Firm Place Research Articles

БИЛЕР ДҮНИЕТАНЫМЫНДАҒЫ АДАМИ ҚАСИЕТКЕ ТОЛЫ АР ІЛІМІ

In this article, when a truly new history of independent Kazakhstan is being created today, it is necessary to consider it comprehensively, this is a spiritual requirement arising from the need of the hour to form true views on our past history and generalize it from a scientific and methodological point of view. That is, revise the established guidelines and emphasize their completeness. This is especially necessary for all areas of social scientific research in accordance with the radical political and social changes taking place in the country, including in the field of oratory knowledge, which constitutes a certain part of the history of socio-philosophical thought. However, in the history of Kazakh social thought, based on class ideology, the personality of the judges was not fully revealed and there was no special word. It is clear to all of us that behind class ideology there is an exaggeration in the assertion that the basis of society is economic relations. As a result, absolute importance was given to the idea that man is a totality of social relations. The idea that “it is not man who controls society, but society that controls man” has taken a firm place.

When the Wind Is Gently Rustling: Film and the Aesthetics of Natural Beauty

While experiencing natural beauty is a key appeal of the cinema and other moving-image media, academic film scholarship has rarely paid attention to it. In this article I will use the widespread motif of the gently rustling wind as a pars pro toto to make some general remarks about the experience of natural beauty in film. I will first note the firm place of the motif of the rustling wind in film theoretical debates from the late 19th century until today. Then, I will propose three modes of how viewers can experience this beautiful motif in film. In the following section I will discuss how film's mediation modifies the experience of natural beauty. And in a final step I will explore the reciprocal relation between nature and film, and how one can enhance the appreciation of the other. Ultimately, I follow two – mutually imbricated – goals. On the one hand, I aim to (re)connect the film theoretical discourse about the wind in the trees to natural beauty. On the other hand, I use the motif of the gently rustling wind to say something more general about the aesthetic experience of natural beauty in film.

Managerial Decision-Making Methodology to Support Innovation Activities: Evidence from Slovak Enterprises

The creation of innovations in enterprises is a topic that has a firm place in the scientific literature, and the authors describe several procedures and theories of the functioning of the innovation process in enterprises. One part of the innovation process is decision-making. In the article, attention is paid to the results of research on the decision-making process as an important and integral part of the innovation process. The elements of the decision-making process and their impact on innovation represent an area of possible exploration and development of theories on decision-making in the innovation process. It is here that we have proposed a methodology for decision-making in the innovation process. The management of innovation processes, of which decision-making is an important part, provides multiple points of error for enterprises. Errors are experienced by enterprises due to a lack of information or its misuse, the influence of communication and time, and also the lack of experience of employees. The aim of this paper is to highlight the different decision-making criteria and approaches to innovation activities in Slovak enterprises within the framework of the developed methodology and survey results.

Physics Teachers and use of Sensors by Pupils Themselves, Preliminary Ideas of Typology of Physics Teachers

Sensors for use in schools within physics education have a firm place in many educational systems. However, even in these educational systems, some teachers do not use them. In this contribution, we offer preliminary ideas leading to the preparation of a typology of physics teachers. We start with the model of personality developed by C.R. Cloninger and proceed with preliminary work by the team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, focused on Teachers on the Market: A Typology of Teachers’ Philosophy, Mission, Vision, and Values. Finally, we try to ground our work on the neuroscience view of teachers formulated by T. Tokuhama-Espinosa.

Markus, Macht und Krise

Abstract As a narrator, Mark is a powerful authority. With his Gospel, he offers crisis management to his community in the existential crisis of the 70s and employs a narrative- historiographical approach. The offering of this crisis management is accompanied by the formation of authority and strong asymmetrical dependencies. The essay at hand traces these extremely complex processes and concretises the Markan “exercise of power” in two examples, namely the picture of Jesus’ relatives and the fleeing young man in 14:51–52. My impression is as follows: the narrator depicts various uncompleted positions towards Jesus without rashly marking “red lines”. He deliberately uses his authority of interpretation to grant “broken existences in the discipleship” a firm place within his community. Thus, he seeks to constructively respond to the acute crisis and consolidate this community.

