scholarly journals Prelude to lithuanian mathematical studies: Higher courses in Kaunas

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Juozas Banionis
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Basic Sciences ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
The Core ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
University City ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Mathematics And Physics

As soon as the young Lithuanian state was formed, the international situation was unfavorable (the war of independence took place) and as a result its internal life was burdened by difficulties. Therefore, the Lithuanian intelligentsia (one of their leading mathematicians Z. Žemaitis) took the initiative to organize Higher Courses (AK) in the temporary capital Kaunas. These universal courses, equivalent to the type of higher education institution (university), existed in 1920– 1922. According to the adopted statute, there were six chapters covering the basic sciences - humanities, social sciences and natural or real sciences. The existence of the latter sciences was evidenced by the Department of Mathematics and Physics, where there was an opportunity to study mathematics in Lithuanian. This article shows the circumstances of the establishment of AK, the conditions of their activity, introduces the lecturers of mathematics and shows the composition of the listeners, as well as reveals the content of mathematics studies and names the literature used for studies. During the two years of AK's existence, a solid foundation was laid for the future Lithuanian University (since 1930 – Vytautas Magnus). The staff formed consisted mainly of 1922. the core of the developing university, and the first scientific aids, books and premises were acquired - the base of the higher school. For the first time in its history, AK turned Kaunas into a university city, and the departments operating in them laid the foundations for the establishment of the university, as well as the Faculty of Mathematics.

‘There ought to be some worthwhile ones’: The Bristol University ‘Cook Collection’ and Anatolia

2008 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 173-218
Author(s):  
Andrew Brown
Keyword(s):  
Field Survey ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
The Core ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
The University ◽  
Small Finds ◽  
First Time ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractBetween the late 1940s and the 1970s, John Manuel Cook was heavily involved in the archaeology of Anatolia. In 1976 he retired from the University of Bristol and the following year donated a collection of ceramics and other small finds procured during the course of his academic career. These form the core of the Bristol University Near Eastern and Mediterranean Collections (BUNEM). Despite Cook's extensive published record, the majority of these archaeological finds, which formed one of his primary archaeological datasets, never received any form of publication. This article reunites for the first time the Anatolian material donated by Cook to the University of Bristol in 1977 with his published record. In so doing, a glimpse can be gained into the methodologies employed in Anatolian field survey prior to the 1980s, and it will be suggested that collections such as this, despite their many associated difficulties, are a potentially useful source of archaeological data. Furthermore, this will allow some insight into how Cook reached the conclusions he did and consequently why his role in Anatolian archaeology should rightly be acknowledged.

The use of the be-passive in academic Englishes: local versus global usage in an international language

Corpora ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Hundt ◽  
Gerold Schneider ◽  
Elena Seoane
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
American English ◽  
World Englishes ◽  
Text Type ◽  
International Language ◽  
Apply Regression Analysis ◽  
University Of Zurich ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

In this paper, we examine the diffusion of a syntactic change in a specialised text type in different World Englishes – in particular, the use of be-passives in academic discourse in nine contact varieties of English and six English as a Native Language (ENL) varieties. The Zürich-parsed International Corpus of English (ICE) makes it possible to retrieve automatically, for the first time, the two variants in the envelope of variation: active transitive constructions and be-passives. We apply regression analysis in order to gauge the effect of potential external factors that play a role in the choice between them: regional variety (with potential influence from the substrate in the contact varieties) and academic sub-discipline. The use of the passive has undergone change in the twentieth century (see, for example, Leech et al., 2009 ). As a necessary backdrop for variation found in the ICE corpora, we therefore use historical data from the extended Brown family of corpora, which have also been parsed at the University of Zürich. The results of our analysis show that regional variety is less important than academic sub-discipline: with the sole exception of American English, be-passives are about equally frequent in both ENL and contact varieties; moreover, they are distributed similarly across all varieties according to academic sub-discipline (humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and technology).

