Character Features Research Articles

Magic Folk Tales in Intersemiotic Translation

The present paper examines intersemiotic translation of magic folk tales. Research objective is to show the structural identity of the surface structure which can be described as a sequence of plot elements (“functions”) of fairy-tale characters; in semiotic terms it is explained by the existence of a universal matrix defining the law of genre. The authors go on to the cognitive-culturological aspect of fairy tales in terms of N. Chomsky. This research paper has clearly shown that “functions” of the surface structures correspond to plans, scenarios and frames of the deep structures, which differ in British and Russian magic fairy folk tales (wonder folk tales). Numbers and proper names are the main permanent elements of fairy tale narrative: on the level of the surface structures they connect the universal matrix of a fairy tale discourse organizing space and rhythm and at the level of the deep structures - they help to understand the main features of the national character. The study is based on 13 fairy-tale film corpus, under the common theme “Beauty and the Beast”, film adaptations of the fairy tales “La Belle et la Bête” by J.-M. Leprens de Beaumont (1757) and “The Scarlet Flower” by S.T. Aksakov (1858). Hence, the analysis of the latter based on the works of R. Jacobson and W. Eco and understood by the authors as a kind of intersemiotic translation / interpretation that, on the one hand, proves universality of the proposed algorithm for studying fairy discourse in synchrony and diachrony. On the other hand, it plays the most important role in intersemiotic translation of diachronic aspect because it deals with changing the “integral model of reality”, which is reflected, in particular, in changing the on-screen presentation / interpretation of certain aspects of the fairy-tale narrative. Finally, it is worth pointing out that the conclusions can be used to study plurality of film adaptation as a form of intersemiotic translation.

PERSONALITY TRAITS OF PATIENTS WITH SENSITIVE SKIN SYNDROME

The sensitive skin syndrome as a manifestation of a sensitive personality at a biological level is considered. The research is based on the four-level structure of an individual (biological, psychological, social and spiritual). The results of the study based on the data from the questionnaire of temperament accentuation provided by patients with sensitive skin syndrome (based on the concept of accented personalities by K. Leonhard) are presented. The factor analysis of the obtained data for 107 patients with sensitive skin syndrome in contrast to 30 people with normal skin showed increased indicators on the scales of “sensitivity” (0.82), “timidity” (0.78), “neuroticism” (0.76), “emotional lability” (0.7). As well as the absence of an increase in the scales of “hypertimacy” (-0.7), “social activity” (-0.8) and “vigor” (-0.7) was noted. Three factors (“sensitivity”, “neuroticism” and “social passivity”), reflecting the combination of temperament accentuation and global character features of these individuals, were distinguished. Data for people with normal skin, in contrast to people with sensitive skin, demonstrate an increase in the scales of “social activity” (0.9) and “vigor” (0.78). At the same time, there is no increase in the scales of “timidity” (-0.78) and “emotional lability” (-0.8). As a result, two factors were distinguished (“social activity” and “emotional balance”). Thus, both psychological and somatic aspects were significant in sensitive skin syndrome diagnostics. Individual personal traits and the emotional state are closely connected with the skin condition, which requires complex treatment and timely psychotherapeutic help for patients with sensitive skin syndrome.

Елементи орнаменту на посуді заліщицької групи Трипілля

Clayware is the most common category of finds in Trypillian settlements. In addition, ceramic complex has specific features of morphological, technological and stylistic character. All this makes it an excellent material for exploring of different aspects of life of ancient societies. Ceramic complex responded most clearly to changes in environmental conditions, to the specifics of economic, social, cultural life of ancient collectives. At the same time, after reaching of a certain stage of development, ceramic obtained unchanged, stable forms. Therefore, significant changes in the ceramic industry required significant changes in the economic and social spheres. Instead, the ornamentation was characterized by rapid changes, triggered by various cultural and economic factors. We focus on the ornament because its changes in the ceramic collections of studied settlements were the most dynamic. Trypillian ornaments were examined from the appearance of the first finds in the end of XIX century and till now. During this period there were many methodological approaches to its study. Methods vary depending on what aspects are considered by researchers of the ornaments. For this purpose, classification systems were created, where those features that are important for the issue, which is being studied became the base. The work is dedicated to finding of patterns at painted ornament on the ceramic ware from the sites of Zalishchyky group of Trypillian culture, which allow to consider an ornament as a historical source. For this purpose, the database of painted ornament from material from sites of Zalishchyky group was established. Typical, used and rare elements of ornament are defined. Thus, the main features of Zalishchyky group's painting are outlined. A comparison of settlements of Zalishchyky group by elements of ornament is made. Key words: Trypillia, Zalishchyky group, ceramic ware, painted ornament.

