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Reflection of the Spiritual World of Nikita Grigorievich Stroganov in Church Art

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In this article the author examines the peculiarities of the personalities of the Stroganovs, entrepreneurs and patrons of the arts at the example of the Nikita Grigorevich. The main pivotal concepts that existed in the culture of the Late Middle Ages are determined, the channels of their transmission in society are indicated. To understand the factors that influenced his worldview and were reflected in the art of the Late Middle Ages, the theory of identity was chosen, which determines the involvement of a person in certain areas of culture at universal, national and regional level. This phenomenon is realized through the adoption of fundamental values characteristic of society. The translators of these values and cultural codes in Russia during the late Middle Ages were the church, chronicles and books, public and family institutions and art. The latter is able to convey semantic concepts through a system of images and symbols filled with emotions and forming a person’s involvement with the themes and ideas of the works. The author describes the influence of the fundamental ideas of that time on the formation N. G. Stroganov’s spiritual world. It’s identified cultural codes that shape the personality of entrepreneur and found their manifestation in the art he revered

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  • 10.18510/hssr.2019.7490
SOMATIC CULTURAL CODE AND ITS ROLE IN THE CHINESE LINGUISTIC WORLDVIEW (BASED ON THE CONCEPTS OF “FACE” AND “HEART”)
  • Sep 27, 2019
  • Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews
  • Fatimabibi Daulet + 5 more

Purpose of the study: The study aims to describe the notion of somatic cultural code. The research pursues several objectives, such as: to describe the concepts of the linguistic worldview, the image of the world, the cultural code; to identify and systematize the somatic code of the Chinese language; to describe the lingua cognitive and linguacultural properties of the selected somatic concepts; to study the role of somatic components in lexical units; to investigate and describe the denotative meaning, functional-stylistic and emotional-expressive connotations.
 Methodology: The author employs the descriptive-representative method to isolate and describe the key Chinese cultural somas. Besides, the conceptual analysis method was used to determine the frequency of somatic metonymy and its influence on linguistic worldview. The material of the study consists of 3,000 examples of somatic concepts.
 Main Findings: The article offers an analysis of somatic cultural code and its role in the Chinese cultural and linguistic worldview. The research was conducted on the material of Chinese lexical and phraseological units. Despite the growing interest of modern linguistics in somatic cultural models, and in particular, in somatic metaphors, there are only a few studies on the lexico-semantic aspects of the Chinese language.
 Applications of this study: The concepts of face and heart are primary elements of the Chinese cultural somatic code with its system of associations, images, and symbols. As part of the traditional linguistic worldview they shape mentality, character, traditions, and stereotypes. As practical and axiological means, they are embedded in the language and consciousness of native Chinese speakers.
 Novelty/Originality of this study: It is one of the first studies of the Chinese somatic cultural code and its national and cultural specificity.

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  • 10.18174/212035
Weerbarstig land : een historisch-ecologische landschapsstudie van Koekange en de Reest
  • Jan 1, 1998
  • J.N.H Elerie