Twenty–First Summer Meeting

1961 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 267-268
Keyword(s):  
National Council ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Mathematics And Physics

The twenty-first Summer Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics will be held under the sponsorship of the Ontario Association of Teachers of Mathematics and Physics, at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 2G-23, 1961. This is the first time that any meeting of the Council has been held in Canada.

scholarly journals Competences for sustainability and its institutionalization level in a higher education institution

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 400
Author(s):  
Nadiessa Cappellari ◽  
Silvio Roberto Stefano ◽  
Marcos Roberto Kuhl ◽  
Luiz Fernando Lara
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
State University ◽  
Sustainability Practices ◽  
And Cluster Analysis ◽  
The University ◽  
Validated Instrument ◽  
Applied Social Sciences

This paper aims to identify the competences for sustainability and its level of institutionalization from the perspective of the professors of the Department of Applied Social Sciences (SESA) of a State University of the Center-South region of Paraná, Brazil. The research can be characterized by the quantitative approach and survey method. For data collection, an already tested and validated instrument proposed by Stefano and Alberton (2015) was used to identify the 5 (five) competencies for sustainability (focus on systemic thinking; preventive; normative; interpersonal strategic), as well as issues related to their level of institutionalization (habitualization, objectification and sedimentation), based on the model of Tolbert and Zucker (1999). Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), Cronbach's Alpha test and Cluster Analysis were performed. The results show that approximately 70% of the respondents consider the existence of competencies for sustainability at the university, however, the institutionalization of the sustainability theme is at the habitualization level. It is important to identify the competencies that favor sustainability practices in the organizational environment, as well as the institutionalization of these new values, especially in public universities, which, besides their social duty, are educating future generations to make decisions, thus being able to promote a more sustainable future.

Hugo Dingler

1988 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gereon Wolters
Keyword(s):  
Surface Deformation ◽  
Edmund Husserl ◽  
David Hilbert ◽  
Felix Klein ◽  
University Of Munich ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mathematical Sciences ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Mathematics And Physics

Hugo Dingler lived from 1881 to 1954. During the academic years 1901–2 and 1903–4 he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Munich. He spent the intervening year (and then the summer of 1906) in Göttingen, where he studied mathematics with David Hilbert and Felix Klein as well as – for the first time – philosophy (with Edmund Husserl). In 1907 Dingler completed his doctorate in Munich with Aurel Voss with a dissertation on general surface deformation. His Habilitation followed in 1912, also at the University of Munich, but only for the prospectless field of “Method, Didactics and History of Mathematical Sciences.”

scholarly journals Revisiting Second Wave Feminism in the Light of Recent Controversies

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 28-35
Author(s):  
Nina Power
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Second Wave Feminism ◽  
Vexed Question ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Second Wave

This paper revisits elements of second wave feminism—in its psychoanalytic, radical, materialist, Marxist and deconstructionist aspects—the better to understand how it is we might define sexual difference today. The vexed question of sexuation, of what it means to be a woman in particular has today generated great tensions at the theoretical, legal and philosophical level. This paper is an attempt to return to aspects of the second wave—an unfinished project where many enduring feminist concerns were for the first time thoroughly and metaphysically articulated—the better to defend the importance of sexual difference. To this end, the transcendental and parallax dimensions of sexed life will be discussed, alongside a defence of the centrality of the mother to our thinking about the relevance and necessity of preserving the importance of sexual difference, not only for thought but also for political and legal life. Author(s): Nina Power Title (English): Revisiting Second Wave Feminism in the Light of Recent Controversies Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 17, No. 2-3 (Winter 2020) Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje Page Range: 28-35 Page Count: 8 Citation (English): Nina Power, “Revisiting Second Wave Feminism in the Light of Recent Controversies,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 17, No. 2-3 (Winter 2020): 28-35. Author Biography Nina Power, Independent Researcher Nina Power is a philosopher and writer, and the author of many articles on politics, feminism and culture. She is the author of One-Dimensional Woman (2009) and the forthcoming What Do Men Want? (2021). She is currently teaching at Mary Ward and has previously taught at the University of Roehampton and many other institutions

scholarly journals Art Centers and Peripheral Art [A Lecture at the University of Hamburg, October 15, 1982]

ARTMargins ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-140
Author(s):  
Nicos Hadjinicolaou
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Political Art ◽  
Book Art ◽  
Hard Edge ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time

Change in the history of art has many causes, but one often overlooked by art historical institutions is the complex, unequal set of relationships that subsist between art centers and peripheries. These take many forms, from powerful penetration of peripheral art by the subjects, styles and modes of the relevant center, through accommodation to this penetration to various degrees and kinds of resistance to it. Mapping these relationships should be a major task for art historians, especially those committed to tracing the reception of works of art and the dissemination of ideas about art. This lecture, delivered by Nicos Hadjinicolaou in 1982, outlines a “political art geography” approach to these challenges, and demonstrates it by exploring four settings: the commissioning of paintings commemorating key battles during the Greek War of Independence; the changes in Diego Rivera's style on his return to Mexico from Paris in the 1920s; the impact on certain Mexican artists in the 1960s of “hard edge” painting from the United States; and the differences between Socialist Realism in Moscow and in the Soviet Republics of Asia during the mid-twentieth century. The lecture is here translated into English for the first time and is introduced by Terry Smith, who relates it to its author's long-term art historical quest, as previously pursued in his book Art History and Class Struggle (1973).

