Educational Robotics for Creating Effective Computer Science Learning for All

President Obama's initiative, “computer science for all,” has been a rallying slogan for promoting computer science in K-12 education. Although the participation of people of color in computer science (CS) has increased in the past several years, it is still drastically low and does not reflect the real picture of our society. This chapter explores how educational robotics as a learning tool can inspire underrepresented minorities including females and students of color to become interested in CS. Supported by Papert's constructionism theory, educational robotics effectively facilitates students' learning of various concepts in CS and STEM. Educational robotics is a learning tool which inspires students' interest in learning. It provides a learning environment that promotes students' learning of various CS concepts and computational thinking skills. Although robots naturally spark students' interests, to make it most effective, teachers are required effortfully to create learning opportunities that are authentic and meaningful for individual students.

EXTERNAL AND DOMESTIC CHALLENGES FOR CZECH REPUBLIC

The article attempts to outline the main challenges faced by the Czech Republic in domestic and foreign policy. The author notes that the main threat within the country lies in the propensity of some part of the establishment to abuse of office. However, there are effective tools to counter these trends in the form of a developed system of democratic institutions and civil society. In foreign policy, a value-based approach has recently become widespread, which often damages the interests of the state and distorts the real picture of dangers. The author notes that the local political community is in a state of «Czech-Czech war», implying a confrontation between two groups of elites: pragmatists-technocrats and human rights defenders-liberals. These trends have become especially widespread since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, which has accelerated the development of international processes.

Survei Kondisi Fisik Sepak Bola pada Pemain Arema Football Academy Usia 16 Tahun di Kota Malang Tahun 2021

Physical condition is an important role in football because with good physical condition, it will be more likely to achieve. This study aims to determine the level of physical condition of Arema players aged 16 years in Malang City in 2021. The method used in this study is descriptive quantitative which aims to provide a real picture in accordance with what is in the field about the physical condition of Arema Football Academy football players aged 16 years old in Malang in 2021. The results on leg muscle strength have an average of 44.24, speed has an average of 7.73, agility has an average of 9.91, flexibility has an average of 16.60, muscle power limbs have an average of 55.88, endurance has an average of 45.98. It can be concluded that strength (leg muscles) is in sufficient category, speed is in good category, agility is in very good category, flexibility is in very good category, leg muscle power is in good category and endurance is in good category. And the overall physical condition is in the sufficient category. Abstrak: Kondisi fisik merupakan peranan yang penting dalam sepak bola karena dengan kondisi fisik yang baik maka akan lebih berpeluang untuk berprestasi. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui tingkat kondisi fisik pemain arema usia 16 tahun di Kota Malang tahun 2021. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini merupakan kuantitatif deskriptif yang bertujuan untuk memberikan gambaran nyata sesuai dengan yang ada di lapangan tentang kondisi fisik pemain sepak bola Arema Football Academy umur 16 tahun di Kota Malang tahun 2021. Hasil pada kekuatan otot tungkai memiliki rata-rata 44,24, kecepatan memiliki rata-rata 7,73, kelincahan memiliki rata-rata 9,91, kelentukan memiliki rata-rata 16,60, power otot tungkai memiliki rata-rata 55,88, daya tahan memiliki rata-rata 45,98. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa kekuatan (otot tungkai) masuk kategori cukup, kecepatan masuk kategori baik, kelincahan masuk kategori baik sekali, kelentukan masuk kategori baik sekali, power otot tungkai masuk kategori baik dan daya tahan masuk kategori baik. Dan pada kondisi fisik secara keseluruhan masuk dalam kategori cukup.

Methodological approaches to morbidity forecasting in military educational organizations

The article discusses aspects of the application of extrapolation and factor approaches to epidemiological forecasting, outlines the limitations and features of their application in relation to the prediction of morbidity.It is shown that when using an extrapolation approach, it becomes possible to predict the most likely numerical characteristics of morbidity in a certain time perspective. At the same time, the accuracy of the obtained forecast depends on the length of the time series and the type of long-term dynamics of morbidity. In turn, the trends formed by the results of forecasting artificially level the critical levels of morbidity that characterize individual periods of time and are fundamentally important for understanding the real picture.The factor approach is based on the prediction of morbidity levels using a certain set of factors. The difficulty of using the factor approach is noted due to the stochasticity of the epidemic process.Based on the results of a retrospective epidemiological analysis of the personalized morbidity of cadets of the Military Medical Academy, the heterogeneity of military contingents in susceptibility to acute respiratory infections of the upper respiratory tract is shown.From the standpoint of the academician V.D .Belyakov’s et al. theory of the parasitic systems self-regulation, the conclusion is made about the expediency of using a factor approach for epidemiological forecasting of morbidity in organized collectives. It is proposed to use the state of individual resistance as one of the main factors determining the epidemic well-being of organized collectives.The results of the development and testing of an electronic database that allows epidemiological surveillance of the morbidity of trainees and its linear prediction are presented.

