Constant Interest Research Articles

Complete Cototal Roman Domination Number of a Graph for User Preference Identification in Social Media

Many graph domination applications can be expanded to achieve complete cototal domination. If every node in a dominating set is regarded as a record server for a PC organization, then each PC affiliated with the organization has direct access to a document server. It is occasionally reasonable to believe that this gateway will remain available even if one of the scrape servers fails. Because every PC has direct access to at least two documents’ servers, a complete cototal dominating set provides the required adaptability to non-critical failure in such scenarios. In this paper, we presented a method for calculating a graph’s complete cototal roman domination number. We also examined the properties and determined the bounds for a graph’s complete cototal roman domination number, and its applications are presented. It has been observed that one’s interest fluctuate over time, therefore inferring them just from one’s own behaviour may be inconclusive. However, it may be able to deduce a user’s constant interest to some level if a user’s networking is also watched for similar or related actions. This research proposes a method that considers a user’s and his channel’s activity, as well as common tags, persons, and organizations from their social media posts in order to establish a solid foundation for the required conclusion.

Asymptotics for random-time ruin probability of a risk model with diffusion, constant interest force and non-stationary arrivals

Asymptotics for random-time ruin probability of a risk model with diffusion, constant interest force and non-stationary arrivals

NFT-арт: диалоги с наследием авангарда и модернизма

The article analyzes the ideological and artistic dialogues of contemporary digital artists with masters of art of past eras, primarily modernism and avant-garde. Despite the widespread opinion that modern digital culture radically breaks and rejects any connection with the artistic tradition, we observe a constant interest in the artistic culture of past periods, its rethinking and interpretation. In our opinion, the dispute between generations, notable even at the initial examination, is not a conflict, but rather a productive dialogue showing the inherent value and selfsufficiency of the latest digital art

КЕНЖЕ МЕКТЕП ОКУУЧУЛАРЫНДАГЫ ОРИГАМИНИ КОЛДОНУУ МОТИВАЦИЯЛАРДЫН КАЛЫПТАНЫШЫНЫН ДЕҢГЭЭЛДЕРИ

In the process of practical and experimental work, we set the task to check the effectiveness of the work carried out to develop the creative abilities of younger students. The main indicator of the development of creative activity of younger students is the constant interest in the educational process, readiness to complete tasks, and their attitude to non- standard solution of tasks. The structural level of mutual enrichment in the development of the creative personality of a junior schoolchild is considered as a property that is equally applicable to everyone, emotional expressiveness, creative activity, freedom of thought and behavior. This is the formation of readiness for creativity, the search for new, non-standard ways of solving problems; the formation of communication skills in the classroom. To improve the motivational perception of learning based on interest and the desire to acquire new knowledge, concentration and stability of attention will contribute to a more intensive development of spatial and figurative thinking.

1960-70년대 서부 미니멀리즘 회화 작업의 지역성 : ‘라이트 앤 스페이스 (Light & Space)’ 작가들을 중심으로

The purpose of this thesis is to trace West Coast minimalists’ works of art through the perspective of their locality. West Coast minimalism is an art movement formed independently by ‘Light & Space’ artists from the Los Angeles area. This art movement shares similar characteristics with New York minimalism, especially extrinsic aspects, though Los Angeles artists were able to develop their unique artistic style based on locality of Los Angeles. This thesis discusses West Coast minimalism’s locality by focusing on their paintings. Although Los Angeles artists had been imitating Abstract Expressionism from New York in the mid-20th century, they initiated West Coast minimalism through non-traditional works such as shaped canvas and hard edge. Later, West Coast minimalism’s concern for painting converged with Pop Art, then created Finish Fetish. Finish Fetish was Los Angeles Pop art with a locality based on Los Angeles car culture. Furthermore, West Coast minimalism’s constant interest in painting resulted in the return of painting from objects and installations by Los Angeles artists in the 1970s.

