bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Problematika Membaca Teks Arab bagi Siswa Madrasah
Authors: Khikmah Nur
Published: January 2021

Learning to read the text of the Qur'an and hadith at the initial level is to sound the letters of the Qur'an and the hadith itself. Learning to read the Qur'an means learning to pronounce written symbols (letters). The Qur'an and hadith are revealed in Arabic and become a foreign language in learning. Especially in reading the Qur'an, Allah has set rules in reading the Qur'an such as laws and rules. This study aims to describe the problems experienced by students in reading the texts of the Qur'an and hadith. This study uses a qualitative approach with descriptive-analytical methods and data collection techniques are observations. The subjects of this study were grade 3 students of MI Walisongo Semarang, totaling 45 people consisting of 6 men and 39 women. The results of the study explain the problem of reading the Qur'anic text and hadith, including: pronunciation of the sounds of the letters hijaiyah (makhorijul letters), short length of charity, and the law of reading (tajwid). And in terms of the environment, namely: students lack focus on learning materials, teacher teaching skills, lack of interest and activities of students in learning to read the Qur’an and hadith, lack of time, facilities and infrastructure for student learning, both at school and at home, and not supporting the community environment.
Istikhdām Lu‘bah Thu‘bān wa Sullam li Tarqiyyati Raghbati Ta‘allumi al-Qiraati wa Injāzihi fi al-Madrasati al-Mutawāsiṭati
Authors: Habibah Umi , Mawanti Dwi , Zuhruddin Achmad
Published: January 2021

This research aims to calculate the pupils’ desire and achievement in learning to read among those who use the snake and ladder game and those who do not use it in Madrasah Tsanawiyah Negeri 1 Kudus for the academic year 2019-2020. Based on the number of students in the school, we preferred two classes, the eighth - a experimental group, and the eighth - b as a control group for the purpose of experimental research. The methods used to collect data are observation, interview, documentation, questionnaire, and testing. The results of this research indicated that teaching reading skill using this game is better than without it, so that the average grade for the experimental semester is 85.69 and the average grade for the control class is 79.72. To test the hypothesis, I got t calculation = 5,209 compared to -table t = 1,9944. The mean is higher in the experimental group than in the control group. This means that there is a big difference in learning to read after and without using this game. As for the result of the questionnaire, it indicated that the desire to read using this game is 55% to 92.75%, an increase of 37.75%, and the researcher is sure that the result is high between the pre and post test. It can be concluded that using the game Ular Tangga is suitable for promoting students' desire and achievement in learning to read.
Al-Kafa’ah al-Ta‘līmiyyah Laday Mu‘allimiy al-Lughah al-‘Arabiyyah wa Atharuhā ‘ala Natā’ij Ta‘allum al-Ṭalabah al-Jāmi‘ah
Authors: Rokhman Imam Athoir
Published: January 2021

This study aims to discuss the correlation between pedagogic competence of lecturer of Arabic language especially lecturer who tries competence of language material with student learning result in Arabic language departement, Faculty of Education and Teacher Training, State Islamic University Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang. In this study researchers used a quantitative approach and this type of research is descriptive and correlation. Instruments used in data collection are interviews, observations, questionnaires and documents. The result of the research is pedagogic competence of lecturer of language competence which includes on the ability of learning method development, implementation in learning process and implementation of evaluation is in good and based on the data analysis that has been done by the researcher showed that the condition of pedagogic competence of lecturer of language competence influence the student learning result, it is based on result of t test which amounted to 9,548 with result of sig 0,000 and t value (9,548)> t table (); it can be concluded that ho is rejected and ha is accepted.
Swahili language in Afro-American culture
Authors:   Lomonosov Moscow State University, Gromova Nelli V.
Published: January 2021

The article examines the role and functions of Swahili language in Africa and the USA, and using the vocabulary of Swahili in the Afro-American culture, particularly in the Afro-American festival of Kwanzaa, which founder is the American historian Maulana Karenga. Attention is also paid to ideology of Afrocentrism and replacing ‘slave’ names by Swahili names. Features of application of Swahili language in the names of the Afro-American martial arts are registered.
About some typological characteristics of Number in Niger-Congo languages
Authors:   St. Petersburg State University, Zheltov Alexander Yu. ,   Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera)
Published: January 2021

The category of Number is often considered as rather simple comparing to such categories as case or nominal classification. However, a serious analysis of the morphosyntactic characteristics of the category shows that Number is an interesting and diverse category. The Niger-Congo languages demonstrate a great variety in the morphosyntactic characteristics of Number. At the first glance, the number in many languages refers to two types: a uniform marking of the number only in the plural (Mande — similar to English), the distinction of the singular by gender / class (Bantu — similar to Russian). However, the number in Mande and Bantu is fundamentally different from the number in English and Russian and refers to another typological category. Two more typological varieties in expression of number are demonstrated in the article: a special plural form for the names of people and pets (nyong, Adamawa), a kind of “split” under the influence of animacy hierarchy, and marking of number only in adjectives in attributive and predicative constructions without marking a number on a noun (Maya).
Essays of cultural policy of Ethiopia: a look through the era
Authors:   Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Balashova Galina A.
Published: January 2021

