bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
How Indonesian Companies Facing The Global Economic Disruption and It Impacts
Authors: Melani Olivia Erisa
Published: March 2021

How companies in Indonesia implement strategies to deal with global economic disruptions and survive these disruptions.
Psychosocial and Behavioural Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children with Autism and their Families: A Systematic Review and Initial Data from a Multinational Online Survey
Authors: Kreysa Helene , Schneider Dana , Kowallik Andrea Erika , Dastgheib Samaneh Sadat , Dogdu Cem , Kühn Gabriele , Ruttloff Jenny Marianne , Schweinberger Stefan R.
Published: March 2021

Background: Since COVID-19 has become pandemic, everyday life has seen dramatic changes affecting individuals, families, and children with and without autism. These entail, among other things, more time at home, digital forms of communication, school closures, and reduced support and intervention. Aim: Here we aim to systematically assess the effects of the pandemic on autistic and neurotypical (NT) children, and pursue a pre-registered hypothesis suggested by initial observations that some children with autism might respond comparatively well to a situation of constrained, predictable, and digital social communication during the pandemic. Methods: We provide a systematic review of current relevant work, including 76 papers selected from a database search until February 1, 2021. We then report survey data from several countries assessing activities, well-being (PedsQLTM), and social life in families with autism, and their respective change at various stages of the pandemic. We focus on differences between children with and without autism from within the same families, and on different outcomes for children with high- or low-functioning autism. Results: While children with autism scored lower in emotional and social functioning than their NT siblings, comparable decreases in well-being and increases in anxiety were seen for both groups, compared to before the pandemic. By contrast, decreases in adaptability were significantly more pronounced in autistic than NT children. Preliminary results suggest that changes were comparable for children with high- and low-functional autism overall, but individual differences prevail. Conclusions: Overall, although individual families do report some positive effects of pandemic restrictions, our data give no clear evidence that these generalize across children with autism, or even just to children with high-functioning autism. We discuss significant challenges for children with and without autism that need to be addressed to protect childrens’ well-being under pandemic conditions but also point to potential in the present situation that could be used towards social participation and success in older children and young adults with autism.
The role of incremental and superficial processing in the depth charge illusion: Experimental and modeling evidence
Authors: Paape Dario
Published: March 2021

The depth charge illusion occurs when compositionally incongruous sentences such as "No detail is too unimportant to be left out" are assigned plausible non-compositional meanings ("Don't leave out details"). Results of two online reading and judgment experiments show that moving the incongruous degree phrase to the beginning of the sentence in German (lit. "Too unimportant to be left out is surely no detail") results in an attenuation of this semantic illusion, implying a role for incremental processing. Two further experiments show that readers cannot consistently turn the communicated meaning of depth charge sentences into its opposite, and that acceptability varies greatly between sentences and subjects, which is consistent with superficial interpretation. A meta-analytic fit of the Wiener diffusion model to data from six experiments shows that world knowledge is a systematic driver of the illusion, leading to stable acceptability judgments. Other variables, such as sentiment polarity, influence subjects’ depth of processing. Overall, the results shed new light on the role of superficial processing on the one hand and of communicative competence on the other hand in creating the depth charge illusion. I conclude that the depth charge illusion combines aspects of being a persistent processing "bug" with aspects of being a beneficial communicative "feature", making it a fascinating object of study.
Direct Human-AI Comparison in the Animal-AI Environment
Authors: Voudouris Konstantinos , Crosby Matthew , Beyret Benjamin , Hernández-Orallo José , Shanahan Murray , Halina Marta , Cheke Lucy
Published: March 2021

Artificial Intelligence is making rapid and remarkable progress in the development of more sophisticated and powerful systems. However, the acknowledgement of several problems with modern machine learning approaches has prompted a shift in AI benchmarking away from task-oriented testing (such as Chess and Go) towards ability-oriented testing, in which AI systems are tested on their capacity to solve certain kinds of novel problems. The Animal-AI Environment is one such benchmark which aims to apply the ability-oriented testing used in comparative psychology to AI systems. Here, we present the first direct human-AI comparison in the Animal-AI Environment, using children aged 6–10 (n=52). We found that children of all ages were significantly better than a sample of 30 AIs across most of the tests we examined, as well as performing significantly better than the two top-scoring AIs, ‘ironbar’ and ‘Trrrrr’, from the Animal-AI Olympics Competition 2019. While children and AIs performed similarly on basic navigational tasks, AIs performed significantly worse in more complex cognitive tests, including detour tasks, spatial elimination tasks, and object permanence tasks, indicating that AIs lack several cognitive abilities that children aged 6–10 possess. Both children and AIs performed poorly on tool-use tasks, suggesting that these tests are challenging for both biological and non-biological machines.
Policy Bundling and Costly Monitoring
Authors: Sasso Greg
Published: March 2021

