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Flaschenpost kombiniert Eigenentwicklung und Standard
Authors: Rode Jörg
Published: August 2023

Der Online-Supermarkt Flaschenpost baut seine IT-Landschaft aus und nutzt eine Kombination von Eigenentwicklungen und Standardsoftware. Dazu gehören Systeme von Commercetools, Databricks, Microsoft und Factfinder.
Food Harbour nimmt Gestalt an
Authors: Hebben Miriam
Published: August 2023

Nach der Rügenwalder Mühle kann das Team vom Food Harbour Hamburg mit einem weiteren namhaften Partner langfristig planen. Die künftige Zusammenarbeit mit Startups hingegen ist noch in der Findungsphase.
Konsumenten zieht es zurück in die Läden
Authors: Hübner Marco
Published: August 2023

Die klassische Arbeit der Händler in den Filialen vor Ort ist zwar wichtig, aber die Kaufentscheidung der Kunden fällt häufig im virtuellen Raum. Eine neue Studie wirft Licht auf gegenwärtige Verhaltensmuster beim Einkauf und deren Potenzial für die Zukunft des Handels.
Warum Mütter Arbeitszeit reduzieren
Authors: Wittenhagen Julia
Published: August 2023

Die Reform des Ehegattensplittings wird gerade heiß diskutiert. Sie gilt als Hebel, um Frauen stärker an der Erwerbsarbeit zu beteiligen und damit eine Reserve zu heben in Zeiten des Fachkräftemangels. Ein OECD-Webinar erklärt, welche Strukturen in Deutschland das Massenphänomen Teilzeit begünstigen.
„Die Landwirte werden unruhig“
Authors: Hofnagel Dagmar , Schaal René , König Inge
Published: August 2023

In Deutschland herrscht Gewitterstimmung. Die starken und nur selten unterbrochenen Niederschläge haben die Getreideernte in vielen Regionen zum Erliegen gebracht. Während die Ernte der Wintergerste weitestgehend abgeschlossen werden konnte, wurde bei Weizen, Roggen und Triticale erst ein knappes Fünftel der Anbauflächen gedroschen. Für diese Flächen deutet sich ein allenfalls durchschnittliches Ernteergebnis an.
Food-Lab-Update
Authors: Deininger Olaf
Published: August 2023

Frankfurt a.M. Der monatliche Überblick der aktuellen Projekte und Aktivitäten der Food Labs und Food Hubs.
“Grafting” Hope: The Ethics of Rewriting In Colm Tóibín’s House of Names
Authors: Beleuță Ada
Published: August 2023

Exploring the particularities of rewriting in Irish contemporary fiction through an analysis of Colm Tóibín’s House of Names (2017) within a theoretical framework of narrative ethics, this paper argues that a function of cultural healing is actualized both within the retold story of the Oresteia and in the context of civil war violence to which the novel responds. Drawing on the work of Hanna Meretoja and Dorothy J. Hale, it suggests that a source of potential ethical power is revealed through the reworking of the ancient tragedy using the structures and techniques of the contemporary novel. Traces of differing worldviews or even ways of constructing cognitive and affective complexity determine a constant oscillation between original and rewritten that creates a space of epistemological uncertainty. Valorised through the meta-ethical affect of unverifiability conceptualised by Hale, this effect is also read in light of Meretoja’s understanding of a narrative-bound sense of possibility and the challenges that both contemporary and ancient understandings of hope or catastrophe pose to its ethically valuable expansion.
Sharing vs. quoting: știrile false și responsabilitatea morală
Authors: Terian Simina-Maria
Published: August 2023

The aim of this article is to analyze the relationship between the spread of fake news across social media and moral responsibility. To this end, my study conducts a detailed comparison between the act of social media sharing and a similar, even more traditional communication practice, namely quoting. The conclusion of the research is that, as with quoting, the spread of fake news through sharing entails the moral responsibility of the distributor, since the purpose of both operations is to grant readers access to information that is difficult to verify rather than require them to verify the accuracy of said information on their own.
Foreignness in the Nineteenth Century Romanian Novel (1845-1900): From Semantic Valences to Specific Markers of Novelistic Subgenres
Authors: Morariu David
Published: August 2023

This paper operates with the archive of digitized texts (about 150 novels published between 1845 and 1900) offered by the project ASTRA Data Mining: The Digital Museum of the 19th Century Romanian Novel. By identifying the occurrences for the term “străin” (“foreign/er”; “strange/r”) and its entire lexical family, the study intends to prove that there is a strong correlation between linguistic signs and literary concepts. More precisely, my survey finds its starting point in the methodology developed by Ryan Heuser and Long Le-Khac. The two researchers use the pair of notions “signal/concept,” where “signal” means “any number of things that are readily tracked computationally” and “concept” represents “the phenomenon that we take a signal to stand for, or the phenomenon we take the signal to reveal,” in order to explain their working method. This precisely is the main reason why I have chosen to classify the occurrences of my key-word based on their semantic valence and to discuss semantic variation as an important indicator in trying to delineate different types of literary discourse and the novelistic subgenres. Lastly, my paper intends to provide a complete ad litteram image of “foreignness” as it occurs in the nineteenth-century Romanian novel. This image will be formed based on the meanings (“implicit” and “explicit” meaning, according to Teun A. van Dijk’s delineation) of the terms that comprise the lexical family for my key-word and on the context (the “micro-” and “macrocontext”) in which these words occur as well.
Zur Konzeptualisierung extremer Geisteszustände In der deutschen und rumänischen Phraseologie
Authors: Sava Doris
Published: August 2023

