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UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS AND THE DIGITALIZATION OF EDUCATION: ON THE THRESHOLD OF FORCE MAJEURE TRANSITION TO STUDYING REMOTELY

In March 2020, Russian higher education was pretty fast to start working remotely due to the threat of the Covid-19 spread. At the same time, discussions around the development of online education inRussiahave been ongoing for several years. Based on the data from semi-structured interviews with teaching staff in leading Russian universities, the paper studies issues related to using digital technologies and professors’ attitude to educational process digitalization. University teachers are shown to consider students and public policy as key drivers of the educational process digitalization. At the same time, the alarmist view on the active spread of digital technologies is still widespread. Professors who participated in the study did not consider different types of remote and online teaching as an equal substitute for traditional offline formats and technologies. This leads to conservative forecasts regarding the future of online and remote teaching. The results seem mostly important, since they present the situation in Russian universities on the eve of the forced transition to remote teaching due to the spread of the Covid-19 virus. These results make it possible to predict the difficulties that universities may face during the transition to emergency remote teaching.

Access to Health Care for English Division Students of the Medical University of Warsaw

Foreigners face certain barriers in accessing medical care, though international medical students are in many aspects privileged in this field. The aim of this study is to explore whether these students are facing problems in accessing healthcare. An original survey questionnaire was prepared and distributed online and on paper among students. In total 138 questionnaires were filled out. The results were analyzed using statistical methods. The main barriers faced by students are the lack of knowledge about the healthcare system and language problems. The study shows there is a need to start working on institutional solutions to provide information about access to healthcare and to overcome language barriers in healthcare institutions. * The article is part of a research project financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. / Pracę wykonano w ramach Projektu Badawczego, finansowanego ze środków dotacji celowej MNiSzW.

Advancing technology in oil and gas: collaboration and comparison with the space sector

Woodside led the development of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry in Australia, operating 6% of global supply in 2019. From the first LNG plant in the southern hemisphere, to the largest ‘not-normally crewed’ offshore platform, innovation is part of Woodside’s DNA. Woodside was the first Australian oil and gas company to start working with global space agencies on remote operations challenges. Through exchanging people, knowledge, experiences and ideas, the collective impact of individual responses to these challenges is enhanced. From a direct, collaborative partnership with the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Australian Space Agency, to cross-sector collaborations such as the Australian Remote Operations for Space and Earth, the company’s approach to innovation is to adopt an open way of problem solving that does not presume that all the answers are in one place, nor that all solutions have only one application. This paper reviews experiences in collaborative partnerships within and beyond the space sector, documenting insights into the key ingredients for impactful collaboration.

Z KUŞAĞI JENERATİF ÖZELLİKLERİNİN 21YY İŞLETME STRATEJİLERİNE ETKİLERİ

The Z generation, composed of individuals born in 1990’s who are fast learners intertwined with technology, draws our attention to their aptitude to adjust to the new knowledge and pace of time. They grow in the consumer society and their inner worlds considerably differ from the members of other generations. Many members of this generation will graduate and start working in a few years. They have expectations and ways of learning that are different from the other generations and they will transform the companies and change the dynamics of the working life because they have a very good command of digital processes. The goal and objective of this scholastic research is to resolve the characteristics of Z generation who are born after 1995 – 2000s and put forward management and business strategies for the corporations, institutions and firms when they are employing or working with members of this generation.