When should elected officials be in charge of multiple vs single policy areas? To study this question, I analyze a formal model of political accountability where politicians can have authority over one or two policy areas. When all politicians act sincerely, voters are always better off with unbundled policies. However, the voter is indifferent when all politicians pander. When bundled politicians partially-pander, the optimal institution is dependent on how likely the politician is to be a good type. I then show that voters are willing to spend more to monitor politicians in charge of multiple policy areas.
Rethinking open government as innovation for inclusive development: Open access, data and ICT in South Africa
Authors: Plantinga Paul , Adams Rachel Margaret
Published: March 2021

Open government has come to be closely associated with innovation for inclusive development (IID). These two areas of practice and research have converged around similar mechanisms aimed at achieving inclusive development outcomes including; open interaction between government, technologists and end-users in the design of policies and services; open, market-oriented approaches to delivering public services and meeting the needs of citizens; and a central role for information and communication technologies (ICTs) in policy development and innovation activities. We argue, however, that an uncritical adoption of open, ICT-oriented practices risks shifting responsibility and trust for governance and development outcomes to largely unaccountable global and national network enterprises. Taking South Africa as our primary focus, including its new White Paper on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), we note a renewed interest in adopting open government practices in relation to IID. More significant, we suggest, is the emergence of ‘grassroots’, hybrid civic-technology innovation networks at the fringes of formal open government initiatives. This article considers new questions that arise around how these grassroots movements sustain meaningful interaction with mainstream STI processes, how public officials may engage with such movements in order to meet national development outcomes, and the role of ICT in these spaces.
“I’m Not Gonna Put That On My Kids”: Gendered Opposition to New Public Health Initiatives
Authors: Calarco Jessica McCrory , Anderson Elizabeth M.
Published: March 2021

Our individualistic, consumeristic medical system pushes women to act as family health managers. As a result, women are generally more likely than men to follow expert medical recommendations for avoiding health risks. In the context of rampant misinformation, however, the pressure women face to control risks may lead them to disproportionately oppose some new efforts to promote public health. We investigate this possibility using a novel mixed-methods study examining gendered opposition to two school-based public health initiatives related to COVID-19. Nationally representative surveys of 1,946 parents reveal that mothers are significantly more likely than other parents to oppose school-required immunizations against COVID-19 and significantly more likely to report planning not to vaccinate their children. This opposition is particularly pronounced among white Republican/Republican-leaning mothers (54% opposed). Simultaneously, however, mothers are significantly less likely than other parents to oppose school mask mandates, with white Democrat/Democrat-leaning fathers being most opposed (45%). In-depth interviews with a socioeconomically, politically, and racially/ethnically diverse group of mothers (N=64) link these patterns to mothers’ beliefs that they can control the risks of COVID-19 (including through use of masks) but not the risks of COVID-19 vaccines. Thus, we conclude that, in the context of rampant misinformation, gendered pressures lead mothers to disproportionately support initiatives they perceive as useful for controlling health risks and disproportionately oppose initiatives they perceive as introducing uncontrollable risks. Given high rates of parental opposition to COVID-related public health initiatives, we suggest that a consumeristic model of medicine, coupled with widespread misinformation, may lead to a crisis of confidence that undermines public health.
Methods to Estimate Causal Effects - An Overview on IV, DiD and RDD and a Guide on How to Apply them in Practice
Authors: Collischon Matthias
Published: March 2021

The identification of causal effects has gained increasing attention in social sciences over the last years and this trend also has found its way into sociology, albeit on a relatively small scale. This article provides an overview of three methods to identify causal effects that are rarely used in sociology: instrumental variable (IV) regression, difference-in-differences (DiD), and regression discontinuity design (RDD). I provide intuitive introductions to these methods, discuss identifying assumptions, limitations of the methods, promising extension, and present an exemplary study for each estimation method that can serve as a benchmark when applying these estimation techniques. Furthermore, the online appendix to this article contains Stata syntax that simulates data and shows how to apply these techniques in practice.
KOMBINASI WARNA DAN KETINGGIAN STICKY TRAPS UNTUK MENGENDALIKAN BEMISIA TABACI (GENNADIUS) (HEMIPTERA: ALEYRODIDAE) PADA TANAMAN KEDELAI EDAMAME
Authors:   Program Studi Agroteknologi, Fakultas Pertanian, Universitas Jember, Rohman Fatkur
Published: March 2021

