Anoop C. Choolayil, Panneer Devaraju, Muhammed Jabir
et al.
Abstract From a spatial justice perspective, this article argues that the spatial plane is ‘constructed’ and that socio-spatial configurations can create and intensify health inequities for vulnerable sections. Employing a mixed methods design, the study inquired about the impact of socio- spatial elements on Vector-Borne Diseases (VBDs) in Puducherry, India. The quantitative phase involved geospatial mapping and household surveys of 650 random individuals from Puducherry who had recovered from dengue, chikungunya or scrub typhus over one year, followed by qualitative in-depth interviews of 30 individuals selected purposively from the first phase participants. The findings show how people are ‘placed’ in spatial planes that are constantly being ‘constructed’ by social forces, leading to an inevitable ‘entanglement’ with vectors. While certain sections possess the resources to ‘modify’ or ‘nullify’ these disadvantages, the disadvantaged continue to live in this entanglement. The complex interaction of geographical and social components in the case of VBDs necessitates debates on health equity from a spatial justice perspective. In fact, it can be argued that spatial justice serves as the foundation for health equity, on which other interventions can be built in communities endemic to VBDs.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Social Sciences
Abstract To successfully adopt and implement information and communication technology (ICT) in language teaching and learning processes, it is essential to understand how and why language teachers use ICT and identify the barriers they encounter when attempting to incorporate ICT into their lessons. This study examined English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers’ attitudes at the tertiary level towards integrating ICT in their classes based on technology acceptance model (TAM) factors using a questionnaire consisting of both closed- and open-ended questions. Data were collected from 68 EFL teachers at three institutions in Guangzhou, southern China. The findings validated the efficacy of the TAM components in assessing the integration of ICT in higher education EFL classes in China based on teachers’ perceptions and attitudes and revealed teachers’ positive attitudes and significant tendencies towards ICT integration in English classes. However, teachers’ digital literacy and pedagogical and technological skills were found to be insufficient to successfully integrate ICT into tertiary English education. Most participants expressed a desire for in-service ICT training. Moreover, various obstacles were found to affect ICT integration in higher education English classes in China, including personal, institutional, and technological barriers.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Social Sciences
Enos Paselle, Etika Khairina, Mohammad Taufik
et al.
This study evaluates sustainable transportation development in Batam City, focusing on the accessibility of public transportation for persons with disabilities as a sustainability indicator. Utilizing qualitative research methods, primary data were collected through interviews, complemented by secondary data from various sources such as Department of Transportation reports, Batam City Government documents, and online media. Data analysis employed triangulation, supported by Vosviewer Tools for processing secondary data. Findings reveal inadequate transportation accessibility services for people with disabilities in Batam City. Effectiveness, efficiency, adequacy, and equality for this demographic remain suboptimal, indicating a lack of sustainable and inclusive approaches. Regional regulations concerning disabilities are not fully implemented, and there's a lack of management strategies for transportation or Transport Demand Management tailored to assist people with disabilities. The Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system's ineffectiveness hampers transportation connectivity, exacerbating access challenges. Essential disability facilities like ramps and bell signals are unevenly provided, while the limited number of special seats creates difficulties in prioritizing pregnant women and the elderly. Consequently, the current serviceability access falls short of meeting the standard needs of people with disabilities, as envisioned in Sustainable Transportation frameworks.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Social Sciences
O presente artigo analisa como Karl Marx e Friedrich Engels compreendiam a literatura como meio de (re)produção capitalista, indicando suas contribuições para (re)construção de uma nova sociedade, a partir da consciência revolucionária. Discorremos sobre a trajetória desses autores, entendendo as manifestações literárias como potenciais elementos para estratégias de ensino e aprendizagem capazes de construir uma consciência proletária, articulada a literatura revolucionária. Embasamo-nos em Cotrim (2016), Lukács (2010), Silva (2012) e Vedda (2003), a partir de uma pesquisa de cunho qualitativo, pautada na revisão bibliográfica. Articulamos, aos preceitos de Marx e Engels, dois poemas: O Bicho de Manuel Bandeira (1986) e Lixo de Augusto de Campos (1986), indicando caminhos para a utilização da literatura voltada à conscientização revolucionária. Nossos resultados apontam a importância da aproximação desses teóricos à realidade dos indivíduos desprovidos da lógica capitalista e neoliberal como uma forma de libertação das desigualdades, condicionamentos sociais e exploração humana.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Education (General)
Background
The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between parent involvement and academic achievements of primary pupils in Kole North County, Kole District.