No time to waste – How the social practices of temporal organisation change in the transition from work to retirement

In contemporary societies, chronological age is widely used as a temporal basis for regulating and organising social processes. A strong system of chrononormativity provides orientation on, for example, the appropriate time range to start working, have children, or to retire. This contribution explores the multiple temporal organisations of the life course by focussing on the transition from work to retirement as the beginning of ‘old age’. It asks how people get to become ‘old’ through temporal normalities at two scales: first, the life course scale at which temporal normalities are institutionalised; and second, the everyday life scale at which temporal normalities are routinised; and how these two scales are mutually related. The paper is structured as follows: first, I outline the implications of a practice theory perspective on time and the temporal organisation of social practices across the life course; second, I discuss two concepts in order to grasp this temporal organisation, namely chrononormativity and norma-/temporality ; third, I present empirical material on assessments of the ‘right’ timing to retire, the re-structuration of everyday time in the retirement transition, and the re-negotiation of ‘wasting time’ in retirement. Results suggest the assessment of certain practices as time ‘well spent’ or ‘wasted’. And it is exactly in this assessment that links chrononormativity to norma-/temporality in retirement: Based on an increased awareness of one’s location at the latter part of the life course, the question regarding how the (limited and decreasing) time left is spent gains a completely new significance and can, hence, become a strong marker of distinction. However, the ambivalence in participants’ account suggests a potential for ‘queering’ time and age as a set of practices that resist and destabilise temporal rhythms.

The Level of Confidence, Readiness and its Associated Factors Among Medical Graduates Prior to House Officer (HO) Training

Introduction: House officers are reported to feel less confident in working, especially in the initial part of their training. Among the factors that make them feel unprepared are in terms of adequate knowledge, clinical skills and dealing with workload. The impact of less confident house officers (HO) can lead to detrimental effects.Objectives: This study aims to look into the confidence and readiness levels of medical graduates prior to starting a HO preparatory course and factors associate.Methods: This is a cross sectional questionnaire study done among medical graduates between April – September 2018. This is part of a bigger study looking into the effectiveness of this course, which was initially organised under the Islamic Medical Association of Malaysia (IMAM) and later privatized to Medicorp (a medical training company for junior doctors). 238 participants who fulfilled the inclusion and exclusion criteria, completed the adapted IMU Competency survey pre and post the course. Their level of confidence and readiness to work was scored out of a Likert scale of 1 to 5. The higher the score, the higher the confidence or readiness to work.Results: We found significant association of confidence levels pre-course with ethnic it y (p=0.038). The scores were 2.0 (IQR=2.0), 2.0 (IQR=2.0), 3.0 (IQR=1.0), 2.5 (IQR=1.25) for Malay, Chinese, Indian and others respectively. We report significant associations with level of confidence (p=0.03) and readiness (p=0.08) not only prior, but levels of confidence (p<0.001) and readiness (p<0.001) after the course in association with place of study. Significant association was found for levels of confidence (p=0.048) and readiness (p=0.07) according to gender for scores post-course which were both 3.0 (IQR=1.0) and 4.0 (IQR=1.0) for females and males respectively.Conclusion: Confidence level to start work were higher for the Indian ethnicity before the HOpreparatory- course. Confidence and readiness levels were higher in male after the course, and locally graduated participants pre and post course.International Journal of Human and Health Sciences Supplementary Issue: 2019 Page: 41

CONSTRUCTING AN OPTICAL LUNAR NAVIGATION SYSTEM BASED ON SPACECRAFT MADE BY LAVOCHKIN ASSOCIATION

The paper discusses the problem of developing an optical system for global positioning on the Moon to within one meter designed to service a limited number of users. It was demonstrated that the optimal solution of the problem would be to continuously monitor the positions of laser light beacons on the lunar surface from on-board an artificial satellite of the Moon equipped with an onboard TV camera, as well as from onboard a spacecraft placed at the L1 and L2 Lagrange points of the Earth-Moon system. The paper demonstrates the feasibility of a global lunar optical navigation and communications system based on space systems projects that are being developed at NPO Lavochkin: Spektr-UV observatory, lunar spacecraft Luna-25 and Luna-26. The use of these space systems will make it possible to start working in realistic terms on the navigation/communications system as a part of the future engineering infrastructure for lunar exploration. Keywords: telescope, optical navigation system, lunar base, Lagrange point, Spektr-UV, Luna-25, Luna-26.

