bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
МЕТОДИЧНІ ЗАСАДИ РОЗРОБЛЕННЯ КОМПЛЕКСНОГО ПЛАНУ ПРОСТОРОВОГО РОЗВИТКУ ТЕРИТОРІЙ ТЕРИТОРІАЛЬНОЇ ГРОМАДИ
Authors: Дудич Г. , Дудич Л.
Published: December 2023

У дослідженні доведено, що комплексний план просторового розвитку територій територіальної громади значно спрощує та пришвидшує реалізацію прийняття проєктних рішень, адже його головна мета полягає в забезпеченні обґрунтування майбутніх потреб та визначення переважних напрямів використання території з урахуванням державних, громадських та приватних інтересів, встановлення обмежень щодо їхнього планування, забудови чи іншого використання. Обґрунтовано, що організація та розвиток територій громади повинні бути побудовані на сукупності проєктних рішень комплексного плану просторового розвитку територій, в якому встановлено найбільш раціональний розподіл території, визначено види та інтенсивність господарської діяльності, взаємне розміщення виробничих і невиробничих об’єктів, інженерно-транспортних комунікацій тощо. У дослідженні представлено основні етапи розроблення комплексного плану просторового розвитку територій територіальної громади. У результаті його розроблення одержують інформацію щодо існуючого використання території, що дозволяє проаналізувати, визначити проблеми та запропонувати шляхи територіального розвитку громади. Запропоновані планувальні рішення щодо функціонального призначення території, організації інженерно-транспортної інфраструктури, інженерної підготовки та благоустрою, захисту території від небезпечних природних і техногенних процесів, охорони навколишнього природного середовища, охорони та збереження нерухомих об’єктів культурної спадщини та пам’яток археології відображають у проєктному плані, що підлягає громадському обговоренню.
Święty Augustyn i synody Afryki północnej przełomu IV i V wieku
Authors: Jaśkiewicz Sylwester
Published: December 2023

Działalność synodalna Kościoła w Afryce Północnej na przełomie IV i V wieku, choć z jednej strony zdumiewa swym dynamicznym rozwojem, to jednak z drugiej uwidacznia także wielość i zakres problemów, z jakimi mierzył się Kościół afrykański. Tak wybitni pasterze, jak zwłaszcza biskup Kartaginy i prymas Afryki Prokonsularnej Aureliusz (391‒430) oraz biskup Hippony Augustyn (396‒430), uczynili z synodów skuteczny oręż w walce ze schizmą donatystów i herezją pelagianizmu. Niemniej ważną materią zwoływanych wówczas zgromadzeń synodalnych były sprawy związane z dyscypliną duchowieństwa, liturgią i życiem Kościoła. Synody (concilia) cieszyły się właściwą sobie powagą i autorytetem (auctoritas). Znaczącą rolę wśród nich odegrały zwłaszcza synody plenarne. Jako przejaw kolegialności biskupiej rzucają wiele światła na relację biskupów afrykańskich z biskupem Rzymu, a także są świadectwem eklezjalnej afrykańskiej specyfiki, a niekiedy także i autonomii.
África : edición crítica, lecturas y material
Authors: Arlt Roberto , Schmidt-Welle Friedhelm
Published: December 2023

Roberto Arlt es considerado uno de los escritores argentinos más importantes de la primera mitad del siglo XX. A pesar de su fama como novelista y autor de aguafuertes, su rica producción de obras dramáticas sigue siendo poco conocida y poco llevada a la escena en los teatros argentinos e internacionales. Con el presente volumen tratamos de paliar ese olvido parcial mediante la edición crítica de una de sus piezas teatrales más importantes.
ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF CAPITAL STRUCTURE AS AN INTERVENING BETWEEN PROFITABILITY, OPERATING LEVERAGE, LIQUIDITY ON PRICE BOOK VALUE
Authors: Satoto Eko Budi
Published: December 2023

The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of capital structure as an intervening variable between profitability, operating leverage, liquidity, and price-book value. Inferential statistical analysis was performed using Path Analysis with SEM-PLS analysis tool. The study found that profitability has a significant and positive effect on firm value. However, operating leverage and liquidity have no significant and negative impact on firm value. Furthermore, profitability and operating leverage variables have a significant and negative effect on capital structure. However, liquidity has no significant and negative impact on capital structure. The study also found that capital structure has no significant and negative impact on firm value. Finally, capital structure cannot act as an intervening variable between profitability, operating leverage, liquidity, and firm value. The study's novelty lies in using capital structure as an intervening variable in the context of real estate sector companies. The study suggests that investors conduct fundamental analysis, especially analyzing the company's financial ratios, before investing in certain industry stocks to assess the company's financial performance. The study's limitations include the need for further research by adding other variables or indicators. Additionally, researchers should consider selecting different industrial sectors to be studied.
THE IMPACT OF MANDEH TOURISM DEVELOPMENT ON SOCIOECONOMIC OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES
Authors: Firdaus Firdaus , Nofrizal Nofrizal , Hidayah Ahmad
Published: December 2023