Agribusiness development and insurance as a factor of Georgia’s economic growth

Georgia is a small state, stretched between two seas, which has always aroused constant interest in the world due to its geopolitical position. Many called it Iberia or Iveria, and often called Gurjistan. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, this small oasis attracted many conquerors not only because of its importance, but also because of its culture, historical buildings and fruitful lands. Georgia is a sunny and fertile country, where everything blooms and pleases. Our ancestors from ancient times engaged in agriculture, cattle breeding and had an active connection with the land. According to historical sources, Georgia is more than four thousand years old, and the Georgian alphabet and writing are unique to the whole world. Since the fourth century, Christianity has been our state religion, but the country unites representatives of many cultural ethnic groups and religious beliefs. A completely different historical page began after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when Georgia found itself alone in the face of new challenges and realities. Although we do not have oil and gas ores, which allows the state to develop rapidly, in other areas we may well take a leading position. For example, it is possible to develop the tourism sector at a high level, since the country is distinguished by its historical monuments, some of which are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. However, a small state like Georgia can focus on agriculture and succeed. For rural welfare, there is the Rural Development Agency, which coordinates projects with the Ministry of Environment and Agriculture of Georgia and assists enterprises interested in this area. Since 2014, the Agricultural Insurance scheme has been operating, the purpose of which is to promote the development of the insurance market in the agricultural sector, promote agricultural activities, save income and reduce risks for those involved in this activity. Our topic is about the development of agribusiness and insurance, which is one of the key factors in Georgia's economic growth.

Regional Aspects of the Initiative "Belt and Road"

According to the Concept of the Foreign Policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2020- 2030, one of the key priorities in the field of regional and multilateral diplomacy is the further development of a comprehensive strategic partnership with the People’s Republic of China. Currently, China is one of the leading world powers, a strategic partner of Kazakhstan and one of the few countries in the world that can provide feasible financial assistance to our country to restore the economy faced with the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. China’s foreign policy strategies reflect the approach of the country’s leadership to the system of international relations and global governance. China is constantly in the spotlight and arouses constant interest. It should also be noted that an important factor for the PRC determining the development of its relations with Kazakhstan is the intention to create a buffer zone between major world powers.

LINGUISTIC UNIVERSALS AS THE FOUNDATION OF COMPARATIVE RESEARCH

The article is devoted to linguistic universals as one of the most important term of typology and the foundation of comparative research.
 Purpose. The analysis is aimed at tracing the history of the emergence and formation of the term linguistic universals, as well as analyzing the available definitions and classifications of universals on the basis of the synthesis of the views of famous linguists and the authors’ own observations, and determining the place of verbal constructions with an aspectual meaning in the system of linguistic universals.
 The relevance of the research is due to the constant interest of scientists in particular languages as a product of universal thinking, as well as the discovery of new universals and the need for their description and systematization.
 The research material is the texts of translations of Ossetian folk tales into Russian, English and Turkish.
 Materials and methods. The methodological basis of the study is theoretical analysis of literary sources, comparison, generalization, systematization оf empirical data.
 Results. The article concludes that there is no unambiguous interpretation of linguistic universals and, consequently, there are different approaches to the definition of the term universals depending on the volume of linguistic phenomena covered by this term. Discrepancies in the set of tools for implementing universal aspectual meanings of the compared languages can be explained by the peculiarities of the structural and typological organization of each specific language.
 Practical implications. The results of the analysis can be used in routine didactic processes, contributing to the improvement of the methodology of teaching a practical course of languages, a course of theoretical grammar, translation theory.

Phytochemical Profiling, Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Plants Belonging to the Lavandula Genus.

Lavender is a valuable medicinal plant belonging to the Lamiaceae family. Currently 39 species are known, but only Lavandula angustifolia is a pharmacopoeial raw material. Lavender has a long history of medicinal use and mainly exhibits antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, sedative, antidepressant, spasmolytic, anticholinesterases, antifungal and antibacterial properties. Used internally, it relieves symptoms of mental stress and insomnia and supports digestion. Topical use of lavender in aromatherapy, neuralgia and antiseptics is also known. The constant interest in lavender, and in particular in Lavandula angustifolia, in the field of medicine and pharmacy is evidenced by the growing number of publications. In view of so many studies, it seems important to review traditional and modern extraction techniques that determine the chemical composition responsible for the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of various extracts from the species of the Lavandula genus.

An economic scenario generator for embedded derivatives in South Africa

It is well known that interest rate risk is a dominating factor when pricing long-dated contingent claims. The Heston stochastic volatility model fails to capture this risk as the model assumes a constant interest rate throughout the life of the claim. To overcome this, the risk-free interest rate can be modelled by a Hull-White short rate process and can be combined with the Heston stochastic volatility model to form the so-called Heston-Hull-White model. The Heston-Hull-White model allows for correlation between the equity and interest rate processes, a component that is important when pricing long-dated contingent claims. In this paper, we apply the Heston-Hull-White model to price Guaranteed Minimum Maturity Benefits (GMMBs) and Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefits (GMDBs) offered in the life insurance industry in South Africa. We propose a further extension by including stochastic mortality rates based on either a continuous-time Cox-Ingersoll-Ross short rate process or a discrete-time AR(1)-ARCH(1) model. Our findings suggest that stochastic interest rates are the dominating factor when reserving for GMMB and GMDB products. Furthermore, a delta-hedging strategy can help reduce the variability of embedded derivative liabilities.

