bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Financial Audit Report Modifications in Malta**
Authors: Baldacchino Peter J. , Bezzina Frank H. , Tabone Norbert , Vassallo Jean Paul
Published: January 2023

This paper analyses the modifications of financial audit reports of Maltese companies between 2005 and 2009. It examines the audit reports of a random sample of 374 limited liability companies registered with the Registry of Companies in Malta. The study shows that the average 2005-2009 modification rate in Malta stood at 22.4%, this representing an increase over previous periods. Most modified reports were noted in the case of private exempt and international trading non-exempt companies. Generally, private exempt companies had their audit report qualified on the basis of a limitation of scope, whilst most international trading companies had their reports qualified on the basis of disagreement with management. Furthermore, the “small company qualification” (which has been long abolished) was still incorrectly being used in Maltese audit reports till 2009. The results therefore show that there is still room for improvement in audit reporting in Malta. Whilst the Big Four audit firms do not appear to have issues in appropriately adhering to audit reporting standards, Maltese smaller audit firms and sole practitioners were found still to be the main cause for inappropriate audit reporting. Towards improvement, the study provides various recommendations including: a more consistent regulatory framework, stricter enforcement of quality assurance, and the reconsideration of the statutory small audit. Such recommendations may also be applicable to other jurisdictions.
Connection Between Retail Internationalization and Management Strategies**
Authors: Plazibat Ivana , Raguž Ivona Vrdoljak
Published: January 2023

In past ten years the world of retailing has changed dramatically due to changes to consumer consumption, product saturation and most of all to technology improvements. Retailers have to operate in environment that fluctuates among different challenges that global economy puts on their way of doing business. Also global economy and internationalization of business reduced dependence on home markets and mood swing of domestic consumers. Needless to say attractiveness of foreign-new markets and its possibilities of growth. But unfamiliar and unpredictable territory has its treats and risk. In our paper we are focused on analysis of the strategies that retailers have as option when their wont to internationalize their business. Analysis of theoretical aspects of retail internationalization, and also of motives that shift retailers operations and attention from domestic toward unfamiliar markets are also given. The question for new analysis or research is put is there the best entry strategy for retailers or is it a mix of skill, experience and luck?
Shareholder and Management Features in the Context of Behavioural Characteristics, Effects and Life Cycle**
Authors: Krasilnikova E.V.
Published: January 2023

Prerequisites of agent’s limited rationality are defined, when their choice is influenced by preferences, last events, emotional characteristics. An impact of behavioral characteristics on making decision in case of limited rationality of the agent is considered. For example, overconfidence managers encourage an increase in debt in capital structure of the company and overinvestment. The conflicts of interests for the Russian companies with ownership concentration are analyzed. Moreover ownership concentration – is a necessary measure of shareholders protection, not always have a negative effect on financial economic results. Behavioral features and agency problems vary at life cycles of the company. The algorithm of transition from one life stage to another in accordance with determined risks, agency problems and drivers is developed. The challenge to stimulate managers for increase of productivity and their decisions is determined. This article presents investigation a motivation and an encouragement of management; defined behavioral characteristics in the way of incentives; behavioral stereotypes in stimulation methods are presented.
Anticipated Shock, Monetary Policy and Welfare in the Small Open Economy
Authors: Hasan Rabia , Iftikhar Syed Faizan
Published: January 2023

This paper judges the welfare implications of anticipated and unanticipated Productivity shocks in a small open economy. The purpose model is two country New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with the characteristics of nominal rigidities and monopolistic competition. This study finds out the higher degree of openness increase the welfare cost in the anticipated shocks. The response of optimal policy to anticipated shocks demonstrates the larger and delayed on macroeconomic variables than unanticipated shocks. Optimal monetary policy rule has a potential to curb the inflation and meet an optimal level of the real exchange rate volatility. Movements in real exchange rate resist the terms of trade externality and upturn the effectiveness of monetary policy. In addition, monetary authorities focus on the goal of exchange rate stabilization in their policy decisions.
Determinates of Commercial Banks Liquidity: Internal Factor Analysis
Authors: Mashamba Tafirei
Published: January 2023

This study was undertaken to explore the determinants of liquidity in Zimbabwean commercial banks. The research paper was motivated by the persistent high liquidity crunch currently be delving operations of commercial banks. An explanatory research design was adopted to find out variables that determine banks liquidity. An Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) model was developed after testing the variables for stationary to avoid spurious regression using the Augmented Dicker-Fuller (ADF) unit root test. Pearson’s correlation analysis was used to examine the existence of correlation between the repressors and the regressed. The study identified that non-performing loans are highly negatively related with banks liquidity signifying that this variable influence bank liquidity to a larger extent. A positive relationship between bank size and capital adequacy ratio and liquidity was established. Contrary to expectations a positive relationship was obtained between loan growth and banks liquidity. The following recommendations were made. Banks should devise robust credit risk management tools to reduce credit risk, tap into the offshore markets to obtain more credit to extent to their clients and the central banks should speed up the operation of ZAMCO which is meant to take over banks bad debts.
The Growing Importance of Changing Nature of Competition
Authors: Daraboš Maja
Published: January 2023