Variação da Temperatura da Superfície do Mar no Oceano Atlântico Sul Durante Episódios de Zona de Convergência do Atlântico Sul Oceânica

A Zona de Convergência do Atlântico Sul (ZCAS) faz parte dos sistemas meteorológicos presentes no Brasil, ocorrendo nos meses de primavera/verão e consiste em uma banda de nebulosidade com eixo orientado de noroeste-sudeste que se inicia no sul da Amazônia e se estende até o Oceano Atlântico Sudoeste. Este sistema meteorológico contribui significativamente para o aumento dos índices pluviométricos, sendo muito importante para as regiões economicamente desenvolvidas do Brasil. Este trabalho foi desenvolvido com o objetivo de analisar a variação da temperatura da superfície do mar (TSM) devido a atividade deste sistema meteorológico quando ocorre configuração de ZCAS Oceânica, que é quando o sistema posiciona-se sobre o oceano.Para isto, serão comparadas imagens de satélite e variáveis atmosféricas associados a ZCAS com a variação da TSM do antes e após a atividade deste sistema meteorológico. Os resultados constataram que a TSM abaixo das ZCAS estava com uma temperatura mais quente (até 1º C) antes do fenômeno se configurar, e decaiu em até 1º C após a atuação da ZCAS. Estudar as variações de temperatura da superfície do mar da ZCAS e adjacências são indispensáveis para iniciar trabalhos que visam compreender os impactos no ambiente marinho.

Solve for Good

Solve for Good is a platform for social good organizations to pose their problems that need data intensive help, and for volunteers to help solve those problems. Once the projects are submitted by the organization, they go through a scoping process (done by scoping volunteers and guided by our Data Science Scoping Process). Once a project scope is finalized, it becomes available for data science volunteers to start working on. The finished work is reviewed by a QA team consisting of volunteers and staff of the organization that submitted the project. Solve for Good comes out of our experience working with government agencies, non-profits, universities, volunteers, professionals, students, and the private sector over the last several years. We repeatedly get contacted by governments, non-profits, and other social good organizations asking for help with data projects. We also have smart, passionate individuals who contact us offering their help, often in a volunteer capacity, on weekends, evenings, or for a few days or weeks. Solve for Good is our attempt at linking these two. We are just starting out, and looking for help in doing this better, and getting feedback from you. Join us at http://www.solveforgood.org as a volunteer to help solve problems, as an organization to submit problems, as partners to help us expand the platform and provide resources to run it, and as corporations or foundations to loan volunteers and donate resources used in solving these problems.

Shrinking city layouts

One important use of realistic city environments is in the video game industry. When a company works on a game whose action occurs in a real-world environment, a team of designers usually creates a simplified model of the real city. In particular, the resulting city is desired to be smaller in extent to increase playability and fun, avoiding long walks and “boring” neighborhoods. This is manual work, usually started from scratch, where the first step is to take the original city map as input, and from it create the street network of the final city, removing insignificant streets and bringing important places closer together in the process. This first draft of the city street network is like a kind of skeleton with the most important places connected, from which the artist can (and should) start working until the desired result is obtained. In this paper, we propose a solution to automatically generate such a first simplified street network draft. This is achieved by using the well-established seam-carving technique applied to a skeleton of the city layout, built with the important landmarks and streets of the city. The output that our process provides is a street network that reduces the city area as much as the designer wants, preserving landmarks and key streets, while keeping the relative positions between them. For this, we run a shrinking process that reduces the area in an irregular way, prioritizing the removal of areas of less importance. This way, we achieve a smaller city but retain the essence of the real-world one. To further help the designer, we also present an automatic filling algorithm that adds unimportant streets to the shrunken skeleton.