Quantifying the Impact of Sustainable Practices on Business Operations

Based on the business context, resilience and sustainability seem to have multiple dimensions and connections. Administrative sustainability strategies can help a company develop and become more resilient. With the use of a sustainability maturation index (SMI), this study attempts to analyze how the financial success of a business is affected by its approach to sustainable development. As resilience abilities are closely linked to the SMI, this study proposes to explore the initial integration of both sustainable development and resilience criteria into a single framework. To determine whether there could be an interaction between the SMI and economic performance indices, planned conversations were used to gather data from 35 different firms. The investigation disproves widely circulated claims, demonstrating that there is no meaningful correlation between profitability and sustained business operations. It's noteworthy to point out that market emphasis, organizational size, and firm place of origin do not significantly correlate with SMI. One could argue that to evaluate the effects of environmentally friendly procedures, a company's multi-dimensional performance, which includes both financial and non-financial measurements, should be considered. In addition, more research is required to identify the nonfinancial metrics of success that businesses use to measure resilience and sustainable development to create a cohesive framework that facilitates trade-off evaluation.

ДИСЦИПЛИНЫ ПО ВЫБОРУ В СИСТЕМЕ СОВРЕМЕННОГО ВУЗОВСКОГО МУЗЫКАЛЬНОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ

The article contains a description of the discipline “Texture in Music of the XXth century”, which emerged from an optional author course and since 2004 has occupied a firm place in the curriculum of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music. Together with “Rhythmics in Music of the XXth century”, this course has become a bearer of strategic functions of modern music education in the block of elective disciplines. It is taught to bachelors in the field of computer music and arrangement and to composers, as well as within the framework of the course “Actual Problems of Theoretical and Historical Musicology” to postgraduate students in the specialty 5.10.3. — “Types of Arts (Musical Art”). The author substantiates the expediency of referring to texture as an integral component of the composer’s style, which is studied in interaction with vocal science, harmony, timbre, compositional techniques and shaping processes. The specificity of the subject of the study requires the introduction into musicological usage of a system of concepts that contribute to the creation of an integral concept of texture, the main provisions of which become the foundation of integral analysis.

Verification of artillery fire under the influence of random disturbances for the computer game ARMA 3

Computer gaming occupies a firm place in today's media culture and media business. Computer games are widely used both as a means of entertainment and as an educational tool. Military games traditionally hold a place in computer gaming. However, it is in this sector of gaming that a sharp contradiction is observed between the super-realistic quality of the video component and the limited scope of the game's script component. In particular, in the development of military-themed games, the introduction of modern weapon models is rapidly evolving. At the same time, the experience of military conflicts over the last decade and the new tactical techniques developed are difficult to implement in games. This work demonstrates the possibility of improving the artillery component of ARMA 3. In artillery fire, random disturbances are always present. These disturbances cannot be eliminated during the preparation of the firing. In practice, they are compensated by consecutive ranging shots. Modern artillery firing tactics require the maximum reduction of the firing time of the artillery unit. In this regard, methods for verifying each artillery shot are very relevant. Verification is understood as confirming the effectiveness of a shot immediately after it is made. A method for verifying a shot by recording the flight time of a projectile through three control points is proposed and studied. Based on the recorded flight times by sensors, a system of approximating parabolas is constructed. The solution of the system allows determining the expected point of the projectile's burst before it lands. The deviation of the burst point from the aiming point verifies the quality of the artillery shot. Simulation modeling of the proposed method has been conducted. It is demonstrated that parabolic approximation effectively compensates for random disturbances of the shot. A comparison of the proposed method with the method of compensating disturbances through consecutive ranging shots is made. It is shown that the proposed method significantly reduces the firing time of the weapon and the ammunition expenditure for hitting the target for the ARMA 3 player.

