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The Positive Effect of Creative Movement Model on Children’s Personal Skills
Authors: Dewi Putu Sinta , Antara Putu Aditya , Ujianti Putu Rahayu
Published: June 2020

As the importance of personal skills stimulation for children to prepare and equip children in facing various learning levels of further education is necessary, research about it is needed. This study examined the effect of creative movement model on the personal skills of early childhood. This study used a quasi-experimental approach with post-test only control group design. The population of this study was students of Group B Cluster III Kindergarten in Payangan District, Gianyar which the sample was Melati Kindergarten as an experimental group with treatment and Hindu Widya Kumara Santhi Kindergarten as a control group without treatment. Data analysis of the study was descriptive statistics and inferential statistics, by using t-test that was processed by IBM SPSS Statistics ver. 24 for Windows. The result of data interpretation in hypothesis test showed that Sig. (2-tailed) score was 0.001 which meant the significance score was smaller than α (0.001 <0.05). According to these statements, it could be concluded that Ho was rejected and Ha was accepted. The study demonstrates that creative movement model has positive effect on children’s personal skills. With this finding, parents and especially educators expected to be willing to develop various creative movement activities that can stimulate children's personal skills more optimally and sustainably. The benchmarks of children's achievement should go beyond cognitive aspects; thus, teachers need to provide stimulation for children's personal skills to develop social emotional aspect.
Adaptation of positive youth development sustainability scale (PYDSS)
Authors: Meilinawati Ardiana , Mastuti Endah
Published: June 2020

This study aimed to determine the validity and reliability of the adaptation of Positive Youth Development Sustainability Scale (PYDSS). Positive Youth Development is an approach in the form of caring, supportive attitude, and tends to see adolescents as a source that must be developed to reduce the occurrence of behavioral problems (Nystrom, et al., 2008). There are five aspects of PYD or called the 5 Cs Model of PYD consisting of character, competence, connection, caring, and confidence (Lerner, 2005). The five aspects encourage the emergence of the sixth aspect is contribution (Sieng, et al., 2018). The focus of this research lies in the development of measuring instruments through the adaptation of PYDSS as a means to see the validity and reliability of the items in the PYDSS measurement tools. This study involved 242 subjects with age categories 15-18 years. The research instrument was in the form of a questionnaire consisting of 29 statement items. Quantitative data analysis techniques used are validity tests based on content using Content Validity Ratio (CVR) and Content Validity Index (CVI), validity tests based on internal structure using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and reliability tests based on homogeneity/internal consistency through Cronbach's coefficient alpha and construct/composite reliability (CR). The results of data analysis showed that the value of CVR almost met the minimum parameters of 0.952 < 0.99 where the average (CVI)> 0.8; loading factor> 0.5 except for items CH2, CN4, and HC1, and the suitability of the model that is quite fit with a value of χ2 / df> 2; SRMR <0.1; RMSEA <0.1; CFI> 0.8; TLI> 0.8; and p-value <0.05. Reliability test through the Cronbach's alpha coefficient shows a number> 0.9 and a CR value> 0.7. This shows that the adaptation of PYDSS measurement tools for high school adolescents in Surabaya fulfils good validity and reliability values.
Magic Realism, Technology and Subjectivity in Contemporary Children’s Fiction in India: Reshaping Gender Attitudes
Authors: Nikam Dr. Madhavi , Sadasivam Ms Jyothi
Published: June 2020

One of the objectives of using fiction as a medium of socialization of children is to infuse an understanding of gender roles in society. A number of children’s fiction books published in India in the last couple of decades have addressed this concern and contemporary critical studies on children’s literature have focused on the representation of gender and the biases inherent in it. Globalisation and the staggering advance of technology have triggered innovative fictional responses to gender roles and attitudes to appeal to the digital generation addicted to virtual reality and video games. The children’s text examined in this study represents technology as empowering adolescents and investing them with the capacity to transform age-old conservative attitudes towards gender identities specifically manifested in the still recurrent practice of female foeticide in India. Ranjit Lal’s Faces in the Water, creates a kind of magic realism by interweaving virtual reality into an everyday organic world, almost blurring the distinction between the two; an experimental narrative device that aims at re-examining conventional notions of masculinity and feminity. The purpose of creating an alternate world of virtual experiences is to comment upon the real world and effect transformatory action.
Cross-Cultural Scenario in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing and Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine
Authors: Nikam Dr. Sudhir , Bhimrao Mr. Kamble Rajiv
Published: June 2020

There is hardly a country in this industrialized world today, where one can find an ethnically homogenous population. The aftermath of colonialism, the creation of refugees- often the result of ethnic conflicts- and the movement of people in search of greater economic, political or social opportunities have contributed to the worldwide mix of people. Canada and India are the countries affected by the growing diversity. However this diversity has different facets in both the countries. In the literary world Canada, Multiculturalism is the main theme of writing and in India, presentation of cultural diversity is yet at the beginning stage. This statement has to be tasted on the fictional works of Margaret Atwood from Canada and Bharati Mukherjee from India. Both the writers are very unique in their writing and have trodden the different ways of using Cultural-diversity.

