Author Sets Research Articles

How a buddy scheme created social and intercultural space for international and home students

Buddy schemes are a form of learning intervention that create a space for students to support each other by ‘sharing knowledge, ideas and experience between [...] participants’ (Boud, 2001, p.3). The author set up and conducted research to evaluate a buddy scheme to support international Nursing students on a one-year programme by matching them with a home-student buddy studying at the same level. This small-scale, qualitative study sought to investigate international and home students’ experiences of participating in the buddy scheme. An online survey asked students to evaluate their access to social and academic support before and during the scheme through textual and numerical questions. A self-selecting subgroup of participants subsequently took part in semi-structured interviews to reveal their experiences and insights. These were recorded and transcribed before the data were analysed using inductive textual analysis to identify key themes. In line with wider literature, this study found peer support has a positive influence on international students’ socio-cultural transition (McPherson, Punch and Graham, 2017; Shu et al., 2020; WONKHE, 2022), yet it is also ‘mutually beneficial’ (Boud, 2001, p.3), having a positive impact on both groups of students. Home students valued the opportunity to build relationships with peers they would not have otherwise met (Bethel, Ward and Fetvadjiev, 2020). This opportunity for intercultural exchange enriched their experience too. As such, this study adds weight to existing evidence that buddy schemes are a useful means by which UK universities can support international and home students.

Academic journal website from the user’s perspective

Professional community recommendations on the content of academic journal websites mostly include criteria for indexing in databases, however these recommendations do not consider the authors’ and reviewers’ perspective on the website contents and design. To address this, we analyzed these recommendations through a survey of 198 Russian academic journal authors and reviewers, using a continuous sampling technique. The survey took place in April and May 2024. The questionnaire was based on the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing by COPE, DOAJ etc. The survey also focused on the journal website content, design, mobile version, and publication strategy of academic journal website users. We analyzed the survey results for two partially overlapping sets of authors who published in journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus, and Russian Citation Science Index Core, or in journals listed by the Higher Attestation Commission of Russian Federation. The study revealed that both COPE’s recommendations and users of academic websites value information regarding aims and scope of the journal, copyright fees, review policies, timelines for the editorial and publication process, and licensing. However, Russian authors and reviewers put less emphasis on website sections that address ethical principles and authorship criteria. They prioritize having an online editorial office, security certification, scientific journal indexing and abstracting information, additional educational materials, and the ability to customize the website for devices with different screen sizes. We also discuss the importance of HTML meta tags for promoting the journal’s website. The findings of the research may contribute to promotion of Russian academic journals in international databases, improve the efficiency of communication between authors, reviewers and editors, and develop a set of recommendations that complement international publishing conventions.

Book review “N.I. Vorobyev. Kazan Tatars. Kazan: Tatgosizdat, 1953”

The work under review is devoted to the characteristics of the material culture of the Kazan Tatars of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. The author set himself the task to identify the main elements of the Kazan Tatars’ material culture, trace the history of its formation, and analyse its characteristic territorial and class differences. The work is based on the monograph of the same author, Material Culture of the Kazan Tatars, published in 1930. Since that time, the author has accumulated new material, critically revised previous conclusions, and essentially produced a new work (cit.: Smirnov A.P. (1954) N.I. Vorobyev. The Kazan Tatars. Tatgosizdat, Kazan, 1953. Sovetskaya etnografiya [Soviet Ethnography]. No. 3: 168–172. (In Russ.)).

On the Question of the Social Origins of Early Cossack Communities: Results, Methodology and Prospects of Research

Introduction. Addressing the complex and controversial problem of domestic Cossack studies – the determination of the stage affiliation of early Slavic Cossack communities – the author sets himself the task of summing up many years of discussions, identifying the most promising directions for further research, and identifying the associated methodological guidelines. Methods and materials. Many studies of the problem of the stage affiliation of early Cossack communities, carried out by pre-revolutionary, Soviet, and modern Russian Cossack researchers, as well as works on male unions and communities of the Slavic, Caucasian, and Turkic worlds, served as materials for the article. The analysis of sources and scientific publications was carried out using comparative historical and structural-functional methods, as well as methods of classification and typologization. Analysis. The available scientific papers on the problem were classified based on the social and political prototypes of early Cossack communities determined by scientists. Three groups of versions about the social nature of early Cossack communities have been identified, which correlate them: 1) with state structures; 2) with paramilitary communities that existed in the South Russian steppes and adjacent territories at the same time as the Cossacks; 3) with archaic structures (the so-called military democracy and male unions). Results. Defining the third direction as the most promising, the author of the article suggests expanding research on the cultural and historical comparison of Cossack organizations with archaic male unions and their later forms known in the Turkic, Caucasian, and Slavic worlds. We should start this case by adhering to a set of crucial methodological principles. These principles indicate that male unions were cultural universals, and their correlation with Cossack organizations may indicate not so much (and not only) genetic connections as typological ones. In contrast to the Caucasian and Central Asian unions, Cossack communities arose outside the metropolis, which, on the one hand, led to the need for them to build their own potestar structures and, on the other hand, determined the strong external impact on them from the Russian state. The development of Cossack communities did not follow the path of evolution but was first carried out in the form of a rollback to the archaic and then was associated with a series of sociocultural transformations.