The orientation of phraseological nomination towards the human allows the reflection of everyday collective observations, experiences and evaluations of a certain (norm-deviating) behaviour or action. The paper explores the role of the linguistic image in the metaphorisation of the concept ‘Wahnsinn’/‘Verrücktheit’ in German and Romanian, in order to ask about the productive initial domains for the conceptualisation of this term, since conceptual spheres allow conclusions to be drawn about the models of thought and values anchored in the language. The interlingual analysis of this particular excerpt from the German and Romanian lexicon of phrases makes it clear that one cannot speak of serious differences in the phraseological realisation or of differing valuations and that universal and productive metaphorical patterns can be discerned in the conceptualisation of ‘Wahnsinn’/‘Verrücktheit’ in German and in Romanian.
Transportul public sibian. De la origini până la declanșarea celui de al Doilea Război Mondial
Authors: Istrate-Paul Adrian , Butoeru George-Cătălin , Axentea Iulia Maria , Pop Răzvan C.
Published: August 2023

Despite the political and economic decline that Sibiu has suffered into the second half of the Nineteenth Century, the city was fortunate to have ambitious, visionary and professional people as was the case of Carl Wolff. His ambition to electrify the city of Sibiu and its surroundings and to lay the foundations of an electric public transport system, eventually led to the construction of the Sadu I Hydroelectric Power Plant, which was put into operation in 1896, and to the development of an electrical network, which was developed and expanded in the following years.In the short term but also in the medium and long term, the electrification of the city of Sibiu and the development of the public transport network, brought considerable benefits to the city, allowing its transformation in a modern and developed city and increasing the mobility of the city, throughout the Twentieth Century and now in the Twentyfirst Century.
Fascination du matériel. Cioran et le travail poétique de la matière-émotion
Authors: Baron Dumitra
Published: August 2023

This article aims to identify the various mechanisms used by the Romanian-born French writer Cioran (1911-1995) in his works and notebooks, with regard to the ways of conveying emotion into words. Starting from the theories of Michel Collot, Gaston Bachelard, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, we will attempt to identify the main coordinates of Cioranian thought who tries to replicate in a poetic and fragmentary writing (hence the similarities to haikus) the different strata of the perceived reality, often engaging in a real exercise of material imagination on elements such as wood, water, fire ou stone. Keywords: material-emotion, image, haiku, Cioran, Roger Caillois.
Narațiunea proto-hipertextuală în literatura română: Tudor Arghezi, Tablete din Țara de Kuty (I)
Authors: Pojoga Vlad
Published: August 2023

This two-part study explores the (proto-)hypertextual dynamics in Tablete din Țara de Kuty [Tablets from Kuty Country], an “unusual” narrative published in 1933 by Romanian author Tudor Arghezi. Starting from the Dadaist concept of “indetermination” and searching the roots of the more contemporary narrative “interactivity” in the process, my research delves into the reasons why Tablete din Țara de Kuty can be classified as a proto-hypertext. This first part analyses the Romanian reception of the volume and draws comparisons with a much-debated novel that has also been discussed as a precursor to digital fictions, Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch, investigation the structures, introductions, and approaches brought forward by both authors.
Romanul ca barometru al gradului de maturitate a unei literaturi. Marile teme ale bătăliei pentru roman
Authors: Fărmuș Ioan
Published: August 2023

The article below is conceived as a return to the theoretical debates around the novelistic genre, debates that will allow us to see: which were the main themes that animated the main critical figures of the interwar period, what arguments these critics used in their theoretical constructions and especially how was the novel instrumented in their polemics. We organised our discussion around main themes such as: the crisis of the novel, the limits of the novel, the theory of complexes, themes that illustrate what Romanian literary critics Aurel Sasu and Mariana Vartic called the ”battle for the novel”. Presenting them will help us understand which were the real purposes of these debates in which the novel became – not once – either an instrument in articulating some cultural modern(ist) projects, in legitimizing some literary groups or in fulfilling important cultural objectives that expressed the ambitions (and anxieties) of Romanian literature as a phenomenon, a literature that, in the interwar period, reached its maturity.
Mircea Eliade’s Virtual Bibliography: Two Manuscript Folios Linked to Valkyries in the Library
Authors: Apostu Andreea
Published: August 2023