Tourism has grown as a new economic resource for local communities, including rural areas. Tourism's social and economic benefits have encouraged the growth and development of new tourist destinations in various places, including in the Mandeh Region. This article discusses the social and economic impacts of the Mandeh Tourism Area on local communities. The data presented in this article are data from empirical research conducted in Mandeh, Koto XI Tarusan District, Pesisir Selatan Regency. Data was collected through in-depth interviews with village government, local communities, economic actors and tourists. Researchers directly observed socio-economic activities in the Mandeh Tourism Area during the research. Written documents about the Mandeh Tourism Area, both in the form of media news, scientific writings and others are sources of data in research. The study results show that tourism in the Mandeh area has triggered changes in people's attitudes and lifestyles and perspectives on assets and opportunities. Apart from that, the presence of tourism in the Mandeh area has also provided a new source of livelihood for the community, thus creating a diversity of sources of livelihood. The diversity of sources of livelihood has increased the income and welfare of local communities.
“Political Anatomy” and the Idea of Public Wealth from William Petty to Adam Smith
Authors: Repina Lorina
Published: December 2023

Inthe article, the author attempts to solve three interrelated problems. First, by offering new readings of key texts authored by leading British thinkers and representatives of different strands of seventeenth-century economic thought, she explores the emergence of the labour theory of value in the intellectual context of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution and under the influence of its inspirer, Francis Bacon. Secondly, the author raises the question of the exact form in which the idea of labour as the source and foundation of social wealth, expressed by William Petty, an active critic of the doctrine of mercantilism and one of the founding fathers of English political economy, was initially embodied, as well as the “art of numbers” – quantitative methods of economic and demographic statistics, in his first economic work – “A Treatise on Taxes and Contributions”, published in 1662. Thirdly, the author examines and evaluates the economic ideas and proposals of William Petty and his associates as an integral part of their political views and ideas about “social wealth” and the importance of scientific knowledge for the improvement of public administration. She pays particular attention to the connection between the economic views of William Petty, a major Irish landowner, as set out in “The Political Anatomy of Ireland”, “A Treatise on Ireland,1687”, and other statistical works, and George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, with the assessment of the prospects for the development and future arrangement of Ireland, as well as with proposals for the unification of the two and even all three Kingdoms.
The Concept of the Public Good in the Reform Project of Catherine II
Authors: Plavinskaia Nadezda
Published: December 2023

The public good was one of the key concepts of Enlightenment political discourse, although its content eluded precise definitions, being lost between the “common good”, interpreted from Christian and moral perspectives, and the “common interest” underlying the social contract. Most philosophers and writers of the eighteenth century regarded it as a field of action of the sovereign, as a sovereign's duty, and only Montesquieu connected it with reflections on the republican structure of the state rather than with the image of an idealised monarchy, transforming the idea of the public good into the principle of collective virtue, which is the basis of citizens' unity and the sphere of their collective responsibility. The public good turned out to be one of the most important concepts in the legislative vocabulary of Catherine II, along with the concepts of the Fatherland and patriotism, with which it was closely connected. The empress actively introduced it into the Russian political discourse. However, the analysis in this article of the preambles to the laws accompanying her administrative, economic or educational reforms allows one to see that in her interpretation the public good was systematically identified with the personal interests of the sovereign and was easily confused with state interests. The author suggests that Catherine II, who considered herself to be Montesquieu's disciple, did not adopt the approach proposed by her mentor in “De l'esprit des lois”, an approach that viewed the public good as a political virtue and a sphere of collective responsibility of citizens, remaining within the old paradigm that treated the public good as a duty of the sovereign and as a favour he bestows on his subjects.
De Officio Boni Regis Aphorismus: On the Publication of Juraj Križanić's “Politics”
Authors: Yusim Mark
Published: December 2023

The life and work of the encyclopaedist, Catholic priest, propagandist of the Slavic idea, Croatian Juraj Križanic (c. 1618–1683) have received considerable attention in historiography. Almost the most popular in his vast creative legacy is the treatise “Razgowory ob wvladatelystwu” (“Discourses on Government”), known in literature under its conventional name Politika (“Politics”). Its text, written partly in the “pan-Slavonic” language (Ruski jezik) invented by the author, partly in Latin, was initially partly (three-fifths) published in 1859–1860 by Pyotr Bessonov. In 1965, the first third of the manuscript was republished and translated into Russian. At present, Russian historiography considers it as a complete edition of the entire treatise, although for a decade and a half numerous attempts have been made to bring into the academic circuit the unpublished part of the manuscript, kept in the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts, in the form of quotations and excerpts accompanied by a translation. This publication contains the original text and the first Russian translation of the Latin chapter “On the Duties of a Good King”, which precedes the entire manuscript and survives only in photocopy, as well as the author's analysis of it. In this fragment, Križanic 's basic ideas about the principles of good government are reproduced in a concise form as a commentary on the story of the biblical King Solomon. The text illustrates the ambiguity of its author's views (dislike of foreigners, idealisation of autocracy and, at the same time, radical criticism of tyranny) and sheds light on the intent of the whole work.
«Національність» явищ культури та критерії її визначення
Authors: Безклубенко Сергій
Published: December 2023

