Познавателна сила и не-способност за свобода – Кантови трихотомии

Author(s): Ivaylo Dimitrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

The paper sketches out an approach to an analysis of Kant’s specific notion of ‘Kraft’ based on the influxionist model of his Critical metaphysics. The point of reference of all provided sets of textual evidence is the triple division of the predicament ‘possibility’ outlined by Kant for his course on anthropology. My aim is to provide a sufficient reason to claim that this distinction between Fähigkeit, Vermögen, and Kraft exemplifies Kant’s ‘suspicious divisions in pure philosophy’and thus can be regarded as a synthetic partitioning of his Critical project. For this reason, I also contend that through the dynamic trichotomy in question we could recognize the ‘keystone of the whole edifice’of Kant’s philosophy.

Hegel and the Speculative Course of Freedom

Author(s): Ivo Minkov / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2018

The main accent in the article is to show the perspective to understand the idea of freedom as a process, rather than condition. The course of freedom is speculative and the deepest form of Hegel’s philosophy. Moreover, it is the solid ground of the mighty systematic thought of the German philosopher. In the light of the highest category of Hegel’s logic – The Absolute Idea – the speculative idea of freedom obtains an ontological aspect completely different and even diametrically opposed to spontaneity.

Какъв е залогът във „Време и разказ“ на Пол Рикьор?

Author(s): Chavdar Dimitrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

The article is a critique of the language-time relation, characterized by Paul Ricoeur as: return and distanciation in regard to pre-narrativity; opening the logic of story toward historicity; engagement with the fictional. To the forefront is the question of delineation between epistemological and ontological problematics. To this end, first, the mediating role of reflexivity, differentiated on the basis of distanciation and textuality, is examined. Second, in the context of the conception for triple mimesis are distinguished: the function of imagination and ambiguous moments in Ricoeur’s strategy – inconsistency in his plan for processual historical thinking and respectively – a problem with the notion of ‘representing’ the past. The analysis continues with the complementary theme of a “projected world,” where the act of reading brings forth the phenomenon of time through a productive intersection. Here, via the juxtaposition between an emplotment, which is already in a cultural world, and the autonomous literary work, is outlined Ricoeur’s idea about a transition from semantics of action, through a trans-temporal imaginary world, to refiguration. In the next part of the research, an overview of the limits before a positive articulation of narrated time parallels the last possibility, allowed by the specific status of the thesis in Time and Narrative. The perspective of a double hermeneutical key: circularity of triple interpretations, on the one hand, and dialectic of distensio animi (St. Augustin) and discordant concordance (Aristotle), on the other hand, is explained in the conclusion. In this way Ricoeur saves a chance for going beyond the aporetics of time, but leaves behind the frame of philosophical investigation.

Призванието във философията на Хосе Ортега-и-Гасет – героизъм за всеки

Author(s): Miglena Marinova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

Thе paper aims to explore the concept of “vocation” which is essential to the philosophy of Jose Ortega-y-Gasset, and lies at the heart of his perception of the authenticity of being. For this purpose, the study focuses on some of the most emblematic texts of the Spanish philosopher, as well as on some modern interpretations of the problem. The text attempts to answer a number of questions about the nature, origin and possibilities of realization of the vocation by binding the concept to the imagination, love and the idea of man as a being who chooses himself at any moment.

The Role of Computer Animation in Mathematics Teaching

Author(s): Sergey Larin,Valeriy Mayer / Language(s): English Issue: 6/2018

The article is devoted to the role, importance, and use of animated drawings created on computer screens in GeoGebra platform for Mathematics teaching at schools and Universities. The use of this platform introduces a new kind of visibility in Mathematics learning, which entails not only an increased interest to the subject, but also promotes understanding and stronger perception of abstract material. In addition, an opportunity appears to remove computing difficulties, since the calculations are done by the computer. The user becomes a manager of computing and this saves time, but also allows acquiring new competence in useful digital technologies in education. Animated graphics help to realize experiments, to notice new patterns, to suggest solutions of mathematical problems and to illustrate them successfully. All that is of great importance for the formation of the new generation, called upon the development of the Russian digital economy.

