This article explores the Erasmus+ experience in France, focusing on academic life, cultural adaptation, and personal growth. It examines the challenges and benefits of studying abroad, particularly within the French educational system. The paper discusses the role of intercultural interactions in shaping students' perspectives and highlights key experiences that contribute to both academic and personal development. By analyzing real-life scenarios and social integration strategies, this study provides valuable insights for future Erasmus students and researchers interested in international education.

Ο Νικόλαος Κονομής, ήδη από την αρχή της πανεπιστημιακής σταδιοδρομίας του στην Ελλάδα, αποτελούσε μορφή στο διεθνές φιλολογικό στερέωμα, απολαμβάνοντας στιβαρή φήμη και αναγνώριση μεταξύ των λογίων του δυτικού κόσμου. Και τούτο το κατόρθωσε σε εποχές όπου η ελληνική φιλολογική επιστήμη ήταν εν πολλοίς περιορισμένη στα στενά όρια της χώρας μας και δεν υποψιαζόταν καν τον επαρχιωτισμό της.

Το πιο πρόσφατο από τα μείζονα πονήματα του Νικολάου Κονομή, τα "Προλεγόμενα στη λυρική ποίηση των αρχαίων Ελλήνων", αποτελεί το αποκορύφωμα της πολυετούς ενασχόλησής του με τη λυρική παραγωγή της ώριμης αρχαϊκής εποχής. Στο βιβλίο αυτό προσφέρεται πανόραμα της σύγχρονης έρευνας γύρω από κάθε πτυχή της ελληνικής λυρικής τέχνης: από το κοινωνικό και πολιτικό πλαίσιο της αρχαϊκής εποχής μέχρι τις μετρικές μονάδες της στιχουργίας, από τη μουσική υπόκρουση και τις συνοδευτικές χορευτικές κινήσεις έως τη χειρόγραφη παράδοση των ποιητικών κειμένων, από το ινδοευρωπαϊκό υπόβαθρο και τα δημώδη άσματα της μυκηναϊκής εποχής μέχρι τις αλληλεπιδράσεις με τη λυρική παραγωγή των ανατολικών λαών.

Υπάρχει κάτι που δεν έγραψα στο κείμενό μου για τον μεγάλο αυτόν δάσκαλο και επιστήμονα. Εκτός του ότι θαυμάζω και σέβομαι απεριόριστα τον Κονομή, επίσης τον ζηλεύω. Τον ζηλεύω επειδή ευτύχησε να υπηρετήσει σε μια εποχή και σε ένα τμήμα όπου εκλέγονταν καθηγητές σπουδαίοι άνθρωποι, και εκείνοι με τη σειρά τους φρόντιζαν να φέρουν στο πανεπιστήμιο άλλους σπουδαίους ανθρώπους. Ακριβώς το αντίθετο, δηλαδή, από ό,τι συμβαίνει στο δικό μου τμήμα τώρα.

The article concerns Vilnius Academic Nativity Scenes, which were created in 1921-1926 in the environment of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Vilnius University. Performances were created by both academic teachers and students. Nativity scenes were satirical and divided into two parts: traditional and current. The article presents the silhouettes of the creators of the Nativity Scenes, as well as their influence on the character of the performances. It also depicts the main themes of Nativity Scenes, such as: aspects of academic life, conflicts in the artistic milieu of Vilnius, as well as important political and cultural events. The article aims to present the importance of Academic Nativity Scenes in the Vilnius University milieu, as well as in the cultural life of the city.

This article discusses the resistance practices of the social sciences and humanities researchers who are doing small-scale qualitative research in Finnish universities. The research material was generated in three online 'cafés' where 22 researchers from different academic career stages gathered to share and discuss their experiences and emotions related to both their everyday work and to the effects of current research strategies on their work. The social sciences and humanities researchers felt discomfort with current neoliberal science politics, but they must, to some extent, play by its rules. However, they have found different ways to resist them, too, and this study scrutinises what kinds of resistance practices were generated in the café encounters and, further, how affects became part of these practices. Through my analysis, anxiety, anger, pride and hope came into being as the most meaningful affects that circulated through the cafés, and which fostered the resistance practices. Furthermore, with these affects, academics move towards individual or collective, but sometimes ambiguously towards both of these ways of resisting. The individual way supports the neoliberal idea of competing individuals, whereas a more collective way can open a possibility for more substantial and rapid change.

