Personal Viewpoint Research Articles

The semantic analysis of the conceptual fields “wealth” in the English language

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of functioning of the conceptual fields “wealth” with monolexical and polilexical units in the English language. The author begins her theoretical research by presenting the approaches to defining the term”concept” by different scholars. It is regarded as either a linguistic-cognitive or a cultural-linguistic phenomenon. Then we analyse the theory of “the concept” suggested by Yuri Stepanov, confronting it with the opinions of others and expressing our personal point of view. The concept, unlike the word, has a more complicated structure. Its content is divided into linguistic meaning and cultural sense. The study of the vocabulary from the point of view of systematization and structuring into subsystems of different areas has recently become of paramount importance. The conceptual field is defined as a complex structure, which provides interconnected components verbalizing various aspects of the field. The field is not viewed just as a collection of concepts whose features are ordered in a certain hierarchy but as a system of overlapping cognitive structure. For this contribution, we consulted the works of different linguists who carried out research on the theme such as Western scholars: J. Trier, G. Ipsen, V. Porzig, J.Lyons, V. Evans, E. Coserio, Russian scholars: D. Lihacev, and Yu. Stepanov as well as Moldovan researchers S. Berejan, A. Ciobanu and V.Bahnaru. Monolexical units have been selected for the semic analysis of the constuents of the fields. Numerous examples of polilexical units are offered and their classification is presented.

Finding solace in nature – A meander through the ‘One Health’ concept

This article explores a theme of solace in nature from a professional (veterinary doctor) and personal (parent, expert by experience and nature enthusiast) viewpoint. The concept of ‘One Health’ is introduced, with a subsequent exploration of what such collaborative working can mean beyond the immediate remit of psychology.

Global Asias: Improvisations on a Theme (a.k.a. Chindon-ya Riffs)

In preparing my presidential address for publication, I debated between different options. On the one hand, I could do what I assume is most typically done—that is, take the oral presentation and re-present the material as a research-based journal article. On the other hand, I considered the extraordinary year of challenges, disruptions, traumas, fears, and insights that had preceded this presidential address. Nothing from that year could be considered normal, from a personal or professional point of view; therefore, another option would be to engage in a writing structure reflecting our departure from the normal. For the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), the year of abnormality began with the canceled 2020 Annual Conference in Boston as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, continued with online teaching and meetings, and culminated in a virtual Annual Conference in 2021.

Lessons in the Use of Technology for Science Education during COVID-19 Age under a Teachers’ Collaboration Cluster

The COVID-19 confinement has represented both opportunities and losses for education. Rarely before has any other period moved the human spirit into such discipline or submission—depending on one’s personal and emotional points of view. Both extremes have been widely influenced by external factors on each individual’s life path. Education in the sciences and engineering has encountered more issues than other disciplines due to specialized mathematical handwriting, experimental demonstrations, abstract complexity, and lab practices. This work analyses three aspects of science education courses taught by university professors in a collaborative teacher cluster, sharing technology applications and education methodologies in science over three semesters when the COVID-19 lockdown was in effect. The first aspect was a didactic design coming from several educational frameworks through adoption or sharing. The second one was an analysis by discipline of multiple factors affecting student engagement during the health contingency. The third analysis examined the gains and losses in our students caused by the university closure and the pandemic’s intrusions. The report explores the correlations of the exiting student perceptions with their academic performance in the courses and survey results about the impact of decisions or happenings during the crisis. This work’s value lies in the lessons for the future of education concerning the teacher dominions of didactic design, support, and collaboration in a broader sense than only for teaching.

