Real Transformation Research Articles

Управление программой трансформации бизнеса после слияния (на примере кобрендинговой M&A-сделки)

The article deals with the issues of organizing works after business transformation based on a software-project approach as a result of a co-branding M&A-deal concluded between major players in the market for the production of air conditioners and split systems - American Carrier Refrigeration and Japanese Toshiba. The material presents a successfully implemented case of a three-year transition from one business model to another, analyzes various aspects of transnational integration, including possible risks that inevitably accompany such transactions, notes the importance of understanding and combining corporate cultures and etiquette norms as well as the need for a real business transformation at all levels to obtain a stable infrastructure with the possibility of increasing the value of a company with a new portfolio of brands and directions as a result of co-branding transformation.

‘Sinawe’ [we are with you]: Local churches as change agents in the lives of traumatised youth

The church has a key role to play in addressing the chronic levels of grief and trauma experienced by the youth in South Africa. It has a biblical mandate to bring hope and healing and has a unique station within South African society that positions it to bring about real transformation. ‘Sinawe’ (Zulu for [we are with you]) is a programme developed by Scripture Union South Africa to equip local churches as change agents through a relational youth ministry model that engages trauma, grief and holistic needs, both physically and spiritually. This is an important first step for churches wanting to reach and minister to young people.The South African church has an important and legitimate role to play in the lives of young people. Research indicates that although the church is considered by local residents as an important community resource, it remains ineffectual in intentional community-based youth ministry that leverages significant opportunity. This research identifies the church as an important community change agent and encourages church leaders to step into the open gap to reach local young people while providing the methodology with which to do so. This research paper examines the current South African social context, outlines a theological mandate for church involvement and presents a methodology for a supportive and effective approach to community engagement in the lives of young people led by local churches.Interdisciplinary: The article is relevant to the following disciplines within theology; missiology, family and youth ministry and pastoral care. It also has interfaces with education and sociology.

Efficient GaN-on-Si Power Amplifier Design Using Analytical and Numerical Optimization Methods for 24–30 GHz 5G Applications

This paper presents the design procedure of an efficient compact monolithic microwave integrated circuit power amplifier (MMIC PA) in a 0.1 μm GaN-on-Si process for 5G millimeter-wave communication. Load/source-pull simulations were conducted to correctly create equivalent large-signal matching models for stabilized power cells and to determine the optimal impedance domain. The shorted stub with bypass capacitors minimizes the transistor’s output reactance, simplifying the matching objective to an approximate real impedance transformation (IT). With miniaturization as the implementation guide, explicit formulas and tabulated methods based on mathematical analysis were applied to synthesize the filtering matching networks (MNs) for the input and output stages. In addition, a CAD-dependent numerical optimization approach was used for the interstage MN that needs to cope with high IT ratio and complex loads. The continuous-wave (CW) characterization for the proposed two-stage PA demonstrated 19.8 ± 0.7 dB of small-signal gain, very flat output power (Pout) and power-added efficiency (PAE) at 4 dB gain compression of 32–32.4 dBm and 34–34.6%, respectively, over 24–30 GHz, with 37.1% of peak PAE at mid-frequency.

The Calling of the Church in Ethiopia: A Conflicted Society

The current Ethiopian government established the ‘Identity and Boundary Affairs Commission’ in order to solve the conflicts that arise from identity and geographical boundary quests. It is believed that these conflicts are the effects of lack of real and holistic transformation. The word transformation has been put into use by various secular and faith-based organisations. However, real and holistic transformation is characterised by two qualities: True identity and true vocation of humanity. It is the lack of a clear understanding of identity and vocation that has affected the Ethiopian Kale Hiwot Church to witness the hope and new life in Christ. Furthermore, their eschatological position contributes significantly to their weak socio-economic involvements. The impact of these factors – identity, calling (vocation) and eschatology – influence the maturia of the church as well as their participation in the missio Dei to proclaim and establish the Kngdom of God.