This paper aims to demonstrate that two previously unknown manuscript folios from Mircea Eliade’s youth, which emerged in 2022, are the drafted summaries of his unfinished editorial project Valkyries in the Library. The two folios are, in fact, two lists of article titles Eliade published in Cuvântul (22), Gândirea (2), and Sinteza (1), in 1926-1928. Arranged differently, the feuilletons address topics such the Romanian intellectual, the dependance towards French culture and literature, philology and synthesis, the lack of heroism in Romanian literature, Beatrice and Don Quixote, young writers, literary criticism, philosophy. The tone is polemical and radical, condemning the current state of Romanian literature, advancing the author’s views, and urging his contemporaries to take action in order to create fundamental and authentic works. Just as Eliade recalls in his diary, the articles from Cuvântul mentioned in the two folios were a whirlwind, a cavalcade meant to take local culture and erudition by surprise and to change it forever.
The Power of Culture as the Most Enduring Means of Survival out of the Contemporary Crisis: The Role of Humanities Revisited
Authors: Burdușel Eva-Nicoleta
Published: August 2023

The present study undertakes an analysis of the dichotomy mind over matter, culture and civilization, a plea for art – with special focus on literature – and raising awareness of the increasing role of humanities and the liberal arts in a society driven and increasingly dominated by scientific advancement and aiming towards solely technological purposes. The paper stems from previous research interest in the field of cultural studies and relies on recent scholarly studies raising awareness about a revival of the word and language akin to the call “make it new” and calling attention to the impact of the image versus the power of the word highly valued by literature.
Ineditul jurnal din 1930-1931 al lui Mihail Sebastian – un preview al întregii sale opere
Authors: Dumitru Teodora
Published: August 2023

In this essay I bring to attention the event of the recent discovery of an unpublished diary of the Romanian-Jewish literary critic, writer, and diarist Mihail Sebastian (1907-1945). This diary—written between 1930 and 1931—contains fragments that were published in the press of the author’s time (in 1932), but also some passages that remain unpublished until today. All the passages related to the author’s Jewish origins and his anguish of living in a “closed and defined circle,” a metaphor for the real or symbolic ghetto, are unpublished. Also, these unpublished passages expose his strategy for creating and publishing prose fiction: since they are the work of a Jewish author, the characters would be impossible to conceive of as anything other than “Jews,” but, upon publication, the author would delegate them a non-Jewish identity. This strategy would allow Sebastian’s “Jewish-Romanian” “truths” to be communicated publicly, but without explicitly assuming them as such. The information provided by the unpublished fragments of this diary—nowhere expressed so firmly and transparently in author’s writing—reconfigure how Sebastian’s entire oeuvre is to be interpreted, from the first prose fiction intended for publication to his (private) diary, partially published after 1989. I will show in this essay, following unpublished passages from this journal between 1930 and 1931, that all of Sebastian’s writings—both those that apparently ignore the theme of Jewishness and those that approach it head-on—are permeated by the same anguish: the anguish of living and writing in a “closed circle,” a feeling heightened by the increasingly anti-Semitic atmosphere in 1930s Romania. I also prove that Sebastianʼs strategies of obscuring his Jewish identity and indirectly communicating his “truths” as a Romanian Jew are coherent and well connected with his strategies of direct communication of the same “truths.”
Colonists, Rulers, Saviors: Philo-Germanism without Germans
Authors: Olaru Ovio
Published: August 2023

Drawing on Cristian Cercel’s 2019 contribution Romania and the Quest for European Identity: Philo-Germanism without Germans, the present article pursues the creation of Romanian philo-Germanism following the 1989 Romanian Revolution in the paradoxical absence of the German minority, which all but disappeared during the early ‘90s; the arguments follow an ethnic group which evolved from being an agent of colonial power in the late Middle Ages to becoming an agent of transnational capital in postcommunist times. Additionally, the article discusses the inflated importance of the German civilizational model as a cure for the perceived shortcomings of a semi-peripheral nation for which self-colonialism, imitative capitalism, brain drain, and labor extractivism were seen as the only conceivable ways of preventing demotion to the status of periphery following the revolution. Lastly, the different manifestations of this cultural stance are represented, as well as how sympathy towards one minority was gradually institutionalized and practiced on a large scale to the detriment of others, chiefly the Hungarians and the Roma, in a case of revived nationalism and ethnocentrism on behalf of the vanishing Germans.
Paul B. Preciado și conceptul de identitate ca armă a regimului farmacopornografic
Authors: Grigore Cristina Măriuca
Published: August 2023

This paper represents a review article of Paul B Preciado’s major work, Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era, recently translated by Daniel Clinci at frACTalia. I will proceed to do so by offering a short contextualization of Preciado’s academic formation and activity, followed by a tackling of the main concepts he borrows from post-structuralist thought. Given Preciado’s fragmented manner of writing this text, which brings together theory and auto-biographical fiction, I will also engage in a type of media analysis that the reader might find atypical for a review, whose main focus is to draw on some cinematic parallels, in order to extract an account for the new emerging kind of subjectivity that the pharmacopornographic regime creates. I will present Preciado’s analysis of the pharmacopornographic regime by following three main concepts that consolidate his body of work: the deconstruction of sex, the economic analysis of potentia gaudendi (orgasmic force) and the political construction of categories. At the same time, I will evaluate Preciado’s materialist turn by offering a critique of consistency. Lastly, I will emphasize the importance of this book in intersectional analysis while criticizing some points that Preciado either fails to consider, or whose dangers he minimizes while proposing a praxis for political dissidence.
Geocritica și teoriile socio-spațiale
Authors: Conkan Marius
Published: August 2023

