Relevance, criteria and factors of cluster regional differentiation of students in the framework of informatization of cross-border education

Problem and goal. This article, based on the analysis of domestic and foreign experience, reveals the need to study the feasibility and possibility of dividing foreign students into regional clusters for the subsequent differentiation of methods and teaching materials within the framework of the development of approaches to the informatization of cross-border education. Methodology. A series of ascertaining experiments was carried out with students of the specialty Economics from Zambia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and other countries, aimed at identifying differences in educational motivation, reflection and other characteristics of cross-border students. A model of approaches to informatization of cross-border education based on cluster differentiation is proposed. Results. A system of clusters was proposed, the expediency of introducing the described complex of criteria and factors, illustrated by the example of highlighting previous educational experience as one of the significant criteria for cluster regional differentiation of students, was substantiated. Conclusion. Students from different countries have different motivation, experience and perception of information, in many respects this is facilitated by school education. There is a need to find a balance between co-operative and differentiated education of cross-border students. Cluster differentiation of cross-border students is advisable for the subsequent use of information technologies in the framework of ensuring the variability of methodological systems of teaching individual disciplines at a university.

L’identification des arguments et la hiérarchisation des marges : critères formels et critères conceptuels

The distinction between arguments and margins within a simple nuclear sentence is sharp at conceptual level in that it is grounded in explicit relevance criteria: arguments are saturated referential noun phrases that are essential for the integrity of the process; different layers of margins enrich different kinds of processes according to different consistency requirements. If one observes the syntactic structure of linguistic expressions, on the other hand, the same distinction seems to shade into a sort of continuum owing to two orders of factors. First, there is a cleavage between the model sentence, whose main function should be the expression of the process, and the utterances actually documented in texts and corpora, whose structure is shaped by the incommensurate function to adapt the structure of the process to the communicative dynamism of a text. Moreover, within the model sentence itself, the coding regime of arguments and the coding regime of margins shadow into one another: some margins are coded, like arguments, through formal grammatical relations, while some arguments are coded, like margins, directly as conceptual relations through a set of forms of expression motivated by their conceptual content.In spite of these obstacles, the conceptual distinction between arguments and margins and the hierarchy of margins can be identified at the level of model sentence thanks to adequate and differentiated criteria. These criteria are formal where the difference of coding regime draws a sharp formal distinction between arguments and margins, and conceptual and textual where the structure of the forms of expression neutralises the distinction. Conceptual and textual criteria also make the identification of a clear hierarchy of margins possible.

The main principles of forming the priorities of the socio-economic development strategy of the country

The article substantiates the need for the formation and implementation of the socio-economic development strategy of the country as a basis for sustainable and dynamic development. International and domestic experience, formation and approval of the strategy are analyzed. Based on the study and analysis of the situation, the author proposed a mechanism for determining the priorities of the strategy, the application of criteria of relevance and feasibility as a basis for setting priorities. Relevance criteria are divided into critical, important and desirable, where a critical priority is the event that must be carried out at a certain time despite the necessary resources; an important priority is one that has a positive effect on efficiency, but is determined by the resource limit, and a desirable priority is one that can have a positive effect on efficiency, but resources and deadlines depend on their availability after the implementation of other measures. The implementation criterion is divided into political, technical and financial. Political implementation involves the support of the government and the parliament in the adoption of relevant laws, regulations and more. The technical implementation of the strategy is based on the appropriate infrastructure, potential, complexity, timing, as well as the sequence of implementation of certain activities. The financial criterion is based on financial needs, capital and other expenditures, the need to increase efficiency or mobilize additional financial resources. The need to prepare an operational plan, which should be holistic, clear, specific, flexible, clear, controlled, easy to manage and interrelated with the budget, is justified. The operational plan should encourage executors to act without confusion or misinterpretation of what should be done, how and when.

The Patenting Dilemma in Mexican Public Universities: the Case of ICAT-UNAM

Technologies and academic inventions are developed in the daily work of the faculties, centers and research institutes of public universities. Since not all of them have commercial potential we propose that they not necessarily must be subject to patenting, because they can be protected with other intellectual property figures. Although, in many cases the inventions have technical relevance and comply with the legal requirements, they do not have a market focus, therefore they are not susceptible to commercial exploitation, or even they are not oriented to the solution of a specific social problem. This work deals with the dilemma of which academic inventions must be subject to patent in a deep austerity environment. Patenting requires considerable time, financial and human resources and in a context that all type of resources in Mexican public universities are scarce and eventually are further reduced in times of deep austerity, special care must be taken with what is patented. Using the Case Study of an R&D public institute, in this article we develop a quick method for evaluating whether or not university academic inventions should be patented, using scientific, technological, commercial and financial relevance criteria once the invention complies with legal criteria.