Global trends in general approaches to victimological crime prevention

Victimogical ideas were born several thousand years ago. Self-defence of a potential victim at the dawn of humanity was the main method of crime. Then, as other mechanisms for social evil appeared and developed, self-defence became one of the problems of the victim himself. The state and society, trying to protect the individual, developed other measures that did not require the participation of the victim in their logical analysis, which addressed to such phenomena as crime, criminal.
 The preventive role of law consists in regulating spheres of social life, during which existing criminogenic factors are either eliminated or their action is seriously hindered. The law cannot destroy the economic, social, and cultural causes and conditions of crime, but it can influence their negative manifestations: localize, block, and organize appropriate counteraction to negative phenomena and processes.
 Accelerating the processes of European integration requires the introduction into law enforcement practice not only of modern forms and methods of combating crime, but also standards of protection of human rights and freedoms recognized by the world community. Real democratic transformations are inseparable from the humanization of social relations because a person, his life and health, honour and dignity, inviolability and security are recognized as the highest social value.
 Currently, in several European countries, including Great Britain, the Netherlands, and France, the situational form of prevention is part of the official crime prevention policy. Despite this, there are concerns that “the use of this approach to crime prevention will have wider societal consequences of limiting freedom and unequal access to the positive outcomes of crime prevention.”
 Analysis of modern global trends in crime prevention shows that in the vast majority of states it is carried out with the help of “official” systems of fighting crime, i.e., law enforcement agencies and criminal justice.

Resampling Methods in Neural Networks: From Point to Interval Application to Coordinate Transformation

In the development of neural networks, many realizations are performed to decide which solution provides the smallest prediction error. Due to the inevitable random errors associated with the data and the randomness related to the network (e.g., initialization of the weight and initial conditions linked to the learning procedure), there is usually not an optimal solution. However, we can advantage of the idea of making several realizations based on resampling methods. Resampling methods are often used to replace theoretical assumptions by repeatedly resampling the original data and making inferences from the resampling. Resampling methods provide us the opportunity to do the interval prediction instead of only one point prediction. Following this idea, we introduce three resampling methods in neural networks, namely Delete-d Jackknife Trials, Delete-1 Jackknife Trials, and Hold-Out Trials. They are discussed and applied to a real coordinate transformation problem. Although the Delete-1 Jackknife Trials offer better results, the choice of resampling method will depend on the dimension of the problem at hand.

An Investigation of Cybersecurity Issues of Remote Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Saudi Arabia

COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed the public life style as well as the daily work activities across the world. This indeed has led both public and private sectors to attempt to adapt thereby shifting to remote work and adopting and enabling new technologies and online services in order to sustain their businesses while saving people lives. Unfortunately, a decent number of those endeavors have been undertaken unwarily in a hurry without taking the due diligence of all relevant aspects including cybersecurity and privacy. This survey aims at exploring the current state of the practice during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown and the revolving challenges of using and publishing online services in Saudi Arabia. It also investigates the needs for investment in the cybersecurity field which would increase the trust on and reliability of them; and thus encouraging organizations to move confidently towards the real digital transformation.

ВПРОВАДЖЕННЯ КОНЦЕПЦІЇ ЗЕЛЕНОГО УНІВЕРСИТЕТУ В КОНТЕКСТІ ПРАКТИЧНОЇ РЕАЛІЗАЦІЇ ПРИНЦИПІВ СТАЛОГО РОЗВИТКУ

The article is devoted to the study of the role of education in the implementation of the principles of sustainable development, in particular, determining the place of higher education institutions of Ukraine in achieving the goals of sustainable ecologically balanced development. It is proved that the introduction of the concept of a "green" university is a prerequisite for raising the environmental awareness of citizens and the quality of life in general. The goals of education in the field of sustainable development are systematised. The role of internal university stakeholders in the promotion and practical implementation of the green university concept is determined; a comparison of the green office model and other sustainable development initiatives is made. It is determined that the forms of organisation of the green office and the format of interaction between students, teachers and university staff cause the emergence of relevant risks that affect the effectiveness of the implementation of the green university concept. Measures for the practical implementation of the green university concept are proposed, which, on the one hand, make universities more sustainable, and on the other hand, promote the development of environmental education and research, and the practical implementation of the principles of sustainable development. Education is the foundation of everything in the modern world, including the environment. Universities have always had a significant impact on the development of society as centres of scientific and social progress. As a result, their role in the process of implementing all the Sustainable Development Goals set by the UN is constantly growing. The implementation of the green university concept is one of the current trends in the development of the world's leading higher education institutions. Important components of implementing the green university concept are approaches to organising infrastructure activities based on the principles of green office management. The practical experience of European universities allows minimising the relevant risks by specifying the functionality of the respective green office. The holistic institutional approach used in implementing the green university concept through the establishment of a green office, whose activities are focused on relevant creative projects, enables a real transformation in society. The Green Office model is an important centre not only in terms of developing the social responsibility of students who can become relevant agents of change, but it is also an important component of the practical implementation of the third - pro-social - function of a modern university (CIVIC university). To implement the concept of a green university in practice, the article recommends measures that, on the one hand, make universities more sustainable, and, on the other hand, promote the development of environmental education and research, and the practical implementation of the principles of sustainable development. Keywords: sustainable development, environmental education, environmentalization of education, green office, concept of "green" university.

