Journal articles: 'Instruments : SOPHIE' – Grafiati (2024)

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High-resolution cryo-electron microscopy yielded remarkable results in biological molecular structure research. These successes encouraged to proceed in developing even better instruments and procedures. In our laboratory we built the cryo-electron microscope "SOPHIE", a modified Philips CM 20 FEG. SOPHIE stands as an acronym for Superconducting Objective in a PHIlips Electronmicroscope. The main features of this microscope are the following: 1.200kV acceleration voltage2.Schottky field emitter3.Helium cooled superconducting objective The Helium-cooled cryo-objective from the former microscope SULEIKA was adapted into the column of the original Philips CM20 FEG [Fig. 1], This new SOPHIE microscope, thus, combines two important features: a modern computer controlled electron microscope with a high coherent beam source and the proven advantages of the superconducting cryo-objective. The advantage of the field emission gun at 200 kV over a thermionic cathode at 100 kV can be best visualized while comparing the respective phase-contrast-transfer functions at Scherzer focus [Fig.2]. Moreover, SOPHIE is equipped with the small spot scanning procedure.

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Context. Due to their low transit probability, the long-period planets are, as a population, only partially probed by transit surveys. Radial velocity surveys thus have a key role to play, in particular for giant planets. Cold Jupiters induce a typical radial velocity semi-amplitude of 10 m s−1, which is well within the reach of multiple instruments that have now been in operation for more than a decade. Aims. We take advantage of the ongoing radial velocity survey with the SOPHIE high-resolution spectrograph, which continues the search started by its predecessor ELODIE to further characterize the cold Jupiter population. Methods. Analyzing the radial velocity data from six bright solar-like stars taken over a period of up to 15 yr, we attempt the detection and confirmation of Keplerian signals. Results. We announce the discovery of six planets, one per system, with minimum masses in the range 4.8–8.3 Mjup and orbital periods between 200 days and 10 yr. The data do not provide enough evidence to support the presence of additional planets in any of these systems. The analysis of stellar activity indicators confirms the planetary nature of the detected signals. Conclusions. These six planets belong to the cold and massive Jupiter population, and four of them populate its eccentric tail. In this respect, HD 80869 b stands out as having one of the most eccentric orbits, with an eccentricity of 0.862−0.018+0.028. These planets can thus help to better constrain the migration and evolution processes at play in the gas giant population. Furthermore, recent works presenting the correlation between small planets and cold Jupiters indicate that these systems are good candidates to search for small inner planets.

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Dissemination and communication of research should be considered as an integral part of any research project. Both help in increasing the visibility of research outputs, public engagement in science and innovation, and confidence of society in research. Effective dissemination and communication are vital to ensure that the conducted research has a social, political, or economical impact. They draw attention of governments and stakeholders to research results and conclusions, enhancing their visibility, comprehension, and implementation. In the European project SOPHIE (Evaluating the Impact of Structural Policies on Health Inequalities and Their Social Determinants and Fostering Change), dissemination was an essential component of the project in order to achieve the purpose of fostering policy change based on research findings. Here we provide our experience and make some recommendations based on our learning. A strong use of online communication (website, Twitter, and Slideshare accounts), the production of informative videos, the research partnership with civil society organizations, and the organization of final concluding scientific events, among other instruments, helped to reach a large public within the scientific community, civil society, and the policy making arena and to influence the public view on the impact on health and equity of certain policies.

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The article investigates the relations between men and women in Rousseau’s major works to uncover the possibility of a long-term rule of women over men. Rousseau does provide examples of alternating rule between the sexes. However, given that the rule of prominent women like Sophie and Julie is indirect and more Machiavellian than that of men, I make the case that Rousseau sees straightforward control by women as more consistent with modern conditions (specifically in an indirect-rule as opposed to an instrumental-rationality sense). First, I provide examples of Sophie’s rule in Emile. Sophie rules Emile especially through acts of charity that incline Emile to participate in the project that Sophie has undertaken, making him more capable of willing generally. Second, I show that Julie at Clarens rules a number of the men there and particularly in the administration of the estate. Interestingly, like Sophie’s, her power is communicated through concrete examples of charitable action. Rousseau writes that, as a result, those around her are imbued with the spirit to contribute to the projects of importance to her, which also renders them more apt to will generally. Interestingly, two women as different as Sophie and Julie rule men in the same way: through charity. They do so as the result of a religious education. And, whereas religious education in Rousseau is in general anti-metaphysical, this is especially true for women compared to men. The examples of Sophie and Julie do, therefore, take us into territory of the sexes alternating in rule. But the difference in education suggests that for Rousseau their rule goes deeper and represents a relation more fundamental than the rule of men over women. The possibility is further confirmed through an analysis of Rousseau’s states of nature. At the end of the day, the reevaluation of relations between the sexes in Rousseau’s work is long overdue. I engage a rich scholarly literature and embark on a rereading of several of Rousseau’s works to offer a fresh interpretation that suggests the citizen of Geneva was not only open to a significant increase in the power of women over time, but that he actually favored matriarchy. The argument hopefully underscores the way in which great works are both timely and timeless.

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Este articulo reúne los resultados de la investigación: Regulación y autorregulación de los aprendizajes en el estudio del impuesto a las ventas, adelantada con el propósito de analizar qué aprendizajes se generan en estudiantes de grado octavo durante el desarrollo de una propuesta didáctica, basada en la regulación y la autorregulación (Sanmartí, 2007). La metodología adoptada implicó: 1) la fundamentación entorno a los conceptos de regulación y autorregulación de los aprendizajes y de las estrategias que favorecen su desarrollo; 2) el diseño y la aplicación de instrumentos para la recolección de datos; y 3) el análisis de los casos seleccionados. Para la interpretación se emplearon tres mecanismos: 1) establecimiento de categorías emergentes; 2) análisis de cada uno de los instrumentos utilizados (pruebas de ideas previas y valoración de aprendizajes, unidad didáctica, guiones de regulación y autorregulación, entrevista) y, 3) triangulación de los instrumentos analizados. Del análisis se concluye: 1) Comprensión de los conceptos básicos del Impuesto a las Ventas, determinación de los elementos que hacen parte del Impuesto y formalización de asientos contables; 2) reorientación de los procedimientos, recursos y evaluación que usan los estudiantes y la docente con la implementación de la unidad didáctica contable; y 3) reconocimiento de los procesos de regulación y autorregulación de los aprendizajes como instrumento de reflexión y autoevaluación. Palabras clave: propuesta didáctica, aprendizajes, regulación, autorregulación, evaluación formadora.

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Aims. Since 2011, the SOPHIE spectrograph has been used to search for Neptunes and super-Earths in the northern hemisphere. As part of this observational program, 290 radial velocity measurements of the 6.4 V magnitude star HD 158259 were obtained. Additionally, TESS photometric measurements of this target are available. We present an analysis of the SOPHIE data and compare our results with the output of the TESS pipeline. Methods. The radial velocity data, ancillary spectroscopic indices, and ground-based photometric measurements were analyzed with classical and ℓ1 periodograms. The stellar activity was modeled as a correlated Gaussian noise and its impact on the planet detection was measured with a new technique. Results. The SOPHIE data support the detection of five planets, each with m sin i ≈ 6 M⊕, orbiting HD 158259 in 3.4, 5.2, 7.9, 12, and 17.4 days. Though a planetary origin is strongly favored, the 17.4 d signal is classified as a planet candidate due to a slightly lower statistical significance and to its proximity to the expected stellar rotation period. The data also present low frequency variations, most likely originating from a magnetic cycle and instrument systematics. Furthermore, the TESS pipeline reports a significant signal at 2.17 days corresponding to a planet of radius ≈1.2 R⊕. A compatible signal is seen in the radial velocities, which confirms the detection of an additional planet and yields a ≈2 M⊕ mass estimate. Conclusions. We find a system of five planets and a strong candidate near a 3:2 mean motion resonance chain orbiting HD 158259. The planets are found to be outside of the two and three body resonances.

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Published in Dublin by the prominent Catholic printing firm of James Hoey, The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley (1760) has been identified in recent years as an earlier Irish gothic fiction than Horace Walpole's putatively pioneering gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764). The discovery that Sophia Berkley is, in fact, a re-print of an earlier London publication, The History of Amanda (1758), casts significant doubt on the novel's contribution to the development of Irish gothic literature. This article argues that attention to the particulars of the novel's publication history as well as its later misidentification paints a revealing picture of popular publishing in Dublin in the latter half of the eighteenth century. It further contends that Sophia Berkley's identification as early Irish gothic – although mistaken – has proven instrumental in scholarly re-evaluations of late-eighteenth century Irish gothic literary production.

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Résumé. Cet article porte sur l'utilisation du concept de “ liberté d'expression ” par une station de radio de Québec, CHOI-FM, dans ses démêlés avec le CRTC et dans le procès de Sophie Chiasson contre la station en Cour supérieure du Québec. Bien que les promoteurs de CHOI-FM aient fait de la liberté d'expression leur argument principal en 2004 et 2005, nous défendons l'hypothèse que cet argument était purement instrumental. Cependant, le concept de liberté d'expression mérite d'être analysé, car il a un pouvoir d'évocation peu commun en démocratie; il renvoie en effet à la nécessaire effervescence du débat public et à l'individualisme. D'autre part, la liberté d'expression a aussi été associée au populisme et au discours illicite, éléments auxquels elle confère un vernis de respectabilité.Abstract. This paper deals with the use of the concept of freedom of expression by a Quebec City radio station, CHOI-FM, in its dispute with the CRTC and in the court case of Sophie Chiasson before the Quebec Cour supérieure. Although freedom of expression is the main argument used by CHOI-FM in 2004 and 2005, our hypothesis is that this argument is mainly instrumental. Nevertheless, freedom of expression must be analyzed because it is a major symbol of democracy; it is linked with lively public debate and individualism. In this case, freedom of expression is also used in an attempt to lend respectability to populism and illicit discourse.

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Three years ago Sophie Till started working with pianist Edna Golandsky, the leading exponent of the Taubman Piano Technique, an internationally acclaimed approach that is well known to pianists, on the one hand, for allowing pianists to attain a phenomenal level of virtuosity and on the other, for solving very serious piano-related injuries. Till, a violinist, quickly realized that here was a unique technical approach that could not only identify and itemize the minute movements that underlie a virtuoso technique but could show how these movements interact and go into music making at the highest level. Furthermore, through the work of the Golandsky Institute, she saw a pedagogical approach that had been developed to a remarkable depth and level of clarity. It was an approach that had the power to communicate in a way she had never seen before, despite her own first class violin training from the earliest age. While the geography and “look” on the violin are different from the piano, the laws governing coordinate motion specifically in playing the instrument are the same for pianists and violinists. As a result of Till’s work translating the technique for violin, a new pedagogical approach for violinists of all ages is emerging; the Taubman/Golandsky Approach to the Violin. In reflecting on these new developments, Edna Golandsky wrote, “I have been working with the Taubman Approach for more than 30 years and have worked regularly with other instrumentalists. However, Sophie Till was the first violinist who asked me to teach her with the same depth that I do with pianists. With her conceptual and intellectual agility as well as complete dedication to helping others, she has been the perfect partner to translate this body of knowledge for violinists. Through this collaboration, Sophie is helping develop a new ‘language’ for violinist that will prevent future problems, solve present ones and start beginners on the right road to becoming the best they can be. The implications of this new work for violinists are enormous.”

