bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
RECYCLED AGGREGATE CONCRETE (RAC): A viable solution for sustainable construction
Authors: Tenzin Rigden Yoezer , Drakpa Leki , Deki Tashi , Subba Sharda , Norbu Chencho , Kuenchap Pema , Chimmi
Published: July 2023

Construction activities are booming in and around the cities with development and modernization. As a result of these constructions, natural aggregates are being extracted. Simultaneously, there is a significant amount of construction and demolition waste (CDW) generated due to the demolition of structures either due to the structure attaining service life or fashion and the ongoing trend of reconstruction. Therefore, recycling coarse aggregate from CDW in concrete is one of the sustainable solutions to prevent a serious threat to the environment due to the extraction of virgin aggregates and landfilling. This paper presents the results of a study undertaken to examine the influence of recycled concrete aggregate on the properties of new concrete and its life cycle cost (LCC) analysis. It is clear from the test that the strength of RAC is much lowered than natural aggregate concrete (NAC). In order to achieve the optimum strength, the natural aggregate is replaced by recycled aggregate within a range of 0% to 100%, in intervals of 10%. Additionally, to enhance its strength further, reinforcing RAC with new and recycled polypropylene (PP) fiber is done in percentages ranging from 0.25% to 2% by weight of cement with an interval of 0.25%. For analysis, compression, and split tensile strength tests were performed at the end of 28 days of the curing period. The result revealed that 40% replacement of natural aggregate with recycled aggregate achieves the ideal percentage replacement without compromising the strength. Moreover, incorporating 1.5% of new PP fiber or 1.25% of recycled PP fiber in the RAC provides optimum strength. For LCC analysis, the initial investment cost, operations, and maintenance cost, and salvage cost of all the alternatives are compared. Through this analysis, it was determined that the LCC of concrete manufactured using recycled aggregate as concrete ingredients is the lowest. Consequently, incorporating recycled aggregates in concrete production reduces the LCC compared to using natural aggregates.
FOREST FIRE SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING OF BHUTAN USING LOGISTIC REGRESSION AND FREQUENCY RATIO MODEL
Authors: Acharya Hem Raj , Tenzin Jigme , Phuyel Mim Prasad , Tshomo Karma
Published: July 2023

Forest fire is not only observed as one of the most significant sources of forest degradation in Bhutan but also a serious danger to national conservation efforts. As a result, forest fire susceptibility analysis is recognised as an important part of Bhutan's forest fire management strategy. The study's major goal is to create a forest fire susceptibility map for Bhutan using logistic regression (LR) and frequency ratio (FR) models. The study gathered number of fire influencing factors, evaluated them, and created susceptibility maps. Using the relative operating characteristics technique, the efficiency of each of the two models was analysed and compared to select the best model. The Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) curves with the area under the curve (AUC) was used to check the correctness of the maps produced by the modelling procedure. The prediction and success rates of the LR model were 88.8% and 87.5%, while for the FR model they were 85.4% and 85.1%, respectively. The results showed that both models are good predictors of forest fire with the LR model performing fairly better than the FR model. So, the LR model was chosen as an optimum model for forest fire susceptibility mapping. The susceptibility map obtained from the optimum LR model was classified into five categories such as; very low, low, moderate, high, and very high.. The findings of this study give useful spatial information for implementing forest management techniques.
Tissue regeneration and gut microbiota-skeletal muscle axis via microRNAs and nutrition: a systematic review
Authors: Junqueira Rodrigo Augusto Carvalho , Pinto Alexandre Carli
Published: July 2023

Introduction: In the scenario of muscle regeneration in athletes, maintenance of skeletal muscle function is the prerequisite for tissue homeostasis and increased performance. MicroRNAs play a positive role in expanding our understanding of the controlling factors for skeletal muscle function. Recent progress has been made regarding gut microbiota, regenerative nutrition, and skeletal muscle metabolism. Objective: It was to carry out a systematic review of the main relations of regeneration of skeletal muscle-gut microbiota through nutrological functions, cells, and microRNAs. Methods: The systematic review rules of the PRISMA Platform were followed. The research was carried out from February to April 2023 in Scopus, PubMed, Science Direct, Scielo, and Google Scholar databases. The quality of the studies was based on the GRADE instrument and the risk of bias was analyzed according to the Cochrane instrument. Results and Conclusion: A total of 217 articles were found. A total of 97 articles were fully evaluated and 49 were included and developed in the present systematic review study. Considering the Cochrane tool for risk of bias, the overall assessment resulted in 54 studies at high risk of bias and 34 studies that did not meet the GRADE. It was concluded that miRNAs are widely present in skeletal muscle and play an irreplaceable tuning role in the proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, development, and other physiological processes of skeletal muscle cells. The proposal that miRNAs are primarily involved in the cell's stress response makes miRNAs ideal for mediating the skeletal muscle response to changes in contractile activity. Research has accumulated evidence that confirms that miRNAs have played an important regulatory role in cell proliferation and differentiation, thus regulating skeletal muscle growth as highlighted in the small intestine by intestinal stem cells (LGR5+). The ketogenic or high-glucose diet regulates the self-renewal balance of LGR5+. Self-renewal and HSC differentiation can be regulated by manipulating vitamin C, A, or D levels and valine restriction. The composition of each athlete's microbiome influences sports performance.
Գոյության առեղծվածի խնդիրը Եղիա Տեմիրճիպաշյանի մտածողության համակարգում
Authors: Դեմիրճյան Պետրոս
Published: July 2023

