bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Ganoderma Diversity and Its Interactions with Hosts and Neighbouring Insects in Gunung Walat Educational Forest
Authors: Mayra Mahreza Tadsa , Chan Carey , Abdurrahman Naufal Hafiz , Putra Ivan Permana
Published: December 2024

Ganoderma spp. is a genus of macrofungi in the Basidiomycota, comprising both saprophytic and phytopathogenic species. Ganoderma spp. prefers woody substrates and can attack various trees in the forest. While it often acts as a phytopathogenic fungus, it also serves an ecological role for surrounding insects, providing food and shelter. This study aims to determine the interactions and preferences of Ganoderma spp. with its hosts and to observe the interactions between Ganoderma spp. and surrounding insects. Research on these interactions was conducted through scan sampling exploration in the Gunung Walat Educational Forest. Identification of fungi, trees, and insects was based on morphological characteristics. A total of 155 fruiting bodies of Ganoderma were found. Three species of Ganoderma were successfully collected and described morphologically, both macroscopically and microscopically. Ganoderma spp. were found infecting Agathis sp., Schima wallichii, and Pinus merkusii trees. The fruiting bodies of Ganoderma spp. interacted with insects such as larvae, Trichomyrmex destructor ants, and Eumorphus marginatus beetles, which used the fruiting bodies as breeding and shelter sites
Investigating Species Composition and Abundance of Marine Microalgae from Temajo Island Waters, West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Authors: Safitri Ikha , Kushadiwiojayanto Arie Antasari , Sofiana Mega Sari Juane , Nguyen Duc-Hung , Adjout Rebiha
Published: December 2024

Temajo Island is renowned for its marine tourism activities and is home to a range of organisms, including algae. Microalgae serve as indicator species, offering insights into the aquatic environment through their species composition and abundance. This study aims to provide preliminary data on the abundance and some ecological indices (diversity, evenness, and dominance) of microalgae on Temajo Island, which will be the basis for assessing water conditions and supporting conservation efforts and sustainable management of natural resources. The research was carried out at four stations with different characteristics. At each station, surface water samples were collected using a plankton net. The microalgae in these samples were subsequently examined under a microscope, and their quantities were measured. The microalgae abundance ranged from 2.84 to 7,697.14 ind/L, with an average of 193.34 ind/L. Chaetoceros was the most abundant genus, followed by Rhizosolenia, Guinardia, Thalassiosira, Pseudo-nitzschia, and Bacteriastrum. The diversity index (H’) ranged from 2.67 to 3.08, indicating moderate to high species richness, while the evenness index (E) ranged from 0.64 to 0.74, reflecting a high level of uniformity among microalgae populations. The dominance index (C) varied between 0.11 and 0.20, suggesting low dominance by any single genus. These indices collectively indicate a balanced and diverse microalgae community, underscoring the ecological health and stability of the Temajo Island waters. Preliminary information about the species composition and abundance of marine microalgae in this study provides valuable insights into the dynamics of microalgae populations and their ecological implications in the marine ecosystems of Indonesia.
Assessing Coral Reef Health in Northern Waters of Penata Besar Island West Kalimantan
Authors: Bariah Anisah , Safitri Ikha , Nurrahman Yusuf Arief , Sofiana Mega Sari Juane , Helena Shifa , Faizal Ibnu
Published: December 2024

Penata Besar Island is designated as one of the Coastal and Small Island Conservation Areas (KKP3K) in West Kalimantan, is a critical site for conserving coral reefs and reef fish. Currently, global climate change and anthropogenic activities have exacerbated coral reef bleaching worldwide. In the context of escalating global climate change and human-induced threats, this study evaluates the health condition of coral reefs in the northern waters of Penata Besar Island, Bengkayang Regency. An exploratory approach was employed, utilizing the Line Intercept Transect (LIT) method across four stations at two distinct depths (2-3 m and 5-6 m). The results revealed that coral cover varied with depth. At a depth of 2-3 m, live coral coverage was between 51.2% and 62.4%, classified as good, while at 5-6 m, coverage ranged from 30.4% to 49.4%, categorized as fair. Coral Massive (CM) was the predominant growth form observed. The diversity index (H') ranged from low to medium, the Evennes index (E) from medium to high, and the dominance index (C) was categorized as low. These findings highlight the varying health of coral reefs in different depths and provide a basis and essential insights for targeted conservation efforts.
Physiological and Anatomical Responses of Red onion (Allium cepa L.) to Drought Stress after Biofertilizer Application
Authors: Lestari Nurrisma Ika , Siswanti Dwi Umi
Published: December 2024