Pakistan’s defense industry amid "pivot to the East" and "saving traditional strategic ties"

With Pakistan having succeeded in developing relevant industries, it has taken a firm place in the second tier of weapons and military equipment producers. However, the Pakistan’s defense industry is still based on Chinese-Soviet and Western engineering thought. Such an equilibrium stems from both the country's capabilities in the sphere and traditional foreign policy imperatives of Pakistan's military elites. This logic is expected to remain relevant and will manifest itself in future Pakistani foreign and military-industrial policies.

Peculiarities of the activities of Russian political parties in the context of the special military operation in 2022

This article analyzes the positioning of political parties in the current political realities. The special military operation in Ukraine is considered as a significant internal political and geopolitical event, which to one degree or another affected almost all socio-political institutions of Russia, including political parties. In this article the parties are classified into new ones, that are those which created after 2015 and participating in federal election campaigns, and those parties that managed to take a firm place in the political system and form fractions in the Parliament. The purpose of this study is to determine whether new political parties in 2022 were able to take advantage of the current period of instability to strengthen their position in the political space and to which extent. Analyzing the legislative, media and public activities of such parties as “United Russia”, the Communist party, the Liberal-Democratic party, “Just Russia – for the Truth”, “New People”, “Green Alternative” and the “Party of Growth” in 2022 it was concluded that among the new political parties only "New People" are relatively active in the framework of the agenda of a special military operation. Other new political parties, except for minor actions, projects and other activities, almost do not use special operations in their activities to promote their party brand and attract new supporters. At the same time, almost all the parties under consideration integrated the agenda of the special military operation into their activities, but this had a very small impact on the electoral sympathies of the population.

How do firms value sales career paths?

AbstractSales employees can build their careers across industries, firms, and occupations. Yet it is unclear how their sales career paths affect their compensation. To assess the value of their experience, we examine the paychecks drawn by nearly 25,000 sales employees over 22 years. Consistent with our arguments, we find that firms place greater value on sales managers' experience than salespeople’s, reflecting the multiplier effect attributed to managers. In particular,sales occupation experienceseems to be the most salient type of experience for both groups, as it is fungible across industries and firms. We uncover two distinct paths in sales organizations: the salesperson’s career path rewarding sales experience and another path providing promotional prospects in sales. Analyses indicate that most newly promoted sales managers have no sales experience and move laterally from other managerial positions. Implications of our findings for research and sales-compensation practice are discussed.

First-line therapy for adults with advanced renal cell carcinoma: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.

First-line therapy for adults with advanced renal cell carcinoma: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.

Time to Retire the Term, “Non‐Academic”?

As a member of at least two numerical minorities, I am well aware that how people are labeled affects how they see themselves and how others see them. Often such terms of difference seem innocent enough on the surface, but the danger that such terms may belittle or disparage people is real. The term “non-academic” is an example of labeling that emphasizes what people are not. Labeling people by what they are not can be interpreted as devaluing what they are. That is, “non” emphasizes roles other than those that people actually play. Science, in reality, is a diverse and inclusive pursuit, requiring a community diverse enough to achieve new discoveries, create and nurture the community that generates discovery, and connect the scientific community with society at large in all its facets. This range of activities requires careers in an equally wide range of institutions and organizations. “Non-academic,” although it is potentially an exclusionary term, is often encountered in discussing ecological careers, even when the intent of the discussion is inclusive. The term does recognize that there are careers in many organizations and situations beyond those in academic institutions. Such careers cover an impressively broad spectrum: they reside in organizations that focus on policy making, management, education, industry, consulting, international development, planning, and many more. Many of these diverse careers take place in government agencies, charitable organizations, private firms, industry, and community-based organizations, to name only a few. Of course, the training for jobs in the professions or practices may differ from those in the academy. The skill sets of many professors, compared to professionals in planning, restoration, consultancies, industry, government, small business, or environmental activism, for example, are likely to be different to some degree. Training must be better designed to accommodate the broad variety of careers that deploy ecological knowledge. One size does not fit all. Yet emphasizing what people are not may inadvertently imply that their careers are less valuable, or somehow less worthy than those in the reference group. In other words, the phrase “non-academic” may be taken to mean that the academy is of the highest status, while all others are less praiseworthy. Because even this unintentional slight can damage the inclusive work of ecology, it is worth avoiding. Fortunately, there are alternative approaches. First, it may be possible to frame the discussion in terms of the diversity of ecological careers without privileging only one kind (careers in the academy) as the “in group.” In addition, other, more specific terms may point to and respect the whole range of careers. Why not try phrases like “diverse careers in ecology,” “careers that use ecological knowledge,” or most simply, “ecological careers?” These may be longer, or require a moment's thought before uttering them, but inclusiveness is worth the effort. Science is healthy, sustainable, and effective only when discovery, community, and engagement are all operating and integrated effectively. It takes a village, not just the academy. Our language can help promote the inclusiveness needed for the success of our complex, multifaceted scientific enterprise.

