Cultural Field Research Articles

“They don't care what we watch”: On ratings and culture‐making in the dizi industry

AbstractThis article challenges Western‐centric assumptions in existing media theories that assume a relatively democratic society by exploring the media worlds of dizis, Turkey's globally famous, serialized television melodramas. It examines dizi makers' frustrations with a recently revised rating system at a time when Turkey's conservative and authoritarian‐leaning ruling AKP elite increasingly intervene in the country's cultural field. The article argues that in Turkey's highly polarized, authoritarian context, ratings become a crucial site of culture‐making, through which Turkish culture, the value of cultural products like dizis, and the place of their creators in Turkey's cultural hegemony get renegotiated. Exploring the resentments of today's dizi makers reveals that contemporary Turkish power contestations cannot be reduced to either the secular/religious binary or to class dynamics alone, as often deployed to explain the current polarization between Erdoğan's supporters and his dissidents. The article also demonstrates the need for more rigorous theorizing about how states—as repressive actors in authoritarian contexts—affect the worlds of media creators and their works.

On the Importance of Extracurricular Physical Education Activities in the Physical Education of Students of Higher Education Institutions

The article presents material on the organization of extracurricular activities in physical education at a higher educational institution. The relevance of this topic is due to structural and substantive changes in undergraduate educational programs and work programs in physical education, which have led to an increasing role of extracurricular activities in the formation of student's physical culture competence. This circumstance requires consideration of issues of planning, organization and methodological support of this type of pedagogical activity. The purpose of the study is to identify the organizational and educational aspects of student sports and wellness activities conducted in their free time from study at the university. As an example of the organization of extracurricular work carried out by teachers of the Department of Physical Culture and Sports, a number of physical culture and recreation and sports events held at the Omsk State Agrarian University named after P. A. Stolypin are proposed. The analysis and generalization of pedagogical experience in the higher education system, data from literary sources on the problems of physical education of students allowed us to make practical recommendations on the basics of planning, goal-setting and organizational features of extracurricular activities in physical culture. The possibility of increasing the effectiveness of this activity is emphasized due to the uniform distribution of activities throughout the academic year, attracting students with different levels of physical, sports and technical readiness and motivation in the field of physical culture and sports to participate. In addition to the calendar plan, the organizers for each event must define a goal, develop a program, create a festive atmosphere, ensure the safety of spectators and participants, and create conditions for informational coverage of the planned event.

Professional development of teachers in the field of digitalization of education

Relevance. This article discusses the issues of professional development of teachers in the field of digitalization of education based on the analysis of regulatory documents and the needs of participants in the educational process. The structure of the teacher training program is proposed.The purpose of the study is to determine the prospects for improving the skills of teachers in the field of digitalization of education.Organization and methods of research. In order to determine the level of formation of teachers' competencies in the field of digital education, a survey of teachers was conducted, which is aimed at determining the attitude of teachers to the digitalization of education and their willingness to use its tools. 73 teachers of the Yekaterinburg Institute of Physical Culture participated in the survey. The conducted survey among teachers showed the following results.Conclusions. Based on regulatory documents and a survey conducted in order to improve the skills of teachers in the field of digital education, a professional development program "Modern information technologies in professional education in the field of physical culture and sports" was developed.

Adaptive dynamic programming–based fault-tolerant control of multi-UAV formation system

With the increasing utilization of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms in civilian and military field applications, it is crucial to eliminate the potential impacts of UAV faults on task completion and efficiency. To address this issue, the present paper investigates a fault-tolerant control scheme based on the adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) method and fault observer. The whole closed-loop system is composed of a position loop and an attitude loop. An ADP-based position-tracking controller is established with an improved cost function that can simultaneously represent actuator faults, control inputs, and tracking errors. In addition, a single-layer critic neural network is constructed to estimate the cost function and approximate control inputs. In the process of adjusting the weights of the neural network, a unique adjustment method combining policy gradient and prioritized experience replay is adopted to improve the data usage efficiency and speed up the weight convergence. Furthermore, a sliding mode–based attitude controller is utilized for the inner-loop attitude subsystem. The significant feature of this scheme is that it has the ability to self-learn and self-adapt. A Lyapunov stability analysis is performed to verify whether the signals are uniformly ultimately bounded. Finally, simulation experiments are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