A Guide for Game-Design-Based Gamification

Many researchers consider Gamification as a powerful way to improve education. Many studies show improvements with respect to traditional methodologies. Several educational strategies have also been combined with Gamification with interesting results. Interest is growing and evidence suggest Gamification has a promising future. However, there is a barrier preventing many researchers from properly understanding Gamification principles. Gamification focuses of engaging trainees in learning with same intensity that games engage players on playing. But only some very well designed games achieve this level of engagement. Designing truly entertaining games is a difficult task with a great artistic component. Although some studies have tried to clarify how Game Design produces fun, there is no scientific consensus. Well established knowledge on Game Design resides in sets of rules of thumb and good practices, based on empirical experience. Game industry professionals acquire this experience through practice. Most educators and researchers often overlook the need for such experience to successfully design Gamification. And so, many research papers focus on single game-elements like points, present non-gaming activities like questionnaires, design non-engaging activities or fail to comprehend the underlying principles on why their designs do not yield expected results. This work presents a rubric for educators and researchers to start working in Gamification without previous experience in Game Design. This rubric decomposes the continuous space of Game Design into a set of ten discrete characteristics. It is aimed at diminishing the entry barrier and helping to acquire initial experience with Game Design fundamentals. The main proposed uses are twofold: to analyse existing games or gamified activities gaining a better understanding of their strengths and weaknesses and to help in the design or improvement of activities. Focus is on Game Design characteristics rather than game elements, similarly to professional game designers. The goal is to help gaining experience towards designing successful Gamification environments. Presented rubric is based on our previous design experience, compared and contrasted with literature, and empirically tested with some example games and gamified activities.

AMPLE: A Material Point Learning Environment

The Material Point Method (MPM) is a computational tool ideally suited to modelling solid mechanics problems involving large deformations where conventional mesh-based methods struggle. Explicit and implicit formulations are available, but for both the learning curve for understanding the method and arriving at a useful implementation is severe. Researchers must understand and implement finite element analysis, non-linear material behaviour, finite deformation mechanics and non-linear solution methods before they can even verify their formulations. This issue represents a significant barrier for post-doctoral researchers, graduate students and undergraduate students to start working with (and understanding) the method. This paper presents A Material Point Learning Environment (AMPLE) based around implicit variants of the method, with the aim of softening this steep learning curve via MATLAB-based, accessible and compact scripts. The code is freely available from github.com/wmcoombs/AMPLE.

Sistem Pakar Menentukan Maksimal Kalori Harian Berbasis Mobile

The study was conducted because of many concerning event happened in purpose of losing weight in improper methods. By the flow of time with technologies developed in this century, Smartphone became one of necessity because of the feature by many applications which helps a lot in our everyday life of humanity. The Researcher conducted this research of mobile-based application expert system which helps people properly losing their weight, this expert system is a supporting utility for taking care of dietary habit based on the amount of calorie limit calculated by this system, and recommends suitable and healthy food for users. This system is built with React Native framework. The calculation in this system is based on information of weight, height, and age provided by users, and all prediction will not be done without the provided information and every calculation is handled by web-based server-side processing which is developed using Laravel Framework. Inference method used by the researcher is Forward Chaining. This expert system will validate user's requirement to start working on losing weight by using Forward Chaining Inference method. Every successfully registered user will be able to view their calculated information by this system which is maximum calorie value, and list of healthy and recommended foods information provided by the expert herself. From the test results, the Expert System can solve the problem of giving a way to run a proper diet program by adjusting the diet with the calories needed.

Understanding Cosmo-Literature

Abstract The central objective of this paper is to provide a new conceptual theoretical framework starting from the role of new new media in shaping a new kind of literature, which I call Cosmo-Literature. Towards this, I start working from Levinson’s differentiation among old media, new media, and new new media to arrive at the difference among the variable types of media. Next, I address the role of new new media in establishing world democracies and changing the social, cultural, and political world map. After that, I investigate the terms of “global village” and “cosmopolitanism” in relation to literature. To clarify what I mean by Cosmo Literature, I will investigate two new new media novels: Only One Millimeter Away, an Arabic Facebook novel by the Moroccan novelist Abdel-Wahid Stitu, and Hearts, Keys and Puppetry an English Twitter novel by Neil Gaiman, to infer the characteristics of Cosmo-Literature in general and Cosmo narration in particular.

