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An Analysis of Factors Influencing Green Supply Chain Drivers in the Indian Real Estate Sector Using the ISM-DEMATEL Approach
Authors: Koul Pawan , Roy Ghatak Ranjit 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
In response to compelling environmental and societal imperatives, the real estate sector is increasingly compelled to adopt environmentally sustainable practices, prompting a significant “green” shift. Drawing upon an extensive literature review and insights garnered through expert interviews, this study identifies 15 critical factors influencing the green supply chain in the Indian real estate domain. Employing the Interpretive Structural Modeling–Dynamic Multi-Attribute Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (ISM–DEMATEL) approach, the hierarchical and contextual relationships among these factors are systematically examined. The ISM–DEMATEL analysis unveils that government policies and legislation, developer orientation and commitment, and green financing emerge as the top three pivotal drivers steering the green supply chain in the Indian real estate sector. To further categorize these drivers, a Matrice d’Impacts Croisés Multiplication Appliquée à un Classement (MICMAC) analysis is employed, resulting in the classification of factors into independent, dependent, autonomous, and linkage categories. The research offers practical insights that may prove invaluable to stakeholders within the real estate industry as well as academicians.
The outcomes of Quercus robur natural regeneration after clear-cutting in the north-eastern part of Ukraine
Authors: Tkach Viktor , Rumiantsev Maksym , Kobets Oleksii , Obolonyk Iryna 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
Enabling natural seed regeneration is important because natural stands grown from seeds are more productive compared to vegetative and artificial ones; they are also more resistant to adverse environmental factors and climate change. The aim of the study was to assess natural regeneration after clear-cutting in oak stands in the north-eastern Ukraine. The research was carried out in stands where regeneration cutting was carried out in years with different oak fruiting intensity. According to the recent inventory, the total regeneration quantity in clear-cut plots was from 16,800 to 28,900 stems ha–1, including 12,600–19,300 stems ha–1 of oak (60–85% of the total number), and a greater number of the regenerated oaks was recorded in the years of medium, good and very good acorn yield. It was established that the cutting must be carried out precisely in such years, preceded by pre-harvest cultural activities to promote oak natural regeneration. The composition of the formed young stands is optimal and meets the objectives of forest management in the study region.
The spruce bark volatiles and internal phloem chemical profiles after the forest gap formation: the annual course
Authors: Šamajová Veronika , Marešová Jana , Majdák Andrej , Jakuš Rastislav , Blaženec Miroslav 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
Our study explores the impact of sudden gap formation on the bark volatile and internal chemical profiles of Norway spruce trees during the initial dry year of research plot 2018 following gap formation. We investigated the annual variation in two main physiological traits of Norway spruce trees at the forest edge (FE) and in the forest interior (FI): bark monoterpene (MT) emission spectra and internal phloem MT composition. Given that gap formation increases the solar radiation dose and temperature for trees at the forest edge, we hypothesized that the concentrations of airborne terpenes released from the tree bark and internal phloem terpenes will increase as a consequence of induced tree defenses. Our findings demonstrate significant increases in both airborne terpene concentrations and internal terpene composition in trees at the forest edge compared to the control trees in the forest interior. This study provides novel insights into the annual dynamics of bark monoterpenes following forest edge establishment and underscores the physiological changes experienced by trees in response to the gap formation.
Epigeic spider and ground beetles (Carabid) communities of semi-natural and natural habitats in agricultural landscape in Slovakia
Authors: Langraf Vladimír , Gajdoš Peter , Purgat Pavol , Štofík Jozef , Šestáková Anna , Petrovičová Kornélia 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
We studied the spatial structure of spiders and beetles in 4 types of habitats in the Poloniny National Park. Between the years 2020 and 2021, we recorded 1,597 beetle specimens and 3,765 spider specimens using the pitfall trap method. The most represented beetles were Poecilus versicolor (53.4%), Nebria brevicollis (10.3%), Staphylinus caesareus (4.4%) and Amara familiaris (4.1%). Among the spiders, there were species Pardosa pullata (21.81%), Pachygnatha degeeri (14.21%), Xerolycosa nemoralis (10.28%), Pardosa palustris (7.86%), Trochosa ruricola (6.24%) and Alopecosa pulverulenta (4.38%). We confirmed the occurrence of two European important species of beetles (Carabus zawadzkii, Carabus variolosus) and 3 species of spiders belonging to the vulnerable species according to the IUCN threat status (Gongylidiellum vivum, Palliduphantes milleri and Xysticus lineatus). We also found the spider Micaria micans, which is new to the Slovak fauna and information about its distribution and habitat preferences in Slovakia is presented. Using multivariate analyzes (CCA, RDA) and classification species into bioindicative groups, we found a greater connection of adaptable and eurytopic species of ground beetles to the mesophilic meadow and of spiders to the habitat Nardetum pasture. Based on bioindicative groups of species (adaptable, eurytopic and relict), we found only a small difference in percentile points between spiders and beetles.