В активный период деятельности Егии Темирчипашяна (1851–1908), в последней четверти XIX века, загадки бытия: вопросы материи – души, жизни, смерти и бессмертия, постоянно обсуждались тогдашней литературно–научно–философской мыслью. Упомянутые вопросы буквально угнетали также разум и душу Егии Темирчипашяна. В конце концов, он останавливается перед тайной Смерти, Концa, Огромного Ничто. Точка зрения Е. Темирчипашяна, конечно, не сводилась к философии этого Огромного Ничто. На этот вопрос проливает свет, в частности, изданный под псевдонимом Нурания, по определению самого автора, его философский роман «Влияние Бутты». Оттуда узнаем, что он, еще со школьной скамьи, изучая индийскую историю, язык, религию и философию, был глубоко увлечен идеей Нирваны. Потом начались мучительные поиски смысла бытия… Он пытался найти ответы на тайны мира в древних писаниях, в мыслях мудрецов Запада и Востока, но тщетно: «Никто не знал». В конце концов, встретив Иисуса, он столкнулся с новой истиной, проповедью идеи Великой Любви, согласно которой «Истинная любовь есть все …». Таким образом, по Темирчипашяну, в неудержимом и бесконечном процессе от простого к сложному, от поверхности к глубине, человеческая сущность и душа достигают сверхъестественного состояния, где «Человек настолько становится величавым, насколько тайна, устрашающая его, возрастает».
During the active period of Yeghia Temirchipashyan's activity (1851-1908), in the last quarter of the 19th century, the mysteries of existence: the issues of matter and soul, life, death and immortality were the subject of permanent discussions of the literary, scientific and philosophical thought of the time. The mentioned questions in the true sense of the word were oppressing Yeghia Temirchipashyan's mind and soul. In the end, he stops before the Mystery of Death, the End, the Mystery of Nothing. Yeghia Temirchipashyan's point of view, of course, did not end with the wisdom of the Great Nothing. Particularly, his work ''The influence of the Buddha'', published under the name Nuria and defined as philosophical novel by the author himself, sheds light on this issue. From this we learn that he was deeply fascinated by the idea of Nirvana while studying Indian history, language, religion and philosophy at school. Then the torturous search for the meaning of existence began… He tried to find the answers to the mysteries of the world in the ancient writings, in the minds of the wise men of the West and the East, but in vain. “Nobody knew”. Eventually, meeting Jesus, he faced a new truth, the preaching of the idea of the Great Love, according to which “True love is everything”. Thus, according to Temirchipashyan, in an unstoppable and endless process from the simple to the complex, from the surface to the depths, the essence and soul of a human reaches a supernatural state, where “The human becomes as majestic as the mystery, that frightens him, grows”.
Տղամարդու կերպարը Հմայակ Հակոբյանի դիմանկարներում
Authors: Պետրոսյան Արմինե
Published: July 2023

В многожанровом творчестве известного живописца конца XIX ‒ первой четверти ХХ века Амаяка Акопяна (1871–1939), внесшего неоценимый вклад в развитие армянского реалистического портретного жанра, особое место занимают мужские портреты (живопись и графика). Его портреты отражают как человеческие типажи, так и эпоху, в которой он жил и создавал свои полотна. Персонажами портретов являются люди разных национальностей и культур. Это психологические портреты, раскрывающие пласты человеческой души.
In the multi-genre art of the famous painter of the late 19th and the first
quarter of the 20th century, Hmayak Hakobyan (1871–1939), who made an invaluable contribution to the development of the Armenian realistic portrait genre, male portraits (painting and graphics) occupy a special place. His portraits reflect both human types and the era in which he lived and created his canvases. The characters of the portraits are people of different nationalities and cultures. These psychological portraits reveal the layers of the human soul.
Diagnosis and protection of COVID-19 in stomatology
Authors:   School of Stomatology, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, Guizhou, China, Yang Minzhi , Chen Yujiong ,   School of Stomatology, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, Guizhou, China, Hu Xiaoyan ,   School of Stomatology, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, Guizhou, China, Wu Mingsong ,   Special Key Laboratory of Oral Disease Research of Higher Education Institution of Guizhou Province, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, Guizhou, China, Liu Jianguo ,   Special Key Laboratory of Oral Disease Research of Higher Education Institution of Guizhou Province, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, Guizhou, China
Published: July 2023

