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Buddhist Ecological Protection of Space
Authors: Capper Daniel
Published: July 2024

This seminal monograph provides the essential guidance that we need to act as responsible ecological citizens while we expand our reach beyond Earth. The emergence of numerous national space programs along with several potent commercial presences prompts our attention to urgent environmental issues like what to do with the large mass of debris that orbits Earth, potential best practices for mining our moon, how to appropriately search for microscopic life, or whether to alter the ecology of Mars to suit humans better. This book not only examines the science and morals behind these potential ecological pitfall scenarios beyond Earth, it also provides groundbreaking policy responses founded upon ethics. These effective solutions come from a critical reframing for scientific settings of the unique moral voices of diverse Buddhists from the American ethnographic field, who together delineate sophisticated yet practical values for traveling through our solar system. Along the way, Buddhists fascinatingly supply robust environmental lessons for Earth, too. As much a work of astrobiology as it is one of religious studies, this book should appeal to anyone who is interested in space travel, our human environment in large scale, or spiritual ecology.
Palestine and the Great Feud
Authors: Bsoul Labeeb Ahmed
Published: July 2024

This volume analyzes the early period of the Arab-Israeli conflict (1897–1948), which encompasses the emergence of the Zionist movement and the end of the First World War. Zionism and Western colonialism continue to play a definitive role in shaping the fate of the Palestinian cause. The author argues that it is possible to understand the existence of such a relationship between Zionism and Western colonialism by looking at the unity of purpose of both approaches and the international circles in which Zionism has been supported from the very beginning. Zionism does not correspond to a natural course of national development, such as the origin, language, and cultural unity of a nation residing in lands where its ancestors lived but is an international idea that transcends territoriality. Similarly, Western colonialism, which aims to design an extra territorial framework, follows the same path as Zionism in this framework.
The Case for Community in Online Spaces
Authors: Dunbar-Treadwell Brooke
Published: July 2024

Many believe that our sense of community is dying as the result of our digitized world. In this book, Brooke Dunbar-Treadwell refutes this claim and presents a case that connection is thriving in online spaces as people share stories, practice vulnerability, and build communities. From memes to Reddit to Facebook, Dunbar-Treadwell offers perspectives that combine relevant scholarship with examples from her research, pop culture, and society. She addresses some of the factors that contribute to disconnection like political division and dehumanization, while also painting a picture of a society that desperately desires connection and may not always know how to find it. Ultimately, this book illustrates how community and connection have changed over time, how they are currently alive and well, while offering some important practical advice for how readers can consider their own choices in online spaces to help them find the community that they seek. Scholars of communication, media studies, and political science will find this book of particular interest.
Love in the Post: From Plato to Derrida
Authors: McQuillan Martin , Callaghan Joanna
Published: July 2024

Love in the Post (2013) is inspired by Jacques Derrida’s book The Post Card. Like the book, the film plays with fact and fiction, weaving together the stories of a scholar of literature and a film director, alongside insights from critics and philosophers.

Theo Marks works in a university department that is soon to be closed. His wife Sophie, enigmatic and distant, is in analysis. Filmmaker Joanna struggles to make a film about The Post Card. These people are set on a collision course prompted by a series of letters that will change their lives.

The film features a never before seen interview with Derrida, alongside contributions from Geoff Bennington, Ellen Burt, Catherin Malabou, J. Hillis Miller and Samuel Weber.

Alongside the original screenplay, Martin McQuillan provides an extended commentary on Derrida’s original text, the film and its making. Joanna Callaghan reflects on her practice as a filmmaker and her engagement with philosophy as a director. The volume concludes with interviews between McQuillan and five leading Derrida scholars.
Contested Borders
Authors: Spurlin William J.
Published: July 2024

Contested Borders broadens understandings of dissident sexualities in Africa through examining new representations of same-sex desire emerging in recent francophone autofictional writing from the Maghreb, where long-established traditions pertaining to gender and sexuality are brought into contact with new forms of gender and sexual dissidence, resulting from the inflection of globally circulating discourses and embodiments of queerness in North Africa, and from the experience of emigration and settlement by the writers concerned in France. The book analyses specifically how Franco-Maghrebi writers Rachid O., Abdellah Taïa, Eyet-Chékib Djaziri, and Nina Bouraoui foreground translation and narrative reflexivity around incommensurable spaces of queerness in order to index their crossings and negotiations of multiple languages, histories and cultures. By writing in French, Spurlin demonstrates that the writers are not merely mimicking the language of their former coloniser but inflecting a European language with discursive turns of phrase indigenous to North Africa, thus creating new possibilities of meaning and expression to name their lived experiences of gender and sexual alterity—a form of (queer) translational praxis that destabilises received gender/sexual categories both within the Maghreb and in Europe.
Fading Out Black and White
Authors: Kingstone Lisa Simone
Published: July 2024

What happens to a country that was built on race when the boundaries of black and white have started to fade? Not only is the literal face of America changing where white will no longer be the majority, but the belief in the firmness of these categories and the boundaries that have been drawn is also disintegrating.

