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Adaptive Learning Implementation – A Cognitive Description Experiment for First Year Engineering Students at a Distance Education University

Author(s): Ngaka Mosia / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

A study was performed on a first year industrial engineering statistics course to improve the statistics pass rate. Statistics is a requisite for other engineering courses. The pass rate for the statistic course was below 50%. The primary purpose is to enable learners to build a capacity to comprehend module content and establish a deeper level of learning that will enable learners to achieve goals and objectives of T&L lessons. An intervention program was instructionally designed to develop a personalized and differentiated learning process that breaks down lessons into lower and basic components, for struggling learners, and improves lessons to a complex high level and challenging activities for excelling students. Forty students were considered for the study. Moore’s theory of transactional distance was used as a theoretical framework. The data consisted of exam and assignment scores. A quantitative method was used to analyse the data. Hypothesis testing suggests that the intervention program is significant. The overall pass rates improved by 25%.

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ESTETICA ECOLOGICĂ ȘI DIMENSIUNILE EI

Author(s): Ludmila Lazăr / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4(41)/2021

The interaction with nature poses more and more new tasks, and solving them requires a broader vision of the aesthetic phenomena in the surrounding world and the enrichment of knowledge gained with new concepts and terminology. The revision of attitudes, values, socio-cultural goals, the importance of human rationality in relation to nature has led to the ecologization of the aesthetic awareness and the emergence of ecological aesthetics, a discipline focused on new areas of knowledge that expresses the evolution of aesthetic / ecological thinking today. Addressing the specifics, tasks and concerns of ecological aesthetics is the subject of the current study.

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The European Union and Cultural, Economic and Political Development of Minority in Central and Eastern Europe

Author(s): Mukesh Shankar Bharti / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

This article aims to present the positions of minorities in Central and Eastern Europe since 1990. The analysis concentrates on relations between the various cultural and minorities group. The main outline is the concepts of minority rights and their multi-dimensional development of linguistic minorities and social development. There is a broad description of the social development of Roma in Central and Eastern Europe. Eastern European democracy promoters have made extensive use of their bilateral diplomatic channels to allow democratization laggards in the post-communist space a glimpse of what democracy looks like close to home and to give them encouragement and know-how to move forward with reforms.

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Водене на преговори при демонстративни опити за самоубийство

Author(s): Diana Bozhanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2021

Depression is one of the leading diseases in the world. One of its main symptoms is the loss of interest in life in general. Very often it provokes a desire in the depressed individual to end his life in order to end the unbearable pain he is experiencing. Unrealized suicide attempts in criminal psychology are called demonstarstive suicide attempts. They represent a very specific crisis situation that requires a different approach to the suicidal individual. In their professional daily lives, polic officers often face similar crisis situation. Resolving situations with demonstarstive suicide attempts requires adequate action to save the suicide’s life. The method of negotiation has gradually become established in police practice since the 1970s, when hostage-taking cases became more frequent. The aim was to find a method to help save the lives of all participants in the incident. Subsequently, the practice shows that this method is effective for intervention in suicide attempts, kidnappings, barricaded persons.

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Застраховките в МВР като инвестиция в служителите в дългосрочен план

Author(s): Diana Doncheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2021

Globally, there are processes of optimization in various areas and industries. In this sense, the Human Resources division is no exception. We are witnessing a change in the vision and attitude towards the employee - from human capital, through human resources to human potential, which change in recent years reflects the dynamics of organizational psychology and the improvement of mechanisms and methods aimed at extracting higher quality of services, higher productivity and sustainable competitiveness of the product, service, company in the long run. The meaning and value of human life in Bulgaria and in particular in the Ministry of Interior - the value of the insurance premium, risks, value of premiums paid.