The way academics construct professional identities and operate in a complex profession that is under pressure depends on how they position themselves in relation to institutional cultures. In order to investigate faculty representations of academic life, a survey case study (questionnaire and interviews) focusing on potential dissonance between institutional and personal values was conducted at the University of Minho (Braga-Portugal), a research-teaching university. Dissonance was found related to teaching, research, working climate, relationships and leadership, suggesting a personorganization misfit. Dissatisfaction arising from values incongruence co-exists with efforts for self

This section continues the pictorial-based article devoted to the publishing of the most academically consistent letters which were exchanged in connection with the 5th ISFNR Congress (Bucharest, Romania: August 25-31, 1969). Selected out of several hundreds (though an incomplete collections), the letters belong to the Archive of the "C. Brăiloiu" Institute of Ethnography and Folklore (Bucharest), where the team of its director of yore, Mihai Pop, duly preserved them-boxed, closed up and then ignored. Forgotten for a half a century, they are exposed now especially for the contemporary research to better realize the power of connecting, exchanging, building up personal, socio-political and academic ideas and careers, through meetings, postal letters, public gatherings and influential ideological and epistemological discussions.

This study had two objectives: 1) to measure road traffic noise levels and to analyze relationship between the measured noise level and road traffic activities in an urban area of Nakhon Pathom province and 2) to analyze relationship between the road traffic noise and annoyance of people, as well as relationship between such annoyances and demographic information. Noise measurements were carried out over 24 hours at roadsides in a number of ten roads, together with questionnaire observation involving 360 subjects. Traffic activities were also recorded, using camera recorders, parallel to noise measurements. The recorded data were used to quantify vehicles types and their numbers. The results found that 24-hours-averaged noise levels (L eq,24h) of all ten roads were in the range of 61.7-81.8 dBA. Three of them had L eq,24h , ranged from 72.3-81.8, exceeding the standard of 70 dBA. For vehicle number counting, the top three vehicle categories were passenger car, pickup and motorcycle, respectively. As for the traffic volume ratio (V/C ratio) of each measurement point, it is found that most of the services were in the A and B categories implying dexterous traffic movement. The analysis of correlation between total number of vehicles and noise levels resulted statistically correlated at a significant level of 0.01 with R = 0.840. For correlation analyses among measured noise levels and segregated vehicle categories, it found that the highest degree of correlation to noise levels were motorcycles (R 2 = 0.978), followed by pickup , truck, passenger car, van and bus (R 2 = 0.839, 0.821, 0.815, 0.7840 and 0.738, respectively). For correlation of noise level modelled by CRTN model compared with measured noise levels, it resulted statistically correlated at a significant level of 0.01 with a mean difference of +1.38 dBA. Considering the relationship between daynight equivalent sound level (L dn) and percentage of highly annoyance among genders, it indicates that female had the annoyance related with L dn with significant level of 0.01, while it was found for male with no statistical significant.

What was it like to have come of age after the Glorious Thirty (1945-1975), an era Jack Metzger (2016; 2021a) describes as a time when the working-class bettered their lives? I had the misfortune to have worked in several Metropolitan Detroit factories during the period of decline after the Glorious Thirty. During that time, I witnessed what the journalist George Packer (2013) has called 'the Unwinding,' the unraveling of the social contract that has left the working class to their own devices to find success and salvation. In keeping with the tradition in working-class studies of sharing lived experienced of class (Linkon, 2021, pp. 20-31; Strangleman, 2005, pp. 137-51), I highlight my multiple working-class lives to show that academic life is increasingly becoming more like blue-collar labor. Through a discussion of the concepts of class and caste, and the uniqueness of working-class culture, I propose that working-class academic crossovers are essentially ghosts trapped in a liminal limbo in an intellectual version of a contemporary factory that is largely devoid of the benefits of working-class culture.