Мета статті — дослідити національну приналежність явищ культури та окреслити критерії її визначення (національне походження творця, його фізичне місцеперебування під час «творчого акту», зв’язок з «рідним краєм» (історичною батьківщиною)). Результати дослідження. Поміж численних атрибутів явищ культури, зокрема мистецьких творів, одним із найважливіших вважається його національна приналежність. Певно, саме цим пояснюються спрадавна відомі суперечки щодо того, кому саме, якому етносу (народу, нації) належить «честь спородження» загальновизнаних мистецьких творів, наприклад, поем Гомера, фільмів С. Параджанова чи скульптур О. Архипенка? При цьому йдеться не про право власності (в юридичному сенсі цього терміна) на матеріальні носії ідеального змісту мистецького твору, а про високу честь причетності до «спородження» шедевру. Наукова новизна. Стаття присвячена критеріям визначення приналежності мистецького твору до певної національної культури, «самості»; національність (національний дух, ментальність, характер) розглянуто як триєдність етноетики, етноестетики та етнорелігії. Висновки. Нині у світі спостерігається тенденція до самоідентифікації та всілякого (національного, расового, громадянського, конфесійного та ін.) самовизначення особи. Щось подібне відбувається і з явищами культури. Визначено, що явища культури, зокрема мистецькі твори, як і люди, «народжуються» «безнаціональними». «Національності» люди набувають унаслідок соціалізації, тобто виховання згідно з традиціями, звичаями, що панують у такому суспільному утворенні. Мистецькі твори набувають національності відповідно до того, наскільки адекватно вони «вписуються в русло» панівних у суспільстві смаків, вподобань та уявлень про належне. Тобто нащадки тих «сучасників», яким твори видавались «ненаціональними», освоївши їх (чи освоївшись з ними — в будь-якому разі: піддавши їх процесу естетизації, етизації та навіть — до певної міри — сакралізації), — «націоналізували» їх.
Культурологічні особливості духовної творчості Ференца Ліста
Authors: Бейник Євгенія
Published: December 2023

Мета статті — розглянути духовні твори Ференца Ліста, присвячені фрагментам Страсної седмиці, виявити християнські світоглядні мотиви в композиціях зазначеного типу; окреслити культурологічні особливості духовної творчості композитора. Результати дослідження спираються на вивчення інтонаційного підходу школи Б. Асаф’єва в Україні, продемонстроване у працях Д. Андросової, О. Маркової, О. Муравської, О. Рощенко, О. Сокола. Зокрема, висвітлені матеріали є підґрунтям для подальших досліджень культурних традицій духовних творів Ф. Ліста. Виявлено, наскільки у творчості композитора музика церковного вжитку втілюється у світській інструментальній сфері. Наукова новизна. Вперше в Україні з культурологічного погляду розглядаються рідкісні композиції Ференца Ліста, присвячені фрагментам Страсного тижня. Виділена конкретика духовних ідей Ф. Ліста за їх втіленням у зазначених фортепіанних духовних творах пізнього періоду творчості композитора. Висновки. Творчість Ф. Ліста становить високу культурну цінність, а його духовні твори охоплюють як написані для церкви, так і позацерковні композиції. Огляд духовних творів Ференца Ліста для фортепіано, присвячених фрагментам Страсної седмиці, дав змогу дійти висновків, що церковна тематика збагачується надбаннями світської сфери композитора, яка живиться духовною тематикою більшою мірою, ніж заведено зазначати стосовно спадщини Ф. Ліста. Вибір текстів Страсної седмиці для фортепіанного циклу вказує на смислову ієрархію духовно-світського, де першому належить настанова, смисловий базис у цілому. Показовим щодо цього є планування «Фауста» за Н. Ленау, де перший епізод «Нічна хода» («Der nächtliche Zug») з його літературною програмністю втілений за зразком гімну, присвяченого прославленню Святих Дарів, який у церковному побуті виконується виключно в період Страсної седмиці.
Інновації святкування 300-річчя Г. Сковороди в Україні: запит на національну ідентичність
Authors: Кириленко Катерина
Published: December 2023