In this paper, an in depth theoretical overview on the central question in business strategy is provided: Why some firms outperform others? The latest approaches to the concept of competitive advantage were examined. Recent researches show that sustainable competitive advantage is becoming rarer, and that the duration of competitive advantage decreases (Wiggins and Ruefli, 2002). Sirmon, et. al. (2010) point out that competitive advantage is de facto unsustainable and that each advantage of the firm is reduced, as a result of dynamic interactions with competitors. Thus, the paper gives detailed explanation of how and why new perspectives work to unlock the potential for competitiveness. In other words, the purpose of this paper is to examine the theoretical background and insights of behaviour of the firms and the ways of sustaining competitive advantage in the context of hypercompetition, by examining the modes in which firms successfully compete, evolve and survive in times when specific advantages are not sustainable, but of more temporary nature. This extant literature review shows that still and all we face a knowledge gap in realizing the big picture of competitive advantage.
Distribution Route Optimization by Utilizing Saving Matrix: Case Study In. Limas Raga Inti Bandung
Authors: Putranto Rizal , Hendayani Ratih
Published: January 2023

Along with the government's policy to convert from kerosene to LPG gas, LPG consumer demand is increasing. It requires the LPG distributors to be able to meet the needs of its customers. PT. Limas Raga Inti is an authorized distributor company PT. Pertamina LPG product devoted to distribute 12 kg. The company's main commitment is to provide the best service to the consumer. One of the efforts to improve the quality of service is to provide optimization of the distribution process. Optimization can be done by determining the distribution of the matrix saving method to obtain the optimal route. The purpose of the optimization of route determination is to provide effectiveness and efficiency of the distribution process. Effectiveness and efficiency can be seen with the speed of delivery time and can overcome the problems that exist in the company. In the process of determining the route to saving matrix, is done in the consumer sorting method which has produced the nearest neighbor and nearest the insert. Then do the repair method using 2-opt and or-opt in order to provide the best route to the selected proposal. Furthermore, the delivery time will be calculated based on the productivity of the proposal and indicating the optimal route. The results of this study are are 4 routes proposed by sorting nearest neighbor method with a total delivery time of 10 hours 30 minutes for 100 customers spread in the distribution area D14. The resulting productivity by 85.11%.
Regional Innovation Systems and Revolutionized Sectors: The Mobile Gaming and Digital Music
Authors: Soeiro Filipe Castro , Conduto Ana Filipa
Published: January 2023

Mobile gaming and digital music industries’ dynamics and growth show high potential of value network and induce new ways of designing and developing competitive value propositions throughout disruptive innovation processes. These innovative processes have the potential to lead to design and development of new products and services, by combining games with music contents and revolutionizing the current media entertainment sector. In view of that, mobile gaming sector and market analysis were conducted throughout competitive analysis frameworks, analysis of regional innovation systems and online surveys to support the blue ocean opportunities and corroborates its market potential. Hence, the analysis involved the study of the competitive environment and technological convergence of both industries and the impact of this new game in industry dynamics. Moreover, the key drivers and trends influencing the business environment were analysed and competitive strategies were discussed as new trends for the sector, as well as new value chain rearrangements and potential players’ competition models. Finally, there were discussed vertical and horizontal integration processes, industrial clustering and agglomeration economics to lead regional innovation systems, higher knowledge investments and R&D spillovers to support blue ocean opportunities benefiting customers through new and innovative value propositions. Major sectorial changes and societal impacts for the future are also discussed.
Short Term Announcement Returns to the Bidder**
Authors: Högholm Kenneth , Knif Johan
Published: January 2023

In this paper we investigate the short term abnormal return to the bidding firm’s shareholders in takeover transactions in Finland during the time period from January 2000 to December 2013. Specific features of the market for corporate acquisitions in Finland are that almost all of the transactions are friendly acquisitions and usually aim for 100 % of the target company. We estimate the abnormal return around 314 individual takeover announcements and investigate determinants of the abnormal returns. Our results show that the takeover announcement on average yields a positive abnormal return to the bidding firm’s shareholders, thus, support the value creating hypothesis. The announcement effect on the announcement day is1.4 % and statistically significant. Both pre-event and post-event abnormal returns are statistically insignificant, although there is sign of a negative revaluation in the post-event period. Among the takeover characteristics, we document a significant impact on the bidder’s abnormal return on the announcement day for small deals yielding a higher abnormal return, but a positive relationship between the announcement effect and the relative size of the deal, cross-border deals giving a smaller abnormal return, and indication of diversification deals giving a higher abnormal return to the bidder’s shareholders.
Analysis of the Relationship Between Costs and Firm Growth Using the Example of the Unicredit Group S.P.A.
Authors: Sopta Martina , Prša Marija
Published: January 2023

