bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
6.1. FEATURES OF RESOURCE SUPPORT FOR INNOVATION AND INVESTMENT PROJECTS
Authors: Фирова С.В.
Published: January 2021

В настоящее время существуют различные модели и источники финансирования процесса реализации инновационных проектов. При этом выделить универсальные модели, методы и инструменты финансирования инновационной деятельности, эффективные для любых инновационных проектов, невозможно. Это обусловливает необходимость дополнительного исследования особенностей ресурсного обеспечения инновационно-инвестиционных проектов и направ­лений их развития. Статья посвящена анализу современных практик финансирования инновационно-инвестиционных проектов в контексте развития цифровой экономики. Цель исследования заключается в выявлении возможностей и направлений развития отечественных практик финансирования инновационных проектов с помощью различных механизмов ресурсного обеспечения, в том числе путем крауд-финансирования. В результате исследования выявлены основные направления развития системы финансирования инновационных проектов в РФ.

Currently, there are various models and sources of funding for the implementation of innovative projects. At the same time, it is impossible to single out universal models, methods and instruments for financing innovative activities that are effective for any innovative projects. This necessitates an additional study of the features of resource provision for innovation and investment projects and the directions of their development. The article is devoted to the analysis of modern practices of financing innovation and investment projects in the context of the development of the digital economy. The purpose of the study is to identify opportunities and directions for the development of domestic practices of financing innovative projects using various mechanisms of resource provision, including through crowd funding. As a result, the research identified the main directions of development of the system of financing innovative projects in the Russian Federation.
3.3. ANALYSIS OF FACTORS OF FERTILITY OF POPULATION IN THE REGIONS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION BY THE MODEL OF MODELING
Authors: Берендеева А.Б. , Сизова О.В.
Published: January 2021

Рассмотрена динамика суммарного коэффициента рождаемости в Российской Федерации и факторы рождаемости. Выделено пять групп регионов РФ по уровню суммарного коэффициента рождаемости. На примере пяти регионов-лидеров и пяти регионов-антилидеров проанализировано воздействие на по-казатель рождаемости девяти социально-экономических факторов. Рассмотрена динамика ко-эффициента рождаемости и выявлена основная тен-денция изменения данного показателя. С помощью корреляционно-регрессионного анализа выявлены факторы, оказывающие определяющее воздействие на рождаемость в РФ. Выделены группы факторов по степени влияния на рождаемость населения.

The dynamics of the total fertility rate in Russia and fertility factors are considered. Five groups of Russian regions were identified by the level of the total birth rate. Using the example of 5 leading regions and 5 anti-leader regions, we analyzed the impact on the birth rate of 9 socio-economic factors. The dynamics of the birth rate is examined and the main tendency for this indicator to change. Using correlation and re-gression analysis, factors were identified that have a decisive effect on fertility in Russia. Groups of factors are identified by the degree of influence on the birth rate of the population.
8.2. Formation of a mechanism for stimulating innovative activities of the enterprise
Authors: Исаев И.З.
Published: January 2021

В статье предложен механизм стимулирования инновационной деятельности предприятия, выполняющий роль комплексной системы стимулирования рыночных контентов инноваций (инновационных потребностей и инновационных предложений), и воздействия на условия стимулирующие инновации. Определены основные элементы предложенного механизма. Представлены движущие компоненты механизма стимулирования инновационной деятельности предприятий.

The article proposes a mechanism for stimulating the innovative activity of an enterprise, which plays the role of an integrated system for stimulating the market content of innovations (innovative needs and innovative proposals), and the impact on the conditions that stimulate innovation. The main elements of the proposed mechanism are determined. The driving components of the mechanism for stimulating the innovation activity of enterprises are presented.
6.2. Liberalizing Capital Market of Mainland China in the Context of International Financial Market Development
Authors: Шуплецов А.Л.
Published: January 2021

В статье рассматриваются тенденции развития мирового рынка капитала, и в данном контексте предпринимается попытка оценить первые результаты проводимой Китаем постепенной либерализации своего финансового рынка.

The article examines trends in the development of the global capital market and in this context attempts to assess the first results of China's gradual liberalization of its financial market.
5.1. Proposals for the development of a methodology and plan for a review of federal budget expenditures on the provision of subsidies for other purposes to budgetary (autonomous) institutions
Authors: Балынин И.В.
Published: January 2021

В статье представлены авторские рекомендации по формированию методики и плана проведения обзора расходов федерального бюджета на предоставление субсидий на иные цели бюджетным (автономным) учреждениям. Подробно описаны этапы проведения обзора расходов федерального бюджета на предоставление субсидий на иные цели бюджетным (автономным) учреждениям. Предложены макеты аналитических таблиц по итогам оценки качества нормативно-правового регулирования предоставления субсидий на иные цели в Российской Федерации.