Formation of the language personality in the era of globalization

The article analyzes the ways and consequences of the affect the globalization processes have, on the modern Ukrainian language; innovations of the late nineteenth century vocabulary, that influenced changes of lingual mind, his or her mentality and the formation of modern language personality, which are emerging in society and developing on the ground of self-performance and secured social relationships and interactions ability, and which is a condition and a product of culture, has been thought. All peculiarities of that society, in which they are (i.e. economic and social structure, peculiarities of daily life, social system of intelligent qualities and character features, that are appraised by society and gained in the process of education and upbringing) reflect in the specifics of individuals’ thinking.In the lingual practice of each new generation some specific language peculiarities appear and they are different from the speaking of its predecessors. Due to this the important tendency of the development of national vocabulary begin to be the fashion of separate lexical units, which influence the emergence of the modern lingual personality.Fashionable words are the specific layer of lexis which have words of foreign origin, stylistically confined ones which differ with strange sounds and semantics, high constancy of using them, i.e. which are in the focus of spearheaded lingual attention of modern human.The work given characterizes the concept of “globalism” as a result of adaptation of lingual elements at the phonetical, grammatical and graphical levels. The abilities of the globalization process on how to enrich language, since the flaw of information transmitted has enlarged and qualitatively enriched itself, the information, and on how to shake the language norm, destabilize lingual life, have been analyzed.The conclusions have been made about that is necessarily to define the strategy of the further development of the Ukrainian lexical found in the modern informative environment, necessarily to control the stage of entering of the Ukrainian nation into the globalized world, and that language processes of the modern period should be kept under control by specialists.

Research on the recognition technology of human relationship in face image based on deep learning

Face images contain rich and complex information, and similar genes are directly expressed as facial resemblance. In this paper, based on the theoretical background of biology and aiming at the wider application of artificial intelligence in the field of face image analysis, deep learning based recognition of the kinship of people in face images is studied in depth.Kinship recognition is a new and challenging research. In order to recognize the kinship between characters from face images, this paper defines a new correlation feature to represent the correlation between two characters. Based on the idea of multi-layer self-encoder to input and reconstruct the target, and combined with the powerful feature extraction ability of deep convolutional neural network, this paper designs a new deep convolutional self-coding neural network, and the correlation feature is the activation value of the deep hidden layer of this deep neural network. The deep convolutional self-coding neural network USES back propagation algorithm in a supervised way. With the deepening of the network hierarchy, the identity features of representative characters are extracted from face images step by step, and the identity features of a pair of characters are fused into the associated features that represent the relationship between them. Based on deep learning, the associated features extracted from face images can effectively identify a given character relationship.

Authorship Attribution using Content based Features and N-gram features

The internet is increasing exponentially with textual content primarily through social websites. The problems were also increasing with anonymous textual data in the internet. The researchers are searching for alternative techniques to know the author of an unknown document. Authorship Attribution is one such technique to predict the details of an unknown document. The researchers extracted various classes of stylistic features like character, lexical, syntactic, structural, content and semantic features to distinguish the authors writing style. In this work, the experiment performed with most frequent content specific features, n-grams of character, word and POS tags. A standard dataset is used for experimentation and identified that the combination of content based and n-gram features achieved best accuracy for prediction of author. Two standard classification algorithms were used for author prediction. The Random forest classifier attained best accuracy for prediction of author when compared with Naïve Bayes Multinomial classifier. The achieved results were good compared to many existing solutions to the Authorship Attribution.

