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Narratives are foundation of human cognition and decision making. Because narratives play a crucial role in societal discourses and spread of misinformation and because of the pervasive use of social media, the narrative dynamics on social media can have profound societal impact. Yet, systematic and computational understanding of online narratives faces critical challenge of the scale and dynamics; how can we reliably and automatically extract narratives from massive amount of texts? How do narratives emerge, spread, and die? Here, we propose a systematic narrative discovery framework that fill this gap by combining change point detection, semantic role labeling (SRL), and automatic aggregation of narrative fragments into narrative networks. We evaluate our model with synthetic and empirical data — two Twitter corpora about COVID-19 and 2017 French Election. Results demonstrate that our approach can recover major narrative shifts that correspond to the major events.

Subject of study. The study focuses on the features of forming and implementing a biocentric approach to human resource management in the process of digital transformation of organizations within the framework of the Industry 5.0 concept. The aim of the study is to analyze the specifics of digital transformation in human resource management in the context of Industry 5.0, with an emphasis on the biocentric approach, and to formulate practical recommendations for its implementation in Ukrainian companies, taking into account current technological and sociocultural challenges. Research Methods. The study employs a combination of methods, including: theoretical generalization — to systematize approaches to biocentric human resource management; comparative analysis — to compare HR strategies of leading companies with biocentric concepts; structural-functional analysis — to develop practical recommendations for implementing biocentric strategies; and an empirical method — in the form of an online survey conducted among representatives of small and medium-sized businesses in Ukraine. Results of work. The conducted research, based on empirical data and comparative analysis, allows for a number of generalizations regarding the current state and prospects of digital transformation in human resource management within the framework of Industry 5.0, with a focus on the biocentric approach.The results of the survey among Ukrainian HR managers and leaders of small and medium-sized enterprises indicate that biocentric principles are still in the early stages of adoption. Only 18% of respondents are familiar with the relevant terminology, and just 6% have implemented certain elements in practice. Meanwhile, 40% are partially aware of the concept, and 36% have not considered its implementation at all. This highlights both the potential for development and significant gaps in awareness and practical application. In contrast, the experience of the German company Heraeus Group demonstrates a mature and systematically implemented biocentric HR strategy: over 70% of respondents actively use related practices, 52% have integrated them into corporate culture, and 22% have participated in internal training programs. These results confirm the viability and effectiveness of the biocentric model in the context of Industry 5.0. Unlike traditional techno-centric models, the biocentric approach places the human being at the center of organizational processes. It addresses employees’ physiological, psychological, and spiritual needs, supports digital well-being, facilitates the personalization of HR processes through neural network technologies, and fosters organic organizational ecosystems based on biomimicry. However, Ukrainian companies face multiple challenges on the path toward such transformation, including technological gaps, cognitive-cultural barriers, regulatory uncertainty, and economic constraints. Therefore, the development of an adaptive implementation strategy is essential—one that includes phased learning, hybrid management models, localization of global best practices, and the integration of humanistic values into digital transformation. The results obtained hold both theoretical and practical significance and can serve as a foundation for further research and for rethinking HR practices in accordance with the principles of Industry 5.0.

Centralization is one mechanism of authoritative control, where citizens receive operation guidelines from a single source. This can impact various spheres of life including local gastronomic knowledge, a cornerstone of biocultural diversity. We explored how to evaluate the effects of Soviet centralization on wild food plant local gastronomic knowledge. We considered four case studies of ethnic communities that are divided by political borders. In total, we conducted 581 semi-structured interviews. Our results suggest three main findings. The first regards the high similarity of use of wild food plants among the communities living in Russia and Finland. The second involves the higher proportion of simple preparations made with wild food plants in Soviet contexts, which is not evident in adjacent non-Soviet countries. The third concerns the low(er) number of distinct wild plant-based foods retained by non-Soviet countries and, in post-Soviet contexts, those that refer to past uses. We argue that the erosion of wild food plant-based local gastronomic knowledge guided by homogenization and repression poses a serious risk to local food security.

