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Globalisation Impacts on Timber Consumption in Slovakia
Authors: Paluš Hubert , Dzian Michal , Parobek Ján , Šupín Mikuláš 
Published: December 2021

Research background: Globalisation is nowadays phenomenon which affects all economic sectors. The pros and cons of globalisation can also be observed in the case of forestry and forest-based complex in Slovakia. Timber trade and market follows the theory of derived demand, which means that demand for wood depends on the demand for final products. We can observe a significant impact of globalisation on changes in the use of wood from traditional to new ecological and sustainable use. Since 1993 the consumption of industrial roundwood in Slovakia has increased by almost 185%.
Purpose of the article: The aim of this study is to examine the impact of globalisation on the consumption of coniferous and non-coniferous industrial roundwood in Slovakia, and to determine the relationship between the consumption of industrial roundwood and trends of globalisation trends in Slovakia.
Methods: The development of KOF globalization index was analysed in the period 2003 to 2018. In addition, the development of the consumption of coniferous and non-coniferous industrial roundwood was examined. The correlation analysis and linear regression were used to analyse the relationship between the KOF globalisation index and development of consumption of coniferous and non-coniferous industrial roundwood in Slovakia.
Findings & Value added: The results of correlation analysis show statistically significant relationship between globalisation and the development of consumption of industrial roundwood in Slovakia. We can conclude that the development of globalisation has more significant impact on consumption of non-coniferous industrial roundwood than on consumption of coniferous industrial roundwood.
Communication in the 21st century. The influence of technology and globalization
Authors: Bran Florina , Bodislav Dumitru Alexandru , Kant Anna , Georgescu Raluca Iuliana 
Published: December 2021

Research background: This paper highlights the evolution of the way we communicate, especially on how it accelerated to today’s means of communication, resulted as a secondary outcome of the actual covid19 pandemic. We try to elaborate on the evolution of the technology, from the primitive email to today’s Zoom meetings and others powerful tools of collaboration.
Purpose of the article: Globalization although it has decelerated as a 21st century standalone tool, it had its powers and paths saved and restored by the use of communication technology that not only stepped up as a key player in the global IT&C market, but also it is pushed to new limits by the involvement of companies like Google and Amazon in pushing virtual meetings at the next level. Our study follows the journey of becoming a global and connected citizen in the 21st century by analyzing the macroeconomic perspective and also by creating an oversight on how the business concepts in the communication technology market will influence the next decade.
Methods: The methods will consist of an analysis of the global environment of the IT&C companies and of the most tech-savvy economies.
Findings & Value added: The key feature of this research is that it offers an elaborate plan on the next decade will look like in the field of communication from the technological and globalization perspective.
Natural resources revenue management from global perspective: Critically important institutional factors
Authors: Smělá Monika , Sejkora Jiří 
Published: December 2021

Research background:Globally, many countries are dependent on natural resources, for this reason, their revenue management becomes an important aspect for their economies. It is necessary to understand the relations between institutional factors and natural resource revenue management from the global point of view. It means to identify which institutional aspects impact both positively and negatively the revenue management.Purpose of the article:The purpose of the article is to find out which conditions, or their combinations, regarding the institutional environment, lead to a certain level of revenue management. It means to comprehend which conditions, respectively their combinations, result in both higher and lower levels of revenue management and consequently influence its sustainability.Methods:Basically, the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis is used to empirically examine the relations between institutional background and the revenue management in natural resource rich economies. The Resource Governance Index, as the global index measuring the quality of governance in individual countries is used as the input for the analysis.Findings & Value added:It was found that the individual institutional aspects have diverse effects on revenue management and its resilience. A few sufficient conditions were revealed, accountability, respectively absence of open data, rule of law, government effectiveness, in terms of higher, respectively lower level of revenue management. Political stability and absence of violence were identified as irrelevant conditions in terms of higher level of revenue management. Consistent pathways to reach higher and lower levels of revenue management were found.
Reflections on globalization processes in geopolitical thought since the second half of the 20th century
Authors: štok Robert , Kozárová Irina 
Published: December 2021

