bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Maintaining brain health across the lifespan
Authors: Garcia-Garcia Isabel , Donica Olga , Cohen Armand Aaron , Gonseth-Nusslé Semira , Heini Adrian , Nusslé Sébastien , Pichard Claude , Rietschel Ernst , Tanackovic Goranka , Folli Silvio , Draganski Bogdan
Published: March 2023

Across the lifespan, the human body and brain endure the impact of a plethora of exogenous and endogenous factors that modulate individuals’ health outcome in old age. The overwhelming inter-individual variance spans between increased frailties with loss of autonomy to largely preserved physical, cognitive, and social functions. Understanding the mechanisms underlying the diverse aging trajectories can inform future strategies to maintain a healthy body and brain. Here we provide a comprehensive overview on the lifetime factors governing brain health. We summarise the evidence that unhealthy alimentary regime, sedentary behaviour, sleep pathologies, cardio-vascular risk factors, and chronic inflammation exert their harmful effects in a cumulative and gradual manner, and that timely and efficient intervention promotes successful aging. We discuss the main effects and interactions between these risk factors and the resulting brain health outcomes to follow with a description of current strategies aiming to eliminate, treat, or counteract the risk factors. We conclude that detailed insight about the modifiable risk factors should guide personalized approaches to maintain our brains healthy.
''Emerging from the Lockdown: Insights from Women Waste Workers' Lives in Delhi''
Authors: ISST  , Banerjee Monika
Published: March 2023

Using a mixed-method approach of telephonic surveys and in-depth interviews with key informants and women workers, this study aims to assess the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown has had on women waste workers and map the way their circumstances changed once the lockdown was lifted. It highlights that the lockdown has had a severe impact on work and income with more than 90% of the respondents stating that they experienced loss of employment during this period. The study also highlights that even after the lockdown was lifted, the workers have not been able to return to work immediately. This is because most godowns where they were employed before the pandemic remain closed even post-lockdown. The lack of waste to segregate has also contributed to the lack of employment. Workers stated that they find it difficult to collect waste, and even when they can, the lack of space for segregation has caused further challenges. They are also getting paid much lesser by godown owners than they were prior to the lockdown, and additionally, have had to sell their segregated material at significantly reduced rates. Even in terms of unpaid work, the report finds that the burden of household work and childcare has increased significantly. This poses a problem for women workers in terms of managing paid work. Women waste workers are struggling with accessing essential goods and services, including food, water, fuel, rent and children’s education. This study recommends that as an immediate measure, waste workers should be provided with free ration kits until their employment situation stabilizes. It also suggests that the government fast track their registration as workers and create a tripartite board so that they have access to some social and economic protections through social welfare schemes. Along with this, it recommends that the government fix a standardized rate for the material that women waste workers segregate, and most importantly, give the workers a right over the waste they collect so that they do not remain vulnerable to exploitation.
''Emerging from the Lockdown: Insights from Women Home-Based Workers' Lives in Delhi''
Authors: ISST  , Datta Ayesha
Published: March 2023

The report discusses the impact of COVID-19 associated national lockdown and the subsequent unlock period on the lives and livelihood of women home-based workers in Delhi. A mixed-method approach involving telephonic survey and in-depth interviews with stakeholders and women workers was used to understand the impact of the pandemic on paid work, unpaid household and care work of women workers, and their access to essential resources and services. The study found that while home-based workers who are part of cooperatives and producer companies have received some work during and after the lockdown, individual home-based workers have been unable to join online platforms to sell their products or shift to in-demand work like mask production and food supply chains. It also revealed that continued school closure and widespread unemployment has led to a significant increase in household and care work for women since more household members stay back at home as compared to other times. Additionally, access to food, education, and healthcare have also been seen to be severely affected by increasing financial distress and the lackadaisical attitude of the government towards non-COVID diseases
''Emerging from the Lockdown: Insights from Construction Workers' Lives in Delhi''
Authors: ISST  , Datta Ayesha
Published: March 2023

The report discusses the impact of the COVID-19-associated national lockdown and the subsequent unlock period on the lives and livelihood of women construction workers in Delhi. A mixed-methods approach involving telephone surveys and in-depth interviews with stakeholders and women workers was used to understand the impact of the pandemic on paid work, unpaid household and care work of women workers and their access to essential resources and services. The study found the construction industry to be severely affected when the pandemic hit in March, with the maximum brunt on women workers who mainly did low-end jobs that could be easily replaced by machines. Women workers also saw a significant increase in their unpaid household and care work because schools were closed and unemployed household members remained at home even after the lockdown was lifted. While those without ration cards or Aadhar cards faced significant shortages in food, most of them borrowed from relatives and considerably depleted their savings to get access to food, water and medicines. Access to healthcare was also severely limited both during and after the lockdown since government hospitals were busy treating COVID-19 patients and neglected other serious diseases
''Beyond the Norm: Scope of Non-Traditional Livelihood Skilling for Women in Achieving Women's Economic Empowerment'' - A Synthesis Report
Authors: ISST  , Ghosh Anweshaa , Mukhopadhyay Prama , Sengupta Sudeshna
Published: March 2023