TEACHING PROGRAMMING WITH PYTHON FOR LINGUISTS: WHYS AND HOW-TOS

The article shows why it is worth introducing the basics of computational linguistics in general and programming as a method of the natural language processing in particular to the linguistics students. Computational linguistics has become the basis for solving many practical tasks in the language industry. Providing the linguistics students with the basics and the methods of the computational linguistics we widen their views on linguistics and show a perspective field of their possible future engagement to them. To get acquainted with computational linguistics, students have to learn how to work with corpora and acquire the basics of programming. This article demonstrates why Python is a good choice for linguists to start learning to programme. It also suggests an approach to teaching the fundamentals of the programming in Python for such students and gives step by step the main structures which can be used for processing texts or corpora. To such structures belong strings, variables, lists, loops, print-function, split-method, incrementation, and control structure. Combining these elements one can, for instance, split text into sentences or words, count words or sentences in text or count only some concrete elements in the text which satisfy a special condition. The article also outlines how to start working with input files. The further structures of Python are named, which can be introduced to the students next so that they become able to do more operations with texts. It is stressed that teaching programming is impossible without trying out every structure, so it is important to encourage the students to write their own code experimenting with each new element of Python and offer them enough practical tasks. Some examples of such tasks are illustrated in the article.

INTERFERENSI GRAMATIKAL DALAM KUMPULAN CERPEN BIARKAN AKU MEMULAI KARYA NURUL F. HUDA

The research grammatical interference in a collection ofshort stories Biarkan Aku Memula iwork Nurul F. Hudaisa collection ofshort storiesset in the back that Is start work Let Nurul F. Huda contains many grammatical interference.The problem of this study were(1)how the various morphologi calinterference containedin a collection of short stories Biarkan Aku Memulai work Nurul F. Huda. (2)how the various syntactic interference contained in a collection of short stories Biarkan Aku Memulai work Nurul F. Huda. The purposeof this studyis to describe the morphological and
 
 
 
 
 Syntactic interference contained in a collection of short stories Biarkan Aku Memulai work Nurul F. Huda. Sociolinguistics is the study of language variation and use in society. Interference is the event of the use of language elements of one into the other language elements that occur in the speakers themselves. This research uses descriptive qualitative method because to describe the actual realityin order to obtainan accurateand objective. Qualitative descriptive methods were used to analyzethe elements ofa word orphrase that incorporated elements of other languages with the analysis and description of the formulation of the problem is the answer. Data collection techniques using observation techniques, the determination ofthe object of research, the selection of short stories.Based on the analysis of the data in this study can be found that there are six forms of interference morphology, namely (1) the prefix nasal N-sound, (2) the addition of the suffix, (3) the exchange prefix, (4) exchange suffixes, (5) exchange konfiks, (6) removal affixes. While the syntactic interference only on the words and phrases in a sentence. The results of the study it can be concluded that the interference morphology more common than syntactic interference.

The Activities of the Polish Section “War Relief Services-National Catholic Welfare Conference” in Great Britain from 10.12.1943 to 31.07.1946

WRS-NCWC Polish Projects activities in Great Britain started at the very moment of the arrival 30 November 1943 of the Rev. A. Wycislo, Delegate of WRS-NCEC, nominated by Executive Committee as Field Director, Polish Projects. Very Bishop J.F. Gawlina immediately created in London an NCWC Polish Projects in Great Britain Committee. Rev. Canon R. Gogolinski-Elston was nominated Secretary of this Central Committee. The common aims of NCWC activities all over the world were directing aims of NCWC Polish Projects in Great Britain Central Committees. The especial aim to have care about the Polish Soldier, his spiritual and moral welfare, and to ensure his cultural and educationall development in a truly Catholic and Polish atmosphere. Rev. Gogolinski-Elston was ordered to start work immediately and already on the 10th of December 1943 the Polish Hearth in Blackpool was taken over, as the first NCWC Centre for Poles in Gt. Britain. On the 12th of December 1943 NCWC Rest and Recreational Centre for Polish University Students was opened in Edinburgh, 15th December an NCWC Polish Air Force Canteen in Blackpool was opend, 24th of December 1943 an NCWC Rest and Recreational Centre for Polish Convalescent Airmen in Blackoop and NCWC Rest and Recreational Centre in Special Secret Duty Detachment in “X” (military secret) were created. Polish Projects in Gt. Britain will be an excellent testimonial to American Catholics with their Bishops, to War Relief Services-National Catholic Welfare Conference, organization with its so effective Executive and Field Director.