Red onion (Allium cepa) is a plant that requires sufficient water and is susceptible to drought stress. The use of biofertilizer is employed because it contains microorganisms that enhance nutrient availability and assist plant growth under abiotic stress conditions. This study aims to analyze the physiological and anatomical responses of red onion bulbs following the application of biofertilizer under drought stress. The doses of biofertilizer used were 0; 10;15; and 20 L/ha with field capacity levels of 25; 50; 75 and 100%. The parameters tested were bulb diameter, reducing sugar content number of bulb layers, anatomy of root cortex thickness, anatomy of root metaxylem diam Red onion eter, and fresh weight of red onion roots. The method used in determining the level of reducing sugar is the Nelson-Somogyi method. The method used for preparing the red onion root specimens was the embedding method. The results showed that the largest red onion bulb diameter was obtained from treatment A1B2, without the addition of biofertilizer at 75% field capacity. Meanwhile, the highest reduced sugar content was found at a dose of 15 L/ha with 50% field capacity
Analysis of complications associated with peripherally inserted central venous catheters. Prospective observational study
Authors:   PhD, MMCE, RN, University Hospital of Navarra, Navarra, Spain. Associate professor, Department of Health Sciences, Public University of Navarre | Researcher, IdiSNA, Navarra Institute for Health Research, Ferraz-Torres Marta , Diez-Revilla Ana , Plaza-Unzue Ruth , Corcuera-Martinez Maria Inés
Published: December 2024

Introduction: Vascular access teams often use guidelines or algorithms to determine the most appropriate vascular access device based on the patient's condition and the substance to be infused. These guidelines are intended to help identify the most qualified personnel for device insertion, but few studies collect information on the performance of these units. Objective: This study aims to identify the evolution and complication rate of peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) in patients requiring vascular access. Materials and Methods: A prospective observational study was conducted over three years. Continuous variables with normal distribution were compared using Student's t-test. Nonparametrically distributed variables were analyzed with the Mann-Whitney U test. For categorical variables, the two-tailed chi-square or Fisher's exact test was used. Regression analysis was performed for the dependent variable of complications. Results: Of the PICCs inserted, 61.99% (566) were in patients receiving oncologic treatment, with a mean dwell time of 136±127.51 days. PICCs inserted in hematologic patients had a mean dwell time of 144±141.3 days (p=0.438). The most frequent complications were accidental removal (3.50%, 32, OR 0.581), thrombosis (3%, 27, OR 0.752), and central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) (2.10%, 19, OR, 0.113). Discussion: Complications related to PICCs were infrequent, with thrombosis being the most prevalent. Accidental removal was also frequent, a complication not thoroughly analyzed in other studies. Conclusions: PICC insertion and management by vascular access teams enables units to achieve a low complication rate in onco-hematological patients.
THE ESTIMATES OF PRINCIPLE FREQUENCY OF DOMAINS ON RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS AND MINIMAL SURFACES STABILITY
Authors: Klyachin Vladimir
Published: December 2024

Equilibrium surfaces originate from the mechanics of liquids
and gases as the interface between two media that are in equilibrium. The equilibrium condition arises from the condition of minimum potential energy of the corresponding mechanical system. Equilibrium surfaces include the classes of minimal surfaces, surfaces of constant mean curvature and equilibrium capillary surfaces. The study of the stability of equilibrium surfaces is closely related to the questions of the existence of a solution to the variational multidimensional problem for the minimum of the potential energy functional. In particular, unstable solutions of the corresponding differential equations are not realizable in nature. Stability is characterized by the positivity of the form of the second variation of the corresponding functional (for example, the area functional for minimal surfaces). In most cases, this property means a lower bound for a quantity similar to the fundamental frequency of a region on a surface. In this article, I follow the approach of Sh.T. Yau obtained lower bounds for the quantity that generalizes the fundamental frequency of the region. Based on these estimates, the stability conditions for minimal surfaces and surfaces of constant mean curvature are proved.
CONDITIONS OF PARABOLIC AND HYPERBOLIC TYPES OF NONPARAMETRIC SURFACE
Authors: Keselman Vladimir , Igonina Tatyana , Kozlova Olga , Paraskevopulo Olga
Published: December 2024

A nonparametric two-dimensional surface is considered, i.e. the
graph of some smooth function 𝑓 = 𝑓(𝑥, 𝑦) defined over the entire plane. The surface type is defined in terms of the two-dimensional capacity of a compact set on the surface as follows. If the capacity of any non-degenerate continuum on the surface is zero, then the surface has a parabolic type, and if the capacity of any non-degenerate continuum on the surface is positive, then the surface has a hyperbolic type. The paper establishes integral conditions for the function 𝑓 defining the surface, under which the surface has one or another type. These conditions are expressed as conditions of convergence or divergence of the corresponding integrals and characterize the degree of growth (for ρ → +∞) of the partial derivatives |𝑓′ ρ | and |𝑓′ φ|, where ρ and φ are the polar coordinates of a point (𝑥, 𝑦) of the plane over which the surface lies. It turns out that if the degree of growth of the function |𝑓′ φ | is small, or more precisely, less than the growth of a linear function of ρ, then, regardless of the growth rate of |𝑓′ ρ |, the surface is of parabolic type. But if (for ρ → +∞) the growth of the function |𝑓′ φ| exceeds the linear growth of ρ, and at the same time exceeds the growth of |𝑓′ ρ|, then the surface is of hyperbolic type. Using the obtained conditions of the hyperbolic type of surface, the construction of an example of a nonparametric surface of hyperbolic type is described. This example complements the known examples of this type constructed by various famous mathematicians back in the late 50s of the last century. But the justifications of these examples, unlike the example proposed in this paper, do not rely (explicitly) on any general condition of the hyperbolic type of surface.
ON THE GAUSSIAN CURVATURE FUNCTIONAL IN THE CLASS OF SURFACES OF POSITIVE GAUSSIAN CURVATURE
Authors: Shcherbakov Eugeniy , Shcherbakov Mikhail
Published: December 2024

