Valuation of Livestock in Farms

Purpose: The aim of this article is to assess the possibility of applying the industry livestock valuation index as proposed by Karolina Pasula during the public defense of the doctoral dissertation “Directions and conditions for the standardization of accounting in agricultural enterprises” as an alternative method of valuation, taking into account sources of information and risk assessment on a farm. Methodology: The research process was divided into three main stages: (1) examining the possibility of applying the industry indicator for measuring biological assets proposed by K. Pasula for the valuation of livestock, i.e. pigs, as exemplified by a selected farm whose undertakings are known to the authors; (2) repeating the study from stage 1 on the valuation of dairy cattle as exemplified by the farm the activities of which are known to the authors; (3) on the basis of the conclusions of stage 1 and stage 2 studies, possible modification of the industry indicator for measuring biological assets, conducting research on a larger group of farms breeding livestock. Findings & value added: The conducted research confirmed the possibility of applying the analyzed ratio in the practice of entities that do not keep accounting books. The obtained results are characterized by high cognitive value as a measure of biological assets in relation to pigs. The valuation based on the industry measurement index in farms takes into account the risk which, as shown in the research, is an important factor influencing the value from the valuation.

THE SYSTEM OF TRAINING HIGHER PEDAGOGICAL STAFF AT THE TURN OF THE XIX–XX CENTURIES

Preparation of undergraduates and privat-docents for professorship in the late XIX – early XX century is considered on the example of Moscow University through the prism of the biography of a historian and a jurist Sergei Andreevich Kotlyarevsky. The uniqueness of his example lies in the fact that he defended four dissertations: master’s and doctoral dissertations on foreign history and master’s and doctoral dissertations on public law. This demonstrates some individualism of the trajectory showing his professional development and formation as a scientist and a teacher. The research perspective includes the process of young scientists’ formation from the moment of continuing working at the university’s profile department to prepare a dissertation up to obtaining the degree. Attention is paid to socio-political circumstances and conditions affecting the possibility of becoming a professional scientist and teacher. Both formal and special features of the training scientific and teaching staff inherent in a particular scientific community are noted. The professional development of future scientists and teachers of higher education was associated with active preparation for the defense of the master’s exam, the first teaching experience, scientific and research work. The best graduates were left at the departments with the support of leading university professors who saw new forces and future professionals in them. However, the personal contribution of the applicants themselves was important, since they were required to reveal their intellectual potential, pedagogical and research skills. At this, an important aspect was the opportunity to go on foreign business trips, in which not only the material of scientific research was collected, but knowledge was enriched as well, including getting to know the peculiarities of teaching in European countries and their socio-political life. The preparation process was completed with the public defense of the master’s dissertation and awarding a master’s degree. At the same time, the path to the teaching environment began, which required further disclosure of scientific potential and the defense of a doctoral dissertation in order to obtain a professorship.

PLACE AND ROLE OF "PREPARATION AND PRESENTATION OF RESEARCH RESULTS RESEARCH" DISCIPLINE IN TERMS OF TRAINING OF PH.D. WITHIN THE FIELD OF THE POSTGRADUATE HIGHER EDUCATION (RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS)

The purpose of the article is to highlight the place and role of the discipline "Preparation of a research project and presentation of research results" as part of the educational and scientific program of training doctors of philosophy in the graduate school of higher education (scientific institutions) and its importance in the acquisition of professional competencies, systems knowledge, and skills preparation of scientific research and presentation of its results. The methodology consists of the application of general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, generalization and abstraction, review-analytical, description, and comparison, which made it possible to identify the place and role of this discipline. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the generalization and systematization of knowledge about the discipline "Preparation of a research project and presentation of research results", in focusing on its features in terms of the present and prospects for its development. Conclusions. A feature of the discipline "Preparation of a research project and presentation of research results" is the consideration of all stages of preparation of graduate students: from admission to graduate school and choosing a dissertation research topic and to public defense of the dissertation and certification in the light of modern requirements. In the process of studying the course graduate students will be able to form a holistic view of science as a system of knowledge and tools of knowledge, to form views on the methodology of scientific knowledge, the essence of general and special methods and principles of research and presentation of their results.

Abortion and Infanticide

The history of infanticide and abortion in Latin America has garnered increasing attention in the past two decades. Particularities of topic and temporal focus characterize this work and shape this bibliography’s geographic organization. Mexico possesses the most developed scholarship in both the colonial and modern periods. There, tracing of the persistence of pre-Conquest Indigenous medical knowledge and the endurance of paraprofessional obstetrical practitioners through the colonial era and into the 19th century features prominently and echoes some of the scholarship examining European midwives’ administration of plant-based abortifacients in the medieval and Early Modern eras. This topic plays a role, but a much less prominent one in scholarship on Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. Scholars of Brazil, the Caribbean, and circum-Caribbean have focused in particular on the issue of enslaved mothers’ commission of infanticide and abortion on their own children in the 18th and 19th centuries, a particularly fraught issue in the context of the abolition of the slave trade. A central assumption in much scholarship on the 19th-century professionalization (and masculinization) of obstetrical medicine is that the marginalization of midwives entailed a reduction in women’s access to abortion, although this position has been challenged in some recent scholarship on 19th-century Mexico in particular. The examination of the ways that the new republics perceived the crimes of infanticide and abortion in their legal codes, judicial processes, and in community attitudes is a central focus of 19th- and 20th-century scholarship. Scholars have remarked upon the considerable uniformity across all regions of a paucity of denunciations or convictions in the first half of the 19th century and the rise of criminal trials for both crimes in its last three decades. This change coincided (although no one has argued been provoked by) many countries’ issuance of national penal codes in the 1870s and 1880s. This intensification of persecution also coincided with the Catholic church’s articulation of an explicit condemnation of abortion (Pius IX’s 1869 bull Apostolicae Sedis), although demonstrating the concrete implications of this decree to the Latin American setting remains a task yet to be undertaken. Historians of both abortion and infanticide have also concentrated on defendant motives and defenses in criminal investigations. While some highlight defendants’ economic desperation, most scholars argue that the public defense of female sexual honor was a crucial motivator, which courts understood as a legitimate concern in 19th- and even mid-20th-century trials. Scholarship on 20th-century infanticide and abortion history continues to concentrate on fluctuations in attitudes toward honor, gender, and the family as influences on criminal codes and especially judicial sentencing for both acts, and toward the late 20th century on feminist efforts to decriminalize abortion that have met with varied success across countries.

