scholarly journals Drawing places, recreating spaces: visual voices from at-risk children

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuliana Pinto ◽  
Francesco Tosi ◽  
Oriana Incognito
Keyword(s):  
Educational Interventions ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Disadvantaged Children ◽  
At Risk Children ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Graphic Representations ◽  
Alternative Scenarios ◽  
The One ◽  
Pictorial Representations

AbstractDrawing is a highly participatory mode of communication, particularly suited to allowing children to express their knowledge and ideas about various aspects of reality. It is necessary to ascertain whether children are able to master drawing sufficiently to place it at the service of their representational intentions, and whether they possess the pictorial flexibility needed to articulate and differentiate their graphic representations. The presence and development of this important cognitive–symbolic ability are investigated. This exploratory study aimed to investigate, in children living in socioeconomic and cultural disadvantaged conditions, (1) the emergence and development of the pictorial flexibility needed to effectively represent and differentiate the building in which they live from the building in which they wish they lived; and (2) the patterns in the number and quality of pictorial differentiation strategies adopted for representational purposes. Two-hundred 8-to-12-year-old Brazilian children living in a favela were asked to produce two specific thematic drawings, representing their real house vs. their desired house. The children’s pictorial representations were coded according to their communicative efficacy (allowing the viewer to distinguish, in each pair of drawings, between the real house and the one desired by the drawer) and according to the number and type of pictorial strategies used to diversify the two types of buildings. The children were had sufficient representational flexibility to effectively perform a pictorial differentiation task, and express their point of view on the environment in which they live, and imagine alternative scenarios, adopting a variety of painting strategies. Drawing, prompted with a contrastive task, has proven to be effective in allowing even disadvantaged children to differentiate their real and desired urban environments. Children’s pictorial flexibility manifests itself through a wide range of strategies, varying in number and quality according to the age of the artists. As such, its use can be encouraged by educational interventions aimed at broadening the expressive potential of children, and as a tool for fostering resilience.

Combining Forms and Affixoids in Morphology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dany Amiot ◽  
Edwige Dugas
Keyword(s):  
Major Part ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Good Criterion ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The One

Word-formation encompasses a wide range of processes, among which we find derivation and compounding, two processes yielding productive patterns which enable the speaker to understand and to coin new lexemes. This article draws a distinction between two types of constituents (suffixes, combining forms, splinters, affixoids, etc.) on the one hand and word-formation processes (derivation, compounding, blending, etc.) on the other hand but also shows that a given constituent can appear in different word-formation processes. First, it describes prototypical derivation and compounding in terms of word-formation processes and of their constituents: Prototypical derivation involves a base lexeme, that is, a free lexical elements belonging to a major part-of-speech category (noun, verb, or adjective) and, very often, an affix (e.g., Fr. laverV ‘to wash’ > lavableA ‘washable’), while prototypical compounding involves two lexemes (e.g., Eng. rainN + fallV > rainfallN). The description of these prototypical phenomena provides a starting point for the description of other types of constituents and word-formation processes. There are indeed at least two phenomena which do not meet this description, namely, combining forms (henceforth CFs) and affixoids, and which therefore pose an interesting challenge to linguistic description, be it synchronic or diachronic. The distinction between combining forms and affixoids is not easy to establish and the definitions are often confusing, but productivity is a good criterion to distinguish them from each other, even if it does not answer all the questions raised by bound forms. In the literature, the notions of CF and affixoid are not unanimously agreed upon, especially that of affixoid. Yet this article stresses that they enable us to highlight, and even conceptualize, the gradual nature of linguistic phenomena, whether from a synchronic or a diachronic point of view.

scholarly journals UNIQUE WORLD OF THE CREATOR

THE BULLETIN ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (387) ◽  
pp. 294-300
Author(s):  
A. Zh. Kaztuganova ◽  
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A. K. Omarova ◽  
D. F. Karomat ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Competence ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Performance Style ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The One ◽  
New Research

The article describes some issues of formation of personal qualities and spheres of activities of N.Tlendiev, that have been determined through ethnicity hearing. The range of issues include the analysis of performing and composing activities, stage behavior, as well as innovative performance style, introduced by the famous kuishi into Kazakh music. On the one hand, the formation of N. Tlendiev as a person was determined by the strength of ethnic ear, and, on the other, by the depth of professional knowledge. It was determined that in all his diverse creative activities, that is, performing, composing, conducting or organizing activity, the gift of ethnic ear and high professional competence played an important role. The rich images reflected in his musical compositions, a wide range of thematic lines, the variety of musical methods and instrumental techniques that have not been studied, will result in new research works in the future. In the future the vital activities of N. Tlendiev should be investigated from a scientific point of view, confirmed by documents and facts, and the particular monographic work should be devoted to them.

