Scientific elites, as an indicator of human capital in the field of social capital, are the factors that, by playing the dual role of facilitator and transformer, cause the crystallization and change of social capital components in the field of national security. Each of the security discourses examines the field of security from a specific perspective, but none of them have assessed the agency and the effectiveness of the scientific elite in removing lasting national security. The aim of this research in the first step is to find a discourse among security discourses that has the greatest potential for the crystallization of the existential nature of elites and in the second step, measuring how the existence or non-existence of elites affects the metaphor of sustainable national security, explaining how this relates to a theoretical and theoretical perspective is a matter that has been addressed in this article by citing library sources and by analytical-descriptive method.

Acetes paraguayensis is the only species of Acetes that occurs in freshwater. A genus of small, krill-like prawns occurs in Timpuk Lake, Barangay Su’uh, Panamao, Sulu. A Shrimp aquaculture is one of the vital parts that determine the world economy. However, a very small portion of Acetes paraguayensis catches are sold as fresh shrimp in the locality. The greater portion are sold dried. Statistical analysis (one factor ANOVA), showed no significant difference at five percent level of significance with a degree of freedom between of 3, degrees of freedom within 36. The tabular value is 2.92. For this study, the computed value is 0.41 which is far less than the tabular value, thus the null hypothesis that states no significant difference of the occurrences of shrimp fry (Acetes p.) at four quadrant or the catching station at Timpuk Lake, Barangay Su’uh, Panamao, Sulu is accepted. Interview surveys were conducted right after collecting samples from the wild. The occurrence of shrimp fry (Acetes p.) or the planktonic shrimps were present in the study showed a bi-modal peak of occurrences according to the fisher-folk or a tenant of the lake. The abundances of the said species is between August and September and on February to March. However, occurrences were present throughout the year and best fishing time for Acetes paraguayensis was during the dark phase of the moon. Indeed, Acetes paraguayensis (shrimp fry) occurred uniformly at all areas of lake. To date, published work on Acetes especially ecology, temporal distribution in the Philippines are still very scarce.

This article sought to understand the representations, appropriations and practices of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers towards the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in their classes in secondary schools of the Littoral Region. The methodology used was qualitative and administered through the application of questionnaires with closed and open questions administered to 50 participants randomly selected from five secondary schools located in the said region. The return rate was 96 percent. The results highlight the need of participant teachers, for a transformative pedagogical practice based on the use of digital technologies. The lack of theoretical, technical and pedagogical contributions, necessary to the teaching training process for the use of new technologies in school, was one of the aspects that shaped the difficulties in assimilating new pedagogical practices in schools.

The focus of this study sets out to address issues, such as whether the Sri Lankan Sinhalese speaking students in traditional communities better develop interdependent concept than the Sinhalese speaking students living in a different cultural context, and to what extent a cultural context affects the Students’ perceptions of self-concept on interdependence and independence. This research compares a sample of 40 Sinhalese students living in Colombo in Sri Lanka and a sample of 20 Sinhalese students living in New Delhi in India. The respondents were asked to complete a structured self-completion questionnaire emailed to them. The findings seem to suggest that culture teaches one how to think, conditions one how to feel, and instructs one how to act, especially how to interact with others. It concludes that both the Sinhalese speaking students in Colombo and in New Delhi have well-developed interdependent self-concept and independent self-concept. It is also suggested that the traditional cultural values brought with the native Sinhalese students have been well-preserved even in a different cultural context.

Contemporary poets are often observed to use foregrounding to appeal their readers and to give their newly-born works their distinctive and unusual identity. Foregrounding is the professional sureness and furtive element that poets resort to attain their purposes. With a literary consciousness and sensibility peculiar to the modernist school of poets, foregrounding is the indispensable characteristic of contemporary poems. Thus, this paper tends to examine various linguistic techniques exploited to highlight foregrounded deviations in some contemporary poems. The paper utilizes five levels of foregrounded deviations: graphological, phonological, lexical, syntactic, and semantic as suggested by Gibbons and Whiteley (2018). The paper concludes that selected poems foreground their themes by resorting to at least one of the five mentioned levels. Moreover, foregrounding in each poem crystalizes the poem's theme and give rise to strikingness and inducement: It enhances defamiliarization which evokes influence leading to ‘refamiliarizing’ informative exertions.