Culture is an integral part of a human society and its nation. Then the question arises: what is culture? The Oxford English Dictionary defines culture as a “particular form or type of intellectual development in a society generated by its distinctive customs, achievements and outlook.” At the wide canvass, culture is taken as consolidating the way of life of an entire society and includes codes of manners, dress, language, rituals, social customs and folklore of a nation. Every country has a typical and distinctive culture of its own. However, when an independent country becomes a colony, the native culture goes under a change. This is the case with the countries like Kenya, Nigeria and India. When these countries came in contact with western culture, a process of change in culture was initiated, and this journey made the traditional culture of respective countries destroyed. While Indian literature had cross cultural encounters with the English studies, Canada has been undergoing a cultural metamorphosis with the mix of second races and people from all over the world.
A Critical Analysis of Sharankumar Limbale’s Hindu: A Novel (2010)
Authors: Arora Priyanka
Published: June 2020

A Critical Analysis of Sharankumar Limbale’s Hindu: A Novel (2010)  This paper critically analysis Sharankumar Limbale’s Hindu: A Novel (2010). It is set in a small casteist village of Achalpur in Maharashtra and is translated from Marathi (2003) by Arun Prabha Mukherjee in 2010.  Dalit literature has undergone a transformation in the twenty-first century and Sharankumar Limbale is an active participant in it. The paper, thus, traces this very trajectory along with providing a detailed analysis of the plethora of techniques Limbale employs to present a world of Dalits, which is not binary world but one where characters are grey and humane; where the path Dr. B. R. Ambedkar left for them to follow is not liberating enough; where the struggle against casteism is as much internal as it is external; where the women and the lower class are doubly oppressed; and where the Dalit movement’s trajectory is in question. This paper then addresses these themes and tries to comprehend what Limbale tries to project through his work.
A Study of Cross-Culturalism in Derek Walcott’s “Ti-Jean and His Brothers”
Authors: Khushboo Nadiyah , Samy Dr. Kulanthy
Published: June 2020

The verifiable disengagement of the Caribbean Islands has suggestions for the social orders that have risen. The unplanned method of the "disclosure" of the spot and the fierce way of occupation by the colonizing powers have offered ascend to what a few researchers allude to as an indistinct society. Except for the indigenous Indian populace which was to a great extent quickly annihilated, the occupants of the Caribbean either moved or were persuasively shipped there. With this combination of individuals of various races and strict convictions and with various thought processes of being in the Caribbean, it was hard to make a typical Caribbean ethos, particularly, given the major disparities made by the organization of subjection. The target of this paper is to look at the suggestions these chronicled real factors have on the Caribbean social framework and at last on its writing, especially regarding the sensational structures. The technique is to initially investigate the essential content – TiJean and his Brothers – and afterward have response to important basic materials trying to additionally explain regarding the matter. At long last, it is discovered that these recorded predecessors have offered ascend to the making of a plural society with various arrangements of social qualities existing next to each other the other. This social assorted variety as reflected in Derek Walcott's play, Ti-Jean and His Brothers is talked about in this paper.
Spiritual Attachment: A Search to Seek Treasure Troves in Life with Reference to Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist
Authors: Priya K.S. , Shanmugasundarie K. Rathinam@
Published: June 2020

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the spiritual quest attaches one’s soul with divine nature with reference to Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist. The personal calling is something to be addressed with care and to be dealt seriously and this is evident in The Alchemist. According to this paper the whole world has a single great truth. Thus the paper tries to infer the truth with the help of the tool namely inner (spiritual quest). Along with the inner quest the outer world is connected and thus Paulo Coelho observes everything in and around and comes out with a dogma of life which made his book one of the best sellers. Every living organism on earth has a search and to find what is the search one has to observe inner self as well as outer world. This paper tries to prove that how the universe supports one’s effort to succeed.
From Heaven Lake: Travelling Across Cultures by Vikram Seth
Authors: Upreti Soni , Sharma Dr. Vidya Shanker
Published: June 2020

Travelling across culture is an endeavour to spread knowledge about the visiting provinces, on the route of the China, Nepal and India to his readers.  This research work focuses on the prominent novelist, poet, and nonfiction writer, Vikram Seth.  He who has been known as a citizen of the world. He is a cultural traveller. The work of Vikram Seth is a large variety of encyclopaedic and traditional forms and the places of his poetry and prose moves across the world, making literary homes of distant lands and cultures.
Eco-critical Elements in the Selected Poems of Jayanta Mahapatra
Authors: G. Ranjit , Rajkumar Dr. K.
Published: June 2020

Jayanta Mahapatra is a well-known, distinguished, Indo-Anglican writer whose poems and short stories are acknowledged worldwide. He was awarded the Sahithya Akademi Award for his work Relationship in 1981, which enabled him to gain the name of one of the doyens of Indian English Poetry. His major themes are all linked with his native place Orissa. His poems mentions Puri, Konarka, Chilika lake, Bhubaneswar recurrently and each of them are pictured in detail. An Ecocritical study on his poems is worth probing as it deserves more attention and consideration in the current state of environmental crisis. His sole inspiration is his interaction with the nature and his intimate relationship to it. As ecocriticism rightly perceives it as the study of the relationship between human and nature, deserves a detailed study with his poems. River daya in his poem takes the role of a bearer of history and is the memory of the past valor and glory of Orissa. The study here focuses on the elements of ecocriticism in his selected poems.
Examining the Concept of the ‘Other’ According to Edward W. Said
Authors: Mohrem Boubaker
Published: June 2020