During the last five thousand years, the original natural landscapes in the Netherlands have gradually been influenced and changed by agrarian ecosystems. At the present time we are at a stage in which the remains of these old ecosystems have become scarce. In the peripheral regions too, urbanisation has become so dominant that the last remnants of these premodern and site-specific ecosystems are about to disappear. Knowledge about how historical ecosystems work is important not only in an academic sense but also for integrated nature conservation with a sense of responsibility for the preservation of a diverse historical cultural landscape. Insight into the symbiotic relationship of local societies with the productive environments of their landscapes, as well as knowledge about small-scale adaptation to the potential of local ecosystems, are important for the sustainable quality of our lives.In the light of its genetic and spatial approach, historical geography is the appropriate discipline to provide insight into the development of site-specific, anthropogenic ecosystems. This historical geographical study aims to provide insight into the operation and development of agrarian ecosystems in different landscape environments. This process is described and charted for two regions in the Southwest of the present-day province of Drenthe for the period 1600-1850 on the basis of written sources and of the archive constituted by the landscape itself.In order to gain insight into the functional interaction between farming and the area of production, it is necessary to switch to the level of the village territory or marke , the smallest unit of administration and jurisdiction, which is also the administrative starting-point for research into the historical sources. A chorological and chronological approach has been adopted in order to gain insight at the local level into the interaction between a human group (culture) and its immediate surroundings (natural substratum).Besides the focus on the village territory, this study is also marked by an emphasis on the agrarian form of life. This gave form and content to the interaction between culture and nature. The 'style of farming' forms an integratory core concept in this field of tension. The concept is understood in this study as a derivation from the more general concept of 'form of farming'. Style of farming derives its specific significance from the ecological setting of a village territory and should be considered as a translation of a form of farming at the local level. The link between style of farming and local ecosystem is a thread running through the present study.This study comprises a collection of independent investigations of the cultivation of the edge of the peat moor in Koekange and the stream valley landscape of the Reest. Although there are hardly any differences in respect of the object and method of investigation, the two studies are not identical. In the case of Koekange, the choice of an object of study fell on a village territory that coincided with a parish. In this case the productive environment of the agrarian community thus coincided with an administrative unit. Thanks to the greater availability of serial sources, this coincidence enabled us to emphasise aspects concerning farm economics and demography. In this sense, Koekange can be characterised as a cultural ecological study in which the central question is how a local community has exploited its landscape area and how this environment has influenced the agrarian way of life.The emphasis in the Reest investigation is primarily on the consequences of the historical forms of exploitation on the soil in the context of a landscape consisting of a stream valley system. In the case of Zuidwolde, it was possible to link up with a field research into soil ecology.KoekangeTypologically, Koekange can be regarded as a case of peat moor border cultivation. This type of settlement is found in the Dutch-German lowland plain in the coastal areas and in the Pleistocene situated further inland. The latter category emerged in the Late Middle Ages and was cultivated in the original border territory between the stream valley and the peat moor. In Drenthe there are seventeen such roadside villages with plots on an incline that can be characterised as peat moor border cultivation.The present-day roadside village of Koekange is situated on the extreme south-western tip of the Drenthe Plateau. The cultivated area of Koekange coincided with the stream valley of the Koekanger Aa (Olde Aa) and the 'Echtener fene' at cut its course along the boulder clay ridge as far as the marken of Echten and Ruinen. The moorland has now virtually disappeared as the result of centuries of primarily agrarian exploitation. During the colonisation in 1275 the orientation of the first cultivators was on the valley of the Koekanger Aa and they used the upward slopes ( opgaanden ) from the stream to the peat moor as an axis of cultivation.In 1832 Koekange comprised forty-four plots on these upward slopes, varying in width from 60 to 120 metres and with a maximal length of 6 kilometres. When the church was founded in 1331, the village consisted of twenty Oldehoven from the first stage of colonisation and an unknown number of Nijehoven. The last phase of cultivation, in the early sixteenth century, ended with the establishment of the southernmost cluster of the village, the Lage Linthorst.The study of Koekange made it possible to demonstrate a clear connection between the specific content of the style of farming and the local ecosystem. Ever since the colonisation in the Late Middle Ages, this system was caught up in a constant process of change through human intervention. Vice versa, hydrographic changes and modifications in the soil ecology necessitated continual alterations in styles of farming.The decapitation of the Oude Aa by the construction of the medieval watercourse to Meppel had far-reaching consequences in the long run. The fact that the dynamic stream system with flooding and silt deposits no longer functioned eventually turned out to be disastrous for the greenland in the cultivated area. The middling bio-production in this rudimentary stream valley already obliged the people of Koekange to look for alternative meadows in the sixteenth century. To some extent these were found by buying up land alongside the Oude Aa to the south of Koekange. This made it possible to extend the area of production outside the actual area under cultivation.The quality of the marshlands deteriorated too. The regular cutting of peat and alternation with oats accelerated the depletion of the peat bog. In the plots outside the dyke this 'de-peating' eventually resulted in wet podzol soil with bare heath overgrowth that could only be used for extensive grazing by sheep and calves. In the plots inside the dyke the alternation with oats provided an alternative for the mediocre grass supply for a much longer period. All the same, this form of greenland improvement was still unable to prevent some lots from becoming bare heath pastures. Coppice wood cultivation offered an economic alternative for the low level of productivity of the enclosed fields. Nevertheless, this form of exploitation did not really contribute to an efficient utilisation of the nutritional cycle.The southern greenland outside the plots depreciated from the seventeenth century on as well. This was primarily due to inadequate drainage via the Hoogeveensche Vaart at times of increased flow. The limited availability of high quality catchment areas and common pastures forced the people of Koekange to keep cows. Within their limited conditions, this offered the best guarantee of rapid reproduction. Besides, the attempt to secure double production (dairy cattle and meat cattle) had the advantage of flexibility in unforeseen circumstances.Furthermore, sheep farming ensured a level of stability in the production of manure, in response to the availability of marsh heath and bare heath greenland.The ongoing deterioration of the greenland destabilised the fodder situation of the cattle. Winter feeding in particular came under pressure from unpredictable hay harvests. Although alternation with oats made it possible to spread the risk, in the long run this alternative did not provide a solid enough basis to keep up the cattle stock. Reduction of herd size, however, meant an attack on the fertility of