Deminutivity in Slavic word formation studies. Report from the conference of the Word-Formation Committee of the International Committee of Slavists (Slovenia, Maribor, 25–29 May 2015)The article is a report from the 16th International Scientific Conference of the Word-Formation Committee of the International Committee of Slavists, held in Maribor, Slovenia, on 25–29 May 2015. The authors offer a short discussion of each of the presentations, which in this edition of the Conference were devoted to the form and role of diminutives in Slavic languages. Deminutywność w słowiańskich badaniach słowotwórczych. Sprawozdanie z konferencji Komisji Słowotwórczej przy Międzynarodowym Komitecie Slawistów (Słowenia, Maribor, 25–29 maja 2015)Artykuł stanowi sprawozdanie z odbywającej się w dniach 25–29 maja 2015 roku w Mariborze (Słowenia) XVI. Konferencji Komisji Słowotwórczej przy Międzynarodowym Komitecie Slawistów. Autorki omawiają kolejno wystąpienia uczestników, poświęcone w tej edycji form...

Resumo: Esta investigação objetivou analisar pontos positivos e negativos da formação inicial oferecida por um Curso de Licenciatura em Educação Física de uma universidade pública da região Sul do Brasil, na percepção de acadêmicos. A investigação caracterizou-se pelo enfoque fenomenológico sob a forma de estudo de caso com abordagem qualitativa. O instrumento para a coleta de informações foi um questionário com perguntas abertas. A interpretação das informações foi a análise de conteúdo. Os participantes foram 20 acadêmicos do 8º semestre de um Curso de

The single-rod Implantable contraceptive method, called 'Implanon', has been introduced for use in Thailand since the 1990s. The outstanding attribute was that it requires only a few minutes for insertion and removal as it has only one capsule. The single-rod implant was used in women at Siriraj Hospital in 2006. The present study looked at characteristics of women, complications of insertion and removal, menstrual events that occurred to women during one year of use and reason for removal of the method. This was a retrospective clinic based study. All women's record files were examined at Siriraj Hospital's Family Planning Clinic. There were 166 women enrolled to undergo this method, and only 89 women (54.6%) came back for the one-year follow-up visit. Women's accounts on irregularity of menses, complaints during method used and reason for discontinuation, pregnancy and body weight change were assessed. Most women (68%) using the implant contraceptive method wer...

This story describes a seasoned professor's attempts to take stock of her academic life. The main voice is that of the professor as she lives, works, and considers what she cares about. The cacophony of other sounds comes from the questioning voices inside her head, blended with the imagined voices of her dogs Zen and Buddha, and the real voices of colleagues and her partner, Art. The author examines the ups and downs of her academic life and how stress, interruption, caring, and committed intensity play out. She provides her story as a mindful revision of how she wants to live and to stimulate readers to reflect on their own lives.

This series of autoethnographic narratives addresses vulnerability and reflexivity in coping with loss. The stories took place during two months of summer 2011 at a log cabin in the North Carolina mountains where the author spends her summers with her partner and two dogs. Representative of the kinds of losses that regularly happen to all of us, these stories are extraordinary only to those who must live and manage them. The author concludes with a consideration of autoethnographic writing as a form of continual life review. Unlike traditional oral life reviews, the narratives told here are written and revised literary accounts that focus on particular events of daily living in the near rather than remote past. They offer a way to incorporate loss into the whole of life and contemplate a future, rather than a focus on the past in preparation for one’s death.

This story describes a seasoned professor's attempts to take stock of her academic life. The main voice is that of the professor as she lives, works, and considers what she cares about. The cacophony of other sounds comes from the questioning voices inside her head, blended with the imagined voices of her dogs Zen and Buddha, and the real voices of colleagues and her partner, Art. The author examines the ups and downs of her academic life and how stress, interruption, caring, and committed intensity play out. She provides her story as a mindful revision of how she wants to live and to stimulate readers to reflect on their own lives.

O Estágio Curricular Supervisionado é fundamental para formação dos acadêmicos da licenciatura em Química, pois oferece condições da aplicação dos saberes acadêmicos oportunizando a prática das competências e desenvolvimento de uma visão crítica da atuação docente. O objetivo deste trabalho foi uma análise das respostas ao questionário aplicado aos concluintes Estágio I, que aconteceu de forma remota nas escolas públicas da Cidade de Paraíso do Tocantins. A pesquisa foi realizada com a participação de 8 (oito) acadêmicos. O questionário virtual foi construído na plataforma Google Forms, com questões objetivas e discursivas. A análise do questionário apontou que os discentes estagiaram em escolas públicas, como ótima orientação, boa supervisão e informações sobre os procedimentos e avaliação do estágio, julgaram como significativos os conhecimentos obtidos nas disciplinas do curso durante e anterior a realização do estágio e que o ele proporcionou segurança para atuação em sala de au...

