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The article traces the changes in everyday practices of production and consumption of amateur photographs at the beginning of the XXIst century. The authors argue that transformations were caused by a massive shift towards use of digital cameras and by rapid development of Web 2.0. As a result, the number of amateur photographs posted in Internet has dramatically increased. This led to criticism resulted in uprising of specific resistance practices. Among the resistance practices are return to film-type cameras and the lomography movement.
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In recent years the research on digital skills, media literacy, and social aspects of ICT has grown in significance. The 50+ generation is a group of special interest in this field, as it is especially threatened by the digital divide. The experience gained so far and the results of conducted research suggest possible need for a reconsideration of methodological issues. Research methods have been dominated by surveys and individual in‑depth interviews. Both of these have limits and constraints which may influence the interpretation of results and the conclusions drawn from the research. Some research contexts show that operationalization of digital skills and media literacy appears to be problematic. Conclusions from the analysis indicate a need for adjusting research tools, especially by expanding them through the addition of practical tasks.
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Change is defined transforming an object from its existing level into its new state. Today, technology is potentially the area where the change occurs most frequently and even the fastest. Continuous innovation in technology and ever expanding needs related to that, are mostly touching our lives. As people are the most important resource for a banking organization, applied technologies should be designed to support information management, decision making and execution processes keeping human factor in the focus. In this study, the positive and negative effects on the employees of change scrutiny and individuals to take an active role in this process of necessity will be highlighted. Also in this study, banks and staff necessary strategic solutions of conflicts about what happened without ignore, operation of the technological changes of managers with employees and impressed with how is referred to as the psychological. For this reason, this work from this perspective, the concept of change in technology and individuals started the results and these results emphasized the importance of strategic management.
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Increasingly, mobile learning has been considered as a part of professional development due to its unique attributes: ubiquitous, flexible, highly personalized and easily accessible. It represents a paradigm shift for continuous professional development especially amongst teachers who have a tight working schedule. This paper will provide a conceptual framework for the design of a mobile learning course for UAE teachers’ professional development. It aims to assist teachers to continuously engage in professional development activities and mitigating challenges such as time constraints, suitability of training content, impactful strategies and personalization of learning. A smart conceptual framework based on the three important principles of learning design was developed and pilot tested. The main elements of the conceptual framework and the results of the pilot test are presented in this paper.
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In the Strategic Communications (StratCom) community, we work to get effects, actions, and changes in behaviour from our target audiences. Intuitively one would argue that we are on a mission to persuade people to do things differently, or at least to change their opinions. ‘Winning hearts and minds’ may seem easy, especially when you have the truth, logic, or at least a lot of money on your side. However, years of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan haven proven this to be wrong, and through the fields of social psychology and behavioural economics we now know that there is indeed a bit more to it. Attitudes do not necessarily predict behaviour. Why then is a narrative still so important, or why does propaganda work at all?
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There are different ways to exclude the elderly, but the most common and most drastic is their exclusion from the world of work by losing a job with poor prospects for re-employment. Reaffirming and using the competencies, knowledge and experience of older workers (and retired citizens) contributes to the development and well-being of the community, offers an important human and professional resource to employers and enables younger members of the community to acquire knowledge and skills that they have not received in regular education. Work Performance Management System is a process in which evaluation of employee performance as well as characteristics that each employee possesses are carried out in order to be improved in the future and in accordance with the goals to be achieved in order to achieve the planned / set business result. Monitoring and evaluating work performance is a precondition for performing a whole range of human resources management tasks, which is very difficult to implement without the adequate support of information systems. In this scientific paper is presented the ethalon model of the structure of the information system for human resources management. This approach is HRIS, a separate integral solution, an etalon model, which has its own structure, a multitude of software solutions, functionality and properties from the perspective of HRM and IT.The model summarizes all significant modules of this development solution, which support the processes, subprocesses and professional activities of the human resource management system, and more detailed are presented module of performance management and its key functionalities.