the peat fields. Since there was no more room on the village territory for additional meadows, farmers had to seek compensatory greenland outside the village. In the course of the eighteenth century this led to a large-scale practice of renting hayfields in neighbouring villages and neighbourhoods. In addition, the people of Koekange used to pasture their herds in meadows in Overijssel during the summer months.Another negative development of the local ecosystem was a gradual drop in the surface level of the regular arable fields and increasing flooding from the fields behind them. Both phenomena were connected with the deterioration of the peat soil by drainage and soil cultivation or by peat cutting. A side-effect that also had considerable importance was the problem of the low level of porosity of the cultivated peat soil. This was due to the intrusion of amorphous humus, leading to the formation of black humus strata below the old peat layers on the sandy subsoil.The reaction to the flooding was in the first instance defensive. The oldest peat fields were abandoned as permanent land for cultivation and were only used as sheep pastures or as extensive arable land or hay fields, while other plots were reserved for forestry. The loss was made good by the construction of new peat fields in the land behind the cultivated plots. In the course of the eighteenth century the disused land was brought under cultivation again with a loamy sand substratum.Other measures were also called for to reduce the risk of a bad harvest on the wet peat fields. Buckwheat as a summer crop provided an alternative to avoid the risks of a wet winter. Moreover, this crop did not require such heavy manuring and its inclusion in the rotation of crops helped to combat weeds.At the end of the eighteenth century the stagnant marshy water in the area behind the peat fields became a problem. The constant reduction of the surface level had made the plots vulnerable to the peat water that ran off to the Koekanger Aa. The medieval structure of border drainage ditches was no longer sufficient to get rid of the acidic water without damage, so that a new system of ditches was required in the parts of the village that were most seriously threatened.Despite all these problems, grain cultivation in the interdependent system of the mixed farm was the only alternative for an efficient utilisation of the nutritional cycle. A significant proportion of the mineral surplus found its way to the peat fields. A large part of the farmlands were thus 'creamed off' to the benefit of a regular rye cultivation, which alternated with buckwheat in the eighteenth century. The deep litter house system played a crucial role in this creaming - off -economy. The peripheral situation of the southern peat bog meant that it could hardly play a part in the deep litter house system, while there was little or no room on the cultivated plots for more intensive grazing.The territory of the village of Koekange offered the farmers little room for intensification. With the switch to dairy farming at the end of the eighteenth century, they were forced to resort to the catchment hayfields alongside the Reest and the Meppelerdiep. Only after the construction of the Koekangerwijk in 1848, which meant an 'unlimited' supply of urban compost, was it possible for a more intensive cultivation to get underway within the boundaries of the village territory. This was concentrated on to bring the plots outside the dyke back under cultivation for the emergent dairy farming. This socio-ecological study of Koekange has demonstrated that the ecological setting of the village territory cannot be understood as a closed system that determined the content of the style of farming. The relatively favourable location close to the Hoogeveensche Vaart and the available catchment greenland offered a solution to the limited use that could be made of the actual village territory. The import of urban compost, long drives to remote summer pastures and the utilisation of hay fields outside the territory already constituted an alternative to the restrictions of the local ecosystem before 1800. This early and broad outward-looking orientation developed to become a typical characteristic of the style of farming in Koekange.Koekange is a good example of peat moor border cultivation where the ecological structure of the village territory was influenced by the historical system of farming. When colonisation started in the Late Middle Ages, the landscape was determined by two ecotopes. Most of it consisted of a continuous peat moor complex changing to peat bog at the stream. The differences in gradient between the valley of the Olde Aa (including the Koekanger Aa) and the Pleistocene border area were very gradual. As a result of the poor drainage of the border areas, an oligotrophic peat surface developed here that rose above the Pleistocene border zone to the village territory of Echten. In the stream valley a broad zone of marshy woods developed, interrupted near the actual bed of the stream by fluviatile sedge. When the land was issued in 1275, it was referred to as the 'Echtijger vene ofte bruyck' [Echten fen or brook]. This name, the oldest designation of the area, further emphasises the original preponderance of the ecotopes mentioned above. The first colonists settled on the border between peat moor and peat bog. This border zone provided the most favourable position for draining and for the establishment of a mixed farm. The peat moor was drained and prepared for moorland cultivation, while the woods in the valley of the peat bog were cleared and turned into meadowland and hayfields.Already by the seventeenth century the homogeneous peat landscape had been transformed into a varied cultivated landscape with a number of different forms of exploitation. This differentiated landscape continued down to the middle of the nineteenth century. The construction of the Koekangerwijk marked a turning-point in the landscape and ecology when the import of urban compost came within reach of every farm and a start could be made on bringing the impoverished enclosed fields back under cultivation.The 1:25,000 grid map of the topographical military map of around 1850 shows the exciting results of centuries of interaction between culture and nature. A highly varied landscape emerges with elongated lots with a great diversity of ecotopes and gradients in the plots of land extending for kilometres, apportioning the village territory into a cake with more than fifty slices. From East to West you passed through marshy heath and shifting sands, alternating with de-peated pools, that were sheltered from the marshy ryefields by coppice woods of alder and birch. Between the peat fields and the farmyards were extensive sheep pastures and hayfields. The farmyards with their vegetable gardens, milk wagons and orchards lay beneath a green umbrella of hundreds of tall oaks. In front of the farms were the enclosed fields in a mosaic of walled greenland, plots of coppice wood and oat fields, interspersed with grassland that had turned into bare heath. The area outside the dyke consisted of heath and bare greenland, with scattered de-peated pingo remains. So the original 'Egtinger broeck en vene' had become a highly variegated mosaic landscape with numerous transitions from small-scale use ecotopes separated by many hundreds of kilometres of border ditches and alder hedges.The Reest Valley landscapeThe second research area comprises the northern part of the valley landscape of the Reest in Drenthe. The Reest is the traditional border between the provinces of Drenthe and Overijssel. It is probably due to this function that its course has hardly changed over time. The Reest is one of the few small rivers in the Netherlands that is still more or less in its original state. The stream valley system has attracted renewed attention in recent years because of its designation as a nature reserve, part of the so-called Ecological Main Structure. The morene dam complex in Zuidwolde and Lutten and the Reest valley system on the southern side determines the main contours of the landscape in the Reest area. These structures were embedded in the extensive peat moor that was created in the Late Holocene in the sandy surface of the Oer Vecht that the winds had deposited.The morene dam complex consisted of a series of North/South ridges. Only the higher ridges in