The paper establishes the form of the Gaussian curvature functional defined on the class of infinitely differentiable horizontal surfaces of positive Gaussian curvature. With respect to admissible surfaces, it is assumed that they admit a global semi-geodetic parametrization. The paper proves that the first variation of the functional on the class of variations of admissible surfaces admitting connections between the coefficients of the first quadratic form and their geodesic lines similar to the axisymmetric case is determined by the Gaussian curvature of the varied surface. The considerations of the type are closely connected with the problems of the study of the equilibrium forms having one of the main curvatures sufficiently small. In this case, the classical Laplace formula fails. Thus, there appear a necessity to take into account more subtle processes leading to the adequate description of the equilibrium state of the two-phased system. In particular, it is quite natural to introduce into the study an intermediate layer consisting of the molecules of the two different phases, one of the Maxwell’s ideas. The calculations of the work spended by the pressure forces for the formation of intermediate layer leads us to the necessity to introduce Gauss functional into consideration. Linear combination of mean curvature and gaussian curvature functionals gives possibility to construct variational solution of generalized Laplace equation.
Introduction to the Essays of the Consultation on Black Contemplative Preaching
Authors: Schnasa Jacobsen David , Barnes La Ronda D.
Published: December 2024

Introduction to the Essays of the Consultation on Black Contemplative Preaching
Contemplation, Christian Spirituality, and Pauli Murray: A Response to Donyelle McCray’s “Contemplative Agitator: Tracing the Contours of Pauli Murray’s Black Contemplative Homiletic.”
Authors: Wolfteich Claire
Published: December 2024

Contemplation, Christian Spirituality, and Pauli Murray: A Response to Donyelle McCray’s “Contemplative Agitator: Tracing the Contours of Pauli Murray’s Black Contemplative Homiletic.”
A Call for More Culturally Responsive Reading of Texts: Jamesian Reading of Howard Thurman’s New Testament Spirituality
Authors: David Cho Eunil
Published: December 2024

A Call for More Culturally Responsive Reading of Texts: Jamesian Reading of Howard Thurman’s New Testament Spirituality
‘A Holy Joy of a Peculiar Kind’: Jarena Lee, Black Contemplative Preaching, and Bridging Racial Divides
Authors: Carter Florence Anna
Published: December 2024

Jarena Lee (1783-185?), the first woman licensed to preach in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, is a well-established homiletical role model for women and persons of faith in multiple traditions. Her life and witness continue to be the subjects of study in many research venues through a variety of lenses, although less frequently through the lens of Black contemplative preaching. This paper offers a reappraisal of Jarena Lee as a Black contemplative preacher, with particular attention to what Professor Edgar “Trey” Clark III has called the “mystical hermeneutic” characteristic of Black contemplative preaching.[1] Such a reappraisal invites us to consider anew how Jarena Lee’s life and example may offer invitational models for bridging racial divides.
[1] Edgar “Trey” Clark III, “Hidden in Plain Sight: Reclaiming the Witness and Wisdom of Black Contemplative Preachers,” Homiletic Vol 47, no. 2 (2022): 6-8.
Preaching and Writing Bible Scripts A Response to Anna Carter Florence’s "'A Holy Joy of a Peculiar Kind:' Jarena Lee’s Call to Preach the Gospel—and Open Our Minds"
Authors: T. J. Smith Shively
Published: December 2024

This paper responds to and extends the portrayal of Jarena Lee (1783-185?) as an interpreter of biblical scripts, advanced by Anna Carter Florence’s essay. She reexamines the significance of Lee’s autobiography as the first woman licensed to preach in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, casting her as a Black contemplative preacher. Noting Lee’s hermeneutical tendency to resource the Bible for its narrative scripts, Florence Carter states that Lee was a preacher who “found her script in the scripture.” With gratitude to Carter Florence’s proposal, this response reviews her perspective and explores extending Lee’s contemplative preaching approach from biblical script preacher to include Lee as a writer.
A Particular Oneing: Zilpha Elaw as a Model for a 21st Century Womanist Contemplative Homiletic
Authors: D. Barnes La Ronda
Published: December 2024

In this article, I present nineteenth-century preacher Zilpha Elaw as a model for a twenty-first-century homiletic. I discuss particularity, as understood through deep interiority and contemplation, as the key to connecting with other beings. As preachers, we have the ability and the responsibility to model the need for and benefits of understanding and owning our particularities and to guide others in embracing their particularities in ways that affirm self and community. Thanks to the incomparable gifts of African American contemplative preachers, I believe that we can bridge innate differences and societally created divisions through a psycho-spiritual interiority that acknowledges and encourages communication in the spiritual realm.
In conjunction with Zilpha Elaw’s life and work, I also engage the contemplative work of preacher, mystic, and theologian Howard Thurman and the scholarship of Womanist theologians Phillis Sheppard and Karen Baker-Fletcher. The writings and lived experiences of these four African Americans, Elaw, Thurman, Sheppard, and Baker-Fletcher, set forth the importance of spirituality, interiority, and particularity that opens the doors for understanding and communication across societally created racial divides.
Response to La Ronda Barnes, “A Particular Oneing: Zilpha Elaw as a Model for a 21st Century Womanist Contemplative Homiletic”
Authors: Paulsell Stephanie
Published: December 2024