TYPOLOGY OF LANGUAGE PERSONALITY IN PSYCHOLINGUISTICS AND PSYCHOPATHOLINGUISTICS

Known classifications of K. Leonhard, V. Bielianin, E. Berne, K. Siedov and others became the reference point for characterization of creative personalities and description of types of artistic texts. The typology of artistic texts also made it possible to found the connection of temperament with a language.The purpose is to make an overview of the psycholinguistic and psychopatholinguistic classifications of language personalities. The task is to determine their criteria, describe the features regarding used language tools. The object of the research is a typology of language personalities and the subject of research is the main criteria and specifics.K. Leonhard distinguishes the following types of personalities: demonstrative, pedantic, stuck, excitative; hypertensive, dysthymic, affective-labile, affective-exalted, disturbing, emotional; extroverted, introverted. The first group was revealed by accentuated features of character, the second one by accentuated features of temperament and the third one by personal level.V. Bielianin made an analysis of artistic works basing on emotionally-meaningful dominant. This made it possible to create a typology of texts that divide them into light, active, dark, sad, funny, beautiful, complex, which is connected with types of personalities. Each type of text is characterized by a certain thematic and linguistic systematicity.K. Siedov connects the types of language personalities with the strategies used by them: invective, courteous and rational-heuristic. The first strategy is reflected with the help of invective, the second one involves etiquette communication instead of corresponding forms of social interaction, and through the third one the negative is embodied in indirect forms.Psycholinguistic and psychopatholinguistic typologies take into account the specificity of the norm scale, the cognitive-emotional criterion, the ability to cooperate, the level of communicative competence, the tendency to use certain sign structures that are correlated with psychological characteristics, verbal behavior and the channel of information.

РЕАЛЬНЫЙ ПАЦАН И НАСТОЯЩИЙ МУЖЧИНА: РАЗГРАНИЧЕНИЕ СИНОНИМОВ В АСПЕКТЕ ИНТЕГРАЛЬНОГО ОПИСАНИЯ ЯЗЫКА

The article considers the problem of differentiating the synonyms “ реальный ” and “ настоящий ” in the expressions “ реальные пацаны ”, “ реальный папа ” and “ настоящий мужчина ”. The study is based on the theory of integral description of a language developed within Moscow Semantic School, whose studies are highly appreciated by the Chinese linguists. The author analyses typical contexts obtained from the Russian National Corpus and “Kommersant” newspaper; identifies the features of character and behaviour typical of the bearers of such names.

Students’ and staff perceptions of vocational education institution heads’ virtues

Purpose The relevance of institution leaders’ personal qualities for providing quality education is widely recognized. The purpose of this paper is to explore vocational education and training (VET) institution leaders’ character features. The research question was twofold: What are the features of the character of the pedagogical leaders of three Latvian VET institutions according to students, teachers and institution board members? What are the differences between respondents’ groups regarding their perceptions of leaders’ virtues? Design/methodology/approach Six members of the institution board, five teachers and six students participated in structured qualitative interviews collected in 2013 in three high-quality VET institutions from different fields (tourism, sports and maritime education). Secondary analysis of latent content was used to explore respondents’ perceptions of leaders’ virtues, using software AQUAD 7 for qualitative data analysis. Findings The results revealed significant differences between students’ and staff (teachers’ and institution board members’) perceptions: the staff members appreciated particularly leaders’ performance virtues (“teamwork orientation”) and intellectual virtues (“critical thinking”), whereas, for students, heads’ moral virtues were more relevant, especially “magnanimity”. Respondents also showed concern about VET institution leaders’ civic virtues (“neighborliness,” “community awareness,” and “communicability”). Practical implications The results suggest that different perspectives, and in particular students’ voices, should be integrated in VET leaders’ assessment process and that their continuing professional development should also address their intellectual, moral and civic virtues. Originality/value This study represents an innovative methodological trial for investigating educational institution heads’ leadership from the lens of virtue ethics.