The Islamization Of Methodology Of Behavioral Sciences

1989 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-238
Author(s):  
Taha Jabir Al-'Alwani
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Arab Country ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
The Social ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
General Basis ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Universe

All praise and thanksgiving are for Allah (SWT) Lord of the universe,and peace and blessings be upon the Seal of the Prophets (es), his kinand all his companions, and upon all who follow him and are guided by hisMessage, until the Day of Judgment.Brothers and sisters: it gives me great pleasure to welcome you all inthe name of the International Institute of Islamic Thought at the beginningof this conference, the fourth in its series of international conferences. Weare happy and appreciate that this conference is being hosted by the Sudan,and is being held in cooperation with the University of Khartoum, to discussa matter of great importance to this Ummah: The Reform of the Methodologyof Islamic Thought, and Ways of Islamizing the Behavioml Sciences. Undoubtedly,these sciences form the general basis for the social sciences andhumanities.This is indeed the first time that the Institute has held one of its internationalconferences in an Arab country, under the auspices of a Muslim Arabpresident from an historical family whose deep concern for attempting to effectreform in this Ummah is well-known. For the benefit of the good peopleof this country, and for the audience here, we should briefly but accurately outlinethe aims and objectives of this Institute, its achievements so far, and itsmost important plans and projects, so that individuals are able to determinethe part each can play as well as the extent of their possible participation inand contribution to this good work.Many years ago, and after numerous conkrences and exhaustive studiesand consultations on the present situation of our Ummah, in addition to extensiveanalysis of our past as well as our futm aspirations, an idea crystallizedin the minds of a group of young committed Muslims. They were convincedthat the crisis of this Ummah in both essence and reality is an intellectual ...

scholarly journals Heroes of the Soviet Union - students of Kuibyshev State Pedagogical Institute (based on the archive of Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education and Samara State Archive of Social and Political History)

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 206-217
Author(s):  
Elena Lenarovna Khramkova ◽  
Nina Petrovna Khramkova
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Political History ◽  
State University ◽  
State Archive ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
State Pedagogical ◽  
State Pedagogical Institute ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

In the spring and summer of 2017 personal files of the Soviet Union Heroes Vladimir Mikhaylovich Mikheyev, Alexander Mitrofanovich Bondarev and Alexander Vasilyevich Novikov were found in archives of Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education (SSUSSE). Their names and feats made during the Great Patriotic War were known. However thanks to the found documents the authors managed to connect them with the pedagogical university for the first time. Established facts were supported by the documents of Samara State Archive of Social and Political History (SSASPH). On November 7, 2017 the memorial plate with images of heroes and dates of their training at the pedagogical university were created and placed on the university building (L. Tolstoy St., 47). In November-December of the same year personal records of two more Soviet Union Heroes - Boris Mikhaylovich Padalko and Mikhail Yakovlevich Romanov were found in archive of SSUSSE. They also graduated from Kuibyshev pedagogical university after the war. The received materials have been confirmed with the materials of SSASPH again. The paper considers new facts of life and activity of five Soviet Union Heroes of 1941-1945 on the basis of personal records which are stored in archives of SSUSSE and SSASPH. The number of the heroes who graduated from Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education as well as the number of the Soviet Union Heroes of the Samara Region has successfully increased.

scholarly journals Feltkurs som læringsform. 50 år med arkeologisk feltutdanning ved Universitetet i Oslo.

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-142
Author(s):  
Axel Mjærum ◽  
Steinar Solheim
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
The Core ◽  
University Of Oslo ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Over Time

The archaeological field course is the forum where many archaeology students meet and take part in an archaeological excavation for the first time. To excavate and generate scientific data through excavations is at the core of the archaeological discipline. For that reason, introducing students for theoretical and practical knowledge about field archaeology have been a central part of the discipline for the last 150 years at Norwegian universities. In this paper, we look closer at how the field course has developed at the University of Oslo during the last half century. Based on a compiled overview of field courses, we discuss how the field course has developed and changed over time in relation to the development in the discipline and higher education at large. A central question is whether the field course succeed in giving the students skills to perform an excavation and document the process. A main find is that collegial knowledge transfer run as a thread through the disciplines’ history as the most important way of training new archaeologists.

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