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This research studies about flouting maxim in The B.F.G movie. The research concerns on finding the flouting maxims in The B.F.G movie. This research employed mainly descriptive qualitative method to support in interpreting and analysing the data. The data of this research were utterances produced by Sophie and BFG as main characters in The B.F.G movie. The context of the research was the dialogues of the movie. The data sources of this research were The B.F.G and its script. Meanwhile, the primary instrument of this research was the researcher ourselves. The data were collected by downloading the movie and the script, watching the movie, and then collecting the data which reflects the phenomena of maxim flouting. The paper examines the use of flouts in different situations and explores in what situations the different characters flout the maxims for any conversation. The results show that there were 10 flouting maxims of quantity (42%); 10 flouting maxims of relevance (42%); 2 flouting maxims of quality (8%); and 2 flouting maxims of manner (8%). Hence the total number of flouting maxims is 24. These results suggest that the use of flouts has to do with their different personalities and communities.Keywords: Cooperative Principle, Grice’s Maxim, Flouting MaximHow to Cite: Ulfah-1, R.A.A.N.U.-1., Afrilia, R-2. (2018). An Analysis of Fluting Maxim in BFG Movie. Project, X (X), XX-XX. INTRODUCTIONCommunication is a medium to convey meaning from one to another. As stated by Yule (2006) that communication involves word recognition and meaning recognition. There could be hidden intention in some utterances. Failing to recognize those intentions may lead to misunderstanding and even a dispute. Nevertheless, listener is not always to be in guilt. Sometimes in communication, the speaker may provide incomplete or unclear utterance hence the listener found difficulties to comprehend. Thus it is claimed that language as a tool for communication serves as an instrument to maintain a good relationship between the speaker and the hearer. Dealing with language and communication, cooperative principle proposed by Grice serves as means to achieve effective communication. It is described that speakers and listeners must give contribution as required by each other so that both of them may come to the same understanding of the meaning they are trying to convey. Grice elaborates four conversational maxims: maxim of relevance, maxim of quantity, maxim of quality, and maxim of manner. During conversation, speakers may break the rule of the maxims. The flouting of the maxims may occur in daily life or in movies. Movies as one of literary works mostly functions to entertain the audience. The flouting maxims in movies may be intentionally created to achieve the purpose of entertaining. The BFG is one fantasy adventure film released in 2016 by Walt Disney. It tells about the journey of two different species, a human (Sophie) and a giant (that Sophie called Big Friendly Giant). Since they are from different group of communities, their communication may run ineffective. This study aims at analyzing the flouting maxims occurred in The BFG movie.The Cooperative Principle Cooperative Principle is the basic principle in pragmatics. The Cooperative Principle is principle of conversation that was proposed by Grice. He called The Cooperative Principle as when we try to talk to be cooperative by elevating. He says, “make your conversational contribution such as is required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of talk exchange in which you are engaged.” Within this principle, he intended four maxims.(Grundy, 1998) (in Ginarsih, 2014)Grice’s MaximMaxim of RelevanceMaxim of relation: This maxim may seem clear in the first look but as Grice himself mentioned it is very difficult to define it exactly: "Though the maxim itself is terse, its formulation conceals a number of problems that exercise me a good deal: questions about what different kinds and focuses of relevance there may be, how these shift in the course of a talk exchange, how to allow for the fact that subjects of conversations are legitimately changed, and so on. I find the treatment of such questions exceedingly difficult, and I hope to revert to them in later work." Grice ( in Kheirabadi, 2012).Maxim of Quantity Maxim of quantity requires that participants of a conversation give their contribution as is required in terms of the quantity of information. To say beyond the quantity of information needed in the conversation is to break the maxim. In making their contribution to the conventional talk, participants should gauge the amount information that is really sought for and give it as much as is necessary. They should not make their contribution either more informative or less informative. (Seken, n.d.2015)Maxim of QualityMaxim of quality requires conventional participants to say things that are true or things that they believe to be true. That is, they do not say anything than they believe to be false or anything of which they do not have any evidence. In other words, to comply with this maxim, a speaker in a conventional exchange must speak on the basis of facts, or he/she must have factual evidence by which to sufficiently support what he/she says as truth. (Seken, n.d.2015)Maxim of Manner Utterances may conform to the maxims or may disobey them by infringing, opting out, and flouting or violating. The infringement of the maxims is because of the speaker‟s imperfect knowledge of linguistic. When speakers decided to be uncooperative, they opt out of observing the maxims. ( Thomas 1995 in Jafari, 2013) Maxim Flouting Flouting a maxim is the case when a speaker purposefully disobeys a maxim at the level of what is said with the deliberate intention of generating an implicature. In this case, the speaker’s choice not to observe the maxim by the words he/she utters may be related to the some motive (such as politeness, style of speaking, etc.) (Seken, n.d.2015).According to Thomas (1995:64 in Mohammed & Alduais, 2012) flouting a maxim occurs where a participant in a conversation chooses to ignore one or more of the maxims by using a conversational implicature. Ignoring maxims by using conversational implicatures means that the participant adds meaning to the literal meaning of the utterance. He further explains the conversational implicature that is added when flouting is not intended to deceive the recipient of the conversation, but the purpose is to make the recipient look for other meaning. Moreover Black (2006:25 in Mohammed & Alduais, 2012) explains that a speaker who flouts maxims is actually aware of the Cooperative Principles and the maxims. In other words, it is not only about the maxims that are broken down but that the speaker chooses an indirect way to achieve the cooperation of the communication.Types of Flouting Maxim In ( Grice’s theory in Nur & Fatmawati, 2015) there are four types of maxim flouting. They are quantity maxim flouting, quality maxim flouting, relevance maxim flouting, and manner maxim flouting. Quantity Maxim FloutingWhen a speaker flouts the maxims under the category of Quantity, she/he blatantly gives either more or less information than the situation demands.For example: A : The other giants. Are they nice, like you a nice?B : No, I regret to say that the guys would eat you alive bite. My twenty four foot, but not in Giant country, and that's where you are. In Giants country now.In the example above, it is not appropriate, because when A asks the B about another giant, B does not answer according to the question. He give more information that not needed by A.Quality Maxim Flouting Thomas (in Fami 2015:15) said that flout maxim of quality occur when the speaker say something which is blatantly untrue or for which he/she lack adequate evidence.For example:A : Not as it happens to me, it is most terrible speakB : Well, I think you speak beautifullyIn the example above, B say untrue or lie. She do this, because she doesn’t want B sad with his speaking.Relevance Maxim FloutingFlouting of maxim relevance, (Ginarsih 2014, n.d.) said that by changing the subject or by failing the address the topic directly is encountered very frequently. For example:A : You mean of my life. For the rest of my life?B : Hey, do not you cold?In this case B did not answer according to the question, B changes the topic of conversation. Manner Maxim FloutingAccording to (Ginarsih 2014, n.d.) The maxim under the category of manner is exploited by giving ambiguity and obscure expressions, failure to be brief and orderly. It is often trying to exclude a third party, as in this sort of exchange between husband and wife.A : Where are you off to?B : I was thinking of going out to get some of that funny white stuff for somebody.A : OK, but don’t be long – dinner is nearly readyB speaks in an ambiguous way, saying “that funny white stuff” and“somebody”, because he is avoiding saying “ice cream” and “her/his Daugther”, so that his little daughter does not become excited and ask for the ice cream before her meal. Sometimes the speakers play with words to heighten the ambiguity, in order to make a point.Movie(Chandra Yuliasman 2014) Movie is happen based on script, but it reflect to our daily life activity mostly. That is why the researcher interested to use movie as media to increase the researcher understanding about flouting maxim. Movie also affect masses in childhood and youth. Movie is also called a film or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. Based on the theories above, the researcher chose “The BFG (Big Friendly Giant)” as the object of the research.The B.F.GThe B.F.G is a 2016 American fantasy adventure film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and based on the 1982 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. In the film, an orphan human girl be friends a benevolent giant, dubbed the "Big Friendly Giant", who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world. The writers chose The B.F.G, because in the film contain about friendship and courage, in that movie also have morality and ethics quotes. Steven Spielberg is known for his quality films, such as Jurrasic Park. He has also received three Oscars, and received a Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute (AFI). Steven hooked some Hollywood actresses to play in the movie B.F.G, such as: Mark Rylance (B.F.G), Ruby Barnhill (Sophie), Penelope Wilton, Jemani Clement, Rebecca Hall, Rafe Spall, and Bill Hader. Steven Spielberg films this In the premiere of premiere The BFG managed to triumph in the Top 10 Box Office by collecting revenues of USD 31 million. Although not a chance to taste the top of the Box Office but The BFG still loved by his fans, especially for lovers of fantasy and adventure movies.METHODThis research uses a descriptive qualitative method to analyse the flouting maxim in The B.F.G movie directed by Steven Spielberg. According to Holloway (in Nur & Fatmawati, n.d.) qualitative research is a form of social inquiry focusing on the interpretation of experience and the world by people.” Therefore, this research is conducted systematically through the technique of data collecting and data analysis. The data are taken from the script, the writers analysed of flouting maxim of quantity, maxim of quality, maxim of relation, and maxim of manner based on Grice’s theories, being used to choose the most frequently method among them, the writer used percentage category based on Multihajz’s formula, in Selvia (2014) as follows: P = Percentage F = Frequency n = Number of Maxims RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONResultsThere are 24 conversations from 100 conversations that found in The B.F.G Movie between the main characters, Sophie and B.F.G that flouted the Grice’s cooperative principle. They flouted the maxim of quantity, the maxim of quality, the maxim of relation, and the maxim of manner. In the calculation the writers employed percentage technique as described below:Table 1The Classification of Maxim:NoTypes of MaximQuantityPercentage1.The Maxim of Quantity1042 %2. The Maxim of Quality28 %3The Maxim of Relevance1042 %4The Maxim of Manner28 %Total24100 %From the classification above, it could be seen clearly that among four types of maxim in conversation between the main characters, Sophie and B.F.G in “The B.F.G” Movie, the maxim of Quantity and Relevance were the most identifiable types. First is Quantity. There are 10 conversations or cover 42 %. The second was the maxim of Relevance; there are 10 conversations or cover 42 %. The third was maxim of Quality; there are 2 conversations or cover 8 %. The fourth was the maxim of Manner; there are 2 conversations or cover 8 %. Based on the table above, here are the explanations of each maxim that the main character, Sophie and B.F.G flouted in The B.F.G Movie. The maxim of quantitySophie : The other giants. Are they nice, like you a nice?B.F.G : No, I regret to say that the guys would eat you alive bite. My twenty four foot, but not in Giant country, and that's where you are. In Giants country now.Analysis: It is not appropriate, because when Sophie asks the BFG about another giant, the BFG does not answer according to the question. He give more information that not needed by Sophie.Sophie : We can’t have secrets. I'll tell you mine. I sneak around at night too, and that still sometimes theft and lying. So I’m alone at the time. I've never had a best friend, I told you all thatB.F.G : We got over.Analysis: The BFG did not give the right reasons to reply to a statement from Sophie.Sophie : You should not let them treat you like that. You should notB.F.G : Live with nine giant eats beans. They take so I return. Murmur good dreams. It's what I can do, I do something. I do something.Analysis: The BFG ignored Sophie’s suggestion of another giant treating the BFG badly and he changed the subject.Sophie : No I’m not.B.F.G : Yes you here. If you are a human being and human being is a strawberry cream for giants. They are the prey of those giants out there, so you stay in a nice safe place right here. Analysis: BFG answer does not fit with the context of the conversation at that time.B.F.G : Someone called me a big, friendly giant. How should I call you? Sophie : My name is SophieAnalysis: Sophie does not understand about a nickname, so she just answers with her name only "Sophie".B.F.G: So you're an orphan?Sophie: Yes. You took me to an orphanage. You did not know?Analysis: Sophie did not give the right reasons to reply to a statement from B.F.G.B.F.G: I did not know that. Are you happy there?Sophie: No! I hate that. The lady who runs it is incompetent and she’s crazy rules and you get punish a lot.Analysis: In this conversation, Sophie should answer yes or no , because the question is are you happy there ?.Sophie : Being is not be ing .What is that green thing ?B.F.G : Frobscuttel. All giant drink frobscottel.Analysis: BFG answer does not fit with the context of the conversation at that time.Sophie : Where are you going now ?B.F.G : A dreams blow .It's what I do next.Analysis: BFG answer does not fit with the context of the conversation at that time. In this conversation Sophie asks where, it means that ask about place.Sophie : But why did you bring me here? Why did you take me?B.F.G : I had did to take you, because the first thing you, you would do spread the news you actually saw a giant and then there would be a big fuss and all human beans would be looking for the giant dresses all excited, and then I would be locked up in a cage to look at me with all the noisy hypo-fat and crocodiles and giraffes. And then there would be a huge hunt for all the boy giantsAnalysis: The BFG gives too much give reason to Sophie, should the BFG give Sophie a simple and precise reason for the question.The maxim of RelevanceSophie : Then, who are you? What kind of monster are you?B.F.G : You as me wrongAnalysis: BFG does not honestly reply to Shopie that he is a giant kind.Sophie : You mean of my life. For the rest of my life. B.F.G : Hey, do not you cold?Analysis: BFG did not answer according to the questionSophie : What did you work? B.F.G : And now she asks me to tell you very big secrets.Analysis: BFG did not answer according to the questionSophie : Flesh head ,he comes to eat me, my blood will be on your hands. B.F.G : Everything about you going against my better judgment.Analysis: BFG tries to make Shopie calm by diverting the conversationSophie : Look at all the stars! B.F.G : Often when it is clear I hear distant music living of the stars in the skyAnalysis: When Shopie wants to show something, BFG answer it with things that are not appropriate.Sophie: Really? B.F.G : You think I'm kidding, right? Analysis: BFG should simply answer "yes" or "no".Sophie : Are there bad dreams here too? B.F.G : It will a TrogglehumperAnalysis: BFG did not answer the question correctly.Sophie : Make them all happy. BFG, your father and your mother taught you about dreams? B.F.G : The Giants do not have mothers or fathers. Analysis: BFG should simply answer “has” or “has not”.Sophie : What is the Sophie’s dream? B.F.G : A golden Phizzwizard. I had not seen in a while. Analysis: BFG does not explain what dreams Sophie will experience.Sophie : You snapped me.B..F.G : Well, you are right. After all, you're just a little thing. I can’t help thinking what your poor mother and father must be …Analysis: BFG should simply answer "yes" and "no", and not discuss the unnecessaryThe maxim of QualityB.F.G : You do, you really do?Sophie : Simply beautifully.Analysis: In this situation of conversation, Sophie gives untrue respond to B.F.G or she lies, because she didn’t want make B.F.G sad with B.F.G’s sentence.B.F.G : Not as it happens to me, it is most terrible speak.Sophie : Well, I think you speak beautifully.Analysis: In this conversation, Sophie say untrue or lie. She did it, because she didn’t want B.F.G sad with his statement.The maxim of mannerSophie : Blood bottler ? B.F.G : Yes and butcherSophie : The butcher. Please don’t eat me.Analysis: BFG does not explain in detail about Bottler.Sophie : But then I wake up.B.F.G : And you wake up.Sophie : But not here.Analysis: There is no alignment in the conversationDiscussionThe writer found total numbers of flouting maxim that produce by main character in “The B.F.G” movie those were 24 utterances. Then divided into four types of flouting, they were quality which had 10 data or 42%, quantity had 2 data or 8%, relevance had 10 data or 42% and manner had 2 data or 8%. Thus the most frequent category of flouting maxim produce is the main character was maxim of quality and maxim of relevance. It means that in this movie, The BFG tended to conduct his flouted utterance for move the conversations. CONCLUSIONThe aim of this research is to find out the flouting maxim by the main characters in “The B.F.G” movie. The result show the most frequent category of flouting maxim by the main character was quality and relevance. It indicates that based on the maxim of quantity, there are some conversations that giving more or less information. Based on the semantics theory it is wrong, because giving more information than the need is flouting the maxim of quantity. For the maxim of relevance, there are some conversations that are not relevance, it is related with Ginarsih statement relevance maxim flouting by changing the subject or by failing the address the topic directly is encountered very frequently. There are only two flouting maxims of quality and manner was less frequent. It indicates mostly the conversation in The B.F.G movie is cooperative. It is different with the previous study, from Iniyanti, A et.al (2014) they found two flouting maxims, there are: maxim of relation and maxim of manner. And from Al-Qaderi (2015) he found that the maxim of quantity was most frequently flouted.After the research, the researcher took a conclusion that even the famous movie, the flouting maxims are can’t be avoid. 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El objetivo del presente estudio fue examinar la validez de contenido y la confiabilidad de la traducción al español de la escala “Perfil de Autopercepción para Adultos”. La traducción del instrumento se realizó con el proceso de retrotraducción, con expertos en ambos idiomas (español-inglés). El índice de validez de contenido fue adecuado (CVR= 0.99). En relación con la confiabilidad, la versión final se aplicó a una muestra de 180 adultos (edad promedio = 19.6±3.1 años), se encontró una adecuada consistencia temporal para los diferentes dominios (R= 0.557 - 0.855) y estabilidad interna (α = 0.878). Se concluye que la traducción proporcionó un instrumento válido y confiable, el cual puede ser utilizado como herramienta valorativa de la autopercepción en ámbitos como la educación, la salud, el deporte, la psicología, entre otras, en poblaciones adultas.

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Analisa quais estratégias de leitura os licenciandos de Letras da Universidade do Vale do Itajaí (Univali) desenvolveram no decorrer do Programa Institucional de Bolsa de Iniciação à Docência (Pibid), quais concepções dão sustentação a essas estratégias e como elas colaboram para a formação de leitores no ensino médio, em duas escolas da rede pública estadual de Santa Catarina, na cidade de Itajaí. O instrumento de coleta de dados foram os portfólios produzidos pelos licenciandos durante o desenvolvimento do projeto, postados no ambiente virtual da instituição executante, denominado Sophia. Foram analisadas cinco estratégias de leitura que se mostraram alinhadas com a concepção de literatura fruitiva, a qual concebe o texto como objeto a ser fruído, apreciado, preservando sua função estética.

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The history of the magic lantern provides a privileged case study with which to explore the histories of projection, demonstration, illusion and the occult, and their different intersections. I focus on the role of the magic lantern in the work of the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher and the French Cartesian Abbé de Vallemont. After explaining the various meanings of the seventeenth-century concept of illusio, I propose a new solution for the long-standing problem that Kircher added the ‘wrong’ illustrations to his description of the lantern. The complex interaction between text, image and performance was crucial in Kircher's work and these ‘wrong’ figures provide us with a key to interpreting his Ars Magna. I argue that Vallemont used the magic lantern in a similar rhetorical way in a crucial phase of his argument. The magic lantern should not be understood merely as an illustrative image or an item of demonstration apparatus; rather the instrument is employed as part of a performance which is not meant simply to be entertaining. Both authors used a special form of scientific demonstration, which I will term ‘analogical demonstration’, to bolster their world view. This account opens new ways to think about the relation between instruments and the occult.Sol fons lucis universi, vas admirabile, opus Excelsi, divinitatis thalamus, risus coeli, decor, & pulchritudo mundiA. KircherFor one of those Gnostics, the visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.J. L. Borges

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Esta investigación forma parte de un proyecto del grupo DiLeMa, que diseñó un paquete interactivo virtual para la comprensión de textos expositivo-explicativos en formato hipermedial, sobre la base del Modelo constructivo-integrativo de W. Kintsch y van Dijk (1978), Los tres niveles de representación de W. Kintsch (1998), el texto expositivo-explicativo de T. Álvarez, los subtipos del texto expositivo-explicativo de Meyer (1984) y la Web 2.0. Además, presenta un panorama de investigaciones relacionadas con la lectura de textos de dicha tipología, mediante herramientas de la plataforma Moodle, para dar lugar a las metodologías cualitativa y hermenéutico-dialéctica de tres instrumentos de medición, con el fin de llegar al análisis de resultados y a cinco conclusiones como estrategias que buscan cualificar el marco situacional en quince estudiantes. Â

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El papel que asume la educación superior en Colombia, frente a las grandes transformaciones y demandas sociales implicadas en las exigentes dinámicas globales, ubican a esta Universidad en el liderazgo de los procesos relacionados con la ciencia, la tecnología y la innovación, como los instrumentos por excelencia para la generación de condiciones y posibilidades para la competitividad de los procesos productivos localizados territorialmente y en perspectiva de integrar las empresas locales con los flujos económicos del mercado internacional y mundial.Rol que adicionalmente viene acompañado con la reflexión permanente de explorar trayectos que viabilicen los modelos económicos incluyentes en lo social, lo político y lo ambiental, frente al compromiso de participar efectivamente en la constitución de una sociedad en y para los quindianos y frente al reto de conservar los recursos naturales, paisajísticos y culturales de las áreas geográficas declaradas patrimonio de la humanidad.