Natural Language Interfaces to Databases

This chapter consists of an update of a previous publication. Specifically, the chapter aims at describing the most decisive advances in NLIDBs of this decade. Unlike many surveys on NLIDBs, for this chapter, the NLIDBs will be selected according to three relevance criteria: performance (i.e., percentage of correctly answered queries), soundness of the experimental evaluation, and the number of citations. To this end, the chapter will also include a brief review of the most widely used performance measures and query corpora for testing NLIDBs.

A Framework for Multi-document Extractive Summarization of Reviews with Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis

We propose an integrated framework, named Multi-Document Aspect-based Sentiment Extractive Summarization (MD-ASES for short), to automatically generate extractive review summaries based on aspects of a large database with reviews of items such as films, businesses, and companies. Such summaries are got by extracting a subset of sentences as they are in the reviews, based on some relevance criteria. In MD-ASES, initially sentences are grouped in terms of aspects identified as predominant in the reviews. Then, sentences are selected by the similarity of the sentiment expressed about a particular aspect to the overall sentiment of the dataset reviews. Our results show that MD-ASES can successfully preserve the average sentiment of the reviews while including the most important aspects in the summary.

Optimisme og handlekraft

ResuméMetoder deklareret som evidensbaserede vinder frem i danske daginstitutioner båret af politiske ambitioner om en pædagogik baseret på videnskabelig viden om, hvad der virker. Evidensbegrebet anvendes i denne sammenhæng til at signalere, at effekten af en specifik indsats er målt med en videnskabelig præcision, der gør det muligt at forudsige dens virkning, uanset hvor den anvendes. Artiklen har som formål at udfordre en sådan forståelse af evidens og som alternativ at tilbyde en forståelse af evidens som et fænomen, der konstitueres og virker som del af en situeret politisk, social og kulturel praksis. Med afsæt i empiri fra et etnografisk feltarbejde og inspiration fra Aktør-Netværk-Teori undersøges i artiklen, hvordan den evidensbaserede metode De Utrolige År tildeles relevans og handlekraft på en national konference om evidens, til undervisning i metoden og i en børnehave. I disse sammenhænge stabiliseres metoden i kraft af sin status som evidensbaseret som en hensigtsmæssig del af en dansk småbørnspædagogik. De stabiliserende kræfter er ikke specifikke forskningsdesigns eller forskningsresultater men derimod attraktive og statusgivende rationaler og identiteter, som tildeler pædagogikken optimisme og status. Artiklen peger på, hvordan en evidensbaseret metode som et magtfuldt og virksomt fænomen i en dansk småbørnspædagogik ikke bliver til og virker i kraft af en iboende kvalitet, men er et resultat af metodens forbindelser til aktører af både politisk, ideologisk, emotionel og materiel art. AbstractEvidence-based methods are becoming increasingly widespread in Danish early childhood education driven by political ambitions about a pedagogy based on scientific studies about “what works”. The concept of evidence signals a scientific precision that makes it possible to predict a specific outcome. Such assumptions are challenged in this paper, and an alternative perspective is offered, inspired by theoretical perspectives from Actor-Network-Theory and data from ethnographical fieldwork. Through an analysis of the evidence-based method “The Incredible Years” in three different contexts, the paper explores how evidence-based methods are stabilized as the right and only thing to do. In these contexts, evidence is not linked to research results or relevance criteria but to attractive rationalities and identities which assigns optimism and power to early childhood education. As such the paper argues that evidence as a dominant part of Danish early childhood education is not the result of an essential quality, but the result of multiple other actors of various kinds - political, ideological, emotional, and material.

Psychometric properties of the Iranian version of self-care ability scale for the elderly

Background Measuring self-care ability in elderly people needs specific instruments. The Self-care Ability Scale for Elderly (SASE) is one of the common instruments used for assessing self-care ability. The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the SASE among Iranian elderly population. Methods This cross-cultural adaptation study was carried out at Shahid Chamran and Shadpour Health Complex in Tabriz, Iran. The forward-backward procedure was applied to translate the SASE from English into Persian. Then, it was completed to 220 elderly people. A systematic random sampling method was used for sampling. Content validity was calculated through modified Kappa coefficient (modified CVI) based on clarity and relevance criteria. Reliability was measured by internal consistency and test-retest analysis. The construct validity also was assessed using Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). All the statistical analyses were performed using SPSS 21 statistical software package. Results The mean of self-care ability was 61.14 ± 21.08. The CVI and modified kappa were 0.91 and 0.92 for relevance and clarity, respectively. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was 0.73 and Intra-class correlation coefficient was 0.97. The results of EFA revealed a three-factor solution (‘ability to take care of personal responsibility’, ‘ability to take care for the goals’, and ‘ability to take care of the health’) that jointly explained for 64.61% of the total variance. Conclusion Results of the study showed that the Iranian version of the SASE has good psychometric properties and can be used in assessing the self-care ability of elderly people.