Strategies of Media Communication in the Digital Cultural Sphere

The significance of media communication approaches in creating cultural connections and experiences has become increasingly important in the quickly changing world of digital culture. This essay examines effective media communication techniques within the framework of digital culture. The study includes a critical examination of the dynamic interplay between culture and media, emphasizing how digital technologies have revolutionized communication methods. This research study points to the fundamental importance of strategizing/politicized media communication in a highly polycentric, digital cultural field. It combines theory with practice, brings perspectives of working cases and provides example data to demonstrate the importance of communication strategies fit for different cultural audiences going online. The study attests to the urgent imperative of developing flexible and imaginative media communication strategies for generating significant, transcultural meeting in our digitally-connected globe.

Summarize of the Development of UAV

An unmanned aerial vehicle is an unmanned aerial vehicle that, compared to a piloted aircraft, does not require a pilot to fly, and is therefore also called an unmanned aerial vehicle. UAVs have a wide range of applications in both military and civilian fields. In the military field, UAVs are capable of performing a variety of missions such as reconnaissance, surveillance, target location. This article will analyze the current application of unmanned aerial vehicles in military and civilian fields from the development history and current situation of unmanned aerial vehicles, and prospect its future development trend.

Influence factors and improvement scheme on the breakdown behavior of pseudospark switch

Abstract High-power pulse generators are widely used in civil and military fields. The main switch directly determines the output characteristics of the high-power pulse generators, such as the voltage front time (tf). Pseudospark switches (PSS) show a promising future for middle voltage, high repetitive frequency pulse power applications. However, how to further improve the breakdown behavior without reducing its advantages is a challenging task. In this paper, the influence of operating parameters (anode voltage UA and gas pressure p) and structural parameter (number of cathode holes) on the breakdown behavior are investigated, the related mechanism are explained, and specific improvement schemes are proposed. It is found that the tf of the single channel PSS (SCPSS) decreased significantly with increasing p, but hardly varied with UA under moderate p. However, it is not a sound solution to increase the p excessively to reduce tf. Besides, increasing the number of cathode holes can obtain a shorter tf at low pressures (which implies superior repetition frequency performance). However, at 25 Pa, the jitter (which is defined as the standard deviation of tf in multiple tests) of the 2-channel PSS is larger than that of the SCPSS. And the jitter of the 4-channel and 8-channel PSS is also greater than 6 ns and 2 ns, respectively. Through experimental and simulation analyses, it can be explained as the stepwise penetration of the virtual anode and the non-simultaneous ignition of the channels. A scheme to increase the trigger energy (ε) has been adopted to improve the simultaneous ignition probability, while shortening tf and reducing jitter. After optimization, the good ignition probability of the 4-channel PSS has been improved to 82% and the jitter has been reduced to less than 1 ns at 25 Pa and 14.7 mJ.

Defining ‘Russianness’, defining ‘Austrianness’ – defining ‘Europe’: Austrian Tchaikovsky imageries during the Allied occupation, 1945–55

ABSTRACT This essay will examine critical discourses regarding Peter Tchaikovsky as a symbolic figurehead of high-brow Russian music in the two most widely circulated Austrian newspapers of the Allied occupation period: the Wiener Kurier (WK) and the Salzburger Nachrichten (SN), both affiliated with the US administration. In the context of Austria’s (problematic) denazification, post-war reconstruction, nation-building and reorientation towards the West, the reception of Tchaikovsky serves as a litmus test of negotiations concerning questions of cultural capital, habitus, musical canon, and nationalism (Otherness), Austria’s position as Europe’s Musikland, and a composer’s branding. Influential critics evaded a clear positioning within the Cold War ‘East–West’ context by appropriating Tchaikovsky for constructing an Austrian, European identity from a position of cultural power. This led to the coexistence of several musical ‘Russias’ in the Austrian public space: Soviet cultural diplomacy, US promotion of musical modernity (Stravinsky) and Austrians’ own, and self-interested, reconstruction of a Russian ‘national’ canon. Wiener Kurier and Salzburger Nachrichten columnists display a significant degree of middle-term continuity, while developing remarkable independence from and agency vis-à-vis the hard power presence of both the United States and the USSR, by subverting the superpowers’ cultural offensives, engaging in Austrian prestige politics, and affirming their interpretative sovereignty and knowledge-power within the re-emerging Austrian musical field. The music critics’ robust judgment, combined with the relative popularity that Tchaikovsky enjoyed, affirmed the considerable autonomy of the cultural field, and the discursive pre-eminence of musical conservatives and their knowledge-power.