Reflection of Linguacultural Perception of Relationship by Marriage in the Dialect World View of the Kuban Region Inhabitants.

The article is focused on the description of the relations between relatives by marriage in the dialect world view of the Kuban region inhabitants. It demonstrates that the most vivid depiction of their linguacultural perception of relations by marriage category can be represented by the archetypic opposition friend or foe. It determines that relationship terms acquire the conceptual characteristics of a friend in the dialect speakers by means of contextual and semantical support, due to their use as a part of paroemia and through lexical, grammatical and word-building means. It determines the duality of relations between relatives by marriage which demonstrates both, retention of stereotype images and scenarios of real life situations and transformation thereof. It proves that, from the ethnocultural point of view, relevant information is communicated via categorization of certain notions of this characteristic by means of concept building features important to the Kuban sub-dialect speakers. It demonstrates that peripheral area is filled with set expressions used for distant relatives nomination, with their main pragmatic feature being the vivid expression of ironic connotation. The conclusion is that the system of relations between relatives by marriage combines both the long-present and transformed linguacultural perception of family and marital relationships among village residents of the Kuban region.

Research on Whole Process Engineering Consulting Mode of Green Prefabricated Building based on BIM

Since 2013, China 's economy has entered a new normal development stage of growth shift. With the acceleration of the new urbanization process, high-quality development requires real estate transformation, upgrading and innovation. The real estate industry is an important force to promote the rapid development of China 's economy, which has changed the situation of urban housing shortage and made historic achievements. However, with the rapid development, the disadvantages of the traditional construction industry are also constantly highlighted, such as extensive development, not focusing on green development. Vigorously promoting the industrialization, informatization and greening of construction industry is an important way to realize the modernization of China 's construction industry. Therefore, based on the current BIM technology, this paper aims to build an intelligent construction system for prefabricated buildings, combined with the whole process of engineering consulting, in order to play a positive role in promoting the transformation and development of China 's construction industry.

La precision dans la mesure du temps et la Nouvelle Philosophie: Étude de cas (Alexandre Koyré & Richard Westfall)

The 17th century is considered to be a century of great upheaval, of a real transformation in the way scholars apprehended the world. This change, for the majority of historical studies, goes hand in hand with the birth of the so-called New Natural Philosophy. It is argued that before the 17th century, in order to describe, understand and explain the world, scholars used a philosophictheological language that was later replaced by a mathematical (geometrical) language. This new way of contemplating and trying to understand the world is often associated, rightly or wrongly, with the birth of the quest for accuracy, and more precisely for accuracy in time measurement. By means of a case study, this article seeks to question this link highlighted by historians of the second half of the twentieth century. The present article is a study of two key articles that share the same object, accuracy in time measurement, written by two authors who have influenced, and still do, a large part of scholarly thinking, Alexander Koyre and Richard Westfall.

Exploring Transdisciplinarity in Engineering Education and Practice: A Review of Literature and Existing Initiatives

This paper is situated in the recent interest within engineering education communities in adopting transdisciplinary practices as well as the evolving scholarship and discussions on transdisciplinarity (TD) in broader contexts over the past few decades. We first introduce a historical overview of the discussions and scholarly work on TD, from which we identify some features of a transdisciplinary orientation. Further, we examine the website information of nine TD-explicit initiatives and seven cross-disciplinary initiatives in postsecondary settings across the world—in light of two general approaches to TD (the Nicolescuian approach and the Zurich approach) and the identified TD-oriented features. Our reviews exhibit the commonalities and differences between transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary initiatives, and a notable divide between TD-related theories and practices. Our findings also reveal opportunities and challenges in pursuing transdisciplinary activities in engineering education and practice. We call for a fundamental conceptual change to enable a real transformation toward transdisciplinarity.

DÖNÜŞÜMÜN İMKÂNI OLARAK TECRÜBE: DEWEY VE GADAMER’İN BAKIŞ AÇILARIYLA

This study aims to consider the concept of experience within the framework of human transformation. For this purpose, it includes various meanings of the concept of experience, starting from its dictionary meaning. This study asserts the thesis that experience is a possibility for human transformation based on the thoughts of the American educational philosopher John Dewey and the German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer. Today, considering the definition of the concept of education as the real transformation of man by enlightenment, it is obvious that the transformation of man through his experiences is an educational side. If education is to be constantly on the road, experiences are important in terms of allowing people to continue on the road by transforming. This study analyzes the concept of experience in terms of philosophy of education and religious education and explains how it works as an opportunity in human transformation.