The article presents the author’s recommendations on the formation of the methodology and plan for the review of federal budget expenditures on the provision of subsidies for other purposes to budget (autonomous) institutions. The stages of the review of federal budget expenditures for the provision of subsidies for other purposes to budgetary (autonomous) institutions are described in detail. A model of the analytical table for assessing the quality of legal regulation of the provision of subsidies for other purposes in the Russian Federation is proposed.
8.8. Small business in the Russian economy
Authors: Салпагарова М.Ш. , Узденова Ф.М.
Published: January 2021

В статье проводится анализ состояния малого предпринимательства и его роли в экономике Российской Федерации. Определяется роль малого бизнеса в РФ и выделяются основные проблемы, а также обосновывается необходимость поддержки государства.

The article analyzes the state of small business and its role in the economy of the Russian Federation. The role of small business in Russia is determined, the main problems are highlighted, and the need for state support is substantiated.
1.1. Model of tax burden management of the company: problems and prospects
Authors: Журавлева И.А. , Назарова Н.А. , Еремин И.Р.
Published: January 2021

В статье рассматривается введение научной философии в структурно-функциональную основу функционирования системономической модели управления и оценки налоговой нагрузки в структуре периодической системы специальных законов налогономии как встроенной модели развития налоговой системы, базирующейся на фундаментальных философских принципах. В научном исследовании рассматриваются теоретические аспекты и практические выводы взаимосвязи и взаимозависимости элементов оценки и управления налоговой нагрузкой в компании и на экономику. Рассмотрены философские принципы предлагаемой ситемономической модели управления и оценки налоговой нагрузки, определяющие расположение элементов и уровни развития в функционирующей налоговой системе на основе ретроспективного анализа эволюционирования научно-практических взглядов на управление и оценку налоговой нагрузки. Автор акцентирует внимание на трансформации налоговой системы на основе эффективного функционирования ее элементов, одними из которых являются управление и оценка налоговой нагрузки компании.

The article discusses the introduction of scientific philosophy into the structural and functional basis of the functioning of the system-economic model of management and assessment of the tax burden in the structure of the periodic system of special laws of taxonomy as a built-in model for the development of the tax system, based on fundamental philosophical principles. The scientific research examines the theoretical aspects and practical conclusions of the relationship and interdependence of the elements of assessment and management of the tax burden in the company and on the economy. The philosophical principles of the proposed systemonomical model of management and assessment of the tax burden, which determine the location of elements and levels of development in the functioning tax system, are considered on the basis of a retrospective analysis of the evolution of scientific and practical views on management and assessment of the tax burden (MATB). The author focuses on the transformation of the tax system based on the effective functioning of its elements, one of which is the management and assessment of the company's tax burden.
8.4. FINANCIAL SITUATION AND METHODS OF STATE INCENTIVES FOR MODERN SMALL BUSINESSES IN THE ERA OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Authors: Мельникова Ю.В. , Шохнех А.В.
Published: January 2021

В статье раскрываются направления развития системы малых предприятий как основы государственной экономики, а также фокусируется внимание на ряде отрицательных моментов, которые деактивизируют малый бизнес, приводя к их ликвидации. В сложный кризисный период, когда субъекты малого бизнеса первыми оказались не готовы к экономической нестабильности, государство предлагает многокомпонентное решение в виде финансовых программ-поддержки. В статье выделены четыре группы программ, каждая из которых определяет свои приоритетные направления для активизации малых предприятий

The article reveals the directions of development of the system of small enterprises as the basis of the state economy, and also focuses on a number of negative aspects that deactivate small businesses, leading to their liquidation. In a difficult crisis period, when small businesses were the first to be unprepared for economic instability, the state offers a multi-component solution in the form of financial support programs. The article identifies four groups of programs, each of which defines its priority areas for the activation of small businesses.
UTILIZATION OF BIM IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SUBMARINE TUNNEL: A CASE STUDY IN XIAMEN CITY, CHINA
Authors: Li Sai , Zhang Zhongjian , Mei Gang , Lin Daming , Yu Jin , Qiu Renke , Su Xingju , Lin Xuechun , Lou Chonghua
Published: January 2021