After the World War II, the world remarks many changes in every aspect including culture, society, literature and so on. Writers around the world wrote about the effect of colonizer/colonized relationship. Edward Said is one of the pillars who deals with such discourse. Said believes that the legacy of the colonizer still exists in terms of civil wars, corruption and labor exploitation. In other word, Said means that the West creates a wrong image about the Orient and considers it as the “Other” in contrast to the ideal West. Said was the one who deconstructs the western’s thinking about the East. So his books : Orientalism (1978), The Question of Palestine (1979) and Covering Islam (1981) are appropriate to examine the idea of the ‘Other’ and to show how Said decipher the western wrong image about the East. Thus, this paper will emphasis on the concept of the Other according to Said.
A Study of Elizabethan Period (1558-1603)
Authors: Javed Muhammad
Published: June 2020

In this study, the researcher has mentioned the writers and their major works in Elizabethan age (1558-1603).  The researcher has mentioned almost nineteen writers and their famous works. By reading this research paper, any general reader can easily understand that who are the major writers of the age and what are their famous works. The language and method of presenting the data are very easy. The researcher also has mentioned the major contributions of this era’s writers. As we know that University Wits also fall in this era, thus the researcher has mentioned them and their works too.  S. Dutta (2014) declared that The University Wits is a phrase used to title a group of late 16th-century English pamphleteers and playwrights who were studied at the universities Cambridge and Oxford. They appeared famous worldly writers. This era has reminisced for its richness of drama and poetry. This era ended in 1603. Elizabeth turns out to be one of the greatest prominent royals in English history, mainly after 1588, when the English beat the Spanish Armada which had been sent by Spain to reestablish Catholicism and defeat England. All the way through the Elizabethan age, English literature has changed from a shell into a delightful being with imagination, creativeness, and boundless stories. It was not about mystery or miracle plays and the poetry was not nearby religion and the principles addressed in the Church.
Identity Crisis of Lyndall in Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm
Authors: Adhikary Dr. Ramesh Prasad
Published: June 2020

In this research paper, the researcher explores how the female identity was in crisis in the colonized Africa. Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm is taken as a primary text to explore the exploitation of colonizers by interpreting it with the tool of postcolonial literary theory. African farm owners were displaced from their farm landscape by the colonizers. As a result, the farm workers have to face the problem of identity crisis. Englishmen were responsible for bringing Africans identity crisis. They struggle to establish their identity on the Karoo farmland. The main victims were women whose identity is determined in relation to the place. Their placelessness represents their identity crisis in the Karoo farm landscape. Women’s identity is connecting with the place. As a qualitative research, the researcher has extensively presents the crisis of identity of female in their own land when the colonizers seized their land.
Optimizing Demand and Forecasting in Supply Chain Management Using AI
Authors: Chandraul Veer Singh , Barode Shyam Kumar
Published: June 2020

This study demonstrates forecasting practices in supply chain management (SCM) at various areas, particularly Life science, Retail Chain, and FMCG. The authors depicts the scenario of forecasting practices based on secondary data and represents SCM role, demand management, collaborative coordination, etc. In addition, the study reveals the limitation and few practical solutions on forecasting to be useful in the business organization. Consequently the authors describe recommendation and proposes a model on forecasting management model. Though this paper highlights in intensive analysis, however, it unlocks further frontiers for the prospective researchers as well as practitioners in order to apply forecasting techniques.
A Comprehensive Study on Emotional State Analysis of Humans from EEG Signals
Authors: Gitey Charu , Namdev Dr. Kamlesh
Published: June 2020

Emotion plays an important role in the daily life of man and is an important feature of human interaction. Because of its role of adaptation, it motivates people to respond quickly to stimuli in their environment to improve communication, learning and decision making. With the increasing role of the brain-computer interface (BCI) in user-computer interaction, automatic recognition of emotions has become an area of interest in the last decade. The recognition of emotions could be facial expression, gesture, speech and text and could be recorded in different ways, such as electroencephalogram (EEG), positron emission tomography (PET), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), etc. In this research work, feature extraction feature reduction and classification of emotions have been evaluated on different methods to recognize and classify different emotional states such as fear, sad, frustrated, happy, pleasant and satisfied from inner emotion EEG signals.
A Speech Quality Classifier based on Tree-CNN Algorithm that Considers Network Degradations
Authors: Vieira Samuel Terra , Rosa Renata Lopes , Rodríguez Demóstenes Zegarra
Published: June 2020