A firm is defined as a form of organisation which performs commercial activities in order to generate income to settle costs and generate profit and in such manner as to accomplish certain objectives. Every firm has different objectives which refer to operating business activites and strategic planning, depending on industry, firm size, environment and other conditions. The subject-matter of this paper is cost behaviour depending on firm size and the way enterprises manage costs in order to optimise their performance. The example of the Unicredit Group will be used to display the analysis of firm growth and cost trend which follows this growth. The objective of this paper is to display to which extend the Unicredit Group, as a firm, managed costs successfully and whether their growth followed their cost trend according to current economic rules. For this purpose, there will be used scientific methods.
Family, Governmental, Domestic Corporations and Board of Directors and Audit Committee Effectiveness in GCC**
Authors: Alroqy Faisal Ayid , Aljaaid Khaled Salmen
Published: January 2023

This study aims at investigating the association between ownership structure (government ownership, family ownership and domestic corporate ownership) and the interaction of board of directors effectiveness and audit committee effectiveness by GCC listed companies. The study utilizes a cross-sectional analysis of 492 firm-year observations during the 2006- 2010 period. A pooled OLS regression analysis is used to estimate the associations proposed in the hypotheses. The study finds that government and domestic corporate ownerships are positively related to the effectiveness of board of directors and audit committee. However, such association could not be reported by the family ownership. The results of this study suggest that government-owned and domestic corporate-owned companies are characterized to have good corporate governance practices in terms of board of directors and audit committee as internal control and monitoring mechanisms. Further, the results of this study contribute to the existing theory and empirical evidence of how the effectiveness of board of directors and audit committee is related to monitoring and controlling ownership type. This study offers policy-makers additional evidence to be used for setting up and/or enacting regulations in GCC.
Litotripsia en cálculos renales
Authors: Nivelo Zumba Joel Esteban , Rodríguez Rivadeneira Walter David , Caguana Dutan Inocencio Jonnathan , León Román Gary Josué , Lizarzaburu Penafiel Lenin Steve
Published: January 2023

La litiasis renal es una entidad nosológica con relevancia desde la perspectiva sanitaria y de salud pública por cuanto condiciona importantes tasas de incidencia, prevalencia y recurrencia. De allí pues que con el paso de los años se han realizado esfuerzos por establecer procedimientos altamente efectivos en el manejo de esta patología, y con baja morbilidad. La litotripsia es una de las alternativas terapéuticas más ampliamente utilizadas a escala internacional. El presente artículo tuvo como objetivo analizar la tasa de éxito de la litotripsia en pacientes con cálculos renales. Se trata de un estudio con enfoque cualitativo, en el que se realizó revisión de la literatura y posterior análisis documental. Fueron incluidos 14 artículos científicos publicados en el periodo comprendido entre 2018 – 2023, en las bases de datos Scopus, SciELO, MEDLINE, Embase y Scholar academic. De los resultados alcanzado, ha de destacarse que la litotripsia se mantiene en la actualidad como una de las alternativas terapéuticas más empleadas a nivel mundial, debido a las numerosas ventajas que conlleva y la baja morbilidad que genera, así como la tasa de éxito que en ciertos casos supera el 80%.
La inteligencia artificial y la limitación al derecho a la privacidad cibernética, en estudiantes de Jurisprudencia, Cuenca-Ecuador 2022
Authors: Abad Molina Katherinne Gabriela , Arciniegas Castro Cesar Leonardo
Published: January 2023

La era digital ha progresado desmesuradamente a lo largo del último siglo, dando paso a grandes avances como las nuevas inteligencias artificiales en el ámbito de la comunicación, las cuales han supuesto un nuevo paradigma en la recolección y almacenamiento de datos en la red, ocasionando conflictos en la preservación del derecho a la privacidad cibernética. La presente investigación tiene como objetivo determinar como la inteligencia artificial puede limitar el derecho a la privacidad cibernética en estudiantes de la facultad de Jurisprudencia, de la Universidad de Cuenca, en el año 2022. La investigación se basó en un estudio observacional, descriptivo y de corte transversal, la muestra estuvo conformada por 100 estudiante de la Universidad de Cuenca. El análisis de las variables cuantitativas se efectuó mediante del alfa de Cronbach, y el Test de Pearson <0,05. Los resultados registraron un valor de significancia de (0,002<0,05), y un 0,820 de confidencialidad de las variables estudiadas. Como conclusión se determinó que la implementación de un sistema a nivel infraestructural que precautele el derecho a la privacidad cibernética, es crucial para desarrollar un proyecto de contingencia que redimensione el impacto que la nueva era digital ha causado en los sistemas jurídicos conservadores.
Interventionen
Authors: Levine Michael G.
Published: January 2023