Управление на софтуерно дефинираните мрежи с Floodlight Controller

Author(s): Rumen Todorov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2018

The basic idea for software-defined networks (SDN) is the separation of systems that control the network from systems the data plane. This defines a layer of program control and control of the whole network (control layer). The SDN controller manages the entire network, receives instructions and instructions from the application layer and relays them to the network components. The controller retrieves network infrastructure information – a infrastructure layer – and returns it back to the application layer. In this article we will present the basic architecture and features of the Floodlight controller. We test different topologies of the Mininet network simulator, interaction between virtual machines, adding and intercepting OpenFlow flows from the Wireshark network analyzer.

Определяне на земното ускорение: експериментална задача

Author(s): Mariana Anastassova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2018

Easy way for experimental determination of the Earth acceleration g is described.

Роботика за начинаещи ентусиасти

Author(s): Daniela Uzunova,Boris Velkovski,Ilko Simeonov,Vladislav Shabanski,Dimitar Kolev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2018

A Club of robotics was established in the High School of Mathematics in Pleven. This initiative gives good results. The activities of the students in the Club are described in brief in the present article.

Дисциплината „произход на живота и теории за еволюцията“ в професионалната подготовка на учителя по биология

Author(s): Isa Hadjiali / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2018

The main goal of this report is to conduct a substantial analysis of some fundamental normative documents in the Secondary and university systems of education. A vector model of the professional competency of the biology teacher has been modeled on the grounds of this theoretical analysis. The concept of the discipline “The origin of life and theories of evolution” in the context of the standards of the biology teacher training at the University of Sofia is well described here. A piece of the curriculum in the form of topics and their descriptions is presented, as well.

Design and Docking Studies of His-Leu Analoguesa Potentioal Ace Inhibitor

Author(s): Atanas Chapkanov,Tatyana Dzimbova,Rumen Georgiev / Language(s): English Issue: 6/2018

Bioactive peptides are protein fragments that have a positive impact on body functions and may ultimately influence health. Angiotensin-converting enzyme plays an important role in the control of arterial blood pressure. The main action of Angiotensin II is to maintain blood pressure and fluid balance in the body. It is obtained from the precursor under catalytic action of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE). In order to control (inhibit) the action of the ACE different inhibitors were proposed and some of them are already in use in the clinic. In the present investigation we design and docking studies of fife new potential ACE inhibitors. Three of the proposed analogues have a potential to be ACE inhibitors, as they bind to the enzyme stronger than His-Leu. The studied peptides may form as a basis for the design of new compounds and will be synthesized and biologically tested.

Academic (Non)Reading from the Perspective of “User Friendliness:” an Insight from the Fields of the Sociology of Literature and of Multimedia

Author(s): Piotr Toczyski / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

This article discusses data that is usually difficult to find but sometimes becomes publicly accessible, facilitating reflection on the current transformation of the humanities within Polish academia. The data was collected during classes at metropolitan universities in 2013, when over 700 students of law and other humanities individually responded to auditorium questionnaires. To account for the results of the study, the researchers suggest the categories of “non-reading” and of “ease of access”. Studies of (non)reading in Poland from 2012 form the backdrop for this investigation.

Културна комуникация и национална консолидация

Author(s): Myumyun Tahirov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2018

The thesis of this article is that cultural communication is a decisive factor in the formation and consolidation of a nation. Society and communication occur simultaneously; both phenomena can not exist without each other.Each cultural communication system implies the emergence of new nations as it makes it possible to identify the individual with the group/community based on common past, territory, symbols, language and political and legal institutions. The lack of such a system and the existence of the so-called “ethnic syndrome” hinders the cultural development of entire societies, as individuals and communities do not receive the information they need for themselves and for their activity. This prevents communication, and, consequently, national consolidation.Finally, an own definition of the concept of “nation” is proposed.

The Art of the Document: Photography and Trauma

Author(s): Marianna Michałowska / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

Where Codes Meet: On the Literary Uses of Iconic Signs

Author(s): Grzegorz Grochowski / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

Combination of Word and Image has been recently made part of literary works, with increasing frequency (e.g. novel narratives or lyrical monologues). In such cases, image becomes part of the utterance itself, finding a place for itself in a certain sender-receiver relationship arrangement, thus also becoming a pole of various meaning-generating tensions and an integral part of the entire work.The article aims at discussing the role that images, i.e. iconic signs, play in the structure of artistic pieces of this sort. The main focus is on the multiple semiotic games whose basis is the clash of differing sign-based orders, world-representing forms and communicativeconventions. Analysis of selected pieces aims at showing the multiplicity of possible functions ascribed to visual elements as part of verbal text. A comparison of the achievements of a few selected writers is also convincing of how mutually remote positions were assumed by artists against the significative value of iconic sings (from affirmation, criticism, through to problematisation).The condition for the reader to understand the arrangement s/he comes across is, therefore, to find its suspected motivations, to discover the premises providing the grounds for such a course of presentation, and, to formulate a hypothesis restoring the coherency of a text being based upon two incommensurable orders of meaning.