Bemicia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) is a plant-disturbing organism that causes a lot of harm to edamame plants. The control commonly used to control Bemicia tabaci is to use synthetic insecticides that can leave pesticide residues on edamame which causes a decrease in the number of edamame exports received by other countries. The environmentally friendly control that can be done to reduce the residual level of pesticides is by installing sticky traps. This research was carried out in the Mumbulsari subdistrict edamame area of Jember Regency on 17 February 2018 to 22 April 2018. This study used a factorial complete randomized design with 2 factors namely color (yellow, red, green, blue and white) and sticky traps mounting height (100 cm, 125 cm, 150 cm, 175cm, and 200 cm) with 3 replications. The results showed that a combination of yellow treatments with a height of 150 cm was the most effective treatment for trapsping B. tabaci with an average of 526.33 tails / treatment. Arthropods interested in sticky traps include orders: Diptera, Coleoptera, Araneae, Hymenoptera, Hemiptera, Orthoptera, Lepidoptera. The most effective use of sticky traps to control B. tabaci is in the morning (06.00-08.00). The intensity of the attack of the most severe B. tabaci is a red treatment with a height of 200 cm, this is directly proportional to the average number of crop pods, namely 33 pods / plants.
PENGEMBANGAN PRODUK BUBUR UBI JALAR UNGU (IPOMEA BATATAS) SEBAGAI ALTERNATIF PRODUK PANGAN DARURAT
Authors:   Program Studi Ilmu dan Teknologi Pangan, Fakultas Bioindustri, Universitas Trilogi, Seftiono Hermawan
Published: March 2021

Emergency food is food that designed and produced for directly consumed, and supplying humans daily nutritional needs in emergency conditions. Purple sweet potato porridge is an alternative for emergency food product that can directly consumed and also as effort for food diversification because it use purple sweet potato as carbohydrate source. Emergency food must easy to distribute, so one of the method is by using retort pouch as the packaging. The aims of this study is to analyze changes of critical parameters (colour, pH, and microbiological contamination) during storage period and to determine the shelf life of purple sweet potato porridge products. This study shows that the most preferred formulation of purple sweet potato porridge is Formulation F2 with 250 grams of purple sweet potato, 150 grams of sweetened condensed milk, and 500 ml of water. Shelf life of purple sweet potato porridge product based from colour changes parameter is 30 days, however based from microbiological contamination parameters the product didn’t meet national standard of Indonesia (SNI) requirements after two weeks of storage.
PENGARUH BERBAGAI MEDIA TANAM TERHADAP PERTUMBUHAN DAN HASIL TANAMAN PAKCOY (BRASSICA RAPA SUBSP. CHINENSIS)
Authors:   Universitas Sintuwu Maroso, Jayanti Kamelia Dwi
Published: March 2021

Pakcoy is a short-lived plant and has the high nutritional content needed by the body. One of the factors that influence the growth and yield of pakcoy is the growing medium. This study aims to determine the effect of various growing medium on the growth and yield of pakcoy. This study used a randomized block design (4 x 4) with treatment of M1 (soil), M2 (soil + manure), M3 (soil + sand) and M4 (soil + sand + manure). The results showed that the growing medium is a mixture of soil, sand, and manure gave the highest average value for all observed parameters, although it was not significantly different from the mixed growing medium of soil and manure
UJI ADAPTASI BERBAGAI GENOTIPE KACANG TANAH DI KOMPOSISI MEDIA TANAM TAILING
Authors:   Program Studi Agroteknologi Fakultas Pertanian, Perikanan dan Biologi, Universitas Bangka Beitung, Muchtadin Afrizal
Published: March 2021

Groundnut are protein-producing plants that humans need. ground nut production in Bangka Belitung is still low. Efforts to increase groundnut production can be done by utilizing post-tin mining land. The research was conducted at the research experiment gardens University of Bangka Belitung. The purpose of this research is to find the groundnut genotype that is able to adapt to the tailings media. The research design used was Factorial Randomized Block Design (FRBD) consisting of 2 factors. Factor 1 are the genotypes of Jongkong, Belimbing, Air Ketimbai 1, Air Ketimbai 2, Hypoma 1 and Talam 2. Factor 2, which is the composition of 100% ultisol planting media, 100% tailings, 70% tailings + 30% ultisol and 50% + tailings ultisol 50%. The results of this study indicate that groundnut genotypes that have a high level of adaptation are Jongkong on the character of plant height, number of leaves, root volume, number of pods per plant, and number of filled pods per plant. National varieties that have a high level of adaptation are Talam 2 and Hypoma 1 on the character of plant height, canopy wet weight, weighted weight, root volume and number of filled pods per plant. Jongkong accession, Hypoma 1 and Talam 2 varieties can be recommended as groundnut plants for cultivation on tailings land
Virtual Reality Architecture Oriented Wireless Connection For Future Generation Virtual Reality Devices
Authors: dhika harry , putra dicky kurnia
Published: March 2021