Building information modeling (BIM) is an emerging technology that can effectively solve the problems of information dispersion, complex personnel management, and lack of construction supervision, which often occur during the construction of tunnel engineering. Taking the construction of Haicang Tunnel in Xiamen, China as a case study, the utilization of BIM technology in the design stage, the construction simulation and operation are demonstrated during the full-life cycle of the project. During the construction of Haicang Tunnel, the technologies of BIM 3D, BIM 4D, BIM 5D, and Cloud Platform are used to make the construction process controllable and to facilitate the implementation and deployment of construction plans. BIM 3D is a visualization method to show the detailed model in the construction. The design is optimized by the navigation collision function of BIM 3D. BIM 4D adds the time schedule into BIM 3D model to show the construction schedule. BIM 5D adds the cost into BIM 4D model to show the construction consumption. The methods of BIM 4D and BIM 5D can assist the engineering management in allocating resources and funds in the project. Cloud Platform is used to effectively implement information management.
Distribution of alien tetrapods in the Iberian Peninsula
Authors: Ascensão Fernando , D'Amico Marcello , Martins Ricardo C. , Rebelo Rui , Barbosa A. Márcia , Bencatel Joana , Barrientos Rafael , Abellán Pedro , Tella José L. , Cardador Laura , Anadón José D. , Carrete Martina , Murgui Enrique , Fernandes Pedro , Santos Sara M. , Mira António , da Luz Mathias Maria , Tiago Patrícia , Casabella Eduardo , Reino Luís , Paulo Octávio S. , Pereira Henrique M. , Capinha César
Published: January 2021

We present a dataset that assembles occurrence records of alien tetrapods (amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) in the Iberian Peninsula, a coherent biogeographically unit where introductions of alien species have occurred for millennia. These data have important potential applications for ecological research and management, including the assessment of invasion risks, formulation of preventive and management plans, and research at the biological community level on alien species. This dataset summarizes inventories and data sources on the taxonomy and distribution of alien tetrapods in the Iberia Peninsula, comprising known locations from published literature, expert knowledge and citizen science platforms. An expert-based assessment process allowed the identification of unreliable records (misclassification or natural dispersion from native range), and the classification of species according to their status of reproduction in the wild. Distributional data was harmonized into a common area unit, the 10 × 10 km Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) system (n = 6,152 cells). The year of observation and/or year of publication were also assigned to the records. In total, we assembled 35,940 unique distribution records (UTM × species × Year) for 253 species (6 amphibians, 16 reptiles, 218 birds and 13 mammals), spanning between 1912 and 2020. The species with highest number of distribution records were the Mediterranean painted frog Discoglossus pictus (n = 59 UTM), the pond slider Trachemys scripta (n = 471), the common waxbill Estrilda astrild (n = 1,275) and the house mouse Mus musculus (n = 4,043), for amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, respectively. Most alien species recorded are native to Africa (33%), followed by South America (21%), Asia (19%), North America (12%) and Oceania (10%). Thirty-six species are classified by IUCN as threatened in their native range, namely 2 Critically Endangered (CR), 6 Endangered (EN), 8 Vulnerable (VU), and 20 species Near Threatened (NT). Species maps are provided in DataSet1, as well R code and GIS layers to update them as new records are obtained.
Bird activity patterns in the understorey of an evergreen forest in Oaxaca, Mexico
Authors: Pérez-Irineo Gabriela , Santos-Moreno Antonio
Published: January 2021

Activity patterns of species are related to their physiology, their behaviour and the environment and can change in response to different factors, such as interactions between species. Bird species, typical of the understorey, show morphological and ecological similarities and must thus have some mechanism of ecological separation, such as temporal niche partitioning. The objective of this study was to provide information about activity patterns and activity overlap of bird species typical of the understorey. We expected temporal niche partitioning between ecologically-similar species. We placed camera traps in 29 sampling points in a high evergreen forest in the southeast of Mexico between 2011 and 2013. All species were mainly diurnal and, contrary to what we expected, there was temporal partitioning between tinamids, but not in galliforms and columbiforms. The degree of activity overlap might reflect a solitary or group lifestyle of the three sets of species, as well as shared behavioural preferences and similar adaptations. These results contribute to our knowledge of the basic biology and behavioural ecology of birds of the understorey.
Controlling for presentation effects in choice
Authors: Breitmoser Yves
Published: January 2021

Experimenters make theoretically irrelevant decisions concerning user interfaces and ordering or labeling of options. Reanalyzing dictator games, I first show that such decisions may drastically affect comparative statics and cause results to appear contradictory across experiments. This obstructs model testing, preference analyses, and policy predictions. I then propose a simple model of choice incorporating both presentation effects and stochastic errors, and test the model by reanalyzing the dictator game experiments. Controlling for presentation effects, preference estimates become consistent across experiments and predictive out‐of‐sample. This highlights both the necessity and the possibility to control for presentation in economic experiments.
Identification and inference with ranking restrictions
Authors: Amir-Ahmadi Pooyan , Drautzburg Thorsten
Published: January 2021