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Artystki polskie w Paryżu wobec odzyskanej niepodległości Polski

Author(s): Ewa Bobrowska / Language(s): French Issue: 80/2022

Poland's regaining of independence in 1918 substantially changed the situation of the Polish artistic colony in Paris, including female artists. A number of reasons for artistic emigration lost their raison d'être, such as the affirmation of Polish national identity, the need for free expression of patriotic feelings, and propaganda for the restoration of an independent state. The problem of higher artistic education for women, which had been pressing during the period of the partitions, was also gradually solved in the reborn state. The number of Polish women artists in Paris clearly diminished in the immediate post-war period. Those who remained, such as Olga Boznańska, Mela Muter, Alicja Halicka or Stefania Łazarska, focused on developing their careers as professional artists. Our article proposes an analysis of the professionalisation of Polish women artists, either in the traditionally recognised domain of portrait painting as a speciality of women, or in the decorative arts. The dramatic situation of artists during the war, caused, among other things, by the collapse of the art market, led to a rapid development of this field, in which women achieved mastery, as shown by the 1925 Paris Exhibition of Decorative Arts.

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Varia

Author(s): Marta Freitas Olim,Sónia Guadalupe,Mónica Carvalho,Paula Fragoso,Susana Ribeiro,Susana Torres,Dora Isabel Dias,Fernando Macário / Language(s): English Issue: 80/2022

This study aimed to assess the social impact of COVID-19 on chronic kidney disease patients, a vulnerable population, by analysing the social problems that emerged and aggravated during the pandemic’s first phase. 117 CKD patients on treatment, referred to Social Work, participated in this study. New referrals were 37.6%, and 62.4% were aggravated situations, presenting mostly economic deprivation or lack of income, unemployment, and social isolation. The social intervention complexity was higher among those with aggravated social problems. The results allow social workers to plan interventions focused on the most relevant emerging issues in a pandemic challenging context.

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Развој нових технологија у сектору електронских комуникација

Author(s): Dobrica Vesić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 43-44/2013

The development of new technologies in the electronic communications sector is characterized by rapid and sudden changes. In terms of legal regulation imposes the necessity of constant adjustment and modification of the order permanent harmonization. In Serbia, the process of effective market analysis is one of the most important tasks. A detailed analysis of electronic communications we are looking at three important elements: identification of operators with significant market share is determined by the regulatory obligations (in order to establish market equilibrium) and to protect the interests of end-users and other market participants. European regulatory regime for electronic communications is based on the basic concept of “Significant Market Power” (SMP), which defines the operator with a dominant position in the market of electronic communications, in one or more of the services it provides. The challenges of ex-ante regulation in the electronic communications sector in the Republic of Serbia were placed before the Republic Agency for Electronic Communications (RATEL). It is not only the perception of the market situation but also many specifics of our legal framework. Total regulation applies to harmonization with European legislation and a number of regulatory measures in this area.

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Енергетска ефикасност у Србији - анализа стања, правна регулатива и потенцијал за развој

Author(s): Vuk Raičević,Marko Savić,Rade Glomazić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 41/2012

This article is designed for those who want to familiarize themselves with the general information that is related to the state of energy efficiency in the Republic of Serbia, the possibilities for future improvements, compliances with primarily European and then other global norms, and the potential for investments in the various projects in this area. In the desktop survey we performed we covered and analyzed approximately 5000 pages of various publicly available material and give basic insight into the state of energy resources, environmental conditions and legal regulations related to energy efficiency and compliance of the same in relation to the base of the European Union legislation. For the purposes of this reserarch only the most prominent and imporatnt legal analysis are used. The article offers a basic overview of the processed data in an accessible way, because it often happens that the concepts that should be and that would even have to be clear and unambiguous to all citizens (and the authors are unanimous in their assessment that is so in the case of energy efficiency) often reach poor and / or in just one language, which slows the deployment of useful and sometimes necessary activities, projects, plans, programs, concepts and ideas. So, the intention of the authors was to describe and explain all about energy efficiency and related areas in Serbia, but collecting public, easily accessible, secondary, but relevant data, that could reflect the “energy efficient Serbia” in a way that should serve as a basis for future research and practice.