In late 2019, a novel coronavirus of uncertain etiology caused outbreaks in Wuhan, China, and quickly spread to other provinces and countries. Some researchers isolated the pathogen, which they named the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (2019-nCoV). The common symptoms of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2, such as sore throat, high fever, diarrhea, and dyspnea. Besides that, researchers also recorded oral symptoms, including ulcers, herpes, and tongue pain. At the same time, dental practitioners, as a high-risk infection occupation, always contact close patients. It is very important to prevent infection. The review aims to look back at the progress of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) associated with stomatology, to be studied, diagnosed, and prevented from the disease from the oral aspect.
Derivatives Accident: The Crude Oil Treasure Incident Research
Authors: Jin Jing
Published: July 2023

The price of the WTI2005 crude oil futures contract was concluded at -37.63 US dollars per barrel on April 20 at US Eastern Time. This is the first negative price of WTI crude oil since it was listed on the Chicago Stock Exchange, causing vast losses to the Bank of China and crude oil treasure investors.  In order to avoid similar accidents in the future, both internal and external risks need to be evaluated. The Bank of China is primarily accountable for the accident as the seller of the crude oil treasure due to its blatant incompetence in regard to the company's products, sales, risks, disclosure, supervision, and internal controls. However, external factors including COVID-19, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, the CME Clearing, as well as regulators and consumers of crude oil treasure actually have some obligations thereby providing suggestions to banks, regulators, and investors. This study is vital for the use and regulation of derivatives in light of the rapidly expanding and developing financial sector in China.
Marketing Strategy and Operation Mode of Luxury Goods Lead to Brand Premium
Authors: Huang Ruoxi
Published: July 2023

The primary purpose of this paper is to identify the role of marketing strategies and the operation modes of luxury products that contribute to brand premium. The scope of the paper provides insight into the marketing strategies employed by leading companies that target a wider consumer base to increase influence through sales. The paper focuses on the vital promotion models used in China as the market for premium goods. The paper explores various market marketing models and their respective histories utilized. Data is obtained from online sources and peer-reviewed materials that offer information on the types of luxury goods. The paper offers a history of the marketing tools and methods, a SWOT analysis, and a PEST analysis that are effectively utilized to analyze the prevailing marketing conditions. The paper offers alternative companies’ brands that utilize the marketing methods and the rate of growth provided by these markets.
Evaluation of the Acquisition of BodyArmor Impacts on the Growth of Coca-Cola
Authors: Wang Xinyue
Published: July 2023

As people become increasingly concerned with their health, the market for sports beverages is rapidly expanding. Beverages are evolved into more practical vitamin and food supplement items. This essay intends to explore whether the acquisition may increase Coca-Cola’s profitability by entering the sports drink industry. Due to the magnitude of this deal on a worldwide scale, this article mostly used secondary research as research approach. BodyArmor and Coca-Cola's finances are first being analyzed to access the deal's premium. Meanwhile, the united conglomerate's future development potential is analyzed using the 4Ps: price, product, location, and promotion. Overall, a cost-benefit analysis is performed to see whether this acquisition transaction will actually allow Coca-Cola to develop over time by entering the sport drink industry. The study suggests that the acquisition provides a lot of diversification benefits in terms of the synergy formed.
China’s Capital Market Development and Valuation under a Registration-based IPO System
Authors: Qin Wen
Published: July 2023

The capital market is an important channel that serves companies with financial needs. On February 17, 2023, China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) officially announced a detailed mechanism and regulations for a registration-based IPO system across the A-share market. This reform marks the shift from the approval-based IPO system in China for many years to a registration-based IPO system. This paper studies and analyzes the features of China's capital market, including the historical development of China's capital market in five stages and the reasons why the same company is valued higher in the A-share market than in other markets. The research also presents forecasts under a registration-based IPO system across the A-share market.
Analysis on Motivation and Risk of E-commerce M&A: Alibaba's Acquisition of Sun Art Retail
Authors: Guo Hengyuan , Jia Xingying , Li Junwei
Published: July 2023

With the rapid development of e-commerce in China, the competition among enterprises in the market is becoming increasingly fierce. Many enterprises try to obtain competitive advantages in the market and reduce the risk exposure through mergers and acquisitions. However, corporate mergers and acquisitions is a complex activity and there exists various risks in the process, e.g., financial risk, which directly affects the success of M&A and the development of enterprises after M&A. Based on the case of Alibaba's acquisition of Sun Art Retail, this paper investigates the possible risks of M&A based on motivation analysis and performance analysis. According to the analysis, the acquisition of Sun Art Retail in the short term has brought great growth ability to the profitability of Alibaba, but reduced the debt solvency of Alibaba as well. Given the result of the analysis, this study provides three main measures to manage risks and improve the risk management capability. Overall, these results shed light on guiding further exploration of e-commerce mergers and acquisitions and the new retail model.
Valuation Analysis of the Banking Industry based on DCF, P/E and EBITDA Valuation
Authors: Chen Nuo
Published: July 2023