Posthumanism: A Study of Mark Twain's "A Dog's Tale"

Posthumanism is a postmodernist theory which means beyond human beings. It has received attention in the last two decades of the twentieth century on. It emphasises the belief that it is not only man who monopolises the universe for his own welfare and benefits. In fact, there is no bias toward a species against the other species. According to this theory, he is no more at the center of the cosmos.The present study attempts to examine posthumanism in literature through studying its principles in Mark Twain's short story " A Dog's Tale". This paper handles the examination of certain qualities which are supposed to be confined to man but here they are granted to animals. The dog in this story is given an identity. She has humane attributes more than her master, the scientist, and his colleagues. This paper is divided into two sections. Section one is an introductory. It handles posthumanism, its characteristics and its relation with literature. In addition, it sheds the light upon the American writer Mark Twain as a posthumanist.Section two examines the features of the main characters in "A Dog's Tale" which make them having humane qualities and enable them to think and behave like intelligent creatures equivalent to humans in having the right to live decently and to be treated respectably and mercifully. The final part of the paper is the conclusion which sums up the results of the study.

A Discussion of Aristotelianism and Machiavellianism in William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” as a Children’s Dystopic Novel

The present article analyses the representation of the political regimes in William Golding’s children’s dystopic novel, Lord of the Flies. Therefore, it, first of all, underlines the dystopian nature of the novel along with the features of plot, setting, characters and content to facilitate the reader to grasp the warning against totalitarianism throughout the novel. The study finds Aristotelian and Machiavellian philosophies of politics as highly convenient approaches to examine the political endeavours of the boys in the novel. As the key intention is to interrogate to what extent they fail or succeed in following the Aristotelianism and Machiavellianism, the paper presents a detailed comparative analysis of two separate philosophies to reveal their weaknesses and strengths in controlling people. The article then affirms that the order, set up through Aristotelianism, necessitates the repression of the evil, which is considerably tough for a ruler while the evil empowers Machiavellian totalitarians who turn citizens’ lives into a nightmare.

Ethnopedagogical and ethnopsychological frameworks for shaping the character in a Ukrainian child in the heritage of Mykola Shlemkevych

<p>W artykule omówiono aspekty rozwoju sfery duchowej Ukraińców zaproponowane w twórczości Mykoły Shlemkevycha, a związane ze zrozumieniem istoty narodowego charakteru oraz z wpływem historii ludzi, tradycji, wychowania, obyczajów ludowych i życia w rodzinie. Autor ujawnił także wpływ działań człowieka na słownictwo, na kształtowanie cech charakteru danej osoby. Według Shlemkevycha charakter narodowy odzwierciedla stosunek ludzi do rzeczywistości, kultury danego narodu, jego literatury, języka, architektury itp. Objawia się on w szczególnym sposobie myślenia, uczuciach, typowych zachowaniach, reakcjach emocjonalnych oraz działaniach. Nie wyklucza to zmian charakteru jednostek w trakcie ich życia, zarazem należy dodać, że typowe cechy tego charakteru przejawiają się w pewnych skłonnościach, usposobieniu ogromnej większości przedstawicieli narodu. Według Shlemkevycha są to następujące cechy Ukraińców: wiara w Boga, patriotyzm, ciężka praca, emocjonalność, miłość do pieśni, szacunek dla matki i rodziny, wolność miłości, gościnność.</p>

Circulating Endometrial Cells in Women With Spontaneous Pneumothorax

The occurrence of catamenial pneumothorax (CP) is rare, and the awareness of this diagnosis among physicians is insufficient. CP is highly correlated with pelvic endometriosis and remains the most common form of thoracic endometriosis syndrome. Circulating endometrial cells (CECs) have been previously detected in patients with pelvic endometriosis. Could CECs bring new insights into pneumothorax management? This study aims to describe the occurrence and molecular characteristics of CECs in women with spontaneous pneumothorax (SP) (N= 20) with high suspicion of its catamenial character. CECs were enriched from peripheral blood by size-based separation (MetaCell). In addition to cytomorphology, gene expression profiling of captured cells was performed for 24 endometriosis-associated genes. CECs were present in all 20 patients with SP. Enriched CECs exhibited four character features: epithelial, stem cell-like, stroma-like, and glandular. However, not all of them were present in every sampling. Gene expression profiling revealed two distinct phenotypes of CECs in SP and/or CP: one of them refers to the diaphragm openings syndrome and the other to endometrial tissue pleural implantations. Comparisons of the gene expression profiles of CECs in pneumothorax (CECs-SP group) with CECs in pelvic endometriosis (CECs-non-SP group) have revealed significantly higher expression of HER2 in the CECs-SP group compared with the CECs-non-SP group. This proof-of-concept study demonstrates successful isolation and characterization of CECs in patients with SP. Identification of CECs in SP could alert endometriosis involvement and help early referral to gynecologic consultation for further examination and treatment.