This qualitive research was conducted in partnership with selected member organisations of the Non-traditional livelihoods (NTL) Network. The qualitative study used a 360-degree case study method to understand the processes and challenges of NTL skilling and its impact on agency, aspirations and manifestations of empowerment or disempowerment in women's life. This study foregrounds itself in Kabeer’s (1999) framework of women’s economic empowerment which she envisages as a process of change which occurs through the three inter-related dimensions – resources, agency and achievement. This framework was useful for this research as NTL skilling for women entails a process of change with an aim to develop an agency for the women to have the ability of making choices which are essential for well-being. In addition, the study also makes use of the evaluation framework of “Small Wins”, in each of the case narrative, to look at the various levels of small wins that can over time be compounded to result in transformative change through non-linear processes (Termeer and Dewulf 2018) and feed into process of change as described by Kabeer (1999). The case narratives were selected and analysed using a gender responsive and intersectional approach since these case studies were vastly different from each other in terms of the location, intersectional identity of the participant, types of skilling engaged in and the structure and motive of the skill imparting organisation. The case narratives were analysed vis-a-vis the impact felt from the interaction of the four institutional space (espoused in the Care Diamond (Razavi,2007) - family, community, market and state. This research, however, in addition looked at the role of the organisation (CSOs) in terms of availability of resources, the skilling process, building of aspiration and the eventual formation of agency and achievements of the individual journey towards empowerment via NTL skilling experience.
Application of Instruments of Fiscal Policy in Nepal
Authors: Acharya Krishna
Published: March 2023

Fiscal policy is an important component of government policy to bring high, broad based and sustainable economic development. Budget, taxation, public expenditure and public debt are the instruments of fiscal policy and these instruments are not using appropriately, effectively and efficiently in the context of least developed countries so that they trapped as a low-income nation. In Nepalese context, government of three-layer formulating and implementing budget to mobilize national, provincial and local level resources and to follow the norms of decentralization. The ratio of capital expenditure in relation to recurrent expenditure is high indicator of low economic development in the coming years. In eleven months of fiscal year, only 50 percent of the development expenditure can utilize is the symbol of gloomy situation of our economy. Regarding to tax base and rate, it has some regressive nature so that collection of tax became difficult task. People are interested to evasive tax due to administrative hurdles and its poor utilization policy. Resources can divert into productive sector due to better public expenditure policy. Government of Nepal can utilize the resources of its citizen on the basis of the trust of government. Ultimately better fiscal policy can pave the way for higher, sustainable and broad-based economic growth rate. We can graduate our nation in the list of developing nation by 2030 as well as can fulfill sustainable development goals.
Contribution of Foreign Direct Investment to Trade Balance
Authors: Dhungel Bashu Dev
Published: March 2023

This article on contribution of foreign direct investment on trade balance in Nepal during the study period 1995–2018 shows the significant positive relationship between inflows of FDI and trade balance. The main objective of this study was to investigate the impact of FDI on trade balance of Nepalese economy. This study has employed Ordinary Least Squares Method to explore relationship between FDI inflows and trade balance in Nepal. The results indicate that there is significant and positive relationship between FDI and trade balance in Nepal. This study has its implication for policymakers to raise FDI inflows to keep the trade balance in Nepalese Economy. To raise the inflows of FDI, it is necessary to make investment friendly environment for foreigners that lead to raise the export and trade moves towards favorable.
Resource Gap Analysis in Nepalese Budgetary System
Authors: Adhikari Padma Kumar
Published: March 2023

Resource gap analysis in the Nepalese budget system has attempted to focus on both the situation at the current level and the estimated future value. Therefore, the study has applied both the OLS and ECM models, to look at the GNS and GCF relation to GNI. The result has been compared to the current situation and the target level of performance in the future. With the analysis of unexplained residual factors, RGA in budgetary operation has been examined between GNI as a resource and what rate of resource would be needed to satisfy future needs at the national level. However, these models gave the same conclusion that resource gaps have got irregular with the rate of 12 per cent speed of disequilibrium. With this performance of resource gap, the government agency and others rigorously understood the resource it currently has and the need for resources to meet the goal. The forecasting further would also provide valuable suggestions for expanding other areas of development by diverting their capacity to correct the resource gap in the budgetary system.
The Difference in Paddy Production Through Irrigation and No Irrigation: A Survey of Households in Phalelung Rural Municipality
Authors: Lamichhane Kul Prasad
Published: March 2023