Co-creating Possible Futures of Light, Beyond Lighting. A Hybrid Approach: Format Design, Preliminary Findings, and Reflexive Learnings From a Foresight Practice, Based on a Creative Industry Event Series

The research context for this article is a specific lighting industry professional event, focusing on the possible future of light across the dimensions of body, object (both human-scale and building), and metropolis. Light becomes the theme to generate visions and insights about longer term developments from personal, social, and business viewpoints. The event was designed as a location-specific format for the multi-awarded Silo 486, Helsinki, by Lighting Design Collective. The format is inspired by Brian Eno’s 1970s “Oblique Strategies,” therefore an approach derived from fine arts and popular culture, within the constructivist episteme. The specific target of this event is thought leaders and/or the next generation of architectural, design, and creative industry leaders, with an invitation list of 15–20, selected according to the “Elite Club” open innovation principle (Verganti et al., 2008). The event was held three times, from 2014 through 2016, during the Helsinki Design Week, as integral part of its program. The authors were main initiator and moderator of the event, as they designed the format in 2014.

ISEE principles for evidence synthesis and evaluation in environmental health

BACKGROUND AND AIM: The Cochrane Collaboration is a global producer and publisher of high quality systematic reviews of clinical and public health research. Cochrane has pioneered principles and rigorous standards for systematic review which have evolved to encompass diverse types of evidence and research integrity practices. In addition to producing systematic reviews, Cochrane publishes a Handbook of systematic review methods, provides capacity building for systematic reviews and advocates for the use and understanding of systematic reviews. This presentation is a personal viewpoint, but is based on my experience with diverse types of evidence synthesis and Cochrane. I will discuss the relevance of Cochrane’s principles and standards for evidence synthesis in environmental health. Lisa Bero is an international leader in Research Integrity and meta-research. She is the Senior Editor, Research Integrity for the Cochrane Library where she is initiating Cochrane’s research program on research integrity. She is also Public Health and Health System Network Senior Editor and was Co-Chair of the Cochrane Governing Board 2014-18. She is Professor, Medicine and Public Health and Chief Scientist, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center. METHODS: Not applicable RESULTS:Not applicable CONCLUSIONS:Not applicable KEYWORDS: exposure assessment, risk assessment, policy

Voicing and Visualizing Change: Perceptions of Environmental Heritage in the Baltic Sea Region

To address “wicked problems” that threaten the good ecological status of the Baltic Sea such as climate change with diverse stakeholder values and complex solutions, new interdisciplinary knowledge that incorporates citizen science is urgently needed. This paper scrutinizes environmental heritage in the Baltic Sea region by exploring what it means to persons living in the Baltic Sea environment. It asks the question, what is environmental heritage? It uses a qualitative research method using both texts and photographs—collected in an open competition—to consider humanistic viewpoints of persons living in the changing climate in the Baltic Sea Region. A thematic content analysis was utilized to identify emerging themes in the text and visual inquiry was used to decipher what meanings related to environmental change were conveyed in submitted the photographs. Some of the findings include that environmental heritage is perceived as experiences of living and interacting with the Sea and other non-human actors like animals, but also as material objects in the environment such as sustainable architecture. It also found that environmental heritage is articulated as a source of conflict, between users and uses and the traditional and new ways of life. Resolution of this conflict is important in guiding effective solutions to the challenge of climate change. It is thus important to develop interdisciplinary methods that facilitate the merging of different knowledge systems in order to generate effective solutions.

Localization and Internationalization of Texts of the Media Discourse

The article presents the results of a comparative analysis of the original and secondary texts of media discourse aimed at identifying the ways to localize and internationalize the verbal content of news websites. The study has been conducted on the material of news hypertexts in four languages – Russian, English, German and French, posted on the international Internet resource rt.com, Business Insider news portal, National Review newspaper, RTD Documentary Channel, L'Express journal. The authors substantiate the importance of using the terms 'localization' and 'internationalization' in translation studies to name inter-language transformations used in creating news messages, and analyze the definitions of these concepts in the frameworks of linguistics. The analysis shows that in many cases the standard translation model "source text – translation text", which presupposes a certain level of semantic equivalence, loses its relevance, since the secondary text is a new verbal product. It has been shown that the localized verbal space of the analyzed international media websites is created through the use of the following translation techniques: addition / omission of information in accordance with the pragmatic characteristics of readers, inclusion of culture-specific vocabulary in the secondary text, explication of toponyms and proper names, neutralization of imagery, omission of precision vocabulary, indication of a personal viewpoint of a secondary text's author, historical reference to allusions. It has also been revealed that internationalization of texts is performed through omission of cultural markers, addition of phrases emphasizing the view on the country "from outside", explication of toponyms, replacing proper names with generalized lexemes, as well as by indicating the positions of English-speaking countries on topical issues.