Modern trade relations between the Republic of South Ossetia and Russian regions: Features, trends, barriers, risks

Touches upon the foreign economic interactions of the partially recognized states - the Republic of South Ossetia. The development of states that have arisen, as a rule, as a result of armed conflicts, and are designated in world practice through variousterms (unrecognized states, secessions, de facto states, etc.), has a constant scientific interest. In recent years, research has been updated in the search for factors and mechanisms of self-development of such states, which does not imply absolute economic and social isolation, therefore, one of the mechanisms is external relations and trade interactions. The purpose of this study is to substantiate the features, trends, barriers and risks of export-import relations of the republic with the regions of the Russian Federation. The study was conducted using methods of empirical analysis of statistical data, as well as normative and cartographic analysis and presentation of results. The main sources of analytical information were the site data ru-stat.com. The period of the analysis is January 2013 - January 2022. The analysis revealed the current features and trends of trade relations between Russia and South Ossetia, including the transition of the customs authorities of South Ossetia to the standards of the Eurasian Economic Union; an increase in import volumes and tax revenues from it. There are three types of barriers to increasing imports to Russia - transport and logistics, institutional, and structural. The emergence of certain risks of the foreign trade relations with Russia is not excluded, in particular, the occurrence of pandemics like COVID-19, exchange rate fluctuations of the Russian currency, sanctions pressure. In general, the republic has long-term trade relations with Russian regions, primarily in terms of imports. Nevertheless, the Government of the Republic faces the strategic task of strengthening and increasing trade interactions.

Synucleins: New Data on Misfolding, Aggregation and Role in Diseases.

The synucleins are a family of natively unfolded (or intrinsically unstructured) proteins consisting of α-, β-, and γ-synuclein involved in neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. The current number of publications on synucleins has exceeded 16.000. They remain the subject of constant interest for over 35 years. Two reasons explain this unchanging attention: synuclein's association with several severe human diseases and the lack of understanding of the functional roles under normal physiological conditions. We analyzed recent publications to look at the main trends and developments in synuclein research and discuss possible future directions. Traditional areas of peak research interest which still remain high among last year's publications are comparative studies of structural features as well as functional research on of three members of the synuclein family. Another popular research topic in the area is a mechanism of α-synuclein accumulation, aggregation, and fibrillation. Exciting fast-growing area of recent research is α-synuclein and epigenetics. We do not present here a broad and comprehensive review of all directions of studies but summarize only the most significant recent findings relevant to these topics and outline potential future directions.

The implementation of manipulative influence in indirect communication

This article reveals the problem of indirect communication through the implementation of verbal manipulative influence in political discourse. Indirect communication can be classified as one of the most dynamic areas of modern linguistic research. Increasingly, indirect ways of expressing communicative meanings are associated with the implementation of verbal manipulative influence. Our understanding of verbal manipulation in political discourse comes from the understanding of language as a tool of thinking, a tool for obtaining knowledge about a person, culture and society, and discourse as a social practice, being determined by social structures, simultaneously creates and reproduces them. The relevance of the topic of this article is due not only to the constant interest in political discourse both in the scientific community and in society as a whole, but also by a number of factors indicating the need to study this type of discourse as a kind of indirect communication in close connection with the discursive practices of verbal manipulation. The verbal manipulation is considered in the article within the framework of pragmalinguistics as a psychological impact, as well as through the prism of cognitive linguistics. The article presents the results of the analysis of the pre-election and subsequent public speeches of D. Trump and H. Clinton in order to identify verbal manipulative influence, at the phonetic (acoustic analysis of sound and spectral analysis of tone, carried out using the PRAAT program), morphemic-morphological and lexical levels. Key words: indirect communication, manipulation, verbal influence, discourse, political discourse.

