World Events Research Articles

A Comprehensive Exploration of Global Trends Impacting Financial Sustainability in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia)

The main topic of this study is how the economies of the world and the Middle East are connected and impact each other. We use old data to look at how changes in world events, trade patterns, and foreign economic policy affect the economy here. If countries in the Middle East want to grow and expand their businesses, they need to pay attention to outside forces that have an impact on their money. This article's author carefully looks at statistics from the past, the present, and the future to show how money problems in the Middle East are linked to changes in the world economy. Recent events in geopolitics have an effect on investor trust, the security of the regional economy, and the long-term financial health of the area. This part will compare events from the past and the present to find trends that show how the area has affected the world over time. If you want to learn more about how trade trends affect countries in the Middle East, read this in-depth study. We use secondary sources to look at how customer tastes, new markets, and trade deals have changed the economies of the Middle East. Because trade around the world is always changing, these countries respect variety and being able to change. We want to know how money moves made in other countries have affected the Middle East's funds. That's what this study is all about. This research is mostly about how global banks, changes in the government, and group projects impact the US economy. Other sources can help us understand how governments in the Middle East have changed their economic policies, rules, and laws in response to outside forces and changes in global economic trends. This kind of research shows how changes in foreign banking affect the Middle East's ability to keep its money in the bank. Many outside sources are used in the study to see how well the area can handle and adjust to changes from outside. It's a great way for people who care about the Middle East's business, economists, and leaders to find out how things are going

Women's training in race walking at a master's level

The race walking discipline is now practiced professionally by women who compete in sports events around the world. It is included in the Olympic Games as well as in all world and European championship events. When analysing race walking performed by women purely from a sports performance perspective, it is essential to consider their biological conditions for endurance training in terms of physical capacity. Despite undeniable anatomical differences, women are not smaller and weaker, but rather different from men. Therefore, women's training must have its own specificity and cannot be just a scaled-down version of men's training. When planning women's training, it is important to take into account their characteristic biological rhythm, which includes phases of increased and decreased capacity for physical exertion. To enable females to compete at a world-class level, continuous searching for new training solutions is necessary, such as training in various climatic conditions or training camps at high altitudes.

An exploration of sociopolitical grief

ABSTRACT Grief is most commonly understood as an individual response to the death of a loved one. However, this view of grief is highly individualistic and does not incorporate the complexity of the grief experience as a response to many different types of losses. Grief may be individually and/or collectively experienced. It may also be present not just after the death of a loved one, but due to the ‘death’ of deeply held values, ideals, and identities that originate in social and/or structural spheres. A unique form of grief that has significant relevance to current world events is sociopolitical grief, which occurs in losses that result from the implementation of political policies, laws, organisational norms, and social messaging that have a profound impact upon specific individuals and groups. In this article, the concept of sociopolitical grief will be explored from many different perspectives, along with the unique implications for losses that originate at the governmental, structural, and/or social levels.

Representation of Feminism in Russian Media Space: Authors and Narratives

The authors examine the features of media representation of feminism as a topical phenomenon and study related stories in Russian news and mass media over recent years. The aim of the study is to determine the dynamics of authors’ publications and the feminist topic’s development in the Russian media space since 2017, as well as to identify trends in the development of the feminist topic. The materials used for the work were online publications with key words “feminism” from eight Russian mass media: Wonderzine*, Meduza*, Afi sha Daily, Takiye Dela, Novaya Gazeta*, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Argumenty i Fakty, The Voice (Cosmopolitan). The main patterns that are observed among key authors of feminist publications are activism and professional feminist interests. Content analysis which was conducted during the research presented the main communicative practices of feminist discourse and thematic priorities. Moreover, the work presents characteristics of the main authors and assesses their potential for constructive / destructive infl uence on the audience. The increasing number of publications established in the framework of the research confi rms the rising journalists’ interest in the feminism topic in the Russian media space. The research has proved that the representation of the feminism theme goes beyond traditional mass media and is being actively discussed on social networks. The following patterns were found – authors of feminism publications, who are not active participants of feminist actions/events, most often represent such thematic areas as history, literature, art, and others; the largest number of publications belongs to journalists participating in actions or promoting “feminist” agenda. Activity monitoring of the studied authors revealed a lack of systematicity in the feminist publications, but some fi nd a newsworthy occurrence to return to the topic in their materials. We revealed that feminist texts are tended to acquire political color, and the appeal to political subjects refl ects worsening social dynamics of feminist movement in the context of important world and Russian events.

