A pathway to teaching for paraprofessionals of color

Research has shown that students of color benefit from having teachers who share their racial background. The paraprofessionals and education assistants currently working in schools represent one potential source of such teachers. Many of them are committed to schools and students but need support to obtain a teaching license. Laura Delgado, Kristin Baese, and Ally Hauptman describe a program for helping these paraprofessionals become full-time lead teachers by taking graduate courses while continuing to work as assistants and receiving mentoring support as they move through the licensure process.

Improving the Combustion Properties of Corncob Biomass via Torrefaction for Solid Fuel Applications

The overdependence on fossils as the primary energy source has led to climate change, global warming, and the emission of greenhouse gas. As a result, the United Nations, while setting the goals for the year 2030, has made the provision of a green environment and energy one of the top priorities. In this study, the suitability of corncob for green energy production was investigated. The improvement of corncob’s thermal and combustion properties via the torrefaction process was considered for solid fuel applications. The raw corncob was collected, sorted, and dried for seven days before being used for the torrefaction experiment. Different torrefaction temperatures (200, 240, and 260 °C) and residence times (20, 40, 60 min) were studied. There was no particle reduction—samples were torrefied as collected (whole corncob). The results show that torrefaction temperature and residence time affect the torrefaction products yields along with their properties. Thermal and combustion properties were improved with an increase in torrefaction temperature and residence time. The higher heating value and energy density of the torrefied corncob varied between 17.26 and 18.89 MJ/kg, and 3.23 and 5.66 GJ/m3, respectively. High torrefaction temperature and residence time lead to low solid yield; however, liquid and gas yields increase with torrefaction temperature and residence time. The solid yields varied from 27.57 to 52.23%, while the liquid and gas yields varied from 31.56 to 44.78% and 16.21 to 27.65%, respectively. The properties of corncob improve after torrefaction and are suitable for solid fuel application.

"THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES WORKING, AS AN EFFECT OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC, IN THE TELEWORK REGIME IN ROMANIA "

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated the transition to online by 5 years. Although the IT industry has exploded in the last 20 years, Romania is still at the bottom of the European ranking on digitization, ranking 26th out of 28 countries. In Romania only in 2020 the Romanian Digitization Authority (ADR) was established. and a ministry of research and digitization has been set up and some interesting provisions appear in the government program, such as the introduction of informatics in primary classes. Statistics show that only 9.2 percent of jobs with earnings below the average wage in the economy could be done in telework. It is now more difficult to assume that there will ever be a return to normalcy, especially since the restrictive measures imposed over a longer period of time lead to changes in human behavior in such a way that it is impossible to predict to what extent once. what the crisis generated by Covid-19 will disappear will return to a lifestyle similar to that before this period.

Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Justice Matters(ings) in (En)tangled Times

The purpose of this special issue is to generate and expand the locations and perspectives from which justice and equity, in multiple forms, are and can be, orienting concepts for critical qualitative inquiry. Although critical inquiry originates from diverse views, concerns, and conditions, all forms would always and already address matters of privilege/harm, equity/ inequity, and justice/injustice, while at the same time challenging power-oriented dualisms, systematic western notions of progress, and capitalist gains. This introductory article describes the work of special issue authors asking questions like: How might critical qualitative inquiry build from the past while at the same time lead to more just possibilities, leading to something we might recognize as inquiry as/toward/for justice? How can critical scholarship be theorized, designed, and practiced with justice as the orienting focus within (en)tangled times, materials and material injustices?

Influence of the upper limb motor deficit on the functional independence in patients with cerebral palsy

Cerebral palsies (CPs) disturb the voluntary movement control at extremities’ level, entailing various disability degrees. In over 80% of the CP cases there is an upper limb disorder, mainly manifested by the decrease in hand control and the presence of contractures, which, in time, lead to the adoption of abnormal postures which affect the abilities of the CP patients’ hands. The aim of this study was to identify the way the motor deficit at upper limb level – reflected by coordination disturbances and by the condition of the three fingered (tripod) grasp – influences the CP patient’s functional independence. The study demonstrated the existence of significant correlations between Functional Independence Measure (FIM) score, coordination and three fingered grasp. It was proven that the unilateral coordination dysfunctions have a strong negative influence on the coordination of the opposite side and lead to a decrease of the functional independence level. Therefore, the rehabilitation treatment is recommended to be based on a bilateral training, both in order to improve coordination and to obtain a functional level of the three fingered grasp power and of the physiological amplitude at wrist flexion level.