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El objetivo de esta investigación se fundamenta en resolver problemas de matemáticas desde la Huerta Escolar y el uso de las TIC con los estudiantes de los grados tercero, cuarto y quinto de la Institución Educativa Clavellinas. La metodología cualitativa de tipo acción participativa aplicada en esta investigación favorece una interacción activa de los agentes y sujetos participantes, la muestra se hace de manera intencional o conveniencia y los instrumentos de recolección de datos utilizados aplicados fueron entrevistas, encuestas, observaciones participantes, y secuencia didáctica. Con la Investigación aplicada se demuestra que el articular la huerta escolar como estrategia pedagógica permite avances significativos en el desarrollo de la resolución de problemas de los cinco pensamientos: numérico, espacial, métrico, aleatorio y variacional también se reconoce la importancia de adquirir buenos hábitos alimenticios con el consumo de verduras en la dieta alimentaria. La investigación da validez a la estrategia pedagógica de articular la huerta escolar al área de matemáticas pues los estudiantes adquieren habilidades y destrezas para formular y resolver problemas matemáticos de manera creativa y competente en contexto.

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Whatever common sense may be, it includes much else besides practically confirmed truisms. In Common Sense: A Political History, Sophia Rosenfeld describes the backstories of modern common sense, locating its origins in debates among small groups of professors, publishers and pamphleteers in several cities on both sides of the Atlantic during the Age of Revolutions. From the eighteenth century on, champions and enemies of the rising ‘middling’ classes have brandished common sense as an ‘unspectacular instrument’ of non-coercive regulation, to promote or oppose the sovereignty of ‘the people’ by hitching their conflicting claims to an unassailable guarantor of truth. After taking a beating in the first decades of the twentieth century, common sense has been resuscitated and reconstituted, to sell all manner of goods and policies. As a description of the roles that common sense has played in the modern phenomenon of populism, Rosenfeld’s book casts doubt on Hannah Arendt’s claim that common sense is what true democracy creates. At the same time, Common Sense: A Political History corroborates and fills out Antonio Gramsci’s account of good sense and politics.

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La formación investigativa es un componente central en la educación del joven universitario en la sociedad actual y la actitud hacia esa formación puede ser un indicador sobre la calidad de los procesos de formación y de la posibilidad de ingreso temprano del estudiante en los sistemas universitarios de investigación y la formación de científicos. En el presente estudio, de tipo transversal-correlacional, se evalúa la actitud del joven a partir de tres elementos: autopercepción, incidencia de los profesores e incidencia de las universidades sobre la formación en investigación en el nivel de grado. Se aplicó un instrumento estructurado a estudiantes de ocho universidades del área metropolitana de Bucaramanga, Colombia, por muestreo aleatorio simple. Se destaca el alto valor que los estudiantes le otorgan al aprendizaje de la investigación en la Universidad, pero la baja proyección y actitud de la mayoría hacia los temas científicos. Adicionalmente se encontró que los profesores tienen un alto nivel de impacto en la actitud del estudiante hacia la investigación mientras que los factores sociales e institucionales no representan una lata incidencia. Finalmente el estudio demuestra una tendencia decreciente de la actitud hacia la investigación a mayor nivel en la Universidad.

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En este escrito se hará un análisis de la importancia que tiene la lúdica como instrumento de aprendizaje de las matemáticas, teniendo en cuenta que el cuer-po permite desarrollar habilidades no solamente motoras, sino también faculta-des intelectuales que implican altos niveles de abstracción como las operacio-nes matemáticas de adicionar, dividir, calcular o multiplicar. La metodología em-pleada fue la investigación acción, mediante la aplicación de entrevistas a los estudiantes, padres de familia y docentes, así como la sistematización de expe-riencias en el aula por medio de un diario de campo. Se encontró que la ense-ñanza tradicional- monótona- no posibilita que los alumnos se dispongan a di-mensionar la importancia del aprendizaje de las matemáticas. Se concluye que es necesario que el docente implemente estrategias que vinculen el aspecto lúdico y el cuerpo para mejorar los procesos de enseñanza – aprendizaje, lo cual permite que la concepción que se tiene de las matemáticas no se relacione solo como alejada de la realidad, sino que se le otorgue el estatus de un saber que mejora los procesos de comprensión y reflexión, facilitando la solución de pro-blemas prácticos.Â

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El capital social es un medio que puede influenciar el desarrollo de la asociatividad de comunidades académicas, por medio del presente artículo se presentan los resultados de la investigación realizada en la Universidad ECCI de Bogotá con el propósito de determinar cuál es la percepción de asociatividad que tienen los estudiantes en la institución. Se usó una encuesta como instrumento para recolectar información enfocada en valores tales como: solidaridad, tolerancia, reciprocidad y respeto por las normas. Con el propósito de representar correctamente la población se utilizó la teoría de muestreo probabilístico para extraer una muestra adecuada. Se hicieron pruebas piloto para evaluar el cuestionario y el diseño muestral, finalmente el tamaño de la muestra fue de 355 estudiantes. Como resultado de las encuestas se evidencia y se reconoce en los estudiantes que la confianza es un insumo importante para establecer relaciones beneficiosas y que el capital social desde la educación se puede potencializar si las instituciones además de fomentar valores propios de un comportamiento social positivo, crean las mediaciones para que toda la comunidad conozca las alternativas de integración que puedan surgir con el fin de generar beneficio individual y colectivo, evidenciado en redes.

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En el presente artículo se analiza la forma cómo aprenden los estudiantes el concepto de función lineal a partir de una ingeniería didáctica, en la cual desarrollarán tareas de modelación de situaciones en contexto, El propósito principal es potenciar el aprendizaje del concepto de función mediante la modelación de situaciones, lo cual se logra a través de la confrontación entre las concepciones a priori y a posteriori de los estudiantes en la fase 4 de la ingeniería. La metodología empleada, los instrumentos utilizados y los objetivos trazados hacen de esta una investigación cualitativa dado que no se pretende evaluar modelos, ni validar hipótesis o teorías preconcebidas para analizarlas por métodos matemáticos. Entre los resultados obtenidos se encontró que las dificultades relacionadas con el aprendizaje del concepto de función lineal están asociadas con el traslado a través de los diferentes registros semióticos de representación que esta posee, especialmente el traslado a los registros algebraico y gráfico. Se concluyó que efectivamente es posible alcanzar un aprendizaje del concepto de función en el cual los estudiantes desarrollen el pensamiento variacional mediante el reconocimiento, percepción y caracterización de la variación y el cambio en diferentes contextos, para modelarlo, describirlo y representarlo utilizando diferentes registros semióticos, como lo plantean los lineamientos curriculares propuestos por el Ministerio deÂ

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Este artículo reúne los resultados de la investigación: Caracterización formal de la recepción del libro álbum en contexto escolar (segundo grado de la Institución Educativa Normal Superior de Armenia). Un camino hacia el fortalecimiento de la competencia significativa, adelantada con el propósito de saber cómo leen libros álbum los niños de segundo grado de escolaridad, y cuál es la influencia de sus modos de lectura en el desarrollo de la competencia significativa (MEN, 1998). La metodología adoptada implicó: 1) el reconocimiento de las prácticas de lectura propias del grupo; 2) el establecimiento de un corpus de libros álbum de la Colección Semilla; 3) el diseño y la aplicación de instrumentos para la recolección de datos, y su posterior análisis. Para la interpretación se emplearon dos mecanismos: 1) comparación entre el comportamiento lector durante dos circunstancias de lectura (colectiva e individual); y 2) establecimiento de categorías emergentes. Del análisis se concluye: 1) mayor frecuencia de apelación al código icónico que al verbal en la lectura colectiva; 2) tendencia a llenar vacíos lexicales y narrativos con herramientas lingüísticas y culturales del repertorio propio; 3) destreza en el reconocimiento del punto de vista narrativo y de la unidad cronológica del relato; y 4) reconocimiento del acto de leer como una práctica socialmente jerarquizada.Â

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Este artículo reúne los resultados de la investigación: Caracterización formal de la recepción del libro álbum en contexto escolar (segundo grado de la Institución Educativa Normal Superior de Armenia). Un camino hacia el fortalecimiento de la competencia significativa, adelantada con el propósito de saber cómo leen libros álbum los niños de segundo grado de escolaridad, y cuál es la influencia de sus modos de lectura en el desarrollo de la competencia significativa (MEN, 1998). La metodología adoptada implicó: 1) el reconocimiento de las prácticas de lectura propias del grupo; 2) el establecimiento de un corpus de libros álbum de la Colección Semilla; 3) el diseño y la aplicación de instrumentos para la recolección de datos, y su posterior análisis. Para la interpretación se emplearon dos mecanismos: 1) comparación entre el comportamiento lector durante dos circunstancias de lectura (colectiva e individual); y 2) establecimiento de categorías emergentes. Del análisis se concluye: 1) mayor frecuencia de apelación al código icónico que al verbal en la lectura colectiva; 2) tendencia a llenar vacíos lexicales y narrativos con herramientas lingüísticas y culturales del repertorio propio; 3) destreza en el reconocimiento del punto de vista narrativo y de la unidad cronológica del relato; y 4) reconocimiento del acto de leer como una práctica socialmente jerarquizada.

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Introduction.Nowadays, it is vitally important to develop a method for quantifying melittin not only in apitoxin samples, but also in the products of its processing.The aim of our studyis to investigate physical and chemical characteristics of melittin, the main component of apitoxin, as well as the development of methods for the quantitative determination of melittin in the samples of apitoxin and in the pharmaceutical products derived from apitoxin: “Sophia with apitoxin” cream and “Apizartron” ointment.Materials and methods.The objects of the research were apitoxin and melittin, as well as the samples of “Sophia with apitoxin” cream and “Apizartron” ointment satisfying the requirements of regulatory documentation, produced in lots by domestic and foreign manufacturers. The UV spectra of melittin and apitoxin were registered on SF 103 spectrophotometer in quartz cuvettes with 1 cm thickness. The IR spectra were investigated on the IR-instrument of Fourier – FSM-1201 spectrophotometer, LLC “Infraspek”. The determination of melittin purity was carried out by chromatography.Results and discussion. The basic physical and chemical characteristics were established for melittin as a reference sample and the main component of apitoxin. The melting temperature was: (Tmelt.)=190ºС. In the UV-spectrum there could be watched the absorption maxima corresponding to 2 peaks: λ max = 225±2 nm and 285±2 nm were observed. As an analytical wavelength, it is necessary to choose the peak λ =285 nm, since the peak with λ =225 nm is associated with the absorption of light by the internal (shielded) benzene ring of the tryptophan molecule. The nature of the curve and the position of the maxima of the spectra of melittin and the apitoxin solution coincide, which makes it possible to use melittin as a standard for spectrometric quantitative determination of the active substances in apitoxin and preparations based on apitoxin.Conclusion. The worked out spectrophotometric methods for the quantitative determination of melittin in apitoxin has been validated by the indices of specificity, accuracy, detection limit, quantitative determination limit, linearity.

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Le dispositif de l’apprentissage universitaire en communication paraît faire émerger de façon singulière la problématique de la construction des compétences du groupe professionnel des communicants. Nous supposons que ce type de dispositif pour une formation en communication à un niveau master soulève la problématique du primat du terrain dans la formation des compétences spécifiques à la communication des organisations. En d’autres termes, une appropriation de la formation des étudiants, notamment apprentis, par les professionnels, instaurés tuteurs d’apprentissage par le dispositif, pourrait-elle se faire aux dépends de la formation académique ? De récentes études montrent que la définition du groupe professionnel des communicants est fortement soumise aux mutations organisationnelles dues pour partie au numérique. Nous explorons, suivant une démarche compréhensive, cette écologie organisationnelle en cours de complexification et les effets d’une communication essentialisée par les professionnels dont le numérique est devenu l’instrument princeps. Nous avons procédé par questionnaires et entretiens auprès des étudiants et professionnels attachés à la formation par apprentissage d’un Master en communication à l’Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis. The university learning device in communication seems to emerge in a singular way the issue of the construction skills of the professional group of communicators. We assume that this type of device for communication training at a master level raises the issue of the primacy of the field in the formation skills specific to the communication of the organizations. In other words, ownership of the training of students, including apprentices, by professionals, learning tutors introduced by the device, it could be done at the expense of academic training? Recent studies show that the definition of » professional groups » of communicators is highly subject to organizational changes due in part to digital. We explore, following a comprehensive approach, this organizational ecology being complexity and the effects of essentialised communication professionals whose digital has become the instrument originator. We conducted by questionnaires and interviews with students and professionals committed to the apprenticeship of a Master in Communication at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis.

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Este documento resulta del estudio realizado en 2012 con niños entre los 5 y 10 años de edad, estudiantes de básica primaria de una institución educativa del municipio de La Tebaida – Quindío. Su propósito era lograr una descripción del mundo de sentido de los chicos, para develar los ‘códigos’ con los que leen las situaciones cotidianas y entienden el conflicto y la violencia, de allí que se hiciera uso de herramientas cualitativas para adentrarse en esa cotidianidad: entrevistas personales en profundidad, entrevistas grupales, observación y registro en diario de notas, revisión de documentos (anecdotarios, fichas familiares, actas de seguimiento, documentos institucionales, entre otros). El artículo presenta algunas generalidades sobre los estudios en torno a la violencia, luego aborda la cotidianidad como espacio de estudio y la fenomenología como instrumento para adelantar esa indagación; culmina con las conclusiones, algunas atinentes a las condiciones concretas de la Institución Educativa que albergó el estudio y otras más generales, por ejemplo, en la discusión fenomenológica sobre la consolidación de esquemas de acción e interpretación, esta investigación lo que muestra es que los niños poseen tales esquemas, no en etapa embrionaria, sino esquemas estructurados a lo largo de sus años de vida, que requieren refinamiento y precisión y eso le deja a la educación enormes posibilidades de proponer formas distintas a la violencia para dirimir los conflictos.Â

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En el presente estudio se analizan las percepciones ambientales y sociales que tienen los niños y niñas de preescolar en el área periurbana de una comunidad educativa de Calarcá Quindío, Colombia, refiriendo tres categorías centrales, la natural, social y artificial en los contextos espacial, temporal y curricular, a partir del análisis del dibujo como alternativa didáctica y metodológica en los procesos de Educación Ambiental escolar. El marco teórico del proyecto de investigación se sitúa en la Educación ambiental en el nivel preescolar, considerando su importancia para generar procesos de conocimiento, comprensión y apropiación del contexto y dar lectura desde una visión integral del ambiente. A nivel metodológico se define un enfoque de carácter cualitativo, de tipo descriptivo-exploratorio, se utiliza el dibujo y la entrevista semiestructurada como instrumento, a fin de obtener con mayor profundidad la información sobre las percepciones que tienen los niños y las niñas sobre lo socio ambiental. Finalmente, el artículo presenta el análisis de los resultados a través de una matriz categorial que se sustenta desde la teoría fundamentada y permite conocer de manera sistemática y relacional las percepciones y significados de los sujetos participes en la investigación, a su vez, los hallazgos develan tendencias frente a cómo los infantes perciben y valoran su contexto, desde sus experiencias y la cotidianidad, expresadas a través del dibujo.