Transference of National Peculiarities in the Novel “The Din” by E.A’zam

The works of Erkin A’zam are being translated into the world languages. Specifically, there are unique characteristics of the English translation of the literary works by Erkin A’zam. The article deals with the translation of the national features of the novel on the basis of comparative analysis. One of the most prominent representatives of the modern Uzbek literature, Erkin A’zam’s novel “The Din” is distinguished by its national-cultural spirit. The work has been translated by A’zam Obidov. The article summarizes the national features of the novel. The translation and comparative analysis show that the translator A’zam Obidov did his best to message the reader the originality of the work, which is observed in particular on the features of the Uzbek character. However, there are some drawbacks, in terms of the description of the portraits and characters in the translation of particular words and phrases. The purpose of the translation is to introduce the Uzbek people’s lifestyle to the readers of the world; to strengthen the communication among people, literature, and intercultural society.

Neutrality operations-based Pythagorean fuzzy aggregation operators and its applications to multiple attribute group decision-making process

Pythagorean fuzzy sets accommodate more uncertainties than the intuitionistic fuzzy sets and hence it is one of the most important concepts to describe the fuzzy information in the process of decision making. Under this environment, the main objective of the work is to develop some new operational laws and their corresponding weighted aggregation operators. For it, we define some new neutral addition and scalar multiplication operational laws by incorporating the features of a neutral character towards the membership degrees of the set and the probability sum. Some properties of the proposed laws are investigated. Then, associated with these operational laws, we define some novel Pythagorean fuzzy weighted, ordered weighted and hybrid neutral averaging aggregation operators for Pythagorean fuzzy information, which can neutrally treat the membership and non-membership degrees. The various relations and the characteristics of the proposed operators are discussed. Further, in order to ease with the possible application, we present an algorithm to solve the multiple attribute group decision-making problems under the Pythagorean fuzzy environment. Finally, a practical example is provided to illustrate the approach and show its superiority, advantages by comparing their performance with some several existing approaches.

СУСПІЛЬНО-ГЕОГРАФІЧНІ ОСОБЛИВОСТІ РОЗВИТКУ ЖІНОЧОГО ПІДПРИЄМНИЦТВА В УКРАЇНІ

The development of female entrepreneurship is increasingly seen as a significant factor in economic and social progress. The purpose of the article was quantitative and qualitative assessment of social and geographical characteristics of female entrepreneurship in Ukraine, identification of the features of the Ukrainian business woman and the factors under which they are formed, also a description of the problems that accompany the development of this type of women activity. The article assesses the scale of female entrepreneurship in Ukraine. Just as in men, it is considerably inferior to hired labor. In general, gender gaps in the number of entrepreneurs in general and in regions are estimated to be small. It has been established that women have a greater presence in the small business, industries and types of economic activity, which fit into the social roles of the traditional society. The degree of activity of women in social entrepreneurship is determined. In this type of entrepreneurial activity, women are not much inferior to men, but also choose traditional for Ukrainian society activities. The factors influencing the formation of the women’s entrepreneurship initiative in Ukraine can be divided into two groups: transformational and socio-cultural. A special role in the latter is given to the features of the national character and stereotypes that have emerged in Ukrainian society. The social portrait of the Ukrainian business lady, which is formed under the influence of the above-mentioned factors, is quite controversial and has both positive and negative features. Some of them can be a serious obstacle to women coming to business and confident in staying there. The range of problems that accompany the development of female entrepreneurship in Ukraine is outlined. Some of them apply to all entrepreneurs, others apply to women only. Many of the latter are generated by a closer link between business and private life in women. Among others are forced entry into business, low self-esteem, lack of government support and lack of initial funding.