Many factors can affect the users’ quality of experience (QoE) in speech communication services. The impairment factors appear due to physical phenomena that occur in the transmission channel of wireless and wired networks. The monitoring of users’ QoE is important for service providers. In this context, a non-intrusive speech quality classifier based on the Tree Convolutional Neural Network (Tree-CNN) is proposed. The Tree-CNN is an adaptive network structure composed of hierarchical CNNs models, and its main advantage is to decrease the training time that is very relevant on speech quality assessment methods. In the training phase of the proposed classifier model, impaired speech signals caused by wired and wireless network degradation are used as input. Also, in the network scenario, different modulation schemes and channel degradation intensities, such as packet loss rate, signal-to-noise ratio, and maximum Doppler shift frequencies are implemented. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed model achieves significant reduction of training time, reaching 25% of reduction in relation to another implementation based on DRBM. The accuracy reached by the Tree-CNN model is almost 95% for each quality class. Performance assessment results show that the proposed classifier based on the Tree-CNN overcomes both the current standardized algorithm described in ITU-T Rec. P.563 and the speech quality assessment method called ViSQOL.
Türkiye’de Pamuk Üretiminin ARIMA Modeli İle Tahmini
Authors: BAŞARAN CANER Cansu , ENGİNDENİZ Sait
Published: June 2020

Amaç: TÜİK’in 1991-2018 dönemi (28 yıl) verilerinden yararlanarak gelecek beş yıllık dönemde Türkiye lif pamuk üretimini tahmin etmek ve bu yönde öneriler geliştirmektir.Tasarım/metodoloji/-yaklaşım: Gelecek yıllara ilişkin lif pamuk üretiminin tahmininde ARIMA (Box-Jenkins) modeli kullanılmıştır. ARIMA modelleri arasında en iyi istatistiksel sonuç ARIMA (4,1,4) modelinde elde edilmiştir.Bulgular: Model sonuçlarına göre, Türkiye lif pamuk üretiminin 2019 yılında 1.040.643 ton, 2020 yılında 1.060.005 ton, 2021 yılında 1.075.850 ton, 2022 yılında 1.091.931 ton, 2023 yılında ise 1.065.235 ton olacağı tahmin edilmiştir. Üretimin ve kalitenin arttırılması için girdi desteklemeleri arttırılmalı, pamuk destekleme primleri üretim maliyetleri ve dünya fiyatları dikkate alınarak belirlenmelidir.Özgünlük/değer: Türkiye’de tarım ürünlerinin zaman serileri ile üretim tahmini konusunda birçok araştırma yapılmıştır. Ancak pamuk üretimini tahmin eden araştırmaların da arttırılması ve güncellenmesi gerekmektedir. Bu araştırmanın sonuçları pamuk üretiminde uygulanabilecek politikalar ve alınabilecek önlemler açısından katkılar sağlayabilecektir.
CONCEPTUALISING RISK CULTURE ON ERM IMPLEMENTATION IN CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES
Authors: Wong Ching Ching
Published: June 2020

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is an effective technique in managing risk within an organization strategically and holistically. Risk culture relates to the general awareness, attitudes and behaviours towards risk management in an organisation. This paper presents a conceptual model that shows the relationship between risk culture and ERM implementation. The dependent variable is ERM implementation, which is measured by the four processes namely risk identification and risk assessment; risk treatment; monitor and consult; communicate and consult. The independent variables under risk culture are risk policy and risk appetite; key risk indicators; accountability; incentives; risk language and internal relationships. This study aims to empirically test the relationship between risk culture and ERM implementation among Malaysian construction public listed companies. Risk culture is expected to have direct effects and significantly influence ERM. This study contributes to enhance the body of knowledge in ERM especially in understanding significant of risk culture that influence its’ implementation from Malaysian perspective.
THE IMPACT OF FIRM TYPE, SIZE AND EXPERIENCE ON PROFESSIONAL SERVICES OF ARCHITECTURAL FIRMS IN NIGERIA
Authors: Raphael Aluko Olusola , Samuel Omoniyi Sunday , Ayodele Dipeolu Adedotun
Published: June 2020

Clients have expressed dissatisfaction about services of professionals as a result of poor quality of service and errors in documentations resulting into overrunning project cost and delayed completion. This study investigated the influences of firms’ types, size of firms and experience of firms on provision of professional services of Architectural firms in the process of meeting the expectations of the client. Questionnaires was used to collect data for the study through random sampling. The results of ANOVA showed that firm types had no significance on services across the stages of service, firm size showed significance while the experience of the firm showed significance across the inception and the design stages. Multiple regression analysis showed that the variables cumulatively explained 3.9% (at p < 0.05) of the variance in the overall professional services of architectural firms. Among the variables, only the firm size showed a significant impact on the overall professional services with a p-value of 0.003. The firm type and experience of firm had no impact on the overall professional services. The findings serve as a guide to the clients in making choice of consultancy firms for their project, and as a guide to the consultancy firms in order to remain competitive in the globalized industry.