Michael Levine's interventions choose key moments in the life and work of Paul Celan as their point of departure: The birth and death of Celan's first son in 1953; an examination of the traumatic structure of Georg Büchner's work in the 1960 Meridian speech; the poems to his second son Eric, with Celan feeling compelled to choose between him and his devotion to poetry during a time of personal and political crisis in 1968; and the Jerusalem poems written after the "caesura" of the 1969 trip to Israel. Circling around moments of crisis, the essays examine how Celan not only strove to take his bearings in time, but also, and above all, to keep time open in order to allow "that which is most proper to him, to the Other, to speak", to which even listening must first open up. In doing so, the texts represent not only an examination of Paul Celan, but also discussions with his outstanding readers: Bernhard Böschenstein, Jacques Derrida, Werner Hamacher, Stéphane Mosès and Thomas Schestag.
Ordinatio ad Casum
Authors: Rossi Guido
Published: January 2023

The book examines the development of legal causation in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, focusing especially on practice-oriented literature (decisiones and consilia). Causality began to be discussed from the late thirteenth century and especially during the first half of the fourteenth when it was described as ordinatio. In private law, ordinatio remained the standard approach to causation during the entire early modern period: centuries of legal practice mainly refined its scope but did not change its core. By contrast, its application in criminal law would increasingly crash with the intentionality requirement, and so it was progressively challenged.
Tatort Ost
Authors: Spranz Katja
Published: January 2023

Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort and "Polizeiruf 110", the popular crime series of the GDR, are meticulously evaluated: The author introduces us into the depictions of everyday life in the GDR they created and leads us through the dominant chains of motifs of the grand narrative of the superior socialist society, in which, for example, "the "intellectual" and the "misunderstood artist" become potentially dangerous figures. It is the incidentals and omissions that tell us more than the manifest criminal history, as long as we employ the analytical category of law in critically reading the self-descriptions of a society. This is where the real narrator exposes himself: an almost mythical figure, namely a GDR society that relentlessly reveals its own weaknesses to itself.
Genetic Variability of Entamoeba histolytica Strains
Authors: Akram Faqe Mahmood Shler
Published: January 2023

Entamoeba histolytica is pathogenic parasite that causes asymptomatic infection mostly; however, it may also cause invasive intestinal amoebiasis and liver abscess, leading to significant rates of human mortality globally. The clinical outcome of the infection with the parasite is variable and evidence suggested the contribution of genetic diversity within E. histolytica to human disease. The information documented the whole-genome sequence of the E. histolytica reference laboratory strain (HM-1:IMSS) and the development of sophisticated molecular technique potentiate ability to identify strains of E. histolytica that may lead to insights into the population structure, virulence, pathogenesis, clinical outcome of the disease and epidemiology of the organism.
The Influences of Combined Distortions on Fan Performance
Authors: Xu Quanyong , Hou Anping , Wu Honghu
Published: January 2023

Combined distortions negatively affect the aerodynamic stability of fans, but previous studies have limitations. The 3D CFD method was used to calculate the aerodynamic stability of fans under the total pressure and swirl distortion, total temperature and swirl distortion, and total pressure and total temperature distortion in the work. Rotor 67 was taken as the research object. According to the calculation results, the influences of variable distortion parameters on fan performance under combined distortions were summarized to establish the functional relationship between stability margin losses and distortion parameters.
The Experiences of International Students Studying in the UK during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors: Schartner Alina
Published: January 2023

This study investigated the experiences of international students studying in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic by examining how the pandemic impacted their academic, psychological, and sociocultural adaptation. An online survey of 343 international students measured the impact of a range of pandemic-related stressors, including loneliness, and host university support on adaptation outcomes. The results indicated that the pandemic exerted an adverse effect on all adaptation domains. Loneliness emerged as a significant negative predictor of adaptation outcomes, and students who had experienced pandemic-related stressors reported lower adaptation than peers who had not been exposed to these stressors. Group comparisons showed that students who had been offered online social activities, guidance on adapting to remote learning, guidance on housing issues, and advice on how to deal with COVID-related discrimination adapted better than peers who had not been provided with these support measures. We discuss implications for future emergency response strategies in higher education, in particular for student support.
Conservation Status of Macro Mammals in the Llanganates-Sangay Ecological Corridor and Anzu River Subbasin
Authors: Arias-Gutierrez Ruth , Tapia Andrés , Pablo Reyes Puig Juan
Published: January 2023

With rapid ecological assessments, we diagnose the conservation status of large mammals in the localities Rio Encanto, San Jacinto Las Palmas, Sacha Llanganates, Cabeceras del Anzu, Boayaku, and Flor de Bosque, located within the Llanganates Sangay Ecological Corridor (CELS) and the upper subbasin of the Anzu River, in the eastern foothills of the tropical Andes, sub-Andean and tropical ecosystems in one of the most biologically diverse regions of Ecuador. Camera traps, 5 km linear transect walks, and interviews with local inhabitants recorded 35 species of macro mammals, in 8 Orders and 21 Families, including the Andean bear (Tremarctos ornatus), Andean tapir (Tapirus pinchaque), Amazonian tapir (Tapirus terrestris), puma (Puma concolor), and chorongo monkey (Lagothrix lagotricha), mammals considered as flagship species, highly endangered. The continuity of natural habitat along the subbasins of the Encanto, Topo, Zuñag, Tigre, and Anzu rivers, as well as the mountain ranges toward the highlands, provide favorable conditions for the flow of individuals, from adjacent areas of the Llanganates and Sangay National Parks to partially protected forest areas, such as the private reserves of Fundation Ecominga, Sumak Kawsay in Situ, community reserves of Boayaku and Flor de Bosque. The protection of the area is a priority.
Diagnosis of Viral Families Using a Nucleic Acid Simplification Technique
Authors: Millar Douglas , Melki John
Published: January 2023