Ethiopia is a state that created its own distinct culture. Throughout Ethiopian history, it has been culture that concentrated the nation’s spiritual experience and passed it on the following generations, thus ensuring the unity of multiethnic (more than 80 peoples) Ethiopia. The article assesses the cultural policies of emperors of Ethiopie — Ezane (IV A. D.), Emperor Lalibela (1190–1228), Emperor Amda Seyon (1312–1342) and Emperor Zera Yacob’s (1434–1468), also their contributions to the development of the country’s culture.
Spiritual Kinship to the Turkish and Russian Cultures through the Prism of Literature (Essay)
Authors:   St. Petersburg State University, Avrutina Apollinariya S.
Published: January 2021

Rusian and Turkish intellectuals have been interested in this important issue for many years, especially since the beginning of intensive interaction between the two countries and, as a result, the development of cultural, economic and political Russian — Turkish relations. It is about the relationship of Turkish and Russian mentality, about the cultural relationship, which is provided by the border position of both countries between East and West. To illustrate the closeness of mentalities, examples from modern Turkish literature, as well as examples from the media, which are collected over several years as a literary translator from the Turkish language.
Tatars in the life of St. Petersburg and the history of St. Petersburg University (XVIII–XXI centuries)
Authors: Tagirdzhanova Almira N.
Published: January 2021

The article is devoted to the life of Tatars in Saint Petersburg. Along with the German and Finnish Tatar community is considered one of the oldest in St. Petersburg. In tsarist Russia, it was small, but in the Soviet period it increased. For centuries, the Tatars have served Russia faithfully. In peaceful life, they gave her many famous people-scientists, writers, artists. The essay tells about the contribution of Tatars to the life and culture of Saint Petersburg-Petrograd — Leningrad — Saint Petersburg.
Experimental study on the selection of common adsorption substrates for extensive green roofs (EGRs)
Authors: Xu Chen , Liu Zaohong , Cai Guanjun , Zhan Jian
Published: January 2021

Adsorption substrate in the substrate layer of an extensive green roof (EGR) is one of the most important factors affecting rainwater retention and pollution interception capacity. However, the contact time between runoff and adsorption substrate is extremely short in actual rainfall, and adsorption substrate cannot show fully rainwater retention and pollution interception capacity. So, selection of adsorption substrate based on its physical properties and theoretical adsorption capacity is unreliable. In this study, eight commonly-used adsorption substrate experimental devices are constructed with the same configuration. The delayed outflow time and runoff reduction rate of each device, along with event measurement concentration (EMC), average EMC, and cumulative pollutant quantity of SS, ammonium (NH4+), nitrate (NO3−), total nitrogen (TN), and total phosphorus (TP) in each device outflow under nine simulated rainfall events are measured and evaluated. The results indicate that vermiculite has a significant interception effect on NH4+ and TP with the advantages of low bulk density, high porosity, low cost, and a good rainfall runoff retention capacity under torrential rain and downpour events. In future practical engineering and related studies of EGR, attention should be paid to ameliorating the deficiencies of the adsorption substrates and optimizing their synergistic effects when combined with nutrient substrates.
PROBLEMS OF LABOR LEGISLATION: KYRGYZSTAN UNDER COVID-19 PANDEMIC (COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS WITH THE RUSSIAN LEGAL REGULATIONS)
Authors: RAMANKULOV Kubanychbek S.
Published: January 2021

The situation caused by the spread of COVID-19 has become one of the serious challenges that have manifested themselves, in particular, in the field of legal regulation of social and labor relations, which continues to remain insufficiently studied. This article aims to fill in this lacuna and consider the effectiveness of the main institutions of labor legislation in the event of a coronavirus pandemic.
The performed analysis allowed rationalizing a significant addition and clarification of the conceptual apparatus of the labor legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic (KR), which is used in labor regulation under COVID-19 conditions. At the same time, the results show that the lack of a number of basic norms in the legislation, in fact, prevent from establishing the legal status of persons in the labor sphere who are in restrictive/quarantine conditions. An analysis of the basic norms related to the institutions of labor legislation showed a clear insufficiency of their legal capacity to regulate labor relations in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
For the first time, on the basis of the comparative legal method, the problem of establishing new rules outside the labor legislation in Russia and Kyrgyzstan was identified, when the regulation of labor and relations directly related to them in both countries in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic moved to the sectoral (departmental) and local levels, including through acts of application of law (in Kyrgyzstan). Everywhere during the pandemic, employers in both countries transferred to remote work, which is not provided for by labor legislation. The author justifies the prospect of the proposal to subsequently separate out individual chapters in the labor codes of Russia and Kyrgyzstan, which provide for the specifics of labor regulation in an emergency (provisions).
The main methods used in the article are the means of system analysis and the comparative legal method for studying the problems of labor legislation in Kyrgyzstan and Russia in terms of analyzing its current state and ensuring effective implementation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
SOCIAL SECURITY FOR MIGRANT WORKERS IN THE BRICS COUNTRIES
Authors: Luzina Tatyana V. , Anbrekht Tatyana A.
Published: January 2021

