodness of fit of 0.976, the MAML decreases the MAPE by 1.04%, its stability and accuracy were better than previous used models. The research can act as useful decision aids for shared EV operators to participate in market services.

On “Savage Thought”: Gabriele D’Annunzio, Guido Boggiani, and Italy’s Transatlantic Mediterranean Empire

Critics have long debated the degree to which Gabriele D’Annunzio should be viewed as a fascist and an imperialist, a virtual daguerreotype for Mussolini. But D’Annunzio’s evolving investment in an Italian empire-state suggests that we should complicate our understanding of his links to fascism. This essay traces correspondences between “savage thought,” coming out of ethnographic anthropology from Latin America, and D’Annunzio’s “recovery” of Hellenistic Greece at the turn of the century. It examines three important moments in D’Annunzio’s literary career: his tour-de-force novel of scandal, Il piacere (Pleasure, 1889), his famous 1895 yachting tour of the Greek islands, and then the writing of Maia (1903), the first book of his epic poem in praise of empire, Le laudi (1903-1917). By reexaming these texts through a transnational lens, the essay demonstrates the global scope of the author's avant-garde literary project and considers its impact on colonial contexts across the Atlantic.

Kracauer, Bachofen, and the “bedeutungsleere Naturfundament”

In his 1927 essay “Die Photographie,” Siegfried Kracauer attributes to photography the ability to intervene in the dialectic, as old as history itself, between nature and thought. Paradoxically, precisely because photography can only reproduce meaningless fragments of the visible world in its attempt to offer a total, gapless coverage of reality, its failure can render the process of signification visible. This wager might suggest a course out of the perpetual relapse into myth that has attended human thought since it first began to free itself from nature. Yet what image of nature allows Kracauer to make such a claim for photography in the first place? To answer this question, this article turns to Kracauer’s often-overlooked citation of Bachofen, in order to identify an uneasy co-presence in Kracauer’s essay of two entwined historical narratives concerning the relationship between freedom and necessity: one is a universalizing, civilizational narrative about humankind’s development from mythic ensnarement in blind nature towards rationality; the other is more specific to capitalism as a particular social arrangement. Thinking about the coincidence of these two narratives can reveal the generative tensions within Kracauer’s essay, tensions that themselves index an important moment in the development of Critical Theory in the 1920s.

ПИОНЕР НА ПРИРОДОЗАЩИТНОТО ДЕЛО, БЕЛЕЖИТ УЧЕН И ПОПУЛЯРИЗАТОР НА БЪЛГАРСКАТА НАУКА (ПО СЛУЧАЙ 100 Г. ОТ РОЖДЕНИЕТО НА ДОЦ. НИКОЛАЙ БОЕВ)

The most important moments of the life of the noted ornithologist and environmentalist Nikolay Boev are presented. His most significant and versatile contributions to the popularization of the nature protection idea, natural science knowledge, and scientific contributions to the study and protection of Bulgaria‘s animal world are outlined. One of his bright individual abilities - the ability to draw – is also presented. Nikolay Boev is among the first scientific illustrators in Bulgaria. It is little known that he was also a talented cartoonist.