Keywords: Architectural firms, Building Projects, Clients, Firms’ Characteristics, Professional Services
Editorial
Authors: Nápoli Juan Tobías
Published: June 2020

Editorial
El concepto de sophrosyne en los diálogos platónicos y su ejemplificación en la figura de Sócrates
Authors: Carreño Sofía
Published: June 2020

La sensatez (sophrosýne/σωφροσύνη) es un tema recurrente en los diálogos de Platón. Sin embargo, allí no es clara la relación de Sócrates con el conocimiento de sí. Por ende, en el presente trabajo, comenzaré por determinar la relación entre conocimiento de sí y sophrosýne para luego establecer cómo es definida la sophrosýne en los diálogos y cómo se puede llegar a poseerla. Luego, abordaré la pregunta acerca de si Sócrates puede ser calificado como sensato bajo su propia definición, pregunta que recibirá una respuesta negativa. No obstante, argumentaré que Sócrates no sólo cuenta con el conocimiento acerca de cómo alcanzar la sophrosýne, sino que además parece no haber nada que le impida hacerlo.
IX Jornadas de Estudios Clásicos y Medievales “Diálogos Culturales”: El tiempo en la literatura antigua y medieval: Orígenes, Ciclos, Edades
Authors: Zamperetti Martín Deidamia Sofía
Published: June 2020

Jornadas de Estudios Clásicos y Medievales “Diálogos Culturales” El tiempo en la literatura antigua y medieval: Orígenes, Ciclos, Edades
A Model Study Based on Social Network Relational Dimensions and Structural Dimensions
Authors: Yu Jiangman
Published: June 2020

This paper uses the data of China’s venture capital industry in the CVSource and Zero2IPO databases from 1999 to 2018 as a research sample. By using UCINET software to build the entire network of venture capital industry for social network analysis, I calculate the group tie density based on network interaction, status heterogeneity and faults based on network centrality, to analyse whether those group network characteristics affect the complementarity effect. Based on this, I use probit model regression test to carry on an examination.
Seasons of Drought in Slovakia During the Period from 1957 to 2016
Authors: Zuzulová Veronika , Žilinský Matej , Šiška Bernard
Published: June 2020

The aim of the paper was to describe the occurrence of dry seasons in Slovakia. Dry seasons in the period from 1957 to 2016 were determined according to the monthly Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI). For this purpose, ten sites based on limit climatic parameters were chosen – Bratislava, Piešťany, Hurbanovo, Čadca, Sliač, Boľkovce, Poprad, Košice, Milhostov, and Kamenica nad Cirochou. The results showed the alternation of dry and wet episodes and the variability of weather not only over time, but also over space. The analysis of linear trends showed that the arid trend was identified on most sites (9 localities).
Analysis of women participation in farmer group activities in Kwara State, Nigeria
Authors: Omotesho Kemi Funmilayo , Akinrinde Adeniyi Felix , Komolafe Sola Emmanuel , Aluko Oyindamola Eunice
Published: June 2020

The level of access of women to production resources can be enhanced through their active membership and participation in farmers’ associations. However, most farmer-groups in Nigeria are male-dominated. The study therefore analysed women farmers’ participation in farmer-group activities in Kwara State. Specifically, the study identified the expectations of women from group membership; determined their level of participation; identified constraints to participation; and investigated the determinants of participation. A two-stage random sampling technique was used to select 142 women farmers on which a structured interview schedule was administered. Descriptive statistics, Likert scale, and Ordinary Least Square (OLS) Regression Analysis were used to analyse and present the data collected. The results revealed that the mean age, years of experience and farm size of the respondents were 46.9 years, 22 years and 3.2 acres, respectively. Access to farm credit (57 %), self-help (49.4 %), and farm input (31.1 %) were the most important expectations from membership. The level of women participation was low (mean = 2.87) and determined by age, years of experience and farm size at P < 0.05. Financial constraints, poor sense of belonging, inappropriate timing of activities and socio-cultural discrimination were the most severe challenges to participation. The study concluded that women participation in farmer-group activities was low, influenced by their socio-economic characteristics. Therefore, we strongly recommend a multi-dimensional approach to enhance women’s participation in group activities.
Effects of the reward of internal migration on poverty status of rural households left behind in Ogun and Osun States, Nigeria
Authors: Tolorunju Esther Toluwatope , Dipeolu Adewale Oladapo , Sanusi Rahman Akintayo , Akerele Dare
Published: June 2020

In this study we analysed the effect of the reward of internal migration on the poverty status of rural households in South-West Nigeria. The types and channels of internal remittances received by rural households as well as the poverty profile and effect of internal remittances on the poverty status of rural households in South-West, Nigeria were assessed. Structured questionnaire was used to obtain primary data from respondents. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, Multidimensional Poverty Index and Binary Logit regression. Findings revealed that 56.2% of the household heads were male, 67.4% were married, 42.3% had primary education and 58.3% received internal remittances through personal delivery (69%) with a mean age and household size of 55 years and 5 persons, respectively. However, based on Multidimensional Poverty Index benchmark of 0.333, 80.0% of the rural households were poor with a poverty intensity of 0.863. Binary Logit showed that age squared, remittance receipt, rearing of small livestock and farm size increased households’ likelihood of escaping poverty. In conclusion, internal remittances reduced poverty of rural households in the study area and as such continuous flow of remittances into rural households should be enhanced in order to facilitate improved standard of living.
A stop over Jain operators and their generalizations
Authors: Agratini Octavian
Published: June 2020

On the last five decades the interest of the study of positive approximation processes have emerged with growing evidence. A special place is occupied by the in-depth study of classical operators. The most eloquent example is Bernstein operator which represents a permanent challenge for the researches in the mentioned field.