The study of current practices in the legal regulation of social and labour relations in the BRICS countries indicates the need to ensure equal treatment of migrant workers with national workers. Discriminatory barriers to migrant workers accessing social security systems contained in the legislation of receiving countries (the legal status of the migrant, duration of stay and other). The legislation of the country of origin of migrant workers also excludes them from the social security systems.
Foreign nationals, residing temporarily in Russia, are subject to compulsory pension insurance. The payment of insurance contributions allows establishing a certain amount of pension rights. However, they often do not acquire the right to insurance, since the insurance pension is granted only to foreign nationals permanently resident in Russia. Basic old-age insurance, basic medical insurance, work injury insurance, unemployment insurance, and maternity insurance extend to foreigners legally working in China. In Brazil, foreign workers are insured under the General Social Security Regime. However, it establishes progressive premium rates. In India, international employees are required to be registered as members of the Employees’ Provident Fund and to contribute to it. Foreign nationals, who have entered South Africa to work under a contract of employment and who have been forced to leave the Republic, are not covered by the social security.
It is therefore essential to design and implement policies that will strengthen the sustainability of the social security system and eliminate discriminatory norms between labor migrants and national workers.
OPTIMAL TAX TRAJECTORIES OF THE KAZAKHSTAN LARGEST COMPANIES
Authors: BANNOVA Kristina A. , TYURINA Yulia G.
Published: January 2021

The agro-industrial complex of any country forms its food and economic security; it also acts as a guarantor of sustainable development of the socio-economic system. Today, one of the components of the agro-industrial complex, agriculture, contributes to the implementation of a number of life-supporting functions of the state. Thus, due to its geographical location and vast territories, agriculture is one of the most important types of economic activity in Kazakhstan. The current stage of the country’s economic activity is closely related to the development of the fuel and energy industry. The key factor in the development of the industry is a company’s tax strategy.
This article features an analysis of the main large companies of Kazakhstan (Svetland-Oil, Kazgermunai, Potentsial Oil, South Oil, Karatau, Mangistaumunaigas, Katko, Kazburgas, Adzhip Karachaganak), which was performed in order to determine an effective tax policy and increase the capacity of enterprises. The authors have implemented a numerical study of the company’s tax trajectory. Using the Cobb-Douglas model, they describe the production function of companies. The choice of the model coefficients is due to the agreement of the calculation results with the official data.
As a result of taking into account the optimization of the tax trajectory, an increase in fixed assets in the time range of 2008-2017 has been revealed. The authors assume that taking into account the effect of optimization of the tax trajectory will allow increasing the efficiency of distribution of financial and production resources of companies.
THE CURRENT TRENDS AND FACTORS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MORTGAGE HOUSING LENDING IN RUSSIA
Authors: BABURINA Natalia A. , KUTSEV Alexey G. , Mukhametzianova Daria D. , Kharitonova Lilia A.
Published: January 2021

The presented work contributes to the development of the studies evaluating the key determinants of mortgage housing lending development in Russia. Despite a relatively well-developed body of research in the field of mortgage housing lending, devoted to revealing the essence, functional purpose, and implementation mechanism, the works, aimed at identifying the factors influencing its development in the current economic environment in Russia, are under-represented in the Russian scientific field. This study aims to assess the dynamics of mortgage housing lending in the contemporary economic conditions and to identify the determinants of its defining. The research methodology is based on the use of statistical dynamic analysis and correlation-regression analysis. The work is based on the application of methods of statistical dynamic analysis and correlation-regression analysis. Assessment of the dynamics has shown the general trend towards an increase in the volume of mortgage housing loans. However, some periods have been noted to have a negative dynamic primary related to the negative external environment and stagnation of the economy, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, this article presents the assessment of the qualitative indicators characterizing the level of penetration and the degree of aggressiveness of lending institutions’ policies on housing mortgage lending. The authors have built a panel data model that has allowed identifying the key determinants of the development of residential mortgage lending in Russia. The results have revealed that the state of the mortgage lending sector in Russia is influenced by such factors, as the commissioning of residential buildings, the cost in the primary real estate market, weighted average interest rates, and the unemployment rate.
THE ROLE OF TRUST IN STIMULATING THE INNOVATIVE ACTIVITY OF INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYEES
Authors: GERMANOV Igor A. , PLOTNIKOVA Elena B.
Published: January 2021