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Este artigo visa problematizar acerca das mutações de leitura que vem ocorrendo na contemporaneidade, haja vista o acesso aos novos suportes de textos, como a tela do computador, tablets e celulares. Trata-se de um olhar analítico, de caráter qualitativo, respaldado nos trabalhos desenvolvidos por Poulain (2012), Petit (2008), Bélisle (2011), Autor (Ano), entre outros, sobre experiências de leitura e de produção vivenciadas pelos licenciandos do curso de Letras da UNIVALI, bolsistas do programa PIBID, em uma escola pública do Ensino Médio de Barra Velha, SC/Brasil. Os instrumentos de coletas de dados foram: portfólios redigidos pelos licenciandos de Letras, bolsistas do PIBID, disponíveis no ambiente Sophia da instituição e entrevista com os alunos do Ensino Médio que participaram da pesquisa. Os resultados indicam: a) a descoberta, por parte dos futuros professores de Letras, das potencialidades do texto literário em meio eletrônico tanto para leitura quanto para produção textual; b) exploração de múltiplas estratégias de leitura em meio digital; c) compreensão do conceito de intertextualidade por meio do romance Grau 26 e da produção de links nos textos elaborados; d) análise do papel do mediador de leitura no processo de formação de leitores.

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En el presente trabajo nos proponemos describir la implementación del Racial and Ethical Sensitivity Test (REST), desarrollado por Mary Brabeck en Estados Unidos en el año 2000, para evaluar la sensibilidad ética y establecer lineamientos para la capacitación de docentes en temas de ética en la educación, haciendo foco en aspectos ligados a la enseñanza universitaria. El REST está basado en el modelo de cuatro componentes de la ética formulado por James Rest y en los códigos de ética profesional. Su implementación metodológica se sustenta en cinco materiales audiovisuales originales que presentan situaciones dilemáticas del ámbito educativo. En este artículo analizamos de forma exhaustiva una de las viñetas del REST a partir de un curso dictado para docentes de nivel secundario y universitario. ¿Cuál es la utilidad de este instrumento, a veinte años de su creación? ¿Cuáles son las cuestiones de la ética en la educación más advertidas por los docentes? ¿Cuáles son menos advertidas y requerirían entonces ser incluidas en los cursos de capacitación y perfeccionamiento? A través de una indagación cuali-cuantitativa, analizamos nuevos datos de la evaluación de la sensibilidad ética, que nos permiten advertir la relevancia de los problemas de la didáctica para los docentes y el desplazamiento de otros temas de la ética en el ámbito educativo tales como la responsabilidad, la integridad, el respeto por los derechos y la dignidad de los demás.

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Los desafíos que enfrentan las Universidades Chilenas en materia de prevención de la violencia de género y discriminación arbitraria develan la necesidad de poner en funcionamiento políticas efectivas que resguarden los derechos fundamentales de sus integrantes. Este trabajo analiza los discursos aportados por los integrantes de una Universidad Privada Chilena, en torno a la violencia de género. Metodológicamente, utiliza un enfoque mixto, procediendo al diseño y envío de una encuesta semiestructurada en línea. El instrumento es respondido por 635 personas, equivalente al 9,35 % del universo muestral. Para la interpretación de los datos, se recurre al análisis estadístico descriptivo y al análisis de contenido, mediante el SPSS Statistics 23.0 y Atlas Ti 6.2. Los resultados evidencian que las mujeres muestran un mayor grado de participación (76,5 %) que los hombres (23,5 %), puesto que ellas son quienes reportan mayormente episodios de violencia psicológica (18 %) y de género (6 %). Asimismo, un 78 % de los participantes declara no conocer a fondo la Política de Denuncia de Casos de Acoso Sexual, Laboral y Discriminación Arbitraria. Además, los participantes manifiestan interés en potenciar las áreas de sensibilización y prevención (33 %) así como el de educación y capacitación (26 %), integrando transversalmente la perspectiva de género en los procesos formativos institucionales. Finalmente, el androcentrismo universitario y la perspectiva de género pendiente emergen como categorías que requieren un análisis profundo y cualitativamente complejo en el ámbito universitario local, lo que favorecería la construcción de una educación no sexista e inclusiva para todos/as.

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Esta investigación desarrollada en Colombia, partió de la pregunta ¿Cuál es el efecto de la implementación de un currículo flexible basado en el Diseño Universal de Aprendizaje (DUA), en el rendimiento académico de la asignatura lengua castellana, específicamente en la comprensión y producción de textos narrativos, en estudiantes del grado 4º de primaria con Necesidades Educativas Especiales Transitorias de dos establecimientos rurales del departamento de Antioquía, durante el primer periodo académico del año 2017?. Se realizó desde un enfoque mixto, con un diseño pre-experimental y estudio exploratorio descriptivo, con base en una muestra no probabilística, utilizándose como instrumento un cuestionario que midió 20 estudiantes del grado 4º con necesidades educativas especiales transitorias, la comprensión lectora y la producción de textos al inicio y final de la implementación del currículo flexible basado en el DUA. Como resultados se halló que a nivel literal los estudiantes pasan de un 60 – 65% a un 80 – 90 %, inferencial de un 15% a un 35 – 45%, crítico de un 60% a un 75 – 90%, etapa de planificación de textos de un 45% a un 80%, etapa de redacción de un 35% a un 95% y en la etapa de evaluación de los textos que escriben de un 75% a un 80%. En conclusión, se evidencian avances en las estructuras semánticas, sintácticas y en especial pragmáticas de sus escritos, donde el DUA se constituye en una herramienta facilitadora en el alcance de las metas.

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Los conocimientos y competencias en el uso de las tecnologías en el sentido didáctico y pedagógico en relación con los impactos en los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje han sido tendencia de estudio. Esta investigación centró su atención en describir y examinar perfiles y niveles de apropiación de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) en la práctica profesional del profesor de matemática en función de los usos que desde lo didáctico y pedagógico están presentes en el microcurriculo de este saber disciplinar, la relevancia temática se tiene por las características de la población estudiantil actual y que de manera adicional se devela en estos momentos cruciales de la historia de la humanidad donde el uso de las TIC dejó de ser optativo puesto que debe atender una enseñanza remota. Para tal fin se recolectó información de profesores de matemáticas de 17 colegios de educación básica y media de la región caribe colombiana a través de entrevistas, grupo focal, observación no participante, revisión documental y análisis didáctico. Del análisis de los resultados se infiere el bajo uso de las tecnologías desde lo pedagógico y didáctico por parte de los profesores integradas en el microcurriculo y a su práctica profesional, evidenciando en su mayoría un uso puramente instrumental de la tecnología en el microcurriculo. Del estudio se logra concluir el poco desarrollo de las competencias TIC en el profesor de matemáticas y aspectos emergentes que posibilitarían optimizar el aprendizaje escolar, complementarios a otros previamente descritos en la literatura.

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The authors draw attention to the issue of gender differences in the features of the subjective experience of happiness and unhappiness. The article describes the results of a study conducted with clients of psychologists who report problems related to the experience of destructive interpersonal relationships and consider themselves deeply unhappy in life. The purpose of the study is to reveal the gender specificity of the frustration of the subjects’ life needs underlying the deep experience of unhappiness in their lives. A peculiarity of the approach used by the authors is the consideration of issues of psychological nature in the context of philosophical and religious understanding of eternal values, such as happiness and love for one’s neighbor. A special focus of the authors’ attention is the problems related to the philosophical and religious basis of consideration of the feminine as Sophia the Wisdom of God with the complex of her rejection, the dominant sense of guilt, and the desire to return to the Father. Such methodological symbiosis is facilitated by interdisciplinarity as one of the main principles of the authors’ interaction with the materials of this work. The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) aimed at the amplification of subjects’ unconscious intentions is used as a diagnostic instrument. The conducted psychological study allows to reveal and describe some of the causes for the manifestation and experience of happiness and unhappiness in the lives of modern men and women and show specific differences between their subjective experiences of happiness and unhappiness in their lives. Unlike previous studies of this kind, the deployed philosophical and religious studies approach provides an opportunity to take a new look at the outlined issues considering them from the point of the philosophical context of values.

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The aim of this paper is to investigate the relation between psychogalvanic reflex and unpleasant affect induced by film, as well as the difference between optimists and pessimists regarding the induction of unpleasant affect. The sample consisted of 42 students from the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš (male, n = 4; female, n =38) aged 18 to 20 (M = 19, SD = 0.54). The following instruments were used: the revised life orientation scale (LOT-R), a brief mood introspection scale (BMIS), and eight-channel polygraph ProComp Infiniti version 4.0. Stimulus was a clip from the film “Sophie’s Choice”. Respondents watched a neutral stimulus before film clip, used as a control measure for recording the basic level of skin conductance of the respondents. The data were analysed by t-test for independent samples (for differences between optimists and pessimists) and t-test for dependent samples (for differences before and after viewing the clip). From the results we can conclude that the mood of optimists, after watching a film clip aimed at induction of unpleasant affect, changes more than the mood of pessimists (p = .000). More precisely, the mood of optimists is more “spoiled” after watching the movie clip, while the mood of pessimists does not change statistically significantly (p = .367). Skin conductance is statistically significant in both optimists (p = .001) and pessimists (p = .005). We can conclude that the induction of affect was different for these two subsamples. In view of this fact, in the subsequent papers researching affect induction, this potentially confunding variable should be taken into account.

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This is an ambitious year for Frontiers. In addition to this eclectic volume of articles, we will be collaborating with the Forum on Education Abroad on two Special Issues: A History of Study Abroad, Beginnings to 1965 and our second Undergraduate Research volume. We are grateful to the IFSA Foundation for providing the funding that helps to make these publications possible. Both the History of Study Abroad and the Undergraduate Research volume will debut at the Forum Conference in Austin, Texas, March 1–3, 2007. The History is written by Bill Hoffa, and it is landmark publication that provides insight into the development of study abroad as a field. Bill’s research and writing makes our work more meaningful, and we are pleased to be able to publish it. The second Undergraduate Research volume contains a wide range of examples of student research conducted as part of study abroad. In this volume we are pleased to provide another perspective on this example of student learning: that of the on-site faculty advisor. We have asked faculty who advised and supervised the student research on-site to discuss the meaning of the research within the context of the local community in which it was conducted. The introduction to this volume by Paul Houlihan, President of the School for Field Studies, discusses the importance of considering the needs and perspectives of the communities in which our students conduct their research. Our partnership with the Forum continues to produce important results that benefit the field of education abroad. We look forward to publishing a third volume featuring Undergraduate Research (2008) as well as Part Two of the History of Study Abroad in this ongoing collaboration. Other special projects are also being planned to benefit both Frontiers readers and Forum members. This volume at hand reflects our commitment to publishing a wide variety of approaches to understanding study abroad. The lead article by J. Kline Harrison, “The Relationship between International Study Tour Effects and the Personality Variables of Self-Monitoring and Core Self-Evaluations” provides more data on the outcomes of short-term study abroad, in this case business study tours that are embedded within home campus courses. Harrison investigates the perceived effectiveness of these tours and the associated impact on two personality variables: “self-monitoring” and “core self-evaluations.” The results of this research inform us about the benefits of this type of study abroad and also about instruments that may be useful to employ in other studies assessing the impact of study abroad. Our second article is from colleagues at the Lienhard School of Nursing at Pace University, Sophie R. Kaufman, David N. Ekstrom, and Lillie M. Shortridge-Baggett. Their article, “Assessing International Opportunities in Higher Education: A Matrix-based Assessment Tool,” presents a means to evaluate strategically international program opportunities on our campuses and within our organizations. The authors draw on their implementation of this assessment tool on their own campus to make a case for it. At a time when many of us are faced with often competing ideas for study abroad expansion, this tool may very well prove to be useful for helping us to make strategic decisions. In her article, “Re-Reading Student Texts: Intertextuality and Constructions of Self and Other in the Contact Zone,” Karen Rodriguez, a Resident Director in Guanajuato, Mexico, expands our understanding of study abroad texts, identities, pedagogy and student learning. Using a student’s poem as her starting point, Rodriguez applies insights from critical theory to analyze the study abroad learning environment. Her article prompts us to consider the multiple ways in which our students are engaged in an ongoing textual interplay in which they are simultaneously writers, co-writers, and texts being written. Jacqueline McLaughlin and Kent Johnson offer a fruitful way to frame the short-term study abroad experience in order to maximize student learning and the assessment of learning outcomes. In their “Assessing the Field Course Experiential Learning Model: Transforming Collegiate Short-term Study Abroad Experiences into Rich Learning Environments,” the authors aim to present a program model that facilitates critical thinking while engaging students in active scientific inquiry. Presenting a case study of their three-week course in Costa Rica, McLaughlin and Johnson provide an example of how to integrate curricular design with assessment practice. In his “Ethnographic Inquiry: Reframing the Learning Core of Education Abroad,” Anthony Ogden uses case studies and theories about intercultural competency in order to propose that ethnographic inquiry become the core of our education abroad programs. Ogden takes us through the various facets of education abroad programs and discusses the value of integrating an ethnographic approach into each one to yield more effective learning outcomes. He emphasizes that to incorporate this learning paradigm does not require a complete overhaul of programs, but rather a reframing of them. The final two articles in this volume offer differing viewpoints on study abroad in non-traditional locations. In his “Non-traditional Study Abroad Destinations: Analysis of a Trend,” Ryan Wells defines and discusses study in non-traditional locations by comparing the benefits of and rationales for these programs with those of study abroad programs in traditional locations. Wells concludes that based on his analysis study abroad in non-traditional locations appears to help individuals, institutions, and society to meet their respective goals for education abroad. Michael Woolf presents a different view in his “Come and See the Poor People: The Pursuit of Exotica.” He argues that study abroad in non-traditional locations is proceeding without enough thought being given to the intellectual and academic reasons for it. Woolf asserts that what is attracting the development of study abroad in non-traditional locations more often than not is a fascination with the exotic, and that this is not a desirable or realistic way to develop such programs, especially when education abroad, more than ever, needs to be taken seriously. I want to take this opportunity once again to thank our institutional sponsors. Their continued support of Frontiers makes it possible to publish what we hope are thought-provoking and useful articles that shed light on the work of study abroad. I want also to extend a special thanks to those colleagues who have served as reviewers of manuscripts for this volume. Frontiers is very much a collaborative effort and our continued growth and success is widely shared. Brian Whalen, Dickinson College The Forum on Education Abroad I n t r o d u c t i o n ©2015 The Forum on Education Abroad

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AbstractVladimir Lossky (1903–58) and Sergii Bulgakov (1871–1944) are normally taken as polar opposites in modern Orthodox theology. Lossky's theology is portrayed as being based on a close exegesis of the Greek Fathers with an emphasis on theosis, the Trinity and the apophatic way of mystical union with God. Bulgakov's ‘sophiology’, in contrast, if it is remembered at all, is said to be a theology which wished to ‘go beyond the Fathers’, was based on German Idealism and the quasi-pantheist and gnostic idea of ‘sophia’ which is a form of the ‘Eternal Feminine’ of Romanticism. In short, Lossky's theological approach is what people normally think of when they speak of Orthodox theology: a form of ‘neo-patristic synthesis’ (Georges Florovsky). Bulgakov's theological approach is said to be typical of the exotic dead end of the inter-war émigré ‘Paris School’ (Alexander Schmemann) or ‘Russian Religious Renaissance’ (Nicolas Zernov). Lossky, we are reminded, was instrumental in the 1935 condemnation, by Metropolitan Sergii Stragorodskii of the Moscow Patriarchate, of Bulgakov's theology as ‘alien’ to the Orthodox Christian faith. Counter to this widely held ‘standard narrative’ of contemporary Orthodox theology, the article argues that the origins of Vladimir Lossky's apophaticism, which he characterised as ‘antinomic theology’, are found within the theological methodology of the sophiology of Sergii Bulgakov: ‘antinomism’. By antinomism is understood that with any theological truth one has two equally necessary affirmations (thesis and antithesis) which are nevertheless logically contradictory. In the face of their conflict, we are forced to hold both thesis and antithesis together through faith. A detailed discussion of Lossky's apophaticism is followed by its comparison to Bulgakov's ‘sophiological antinomism’. Lossky at first appears to be masking the influence of Bulgakov and even goes so far as to read his own form of theological antinomism into the Fathers. Nevertheless, he may well have been consciously appropriating the ‘positive intuitions’ of Bulgakov's thought in order to ‘Orthodoxise’ a thinker he believed was in error but still regarded as the greatest Orthodox theologian of the twentieth century. Despite major differences between the two thinkers (e.g. differing understandings of reason, the use of philosophy and the uncreated/created distinction), it is suggested that Lossky and Bulgakov have more in common than normally is believed to be the case. A critical knowledge of Bulgakov's sophiology is said to be the ‘skeleton key’ for modern Orthodox theology which can help unlock its past, present and future.