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The Contexts of Hyperconsumerist Culture and Social Media Platforms

Author(s): Erika Moravčíková / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

The advent of social media and their platforms has accelerated the processes of diversion to experience and hyper consumerism. The hyper consumerist culture has penetrated all areas of our lives in a natural, sophisticated and inconspicuous way. This study focuses on select links between hyper consumerism and social media, as well as on the rituals of consumption, their specific manifestations, forms and functions. We use OnlyFans, a social network with erotic and pornographic content, as a pars pro toto example of the above principles of consumption rituals. Its immense popularity testifies to the relativization of values, norms and taboos, detabooization – or an outright non-tabooization – of intimacy and consolidation of the cult of pleasure. Furthermore, we will conceptualize the invasion of digital media and the Internet, which accelerated both the expansion of pornography and its secularization and deprofessionalization, and an even greater ubiquity and accessibility to all age categories. We reflect on the effects of these changes on the digital natives, the so-called generation Z, and the nascent generation Alpha.

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Les bergers, vecteurs précurseurs de la diffusion et la consolidation du roumanisme

Author(s): Alexandru Păcuraru,George Bogdan Tofan / Language(s): French Issue: Suppl. 1/2021

The Romanian Carpathian area, harmoniously arranged in several major categories of relief —mountains, hills and plateaus, plains—, a perfectly proportionate triptych covered in rich vegetation, as well as the Romanians’ nature and inclination for sheep breeding were the main elements that led to the beautiful evolution of the “sheep economy.” The natural geographical context played a crucial role also in shaping the inhabitants’ character, according to the rules of what is called “geographical determinism.” Not surprisingly, the largest sheep economy developed on the northern slopes of the Southern Carpathians. During their long voyages with their flocks along the alpine pastures, shepherds had an overall view on the Carpathian space, which, when descending to the valleys and the plains, they sought to occupy to its natural limits, corresponding to the last deposits of the Carpathian sedimentary materials.

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Edukacja dzieci uchodźczych w Polsce

Author(s): Katarzyna Stankiewicz,Anna Żurek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2022

Polish schools are currently facing the challenge of accommodating a large group of refugee pupils from Ukraine in a relatively short time frame. This requires adjustment of the existing legal framework, as well as infrastructural and staff preparation. In addition to learning the Polish language, which is a prerequisite for integration into the school community and enables the teaching process to take place, it is essential to provide professional psychological support to the pupils. The school should adapt refugee children from Ukraine to functioning in the Polish environment and, at the same time, not prevent them from returning to the Ukrainian education system, and ultimately to Ukraine and Ukrainian schools.

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Australian Studies at the Lodz University: Co-operation Between the British and Commonwealth Studies Department, University of Lodz, and the Australian Embassy in Poland

Author(s): Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

The article discusses the history of academic co-operation between the British and Commonwealth Studies Department at the University of Lodz and the Australian Embassy in Poland. Over the years the co-operation took the shape of a regular academic exchange and led to substantial academic, educational and cultural projects on Australia which resulted in a number of book-length studies.

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Distance and Isolation. The Role of Australia in Wojciech Gutkowski’s Colonial Dream in Journey to Kalopeia

Author(s): Maria Antonina Łukowska / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

This contribution is an attempt at a different reading of Wojciech Gutkowski’s Journey to Kalopeia (1817), which may be of interest to both Polish and Australian readers in the twenty-first century, since it tries to connect Polish history with the dream of the Antipodes represented by Australia. Gutkowski’s book, unknown until 1913, when it was deemed a utopian novel of little scientific value, gained recognition in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. At that time it was studied as a political treatise and an Enlightenment model for the creation of an ideal utopian-socialist-communist state. This paper offers a new reading of the work in question, discussing its cultural-historical aspects as a precursor of a specifically Polish model of a utopian-colonial state.

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The Coronavirus Pandemic and Its Consequences on the Australian Economy in 2020

Author(s): Agnieszka Kandzia-Poździał / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

The fight against the Coronavirus continues around the world. The pandemic affects individuals and families and social groups, states, and economies. Like any other economy in the world, Australia’s economy has to deal with the effects of a pandemic. Australia has chosen its own way of fighting the disease and its consequences. It was not possible to avoid an economic recession, but at the same time, political decisions, aid provided, and social behaviour can be assessed as very effective.