Response to La Ronda Barnes, “A Particular Oneing: Zilpha Elaw as a Model for a 21st Century Womanist Contemplative Homiletic”
Influences of behavioral beliefs, perceived justice, attitudes toward past experiences, and issue complexity on complaint intention
Authors: Sallaberry Jonatas Dutra , Helfenstein Camila , Santos Edicreia Andrade dos , Azevedo Sayuri Unoki de
Published: December 2024

This study aimed to analyze the influence of behavioral beliefs, perceived justice, attitude toward past experiences, and the complexity of the issue on the intention to report through a complaint approach. A survey was conducted with 218 Accounting students, whose relationships and explanatory capacity were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), multi-group analysis (MGA), and further complemented with a qualitative comparative analysis through Fuzzy set logic (fsQCA) to identify solutions for highly complex scenarios. Perceived behavioral control beliefs, subjective norms, and attitude influence the intention to complain. Perceived justice directly influenced attitude and indirectly influenced the intention to complain, mediated by attitude beliefs. Regarding attitudes toward past experiences, a positive attitude toward success positively influenced attitude and perceived justice, while an attitude toward failure showed significant negative relationships. In highly complex scenarios, the relationships between behavioral beliefs and the intention to complain remained positive and significant; however, in low-complexity scenarios, attitude and perceived justice did not show significant relationships with the intention to complain. This study contributes to behavioral theories by providing empirical evidence on the assessment of perceived justice and attitude toward past experiences, as well as demonstrating the impact of issue complexity on the relationships between complaint intention and its determinants.
Efeito moderador ambiental e social na governança das empresas brasileiras
Authors: Piccinin Yvelise Giacomello , Grodt Jonas Adriel dos Santos , Sonza Igor Bernardi , Degenhart Larissa
Published: December 2024

O estudo tem como objetivo analisar os efeitos moderadores do desempenho ambiental e social (pilares do desempenho ESG) na relação entre os mecanismos de governança corporativa (tamanho do conselho, dualidade do CEO, independência e diversidade de gênero do conselho de administração) e o desempenho das empresas. A amostra compôs-se por 96 empresas brasileiras organizadas em painel desbalanceado. O período de análise compreendeu os anos 2016-2020, analisados por meio de regressão com dados em painel robusto. Os principais resultados revelaram que os desempenhos ambiental e social exercem efeito moderador negativo na relação entre dualidade do CEO e desempenho contábil, e exercem influência moderadora positiva entre independência do conselho de administração e desempenho de mercado, enquanto para o desempenho contábil, somente a moderação ambiental apresenta efeito. Verificou-se um efeito moderador positivo do desempenho social na relação entre diversidade de gênero do conselho e desempenho contábil. Como contribuições, a pesquisa buscou incorporar novas evidências dos efeitos dos mecanismos de governança corporativa no desempenho ao explorar os efeitos do desempenho ambiental e social nesta relação. Como implicações práticas, o estudo evidencia que em empresas brasileiras, conselhos maiores e a dualidade do CEO podem melhorar o desempenho organizacional, desafiando a prática tradicional de evitar a concentração de poder. Além disso, a pesquisa contribui ao explorar novos ângulos referentes às práticas ambientais e sociais que se mostraram essenciais para moderar a relação entre governança e desempenho, sugerindo que as empresas devem fortalecer suas iniciativas ESG para maximizar retornos e atrair investidores.
Environmental and Social Moderating Effect on Corporate Governance in Brazilian Companies
Authors: Piccinin Yvelise Giacomello , Grodt Jonas Adriel dos Santos , Sonza Igor Bernardi , Degenhart Larissa
Published: December 2024

The study aims to analyze the moderating effects of environmental and social performance (pillars of ESG performance) on the relationship between corporate governance mechanisms (board size, CEO duality, board independence, and gender diversity) and company performance. The sample consisted of 96 Brazilian companies organized in an unbalanced panel. The analysis period covered the years 2016-2020 and was conducted using robust panel data regression. The main results revealed that environmental and social performance have a negative moderating effect on the relationship between CEO duality and accounting performance and a positive moderating influence on the relationship between board independence and market performance, while for accounting performance, only environmental moderation shows an effect. A positive moderating effect of social performance was observed in the relationship between board gender diversity and accounting performance. As contributions, this research aimed to incorporate new evidence on the effects of corporate governance mechanisms on performance by exploring the impact of environmental and social performance in this relationship. In practical terms, the study demonstrates that in Brazilian companies, larger boards and CEO duality can enhance organizational performance, challenging the traditional practice of avoiding power concentration. Furthermore, the research contributes by exploring new angles regarding environmental and social practices that have proven essential for moderating the relationship between governance and performance, suggesting that companies should strengthen their ESG initiatives to maximize returns and attract investors.
Solidarity as a Social Kind
Authors: Sangiovanni Andrea
Published: December 2024