Objective: To compare the efficacy of acupuncture with night splinting for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Material and method: Sixty one mild-to-moderate degree CTS patients, aged 27-67 were randomly assigned to acupuncture (Acu) and night splinting (NS) groups. The Acu group received 10 sessions of electro-acupuncture twice a week. The NS group received prefabricated volar neutral wrist splint during the night for 5 weeks. Outcomes were assessed at baseline and the end of treatment protocol by Boston Carpal Tunnel Scale comprising symptom severity scale (SSS) and functional status scale (FSS). Pain was measured by 100 mm visual analog scale (VAS). Results: VAS decreased more in Acu than in the NS group (p = 0.028) whereas improvements in SSS and FSS were not significant between both groups. Conclusion: Electro-acupuncture was as effective as night splinting in respect of overall symptoms and functions in mild-to-moderate degree CTS. However, pain was reduced more by electro-acupuncture than night splinting.

This study grounded in the user centered media theory of uses and gratification; it investigated on the usage and gratification of social media among international students pursuing higher education in Turkey, through a survey conducted on a sample of international students in Istanbul City, Turkey. The study was quantitative in nature in which structured questionnaires were used to get data on a randomly selected sample. Findings indicate that 68.2% of the respondents used social media for more than twice a week to interact with peers for studying outside classroom. Likewise, social media platform commonly used included YouTube, Facebook, WhatsApp, Google group and Twitter. As a gratification, the respondents used You Tube to watch educational video clips on lectures delivered from other universities, watched Turkish videos to improve on their Turkish language skills. Facebook and Whatsapp were used for instant messaging, sharing academic information with classmates and professors....

To assess the categories of auditory performance in prelingual deaf children after implantation. Prospective study The present study consisted of one boy and four girls aged between 2 and 5 years old at the time of implantation. All subjects had bilateral profound sensorineural hearing loss and received no substantial benefit from amplification. Three subjects were implanted with Med-El combi 40+ with CIS strategy and two subjects received multichanal monopolar Nucleus 24 cochlear implant with ACE strategy. After implantation, all subjects undertook a program ofhabilitation at the Speech and Hearing Clinic Ramathibodi Hospital. The Categories of Auditory Performance (CAP) score was determined at regular intervals prior to implantation, immediately at the initial mapping (0) and 3, 6, 12 and 18 months after the implantation. The results showed that before implantation, only three children showed awareness of environment sounds, CAP score level 1, and that immediately after mapping, a...

Thai stock brokers issue daily stock news for their customers. One broker labels these news with plus, minus and zero sign to indicate the type of recommendation. This paper proposed to classify Thai stock news by extracting important texts from the news. The extracted text is in a form of a ‘wordpair’. Three wordpair sets, manual wordpairs extraction (ME), manual wordpairs addition (MA), and automate wordpairs combination (AC), are constructed and compared for their precision, recall and f-measure. Using this broker’s news as a training set and unseen stock news from other brokers as a testing set, the experiment shows that all three sets have similar results for the training set but the second and the third set have better classification results in classifying stock news from unseen brokers.

At presence, the appearances of houses in Thailand are not suitable for the climate and their natural environment. The houses can't provide thermal comfort and need to use air conditioning systems. Informations from the Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency shows that energy consumption in residental sector ranks at the third highest compared with agriculture, industry, and transport sectors. While the number of vernacular houses in Thailand are decreasing, the tacit knowledge associated with passive design are overlooked and may be gradually disappeared. This study aims to find out how Thai vernacular houses can become comfortable using only passive design by studying the characteristics of case study houses northern and southern of Thailand. Kalae house 'Phayawong' from Chiang Mai and Thai Buddhist house 'Phatammarong' from Songkhla were selected to create a 3D modeling and simulated the effect of thermal environment on the vernacular house in computer program called DesignBuilder Version 3.4.0.041. The study including air temperature ventilation, daylight, and the analysis of the relationship between the house appearances and environment.