Ending Software Boom and Bust: Lessons learnt from Scratchpads and proposals for building sustainable virtual research environments for the biodiversity research community

Scratchpads launched in 2007 and became an extremely popular resource adopted for a variety of communities. Primarily, Scratchpads are used to manage and publish biodiversity data, but many sites were organised around projects, societies and regions. Demand for Scratchpads peeked at requests for more than 80 new sites over a 3 month period in 2014. Today we have over 1000 Scratchpad sites. This has not been a pain-free journey. In 2015 the grants funding Scratchpad support and development came to an end, and whilst the Natural History Museum, London, provided some institutional support, this was alongside several competing initiatives. For a period of nearly two years, the Scratchpads had no dedicated developers. The Scratchpads suffered from this neglect, bugs remained unfixed and the platform became increasingly unstable. This situation has now been rectified, in 2017 the Informatics Group expanded, enabling us to provide a dedicated resource to the Scratchpads again. This has been a challenging but valuable learning experience - and one that many Virtual Research Environments (VREs) in our community have, or will, experience. Current funding models encourage a boom and bust development cycle, described by Hine (2008) as the "dance of the initiatives," as projects constantly need to re-invent themselves in order to receive new external funding. We need to move beyond this, to start working collectively to develop a common roadmap for these systems, so we can begin to mutually benefit from each others development activities. Building on lessons learnt from the Scratchpads, we highlight a draft set of principles that may provide a framework for such a collaboration. While it is unrealistic to expect existing projects at different stages of maturity, and supporting very different use cases, to re-write their codebase in order to facilitate collaboration, we propose a microservices framework that would allow these related systems to converge on the delivery of a common set of services, provided by many current VRE's. This convergence, coupled with the development of a common and mutually agreed roadmap for these systems, has the potential to build a more sustainable future for VRE user and developer communities, as these systems evolve to support new use cases and improve existing functionality.

A study on growth and effects of startup ecosystems in India

India is a fast developing south Asian and seventh largest country by area. Large population of the country implies a large prospective market in India and puts more pressure for employment in the country. With the gen-next cool trend to start working on new ideas, India is all set to outperform all other nations on the world stage in the years to come. Setting up of small businesses by these young entrepreneurs is definitely going to boost the India economy in the near future. In the present decade, India is undertaking an essential shift towards startup welcoming policies and a business friendly environment. India is a populated country having increasing demand which is putting a competitive environment forcing to create innovative systems. One of these systems is a Startup ecosystem. This paper aims to study about the growth, prospects and effects of Startup systems in India.

A FEW REMARKS ON THE METHODOLOGY OF THE HISTORY OF SAFETY RESEARCH

In this article, the author discusses the unanswered subject of the methodology of researching the history of safety. The starting point of his deliberations is the presen-tation of safety issues, the subject of safety history and discussion of the directions and methods of history research indicated in the literature. Next, the author justifies the necessity to start work on the methodology of safety history, then indicates the emer-gence of separate safety subdisciplines such as: safety philosophy, sociology of safety, safety psychology, safety culture. The natural consequence of this development of science, which is safety, should be the introduction of a safety history. An additional argument is the conduct of a subject in this field at Polish universities. In the further part of the article periodical patterns of history are presented. It is intended as a starting point for conducting safety history research. Finally, the author analyses the pos-sibilities of the research.