This study aims to analyze the relationship between literary geography and postmodern critical theories, focusing on the role played by socio-spatial dialectics within ideologically oriented geocriticism. The central argument is that without the spatialization of Marxism, initiated in the 1970s and 1980s by Henri Lefebvre and Edward W. Soja, geocriticism could not be methodologically articulated today as a major discipline within World Literature studies. Since the theories of these philosophers are already integrated into Western geocriticism, it is important to metabolize them in the local context precisely in order to legitimize a coherent geocritical approach to Romanian literature.
Dublă subordonare. Subalternitate în Platforma lui Michel Houellebecq
Authors: Vieru Gabriela , Vișan Bogdan
Published: August 2023

In this paper we explore the exploitation and the discrimination of the feminine other portrayed in contemporary literature as figure of subalternity in the current neocolonial context. Taking into consideration the logic of modernity and that of coloniality as intrisincally interlinked, and the problematics of speaking and acting as a racialized and, at the same time, sexualized woman in the sex industry, we intend to analyse Michel Houellebecq’s Platform from the vantage point of Subaltern Studies in order to showcase how the feminine condition becomes a problem of consciousness and visibility, and how the exploitation of the feminine other is being deepened in a neocolonialist narrative.
Reprezentări ale animalelor și dislocarea antropocentrismului în poezia română postdouămiistă
Authors: Strugaru Oana Andrada
Published: August 2023

With a tradition of economic, political, and institutional settings built on a dynamic based on dominance, animals have been systematically assigned the role of an inferior form of „otherness”, essential, nevertheless, in shaping the anthropocentric mentality and validating the narrative of human exceptionalism. The longevity of such speciesist practices throughout the humanist discourses obliges the posthumanist project of creating a postanthropocentric concept of subjectivity to pay special attention to the issues regarding the animals, their representations, and their interactions with ‘us’. This paper stems from Rosi Braidotti’s project of a posthuman subject understood as a hybrid entity integrated through a system of material and informational connections with all forms of existence in the natureculture continuum and follows the implications it has on redesigning our interactions with the non-human beings in a post-anthropocentric context. My purpose is to study how contemporary Romanian poetry reflects this new vision of subjectivity and its impact on reimagining the relations between the human and non-human beings. The analysis on volumes such as val chimic’s umilirea animalelor (the humiliation of animals), Mihók Tamás’s biocharia. ritual ecolatru, Adelina Pascale’s maki for 2, Gabi Eftimie’s Sputnik în grădină (Sputnik in the garden), or Diana Cornea’s Setări avansate de lumină (Advanced lighting settings) confirms the increasing interest of Romanian post-millenary poetry in reshaping the depictions of animals and human-animal interactions according to a postanthropocentric perspective.
Periferia ca supracondiție a existenței în literatură: Ileana Negrea și supraabundența identitară
Authors: Giuhat Geanina
Published: August 2023

The main aim of this paper is the analysis of how the multi-peripheral position in Ileana Negrea’s poetry is recontextualized in the geotemporality of contemporary Romanian culture, acknowledging her formation in a different language and through the reception and the application of feminist theories and praxis from other spaces, especially from the South American one, that are stratified and inserted in her texts. The analysis focuses on how the inflexion point of her marginal identity, gender-queerness-madness, is recomposed in the actual Romanian cultural and geopolitical circumstances and how her texts are perceived accordingly with these. At the same time, it will be explored how Negrea’s texts enrol in the world literature system via her registering in the worldly queer-feminist literary scheme.
Multilingvismul și periferia: o analiză a romanului basarabean post-sovietic
Authors: Han Hanna
Published: August 2023

This article aims to explore how multilingualism is explored in Bessarabian literature and the way in which these phenomena can create cultural and identity crisis in the collective imaginary of The Republic of Moldova. Thus, it can be observed that in the Soviet period, but also after the fall of the empire, speakers of “Moldavian” language, afterwards named Romanian, are treated as inferior to Russian speakers, Moldavians becoming a periphery. Approaching multilingualism the way it is presented in Multilingual Literature as World Literature edited by Jane Hiddleston and Wen-chin Ouyang, a second objective of this paper is to investigate the identity crisis of the teenagers of Perestroika and the fall of the URSS, but also of the young adults that were brought up in the unsteady world that followed after these events. In doing so, the way in which the Bessarabian people were peripheral. According to the fact that this type of literature is insufficiently discussed, there will be analyzed three such novels, in order to offer a wider image of Chisinau between the 80’s and the 2000 and its transition: Grădina de sticlă (The Glass Garden) by Tatiana Țîbuleac, Sălbaticii copii dingo (The Savage Dingo Kids) by Vasile Ernu and Perestroika boys by Dinu Guțu. The other aspect that will be explored is the image of Romania and its literature in the Soviet Bessarabia, two neighbour countries that did not have an intercultural dialogue until 1991.
Magical Hyperrealism: A Reading of Orbitor through Magical Realism and Maximalism
Authors: ECHEVERRÍA Santiago Daniel Gutiérrez
Published: August 2023