Research background: Geopolitical thought at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries was among the first to accentuate a global dimension of international politics. It stagnated in the context of WWII, however, the adoption of geopolitical approaches in U.S. foreign policy concepts contributed to its revival during the Cold War and its rapid development in the 1990s because of the need to address the changes in the power-political and spatial-political structures of the world. The relationship between geopolitical thought and globalization, however, remains controversial. In academic literature, geopolitics and globalization are perceived either as compatible or as incompatible phenomena.
Purpose of the article: The paper aims to outline how geopolitical thought has reflected the development of globalization processes and how it has changed with this development since the 2nd half of the 20th century.
Methods: Analytical-synthetic and historical-comparative methods are used for the study of globalization development and content analysis and comparative methods are employed to map the development of geopolitical thought and its reflection of globalization.
Findings & Value added: The development, direction and consequences of globalization have been reflected in geopolitical thought mainly since the 1990s. As a result, new trends in geopolitical thought have been established; apart from the changes in the power-spatial and political-spatial structures of the world studied by classical geopolitical thought, they also reflect the relationship between global and local, an acceleration in contradictory processes in the world caused by economic, cultural, demographic, information and other factors of spatial control.
State and prospects of international integration associations development in terms of new challenges
Authors: Izmailova Marina Alekseevna , Veselovsky Mikhail Yakovlevich , Nikonorova Alla Vladimirovna , Yagubyants Veronika Vitalievna , Yunusov Lenar Albertovich 
Published: December 2021

Research background: The European Union has accumulated significant experience of consolidated economic cooperation over the 28-year history of development. There are the prerequisites for building rational interactions with the Eurasian Economic Union. Significant amount of theoretical and practical data has been accumulated; its analysis allows making conclusions about the intensity of economic cooperation of the European Union with all member states of the Eurasian Economic Union and the prospects for the further development of partnership relations in the future.
Purpose of the article: The aim of the article is to identify the prospects for the development of integration associations on the example of the European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union in modern conditions characterized by the spread of a new coronavirus infection and the preservation of a complicated geopolitical situation.
Methods: The results of the study were obtained using general scientific methods of cognition (induction and deduction, methods of dialectics, analysis and synthesis), analytical research methods (logical and comparative analysis, analysis of economic and statistical indicators), methods of scientific forecasting and expert assessments.
Findings & Value added: The article submits the current state of integration economic relations analysis results on the example of the European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union as the largest economic and political associations. The analysis of the state and dynamics of the integration associations development, as well as the conditions of their functioning, makes it possible to define the current trends in the development of integration associations and their determining factors.
Transport, ecology and taxes in the context of globalization
Authors: Privalov Nikolai 
Published: December 2021

Research background: One of the global problems of modern transport is the harmful impact on the environment due to the use of carbon fuels. This is especially true in the context of the globalization of the economy and en-vironmental problems. The world has long been in the process of switching to alternative energy sources and reducing the use of fossil fuels. Adminis-trative measures and taxation of CO2 emissions are applied.
Purpose of the article: The purpose of the article is to conduct a literary review in peer-reviewed publications on the problem of transport taxes and to make proposals for the introduction of an environmental tax within the framework of the classification of taxes proposed by the author for the pur-pose of their introduction. This analysis showed the predominance of publi-cations with an environmental aspect. Basically, the authors analyze the application of taxes on CO2 emissions, as well as various methods (logistical, technological, managerial) to reduce these emissions and improve the efficiency of transport systems. The main object of research is road transport, to a lesser extent - air transport and sea transport.
Methods: The system approach, methods of scientific abstraction, formal logic, dialectical-theoretical methods, the method of empirical analysis, and other economic methods were mainly used in obtaining research results.
Findings & Value added: The article deals with the modern problems of calculating and paying the transport tax, its role in the costs of transport organizations. The transport tax in Russia is likely to be replaced by an en-vironmental tax. The variants of introducing the “ecological” component in the transport tax used in Singapura are proposed. The classification of taxes proposed by the author for the purpose of their introduction can also serve the purpose of preserving the environment.
Assessment of External Economic Cooperation in the Aspect of Transport Development of the Greater Tumen Initiative
Authors: Vakulenko Sergei , Nekhoroshkov Evgeniy , Majercak Peter , Karyshev Mikhail 
Published: December 2021

Research background: The aim of the scientific contribution is to analyze the aspect of Transport Development of the Greater Tumen Initiative. Economic cooperation among the countries of the Greater Tumen Initiative (GTI) is the basis for interaction in various fields, especially transport.
Purpose of the article: However, taking into account the prevailing trends in Europe-Asia transportation, it is not entirely correct to make the implementation of GTI transport projects dependent on prospective transit freight flows. At first, it is necessary to concentrate on the transport support of foreign trade flows directly between the GTI member countries.
Methods: We propose to assess the stability of foreign trade flows as a cargo base (current and potential) of transport projects within the GTI by absolute time series, which reflects the trend (or its absence, i.e. each next level is higher or lower than the previous one) and its stability, as well as by relative time series, i.e. growth rates, which reflects the stability of the change rate (the growth rate of each subsequent period is higher or lower than the previous one).
Findings & Value added: Based on the results of the assessment of foreign trade flows between the member countries, that forms the current and potential cargo base of transport projects, it was concluded not only about a high degree of stability and potential of foreign economic cooperation, but also about the need of extra measures for its further intensifying, including foreign trade transport services improvement.
Analysis of the influence of factors on agflation as a threat to food security: setting the task of system modeling in the context of globalization
Authors: Manilov Alexander , Chekmarev Oleg , Shorenko Irina 
Published: December 2021