There has been a resurgence of interest recently in the nature of solidarity. A problem, however, bedevils any attempt to defend any one view against another. What makes disagreement about the nature of solidarity meaningful? Why should we think any one usage ought to be preferred to any other? The questions I raise are about an important social phenomenon, and so are of significance to, among others, social and political philosophers. But they also raise difficult issues in what is now often referred to as conceptual ethics—about the standards we should use in deciding which concepts to use and when to use them. This article argues that we should conceive of solidarity as a distinctive type of social kind. Seen in this light, the discussion should contribute to understanding the nature of solidarity in at least three ways. First, it will help to allay skepticism that accounts of solidarity are really just accounts of the meaning of a word in a given language. Second, it will aid us in responding to the objection that solidarity is too vague or amorphous as a concept, and so can mean anything to anyone. Third, it will help us to identify an agenda for empirical and philosophical research on solidarity. The paper tries to make progress in two areas—research on solidarity and research on social kinds—by showing how one can inform the other.
Mali Tablo Okuryazarlık Düzeyinin Banka Kredi Temsilcileri, SMMM’ler ve İşletme Yetkilileri Açısından İncelenmesi
Authors: Onut Sefa , Demir Mehmet
Published: December 2024

Mali tablo okuryazarlığı özellikle bilanço ve gelir tablosundaki bilgileri anlama, amaç doğrultusunda kullanma ve çıkan sonuçları yorumlama olarak ifade edilebilir. Mali tablo okuryazarlığı ile karıştırılan finansal okuryazarlık konusunda literatürde çok fazla sayıda çalışmaya rastlanmaktadır. Ancak aynı durum mali tablo okuryazarlığı için geçerli değildir. Salt mali tablo okuryazarlığı konusunun ele alındığı çalışmalar çok az, çalışmaların kapsamları ise geniş değildir. İster stratejik olsun isterse de olağan olsun çoğu kararlarda işletme yönetici-sahiplerinin, SMMM’lerin ve banka kredi yetkililerinin söz hakkı bulunmaktadır. Bu üç kesimin mali tablo okuryazarlık düzeylerini belirlemeye yönelik bir çalışmaya ise tarafımızca rastlanmamıştır. Bu açıdan literatürde bir eksikliğin/boşluğun olduğunu söylemek mümkündür. Dolayısıyla bu çalışmanın literatüre katkı sağlayacağı ve mali tablo okuryazarlık konusuna akademik çevrenin ilgisini artıracağı düşünülmektedir. Araştırmanın amacı, mali tablo okuryazarlığının önemini, finansal okuryazarlıktan farklılığını vurgulamak ve bilgi kullanıcılarının (işletme yönetici-sahipleri, SMMM’ler ve banka kredi temsilcileri) mali tablo okuryazarlık düzeylerini belirlemektir. Bu amaca ulaşmak için 2022 yılı Temmuz ayında, Sivas’ta, bu üç kesimden oluşan 378 kişiye anket uygulanmıştır. Anket formunda bilanço ve gelir tablosundaki bilgilerin anlamları; hesaplar arasındaki ilişkilerin neyi ifade ettiği; çıkan sonuçların işletmeyi ne yönde etkileyeceği vb. konularla ilgili ifadelere yer verilmiştir. Anketin Cronbach Alpha katsayısı 0,885 olarak hesaplanmıştır. Elde edilen verilerin analizi için SPSS 25 paket programı kullanılmıştır. Katılımcıların her bir ifade için belirttikleri görüşlerin standart sapması (ss) ve aritmetik ortalaması (x̄) hesaplanmış; görüşlerin teoriye uygunluk/uygunsuzluk düzeyleri belirlenmiş ve sonuçlar yorumlanmıştır. Son olarak katılımcıların mali tablo okuryazarlık düzeylerinin puan cinsinden belirlenmesi amacıyla çalışmada bir puan skalası geliştirilmiştir. Araştırmanın sonucunda, aldıkları puan değerlerine göre mali tablo okuryazarlık düzeyinin banka kredi temsilcilerinde yüksek, SMMM’lerde orta ve işletme yönetici-sahiplerinde ise çok düşük olduğu görülmüştür. SMMM ve banka kredi temsilcilerinin ifadelere ait görüşlerinin işletme yönetici-sahiplerine kıyasla teoriye daha uygun olduğu saptanmıştır. İşletme yönetici-sahiplerinin mali tablolara yansımayan bilgilere de sahip olmaları onların mali tabloları önemsemelerini ve bu tabloları anlama gayreti göstermelerini olumsuz etkilediği değerlendirilmiştir.
The toposes of vision and narratives in the artworks of contemporary Russian artists P. Arseniev, M. Bezideiny, S. Motolyants, V. Chtak
Authors:   National Research University Higher School of Economics, Afanaseva Irina A.
Published: December 2024