The prospects of boosting the modernization of Russian industry necessitate the study of resources that might stimulate such endeavors. Contrary to the global literature, Russian publications mostly focus on the studies of generalized and institutional trust, as well as on the influence it exerts on modernization processes at the macro-level. Meanwhile, the impact of intra-firm trust as a factor, contributing to employee involvement in innovation, remains relatively misattended.
Our purpose lies in encouraging the discussion of the presence of intra-firm trust and the effect trust has in furthering the processes of technological modernization. The intermediary tasks include the assessment of trust’s prevalence between colleagues, employees, and managers, as well as an analysis of the impact these types of trust have on the employees’ involvement into innovative activities at the enterprise level.
The empirical ground for the study includes the results of a formalized survey of main industry workers conducted at three industrial enterprises in the Perm Territory in 2018-2019 (n = 450) using the method of a continuous survey of people present at their workplaces.
The input of our research is due to the approach we propose to measure the horizontal trust by examining the vertical trust on several levels of organizational hierarchy; in addition, we employ an expanded list of indicators of employee involvement in innovation. The survey data are collected at three industrial plants. This helps to arrive at conclusions distinct from the published results of the studies of employees, sampled and surveyed per municipalities.
Our results manifest the wide expansion of trust in organizations studied. However, we have not discovered any relationships between the organizational trust and actual employees involvement in the initiation and implementation of innovations. The impact of trust was detected only for the employees’ preparedness to take part in the ongoing projects. Thus, trust-building efforts at the workplace have a limited effect on employee involvement in innovations. We stress the importance of considering other factors that make the relationship between organizational trust and involvement in innovation more specific.
Review on Structural Trends and Chemotaxonomical Aspects of Pharmacologically Evaluated Flavonoids
Authors: Zouaoui Sana , Farman Muhammad , Semmar Nabil
Published: January 2021

Introduction:

This work provides statistical analyses of bibliographic data on pharmacologically
evaluated flavonoids from different plant families. By opposition to structural elucidations
benefitting from full data aspects, pharmacological evaluations are concerned with partial investigations
resulting in sparse information.

Methods:

The limited data availability was overcome by extensive consideration of several small
sets of pharmacologically evaluated flavonoids in several plant taxa, alternatively to the traditional
intensive analysis of big dataset of a given metabolic family in a given plant taxon. Statistical analyses
were carried out using correspondence analysis, cluster analysis, box plots and fisher exact test
to highlight structure-structure, structure-plant and structure-activity trends.

Results:

Different aglycone types showed opposite trends between hydroxylation (flavonols, anthocyanidins,
flavanols), and methoxylation (isoflavones, isoflavanes, neoflavones). Moreover, different
carbons showed differential substitution levels in different aglycones: C3 in flavonols, C6, C8
in flavones, flavonols, C2’ in flavanones, C6’ in isoflavanes. Plant families were well differentiated
by different relative occurrences of aglycones: flavones in Lamiaceae, flavanones in Rutaceae,
neoflavones in Rubiaceae, flavonols in Asteraceae, isoflavones in Fabaceae. Relatively more hydroxylated
flavonoids occurred in Asteraceae, Lamiaceae and Fabaceae vs. more methoxylated
ones in Rutaceae and Rubiaceae. Concerning structure-activity trends, flavanols and isoflavones
were relatively more concerned with anti-diabetic and anti-inflammatory activities, respectively,
vs. balanced distribution of flavones. Anti-inflammatory activity showed significant association
with substitution position of same chemical groups (OH, OCH3), whereas anti-diabetic activity was
revealed to be mainly influenced by the type of chemical groups (positive effect of OH and glycosyls).

Conclusion:

These results call for regular updates and further investigations.
O estado de exceção sanitário.
Authors: Capeller Wanda
Published: January 2021

Esta reflexão tem como objetivo apresentar o debate filosófico e sociológico que surgiu no momento da irrupção da pandemia COVID-19 em razão das mutações que, ao instaurarem-se de imediato nos campos políticos, jurídicos, econômicos e sociais, anunciaram o fim dos modos de governabilidade e sociabilidade até então existentes em todos os países. Neste contexto, os Estados neoliberais, há muito submetidos às lógicas globais do mercado que haviam desmontado as estruturas mantenedoras do bem estar social, viram-se desmunidos diante da intensidade e globalidade da crise sanitária. A partir da análise dos posicionamentos dos intelectuais de vanguarda sobre os efeitos da crise pandêmica, buscamos evidenciar a discussão sobre as temáticas emergentes do fim do capitalismo neoliberal, da desglobalização e do retorno do Estado como ator privilegiado da construção social.
Intelligent Traffic Congestion Control System using Machine Learning and Wireless Network
Authors: Faraj Mohammed Abdulmaged , Boskany Najmadin Wahid
Published: January 2021

Traffic congestion has become a big problem for most people because it increases noise, air pollution, and wasting time. Current normal traffic light system is not enough to manage the traffic problematic congestions because they operate on a fixed-time length plan. In recent years, internet of things led to introducing new models of intelligent traffic light systems; by utilizing different techniques such as predictive-based model, radiofrequency identification, and ultrasonic-based model. The most essential one of these techniques is depends of image processing and microcontroller communications. In this paper, we propose an intelligent, low cost, and efficient microcontroller circuit-based system for controlling cars in traffic light. This system can manage car traffics smarter than traditional approaches, it is capable to dynamically adjust timings of traffic signal. It can rapidly respond to traffic conditions to reduce traffic congestion. For implementing this system, a server, microcontroller board, cameras, as hardware and wireless network between traffic lights as infrastructure for communication are used. The system uses machine learning technique (i.e.,Yolov3 model and OpenCV) for decision depending on existence of emergency cars and number of cars. The experiment results show higher accuracy in managing traffic lights and recognizing the emergency cars.
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ANTICONVULSANT EFFECT OF THE LEAVES OF SAPINDUS EMARGINATUS AND ACORUS CALAMUS IN EXPERIMENTALLY INDUCED ANIMAL MODELS OF EPILEPSY
Authors: SHOUGRAKPAM PRIYADARSHINI , BHATTACHARJEE ABHISHEK , GUNINDRO NGANGOM , RITA SANJENBAM
Published: January 2021

Objective: To compare anticonvulsant activity of methanol extracts of Sapindus emarginatus (MESE) and Acorus calamus (MEAC) in experimental seizure models in mice.