However, in this synthesis we focused on presenting a class of operators introduced by G.C. Jain in the 1970s that have long been in a shadowy cone. In recent years many papers have appeared about their properties and many generalizations have been analyzed. In our approach, there is no question of an exhaustive treatment, but only of collecting some published results that prove the importance of this class through the generous possibilities o ered by the approximation of signals from different function spaces.
On a logarithmic criterion for uniform polynomial stability
Authors: Boruga Rovana , Megan Mihail
Published: June 2020

The paper presents a logarithmic criterion for uniform polynomial stability of evolution operators in Banach spaces. As applications, another four characterizations of uniform polynomial stability are obtained.
Effect of Zn Content on Structure, Roughness and Corrosion Behavior of Zn-Ni Alloys
Authors: Faid Hayette
Published: June 2020

In this work, Zn-Ni alloys have been deposited on steel from sulfate bath, by electrodeposition method. The effect of Zn content on deposits properties was studied by cyclic voltammetry (CV), chronoaperometry (CA), linear stripping voltammetry (ALSV) and diffraction (XRD) and scanning electronic microscopy (SEM). The corrosion behavior in 3.5 wt. NaCl solution was examined using anodic polarization test and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. X-ray diffraction of show that Zn-Ni alloys structure is composed of δ phase and γ phase, which increase with the decrease of Zn content in deposits. Results show that deposits obtained from bath less Zn2+ concentration exhibited better corrosion resistance.
Synthesis of Ceramic Biomaterials Based on Calcium and Phosphorus from Aqueous Solutions
Authors: Ungureanu Dan Nicolae , Angelescu Nicolae , Catangiu Adrian , Avram Daniela , Anghelina Florina Violeta , Popescu Ileana Nicoleta
Published: June 2020

This paper presents the most used processes for the synthesis of hydroxyapatite from aqueous solutions: chemical precipitation, the hydrothermal process and the sol-gel method. The experimental part includes the synthesis of hydroxyapatite by chemical precipitation. The obtained results confirm the obtaining of a ceramic with a high purity and a high degree of crystallization.
Unfoldings of the Intersected Surfaces
Authors: Popa Carmen , Anghelina Violeta , Bratu Ruxandra-Elena
Published: June 2020

The paper proposes to establish the intersection curve and the unfoldings of three cylinders. The intersection of the curves was determined by the classical method, using the AutoCAD program, and the unfolded surfaces were realized by analytical methods. For this the Mathematica program was used.
Critica Literară Românească Din Perspectiva Metodelor De Analiză Autocolonială (1840-1939)
Authors: Morariu David
Published: June 2020

This study aims to analyze the Romanian critical discourses of the second half of the 19th century and especially of the first half of the 20th century, starting from the central concept of “self-colonization”, coined by Alexander Kiossev. The article opens with the conceptual delimiting of the phenomenon imposed by the Bulgarian theoretician and with the hypothesis that Romanian culture can be attributed to self-colonizing cultures. The demonstration of this hypothesis consists of three arguments. The critical discourses belonging to G. Ibrăileanu, E. Lovinescu and C. Dobrogeanu-Gherea highlight, firstly, some of the characteristics of this self-subordination relation. The way the first two emphasize the role of imitation, the necessity of adopting the foreign models and the way Gherea treats the dependence upon the West under an economic report, represent, briefly, the center of the first part of the demonstration. The second one brings to the fore Mihail Kogălniceanu and Titu Maiorescu’s profiles, their discourses being characterized by clumsiness and flaws so typical for a culture found in an early stage of its development. The last argument broadens the scope of the demonstration in the sense that the analysis focuses on social and economic delimiting. The purpose of this delimiting is to establish which are the areas that are more responsive to the manifestation of the self-colonizing phenomenon.
Configurarea Paradigmei Terţului Inclus – Blaga, Bachelard, Lupaşcu1
Authors: Dincă Irina
Published: June 2020

This paper aims to present the connection and continuity between the implicit principles that configure the transgressive visions of Lucian Blaga, Gaston Bachelard and Ștefan Lupașcu, which inaugurate a paradigmatic change in consensus with the revolutionary ideas circulating in science, philosophy, poetry and art across the 20th century. The subtle paradigmatic axis which crosses implicitly or explicitly the work of Lucian Blaga proves to be the transgressive attempt of integration and overcoming of the antinomies under the sign of
the included middle
which underlies the transfiguring core of the
dogmatic paradox
. Thus, the nucleus of Blaga’s epistemological vision, the
dogmatic paradox
– a synthesis of the antinomies solved not in concrete level, but in transcendent one, creating a paradoxical logics – proves to be close to Gaston Bachelard’s transgressive theoretical constructions –
the surrationalism
and
the philosophy of no
–, as well as to Ştefan Lupaşcu’s integrative perspective of
the dynamic logics of the contradictory
. The subtly related nexus of theoretical ideas developed by Blaga, Bachelard and Lupașcu appear to be essential milestones in the avant-garde of the paradigmatic chain of the included middle, opening it towards the present European episteme.
Inocentul Alienat Și DepăȘirea Limitelor (Auto)Impuse
Authors: Merce Gabriela-Emilia
Published: June 2020