Methodology
The study was a descriptive, correlational, and cross-sectional survey research design. Further, it was both quantitative and qualitative. The study used 32 head teachers of primary schools in Kole North County, Kole District as the respondents of this study.
Results
The findings revealed that 87% of the respondents were males and 13% of the respondents were females. Also, 59.4% of the respondents were aged 41-50 years, 28.1% of the respondents were aged 51-60 years and 12.5% of the respondents were aged 31- 40 years. The correlation between parents’ discussions with pupils and their academic performance in a secondary school within Kole North County was 0.843 with a sig value of 0.001. The correlation between parents’ attendance of school programs and completion of primary education by primary pupils was 0.411 with a sig. value of 0.018. This indicates a positive significant relationship between parents’ attendance of school programs and completion of primary education by primary pupils in North Kole County.
Conclusions
The education level of parents and parents’ involvement in providing scholastic materials and attending school programs contributes to the academic achievements of their children in Kole North County.
Recommendations
Parents should strive hard to provide school requirements in time to avoid sending students home as well as lack of scholastic materials. Parents should also do extra coaching of the children using a private tutor to help their children excel with better grades.
This article elucidates the reconstruction of the Soviet security apparatus during World War II in what today is western Ukraine. In late 1943 to early 1944, six operational groups of the People’s Commissariat of State Security of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic headed to the Axis occupied territories with orders to re-establish contacts with Soviet secret agents and create a support infrastructure for the deployment of other operational groups, special purposes units, and individual agents, as well as to infiltrate organizations of Polish and Ukrainian nationalists. The essay examines Soviet special operations within the context of state efforts to project power into the Axis occupied territories. It sheds light on the objectives of Soviet security agencies and on the activities of individual units in the field.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Social sciences (General)
A. Gnanaprakasam, V. Sivakumar, M. Thirumarimurugan
This paper aims to review the recent works on the photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants in the presence of nanophotocatalyst. In this regard the effects of operation parameters which could influence the photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants (such as catalyst preparation method, initial concentration of organic pollutants, presence of doping, catalyst loading, calcinations temperature, pH, presence of oxidants, UV intensity, temperature, and presence of supports) are discussed. Recent research suggests that the parameters mentioned above have great influence on the photocatalytic activity of prepared nanocatalyst. Also, the general mechanism of photocatalytic degradation and some recent synthesis methods are discussed here.
Hans True, Lasse Engbo Christiansen, Andreas Lindhardt Plesner
et al.
Abstract We investigate numerically the dynamical reactions of a moving wheelset model to real measured track irregularities. The background is to examine whether the dynamics are suitable as the input to the inverse problem: determine the true track geometry from measured wheelset dynamical reactions. It is known that the method works well for the vertical position of the rails but the computed lateral position is often flawed. We find that the lateral motion of the wheelset often may differ from the track geometry. The cases are investigated closely but the reasons remain unknown. While the wheelset dynamics reflect the larger (> 4–6 mm) aperiodic track disturbances and single large disturbances quite well, this does not seem to be the case for general smaller or periodic track irregularities or sections behind single large disturbances. The resulting dynamics of a wheelset to lateral track irregularities are in general not sufficiently accurate to be used as the basis for a description of the track irregularities.