Methods: Hind limb tonic extension (HLTE) in Maximal electroshock (MES) seizure and clonic seizure in Pentylenetetrazol (PTZ) seizure models were assessed. Group I (control) mice received 1% gum acacia in distilled water (1 ml/100 g). Topiramate (50 mg/kg) was administered in group II (standard) animals. Group III and IV mice were treated with 200 and 400 mg/kg of MESE, respectively. Mice in group V and VI were given MEAC at the dose of 200 and 400 mg/kg, respectively. Drugs were given orally suspended in 1% gum acacia suspension (1 ml/100 g) for 7 d. Next day after 1 h of drug administration, the seizure was induced for evaluation.

Results: Anticonvulsant property of both extracts was confirmed by reduction (p<0.001) in HLTE phase in MES model; delayed onset of the clonic seizure (p<0.001) and its shortened phase (p<0.001) in PTZ model when compared with the control. MESE-200 mg/kg produced significantly longer (p<0.001) HLTE phase with lower protection (40.34%) among the different doses of the extracts. Clonic seizure onsets and durations in PTZ model were comparable among the different extract-treated groups; however, mortality was higher (66.6%) with MESE-200 mg/kg.

Conclusion: Anticonvulsant activity of MESE and MEAC was evident; however, MESE at the dose of 200 mg/kg was less effective.
De las sorpresas de enseñar a través de una pantalla
Authors: Roldán Álvarez Trixia Penélope
Published: January 2021

Éste es un testimonio de una profesora de educación primaria, de una escuela pública de la Ciudad de México, durante la pandemia de la covid-19. En él se narra cómo ha sido el proceso de adaptar la práctica docente presencial a una pantalla, se reconoce el esfuerzo de docentes, estudiantes y familias en este período de educación a distancia obligatoria, y se abordan algunas estrategias educativas exitosas, así como los eventos inesperados que surgieron de éstas.
La enseñanza universitaria en odontología durante la pandemia
Authors: Castillo Sánchez Hilda Fabiola
Published: January 2021

La pandemia por la covid-19 nos llevó a cambiar nuestras costumbres y hábitos, y no sólo sociales, también los escolares al migrar a una educación a distancia, a un aprendizaje y a una enseñanza diferentes a las que por muchos años se habían trabajado. Como profesora en la Licenciatura de Cirujano Dentista, me enfrenté a diversos escenarios que no conocía y que, en determinado momento, no sabía cómo manejar, por ejemplo, las plataformas y, además, los sentimientos encontrados y la incertidumbre, entre otros. Sin embargo, esta transición ha dejado experiencias muy significativas debido a la respuesta que han tenido los estudiantes y aunque también se han presentado otras tristes, reconozco que, gracias al apoyo de la universidad, de amigos profesores, de los estudiantes y de mi familia, pude encontrar una respuesta a este escenario.
La Cátedra Digital: un modelo hiflex para la contingencia sanitaria
Authors: González Videgaray María del Carmen , Romero Ruiz Rubén
Published: January 2021

Se presenta el modelo educativo híbrido flexible (hiflex) llamado “La Cátedra Digital”, desarrollado como opción para la educación en línea durante la contingencia. Se describe su estructura y su uso para beneficio de los docentes y alumnos, además de dar cuenta de la experiencia de su aplicación.
CAPITALIST REALISM, FINANCE AND DON DELILLO
Authors: Grgas Stipe
Published: January 2021

CAPITALIST REALISM, FINANCE AND DON DELILLO

The author begins his paper by recalling his qualms about the fact that the Split conference subsumed capitalist realism under the overall conference topic of Words and Images. His first step is to engage with Fisher’s notion of capitalist realism. After a brief overview of what Fisher understands by this notion, the author argues that any discussion of capitalist realism has to take into consideration the changes that have taken place in the nature of money. It is only when these changes are taken into account, changes that have to do with the fact that we recognize money as a system if not the system of representation, that one recognizes how relevant words and images are to discussions of capital. After a discussion of the ascendancy of finance during the latest mutation of capitalism, the author proceeds to give a reading of Don DeLillo’s short story “Hammer and Sickle” in which he shows how the text deals with finance, how DeLillo thematizes the difficulty of understanding finance and how all of this has a bearing on the lack of an alternative to capitalism announced in Fisher’s explanation of capitalist realism.
THE STATUS OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN CROATIAN TRANSLATIONS OF CHILDREN’S CLASSICS
Authors: Narančić Kovač Smiljana
Published: January 2021