Correlation of pedunculate oak leaf traits in situ and ex situ in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Authors: Hodžić Mirzeta Memišević , Ballian Dalibor , Gömöry Dušan 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
Pedunculate oak is an economically and ecologically very valuable species at the European level and for Bosnia and Hercegovina, and research into variation of this species is very important. In 2007, pedunculate oak leaf material was collected in 27 populations in Bosnia and Herzegovina along with seeds, which were used to establish a provenance trial. In the trial, leaves were collected in 2021, and 14 morphological traits were measured in both types of material. Analysis of variance showed generally non-significant differences between generations, but significant variation among populations and population-by-generation interactions. However, the correlations between generations were non-significant for most traits, and neither were the correlations with climatic parameters. The results indicate both genetic and environmental effects on leaf morphology. The utility of leaf morphology for gene conservation is shortly discussed.
Floral traits and functional role of whorls in pollinator attraction of Magnolia grandiflora L.
Authors: Sukumaran Arun , Khanduri Vinod Prasad , Gairola Sumeet , Sharma Chandra Mohan 
Published: July 2024

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Species within the primitive genus Magnolia may often produce specialized floral traits and behaviour to grab the attention of potential pollinators from their surroundings. These reproductive traits in plants undergo various selection pressures and frequently bring forth variations to adapt to the new habitat that may result in speciation. We have aimed to understand the floral traits, the functional role of floral parts, and the variable response of visitors in Magnolia grandiflora belonging to an ancient order Magnoliales. Our observations reveal that the floral traits of M. grandiflora resemble those of basal angiosperms, conforming to the primitive existence of the genus Magnolia. The inconsistency in floral form reflected that M. grandiflora has been experiencing various selection pressures from biotic and abiotic factors. Inconsistency in floral equations and diagrams reflect the structural variability in flowers, which can directly impact pollination and reproductive output. SEM images of pollen grains reveal that the pollen grains were monocolpate and boat-shaped in structure. GC-MS analysis showed that VOCs in stigmatic exudation of the flower were largely composed of terpene hydrocarbons such as Perthenine, β-Elemene, β-Caryophyllene, α-Humulene, Bicyclogermacrene, Germacrene A and D, etc. Beyond pollinators attraction, VOCs play a major role in repelling unwanted visitors and in improving the defensive mechanisms in Magnolia. Beetles, bees, and flies were found to be the active pollinators and the behaviour of bees indicates that bees were trying to replace the role of beetles in pollinating M. grandiflora. In summary, floral whorls were diversely functionalized to ensure maximum reproduction in M. grandiflora.
Exponential State Estimation for Delayed Competitive Neural Network Via Stochastic Sampled-Data Control with Markov Jump Parameters Under Actuator Failure
Authors: Cao Yang , Subhashri A.R. , Chandrasekar A. , Radhika T. , Przybyszewski Krzysztof 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
This article examines the problem of estimating the states of Markovian jumping competitive neural networks, where the estimation is done using stochastic sampled-data control with time-varying delay. Instead of continuously measuring the states, the network relies on sampled measurements, and a sampled-data estimator is proposed. The estimator uses probabilistic sampling during two sampling periods, following a Bernoulli distribution. The article also takes into account the possibility of actuator failure in real systems. To ensure the exponentially mean-square stability of the delayed neural networks, the article constructs a Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional (LKF) that includes information about the bounds of the delay. The sufficient conditions for stability are derived in the form of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) by employing modified free matrix-based integral inequalities. Finally, a numerical example is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Do Internally Managed Reits Manage Earnings More Than Externally Managed Reits?
Authors: Ajayi Oluwaseun Damilola , Akinsomi Omokolade 
Published: July 2024

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The purpose of the paper was to provide an empirical examination of earnings management among internally and externally managed REITs. The empirical accounting literature claims that internal management of a firm does not constrain earnings management, while others argue in favor of internal management for firms. Using a sample of listed South African REITs for the 2013 - 2021 time period, we examine the relationship between management structures and earnings management. We do not find any aggressive practice in internally managed REITs during the study period. The study’s findings imply that good corporate governance is a critical safeguard for stakeholders in exceptional circumstances when REITs have special incentives to manage earnings; as a result, it is suggested that REITs’ corporate governance is important, despite being overlooked in some circumstances. Specific to South African REITs, policymakers as well as nominating committees of the board of directors may wish to take note that financial competence is an important quality of external directors in order to effectively curb earnings management. This is the first study to investigate financial sheet manipulation among REITs management structures in an emerging market.