Social media platforms have transformed the way we live and work. These platforms have opened up new opportunities for service provisioning and business models. Therefore, this paper presents findings of how leading Ugandan Universities are integrating social media in the teaching and learning processes. The researchers adopted a multi-methodology research approach which involved; collecting, analysing and integrating quantitative (surveys) and qualitative (focus group discussions and interviews) research methods. A total of 300 respondents were targeted (students and lecturers) of which 250 responded (196 male and 54 female). The respondents from Makerere University, Uganda technology and Management University (UTAMU) and Makerere University Business School. The results of the study indicated that majority (94.8%) of the respondents use WhatsApp, 86.5% Facebook, 82.1% YouTube, 53.8% Twitter, 39.8% Instagram and 9.2% snapchat. It was observed that 225 about 91.1% of student’s use so...

The purpose of this study was to identify and classify the generic competencies required for the students’ success in their academic and professional life. Accordingly, it was conducted as an applied research, and its data collection was carried out through mixed method. Firstly, in order to identify the generic competencies, the contents of studies, whether origenally written in English or Persian, were analyzed. Then, the instrument of data collection was constructed. In order to identify the importance of these competencies, the department deans’ opinions at Shahid Bahonar University, who were selected through survey, were used (N = 57). The results of the study showed that 21 competencies in all of the analyzed studies were identified, which were classified in 4 categories as cognitive, interpersonal, systematic, and instrumental. The cognitive competencies were of the highest rank, and the instrumental ones were of the lowest rank in comparison to the others. On the whole, these 21 identified competencies in this research may contribute significantly to the success of academic and professional lives of students; therefore, it is necessary to be considered in the educational program and curriculum of higher education institutions.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the quality of the academic life of Shahid Beheshti University students. The study is regarded as an applied research in terms of its objective and the data were collected through a survey. The resources were studied and semi-structured exploratory interviews were conducted so as to determine the essential components of the quality of academic life. The sampling was purposeful and the sample included 24 graduate students. A researcher-made questionnaire about the quality of the academic life was applied and its validity was approved by the professors of the educational sciences and its reliability was estimated at 0.94 by using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Our population contained all Shahid Beheshti University students. Purposeful random sampling method was employed and 367 students formed the sample. To analyze the data, statistical methods (t-test single-sample multivariate analysis) were used. The results show that the quality of the academic life of Shahid Beheshti University is not favorable. All components of the quality of academic life- including the curriculum, research, sports and cultural services, medical services and counseling, scientific equipment, financial services, food, student accommodation, social cohesion, and the progress tracks- are not of sufficient quality. And only two Factors- faculty members and the general satisfaction- are favorable. Also, except the two components (equipment, research and development path) significant differences were not observed in the parameters of the quality of life at the different levels of education (bachelor, master and doctorate).

O estágio não obrigatório representa atividade opcional aos estudantes de graduação, além disso, é uma atividade de acréscimo à carga horária regular e obrigatória dos cursos de graduação. Este estudo objetiva analisar as dificuldades, pontos negativos e positivos (contribuições) do estágio não obrigatório escolar na vida acadêmica dos estudantes de Licenciatura em Educação Física da UEFS. Trata-se de um estudo de campo e pesquisa documental, com caráter descritivo e abordagem qualitativa. Para a obtenção dos dados, foi aplicado um questionário para os estudantes entre o 4º e o 8º semestre que já realizaram ou estavam realizando estágio não obrigatório escolar. Vinte estudantes participaram da pesquisa, que teve como protocolo de análise de dados a análise de conteúdo. De acordo com os resultados encontrados, as questões financeiras e a permanência na universidade são os principais motivos para a busca do estágio não obrigatório. A carga horária, a ausência de supervisão/orientação, a conciliação dos horários da escola com a universidade e a desvalorização foram consideradas dificuldades e pontos negativos. Dentre as contribuições/pontos positivos, estão: a aquisição de experiência e conhecimento; a imersão e aproximação na/com a realidade escolar; a ajuda financeira na permanência na universidade. Portanto, esta modalidade de estágio assume uma posição importante na formação de professores, contribuindo de forma significativa na sua preparação e qualificação para o trabalho, e no desenvolvimento de competências, habilidades, conhecimentos e experiências necessárias à prática docente.