We have developed a novel strategy to simplify microbial nucleic acids termed 3base™. This technology uses the chemical sodium bisulphite to reduce the genome from adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine or uracil, in the case of RNA containing viruses, to adenine, guanine and thymine thus reducing genome complexity. The method has been applied to the detection of high-risk human papilloma virus (HPV), gastrointestinal pathogens, alphaviruses, flaviviruses, dengue and more recently coronaviruses. Currently, there are very few real-time RT-PCR based assays that can detect the presence of all members of these viral families using conventional approaches. This strategy allows the design of assays that are capable of pan-family detection. The pan-viral assays provide a sensitive and specific method to screen and thereafter speciate viral families in clinical samples. The assays have proven to perform well using clinical samples and additionally during an outbreak of dengue fever that occurred in 2016/17 on the islands of Vanuatu. The 3base™ assays can be used to detect positive clinical samples containing any viral family generally in less than 3 hours making them ideally suited to viral surveillance and perhaps the discovery of emerging viruses in families without prior sequence knowledge of the pathogen.
A Hidden Organism, Chlamydia in the Age of Atherosclerosis
Authors: Besir Akpinar Mehmet
Published: January 2023

Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease. It is still the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the world. Inflammation in the vessels plays the most important role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Many studies have been emphasized that Chlamydia pneumoniae triggers inflammation in the vessels and associated with atherosclerosis. It is stated that most of the chlamydial infections are asymptomatic and around 40% of adult individuals are infected. Chlamydia has different subgroups. It was thought to be a virus due to its intracellular pathogenicity, but it was included in the bacteria genus because it contains DNA and RNA chromosomes and has enzymatic activity. Chlamidya can easily be transmitted through the respiratory tract and sexual transmission. Seroepidemiological and pathological studies of atherosclerotic plaques showed the presence of Chlamydia in the plaque. This section will provide relationship between Chlamydia and atherosclerosis on the recent researces and current information will be discussed.
Radiation-Induced Skin Reactions and Surgical Management Treating Radiation-Induced Ulcers
Authors: Thanh Tuan Hoang
Published: January 2023

Radiotherapy (RT) is a cancer treatment that has been widely applied to cancer patients. However, this treatment could induce radiation skin injuries that affect the quality of life of patients. The radiation-induced ulcer is a late-stage complication of radiation burns that could not be self-limited. This chapter summarizes current knowledge relating to RT-induced skin reactions, including epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, prevention, and management. Additionally, the author also presents the experience of treating RT-induced ulcers by surgical treatments that were shown to give satisfactory results on patients.
Předmluvy a dedikace v české postilografii z let 1592–1620
Authors: Šalomoun Lubomír
Published: January 2023

Our paper focuses on the prefaces in Czech humanist postilography from 1592 to 1620 by Martin Filadelf Zámrský, Jakub Wujek of Węgrowiec, Blažej Borovský of Borovany, Vojtěch Šebestián Scipio Berlička, Jan Kapita (2nd ed.), Jiří Dikast, Václav Slovacius, and Jakub Petrozelín Kunštátský. Two approaches for the elaboration have been selected; the first approach, primarily oriented towards the formalised aspect of text construction, concerns the arrangement of texts using recommendations from preaching theory, describing the differences between texts introduced with dedications and texts addressing the reader. The second approach, using literary theoretical premises, analyses the way the person of the "dedicatee" is formed. The article includes a brief characterisation of the elaborated prefaces and dedications.
Kultura, příběhy, identita : čínsko-americké povídačky Maxine Hong Kingstonové
Authors: Fonioková Zuzana
Published: January 2023

This essay explores the intersection of culture, stories, and personal identity. It looks at narrative identity from a psychological perspective, focusing on the cultural conditioning of remembering one's life and narrating the self. It briefly discusses the concept of dominant cultural narratives (master narratives) and their influence on personal life stories as well as on one's life choices, paying attention to a form of "narrative resistance" where people whose experience does not fit a particular master narrative come up with alternative narratives. The next part of the essay deals with autobiographical writing, in which the questioning of socio-cultural norms and established beliefs is often accompanied by a violation of genre conventions and a search for alternative modes of self-expression, especially in the case of authors from socially marginalised groups. The last section then presents an analysis of the fictionalised autobiography The Woman Warrior by the Chinese American writer Maxine Hong Kingston, which depicts the conflict between two different conventions of life storying, models of identity construction, and master narratives that may occur for people of bicultural background. It also exemplifies the power of autobiographical texts to expose prevailing cultural narratives and to offer alternative perspectives.
European unity, modern Greek identity and historicization of the Past : the 'Greek crisis' as perceived in contemporary literary texts
Authors: Marazopoulos Petros
Published: January 2023