This study was designed to examine the difference in paddy production through irrigation and no irrigation, and to explore the problems faced by the farmers in the study area in Phalelung Rural Municipality, as well as their possible solutions. As for the method, this study used the descriptive tools (tables, percentage, means, and standard deviation) and inferential tools (t test and interval estimates (95% confidence interval) at the ∝ = .05 level. Kilograms were used as a unit of measuring the paddy produced by 50 households in both irrigated and no irrigated farmlands. Concerning the first objective, the study found statistically significant evidence in favor of the alternative hypothesis (H1), at the specified ∝ = .05 level, that population annual-mean-(paddy) production from the irrigated farmland (μ1) became larger than that from the nonirrigated farmland (μ0). Regarding the finding of second objective, on the problems and prospects of farmers, this study found as main problems the lack of irrigation, faulty irrigation management system, lack of technology, monsoon-based agriculture, and low productivity. According to the farmers in the study area, the possible solutions of the problems could be managing irrigation facilities, providing credit, and providing agro-training to farmers.
Trends and Structures of Direct Taxation and its Share in Gross Domestic Product of Nepal
Authors: Dangal Dil Nath , Gajurel Ram Prasad
Published: March 2023

This study tried to analyze trends and structures of direct tax in Nepal with the adoption of descriptive method. This study, based on secondary data published by the Government of Nepal covering a fiscal year between 1999/00 to 2019/20, also examined the contribution of direct tax in gross domestic product of Nepal. During the study period, direct tax seemed to be fluctuating but increasing overall by 94.44%, while the percentage sharing of all taxes to the gross domestic product was increasing even though it was fluctuating from time to time. Total direct tax was found rising by 16%, on average, over the last 20 years. However, the income tax seemed contributing significantly to both direct tax and gross domestic product during the study period.
Examining Digital Finance Service as an Instrument for Financial Inclusion in Nepal
Authors: Niraula Anil , Adhikari Shuruti
Published: March 2023

Financial inclusion is one of way to raise income and make inclusive economic development in all segments of the society. One of the good ways to expand financial inclusion is to adopt technological path which has potential to broaden the existing inclusion status. Nepal is gradually building infrastructure on Information and communication technology and formulating technology-oriented policies thereby creating digital base, creating new set of opportunities for development and financial Inclusion as well. The paper analyses relevant data on digital technology, financial access and financial products and services from secondary sources. Using multiple regression, this study found significant and positive relation between mobile and internet access on number of deposit accounts used as proxy for financial inclusion. The finding of this study is in favour of to promote mobile and internet usage by more and more population to improve financial inclusion.
Geographic Analysis of Traffic Congestion in FCT-Abuja, Nigeria
Authors: Abuh Paul Ojochenemi , John James Apeh
Published: March 2023

Traffic congestion is responsible for increased urban pollution in urban centers in developing countries. The condition of Abuja traffic congestion is no diverse. The study examines geographic analysis of traffic congestion in FCT-Abuja Nigeria. Efforts were made in this study to accomplish the objectives which are to map traffic congestion areas along selected corridors of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja using Geographical Information System (GIS) Techniques, Determine the major causes of traffic congestion in the study area and examine the solutions to traffic congestion in the study area. The study adopted random sampling techniques in the administration of well-structured 384 questionnaires to help achieve objective II and III. The data that was collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The descriptive analysis that was used includes means, percentage, standard deviation and structured Likert scale. The study revealed that the three major road corridors to the FCT are Abuja- keffi expressway Kubwa –Zuba express and Gwagwalada-Lokoja expressway. The study shows that too many taxis with mean score of 4.14 are the major cause of traffic congestion. While, maintenance of road is the major solution to traffic congestion in the study area with mean score of 4.19. This study recommends the provision of railway service and speedy completion of Apo-Karshi road.
Evaluation of Handwashing Facilities in Basic Schools in Ejura-Sekyeredumase Municipality, Ghana
Authors: Richard Amankwah Kuffour , Paul Amihere-Ackah , Ebenezer Acquah
Published: March 2023