Postsecular rhetoric of the Pope: a discourse analysis of Pope Francis’ TED Talks

Pope Francis has gained a title as ‘the Pope of Surprises’ for his unprecedented and unconventional papal narratives, personal viewpoints, and equally electrifying mediatised public appearances. One of these surprises was his videotaped appearance on TED. By adopting postsecularism as a conceptual framework, this study examines the dominant discursive features in Pope Francis’ TED Talks. Three main types of narrative features were found: emphasis on the postsecular solidarity between the religious and the secular, negotiating religious doctrinal engagement in public spheres, and finally, de-emphasising the papal magisterial authority. While the surface language of the Pope’s TED Talks operates in a postsecular inclusive discursive spirit, its ontological roots are nevertheless cemented in a Catholic epistemology and a faith-motivated claim for moral theology. The similarities between Christian sermons and TED’s communicative norms and practices make the Pope’s new rhetoric possible without excessive attenuation of the Catholic vocabulary.

P50 Exploring the Experiences of Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RDNs) who Educate Through Cooking and Food Preparation

<h3>Background</h3> Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RDNs) often provide guidance on preparing healthy meals. Although food science and culinary skills are addressed in coursework to become a RDN, those involved in nutrition education do not universally incorporate hands-on cooking in their practice. Cooking skills, knowledge and confidence have declined among the public, while rates of obesity and chronic disease are on the rise. RDNs can play a central role in teaching essential cooking skills and food-related knowledge. This calls for exploration on the perspectives and characteristics of RDNs drawn to culinary education. Few studies have investigated the personal experiences and viewpoints of RDNs involved in teaching the public how to cook. <h3>Objective</h3> To explore the perspectives of RDNs who teach cooking and food preparation, to better understand their experiences learning to cook and teaching others. Cooking-related knowledge/skills perceived as lacking among the public and necessary to perform their role are compared with competencies outlined by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics' Food and Culinary Professionals (FCP) Dietetic Practice Group. <h3>Study Design, Setting and Participants</h3> The research design is cross-sectional and qualitative. Face-to-face semi-structured interviews are conducted remotely via Microsoft Teams. A convenience sample is recruited from community settings, including private practice, worksite wellness, supermarkets, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program, and SNAP-Ed. <h3>Analysis</h3> Interviews are recorded, transcripts are coded, and recurring themes are summarized. <h3>Results</h3> Analysis of pilot data (n = 14) on experiences learning to cook indicate cooking at home with parents while growing up, food science coursework, and personal interest in cooking. Emerging themes mirrored several FCP competencies, including communication skills, knife skills, ingredient substitution, time management, meal planning and food safety. <h3>Conclusion</h3> This pilot study examines the perspectives of RDNs who teach hands-on cooking, thereby providing insights on the competencies needed to teach others and best serve the public. Our findings merit research with a larger sample to further compare with FCP competencies, and potentially inform dietetics education programs preparing students for careers as RDNs.