In order to enhance the user experience of virtual reality (VR) devices, VR multi-user environments and wireless connections must support as the latest generation of VRdevices. Wireless network-based wireless communication devices (WLANs) are popular consumer devices with high throughput and low cost using incompatible bands. However, the use of WLANs can cause packet delivery delays, due to their distributed nature when accessing channels. In this paper, we carefully discuss wireless VR via WLAN, and we request an efficient wireless multiuser VR communication architecture, as well as providing communication for VR. Because the architecture proposed in this paper uses many WLAN standards, based on the characteristics of each VR traffic chain, it is agreed that it supports the efficient sending of massive uplink data generated by several VR devices, and provides adequate frame rates and video control frames. rate for high-quality VR services. We conduct evaluations that are supported to improve exceptional applications than are supported
Implementation of Augmented Reality for Introduction To Android Based Mammalian Animals Using The Marker Based Tracking Method
Authors: Kristian Mikhael , Fitri Iskandar , Gunaryati Aris
Published: March 2021

Augmented Reality is a technology on 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional virtual objects that are combined into the real environment that is around us. With the ability of Augmented Reality that is able to change the atmosphere of children’s learning that can be used as a medium of learning in the introduction of mammals for kindergarten children. This AR can provide interesting facilities such as displaying 3-dimensional objects of these mammals along with animal sounds and animations using Smartphones, so that children can interact and be more creative in recognizing these mammals, because children experience their golden age at the age of 4 to 7 years which is a time when children begin to receive stimuli, so that children will be faster to receive and catch on learning from the introduction of these mammals by using Augmented Reality Technology. The results of testing on the Vuforia plugin and making the AR application on Unity can provide a good information result, where the use of AR can bring up mammalian objects by pointing the Smartphone at the marker, so that all mammals can be recognized properly. This shows that children’s interest around 85% in terms of UI/UX appearance, and 70% of children have no problems in running the Mammal Animal AR application
Android-Based Traditional Games
Authors: Julianus Ervan , Hidayat Eka Wahyu , Sulastri Heni
Published: March 2021

http://trilogi.ac.id/journal/ks/index.php/JISA/article/view/632 The traditional Bentengan game is one of Indonesia's popular cultural heritages from the 1980s to the 1990s. Aside from being a cultural heritage, this game has benefits including for sports, training for concentration, or just for public entertainment. However, in the present where technology has become widespread, this game has begun to be almost forgotten and replaced by digital games. Therefore, we need a way to keep the game sustainable by utilizing the existence of technology, namely by changing the concept of traditional to modern. In this research the transformation process from traditional to modern games will be carried out using the ATUMICS method. The results of the transformation were developed into a 3D android game with additional online multiplayer features. Alpha test results using a black box showed that most of the application functions were running as expected, and the beta testing showed satisfactory results with an average overall rating of respondents saying 82% of digital games had the value of "VERY GOOD" and was enough to describe the actual Bentengan game.
A Grouping of Song-Lyric Themes Using K-Means Clustering
Authors: Rarasati Dionisia Bhisetya
Published: March 2021

One of the automatic way of theme grouping that can be used is K-Means Clustering. In this research, the song theme is taken from the text of song lyrics. The aim of this study is developing a system that can automatically group the song lyric theme and know the accuracy level of the grouping. The process stage is started with the data processing or text processing called as text mining. In text mining, there are some processes. First, the text operation. The text operation consists of tokenizing, stopword, steeming, and word weighting then can be processed using K-Means clustering. In clustering process, it consists of initial centroid initialization uses Variance Initialization, next counts the centroid distance on the data using Euclidean distance until get the proper grouping accurately. The accuracy counting uses confusion matrix. The next step to see the suitability system that has been made, new data is added which then is processed by a system. After that, it can decide the new data is classified into one specific theme. From the research that has been conducted as case study in Masdha Radio Yogyakarta, total data available 400 and divided into four clusters. The clusters consist of love cluster, friendship cluster, religion cluster, and fighting cluster. The result of research song lyric grouping based on the theme works well with 93.25% accuracy for the unique word frequency numbers 121 maximum and unique word 0 minimum.
Realizowanie usług społecznych przez gminę
Authors: Ura Elżbieta
Published: March 2021

The article presents the basic issues concerning the legal solutions contained in the on the Realization of Social Services by the Social Services Center Act. This legal act provides new tasks for municipalities concerning the creation of new organizational units of the commune i.e. social service centers. The aim of the this legal solutions is to develop and integrate the social services system at the local level. Establishing a social service center (CUS) is not an obligatory task of the commune. Therefore the question arises if the creation of the new organizational units would be related to the financial issues of the commune. Probably the communes would also take into the account the fact that in many of them have been running the social service centers targeted at specific social groups, usually seniors or disabled people for several years.
Salvation, Damnation, and the Wounded (Corporate) Body of Christ in Late Medieval Culture
Authors: Groeneveld Leanne
Published: March 2021