Hand washing has been recognized as an effective measure against the transmissions of different communicable diseases. This article provided insights into hand washing facilities, students’ knowledge, and patronage of the facilities in basic schools in Ejura-Sekyeredumase Municipality of Ghana motivated by the Covid-19 pandemic. We pointed out the current state of handwashing facilities and knowledge of proper handwashing among basic schools in the second Covid-19 hotspot region.  The study spanned between November 2019 to March 2020. From pre Covid-19 period to the time (month) Ghana recorded its first case of Covid-19. The study was undertaken using well designed structured questionnaire, observation checklist and interviews. It involved randomly sampling 25 public schools and 5 private schools. From each of these 30 schools, 19 students and a teacher were selected randomly and purposively making a total of 600 respondents. Data obtained from the students and staff were compared for their effective relationships using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 20. The Pearson Chi-Square test was used to show the effect size and the strength of relationship between variables. The results showed that the handwashing facilities were not enough for students and teachers. Many students rated availability of handwashing materials as good (66. 70%). There was a statistically significant difference (p<0.05) between the availability of hand washing materials and patronage of the facility. Most students claimed water flowed always ( =1.27) with few reporting intermittent water availability (26.70%, SD=0.45). Generally, more students (76.80%) washed their hands with soap and water after visiting the toilet. There was a significant difference between students who knew germs and the number of times they practiced hand washing, X2(4, N=546) =13.26, P=0.01). However, the effect size was relatively small (Cramer’s V=0.15). Inadequate handwashing materials (42.13%) and forgetfulness from students (37.07%) were hindrances to effective handwashing. The government through the ministry of education should ensure all year- round provisions of hand washing facilities and materials coupled with continuous education and awareness to strengthen hand washing habit among the students.
Differential Carbon Footprint in India – An Economic Perspective
Authors: Nandy S.N.
Published: March 2023

It is a matter of apprehension that wealthy countries are contributing huge to global emission and more responsible for producing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. There is direct intervention of economic activities like industrialization, urbanization and infrastructure development over carbon footprint across the world and economically developed nations tend to have higher footprints as compared to less developed countries. India, the second largest populous nation is facing dual challenges, one hand, the need to fulfill the energy requirement for development and on the other hand, the global climate challenge. The country is third largest emitter of CO2 and fifth largest economy by nominal GDP in the world. But its per capita emission is much lower than that of developed countries and even it is below the average per capita emission of many developing countries. The present paper is an attempt to map the carbon footprints across the country in respect to the economic status. The paper reveals that there exist huge disparities of economic resources and developmental activities, and based on these the carbon footprint is also varied widely. The footprint is significantly high in developed and urbanized states across the country. Economically developed western and southern part emits more than the underdeveloped region of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Odisha. A correlation has been drawn to map the carbon footprint per capita in respect to poverty ratio and a negative relationship exists among most of the districts, as higher carbon footprint has been reported in the lower poverty stricken districts. The overall low per-capita carbon footprint of the country is due to its huge population is living with nominal amount of energy. The fossil fuel is the major source of energy in the country and for equitable economic development, the huge energy is needed. Hence, to meet the global climate challenge, the country can accomplish the energy requirement by reducing emission of conventional sources and look forward for renewable energy resources, so that the development should not be hindered.
EVOLUTION OF ENTREPRENEURIAL CONTRACTS DEVELOPMENT: BRIEF HISTORICAL DIGRESSION
Authors: Marukyan Gayane
Published: March 2023

The scientific assumptions on this or that legal phenomenon are based on its' historical development and legal understanding. The entrepreneurial contracts have their great role in the development of business relations regulation. The article refers to the phenomenon and gives light to the legal framework and understanding of the contract and its role in different time periods on the development of business relations.
Моделирование основных явлений и эксперимента в физике космоса и физике высоких энергий: учебное пособие / В.И. Галкин. – М.: «КДУ», «Добросвет», 2023. – 202 c.
Authors: Галкин В.И.
Published: March 2023

Курс «Моделирование основных явлений и эксперимента в физике космоса и физике высоких энергий» предназначен для студентов 1-го курса магистратуры кафедры физики космоса и рассчитан на изучение в течение двух семестров. Он состоит из двух тесно связанных частей. Первая часть курса называется «Моделирование основных явлений в физике космоса и физике высоких энергий» и преподается обычно в осеннем семестре 1-го курса магистратуры. В первых четырех задачах рассматриваются базовые явления: каскады в однородной среде, слоистом детекторе, блуждания нейтрона и движение заряженных частиц в дипольном магнитном поле. Вторая часть курса называется «Моделирование эксперимента в физике космоса и физике высоких энергий» и является логическим продолжением первой части. Она обычно преподается в весеннем семестре 1-го курса магистратуры. В четырех задачах второй части рассматриваются типичные детекторы и постановки экспериментов: регистрация частиц сцинтилляционным спектрометром, спектрометр СОНГ и его реакция на рентгеновские и гамма кванты и электроны, регистрация и обработка данных по заряженным частицам и черенковскому свету широких атмосферных ливней (ШАЛ). Хотя курс предназначен прежде всего для магистрантов кафедры физики космоса физического факультета МГУ, он также может быть использован в учебных и научных целях студентами, аспирантами и исследователями, специализирующимися в области физики космических лучей, космоса и высоких энергий. Издание подготовлено при поддержке Школы «Фундаментальные и прикладные исследования космоса».
Graphic Arts of Lyudmila Bruyevych from the 2000s–2010s: The Geometrization of the Images and Encoding of the Meanings
Authors: Lamonova Oksana
Published: March 2023