We propose to add ranking restrictions on impulse‐responses to sign restrictions to narrow the identified set in vector autoregressions (VARs). Ranking restrictions come from micro data on heterogeneous industries in VARs, bounds on elasticities, or restrictions on dynamics. Using both a fully Bayesian conditional uniform prior and prior‐robust inference, we show that these restrictions help to identify productivity news shocks in the data. In the prior‐robust paradigm, ranking restrictions, but not sign restrictions alone, imply that news shocks raise output temporarily, but significantly. This holds both in an application with rankings in the form of heterogeneity restrictions and in another applications with slope restrictions as rankings. Ranking restrictions also narrow bounds on variance decompositions. For example, the bound of the contribution of news shocks to the forecast error variance of output narrows by about 30 pp at the one‐year horizon. While misspecification can be a concern with added restrictions, they are consistent with the data in our applications.
Prevent and Combat Sexual Assault and Exploitation of Children on Cyberspace in Vietnam
Authors: Luong Hai Thanh
Published: January 2021

Since officially joining the globally connected computer network in 1997, Vietnam has made impressive progress with 64 million internet users as of June 2017, accounting for 67% of the population and is also among the countries with the highest number of internet users in Asia. Social media is widely available with a large focus on young groups. This chapter provides the overall situation on online sex assaults and exploitations child in Vietnam with its detailed characteristics and figures as well as shares the specific efforts of government and law enforcement authorities to prevent and combat this crime from 2010 to 2018 after the professional task force of Vietnamese police established in 2010 till now. The chapter also analyzes the difficulties, challenges, and barrier to fight it before introducing the proposals, strategies, and focuses on anticipate, prevent, and combat this crime of Vietnam's authorities.
How Nigerian Junior Secondary School Students Perceive Internet Child Exploitation
Authors: Ahmadu Talatu Salihu , Kontagora Hafsat Lawal
Published: January 2021

The internet has altered the way we interact with other people, making the world a global village. Since the explosion of the internet, many aspects of our lives have not only been eased but aided with more harmful consequences. The secrecy of the internet has resulted in its swiftly becoming a breeding ground for illegal activities that continue to grow as internet child exploitation (ICE), a form of child abuse by their peers or adults using the internet. However, the threats children are confronted with are still indefinite. To determine this in Nigeria, a total number of 20 Nigerian children between the age range of 11 and 17 years from five junior secondary schools were interviewed using measures of internet child abuse. The study revealed that elements of internet child exploitation exist such as sexual exploitation, cyberbullying, nudity, and wasting judicious time on chatting and playing video games. These may eventually have harmful consequences on children.
Intersectional Dialogue While Combating LGBT-Phobia in Schools
Authors: Almeida Yago Vieira de Oliveira
Published: January 2021

The presence of culture of violence in the school environment, manifested from the language, physical, and social spheres is widely recognized by organizations, which has among its goals encouraging quality education to all, especially to young people. Therefore, LGBT bullying has gained a growing awareness by civil society, especially with regard to its negative outcomes to the formation of youth, forming a psychological and social legacy that has serious consequences for the establishment of a society ruled by the sustainable development principles. In this way, this chapter aims to discuss possible mechanisms to combat LGBT-phobia, especially based on bullying, in order to create a culture of peace in schools. Criticizing, investigating, discussing, and relativizing are crucial alternative methods in order to build a healthy school environment and potentially transformative.
Reflection on How National and Gender Culture Can Nourish and Promote Violence and What American Culture Must Face and Change to Reduce Violence
Authors: Erbe Nancy D.
Published: January 2021

It has been a few years since the editors published their first book together on nonviolence. Arguably, violence has gotten worse. Certainly, divisive nationalist hate mongering leaders have risen to power in three of the world's purported democracies: Brazil, India, and the U.S. Human inability to adapt to change and receive and respond to the objective truths of their lives seems to be leading this disturbing trend in the wrong direction. The editors can no longer just contribute a chapter on micro changes. Instead, they are moved to address and confront entrenched systemic root causes of violence in the U.S. and between men and women around the world.
Variation in State-Level Response to School Shootings
Authors: McNeal Ramona Sue , Schmeida Mary , Dotterweich Bryan Lisa
Published: January 2021

Historically, public demand for gun control in the U.S. spikes after a mass shooting, only to wane in the proceeding months. One consequence has been limited or no changes to existing gun safety laws in many states following a tragedy. This changed in 2018 following the shooting in Parkland, Florida. Public support for gun control legislation following this event did not wane as normal, and 26 states and DC reacted with the passage of stiffer gun control policies. What explains the varying state-level respond to this and other school shooting in the U.S.? In exploring this question, the chapter examines the influence of state-level factors on gun control legislation by exploring the extent of gun control legislation by state for the years 2012 through 2018. Pooled cross-sectional time series data that controls for variation between states and over time is used.
“We'll Put a Boot in Your Ass, It's the American Way”
Authors: Renfro Evan , Renfro Jayme Neiman
Published: January 2021