Zuidwolde and Lutten were suitable for settlement. The other ridges had become so flat during the second phase of the expansion of the land ice that they were covered with migrating peat moor during the last phase of the formation of the moorland. During its relatively brief history the Reest has developed to become a typical lowland stream with little drop and a very meandering course. Because of the pattern of emergent sandy mounds that follow its course, the valley is very narrow and in some in the middle of its course. the acidic marsh water gradually changed to a that was much in and valley of the Reest more or less the The of the stream was characterised by grass peat bog under oligotrophic from peat and small of the middle with of and of marsh and the was characterised by peat fields with and peat bog. the valley and the higher morene peat moorland was not the and The parts the development of a peat zone consisting of peat bog and peat The peat moor spread from these over the higher parts of the landscape. In the area between the of the Reest and the Aa of a peat bog developed on the loamy soil of the valley In this way the Reest and its sand deposits were gradually enclosed by an extensive of peat and a result of the of a little is about the of the research area in the time it is that the area became in the as the result of the formation of the peat and that colonisation did not the Middle administrative the part of the Reest valley in Drenthe consisted of the of Zuidwolde, and The part of the below Meppel has not been in the of in Zuidwolde in was low by the of Drenthe. The was concentrated in in the middle of their village on the low dam morene that rose metres above the flat peat moor an The on the of the Reest was to a few mounds of sand The position in the of Zuidwolde determined the of settlement and the of arable land down to the nineteenth century. In 1832 of the of land in the and the local consisted of heath and of soil. from a few scattered farms on the only the was suitable for and cultivation.In the of was from this in the also from Zuidwolde in of the ecological had peat moorland of with mounds of sand while the large of sand deposits on the of the Reest provided more for settlement and cultivation. These constituted the of for the core farms in the Late Middle Ages, where they developed to become or of The result was a series of five or running from East to the from the Reest to the into five areas of marke land on an upward Zuidwolde, the oldest farms in were situated along the valley their Moreover, they were situated in a more and position in the and the more marshy land offered for cultivation than the oligotrophic peat moorland in In the first of the seventeenth century consisted of running from East to differences in the agrarian styles of farming in the two were for these differences be primarily in the local ecosystems. In the last resort these the room for of the agrarian productive unit that can be regarded as an interdependent system of forms of agrarian exploitation. The for this research was the valley system of the Reest. A considerable part of Zuidwolde and all of were on the ecological of this valley under the historical of the mixed farm. were differences in the structure and of the landscape between the two the situation of Zuidwolde was that of a valley at the of the stream. only was the valley narrow but the of cultivation were also by the oligotrophic of the Reest and the valley These were much more favourable in so that the valley was to much more of a crucial function in the mixed second could be in the structure of the deposits of sand and the boulder clay The for settlement in Zuidwolde were in the of the stream by the of sand ridges that the of the were in the dam morene on the northern side that rose above the an of boulder This a peripheral position for the Reest valley in to its in the on the boulder clay situation in was the valley was by tall that on the northern side on the peat bog in the Pleistocene valley plain between the Oude Aa and the Reest. The orientation of the different ecotopes and the central position on the offered farms in favourable for integrated these in the environment had their on the pattern of and the spatial of the different marken or village Moreover, they were in the different styles of farming of the two In Zuidwolde there was a emphasis on a creaming - off - in which the extensive oligotrophic peat heath played a central The style of farming here had a while the of land by was as a typical form of In on the other the were much more favourable for the of an integrated style of farming with an efficient deep litter house this study we between the 'form of farming' and 'style of farming'. The two are used in the but our historical ecological approach to be made between them. A form of farming in this context can be as a number of of exploitation to the agrarian use of landscape ecotopes. This a of agrarian forms of use in to the different landscape ecotopes. In the seventeenth century such of exploitation were already on a and The of such forms of use in a style of farming was thus primarily determined by the of the local ecosystem. example of a of exploitation of this that was relatively integrated into local styles of farming in the early seventeenth century is the buckwheat As we in the case of Zuidwolde, the of this had important consequences for the quality and of the peat heath which in influenced the expansion of additional forms of exploitation such as grazing and peat of farming thus have a and that is to a specific cultural landscape complex such as the Drenthe with its border Style of farming is a question of how such of exploitation are in the limited of the local ecosystem in which a farm had to in the marke or village In there thus be considerable differences between the styles of farming of two neighbouring village the environments and from one in of and good example of a of this that had an on the style of farming is provided by the exploitation of the land outside the village of Zuidwolde and In the first this consisted of en vene' and peat while in the second it was In the exploitation of ecotopes was on and of the peat so that were for the crops in the oligotrophic peat soil of Zuidwolde this process was forced by cultivation so that peat buckwheat could be for a number of years in this the was so that it a few to before a new could be The peat moor was with sheep during the the peat bog of the and the process of in a much more the field grass system of the oat field culture offered an alternative to more intensive exploitation. The oat with a varying period of was here by a heavy use of urban This of cultivation, in which were to the of the was thus much In this sense the oat field cultivation can be regarded as a form between the peat culture and permanent crop cultivation on the basis of regular have already with the of on the style of farming and the way in which they were integrated into the other of the farm. It is important in this connection to that forms of exploitation eventually resulted in 'de-peating' and of the Pleistocene sand It be to the two with one in of a of and less Both forms of exploitation in and were a part of the exploitation complex of the Pleistocene sand landscape of the village territory of forms a between Zuidwolde and It is a area with a large number of different use ecotopes. the of all the landscape oligotrophic heath moor and peat a style of farming developed here virtually all of the of exploitation. the of was by creaming a buckwheat culture with sheep grazing and peat while the behind in the marshy was the oat Thanks to the favourable situation of a number of farms on the peat moor it was possible to peat moor cultivation on a limited to the system in the neighbouring peat moor border cultivation in Koekange. we is a of of exploitation that to the position of in the differences in ecological the research also that the geographical situation was important not only for the development of the style of farming but also for the and of the cultural landscape. the for farms in to in and out was of importance for the exploitation of and a rapid of the cultivation. The link by water with the economic of the gave the in an advantage over their in the peripheral village of in the the supply of urban compost offered the in an to out of their ecological This led before to the and cultivation of