Multistep Brent oil price forecasting with a multi-aspect aeta-heuristic optimization and ensemble deep learning model

Accurate crude oil price forecasting is crucial for various economic activities, including energy trading, risk management, and investment planning. Although deep learning models have emerged as powerful tools for crude oil price forecasting, achieving accurate forecasts remains challenging. Deep learning models’ performance is heavily influenced by hyperparameters tuning, and they are expected to perform differently under various circumstances. Furthermore, price volatility is also sensitive to external factors such as world events. To address these limitations, we propose a hybrid approach that integrates metaheuristic optimisation with an ensemble of five widely used neural network architectures for time series forecasting. Unlike existing methods that apply metaheuristics to optimise hyperparameters within the neural network architecture, we exploit the GWO metaheuristic optimiser at four levels: feature selection, data preparation, model training, and forecast blending. The proposed approach has been evaluated for forecasting three-ahead days using real-world Brent crude oil price data, and the obtained results demonstrate that the proposed approach improves the forecasting performance measured using various benchmarks, achieving 0.000127 of MSE.

Категории институциональности, адресованности и оперативности в спортивном дискурсе (на материале издания «L’Équipe»)

L’Équipe is one of the most popular French daily sports newspapers. It is ranked number one by circulation volume and readership scope in sports events. The current study intends to highlight the process of L’Équipe becoming an institutionalized media outlet. The research analyzes the newspaper’s development from the time of its foundation to the present days. The paper dwells on critical stages of the newspaper’s modernization and elaborates on the main sports events that L’Équipe was involved in and supported. These factors influenced the process of the formation of the newspaper as an institutional publication of mass media discourse in the subject area of “sport”. Apart from that, this study aims to analyze the target audience of L’Équipe. Using static data and newspaper content analysis the research differentiates categories of readership classified by age and gender. It is noted that by providing a wide range of sport news topics L’Équipe considers various interests of intended recipients. Online media format emphasizes timeliness as one of the key characteristics that define the newspaper. The further L’Équipe television channel, Internet website and then Internet radio development made it possible to promptly inform the readership about the current events in the sports world. The newspaper online version allows readers to get news, reports and interviews faster. It is therefore proved that the categories of institutionality, targeting and timeliness are significant for sports news written discourse.

Voluntary Work for Children in the Republic of Croatia

In today's uncertain world events, it is necessary to promote volunteering from early education. Therefore, it is important and necessary to introduce such extracurricular activities from the first grade of primary school. In the Republic of Croatia, there are various humanitarian organizations that gladly accept any kind of help. Therefore, we need to find teachers who will use their influence to motivate children for humanitarian action and make them aware of the importance of empathy and helping others on a daily basis. This study shows the activities of first-graders to fourth-graders of primary school in the Republic of Croatia. The school curricula in 21 Croatian counties were randomly analysed, and the results are represented in this study. The results show that teachers who organize volunteer activities for their students have a greater level of agreement with the statements that a positive attitude of teachers about volunteering encourages volunteer activities in school. It also helps to enrich the school prevention program by establishing a volunteer club within the school, where volunteering should be encouraged in the classroom class. Volunteering should be encouraged at the school's Student Council, and volunteering should be planned in the school curriculum for participants who do not organize volunteer activities for their students. It can be concluded that teachers have positive attitudes about volunteering within the school. However, participants show significant differences in attitudes regarding gender and personal experience of volunteering.