In a nuanced reading of culture in a post Obama America, this book asks what will become of the racial categories of black and white in an increasingly multi-ethnic, racially ambiguous, and culturally fluid country. Through readings of sites of cultural friction such as the media frenzy around ‘transracial’ Rachel Dolezal, the new popularity of racially ambiguous dolls, and the confusion over Obama’s race, Fading Out Black and White explores the contemporary construction of race.

This insightful, provocative glimpse at identity formation in the US reviews the new frontier of race and looks back at the archaism of the one-drop rule that is unique to America.
Ontologies of Sex: Philosophy in Sexual Politics
Authors: Direk Zeynep
Published: July 2024

Ontologies of Sex: Philosophy in Sexual Politics considers the ontological presuppositions of feminist theories of sexual difference and brings them into conversation with phenomenological, ontological accounts of erotic experience. Erotic relation is a corporeal, intimate, and affective encounter with the other in which the subjects have the possibility of being revealed to themselves and to each other in who they are. In eroticism, law paradoxes, death, abjection, subjectivity, sovereignty, commitment, engagement, freedom are at stake. By inquiring into various types of analyzes of sexual oppression and different accounts of ethics of Eros, this book invites the reader to deepen their existential reflection on the significance of Eros for human life in general, and for political subjectivity in particular.
Spectrality and Survivance
Authors: Grech Marija
Published: July 2024

The notion of the Anthropocene is founded on the premise that traces of human activity on the earth will remain legible in the geological strata for millions of years to come, showing evidence of an anthropogenic ‘signature’ inscribed in the rock by the human species. Spectrality and Survivance shows how embedded in this understanding of the Anthropocene is a speculative and specular gesture that transforms the notion of the future into an anthropocentric reflection of the present, prohibiting any true engagement with the possibility of a non-anthropocentric and post-anthropocenic world. In this volume, Marija Grech develops an alternative conceptual paradigm from which to think the Anthropocene beyond any limited notion of human language, human thought, human systems of meaning, or even a human world. Grech considers how the geological trace of the Anthropocene might be said to ‘survive’ outside of the possibility of any human readership, and how the very survival of the human in and beyond the Anthropocene might necessitate such thought.
The Ethos of Black Motherhood in America
Authors: Harper Kimberly C.
Published: July 2024

The Ethos of Black Motherhood in America: Only White Women Get Pregnant examines the ethos of Black and white mothers in America's racialized society. Kimberly C. Harper argues that the current Black maternal health crisis is not a new one, but an existing one rooted in the disregard for Black wombs dating back to America's history with chattel slavery. Examining the reproductive laws that controlled the reproductive experiences of black women, Harper provides a fresh insight into the “bad black mother” trope that Black feminist scholars have theorized and argues that the controlling images of black motherhood are a creation of the American nation-state. In addition to a discussion of black motherhood, Harper also explores the image of white motherhood as the center of the landscape of motherhood. Scholars of communication, gender studies, women’s studies, history, and race studies will find this book particularly useful.
Donald Trump's Digital Diplomacy and Its Impact on US Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East
Authors: Zohny Ahmed Y.
Published: July 2024

In Donald Trump’s Digital Diplomacy and Its Impact on US Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East, Ahmed Y. Zohny develops a well-blended mix of history and political science, supplemented by content analysis and critical discourse analysis of Trump’s statements and tweets. Americans are primarily interested in the domestic implications of Trump’s presidency, whereas people around the globe are more interested in his foreign policy’s implications. Both remain puzzled by Trump’s mixed messaging, his tendency to change his mind and make decisions on the impulse of the moment. The findings indicate that, by scuttling U.S. adherence to the Iran Accord, Trump has guaranteed its collapse, and contributed to an already volatile Middle East. Trump recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel brought an international crisis. Under international law and countless decisions by the UN, the final status of Jerusalem should be decided by negotiation, not unilateral action by the United States or Israel. The Abraham Peace Accord with the four normalizing relations agreements which were signed between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco mark a new and important shift in the Middle East geopolitics, it can be considered as a success for Trump’s foreign policy.
Global Politics
Authors: O'Dell Roni Kay M. , Bush Sasha Breger
Published: July 2024

Global Politics: A Toolkit for Learners is an innovative and exciting new learner-centered approach to the study of international relations. Leveraging decades of in-class teaching and learning experiences, authors Roni Kay M. O’Dell and Sasha Breger Bush have developed evidence-based teaching and learning practices which support a scaffolded, skills-oriented approach. Each chapter introduces historical documents from key political events, important concepts and the techniques learners need to independently and actively engage with primary sources. Readers are encouraged to develop a personal connection with global issues, to consider matters of justice, freedom and equality, and to think critically about possibilities for social transformation in the global arena.
Jewish-American Identity and Critical Intercultural Communication
Authors: Sobre Miriam Shoshana
Published: July 2024