scholarly journals Pozycja i rola Komisji Europejskiej w procedurze ochrony budżetu UE w przypadku uogólnionych braków w zakresie praworządności w państwach członkowskich

2021 ◽  
pp. 145-156
Author(s):  
Karol Piwoński
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The One ◽  
The Eu

The aim of this article is to analyse the position and role of the European Commission in the procedure provided in the regulation on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the European Union’s budget. For this purpose the scheme of this procedure was analysed, by interpreting the relevant regulations using the dogmatic method and considering opinions of the EU institutions and views of the scholars. A comparative method has also been applied. The new position of the Commission in the procedure for protection of the EU budget has been compared with the position it plays in the existing instruments. The analysis made from the point of view of the position of individual institutions in the new procedure, although it does not allow predicting how they will be implemented. The conducted analysis demonstrates that the European Commission – an institution of Community character – has gained wide competences, and in applying them it has been given a wide range of discretion. On the one hand, the introduced regulations exemplify a new paradigm in creating mechanisms for protection of the rule of law. On the other hand, they raise doubts as to their compliance with EU law. However, they undoubtedly constitute a decisive step towards increasing the effectiveness of the EU's instruments for the rule of law protection.

Le concept d'intégration en écologie appliquée

1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 533-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert Long
Keyword(s):  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
A Posteriori ◽  
Horizontal Integration ◽  
Australian School ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The One

The concept of integration has a wide range of meanings. The author first tries to bring out the point of view of specialists in natural resources. Two approaches are described: on the one hand that proceeding from elementary disciplines or from the nature of variables and on the other hand the ecosystematic or global, multidisciplinary approach. In the first one, integration is made a posteriori by trial and error. More important developments are devoted to the second approach; integration is said to be holistic and proceeds from a priori hypotheses (geomorphological postulate of the Australian school or phytoecological postulate of the Centre d'Etudes Phytosociologiques et Ecologiques Louis Emberger de Montpellier) and a posteriori interpretations. The phyto-ecological approach is especially well developed (vertical vs. horizontal integration). Verified integration is that which proceeds from mathematical models, from historical data, or experimentation.Total integration takes into account contributions from "naturalists" as well as from "humanists."

scholarly journals Exploring fullerenes and nanotubes in the classroom

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Athanasios Velentzas ◽  
Dimitris Stavrou
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Learning Sequence ◽  
School Students ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Important Idea ◽  
The One ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Technological World ◽  
Structure Of Matter ◽  
Nanoscale Level

AbstractInforming citizens about scientific issues in our highly technological world is of major importance. Toward this end, a teaching/learning sequence (TLS) focused on the nanostructures of carbon was developed and implemented in a class of secondary school students. This topic was chosen because, on the one hand, fullerenes and nanotubes are already used in a wide range of applications, and there are impressive promises for their future uses. On the other hand, from an educational point of view, students could be introduced to the important idea that some of the interesting properties at the nanoscale level are related to the structure of matter. During the development of the TLS, the fact that students would be studying extremely small-sized particles invisible to the naked eye was taken into consideration. Because of this, models and analogies were chosen as the main teaching tools to be used. In the present work, the TLS and some findings from the first implementation in the classroom are presented and discussed.

scholarly journals Geometric conditions for injectivity of 3D Bézier volumes

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 11974-11988
Author(s):  
Xuanyi Zhao ◽  
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Jinggai Li ◽  
Shiqi He ◽  
Chungang Zhu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Control Points ◽  
Positive Weight ◽  
Geometric Conditions ◽  
Geometric Point ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The One ◽  
Deformation Models ◽  
Aided Design

<abstract><p>The one-to-one property of injectivity is a crucial concept in computer-aided design, geometry, and graphics. The injectivity of curves (or surfaces or volumes) means that there is no self-intersection in the curves (or surfaces or volumes) and their images or deformation models. Bézier volumes are a special class of Bézier polytope in which the lattice polytope equals $ \Box_{m, n, l}, (m, n, l\in Z) $. Piecewise 3D Bézier volumes have a wide range of applications in deformation models, such as for face mesh deformation. The injectivity of 3D Bézier volumes means that there is no self-intersection. In this paper, we consider the injectivity conditions of 3D Bézier volumes from a geometric point of view. We prove that a 3D Bézier volume is injective for any positive weight if and only if its control points set is compatible. An algorithm for checking the injectivity of 3D Bézier volumes is proposed, and several explicit examples are presented.</p></abstract>

Language, European identity and stereotypical diversity in trans-European crime dramas