Smartphones and social media have become inextricable parts of our daily lives. The everyday lives and communication practices of migrant workers are particularly affected by these global technological developments. Such global developmental trends are especially visible within the growing body of scholarly literature on migrant transnationalism and technology, where mobile phones are examined as central drivers of migrant transnationalism. However, the bulk of the existing literature on “migration and mobile phone technology” focuses on the case studies of immigrant communities living in Western democracies (e.g., the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia). Given the sociopolitical and cultural differences between Western and post-Soviet contexts, we cannot assume that theoretical insights and tools developed in Western contexts are fully applicable in the Russian context. The Russian context provides intriguing insights to “migration and mobile phone technology” debates given its undemocratic regime, xenophobic environment, corrupt legal system, and draconian immigration laws and policies that leave little room for migrant transnational activism and collective mobilization. Notwithstanding these structural barriers, migrants in Russia are resilient actors and have developed alternative coping strategies by producing smartphone-mediated transnational communities and identities, usually centered around migrants who hail from the same village and community. Accordingly, within the Russian context, smartphones and social media serve not merely to maintain daily transnational communication (i.e., being “here” and “there”), but, more importantly, represent tools for building a tight-knit community and are crucial to migrants’ daily survival and livelihoods in a repressive and xenophobic environment. These processes not only encompass coping strategies and communicative practices that take place within the migrant labor market (“outside world”) but also touch upon the lives of migrants serving prison sentences in Russia’s penal institutions (“inside world”). In this sense, smartphones provide a virtual platform for various risk-stretching activities and establishing social safety nets otherwise unavailable from the migrants’ home and host countries.

This article explores how transnational borderlands matter for conflict prevention and, in particular, so-called upstream engagement, which aims to reduce threats to global stability and security that arise from the world’s increasing interconnectedness. Accounting for transnational borderlands in vulnerable regions is crucial for conflict prevention as pursued by the defence and security sector because borderlands are catalysts of the negative side of global interconnectedness: they are business hubs for transnational organised crime, sites of retreat for conflict actors, and safe havens for terrorists. The border areas’ proneness to impunity and the ability of violent non-state actors to govern these spaces illicitly contribute to the emergence of these characteristics. I therefore argue that upstream conflict prevention needs to do two things to address these risks: first, to overcome a national security approach centred on the borderline and instead acknowledge transnational security dynamics in borderlands on both sides of the border; second, to overcome the state-centred governance lens to also consider governance exerted by non-state actors. The article draws on empirical data from a six-year study including over a year of fieldwork in and on Colombia’s borderlands.

Disentangling Some Conceptual Knots.

ABSTRACTDrawing on ethnographic research among transnational Moldovan households in Moscow, this essay considers how ideals of belonging, assertions of historically inflected rights, and aspirations for mobility are all part of the everyday practice of citizenship. Mobile subjects encountering increasingly restrictive post-Soviet citizenship regimes often recall incorporation into a greater historical polity than their current passports would suggest. Three key areas are examined: the intersection of citizenship regimes and popular understandings of belonging; the sense of rights driven by cultural logics informed by previous history; and the way in which ideals and practices of citizenship are diverse among migrants from apparently homogeneous migration streams. The post-Soviet context where the Soviet promise of enfranchisement continues to inform how people on the margins view citizenship illustrates just how deeply citizenship regimes come to be incorporated into popular understandings of belonging even long after formal citizenship ceases to exist.

One of the big problems that must be faced by the nation now is the (disparity) or growth gap (growth) in the regional and socio-economic areas (socio economic) in the border area (mainland) and the outer islands that is a border area with other countries. The backwardness of these border areas compared to non-border regional areas in various matters related to development outcomes and equitable distribution. The objectives of this study were : (1) The Impact of the Regional Expansion of Sambas Regency on the Economic Growth of the Muslim Community in Sajingan Besar District. (2) Islamic economic review of the impact of regional expansion in Sambas Regency in improving the economy of the Muslim community in the Sajingan Besar District. This study used a qualitative approach and descriptive analysis method using field research. The results of this study indicated that the impact of the expansion of the Sambas Regency area on the economic growth of the Muslim community in Sajingan Besar district has three impacts namely : the first is the social impact of the community, both on the economy and education, the second is the impact on public services and the third is the impact on infrastructure. Meanwhile, an Islamic economic review of the impact of regional expansion in Sambas Regency in improving the economy of the Muslim community in Sajingan Besar District The impact of regional expansion in Sajingan Besar District from an Islamic economic perspective shows quite good changes. Islam determines the main functions of the state and government in the economic field, namely eliminating economic difficulties experienced by the people, providing easy access to economic development for all levels of the people and creating prosperity. Meanwhile, Islam considers poverty to be something that can endanger morals, logical thinking, family and society. There are three ways to overcome poverty, namely: 1). increase the real sector and eliminating usury, 2). develop infrastructure development, as well as health and education that become factors in the economic development of welfare and justice (al-adl wal ihsan) and a good living (hayyah thayyibah) for all people, as the goal of Islamic economics to achieve falah that can be realized through mashlahah optimization.