Jewish-American Identity and Critical Intercultural Communication: Never Forget, Tikkun Olam, and Kindness to Strangers explores what it means to be Jewish on a personal, sociocultural, and global-political level. This book employs 50+ interviews with diverse Jewish voices to provide a history of Jewish migration to the US and to privilege voices that are not necessarily White and Eastern European/Ashkenazic. Sobré argues for a more inclusive form of intercultural theorizing that favors intersectionality and allyship over oppression Olympics (stereotypes between members of different nondominant groups) and colorism (within nondominant group discrimination). Such siloing of differences, and further competing about whose differences are the most egregious, minimizes critical intercultural coalition opportunities allowing for such groups as those who gave power to Trump and Netanyahu to connect while inclusive progressives engage in in-fighting and separatism. The author calls for transversal dialogic politics, racially and historically accurate school curriculum, intersectionality and more inclusive intercultural communication scholarship and practice as various means of working together against white nationalism and white supremacy in the US and the world. Scholars of religious studies, cultural anthropology, and intercultural communication will find this book of particular interest.
Recovering the Voice in Our Techno-Social World
Authors: Eicher-Catt Deborah
Published: July 2024

Using a communicological perspective, Recovering the Voice in our Techno-Social World: On the Phone identifies voice (phone in Greek) as the essential medium for a re-enchantment of human communication in our highly impersonal techno-social environment. This book is a response to the growing concern by social critics that we are becoming a de-voiced society because of our preferences for hyper-textual, image-based forms of electronic connectivity. Ironically, while we are increasingly “on the phone,” we are sacrificing our vocality within immediate ear-to-ear relations. Framed by the trope of enchantment, Deborah Eicher-Catt argues that the immediacy of the sounding voice calls us and enchants us to make possible productive moments of resonance in which we might cultivate an interpersonal resilience in today’s fast-paced, media-saturated environment. Scholars of media studies, communication, and sociology will find this book particularly useful.
Maternity in the Post-Apocalypse
Authors: Mitchell Renae L.
Published: July 2024

Maternity in the Post-Apocalypse: Novelistic Revisions of Dystopian Motherhood deconstructs the ways in which women novelists have reconceived the post-apocalyptic genre in recent decades through narratives centered on heroic maternal characters. These writers have placed midwives, pregnant women, and mothers at the forefront of their novels, transforming them from the hapless victims of male oppressors to protagonists who are instrumental in transforming the post-apocalyptic social landscape from one that attempts to reconstruct a patriarchal past to one that safeguards, validates, and even lauds maternity as a form of empowerment. In a novelistic future devastated landscape in which human civilizations are shattered and waver at the brink of extinction, women who embody facets of maternity are taking the reins of rebuilding human societies by overturning patriarchal assumptions of femininity, reclaiming intersectional autonomy, and (re)visioning the possibilities for a declining anthropocene.
Italian Women in Basilicata
Authors: Calabrese Victoria
Published: July 2024

This study examines the role of southern Italian women who remained behind when their husbands emigrated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By piecing together limited archival source material, the author argues that married women were not voiceless or powerless when their husbands were abroad, but they took on roles beyond their limited legal position. They petitioned local officials, requested passports, received remittances, and handled the family finances, all in the absence of their husbands, the legal head of the family. The study also emphasizes the connection forged between women and the new Italian state at a time when women did not have political rights. Centering on Basilicata—a “forgotten” region of the Italian south and one that has not been a major focus of scholarly investigation—this study challenges stereotypes that the Italian south was backwards, uncivilized, and lagging behind northern Italy. The author argues that large scale emigration greatly impacted the married women left behind in the villages of Basilicata, changing their social, political, and economic role.
Electronic Community-Oriented Policing
Authors: Hu Xiaochen , Lovrich Nicholas P.
Published: July 2024

Hu and Lovrich introduce the "electronic community-oriented policing (E-COP)," concept to explore how social media can impact police strategies on improving and maintaining police-public relation. Using empirical evidence and theoretical foundations, this book demonstrates the importance of this timely refinement to traditional community-oriented policing strategies as we move further into the twentieth century. E-COP represents a systematic approach to policing that applies knowledge derived from theories of individual behavior, social behavior, and mass communication dynamics to contemporary policing practice. This book would be of interest to policing researchers, scholars, and students as well as police practitioners wishing to improve their use of social media resources to connect to the public they serve in the digital age.
The Psychotherapy of Personality Disorders
Authors: Cohen Lisa J.
Published: July 2024

In The Psychotherapy of Personality Disorders, Lisa J. Cohen introduces Emergent Systems Theory, an integrative model of the many different types of psychotherapy, with an emphasis on personality pathology. This model proposes five general levels of the mind/brain, each of which dates back to a different point in human evolutionary history and has its own distinct psychological functions and psychopathology. This book argues that formulating patients’ psychological difficulties in terms of the levels involved permits systematic selection of the most appropriate treatments and can also enhance communication across the mental health field.
W. E. B. du Bois
Authors: Wortham Robert A.
Published: July 2024