How is Industry 4.0 Changing Food Technology? A Scientometric Profile

The food industry has changed due to the present industrial revolution, industry 4.0. The processes taking place in energy and food firms leverage aspects of the industry 4.0 paradigm, such as machine learning, the Internet of Things, and Big Data. The goal of this research is to give academics a summary of works that have been published on the topic of food technology. Hence, the review examines the most active authors, sources, organizations, and countries conducting studies in the subject domain. The selected documents from the Web of Science from 2013 to 2021, using Bibliometrix and VOSviewer software to gather relevant publication trends and identify the most significant networks. The results identified that the growth of food technology literature has many documents published in 2021. A total of 2529 documents were published in 527 sources, among which the most popular was Sustainability. Collaboration among authors reached 91 countries, the most prominent country was China. This research will be a vital tool for academics and policymakers in providing well-developed and better-oriented continuous training programs to lessen the skill gap between workers and jobs.

Insurance Medicine in Medical Education

Insurance Medicine in Medical Education Abstract. Insurance medicine in medical education has a firm place in the teaching of public health. Students learn about the Swiss social insurance system with coverage against sickness, accident and disability, all three central to patient care. Teaching aims to provide students with an overview, stimulate their interest, and make them aware of their role in the system. As with the clinical disciplines, the competency- and outcome-based learning objectives of PROFILES (Principal Relevant Objectives and a Framework for Integrative Learning and Education in Switzerland) map key topics of insurance medicine which the prospective physicians should be familiar with as they complete their studies.

Концерт для домры с оркестром русских народных инструментов Бориса Кравченко: опыт исполнительского анализа

The article presents a performance perspective of the interpretation of the Concert for Domra with the orchestra of Folk Instruments by the Leningrad composer Boris Petrovich Kravchenko. Despite the fact that the composition has taken a firm place in the repertoire of domrists, it has not yet become the subject of research. The article highlights the compositional features of the work in their connection with performing tasks. Special attention is paid to the most difficult fragments of the composition from the point of view of performance. The work may be relevant for performers.

Patočkova neskorá filozofia v kontexte duchovnej krízy súčasnej spoločnosti

In Patočka´s philosophy of history, especially in its late period, the concept of Europe, which is essentially linked to the ancient Greek idea of the care for the soul, hast its firm place. The idea of the care for the soul undergoes several metamorphoses during the history and after the disappearance of the ancient world it is according to Patočka carried further by Christianity, which is considered to be the highest rise of the human spirit after the previous decay of the ancient world. However, Patočka also speaks about the spiritual crisis of the humanity as such that in his opinion reaches its peak in the present time, in the technical and materialistic understanding of the world and in the modern and post-modern consumerism. While looking for the solutions of the current crisis, Patočka is inspired by Heidegger´s thinking, above all by the ontological difference – the difference between the Being and beings. An important phenomenon that can on an individual level become the remedy for overcoming the present materialistic. technical and strictly rational understanding of the world is for Patočka the sacrifice. The sacrifice can show the essential aspect of Being, which is much more that a sum of beings and can therefore be grasped as the philosophical expression of the divine, what Patočka clearly demonstrates at the figure of Jesus.