How the COVID 19 pandemic would change the future of architectural design

PurposeThe purpose of this research is to conduct a comparative analysis of the views of architects and urban designers in the West and the Middle East on whether the COVID-19 pandemic could affect architecture and urban design shortly and what is the future of our home design? A further purpose was to explore and explain how the pandemic will change the future of architecture and urban design by reviewing, analyzing and synthesizing different and related viewpoints to create a grounded theory, hoping to provide some insight for the entire world.Design/methodology/approachDifferent research methods were used to achieve the research purposes including grounded theory, desk reviews, reviewing the limited existing literature and semi-structured interviews.FindingsThis research found that most surveyed architects believed that the COVID-19 pandemic would affect the future of architecture and urban design and help to create new design features. Future concentration will be in living, working, learning, leisure and teaching spaces. All future designs should be independent, self-sufficient in terms of power and water usage and using nonrenewable energy sources. The home design should focus on the interior design, transparency, open to the inside (introverted spaces), quality of life, natural daylighting and ventilation, healthy indoor air quality, use of plants and natural materials, green roof, the relationships between indoor and outdoor spaces and quality of building materials. Additionally, transitional space is an important primary entry point to the home. Moreover, folding furniture may be a solution to enlarge the room when needed and turn it into multifunctional spaces. The home office will no longer be a small desk, chair and lamp located at the small corner anywhere. The future home office should be equipped with all the necessary technology. The open-plan design trend and the concept of flow space will not exist anymore. The pandemic will encourage the use of touchless and smart technologies in design and construction. There is a need to separate heating and ventilation systems in detached houses and multistory buildings to avoid infectious diseases. Social norms have changed over a few weeks of social distancing. Therefore, we can change the system of negative habits, old traditions and society’s bad behaviors.Practical implicationsThis research raises many proactive ideas, and the results are relevant to all actors in the construction sector, as it contains findings of understanding how the interaction of people with the built external or internal environment evolved during the pandemic process. In this sense, it will provide socio and economic benefits for the society in terms of seeking an answer to the question of “how should we design” for possible new bad scenarios to evolve the spaces in the “lockdown” situation. This research discusses how to make our homes comfortable and ready for an extraordinary time, suggested a practical design solution based on construction technologies.Social implicationsThis research links theory to practice, and it facilitates the adaptation to the current situation. It has a high impact on society, as it guides designers to rethink spaces that can help occupants face the COVID-19 pandemic challenges. Therefore, it should create and implement architectural design guidelines for health and safety. The architects should think about how to create and organize multifunctional, flexible, aesthetical, healthy and clean spaces under the new roles of interaction and social distancing. Architects should incorporate technological and innovations from different fields to organize spaces, promote public health and enhance the quality of life.Originality/valueArchitecture and urban design suddenly become medical, and we can use the built environment as a way to control epidemic spread. Additionally, and by reviewing the literature, there is no published qualitative research that has been explored on how the COVID-19 pandemic will change the future of architecture and urban design, but there are some personal viewpoints and short interviews. This topic is a new growing concern and becoming a top social topic and priority for policymaking in the world. The topic is important in terms of design input for designers to create new living spaces, as it includes the views and observations of architects from the east and west to the pandemic process. We have all been encouraged to reimagine the space in which we live, how the place fits our needs, how we use it and enjoy it during the pandemic. Therefore, this paper appeals to an international readership by linking the COVID-19 situation to architectural design.

Retired French Military Orthopedic Surgeons’ Opinions on Their Careers

Owing to their professional and personal experiences, retired military orthopedic surgeons' views of their careers are a unique source of inspiration. Reflecting on their experiences allows them to grasp the positive points and those that need to be improved for future generations. The purpose of this study is to gather the opinions of retired surgeons on the career of military orthopedic surgeons. We addressed a questionnaire to all retired French military orthopedic surgeons in the database of the Chair of Applied Surgery for the Armed Forces as of December 2020, retrained in the civilian sector. A questionnaire sent by email made it possible to collect demographic, professional, and personal data about their careers. Subjective data were evaluated using a visual analog scale from 0 to 10 or a subjective qualification scale. The main assessment criterion was the average score (out of 10) of the retired surgeons' opinions on their careers. Fifty-two percent of retired surgeons replied (32 out of 61), with the respondents having an average age of 63 years. They had been in military retirement for an average of 14 years and had practiced for approximately 13.5 years. The majority (28 out of 32) had had a civilian activity after leaving the army. The three main reasons for leaving were the unsatisfactory working environment, the high number of deployments, and insufficient pay. Nevertheless, the respondents were satisfied with their activity, their job, and their training. The average score given for the overall opinion on their careers was 8.14/10. The three main disadvantages of the career that were noted were the quality of family life, the conditions of employment, and the financial aspects. The majority were very satisfied with the second half of their civil career. Overall, the opinion of retired French military orthopedic surgeons on their careers is very good. Their point of view provides interesting elements for reflection from both a professional point of view and a personal point of view. They were very satisfied with the quality of their training, their job, and their activity. However, the quality of their personal/family life, working conditions, and the financial aspects of the career reduced this satisfaction. The results also have potential application in improving the preparation of young military orthopedic surgeons.