W. E. B. Du Bois: Pioneer American Sociologist highlights the contributions of W. E. B. Du Bois on the field of sociology. Robert A. Wortham shines a light on Du Bois’s role in shaping the scientific scope of the sociological perspective through his pioneering contributions in the areas of demography, urban and rural sociology, Southern Black Belt studies, and religion and society. This book provides a journey through the extensive sociological investigations of one of the key figures in the development of sociology in the United States and globally.
Teacher Leadership Reimagined
Authors: Shea Deborah
Published: July 2024

Who are the influential colleagues in your school? Why are they influential? We all know teachers who everyone admired as role models, supportive colleagues, and who were always ready to learn more. This study used social network theory to identify those teachers that are sought out by peers for professional advice followed by surveys and interviews to identify why these faculty members were so influential. What the study found is that teacher influencers have transformational qualities that are available to any teacher. These leadership qualities are described in the Model of Transformational Teacher Influence.For school principals, understanding your school’s network is critical to the development of culture, collaboration, and successful innovation and sustainability of change. For pre-service teacher preparation programs, this research and model would support novice teachers as they embark on building relationships in their first years of teaching. For mid-career and veteran teachers who seek to contribute to their school-communities, the study describes with clarity how influence occurs among faculty opening spaces for all teachers to lead.
Southeast Asia in China
Authors: Chan Ying-kit , Hoon Chang-Yau
Published: July 2024

As part of “China’s south,” Southeast Asia has historically assumed a peripheral position when juxtaposed against the power of the Chinese state. In the existing scholarly literature, the power asymmetry is reflected in the ostensible bias where most studies are about China’s presence in or engagement with Southeast Asia rather than the reverse; studies on the presence or influence of Southeast Asia in China have been a marginal enterprise. The present volume aims to fill this void by exploring the historical entanglements and contemporary engagements of Southeast Asia(ns) in China through a Southeast Asian perspective. As China seeks to understand Southeast Asia’s presence in the country on its own terms, it is also engaged in a process of self-discovery and defining where and how it should stand in relation to the region. Departing from the discourse of China as the a priori center dominating the scholarship on China–Southeast Asia relations, the present volume hopes to subvert such power relations in order to bring fresh perspectives on the historical and contemporary contributions of Southeast Asia(ns) in China.
Forecasting Government Budgets
Authors: Khan Aman , Kriz Kenneth A.
Published: July 2024

Forecasting is integral to all governmental activities, especially budgetary activities. Without good and accurate forecasts, a government will not only find it difficult to carry out its everyday operations but will also find it difficult to cope with the increasingly complex environment in which it has to operate. This book presents, in a simple and easy to understand manner, some of the commonly used methods in budget forecasting, simple as well as advanced.

The book is divided into three parts: It begins with an overview of forecasting background, forecasting process, and forecasting methods, followed by a detailed discussion of the actual methods in Parts I, II, and III. Part I discusses a combination of basic time series models such as percentage average, simple moving average, double moving average, exponential moving average, double as well as triple, simple trend line, time-series with cyclical variation, and time-series regression, with single and multiple independent variables. Part II discusses some of the more advanced, but frequently used time series models, such as ARIMA, regular as well as seasonal, Vector Autoregression (VAR), and Vector Error Correction (VEC). Part III provides an overview of three of the more recent advances in time series models, namely ensemble forecasting, state-space forecasting, and neural network. The book concludes with a brief discussion of some practical issues in budget forecasting.
Ethical Silence
Authors: Hay Sergia
Published: July 2024

Ethical Silence: Kierkegaard on Communication, Education, andHumility examines a new area of Kierkegaard scholarship: the ethical value of silence. Through exegesis of Kierkegaard’s later writings, works in what is known as his second authorship, Sergia Hay argues that silence is an essential element of his Christian ethics. Starting with an overview of Kierkegaard’s ideas concerning ethics and communication, Hay builds a case for a Kierkegaardian notion of ethical silence by showing how silence contributes to the fulfillment of ethical imperatives by halting chatter, setting the “fundamental tone” for ethical activity, curbing excessive self-love, and providing another mode for educating and expressing love. Most importantly, silence can be used to humble the self and elevate the neighbor, creating conditions of Christian equality. Ethical silence is not the silence of the ineffable or what cannot be said, this is the silence of what can be said but should not.
Sacramental Presence
Authors: Hooke Ruthanna B.
Published: July 2024

Drawing on performance studies and sacramental and liturgical theology, Ruthanna B. Hooke develops a theology of proclamation grounded in the body’s experience of preaching. The author explores the claim that preaching is a sacramental event of communion with the triune God by comparing the steps involved in voice production with the fourfold shape of the Eucharist. This comparison yields a description of preaching as an event of self-offering that allows space for the humanity of the preacher and as an encounter with the Holy Spirit that is communal and prophetic. Preaching draws participants into Christ’s dying and rising, and hence into a mode of power known in vulnerability. Calling hearers into the eschatological event of the resurrection, preaching inherently moves toward proclamation on political and ethical issues. Hooke uses this theological framework to offer ways of preaching on environmental crisis and on racism. The author calls preachers to embodied engagement with preaching and describes a way for preachers to bear witness to Jesus Christ not only in the content of their proclamation, but in their way of being in the preaching event.
Everyday People Save the Planet and So Can You
Authors: McCarthy Auriffeille Deborah
Published: July 2024