Мета статті — проаналізувати культурно-мистецькі події з нагоди відзначення 300-річчя від дня народження Г. Сковороди як свідчення зростання потреби в суспільстві в дедалі більшій кількості проявів української національної ідентичності. Результати дослідження засвідчили: повага до ідентичності є базовим принципом демократичного суспільства. Скривджена ідентичність дестабілізує суспільство, бо є одним із найпотужніших мотиваторів боротьби за власну гідність. Натомість наявність можливостей до вияву власної ідентичності мотивує розвиток особистості, сприяє появі нового самобутнього культурного продукту. Необхідною умовою розвитку культури в сучасних умовах є шанування різних форм ідентичності (насамперед національної). У суспільстві зростає запит на українську національну ідентичність, активно триває пошук її маркерів. Наукова новизна статті полягає в аналізі культурно-мистецьких подій, що відбулися 2022 року в Україні, як свідчень суспільного пошуку несфальшованих росією українських інтелектуальних героїв, очищення інформаційного простору України від наративів російської пропаганди. Інфопростір росії тривалий час моделюється відповідно до владних амбіцій кремля й не має нічого спільного зі світом наявного, оскільки це простір штучно створеної, віддаленої від реальності дійсності. Його ідеологи намагаються не лише утримувати в ньому своїх співгромадян і маніпулювати їхньою свідомістю, але й накинути таке світосприйняття українцям з метою знищення української ідентичності. Висновки. Проаналізовано культурно-мистецькі події з нагоди відзначення 300-річчя від дня народження Г. Сковороди, узагальнено отримані результати. Встановлено, що в українському суспільстві, особливо серед молоді, зростає потреба ідентифікувати себе як носія української ідентичності; відбувається пошук маркерів української ідентичності серед мислителів минулих століть; напрацьовуються новітні культурно-мистецькі форми вияву української ідентичності; зростає попит на декларування власної української національної ідентичності.
Культурна антропологія та антропологічний театр: взаємодія дослідницьких полів
Authors: Чорна Кристіна
Published: December 2023

Мета статті — проаналізувати взаємодію дослідницьких полів культурної антропології та антропологічного театру як важливого методологічного підходу, що заохочує театрознавців та акторів-практиків звернутися до культурологічного інструментарію у своїй творчій роботі, а культурологів стимулює розвивати методологічні студії. Результати дослідження. Одним із перспективних напрямів сучасних досліджень є міждисциплінарні проєкти в соціально-гуманітарному знанні, серед яких — конвергенція культурної антропології та антропологічного театру, що збагачує гуманітаристику новими підходами, термінологією, відкриває нові й не менш цікаві напрями досліджень. Наукова новизна дослідження полягає в тому, що вперше в українській культурології розглянуто проблему взаємодії полів культурної антропології та антропологічного театру як важливий методологічний підхід, що є внеском у розвиток наукового інструментарію культурології і театрознавства. Висновки. Артикульовано основні «точки дотику» театру та антропології на базі підходу Р. Шехнера: трансформація буття та/або свідомості, інтенсивність вистави (перформансу), інтеракція аудиторії та виконавця (перформера), перебіг подій у виставі (від початку до завершення), трансмісія знань про виставу та генерування й оцінювання перформансів. Доведено, що Є. Ґротовський та П. Брук, найвідоміші представники антропології театру другої половини ХХ – початку ХХІ ст., використали ідеї провідних культурних антропологів (В. Тернер, А. ван Геннеп, М. Еліаде, Б. Малиновський, К. Леві-Строс та ін.) у своїх теоретичних дослідженнях і практичних експериментах, серед яких концепти тіла та ритуалу як перформативного дійства, взаємодія театральної та ритуальної естетик, «обряди переходу» та «лімінальні стани», інкорпоровані в театральне дійство, ритуально-сакральні функції театральних об’єктів, колективне позасвідоме в контексті проблеми глядача, «техніки екстазу» та ін.
A Bibliometric Review of Green Technology- Related Research in the Textile Industry
Authors:   Department of Management Studies, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, 5400, Bangladesh, Sarker Md. Sadrul Islam , Bartok Istvan ,   Alexandre Lamfalussy Faculty of Economics, University of Sopron, Sopron, 9400, Hungary
Published: December 2023

Despite being an impressive contributor to the world economy, traditional production and processing methods in the textile manufacturing industry cause significant waste and pollution. Green technology has emerged as a viable approach for mitigating environmental consequences. Numerous scholars have investigated green technologies; nonetheless, a more thorough analysis of the development and characteristics of green technology research in the textile industry is needed. This bibliometric study examined the growth patterns and trends of green technology research in the clothing industry from 2000 to 2023. The data were collected from the Scopus database, and the bibliometric analysis tool VOSviewer was used to visualise the data. The study results demonstrated the exponential growth trends of green textile technology research since 2020. The study also uncovered productive journals, countries, and institutions researching green textile technology. The results additionally showed that the United States (US), the United Kingdom (UK), and China exhibit substantial publications, and the UK is the leading country for collaborative research in green textile technology research. This study identified five primary research areas in the green textile technology literature: environmental impact assessment, life cycle assessment of textiles, sustainable design of textiles, sustainable fashion, and circular fashion supply chains. This analysis can assist academics in identifying novel research methodologies.
SECURITIES INVESTORS PROTECTION CORPORATION: NEW CHALLENGES
Authors:   Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman, SHAPRAN Natalia
Published: December 2023