The Formation Mechanism of Nanocrystals after Martensitic Transformation.

Understanding the ultrafine substructure in freshly formed Fe-C martensite is the key point to reveal the real martensitic transformation mechanism. As-quenched martensite, whose transformation temperature is close to room temperature, has been investigated in detail by means of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in this study. The observation results revealed that the freshly formed martensite after quenching is actually composed of ultrafine crystallites with a grain size of 1–2 nm. The present observation result matches well with the suggestion based on X-ray studies carried out one hundred years ago. Such nanocrystals are distributed throughout the entire martensite. The whole martensite shows a uniform contrast under both bright and dark field observation modes, irrespective of what observation directions are chosen. No defect contrast can be observed inside each nanocrystal. However, a body-centered cubic {112}<111>-type twinning relationship exists among the ultrafine α-Fe grains. Such ultrafine α-Fe grains or crystallites are the root cause of the fine microstructure formed in martensitic steels and high hardness after martensitic transformation. The formation mechanism of the ultrafine α-Fe grains in the freshly formed martensite will be discussed based on a new γ → α phase transformation mechanism.

Impact of STO and STO-estimation in DST-DCO-OFDM-based visible light communication systems

This work addresses the timing synchronization aspects in a DC-biased optical OFDM (DCO-OFDM) system which is exploiting real trigonometric transform like discrete sine transform (DST). The striking notability is that without the necessity of Hermitian Symmetry criteria, the optical OFDM system takes the advantage of real signal processing transformation techniques like DST. Furthermore, this paper compares the performance of timing synchronization algorithms exploiting the periodicity property of the DST-DCO-OFDM symbol with the training symbol-based STO estimation algorithm. Among the STO estimation algorithms, the training symbol-based STO estimation technique imparts a better mean square error when compared with that of the periodicity-based STO estimation algorithms. Moreover, this work validates the derived Cramer Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) for the timing errors.

INVESTIGATION OF THE ALGORITHMS FOR THE TRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS PROCESSES OPTIMAL FORMATION BY HETEROGENEOUS OPERATORS IN REAL TIME

The article presents the investigation results of the models and the algorithms for the formation of a wide range of transport and logistics real time processes, which create sorted structures of the mass orders. Operators of the different complexity, «weight» are used in this process. Different issues related to the creation of the formal models of the input data sets are resolved. They provide an effective implementation of the technological and the logistic processes. The purpose of the models is to improve the procedures for optimal ordering and classification of the sequences of analysing elements and orders. We have proposed new specialized models (graph models, binary trees) for the input (primary) sets of the elements, as well as algorithms for their processing, which ensure an efficiency increase of the ordering process components. In addition, graph models and algorithms allow solving classification tasks for the data of various types, and they are also suitable for organizing multi-sequencial orders. The high computational efficiency of the proposed new algorithms for arranging and classifying data has been established using comparative analysis. The article provides meaningful examples and notes the peculiarities of the tasks used for real time ordering and classification of the multi-sequencial orders. Namely, this is the task of disassembling and forming railway trains and the task of «mass order delivery to address». Examples of real time creation and transformation of the data flows binary graph models are provided to demonstrate the models and the algorithms. The formed models have been also applied to the tasks of effective sorting and classification with interval uncertainty of the data. We have investigated the possibilities of fuzzy arrangement structure creation and classification of numerical data received online.

Values and Multi-stakeholder Dialog for Business Transformation in Light of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

The objective of this article is to create an understanding of how the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) can be used to steer stakeholder engagement for transformative change, meeting global challenges, and navigate a new business-societal practice driven by a values-based business model. The article is a conceptual study with case studies of the role that the SDGs play in multi-stakeholder dialog via the kind of sustainable business-societal practice that takes corporate social responsibility (CSR) to the next level, where it is embedded in a values-based business model, creating a new meaning to effect real business-societal transformation. Multi-stakeholder dialog implies interactive and communicative engagement with the full range of stakeholders in order to create value for all, employing a societal perspective and using the value network as a basis for effective decision-making. We explain our methodological approach by presenting multi-stakeholder dialog in practice, in the form of multiple case studies. These empirical settings consisted of two values-driven privately owned companies with a strong reporting mechanism and a clear transformation agenda based on the SDG challenges: IKEA and Löfbergs. The empirical study provides the basis for our proposed model. This article makes an original contribution to the study of the use of SDGs in management and service research. It investigates steering and navigating processes in specific contexts in order to determine what should be subject to legal enforcement and what comprises moral and/or ethical value, particularly at the societal level.