Contemporarily, banks play a significant role in the global financial system, and by conducting valuation research on the Chinese banking sector. It is possible to determine whether the country's financial market is operating in a stable and efficient manner, whether Chinese banking stocks offer investment potential at this stage in the sector's life cycle, and other issues. This study examines the discounted future cash flow model, the P/E model, and the EBITDA valuation method on evaluation of the banking sector. The research findings lead to the conclusion that there is little chance of significant changes in the stock price of China's banking sector, that relevant stock risks for investors are minimal, and that stable dividends can be obtained annually. The industry is at a mature stage in its life cycle, therefore there are little opportunities for rapid, extensive growth. Overall, these results shed light on guiding further exploration of the valuation of China's banking industry and banking valuation methods.
Regional Fintech Development and Enterprise Digital Transformation: Theoretical and Mechanism Analysis
Authors: Zeng Yujia , Wang Liwei
Published: July 2023

In the context of the new round of technological revolution and industrial revolution, fintech has increasingly become the core driving force of economic development. The development of regional fintech is profoundly affecting the policy arrangements of relevant enterprises. Digital transformation is what enterprises must strive to achieve after entering the current data era, which will help enterprises to enhance their core competitiveness and brave the wind and waves in the digital era. Therefore, in this paper, the panel data of A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets from 2011 to 2018 were used as the original samples, word frequency statistics related to enterprise digital transformation in the annual reports of listed companies were used to measure the degree of enterprise digital transformation, and the influence of regional fintech development on enterprise digital transformation and its mechanism were analyzed by measuring the level of regional fintech development. The study found that the development level of local fintech significantly has promoted the digital transformation of enterprises in their jurisdictions. Heterogeneity analysis shows that development of fintech has significant regional heterogeneity on the investment efficiency of enterprises. Its influence is concentrated in the eastern and central regions, but has no significant impact on enterprises in the western region. Mechanism analysis shows that the development of regional fintech alleviates the degree of information asymmetry of enterprises, increases the innovation input of enterprises, affects the strategic decision of sustainable innovation of enterprises, and thus promotes the digital transformation of enterprises. This paper discusses the influence of regional fintech development on the digital transformation of enterprises, analyzes the reasons from multiple perspectives, and provides important enlightenment for promoting the development of regional fintech and promoting the digital transformation of enterprises.
Can Digital Transformation Of Enterprises Curb Excessive Financialization
Authors: Li Yongping
Published: July 2023

Along with the slowdown of domestic economic growth, excessive financialization of enterprises has become increasingly common. Whether digital transformation, as a new driving force for the development of the real economy, can curb the excessive financialization of enterprises remains to be tested. This paper explores the impact of corporate digital transformation on corporate over-financialization and its mechanism of action, taking Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share listed companies from 2011-2021 as the research object. It is found that the digital transformation of enterprises can suppress excessive financialization, and financing constraints play a mediating role in the digital transformation of enterprises to hide excessive financialization. Further research shows that the higher the level of financialization, the more they are affected by the inhibiting effect of corporate digital transformation. This paper provides strong evidence for the controversy over the impact of corporate digital change on excessive financialization. It provides an important reference for companies to actively embrace digital transformation and de-financialize and for governments to continue to promote the deep integration of the digital economy with the real economy.
Digital Transformation and Corporate Social Responsibility: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies
Authors: Lv Wenjin
Published: July 2023

Digital transformation is an inevitable choice for the transformation and development of contemporary enterprises. This paper takes the A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets from 2011 to 2021 as research samples. Using text mining methods, it constructs indicators of digital transformation for enterprises and systematically examines the specific effects of digital transformation on corporate social responsibility. The study finds that digital transformation significantly improves corporate social responsibility with heterogeneity. After a series of robustness tests, this conclusion remains strong. The research results of this paper enrich the study of the economic consequences of digital transformation for physical enterprises and the factors influencing corporate social responsibility, providing important insights and reference value for promoting the digital transformation of physical enterprises and constructing a new pattern of the digital economy.
Exploring the trends and patterns of debt and equity financing through Initial Public Offering (IPO) in Bangladesh
Authors:   Department of Banking and Insurance, University of Dhaka, Hossain Md. Iqbal
Published: July 2023