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New Map Symbol System for Disaster Management
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  • Silvia T Marinova

Abstract. In the last 10 years Bulgaria was frequently affected by natural and man-made disasters that caused considerable losses. According to the Bulgarian Disaster Management Act (2006) disaster management should be planned at local, regional and national level. Disaster protection is based on plans that include maps such as hazard maps, maps for protection, maps for evacuation planning, etc. Decision-making and cooperation between two or more neighboring municipalities or regions in crisis situation are still rendered difficult because the maps included in the plans differ in scale, colors, map symbols and cartographic design. To improve decision-making process in case of emergency and to reduce the number of human loss and property damages disaster management plans at local and regional level should be supported by detailed thematic maps created in accordance with uniform contents, map symbol system and design. The paper proposes a new symbol system for disaster management that includes a four level hierarchical classification of objects and phenomena according to their type and origin. All objects and phenomena of this classification are divided into five categories: disasters; infrastructure; protection services and infrastructure for protection; affected people and affected infrastructure; operational sites and activities. The symbols of these categories are shown with different background colors and shapes so that they are identifiable. All the symbols have simple but associative design. The new symbol system is used in the design of a series of maps for disaster management at local and regional level.

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  • Elena Andriyenko

The article is devoted to the philosophical analysis of the role of national mantality and cultural codes in the development of digital society. The article explores various approaches to the definitions of the concepts of mentality and national cultural code. The main features of mentality have been analyzed. Among them are the following: 1) the mentality is historically and culturally determined; 2) mentality is a structural part of individual consciousness; 3) mentality is changeable and transforms along with changes of the cultural field. The emphasis is placed on the synergetic approach which most fully takes into account the variability of various elements of culture and the relationship between them. The national code of culture is defined as a system of representations, images and stereotypes of consciousness and behavior, which has a non-hierarchical historical character, reflects national values, and also serves as the basis of national identity. It is emphasized that the national cultural code is closely related to the national value system, reflects it, but is not identical to it, since, unlike the value system, the elements of the cultural code are not hierarchical. Despite its ideal nature, the cultural code influences the material aspects of culture through the motivation of the behavior and activities of its carriers. Along with the national cultural code, the concept of the “cultural code of personality” is being formed in modern scientific literature. The cultural code is not something immutable. It can change under the influence of various factors. The article highlights such trends in the transformation of national cultural codes under the influence of digitalization as universalization, localization and individualization. Today the national cultural code serves as a launching pad for the formation of innovation and individual creativity that transcends national cultural boundaries. It has been concluded that the national cultural code provides a kind of “worldview immunity” against the “dark” side of digitalization without hindering the use of its positive possibilities.Key words: Mentality, Cultural Field, Cultural Code, Values, Consciousness, Economy, Digitalization, Society.