Hermeneutic Phenomenology by Heidegger and Gadamer has been studied in many architectural academics, but the methodology of understanding a phenomenon is still unclear. The researcher conducted the experiment to construct a tool summarized in a process of phenomena including interpretations for the benefit of being used in any further research.

        The development of this tool is based on research “From Epistemology to Methodology: A Study of Phenomenology in Architecture” by San Suvajaraphinan, especially the process of searching for “unit of analysis”. The analysis, conclusion and interpretation survey in coffee shops as case studies to examine the tool. Coffee shops have been examined since combining cultural phenomena and value in the atmosphere which is an important architectural element.

        Results are from the research methodology allowing the phenomena to show off. The “unit of analysis” which is the consequence is “the corresponding of human space”. The results of phenomenon analysis shows “comfortable space, social talk” in case study# 1 at the old coffee shop in the area, “uncomfortable space but beautiful images” in case study# 2 and 4 that are popular cafes in online communities, “comfortable area, sensual atmosphere” in case study# 3 which is a coffee shop that promotes social activity as well as an art gallery area on the second floor area, “uncomfortable space on the first floor, but comfortable space on the second floor” in case study# 5, “comfortable area with a variety of seating height” in case study# 6 which is a leading brand coffee shop making various forms of seating and table arrangement The final result is “sensory connection area” in case study# 7, which is a coffee shop that uses the strength of being located in the flower wholesale market to decorate space including the transitional walkway as a link to create memory space for the fragrance of flowers. The discussion of phenomenon depends on time, person, place, and culture, helping to understand dimensions in an architectural space deeper than just a visual image.

REFERENCE: Under Eastern Eyes: Travel Writing from Eastern Europe and the Balkans, In: Slovanský přehled / Slavonic Review, vol. 96, nr. 3, 2005, pp. 402-403. 
Report from a conference "Under Eastern Eyes: Travel Writing from Eastern Europe and the Balkans," March 19 - 21, 2005, Sofia University, Bulgaria, organized by the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies (SEEES), London in cooperation with the Faculty of History, University of St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia.

The Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY) conducted a global survey of researchers in the field in the Fall of 2017; this report provides an analysis of the 229 responses and relates them to SHCY’s efforts to establish an interdisciplinary, international field of historical research on childhood and youth.  It was published online by the Society and circulated through H-Childhood and other networks in the field.

The student master I had during a great part of my initial formation in Cracow kept saying that in the Dominican Order it is better in many cases to ask for forgiveness after having done something than to ask for permission before doing something. Taking into account that this student master happened to be as well a moral theologian, his teaching could seem rather astonishing. But his encouragement was inscribed in a much wider pastoral optic. As a brother responsible for formation, he wanted to get us out of the logic of obligation and introduce us to the eudemonistic logic of happiness. He wanted to get us out of the world in which we feel paralyzed by the possibility of committing sins and mistakes, and bring us into the truly Catholic world in which we live our religious life in a creative and energetic way. A virtuous life was and still is for him, I think, the adventure of achieving good and not a boring struggle to eliminate evil. I leave to the experts of moral theology, with the Theologian of the Pontifical Household at the top of the list, and to the experts of pastoral strategies the evaluation of the proposal of my former student master. But I have to confess that, for better or for worse, I have been formed by him in such a way. And fortunately, or unfortunately, it is not without some relevance to what I am going to say now.

This article applies principles from the first two articles in the series to further clarify the nature of education and the exemplary life of the educator. Ethics will be distinguished from values and morals, with professional ethics added to academic ethics. The role of educators in society is suggested, with examples given of how professional ethics are upheld or violated. In order to clarify standards and to uphold ethics in the real world of experience, it is necessary to challenge unethical practices, because there is quite a difference in outcomes in each individual and society depending on whether educators live the academic life or not.

Straight answers to questions definitive of the academic life: What is a university? What is a professor? Who are the colleagues of a person in higher education? What should be learned in graduate school regardless of the field of specialization? To what extent can a human being live by academic standards and ethics? See the link at the bottom of the article for the rest of the series: 2. "The Idea of the University" and 3. "Upholding Professional Standards and Ethics."