Everyday People Save the Planet and So Can You: A Qualitative Examination of Green Lifestyles in Lowcountry South Carolina examines three interview studies, conducted over the last two decades, with green parents, choice utility bike commuters, and necessity utility bike commuters. This book draws on qualitative analyses of the data and literature (social practice, social innovation, embodiment, and attention economy research/theory) to ask and answer the question of how advocates and policy makers can enable pro-environmental behavior in people’s everyday lives. Deborah McCarthy Auriffeille begins by focusing on the particularities of living green in Lowcountry South Carolina, a region that is both highly conservative and conservationist. She then examines the pathways to, challenges of, and meanings/motivations that practitioners told about green living. Finally, she draws on analyses of respondents’ narratives and interdisciplinary theory to make policy recommendations and suggestions for future social science research directions.
The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco
Authors: Ilahiane Hsain
Published: July 2024

In The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco, Hsain Ilahiane examines how Moroccans use the mobile phone to redefine core notions of gender and space, honor and shame, placemaking, and surveillance and control. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with urban street vendors, urban micro-entrepreneurs, urban female domestic workers, and smallholder farmers in urban and rural Morocco, Ilahiane illustrates how the mobile phone has the endowed capacity to inform, rearrange, and transform almost every aspect of Moroccan society.
Self-Representation
Authors: Goldschmidt Jona
Published: July 2024

Self-representation has a long, venerable history dating to biblical times and continuing through the common law, the colonial era, to the present. This book collects and analyzes the law, ethics opinions, and empirical studies about the wide range of issues surrounding Self-represented litigants (SRLs) in our justice system, including how much, if any, assistance should a judge provide, what duties do lawyers interacting with SRLs, and many others. Using recent empirical studies from both Civil litigation and criminal defense, Jona Goldschmidt argues that SRLs’ cases cannot be fairly heard without a mandatory judicial duty of reasonable assistance. In order to maintain public trust and confidence in our justice system, self-represented parties must be guided and assisted. Courts and the legal profession should continue to adapt and meet the challenge of managing and interacting with those who choose or are compelled to self-represent. Only when self-represented litigants are embraced by the courts, they will finally receive “equal justice under law.” This book would be of interest to those studying criminal justice and legal studies, specifically legal history and legal ethics, as well as judges, lawyers and other professionals in the field.
Postcolonial Preaching
Authors: Kim-Cragg HyeRan
Published: July 2024

In Postcolonial Preaching, HyeRan Kim-Cragg argues that preaching is the act of dropping the stone of the Gospel into a lake, making waves to move hearts and transform the world wounded by colonial violence. The ripple effect serves as a metaphor and acronym to guide to preaching that takes postcolonial concerns seriously: Rehearsal, Imagination, Place, Pattern, Language and Exegesis (RIPPLE). Kim-Cragg explains each “ripple” in this approach and exercise of creating and delivering sermons. The author delivers fresh insights while drawing on some traditional homiletical perspectives in the service of a homiletic that takes the reality of racism, migration, and environmental degradation seriously. Moreover, Kim-Cragg demonstrates the postcolonial sermon in action by including annotated homilies. This book contributes to the very first wave of the application of postcolonial scholarship in preaching. Given the continuing extent and influence of colonial worldviews and legacies, this approach should become a staple in preaching over the next generation.
Specialty Food, Market Culture, and Daily Life in Early Modern Japan
Authors: Shimizu Akira
Published: July 2024

This study is an unique approach to social and cultural history of Japan through the scope of food and food ways. In this book-length study of food markets in the early modern Japanese capital of Edo, Akira Shimizu draws a fascinating picture of early modern Japanese society where specialty foods—seasonal, regional, and hard-to-find delicacies that satisfied the palate of nation’s highest political authority, the shogun—served as a powerful nexus that connected different social groups. In the course of their daily lives, peasants, fisherfolks, and merchants, who made specialty food available at the market, were in constant negotiation with powerful wholesalers and government authorities in charge of procuring specialty foods of the highest qualities for the shogun’s Edo Castle. Utilizing a number of previously unused archival materials that reveals the lives of those at the bottom of the society, the book traces the production, supply, and handling of specialty foods and shows how ordinary people were empowered to assume control over the distribution of specialty food, eventually affecting their procurement for the shogunal kitchen. In doing so, they disrupted the existing market order on the shogunal requisition, and led to the reconfiguration of market relations.
Russian startup legislation system
Authors: Быкова С.П.
Published: July 2024