THE NEW ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY AND TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

This article investigates the intersection between economic theory and sociology through a qualitative methodology, aiming to deepen the interdisciplinary debate between economics and the New Economic Sociology (NES). The analysis focuses on the contributions of Granovetter, Fligstein, and DiMaggio, highlighting how NES concepts can enrich the understanding of territorial development, especially regarding the role of social relations in territories. Sociologists, in turn, demonstrate diligence and creativity in addressing cultural and political issues concerning collective representations and social coercion, fundamental concepts that define institutions. Based on a robust set of authors and bibliographic references, the article seeks to complement the debate on NES. The research reveals that NES offers valuable insights for analyzing territorial dynamics and reinforces the importance of a territorial approach in formulating development strategies. In the end, the article demonstrates that the themes discussed by NES confirm the need for a more integrated territorial perspective in constructing sustainable development projects.

Correlation of the concept of «judicial control» with the concepts of «justice» and «judicial protection» in the criminal procedure of Ukraine

In the article, the author notes that the introduction of modern approaches to the legal regulation of the judicial control mechanism into the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine of 2012 was one of the right ways to realize the right to a fair trial. It is noted that judicial control, along with other mechanisms of criminal procedure, also ensures the implementation of the rule of law, a qualitatively new approach to understanding the rights and freedoms of a person in criminal proceedings, and a humanistic approach to criminal proceedings. The author also notes that both practitioners and scholars have repeatedly addressed the issues of the concept of judicial control, its features, and correlation with other categories and concepts. And the research by comparing the concept of «judicial control» with the concepts of «justice» and «judicial defense» will make it possible to establish new features of judicial control in criminal proceedings in Ukraine. That is why the author set as the purpose of the study to establish the correlation between the concept of «judicial control» and the concepts of «justice» and «judicial defense» in the criminal procedure of Ukraine. The article analyzes the works of Ukrainian scholars who reveal both the above concepts and their correlation, and also uses the decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine. The study concludes that judicial protection is an effective mechanism for guaranteeing rights and freedoms in criminal proceedings, and judicial control is a way of judicial protection. In the author’s opinion, it should be borne in mind that such control is exercised not only during the pre-trial investigation, but also during the judicial stages of criminal proceedings. The author concludes that justice and judicial control are separate functions in criminal proceedings. Their differences are related to the stages of criminal proceedings and their purpose and form of implementation. The subjective composition of the realization of justice and judicial control is not always different. Thus, in the case provided for in Part 3 of Article 309 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, a judge will exercise judicial control over non-appealable rulings of the investigating judge, as well as justice in the same criminal proceedings.

Административные акты нормативного характера

This article makes an attempt to characterize one of the types of administrative acts within the framework of the general typology of normative acts, which are important both in the doctrinal concept and in the practical activities of government bodies. The author sets himself the task of distinguishing between acts of delegated lawmaking (legislation) issued by executive authorities and administrative acts of a normative nature, which are not included in the concept of “by-laws” and belong to the type of administrative act. The article determines that acts that are not related to acts of delegated rule-making, but contain mandatory rules of conduct and act as acts of interpretation, have normative properties and are administrative regulations, the purpose of which is to organize law enforcement activities.

Культура – знак – значение: о природе и структуре культуры и знака

The article examines the concept of culture as a paradigmatic structure that defines the variety of possible forms of social life, activity, and behavior in a certain community. It examines the structure and nature of the sign and its place in culture. The author sets this concept of culture and ideas about the structure of the sign, starting from some of F. Saussure’s ideas. He accepts Saussure’s distinction between language and speech within “linguistic activity”, but in the language itself he also distinguishes two areas of existence: language as a paradigmatic structure of a single subject and language as a paradigmatic system existing at the community level. As a result, the author sees not two, but three areas of manifestation in “language activity”. He identifies similar three areas in any semiotic activity and in activity in general. At the same time, in the course of generalization in the series “linguistic activity – sign activity – activity”, the social paradigmatic aspect of these activities is also generalized from language to the sign system and culture as a whole. Since language in public form, and language in individual form, and speech have the word as a basic structural unit, then we can talk about three ontological forms (modi) of the word: in public language, in individual language, in speech. The author identifies similar three ontological modi for an arbitrary sign. Taking as a basis the binary structure of an abstract sign (the plan of expression and the plan of content associated with each other) and the idea of the three ontological modi of the sign, we obtain a triangular prism as an ontological scheme of the sign, where the nodes of the prism correspond to various aspects of the sign, three vertical edges – three ontological modi of the sign, the upper face – the plan of expression (syntax), the bottom face – the plan of content (semantics). Based on the obtained ontological scheme of the sign, the author interprets the semiotic representations of some alternative research programs

Javaslat egy hazai áldozatazonosítási szolgálat létrehozására

Following a comparison of protocols for disaster victim identification (dvi) in the United States and within Interpol, the author sets forth an initiative to establish disaster victim identification units in Hungary.