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l s’agit d’un volume paru comme résultat de l’initiative d’Anne-Laure Le Guern, Jean-François Thémines et Serge Martin, initiative qui, depuis 2013, a généré des manifestations scientifiques, des journées d’études organisées autour des carnets de l’IUFM, devenu ESPE et actuellement l’INSPE de Caen. Les carnets édités par la suite sont devenus un espace de réflexion, et un outil d’enseignement-apprentissage, un espace de recherche. Qu’est-ce qu’un carnet en didactique ? Les trois axes de recherche du volume Les carnets aujourd’hui… l’expliquent, avec de exemples des pratiques en classe ou dans le cadre d’autres types d’activités à dominante didactique. Un carnet peut être un objet en papier de dimensions et textures diversifiées, utilisé en différentes manières afin de susciter l’intérêt et la curiosité de l’apprenant. Parmi ses possibilités d’utilisation en classe : au lycée, qu’il s’agisse du lycée de culture générale ou du lycée professionnel, pour créer des liens entre littérature et écriture (« Lecture littéraire, écriture créative », avec des articles appartenant à Anne Schneider, Stéphanie Lemarchand et Yves Renaud) ; en maternelle et à l’école primaire (« Pratiques du carnet à l’école primaire », les articles liés à ce sujet appartenant à Catherine Rebiffé et Roselyne Le Bourgeois-Viron, Dominique Briand, Marie-Laure Guégan, Élise Ouvrard ; le carnet peut également passer du format papier à des adaptations modernes comme le téléphone mobile, le blog... (« D’une approche anthropologique à une approche culturelle », des recherches en ce sens venant de la part d’Élisabeth Schneider, Magali Jeannin, Corinne Le Bars). Sophie Hébert-Loizelet et Élise Ouvrard, ouvrent le volume avec le texte intitulé « Le carnet, une matérialité foisonnante et insaisissable », où elles partent de l’aspect physique d’un carnet vers ses contenus, tout en soulignant que, « depuis une quarantaine d’années » seulement, des spécialistes en critique génétique, des théoriciens des genres littéraires et des universitaires lui accordent l’importance méritée, dans la tentative de « répondre à cette simple question "qu’est-ce qu’un carnet" », parvenant ainsi à en démultiplier « les pistes intellectuelles, théoriques autant que pratiques » (Hébert-Loizelet, & Ouvrard 2019 : 9). La diversité des carnets détermine les auteures à souligner, et à juste titre, que le carnet « incarne matériellement et pratiquement une certaine forme de liberté, n’ayant à priori aucune contrainte à respecter et pouvant dès lors recevoir n’importe quelle trace », permettant ainsi « à son détenteur, de manière souvent impromptue, indirecte […], de se découvrir, par tâtonnements, par jaillissements » (Hébert-Loizelet, & Ouvrard 2019 : 10). Le premier contact avec un carnet étant d’ordre esthétique, on comprend bien la « magie » qu’il peut exercer sur l’élève, l’invitant ainsi, en quelque sorte, à sortir de la salle de cours, à se sentir plus libre. Le carnet est en même temps un bon aide-mémoire. Ses dimensions invitent à synthétiser la pensée, à la relecture, une « relecture à court terme » et une « relecture à long terme » (Hébert-Loizelet, & Ouvrard 2019 : 15), toutes les deux enrichissantes. Le carnet devient effectivement outil d’apprentissage et objet de recherche. Les contributions présentes dans ce livre, soulignent les auteures par la suite, représentent des regards croisés (du 23 mars 2016) sur « l’objet carnet, en proposant des recherches académiques, anthropologiques ou didactiques mais également des comptes rendus d’expériences sur le terrain » dans le but de « prendre en considération l’utilisation des carnets dans leur grande hétérogénéité de la maternelle à l’université pour rendre compte des voyages, mais aussi de lectures et d’apprentissage dans les disciplines aussi variées que le français, l’histoire, les arts visuels, ou les arts plastiques, et ce dans différents milieux institutionnels » (Hébert-Loizelet, & Ouvrard 2019 : 17). Prenons le premier axe de recherche mentionné plus haut, celui de la lecture littéraire et de l’écriture créative. Se penchant sur d’autorité de différents spécialistes dans le domaine, tels Pierre Bayard et Nathalie Brillant-Rannou, les deux premiers textes de cet axe insistent sur la modalité d’intégrer « l’activité du lecteur et son rapport à la littérature » par le carnet de lecture dans le cadre de la didactique de la littérature. Le troisième texte représente une exploitation du carnet artistique qui « favorise un meilleur rapport à l’écriture » et modifie la relation que les élèves de 15 à 17 ans du canton Vaud de Suisse ont avec le monde (Hébert-Loizelet, & Ouvrard 2019 : 19). Nous avons retenu de l’article d’Anne Schneider, l’exploitation de la notion de bibliothèque intérieure, telle qu’elle est vue par Pierre Bayard, bibliothèque incluant « nos livres secrets » en relation avec ceux des autres, les livres qui nous « fabriquent » (Schneider 2019 : 36). Ces livres figurent dans les carnets personnels, avec une succession de titres lus ou à lire, commentaires, dessins, jugements. Pour ce qui est de l’expérience en lycée professionnel (l’article de Stéphanie Lemarchand), on souligne l’attention accordée au « sujet lecteur » par le biais du carnet de lecture, plus exactement la réalisation d’une réflexion personnelle et les possibilités d’exprimer cette réflexion personnelle. Ici encore, il faut signaler la notion d’« autolecture » introduite par Nathalie Brillant-Rannou, l’enseignant se proposant de participer au même processus que ses élèves. En ce sens, la démarche auprès des élèves d’une école professionnelle, moins forts en français et en lecture, s’avère particulièrement intéressante. On leur demande d’écrire des contes que leurs collègues commentent, ou de commenter un film à l’aide du carnet de lecture qui devient carnet dialogique, non pas occasion du jugement de l’autre, mais d’observer et de retenir, devenant ainsi « un embrayeur du cours » (Lemarchand 2019 : 45). Le passage aux textes littéraires – des contes simples aux contes plus compliqués et des films de science-fiction aux livres de science-fiction – devient normal et incitant, permettant petit à petit le passage vers la poésie. L’utilisation du carnet dialogique détermine les élèves à devenir conscients de l’importance de leur point de vue, ce qui fait que ceux-ci commencent à devenir conscients d’eux-mêmes et à choisir des méthodes personnelles pour améliorer leur niveau de compétences, la démarche de l’enseignant devenant elle aussi de plus en plus complexe. Le premier article, du deuxième axe, celui visant les pratiques du carnet à l’école primaire, article signé par Catherine Rebiffé et Roselyne Le Bourgeois-Viron, présente le résultat d’une recherche qui « s’appuie sur les liens entre échanges oraux et trace écrite, mais aussi sur la dimension retouchable, ajustable de l’objet carnet réunissant dessins, photographies et dictée, afin d’initier les élèves à l’écrit » (Hébert-Loizelet, & Ouvrard 2019 : 19). Pour ce qui est de l’enseignement de l’histoire à des élèves du cycle 3, avec une pensée critique en construction et une difficulté de comprendre un vocabulaire plus compliqué et les langages spécialisés, Dominique Briand propose le carnet Renefer, un choix parfait à son avis, vu que « l’artiste qui réalise les estampes sur le conflit [de la Grande Guerre] s’adresse à une enfant [de huit ans], sa fille » (Briand 2019 : 97), appelée par Renefer lui-même « Belle Petite Monde ». Un autre aspect important est lié au message transmis par l’image envisagée dans cette perspective. Il s’agit en effet de filtrer l’information en sorte que la violence et la souffrance soient perçues à des degrés émotionnels différents, pour laisser à l’élève la possibilité de débats, de réflexions. Les textes qui accompagnent les images du carnet Renefer, succincts mais suggestifs, s’adaptent également au niveau d’âge et implicitement de compréhension. Les élèves sont sensibilisés, invités à voir le côté humain, le brin de vie et d’espoir qui peuvent se cacher derrière une situation réaliste. Le carnet Renefer didactisé amène les élèves « à apprendre l’histoire dans une démarche active et clairement pluridisciplinaire qui laisse une place importante à l’histoire des arts » (Briand 2019 : 105). Le carnet d’artiste comme instrument didactique, plus exactement celui de Miquel Barceló qui a séjourné en Afrique et dont les carnets d’artiste témoignent de ses voyages et de l’utilisation des moyens locaux pour peindre ou même pour faire sécher les peintures est proposé par Marie-Laure Guégan. En passant par des crayons aquarelles, Miquel Barceló va ajouter du relief dans les pages peintes de ses carnets (« papiers d’emballage, billets de banque [par leur graphisme ils peuvent devenir le motif textile d’une robe de femme, par exemple], paquets de cigarettes, boîtes de médicaments » qui sont collés ou bien collés et arrachés par la suite). Pour réaliser des nuances différentes ou une autre texture, il y rajoute des « débris de tabac ou de fibre végétale agrégés de la terre, du sable ou de pigments » (Guégan 2019 : 117). Il est aidé par l’observation profonde de la nature, des changements perpétuels, du mélange des matières qui se développent, se modifient le long des années. Ainsi, il intègre dans ses peintures « le temps long (des civilisations), le temps moyen (à l’aune d’une période politique), le temps court (à la dimension de l’individu) » (Guégan 2019 : 121), aussi bien que l’espace, la lumière, l’ombre, les matières, le corps, l’inventivité. Toutes ces qualités recommandent déjà l’auteur pour l’exploitation didactique dans le primaire, il y vient avec un modèle d’intégration de l’enfant dans le monde. L’article de Marie-Laure Guégan parle de l’intégration du travail sur les carnets de l’artiste dans la réalisation de la couverture d’un carnet de voyage par les élèves du cycle 3 en CM2, (cycle de consolidation). D’où la nécessité d’introduire la peinture ou les carnets d’artistes « non comme modèles à imiter, mais comme objets de contemplation et de réflexion » (Guégan 2019 : 128). Dans l’article suivant, Élise Ouvrard parle d’un type de carnet qui permet l’exploitation des pratiques interdisciplinaires à l’école primaire, domaine moins approfondi dans le cadre de ces pratiques ; le but spécifique est celui de la « construction de la compétence interculturelle » qui « s’inscrit plus largement dans l’esprit d’une approche d’enseignement-apprentissage par compétences » (Ouvrard 2019 : 132). L’accent mis sur la compétence est perçu par Guy de Boterf, cité par Élise Ouvrard, comme « manifestation dans l’interprétation », à savoir la possibilité de « construire sa propre réponse pertinente, sa propre façon d’agir » (Cf. Ouvrard 2019 : 132 cité de Le Boterf 2001 :40) dans un processus qui vise la création de liens entre les éléments assimilés (ressources, activités et résultats pour une tâche donnée). Le professeur devient dans ce contexte, la personne qui traduit des contenus en actions qui servent « à mettre en œuvre, à sélectionner des tâches de difficulté croissante qui permettront aux élèves de gagner progressivement une maîtrise des compétences » (Ouvrard 2019 : 133). Cette perspective fait du carnet « un outil permettant de tisser des liens entre la culture scolaire et les expériences hors de la classe, mais aussi de décloisonner des apprentissages, de s’éloigner de l’approche par contenus-matière » (Ouvrard 2019 : 133). C’est un cadre d’analyse qui intègre la perspective didactique du français aussi bien que l’anthropologie de l’écriture. L’activité pratique consiste dans le travail sur des carnets de voyage avec des élèves en CM1 et CM2, venant de deux écoles différentes et qui préparent et effectuent un voyage en Angleterre. Les étapes du parcours visent : - entretiens individuels pré- et post-expérimentation des quatre enseignants concernés ; - fiche de préparation des séances autour du carnet ; - questionnaire pré- et post-expérimentation soumis aux élèves ; - entretiens collectifs post-expérimentation des élèves ; - photographies des carnets à mi-parcours de l’expérimentation et à la fin du parcours. L’analyse des documents a prouvé que les élèves ont réagi de manière positive. Ils ont apprécié le carnet comme plus valeureux que le cahier. Le premier permet un rapport plus complexe avec le milieu social, avec la famille, avec la famille d’accueil dans le cadre du voyage, même des visioconférences avec la famille. À partir des carnets de voyage on peut initier le principe des carnets de l’amitié qui permet au carnet d’un élève de circuler dans un petit groupe et s’enrichir des ajouts des autres collègues. On peut avoir également l’occasion de découvrir des talents des élèves, de mieux les connaître, de mettre l’accent sur leur autonomie. Différentes disciplines peuvent s’y intégrer : le français, l’anglais, l’histoire, les mathématiques, la géographie, la musique, les arts. Important s’avère le décloisonnement des disciplines par le choix de créneaux distincts pour l’utilisation-exploitation des carnets de voyage. Le dernier groupement d’articles, axé sur le passage d’une approche anthropologique à une approche culturelle, tente d’envisager un avenir pour le carnet. En tant que spécialiste des pratiques scripturales adolescentes, partant de la théorie de Roger T. Pédauque pour le document, Elisabeth Schneider se concentre dans son article sur le téléphone mobile par ce qu’on appelle « polytopie scripturale qui caractérise l’interaction des processus d’écriture, des activités et des déplacements avec le téléphone mobile » (Hébert-Loizelet, & Ouvrard 2019 : 21), celui-ci s’encadrant du point de vue épistémologique, dans les catégories « signe », « forme » et « médium », tridimensionnalité qui permet de « comprendre les enjeux actuels concernant l’auctorialité, la structure du document, par exemple, mais aussi d’en revisiter l’histoire » (Schneider 2019 : 164). L’importance du blog pédagogique comme carnet médiatique multimodal, résultat du travail avec des étudiants sous contrat Erasmus ou type Erasmus venus à l’ESPE de Caen pour mettre en lumière l’expérience interculturelle, est démontrée par Magali Jeannin. Son article prend comme point d’encrage les notions d’« hypermobilité » pour les individus avec une identité « hypermoderne », en pleine « mouvance » et « liquidité » (Jeannin 2019 : 169), qui, des fois, dans le cas des étudiants, pourrait se concrétiser en « expérience interculturelle » et « tourisme universitaire ». L’intérêt de l’auteure va vers l’interrogation, « les enjeux et les moyens d’une didactique de l’implication du sujet en contexte interculturel » par un « blog pédagogique des étudiants étrangers » lié au cours sur les compétences interculturelles. Ainsi, parmi les enjeux du « blog pédagogique des étudiants à l’étranger » comme carnet multimodal comptent : donner à l’expérience culturelle la valeur subjective qui évite la réification du sujet en investissant « la langue et la culture cibles comme des faits et pratiques sociaux (inter)subjectifs » (Jeannin 2019 : 171) et même transsubjectifs d’après le modèle du blog libre ; le blog-carnet devient un espace de rencontre entre carnet de voyage et carnet de lecture, carnet d’expérience, carnet d’ethnographie (avec un mélange entre langue cible et langue source) ; il s’inscrit « dans une tradition de l’écriture de l’expérience en classe de FLE » (Jeannin 2019 : 173). Les écrits en grande mesure programmés du blog pédagogique sont ensuite exploités ; ils répondent en même temps « à des besoins personnels » et à des « fins universitaires » (Jeannin 2019 : 174). Par ce procédé, le réel est pris comme un processus non pas comme une simple représentation. Toujours avec une visée interculturelle, le dernier article de cette série fait référence à l’Institut régional du travail social Normandie-Caen, dont le but est de former « les futurs travailleurs sociaux » (Hébert-Loizelet, & Ouvrard 2019 : 21), par une recherche franco-québécoise qui concerne l’implication des mobilités internationales pour études. Ce volume représente un outil particulièrement important en didactique, un outil que je recommande chaleureusement en égale mesure aux enseignants et aux chercheurs spécialisés. Si je me suis arrêtée sur quelques articles, c’est parce qu’il m’a semblé important d’insister sur des côtés qui sont moins exploités par les enseignants roumains et qui mériteraient de l’être.