Since before the founding of the United States through slavery, the extermination of the native populace, war after war, regime overthrow, and more wars, popular media have been used to stir resentments and produce violent fantasies in the general citizenry that often allow for policies of actual violence to be applied against “the other.” This chapter will analyze the affective coordinates of this system in the post-9/11 context, focusing especially on how nationalist-jingoism has now triumphed in the age of the Trump Administration. Crucial interrogations addressed in this chapter include: Why are white southern/rural males particularly susceptible to popular culture induced affective violence? What are the mechanics of profit and neoliberal imperatives of this structure? What is new about the linkage of these phenomena with the first Twitter-President? In pursuing these questions, the authors will use case studies involving the popular media vectors of television, film, and music.
Preventing and Transforming Violence
Authors: Erbe Nancy D. , Singh Swaranjit
Published: January 2021

The authors have spent careers preventing and transforming violence, as a lawyer for public schools, treatment leader for repeat violent juvenile offenders, victim offender mediator, and an army colonel. Here they share the field-tested insights they have gained over a combined 50 plus years of service. They also elaborate Gandhi's nonviolence (actual and envisioned) so that readers will start to fully appreciate what is required for sustainable nonviolence. He offered several practices, tools, and ideas that have significant potential to help the contemporary world embrace nonviolence as a complex growth-filled way of living, one that promises to help the human race sustain and enrich their civilization(s). This updated chapter will include reflections about preventing and reducing violence with a particular focus on the increased and tragic violence in the United States under the Trump administration.
Impact of Heat Stress on Embryonic Implantation
Authors: Wani Khursheed Ahmad , Irfan Jamila , Malik Junaid Ahmad
Published: January 2021

One of the expected effects of mammalian developmental defects is a rise in air temperature. Heat stress adversely affects embryo oogenesis, oocyte maturation, fertilization, and implantation. The number of defects caused by heat stress in all mammals is almost identical, but each species has its own particular sensitivity to specific defects. It suggests that genotype may have a significant effect on the type of defect, its occurrence, and its extent. By heat output and loss, the body temperature is usually preserved in a restricted range, but the equilibrium can be disrupted by illness, inadequate nutrition, and severe environmental temperature. Elevated maternal temperature during pregnancy, either by fever or any other means of heating, may result in embryo death, retarded development, abortion, and many embryonic defects such as cell proliferation, migration, differentiation and apoptosis or programmed cell death, structural and functional defects, and changes in maternal physiology. Maternal heat stress also reduces the levels of placental hormones. This chapter deals with the heat stress effect on reduction of reproductive function, implantation defects, etc. of different animals and humans.
Impact of Heat Stress and Nutritional Stress on Early Embryo Development
Authors: Gokhale Golden , Ishfaq Pir Mohammad , Sharma Gurudutt
Published: January 2021

The nutritional, physiological, and reproductive function has detrimental effects on heat stress, which is found in many species of mammals. High ambient temperature in mammals cause a decrease in the length and intensity of estrus by disturbing ovarian function as well as decreasing pregnancy rate after artificial insemination. The effects of nutritional stress on developing oocytes in the ovarian follicle and in the reproductive tract on early embryos are because of the environment where a breeding female lives before conception and at the early stages of pregnancy. Maturity of oocyte, blastocyst yield, prenatal survival, and the number of offspring born alive are affected by change in consumption and quantity of the food taken during the pre-mating period. To improve reproductive efficiency and offspring quality, it is necessary to detect and evaluate the deteriorating effects of heat stress on reproductive organs and cells and to plan nutrition related strategies.
Thermotolerance for Physiological and Endocrine Regulation of Embryo-Uterine Development
Authors: Khanday Sameena , Ahmad Rayees , Sharma Guru Dutt
Published: January 2021

Hyperthermia affects most aspects of reproductive performance in mammals by compromising the physiology of reproductive tract, through hormonal imbalance, disrupting the development and maturation of oocyte, causing embryonic mortality, abortion, growth retardation, and major developmental defects. Heat stress reduces the steroidogenic capacity of its theca and granulosa cells by altering the efficiency of follicular selection resulting in drop of luteinizing hormone and estradiol secretions from the dominant follicle in the plasma, reduced intensity, and duration of estrus expression. The mechanism for the developmental stage-dependent change in heat tolerance is considered to be the accumulation of antioxidants in embryos in response to heat-inducible production of reactive oxygen species. Morula or blastocysts can repair heat-induced misfolded or unfolded proteins or facilitate DNA damage induced apoptosis. Therefore, embryo transfer (ET) that can bypass the heat-sensitive stage could be a good solution to improve the conception rate under heat stress. However, further research is required to improve the reduction in pregnancy rates due to summer heat stress.
Impact of Climate Change on Animal Fertility
Authors: Mirza Urfeya , Farooq Uiase Bin , Anjum Shahnaz
Published: January 2021