To Come or Not to Come: A Content Analysis of the Refugee Crisis in the Romanian Mass Media
Authors: Rehejeh Fawzia G. 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
This paper sets out to examine the media discourse regarding the issue of immigration in the context of the refugee crisis in the European Union. To this purpose, the paper content analyzed 94 articles published by three types of media outlets (a news agency – Mediafax, a daily newspaper – Gândul, and a tabloid newspaper – Libertatea) between 2011 and 2017. The data thus collected were coded using a coding scheme and then subjected to statistical analyses carried out along two lines: (1) to identify the central themes and specific topics present in the Romanian media discourse on immigration, and (2) to understand the differences regarding the attitudes towards the situation of immigrants in terms of the media sources where the article was published. Following the analyses, the paper found out that the main themes used to frame discursively the issue of immigration were “refugee crisis”, “immigration as a solution”, and “immigration as a problem”, each of these having their own thematic ramifications. Moreover, the analysis pointed out significant differences existing in the media rhetoric towards the immigrants: while the news agency developed a neutral-informative and fact-based discourse, the tabloid produced a discourse based on alarmist and panicking messages as well as sensational headlines regarding the supposed threat posed by the immigrants in Romania.
Interculturality in the European space through the interuniversity contacts: problems, challenges and solutions
Authors: Ciocan Ioana-Tatiana 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
Nowadays, the European space is one of communication, of interculturality, which tries not only to overcome barriers but to give them up through acceptance, cooperation, involvement. This article proposes an approach to interculturality from the perspective of inter-university exchanges and mobility. We will address several directions of analysis, following the challenges and solutions that the academic environment offers to create lasting relationships and important connections in achieving academic progress and increasing the quality of education. Besides, the study highlights how, through joint inter-university projects, intercultural communication produces an open dialogue between different mentalities, cultures, histories, and traditions, relying on integration and equity.
Rebekah Hyneman’s “The Lost Diamond“ – Towards Jews’ and Gentiles’ Mutual Exchange
Authors: Rabinovich Irina 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
In addition to presenting personal contemplations on various topics, Rebekah Hyneman’s prose and poetry has broader political and social agendas, namely bridging the gap between Jews and Gentiles. Hyneman felt that the Gentiles’ lack of knowledge of Jewish traditions leads to estrangement between Jews and non-Jews. Nineteenth-century Jewish female writers, a religious and cultural minority within a minority (women writers in patriarchal society), have been misrepresented by their contemporaries. Modern critics have failed as well to relate to their distinctive contribution as Jews, and thus are held responsible for minimizing these writers’ contribution to the nineteenth-century general effort.
Rebekah Hyneman’s “The Lost Diamond“ (1862) is a case in point of a Jewish female writer who constructs multiple identities in her factual life, prose and poetry, none of which necessarily contradicts the other. Hyneman was at once a convert to Judaism and an opponent of intermarriage between Jews and Gentiles, a zealous American patriot, but one of the earliest Zionists, advocating the Jewish people’s return to Jerusalem. She was a Jewish writer and poet, a “Mother in Israel,“ as I would like to call her, who concerned herself with Jewish traditions, and forced conversion to Christianity, and a writer who addressed the general public, especially female readership. Though far from being a feminist, one of Hyneman’s major efforts was dedicated to the creation of a female “sweet communion,“ a sort of spiritual union of all women, that is, both Jewish and Gentiles.
December ‘89 Revolution through “eyes” of the journal „Mitropolia Ardealului” from Sibiu (II)
Authors: Nedelcu Silviu-Constantin 
Published: July 2024

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This study deals with the way in which the Revolution of December 1989 was recorded in the pages of the journal „Mitropolia Ardealului”, the official magazine of the Archdiocese of Sibiu, the Archdiocese of Vad, Cluj and Feleac, the Diocese of Alba Iulia and the Diocese of Oradea. I analyzed the evolution of the religious discourse during january - december 1990, from the texts published in issues 1 - 6 of the theological journal „Mitropolia Ardealului”, regarding the Revolution of December 1989
The Giants of Reason. Aspects of Liberal Theology on Christianity
Authors: Grozea Lucian 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
The present article continues the study of The Cyclopes of Christ, published in the Saeculum Journal in the fall of 2020, and presents the vision of liberal theology on the Christian religion. This article aims to take into account rationalist theology. According to it, between reason and faith - that is, between the two faculties that guide and express the person of each human subject - is a profound divergence in receiving and interpreting the truth of reality, phenomena and events that occur and make up human history. Therefore, in order to understand a revelatory message, a demythologized and, more recently, a secularized theological approach is needed. In his essay, Isus al meu, the Romanian thinker Gabriel Liiceanu initiates such a debate. This article proposes, in turn, its own perspective and is a response to the author already mentioned, as well as to the enthusiastic or vexed readers of his book.