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Background:Bartonellosis is an emerging anthropozoonosis caused by infection with intracellular Gram-negativeBartonellaspecies. It leads to necrotizing granulomas and endothelial damage and causes acute and chronic human diseases, such as cat scratch disease, bacillary angiomatosis and endocarditis. Endocarditis due toBartonella henselaeandB. quintanais reported to produce anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs) that disappear with effective antimicrobial treatment.Objectives:Hypothesizing a role forBartonellainfection in ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV), which also includes granulomatous and vascular inflammation, we studied the seroprevalence of 5Bartonellaspecies in patients with AAV.Methods:The study used plasma samples from patients with granulomatosis with polyangiitis and microscopic polyangiitis that were enrolled in the Rituximab for AAV (RAVE) trial and from healthy controls living in the United States. Western blot assays were used for serological testing of infection withB. quintana,B. henselaeHouston-1,B. elizabethae,B. vinsoniisubsp.berkhoffiiandB. alsatica. The associations of positive serology results and AAV were expressed as odds ratios (OR). Clinical characteristics of seropositive and seronegative patients, assessed by the BVAS/WG instrument, were compared. These comparisons were done for 9 organ systems; in case they showed differences withP<0.10, the corresponding organ system-specific clinical features were also analyzed. Statistical analysis was performed using Fisher’s exact test or Student’s t-test, as appropriate.Results:We analyzed blood samples of 187 patients with AAV (collected at start of the trial) and of 127 controls. There were no significant differences between the cases and controls for mean age (P=0.148) and proportion of males (P=0.36).Bartonellaspp. serological testing was positive for 112 (60%) cases and 40 (31%) controls (OR 3.25 [95% CI 2.02–5.22],P<0.001). Significant associations were also found within subsets of PR3-AAV (OR 4.00 [95% CI 2.37–6.76],P<0.001), MPO-AAV (OR 2.18 [95% CI 1.17–4.06],P=0.017), newly-diagnosed (OR 3.89 [95% CI 2.21–6.86],P<0.001) and relapsing disease (OR 2.86 [95% CI 1.65–4.98],P<0.001). Species-specific positive serological testing was found in particular againstB. henselae(cases: 27%, controls: 0.8%; OR 39.93 [95% CI 5.42–293.90];P<0.001). Compared to AAV patients without seropositivity forBartonellaspp., AAV patients testing seropositive forBartonellaspp. had significantly more bloody nasal discharge (P=0.046), sinus involvement (P=0.035) and conjunctivitis/episcleritis (P=0.016).Conclusion:This study reveals higher seroprevalence ofBartonella, especiallyB. henselae, in patients with AAV than in healthy controls. Although cross-reactivity ofBartonellawith other microorganisms cannot be excluded, these results may support an etiopathogenic role ofBartonellainfection in AAV that deserves further investigation.Disclosure of Interests:Alfred Mahr Consultant of: Celgene, Speakers bureau: Roche, Chugai, Sophie Edouard: None declared, Divi Cornec: None declared, Solange GONZALEZ-CHIAPPE: None declared, Jörg Goronzy: None declared, Philippe Guilpain: None declared, Carol Langford: None declared, Pierre-Yves Lévy: None declared, Peter A. Merkel: None declared, Paul Monach: None declared, E. William St. Clair: None declared, Philip Seo: None declared, Robert Spiera Grant/research support from: Roche-Genetech, GSK, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chemocentryx, Corbus, Forbius, Sanofi, Inflarx, Consultant of: Roche-Genetech, GSK, CSL Behring, Sanofi, Janssen, Chemocentryx, Forbius, Mistubishi Tanabe, Cornelia Weyand: None declared, John H. Stone Grant/research support from: Roche, Consultant of: Roche, Didier Rauolt: None declared, Ulrich Specks: None declared

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Digital health literacy involves the individual's ability to effectively interpret, evaluate and use health information obtained through digital media, enabling them to make decisions and have greater autonomy over their health. Considering the increasing use of digital media as a source of health information for the population, the present study aimed to evaluate the digital health literacy level of individuals who use social media. The study was conducted with a sample of 423 individuals using a digital questionnaire to obtain socioeconomic data, and the eHealth literacy scale (eHeals) instrument was used to assess the level of digital health literacy. The results indicated that higher levels of education and income correlate with higher levels of digital health literacy. The biological determinants of age and gender did not correlate with digital literacy. It is concluded that government strategies that seek to use social media such as Facebook, Instagram and Twiter as an alternative to non-formal health education should consider that the success of these strategies depends on first investing in the formal education of the population.ResumoLiteracia digital em saúde envolve a capacidade do indivíduo em interpretar, avaliar e usar de forma eficaz as informações de saúde obtidas por meio das mídias digitais, permitindo-o tomar decisões e ter maior autonomia sobre sua saúde. Considerando a crescente utilização das mídias digitais como fonte de informações em saúde para população, o presente estudo objetivou avaliar o nível de literacia digital em saúde de indivíduos que fazem uso das mídias digitais. O estudo foi desenvolvido com uma amostra de 423 indivíduos por meio de questionário digital para obtenção de dados socioeconômicos e o instrumento eHealth literacy scale (eHeals) foi utilizado para avaliar o nível de literacia digital em saúde. Os resultados indicaram que maior nível de escolaridade e renda correlaciona com maiores níveis de literacia digital em saúde. Os determinantes biológicos idade e sexo não apresentaram correlação com a literacia digital. Conclui-se que a estratégia do governo que busca, por exemplo, utilizar as redes sociais online Facebook, Instagram e Twiter como alternativa de educação não-formal em saúde deve considerar que o êxito dessa estratégia perpassa pela necessidade de investir na educação formal.Palavras-chave: Educação não-formal, Educação para saúde, Política de saúde.Keywords: Non-formal education, Health education, Health policy.ReferencesBARROS, Josiane Kelly. 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This study aims to increase children English vocabulary aged 5-6 years old by playing CABE or searching and whispering. This research is classroom action research that was conducted in Marsudirini Sang Timur Kindergarten, Salatiga. The Subjects of the study were 20 B1 kindergarten children. Data was collected by teaching English vocabulary by playing CABE in some cycles which includes four stages in the form of cycles, there are (1) planning; (2) implementation; (3) observation; and (4) reflection. Research instruments used in this research was in sheets observation checklist. The results of a percentage of pre-cycle was 13 %, cycle I was 31 % in first meeting and was 66 % in the second meeting, cycle II was 75 % performed in only one meeting. There is an improvement in pre-action and any action on each meeting until it reaches 75 %. Keywords: Early childhood, English vocabulary, “CABE” method, Learning English References Bawono, Y. (2017). Kemampuan berbahasa pada anak prasekolah : Sebuah kajian pustaka. Prosiding Temu Ilmiah X Ikatan Psikologi Perkembangan Indonesia. Chamot, A. U. (1987). Toward a Functional ESL Curriculum in the Elementary School, in Long, Michael H. & Richards, Jack C. (eds.) Methodology in TESOL. New York: Newburry House Publishers. Fromkin, V., Rodman, R., & H., & N. (1990). An Intoduction to Language. New York, NY: Avon Books. İlin, G., Kutlu, Ö., & Kutluay, A. (2013). An Action Research: Using Videos for Teaching Grammar in an ESP Class. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.01.065 Imam, I. (2016). Meningkatkan Kemampuan Menyimak Siswa Kelas I Melalui Teknik Permainan Pesan Berantai Pada Pembalajaran Bahasa Indonesia. PEDAGOGIA: Jurnal Pendidikan. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.21070/pedagogia.v3i2.62 Khairani, A. I. (2016). Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Untuk Anak Usia Dini. Digilib.Unimed.Ac.Id. Kurniawan, M., & Tanone, R. (2016). Mobile learning in TESOL: A golden bridge for enhancement of grammar awareness and vocabulary mastery? Asian EFL Journal. Kurniawan, M., & Tanone, R. (2016). Mobile learning in TESOL: A golden bridge for enhancement of grammar awareness and vocabulary mastery? Asian EFL Journal. Matondang, E. M. (2005). Menumbuhkan Minat Belajar Bahasa Inggris Anak Usia Dini melalui Lagu dan Gerak. Jakarta: Jurnal Pendidikan Penabur. Montessori, M. (1991). The discovery of the Child. New York: Ballatine Book. Muflihah, M. (2019). Pentingnya Peran BAhasa dalam Pendidikan Usia DIni (PAUD). ThufuLA: Jurnal Inovasi Pendidikan Guru Raudhatul Athfal. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.21043/thufula.v2i2.4642 Mustafa, B. (2007). Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini. Musthafa, B. (2010). Teaching English to Young Learners in Indonesia : Essential Requirements. Educationist. Nugrahani, D., Egar, N., Sumardiyani, L., & Wardoyo, S. L. (2017). PENDIDIKAN ANAK USIA DINI BERBASIS LIFE SKILLS. E-DIMAS. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.26877/e-dimas.v2i1.102 Nurjanah, N, Dwiastuty, Nina, Susilawati, S. (2015). Mengenalkan Model Pengajaran Edutainment Mengajarkan Bahasa Inggris Pada Anak–Anak Usia Dini. Faktor. Jurnal Ilmiah Kependidikan. Nurmadiah, N. (2018). Strategi Pembelajaran Anak Usia Dini. Al-Afkar : Jurnal Keislaman & Peradaban. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.28944/afkar.v3i1.101 Nurvitasari, M. D. (2016). Penerapan Aspek Perkembangan Anak Usia Dini Dalam Media Macca (Balok Susun Interaktif). O’Grady, W. (2008). Innateness, universal grammar, and emergentism. Lingua. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2007.03.005 Santrock, J. (n.d.). Adolesence (Fifth Edit). New York, NY: McGrawHill Company Inc. Sophya, I. V. (2019). Desain Pembelajaran BAhasa Inggris untuk Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini. ThufuLA: Jurnal Inovasi Pendidikan Guru Raudhatul Athfal. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.21043/thufula.v2i2.4639 Tomlinson, B. (2012). Materials development for language learning and languange teaching. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444811000528 Vygotsky, L. S. (1986). Thought and Language. Cambridge, M.A.: The MIT Press Wiratno, T., & Santosa, R. (2003). Bahasa, Fungsi Bahasa, dan Konteks Sosial. Bahasa, Fungsi Bahasa, Dan Konteks Sosial Yamin, M. (2010). Panduan Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini. Jakarta: Gaung Persada Pers Zaini, A. (2015). Bermain sebagai metode pembelajaran bagi anak usia dini. ThufuLA: Jurnal Inovasi Pendidikan Guru Raudhatul Athfal

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This paper deals with the use of the concept of freedom of expression by a Quebec City radio station, CHOI-FM, in its dispute with the CRTC and in the court case of Sophie Chiasson before the Quebec Cour supérieure. Although freedom of expression is the main argument used by CHOI-FM in 2004 and 2005, our hypothesis is that this argument is mainly instrumental. Nevertheless, freedom of expression must be analyzed because it is a major symbol of democracy; it is linked with lively public debate and individualism. In this case, freedom of expression is also used in an attempt to lend respectability to populism and illicit discourse.

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Analisa quais estratégias de leitura os licenciandos de Letras da Universidade do Vale do Itajaí (Univali) desenvolveram no decorrer do Programa Institucional de Bolsa de Iniciação à Docência (Pibid), quais concepções dão sustentação a essas estratégias e como elas colaboram para a formação de leitores no ensino médio, em duas escolas da rede pública estadual de Santa Catarina, na cidade de Itajaí. O instrumento de coleta de dados foram os portfólios produzidos pelos licenciandos durante o desenvolvimento do projeto, postados no ambiente virtual da instituição executante, denominado Sophia. Foram analisadas cinco estratégias de leitura que se mostraram alinhadas com a concepção de literatura fruitiva, a qual concebe o texto como objeto a ser fruído, apreciado, preservando sua função estética.

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ABSTRACTSpecimens of brick and mortar taken from the Hagia Sophia Basilica in Istanbul, Turkey, are being analyzed as part of an investigation of the construction history and present state of structural stability of the building. The analysis, covering both chemical composition and physical properties, involves a suite of instrumental methods including quantitative X-ray diffraction, thermal analysis, and automated image analysis of polished sections under SEM. These conventional methods are being supplemented by neutron diffraction and neutron and Xray small angle scattering. Preliminary results suggest the presence of cementitious materials including plombierite and tetracalcium aluminum carbonate in the mortar as well as calcium carbonate. The mortar contains significant amount of brick dust and also large chunks of brick as coarse aggregate. Given the pozzolanic nature of brick dust, it is possible that the mortar is actually not a conventional carbonated lime material, but rather a proto-concrete. The type of masonry construction involving very wide mortar joints, comparable to the width of the bricks, suggests that the Byzantine architects took advantage of this property of the mortar. This sophisticated materials technology may help to explain how the Basilica was constructed in such a short time period, and also to allow us to understand and model subsequent structural problems, including major deformations of the main piers. Also, the feasibility of dating by radiocarbon and thermoluminescence methods is being investigated to determine which parts of the elaborate buttress system are the original Byzantine structure as opposed to later Ottoman additions.