يهدف البحث إلى إظهار طبيعة الإعلام الإسلامي، وتوضيح معايير مخاطبة الجمهور، والخدمة الإعلامية التي ينبغي أن توجه لهذا الجمهور، وتبيين قواعد صياغة المضــمون الإعلامي للجمهور، والوسائل التي يمكن استعمالها لنقل المضامين الإعلامية، وقد انقسم البحث إلى مقدمة وتمهيد ومبحثين وخاتمة؛ تطرق المبحث الأول إلى طبيعة الإعلام الإسلامي وجمهوره، ودرس المبحث الثاني معايير مخاطبة الجمهور، وتوصل إلى جملة من النتائج منها: أن هذا المنهج هو الذي يجب أن يتبعه القائمون على وسائل الإعلام عند مخاطبتهم لمختلف فئات الجمهور المستقبل وطبقاتهم، وأنه لا وجود له في التطبيق العملي في الدول الإسلامية، إلا في جوانب بسيطة وبرامج محدودة، ينقصها كثير من أساليب الصياغة والمعرفة بحال المخاطبين، وهذه الجوانب لا تمثل شيئًا أمام الكم الهائل من الممارسات الإعلامية الوضعية التي تسود مجتمعاتنا الإسلامية.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities
Il contributo intende proporre un’indagine sulla militanza antiromantica che caratterizzò per circa un trentennio la produzione letteraria di Bernardo Bellini (1792-1876), attraversando il 1816 della querelle, la breve stagione del «Conciliatore», le diatribe suscitate, nella seconda metà degli anni Venti, dal montiano Sermone sulla mitologia e dai Lombardi alla prima crociata di Tommaso Grossi, fino ai primi anni Quaranta, che lo videro contrapposto, nella Torino di Carlo Alberto, all’esordiente ma già affermato Giovanni Prati. In ognuno di questi scontri, il poligrafo comasco diede prova di una vivace e spesso spregiudicata vena polemica, rivendicando (talora con tardivo accanimento) le ragioni della propria fazione, anche attraverso lo strumentale coinvolgimento di riconosciuti rappresentanti della recente tradizione poetica italiana, come Vincenzo Monti, Ugo Foscolo e Giacomo Leopardi.
Emotions are a crucial part of compelling narratives: literature tells us
about people with goals, desires, passions, and intentions. Emotion
analysis is part of the broader and larger field of sentiment analysis,
and receives increasing attention in literary studies. In the past, the
affective dimension of literature was mainly studied in the context of
literary hermeneutics. However, with the emergence of the research field
known as Digital Humanities (DH), some studies of emotions in a literary
context have taken a computational turn. Given the fact that DH is still
being formed as a field, this direction of research can be rendered
relatively new. In this survey, we offer an overview of the existing
body of research on emotion analysis as applied to literature. The
research under review deals with a variety of topics including tracking
dramatic changes of a plot development, network analysis of a literary
text, and understanding the emotionality of texts, among other topics.
Based on this review, we point to a set of remaining challenges that
constitute promising future research directions.
Language and Literature, History of scholarship and learning. The humanities
<p>En la primera década de la monarquía brasileña, el gobierno de Pedro I experimentó la oposición de sectores que estaban en contra de la opción monárquica como régimen político para Brasil. Esta oposición utilizaba la prensa como medio de propagación del ideario liberal y republicano. Ese fue el caso de los textos publicados en periódicos como <em>Sentinela da Liberdade</em>, editado por Cipriano Barata (1772- 1838) y <em>Sentinela do Serro</em>, editado por Teófilo Ottoni (1807- 1869). Al analizar estos textos a partir de las referencias de la llamada Historia de los Conceptos, procuraremos identificar en el material publicado entre la independência y los primeros años de regencia, los conceptos y narrativas políticas que derivaron del léxico republicano con el fin de comprender mejor el complejo escenario político que caracterizó al país en los años iniciales de la formación del Estado nacional.</p>
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence
This paper deals with the word formation modes used in construction of male and female personal names recorded in villages located in the river Kosanica basin which is the largest tributary of the river Toplica. Materials for this paper were collected in the period between 1996 and 2006. Recorded onomastic materials belongs to 40 Kosanica villages, from Kuršumlijska Banja, Samokov and Krčmar to southern Kosanica villages Dobri Do, Trn, Trpeze, Sekirača, Vasiljevac and Merdare. More than 2355 male and female personal names have been collected. Our paper has been concerned with morphology and word formation processes which are used in structuring of the male and female personal names in the examined area.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities
This article discusses how Dara Horn recuperates the integral roles played by Jewish Americans in the Civil War by using reenactment as a structuring concept in her novel All Other Nights (2009). Given that the Passover seder entails a kind of historical reenactment of the ancient Israelites’ exodus from Egypt, Horn casts the antebellum period itself not only in terms of competing interpretations of the Book of Exodus, but also as reenactments of key moments in Jewish history from antiquity through the mid-nineteenth century. Just as the seder is meant to strengthen Jewish communal bonds and inspire Jews to apply Exodus to their present context, the protagonist’s various personal reenactments, from childhood memories to various religious rituals, show him how learning about Jewish history and religion might motivate civic engagement in the United States. All Other Nights consequently poses a problem: how might Jewish Americans both prioritize communal ties while also putting Judaic principles into practice on behalf of others? Ultimately, I suggest the novel argues for Jewish solidarity with African American liberation struggles while also shedding light on the specific complexities of Jews’ experiences on each side of the Mason Dixon line. All Other Nights emphasizes the enduring importance of viewing Jewish Americans as a distinct ethno-religious group whose very Yiddishkeit existed generations before, and yet has also been shaped by, a nation riven over chattel slavery.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities
This book consists of two independent works: Part I is 'Solutions of the Einstein Vacuum Equations', by Lydia Bieri. Part II is 'Solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell Equations', by Nina Zipser. A famous result of Christodoulou and Klainerman is the global nonlinear stability of Minkowski spacetime. In this book, Bieri and Zipser provide two extensions to this result. In the first part, Bieri solves the Cauchy problem for the Einstein vacuum equations with more general, asymptotically flat initial data, and describes precisely the asymptotic behavior. In particular, she assumes less decay in the power of $r$ and one less derivative than in the Christodoulou-Klainerman result. She proves that in this case, too, the initial data, being globally close to the trivial data, yields a solution which is a complete spacetime, tending to the Minkowski spacetime at infinity along any geodesic. In contrast to the original situation, certain estimates in this proof are borderline in view of decay, indicating that the conditions in the main theorem on the decay at infinity on the initial data are sharp. In the second part, Zipser proves the existence of smooth, global solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell equations. A nontrivial solution of these equations is a curved spacetime with an electromagnetic field. To prove the existence of solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell equations, Zipser follows the argument and methodology introduced by Christodoulou and Klainerman. To generalize the original results, she needs to contend with the additional curvature terms that arise due to the presence of the electromagnetic field $F$; in her case the Ricci curvature of the spacetime is not identically zero but rather represented by a quadratic in the components of $F$. In particular the Ricci curvature is a constant multiple of the stress-energy tensor for $F$. Furthermore, the traceless part of the Riemann curvature tensor no longer satisfies the homogeneous Bianchi equations but rather inhomogeneous equations including components of the spacetime Ricci curvature. Therefore, the second part of this book focuses primarily on the derivation of estimates for the new terms that arise due to the presence of the electromagnetic field.
We have been reporting several new techniques of analysis and synthesis applied to Phase Shifting Interferometry (PSI). These works are based upon the Frequency Transfer Function (FTF) and how this new tool of analysis and synthesis in PSI may be applied to obtain very general results, among them; rotational invariant spectrum; complex PSI algorithms synthesis based on simpler first and second order quadrature filters; more accurate formulae for estimating the detuning error; output-power phase noise estimation. We have made our cases exposing these aspects of PSI separately. Now in the light of a better understanding provided by our past works we present and expand in a more coherent and holistic way the general theory of PSI algorithms. We are also providing herein new material not reported before. These new results are on; a well defined way to combine PSI algorithms and recursive linear PSI algorithms to obtain resonant quadrature filters.