Background. An important problem of our day is the significant increase in the number of learning-disabled pupils all over the world. This has led to the emergence of a new branch of neuropsychology — “school neuropsychology” or the “Neuropsychology of learning.” Objective. This paper analyzes the role and functions of a neuropsychologist in primary schools and the possibilities of his/her collaboration with other specialists in diagnosing children’s problems and organizing remediation for problematic kids. Design. We established four steps for launching neuropsychological work at primary schools: 1) setting up a screening group for neuropsychological assessment of all children entering the first year of school; 2) a comprehensive neuropsychological assessment of the children who showed poor results in the first step of the study; 3) a team remediation program; and 4) evaluation of the remediation results by a new neuropsychological assessment at the end of the remediation program. Results. The results of the first step of our study showed a very high percentage of children with cognitive problems — 37% of 202 6–8 year-old schoolchildren entering the first year of school. They formed a group at risk for future learning disabilities and maladjustment at school. Age and gender differences, and the structure of cognitive underdevelopment, were discussed in the second step of our study. In the third step, a team of school specialists, including a neuropsychologist, a teacher, a school psychologist, and a school social worker, implemented a remediation program which was created and supervised by a neuropsychologist. Conclusion. A comprehensive neuropsychological assessment of the pupils revealed a complex structure of cognitive disturbances which interfere with pupils’ learning abilities in primary school. The team approach can efficiently prevent learning disabilities and help children with cognitive underdevelopment and risks of future unsuccess at school, when this collaboration of school specialists has a common theoretical approach and is based upon comprehensive neuropsychological assessment.
The article discusses the motif of baking bread by mythological characters of the “vila” (‘wood-nymph’) type (for themselves and/or for people living nearby), which is known to the Croats of Burgenland in Austria and Hungary, Croats on the Drava (Hungary), as well as in one form or another – to Slovenes and Czechs, there are also some Lusatian parallels. The paradigmatic alterations of the considered belief, noted during the field survey of villages or in previously published sources, are analyzed, reflected, as a rule, in mythological stories: from the viewpoint of the agent of action (“a wood-nymph”, “a wild woman”, and in case of loss of archaic meaning – “a women”, “Mother of God / St. Maria”), the recipient of the action (a person living nearby; a person who helped these mythical creatures; finally, the characters themselves, who presumably eat baked bread), the conditions of the action itself (selfless giving; a gift in exchange for help), an object of action (in particular, bread as a miraculous object that disappears under certain circumstances). In relation to the South Slavic folk ideas and the verbal clichés reflecting them, characterizing the red glow in the sky at sunset (allegedly coming from the furnaces of the wood-nymphs), the patterns of ethnolinguistic geography are traced, concerning the correlation on the map of a stable verbal expression and its mythological context (extralinguistic data). When comparing the material with Western Slavic beliefs reflected in mythological stories, the specific features of this belief, not known to the Southern Slavs, are noted: the disappearance of bread when a person violates the ban; collecting of neglected spikelets in the field by mythological characters, and some others.
The research results on floatability of old gold-bearing tailings are presented. The complex material composition and process features of processing waste are governed by difference in treatment of various ore types (sulfide, oxidized and mixed) at processing plant, as well as with supergene processes in the tailings pond. Feasibility of re-flotation of tailings is discussed. It is found that short-term mechanical activation of tailings in a mill with the subsequent flotation (at the adjusted reagent mode as against the current technology) results in gold recovery of 29.0 to 45.4% in flotation concentrate at the residue content of metal in rejects at the level of 0.2-0.3 g/t.
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