UAV path planning based on bird flock migration

Unmanned aerial vehicle, generally referred to as UAV, due to its high-performance and low-cost characteristics, it is particularly widely used in both military and civil applications, and is often used to perform a variety of complex missions. Trajectory planning is the basis for UAVs to realize autonomous flight, which ensures that UAVs avoid obstacles and threatening areas when performing tasks, and guarantees the safe execution of tasks. The operation of a UAV requires finding the safest and most efficient trajectory from a starting point to a specified end point based on several specific constraints. Current UAV trajectory planning algorithms, such as swarm algorithm, particle swarm algorithm, and ant colony algorithm, have been widely recognized, but still have many limitations when they are applied to complex and variable terrain. Therefore, this paper proposes an improved UAV trajectory planning algorithm based on simulated bird migration, and uses matlab for simulation and algorithm evaluation. The simulation results indicate that the improved search strategy is effective, the algorithm can find a better solution in each iteration, and the search strategy of the algorithm can effectively guide the algorithm towards a more optimized region. Overall, this algorithm has high research value in both military and civilian fields.

Understanding the Instrument Making Process of Pemade Semar Pegulingan Saih Pitu | Memahami Proses Pembuatan Instrumen Pemade Semar Pegulingan Saih Pitu

Considering the length and complexity of the process of making Balinese Gamelan, the process of learning to make instruments from bronze/kerawang is very important. Gamelan is one of the media expressed by Balinese composers in creating various musical compositions. However, before there is a composition, of course an instrument is needed as an important medium in realizing the musical idea. The process of making instruments from bronze or filigree is very interesting to learn to increase sensitivity to tones, the process of forging or forming blades, the tuning process, the process of making resonators/bumbung, and the process of making hangung/pelawah, as well as knowing the steps or stages of making instruments other. With the Internship/Practice program, it is hoped that it can awaken and maintain the enthusiasm of the next generation of young people in the field of arts and culture. Therefore, the author designed a work program with the title "From Blade to Pelawah: Understanding the Instrument Making Process of Pemade Semar Pegulingan Saih Pitu”.

Metamaterial structure design based on genetic algorithm and phase change material GST for multispectral camouflage

This study proposes a multispectral camouflage tunable multilayer film metamaterial (TMFM) with thermal management function based on genetic algorithm (GA), which is composed of ZnS/YbF3/Ge/Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST)/Au multilayer film. Through numerical analysis, we assess its efficacy in visible-infrared compatibility camouflage and radiative heat dissipation. Within the visible light band, different structural colors can be produced by adjusting the thickness of the ZnS film. The average emissivity within the 3–5 μm and 8–14 μm infrared bands is measured at 0.04 and 0.14, respectively. The low emissivity facilitates effective thermal management. Moreover, an average emissivity of 0.52 within the 5–8 μm range is instrumental in achieving efficient radiation heat dissipation. Laser stealth capability is further enhanced, with an emissivity reaching 0.70 at 10.6 μm. Therefore, this metamaterial structure has broad application prospects in both military and civilian industrial fields.

Third Information Day: Research Infrastructure Services in the Humanities and Social Sciences

The main results of the work of the team of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences on the research projects CLaDA-BG – the Bulgarian National Interdisciplinary Research e-Infrastructure for Resources and Technologies in Favor of the Bulgarian Language and Cultural Heritage, Part of the EU Infrastructures CLARIN and DARIAH and No KP-06-N50/4 30.11.2020 “Fourteenth Century South Slavonic Scribes and Scriptoria (Palaeographical Attribution and Online Repertorium)”, will be presented during the Information Day within the DiPP2024 conference. The main emphasis will be placed on developments and implementations of CultIS – a webbased software platform for intelligent digital management and presentation of large data sets and knowledge from the fields of culture, humanities, and social sciences.