THE STATUS OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN CROATIAN TRANSLATIONS OF CHILDREN’S CLASSICS

The paper presents a study of the visual discourses of Croatian editions of children’s classics translated from English into Croatian. It focuses on trends in using the original illustrations from the source texts or providing new illustrations in individual publications of target texts and on finding and interpreting semantic shifts in images provided by Croatian artists, in comparison with the illustrations in the first editions of the source texts. Interlingual translators adopt various strategies to cope with cultural and stylistic aspects of the source texts, and semantic shifts are almost inevitable. They are even more often perceived in translations of children’s literature. Children’s books regularly include intersemiotic translations of the verbal text in the form of images, which carry important narrative and cultural meanings. These may become fragile in translation. The analysis of images in Croatian publications with new sets of illustrations has detected modifications of original narrative meanings, leading to semantic shifts. Further, the analysis of the publishing practices has revealed a tendency in the recent period towards introducing new sets of illustrations more often than prior to the 1990s. Finally, the paper considers the reasons for and implications of these findings.
Buddha u prvom i trećem pripovjednom licu
Authors: Grabovac Višnja
Published: January 2021

BUDDHA IN THE FIRST- AND THIRD-PERSON NARRATION

The Jätakas tales about previous existences of Gotama Buddha are a voluminous
and extremely popular part of Buddhist literature. Told, according to the Buddhist
belief, by Gotama himself, the jätakas describe the path of the future Buddha (Bodhisatta) who, being reborn numerous times as human, animal or deity, gradually
moves towards his last existence and Enlightenment. The paper aims to show a
manner in which the shift between narrative voices simultaneously allows identification and distinction between Buddha and Bodhisatta (based on the research by
Naomi Appleton and Sarah Shaw, and accompanied by additional explanations
and illustrations). The Jätakas are presented in the light of the Buddhist doctrines
of no-self and Buddhist interpretation of the rebirth-process. Also, it is suggested
that the lasting popularity and the lure of the jätakas can be seen as rooted in their
potency to serve as a kind of model for resolving various life-issues to which even
a modern-day reader can relate to. The paper also aims to introduce Croatian
readers to extremely diverse and numerous motifs and themes presented in the
Päli Jätaka collection.
Corruption Perceptions, Political Distrust, and the Weakening of Political Islam in Iraq
Authors: Rahbarqazi Mahmoudreza , Mahmoudoghli Raza
Published: January 2021

Employing the SEM technique, the present study aims to examine the effects of corruption perceptions on political distrust and political Islamization in Iraq. The present study used the Arab Barometer Wave V data provided during 2018–2019. By examining data from 2461 Iraqi citizens, the results revealed that corruption perceptions, on the one hand, increase citizens' perceptions of poor government performance and wrong direction of country, and it reduces the tendency for a democratic political system on the other hand. The results also showed that citizens' perceptions of corruption indirectly, through the above three mediating variables, increase political distrust in society and negatively affect political Islamization. Citizens' corruption perceptions, therefore, appear to be one of the important reasons that challenge the public's confidence in the institutions and the ruling political ideology.
Juventud y crisis. Una introducción a la identidad construida y vivida precariamente
Authors: Tejerina Benjamín
Published: January 2021

Desde el regreso a la democracia a finales de la década de 1970, España ha atravesado por varios momentos de expansión y de crisis económicas. La crisis de finales de la década de 1970 e inicios de 1980, la crisis de 1992-93, y la más reciente de 2008. A las puertas de una nueva crisis como consecuencia de la pandemia causada por el coronavirus SARSCoV-2 (COVID-19) cuyas consecuencias en términos de salud, económicas, sociales y políticas están por llegar y evaluar, una serie de autores y autoras reflexionan en este número monográfico sobre las relaciones entre juventud y crisis, y, en especial, sobre algunas consecuencias de la crisis económica de 2008. En esta introducción se contextualiza brevemente la relación entre crisis, identidad y juventud, así como una presentación de las contribuciones de los diversos autores sobre los efectos y respuestas sociales de los/las jóvenes a los procesos de precarización de las condiciones de existencia ocasionados por la crisis en los últimos años.
Aspiraciones ocupacionales y expectativas y elecciones educativas de los jóvenes en un contexto de crisis
Authors: Elias Marina , Merino Pareja Rafael , Sánchez-Gelabert Albert
Published: January 2021