In the late Middle Ages, the image of Christ crucified, as Sarah Beckwith demonstrates in Christ’s Body: Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writings, transmitted and produced in believers complex meanings and effects. For this reason, according to Beckwith, it is best examined “as a symbol […] rather than as a theological concept or a trope.” The literary and religious historian must “ask how such an image makes meaning for its practitioners and interlocutors,” recognizing all the while that the meanings produced will be multiple, complex, and at times conflicting. Yet these meanings are of crucial importance to our understanding of late medieval figurations of society, of the individual, and of their relation to each other, given “the centrality of the image of Christ’s body to the political construction of a Christian culture imagined as a unity” but in reality fractured by divisions.
Between Autohagiography and Confession:
Authors: Sikorska Liliana
Published: March 2021

The seventeenth-century Polish nun Anna Maria Marchocka was counselled by her confessor to confess all her sins in a work which came to be regarded as her Mystical Autobiography. As an unskilled writer obeying her spiritual counsellor, Marchocka was struggling with the manner of self-representation. While she emulated hagiographic models, her confession is anchored in the political situation of Poland, making her text akin to hagiographic discourse fused with auto/biographical information. The similarity of Marchocka's writings to those of late medieval mystical writers makes her an epigone of the mystical tradition.
Love and Race in a Thirteenth-Century Romance in Hebrew, with a Translation of The Story of Maskil and Peninah by Jacob Ben El‘azar
Authors: Rosen Tova
Published: March 2021

This romance, composed by a thirteenth-century Jewish author living in Christian Toledo, is written in biblical Hebrew and cast it in the form of the Arabic maqamāh. The plot (an army invades an Arab territory; its commander, the "King of Beauty," falls in love with a female captive; the couple encounter a giant black warrior, kill him, and live happily ever after) invites a three-tiered reading: (a) a literal reading of the work as a conventional romance, in which the lovers are young and noble, the geography is mythical, and the hero wins his beloved after slaying a giant; (b) an allegorical reading of the union of Maskil (representing Intellect) and Peninah (signifying Beauty) as illustrative of the Platonic nexus of Eros, Beauty, Intellect, and the Good, while the monstrous Cushan represents unbridled sexuality, ugliness, bestiality, and evil; and (c) a historicized reading, anchoring the work in the religio-ethnic politics of the Reconquista (according to which Maskil is Christian, Peninah is an Andalusian Arab, and the giant Cushan is in an Almohad warrior, either a dark-skinned Berber or a sub-Saharan African). Read thus, the story problematizes historical issues of territory, border, conflict, contact, relocation, cultural transition, and hybridity.
"Verbal Wronging":
Authors: Daum Robert A.
Published: March 2021

In his analysis of an early rabbinic tradition prohibiting "verbal wronging," Robert Daum claims that this text condemns malicious, deceptive, and potentially damaging speech in both commercial and non-commercial contexts. Easily disguised or mistakenly assumed, this is a crime of conscience that human courts cannot adjudicate. Daum examines the mishnah's structure and content in light of textual parallels and historical contexts. He suggests that its later inclusion in the famous talmudic unit in which the foundational sages ban a senior colleague in a procedural dispute — a cautionary tale in which care is taken (unsuccessfully, as it turns out) to avoid verbally wronging the excommunicant — perhaps obscured the mishnah's earlier, technical understanding of "verbal wronging."
Nero, Emperor and Tyrant, in the Medieval French Tradition
Authors: Cropp Glynnis M.
Published: March 2021

Nero ruled the Roman Empire from 54 to 68 CE, bringing to an end the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Perversely attractive and also thoroughly abhorrent, he evoked both positive and negative images. According to a popular saying, Nero fiddled while Rome burned; as Tacitus, Suetonius, and Cassius Dio recorded, he is reputed to have watched the fire from a high tower, reciting, perhaps to a lyre accompaniment, his own composition about the fall of Troy. This diverting performance exemplifies his propensity for spectacle and theatricality, characteristic of his style of rule. The artistic achievements of the emperor, both as patron and promoter of the arts and as actor, musician, and charioteer — glorified in some of his last words, “Qualis artifex pereo!” (What an artist dies in me!) — are, however, overshadowed by the image of Nero as the cruel tyrant who displayed extraordinary munificence, sought and needed flattery, indulged all his instincts unrestrainedly, and was deluded by his own acting in the imperial role, abusing the freedom of power he claimed. He wished to excel and, as Miriam T. Griffin notes, “he pursued the image of [. . .] the magnificent monarch, rather than that of the civilis princeps.” At least during his first quinquennium, 54-58 CE, when his advisers, Seneca and Burrus, had effective control, political order prevailed. By the time of the great fire of Rome, in 64 CE, for which, as history has shown, Nero was not personally responsible, he had been involved in the death of the emperor Claudius, his step-father, whom he succeeded, had ordered the deaths of his step-brother Britannicus, his mother Agrippina, and Octavia, his wife and step-sister, and had had senators and patricians put to death for their wealth or their potential threat to his unbridled power. In 65 CE, possibly to divert attention from his own unpopularity, he instigated the persecution of Christians in Rome. This led to the execution of the apostles Peter and Paul.
La Bible de Jean de Sy et la Bible anglo-normande
Authors: Nobel Pierre
Published: March 2021