Bangladesh is considered a fast-growing emerging economy and the new Asian Tiger. The need for fund in Bangladesh is largely met by banks, mainly due to the underdeveloped nature of the stock market and deterred public trust in it. While some studies stress the need for strengthening the debt and equity securities markets to fuel Bangladesh’s fast economic growth, capital financing through the primary market remains insignificant compared to that arising from the banking sector. Analyzing Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission’s long-term data from 1981 to 2022, this paper evaluates the trends and patterns of IPO financing in Bangladesh. Findings suggest that IPOs are much lower in number than what is needed and have not much picked up in recent years. Although the equity market has grown bigger over time, it has not expanded as required mainly due to inadequate importance assigned to it at the policy level and the two market crashes that occurred over the period. The debt market has the lowest visibility and functionality with only a few public issuances. Overall patterns indicate that the securities market historically remains of little significance in supplying capital funds for Bangladesh’s industrialization and economic growth. Findings call for taking a comprehensive approach to increase market size at both the supply and demand ends.
User Participation in Museum Digital Communication
Authors: Guo Yixin , Wang Yan
Published: July 2023

The development of the Internet has brought about the transformation of communication modes and user behavior. Under the influence of participatory culture, the Internet has given the public more opportunities to participate and user participation has gradually become the key to the digital communication of museums. Based on the historical process of Internet development, this paper analyzes the communication modes of digital communication in museums in the era of Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0. This paper finds effective ways to expand user participation through the study of user participation in different periods and puts forward opinions and references for digital communication in museums.
The Democratization of reading: from the printed pocketbook to the ebook
Authors: Do Carmo Ana , Rolo Elisabete
Published: July 2023

The form and use of the book as an artefact have changed under the influence of technological, formal, and cultural factors. The appearance of the printed book contributed to the increase in learning how to write and read. The faster multiplication of texts, within reach of a wider audience, with the desire to enable the transport for reading or consult at any time, increased the demand for books in small format, in a “portable format”. The emergence of a reading public, directly associated with initiatives to promote education, the various transformations in the book production process, as well as the reconfiguration of the book format and its availability in pocket size through decisions focused on the needs of the readers, have contributed significantly to the popularisation of books, and reading.Today, it is possible to read printed books with various formal characteristics and from different digital formats on various reading devices, such as computers, tablets, e-readers, and smartphones. This context has contradicted the idea that the printed book would “die” and reinforced a scenario of lasting coexistence of printed and digital books, in which both play a part in democratising book reading.Through a literature review, this paper aims to understand the role of the printed pocketbook, and now the ebook and its reading on mobile devices, in democratising reading.
Optimization of the Animation Production Process utilizing Game Engine
Authors: Zhang Yawen
Published: July 2023

With the increasing demands of audiences, animated films are required to achieve higher quality. The traditional production process frame has an extreme slow development since the advent of the first 3D animated film in 1995, which leads to a continuously increasing requirement of both human labor and hardware. Nowadays, with the optimization and iteration of game engines, their application in animation has become more and more extensive. Utilizing game engines to optimize the traditional pipeline is a feasible approach, not only for industry, but for education field and independent artists. This paper elaborated the three processes: Pre-production, Production and Post-production, through comparative analysis of the pipeline of traditional 3D animation films and the engine 3D animation films with representative practical works. The study shows that game engines provided a revolutionary way in all these stages of animation production, more than 50% of detailed processes are remarkably simplified. This work described optimizations in different phases, generalized this pipeline systematically, then discussed challenges and opportunities of this innovation. The results of this study could be adopted by creators, especially independent artists to product animated films with relatively lower costs and higher flexibility.
Technology Implementation Model for the Integration of Mexican SMEs into Global Markets
Authors: Castillo-Galván Patricia
Published: July 2023

One of the biggest challenges that SMEs in Mexico face for their growth, is finding a way to increase their participation in global markets. The global economic situation of recent years, after the pandemic restrictions, has made evident the fact that the micro, small and medium-sized companies (which in Mexico represent more than 95% of the established ones) require strategies that allow them to rapidly integrate into global markets in search of economic growth. Technological developments in the Industry 4.0 environment are presented as a tool that drives this growth, however, situations such as lack of budget, drop in sales, lack of government support, and general ignorance of technology and its use, seem to be barriers that SMEs must overcome at this time. Based on previous works (Castillo-Galván, P; Méndez, J. 2021; Castillo-Galván, P; Cervantes, L, 2020) where the Digital Technological Environment in the world is analyzed, this document presents a Technology Implementation Model for SME companies that allow them to establish individual strategies with a view to being able to integrate into global supply chains. The strengths and weaknesses of small and medium-sized Mexican companies are analyzed and a sequence of technological transfer and implementation is proposed, which they can carry out to respond to the demands of globalized markets.
Impact of China-Pakistan Economic Investment on Volatility of Stock Exchanges in Pakistan and Shanghai
Authors: Silva Natacha , José Palma Lampreia Dos Santos Maria
Published: July 2023