DRAGON AND GODDESS: THE CULT OF GODDESS SARASWATI IN JAPAN

This study is devoted to the cult of goddess Benzaiten (Saraswati) in Japan. As an Indian goddess Saraswati, who in the Vedic period was revered as the deity of the river of the same name, under the influence of Hinduism and Buddhism turned into the patroness of music and the embodiment of eloquence. In the Far East, China and Japan, she was known as Biancaitian (Jp. Benzaiten). However, in addition to her connection with music, Benzaiten retained the association with water inherent in the original Saraswati, which was expressed in her veneration as a goddess incarnated in a water deity-dragon or commanding them. At the same time, due to the ambivalence of her nature, ambiguously interpreted in various Buddhist sources, Benzaiten turned into a universal deity, identified with many other gods from the Shinto-Buddhist pantheon. For this reason, later she took a firm place in Japanese folklore, being included among the Seven Gods of Happiness (Jp. Shichifukujin). Based on a comparative analysis, it is concluded that if the deity of the Saraswati River in the Rig Veda is a stormy, water element that cannot be controlled, but can only be propitiated with hymns and offerings, then the Japanese Benzaiten, which sometimes manifests itself in the form of an unbridled dragon or snake, can be subjugated through the Buddhist rituals. This fact shows the importance of Buddhism in fixing religious cultural codes that originated in ancient India, and their subsequent spread across the territory of Central Asia and the Far East.

Financial reporting for cryptocurrency

This study compares and contrasts US and international accounting and financial reporting practices for cryptocurrency. We analyze the financial statements of 40 global companies that have exposure to cryptocurrencies, including cryptocurrency purchases, mining, payments, trading, and investments in ICOs and early-stage blockchain ventures. We document inconsistency between Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), as well as distortions that can mislead users in assessing asset value, liquidity, profitability, and cash-generating abilities across firms. In particular, firms receiving cryptocurrencies in revenue-generating activities account for cryptocurrencies as intangibles using different measurement bases and classify the associated cash inflows differently. Some firms place cryptocurrencies in the usual long-term location of intangibles, while others consider intangibles as liquid, short-term assets. Limited guidance about crypto-assets from both IFRS and GAAP lets companies choose which existing standard to apply and how to apply it. Understanding the financial and valuation implications of these new virtual assets is vital for future accounting research and professional practice.

Generalization of threats attributed to large carnivores in areas of high human-wildlife conflict.

Fear-induced generalization of threats to noninimical stimuli is a behavioral tendency of humans to minimize exposure to potential threats. In human-carnivore conflict zones, people often generalize their fear of predation by obligate carnivores to nonobligate carnivores despite differences in species' predation rates. We investigated the effect of a perceived threat of large obligate carnivores to livestock on tolerance and perception of striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) in an area of high human-carnivore conflict. We surveyed 197 households through asemistructured questionnaire to determine people's perception and tolerance of striped hyenas in Sathyamangalam and Mudumalai Tiger Reserves after identification of the current distribution range of hyena determined through camera trap and sign surveys. Through the random forest algorithm, we modeled the level of tolerance of striped hyena as a function of loss of livestock to predation and from disease, the perceived threat of predation by hyena, and other socioeconomic attributes. Animal husbandry was a major source of income but was severely affected by livestock loss due to predation and disease. Sixty-nine percent of people were uncertain about predatory behavior of hyena; out of that, 23% reported a negative conservation attitude. Only 6 instances of hyena depredation on livestock and 2 on dogs were reported. Our model confirmed that economic instability associated with increased loss to predation and disease, livestock dependency, and a decrease in family annual income negatively affected people's tolerance of hyena. Perceptual uncertainty related to predatory behavior of hyena also negatively affected people's tolerance. In our study area, economic instability and perceptual uncertainty led to generalization of fear of large carnivores to a nonobligate predator. Such generalization may affect the attitude of people toward many other species. Understanding the role of economic instability and perceptual uncertainty should facilitate conservation of species, such as the hyena, that are vulnerable to false generalization.