Le Moyen Âge nous a légué un certain nombre de traductions bibliques. Pour le philologue moderne se pose constamment la question de la source à partir de laquelle elles ont pu être effectuées. Si le manuscrit que le translateur avait sous les yeux n’est jamais identifiable, il reste à déterminer le type de texte qu’il a pu utiliser. On sait en effet que la Vulgate n’était pas toujours la seule référence et qu’on la complétait assez facilementà l’aide d’autres histoires bibliques : les Antiquités judaïques de Flavius Josèphe, l’Historia scholastica de Petrus Comestor ou l’Aurora de Petrus Riga. Par-delà se pose cependant une autre question : le translateur effectuait-il toujours une traduction à nouveaux frais et ne lui arrivait-il pas de réutiliser, en l’adaptant quelque peu, un travail effectuépar un autre ? Paul Meyer avait montré, en son temps, que la Genèse livrée par le MS fr.6447 de la Bibliothèque nationale de France était un dérimage partiel de la Bible d’ Hermann de Valenciennes et d’un autre poème non encore identifié.
The Bele Alis Homiletic Song and Dance
Authors: Taylor Robert A. , Pfeffer Wendy , Rosenfeld Randall A. , Weiss Lys Ann [Shore]
Published: March 2021

The Bele Alis sermon is innovative — even daring — in a number of ways. It speaks to us in the modes of poetry and preaching, and tells us of the importance of dancing and singing, in a short text of intricate structure in which words, images, languages, and ideas are interwoven in dense and rhythmic fashion — “that we may be able to dance to God” as the preacher would have it in sentence eight.
The Mystery of the Marble Man and His Hat: A Reconsideration of the Bari Episcopal Throne
Authors: Dorin Rowan W.
Published: March 2021

For nearly nine hundred years, an imposing throne has stood in the central apse of the Basilica of San Nicola in Bari (Fig. 1). Sculpted from a single block of white marble, it is widely considered to be one of the finest achievements of Italian Romanesque sculpture. Unlike so many other medieval masterpieces, it has largely escaped the ravages of time, with only minor damage testifying to its continual use over almost a millennium. It stands today, as it has for much of its history, largely hidden from view by the basilica’s imposing twelfth-century ciborium — perhaps a symbolically appropriate fate for an object whose complexities have defied generations of scholars. After almost a century of sustained art historical analysis, the throne’s dating has become only increasingly controversial, its craftsmanship more debated, its iconographic programme less certainly understood.
Bodies of Knowledge
Authors: Bernau Anke
Published: March 2021

As different in approach and range as they undoubtedly are, these four books all share an interest in medieval representational practices out of which complex ideas and theories concerning bodies — indeed, out of which different bodies — emerge. Katharine Park’s Secrets of Women is a wonderfully rich study of anatomy and dissection in northern Italy as it developed from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century; Carole Rawcliffe’s Leprosy in Medieval England offers a dense and detailed examination of the treatment and theories surrounding leprosy in late medieval England; Nicola McDonald’s wide-ranging collection of essays explores a plethora of medieval obscenities ad related issues; and Patrizia Bettella’s The Ugly Woman examines the role of this reviled figure in Italian poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque.
Foreword: A Paean for the Dictionary of Old English
Authors: Stanley E. G.
Published: March 2021

In retrospect the foundation of the Dictionary of Old English reads like the New World coming to the aid of the Old. Its founder, Angus Cameron, had the vision and the hope needed. His dissertation on a difficult Old English word had shown to him the insufficiency of Old English lexicography, no better really in the late 1960s than it had been a hundred years before. Neil Ker’s Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon had been published in 1957, and Angus for his thesis had rearranged its contents by turning it into a classified catalogue of texts for him to use as he hunted through the texts for his word in its many divergent senses. The standard dictionary at that time was effectively a work of the 1830s and earlier, supplemented by a good Mancunian scholar at the turn of the century. The work was mainly at second hand, relying on two good German lexicographers and on glossaries and translations of Anglo-Saxonists some good, others less so. Angus’s vision was that the basis was the textual evidence of the manuscripts and that a new age of technology had dawned, available in Canada, rich then, and led and encouraged by John Leyerle, of the States (resident as a professor in Toronto), a conference was organized to give substance to a hope. The assembled Anglo-Saxonists were united in spirit — rye, in my recollection — and it was determined that Toronto, with space provided in the Robarts Library by the University of Toronto, would be an excellent place for a new dictionary based on new technology, photocopies of manuscripts, so that all texts could be checked rather than merely used at second hand, and on the new electronic invention, the computer, at that early stage of its rapid development, especially good for concordances. A Canadian, Elaine Quanz, who had worked with Angus, was given the task of typing out all the texts of Old English, several thousands of them, for concording by the computer. If you wish to build high you need a firm foundation, and Angus saw to it that the foundation of the new dictionary was firm.
The Heliand and Christological Orthodoxy
Authors: Pelle Stephen
Published: March 2021