In this stylistic study I propose a reading of Orbitor [Blinding] through two literary modes: magical realism and maximalism, as Mircea Cărtărescu’s trilogy contains elements that fit into both literary modes, albeit with some differences. Such a reading would allow the formulation of the term magical hyperrealism as a new literary mode. The understanding of magical realism is based on three features: authorial reticence, amplification of reality through “faith” and social comprehension. Regarding authorial reticence, Beatrice Amaryll Chanady compares magical realism with the fantastic as defined by T. Todorov. Unlike the fantastic, which creates doubt between a real or a supernatural explanation for unlikely events, magical realism allows the ordinary and the marvelous to coexist as two components of a harmonious reality that is given without explanation (authorial reticence). The amplification of reality through faith in the marvelous and the social comprehension of the marvelous are concepts based on Alejo Carpentier’s lo real maravilloso. In Orbitor all of these features appear in many episodes, although unlike traditional magical realism, faith in the marvelous is expressed through personal-intellectual convictions rather than social-collective beliefs. As for maximalism, Orbitor fulfills most of the ten characteristics of this genre as defined by Stefano Ercolino. The main difference is point 10: “hybrid realism.” In this case, maximalism usually distorts reality for representational purposes, but Orbitor distorts it for purely literary purposes or for a psychic-subjective exploration of the author. From comparing Orbitor with both literary modes, magical hyperrealism as a literary mode is defined as follows: a totalizing-encyclopedic vision of reality that, with authorial reticence, harmonizes the real and the marvelous through a strong faith. Some applications and future possibilities are discussed in the conclusions.
Autoficțiune și identitate multiplă – Dezrădăcinare de Sașa Zare
Authors: Stoica Ana-Maria
Published: August 2023

This paper aims to do a close reading analysis of the tridimensional narrative experiment found in Sașa Zare’s debut novel Dezrădăcinare [Rootlessness] (2022). The alternation between character, narrator, and author seen at the narrative level of the novel starts a discussion about the autofictional prose written by Romanian contemporary writers, achieving at the same time to go beyond both national and gender boundaries. Frontier experiences, the theme of otherness, the awareness of what separates us and the damaging effects of a homophobic thinking are portrayed in Dezrădăcinare through multiple perspectives that are firstly analyzed by the narrator. Regarding transnational and World Literature, Zare’s discourse overpasses the limits of a debut novel and brings forward an important question How can we define ourselves in relation to the society we live in? If in the beginning the author-character is unsure of what she is doing, until the end of the novel Sașa is going to address problems regarding literature and criticism, misconceptions, patriarchy, and she will outline her idea about what does writing really mean for a contemporary woman writer.
Etica imaginației în literatură și film: Importanța eticii în internaționalizare și intermedialitate
Authors: Pop Șerban Mark
Published: August 2023

Starting from Asbjørn Grønstad’s concepts of biovisuality and the responsibility of forms, the paper analyzes the issues that arise when adapting self-fiction into film. It maps out how the concepts can be applied especially well to self-fiction and New Romanian Cinema, then applies them in a comparative analysis of Cezar Paul-Bădescu’s book, Luminița, mon amour, and Călin Peter Netzer’s movie adaptation, Ana, mon amour. The paper argues that whereas the book’s ambiguity succeeds in transmitting its central themes, the movie fails to faithfully adapt the central ideas due to an inadequate choice in form. Finally, the paper argues that the formal issues cause ethical faults which hinder the transnational effort and negatively influence the worlding process.
Practices and Spaces (Location): Reflecting on the Contribution of Writing Centres for Decolonisation in Higher Education
Authors: Mhlongo Ntuthuko , Khumalo Nonhlanhla , Naidoo Denver , Tamako Nthabeleng
Published: August 2023

The location of writing centres in universities has attracted attention from practitioners and researchers in the field of academic support scholarship. These writing centres, known as spaces where students discuss their writing ideas, have become part of the decoloniality discourse in South African higher education. This study adopts a mixed-method approach and builds upon Grimm's theory of transitional space to examine tutor perspectives on the contribution of writing centres' pedagogical practices and physical location to the decolonisation of education at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) and Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT). The findings reveal that the writing centres in these contexts contribute to the decolonial agenda by employing various approaches such as multilingualism and one-on-one consultations that are sensitive to the African context. However, despite these positive contributions, it is necessary to initiate decolonial discussions that address historical past injustices. The study recommends that the creation of decolonised spaces is a complex process requiring collaborative engagement between writing centres and the university community, including management. Writing centres have an integral role to play in decolonising the university space, particularly in the South African context.
Examining the Function and Contribution of Entrepreneurship through Small and Medium Enterprises as Drivers of Local Economic Growth in South Africa
Authors: Enaifoghe Andrew , Ramsuraj Trisha
Published: August 2023