The article deals with verbal-visual representations in the actual practices of Russian artists at the beginning of the 21st century – Pavel Arseniev, Mitya Bezideiny, Semyon Motolyants, Valery Chtak. The author focuses on the favorite motifs of contemporary artists which integrate verbal and visual elements in art. Inspired by images of urban environment and the sphere of everyday life, the followers of conceptualists actively use iso-verbal techniques. The transemiotic zone of the intersection of two languages – verbal and visual – allows the creation of two-level constructions in which verbal and visual languages merge, forming a synthetic text of culture. To understand the specificity of verbal (implicit and explicit) component in contemporary art, as well as the principles of its existence, the author conducts research, revealing the relationship between the creative practice of Russian contemporary art in 2010–2021 and the rhetoric of the era and the different spheres of spiritual culture. The article analyzes the reasons of unexpected appearance of artistic images, motifs, and ideas in verbal and visual representations of contemporary Russian artists, the aspects of intercultural and interdisciplinary interaction between artworks – classical in contemporary, contemporary in classical. Using semiotics, poststructuralism, morphology, iconographic, and historical-comparative approaches the author considers the topos of the city (synthesis of the real and ideal), attributes of scholarship and knowledge (dialogues beyond time), technical utensils and everyday objects in the context of everyday culture and comes to the conclusion that the specificity of verbal-visual representation in contemporary Russian art is determined by the macrocontext of culture, not only domestic but also European as a whole. A study of visual rhetoric in the current practices of Russian artists, 2010–2021, might be an important step in the history of art in the general situation of lack of theoretical understanding of Russian art. The present study reveals new points of view in the analysis of verbal and visual representations of contemporary Russian artists, as well as actual cultural policy, which may serve as a basis for further theoretical developments in this area. The positions, conclusions, and materials of the article can be used for contemporary interpretation of Russian art, in the development of lecture and training programs, and in the creation of exhibition projects.
New signature dated icon of Vyatka – Sofia the Wisdom of God
Authors:   Vyatka State University, Krivosheina Natalya V. , Krupnina Olga V. ,   Vyatka State University; Vyatka Art Museum named after V. M. and A.M. Vasnetsov, Parshakova Anna A. ,   Vyatka State University
Published: December 2024

The article introduces into scientific discourse a new Vyatka icon Sophia the Wisdom of God, dated back to 1850. Signed and dated by the artist icons are rare. They play a vital role in the formation of a holistic picture of icon painting. The study provides information on the client and the executor of the icon as a contribution to the church. A general representation of the existence of the images of St. Sofia on Vyatka and her copies. The icon is located in a Cherdyn history museum, Perm region, but has not been studied until today. During the research work, biographical facts about the Vyatka artist Ivan Menshikov, who painted the icon, were collected. This data includes his family, places of work, and residence. Additionally, the information on the customer of the icon, Kalashnikov Ioann Vasilievich, was established. The temple of the Epiphany in Cherdyn, for which the icon was created, is also preserved. The article provides historical information about this church. It explains the spiritual and historical-geographical ties between Vyatka and Cherdyn. The icon painter made a copy of the miraculous icon from the St. Sophia Church of St. Vokhma, Vyatka province, Slobodskoy district. Written sources provide information about the ancient imported miraculous icon of the 17th century Sophia the Wisdom of God, which has not survived but has come down to us in the form of this reduplication of 1850. The article provides brief information on the Sofia icon in historical sources of the beginning of the 17th century and its detailed description of the end of the 19th century in the local periodicals. It also presents a discovered archival photograph of the icon of the early XX century. Signed and dated icons are very rare. For Vyatka, this is a valuable discovery, since the concept of a "Vyatka icon" and its features have not yet been formed. This monument supplies one of the themes and the name of the author. It is essential to understand that the search for Vyatka icons is not limited to the territory of the Kirov region and the boundaries of the Vyatka diocese. The work integrated the research data of the Cherdynsk Museum of Local Lore named after Aleksandr S. Pushkin, Vyatka diocese, Vyatka State University, and Vyatka art museum. The study expands knowledge about the church artistic heritage of Vyatka, replenishes with a new signed dated monument, is useful in the fields of culture, education, the sphere of external and internal tourism, regional studies.
Сathedral architectonics of the "Sacred Chant" by I. F. Stravinsky
Authors:   Far Eastern State Institute of Art, Opaley Elena N.
Published: December 2024