The fertility and reproductive efficiency of both male and female animals is very sensitive to climatic disturbances, particularly hyperthermia. The most evident consequences of heat stress are decreased quantity and quality of sperm production in males and compromised fertility in females. In this chapter, the effects of climate change on male and female reproduction have been separately and thoroughly elaborated. The effect of heat stress on embryo and fetal development has also been described. In the end, various approaches for mitigating the effects of heat stress on animals have been brought to light.
Climate Change and Livestock Fertility
Authors: Shrimali Vishakha , Naha Nibedita , Mondal Sukanta
Published: January 2021

Climate change is a global threat to livestock sector to so many species and ecosystem in different parts of the world. Climate change, heat stress, and nutritional stress are the major intriguing factors responsible for reduced fertility in farm animals in tropical countries. Heat and nutritional stresses affect the reproductive performance by decreasing the expression of estrous behavior, altering ovarian follicular development and hormonal profiles, compromising oocyte competence, and inhibiting embryonic development in livestock. Climate is changed by greenhouse gases that released into atmosphere through man-made activities. Livestock contribute 18% of the production of greenhouse gases itself and causes climate change including heat stress, which has direct and indirect impact on fertility of the animals as well as reduce milk production. Adaptation to climate change and lowering its negative effect by alteration of animal micro-environment using different essential technologies are the main mitigation strategies to recover heat stress damage in this respect.
Darren Aronofsky's Dramatic Space
Authors: Yılmaz Mehmet , Demir Yılmaz
Published: January 2021

American cinema significantly makes use of universal narratives which originate from myths and religious stories. These narratives which are accepted universally address universe of common meaning values of humanity and people's common perceptions. Noah, directed by Darren Aronofsky, had a great box office success thanks to having a story which was based on a universally accepted holy narration. The director refictionalizes the narratives which serve as an inspirational source for the movie in order to adapt them to the cinematographic language and to express himself better through these narratives. Accordingly, Noah, the reinterpretation of a universal narrative by Aronofsky, is seen as a topic of analysis and evaluated from an intertextual perspective by a descriptive film analysis.
Chingiz Aitmatov's Grand Narrative
Authors: Çakın Ömer , Günay Mehmet Akif
Published: January 2021

Beyond political and cultural criticisms, grand narratives have the authority to disclose real facts. This authority is most effective in the field of culture. Grand narratives are the universal presentation of local culture. In a culture dominated by grand narratives, the dominant ideology of the regime is to control knowledge. Grand narratives play a role in generalizing and transferring information skillfully while describing the contemporary situation. A novelist was defined as a mirror reflecting the period and society in which he lived. Likewise, Chingiz Aitmatov tried to depict the political, social, and cultural structure of his period, and accordingly, formed his own grand narrative. The author skillfully revealed the facts of the period regarding the Marxist tradition and described the social, cultural, and political structure of the period using a tentative language in parallel with the facts such as analogy, myth, and legend.
The Real Westworlds
Authors: Gurses Munevver Elif , Tugran Filiz Erdogan
Published: January 2021

Nowadays, with globalization, dark tourism has become one of the rising stars of popular culture and tourism trends; in fact, it has existed in human life for centuries. Although the role of the media in this popularization process is great, visits to tombs and monuments, museum visits, historical sites, and places that are remembered with negative stories actually get involved in the dark tourism activity, albeit unknowingly. Dark tourism has been the subject of academic research in the last two decades, thanks to its popularity; basically, it describes travels to places famous for death, catastrophe, natural disaster, war, or legendary narratives. The heartbeat of the “storyteller,” who had an important place for Walter Benjamin and that he defended to disappear, started to be heard again in the dark tourism event. This research is the product of an effort to rethink the storyteller through dark tourism.
The Inter-Narrativity of “Life”
Authors: Çakır Nilay Tan , Yilmaz Recep
Published: January 2021

The present study evaluates the way how Tezer Özlü's book Journey to the Edge of Life was constructed through narrative and aims to demonstrate how the narrative interactions in the book were employed. In this respect, narrative components and the concept of intertextuality were examined. The narrative of Tezer Özlü's Journey to the Edge of Life was analyzed using the analysis method specified by Nedret Tanyolaç Öztokat in her book Theoretical Approaches in the Analysis of Literary Texts. The results obtained in this study have revealed the interaction between Tezer Özlü's narrative and the texts in Cesare Pavese's, Kafka's, and Sivevo's works and the interconnection between them.
Ancient Greek Goddess Archetypes in the Modern World Politics
Authors: Çetin Birsen
Published: January 2021