DIDACTIC CRITIQUE AND INNOVATION TEACHING: TOWARD AN LEARNER, CRITICAL AND CREATIVE

Critical text has been given great importance in teaching. The learners get tools to deal with, understand and analyse literature texts. Thus, they can evaluate these texts in an artistic way far from their personal point of view or other previous judgements. Despite the importance of the critique and its teaching in the Arabic language, it still has many obstacles in pedagogical level and so on. These obstacles make innovation teaching, feeling the beauty of style and the development of learners' thinking impossible and out of reach as long as there is still improvisation in didactic critique. Getting over difficulties in teaching critical text and achieving its goals is linked to providing conditions in terms of objectives or the nature of methodological reading. Critical text makes the reader, receiver and learner able to interpret the meaning and read between the lines through filling in the gaps and seeking the hidden meanings. This can only be achieved by using learner's experiences and the way he looks at the world.

Theory of Sampling application: toward a theory of tumour sampling

Many of you will be working in the cancer field, whether in diagnosis or research, in which case you will be very interested in this Sampling Column. Even if this is not your field of work, you will be interested from a personal point of view! It presents a fascinating idea and solution to improving the identification of different parts of a tumour and, thus, to provide better personalised treatment. “…in solid tumour oncology, representative sampling is truly a matter of life or death…”

A Study to Assess the Quality of Life of Under Graduate B.sc. Nursing Students of Dinsha Patel College of Nursing, Nadiad

Background and Aims: Quality of life (QOL) is a subjective concept because the interpretation of eachindividual depends on his/her personal point of view. It is also multidimensional, given the influence offactors related to education, economy and socio-cultural aspects.Although the quality of life (QOL) of nursing students is a relatively well-researched topic in the West, thereis a lack of it in developing countries like India. The aim of this study was to examine the QOL of Indianundergraduate nursing students and its associations with socio demographic and other parameters.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in nursing college in Gujarat, India. In this institutionundergraduate nursing students were selected. Usually, students start nursing program at 18 years of age.During the course of their study they learn different medical and paramedical related nursing subjects.Also, from the first year, they have their first direct clinical contact with patients in hospitals (scheduledclinical rotations). All the eligible subjects were approached after class hours to participate in the survey.Participation was completely voluntary. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participantsincluded in the study. The questionnaires were anonymous, personally identifiable information such as nameand identification number was not collected. Students were requested to sit at a fair distance from each otherso as to assuage their privacy concerns. Students were assured of confidentiality and informed that the datacollected shall be published and later would be provided to nursing education policymakers. The studywas approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee and was conducted according to the ethical principleslaid down by the declaration of ICMR. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 225 nursing students inNadiad Gujarat, India. Students self-reported their QOL using the World Health Organization Quality ofLife-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF).Data were collected on the individuals’ characteristics, including the yearof study, substance use, physical exercise, academic performance, and other parameters.Results &amp; Conclusion: The present study evaluates the quality of life of B.Sc nursing students of DinshaPatel College of Nursing. On the basis of the findings the researchers concluded that the 146 students areperceived that they are live with average Quality of Life.