CONFESSIONAL GROUNDS IN CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, AND ART

The purpose of the article is to identify the peculiarities of the repentance, penitence, and confession concepts’ grounds in art and philosophy, to characterise examples of the reflection of these concepts in art. Research relevance. A necessary component of philosophical reasoning, cultural studies and everyday life practices is the rethinking of many concepts of moral consciousness. Reasoning on ethical values is essential in all cultures and at all times. The topics of moral guest, self-deepening and purification are relevant today. Turning to the analysis of the reflection of such concepts as confession, repentance, penitence in culture and art requires research attention. The research methodology is based on general scientific and special methods of knowledge, in particular analysis, synthesis, the logical method and the method of generalisation. The scientific novelty is in revealing the concept of repentance in the confessional grounds of philosophy and literature — as a primordial and constant concern of the human spirit for itself. Conclusions. It is revealed that remorse arises when, having committed a fundamentally wrong act, a person recognises it as a violation of the moral law and condemns it, but does not have the strength to condemn themself so much as to renounce entirely the passion that led to the crime, so they do not seek real transformations of their soul. The article has demonstrated that spiritual quest, a person’s ascent through moral self-improvement, occur in a person at any period of their life. It is proved that the emphasis on conscience, a person’s moral self-purification, repentance has been inherent in the national cultural tradition since Kyivan Rus. And in the following centuries, this moral attitude was decisive in the spiritual life of our ancestors many times, returning hope in difficult historical moments. It is generalised that a sincere search for the ways of the good and genuine repentance and confession is possible to others and oneself.

Anthropological and Religious Dimension, Ecological Transition and Integral Development: Economic Theory towards a New Paradigm?

The crisis of the market system is highlighted not only by the lag on environmental issues, but also by the lag in responses to repeated social and ethical crises, which are increasingly global. Under scrutiny is the increasingly evident theoretical weakness of the market paradigm and its formally perfect but unrealistic rational model. And it is above all its microeconomic basis that is weak, starting with the theory of behaviour and choice, with the utilitarian Homo Economicus as the only variable, the only key to interpretation. What then are the possible integrations? First of all, the inclusion in economic models of the non-mercantile dimension of exchange, in its various forms: gratuitousness, gift, altruism, relational goods, common goods, reciprocity, promotion of the person. Thus, the recognition of the economic role of non-economic factors, in an interconnected, integral and organic reading of social systems. The response must be systemic, in the various ethical, social and environmental aspects. Economics, natural sciences, anthropology, economic sociology and history of religions can dialogue in the search for a new theoretical paradigm. It is therefore necessary that the ecological transition be followed by a real transformation of the economic model.

Method for Continuous Integration and Deployment Using a Pipeline Generator for Agile Software Projects

Lately, the software development industry is going through a slow but real transformation. Software is increasingly a part of everything, and, software developers, are trying to cope with this exploding demand through more automation. The pipelining technique of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) has developed considerably due to the overwhelming demand for the deployment and deliverability of new features and applications. As a result, DevOps approaches and Agile principles have been developed, in which developers collaborate closely with infrastructure engineers to guarantee that their applications are deployed quickly and reliably. Thanks to pipeline approach thinking, the efficiency of projects has greatly improved. Agile practices represent the introduction to the system of new features in each sprint delivery. Those practices may contain well-developed features or can contain bugs or failures which impact the delivery. The pipeline approach, depicted in this paper, overcomes the problems of delivery, improving the delivery timeline, the test load steps, and the benchmarking tasks. It decreases system interruption by integrating multiple test steps and adds stability and deliverability to the entire process. It provides standardization which means having an established, time-tested process to use, and can also decrease ambiguity and guesswork, guarantee quality and boost productivity. This tool is developed with an interpreted language, namely Bash, which offers an easier method to integrate it into any platform. Based on the experimental results, we demonstrate the value that this solution currently creates. This solution provides an effective and efficient way to generate, manage, customize, and automate Agile-based CI and CD projects through automated pipelines. The suggested system acts as a starting point for standard CI/CD processes, caches Docker layers for subsequent usage, and implements highly available deliverables in a Kubernetes cluster using Helm. Changing the principles of this solution and expanding it into multiple platforms (windows) will be addressed in a future discussion.