Ancient Greek mythology has a significant place in modern Western culture. Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung believed that myths and mythological archetypes were the expression of people's collective unconscious. He used the archetypes to understand human psychology, as every archetype has strong personality traits that bring light to modern people's lives, because archetypal traits have reached today via collective unconscious. Archetypes are also significant figures contributing to science of communication that aim to analyze discourse, such that all of them have a different manner of discourse that is connected with their unique traits. Starting from this point, one of the most famous woman politician's, Hillary Clinton's, discourses in the 2016 United States presidential debates are analyzed on the purpose of revealing her traits related to ancient Greek goddesses.
Cross-Media as a Multi-Platform Narrative Interaction Form
Authors: Bolat Nursel
Published: January 2021

Cinema often uses the novels in the scenarios it creates while constructing the audiovisual narrative structure. After the cinema, on television, many television movies and television series get the subject of adapting novels. Today, a story and a novel are opened in many media platforms, and each new text that emerged with this expansion adds its own value to the narrative. In the ideal form, which is also referred to as the concept of cross-media narrative, the presentation of the same work in different formats in multiple media can be seen. The study tries to analyze the narrative in the context of the transformation of the media between the media, narrative characteristics, the use of time and space in the context of each narrative's unique contributions and deficiencies. In this context, the installation of “cross-media” narrative platforms within the scope of multi-media usage is examined.
A Semiotic Examination of the Security Policy Lifecycle
Authors: Lapke Michael
Published: January 2021

Major security breaches continue to plague organizations decades after best practices, standards, and technical safeguards have become commonplace. This worrying trend clearly demonstrates that information systems security remains a significant issue within organizations. As policy forms the basis for practice, a major contributor to this ongoing security problem is a faulty security policy lifecycle. This can lead to an insufficient or worse, a failed policy. This chapter is aimed at understanding the lifecycle by analyzing the meanings that are attributed to policy formulation and implementation by the stakeholders involved in the process. A case study was carried out and a “snapshot in time” of the lifecycle of IS security policy lifecycle at the organization revealed that a disconnect is evident in the security policy lifecycle.
A Survey on Chaos Based Encryption Technique
Authors: Anandkumar R  , Kalpana R.
Published: January 2021

Information security is an important field among the pervasive use of applications namely internet banking, mobile services, emails, viz., chaos-based encryption techniques play an important role in many security processes, namely: military systems, robotics, and other real time computing services. The secure transmission of audio, image and video are processed with unique characteristic of a third-party which makes the encryption and decryption highly secure for the users. In this chapter, a detailed survey on the various chaos-based encryption techniques is discussed and analyzed.
The Age of Ransomware
Authors: Kiru Muhammad Ubale , Jantan Aman B.
Published: January 2021

This chapter focuses on the world's most frightening cybersecurity threat known as ransomware. Experts popularly describe ransomware as scareware that makes data and resources on a victims' computers inaccessible and forces the victims to pay a ransom with bitcoins or through other means by frightening and intimidating them. Ransomware these days needs no introduction. The perpetrators behind ransomware have done more than enough damage to critical infrastructures and collected billions of dollars from victims across the world and are still collecting. As such, this research aims at uncovering the underlying mysteries behind the sudden growth and popularity of ransomware through the in-depth study of literature and efforts made by experts globally in understanding ransomware and how to fight and stop it. Moreover, the research seeks to bring together the collective professionals' views and recommendations on how to set up strategic defense in-depth for fighting against ransomware.
Applications of Artificial Intelligence in the Realm of Business Intelligence
Authors: Mehrotra Prakhar
Published: January 2021

The objective of this chapter is to discuss the integration of advancements made in the field of artificial intelligence into the existing business intelligence tools. Specifically, it discusses how the business intelligence tool can integrate time series analysis, supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques and natural language processing in it and unlock deeper insights, make predictions, and execute strategic business action from within the tool itself. This chapter also provides a high-level overview of current state of the art AI techniques and provides examples in the realm of business intelligence. The eventual goal of this chapter is to leave readers thinking about what the future of business intelligence would look like and how enterprise can benefit by integrating AI in it.
A Framework for “Just-in-Time Learning” Decision Support in Organizations
Authors: Salisbury Mark
Published: January 2021

This article describes an integrated “Just-in-Time Learning” framework for providing decision support in organizations. The framework emerges from years of work with the national laboratories and facilities that are under the direction of the United States Department of Energy. The article begins by describing expert systems technology and how it has been used to provide decision support in organizations. This is followed by a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of expert systems technology for this purpose. Next, a “Just-in-Time Learning” framework is introduced where the theoretical foundation for the framework is described. Afterwards, the other aspects of the framework including the types of knowledge, learners it serves, and how the framework can be utilized for decision support are detailed. Finally, a discussion section summarizes how a Just-in-Time Learning Framework can achieve some of the strengths -- while overcoming some of the weaknesses -- of expert system technology for providing decision support in organizations.
A Lightweight Authentication and Encryption Protocol for Secure Communications Between Resource-Limited Devices Without Hardware Modification
Authors: Ksiazak Piotr , Farrelly William , Curran Kevin
Published: January 2021