Research background: The problem of food security in the country is one of the most pressing problems of our time. At the moment, due to the pandemic, agflation has a very tangible increase in many countries of the world. The authors propose to apply a system analysis to study the mechanism of the influence of various factors on agflation and their interrelationships.
Purpose of the article: The aim of the article is to formulate the task of systemic modeling of agflation processes and its impact on the sustainability of food security.
Methods: The authors propose to draw up systems of econometric equations, which are modules combined into one system. Equations in these systems are constructed using regression analysis, and the dependent variables in one equation can be independent in another, and can also be used in different modules. Thus, there is a connection between various equations of one system and the modules of a single system. The whole system is built on the classical model of supply and demand, which reaches equilibrium when the values of the supply and demand variables are equal. But if these variables are equal, a rational level of food consumption by the population must be maintained for the sustainability of food security.
Findings & Value added: The result is the formulation of the task of modeling the influence of factors on agflation. Due to the flexibility of the model, it is possible to trace the impact of each of the factors on the regulation of supply and demand, or how demand and supply are modified when several factors change.
Multi-criteria assessment tools for achieving balance between negotiating powers under distorted conditions of competition in construction sector’s market
Authors: Peleckis Kęstutis 
Published: December 2021

Research background: this study identified which factors influence other factors and how they have a greater impact on the value of a business entity’s HHI index. By knowing the key factors, they can be used to model possible mergers and their impact on the HHI index and possible changes in the market power balance.
Purpose of the article: to present the concept of business negotiation system, enabling to model and effectively manage the process of development and implementation of negotiation strategies, assessing the negotiating power of negotiating parties and selecting multi-criteria assessment tools to balance them in the conditions of distorted construction sector market competition.
Methods: multi-criteria assessment is used to assess the market power of business entities in business negotiations in order to select effective strategic solutions for construction sector’s business negotiations.
Findings & Value added: a developed algorithm for the development of construction sector’s business negotiation strategy based on evaluations of bargaining power is presented.
Paracetamol versus Paracetamol Plus Ondansetron on Acute Postoperative Pain
Authors: Aryafar Mohamad , Zamanabadi Mahnaz Narimani , Farazmehr Kourosh , Dehghanmanshadi Giti , Davoodinejad Sepideh , Gholami Farshid 
Published: December 2021

AbstractThis study was performed to determine the comparative efficacy of paracetamol alone versus paracetamol plus ondansetron on acute postoperative pain after abdominal surgeries in Azad University hospitals in 2017 and 2019. In this randomized clinical trial, 62 consecutive patients under abdominal surgeries, were randomly divided into two groups, group 1 patient who received paracetamol alone 1 gram and group 2 patient who received paracetamol 1 gram plus 4 mg ondansetron and the pain severities were determined and compared between groups at recovery and after 4 and 24 hours. The results of this study revealed that there were no statistically significant differences between two groups for the postoperative pain severity and analgesic use (p> 0.05). It may be concluded that addition of ondansetron to paracetamol would not result in further postoperative pain reduction and additive use of this drug is not recommended.
Isolated Intramedullary Lumbar Spine Neurocysticercosis: A Rare Occurrence and Review of Literature
Authors: Dhar Anil , Dua Sanjeev , Singh Hershdeep 
Published: December 2021