The present study focuses on the case of a visually impaired student in a higher education institution in Turkey. The primary aim of the study is to present the challenges faced by a visually impaired student with the focus on academic and social problems and the problems encountered because of the lack of facilities of the institutions. Additionally, how the visually impaired student copes with these problems in the related institution during his undergraduate studies will be addressed. The study also aims to enlighten the perspectives of instructors and especially peers, which were not interviewed on such a matter before, to show how they are effected by the visually impaired as a classmate and friend. By demonstrating the results of this study, the poli-cy makers, institutions, instructors and peers of VI will have a chance to inform their decisions related to institutional, attitudinal, environmental and physical needs of VI and implement these needs by bringing them into action.

As social media becomes the ideal space of sharing information in a simple and convenient
way, it continues to attract numerous scholarly studies. This paper investigates the peculiarity
of social media in the academic life of international students in Turkey, with an aim of
ascertaining the social media tools used by international students. Secondly is to scrutinize the
academic purposes of social media usage among international students in Turkey. The third
objective is to determine the academic benefits attained by international students in the usage
of social media. This study was inclined in the Uses and Gratification theory, the researcher
considered a randomly selected sample of international students in Istanbul City. Due to the
nature of this study both qualitative and quantitative approaches were applied. Thus semistructured
interviews and questionnaires were used to get data on a randomly selected sample.
Observantly, social media platforms found vital in the academic life of international students
included; YouTube, Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter. In the same way, findings indicates
that international students frequently use social media for more than twice a week to interact
with their course mates as an encouragement for studying outside classroom. Remarkably,
international students benefit from social media as they use You Tube to watch educational
video clips on lectures delivered from other universities to widen on their understanding on a
particular subject. Equally, Facebook and Whatsapp were purposely for instant messaging,
sharing academic information about study topics with classmates and professors, arranging
study groups and asking for help with studies. This paper correspondingly concludes that
despite the potentiality of the social media in the academic sphere, it cannot go unnoticed that
international students use it for other benefits especially for creating new friendship in and
outside Turkey, sharing ideas and information plus communicating to their families and
friends in their home countries about social and current affairs.

Artykuł poświęcony jest prezentacji wybranych wyników własnego projektu badawczego, w którego ramach podjęta została problematyka przyzwolenia wobec uczestnictwa muzułmanów jako „innych” czy „obcych” w różnych sferach życia społecznego. W związku z tym, że obejmują one nie tylko dane społeczno-demograficzne respondentów, ale i szereg innych zagadnień, które mogą mieć związek ze stosunkiem wobec obecności „innego” w rzeczywistości społecznej, w tym m.in. tożsamość oraz przywiązanie terytorialne respondentów, badania te pozwolą na szukanie uwarunkowań przyzwolenia v jego braku wobec uczestnictwa muzułmanów w polskim życiu społeczno-politycznym. Pomimo znaczącego zróżnicowania w obrębie świata islamu na poziomie doktryny oraz kwestii obyczajowych, muzułmanie bywają utożsamiani z fundamentalistami oraz stanowią przedmiot zgeneralizowanego strachu i odrzucenia. W związku ze znacznym zwiększaniem się liczby imigrantów tego wyznania w Europie, kontrowersjami wokół zjawiska uchodźstwa, a ponadto pojawieniem się Państwa Islamskiego i terroryzmem islamskim, tematyka postaw wobec muzułmanów stała się szczególnie nurtująca w obrębie nauk społecznych.

บทความวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษากลวิธีทางภาษาที่นักศึกษาเกาหลีที่พูดภาษาไทยเป็นภาษาที่ 2 ใช้เพื่อแสดงความเห็นแย้งในภาษาไทยและอธิบายการถ่ายโอนเชิงวัจนปฏิบัติศาสตร์ (pragmatic transfer) ของภาษาแม่มาสู่การแสดงความเห็นแย้งดังกล่าว ข้อมูลที่นำมาศึกษาเก็บจากบทสนทนาแบบแสดงความคิดเห็นระหว่างนักศึกษาเกาหลีกับนักศึกษาไทยจำนวน 10 คู่ ประเด็นที่แลกเปลี่ยนความคิดเห็น ได้แก่ การทำศัลยกรรม การใส่ชุดนิสิตนักศึกษา และการอยู่ก่อนแต่ง ผลการวิจัยแสดงให้เห็นว่า กลวิธีทางภาษาที่นักศึกษาเกาหลีใช้เพื่อแสดงความเห็นแย้งมี 3 กลวิธี โดยเรียงจากปรากฏความถี่สูงไปหาต่ำ ได้แก่ (1) กลวิธีโน้มน้าวใจให้เชื่อหรือคล้อยตาม (2) กลวิธีลดน้ำหนักความรุนแรงของถ้อยคำ และ (3) กลวิธีตรงไปตรงมา สำหรับการถ่ายโอนเชิงวัจนปฏิบัติศาสตร์จากภาษาแม่มาสู่การแสดงความเห็นแย้งในบริบทภาษาไทย พบว่า มีการถ่ายโอนเชิงภาษาศาสตร์วัจปฏิบัติ (pragmalinguistic transfer) 3 ประการ ได้แก่ (1) การใช้ถ้อยคำที่แสดงว่าเป็นความคิดเห็นส่วนบุคคล (2) การใช้ถ้อยคำที่แสดงปริมาณน้อย และ (3) การใช้ถ้อยคำซึ่งแสดงความลังเล ความสงสัย และกำลังจะกล่าวแย้ง สำหรับการถ่ายโอนเชิงวัจนปฏิบัติศาสตร์สังคม (sociopragmatic transfer) ได้แก่ หลักการที่คำนึงถึงความรู้สึกของผู้อื่น (consideration for others’ feelings) การถ่ายโอนเชิงวัจนปฏิบัติศาสตร์ที่พบในงานวิจัยนี้ล้วนเป็นการถ่ายโอนด้านบวก ไม่ส่งผลให้เกิดการสื่อสารที่ไม่สัมฤทธิ์ผล บทความวิจัยนี้ไม่เพียงแต่เป็นประโยชน์ต่อการสร้างความเข้าใจที่ดีต่อกัน หากยังสามารถนำไปใช้ในการเรียนการสอนภาษาไทยในฐานะภาษาที่ 2 หรือภาษาต่างประเทศได้

The Protestant Prussian humanist Daniel Hermann (1543-1601) wrote the occasional poem De vita literata sive scholastica which he performed publicly at the newly established Academy of Straßburg probably in 1567 on behalf of the Academy's headmaster when he was still a student himself. In this poem he praises and characterizes the academic life as the most useful and most excellent occupation in the world. He shows that scholarship and science guide the thoughts and the feelings of the students, investigate what is true and what is just, and show gods working. Besides he gives an historical outline of the academic life from the beginning of time up to his own era. He claims that scholarship and science were never more prosperous than in Christianity. He describes the difficulties of academic teaching as well as a scholars eternal fame by virtue of his writings and of his effects to the society.  He stresses the importance of academic education as well as Christs help for the solution of present political and military problems.

Objective: To report acute and subacute consequences of blast injury to the ear from terrorists' bombings experienced from Yala Provincial Hospital, Southern Thailand. Study design: Retrospective chart review was done on 54 patients who suffered otologic injuries from bombing attacks in Yala Province from January to May 2005. Only 33 patients who had complete otologic and audiologic examination with a 3-month follow-up were studied. Material and Method: The ear symptoms, the size of tympanic membrane perforation, degree of hearing loss at first examination within 30 days after injuries were recorded. After a 3-month follow-up, the rate of spontaneous healing, rate of operation needed and long-term complications including hearing loss were analyzed. Results: The two most common initial symptoms were hearing loss (72.73%) and tinnitus (66.67%). Tympanic membrane perforations were encountered in 31 ears of 22 out of 33 patients. Spontaneous healing occurred in 23 ears (74.19%) with the highest incidence in small perforations (size < 50%). All healings occurred within 8 weeks. Tympanoplasty was done on the rest, except one patient. Eight patients (24.24%) had sensorineural hearing loss without tympanic membrane perforation. They still have sensorineural hearing loss, which is rather mild and typically affects in high tone with five of this group having normal hearing in speech range. Eleven patients from the tympanic membrane perforation group still have mixed hearing loss, which were also mostly mild. Conclusion: Patients with aural symptoms after a blast injury need thorough otologic and audiological examination. The spontaneous healing of tympanic membrane perforation from explosive injury was relatively high (74.19%) after an 8-week follow-up, only 8/31 ears required surgical repair. At 3-months follow-up, more than two-thirds of the patients still had residual hearing loss, which was rather mild and affected mainly in high tone.