En el presente artículo se hace una revisión de los conceptos de aspiración, expectativa y elección, para entender mejor los mecanismos que llevan a la construcción de los itinerarios juveniles. El contraste empírico se hace a partir de una encuesta a 2.056 jóvenes de la ciudad de Barcelona de 4º de ESO (nacidos en 1998) de tipo panel donde se contrastan las expectativas de los jóvenes y con sus elecciones en el año siguiente. Se han realizado análisis a través de tablas de contingencia y un Análisis de Correspondencias Múltiples (ACM) para presentar los resultados con mayor robustez. Los resultados muestran una notable diversidad de situaciones, pero sólo el 12% ha contestado que no tenía ninguna idea sobre su profesión/oficio a los 30 años, y el 52% ha contestado que querría una profesión que requiere estudios universitarios. De los que tienen una idea más o menos definida, el 50% realiza elecciones coherentes a corto plazo, el resto no. Tanto la aspiración como la coherencia con la elección están fuertemente relacionadas con el rendimiento académico y con el nivel educativo de los padres, pero también se dan situaciones de expectativas y elecciones no esperadas. Los resultados cuestionan la idea de que el presentismo sea una actitud mayoritaria, y se mantiene con suficiente robustez la expectativa asociada a la inversión educativa como palanca de movilidad social, aunque con diferencias significativas en función del origen social.
Peculiarities of cardiac remodeling and myocardial dysfunction in metabolic syndrome
Authors: Bodrova E. A. , Babaeva A. R. , Osadchuk M. A. , Solodenkova K. S.
Published: January 2021

Introduction. In 2016, updated recommendations for echocardiographic diagnosis of diastolic dysfunction were developed. It requires a review of the degree of metabolic syndrome (MS) influence on the heart and blood vessels remodeling and the development of left ventricle (LV) diastolic dysfunction (DD).Purpose. Assessment of the MScontribution to the heart and blood vessels remodeling, as well as to the development of LVDD with an analysis of the LV remodeling types and the degree of LVDD.Materials and methods. The main group: 130 patients with MS (62 (47,7%) — men, 68 (52,3%) — women; average age — 59,8±9,5 years) who underwent in-patient examination and treatment in the cardiology department for arterial hypertension (AH) in 2015-2017. The control group included 36 patients with AH (18 (50%) — men, 18 (50%) — women; average age — 56,0±12,7 years) without abdominal obesity, not meeting the criteria of MS International Diabetes Federation.Results. MS is associated with increased prevalence of adverse LV remodeling and DD. In MS group concentric LV hypertrophy was detected significantly commoner than in group without MS, in which concentric remodeling was the most frequent structural abnormality. Eccentric LV hypertrophy was diagnosed only in pts with so-called complete MS. Moreover DD was detected in all pts with complete MS. Type 2 DD was present predominantly in subgroup with complete MS, reflecting relationship between the degree of LV DD and severity of MS in AH pts.Conclusions. Obtained results confirm adverse influence of central obesity and MS on LV myocardial structure and function.
Association of thoracic aorta elasticitychanges and severity of coronary atherosclerosis
Authors: Mushkambarov I. N. , Beresten N. F. , Tkachenko S. B.
Published: January 2021

Introduction. Became possible to evaluate association between the elasticity of aorta and coronary atherosclerosis using echocardiography.Purpose. To evaluate the association between worsening of the local thoracic aorta elasticity and the severity of coronary atherosclerosis.

Material and methods. With the application of echocardiography and coronarography there were examined 109 patients.

Results. With stenosis >70%, occlusion or lesion of 2 or more coronary arteries, statistically significant differences were revealed.

Conclusion. Worsening of thoracic aorta local elasticity in patients with coronary atherosclerosisis associated with the severity of coronary atherosclerosis.
Ultrasound examination of the liver: the search for the most reproducible and easy to operate measuring method of the right lobe oblique craniocaudal diameter
Authors: Stepanyan I. A. , Izranov V. A. , Gordova V. S. , Beleckaya M. A. , Palvanova U. B.
Published: January 2021

Introduction. Mismatching of the organ sizes to the standard measurements is the sign of pathology, so it is important to make measurements using the same method for the same type of assessment.Goal: to evaluate the intra- and inter-research reproducibility of the oblique craniocaudal diameter measurement of the right liver lobe with the application of Russian and European methods by different operators, and find out which of the methods is the most convenient for practical application.Materials and methods. 47 healthy volunteers and 3 operators were participated in the study. One of the operators participated in both stages of study.Results. Keeping conditions such as quiet breathing and longitudinal scanning in the anterior axillary line from the VII-X intercostal spaces increases reproducibility and provides well visualization of the lobe even if the patient is not prepared for the study.

Conclusion. The oblique size of the right lobe is highly reproducible for both methods, but the European method (longitudinal scanning of right lobe) is more convenient for the practical application.
CT perfusion and MR-elastography of the pancreas in predicting the risk of pancreatic fistula after pancreatoduodenectomy
Authors: Trofimova T. N. , Belikova M. Ya. , Yakovleva D. M. , Druzina M. M.
Published: January 2021