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Purpose: To research features of TV programming regarding the presence of Bulgarian films on the TV screens Results: Proves that commercial TV programming is deliberately aimed at the most uneducated part of the audience and meets its needs. This was achieved via one year monitoring of the leading Bulgarian TV stations. Contributions: This research exposes a huge problem in the promotion of socio-cultural patterns of behavior and mass culture. Everybody can do as they wish, as long as they win, as the neo-liberals say. The problem is that the cost of forced mediocrity will then be paid by everyone.
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This paper shows a new concept for optimization of Radio frequency spectrum (RFS) orbital resource in international domain. The RFS resource is necessary for proper operation of different telecommunications systems. This resource has three physical dimensions: frequency bandwidth, space coverage area and time. RFS has also quality characteristics: quality (purity) of the spectrum, RFS load, RFS use (consumption), public and professional interest in the use of RFS. A novel model for dimensioning of RFS is described and a short explanation is shown.
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The known in empirical economics question ‘Why so Few? Why so Slow? Why so Low?’ refers here to the persistently small number of women involved in innovative activities, the slowness of change in the inequalities between women and men in these fields, and women’s continuing lower rank in business and academic positions. In developing countries, women`s labour and entrepreneurial activity remains an ‘untapped resource’ for economic growth. In recent years, the rising proportion of women participating in the labour market has drawn the attention of many scholars. This positive change towards mobilising previously unused human resources is perceived as one of the positive externalities enhanced by the seemingly boundless flow of information and communication technology. This research examines, from a macroperspective, the association between economic deployment of ICT, women`s labour market participation, and economic growth in 64 developing countries between 1990 and 2017. We rely on the macrodata extracted from the World Bank Development Indicators (2018), the World Bank Enterprise Survey, the World Development Reports and the World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database (2018). Our methodological framework, in addition to standard descriptive statistics, combines time trends, graphical non-parametric analysis and panel vector-autoregressive models.
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Technology enhanced learning is shifting from a centralized platform environment to a variety of elements to support and enrich interactions between learners and educational material. In this context, the paper addresses the creation of eBooks in EPUB format based on the existing content in a Moodle environment. The main purpose is to create enriched eBooks capable of supporting and tracking student activity usually reserved to educational environments. The work describes a plug-in developed to support Moodle course translation to EPUB and details potential user tracking formalization using xAPI.
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The article shows religious phenomena as a part of agenda setting performed by Polish-language portals. The research included the content analysis of 3 intentionally chosen websites (niezalezna.pl, wPolityce.pl, telewizjarepublika.pl) identified as right-wing or conservative both by journalists and media researchers in Poland. The study was based on the assumption that communication via media has an effect on the formation of public opinion by raising specific topics, assigning meanings to objects, people or events, and moving issues from one agenda to another (e.g. from the area of politics to religion). The author also assumed that users and journalists working for right-wing portals view religion as a natural element of their worldview and are interested in religious themes. This is believed to be the reason why they pay more attention to these themes than journalists and publishers of left-wing media. The aim of the research was to find the basic topoi organizing narratives concerning religion, social contexts in which religion was situated and functions assigned to it in media interpretations. A qualitative analysis of texts regarding religious phenomena was performed. The results of the study showed that during the examined period of fifteen months between 2017-2018, most statements were related to Islam. However, the analyzed texts did not concern Poland directly. The texts focused on Islam in western Europe or other parts of the world. These fundamental topics were highlighted throughout the analysis using the agenda setting theory: conflict and violence, the clash of civilizations, demography, rivalry among religious ideas, the political agenda. Throughout the research, two components were distinguished – the cognitive and the affective. The cognitive component was based on scientific sources (for example, in texts about demographic problems), but then again it was limited to very basic and generalized statements. In the affective layer, negative emotions prevailed.
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The paper presents results of a study conducted within the Erasmus+ project GLAT which promotes the integration of activities for developing computational thinking and programming skills into daily teaching in primary school. The aim of the study is to identify to what extent are primary school junior grade teachers from Croatia prepared for developing these skills among their classroom students. The results show that there is a need for teacher training programmes on applying methods, activities and ICT tools for developing computational thinking in everyday teaching practice.