A Perspective on Visual Metaphor in Documentary Film
Authors: Bancoş Raluca Iulia 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
This study explores more aspects of visual metaphor. In the beginning, we wanted to show how linguistic metaphor created a link to visual metaphor. Then, for a better understanding, we talked about the composition of image, the visual rhetoric effects on audience and about the cinema language and its characteristics. We consider that visual metaphor can be analysed in visual products by decoding, to understand the author’s intention, but new meanings can also be created by the audience. In the examples we gave, we identified creative, plastic and ideological metaphors that showed a strong impact through their construction. Visual metaphor is a trope with great possibilities of expression and meaning, in new cinematic forms.
Vintilă Horia, God Was Born in Exile. Uprooting and Literature
Authors: Grigore Rodica 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
Vintilă Horia is one of the most interesting writers of the Romanian exile of the second half of the 20th century. His novel entitled God Was Born in Exile, published in 1960, explores the meanings of human uprooting under tragic circumstances and discusses exile (of the character and also of the author) as a tragic characteristic of mankind. Forced to live away from his native Romania because of the authoritarian regime imposed after 1945 in all Eastern European countries, Horia finds a symbolic version of his own life in Latin poet Ovid’s exile imposed by Augustus; therefore the protagonist of the novel gradually turns into the author’s alter-ego, being a lucid writer, completely assuming this painful uprooting and finding his true artistic identity precisely within exile, by the exquisite literary works he creates during the last years of his life.
The Influence of User’s Pains, Gains, and Jobs in the Context of e-Health vVlue Proposition Design for Visually impaired Young Adults in Romania
Authors: Ignat Doris 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
With the internet being the backbone of e-commerce, the number of e-Health solutions is becoming more prevalent around the world. However, they are not always developed in accordance with the needs of individuals with disabilities. In the past years, the challenge of inclusiveness gained significant attention, with differences among social groups and geographical regions being at the forefront of the debate. Thus, this study chose to focus on visually impaired young adults in Romania and their experience with e-Health solutions. Using the Value Proposition Canvas framework created by Osterwalder and Pigneur (2004), the study attempts to address the jobs, pains, and gains of this specific target group, with a focus on the social aspects. Qualitative research is carried out and 8 semi-structured interviews with visually impaired people are conducted. The overall results indicate dissatisfaction with the healthcare system and the medical services. Although the concept of e-Health is still developing in Romania, most participants appeared to have some experience with it, which overall was deemed unsatisfactory. The data gathered shows that this particular social group wants to carry out fundamental tasks like scheduling appointments, renewing prescriptions, and gaining access to reliable information. It was indicated that proximity to medical facilities, documents inaccessibility and interaction with medical staff are the biggest challenges. Participants experienced different treatment, either positive or negative, which affects their sense of self-sufficiency and level of independence. Solutions such as ePrescriptions, digital forms and personnel training are proposed for further research as they can address functional, social, and emotional problems of visually impaired people. Overall, this study contends that the design of a value proposition in the healthcare industry is directly influenced by the pains, gains, and jobs of the user. As Romania has limited resources, it is important to thoroughly consider consumer needs in order to design a viable value proposition.
Character and Action in José Donoso’s Fiction
Authors: Grigore Rodica 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
José Donoso’s fiction was often interpreted as an amazing example of literary technique, but also as an expression of its author’s capacity of creating incredible characters involved in numerous actions that permanently challenges the reader. In his well-known novel The Obscene Bird of Night (1970), his most famous writing, the Chilean author evaluates the relationship between imagination and reality in a human universe dominated by violence and death. In this context, Humberto Peñaloza’s attempt to compile the history of Azcoitía family represents not only the desperate attempt of an intellectual to emphasize the importance of the written word, but also a clear hint to the Latin American realities of the previous centuries.
Gods and Idols. Representations and Symbolizations of the Divinity in Religions of Ancient Israel. Aniconism – The Non-figural Presence (IIb/1)
Authors: Grozea Lucian 
Published: July 2024

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The following article represents the former section of a larger study regarding religious aniconism practiced in Ancient Israel. The aniconic movement is an alternative to the iconographic expression of divinity. Aniconism understands the configuration of the divine in a symbolic and abstract way, apart from the anthropomorphic and the theriomorphic representation. In this sense, the props used were stone and wood, especially unwrought, in their crude form, so that later, thanks to his insatiable aesthetic appetite, man could manufacture finished pillars, ornate columns, seals, chariots, thrones, obelisks, temples and pyramids, sacralized empty spaces.
The aniconist movement is found throughout the Near East, mostly in Phoenicia and Syria, but aniconic artifacts are also found in Ancient Palestine too, according to archaeological findings. Thus, the history of Ancient Israel does not strike a discordant note in this cultural-religious course, on the contrary, although the official post-exilic propaganda was as prohibitive as possible towards these manifestations, considering them alien and idolatrous.