The ninth-century Heliand, a nearly 6,000-line versification of the life of Christ, is the major surviving monument of Old Saxon literature. The theological viewpoints expressed in the work are of great importance to the study of the ninth-century Saxon mission and of the beliefs of the newly-converted Saxons themselves. In the past century, several scholars who have studied the theology of the Heliand have attributed to the poet various heretical or heterodox beliefs concerning Christ’s nature and will, including Docetism, Monothelitism, and Monophysitism. While some of this scholarship is by now outdated, the tendency to resort to suggestions of Christological heresies in order to explain the poet’s more curious turns of phrase is still apparent in the most important English-language study of the Heliand and in its major English translation. No scholar has stepped forward in recent years to critically examine claims of heresy made against the Heliand, but their implications for the study of the poet and his audience make it important that they be addressed.
Royal Mercy in Later Medieval Scotland
Authors: Neville Cynthia J.
Published: March 2021

Towards the end of October 1308, following a campaign that saw Robert Bruce secure his hold over the region of Moray, William earl of Ross found it wise to abandon the support he had to date given to Edward I of England in favour of the new king of Scots. The earl’s treason against the latter was notorious and of long standing: he had refused to recognize Bruce’s seizure of the throne in the summer of 1306, had carried fire and sword to the king’s supporters and the women of his kindred, and had been in correspondence with the enemy English as recently as the previous spring. The singular harshness and “terrible completeness” that marked Bruce’s “herschip” of the province of Buchan after the victory of royalist forces near Inverurie stands in marked contrast to the magnanimity that the king demonstrated towards Earl William himself in a public assembly held at Auldearn Castle. Here, before a large crowd of secular and ecclesiastical magnates the earl of Ross publicly confessed his offences; with joined hands and on bended knee he performed homage to Bruce and swore a solemn oath henceforth “faithfully to give [him] service, aid and counsel.” Bruce’s return gesture was an open offer of his “innate goodness, inspired mercy and special grace” and the remission of “all rancour of spirit” towards the traitor.
Anger in Thomas of Ireland’s Manipulus florum and in Five Texts for Preachers
Authors: Cels Marc B.
Published: March 2021

Thomas of Ireland’s Manipulus florum was the most famous dictionary of quotations in the late Middle Ages. Its main critical expositors, Richard and Mary Rouse, characterized it as one of the most successful reference works for providing medieval preachers with authoritative citations to support the arguments in their sermons. The Rouses highlighted the florilegium’s convenient, searchable format, which organized quotations under alphabetically arranged headings. Recently, Chris Nighman, in examining the manual’s material, has questioned the Rouses’ conclusions about Thomas’s original intention, his audience, and even the suitability of his florilegium for popular preaching. At stake is the use of the Manipulus florum for the study of what teachings were considered preachable and, probably, what was most often preached. In order to test the Rouses’ view and Nighman’s revision, this study compares the ways in which the same topic, namely, anger (ira), is discussed in the Manipulus florum and in a sample of widely-circulated Latin thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century reference works that provided elements for the composition of sermons: William Peraldus’s Summa de vitiis, the Distinctiones Mauritii, the Liber Pharetrae, Bartholomew of Pisa’s De documenta antiquorum, and Peter of Limoges’s Tractatus moralis de oculo. Many widely copied model sermons and even a few transcripts of preached sermons survive, especially those of accomplished preachers. However, the more humble preaching manuals are likely to provide a better indication of commonly preached content than more polished sermons that may never actually have been preached.
STATIC STRAINING AND LONGITUDINAL OSCILLATIONS OF UNDERGROUND PIPELINE BUILT ON BLOCK FOUNDATION
Authors: Struk A. B. , Vaskovskyi M. I. , Shatskyi I. P. , Makoviichuk M. V.
Published: March 2021

The article considers the issues of forecasting the strength of underground pipelines, which are operated on seismically active sections of the route, composed of relatively rigid mobile blocks. According to the literature, the problems of the influence of the interaction of base faults on the stress state of the pipeline have not been studied to date. The aim of the work is to develop a model for the analysis of abnormal stresses in the underground pipeline on a damaged basis caused by static or time-harmonious mutual movement of its blocks along the axis of the pipe in the presence of several faults. Boundary value problems for differential equations of static tensile-compression and steady-state longitudinal oscillations of a tubular rod with discontinuous right-hand sides are formulated. Based on the analytical solutions of these problems for the cases of antisymmetric and symmetric displacement of the foundation blocks, the distributions of axial displacement and equivalent stress in the pipe, depending on the distance between faults and the frequency of forced oscillations, are investigated.
DEGENERATE BOUNDARY-VALUE PROBLEMS WITH A PERTURBING MATRIX FOR A DERIVATIVE
Authors: Shehda L. M.
Published: March 2021