в настоящей статье рассматриваются законодательное регулирование предпринимательской деятельности в виде стартапов: соотношение с современными реалиями развития и распространения в Российской Федерации. Проанализированы основные определения этого явления, выявлены проблемы, связанные с отсутствием унифицированного законодательного определения понятия «стартап». До настоящего времени не сформировалось единого понимание, что же такое стартап – субъект или вид / тип предпринимательской деятельности. Это приводит к неоднозначным трактовкам, так как нет четких критериев, субъекты не определены, и отсутствуют единые меры поддержки для всех участников Кроме того, нет определенности какую именно деятельность следует относить к стартапам как к таковым, должна ли она содержать в себе элемент инновационности и относиться только к высокотехнологичным сферам. Такая разрозненность значительно снижает распространение стартапов в нашей стране, следовательно не дает ожидаемого эффекта от государственной политики по цифровизации экономики и поддержке высокотехнологичного предпринимательства. Целью написания данной статьи было как раз упорядочивания понятий стартапа, приведенных в отечественном законодательстве.

this article considers the legal basis of entrepreneurial activity in the form of startups and their relationship with the modern realities of development and distribution in the Russian Federation. The main definitions of this phenomenon were analyzed; problems related to the lack of legislative consolidation of the startup concept were identified, in this regard, to the ambiguity of approaches to it. There is still no single understanding of what a startup is – a legal entity or kind/type of entrepreneurial activity (way of doing business) although this type of activity is already widely applicable in the business environment. Over the past decade, topics related to startups have increasingly been discussed in the media. A large number of government programs that provide financial support to small and medium-sized enterprises associated directly with their creation and implementation have appeared. However, no legislation gives an exhaustive answer what should be understood as a startup. This leads to many interpretations since there are no uniform criteria, the subject composition is not defined, and there are no uniform support measures for all participants. In addition, it is not certain which activity should be attributed to startups as such, whether it should contain an element of innovation and relate only to high-tech areas. All this significantly reduces the homogeneous distribution of startups in our country. Therefore, it does not give the expected effect of a state-owned company on the transition to a non-resource model of the economy. The purpose of writing this article was just to streamline the concepts of startup given in domestic legislation.
EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FOREIGN TRADE RELATIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN
Authors: Aslanova Turan , Fətahova Nərgiz
Published: July 2024

Abstract. The purpose of the research is to determine and evaluate the foreign trade efficiency index, as well as to examine the characteristics of using the presented methodologies. Research methodology - comparative analysis, logical summarization, systematic approach, synthesis and analysis methods were used in the research work. Application importance of the research - currently, the development of the non-oil sector in the country's economy is of particular importance. From this point of view, the main issues investigated in the study are the determination and evaluation of the efficiency indicators of the country's foreign trade relations. determination and application of efficiency indicators of foreign trade relations are of particular importance for the country's economy. The results of the research - The theoretical and methodological issues investigated and the diversification coefficient of the country's export and import were calculated based on this and the results were interpreted from a scientific point of view. Originality and scientific novelty of the research - During the research, modern approaches were used to evaluate the efficiency of foreign trade relations, and the Grubel-Lloyd index, the diversification coefficient of the economy was calculated. The obtained results are relevant for the modern economy of the country. Keywords: Exports, imports, Grubel-Lloyd index, diversification efficiency, export quota, GDP, currency, etc
MAXIMUM RESOURCE USAGE: AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK FOR IMPROVING MATERIAL USE EFFICIENCY IN INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES
Authors: Najimbayli Khazar , Khurshudov Ilgar
Published: July 2024

Summary. Efficient use of materials is an important problem facing modern society. The need for sustainable resource management is becoming increasingly urgent, and reducing waste and increasing material efficiency are vital to achieving this goal. Material utilization efficiency (MUE) is a measure of the efficiency of the system of using material resources in production, consumption and disposal processes. The article discusses the importance of material efficiency in various industries, including manufacturing, construction, and energy. It explores the challenges and opportunities for improving material efficiency, such as the development of new materials, advanced manufacturing processes and the integration of circular economy principles. The article also examines different approaches to measuring material use efficiency, including life cycle assessment, efficiency analysis, and material flow analysis. It emphasizes the importance of metrics and indicators to evaluate material efficiency and guide decision-making processes. The resulting review identifies key factors influencing material use efficiency, including product design, process optimization, material selection, recycling and reuse strategies. Keywords: material usage efficiency (MUE), circular economy, production optimization
INVESTIGATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF A MIXTURE OF COPPER SUSPOSE WITH WATER
Authors: Huseynov Huseynagha , Abdullayev Adil , Musazade Imamhasan
Published: July 2024

Abstract. In this study, the wavelength dependence of the optical density of copper sulfate (CuSO4) solution in water and the method of determining its amount in the solution were analyzed by the spectrophotoscopic method. This method is based on the analysis of the intensity of a monochromatic beam passing through matter in the visible region. It was determined that a sharp increase in optical density is observed in the vicinity of red rays (600-700 nm). In this interval, the optical density of the solution of copper sulfate in water increases in direct proportion to its amount. Keywords: spectrophotoscopic method, optical density, absorption coefficient, monochromatic beam
DATA QUERY MODULE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF 3D CADASTRAL DATA IN ASSESSMENT STUDIES
Authors: Gaziyeva Pervane
Published: July 2024