The article analyzes the activities of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation in the U.S. securities market as a body that ensures the protection of investors against the loss of funds in investment accounts due to broker bankruptcy. The reasons for the creation and indicators of SIPC activity are explored. The dynamics of the number of cases reviewed by the SIPC, as well as indicators of compensation payment to investors, were analyzed. Conclusions were drawn regarding the effectiveness of the preventive system for detecting offenses in the U.S. securities market. The focus of SIPC’s activities is on creating a favorable investment climate on the American stock market, instilling confidence in investors that, in the event of broker bankruptcy, their investments will be compensated by SIPC. The sources of the SIPC fund, used for compensating investors, are disclosed, along with the trend of changing fees for broker-dealers. The process of returning funds to investors, comprising several stages, is outlined. Factors influencing the speed of compensation payment to investors are identified. The categories of investors entitled to reimbursement from the SIPC fund are revealed, while others can participate in the distribution of the broker’s assets on a proportional basis. It was determined that the emergence and rapid development of financial assets, such as investment tokens recognized as securities by the American Securities and Exchange Commission, present new challenges to many financial market regulators. Specifically, the SIPC is likely to encounter new cases in the near future that will necessitate its intervention to protect investors already involved in operations with broker-dealers on the cryptoasset market. The author observed that issuers of cryptoassets are making efforts to circumvent SIPC and SEC regulation, particularly by not registering tokens offered to investors as securities.
Pengaruh Kualitas Pelayanan Perpustakaan Digital Terhadap Peningkatan Minat Baca Mahasiswa Pada Dinas Perpustakaan Daerah Kota Medan
Authors: Ramadani Sri , Purwaningtyas Franindya
Published: December 2023

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji secara empiris pengaruh kualitas layanan perpustakaan digital terhadap minat baca. Analisis menggunakan variabel bebas (Kualitas Layanan Perpustakaan Digital) dan variabel terikat (Minat Baca). Pengambilan sampel dilakukan dengan metode purposive sampling. Penelitian ini berlokasi di perpustakaan PEMKO Medan, Jalan Iskandar Muda. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan menyebarkan kuesioner langsung kepada responden dan pengunjung sebanyak 30 kuesioner. Metode statistik yang digunakan adalah analisis regresi linier berganda, dengan pengujian hipotesis uji-t statistik. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa terdapat pengaruh positif yang signifikan antara kualitas layanan perpustakaan digital terhadap minat baca siswa di Perpustakaan Daerah Kota Medan (Layanan Perpustakaan dan Kearsipan). Hasil Penelitian menunjukkan berdasarkan nilai signifikansi bahwa dengan uji parsial nilai signifikansi t sebesar 0,001 < dari 0,05 nilai ini menunjukkan nilai t lebih kecil dari nilai signifikansi 0,05.
PROMOSI PERPUSTAKAAN MELALUI KEGIATAN PERLOMBAAN DI PERPUSTAKAAN UMUM KOTA PAYAKUMBUH
Authors: Putri Shindy Aldratama , Manita Rika Jufriazia
Published: December 2023

Abstract The main problem in this thesis is to find out the procedures for implementing library promotion and what results the library gets after carrying out library promotion through media competitions at the Payakumbuh Public Library. The purpose of this study is to find out the competition activities held by the Payakumbuh City Public Library and how the Payakumbuh City Public Library seeks existing constraints to carry out competition activitie This type of research is descriptive qualitative. Data collection techniques through observation, interviews with librarians, employees and users at the Payakumbuh City Public Library, and documentation. Data analysis techniques start from data reduction, data presentation and drawing conclusions. Guaranteeing the validity of the data in this study uses source triangulation.Based on the results of the research, (1) the Public Library of Payakumbuh City conducts competition activities to support library promotion activities and attract the public to come to the library, routine activities are held every year, namely story telling competitions and poetry reading competitions. (2) after carrying out the competition activities the results obtained by the Payakumbuh City Public Library were that the community knew about the existence of the library so that it increased interest in visiting the community to come to the library, increasing the literacy of the community around the library. (3) the constraints faced by the library, namely in terms of inadequate human resources, funds (budget) that are not in accordance with the expected plan to carry out activities so that the Payakumbuh City Public Library reduces the quota of participants who take part in competitions, and inadequate library facilities so that efforts carried out by the library involving all employees of the Payakumbuh Public Library, as well as in terms of facilities the Payakumbuh Public Library rented tents and stages for performances
Examining the Externalities of Highway Capacity Expansions in California: An Analysis of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Using Remote Sensing Technology
Authors:   San Jose State University, Alexander Serena , Yang Bo , Hussey Owen , Hicks Derek
Published: December 2023