Negative Memory: Communism and the Perpetrators

Author(s): Anna Artwińska / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

The article discusses the question of the perpetrators in the context of the communism studies in Poland. The author examines the possibility of applying this category in the context of the studies on the Peoples’ Republic of Poland. The main thesis is based on the conviction that Polish public discourse after 1989 has stressed the question of the victim and silenced that of the perpetrator in the anti-communist narratives. The question of the perpetrator is closely connected to the problem of violence, not only physical but also psychic or institutional. Opening the discourse on perpetrators can, according to the author, contribute to more diversified representations of the past era, where both the perspective and the trauma of victims and perpetrators will be equally addressed.

Communist Women and the Spirit of Transgression: The Case of Wanda Wasilewska

Author(s): Agnieszka Mrozik / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

The article is an attempt at sketching ‘a personal genealogy’ of Wanda Wasilewska. Referring to Michel Foucault’s lectures on ‘revolution which becomes an existential project,’ the author frames Wasilewska neither as an icon, a monument of the Communist coup nor as a symbol of national betrayal, but instead as ‘a living human being,’ an actress of social life, located in and determined by historical and cultural contexts. The author reconstructs the process of shaping the Communist identity, pointing to the moments of transgressing subsequent boundaries: gender, national and social.

Щадяща процедура при разпит на деца

Author(s): Fahredin Faredin Mollamehmed / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2018

The article focuses on the legal framework and its mechanisms for control of law enforcement and prevention of crimes, committed by children. Presented is the sparing procedure for interrogation of a child in a specialized room – the so-called “Blue Room”. It is not easy to be a child who will be questioned, neither to be the specialist who will apply the procedure. A beautiful and cozy place is the right place to interrogate and to ensure achieving better results.

Интерактивни методи в преподаването на граматичен материал в обучението по английски език

Author(s): Desislava Todorova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2018

The purpose of the article is to show how interactive methods can be applied in English language teaching/teaching foreign languages. Short information about interactive methods is given in the beginning. An answer to the question why it is necessary to use such methods is suggested. Communicative Language Teaching approach is commented briefly. An example is given of how interactive methods (group work/pair work) can be applied in teaching narrative tenses and conditional type 3 in English. The aim and the objectives of the lesson are commented and the conclusion from the observations made is shared.

ARTICULATING PROTEST LEGITIMACY: A CASE STUDY OF COLLECTIVE ACTION FRAMING IN AN ENVIRONMENTAL CAMPAIGN

Author(s): Tao Papaioannou / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2018

Using the case of the “Save Akamas” campaign, an environmental initiative protesting for the protection of the Akamas National Park in Cyprus during the Cypriot financial crisis in 2015 – 2016, this study explored whether and how the campaigners utilised collective action frames to enhance their articulation of protest legitimacy. Based on 15 interviews with key protest organisers, the results illustrated that the protestors creatively employed several collective action frames in their struggle for public recognition, contextualisation and amplification of protest grievances. These frames were purposefully aligned to protest legitimacy while taking into consideration of clearly identifying direction/locus of responsibility attribution, enlarging the interpretive scope of a symbolic act and augmenting credibility of the proffered frames through social media. Combining collective action framing analysis with empirical legitimacy research, this study contributes to further understanding of strategies and processes of legitimation in issue-based citizen protests within the sociological theory of collective action.

GREEK-BULGARIAN COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES IN 19th-CENTURY BALKANS: THE CASE OF THE ROMBI/РОБЕВИ FAMILY

Author(s): Maria Litina / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2018

The paper examines perceptions and self-perceptions of national identities in 19th century Balkans using the history of the merchant family of Rombi or Робев as a case study. According to Greek and Bulgarian historians the family appeared to be of Greek-Wlach or Bulgarian origin. Preliminary research, mainly based on the family archive preserved in the National Library in Sofia, shows changing attitudes in terms of ethnic identity. Despite their Greek education certain members of the family identified themselves as Bulgarians and support the Bulgarian independent movement against the Greeks.