The function and contribution of small and medium-sized firms in ensuring local economic growth are explored in this study. Previous studies show that small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) have many different definitions and metrics. It was indicated that employment is the most popular metric for measuring company size in many different nations in terms of job creation through Small and medium-sized businesses and entrepreneurship. Although many nations, notably those in the European Union, adopt a lower cut-off point of 250 people, SMEs are typically classified as businesses with less than 500 employees. The goal of the research was to develop a better knowledge of the elements influencing the success of SMEs in South Africa. The study interrogates the question of what role entrepreneurship plays in inspiring the local economic growth of a country. Findings show that entrepreneurs and SMEs are key drivers of local development. The research calls for government investment in SMEs to help them overcome the problems they confront. The study indicated that the contribution and function of SMEs in local government is to stabilize the economy, especially in local communities with the perspective of empowering individuals. The study recommends that the government invest in SMEs to help them deal with socioeconomic issues including unemployment and poverty based on the obstacles encountered by SMEs.
Editorial: Climate Change, Entrepreneurship, Local Development in BRICS Nations During and After COVID-19
Authors: Tshikovhi Ndivhuho , Netswera Fulufhelo , De Conti Bruno
Published: August 2023

The BRICS encompasses nations with increasing relevance for the world in various dimensions that includes but not limited to the fact that it carries 40 percent of the world population at 3,24 billion people and contributes about US$ 23,4 trillion to the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP). BRICS has opted to operate and make maximum contribution and influence globally through its three pillars of: political and security cooperation, financial and economic cooperation, and cultural and people to people cooperation. Through the work that BRICS champions in these pillars, it is making unparalleled global influence in the spheres of economic, political, social, demographic, and environmental architecture. The primary objective of this special journal issue is to consolidate a wide range of viewpoints and scholarly investigations pertaining to the interplay between climate change, entrepreneurship, local development within the BRICS nations in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, both during and after its occurrence. Policymakers, government agencies, and international organizations heavily depend on robust research findings to formulate and implement policies and programs that are effective in achieving their intended objectives. Research conducted in these specific domains, therefore, has the potential to yield evidence-based recommendations that can effectively reinforce economic growth, promote sustainable development, and foster social progress within the BRICS nations.
An Analysis of Factors Influencing Reliance and Purchasing Decision (Case Study on Real Estate Business in Indonesia)
Authors: Denfinal  , Limakrisna Nandan
Published: August 2023

The property business in Indonesia has been very encouraging along with economic growth and a large population. This research is to examine the various factors that can be affected on reliance and purchasing decision in real estate or housing business in Indonesia. Theoretical basis of reliance and purchasing decision can mitigate and control by some factors like product quality, legal and brand image. To analyze the relationship or influence of variables uses the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique with LISREL computer program. This study uses primary data which is analyzed qualitatively as the main reference for further research, and collected by distributing questionnaires, then analyzed by quantitative method. This research finds the product quality, legality, and brand image have a significant impact on reliance. Further, product quality, legality, brand image, and reliance have a significant effect on purchasing decision. The research’s usefulness is terribly important for several sides include managers, companies, and policymakers interested in addressing real estate business performance and mitigation strategies. The study highlighted that reliance and purchasing decision is not only related to internal factors namely quality of product, legality, and brand image, that’s why, this study has limitations.
Staff Management in the Decentralized Communities of the District of Bamako
Authors: BALLO Issa  , Abdoulaye SOUMAILA MOULAYE , Abdoulaye MAIGA , Laya Amadou4 GUINDO , BAMBA Amadou
Published: August 2023

This manuscript aims to explain the staff recruitment process in the decentralized communities of the District of Bamako and the impact of staff on their management. Achieving the objective necessarily involves answering the following questions: what is the staff recruitment process in the decentralized communities of the District of Bamako? Does the personnel of the decentralized communities of the District of Bamako allow to improve their public management? It is for us, to choose the quantitative method to validate or invalidate the hypotheses. We opted for surveys as the data collection strategy. For this quantitative research, the selection of our sample is made by the non-probabilistic method and the reasoned choice technique. It should be noted that our sample is made up of seven local authorities in the District of Bamako. Out of a sample of forty-nine managers questioned, thirty-two of them answered the questionnaire. The data were subjected to descriptive bivariate analysis accompanied by chi-square tests. The main results thus obtained show that the staff recruitment process for the decentralized communities of the District of Bamako is inadequate and that it is the cause of the poor quality of the staff. Our results also indicate that the management of personnel in the decentralized communities of the District of Bamako does not promote the improvement of local management to the extent desired.
Determinants of Inflation in the Democratic Republic of Congo: An Application of ARDL Modelling
Authors: Christian Mabiala Ngimbi
Published: August 2023

The objective of this study is to estimate the short- and long-term determinants of inflation in the DRC for the period from 1981 to 2017. To achieve our objective, we used cointegration techniques based on Autoregressive Staggered Lag (ARDL) modelling. The estimated model is derived from Irving Fisher's quantitative equation of money, into which we have incorporated other variables such as the exchange rate, the budget deficit, gross domestic product, the demographic dependency ratio, public spending and household final consumption expenditure. The results show that, in the short and long term, inflation in the DRC is positively influenced by the nominal exchange rate and demographic dependency, unlike money supply, final household consumption expenditure and the budget deficit, whose effects are only significant in the long term. As for gross domestic product and public spending, estimates have shown that inflation reacts negatively to their shocks. In addition, the nominal exchange rate remains the most important determinant due to its short and long term elasticities (0.86 and 0.89) followed by the demographic dependency ratio (0.43% and 0.46%) and finally the budget deficit with a long term elasticity of 0.59%.
Factors Affecting Dental Fear and Anxiety in Children: A Cross Sectional Study in Tunisia North Africa
Authors: Imen Jazi , Hela Mhiri , Maroua Laarbi , Badiaa Jemmali , Ali Chamli Mohamed
Published: August 2023