Despite continued development of effective HIV treatment, expanded access to care and advances in prevention modalities, HIV‐related stigma persists. We examine how, in the context of a universal HIV‐testing and treatment trial in South Africa and Zambia, increased availability of HIV services influenced conceptualisations of HIV. Using qualitative data, we explore people’s stigma‐related experiences of living in ‘intervention’ and ‘control’ study communities. We conducted exploratory data analysis from a qualitative cohort of 150 households in 13 study communities, collected between 2016 and 2018. We found that increased availability of HIV‐testing services influenced conceptualisations of HIV as normative (non‐exceptional) and the visibility of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in household and community spaces impacted opportunities for stigma. There was a shift in community narratives towards individual responsibility to take up (assumingly) widely available service – for PLHIV to take care of their own health and to prevent onward transmission. Based on empirical data, we show that, despite a growing acceptance of HIV‐related testing services, anticipated stigma persists through the mechanism of shifting responsibilisation. To mitigate the responsibilisation of PLHIV, heath implementers need to adapt anti‐stigma messaging and especially focus on anticipated stigma.

Changes in the Russian society, globalization and integration, and growing migration flows lead to a clear understanding of the fact that further development of the society is possible only in conditions of cross-cultural dialogue between the representatives of different nationalities capable of tolerating the host culture. In these conditions, international communication culture serves as a means of harmonious existence in the society. The aim of the study consists in identifying and analyzing the innovative methods of formation of international communication culture among students of a pedagogical institute and introduction of new content into the system of higher pedagogical education with consideration of the regional specificity. The study uses various diagnostic methods: interdisciplinary, comparative, and semantic analysis of literature on psychology, pedagogy, philosophy, sociology; theoretical generalization and systematization of scientific, theoretical and empirical data, modelling; poll; questionnaire; analysis of activity products; direct/indirect, long term/short term observation; experiments; mathematical statistics. The results of the study show that interethnic communication culture is considered as the main personal and professional characteristics of an undergraduate student. Pedagogical activity is a means of placing the values of native and host culture. The paper results allow to state that the process of education and training of undergraduate foreign students must be implemented with consideration of cultural and national peculiarities, and changes in the society. Innovative methods, such as inclusion of students into creative national associations, their engagement into various University events enhance the process of formation of international communication culture and interaction in a pedagogical institute.

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The analysis of the literature and own data devoted to the study of the most interesting phenomenon of the formation in anthers of flowering plants under stress effects the so-called «pollen embryo sacs» (Nemec phenomenon). It is noted that certain empirical data have been accumulated in this field of research and some theoretical generalizations have been made, however, the switching of the morphogenetic program of anther cell development with the change of male to female potency has not yet been definitively explained. It is emphasized that the basic approach to understanding this phenomenon should be the further development of the problem of the totipotency and stemless cell properties as an ability to self-renew and generate various types of cells, caused, apparently, by the attached lifestyle of plants. In addition, the further development of the concept of the anther as a complex integrated system should play an important role, since the formation of such structures is induced by violations of the integrity of the anther under the influence of stress factors. The data obtained during the study of the formation of «pollen embryo sacs» from anther cells can contribute to further understanding of the fundamental principles of the most complex process of plant morphogenesis.

This paper explores the Economic Community of West African States’ (ECOWAS) citizenship regime by investigating the institutional perceptions of five departments of the ECOWAS Commission. Creating a citizenship regime has been a central objective of the organisation's institutional framework but previous research has refrained from examining its multiplicity. The paper uses the concept of citizenship regime consisting of the dimensions rights, access, belonging and responsibility mix as the conceptual lens and draws on institutional documents and primary data from interviews conducted at the ECOWAS Commission. The paper contributes to current debates in citizenship studies and African regionalism and the literature on supra-national citizenship building, regional integration and governance research in Africa and elsewhere. The empirical data show that movement is central to the ECOWAS citizenship regime, whether formulated in terms of a right, as a way to facilitate access, or a way to establish a sense of regional belonging.

The border management in all of Indonesia areas is one of integral part of State management; it is implemented by comprehensive approach consist of three dimensions of border management as follows prosperity, security, and environmental management of State border area, implemented by applying an approach oriented to security and environment. This research aims to analyze security management and community prosperity of border area in Sota Region called RI-PING of Merauke District. Quantitative research is one of research method by collecting data and information gotten directly from informant through observation process, interview and documentation on a field notification form, interviewing transcript, empirical data documentation. The security research analysis becomes a successful keys of a State onto keeping community sovereignty of State stability being the main support in a border area to increase human resources, economy competitiveness, and community’s prosperity become main target of the State security sovereignty. The lack quality of human resource as an impact of minimum facility and infrastructure of education is as well as healthy. The security of the border area faces various obstacles, the minimum facility and infrastructure consist of road infrastructure hasn’t been sufficient, the wide region with characteristics of a difficult border to reach necessary means of supporting surveillance activities to bolster security in the border area. Community’s prosperity frontier regions suffered a failed human resource, skills are still low, and the economy of the community is traditional.
 Key words: Security Management, Prosperity, Border Area, Facility, Infrastructure.

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