The aim of this article is to examine the Greek and international aesthetic reaction to the phenomenon of the economic crisis. By examining Greek and international literary texts that depict Greece during the era of austerity, I attempt to explain how crisis is perceived in the literary field. Thus, I aspire to analyse the way in which this literature negotiates the terms economy, crisis, Europe, power and past. At the same time, I discuss contemporary literary images of the Greek Other; through a comparative study of Greek and international relevant texts, I aim to highlight the political and ideological rhetoric of the texts under examination, as well as the perception of crisis as a global issue, rather than a 'Greek adventure'. In that sense, the authors under examination do not simply dramatise the traumatic events of the recession, but they also suggest a broader definition of crisis, as a global phenomenon, discussing aspects of the contemporary European South and its balance with the European North.
Současná ruská literatura a její česká recepce z perspektivy rusistických periodik
Authors: Odehnalová Lenka
Published: January 2023

The paper maps Czech reception of contemporary Russian literature in periodicals on the Russian Studies Rossica Olomucensia, Philologia Rossica and Novaya rusistika over the past ten years (2012–2021) with focus on the published studies. The author also pays attention to other specialized periodicals focused on Slavic languages and literatures in which essays on contemporary Russian literature can be published. The paper deals with methodological grounds from which the current Russian literature is examined and which phenomena, authors or themes have been studied and prioritized in the periodicals over the past ten years.
Понимание сна в русских пословицах и поговорках
Authors: Dzhyndzholiia Gigla
Published: January 2023

The article examines Russian proverbs and sayings that describe the state of sleep. These reflect the traditional folk understandings of what happens to a person in this state and how he/she perceives the world. "Sleep" proverbs and sayings produce direct and indirect evidence of time shrinking and expanding in sleep. The space of sleep reality is perceived as an unknown place to which one can return in order to "make corrections". When asleep, one becomes "pensive", "thinks others' thoughts" or "loses one's mind". A person's mental state is treated as "alien", causing an "unsanctioned" speech generation. Sleep in proverbs and sayings is endowed with mutually exclusive features, viewed in the realms of either death or life.
Русистика и война с Россией : синдром Карре
Authors: Zvynjac'kovs'kyj Volodymyr Janovyč
Published: January 2023

Les Écrivains français et le mirage allemand. 1800–1940 (1947) by Jean-Marie Carré was not just an emotional reaction of the French Germanist and Comparativist to the World War II, but a critical study of "the German Idea" in the context of 19th cent. cultural heritage beginning from De lʼAllemagne (1810–1813) by m-me de Staёl. The proposed article adresses "the Russian Idea" on the basis of Carré's methodology. While Dostoyevsky's links to "the Russian Idea" are generally acknowledged in cultural historiography, detailed studies remain scarce. Especially enigmatic is the importance of beeing Russian in Dostoyevsky's interpretation. In this respect Gogol's Selected Passages from Correspondens with friends (1847) worth a closer look as a possible source and marquis de Custin's La Russie en 1839 (1843) as a real origine of le mirage russe.
Between divine right monarchy and natural freedom of mankind
Authors: Olanipekun Victor Olusola
Published: January 2023

The paper examines Robert Filmer's arguments in defence of the divine right of kings in Patriarcha, or The Natural Power of Kings. Filmer argues that human beings are not born free by nature and, as a result, are expected to obey the kings/monarchs absolutely without questioning, due to the arbitrary power and the divine right bestowed upon the kings. This position defended by Filmer is antithetical to the notion of natural freedom of mankind defended by John Locke and other social contract theorists. Contrary to Filmer's view, this paper suggests that Filmer exaggerated the power of kings. In this paper, I wish to critically examine Filmer's arguments with which he supported his claim. The paper argues against Filmer's divine right monarchy for the following reasons: (i) it lacks rational justification, (ii) it was founded on misinterpretation of the scriptures, and (iii) it fails to address the atheists' question. In the final analysis, the paper concludes with the argument that the question of mutual exclusivity of the concepts in the discussion rests upon manifest misinterpretations of divine right and the natural freedom of mankind.
PARAMETRIC SET-VALUED OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS UNDER GENERALIZED CONE CONVEXITY
Authors: Das Koushik , Nahak Chandal
Published: January 2023

In this paper, we establish sufficient Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions for a parametric set-valued optimization problem under contingent epiderivative and generalized cone convexity assumptions. We also study duality results of Mond-Weir, Wolfe, and mixed types for weak solutions of a pair of set-valued optimization problems.
MATHEMATICAL STUDY OF FRACTIONAL DIABETES MODEL VIA A MODIFIED ANALYTICAL METHOD
Authors: Devi Anju , Jakhar Manjeet
Published: January 2023