Postcolonial vision of Yaroslav Pavlyuk’s novel “The Garden of Drunk Cherries”

The relevance of the article lies in the study of the problem of the lost generation in modern Ukrainian literature, which remains insufficiently studied in literary criticism. The subject of the research is Yaroslav Pavlyuk’s postmodern novel “The Garden of Drunk Cherries”, to which the methods of postcolonial theory are applied. In the analysis, a literary character with a bifurcated consciousness stands out. This is the type of person in whom the traditional Ukrainian self-consciousness is combined with the Soviet one. The main result of the study is to identify the specifics of Ukrainian national identity in the Soviet Union, which was hidden and not exposed to the public, and Soviet identity became a social mask that people wore so as not to differ from generally accepted social standards. The novelty of the results of the study helps to reveal the social mask, which in Soviet-era Ukraine was the Russian language, which people had to use at the official level. The dramatic conflict between the novel main character, who is the author’s alter ego, and the librarian Oresta, is accompanied by letters from the artist Borys Zhdanyuk and famous directors Andriy Tarkovsky and Sergiy Parajanov, whose emotions and thoughts reveal the real picture of the absence of individual and national freedom in the USSR. Using the examples of people of art, it is shown how the Soviet system destroyed dissent and traumatized creative personalities. The bifurcation of the creative personality in Soviet-era Ukraine often led vulnerable people to their degradation. Censorship, control of dissent, the imposition of socialist realism in art, and the threat of arrest have forced writers, artists, and directors to adapt to the system or become dissidents. The novel depicts characters who do not accept the official ideology, trying to save their private world from state interference. The results of the study have the prospect for further analysis of the work of individual writers and generations who have become a lost force and have not used the creative potential inherent in them.

Individual, Family Factors and Career Development of Female School Teachers

In Nepalese society, female people feel that they are facing many obstacles in their career development such as individual, family, organization barriers, etc. In this regard, this study is conducted to analyze barriers in female career development. So, the study's main objective is to analyze the impact of individual and family barriers on female school teachers' career development. ausal effect research design has been employed in this study to analyze the impact of the barriers on female career development. The study used a judgmental sampling technique to gather the real picture of data from female school teachers in Kathmandu valley. Multiple regression analysis techniques has been adopted to analyze the data. From the result of data analysis, it is concluded that the family issue has hampered the career development of female school teachers. This means that Nepalese female teachers have to do their office duty along with giving time for their family members, housework and child-caring, etc. This could be beneficial to school administrators, trainers, and human resource professionals who want to help female teachers for the advancement of their careers.