The starting point of my work is represented by three of Lucian Blaga’s plays: Daria, Ivanca and Înviere. We tried to show that the characters of these plays represent pieces of individuality and also these characters will be free from their existential drama only if they will become a mirror for the each other, only if they will be interconnected and if these characters will be able to transfer a part of their identity to another individual.
Ipostaze Thanatice În Poetica Lui Lucian Blaga Și Dylan Thomas
Authors: Săran Raul
Published: June 2020

The following paper revolves around the concept of thanatos, whose name comes from the personification of death in the Greek mythology. In other words, the objective of this paper is to analyze the main forms and symbols regarding the theme of death in several poems of Lucian Blaga and Dylan Thomas and try to explain how, despite the fact that they come from different cultural environments and have different sources of inspiration and literary purposes regarding the aim of their works, their poetical works present several resemblances in terms of meaning in relation to the theme of death, as approached in the 20th century modern poetry.
Influenţe Secession În Lirica Blagiană
Authors: Frătean Denisa-Maria
Published: June 2020

Secession Influences in Blaga’s Poetry (Influențe Secession în lirica blagiană) – This essay analyses the impact of the years spent in Vienna on the formation of Lucian Blaga, taking into consideration the fact that, at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the capital of the Empire was the centre of an impressive art movement called the "Vienna Secession". The aim of this paper is to identify the similarities that can be established between the art of the painter Gustav Klimt, a representative figure for that period and the president of Secession, and the poetry of Blaga. The comparison includes the symbols to be found in the works of the two artists, such as the spring flowers and the serpents, the dominant colours, the type of lines used in the creation of their images and the reaction of people to their modern art.
Criza Corporalităţii În Poetica Lui Ilarie Voronca
Authors: Foitoș Alexandru
Published: June 2020

The aim of this paper is to highlight the vanguardist poetical universe of Ilarie Voronca, focusing on the construction of corporeal representations. The poetics of corporeality is associated with the concept of “crisis”, the latter being reverberated in the vanguard lyrical works as an effect of the historical and social context of the 20th century, which is the First World War. As a result, the consequences of this context bring to the vanguard writers poetical substance, which encapsulates the body and the disease, these two being transposed into several eerie, radical and shocking images in Ilarie Voronca’s poetics. This paper is going to demonstrate the existence of several corporeal representations in Ilarie Voronca’s poems, which are mainly represented by the
vulnerable body
, viewed as a
limit
and as
the diseased/the suffering
, proving that the crisis of corporeality is the effect of the historical conflagration at the beginning of the 20th century.
Apologia Tăcerii Și A Căutării În Poemul Autoportret
Authors: Batori Andreea-Corina
Published: June 2020

Lucian Blaga is popular among the Romanian writers for his beliefs in the power of the unknown and the unsaid-word, for his attention given to the notion of mystery and knowledge.

The present paper focuses on two of the main elements that coordinate some of the poet’s lyrical writings: silence and the state of being in a continuous search for the initial harmonious relationship with the Universe by returning to the origins of the world, by regeneration and reconstruction. These ideas are emphasized in the poem titled Autoportret in which the soul of the individual find sit self in the these arch for beauty and nothingness, for the pure word which is able to reinforce the bond between the individual and the totality of the unharmed Universe.

Using themes, motifs, symbols, myths, figures of speech and techniques of construction, Lucian Blaga succeeds in creating a representative poem for his last volume entitled Nebănuitele trepte, a poem characterized by expressiveness, depth and a strong wish to find by means of silence what the souls has been looking for since ever – purity, peace and harmony.
Pax Magna Sau Despre Simpatia Demon-Creator
Authors: Jeler Ioana
Published: June 2020

One of the most representative theme in the works of Lucian Blaga is knowledge and the way it is reflected in the unconscious. He is known for the different meanings given to this knowledge, proposing a new path for the understanding of everything around us, starting from the inner of human soul to the world genesis. This paper will show this specific process of Blaga, in one poem „Pax Magna”.
On Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Elliptic Problems with Discontinuous Coefficients
Authors: Dryja Maksymilian
Published: June 2020

Discontinuous Galerkin methods for elliptic problems with discontinuous coefficients are discussed. First the error bound of the methods is analyzed. Then
a multilevel additive Schwarz preconditioner for one of the discrete problems is designed and analyzed. Although the preconditioner is not optimal it is very well suited
for parallel computations and its rate of convergence is independent of the jumps of coefficients.
Robust Multigrid Technique for Black Box Software
Authors: Martynenko S.I.
Published: June 2020