In this paper, we obtain the mathematical solution of fractional diabetes model by using Laplace transform homotopy perturbation method (LTHPM). Here the fractional derivatives are well defined in Caputo sense. Numerical simulations are carried out for illustrating the results obtained. In addition, the results obtained by the LTHPM show that the approach is easy to implement and computationally very attractive.
A NEW APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF FIXED POINT THEORY FOR EXPANSIVE MAPPINGS
Authors: Shahi Priya
Published: January 2023

Fixed Point Theory has become one of the most beneficial branches of Nonlinear Analysis due to its possible applications. In 2017, Ahmad et al. [Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Applications, 10 (2017), 2350-2358] extended and modified the notion of θ-contraction introduced by Jleli and Samet [Journal of Inequalities and Applications, 38 (2014)] to metric spaces. Also, Khojasteh et al. [Filomat,29 (2015), 1189-1194] introduced the notion of simulation function in order to express different contractivity conditions in a unified way and proved some related fixed point results. To complement these notions, in this paper, we introduce two new types of expansive mappings called θ-expansion and Z-expansion. The related fixed point theorems are also proved. The presented results improve, generalize, and unify many existing famous results in the corresponding literature.
SOME FIXED POINT THEOREMS FOR (F, t)-CONTRACTIVE MAPPINGS ON INCOMPLETE METRIC SPACES
Authors: Khantwal Deepak , Gairola U. C. , Prasad Gopi , Chauhan A.
Published: January 2023

In this paper, we introduce the notion of a new type of contractive mappings and prove some fixed point results for such mappings in ordered metric spaces. Our results generalize the recent developments of Rashid et al. (Journal of Function Spaces, 2019 (2019), 1-6), which guarantees the existence of a fixed point in such cases wherein the Banach contraction principle, theorem (Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 132 (2004), 1435-1443) and other fixed point theorems in the literature remain silent. We also provide an affirmative answer to one of the open problems posed by Rashid et al. in the paper mentioned above by relaxing the assumption of continuity to some weaker condition of continuity.
ON THE GROWTH OF COMPOSITE ENTIRE FUNCTIONS WITH FINITE LOGARITHMIC (p, q)-ORDER
Authors: Ghosh Chinmay , Khan Subhadip , Mondal Sutapa
Published: January 2023

In this paper we explain some relationships on the composition of two entire functions with its left or right factor in terms of their maximum terms. Further under some suitable conditions we also investigate the comparative growth of the maximum terms of two composite entire functions with finite logarithmic (p, q)-order having same left or right factor respectively.
INTEGRITY OF SOME DERIVED GRAPHS
Authors: B. Basavanagou  , Policepatil Shruti
Published: January 2023

One of the best parameter to measure the stability of a network is integrity as it takes into account both the amount of work done to damage the network and how badly the network is damaged. The integrity I(G) of a graph G is a measure of network vulnerability and is defined by I(G) = min{|S | + m(G − S )}, where S and m(G − S ) denote the subset of V and order of the largest component of G − S , respectively. In this paper, we study the integrity of line graph, jump graph, para-line graph of some standard graph families. In this way, we establish the relationship between integrity of basic graphs and integrity of their derived graphs. Also, we characterize few graphs having equal integrity values as that of derived graphs of same structured graphs. Further, we determine the integrity of generalized xyz-point-line transformation graphs Tˣʸ⁺ (G), Tˣʸ⁻(G), where x, y ∈ {0, 1, +, −} and Tˣʸ¹ (G), where x, y ∈ {0, 1, +, −}
FINITE AND INFINITE INTEGRAL FORMULAS ASSOCIATED WITH A FAMILY OF INCOMPLETE I-FUNCTIONS
Authors: Jain Prachi , Gupta Neena , Gupta Arvind , Saxena V. P.
Published: January 2023

In recent years, research focuses on the integral representations of several kinds of special functions. In this paper, first we establish the integral representation of incomplete I-functions. Further, we find out some special cases of these integrals. Finally, we derived certain integrals involving a product of incomplete I-function and some other special functions.
(A(., .), η)-MONOTONE MAPPINGS AND A SYSTEM OF GENERALIZED SET-VALUED VARIATIONAL-LIKE INCLUSION PROBLEM
Authors: Shafi Sumeera , Mishrab Vishnu Narayan
Published: January 2023

In this paper, we introduce and study a system of variational inclusions called system of generalized set-valued variational-like inclusion problem involving (A(., .), η)-monotone mappings in real Banach spaces. By means of resolvent operator technique, we prove the existence of solutions for this system of variational inclusions. Further, we suggest an iterative algorithm for finding the approximate solution of this system and discuss the convergence criteria of the sequences generated by the iterative algorithm under some suitable conditions.
SOLUTION OF RAYLEIGH-PLESSET EQUATION USING DIFFERENTIAL TRANSFORM METHOD
Authors: Tuteja Gurpreet Singh
Published: January 2023