Archeology as a Metaphor in Contemporary Culture

The scientific discipline of archeology has gone through various stages of its development and improvement of research methods. First, it was combined with ancient history and the history of art. In the mid-nineteenth century, the base of its chronology was on biblical events. Modernist archeology of the twentieth century focused on classifying monuments and reconstructing cultural processes. In the second half of the twentieth century, archeology inspired other disciplines of culture and science to “stratigraphically” look at their own history. In this way, the stratification of scientific thought (archeology of knowledge), the history of photography (archeology of photography), and the media (archeology of media) began to be analyzed. Archeology has become a cognitive metaphor in contemporary culture. Lack of knowledge of the theoretical and methodological achievements worked out by archaeologists may, after some time, lead to the trivialization and petrification of the archaeological metaphor, although today it still seems fresh and innovative for “archeology of media,” “archeology of photography,” or “archeology of modernism.”

Penerapan Lean Manufacturing dengan Metode Takt Time dan FMEA untuk Mengidentifikasi Waste pada Proses Produksi Steril PT.XYZ

PT XYZ is one of the companies engaged in the pharmaceutical sector in Indonesia, as a leading pharmaceutical company in Indonesia and trusted by many people, PT XYZ always strives to provide the best service in terms of meeting market demand (customer), delivered on time (lead time). The requests received always vary every month, a drastic increase in the number of demands will affect the processing time needed to fulfill the demand with the production processing time of a product. This problem can be overcome by analyzing the Takt Time and Cycle Time needed to fulfill requests for October 2020, where the number of requests for product A in October 2020 is 10,560 pcs. The results of the analysis of Fast Time and Cycle Time waste using the FMEA method. There are 3 types of waste, namely waste of waiting time, unnecessary supplies, and scheduling.

Constitutional Court Strikes the Anti- Corruption System in Ukraine

The publication is dedicated to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine’s decision, which paralyzed the National Agency’s critical activities for preventing corruption and declared unconstitutional criminal liability for knowingly false declarations. The decision caused a considerable resonance, as the declared reasons for its adoption were insufficient to admit that the crucial provisions of the Law ‘On Prevention of Corruption’ regarding electronic asset declaration, financial control, and lifestyle monitoring are entirely unconstitutional. The decision’s circumstances indicate that the judges ignored the apparent conflict of interest and made an unjustified departure from the previous case-law. Simultaneously, the reaction of crucial state bodies to this decision may cause a constitutional crisis rather than rectify the situation. As a way out, it is proposed to amend the legislation in a constitutional manner that would unblock the agency’s activities and, at the same time, lead to greater accountability of the judiciary and the Constitutional Court.

Bertahannya Pasar Tradisional Sanglah di Tengah-Tengah Pengaruh Pasar Modern di Denpasar Tahun 2000-2018

This study is entitled The Survival of Sanglah Traditional Market in the Middle of the Effect of Modern Markets in Denpasar in 2000-2018. Sanglah Market is surrounded by many modern markets. Economic developments that occur at this time lead to competition between the Sanglah market and the modern market in Denpasar. The research method used is the historical research method which consists of four stages, namely heuristics, source criticism, interpretation and historiography. The results of this study indicate that the Sanglah market is one of the engines of economic growth for the City of Denpasar. The rise of the development of modern markets in the city of Denpasar requires traders in the Sanglah market to innovate more in maintaining their existence. The many modern markets in Denpasar City have their own impact on traders in the Sanglah market both economically and socially, such as the decline in the income of traders, besides that the modern market also impacts on people's lifestyles.

Terms of repair works and forecasting of terms of service of contacts of disassembly type in conditions of incomplete of output information

Collapsible contact joints are the most numerous elements of electrical installations. The efficiency of the contacts, their reliability to a large extent depends on the modes of electric current and temperature, contact pressure, etc. Modification of modes and operation time lead to an increase in the resistance of the contacts, the temperature of their heating and possible thermal destruction. Traditional means for controlling the pressure in the contacts when changing the temperature regime are steel plate springs. Previous investigations have established that these means only partially solve the problem of regulation of contact pressure. An alternative to traditional means is the innovative development of dynamic pressure control tools based on the use of functional alloys with the shape memory effect. The mathematical analysis of terms of carrying out repair works and service life of collision type contacts with the use of probability theory in the conditions of incompleteness of the initial information is carried out. The research substantiates that the use of dynamic method of control of the thermomechanical regime of collapsible contacts allows to stabilize pressure and extend the life of collapsible contacts by 3-4 times.