Introduction : Anxiety among patients , during dental treatment , remains one of the biggest challenges faced by dentists , considering that it impeds the achievement of clinical procedures . this situation may lead patients to stop their treatment and thus complicates their oral health condition . Materiels and methods : A cross sectional study was conducted in the department of pediatric dentistery in Tunis from august to september 2017 on a simple of 360 couples ( mother / child ) . the child’s and mother’s level of anxiety were evaluated according to various parameters using 2 fear assessment venham picture test for children and Corah dental anxiety scale for mothers . Results : 33.9% of children were anxious. a significant relationship between the child’s anxiety and the child’s age (p=0.01) and gender (p=0.031) was found , on the other hand 57.1% of mothers who feel that their children are afraid of the dentist are anxious. Conclusions : During children’s dental care , anxiety has always been one of the biggest obstacles encountered by specialits in pediatric dentistery . it is important to care about this symptom to develop a good psychological approch with the young patients
Technical, regulatory and economic analysis for the installation of an alternative electricity supply system based on tidal energy
Authors: Cabeza-Villón Gloria Esmeralda , Nevárez-Toledo Manuel
Published: August 2023

The general objective of this study is to develop the technical, regulatory and economic analysis for the installation of an alternative electricity supply system based on tidal energy in the canton of Esmeraldas, Ecuador. The methodology was descriptive with a documentary design. The population consisted of eleven (11) documents related to the topic that met the selection criteria based on rigor in contributions, relevance and pertinence. It was found in the texts consulted coincidence in the fact that tidal energy in the coming years will be considered within the range of renewable energies to produce great changes in the energy sector due to the great potential it offers. According to IRENA, the cost of current tidal technologies ranges between 0.17 €/kWh and 0.23 €/kWh, although the pilot projects underway point to a decrease of between 0.25 and 0.47 €/kWh. Thus, in the course of time it will become increasingly accessible to incorporate it into the energy matrix of countries such as Ecuador given its constant wave potential estimated at 14kW/m on average. Thus, the production of tidal energy in Ecuador and specifically in the canton of Esmeraldas should be considered more strongly, given the advantages it offers for environmental, social and in the near future economic quality, all of which is in line with the philosophy of energy efficiency for sustainable development.
SISTEM PENCATATAN KEUANGAN SEKOLAH BERBASIS VB.NET (STUDI KASUS: MTS NU UNGARAN KABUPATEN SEMARANG)
Authors: Khusnul Khotimah Isnaini , Sumarlin Tantik , Rakasiwi Sindhu
Published: August 2023

Pendidikan merupakan faktor terbesar untuk kemajuan suatu bangsa. Disini peranan teknologi informasi sangat diperlukan dengan semakin berkembangnya suatu lembaga pendidikan, bertambahnya siswa dan ilmu pengetahuan serta kualitas sumber daya manusia yang ada. Lembaga yang baik tentunya harus memiliki sistem informasi. Hampir semua lembaga pendidikan telah menggunakan sistem informasi untuk mempermudah segala kegiatan yang ada di dalamnya. MTs NU Ungaran merupakan salah satu Madrasah Tsanawiyah swasta yang terletak di Jl. Kaligarang No.09, Kecamatan Ungaran Barat, Kabupaten Semarang. Selama ini, dalam proses pencatatan pembayaran SPP di MTs NU Ungaran masih menggunakan sistem manual, akibatnya proses pencatatan pembayaran SPP masih tidak efektif dan efisien. Banyak sekali kesalahan proses dalam pencatatan, misalnya dalam peginputan nama siswa, nominal pembayaran, dan hal lainnya. Semakin berkembangnya suatu lembaga pendidikan dan mengikuti perkembangan era digital, Madrasah tersebut akan menerapkan sistem informasi dalam proses kegiatan, dengan cara melakukan praktek langsung terhadap permasalahan yang terjadi. Oleh karena itu, penulis merancang sebuah sistem khusus yang digunakan untuk pencatatan pembayaran SPP. Yaitu sistem informasi berbasis multiuser dengan bahasa pemrograman Vb.Net untuk mempermudah pembuatan aplikasi tersebut, karena memiliki keunggulan mudah dikembangkan, fleksibel, dan akses informasi lebih mudah.

 

Penulis berharap dengan adanya Sistem Informasi Pencatatan Pembayaran SPP ini dapat mengurangi kesalahan-kesalahan yang mungkin terjadi serta dilakukan dengan lebih akurat dan efisien oleh staff admin di MTs NU Ungaran
SISTEM INFORMASI AKUNTANSI ANGGARAN LABA DENGAN METODE A POSTERIORI
Authors: Wahyuning Sri , Rachmawati Nur , Sumaryanto
Published: August 2023

Information technology can be used in various human lives, one of which is in the business field. In today's era, it is undeniable that computers with accounting information system equipment are components that must be owned by companies to help ease the task of company performance. One of them is BKM which is specifically aimed at poverty alleviation and community development. UPK itself is a non-profit organization or an organization whose main objective is to support an issue or matter in attracting public attention for a non-commercial purpose, without any attention to things that are for-profit. The allocation has also been divided according to their respective portions.