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The aim of this research was to examine if there are some differences in a way optimists and pessimists react to unpleasant movie stimuli. The sample was convenient and it consisted of 42 (F=90%) students of psychology, from the Faculty of philosophy in Nish. Age range in the sample was from 18 to 20 (M=19, SD=.541). Instruments used in this research were: Life orientation test (LOT-R: Scheier, Carver, & Bridges, 1994) and Brief Mood Introspection Scale (BMIS: Mayer, & Gaschke, 2013) in order to operationalize the mood of the respondents. The stimulus was a scene from the movie Sophie’s Choice, which aimed at inducing a negative affect. From the results we can conclude that the mood of the optimists, after watching movie stimuli, is corrputed, while the mood of the pesimists isn't.So, in the further studies which examine emotion induction through movies, we suggest the inclusion of optimism-pesimism as a control variable.Also, for further studies we suggest the involvement of actors and testing how they react to film stimuli.

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At present, investment is well known in Indonesian society, investment awareness by the public has begun to increase along with the existence of several investment instruments that are widely offered by bank financial institutions, non-bank financial institutions, as well as various types of investment options on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. According to Sophar Lumbantoruan (1996), the notion of investment is equity participation in other companies. One form of investment known to the general public is shares traded on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. Investing always considers the results and risks that will be faced by Investors. Not all investors understand the theory of investing in stocks, especially in selecting shares in a portfolio in order to produce a certain rate of return with minimal risk. This study aims to find a decision support system (DSS) based on Financial Technology that will provide information related to stock recommendations that should be bought by investors. Stock Selection in this study are shares of listed companies listed on the Kompas 100 Index, the Analysis Technique used in this study is the Single Index Model. This research can produce recommendations for investors to buy shares in a portfolio that will provide certain benefits with minimal risk. Keyword- Investment, Decision Support System, Financial Technology, Single Index Model, Porfolio

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Briareos: If it's so quiet, then why do they need machines like that? I thought it was supposed to be peacetime. I'll tell you why-eighty per cent of the people here are artificial. Genetic engineering's out of control! -- Shirow, Appleseed 1.5: 37. Welcome to the 'machine' issue of M/C, appropriately mediated to you through the global network of machines sometimes known as the Internet. The question of the machine might seem a curious one for media and cultural studies scholars -- after all, commonsense tells us that whilst machines may let us practice culture or produce media, they are by definition not cultural. The cultural, the human, the social, is that which is left after all the nonhuman components have been properly contained within a 'machine'. And yet, what is a machine? When we talk of the machine in everyday discourse, it is always, explicitly or implicitly, part of a binary opposition between humans and machines, between motive biology and immobile artefacts, between active subjects and passive objects. In a similar vein the machine is always spectral, always metaphoric: it is one of the defining tropes of our industrialised civilisation. Whether it is the machinic Gehenna of H. G. Wells's or Fritz Lang's nightmares, all demonic steam engines and inhuman cogs; the shadowy, fifth column clones of Appleseed or the invasive 'Alien' that is micro-computerisation, the Human Genome project and nanotechnology, the machine is a metaphor that structures all levels of our relationships to culture. In scientific thought, at least since Newton and Descartes, the world has been composed of machines -- instruments which transmit and direct force, and which can be investigated, manipulated, invented. In humanistic thought, the machine is the other, the Frankenstein, the binary category against which the human gains its definition. It is the gleaming machine against which unruly women have been defined, the efficient machine against which uncontrollable mobs have had no recourse, the starkly military machine against which disenfranchised and colonised peoples have had no recourse but death. The machine is thus a significant cultural category, organising and policing ideological, discursive, historical, spiritual and political boundaries. In this issue of M/C, a range of authors address from different perspectives this question of the machine and its imbricated other, the human. Our feature writer, Anna Munster, in "Love Machines" critiques contemporary writing about sexuality and sexual experiences in cyberspace, commenting that "an erotic relation with the technological is occluded in most accounts of the sexual in cyberspace and in many engagements with digital technologies", arguing instead that these accounts engage in a kind of "onanistic" logic instead. She begins to address ways around this unsatisfactory arrangement by using the theories of Félix Guattari and Avital Ronell. Our second feature article is by the feminist philosopher and sociologist of technology, Zoë Sofoulis. In an article entitled "Machinic Musings with Mumford", Sofoulis returns to historian of technology Lewis Mumford for ideas about the role and purpose of machines in cultural development. She suggests that the machine's fascinating autonomy may inspire notions of the 'post-human', which can be critiqued from Mumford's humanist position as well as Latour's "non modern" stance. Taking up Mumford's point about the over-emphasis on machines in technology studies, Sofoulis argues that it is important to look at machines not just as things in themselves, but also the purposes they serve. A concern with the work of Guattari returns in Andreas Broeckmann's article "Minor Media -- Heterogenic Machines". Broeckmann reads a series of works by contemporary artists through the prism of Guattari's writings on art, media and the machine to argue that the "line of flight" of such media experimentation "is the construction of new and strong forms of subjectivity". Such artistic practices, which draw upon the networking and transformative features of digital media, Broeckmann suggests, "point us in the direction of the positive potentials of post media". 'Desire' Issue Editor Laurie Johnson takes a slightly different tack in this issue by developing a reading of classic 50s SF film Forbidden Planet in order to come to terms with deleuzoguattarian theorisations of the machine. He asks the question of Deleuze and Guattari: "how can we use a concept of machine that claims to go beyond the concept of utility (or techné, the function of technical machines)?" Johnson's article "Félix and Gilles's Tempestuous, Monstrous Machines" develops through a sophisticated cross-reading of Forbidden Planet with its source text, The Tempest, and the analysis of civilization that Deleuze and Guattari elaborate in Anti-Oedipus: "what the film demonstrates instead is that stripping a civilisation of its instrumentalities produces something other than just a return of the primitive repressed". In "From Haptic Interfaces to Man-Machine Symbiosis", Sonja Kangas provides an historicised account of the ways in which humans and machines interact with one another, which develops into a discussion of the problems of interactivity from the paradigm of game interface design. Drawing on the notions of cultural capital as developed by Pierre Bourdieu and the theorisations of the cyborg by Donna Haraway, Susan Luckman in "XX @ MM: Cyborg Subjectivity as Millennial Fashion Statement" addresses "some of the ways in which the traditional determinants of class are being redefined in light of the so-called postmodern capitalist information economy". In doing so she brings in "nerd chic", cyborgs, rave culture and I-Macs. Paul Benneworth, in his article "The Machine as Mythology -- The Case of the Joyce-Loebl Microdensitometer", takes us on an archeology of technology, examining the history and the fate of a small, pre-digital measuring device, the microdensitometer. His social history locates the device within its geographic and historical -- as well as its technological -- milieux, to demonstrate that the existence of any machine depends upon far more than merely its technical characteristics; that every machine is a social machine. If the machinic philosophy of Félix Guattari is the refrain of this issue of M/C, then Donna Haraway's cyborg metaphor is its melody. Drawing on the work of Haraway, Sophie Taysom's article "True Love Is a Trued Wheel: Technopleasure in Mountain Biking" seeks to make clear some of the ways in which mountain biking magazines have an important role in negotiating the boundaries between the "inside" and "outside" of mountain biking practices. Taysom achieves this by conducting a semiotic reading of this magazine genre, to prise open the trope of technology and see how it is reconfigured both literally and figuratively within their pages. Frances Bonner takes to task the highly gendered division in Science Fiction of "hard" and "soft" SF through an analysis of the representations of the 'technological' in Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan saga. As Bonner explains, this series is not so easily placed in either category, mixing as it does the tropes of space adventure with explorations of the ramifications of advanced reproductive technology. The engagement with the work of Guattari returns as a coda in Belinda Barnet's article "Machinic Heterogenesis and Evolution: Collected Notes on Sound, Machines and Sonicform". Hotwiring together Guattari's machinic philosophy with the work of the complexity theorists such as Stuart Kauffman and Ilya Prigogine, and using the example of the self-organising and evolving Sonicform Web site/sound system, Barnet examines the use and spread of evolutionary metaphors beyond their scientific origins. As she points out, "evolution is not just conflict, competition, selfish genes, tree diagrams, living and non-living systems. It's not just something furry, crawling things do. It's music. It's a dance. Poetic-existential. Hybrid subjectivities. And all the wor(l)ds in between". Nick Caldwell, Sean Aylward Smith -- 'Machine' Issue Editors Citation reference for this article MLA style: Nick Caldwell, Sean Aylward Smith. "Editorial: 'Machine'." M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 2.6 (1999). [your date of access] <http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/9909/edit.php>. Chicago style: Nick Caldwell, Sean Aylward Smith, "Editorial: 'Machine'," M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 2, no. 6 (1999), <http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/9909/edit.php> ([your date of access]). APA style: Nick Caldwell, Sean Aylward Smith. (1999) Editorial: 'machine'. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 2(6). <http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/9909/edit.php> ([your date of access]).