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This article is devoted to the study of the images of the main characters of the novel, representing the author's complex view of the pre-Soviet period of Russian history, the First World War and the Revolution. Each character is characterized by his own system of ideological coordinates that form the picture of the world in the novel, expressing the national and cultural consciousness of the era. The character's deep characterization is based on a value paradigm, the constituent elements of which are attitude to nature, religion, homeland, and war. It is considered how these value characteristics are reflected in the life position of each character represented in the novel.The purpose of the article is to consider the system of images in A. Varlamov's novel "The Mental Wolf". The need to consider this problem is determined by the general literary position that the author's idea of life is expressed through a system of characters. The author uses the following research methods: comparative, hermeneutical and comparative typological. With the help of a systematic approach, an analytical study of images is provided. The analysis of the image system in the novel allowed us to correlate the images with the compositional structure of the work, to consider their position in the chronotope, to determine the characterological conflict in the novel. As the analysis made it possible to determine, the characters of Varlamov's novel form a system. Its main feature is the complex connections between the characters. The system of images in the novel is based on the idea of their attraction – repulsion. Relevance is seen in addressing one of the key problems of literary criticism based on the work of a modern author. It is established that complex connections of attraction, repulsion and pair interaction are established between the characters of the novel, which ultimately allows us to talk about a complex ideological concept of the novel depicting a person and his spiritual world in an era of changing social, cultural and political paradigms.

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Zoomorphic code in the mythological and ritual tradition of Altaians
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  • N R Oynotkinova

The article reveals the peculiarities of the zoomorphic cultural code implementation in the mythology and rituals of the Altai people. Folklore texts of different genres: myths, legends, historical legends, tales, and ritual works of Altaians were studied using the descriptive method, the method of semantic reconstruction, and the method of motivational analysis used in ethnolinguistics. The concept of “double coding” serves as a methodological basis for studying the zoomorphic code in the mythological picture of the world of the Altaians. The culture code is understood as a way of expressing meaning when describing the material and spiritual world in the cultural space by native speakers, as well as a linguistic way of conceptualizing the surrounding world. Cultural codes in mythological texts are enclosed in lexical representatives-mythemes denoting various objects of the material and spiritual world and united by a theme. The author concludes that the zoomorphic code is one of the main ones involved in the coding of conceptual cultural meanings in the language picture of the world. The mythological interpretation of certain mythemes as zoomorphic entities in the mythological and ritual culture of Altaians provided one of the means of coding and reflecting the world picture. The zoomorphic code plays a role in the conceptualization and formation of various myths: theonyms, demonyms, names of cult objects, cosmonyms, and chrononyms. In addition, motivational models of mytheme formation are identified.

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18.L. Workshop: Public mental health policies - experiences and challenges
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  • European Journal of Public Health
  • Organised By: Eupha Public Mental Health Section + 1 more

The workshop has the aim to help developing and strengthening policies for Public Mental Health and support experience sharing platform for Public Mental Health policy development. Mental health policy defines the vision for the future mental health of the national population and internationally. The WHOs developed three recommendations for the development of mental health policy, strategic plans and for organizing services which are to deinstitutionalise mental health care; to integrate mental health into general health care; and to develop community mental health services. For each this aim a situational analysis and needs assessment is recommended as first step. Therefore, this workshop consists of four talks in the development of mental health policies at the regional and national level. First, the process of population consultations and participatory research is described (Felix Sisenop). Participatory research enables exchanging experiences, results and key challenges in Public Mental Health. Participatory research can contribute greatly in empowering people to discuss and deal with mental health issues and therefore is a step towards a more involved and active general public. Second, a policy development at the regional level is described (Elvira Mauz). On behalf of the federal ministry of health the Robert Koch Institute as the German public health institute is currently developing a concept for a national Mental Health Surveillance (MHS). In the talk objectives, framework model and work processes are presented. The MHS should systematically gather, process and analyze primary and secondary data, thus an integrating and monitoring system is working. Third, the Public Mental Health policy in Malta will be described (John Cachia) Over the last 7 years CMH Malta developed a strategic framework for the mental health with the input of patients, families, service providers, NGOs and civil society. The Maltese National Mental Health Strategy 2020-2030 was published in July 2019. This strategy will be described in the Talk. Fourth presenter (Ignas Rubikas) will introduce the national perspective on development of Lithuanian mental health policy addressing major public mental health challenges of suicide prevention, alcohol control policies and mental health promotion in a broader context of national mental health care. Key messages Participatory research in Public Mental Health is an approach to involve the population in policy development. Development of mental health policies can benefit from sharing experiences and lessons learned on a national and regional levels.