A Mind Genomics Cartography of Shopping Behavior for Food Products During the Covid -19 Pandemic

The study presents a new approach to understand the mind of the persons in order to drive desired action in crisis situation, specifically the COVID-19 pandemic. Understand the mind of the shopper in a pandemic situation, with massive uncertainty, should provide direction for governments and the retail trade to adopt practices and communications which will reassure their customers. This study investigates the nature of what people will do to reassure themselves in the pandemic, and has been executed during the period of the pandemic, making the study relevant to the actual events taking place. The focus of the study is on the likelihood of buying ordinary food, given certain descriptions. The study revealed three mind-sets, clusters of individuals who respond to the pandemic in one of three ways. These are: Mind-Set 1: Focus on sanitation - supply; Mind-Set 2: Focus on budget for lifestyle; Mind-Set 3: Focus on shopping, personal needs, consumption. These mind-sets are distributed through the population, and are not limited to specific age or gender. The paper closes with the PVI, personal viewpoint identifier, to assign a new person to one of the three mind-sets.

The role of academic field-trip organizers as gatekeepers for emerging heritage sites in Malaysia

ABSTRACT This article is the result of a multi-year study on the opinions of educators involved in organizing academic field trips to emerging heritage sites on the margins of the tourist gaze in Malaysia. Focusing on travellers from an architectural background, the study analyses the relative importance of tangible and intangible elements to the appreciation of heritage from a professional as well as personal point of view. By analysing the experiences of five different architect-academics who visited carefully chosen historical sites endangered by a variety of developmental or other threats throughout peninsular Malaysia, this study shows how potentially significant locations nevertheless require a careful curation of their narratives to attract visitor interest. It identifies the organizers of academic field trips as important gatekeepers for curating these narratives and highlights how long-term personal and professional development rather than a desire for monetary gain are powerful catalysts for local academics to evolve into cultural intermediaries championing authentic narratives for emerging heritage sites. Given the vital importance of domestic tourism in an uncertain post-coronavirus future, this study points to the need for the creation of long-term partnerships between academia and emerging heritage sites in Malaysia to fill an ‘authenticity gap’ threatening their survival.

Nostalgia of a Frustrated Ottoman Subject: Reading Osman Agha of Timișoara's Memoirs as Self-Narrative

Ego-documents let us hear the voices of those who have been little heard in historiography. Such documents, especially when narrative in nature, provide insight into historical events and periods by illustrating how individuals—in correspondence with their own (in)actions, (in)decisions, and (mis)convictions as well as emotions, fears, aspirations, and frustrations—experienced and perceived these historical phenomena from a contemporary personal viewpoint. Since the revival of narrative historiography in the 1980s, partly in response to the Annales school, such documents have been increasingly recognized and employed as important historical sources. Nonetheless, the terminology for designating the generic nature and encompassing the diversity of such sources, as well as the methodology for historicizing them, remain under debate.

A Subjective Approach of the Performance of Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16

Abstract Starting from a stylistic analysis based on musical language elements, this study offers a personal standpoint with respect to the interpretation and performance of Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16. The author accounts for all the technical and interpretive observations starting from a structural analysis of the opus. The reflections on various melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, dynamic or agogic characteristics come to reinforce the rationale for the subjective choices of how to perform this piece. The article is not by far an exhaustive study on the topic; it merely offers a personal viewpoint and understanding of this Concerto based on several musical excerpts that have been deemed particularly relevant by the author, who is a pianist as well as a piano teacher. Given that the literature on the stylistic and performative analysis of major piano repertoire is sadly scarce, the author wishes to provide pianists and researchers alike with a paper that may serve them in their artistic or academic enquiries. As this Concerto is very well-known and enthusiastically approached by most pianists due to its beautiful, impressive themes and brilliant virtuosic passages, the author has considered it opportune to present her own point of view as a performing pianist for other pianists who may be strictly interested in various versions to resolve technical-performative issues or, perhaps, who may wish to merely contemplate this opus from a different angle.

Radosława Piwowarskiego podróże nostalgiczne. Kreowanie pamięci wspólnotowej i „realizm pamięci” w narracjach o Dolinie Dzieciństwa i Młodości

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