Female graphic artist Lyudmila Bruyevych is one of the most famous and popular domestic artist. In her graphic art one can trace the influence of folk and naïve art traditions, as well as the Ukrainian baroque, although at same time, it is an organic natural, and quite modern phenomenon. The artist`s favourite technique is etching; besides that, she also draws on watercolours. Already in her early works (Night; A Girl with a Puppy; A Capricious Lady (all — in 1991); A Merry Song; An Evening Song; Anguish (all — in 1992)), an original authorial style was formed, which combines epic and grotesque, poeticims and symbolism. Wherein an images is almost always supplemented by a calligraphic text, sometime a quite large one. L. Bruyevych often refers to biblical images, but usually interprent them in a very original and unexpected way (The Holy Family (1991); There was a Throne in Heaven with SomeoneSitting on It; The Seventh Angel; The Whore of Babylon (all — in 1992); The Fourth Beast Was Like a Flying Eagle (1993) and other). In the mid 1990s, the female artist began to illuminate her etching, using for this only four (sometimes two) watercolour paints (colours: alizarin crimson, emeradl green, ochre and gold). This added brightness and decorativeness to her works and strengthened their sybolic richness. In 1994, The Flower of Love was created, aswell as the series Tranquility, which consists of five sheets (Cats; Mermaid; Three Fishes; Fish;and Vase). They can be considered the most characteristic works of L. Bruyevych. At the same time, in the artist`s subsequent etchings (Night Beast; Round Dance of Grass Snakes, orInfinity; A Prehistoric Animal, or Dragon (all — 1997)), the tendecy to geometrization gradually is tensified. The geometrization and conditional character of the images are strengthened by degrees, but unceasingly. At the same time their content depth is increased and concentrated: Course of Time, or Ukrainian Pyramids. Psychoelevation of the Soul (2004), Ukrainian Pyramid (2005), Geometry of Love (2012), Language of Land (2014, diptych), Mallow and Grape (2016, diptych). It`s affirms the desire of the artist to unite and synthesiza different styles, inherent for her graphic arts. All these facts can denote the beginning of new, unusually interesting, period in the creative work of L. Bruyevych.
Valentyna Marcade and her connections with Ukrainian diaspora (The problem of influences)
Authors: Remeniaka Oksana
Published: March 2023

The research was made on the basis of materials from the Bakhmeteff Archive of Columbia University and related with the name of the famous researcher of Ukrainian avant-garde Velentyna Vasiutynska-Marcade and her connections with Ukrainian diaspora, a bright representatives of the artistic environment of Kyiv and Kharkiv of the 1920s and 1930s — Vadym Pavlovsky, Alla Herburt-Johansen and Lubov Drazhevs`ka. These materials are an invaluable source of information about educational work of Ukrainians in exile, who considered their main task was to overcome patterns imposed by Soviet propaganda, namely the ubiquitous presence of “great” Russian art, whatever it was — Georgian, Lithuanian, Moldavian or Ukrainian.
Decolonial discourse and global public art under Ukrainian conditions
Authors: Protas Maryna
Published: March 2023

In the paper, the author attempts to prove the urgency of rethinking the idea of decolonial identity in contemporary Ukrainian art. Adherents of Western theories of decolonialism and the indigenous movement expose the dark side of unified global public art, which regresses, ignoring the archetypal features of the traditions of mental and spiritual experience of ethnic groups. The conscious identity of the artistic vision associated with the empathic-transcendental worldview of the nation is evolving through aesthetic judgment, whereas, instead, the market art episteme of globalized contemporary experience, as a form of benchmarking borrowed from economics, harms national cultures and civilizational development, provoking substantial degradation and professional deskilling. To overcome the current crisis of cultural creation, artistic consciousness must distinguish regressive paradigms and resist the cultural-industrial strategies of global marketing of Eurocentrism, guaranteeing the diverse flourishing of national / regional cultures in a single family of civilizational polylogue.
Hyperrealism Of Shaken Consciousness
Authors: Petrova Olga
Published: March 2023

The article analyzes the transformation of the artistic consciousness of the majority of Ukrainian artists in the conditions of Putin’s war in Ukraine. It is traced how the barbarism of the orcs gave rise to psychological and creative resistance in the artistic environment. The logic in the grotesque-reductive series of works by V. Kravets is analyzed. The method of the artist’s work with the wide use of meaningful metaphors is shown. As a critic of the brutality and barbarism of the enemy army, the author of the drawings makes the body-lower sphere a generalizing image of the “all-Russian body”. It is shown that the characters of the series are monsters, their images are essentially excrement. This grotesque realism is so demeaning — hyperrealism, figurative recoding in the drawings of V. Kravets connects his method to the concept of the “tragic carnival” of German expressionism of the 1930s–1950s. Irony and sarcasm bordering on the terrible illustrate the relevance of a series of drawings, depicting existence on the shaky border between “life and death”. Laughter in the artist’s works changes from plus to minus.
«New Ukrainian sculpture» and the direction of contemporary Ukrainian art
Authors: Abramovych Igor
Published: March 2023