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Introduction: Our current obsession with the lives of others “Biography—that is to say, our creative and non-fictional output devoted to recording and interpreting real lives—has enjoyed an extraordinary renaissance in recent years,” writes Nigel Hamilton in Biography: A Brief History (1). Ian Donaldson agrees that biography is back in fashion: “Once neglected within the academy and relegated to the dustier recesses of public bookstores, biography has made a notable return over recent years, emerging, somewhat surprisingly, as a new cultural phenomenon, and a new academic adventure” (23). For over a decade now, commentators having been making similar observations about our obsession with the intimacies of individual people’s lives. In a lecture in 1994, Justin Kaplan asserted the West was “a culture of biography” (qtd. in Salwak 1) and more recent research findings by John Feather and Hazel Woodbridge affirm that “the undiminished human curiosity about other peoples lives is clearly reflected in the popularity of autobiographies and biographies” (218). At least in relation to television, this assertion seems valid. In Australia, as in the USA and the UK, reality and other biographically based television shows have taken over from drama in both the numbers of shows produced and the viewers these shows attract, and these forms are also popular in Canada (see, for instance, Morreale on The Osbournes). In 2007, the program Biography celebrated its twentieth anniversary season to become one of the longest running documentary series on American television; so successful that in 1999 it was spun off into its own eponymous channel (Rak; Dempsey). Premiered in May 1996, Australian Story—which aims to utilise a “personal approach” to biographical storytelling—has won a significant viewership, critical acclaim and professional recognition (ABC). It can also be posited that the real home movies viewers submit to such programs as Australia’s Favourite Home Videos, and “chat” or “confessional” television are further reflections of a general mania for biographical detail (see Douglas), no matter how fragmented, sensationalized, or even inane and cruel. A recent example of the latter, the USA-produced The Moment of Truth, has contestants answering personal questions under polygraph examination and then again in front of an audience including close relatives and friends—the more “truthful” their answers (and often, the more humiliated and/or distressed contestants are willing to be), the more money they can win. Away from television, but offering further evidence of this interest are the growing readerships for personally oriented weblogs and networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook (Grossman), individual profiles and interviews in periodical publications, and the recently widely revived newspaper obituary column (Starck). Adult and community education organisations run short courses on researching and writing auto/biographical forms and, across Western countries, the family history/genealogy sections of many local, state, and national libraries have been upgraded to meet the increasing demand for these services. Academically, journals and e-mail discussion lists have been established on the topics of biography and autobiography, and North American, British, and Australian universities offer undergraduate and postgraduate courses in life writing. The commonly aired wisdom is that published life writing in its many text-based forms (biography, autobiography, memoir, diaries, and collections of personal letters) is enjoying unprecedented popularity. It is our purpose to examine this proposition. Methodological problems There are a number of problems involved in investigating genre popularity, growth, and decline in publishing. Firstly, it is not easy to gain access to detailed statistics, which are usually only available within the industry. Secondly, it is difficult to ascertain how publishing statistics are gathered and what they report (Eliot). There is the question of whether bestselling booklists reflect actual book sales or are manipulated marketing tools (Miller), although the move from surveys of booksellers to electronic reporting at point of sale in new publishing lists such as BookScan will hopefully obviate this problem. Thirdly, some publishing lists categorise by subject and form, some by subject only, and some do not categorise at all. This means that in any analysis of these statistics, a decision has to be made whether to use the publishing list’s system or impose a different mode. If the publishing list is taken at face value, the question arises of whether to use categorisation by form or by subject. Fourthly, there is the bedeviling issue of terminology. Traditionally, there reigned a simple dualism in the terminology applied to forms of telling the true story of an actual life: biography and autobiography. Publishing lists that categorise their books, such as BookScan, have retained it. But with postmodern recognition of the presence of the biographer in a biography and of the presence of other subjects in an autobiography, the dichotomy proves false. There is the further problem of how to categorise memoirs, diaries, and letters. In the academic arena, the term “life writing” has emerged to describe the field as a whole. Within the genre of life writing, there are, however, still recognised sub-genres. Academic definitions vary, but generally a biography is understood to be a scholarly study of a subject who is not the writer; an autobiography is the story of a entire life written by its subject; while a memoir is a segment or particular focus of that life told, again, by its own subject. These terms are, however, often used interchangeably even by significant institutions such the USA Library of Congress, which utilises the term “biography” for all. Different commentators also use differing definitions. Hamilton uses the term “biography” to include all forms of life writing. Donaldson discusses how the term has been co-opted to include biographies of place such as Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Biography (2000) and of things such as Lizzie Collingham’s Curry: A Biography (2005). This reflects, of course, a writing/publishing world in which non-fiction stories of places, creatures, and even foodstuffs are called biographies, presumably in the belief that this will make them more saleable. The situation is further complicated by the emergence of hybrid publishing forms such as, for instance, the “memoir-with-recipes” or “food memoir” (Brien, Rutherford and Williamson). Are such books to be classified as autobiography or put in the “cookery/food & drink” category? We mention in passing the further confusion caused by novels with a subtitle of The Biography such as Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. The fifth methodological problem that needs to be mentioned is the increasing globalisation of the publishing industry, which raises questions about the validity of the majority of studies available (including those cited herein) which are nationally based. Whether book sales reflect what is actually read (and by whom), raises of course another set of questions altogether. Methodology In our exploration, we were fundamentally concerned with two questions. Is life writing as popular as claimed? And, if it is, is this a new phenomenon? To answer these questions, we examined a range of available sources. We began with the non-fiction bestseller lists in Publishers Weekly (a respected American trade magazine aimed at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents that claims to be international in scope) from their inception in 1912 to the present time. We hoped that this data could provide a longitudinal perspective. The term bestseller was coined by Publishers Weekly when it began publishing its lists in 1912; although the first list of popular American books actually appeared in The Bookman (New York) in 1895, based itself on lists appearing in London’s The Bookman since 1891 (Bassett and Walter 206). The Publishers Weekly lists are the best source of longitudinal information as the currently widely cited New York Times listings did not appear till 1942, with the Wall Street Journal a late entry into the field in 1994. We then examined a number of sources of more recent statistics. We looked at the bestseller lists from the USA-based Amazon.com online bookseller; recent research on bestsellers in Britain; and lists from Nielsen BookScan Australia, which claims to tally some 85% or more of books sold in Australia, wherever they are published. In addition to the reservations expressed above, caveats must be aired in relation to these sources. While Publishers Weekly claims to be an international publication, it largely reflects the North American publishing scene and especially that of the USA. Although available internationally, Amazon.com also has its own national sites—such as Amazon.co.uk—not considered here. It also caters to a “specific computer-literate, credit-able clientele” (Gutjahr: 219) and has an unashamedly commercial focus, within which all the information generated must be considered. In our analysis of the material studied, we will use “life writing” as a genre term. When it comes to analysis of the lists, we have broken down the genre of life writing into biography and autobiography, incorporating memoir, letters, and diaries under autobiography. This is consistent with the use of the terminology in BookScan. Although we have broken down the genre in this way, it is the overall picture with regard to life writing that is our concern. It is beyond the scope of this paper to offer a detailed analysis of whether, within life writing, further distinctions should be drawn. Publishers Weekly: 1912 to 2006 1912 saw the first list of the 10 bestselling non-fiction titles in Publishers Weekly. It featured two life writing texts, being headed by an autobiography, The Promised Land by Russian Jewish immigrant Mary Antin, and concluding with Albert Bigelow Paine’s six-volume biography, Mark Twain. The Publishers Weekly lists do not categorise non-fiction titles by either form or subject, so the classifications below are our own with memoir classified as autobiography. In a decade-by-decade tally of these listings, there were 3 biographies and 20 autobiographies in the lists between 1912 and 1919; 24 biographies and 21 autobiographies in the 1920s; 13 biographies and 40 autobiographies in the 1930s; 8 biographies and 46 biographies in the 1940s; 4 biographies and 14 autobiographies in the 1950s; 11 biographies and 13 autobiographies in the 1960s; 6 biographies and 11 autobiographies in the 1970s; 3 biographies and 19 autobiographies in the 1980s; 5 biographies and 17 autobiographies in the 1990s; and 2 biographies and 7 autobiographies from 2000 up until the end of 2006. See Appendix 1 for the relevant titles and authors. Breaking down the most recent figures for 1990–2006, we find a not radically different range of figures and trends across years in the contemporary environment. The validity of looking only at the top ten books sold in any year is, of course, questionable, as are all the issues regarding sources discussed above. But one thing is certain in terms of our inquiry. There is no upwards curve obvious here. If anything, the decade break-down suggests that sales are trending downwards. This is in keeping with the findings of Michael Korda, in his history of twentieth-century bestsellers. He suggests a consistent longitudinal picture across all genres: In every decade, from 1900 to the end of the twentieth century, people have been reliably attracted to the same kind of books […] Certain kinds of popular fiction always do well, as do diet books […] self-help books, celebrity memoirs, sensationalist scientific or religious speculation, stories about pets, medical advice (particularly on the subjects of sex, longevity, and child rearing), folksy wisdom and/or humour, and the American Civil War (xvii). Amazon.com since 2000 The USA-based Amazon.com online bookselling site provides listings of its own top 50 bestsellers since 2000, although only the top 14 bestsellers are recorded for 2001. As fiction and non-fiction are not separated out on these lists and no genre categories are specified, we have again made our own decisions about what books fall into the category of life writing. Generally, we erred on the side of inclusion. (See Appendix 2.) However, when it came to books dealing with political events, we excluded books dealing with specific aspects of political practice/policy. This meant excluding books on, for instance, George Bush’s so-called ‘war on terror,’ of which there were a number of bestsellers listed. In summary, these listings reveal that of the top 364 books sold by Amazon from 2000 to 2007, 46 (or some 12.6%) were, according to our judgment, either biographical or autobiographical texts. This is not far from the 10% of the 1912 Publishers Weekly listing, although, as above, the proportion of bestsellers that can be classified as life writing varied dramatically from year to year, with no discernible pattern of peaks and troughs. This proportion tallied to 4% auto/biographies in 2000, 14% in 2001, 10% in 2002, 18% in 2003 and 2004, 4% in 2005, 14% in 2006 and 20% in 2007. This could suggest a rising trend, although it does not offer any consistent trend data to suggest sales figures may either continue to grow, or fall again, in 2008 or afterwards. Looking at the particular texts in these lists (see Appendix 2) also suggests that there is no general trend in the popularity of life writing in relation to other genres. For instance, in these listings in Amazon.com, life writing texts only rarely figure in the top 10 books sold in any year. So rarely indeed, that from 2001 there were only five in this category. In 2001, John Adams by David McCullough was the best selling book of the year; in 2003, Hillary Clinton’s autobiographical Living History was 7th; in 2004, My Life by Bill Clinton reached number 1; in 2006, Nora Ephron’s I Feel Bad About My Neck: and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman was 9th; and in 2007, Ishmael Beah’s discredited A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier came in at 8th. Apart from McCulloch’s biography of Adams, all the above are autobiographical texts, while the focus on leading political figures is notable. Britain: Feather and Woodbridge With regard to the British situation, we did not have actual lists and relied on recent analysis. John Feather and Hazel Woodbridge find considerably higher levels for life writing in Britain than above with, from 1998 to 2005, 28% of British published non-fiction comprising autobiography, while 8% of hardback and 5% of paperback non-fiction was biography (2007). Furthermore, although Feather and Woodbridge agree with commentators that life writing is currently popular, they do not agree that this is a growth state, finding the popularity of life writing “essentially unchanged” since their previous study, which covered 1979 to the early 1990s (Feather and Reid). Australia: Nielsen BookScan 2006 and 2007 In the Australian publishing industry, where producing books remains an ‘expensive, risky endeavour which is increasingly market driven’ (Galligan 36) and ‘an inherently complex activity’ (Carter and Galligan 4), the most recent Australian Bureau of Statistics figures reveal that the total numbers of books sold in Australia has remained relatively static over the past decade (130.6 million in the financial year 1995–96 and 128.8 million in 2003–04) (ABS). During this time, however, sales volumes of non-fiction publications have grown markedly, with a trend towards “non-fiction, mass market and predictable” books (Corporall 41) resulting in general non-fiction sales in 2003–2004 outselling general fiction by factors as high as ten depending on the format—hard- or paperback, and trade or mass market paperback (ABS 2005). However, while non-fiction has increased in popularity in Australia, the same does not seem to hold true for life writing. Here, in utilising data for the top 5,000 selling non-fiction books in both 2006 and 2007, we are relying on Nielsen BookScan’s categorisation of texts as either biography or autobiography. In 2006, no works of life writing made the top 10 books sold in Australia. In looking at the top 100 books sold for 2006, in some cases the subjects of these works vary markedly from those extracted from the Amazon.com listings. In Australia in 2006, life writing makes its first appearance at number 14 with convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby’s My Story. This is followed by another My Story at 25, this time by retired Australian army chief, Peter Cosgrove. Jonestown: The Power and Myth of Alan Jones comes in at 34 for the Australian broadcaster’s biographer Chris Masters; the biography, The Innocent Man by John Grisham at 38 and Li Cunxin’s autobiographical Mao’s Last Dancer at 45. Australian Susan Duncan’s memoir of coping with personal loss, Salvation Creek: An Unexpected Life makes 50; bestselling USA travel writer Bill Bryson’s autobiographical memoir of his childhood The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid 69; Mandela: The Authorised Portrait by Rosalind Coward, 79; and Joanne Lees’s memoir of dealing with her kidnapping, the murder of her partner and the justice system in Australia’s Northern Territory, No Turning Back, 89. These books reveal a market preference for autobiographical writing, and an almost even split between Australian and overseas subjects in 2006. 2007 similarly saw no life writing in the top 10. The books in the top 100 sales reveal a downward trend, with fewer titles making this band overall. In 2007, Terri Irwin’s memoir of life with her famous husband, wildlife warrior Steve Irwin, My Steve, came in at number 26; musician Andrew Johns’s memoir of mental illness, The Two of Me, at 37; Ayaan Hirst Ali’s autobiography Infidel at 39; John Grogan’s biography/memoir, Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog, at 42; Sally Collings’s biography of the inspirational young survivor Sophie Delezio, Sophie’s Journey, at 51; and Elizabeth Gilbert’s hybrid food, self-help and travel memoir, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything at 82. Mao’s Last Dancer, published the year before, remained in the top 100 in 2007 at 87. When moving to a consideration of the top 5,000 books sold in Australia in 2006, BookScan reveals only 62 books categorised as life writing in the top 1,000, and only 222 in the top 5,000 (with 34 titles between 1,000 and 1,999, 45 between 2,000 and 2,999, 48 between 3,000 and 3,999, and 33 between 4,000 and 5,000). 2007 shows a similar total of 235 life writing texts in the top 5,000 bestselling books (75 titles in the first 1,000, 27 between 1,000 and 1,999, 51 between 2,000 and 2,999, 39 between 3,000 and 3,999, and 43 between 4,000 and 5,000). In both years, 2006 and 2007, life writing thus not only constituted only some 4% of the bestselling 5,000 titles in Australia, it also showed only minimal change between these years and, therefore, no significant growth. Conclusions Our investigation using various instruments that claim to reflect levels of book sales reveals that Western readers’ willingness to purchase published life writing has not changed significantly over the past century. We find no evidence of either a short, or longer, term growth or boom in sales in such books. Instead, it appears that what has been widely heralded as a new golden age of life writing may well be more the result of an expanded understanding of what is included in the genre than an increased interest in it by either book readers or publishers. What recent years do appear to have seen, however, is a significantly increased interest by public commentators, critics, and academics in this genre of writing. We have also discovered that the issue of our current obsession with the lives of others tends to be discussed in academic as well as popular fora as if what applies to one sub-genre or production form applies to another: if biography is popular, then autobiography will also be, and vice versa. If reality television programming is attracting viewers, then readers will be flocking to life writing as well. Our investigation reveals that such propositions are questionable, and that there is significant research to be completed in mapping such audiences against each other. This work has also highlighted the difficulty of separating out the categories of written texts in publishing studies, firstly in terms of determining what falls within the category of life writing as distinct from other forms of non-fiction (the hybrid problem) and, secondly, in terms of separating out the categories within life writing. Although we have continued to use the terms biography and autobiography as sub-genres, we are aware that they are less useful as descriptors than they are often assumed to be. In order to obtain a more complete and accurate picture, publishing categories may need to be agreed upon, redefined and utilised across the publishing industry and within academia. This is of particular importance in the light of the suggestions (from total sales volumes) that the audiences for books are limited, and therefore the rise of one sub-genre may be directly responsible for the fall of another. Bair argues, for example, that in the 1980s and 1990s, the popularity of what she categorises as memoir had direct repercussions on the numbers of birth-to-death biographies that were commissioned, contracted, and published as “sales and marketing staffs conclude[d] that readers don’t want a full-scale life any more” (17). Finally, although we have highlighted the difficulty of using publishing statistics when there is no common understanding as to what such data is reporting, we hope this study shows that the utilisation of such material does add a depth to such enquiries, especially in interrogating the anecdotal evidence that is often quoted as data in publishing and other studies. Appendix 1 Publishers Weekly listings 1990–1999 1990 included two autobiographies, Bo Knows Bo by professional athlete Bo Jackson (with Dick Schaap) and Ronald Reagan’s An America Life: An Autobiography. In 1991, there were further examples of life writing with unimaginative titles, Me: Stories of My Life by Katherine Hepburn, Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography by Kitty Kelley, and Under Fire: An American Story by Oliver North with William Novak; as indeed there were again in 1992 with It Doesn’t Take a Hero: The Autobiography of Norman Schwarzkopf, Sam Walton: Made in America, the autobiography of the founder of Wal-Mart, Diana: Her True Story by Andrew Morton, Every Living Thing, yet another veterinary outpouring from James Herriot, and Truman by David McCullough. In 1993, radio shock-jock Howard Stern was successful with the autobiographical Private Parts, as was Betty Eadie with her detailed recounting of her alleged near-death experience, Embraced by the Light. Eadie’s book remained on the list in 1994 next to Don’t Stand too Close to a Naked Man, comedian Tim Allen’s autobiography. Flag-waving titles continue in 1995 with Colin Powell’s My American Journey, and Miss America, Howard Stern’s follow-up to Private Parts. 1996 saw two autobiographical works, basketball superstar Dennis Rodman’s Bad as I Wanna Be and figure-skater, Ekaterina Gordeeva’s (with EM Swift) My Sergei: A Love Story. In 1997, Diana: Her True Story returns to the top 10, joining Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes and prolific biographer Kitty Kelly’s The Royals, while in 1998, there is only the part-autobiography, part travel-writing A Pirate Looks at Fifty, by musician Jimmy Buffet. There is no biography or autobiography included in either the 1999 or 2000 top 10 lists in Publishers Weekly, nor in that for 2005. In 2001, David McCullough’s biography John Adams and Jack Welch’s business memoir Jack: Straight from the Gut featured. In 2002, Let’s Roll! Lisa Beamer’s tribute to her husband, one of the heroes of 9/11, written with Ken Abraham, joined Rudolph Giuliani’s autobiography, Leadership. 2003 saw Hillary Clinton’s autobiography Living History and Paul Burrell’s memoir of his time as Princess Diana’s butler, A Royal Duty, on the list. In 2004, it was Bill Clinton’s turn with My Life. In 2006, we find John Grisham’s true crime (arguably a biography), The Innocent Man, at the top, Grogan’s Marley and Me at number three, and the autobiographical The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama in fourth place. Appendix 2 Amazon.com listings since 2000 In 2000, there were only two auto/biographies in the top Amazon 50 bestsellers with Lance Armstrong’s It’s Not about the Bike: My Journey Back to Life about his battle with cancer at 20, and Dave Eggers’s self-consciously fictionalised memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius at 32. In 2001, only the top 14 bestsellers were recorded. At number 1 is John Adams by David McCullough and, at 11, Jack: Straight from the Gut by USA golfer Jack Welch. In 2002, Leadership by Rudolph Giuliani was at 12; Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro at 29; Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper by Patricia Cornwell at 42; Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative by David Brock at 48; and Louis Gerstner’s autobiographical Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance: Inside IBM’s Historic Turnaround at 50. In 2003, Living History by Hillary Clinton was 7th; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson 14th; Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How President Bill Clinton Endangered America’s Long-Term National Security by Robert Patterson 20th; Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer 32nd; Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor of Jordan 33rd; Kate Remembered, Scott Berg’s biography of Katharine Hepburn, 37th; Who’s your Caddy?: Looping for the Great, Near Great and Reprobates of Golf by Rick Reilly 39th; The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship about a winning baseball team by David Halberstam 42nd; and Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong 49th. In 2004, My Life by Bill Clinton was the best selling book of the year; American Soldier by General Tommy Franks was 16th; Kevin Phillips’s American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush 18th; Timothy Russert’s Big Russ and Me: Father and Son. Lessons of Life 20th; Tony Hendra’s Father Joe: The Man who Saved my Soul 23rd; Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton 27th; Cokie Roberts’s Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised our Nation 31st; Kitty Kelley’s The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty 42nd; and Chronicles, Volume 1 by Bob Dylan was 43rd. In 2005, auto/biographical texts were well down the list with only The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion at 45 and The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeanette Walls at 49. In 2006, there was a resurgence of life writing with Nora Ephron’s I Feel Bad About My Neck: and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman at 9; Grisham’s The Innocent Man at 12; Bill Buford’s food memoir Heat: an Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany at 23; more food writing with Julia Child’s My Life in France at 29; Immaculée Ilibagiza’s Left to Tell: Discovering God amidst the Rwandan Holocaust at 30; CNN anchor Anderson Cooper’s Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters and Survival at 43; and Isabella Hatkoff’s Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship (between a baby hippo and a giant tortoise) at 44. 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