An adaptive and multi-path greedy perimeter stateless routing protocol in flying ad hoc networks

In recent years, flying ad hoc networks (FANET), formed from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have absorbed the attention of academic and industrial research communities due to their many applications in military and civilian fields. FANETs benefit from unique features, including highly moving UAVs and dynamic topological structure. Therefore, most existing routing protocols, such as the greedy perimeter stateless routing (GPSR), are not compatible with the FANET environment and its specific features. To improve the performance of GPSR in FANET, it is important to address several challenges, namely the selection of the right period for broadcasting hello messages in the network, the selection of the right criteria for selecting the next-hop node, and the improvement of reliability in the data transfer process. In this paper, an adaptive and multi-path greedy perimeter stateless routing (AM-GPSR) protocol is suggested in FANETs. It includes two new strategies, namely adaptive hello strategy and multi-path greedy forwarding strategy. The adaptive hello strategy defines a special hello broadcast period for each UAV according to its speed and error between two estimated and actual positions. Furthermore, the greedy forwarding strategy carries out a filtering operation on candidate nodes and eliminates border UAVs and those that are far from the destination. Then, candidate UAVs are prioritized based on the time to reach the destination and buffer capacity, and UAVs with higher priorities are chosen to send data packets. Finally, AM-GPSR applies a greedy multi-path forwarding strategy to increase reliability in the data transmission process. Lastly, the simulation of AM-GPSR is done via the network simulator version 2 (NS2) to evaluate its performance. This evaluation process includes two different scenarios, i.e. change in the speed of UAVs and change in their communication range. In this process, AM-GPSR is compared with three other methods, namely the aerial greedy geographic routing (AGGR) protocol, the geolocation assisted aeronautical routing protocol (AeroRP), and GPSR. This comparison shows the successful performance of AM-GPSR in terms of delivery success rate, throughput, and delay. Although the control overhead of the proposed method is more than that of AGGR.

Welcoming volunteers: A case study on supporting hospitable behaviours in hospitals

Hospitality has been researched in many settings across domestic, commercial and not-for-profit organizations. The role of volunteers in hospital settings has become more important in recent years. This study investigates how management can foster and maintain hospitable behaviour by host volunteers and what factors facilitate or hinder hospitable behaviour. The case study took place in a public hospital in the northern part of the Netherlands and used academic literature from hospitality, volunteering and organizational (safety) culture fields. Sixteen interviews were conducted with hospital management, volunteer managers and the volunteers themselves. Thematic analysis was used based on themes derived from the literature and emerging from the interviews. Findings show that hospitable behaviour, particularly in welcoming gestures, is often taken for granted, that managers and volunteers each have their own interpretation of hospitality and that there are three different levels and goals for hospitality within the hospital organization: strategic, tactical and operational hospitality. Due to different motives, expectations and interpretations of hospitality at those three levels, ‘hospitension’ can arise. The systems and structures of the hospital also provide a self-reinforcing culture of (in)hospitality. These are all areas on which hospital management can have an impact, providing opportunities for further research.

Interdisciplinary perspectives on ‘what matters most’ in the cultural shaping of health-related stigma in Indonesia

Health-related stigma plays a significant role in the burden of various health conditions such as neglected tropical diseases and mental illnesses, and undermines successful health outcomes. Stigmatised individuals can face...

Structural‐Functional‐Integrated Ultra‐Wideband Microwave‐Absorbing Composites Based on In Situ‐Grown Graphene Meta‐nanointerface

AbstractUltra‐wideband microwave absorbing (MA) materials covering the low‐frequency range (2–6 GHz) are highly desirable in civil and military fields. These materials can be fabricated based on the design of electromagnetic meta‐structure. Herein, a structural‐functional‐integrated ultra‐wideband SiO2 fiber reinforced cyanate ester (CE) MA composite based on an in situ‐grown graphene meta‐nanointerface layer (GrMI) (SiO2f/GrMI/CE) is reported. The relationship between the periodic structure of the graphene nano‐interface layer and the MA performance is discussed through experiments and simulations. The results show that SiO2f/GrMI/CE with a thickness of 8.78 mm exhibits an effective absorption bandwidth of 15.46 GHz (2.54–18 GHz). Remarkably, the reflection loss remains basically unchanged upon increasing the incident angle from 5° to 50°. Additionally, GrMI is an effective load‐bearing constituent, which increases the interfacial shear stress between SiO2f and the CE by ≈210% and contributes to achieving composites with an ultra‐high flexural strength (552.7 MPa). The excellent structural‐functional‐integrated performances ensure that the SiO2f/GrMI/CE composites are suitable for use as the skin materials of microwave stealth aircraft and other civil facilities. The work provides a novel pathway for the design of thinner, wider, lighter, and stronger MA components.