Online Tibetan Handwriting Recognition for Large Character Set on New Databases

The online handwriting recognition of Tibetan characters is still in its infancy. For further research, an online handwriting database of large Tibetan character set was developed, and a recognition research was carried out on this database as a baseline result. The Northwest Minzu University Online Tibetan Handwriting Database (NMU-OLTHWDB) contains 7240 different types of characters, and the sample number in each type is 5000. The total number of samples is [Formula: see text]. The database covers Tibetan Character Collection, Information Technology Tibetan Coded Character set (Extension Set A), and Information Technology Tibetan Coded Character set (Extension Set B). The characters in the database are composed of 170 types of different components. We studied the online handwritten Tibetan recognition software also, and the character feature extraction, classifier training, and the statistics and analysis of the recognition results on the test set were mainly introduced. The character features included the direction attribute coefficients and spatial combination, and the feature matrix was compressed by Linear Discriminate Analysis (LDA). A quick classifier was designed by a modified quadratic discriminate function (QMQDF), and was trained with 4500 sets of samples. In the large character set, the recognition rates of top 1, top 3, top 5, and top 10 were 75.2%, 89.56%, 93.02%, and 95.96%, respectively. Moreover, an online handwriting recognition system for Tibetan large character set was designed with good performance.

A Study on the features of Female Characters' anecdotes in Sok-Monggu

A Study on the features of Female Characters' anecdotes in Sok-Monggu

An efficient and improved scheme for handwritten digit recognition based on convolutional neural network

Character recognition from handwritten images has received greater attention in research community of pattern recognition due to vast applications and ambiguity in learning methods. Primarily, two steps including character recognition and feature extraction are required based on some classification algorithm for handwritten digit recognition. Former schemes exhibit lack of high accuracy and low computational speed for handwritten digit recognition process. The aim of the proposed endeavor was to make the path toward digitalization clearer by providing high accuracy and faster computational for recognizing the handwritten digits. The present research employed convolutional neural network as classifier, MNIST as dataset with suitable parameters for training and testing and DL4J framework for hand written digit recognition. The aforementioned system successfully imparts accuracy up to 99.21% which is higher than formerly proposed schemes. In addition, the proposed system reduces computational time significantly for training and testing due to which algorithm becomes efficient.

Prevalence of trigger factors in migraine

Background: Migraine is one of the most common types of headache. Many patients with migraine have precipitating factors known as trigger factors, recognition of which may lead to a better diagnostic, preventive and therapeutic approach. Objective: To study the prevalence of various trigger factors in patients with migraine, and to analyse various socio-demographic factors with respect to trigger factors. Materials and Methods: A total number of 500 patients of either sex fulfilling the ICHD3 diagnostic criteria for migraine aged more than 15 years attending Neurology Department of SMS Medical College, Jaipur, between January 2018 and February 2019 were studied. Patient enrolled in the study underwent a detailed structured interview and the information regarding the characteristics of headache including the time of onset, duration, frequency, character, site and associated features with due stress on the trigger or precipitating factors. Chi-square and t-test were performed to determine the statistical significance of the results. Results: As per the analysis, 91% of the patients reported more than one trigger factor for headache. Bright sunlight (43%), physical activity (43%), noise (42%), stressful events (41%), tea/coffee deprivation (38%), travelling (34%), hunger (33%), sleep (31%), and fatigue (29%) were some of the major trigger factors reported by the sample. People living in urban areas reported a higher number of trigger factor as compared to rural areas, which includes factors such as stress and fatigue. Sleep deprivation and physical stress were higher among rural areas. Conclusion: The present study presents a general idea about trigger factors related to headache in the North-western part of India. Bright sunlight, physical activity, noise, stressful events, tea/coffee deprivation, travelling, hunger, sleep, and fatigue parameters were some of the major trigger factors reported by the sample. Moreover, people living in urban areas reported a higher