This paper aims to analyse the impact of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) on the volatility of the Pakistan Stock Exchange and Shanghai Stock Exchanges, namely, to analyse the pre and post impact of China investments in Pakistan in the energy sector on the stock exchanges of the respective countries. The methods used include an econometric analysis, namely, the GARCH model, and univariate statistical analysis, from 4th January 2010 to 2nd January 2019. The results present a significant difference in volatilities of the pre and post returns of both indices. Stock prices increased post-CPEC announcement in Pakistan, and there was a growth in the stock market. However, the mean return post-CPEC announcement is lower than Pre-announcement tenure, combined with higher volatility. This shows investor under confidence due to secrecy and non-transparent deals done under CPEC. Face to these results, we recommend a more transparent process in CPEC.
Gender Based Violence at Sea: Collective Actions for Collective Trauma
Authors: Kitada Momoko
Published: July 2023

Gender Based Violence (GBV) has been a priority agenda in the international maritime community in recent years when GBV was anonymously reported through social media. GBV is particularly a challenge for young women seafarers who are more likely to experience sexual harassment than their male counterparts. Nevertheless, GBV is a common problem for all seafarers on board where a hostile environment and hierarchical and male-dominated work cultures may foster GBV. A similar term, sexual assault and sexual harassment (SASH) is used during the meetings of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), in relation to a new mandatory training on the prevention of bullying and harassment including SASH. The paper also used a theory of “collective trauma” which refers to how silently GBV or SASH had been practised and unchallenged in the culture of seafaring.
Scoping review to identify key concepts for building sports organizational integrity
Authors: Shoji Naoto , Matsuoka Yuito , Yoshida Takanori
Published: July 2023

Integrity has gained increasing attention in sports recently. Integrity in sports is often associated with issues such as doping, harassment, violence, betting, match-fixing, corruption, ethical deviance, and lack of governance. Currently, protecting and strengthening integrity involves two approaches: (1) attempting to maintain integrity by establishing rules and ensuring people comply with them (the rules approach), and (2) seeking to maintain integrity by looking to the future and aiming to avoid negative evaluation (the means approach). However, we hypothesize that adopting an approach that attempts to maintain the integrity by drawing out the altruistic and socially respectful traits inherent in people is also possible, and we set out to build a system to address this as an organization through a holistic approach. In this study, we aim to identify the relevant concepts that are important in building a mechanism to enhance integrity as an organization through a scoping review conducted using a standardized protocol in PRISMA-ScR. The research design was a scoping review, and the procedure followed the PRISMA-ScR to select and eligibility the articles. The central concepts of the eligibility articles were then extracted. Results of scoping review, we identified 63 review articles, excluded 7 articles because of duplication, and selected 56 articles. The first eligibility criterion for inclusion was that the research must be related to sports integrity, which resulted in the selection of 33 articles. The second eligibility criterion was organizational research, leading to the selection of 10 papers based on their eligibility. The 7 central keywords in the 10 selected papers were: gender, accountability, stakeholders, governance, coaching, leadership, and organizational performance. Some of the concepts, such as gender, accountability, and stakeholders, were not commonly found in previous sports integrity research, suggesting new perspectives on how to build a system to strengthen integrity in an organization.
Comparison of Edge and Cloud Computing Technology for Industry 4.0 Perspective on the Future
Authors: Gautam Sidhant Kumar
Published: July 2023

As greater sophistication in technology and the Internet of Things become pervasive, a growing proportion of businesses recognize the value of integrating connected devices into their production processes. When an increasing number of gadgets are linked to an increasing number of networks, an increasing amount of data must be analyzed. However, as the generation of large data grows, so do the analysis and processing obstacles. Increasingly, evaluating and analysis issues are being solved using cloud computing technology. Nonetheless, there is a shift toward employing computational technologies to perform analysis as close to the device as is practically possible. This article, which examines the benefits and drawbacks of peripheral computing and cloud services and considers their potential applications within the context of Industry 4.0, was inspired by these considerations. Keywords: Internet of Things (IoT), the fourth industrial revolution, cloud computing technology, edge technology, and data analysis Process.
Ceramic Animals of Forest Settlements: Games of Adults with Gods or Children’s Toys?
Authors:   Bryansk State University named after Academician I.G. Petrovski, Guryanov Valerii , Chubur Arthur ,   Center for a comprehensive exploration of the Middle Desna region
Published: July 2023