There are over 590,000 bridges dispersed across the roadway network that stretches across the United States alone. Each bridge with a length of 20 feet or greater must be inspected at least once every 24 months, according to the Federal Highway Act (FHWA) of 1968. This research developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based framework for bridge and road inspection using drones with multiple sensors collecting capabilities. It is not sufficient to conduct inspections of bridges and roads using cameras alone, so the research team utilized an infrared (IR) camera along with a high-resolution optical camera. In many instances, the IR camera can provide more details to the interior structural damages of a bridge or a road surface than an optical camera, which is more suitable for inspecting damages on the surface of a bridge or a road. In addition, the drone inspection system is equipped with a minicomputer that runs Machine Learning algorithms. These algorithms enable autonomous drone navigation, image capture of the bridge or road structure, and analysis of the images. Whenever any damage is detected, the location coordinates are saved. Thus, the drone can self-operate and carry out the inspection process using advanced AI algorithms developed by the research team. The experimental results reveal the system can detect potholes with an average accuracy of 84.62% using the visible light camera and 95.12% using a thermal camera. This developed bridge and road inspection framework can save time, money, and lives by automating and having drones conduct major inspection operations in place of humans.
Influence of Pavement Conditions on Commercial Motor Vehicle Crashes
Authors:   Howard University, Arhin Stephen , Manandhar Babin , Gatiba Adam
Published: December 2023

Commercial motor vehicle (CMV) safety is a major concern in the United States, including the District of Columbia (DC), where CMVs make up 15% of traffic. This research uses a comprehensive approach, combining statistical analysis and machine learning techniques, to investigate the impact of road pavement conditions on CMV accidents. The study integrates traffic crash data from the Traffic Accident Reporting and Analysis Systems Version 2.0 (TARAS2) database with pavement condition data provided by the District Department of Transportation (DDOT). Data spanning from 2016 to 2020 was collected and analyzed, focusing on CMV routes in DC. The analysis employs binary logistic regression to explore relationships between injury occurrence after a CMV crash and multiple independent variables. Additionally, Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models were developed to classify CMV crash injury severity. Importantly, the inclusion of pavement condition variables (International Roughness Index and Pavement Condition Index) substantially enhanced the accuracy of the logistic regression model, increasing predictability from 0.8% to 41%. The study also demonstrates the potential of Artificial Neural Network models in predicting CMV crash injury severity, achieving an accuracy of 60% and an F-measure of 0.52. These results highlight the importance of considering road pavement conditions in road safety policies and interventions. The study provides valuable insights for policymakers and stakeholders aiming to enhance road safety for CMVs in the District of Columbia and showcases the potential of machine learning techniques in understanding the complex interplay between road conditions and CMV crash occurrences.
An Ontology for Event Location
Authors: Bai Yunpiao , Grüninger Michael
Published: December 2023

Space, time, objects, and events are fundamental concepts in ontologies. For substantivalists that believe entities are located at regions (space or spacetime), a key issue to address is the relationship between entities and their located regions. There is rich literature on the ontologies of location and mereology of material objects, as well as their philosophical foundations, but relatively little on events and their location. Most existing event ontologies provide little beyond the signatures and simply associate an event entity to space and time. In this study, we propose a new location ontology for events that formalize the relationship between events and spacetime, where events and spacetime maintain their own mereologies. We also make ontological commitments to support the mereological harmony of events and spacetime and provide the rationale and axiomatization of these commitments.
On the Relation of Instrumental Dependence
Authors: Biccheri Luca , Borgo Stefano , Ferrario Roberta
Published: December 2023

The notion of trust has been traditionally investigated within many disciplines, ranging from sociology to economy, as well as politics, psychology, and philosophy. More recently, it is especially in the fields of AI, ICT, and Engineering (e.g., Critical systems), that the need for a discussion on the concept of trust, problematized in relation to the massive employment of technical artefacts in modern society, is becoming urgent. Yet, being a characteristic trait of human relationships, it is not clear whether the attitude of trust can also be directed towards artefacts. Moreover, with respect to the study of systems’ failures, the engineering sciences provide cognate notions to that of trust, e.g. reliability or dependability, which highlight our dependence on complex systems to fulfil certain tasks in a context of risk, uncertainty and vulnerability. In order to understand how far we can rely on technology, we should be able to understand, first of all, which kinds of dependencies are at stake. To this aim, in this paper, we will briefly review and discuss the main theoretical points related to trust and the technical notions mentioned, looking at both humanities and engineering literature. Then, we shall propose a preliminary ontological analysis aiming at comparing the specificities of the concepts concerned, all sharing a form of instrumental dependence.
TaBIIC: Taxonomy Building Through Iterative and Interactive Clustering
Authors: D’Aquin Mathieu
Published: December 2023

Building taxonomies is often a significant part of building an ontology, and many attempts have been made to automate the creation of such taxonomies from relevant data. The idea in such approaches is either that relevant definitions of the intension of concepts can be extracted as patterns in the data (e.g. in formal concept analysis) or that their extension can be built from grouping data objects based on similarity (clustering). In both cases, the process leads to an automatically constructed structure, which can either be too coarse and lacking in definition, or too fined-grained and detailed, therefore requiring to be refined into the desired taxonomy. In this paper, we explore a method that takes inspiration from both approaches in an iterative and interactive process, so that refinement and definition of the concepts in the taxonomy occur at the time of identifying those concepts in the data. We show that this method is applicable on a variety of data sources and leads to taxonomies that can be more directly integrated into ontologies.
THE FORMATION OF AN ART SCHOOL IN CHUGUEV
Authors:   D. S. Likhachev Russian Research Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage, Krasnova I. V.
Published: December 2023