In the paper, there is considered degenerated Noether boundary value problem with a perturbing matrix for a derivative, in which the boundary condition is given by a linear vector functional. We have proposed an algorithm to consrtuct a set of linearly independent solutions of boundary value problems with a small parameter in the general case, when the number of boundary conditions given by a linear vector functional does not match with the number of unknowns in a degenerate differential system. There is used the technique of pseudoinverse Moore-Penrose matrices. Applying the Vishik-Lyusternik method, the solution of the boundary value problem is obtained as part of the Laurent series in powers of small parameter. We obtain conditions for the bifurcation of solutions of linear degenerated Noether boundary-value problems with a small parameter under the assumption that the unperturbed degenerated differential system can be reduced to central canonical form.
OPTIMAL CONTRACTS IN A MULTI-PURPOSE TASK
Authors: Nykyforchyn I. V.
Published: March 2021

In the paper a famous multitask model of principal-agent relations is enhanced with the requirement that a reward is paid only if some minimal threshold in each type of workis attained. We deduce and analyze formulae for the expectedutility of an agent and propose a method to find his optimal behavior depending on the reward function parameters.
EQUATION OF FLYWHEEL MOVEMENT IN AMORTIZED GIMBAL AND THEIR ANALYSIS
Authors: Tsidylo I. V. , Mykhaylyuk I. R.
Published: March 2021

The article examines the transport system with flywheel engine, which is increasingly used in technology. It is an ecologically clean energy source with a high specific power. It is reliable and durable.

The mechanical system occupies an intermediate place between the gyroscope and the flywheel, which rotates in rigidly fixed supports. It is necessary to conduct the row of researches on vibrofirmness for creation of such mechanical systems, to estimate them dynamic properties and to give out recommendations on creation of transport vehicles with the inertia stores of energy. Dependences of system kinetic and potential energy changes, Rayleigh function was brought by researchers. Damping of supports resilient elements was taken into account. Equalizations of the mechanical system motion were gotten. The analysis of fly-wheel motion was conducted and influence of equalizations nonlinear members on firmness of the mechanical system is conducted. The change of fly-wheel motion frequencies with depending on the parameters of the mechanical system was certain and its fitness for the practical use was appraised. Dependences of vibrations frequencies changes on the angulator of fly-wheel were gotten.

It was set that frequency of nutation at the increase of angulator of fly-wheel grows, and frequency of recession diminishes. Frequency of nutation with the increase of resilient elements inflexibility of supports grows also and the oscillations of the flywheel and the parameters of the mechanical system are interrelated.
МЕХАНІЗМИ РЕАЛІЗАЦІЇ КОНЦЕПЦІЇ ЕКОЛОГІЧНОГО МАРКЕТИНГУ НА РЕГІОНАЛЬНОМУ РІВНІ
Authors:   Donetsk National Technical University, Коваленко Юлія
Published: March 2021

Striving for sustainable development requires fundamental changes in the management paradigm, which lies in the creation of an economic mechanism for rational environmental management. Recently, among the areas of implementation of the strategy for sustainable development of regions, a special place belongs to the concept of environmental marketing. Methodology. The analysis of the features of the development of environmental marketing and the development of environmental marketing in foreign and domestic practice is based on the methods of generalization and comparison. Results. Attention is focused on the fact that the main task of environmental marketing is the desire to change the classic approach to management and show enterprises that the concept of sustainable development and marketing eco-strategies will help to change the consumption structure and balance natural processes. It has been proved that the concept of sustainable development through the prism of greening must be implemented through a targeted state policy at the macro-meso - and micro levels, namely, through the mechanisms of market activation, contributing to financial support for the formation and development of environmental entrepreneurship with the help of regulatory, tax, administrative, economic, socio-psychological mechanisms. Scientific novelty. The expediency of determining the mechanisms for implementing environmental marketing in the system of sustainable development of regions and determining the main directions of their action has been substantiated. It has been proved that the development of the concept of environmental marketing in domestic practice is possible provided that an effective environmental policy of the state is formed, the system of environmental legislation is improved, the system of environmental education and culture is developed, environmental knowledge, environmental values and ideals in society are formed, the transition to an innovative model of development of the national economy is an effective mechanism for the implementation of environmental production goals and the introduction of resource conservation processes, the formation of institutional conditions and an economic mechanism for the reproduction of environmental capital, as an economic system for maintaining environmental balance, increasing the stimulating function of environmental control, etc. Practical significance. The results of the study form a theoretical-methodological and scientific-practical basis for creating and maintaining a positive ecological image of the region; communication, coordination, management and control of significant for the region socio-ecological-economic initiatives and ideas.