The Role of Social Media for the Elderly in Lembean Village, Kauditan District, North Minahasa Regency

This study aims to determine the role of social media for the elderly in Lembean Village, Kauditan District. Based on the definition of WHO (World Health Organization), the elderly are people who are in the age range of over 60 years. The use of social media can provide the elderly with social activities and communication to live a happy and joyful old age, the theory of social activity Successful aging depends on how an elderly person feels satisfaction in doing activities and maintaining those activities. Spradley's qualitative research method; study of individuals/groups with the aim of describing cultural characteristics more deeply systematically in their own space and time. the number of informants is 4 people, namely 2 elderly women and 2 elderly men using purposive sampling techniques, in-depth interview data collection techniques, analyzed and described. The results of the study obtained the role of social media for the elderly in Lembean Village, namely; a means of social activity through whats app groups with family, elderly community groups, religious groups; a means of entertainment activities by exposing daily activities both at home and outside the home; a means of information sources of joy or sorrow and events in the outside world through Facebook, a means of economic activity exposing sales for elderly people who are still productive. Social media becomes a means of digital activity for the elderly to fill their time at home, a source of information and a means of immortalizing activities with photos.

Analysis and Exploration of Carbon Emission Dataset using Machine Learning Techniques

One of the primary environmental climate issues in metropolitan cities is that most people are faced with low air quality. Climate variance is impacting the world, triggering drought, storms, and extreme weather events. The primary contributor to climate change is affected greenhouse carbon gas emissions, of which carbon dioxide (CO2) and carbon monoxide (CO) make up the majority. The carbon emissions are expected to rise steadily worldwide. Many factors, including the burning of fossil fuels in transportation and manufacturing sectors, cause climate variance. Fast urbanization has used a high rate of motor vehicles as compared to a rural area. In metropolitan cities across the world, automobiles are the primary cause of air pollution. The use rate of vehicles keeps increasing, and that results in traffic congestion. This work is focusing on collecting two real-time vehicle emission datasets from two different devices to predict and compare the emissions of different light-duty vehicles by using the machine learning techniques. This research also analyzes the Canadian government emission dataset It shows the results of emission by fuel type and vehicle model. It shows the comparison graph of, mean square error, root mean square error and accuracy comparison of different machine learning algorithms. The work suggests some policies for reducing the carbon emissions. Even the government can adapt certain policies for mitigating the carbon emissions of individual vehicles. In this research work issues for reducing the emission of individual vehicles have been addressed. This work helps the automobile sector to reduce the emission and play a part to save the environment.

The Role of Social Media for the Elderly in Lembean Village, Kauditan District, North Minahasa Regency

This study aims to determine the role of social media for the elderly in Lembean Village, Kauditan District. Based on the definition of WHO (World Health Organization), the elderly are people who are in the age range of over 60 years. The use of social media can provide the elderly with social activities and communication to live a happy and joyful old age, the theory of social activity Successful aging depends on how an elderly person feels satisfaction in doing activities and maintaining those activities. Spradley's qualitative research method; study of individuals/groups with the aim of describing cultural characteristics more deeply systematically in their own space and time. the number of informants is 4 people, namely 2 elderly women and 2 elderly men using purposive sampling techniques, in-depth interview data collection techniques, analyzed and described. The results of the study obtained the role of social media for the elderly in Lembean Village, namely; a means of social activity through whats app groups with family, elderly community groups, religious groups; a means of entertainment activities by exposing daily activities both at home and outside the home; a means of information sources of joy or sorrow and events in the outside world through Facebook, a means of economic activity exposing sales for elderly people who are still productive. Social media becomes a means of digital activity for the elderly to fill their time at home, a source of information and a means of immortalizing activities with photos.