Galina Sklyarenko’s monograph “New Ukrainian Sculpture” (Kyiv: Abramovych.Art; ArtHuss, 2021. 304 p.: il.), characterized in the article, presents the modern consumer of artistic forms of plastic with a conceptual justification, the effectiveness of the conceptual ideas laid down in the basis of the publication, their relevance for current visual practice and scientific importance for elucidating ways of further movement of forms of Modern Ukrainian Sculpture. The article examines the nature and degree of applicability of the concept of “full-value” in relation to the art analysis of modern sculpture, and also highlights two lines of visualization of concepts in the works of artists represented in the book by H. Sklyarenko: Narrative and Provocative.
It is shown that the creative style of N. Bilyk, Dm. Grek, P. Gronsky, V. Protosenya, D. Shumikhin can be attributed to the first line; to the second line — the creative manner of Ye. Zigura, O. Zolotaryov and I. Novgorodov. It is claimed that the effectiveness of the conceptual idea, which is the basis of the publication, its relevance and scientific importance for clarifying the ways of the further movement of the forms of Modern Ukrainian Sculpture, correlates with the conceptual ideas of individual authors whose work is represented by this publication. The merits of the publication, its necessity, the urgency to advance into the public consciousness the phenomena related to the understanding of the narratives of the modern era and their visualization in the voluminous material of the sculpture, cannot be doubted, and the interest in the book that has manifested itself since its release, even in difficult conditions wartime, testifies to its great cultural and scientific importance.
Bohdana Filts’s vocal chamber works of the late-life period: artistic design and performance implementation
Authors: ZIJING ZHANG
Published: March 2023

The article considers the features of artistic and imaginative thinking of Bohdana Filts (1932-2021) in the vocal chamber work of late-life creativity. The author highlights the performing features of the solos chosen for analysis based on poetic texts by L. Ukrainka, I. Franko, L. Kostenko, and H. Kanych. An attentive and careful attitude to the requirements of performing practice, skilful use of all the possibilities of the voice, and its timbre-expressive palette are prominent in Filts’s solos. The composer masterfully creates the piano accompaniment’s part, which always plays an essential figurative and semantic role. In the analyzed works of the late-life period, there is a direct connection with the vocal chamber compositions of earlier stages of the artist’s work through the ideological and aesthetic orientation of the idea, features of intonation thinking of the composer, her harmonic language, and unique style of vocal writing with characteristic genre preferences.
Сучасні підходи до організації готельно-ресторанного бізнесу
Authors:   Mykolayiv National Agrarian University, Banyeva Iryna
Published: March 2023

Abstract. Introduction. The hotel and restaurant business is one of the main components of the service sector. Given the importance of the hotel and restaurant business as an important component of the country's economic development, the topicality of the topic of the article determines the search for approaches to the organization of this type of business. Purpose. The purpose of the article is to reveal modern approaches to the organization of the hotel and restaurant business. Results. It was determined that many factors affect the hotel and restaurant business in Ukraine and the world, including political stability, corruption, the quality and availability of training for hotel and restaurant specialists, and the level of professionalism of the staff. It was found that the key task in the hotel and restaurant business is the correct organization of supply services. It has been established that one of the most important issues for the effective functioning of hotel and restaurant business entities is the availability of the appropriate material, technical and financial base. It was found that the development of the hotel and restaurant business is directly influenced by the image of the establishment, which creates a positive perception of the hotel or restaurant in the eyes of customers. It was determined that one of the modern approaches to the organization of the hotel and restaurant business is to increase the competitiveness of activities in the service market through social networks and one's own page. It has been established that the approach to the organization of the hotel and restaurant business, which is based on the application of information (digital) technologies, allows you to manage all the processes that take place in the activity. Innovative technologies that play a special role in the organization of the hotel and restaurant business in today's conditions are highlighted, such as: innovative energy management, predictive and innovative service, smart reserved parking space, room key, infrared scanner, contactless payment system, web chat -bots, voice control, Tech Lounges and digital conference rooms, automated property management systems, virtual and augmented reality. Conclusions. It was determined that the further development of the organization of the hotel and restaurant business includes not only analysis, but also planning and forecasting of activities for the future at the appropriate stages, starting with the analysis of the internal and external environment and the determination of the general strategy of the activity.
Main Barriers to the Development of the Digital Economy in Ukraine
Authors:   IHE «Academician Yuriy Bugay International Scientific and Technical University», Kotelevets Dmytro
Published: March 2023