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION CONNECTOR IN PROVIDING ECONOMIC GROWTH PRODUCTION SPHERE

Исследовано влияние человекоцентричного ресурса на инновационные преобразования в обществе и бизнесе на основе проницаемости информационных воздействий, затрагивающих поведенческие и мотивационно-эмоциональные механизмы человека. Идентификация состояния информационных компонентов, составляющих смысл и содержание регулирующих и управленческих импульсов, модулируемых различными участниками рынка из разных источников, необходима для оценки состояния имеющихся противоречий между разными субъектами маркетингово-коммуникационного пространства социально-экономической системы и их разрешения. Обозначены различные аспекты влияния информационной среды на решение проблем экономического роста и укрепления конкурентоспособности субъектов бизнеса в производственной сфере. Аргументировано повышение значимости категорий «ложь», «правда» и «доверие» на формирование моделей устойчивого экономического роста и позитивных инновационных преобразований в системообразующих сферах экономики, в том числе пищевой промышленности. Показано, что создаваемые субъектами производственной сферы информационно-коммуникационные платформы на базе виртуализации социально-экономического пространства требуют ужесточения контроля за информационными потоками и используемым для воздействия на различные целевые аудитории рекламно-маркетинговым инструментарием для недопущения искажения реальной картины мира, деформации рыночных отношений и формирования условий для активизации человекоцентричного ресурса на укрепление тренда позитивных инновационных изменений и социального благосостояния. Предложена модель управления экономическим ростом бизнеса посредством включения информационно-коммуникационного коннектора для активизации позитивных инновационных преобразований в производственной сфере, в которой он наделяется свойствами инструмента повышения доверия потребителей к модулируемым информационным сигналам в развивающихся коммуникационных полях. The influence of a human-centered resource on innovative transformations in society and business is indicated on the basis of the permeability of information influences affecting the behavioral and motivational-emotional mechanisms of a person. Identification of the state of information components that make up the meaning and content of regulatory and managerial impulses modulated by various market participants from different sources is necessary to assess the state of existing contradictions between different subjects of the marketing and communication space of the socio-economic system and their resolution. Various aspects of the influence of the information environment on solving the problems of economic growth and strengthening the competitiveness of business entities in the production sector are identified. The author argues for increasing the importance of the categories «lie», «truth» and «trust» for the formation of models of sustainable economic growth and positive innovative transformations in the system-forming spheres of the economy (including in the food industry).The information and communication platforms created by the subjects of the industrial sphere on the basis of virtualization of the socio-economic space require stricter control over information flows and advertising and marketing tools used to influence various target audiences in the interests of preventing distortion of the real picture of the world, deformation of market relations and the formation of conditions for activating a human-centered resource to strengthen the trend of positive innovative changes and social welfare. The model of business economic growth management is proposed by including an information and communication connector to activate positive innovative transformations in the production sector, in which it is endowed with the properties of a tool for increasing consumer confidence in modulated information signals in developing communication fields.

The city as an environment for the realization of power relations: an interdisciplinary object of study

В статье рассматриваются основные концепции изучения города в разных областях научного знания, анализируются подходы и взаимодействие наук в общем познании городского пространства. Каждая наука по своему интерпретирует понимание города и рассматривает его элементы с точки зрения своей компетенции. Использование методико-методологического инструментария философии как интегральной системы научного знания позволяет анализировать полученные данные и приводить их к единой модели обоснования специфических черт города, представляющего собой уникальное явление человеческой жизнедеятельности. Однако каждая наука, опираясь только на собственный эмпирический материал, допускает ошибку: создаёт идеальный образ, который не всегда соответствует реальной картине. Каждый исследователь концентрирует внимание на конкретных элементах изучения, тем самым отдавая им приоритет в понимании городской среды. Этот факт актуализирует метод междисциплинарного изучения городского феномена. В контексте социогуманитарных исследований, опирающихся на методы социологии, демографии, политологии и культурологии, город рассматривается как среда осуществления властных полномочий, в которой нарастает зависимость социодинамических процессов от характера институциональных ограничений, накладываемых властными структурами в отношении населения. The paper considers the main concepts of studying the city in various fields of scientific knowledge, analyzes the approaches and interaction of sciences in the general knowledge of urban space. Each science interprets the understanding of the city in its own way and considers its elements from the point of view of its competence. The use of methodological tools of philosophy as an integral system of scientific knowledge allows us to analyze the obtained data and lead them to a single model of substantiation of specific features of the city, which is a unique phenomenon of human life. However, each science, relying only on its own empirical material, makes a mistake: it creates an ideal image that does not always correspond to the real picture. Each researcher focuses on specific elements of study, thereby giving them priority in understanding the urban environment. This fact actualizes the method of interdisciplinary study of the urban phenomenon. In the context of sociohumanitary studies based on the methods of sociology, demography, political science and cultural studies, the city is considered as an environment for the exercise of power, in which the dependence of sociodynamic processes on the nature of institutional restrictions imposed by power structures on the population increases.

ANALISIS DAN PERANCANGAN SISTEM INFORMASI SIMULASI PENGECATAN KENDARAAN BERBASIS ANDROID

Android is a mobile device on the operating system for mobile phones based on Linux, android provides an open platform for developers to create applications. Android-based application developers make applications so that they can be useful for the community ranging from game genre applications, education, entertainment and simulation applications that are very likely to be created and run on this android operating system. Simulation is the process of designing a matemastis or logical model of a real system, conducting experiments on models using computers to describe, explain and predict system behavior. For a simulation application company can be used as a medium of product promotion, while for smartphone users can help to channel the existing imagination into a real picture. The application of simulation applications many functions, one example of its application to two-wheeled motor vehicles. By utilizing android application and the growth of vehicle users that lead to the hobby of modification, it can be utilized by creating an android-based coloring simulation application to help modifiers and modification lovers in order to channel their imagination and make it easier to design colors as desired. Without having to bother using design software that requires special skills