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  • 10.24833/2687-0126-2019-1-4-68-77
Cultural codes: essence, structure and functioning in the process of communication
  • Dec 25, 2019
  • Professional Discourse & Communication
  • V M Savitsky

The article contains a critical review of the interpretations of the concept cultural code and proposes the author’s own definition. The author points out versatility of the notion in question, describes its regulative, semiotic, cultural and cognitive aspects. The phenomenon of cultural codes is studied from the perspective of a linguistic approach, which is based on the idea of their imagery nature. The author describes an imagery code as a system of images that are part of an ethnoculture, are established in the practice of communication, are normative in nature and serve as signs of fragments of reality. It is emphasized that the basis of the images is the so-called cultural realia. Under the cultural realia in this work the author understands different objects of the real world directly related to a certain culture and somehow involved in any kind of human activity. It is noted that physical objects, gaining meaning in the mind of a person, become signs. Objects related to a particular area of reality, in the process of semiosis form cultural codes. The article analyzes a number of imagery codes of culture, describing them as codes of cognition and communication. In addition, the author studies the function of a cultural code, substantiating the fact that any sphere of reality perceived by the sensory organs can fulfill the function of a cultural code.

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  • 10.31861/mhpi2019.40.132-139
Relationship Between Regional and National Level of Electoral Competition and Parameters of Party System Structuring in the Countries of the Visegrad Group
  • Dec 15, 2019
  • Історико-політичні проблеми сучасного світу
  • Oleksandra Cholovska

The vast majority of party and electoral researches, including the countries of the Visegrad Group, focuses on the impact of elections and electoral systems on the institutionalization of parties and party systems, predominantly at the national level. However, the proposed article broadened this analysis mainly at the national level, in particular by analyzing regional elections and regional party systems. This is due to the fact that party-electoral interconnection is not one-tier, but instead is determined territorially, including territorial or administrative heterogeneity during elections. In other words, the study aims to show how region and regional elections (in the format of party system regionalization) affect the national political process, and, conversely, how national elections (in the format of party system nationalization) influence the regional political process in the context of the countries of the Visegrad Group. In this regard, the indicators of voter turnout, electoral volatility, influence of regional parties and coalitions, peculiarities and consequences of electoral blocsʼ and coalitionsʼ formation, parameters of territorial and socio-political cleavages and constructions of electoral systems and formulas were the directories of this relationship, both at national and regional levels, in the proposed study. Their use at the example of the Visegrad countries has made it possible to argue that the relationship between regional and national level of electoral competition and the parameters of the structuring of party systems in the analyzed region is largely reflected in nationalization processes at both national and regional level. Although it is theoretically found that such a relationship is bilateral and counter-dependent on the processes of regionalization of national elections and national electoral systems, or instead on nationalization of regional elections and regional party systems.
 Keywords: national elections, regional elections, party systems, nationalization and regionalization of party systems, the countries of the Visegrad Group.

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  • 10.33608/0236-1477.2021.06.3-20
СULTURAL EPOCHS AS TEXT IN LESIA UKRAINKA’S DRAMAS
  • Dec 2, 2021
  • Слово і Час
  • Olha Turhan

Based on Lesia Ukrainka’s dramas “Iphigenia in Tavrida”, “Cassandra”, “The Orgy”, “Ruphin and Priscilla”, and “The Stone Master”, the paper highlights peculiarities of cultural and historical codes of the Antiquity and the Middle Ages in the writer's works as well as literary manifestation of the world-view features of European and Ukrainian Modernism in the antique and medieval images and motifs.
 Lesia Ukrainka reconsidered the heritage of archaic and late Antiquity, Hellenistic period, Galilee at the time of Jesus, Early Christianity, and Medieval Spain. Each of these epochs has its own dichotomy of social and biological phenomena, parameters of the world model, and dominant fundamental points.
 Lesia Ukrainka’s dramas transform the material of various cultural epochs, providing polysemantic images that transfer the cosmos of a certain period into the neo-romantic and neo-classical system of images and symbols. In the dramas, the writer raised the issues recurrent in her works, such as love and sacrifice; beauty and ugliness; prophet, artist and ‘revolt of the masses’; reality and dream; good and evil; truth and benefit; nostalgia for chivalry; nostalgia for the Absolute; psychological and moral freedom and violence; spirit, soul, and body; spiritual nobility and the rule of brutes; nature and culture, etc. 
 Numerous issues and characters, multifunctional ontological, cultural, and historical phenomena, cultural codes, symbols, and mythologems acquire an existential meaning in the author’s dramas fitting not only into various cultural contexts but also into the modern reconsideration of mythopoetics.