Abstract. The article is dedicated to current problems in our time. Here, attribute data collection, mutual verification, integration and presentation in the WGS 84 coordinate system, verification using aerial photographs (orthophoto and googlemaps), improvement of data quality with control requests, protection of data relevance are ensured using the data of the State Register Service of Azerbaijan. The complex situation created by the construction of dams in non-residential areas creates difficulties in the installation of irrigation canals, which cannot be represented by 2D cadastre. In this regard, in the article, the assessment of such objects with a 3D view was considered important from the point of view of rational assessment. It was also noted that cadastral data will be combined with registry data and data of a number of enterprise organizations, and three-dimensional cadastral data will be entered into the system without legal, technical and institutional problems, and a multi-purpose information system will be created. Keywords: MEGSIS software, three-dimensional cadastre, land cadastral information system, real estate value
Analisis Penggunaan Quizizz dalam Mengevaluasi Aspek Kognitif Pai di SMP Muhammadiyah Imam Syuhodo
Authors: Fadli Muhammad , Budi Ahmad , Ahmad Zulfi , Duta Ryan , Yusuf Yusuf
Published: July 2024

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendiskripsikan dampak yang timbul dari proses pembelajaran berbasis permainan atau Quizizz dalam evaluasi aspek kognitif mata pelajaran Pendidikan Agama Islam di SMP Muhammadiyah Imam Syuhodo. Jenis penelitian merupakan penelitian kualitatif. Subyek penelitian adalah siswa siswi kelas VIII sedang informan penelitian adalah kepala sekolah dan Guru mata pelajaran PAI. Teknik pengumpulan data melalui observasi, wawancara, penelusuran kepustakaan dan dokumentasi. Data dianalisis menggunakan model analisis interaktif Miles & Huberman dilaksanakan dengan empat tahapan yaitu pengumpulan data, reduksi data, display data dan penarikan kesimpulan. Pemeriksaan keabsahan data melalui triangulasi sumber data. Hasil penelitian menyatakan, Quizizz adalah platform belajar berbasis permainan yang efektif dalam meningkatkan motivasi belajar dan hasil kognitif siswa. Platform ini memiliki fitur menarik seperti musik dan stiker yang memotivasi siswa selama mengerjakan tes. Quizizz juga menyediakan fitur peringkat yang membantu guru mengukur kemajuan siswa. Namun, ada dampak negatif yang perlu diperhatikan, seperti penurunan minat dan motivasi belajar jika pengajaran kurang menarik dan siswa merasa tergesa-gesa karena batasan waktu dalam mengerjakan soal. Hal ini dapat mengakibatkan penurunan nilai dalam tes berbasis permainan.
Kritik Politik Terhadap Penguasa dalam Antologi Cerkak Telasih Wulan September Karya Purwadmadi (Kajian Sosiologi Sastra)
Authors: Rakasiwi Anggit , Hasan Latif Nur
Published: July 2024

Antologi Cerkak Telasih Wulan September ditulis oleh Purwadmadi menceritakan tentang kritik sosial.  Kritik sosial yang ada di dalam Antologi Cerkak Telasih Wulan September sebagai sosial masyarakat dan negara di dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Pendekatan yang sesuai dengan penelitian kritik sosial di dalam karya sastra adalah penelitian sosiologi sastra yang dijelaskan oleh Rene Wellek dan Austin Warren. Tujuan penelitian adalah menjelaskan bentuk kritik politik. Manfaat yang bisa diambil dari penelitian ini adalah diharapkan bisa mengembangkan penelitian sastra Jawa modern dan bisa menambah wawasan kritik sosial terhadap penguasa di dalam karya sastra. Penelitian kritik sosial di dalam ACTWS menggunakan penelitian kualitatif. Sumber data di dalam penelitian adalah ACTWS dan penelitian dahulu yang serupa. Data penelitian di penelitian ini adalah 14 cerpen yang termasuk kritik sosial terhadap penguasa dari 24 cerpen ACTWS. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan di dalam penelitian ini adalah teknik baca, semak, dan catat. Hasil penelitian adalah 1) kritik politik terhadap penguasa di dalam ACTWS berupa jabatan dan kekuasaan, disorganisasi pemerintahan, dan dinamika sosial politik. Kesimpulan penelitian adalah kritik politik sebagai kritik sosial yang berpengaruh kepada masyarakat di dalam ACTWS.
Uji Sederhana Kualitas Air dalam Rumah Tangga
Authors: Guiseppina Maria
Published: July 2024