AbstractNeurocysticercosis (NCC) is the most common parasitic infection of the central nervous system. Spinal cysticercosis is a rather rare clinical occurrence. Intramedullary (IM) spinal NCC is rarer still. Furthermore, cases of IM-NCC at lumbar levels are few and far between. We present a case of a 35-year-old male patient who was diagnosed to have IM-NCC at L2-3 level and was managed surgically with no recurrence at 2 years of follow-up. A systematic literature review (1992–2020) highlights it to be only the third case reported with exclusive lumbar involvement
Comparative Analysis of Dentoskeletal Changes of the Twin Block Appliance and the AdvanSync2 Appliance in Treatment of Skeletal Class-II Malocclusion in Pakistani Population: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Authors: Ghaffar Fareena , Jan Abdullah , Akhtar Obaid , Mughal Alaina T. , Shahid Rooma , Shafique Hafiza Z. , Bibi Khadija , Mehmood Sundas , Afgan Nimra , Zaheer Rumeesha 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
Objective This study aimed to compare dentoskeletal changes in skeletal class-II malocclusion with removable twin block appliance and fixed AdvanSync2 appliance.
Materials and Methods A prospective randomized clinical trial was conducted over a span of 1 year at AFID at Rawalpindi. Thirty patients with skeletal class-II malocclusion, 16 males (53.3%) and 14 females (46.6%), were randomly selected and divided in two equal groups (15 each) to be treated with either fixed functional appliances (FFAs) or with removable functional appliances (RFAs). Out of 30 patients, 15 between cervical vertebral maturation (CVM) stages of 2 and 3 were treated with RFA (twin block appliances) and remaining 15 between CVM stages of 4 and 5 were treated with FFA (AdvanSync2 appliances). Pretreatment (T1) and posttreatment (T2), angular variable, and linear variable were measured to compare the dentoskeletal effects between the two groups.
Statitical Analysis Paired sample t-test was used to assess significant difference between variables at T1 (Pre-treatment) and T2 (Post-treatment) stage for both RFA and FFA group. Comparison among the RFA and FFA group was made using non-parametric Mann-Whitney U Test. IBM SPSS version 25.0 was used for evaluation.
Results No significant difference was found in angular variables between the RFA and FFA groups (p > 0.05) with the exception of linear variables. Sella-posterior nasal spine (S-PNS) length significantly increased and Jarabak's ratio significantly decreased for FFA group (p = 0.010 and 0.045, respectively), when compared with RFA group.
Conclusion Both the appliances, twin block (RFA) and AdvanSync2 (FFA), are effective for correction of skeletal class-II malocclusion. Both the appliances produced similar effects in the sagittal plane but for better vertical control twin block should be the appliance of choice. AdvanSync2 appliance could be preferred over twin block appliance when dentoalveolar and slight retrusive effect on the maxilla is desired especially for individuals in postpubertal growth spurt.
Volumetric compression develops noise-driven single-cell heterogeneity
Authors: Zhao Xing , Hu Jiliang , Li Yiwei , Guo Ming 
Published: December 2021

Significance
Tumor heterogeneity is widely attributed to the imperfection of DNA replication. However, little is known about the mechanoregulation of tumor heterogeneity. Here, we report that volumetric compression that usually arises from tumor progression increases the overall gene-expression noise, leading to differential cell-fate transitions along epithelial/mesenchymal transition regulatory network from homogeneous non–small-cell lung carcinoma. The increased noise could be caused by a transit decrease in gene expression following the decreasing cell volume under compression. Both the experiments and numerical modeling confirmed the differential cell-fate transitions from the hybrid epithelial/mesenchymal state to either epithelial or mesenchymal states stochastically. Thus, we suggest that the cause of tumor heterogeneity could be its mechanical microenvironment as sensed by its cytoplasmic volume.
Impact of task preparedness on L2 oral performance and strategy use
Authors: Gu Qianqian 
Published: December 2021

AbstractThe present study sets out to explore the effects of pre-task planning and unpressured on-line planning on L2 learners’ oral performance and their choices of planning strategies in a dialogic task condition. Forty-eight intermediate Chinese EFL learners were invited to perform the task and were then assigned to four groups, each with a different planning condition. Complexity, accuracy, and fluency of their oral production were measured. Results indicated that in the dialogic task condition, unpressured on-line planning raised syntactic complexity. Strikingly, pre-task planning did not improve L2 performance in all dimensions. Additionally, a trade-off effect was found between complexity and accuracy. Retrospective interviews were conducted to explore strategies employed by the participants and their perceptions of task preparedness. Results showed that the participants preferred to use metacognitive strategies and social/affective strategies in the dialogic task. Both advantages and limitations were identified by the participants regarding different planning conditions.
Short-term retention in metallic PFCs: modelling in view of mass spectrometry and LIBS
Authors: Matveev Dmitry , Jiang Xi , Sergienko Gennady , Kreter Arkadi , Brezinsek Sebastijan , Linsmeier Christian 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
Based on the conventional model of hydrogen retention in plasma-facing components, the question of hydrogen outgassing during and after plasma exposure is addressed in relation to mass spectrometry and laser-induced breakdown sprectroscopy (LIBS) measurements. Fundamental differences in retention and release data acquired by LIBS and by mass spectrometry are described analytically and by modelling. Reaction-diffusion simulations are presented that demonstrate possible thermal outgassing effects caused by LIBS. Advantages and limitations of LIBS as a tool for analysis of short term retention are discussed.