The authors believe that the clay zoomorphic plastic figurines from the Early Iron Age settlements of the forest zone (the areas of the Yukhnovskaya, Milogradskaya, Verkhneokskaya and Dyakovskaya cultures) are not votive elements of agrarian cults but children’s toys. These toys as well as miniature vessels, ceramic models of things, clay loaves could be made by children themselves while learning the process of ceramic production. The use of images of wild animals especially predators and toads in agrarian rituals is doubtful. The dominance of horse images in the Milograd-Yukhnovo area seems to be an Indo-European trait associated with mythology and not with farming. In the area of the Dyakovskaya culture with developed horse breeding, attributed to the Finno-Ugric antiquities, there are clay figurines of animals except horses. Profane toys can carry sacred images since myth and fairy tale are closely connected with each other and a toy for a child has many faces and can situationally play the role of a mythical character, a fairy-tale hero, a usual domestic animal. Some figurines become votive objects at the final stage of existence. Toys were sacrificed during initiation into adulthood as in ancient Greece and Rome. Fragments of figurines in ashtrays formed during the annual ritual and sanitary burning of winter straw bedding from houses and stables are often taken as sacrifices. Household garbage trapped in a “cleansing” bonfire is not a meaningful sacrifice.
Babish-mola — the Capital City of Antiquity in the Lower Reaches of the Syr Darya: Stratigraphy, Periodization, Chronology
Authors:   Margulan Institute of Archaeology, Utubayev Zhanbolat , Bolelov Sergei ,   State Museum of Oriental Art, Kasenova Assemgul ,   Margulan Institute of Archaeology
Published: July 2023

The article publishes the results of several years of excavations at the Babish-Mola settlement, on the territory of the ancient delta of the Syr Darya, where the agricultural Chirikrabat archaeological culture was widespread in the second half of the I millennium BC. During the three seasons of field research, the premises and a section of the bypass corridor in the north-western part of the building of the palace and temple complex — the “Big House” on the citadel of the settlement were partially opened. As a result of the work carried out on stratigraphic data, it was possible to identify three relatively different periods in the life of this site: the early one — the construction and short-term functioning of the building as a palace and two periods of habitation when the site was abandoned by the first inhabitants and fallen into disrepair. In the course of the research, a few, but quite expressive archaeological complexes were discovered, mainly fragments of ceramics, on the basis of which the lifetime of the site can be tentatively dated within the 4 th—2 nd centuries BC.
Life and Death of Children from the Scythian Time Middle Don Settlements
Authors:   Voronezh State Pedagogical University, Razuvaev Yury
Published: July 2023

The article summarizes archaeological and anthropological information regarding the children’s group of the settled population of the Middle Don. Sources are materials from barrowless burials and household sites of the 6 th—3 rd centuries BC. The basic conditions of everyday life and the features of the funerary rites of the named demographic group are considered. Based on the results of the anthropological research on bone residues, the state of health and the nutrition system of younger individuals were assessed. The available data indicate unfavorable living conditions in general, primarily about the imperfection of the diet, heavy physical activity. In the clothing complex of sedentary sites, children’s household items (jewelry, amulets, toys) are distinguished. The few children’s ditch graves and the widespread practice of exhibiting corpses are characterized. According to the group burials identified at the Semiluksky hillfort and containing mainly the remains of children, the ritual of extraordinary funerary-sacrificial complexes is traced.
On Some Images of Archaic Coins of Ionia and Asia Minor on Scythian Zoomorphic Bronze Plaques
Authors:   Grygory Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Zymovets Roman
Published: July 2023

The article studies the influence of zoomorphic images on the archaic coinage of Ionia and Asia Minor on the Scythian animal style. The borrowing of ancient coin images and designs by Scythians has long been the subject of a separate study. However, as a rule, the attention of researchers was limited to a circle of prestigious things made of precious metals mainly in the second half of the 5 th—4 th centuries BC. As it will be shown in this article, the influence of the Ionian and Asia Minor coinage on the formation of images of the Scythian animal style can be traced at least from the turn of the 6 th—5 th centuries BC and manifests itself not only in prestigious items, but also in quite ordinary bronze plaques, mainly decorating horse bridles. It is proved that in a number of cases, within the framework of the Scythian animal style, there was a direct borrowing of coin images and motifs (the full face of a lion, the motif of a four-fingered clawed paw, composition consisting of three boar heads). In other cases, the influence of coinage on the formation of images of the Scythian animal style seems more than likely (profile images of a cat predator and a lion, the “bird on a fish” plot). It is suggested that the influence of archaic Greek coinage on the Scythian animal style could be associated with waves of Ionian and Asia Minor migrants to the Northern Black Sea region in the second half of the 6 th—early 5 th centuries BC, or with the contacts between the Scythians, Ionians and Greeks during the Scythian-Persian war and the period immediately following it.
Scythian Archaeological Culture of the 3 rd—2 nd Centuries BC in North-West Black Sea Region
Authors:   Pridnestrovian State University named after T. G. Shevchenko, Sinika Vitalij
Published: July 2023