This paper presents a new robust multigrid technique for solving boundary
value problems in a black box manner. To overcome the problem of robustness,
the technique is based on the incorporation of adaptation of boundary value problems
to numerical methods, control volume discretization and a new multigrid solver into a
united computational algorithm. The special multiple coarse grid correction strategy
makes it possible to obtain problem-independent transfer operators. As a result, most
modes are approximated on coarse grids to make the task of the smoother on the finest
grid the least demanding. A detailed description of the robust multigrid technique and
examples of its application for solving benchmark problems are given in the paper.
Mathematical Modeling of Geofiltration and Geomigration Processes in Multilayer Systems
Authors: Gromyko G. , Chuiko M. , Smychnik A. , Hrechka A. , Zlebava A.
Published: June 2020

Numerical methods for simultaneous solution of geofiltration and ge-
omigration problems in multilayer systems in contaminant transport investigation have
been developed. A multilayer system consists of several aquifers separated by weakly
permeable layers. Mathematical models are constructed under the following assump-
tion: longitudinal flows predominate in the aquifer and crossflows — in the separation
layers. The mass transfer is described by the convection and diffusion equations.
The implicit finite volume difference schemes were used. The computational al-
gorithm is based on the concept of splitting the schemes on physical processes of two-
dimensional filtration and contaminant transport along aquifers and vertical transport
through the separation levels.
An iterative method of the block Gauss — Seidel type for the realization of implicit
finite difference schemes for geofiltration and geomigration problems in the presence
of wells and contaminant sources has been constructed. The method is based on the
perturbation transfer from cells with sources (wells and sources of contaminant). The
iterative process for update of unknowns has been constructed taking into account the
position of a cell relative to the calculated cells.
The results of the numerical experiment on modeling groundwater flows redistri-
bution and contaminant migration in system of two aquifers with operating wells are
presented.
Analysis Of Upwind Method For Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes
Authors: Annunziato M.
Published: June 2020

A numerical upscaling approach, NU, for solving multiscale elliptic problems is discussed. The main components of this NU are: i) local solve of aux-iliary problems in grid blocks and formal upscaling of the obtained results to build a coarse scale equation; ii) global solve of the upscaled coarse scale equation; and iii) reconstruction of a fine scale solution by solving local block problems on a dual coarse grid. By its structure NU is similar to other methods for solving multiscale elliptic problems, such as the multiscale finite element method, the multiscale mixed finite element method, the numerical subgrid upscaling method, heterogeneous mul-tiscale method, and the multiscale finite volume method. The difference with those methods is in the way the coarse scale equation is build and solved, and in the way the fine scale solution is reconstructed. Essential components of the presented here NU approach are the formal homogenization in the coarse blocks and the usage of so called multipoint flux approximation method, MPFA. Unlike the usual usage of MPFA as a discretization method for single scale elliptic problems with tensor discontinuous coefficients, we consider its usage as a part of a numerical upscaling approach. An aim of this paper is to compare the performance of NU with the one of MsFEM for ceratin multiscale problems. In particular, it is shown that the resonance effect, which limits the application of the Multiscale FEM, does not appear, or it is significantly relaxed, when the presented here numerical upscaling approach is applied.
Morozov’s Discrepancy Principle For The Tikhonov Regularization Of Exponentially Ill-Posed Problems
Authors: SOLODKY S.G. , MOSENTSOVA A.
Published: June 2020

The problem of approximate solution of severely ill-posed problems given in the form of linear operator equations
of the first kind with approximately known right-hand sides was considered. We have studied a strategy for solving
this type of problems, which consists in combinating of Morozov’s discrepancy principle and a finite-dimensional
version of the Tikhonov regularization. It is shown that this combination provides an optimal order of accuracy on source sets
Tensor-Train Ranks for Matrices and Their Inverses
Authors: Oseledets Ivan , Tyrtyshnikov Eugene , Zamarashkin Nickolai
Published: June 2020

We show that the recent tensor-train (TT) decompositions of matrices come up from its
recursive Kronecker-product representations with a systematic use of common bases. The names
TTM and QTT used in this case stress the relation with multilevel matrices or quantization
that increases artificially the number of levels. Then we investigate how the tensor-train
ranks of a matrix can be related to those of its inverse. In the case of a banded Toeplitz
matrix, we prove that the tensor-train ranks of its inverse are bounded above by 1+(l+u)^2,
where l and u are the bandwidths in the lower and upper parts of the matrix without the main
diagonal.
Mixed variable order h-finite element method for linear elasticity with weakly imposed symmetry. Curvilinear elements in 2D
Authors: Qiu Weifeng , Demkowicz Leszek
Published: June 2020

We continue our study on variable order Arnold-Falk-Winther elements reported in [W. Qiu,
L. Demkowicz, Mixed hp-finite element method for linear elasticity with weakly imposed
symmetry. Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg., 198 (2009), pp. 3682-–3701] and [W. Qiu,
L. Demkowicz, Mixed hp-finite element method for linear elasticity with weakly imposed
symmetry: stability analysis. SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 49 (2011), pp. 619-–641] for 2D
elasticity in context of parametric curvilinear elements. We present an asymptotic
h-stability result.