Purpose. To compare the capabilities of CT perfusion and MR elastography in predicting the risk of developing pancreatic fistula in patients with periampular tumors at the planning stage of pancreatoduodenectomy.Materials and methods. CT perfusion and MR elastography were performed in 30 patients with no pancreatic diseases and 53 patients with periampular tumors, who were subsequently operated on in the volume of pancreatoduodenectomy.Results. In patients with periampular tumors in 18 (44%) cases, the perfusion and stiffness indices in the pancreatic parenchyma did not differ from the control group, 35 (85,3%) showed a decrease in the main perfusion parameters, while a moderate increase in stiffness was noted in 23 (65,7%), expressed in 12 (34,3%). Against the background of preventive measures, only 3 (5,6%) patients, in all cases with a «soft» pancreas in the postoperative period, developed a pancreatic fistula.Conclusion. CT perfusion and MR elastography are highly informative methods of quantitative and qualitative assessment of the pancreatic parenchyma, detection of fibrotic changes, and are effective in predicting the risk of developing pancreatic fistula.
Об одной задаче оптимизации конструкций с учетом требований устойчивости, прочности, при ограничениях первой частоты собственных колебаний
Authors: Ляхович Леонид , Акимов Павел , Тухфатуллин Леонид
Published: January 2021

В одной из предыдущих работ авторов данной статьи рассматривалась задача оценки близости решения к проекту минимальной материалоёмкости при оптимизации ширины полок стержней двутаврового поперечного сечения при ограничениях по устойчивости или величины первой частоты собственных колебаний с учётом требований прочности в случае непрерывного изменения варьируемых параметров по длине стержня. При этом известно, что в строительной практике в основном стержни проектируются с кусочно-по­стоянным изменением параметров сечения. В другой статье авторов был сформулирован критерий оценки оптимальных решений при формирования кусочно-постоянных участков полки стержней двутаврового сечения при ограничениях по устойчивости или величине первой частоты собственных колебаний, но без учёта требований прочности. В данной статье рассматривается задача оценки оптимальных решений при формировании кусочно-постоянных участков ширины полок стержней двутаврового сечения при ограничениях по устойчивости или величины первой частоты собственных колебаний, но с учётом требований прочности и некоторых конструктивных ограничений.
Strategic Priorities of Municipal Development Based on Identifying the Interests of Stakeholders: Methodological Approaches and Practical Implementation
Authors: Kuznetsov S. V. , Sviridenko M. V. , Shamakhov V. A.
Published: January 2021

The formation of documents for strategic planning of socio-economic development is the most important task of regional and municipal governments. It can be stated that strategic planning processes have been launched throughout the country and the process of forming these documents is active at both the regional and municipal levels. However, the issues of determining, studying, and taking into account the views of interested parties when forming the goals and priorities of socio-economic development of administrative-territorial entities require methodological support and recommendations for practical implementation. In this article, an attempt is made to reveal methodological approaches and solve issues of practical implementation of identifying the interests of stakeholders on the example of a specific municipality.

The proposed material is an example of determining and scientifically substantiating the strategic priorities of a municipality on identifying the interests of stakeholders.

The study of the processes of formation and determination of strategic priorities for the development of a municipality based on the identification of the interests of all interested parties should become the task of further research.
Global Supply Chains: New Trends in the Context of the Coronavirus Pandemic
Authors: Boiko I. V. , Getman A. G.
Published: January 2021

The article is dedicated to the new trends emerging in the global supply chain, related to the coronavirus pandemic COVID-19, substantially affected production, transportation and marketing of goods. The authors underline a high risks of initial chain location in China, which sporadically leads to a localization of production supply within national borders. This biase in the international logistics is rather long term than short term I terms of national sustainability. The authors underline the icreasing significance of risk reduction and supply chain reliability over minimization of cost in the logistical decision makings. The ambivalency in the trade of the pandemic emergency goods is analysed in a sense of providing specifically favourable terms for its sirculation among the countries on the one side and the national protection issued for such goods by the national governments, pursuing its sufficient provision on the domestic market on the other side.
Methodological Approach to Evaluation of Individual Contribution of Specialists in Implementation of Administrative Consulting Projects
Authors: Vilkov V. B. , Plotnikov V. A. , Chernykh A. K.
Published: January 2021

The article discusses the task of assessing the contribution of individual specialists working in the consulting services group. To date, such problems are solved mainly using the expert method. The article proposes a quantitative solution to this problem, based on the application of the mathematical apparatus of the theory of cooperative games and the theory of fuzzy sets
Den characteristics and ecological significance of Marmota himalayana on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Authors: Wang Shulin , Hou Fujiang
Published: January 2021

Dens are places for cavernicolous animals to hibernate, reproduce, and
avoid predators and harsh weather conditions, and thus they have a vital
impact on their survival. M. himalayana is the main large cavernicolous
rodent on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The analysis of den traits and
their ecological functions can reveal mechanisms by which marmots have
adapted to their environment, which is important for further
understanding the ecological significance of this species. From July to
August 2019 (warm season), we used unmanned aerial vehicles to fly at
low altitudes and slow speeds to locate 131 marmot burrows (45 on shaded
slopes, 51 on sunny slopes, and 35 on flat areas) in the northeastern
Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. We then measured the physical characteristics
(den density, entrance size, first tunnel length, volume, orientation
and plant characteristics near the den entrance) of these dens on site.
The physical parameters of the M. himalayana dens showed that they
function to protect the marmots from natural enemies and bad weather,
provide good drainage, and maintain a stable microclimate around the
entrance. This is a result of the marmot’s adaptation to the harsh
environment (cold and humidity) of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.