THE ONLINE TEACHING VIS-À-VIS THE CLASSROOM TEACHING (ON THE BACKGROUND OF COVID-19)

The history of mankind will depict 2020 as the beginning of the new era – the era of the pandemic, which has invaded the world countries. The life on the earth has changed drastically. A partial or complete lockdown, numerous infected citizens, an increasing economic crisis, devaluation of a national currency, paralyzed cultural and social lives – this is a partial list of the challenges faced by the majority of the world countries that have made efforts to survive. The paper depicts the challenges of Georgia’s educational space in the environment of the pandemic. The major emphasis is put on the transition from a classroom teaching to an online lecturing as well as on the (dis)advantages of a face-to-face interaction and a virtual communication. Moreover, the paper presents some strategies of the “peaceful” transition (creation of a student-oriented virtual-classroom atmosphere, timely informativeness, usage of appropriate technological means, replacement of written-type exams with hybrid-type examinations, flexible site-oriented means of an extracurricular communication, updated criteria of assessment, etc.) elaborated at the Faculty of Humanities of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. The methodology of research includes observation, analysis and evaluation of the recent processes.

Biographical Sketches

Chapter 8 presents a partial list of traders, hydrographers, naturalists and others who played a role in Sino-French trade at Canton, and provides brief biographical information about each. A large number had relatives in the colonial or French East India Company administration, or in Canton or other French overseas trading centers. Most came from families that were long established in France, but there were exceptions; the best known include Julien-Joseph Duvelaër and his brother Pierre, whose paternal grandfather immigrated to France from the Netherlands in the seventeenth century; François and Edmond Roth(e), Irish Jacobite refugees who acquired French nationality by naturalization; and the Protestant Charles de Constant, a francophone Swiss whose family fled France during the religious upheavals of the sixteenth century.

A Partial List of Eubie Blake’s Compositions

This list was compiled from ASCAP and copyright records for Eubie Blake’s instrumentals and songs. As such, some titles vary slightly from the published sheet music, and occasionally a title is all that exists for a song that we cannot otherwise identify. Note that the year of copyright may not correspond to the year of a work’s actual composition. For scores for shows, we have listed only songs that were newly written for each production, not those carried over from previous productions or older songs that were interpolated/added to a show’s score during its run. There are many unpublished manuscripts for songs and instrumentals in Eubie Blake’s papers at the Maryland Historical Society that still need to be crosschecked against his known copyrights to establish a more complete list; some of these may be duplicates of other works under different names....

Bahasa Indonesia

Tingginya tingkat turnover pegawai di semua perusahaan, sangat nyata dalam kehidupan zaman sekarang. Banyaknya tawaran pekerjaan baru atau rasa sudah tidak nyaman dalam bekerja menjadi pertimbangan untuk seseorang memutuskan mengundurkan diri. Kepuasan kerja yang didapatkan, motivasi kerja yang sudah mulai lentur, lingkungan kerja yang sudah mulai tidak kondusif membuat tingkat stress kerja jadi tinggi, dan akhirnya memutuskan untuk mengundurkan diri, dan perusahaan mengalami turnover intention yang tinggi. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui adanya pengaruh kepuasan kerja, motivasi kerja, dan lingkungan kerja terhadap turnover invention melalui stress kerja di hotel Spark Jakarta.Metodenelitian yang digunakan yaitu metode analisis jalur dengan menggunakan PLS (partial list square). Dalam evaluasi kecocokan model digunakan pengukuran dengan menggunakan validitas dan reliabilitas. Subjek penelitian yaitu karyawan Hotel Spark Jakarta dan Jumlah responden yang digunakan adalah sebanyak 100 responden berdasarkan estimated parameter.Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa lingkungan kerja dan motivasi kerja berpengaruh positif dalam Turnover Intention, dan kepuasan kerja berpengaruh negatif dalam Turnover Intention. Dalam variabel intervening stress kerja, kepuasan kerja dan motivasi kerja berpengaruh positif dalam Turnover Intention.

Observations for Model Intercomparison Project (Obs4MIPs): status for CMIP6

The Observations for Model Intercomparison Project (Obs4MIPs) was initiated in 2010 to facilitate the use of observations in climate model evaluation and research, with a particular target being the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), a major initiative of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). To this end, Obs4MIPs (1) targets observed variables that can be compared to CMIP model variables; (2) utilizes dataset formatting specifications and metadata requirements closely aligned with CMIP model output; (3) provides brief technical documentation for each dataset, designed for nonexperts and tailored towards relevance for model evaluation, including information on uncertainty, dataset merits, and limitations; and (4) disseminates the data through the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) platforms, making the observations searchable and accessible via the same portals as the model output. Taken together, these characteristics of the organization and structure of obs4MIPs should entice a more diverse community of researchers to engage in the comparison of model output with observations and to contribute to a more comprehensive evaluation of the climate models. At present, the number of obs4MIPs datasets has grown to about 80; many are undergoing updates, with another 20 or so in preparation, and more than 100 are proposed and under consideration. A partial list of current global satellite-based datasets includes humidity and temperature profiles; a wide range of cloud and aerosol observations; ocean surface wind, temperature, height, and sea ice fraction; surface and top-of-atmosphere longwave and shortwave radiation; and ozone (O3), methane (CH4), and carbon dioxide (CO2) products. A partial list of proposed products expected to be useful in analyzing CMIP6 results includes the following: alternative products for the above quantities, additional products for ocean surface flux and chlorophyll products, a number of vegetation products (e.g., FAPAR, LAI, burned area fraction), ice sheet mass and height, carbon monoxide (CO), and nitrogen dioxide (NO2). While most existing obs4MIPs datasets consist of monthly-mean gridded data over the global domain, products with higher time resolution (e.g., daily) and/or regional products are now receiving more attention. Along with an increasing number of datasets, obs4MIPs has implemented a number of capability upgrades including (1) an updated obs4MIPs data specifications document that provides additional search facets and generally improves congruence with CMIP6 specifications for model datasets, (2) a set of six easily understood indicators that help guide users as to a dataset's maturity and suitability for application, and (3) an option to supply supplemental information about a dataset beyond what can be found in the standard metadata. With the maturation of the obs4MIPs framework, the dataset inclusion process, and the dataset formatting guidelines and resources, the scope of the observations being considered is expected to grow to include gridded in situ datasets as well as datasets with a regional focus, and the ultimate intent is to judiciously expand this scope to any observation dataset that has applicability for evaluation of the types of Earth system models used in CMIP.

Acquired metabolic disorders and the nervous system

Metabolic diseases and their neurological complications require a knowledge of both general internal medicine and of neurology - one reason why they are often poorly handled clinically. They range from the neurological complications of hypercalcaemia to dramatic, serious, and not uncommon neurological picture of central pontine myelinolysis and its still uncertain metabolic cause(s); from the emergence of new(-ish) disorders such as superficial siderosis and E-induced water intoxication to the changing face and context of iatrogenic Cushing’s syndrome, chemotherapy-induced nutritional and metabolic disruption. This brief and partial list helps to emphasize the importance and impact of acquired neurometabolic diseases. This chapter aims to deal with these, or to point elsewhere in this text to where they are covered.