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  • 10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105812
Rice supply flows and their determinants in China
  • Jul 28, 2021
  • Resources, Conservation and Recycling
  • Jintao Yang + 8 more

Rice supply flows and their determinants in China

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  • 10.1016/s1567-5688(10)70010-6
W9 LIPID GOAL ATTAINMENT IN EUROPEAN ADULTS WITH DYSLIPIDAEMIA: AN ANALYSIS OF THE LIPID TREATMENT ASSESSMENT PROJECT (L-TAP) 2
  • Jun 1, 2010
  • Atherosclerosis (Supplements) (Component)
  • C Brotons + 5 more

W9 LIPID GOAL ATTAINMENT IN EUROPEAN ADULTS WITH DYSLIPIDAEMIA: AN ANALYSIS OF THE LIPID TREATMENT ASSESSMENT PROJECT (L-TAP) 2

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  • 10.24866/2949-2580/2024-2/89-93
Культурный код в корейских идиомах с компонентом-соматизмом «Нос»
  • May 24, 2024
  • Дальневосточный филологический журнал
  • Валентина Александровна Тихоненко

The article discusses the cultural code in Korean idioms with the somatic component “nose”, which is one of the central concepts in linguаculturology. Cultural codes actualize interconnections between the system of symbols and images imprinted in the Korean language and spheres of the world of Koreans. The metaphorical nature of the body code “nose” is studied as an element of the Korean people’s thinking and cognition of their world. The scientific novelty is due to the fact that through the body code, the evaluative description of a person who translates the value orientations of historically conditioned Korean culture, is updated. The research methodology was based on various methods, in particular, on linguo-cultural method, the method of contextual semantic analysis, the method of pragmatic analysis in their synthesis, mutual influence and complementarity. The analysis of somatic Korean idioms selected by the continuous sampling method allows us to identify the main semantic fields that determine the functional features of the nose attributed to it in Korean linguoculture.

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  • 10.15181/rfds.v28i2.1948
Cooperation and Innovation as a Key Success Factors for Development in Regions
  • Jan 27, 2021
  • Regional Formation and Development Studies
  • Dace Štefenberga

Innovation and entrepreneurship in regions is one of essential tools, in added value creation in economics and in development in national level. It is very important to encourage creativity, new ways of thinking and continuous process of learning of individuals. There are some different approaches how to measure competitiveness of state economy and competitiveness in regional level. Global Competitiveness Index shows competitiveness of state among other world economies based on the 12 pillars of competitiveness, which is difficult to apply in regional or entrepreneurial level due to lack of data at regional level. Innovation is a key factor for development and competitiveness in individual (individual, enterprise) and institutional (local governmental institutions, regional, national and global level. Scientific problem of article is that impact of creativity, knowledge creation and dissemination and cooperation could not be measured trough quantitative data. Aim of the article is to define support model for cooperation of individual – institutional level in innovative entrepreneurship and its impact on regional development. Methods ar analysis of scientific literature, and political planning documents for define of support model in dynamic external environment.

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  • 10.22251/jlcci.2024.24.18.113
우리나라 음악 교과서에 수록된 다문화 악곡들의 지리적 분포에 대한 평가: 외국과의 인적 및 경제적 교류의 관점
  • Sep 30, 2024
  • Korean Association For Learner-Centered Curriculum And Instruction
  • Kyung Suk Park + 1 more

Objectives The aim of this study is to analyze the correlation between the geographical distribution of multicultural music pieces included in music textbooks and the geographical distribution of resident foreigners and trading partner countries, at national, regional, and continental levels. This seeks to determine whether the geographical distribution of included pieces adequately reflects the geographical distribution of human and economic exchanges. Methods Multicultural musical pieces such as folk songs, children's songs, popular music, film music, and musical theater music included in three types of elementary, middle, and high school music textbooks published by companies like Geumseong Publishing, Jihaksa, and Bisang were classified by country, region, and continent. Data on the nationalities of resident foreigners and trade data by trading partner countries were utilized as proxies for human exchange and economic exchange, respectively. The correlation between the proportion of multicultural musical pieces included in music textbooks by country, region, and continent and the proportion of resident foreigners and foreign trade by country, region, and continent was analyzed separately. Results The correlation between the distribution of included musical pieces and the distribution of resident foreigners was not statistically significant at the continental and regional levels, and at the national level, there were some statistically significant cases across textbooks, although the coefficient values were below 0.5. The correlation between the distribution of included musical pieces and foreign trade was not statistically significant at the continental level, significant cases were observed at the regional level across textbooks, and statistically significant at the national level across all textbooks, although the coefficient values were below 0.6. Conclusions Firstly, for the promotion of multicultural understanding, the proportion of included pieces should reflect both economic exchange proportions and human exchange proportions, with priority given to the latter considering its more direct impact. Secondly, it is essential to prioritize the introduction of pieces from Central Asian countries where human exchange is rapidly increasing and North African countries where there is relatively high economic exchange. Additionally, efforts should be made to increase the proportion of pieces from Southeast Asian countries, which have relatively low inclusion rates compared to their levels of human and economic exchange.

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