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-147
Author(s):  
Lynge Stegger Gemzøe
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
European Identity ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Crime Drama ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
The One

Interrogating two transnational television dramas – Crossing Lines (2013, 2014, 2015, the first season) and The Team (2015, 2018, the second season) – and employing critical, textual and production perspectives, this article investigates representations of national and European identity in the series. In this article, I argue that the series on the one hand picture a diverse Europe uniting when challenges arise, embodying the dominant European narrative of ‘unity in diversity’ and, seen from a certain point of view, facilitate a mediated cultural encounter. On the other hand, the diversity depicted is based on the use of a wide range of well-known cultural stereotypes that may be familiar to the audience, and which may facilitate smooth storytelling, but that does little to broaden the actual cultural knowledge and understanding of the viewer, resulting in stereotypical diversity. The series have different strategies regarding representations of nation states, cultures and languages. The implications of these strategies are analysed. Common ground is often found in ‘American’ crime drama genre tropes associated with a team of often-antagonistic specialists who are put together to solve a problem, including such iconic US series as The A-Team (1983–87), the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation franchise (2000–15) and Scorpion (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017). The contribution ultimately finds that meaningful mediated cultural encounters are a challenge to transnational television drama, and that when it comes to television, ‘European’ and ‘transnational’ means little without ‘national’.

Depths in hooking networks

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Colin Desmarais ◽  
Hosam Mahmoud
Keyword(s):  
Central Limit Theorem ◽  
Limit Theorem ◽  
Preferential Attachment ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Random Choice ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Affinity Model ◽  
The One ◽  
Attachment Mechanism

Abstract A hooking network is built by stringing together components randomly chosen from a set of building blocks (graphs with hooks). The vertices are endowed with “affinities” which dictate the attachment mechanism. We study the distance from the master hook to a node in the network chosen according to its affinity after many steps of growth. Such a distance is commonly called the depth of the chosen node. We present an exact average result and a rather general central limit theorem for the depth. The affinity model covers a wide range of attachment mechanisms, such as uniform attachment and preferential attachment, among others. Naturally, the limiting normal distribution is parametrized by the structure of the building blocks and their probabilities. We also take the point of view of a visitor uninformed about the affinity mechanism by which the network is built. To explore the network, such a visitor chooses the nodes uniformly at random. We show that the distance distribution under such a uniform choice is similar to the one under random choice according to affinities.

Understanding functional illiteracy from a policy, adult education, and cognition point of view: Towards a joint referent framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-122
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Bulajić ◽  
Miomir Despotović ◽  
Thomas Lachmann
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Operational Definition ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Functional Illiteracy ◽  
Scale Levels ◽  
Components Of Reading ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract. The article discusses the emergence of a functional literacy construct and the rediscovery of illiteracy in industrialized countries during the second half of the 20th century. It offers a short explanation of how the construct evolved over time. In addition, it explores how functional (il)literacy is conceived differently by research discourses of cognitive and neural studies, on the one hand, and by prescriptive and normative international policy documents and adult education, on the other hand. Furthermore, it analyses how literacy skills surveys such as the Level One Study (leo.) or the PIAAC may help to bridge the gap between cognitive and more practical and educational approaches to literacy, the goal being to place the functional illiteracy (FI) construct within its existing scale levels. It also sheds more light on the way in which FI can be perceived in terms of different cognitive processes and underlying components of reading. By building on the previous work of other authors and previous definitions, the article brings together different views of FI and offers a perspective for a needed operational definition of the concept, which would be an appropriate reference point for future educational, political, and scientific utilization.

Colorimetric research of self-luminous objects in software and hardware environments by the method of multidimensional scales implementation

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
Yauheniya N. Saukova
Keyword(s):  
Metrological Traceability ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Intermediate Precision ◽  
Technical Vision ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Chromaticity Coordinates ◽  
Unity Of Measurements ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
Luminous Objects ◽  
Reference Samples

It is shown that the issues of metrological traceability for extended self-luminous objects with a wide range of brightness have not yet been resolved, since the rank scales of embedded systems are used for processing digital images. For such scales, there is no “fixed” unit, which does not allow you to get reliable results and ensure the unity of measurements. An experiment is described to evaluate the accuracy of determining the intensity (coordinates) of the color of self-luminous objects. In terms of repeatability and intermediate precision compared to the reference measurement method, the color and chromaticity coordinates of self-luminous objects (reference samples) were determined by their multiple digital registration using technical vision systems. The possibilities of the developed methodology for colorimetric studies in hardware and software environments from the point of view of constructing a multidimensional conditional scale are determined.

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