Ideological and Artistic Originality of French Children’s Literature of 19th Century: E. d’Hervilly “Adventures of a Prehistoric Boy”

The article deals with the theme of the formation of children’s literature in the 19th century in France. The relevance of the study is due to the constant interest of both researchers and a wide range of readers in children’s literature as a source of reflection of the socio-cultural characteristics of a particular society. The story of the little-known French romantic writer Ernest d’Hervilli “The Adventures of a Prehistoric Boy”, which has not previously become the object of a special analysis, is examined. The author of the article reveals a pronounced ideological originality of the story, its compositional and artistic features. The nusualness of the reference of the French writer to the late Paleolithic era is emphasized. The author of the article believes that the main character is one of the first examples of a primitive romantic hero. It is argued that thanks to the story of Ernest d’Hervilli in the literature of the 19th century, the theme of the prehistoric past of human, interest in primitive society and the psychology of the maturation of a teenager in a certain period of history appears. It is shown that at the compositional level, taking into account the adventurous register, the author draws attention to the little-known pages of the history of mankind and, thanks to various means of verbal expression, creates a realistic picture of the life, nature and life of the Cro-Magnons.

교사의 교육 ODA 수행 경험의 특징 탐색

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the characteristics of teachers’ performance through educational ODA experiences. Methods: Five teachers who have participated in educational ODA for more than two years and who are continuing their research and activities in related fields after participation were selected as research participants. In-depth interviews were conducted and analyzed based on the qualitative content analysis method. Results: As a result of the study, a total of ten performance characteristics as themes were derived in a total of three domains. In the basic area, the themes were derived from the constant interest and experience of service, and the challenge of pursuing new things without being complacent. Themes during performance are performance completion with a healthy self-concept, flexible transformation and application of educational expertise, selection and use of media for cross-cultural communication formation of friendly relationships with others, and reflection and commitment found in mistakes. After completion of projects, characteristics such as understanding with a broader perspective, continuous research and expansion of experience, and externalization of experience and commitment emerged. Conclusion: The findings of this study indicate that the performance of teachers participating in educational ODA shows similarities with ODA educators, but also has unique characteristics. The study suggests implications for the development of competency models and educational programs for educational ODA.

Activities of Military Training Missions of European Countries and the United States in the Armies of States, Transforming the Armed forces (the last third of the XIXth – the first third of the XXth Centuries): Problems and Prospects of Research

The study of the work of military professionals sent as part of missions from the advanced European states and the United States to the reformed armies of the countries of Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America in the last third of the 19th – the first third of the 20th centuries has repeatedly been the focus of research by professional historians. The study of the training activities of military missions at the time under study allows us to see general and particular problems of the history of military modernization. A significant time span and various regions of the world in which mission officers served, allow for the scientific prospects and problems of studying military training activities using a comparative method. Comparison of training activities of missions from different countries contributes to the analysis of national military schools. This factor, along with other causes, has a decisive importance for the work of military instructors. By comparison, the regional specifics of the professional work of members of military missions are more clearly visible. The comparative methodology allows us to trace specifically the evolution of training activities of official military missions in historical retrospect through a set off historical examples. The extensive time span enables us to see what and why in the studies of a number of historians remained outside the scope of analysis, and which are as a reconsidered by the authors as mandatory for study. The study reveals the most successful works of researchers on the issues understudy. One of the aims of the article is to determine the most difficult areas for study the work of military professionals from missions in foreign armies and the ways of their disclosure. The study is relevant due to the constant interest of professional historians in the topic of military modernization and the use of military missions for faster reforms of the armed forces during difficult periods of development in some countries.

Forecasting the daily variability discharge in the fluvial system of the Paraná River: an ODPC hydrology application

ABSTRACT The relation between discharge and matters of social economy is of constant interest for decision makers. Unexpected daily discharge fluctuations could easily affect agriculture and tourism, among other things. Moreover, because discharge is considered a stochastic variable, studies of new resources to prevent and reduce their negative impacts are needed. We propose the novel application of a technique known as one-sided dynamical principal components (ODPC) to the field of hydrology. This technique allowed us to model and predict the daily variability of the streamflow of three gauge stations of the La Plata Basin. We did a comparison between ODPC and the traditional models used in the field for time series forecasts. This comparison demonstrated that the ODPC method provides some improvement for treatment and forecasting of the daily variability in discharge.