This study aims to simplify the presentation of profit budgeting at BKM which is still not structured and does not provide clarity about the results of the funds that should be used as the allocation of community activities. Profit budgeting is also not carried out periodically and is still manual in recording so that profits cannot be known in detail. In overcoming the problems above, by using a programmed system with the a posteriori method, the institution can easily record every operational budget to the profit budget so that it can allocate funds for community activities in a structured manner
Measurement report: Inland ship emissions and their contribution to NOx and ultrafine particle concentrations at the Rhine
Authors: Eger Philipp , Mathes Theresa , Zavarsky Alex , Duester Lars
Published: August 2023

Abstract. Emission plumes of around 4700 ship passages were detected between March 2021 and June 2022 in the Upper Rhine Valley in Worms, Germany. In
combination with ship-related data recorded via the automatic identification system (AIS), the plume composition of individuals ships was analyzed, and it was possible to quantify their contribution to the overall emission load. To obtain an integral picture of inland ship emissions, nitrogen oxide (NOx = NO + NO2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) measurements in the gas phase were combined with detailed particle-phase measurements including particle number concentration (PNC), particle size distribution (PSD) from 5 nm to 10 µm, particulate matter (PM1 and PM2.5), ultrafine particle fraction (UFP, diameter < 100 nm) and aerosol black carbon (BC). One measuring station was located inside a bridge directly above the navigation channel and was especially helpful in deriving emission factors under real-world driving conditions for the fleet on the Upper Rhine. The other station was situated on a riverbank at about 40 m distance to the shipping lane and was thus representative of the exposure of people working or living close to the Rhine. Inland ships contributed 1.2 µg m−3 or 7 % on average to the local nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentration at the bridge above the shipping lane. NOx concentrations were increased by 10.5 µg m−3 (50 %), PNC by 800 cm−3 (10 %), PM1 by 0.4 µg m−3 (4 %) and BC by 0.15 µg m−3 (15 %). On the riverbank a NOx increase of 1.6 µg m−3 (8 %) and an NO2 increase of 0.4 µg m−3 (3 %) were observed. More than 75 % of emitted particles were found in the UFP range with a geometric mean particle diameter of 52±23 nm. Calculated emission factors (25–75 percentiles) were 26–44 g kg−1 of fuel for NOx,
1.9–3.2 g kg−1 for NO2, 0.3–0.7 g kg−1 for BC,
0.9–2.3 g kg−1 for PM1 and (1–3) × 1015 kg−1 for PNC, with a large variability observed from ship to ship. Relating these values to ship-specific parameters revealed the importance of engine characteristics, i.e., vessels using old motors with low revolutions per minute (rpm) caused comparably high emission factors for both NOx and PNC. A comparison with emission regulation limits set by the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine (CCNR) and the European Union (EU) showed that – within the uncertainty of our calculation method – mean energy-dependent emission factors under real-driving conditions were slightly exceeding those under controlled laboratory conditions. The results from this study underline the importance of long-term measurements with high temporal resolution to reliably estimate the contribution of inland shipping to air pollution in cities along heavy traffic waterways and to monitor a potential future emission reduction when modernizing the fleet.
Evaluation of In-situ observations on Marine Weather Observer during the Typhoon Sinlaku
Authors: He Wenying , Chen Hongbin , Yu Hongyong , Li Jun , Pan Jidong , Ma Shuqing , Zhang Xuefen , Guo Rang , Zhao Bingke , Chen Xi , Xia Xiangao , Wang Kaicun
Published: August 2023

Abstract. The mobile ocean weather observation system, named Marine Weather Observer (MWO), developed by the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), consists of a fully solar-powered, unmanned vehicle and meteorological and hydrological instruments. One of the MWOs completed a long-term continuous observation, actively approaching the Typhoon Sinlaku center from July 24 to August 2, 2020, over the South China Sea. The in-situ and high temporal resolution(1-min) observations obtained from MWO were analyzed and evaluated by comparing with the observations made by two types of buoys during the evolution of Typhoon Sinlaku. First, the air pressure and wind speed measured by MWO are in good agreement with those measured by the buoys before the typhoon, reflecting the equivalent measurement capabilities of the two methods under normal sea conditions. The sea surface temperature (SST) between MWO and the mooring buoys is highly consistent throughout the observation period and even less difference after the typhoon's arrival, indicating the high stability and accuracy of SST measurements from MWO during the typhoon evolution. The air temperature and relative humidity measured by MWO have significant diurnal variations, generally lower than those measured by the buoys, which may be related to the mounting height of the sensor. When actively approaching the typhoon center, the air pressure from MWO can reflect some drastic and subtle changes, such as a sudden drop to 980 hPa, which is difficult to obtain by other observation methods. As a mobile meteorological and oceanographic observation station, MWO has shown its unique advantages over traditional observation methods, and the results preliminary demonstrate the reliable observation capability of MWO in this paper.