Pembinaan Kompetensi Mengajar Bahasa Arab Berbasis European Profiling Grid

This study aims to compile a syllabus of the European Profiling Grid (EPG) based teaching competency development course to improve the teaching competence of students to become Arabic teachers with character and competitiveness. The method used in this study is a research and development approach by Richey and Klein’s model with the steps of planning, production, and evaluation. This study identified that some of the EPG aspects had been contained in several other subjects, such as Planning of Arabic Learning, Methodology of Arabic Learning, and Learning Media Arabic. However, there are still several aspects of the EPG that have not yet become a concern in several courses, such as intercultural competence. Thus, several aspects of the EPG such as intercultural competence, professional behavior, administration need to be integrated as a syllabus model for the EPG-based Arabic teaching competence development. The EPG-based teaching competency development syllabus needs to be accompanied by appropriate teaching materials and research instruments. Therefore, research on the development of the next model needs to be done so that the development of teaching competency syllabus based on the EPG can be applied in learning.

The Forecast of the Number of Soldiers in the Saudi Arabian Army in Terms of Military Security

The study concerns forecasting the number of soldiers in the Saudi Arabian army based on information obtained from the website: https://data.worldbank.org (The World Bank, 9.03.2020). The research began with a comparative analysis of the number of soldiers in the armies of Saudi Arabia and Russia. The idea for a comparative analysis of the number of armies of Saudi Arabia and the Russian Federation arises from Russian policy in the region of the Middle East countries, including the impact on world oil prices. The comparative analysis showed the similarities and differences in the dynamics of changes in the number of both armies dynamically. Subsequently, the primary time series data analysis on the number of Saudi Arabian troops was performed. The study selected methods for predicting raw data: Holt’s exponential smoothing and Klein’s model for the future. The next stage of the research was forecasting and the analysis and evaluation of the obtained forecasts. Klein’s model was the best forecasting model. The forecast of the number of soldiers in the Saudi Arabian army for 2020 is 251454, and for 2021, it has increased to 251006. The study ends with a summary and conclusions.

JUSTIFICATION OF INDIRECT INSOLUBLE ACHILLES APORIA BY VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF THE NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY

To justify the insoluble aporia of the Achilles, the author uses Klein's model of visual rep-resentation of non-Euclidean geometry, according to which unequal and at the same time diminishing segments in the Euclidean space correspond to equal segments in the non-Euclidean one. However, this justification, by necessity, is only the nature of appearance, the reverse of which is the ambiguity of the implicitly used principle of Parmenides on the identity of thinking and being.

To Catch a Tiger by Its Toe

This article discusses a global theatrical spectacle that Moral Re-Armament (mra), a spiritual movement originating in the United States, produced in 1961. mra used contemporary protests in Japan, and actors ostensibly involved in them, as a strategy to bolster its authority in the context of U.S. Cold War policy in East Asia. How it claimed to represent Japan to the world and attempted to transform itself into the spokesman for the “Free World” offers insight into the symbolic position of East Asia in the United States and the areas it sought to influence during the early 1960s, a key moment in the intensifying U.S. involvement in East Asia, and offers a case through which to explore Christina Klein's model of “Cold War Orientalism.” mra tapped into this more inclusive discourse and also exploited ignorance in the United States about Japan to bolster widespread misconceptions about demonstrations in Tokyo. While introducing mra’s history, this essay teases out a gap between the reality and representation of Japanese politics and protest in the case of The Tiger, which reflects the historical context in which popular culture excluded real knowledge about how U.S. foreign policy affected, and often threatened, local political autonomy.

“Keeping It in the Family”: Sarah Kofman Reading Nietzsche as a Jewish Woman

This article examines Sarah Kofman's interpretation of Nietzsche in light of the claim that interpretation was for her both an articulation of her identity and a mode of deconstructing the very notion of identity. Faulkner argues that Kofman's work on Nietzsche can be understood as autobiographical, in that it served to mediate a relation to her self. Faulkner examines this relation with reference to Klein's model of the child's connection to its mother. By examining Kofman's later writings on Nietzsche alongside her autobiography, this article contends that Kofman's defense of anti-Semitism in Nietzsche serves to fend off her own ambivalence about being Jewish.

The Role of Prepriming in Recognition-Primed Decisionmaking

Klein's (1989a) Recognition-primed Decision model proposes that the experienced decisionmaker, on encountering an incident requiring complex time-pressured decisions, first categorizes the situation as a variant of a familiar type of problem and subsequently simulates mentally the likely consequences of acting on the basis of the categorization. Drawing on data obtained in two studies, the first with Australian Football League umpires and the second with experienced firefighters, this paper suggests that Klein's model be extended to take into account the active mental processing that occurs immediately prior to the incident. In both studies, participants reported engaging in active simulations, based on the limited information available prior to exposure to the actual decisional incident. This suggests that in many time-pressured naturalistic decision settings, the experienced decisionmaker enters the situation with a number of most-likely prototype situations already activated in memory (preprimed) and that situational assessments and possibilities for action are first made from among this reduced set of preprimed prototypes.

Quenching of the fluorescence of substituted benzenes by halomethanes

Rate constants, kq, for the quenching of the singlet state of benzene, toluene, p-xylene, fluorobenzene, trifluoromethyl benzene, p-bis(trifluoromethyl)benzene, and aniline by CCl4, CH3CCl3, CHCl3, and CFCl3, in the gas phase have been determined. In each instance the quenching is via a charge-transfer complex with the aromatic acting as donor. There is a linear dependence between ln kq and IP (ionization potential) of the aromatics which supports Klein's model for exciplex formation. The most effective quencher is CCl4 while the least effective is CFCl3. The most effective donor was aniline while the least effective one was p-bis(trifluoromethyl)benzene. In general, fluorinated aromatics are less effective donors than the corresponding protonated molecules.

Quenching of the singlet and triplet state of benzene by halogenated alkanes in the vapor phase

The second order rate constants (kq) for the quenching of the singlet state of benzene by several halogenated alkanes (viz. CH2Br2, CCl4, CH3CCl3, CHCl3, CHF3, CH3Cl, CH3F, CH2F2, CH2Cl2, CFCl3, CF2Cl2, CF3Cl, CF4) in the vapor phase have been measured. For CCl4, CHCl3, CH2Cl2, and CH3Cl, which were previously studied by Das Gupta and Phillips, there is satisfactory agreement between the kq values obtained in the separate investigations. The linear dependence of the electron affinity of quencher with the corresponding quenching rate constants supports an exciplex mechanism in accordance with Klein's model. Charge transfer occurs from benzene to halogenated alkane and is greater for the chloro alkanes than for mixed fluoro–chloro alkanes. In the case of the triplet state of benzene, whose behaviour was monitored using the sensitized emission of biacetyl technique, quenching effects were at best one order of magnitude smaller and probably involve more than one bimolecular process.