The State and Trends of Crime in the Territory of the Member States of the Commonwealth of Independent States in 2023

Introduction. The article provides an analysis of the state of crime in the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States in 2023. The analysis is based on statistical data on the state of crime in the Commonwealth over the past five years.After Russia launched a special military operation in 2022 to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine, a situation is developing in the world in which the countries of the collective West are trying to damage our country through economic sanctions, as well as actually waging a proxy war against Russia. Unfriendly countries, led by the United States, are trying to use the member states of the Commonwealth as a tool in the fight against Russia, through unequal cooperation to introduce differences in the CIS, and use information security technologies for their own purposes.To determine the degree of influence of current world events on the criminal situation in the post-Soviet space, an analysis of the state of crime in the CIS countries was carried out.The given statistical data on crime in the Commonwealth countries demonstrate the dynamics of the criminal situation in the countries under consideration, depending primarily on internal criminogenic factors. Such factors exist and develop under the influence of criminal elements and the existing criminal environment.The analysis of the dynamics of the criminal situation for 2019-2023 was aimed at determining the trends of its development in the light of the impact of external and internal processes that have arisen in recent years, to identify the causes affecting the dynamics of certain types of crime and to make a forecast of the possible development of the criminal situation for the next 1-2 years.To predict the dynamics of the criminal situation in the CIS countries, the expotential smoothing method was used, which is illustrated by the graphs given in the article.Materials and methods. The theoretical basis of the research is based on the conclusions and achievements of criminology, scientific research on crime as a social phenomenon. The reasons and events influencing the dynamics of crime are taken into account. General scientific and private scientific research methods (synthesis, deduction, analysis, generalization, observation, etc.) were used in the work. The methodological basis of the study was a systematic approach, comparative and problem-based approaches.The results of the study. As a result of the analysis of the criminal situation at the transport facilities of the Russian Federation, it was found that, starting in 2020, new factors influenced the quantitative indicators of crime in transport. The introduction of restrictive measures related to the spread of coronavirus infection, their subsequent cancellation, the beginning of the geopolitical crisis in the world, provoked by the imposition of sanctions by Western countries against Russia, restrictions on international communications. closure of airports, borders, etc. they affected the directions of preventive activities of the internal affairs bodies in transport. The conclusions and forecasts made in the article determine the trends in the development of the criminal situation in transport in 2023 and allow us to determine the most important vectors of the direction of preventive activities of internal affairs bodies.Discussion and conclusion. The article identifies and substantiates the priority areas of activity of the internal affairs bodies of Russia in transport for the most effective organization of preventive activities and combating crime.

Vladimír Vernadskij o nemecko-rakúskej okupácii Ukrajiny v roku 1918

The article deals with the diaries as an important narrative source for historians in their study of the past. The diaries are a very peculiar type of source that is different from memoirs. Usually, the author writes his memoirs about the events that he lived through many years ago or he witnessed in the past. It is naturally that with the flow of time he may forget about something, miss something or recall something incorrectly; moreover, as it is known, in memoirs events of the past are reflected with a hindsight and that is why they do not always accurately reflect the feelings of the author at the time when these events took place. People’s attitudes towards the events can also change as the years go by. Moreover, human memory is very much selective. Unlike memoirs, the diaries allow us to understand the attitude of a particular human being to the surrounding world and contemporary events when he or she wrote about them. This has enormous value for the researcher. The diaries, as a type of historical document, are important precisely because they provide us not only with object of a historical process, in other words, what is being described, but also with insights about their authors who are present not as abstract depersonalized subjects of this process, but as living human beings with their merits and shortcomings, with their convictions and moods, their dreams and concerns. Moreover, the diaries provide unique material for the study of social psychology of people in concrete historical period. The author of diaries, which became the object of our attention, was Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadskyi (1863-1945), an outstanding Russian 20th century naturalist, geologist, biogeochemist, thinker and winner of the Stalin Prize, academician, creator of the doctrine of the biosphere, its evolution and transformation into the noosphere, who was one of the founders of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and its first President, as well as the founder of the National Library of Ukraine. Their main value of his diaries, in our opinion, is that they help to feel the atmosphere of the dramatic events of October Revolution and Civil War in Russia and Ukraine, allows us to restore the spirit of the revolutionary stormy years in all its tragedy and contradictions. As for the content of the great scientist’s diaries, a significant part of them consists of the facts of his personal life., but also a lot of space is devoted to his impressions and reflections on political events, in particular about the German and the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Ukraine in 1918. In his diaries, a negative attitude towards the Bolsheviks and socialist ideology, non-acceptance of manifestations of Ukrainian nationalism, and condemnation of the talentless policy of the Central Rada can be clearly traced.