The article is devoted to the problem of identifying an art school in the military settlement of the county town of Chuguev in the Slobozhanshchina. The importance of the topic is determined, on the one hand, by the enormous achievements of the Chuguev artists, among whom the name of I. E. Repin is known, and on the other hand, by the enormous losses suffered by the Chuguev district and the entire Slobozhanshchina both during the years of general atheization and during the Great Patriotic War. Therefore, in this study, it was very relevant to turn to the historical analysis of the events that caused the emergence of such a unique phenomenon as the Chuguev art school, and, together with it, a whole galaxy of fine artists and icon painters. On the basis of historical and analytical methods of research, the concept of the “Chuguev art school” is substantiated for the first time. The myth of the Western European and Dnieper influence on the culture of this region of Slobozhanshchina, which was brought by the settlers, is debunked. Its direct connection with the Moscow Church culture and the continuation of its traditions, as well as the influence of secular art, are traced.
REASONS FOR THE DEACTUALIZATION OF ANIMALISM AS A GENRE IN CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ART
Authors:   Altai State University, Nepriyatel Y. A. ,   Altai State Institute of Culture
Published: December 2023

Traditional methods of research in art criticism (historical, historical-cultural, comparative-historical, partly iconological and formal) in this article are supplemented by an introspective view of the author of the article working in the genre of animalism. Animalistic patterns, their influence on animal artists, as well as the impact of the genre on the modern viewer are briefly described (using the example of the animalistic genre in the visual arts of Altai). Attention is also paid to aspects of the work of an animal artist in modern realities.
FACTORS OF TRANSFORMATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION SERVICES CONSUMPTION TYPES IN THE TODAY'S RUSSIA
Authors:   Altai State Institute of Culture, Frolova A. S. , Balashova E. V. ,   Altai State Institute of Culture, Kurnikova T. A. ,   Altai State Institute of Culture, Kuran M. S. ,   Altai State Institute of Culture
Published: December 2023

The article briefly describes a set of socio-technological, socio-managerial, socio-economic, socio-psychological factors that have triggered the change of the motives of the modern Russians' consumption behavior on the market of educational services in domestic higher education, such as: integration of advanced information and communication technologies into educational process, the change of conceptual approaches to the organization of the higher education system in favor of practice-oriented learning, the “obsolescence” of the content of educational programs of higher education, the decline of the quality of services offered on the Russian market of education for adults, the mismatch of consumer motives in the minds of the family acting as a collective participant on the market of educational services. The authors also set out their views on the vectors of further development of the market of services in the field of Russian higher education (the displacement of mentoring elements from the educational process in higher education; expanding the range of distance learning services; gamification of marketing strategies for promoting educational services in the youth audience; further integration of digital technologies into the organized educational process).
Decomposition of the building into structural elements in the assessment of life cycle costs of construction objects.
Authors: Sichnyi S. , Shcherbyna A.
Published: December 2023

The article substantiates the author's methodological approach to determining the cost of the life cycle of a construction object at the stage of preparing investor estimate documentation, taking into account the current industry regulatory and methodological framework and focusing primarily on the public customer. The necessity of calculating (grouping) investor estimate documentation is shown not by types of construction works, but by structural elements that have a generalizing and unchanging nature when determining the cost of construction, maintenance and repair of the object, which makes the structural elements the necessary unit for determining the cost of the life cycle.                 The possibility of decomposition of structural elements by levels of generalization related to the structure of the market of contractors and their products was also noted. The rules for the initial formation, use and subsequent clarification of value indicators during the design and development of the infestor estimate documentation and at the subsequent stages of construction, maintenance (repair) and completion of operation of the object are proposed. In this way, the evolutionary nature of the methodology is noted as the data necessary for calculations are accumulated and refined.

                The application part shows the compatibility of the proposed approach and BIM technologies, which also operate with structural elements. The procedure for displaying life cycle costs in the digital information model of the project is proposed, according to the levels of generalization and content - costs in the BIM model can be planned and actual and can be specified by value (amount) or calculation (estimate). The possibility of applying graph theory to the tasks of calculating the costs of the life cycle of a construction object is illustrated, which facilitates the development of mathematical apparatus and corresponding algorithms for estimating the cost of the life cycle using the BIM model.