Abstract. Introduction. The formation and development of the digital economy is one of the most important issues on the agenda at the national level in a number of countries around the world. Information and communication technologies, penetrating into various spheres of business entities, are actively transforming the national economy, bringing its functioning to a qualitatively new level. Modern technologies contribute to increasing the competitiveness of enterprises due to the introduction of innovations, speeding up the processes of service provision, increasing the level of convenience for consumers and improving communication channels with them. Purpose. The purpose of the article is to specify and analyze the main barriers to the development of the digital economy in Ukraine. Results. During the last five years, the processes of digitalization of the economy have been rapidly intensified. The challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have proven that digitalization is an objective necessity capable of leveling the negative effects of the pandemic on business activities. Information and communication technologies have provided business with real opportunities to function in conditions of strict restrictions and forced social distancing. Along with this, the urgent need for the development of digital infrastructure became obvious. Ukrainian enterprises were able to adapt quite successfully to cooperation in new conditions by organizing remote work of staff, increasing presence on the Internet (official websites, social networks, various marketplaces, etc.), expanding the scale of online sales, and by improving communication with consumers (feedback systems, communication in messengers, etc.). This was mainly provided by the capabilities of digital technologies and elements of the digital infrastructure. A full-scale Russian offensive at the end of February 2022 had a detrimental effect on the development of the digital economy in Ukraine. The destruction and damage of enterprises, infrastructure, and the relocation of the population to safer territories negatively affected the dynamics of the basic technical, economic, personnel, and innovationtechnological parameters of the development of the digital economy. Conclusions. In the short- and medium-term perspective, the negative effects of the war and its consequences will affect Ukraine's position in international rankings for digitalization of the economy and various spheres of society. The war in Ukraine slowed down the positive dynamics of the parameters of the development of the digital economy, however, obtaining the status of a candidate for EU membership opens up new opportunities in the deployment of digitization processes based on European standards and norms
Insurance Activity in Ukraine on the Example of an Insurance Company
Authors:   Mykolayiv National Agrarian University, Lunkina Tеtiana
Published: March 2023

Abstract. Introduction. The article analyzes the state of the insurance company PJSC «SK Arsenal Strahuvaniya», examines the economic processes directly related to the conduct of insurance activities. Institutions and organizations of which JSC "Arsenal Insurance" PJSC is a member have been considered, and its main competitors on the domestic insurance market have been singled out. Purpose. The purpose of the article is to conduct an analysis of the company, which is being studied according to the main economic indicators, and to develop practical recommendations for improving the efficiency of its activities on the market of Ukraine. Results. Analytical data reflecting the net financial results of the insurance company for 2017-2021 are given. The general dynamics of insurance payments received and insurance payments made by this insurance company were analyzed. The rating of Arsenal Insurance PJSC for the first half of 2022 among other insurance companies of Ukraine in terms of capital, retained earnings, gross insurance premiums and the amount of insurance payouts has been determined. The dynamics of retained earnings of the insurance company for 2017-2021, which characterizes the efficiency of the business entity, were analyzed. Conclusions. The strengths and weaknesses of the insurance company's activities are highlighted, as well as its potential opportunities and threats using a SWOT analysis. It was found that the insurance company "Arsenal Insurance" is a powerful player on the insurance market of Ukraine and has valid licenses to provide financial services for more than 30 types of insurance. The company works to be not just among the best, but to be a leader in the insurance market and provide the highest quality service.
Analysis of the Influence of Factors on Consumer Choose a Dining Program
Authors:   Sriwijaya University, Maulana Achmad
Published: March 2023

Abstract. Introduction. Individual activity that is directly involved in determining whether to purchase the seller's product. Purpose. This study aims to obtain empirical evidence by determining the direct effect of consumer perceptions and image bartenders on the decision to enroll in the Food & Beverage Service Study Program at Poltekpar Palembang and the indirect effect of consumer perceptions and image bartenders on the decision to enroll in the Dining Planning Study Program at Poltekpar Palembang via attitudes. This study utilized a sample of 145 prospective students who enrolled in the Palembang Poltekpar Dishes Study Program, who were chosen using a technique of purposive sampling. Consumer perceptions and Image Bartenders were found to have a significant positive effect based on descriptive statistical analysis methods and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis using the Analysis of Moment Structure (AMOS) program. Results. Consumer Perception and Image Bartender have a direct positive effect on the Selection Decision . Perception has a negative impact on the selection process. Directly on attitudes and Image Bartenders have a direct positive effect on the attitudes. Attitudes have a direct negative effect on the Decision to Choose.. Consumer Perception Variables have a positive influence on the Decision to through Attitude as an intervening variable, and the Image Bartender variable has a negative influence on the the decision through Attitude as an intervening variable Conclusions. Direct and attitude have a direct negative impact on the Palembang Poltekpar Digest Studies Program Selection Decision for prospective students. And the Consumer Perception variable has a positive influence on the Decision to Choose a Cuisine Study Program for prospective students who enroll in the PalemPoltekpar Dishes Study Program bang, while the Image Bartender variable has a negative influence with the Attitude variable.
Activation of Business Processes for Attracting Investments in Service Coopera-tives of Rural Areas of Ukraine
Authors:   Dmytro Motornyi Tavria State Agrotech-nological University, Trusova Natalia
Published: March 2023