The article focuses on the text-musical and compositional form of I.F. Stravinsky's “Sacred Chant in honor of the name of St. Mark” and its analogies with the architectural model of St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice. The main analytical indicators are text primary sources, principles of shaping, ladoharmonic techniques, interpretation of performing compositions. In the spiritual work of I.F. Stravinsky, one can distinguish a number of compositions that the composer literally builds, like the image of a temple. The stylistic diversity of the architectural creation of St. Mark's Cathedral attracted the “composer of a thousand and one styles” and was an impulse to create his own musical masterpiece. The mixture of styles that are present in the architecture of the cathedral is reflected in the diversity of the spiritual cantata with the verified architectonics of the form and the mathematically ordered musical fabric. The five-part composition of the spiritual cantata corresponds to the structural model of St. Mark's Cathedral. The semantic content of the texts of Stravinsky's spiritual cantata partly corresponds to individual images of the five domes of St. Mark's Cathedral. In addition to semantic text arches, other relationships and analogies are found in the integral composition of a cyclic work: in the ladoharmonic structure, in the executive composition, in musical formation. It should be noted that the stylistic structure of the music of the “Sacred Chant” is filled with various trends of compositional technique, since in general, stylistic multiplicity is a characteristic feature of the author's work. The architectural framework and architectural features of the shape of St. Mark's Cathedral determine the concept of the musical composition of the “Sacred Chant” and are embodied in a variety of arched solutions. The scales are symmetrical, as well as the type of ladoharmonic thinking in the extreme and middle parts, respectively. The symmetrical mirror reprise and accurate retrospective of the first movement in the cantata finale demonstrates Stravinsky's clear mathematical approach to building his own musical cathedral in honor of St. Mark.
Cultural lag and visionary challenges: Speculative approach to generative design
Authors:   Tomsk State University, Weng Wei , Galkin Dmitry V. ,   Tomsk State University, Yue Zixuan ,   Tomsk State University
Published: December 2024

This paper presented an attempt to formulate Speculative Generative Design (SGD) approach (Generative Design based on “Speculative Design” Theory) to contemporary design methodology. We suppose that generative art and design – rooted in Modernist tradition of creative practices and currently developed as computer Artificial Intelligence based technology – should be integrated with speculative design as the critical intellectual synthesis and design methodology in the context of rapid social change and so called “cultural lag” (W. Ogburn). In authors’s perspective SGD can productively use advantages of technological and cultural determinist theoretical frameworks and stimulate creative potential of uncertainties implicit to technological driven design. Computer algorithms and programming languages could change the necessity of the designer imperative. For many practitioners these changes also open a new area of interdisciplinary intersections and collaborations between arts, design and technology. As it was demonstrated in recent publications, origins of generative art and design come from modernist visionary art and have more than century of very rich history. Authors apply the philosophy of speculative design as a framework to investigate the experimental future of generative design, based on computer algorithmic methods. Fundamental explanations of speculative approach we use presented in the book by Dunne and Raby “Speculative everything. Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming”. Following this in order to help designers effectively explore generative design and improve their design decisions, we offer an SGD (Generative Design based on “Speculative Design” Theory) design methodology. Currently different cultures and ideologies are cognizant of the distinctions between the original settings and their own national contexts since speculative design is a culturally dimensional design methodology framework. From the bigger theoretical perspective contradictions between technological and cultural determinism could be solved in our approach in speculative manner through the generative design prototyping with the focus on possible deviations not functional capacities. With SGD-prototyping we transfer the problem into the virtual world and parallel designs appearing for creative transformations. Using props from science fiction novels and film and television dramas as media, and based on virtual future scenes and corresponding science fiction-like writing structures, future design becomes an innovative framework logic.
Value meanings of natural-science collections of the institute of coal in the context of modern sociocultural needs of society
Authors:   Federal Research Center of Coal and Coal Chemistry of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Kravtsova Ludmila A.
Published: December 2024

In the 21st century information society, the problem of insufficient knowledge about developmental patterns of natural history can lead to irreparable losses of our planet’s vital natural and human resources. This is because cultural development of mankind lags far behind its impact on the natural environment. Against the background of technogenic pressure of civilization, it is necessary to increase the intellectual level of people’s development and, based on that, to reassess the values, the formation of culture-transforming principles and ways of interacting with nature. Based on the culturological approach and the systemic, structural-functional and terminological methods of analysis, the article reveals the immutable significance of scientific collections in the formation of new humanistic values. In this process, the invaluable socio-cultural academic museums and their natural science collections play a big role. The purpose of scientific collections is aimed at obtaining fundamental, historically conditioned knowledge. At the same time, today academic museums consider the dissemination of knowledge among broad categories of visitors as the most important activity. They act as information and communication centers for the translation of scientific achievements and the necessary components of formation of a culture for the sustainable development of society. Museum documentation regarding knowledge about natural fossil fuels and, in particular, about coal, is one of the important topics that needs to be activated in the context of modern general cultural needs. This finds confirmation in the practice of foreign museums natural history, as well as domestic museums of various profiles, departmental affiliation and status. The example of the Institute of Coal of the Federal Research Center for Coal and Coal Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IC FRC CCC SB RAS) is used to show the information potential and the importance of the constructive participation of academic museum’s natural science collections in meeting the intellectual needs of society. In Kuzbass, or Kemerovo region, which is the coal industry center of Russia, natural scientific collections of the Institute of Coal are presented by means of museum exposition and are part of the process of dissemination of broad scientific knowledge about coal, the main natural resource of the region. Reliable information about the irreplaceability of coal resources, the processes of its formation for hundreds of millions of years, properties, methods and consequences of mining are especially in demand in the mining region; they form the basis for the environmental education of the younger generation and contribute to the understanding of the problem of preserving natural heritage and build trust in society regarding scientific innovations.
G. N. Potanin's research strategies in the context of anthropocentric humanism
Authors:   Tomsk State University, Golev Ivan A.
Published: December 2024