In this chapter, the authors examine the theoretical context for the security of wireless communication between ubiquitous computing devices and present an implementation that addresses this need. The number of resource-limited wireless devices utilized in many areas of the IT industry is growing rapidly. Some of the applications of these devices pose real security threats that can be addressed using authentication and cryptography. Many of the available authentication and encryption software solutions are predicated on the availability of ample processing power and memory. These demands cannot be met by most ubiquitous computing devices; thus, there is a need to apply lightweight cryptography primitives and lightweight authentication protocols that meet these demands in any application of security to devices with limited resources. The analysis of the lightweight solutions is divided into lightweight authentication protocols and lightweight encryption algorithms. The authors present a prototype running on the nRF9E5 microcontroller that provides necessary authentication and encryption on resource-limited devices.
Secured Transmission of Clinical Signals Using Hyperchaotic DNA Confusion and Diffusion Transform
Authors: Sheela S. J. , Suresh K. V. , Tandur Deepaknath
Published: January 2021

Secured transmission of electrophysiological signals is one of the crucial requirements in telemedicine, telemonitoring, cardiovascular disease diagnosis (CVD) and telecardiology applications. The chaotic systems have good potential in secured transmission of ECG/EEG signals due to their inherent characteristics relevant to cryptography. This article introduces a new cryptosystem for clinical signals such as electrocardiograms (ECG) and electroencephalograms (EEG) based on hyperchaotic DNA confusion and diffusion transform (HC-DNA-CDT). The algorithm uses a hyperchaotic system with cubic nonlinearity and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) encoding rules. The performance of the cryptosystem is evaluated for different clinical signals using different encryption/decryption quality metrics. Simulation and comparison results show that the cryptosystem yield good encryption results and is able to resist various cryptographic attacks. The proposed algorithm can also be used in picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) to provide an efficient sharing of medical image over the networks.
A Well-Organized Safeguarded Access on Key Propagation by Malleable Optimization in Blend With Double Permutation
Authors: Sathish A. , Ravimaran S. , Kumar S. Jerald Nirmal
Published: January 2021

With the rapid developments occurring in cloud computing and services, there has been a growing trend of using the cloud for large-scale data storage. This has led to a major security dispute on data handling. Thus, the process can be overcome by utilizing an efficient shielded access on a key propagation (ESAKP) technique along with an adaptive optimization algorithm for password generation and performing double permutation. The password generation is done by adaptive ant lion optimization (AALO) which tackles the problem of ineffiency. This build has stronger security which needs an efficient selection property by eliminating the worst fit in each iteration. The optimized password is utilized by an adaptive vignere cipher for efficient key generation in which adaptiveness is employed to prevent the dilemma of choosing the first letter of alphabet which in turn reduces the computation time and improves the security. Additionally, there is a need to encrypte the symmetric key asymmetrically with a Elliptic Curve-Diffie Hellman algorithm (EC-DH) with a double stage permutation which produces a scrambling form of data adding security to the data.
Aggregate Searchable Encryption With Result Privacy
Authors: Sharma Dhruti P. , Jinwala Devesh C.
Published: January 2021

With searchable encryption (SE), the user is allowed to extract partial data from stored ciphertexts from the storage server, based on a chosen query of keywords. A majority of the existing SE schemes support SQL search query, i.e. 'Select * where (list of keywords).' However, applications for encrypted data analysis often need to count data matched with a query, instead of data extraction. For such applications, the execution of SQL aggregate query, i.e. 'Count * where (list of keywords)' at server is essential. Additionally, in case of semi-honest server, privacy of aggregate result is of primary concern. In this article, the authors propose an aggregate searchable encryption with result privacy (ASE-RP) that includes ASearch() algorithm. The proposed ASearch() performs aggregate operation (i.e. Count *) on the implicitly searched ciphertexts (for the conjunctive query) and outputs an encrypted result. The server, due to encrypted form of aggregate result, would not be able to get actual count unless having a decryption key and hence ASearch() offers result privacy.
The Usage Analysis of Machine Learning Methods for Intrusion Detection in Software-Defined Networks
Authors: Yiltas-Kaplan Derya
Published: January 2021

This chapter focuses on the process of the machine learning with considering the architecture of software-defined networks (SDNs) and their security mechanisms. In general, machine learning has been studied widely in traditional network problems, but recently there have been a limited number of studies in the literature that connect SDN security and machine learning approaches. The main reason of this situation is that the structure of SDN has emerged newly and become different from the traditional networks. These structural variances are also summarized and compared in this chapter. After the main properties of the network architectures, several intrusion detection studies on SDN are introduced and analyzed according to their advantages and disadvantages. Upon this schedule, this chapter also aims to be the first organized guide that presents the referenced studies on the SDN security and artificial intelligence together.