The Impact of Incitement by Public Officials in the Commission of Genocide: the Case of Ethnic Amharas in the Oromia Region

Abstract Insecurity has worsened in one of the eleven regions of Ethiopia, Oromiya, due to the killings of innocent Amharas. While there is increasing academic attention on the origins, causes, and nature of this threat, the role of the incitement of public officials in the commission of the killings and/or genocide in the region remains understudied. Accordingly, foregrounded by the need to unravel this gap, this qualitative study contributes to the literature through organised empirical research by examining Ethiopia’s public officials’ speeches and/or incitement, which might have helped in the commission of ethnic Amhara genocide in the Oromiya region since 2018. Three critical world events served as the main theoretical foundations for the analysis of incitement to genocide: the Nuremberg Prosecutions, the United Nations Genocide Convention, and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. It was found that both Prime Minister Abiy’s and Shimelis Abdisa’s speeches have mounted to qualify as incitements to genocide by being concomitant to the context, purpose, and causation. It is thus sufficient to remark that the speeches are used to further instigate genocide against ethnic Amharas. The study’s central argument holds that the causal link between the speech in question and the massacre in the region doubles the synthesis, although the UN Convention does not require a direct causal link.

Staff wellbeing in context: considering the impact of world events

The editor highlights the importance of considering the impact of national and international events on healthcare staff, especially when planning interventions to improve wellbeing and team cohesion.

Psychological Assessment and Intervention at the Boston Marathon.

The Boston Marathon is a highly regarded event in the running world, not just for its prestige and challenging course, but also for its implementation of a psychology team to support runners. The 2013 Boston Marathon bombings underscored the essential role that mental health support plays at this event, prompting the development and expansion of its innovative care model. This review critically outlines, evaluates, and analyzes the approach and effectiveness of the psychological care model provided to runners on race day as part of the Boston Marathon medical team, including the standard of care, how it functions, and best practices for other marathons. The implications for this review contribute to the increasing trend of providing psychological care in marathon and other athletic settings, and to provide a framework for standardizing assessment and intervention procedures for both elite and novice runners.

»Glauben Sie mir […]: das Wort Zufall ist Gotteslästerung«

Abstract The essay begins with a discussion of the concepts of chance and contingency from both philosophical and common knowledge perspectives. Subsequently, the essay analyzes Schiller’s rejection of chance as a dramaturgical factor, which he offers in the preface to Die Verschwörung des Fiesko zu Genua. This analysis is conducted with a reference to Lessing’s Hamburgische Dramaturgie. The reading then poses the question: Could Schiller’s figure Fiesko and Lessing’s Orsina be correct in crediting Providence’s hand, despite their misguided perception of their own standing and role? After a brief exploration of the »Schicksalsdrama« genre, which was prominent in the 19th century, the focus then shifts to Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s comedy Die Physiker. In Dürrenmatt’s play, chance emerges as the ultimate principle governing worldly events.