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The programme realization topic of the ways to copy cloning objects in object-oriented software projects is presented in the paper. The stress is on the subject of shallow and deep copy or the situations in which the copied objects have common resources with the original one. In many cases, programmers need to switch from one technology to another, which leads to the need of knowing the details of the implementation of a programme functionality in more than one programming languages. Different approaches for the implementation of the deep copy are demonstrated with examples in C++ and Java programming languages. Advantages and disadvantages of the presented methods are discussed.
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The present article aims at establishing some conclusions and summaries about the education quality in the Faculty of Business Management (FBM) with the University of Forestry (UF). The bachelor students’ opinion is studied for the purpose concerning the level of their preparation in Mathematics and Information technologies (IT) as an element of the system of quality in UF. The summarized replies of the inquiry give a possibility to evaluate student’s skills in applying mathematical methods and IT when mastering the curriculum of the disciplines from the educational plan of the FBM specialties. The results will help the improvement of the education quality in the faculty.
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The article presents the development of professional electronics, created to implement the technologies needed to modernize and increase the efficiency of the Romanian industry and economy, following the model of the advanced countries of the time. At the beginning, research institutes for Electrotechnics and Automation were set up, and since 1966 the first institutes and enterprises for professional electronics have been set up at MICM - the Ministry of Machine Building Industry: ICE - Institute for Electronic Research and IEMI - Enterprise of Measuring & Industrial Devices, followed by other units associated with them. In 1971, the Priority Program for Electronics and Related Fields was launched, which set development directions and electronics tasks in the first decade of application, mainly for MICM units that served the entire national economy. It should be noted that in those years departmental research was a highly applied one, including design too. The first part of the article presents the research in the field of professional electronics in ICE, finalized with prototypes produced at the main manufacturer, IEMI, and also the ICE microproduction activity. In the second part, entitled Applied Electronics, the professional electronics produced in the main units where their specific activity was strongly related to electronics is presented, namely: a) IFA / IFIN - Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering associated with FAN – Nuclear Apparatus Factory, for nuclear electronics; b) IFA and CFT – Iasi, Technical Center for magnetometry; c) ICEMENERG for power electronics; d) RomanianRadio and Television, for electronics related to reception and broadcasting processes, etc.
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A website has been created, which seeks to bring out the ways in which is possible, a pedagogic technique, based on exploiting the Internet, to achieve the “higher” learning goal, namely the cultivating of critical thinking. It contains chapters with the theoretical material on “Chemical Kinetics-Chemical Equilibrium” and related subunits. They have the appropriate theory and examples that the student should study before proceeding with the questions to check for understanding and the proposed exercises. It addresses the students in order to help them move away from the classical method of learning from the book and on the other hand to help them experiment with the use of the computer, in order to turn the lesson more attractive to all of them. Except for the creation of the website and its structure, various online tools are presented for its implementation. The goal was for the students to understand the theoretical framework that covers the concepts of “Chemical Kinetics-Chemical Equilibrium”, to have their active participation and to maintain their interest during the teaching of the subunits undiminished.
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The paper presents the results of the work of the Russian sub-team from the city of Arkhangelsk – a part of the international team of students. The team was created in connection with the realization of the net research project “Encyclopedia of Notable Plane Curves: We Write by Ourselves”. The research was made by using the software program GeoGebra. Methods from Analytical Geometry were applied for proving the corresponding hypothesis. The net interaction between the participants was carried out in Google Cloud service.
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Improving financial literacy for all segments of the population is a global problem which solving is aim of many international and national projects. It is not possible to find a sufficient solution without drawing attention to mathematical methods for adequate understanding and assessment of financial situation and taking optimal decisions. This is the goal of the Olympiad, established by two Bulgarian universities: the Higher School of Insurance and Finance (VUZF) in Sofia and the Economics University in Varna. Russia participated in the 2018-2019 edition of the Olympiad for the third time. This paper presents the Olympiad task solutions and gives information about the solution difficulties faced by the students. The authors hope that this information will be helpful for Olympiad questions developers and the participants’ coaches.
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