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Societal Security Trust Issues in Australia during the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020

Author(s): Jowita Brudnicka-Żółtaniecka / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

In late December 2019 and early January 2020 the first cases of a new coronavirus occurred in Wuhan. It is a virus characterised by similarities to SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) and MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome). On January 25, 2020 the initial case of infection by SARS-CoV-2 caused the disease COVID-19 in an Australian patient who later died from it. During my PhD thesis defence in September 2018 I would not have thought that one of the possible security scenarios which I designed for the South Pacific region, related to epidemic threats, would soon come true. Despite some obvious and high indicators resulting, for example, from a geopolitical location in the vicinity of China, the probability of an epidemic outbreak seemed nigh unbelievable. This article focuses on societal security. It is impossible to make a solid analysis of an epidemic impact on societal security in various countries in a single article; therefore, I concentrate specifically on the case of Australia. The goal of this article is to explain how Australians cope with the epidemic and if they are prepared for a drastic change in their lifestyles. Do they put trust in governmental institutions? What issues appear to be main societal threats in Australian society during the pandemic? I conclude with thoughts about new societal directions that are going to be implemented should the scale of the pandemic persist. Due to limited length, my overview is not exhaustive; instead, it focuses on core findings about the condition of Australian society during the pandemic.

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What Is Going On? An Analysis of the Interaction Order

Author(s): Vidar Halldorsson / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

Seeing sociology visually adds a sense of realness to the viewer compared to only reading sociological texts. In this paper, I aim to provide an example of how a single scene from a feature film can be utilized as a practical and meaningful means to analyze a social situation and to help students of sociology to grasp key features of Goffman’s theory of interaction order. More precisely, the main aims of the paper are 1) to illustrate Goffman’s theory of the interaction order by identifying acts of disruption and alignment in interaction through a film clip; and 2) to attempt to analyze, in a Goffmanian sense, what is really going on in the situational interaction. The scene is from the 2013 American movie August: Osage County and follows a dinner of immediate family in the wake of the funeral of the hostess’s late husband. The normative and civilized interaction of the meal is, however, jeopardized by the hostile and provocative mood of the hostess, as she repeatedly disrupts the interaction order with attempts to mock and/or uncover the hidden and vulnerable truths of the immediate members of her family, exemplifying her power status in the particular situation. The dinner guests, however, try to overlook and resist the provocation of the hostess and stick to their predetermined roles to save and sustain their idealized selves (their faces) and the interaction order (the faces of others), In doing so they, on the one hand, discard the uncomfortable truths acclaimed by the hostess and, on the other, explain the hostess’s provocative actions in terms of their claim that she is unwell and in need of medical attention. Thus, the attacked dinner guests in the scene align more alliance to the interaction order than to truth itself.

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Организационен модел на висшето образование в Република България

Author(s): Ivan Lolev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2021

The educational model is a criterion for the maturity of the society. It is also major feature of the level of development of science and culture of a country. Higher education provides perspectives and sets horizons for national elites, forms the capacity of the human factor, its ability to build a social environment for the reproduction of its welfare and protection of national security. Higher education provides perspectives and sets horizons for national elites, forms the capacity of the human factor, its ability to build a social environment for the reproduction of its welfare and protection of national security. It is a source of highly qualified specialists and innovations in the system of public relations, a generator of ideas in material culture and art. Global challenges are neither one-way nor a guarantor against crises and natural disasters. They require a methodology and approaches that only education and science have a vocation to offer.

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Психология на лъжата

Author(s): Mariya Stoycheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2021

Lying as a persistent human behavior still remains a challenge in science studies that it. The clarifying of the phenomenon of lying has got an important meaning in practice for developing of methodology and approaches to detect the truthful information during crime investigation. This report present various standpoints regarding nature of the lie, different kind of lies and psychological content of lying in its behavioristic approach in personality psychology.

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Полицията в обществената система

Author(s): Petar Todorov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2021

The development of the police system presupposes the development of a theory that reflects the state of law enforcement research by the police and, on the other hand, shows the direction in which this research should develop. In the last century, there have been nine theories that reflect the understanding of the role of the police in society. These theories not only show the different opinions on how the police perceive themselves and how they are perceived by society, but also emphasize the need to develop and create a universally valid police science.

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