Disaster experience mitigates the partisan divide on climate change: Evidence from Texas

Despite the abundance of real world events and scientific information linking the worsening extreme weather to climate change, public attitudes toward climate issues in the United States remain highly divided along partisan lines. We compare the effect of different stimuli linking extreme weather events to climate change – personal experiences and scientific information – in reducing the partisan gap. A two-wave survey corresponding to multiple extreme weather events in Texas, including a natural experiment with power outage data from the 2021 North American Winter Storms, shows that personal experiences with extreme weather reduce the partisan divide in climate beliefs and polices. Scientific information attributing extreme weather events to climate change, however, had no effect in closing the partisan gap. These findings suggest that extreme climate events and disaster experiences force vividly tangible information about the proximity and severity of climate change on exposed individuals, prompting belief-updating and preference-shifting toward pro-climate policies.

Break a peg! A study of stablecoin co-instability

Following the increasing adoption of stablecoins, their robustness has become an ongoing concern for investors and regulators alike. This article studies the co-instability of a large panel of stablecoins by identifying their structural breaks and co-occurrences. Moreover, we use Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) and Dynamic Conditional Correlation DCC-GARCH models to assess spillover effects in the wake of four major black swan events in the crypto world. Similar to prior literature, we conclude that algorithmic stablecoins were the major shock receivers of the IRON TITAN and TERRA LUNA crashes, highlighting the importance of allowing for sufficient margins of safety in their design. We also observe that the FTX bankruptcy and the Silicon Valley Bank collapse had repercussions of a different nature and affected more categories of stablecoins, from algorithmic to fiat money-backed. We also highlight how, irrespective of the idiosyncratic or systemic nature of the shocks, well-known custodial stablecoins, as well as the most successful crypto-collateralized tokens, showed resilience during or in the immediate aftermath of these events.

Study of urease activity in semi-finished meat products

Meat production is one of the fastest growing sectors of global agriculture, and poultry meat is the most accessible and expanding source of protein for people of all income levels. In connection with recent world events, such as the coronavirus pandemic, and considering its consequences, the issue of safety of "accessible" foodstuffs, among which poultry meat occupies a worthy place, is acute. For Kazakhstan, as well as for all countries, it is important to expand the range of food products that can significantly increase the immunity of the population to successfully overcome the consequences of the COVID 19 pandemic. Development of local poultry farming and import substitution are the main solutions to ensure product safety in any state. For effective development of poultry farming it is necessary to overcome one of the limiting factors - lack of modern system of safety monitoring throughout the food chain. The purpose of this work is to study the urease activity in meat semi-finished products. In this study urease activity was measured in raw and cooked meat products. As a result of the study the dependence of heat treatment with the pH index was determined. The indicator of urease activity during production allows for more detailed safety and quality assurance of meat semi-finished products.

Fighting a New Front on an Old Battlefield: Examining the Development of Topical Antimicrobial Care to Control Burn Wound Sepsis.

Recognition of invasive burn wound sepsis as a major cause of morbidity and mortality in burn-injured patients has profoundly changed the management of burn wounds and its associated complications. The development of effective topical antimicrobial therapy is one of the last major developments of modern burn care and has been driven by major world events and scientific breakthroughs. Topical antimicrobial burn care has evolved from the use of anecdotal remedies to scientific breakthroughs such as Moyer's successful dilution of silver nitrate solution, Fox's described benefit of silver sulfadiazine use in animal models, and Pruitt's dramatic improvement in post-burn mortality using topical mafenide acetate in burn wounds. The objective of this manuscript is to review the definition of burn wound sepsis and highlight the major developments and breakthroughs in topical burn wound care throughout history. This includes historical events like major wars or domestic fires that have influenced or impacted the understanding and treatment of burn wounds. Newer advances in topical antimicrobial care such as nanosilvers and dressing technologies that improve the morbidity and mortality associated with burn wound sepsis and novel approaches to management will also be discussed. To improve burn care, it is prudent to look to the past and learn from the experiences of those who contributed to the control of burn wound sepsis.