The objective of the paper is to solve Rayleigh-Plesset equation using Differential Transform Method in one dimension. The Rayleigh-Plesset equations both with and without viscosity terms are taken into consideration, approximate series are generated using DTM transforms and significant difference is found in their solutions. Also, the results are compared with numerical solution and found to be approximately same for small time t. As t becomes large and r -->1, the difference becomes significant.
SLIP AND THERMAL RADIATION EFFECTS ON MHD CASSON FLUID FLOW OVER AN INCLINED PERMEABLE MELTING STRETCHING SURFACE IN THE PRESENCE OF NON-UNIFORM HEAT SOURCE/SINK
Authors: Olkha Amala , Dadheech Amit
Published: January 2023

This paper deals with the study of MHD boundary layer flow of Casson fluid over an inclined permeable and melting stretching surface in the presence of radiation and non-uniform heat source. The velocity, temperature and concentration slip conditions are assumed at the surface. Exercising the R-K 4th order with shooting method in MATLAB syntax the arithmetic simulation for the thermotic equation, mass concentration and momentum equations are executed. Effects of various pertinent parameters are investigated on flow, heat and mass transfer and discussed graphically. The present investigation discovered that the accelerated silhouette cuts down the expansion of Casson fluid parameter, magnetic domain parameter and the permeable parameter including suction and melting influences although the contradictory performances are observed over the outline of temperature and concentration conspicuity. The results obtained confirm that there is an excellent agreement in open literature with those available.
FRACTIONAL KINETIC EQUATIONS INVOLVING THE MITTAG-LEFFLER (p, s, k) FUNCTION VIA SUMUDU TRANSFORM
Authors: Gurjar Meena Kumari , Chhattry Preeti , Shrivastava Subhash Chandra
Published: January 2023

In this paper, we derive the solutions for fractional kinetic equations including the Mittag-Leffler function with the help of Laplace transform method. Further, the same fractional kinetic equation is solved by using the Sumudu transform. The results presented are in compact forms in the form of various type of Mittag-Leffler function etc. are also considered. We establish some corollary as special cases. Some new and known results are our findings.
SPACE OF INVARIANT BILINEAR FORMS UNDER REPRESENTATION OF A GROUP OF ORDER 8
Authors: Mahto Dilchand , Tanti Jagmohan
Published: January 2023

Let G be a group of order 8 and F an algebraically closed field with char(F)≠2. In this paper we compute the number of n degree representations of G and subsequent dimensions of the corresponding spaces of invariant bilinear forms over the field F. We explicitly discuss about the existence of non-degenerate invariant bilinear forms.
BILATERAL GENERATING FUNCTION FOR Pαn(x; h) AND Qαn(x; h)
Authors: Mishra Lakshmi Narayan , Singh Rakesh Kumar , Tiwari Shiv Kant
Published: January 2023

Our aimed has been made to find out forms of two interesting properties of the biorthogonal polynomials sets Pαn(x; h) AND Qαn(x; h) . In this paper, we have generalized the generating functions of biorthogonal polynomials suggested by the Laguerre polynomials published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (1967) and some more results of transformation of certain bilinear generating functions published in Annali di Mathematica Pura ed Applicata (1970) with the help of some applicable results of the hand book of mathematical functions with formulas, graphs and mathematical tables (1964).
CERTAIN IDENTITIES INVOLVING GENERAL DOUBLE HYPERGEOMETRIC FUNCTIONS OF EXTON
Authors: Arora Ashish , Saxena Saurabh , Prakash Ashish
Published: January 2023

This paper deals with the generalizations and unifications of identities by using series iteration technique in association with hypergeometric function AFB of single variable and hypergeometric function of double variables given by Appell, in the form of identities in association with Exton’s hypergeometric function H, G of double variables
Personalized Query Expansion
Authors: Hameed Afsa
Published: January 2023

The rapid expansion of data on the web has largely increased the problems associated with efficient searching and retrieval of required data that fulfills the user’s needs. To resolve the ineffectiveness of information retrieval systems query expansion technology is employed. In this paper, the main focus is laid on the expansion of queries by using each user’s profile and search history.

In this survey paper different personalized query expansion techniques are compared. This survey's main goal is to present all the ideas, technologies, and applications being employed for personalized query expansion.
Thunderstorms Prediction Using Satellite Images
Authors: Amjad Kinza , Malik Mubasher , Ghous Hamid , Hussain Aftab , Ismail Maryem
Published: January 2023

Human life and property are put at risk by lightning, heavy hail, and strong winds caused by thunderstorms. Accurate prediction of thunderstorms has long been a difficult problem. In difference from conventional methods, the modern methods for predicting thunderstorms utilize a combination of computer models, observation (via the use of radars and satellite photos), and modern knowledge and patterns employed by thunderstorms stations. Observations: Using these methods, it is possible to make reasonably accurate predictions. Prediction models based on complex formulas run the majority of forecasting computer models. Artificial neural networks, machine learning, deep learning, and statistics are all examples of adaptive systems that alter their structure in response to information flowing through the network. In this reviewed paper, different Artificial intelligence techniques are used such as machine learning, deep learning, and ANN (Artificial neural network). Different statistical models were presented to predict thunderstorm systems. Various researchers achieved technical milestones by presenting statistical methods on thunderstorm systems using satellite data.