Maria Hämeen-Anttila and Jan von Plato, eds,Kurt Gödel: The Princeton Lectures on Intuitionism

This book publishes for the first time notes from two notebooks of Gödel which formed the basis of a course on intuitionism Gödel delivered at Princeton in the spring of 1941. These notes contain by far the most detailed treatment by Gödel (and anyone prior to Luckhardt [1973] and Troelstra [1973]) of his now famous functional (‘Dialectica’) interpretation which was published by Gödel himself only much later in the very brief paper [Gödel, 1958]. The essence of the Princeton notes is close to that of Gödel’s lecture at Yale from April 15, 1941, which was posthumously published in [Gödel, 1995], pp. 189–200. (See [Troelstra, 1995] for insightful comments on these notes.) However, the notes for the course given at Princeton are much more detailed covering in total nine lectures and contain interesting additional material and insights into what Gödel aimed to achieve by his interpretation. After Gödel’s functional interpretation was made public first by Kreisel in [1959] and then by Gödel himself in the aforementioned paper [1958], it received some constant interest until the early 70s, but then this interest declined for a while as Gentzen-style methods were considered to be superior being ‘ordinal informative’ and in 1978 the so-called |$A$|-translation [Friedman, 1978; Dragalin, 1980] provided a simple proof of the closure of intuitionistic systems such as Heyting arithmetic (HA) under Markov’s rule which by that time was considered to be a main application of the Dialectica interpretation. Beginning in the 90s (starting with [Kohlenbach, 1992]), Gödel’s functional interpretation saw a revival as a major tool in the emerging proof mining paradigm which aims at extracting new effective data from prima facie noneffective proofs in many areas of mathematics, most prominently in (nonlinear) analysis (see, e.g., [Kohlenbach, 2008]). This led to the development of many variants and extensions of Gödel’s original interpretation and numerous applications to core mathematics. By now, Gödel’s Dialectica paper [1958] is his second most cited (both according to Zentralblatt and MathSciNet) work on mathematical logic next to his celebrated incompleteness paper. Given this massive renewed interest in the Dialectica interpretation in the past thirty years, the publication of Gödel’s extensive course notes on the subject is of course highly relevant although some of its content had been already commented on in [Troelstra, 1995] (while certain parts of the notes were only discovered in 2017 according to the preface1). As these notes were written at the time when Gödel conceived his interpretation and contain many comments for himself on how to present things best in the lectures, they provide an insight into the way Gödel worked allowing the reader to, in a sense, look over his shoulder while he is working. That Gödel is still struggling himself with the material is illustrated by the fact that in one lecture he gives a wrong definition for the interpretation of ‘|$\vee$|’ (as in the notes to his Yale lecture) which he then acknowledges as false in the next lecture presenting a second attempt which is the final solution as known today.

Recent Reports on Polysaccharide-Based Materials for Drug Delivery.

Polysaccharides constitute one of the most important families of biopolymers. Natural polysaccharide-based drug delivery systems are of constant interest to the scientific community due to their unique properties: biocompatibility, non-toxicity, biodegradability, and high availability. These promising biomaterials protect sensitive active agents and provide their controlled release in targeted sites. The application of natural polysaccharides as drug delivery systems is also intensively developed by Polish scientists. The present review focuses on case studies from the last few years authored or co-authored by research centers in Poland. A particular emphasis was placed on the diversity of the formulations in terms of the active substance carried, the drug delivery route, the composition of the material, and its preparation method.

Fault Diagnosis of Wheelset Bearings in High-Speed Trains Using Logarithmic Short-Time Fourier Transform and Modified Self-Calibrated Residual Network

Fault diagnosis of wheelset bearings in high-speed trains has attracted constant interest in the scientific community and industrial field. Under the harsh working condition, e.g., time-varying speed and load, most existing methods are hindered by the limited and unknown situations of wheelset bearings. Although the self-calibrated convolution is proven to effectively expand the receptive field with more accurate discriminative regions, its use in fault diagnosis still lacks needed physical interpretation as well as computational efficiency. To this end, this article presents a novel framework by using the logarithmic short-time Fourier transform and the modified self-calibrated convolution. It first manifests a time-frequency map that has explicit physics meaning while reducing the gap between high energy and detailed characteristics in the masking of interfering signals. To simplify redundant kernels, a modified self-calibrated residual block is proposed without introducing any more parameters, while preserving an interpretable and simple structure. The effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method are verified by the experimental data collected from an industrial railway axle bearing test rig. Results are found superior to those of five state-of-art methods, which are more practical in terms of accuracy, cost time, and model size.