Abstract. Introduction. The article examines the dominant factors of activation of business processes for attracting investments for the development of rural areas of Ukraine. It is substantiated that active business processes for attracting investments for the formation of the optimal level of functional potential of the economic system in rural areas have a logical relationship with the global socio-economic policy of European states and in the modern context of economic development, dependent on the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the internal and outer space. Results. The typology of business processes for attracting investments into the economic system of rural areas has been determined. The system-forming values of the corporate sector in the integrated formation of active business processes for attracting investments for the development of rural ar-eas are presented. The method of calculating the integral indicator, which embodies the functional potential of the development of rural areas, taking into account its cost-resource, marketing, fi-nancial and investment components, as well as the index of the opportunities of the cooperative sector to attract investments on the market, is presented. The network of service cooperatives of rural areas was analyzed by types and areas of activity, as well as the amount of budgetary in-vestment in rural areas of Ukraine. From the standpoint of the process approach, an indicative assessment of the level of the functional development potential of rural areas based on indexes of productive, business, investment, and foreign economic activity of the subjects of cooperative management is proposed. Conclusions. The growth of the dominant factors for the activation of business processes for attracting invest-ments for the development of rural areas of a new type is aimed at increasing the amount of in-vestment resources and balancing the stimulators and destimulators of the security of functional potential with the corresponding social responsibility of the subjects of cooperative management.
L’exécutif local et le vote du budget L’exemple des départements
Authors: Viola André
Published: March 2023

Le président d’un conseil départemental joue un rôle central dans la procédure budgétaire. Non seulement il a un rôle d’impulsion et de coordination au niveau de la phase d’élaboration du budget, mais c’est également lui qui arbitre au final. Il rend ses arbitrages en tenant compte des faibles marges de manoeuvre dont disposent les conseils départementaux et de situations exceptionnelles liées à des décisions nationales ou bien, ce fut récemment le cas dans l’Aude, à des catastrophes naturelles.
Les droits de l’opposition et le vote du budget
Authors: Garcia Léo
Published: March 2023

Considérés comme des actes de prévision et d’autorisation, les budgets locaux sont des documents vitaux pour le fonctionnement des collectivités territoriales et des EPCI-FP. Les élus locaux, notamment ceux de l’opposition, se voient alors garantir l’exercice de plusieurs droits dans la plupart des différentes étapes de la procédure budgétaire. Si certains de ces droits sont garantis par les exécutifs locaux, d’autre nécessitent que les élus d’opposition s’en emparent.
Propos introductifs : éléments de problématique générale sur les agences de la dette publique locale
Authors: Husson-Rochcongar Céline
Published: March 2023

Structure récente de financement des collectivités territoriales, l’Agence France Locale suscite un intérêt encore tout relatif au regard de l’innovation – financière et surtout politique – qu’elle prétend incarner. Au discours enthousiaste de ses acteurs, valorisant son aspect collaboratif, répond l’inquiétude de commentateurs qui croient y déceler le risque d’une « financiarisation » accrue. Considérer les interactions entre acteurs concernés amène à y voir plus objectivement le témoin d’une nouvelle phase de l’action publique en France, caractérisée par la diversité des facettes de l’intelligence collective.
Genèse et histoire de l’AFL, quelques étonnements
Authors: Landel Olivier , Chazel Ariane
Published: March 2023

Dans la loi de séparation bancaire de l’été 2013, un article précise que les collectivités locales peuvent créer leur banque, dont elles sont uniques actionnaires, uniques clientes et dont elles garantissent les créanciers. Six mois plus tard, une société anonyme est créée. Un an plus tard, elle obtient une notation de l’agence de notation Moody’s ainsi qu’un agrément bancaire d’établissement de crédit spécialisé, émet un emprunt obligataire inaugural sur les marchés et octroie son premier crédit. Cette remarquable réussite laisse néanmoins ouvertes deux questions, relatives au taux élevé de pondération prudentielle imposé aux collectivités locales françaises dans les bilans bancaires et à la prise en compte dans la réglementation des enjeux du financement des transitions à mener par les collectivités locales.
Le modèle allemand : l’autonomie de gestion des dettes des municipalités
Authors: Schmidt Thorsten Ingo
Published: March 2023

En Allemagne, la souveraineté financière des communes dans le cadre de l’autonomie locale constitutionnelle leur garantit la possibilité de s´endetter. Le frein à l´endettement ne concerne les communes qu´indirectement. Au lieu de cela les limites d´endettement se trouvent aux codes des communes des Länder. Les communes allemandes ne peuvent pas exploiter leurs propres banques sauf des caisses d’épargne.