The article presents the experience of studying the scientific work methods of the Russian explorer of Asia Grigory Nikolaevich Potanin. It has been established that Potanin’s worldview was formed under the influence of the humanistic ideas of N.M. Karamzin, K.D. Kavelin and N.G. Chernyshevsky. On scientific expeditions he collected and studied monuments of culture, religion, and oral folk art. In his scientific travels and trips G.N. Potanin put the person with his knowledge, experience and worldly wisdom in the first place, and paid great attention to direct communication with the residents of the territories he visited. Grigory Potanin collected folklore and developed his own methodology for this. Based on his observations, he put forward a theory about the eastern foundations of Western European folklore. Grigory Potanin observed people everywhere, described their culture, paid attention to housing, food and clothing. Potanin always communicated with people, found out the details of their lives, and used the method of participant observation. Potanin took from Mongolia and China many monuments of Buddhist culture, which he donated to museums. In 1888, he, together with priest Innokenty Podgorbunsky, organized the first Buddhist exhibition in Russia. Grigory Potanin was involved in organizing scientific research, prepared a brochure for researchers of Siberian shamans, and organized several expeditions for other scientists. It is important that Grigory Potanin was interested in living nature, collected herbariums, and relied on the methods of classical science. Under the influence of P.P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky, he developed as a naturalist. The collected herbariums are stored in the Herbarium of the Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Herbarium of Tomsk State University and other repositories. After 160 years, they are well preserved thanks to proper collection. G.N. Potanin was not a simple collector of factual material; he followed a carefully developed methodology in everything. The development of his own research strategy, based on anthropocentric humanism, gave the most important results of the scientific and expeditionary activities of G.N. Potanin as the basic basis of his scientific heritage.
Philosophical depth of artistic thinking: Pushkin and Schelling
Authors:   National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Fortunatov Anton N. , Fortunatov Nikolaj M. ,   National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod
Published: December 2024

The article is written using the methods of two sciences – literary theory and communication science. The authors have already designated a new field of research in their works as the space of “receptive communicology”. The concept of traditional “literary centrism” in Russian culture, which has already become an axiom, becomes the basis for a wide range of interpretations of existing texts with the help of this method. Thus, quotations and connotations serve here not so much as “expendable material” for the implementation of deconstruction, but to substantiate the semantic space that arises between the artist, text and interpreters. The article examines the problem of Pushkin's attitude to the legacy of classical German philosophy. In Russian literary criticism, a tradition of primitivization of Pushkin's philosophies has developed, largely associated with a straightforward, formal reading of his literary texts. Another absurd extreme is an attempt to present Pushkin as a philosopher-thinker. The validity of both points of view in the context of postmodern philosophy is disavowed if the indicated method of receptive communicology is applied. The reconstruction of the author's intentions, revealed through the search for hidden quotations in his works, demonstrates a picture of a detached, ironic, aesthetic, while Pushkin's deep and subtle understanding of the functional tasks of the artistic techniques that he used. His implicit appeals to the ideas of the great German romantic philosopher Schelling not only show his deep, meaningful attitude towards them, but rather illustrate his ingenious ability to create artistic images that have multiple levels of reading and understanding. The figure of Hermann, the protagonist of the novel “The Queen of Spades”, becomes such a collection of connotations that reflect Pushkin's attitude to the current intellectual discussions of that time, and his own reading of the then popular philosophical ideas, and the clash of Russian and European world outlook, and, most importantly, artistically substantiated strength of the image of the hero. The consumer “disposability” of a work in the era of its technical reproduction in this context loses its meaning – after all, in each new layer of interpretations, the idea-feeling of the author acquires new sounds. Encrypted quotations were found in the text of the novel “The Queen of Spades”, which unequivocally refer to Schelling's texts, thereby giving additional colors to the image of Hermann, which can be interpreted both as a response to current discussions of that time, and as an archetype of an eternally restless hero. These contrasting meanings are based on deep philosophical ideas.
Internal Education Quality Assurance Systems in the Documents of Russian Universities: Quality Assurance or its Appearance?
Authors: Knyaginina Nadezhda V. , Puchkov Evgenii V.
Published: December 2024

The quality of education, despite the variety of approaches to its understanding, is usually ensured in two contours: external and internal. The external contour is most familiar to the Russian education system, where a control model of quality assurance is implemented in the form of state accreditation. Internal contour may be voluntarily implemented through internal education quality assessment systems. The purpose of this study was to determine how common such systems are among Russian universities, what they look like and whether they represent working systems of quality assurance. For this purpose, the websites of 697 universities were examined for the presence of references to internal quality assurance systems, and a content analysis of publicly available local acts on internal quality assurance of 365 universities was carried out. As a result, it was found that the majority of civil universities in the country have acts, describing such systems (66%), but they are isomorphic, and the procedures contained in them are incomplete. This allows us to conclude that acts on internal quality assurance systems are adopted by universities not to achieve quality, but to show an external controller that such system is present, as required in the control model for ensuring the quality of education.