The monograph addresses the funerary rite and material culture of the Scythians in the North-Western Black Sea Region in the 3 rd—2 nd centuries BC. Special focus is on synchronous sites, known as “strange complexes’ or “hoards”. The monograph also addresses a number of important issues of Scythian history in the North Black Sea Region. For archaeologists, historians, university lecturers and students and anyone interested in the early history of the region.
A Temporal Sense of Place: The Politics of Attention and Information Architecture
Authors: Beattie Alex
Published: July 2023

The paper introduces perspectives on power/knowledge and technicity to politicize the design and architecture of digital, cross-channel or hybrid places. It applies these concepts to update and revitalize Doreen Massey’s concept of place, to argue that digital places appropriate the attention of inhabitants to create a temporal sense of place. This is extrapolated from two contrasting case studies of digital place: a social networking service and a content platform, to demonstrate how various forms of economic, cultural and social value can be generated. This re-conceptualization of place is critically applied to the information architecture theory of place-making to argue that information architects are active participants in the politics of attention within digital environments. It responds to the discipline’s awareness of its inherent political agency and offers two suggestions for information architects to design as change agents: (1) create place that necessitates affordances of temporal agency; (2) generate a holistic range of values in place
In Conversation with Stefano Cipolla
Authors: Dominici Stefano
Published: July 2023

Discussing the relationship between visual design and information architecture and his redesign of "L'Espresso" with Stefano Cipolla
An Analysis on the Speech Act of Prilly Latuconsina "Break the Glass Ceiling" in English Speech Youtobe Channel
Authors: Mar'atus sholikah
Published: July 2023

This study aims to analyze types of speech acts and classification of illocutionary speech acts occuring in Habibie and Ainun's conversation in film entitled Habibie and Ainun 2012. This is a qualitative descriptive study conducted on naturalistic investigations of social phenomena. Data were analyzed based on theory of speech acts types put forward by Yule (1996). Analysis of classification of illocutionary speech acts put forward by Searle (1977) which consists of, representative, directive commissive, expressive and declaration. Results of this study indicate that there are five classifications of illocutionary speech acts. It was found that there were a total of 42 utterances analyzed as illocutionary where 5 utterances were representative, 9 declarative utterances, 23 directive utterances, 5 expressive utterances, and no commissive (0%) . This study shows that  speech "Break the Glass Ceiling" by Prilly Latuconsina contains various types of speech acts that aim to influence, inspire, and motivate  listeners. This speech had a strong impact in raising awareness on gender equality issues and encouraging positive action to achieve success. Implication of this research is studying and mastering pragmatics, especially in speech act theory to be able to understand intent of the speaker so that communication expressed can be fulfilled.
The Effect of @englishhero TikTok Video on Students' Vocabulary Mastery at the 10th grade of MA Zainul Hasan Pare
Authors: ST. Dewi Fatimatuz Zahro  , Muhammad Yasminto
Published: July 2023

This study aims to know the effect of @englishhero TikTok Video on Students' Vocabulary Mastery at the 10th Grade of MA Zainul Hasan Pare through pre experimental research design conducted with only pre-test post-test one experimental group. The researchers took 24 students as the sample of the study from 65 population by using simple random sampling. To collect the data, the researchers used vocabulary written test with 25 items in essay format. In analyzing the data, the researcherss used IBM SPSS statistic versions. 20 application of non-parametric  t.test from Wilcoxon test, because data was not normally distributed. It aims to know whether there is or not a difference between before given the treatment and after given the treatment using @englishhero TikTok Video on Students' Vocabulary Mastery. After collecting and calculating data, the researchers found that mean score of post-test 95.33 was higher than pre-test 63.50. In testing the hypothesis, they used t-test formula. The researchers found that p value (Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed)) =0.000 < 0.05, at the level significance of df = 23. So, the null hypothesis was rejected. It means that @englishhero TikTok Video affects Students' Vocabulary Mastery at the 10th Grade of MA Zainul Hasan Pare.
Hybrid Creature—Dragon-tailed Lion Motif in Eurasian Textile Imagery
Authors: Li Kunhang , Liu Yu
Published: July 2023

The dragon-tailed lion motif is a hybrid creature motif usually composed of a lion’s body with a dragon’s head serving in place of the tail. As a decorative motif, the dragon-tailed lion mixes imagination and reality in Eurasian textile imagery, and is an excellent entry point for understanding medieval social culture. This article seeks to examine the symbolic meaning and development of this hybrid creature in different cultural contexts via Eurasian textile imagery and ancient documents. Broadly, the resulting shows that the combination, shape and symbolic meaning of the dragon-tailed lion are variable, whose symbolic functions are directly related to the cultural context of the lion and the dragon. The dragon-tailed lion motif as a long-standing imagery tradition and aesthetic, reflecting the common concept of creation and the extensive and diverse cultural connections in the Eurasian continent in the Middle Ages.