Air adalah komponen vital dalam kehidupan manusia, penting untuk berbagai keperluan mulai dari konsumsi hingga sanitasi. Namun, kualitas air yang digunakan masyarakat sering kali tidak memenuhi standar yang ditetapkan oleh regulasi, seperti yang diatur dalam Peraturan Menteri Kesehatan Republik Indonesia No. 2 Tahun 2023. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengevaluasi kualitas air rumah tangga di daerah Bekasi dan Jonggol. Penelitian dilakukan dengan mengambil sampel air dari empat sumber yang berbeda, yaitu air tanah dari rumah warga di Kampung Sawah (Sampel A), air PAM dari perumahan di Wisma Jaya (Sampel B), air tanah dari perumahan di Mustika Jaya (Sampel C), dan air tanah dari daerah pegunungan di Jonggol (Sampel D). Setiap sampel diuji di laboratorium untuk parameter fisika (warna, bau, dan kekeruhan) serta parameter kimia (kesadahan, kalsium, alkalinitas, besi, klorin, dan pH). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Sampel B dan C memenuhi standar baku mutu air untuk keperluan minum dan sanitasi. Sampel A memiliki pH di bawah standar, sedangkan Sampel D menunjukkan kadar besi dan kekeruhan yang melebihi standar yang ditetapkan. Penelitian ini menegaskan pentingnya pemantauan kualitas air rumah tangga untuk memastikan kesesuaian dengan standar baku mutu yang telah ditetapkan. Air bersih dan berkualitas sangat penting untuk kesehatan dan kesejahteraan masyarakat. Hasil ini dapat digunakan sebagai referensi untuk meningkatkan pengelolaan sumber daya air di daerah penelitian.
PENDAMPINGAN DAN PEMBENTUKAN FORUM PENATAAN RUANG KABUPATEN WAROPEN DALAM RANGKA MENDUKUNG PENYELENGGARAAN PENATAAN RUANG DI KABUPATEN WAROPEN
Authors: Sitorus Yannice Luma Marnala
Published: July 2024

Saat ini Waropen sedang berkembang menjadi suatu kabupaten baru setelah dimekarkan dari kabupaten induk pada tahun 2003. Untuk itu akan diperlukan pedoman untuk mengarahkan pembangunan di Kabupaten Waropen seperti misalkan Rencana Tata Ruang Wilayah (RTRW) dan Rencana Detail Tata Ruang (RDTR), yang berperan dalam penyelenggaraan penataan ruang yang merupakan wadah bagi setiap aktivitas pembangunan di daerah. Selain itu akan diperlukan juga suatu badan yang mengawasi pelaksanaan pedoman tersebut. Kegiatan pengabdian masyarakat ini bertujuan untuk melaksanakan pendampingan pembentukan Forum Penataan Ruang (FPR) yang belum ada di Kabupaten Waropen. Kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini dilakukan dengan metode sosialisasi tentang manfaat penting RTRW dan RDTR sebagai pedoman dalam penyelenggaraan penataan ruang dan peran badan FPR. Kegiatan sosialisasi terdiri dari beberapa tahapan, yaitu: (1) observasi daerah tujuan; (2) melakukan komunikasi dengan BAPPEDA Kabupaten Waropen mengenai masalah sosial yang sudah ditentukan; dan (3) sosialisasi kepada para pemangku kepentingan.  Hasil dari pelaksanaan pengabdian yang telah dilakukan adalah bertambahnya wawasan peserta sosialisasi, khususnya pada pemahaman tentang pentingnya peran RTRW dan RDTR serta peran badan FPR yang dapat membantu pihak pemerintah daerah setempat dalam menyelenggarakan penataan ruang di Kabupaten Waropen. Pada kesempatan sosialisasi tersebut juga dilayani konsultasi terhadap permasalahan tata ruang yang terjadi di Kabupaten Waropen. Kegiatan pengabdian ini berjalan dengan baik dan dihadiri oleh berbagai unsur pemerintahan serta perwakilan masyarakat dan diharapkan setelah itu akan segera terbentuk FPR di Kabupaten Waropen.
The Role of Technological Knowledge on Student Engagement on Senior High School Students
Authors: Hendra Hosen  , Riana Sahrani  , Pamela Hendra Heng
Published: July 2024

This study examines the impact of technological knowledge on student engagement among senior high school students, focusing on the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Technological knowledge is defined as individuals; proficiency in utilizing various information technologies to complete tasks. Student engagement is characterized by active participation in teaching and learning activities, leading to improved learning outcomes. The research addresses the concerning issue of low student engagement observed during the pandemic and investigates the potential of technological knowledge to foster increased engagement. The study includes a sample of 270 students selected through a non-probability random sampling method. Multiple regression analysis is employed to assess the relationship between variables. The findings reveal a significant positive influence of technological knowledge on student engagement. Furthermore, a comparison test indicates that grade 10 students exhibit higher levels of both technological knowledge and student engagement. Online class students demonstrate greater technological knowledge, while hybrid class students display higher emotional engagement. This study contributes valuable insights for enhancing student engagement through technological knowledge in the context of senior high school education during the pandemic.