ТЕАТР ӨНӨРҮНДӨГҮ КӨРКӨМ ОКУУНУ ОКУТУУНУН АЙРЫМ МАСЕЛЕЛЕРИ

The article discusses some issues of teaching art education in the theatrical arts. I must say that there is very little research on the great values of the Kyrgyz people, including theatrical art. Generally speaking, we all know that our culture ‒ these are literature, theater, cinema, fine arts, folk art, etc.B. It should be recognized that there are very few works published in the form of special books, except for articles published on the pages of periodicals devoted specifically to this theatrical art. Today, art reading education is in demand not only in the theatrical sphere, but also in various spheres of society, in the field of culture and television. Thus, it is safe to say that by improving the teaching of art education in higher and secondary educational institutions, we will contribute to the moral education of the younger generation, improving aesthetic taste. Creating conditions for solving such research tasks, making efforts, and carrying out scientific activities is a requirement of time.

Церковное и государственное строительство на Восточном Кавказе во второй половине XIX века (по материалам проповедей протоиерия Николая Котляревского)

The study of confessional issues in the Eastern Caucasus, using the example of the activities of Archpriest N.V. Kotlyarevsky, the study is devoted to, it examines the issues of moral development of the Orthodox population of the Eastern Caucasus, the ideological role of clergy in matters of family and marriage, and public service. The Orthodox clergy in the Caucasus was an integral part, the base for the implementation of the Caucasian policy in the region. The integration component of the Caucasian policy has become a priority, especially in the period from the 1930s. XIX century, when as a result of acculturation processes there was a change in management vectors - from the military-political subordination of the region to its development, by means of involvement in the trade, economic, cultural field of the empire, and the formation of a socio-cultural space. Acculturation processes, both state and domestic, came to the forefront of state policy in the region. The paper highlights the issues of the place and role of the Orthodox clergy in the spread of education in the region, charitable activities, especially in the second half of the 19th century, which was due to the influx of the empire's resettlement policy into the region. The Orthodox clergy of the Caucasus became the conductor of the state acculturation of the region, supervising the issues of matrimonial ties, the revival of Orthodoxy, its spread in the region, the value orientations of family and marriage, as well as state initiatives and practices in the Eastern Caucasus.

Multi-Objective Optimized GPSR Intelligent Routing Protocol for UAV Clusters

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) clusters offer significant potential in civil, military, and commercial fields due to their flexibility and cooperative capabilities. However, characteristics such as dynamic topology and limited energy storage bring challenges to the design of routing protocols for UAV networks. This study leverages the Deep Double Q-Learning Network (DDQN) algorithm to optimize the traditional Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing (GPSR) protocol, resulting in a multi-objective optimized GPSR routing protocol (DDQN-MTGPSR). By constructing a multi-objective routing optimization model through cross-layer data fusion, the proposed approach aims to enhance UAV network communication performance comprehensively. In addition, this study develops the above DDQN-MTGPSR intelligent routing algorithm based on the NS-3 platform and uses an artificial intelligence framework. In order to verify the effectiveness of the DDQN-MTGPSR algorithm, it is simulated and compared with the traditional ad hoc routing protocols, and the experimental results show that compared with the GPSR protocol, the DDQN-MTGPSR has achieved significant optimization in the key metrics such as the average end-to-end delay, packet delivery rate, node average residual energy variance and percentage of node average residual energy. In high dynamic scenarios, the above indicators were optimized by 20.05%, 12.72%, 0.47%, and 50.15%, respectively, while optimizing 36.31%, 26.26%, 8.709%, and 69.3% in large-scale scenarios, respectively.

Cultural Capital. Part two. Accounting

This part of the article dedicated to cultural value registration — a topical part of economic activity that is not currently solved. Author proposes an efficient registration method which, despite seemingly innumerable set of possible value parameters, allows to embrace more than 500 million of units within two years of operation, which includes consequent evaluation, employing hundreds of thousands of cultural field specialists in all areas of national culture, while increasing usefulness and demand of this profession.