Making Gideon Count? Public Defender Resources and Felony Case Outcomes for Black, White, and Latinx Individuals

Although Gideon v. Wainright has provided indigent defendants potentially facing prison time the right to counsel, commentators and scholars have documented that the public defense system is vastly underfunded and currently in crisis. However, research has rarely examined how public defender resources impact case outcomes, and the research that does exist has yet, to my knowledge, examine how these resources impact racial disparities in case outcomes. By merging data from the Census of Public Defender Offices to data from the State Court Processing Statistics, I begin to fill this gap. Results from multivariate regression analyses with state-year fixed effects provide mixed evidence. Regardless of race, higher public defender and support staff caseloads tend to be associated with worse case outcomes. In the case of pretrial detention, I find that high public defender and support staff caseloads exacerbate Black-White disparities. With respect to sentence length, I find evidence that high public defender caseloads exacerbate Latinx-White disparities and some evidence that they mitigate Black-White disparities. In sum, these results provide strong support for the view that the public defender funding crisis harms indigent defendants regardless of race and mixed evidence regarding its impact on racial disparities in the criminal justice system.

Gaining Access to Justice: A Subnational Study of the Public Defender’s Office in Mexico

With the transition to democracy, Latin American countries have embarked on implementing judicial reforms to redesign justice-sector institutions and build up the rule of law in the region. Reform efforts included empowe¬ring the courts, granting political independence to the public prosecutor’s office, professionalizing the public defender offices and implementing the accusatory criminal system in justice-sector institutions. To what extent are the reforms tar¬geted at the public defender offices changing the way legal defense is provided? In this article, after discussing a theoretical framework that captures and opera¬tionalizes the concepts of a merit-based career system, an accusatory criminal justice system and effective legal representation, I examine the extent to which the changes of transitioning from an inquisitorial to an adversarial system and from a non-merit-based career system to a merit-based career system have affec¬ted the way legal counsel is provided at subnational public defender offices. To accomplish this, I provide both a de jure and de facto measures (indicators of reform implementation). To identify the de jure indicators, I consulted legal texts (constitutions and secondary laws), and to gauge how the de facto indi¬cators work, I relied on interviews with public defenders, reports and academic documents. I collected 50 interviews with public defense attorneys from three Mexican states: Baja California Sur, Jalisco and Nuevo León. Findings from these states suggest that as reform implementation advances, public defenders have more tools to offer legal representation; more specifically, they are better trained, in addition to having higher salaries, a lower caseload per defender and increased access to forensic services.

MODEL OF STUDENTS’ PROJECT ACTIVITY IN THE DIGITAL SPACE ON THE EXAMPLE OF DISCIPLINES OF THE PEDAGOGICAL CYCLE

The article presents a model of project activities of applicants for higher education in the context of distance-digital learning using the example of disciplines of the pedagogical training cycle. The analysis of the scientific sources devoted to various aspects of project activity and especially in digital educational space is carried out. The theoretical provisions of the project activities in the digital space are described and the tasks that applicants can perform within this activity are presented. The process of implementation of project activities in the conditions of forced distance learning is highlighted on the example of 2nd year students of the School of Foreign Languages of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in the 2019/2020 academic year, and attention is focused on the stages of creating and supporting this activity by a lecturer and a student. These stages include: preparatory (communication between applicants and the teacher), operational (project creation), correction (making changes and additions) and final (public defense and registration of the results). The discussion section reveals the prospects and risks of implementing project activities in the digital learning space. The conclusions provide recommendations for the effective organization of project activities in the digital learning space on the example of disciplines of the pedagogical cycle of training: previous preparatory work of the teacher to clarify the requirements for studying the course and organizing project activities (the emphasis here is on group monitors due to the large number of students: an average of 230 people); bright presentation of requirements and previous achievements in creating creative works (projects); defining a clear sequence of actions of this process; explanation of the sequence of actions and communication between the participants of the process teacher-student, teacher-group of students, student-student; support for feedback in consultations, in messengers (with an emphasis on convenience for all parties); current verification of the obtained results, i.e. support and correction of creative works with obligatory explanation of problematic moments for applicants; organization of public defenses of creative works (projects) on proven digital communication platforms; adherence to the principles of academic integrity in the context of distance digital learning through verification of works in generally recognized digital information verification programs; allocation of time for separate consultations for research projects as such, which require special attention due to their complexity; the use of cloud services for recording the results of the progress of applicants and the like.

Organizations and Activities of Yugoslav Naturists (1972–1991)*

The paper presents the organization and activities of Yugoslav naturists, as well as their intention to play a social role in the field of physical and health culture, environmental protection, tourist propaganda, public defense and social self-protection in the socialist society from 1972 to 1991. Despite their ambitions, Yugoslav naturist societies, did not form an important social group or cultural movement.