                Corresponding changes to the current DSTU are proposed in terms of the development and standardization of the nomenclature of structural elements of buildings and structures and the standardization of the structure and the order of displaying information about the life cycle costs of the construction object in the BIM model.
Fuzzy logic inference algorithms utilization in the economic potential growth management system of the real estate development company
Authors: Rosynskyi A.
Published: December 2023

The article defines the need to introduce fuzzy logic inference algorithms into the economic potential growth management system of the real estate development company. The use of fuzzy inference algorithms in the study of influencing factors on the profitability of development projects as prerequisites for economic potential growth of the real estate development company is proposed. It was determined that the increase in profitability and economic potential growth of the development company are particularly affected by managerial decisions regarding the development projects’ pricing policy, the justification of which requires the processing of complex economic information using fuzzy logic algorithms. As a result of a selective study of the price policy of various similar development projects of multi-story residential buildings in Kyiv, the factors affecting the change in prices for primary residential real estate were identified and grouped. A fuzzy logic inference algorithm was developed for the system of identified impact factors, which consists of separate subsystems of fuzzy inference for each factor group (apartment, building and time impact subsystems), which allows obtaining additional information necessary for making informed management decisions regarding the economic potential growth of a real estate development company. The characteristics of the input and output variables terms membership functions for all impact subsystems were determined, as well as sets of rules (knowledge bases) of each subsystem were developed. The process of creating and implementing the developed algorithm in the Fuzzy Logic Designer environment of the MATLAB software complex is presented, as well as the possibilities of using the functionality of its environment in order to obtain dynamic numerical and graphic data (in particular, graphs and surfaces) for the analysis and research of the state, characteristics and trends of development company economic processes in real time. The expediency of fuzzy logic inference algorithms utilization in the economic potential growth management system of the real estate development company has been proven.
Trends of digital transformation of construction organization processes in the conditions of critical influences
Authors: Dubinin D.
Published: December 2023

The article analyzes theoretical approaches to the formation of the process of digitalization of the economy and digital transformation of construction, interaction of project participants. It was found that critical influences on construction can be called such influences that completely disrupt the construction process of the object, or affect the size of the construction parameters (terms, labor intensity and cost) in such a way that the further construction process is either significantly complicated or impossible at all. Critical impacts can include any changes in the external and internal environment of the construction project, including floods, natural disasters, etc.The review of literary sources made it possible to highlight the main problems, the solution of which is necessary for the proper theoretical justification of the action of critical influences on the process of construction organization and its digital transformation,Theoretical substantiation of the role of critical influences on the transformation of the construction process made it possible to identify the following consequences of the influence of military actions on the construction industry during the war in Ukraine. Such factors were the change in the company’s supply chains and the lack of many material, technical and human resources in construction, the destruction of the existing information structure that needs to be constantly restored, the direction of investment priorities towards the defense of the country, a decrease in investments in digitalization, a significant migration of the population, the growth of cyber threats, the need for cyber protection system, etc.The identification of critical influences on the process of construction organization and on digital transformation will allow enterprises and organizations of the construction complex, various participants in investment and construction projects not only to classify them according to the degree of influence on a separate enterprise, but also to develop a set of preventive or smoothing measures regarding the functioning of participants in the digital environment of the project.
Scientific and methodological aspects of the choice of discount rate in the evaluation of investment projects
Authors: Sorokina L. , Hoiko A.
Published: December 2023

The article is devoted to the issues of evaluating the efficiency of investment projects, taking into account the justified and objective choice of the discount rate, which significantly affects the accuracy of the indicators of the economic efficiency of the evaluated investment project. In the conditions of an acute shortage of investment resources, the desire to increase the accuracy of the predictive assessment of the effectiveness of investment projects necessitates the search for new scientific and methodological approaches to the justified choice of the discount rate. In each specific situation, this choice depends on a large number of different factors, which are conditionally divided into two groups - internal and external. Unfortunately, in investment projects developed by Ukrainian enterprises, insufficient attention is paid to justifying the discount rate. The article provides an analysis of the main methods of determining the value of the discount rate when evaluating investment projects and scientific and methodological approaches to the selection of the discount rate in order to increase the objectivity of the predictive assessment of the feasibility of implementing an investment project. The essence of the advantages and disadvantages of such "traditional" methods of determining the discount rate of investment projects, such as the SARM model, the cumulative construction model, and the WASS model, are revealed. The effect of the intensity of exogenous factors in the form of the cost of credit resources, tax rates, inflation rates on the result of the assessment of the efficiency of the investment project has been specified. The main problems of justifying the economic efficiency of investment projects in the post-war recovery of the national economy are formulated. The author's rationale for the cumulative premium to the discount rate is given, due to the risk of speculative growth in the cost of construction caused by excess demand for construction work. The indicator of the expected duration of the portfolio of all orders of the construction enterprise, expressed in months, is proposed for use. On the basis of a cluster analysis of retrospective data, the linguistic terms of this meaning "deficit of orders", "partial..." and "sufficient security of the medium-term portfolio of orders" and their corresponding Gaussian membership functions are substantiated. An artificial intelligence system has been developed for forecasting the most likely percentage of speculative overestimation of the cost of construction works performed by the contractor, and the feasibility of using the output of this system as a cumulative premium to the discount rate has been proven.