Digitalisation of the Preliminary Investigation Phase, Fundamental and Human Rights and the Principle of Openness - Balancing Conflicting Interests in the Review of Large Data Sets

The EU courts have divided an investigation into two distinct stages with different aims: the preliminary investigation phase and the contradictory phase. This paper examines issues related to the digitalisation of the preliminary investigation phase, from screening and open source intelligence to data processing during unannounced inspections or dawn raids. The question is how rights of defence are secured without jeopardising an investigation where data sets have grown beyond anything previously known. Within the context of the principle of openness of government activities in Finland and Sweden, the author sets out to find how the main rule of openness is balanced with the objectives of the preliminary investigation phase. The article examines case-law and literature, complemented with public statements from competition authorities, to find that a fair balance between conflicting interests has been achieved thus far. Examples of open questions currently subject to debate do, nonetheless, range from using personal apps for detection to whether national identity as per Article 4(2) of the Treaty on European Union can tip the balance between confidentiality of correspondence and cartel enforcement categorically in favour of the former. The Court of Justice will likely have to address the issue of national identity in the ongoing Ronos case.

Outcome Measures in Transactional Analysis Clinical Practice: Presentation of Research Methodology

This article introduces the research methodology underpinning a study on how Transactional Analysis practitioners use Outcome Measure data in diagnosis, contracting and treatment planning. After a brief literature review of outcome measures and details of the formulation of the research questions, it continues with the author’s understanding of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, which was the methodology used within the research, and how that aligns with transactional analysis. The further focus of this paper includes the ethical considerations, the inclusion criteria for research participants, the structure and planned content of the research interviews, and a description of the data analysis method. The final data analysis stage is still running so detailed findings will follow in later publications. A previous article by the author set out the rationale for the research, and the intention of this article is to present the research method so that it can be critiqued and replicated.

On the inapplicability of general economic approaches to countries lagging behind in economic development

For centuries, there has been a large gap in the level of economic development between the countries of the “golden billion” and the rest of the world, where, with the exception of certain states (China, the “Asian tigers”, some other countries), economic activity and living standards of the populations have been declining and deteriorating. The purpose of the article is to prove the limited possibility of applying to lagging countries, including post-socialist states, and namely Russia, many theoretical approaches and practical guidelines that do not correspond to economic realities due to these nations’ unfavorable position in a globalizing world. The reasons for the economic lagging of these countries, the influence of various factors on their development, and the conditions determining their stagnation are explored; some generally accepted recommendations for overcoming backwardness are critically assessed. The unacceptability of certain postulates of mainstream economics for modern Russia is substantiated. The author sets out his vision of ways to overcome economic backwardness and scrutinizes the potential opportunities for accelerated growth of the Russian economy.

Dualism of Labor Law: Private Law and Public Law Aspects

The relevance of the topic of this article is due to the fact that the structure of labor law as a regulator of public relations contains the principles of both power and subordination, and equality of the parties. Despite the prevalence of the concept of dualism in labor law, there is no consensus in legal science regarding its content.The purpose of this article is to develop scientific provisions reflecting the features of dualism in labor law. Proceeding from the designated goal, the author set tasks: to determine the private and public legal aspects in the dual nature of labor law. In the process of studying national interests, the dialectical method of cognition was used as a philosophical basis, as well as general scientific research methods: ascent from the abstract to the concrete, the system-structural method. private scientific methods: formal legal, as wellas logical means of cognition — analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction.As a result of the analysis of scientific and regulatory sources, the following conclusions were formulated: 1) The state performs several functions in achieving a balance of private and public legal interests in the field of labor regulation: legislative, control, social, intermediary. 2) By promoting a balance between the interests of workers and the State, civil society contributes to ensuring fairer and more stable working conditions for all.

Hamlet/idézetek és -parafrázisok az Ulysses-fordításokban

In this paper, the author sets to analyse parts of James Joyce’s Ulysses from the perspective of translation studies, in the light of intertextualities that can be paralleled with Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In addition to the systematization of quotations and paraphrases of Shakespeare’s work identified in Ulysses, the author analyses passages that highlight an intertextual relationship between Ulysses and Hamlet. This observation occurs at different linguistic levels of the Hungarian language. For a scholarly approach to the practice of translation, the author recommends including translations from Shakespeare (Hamlet) in the discourse, highlighting the questions of translation and (re)translatability associated with it. The author’s curiosity lies in the linguistic, literary, and stylistic differences and equivalences between the source text and the target text. Keywords: retranslation, intertextual figures, cultural transfer, retranslation hypothesis, canon, stylistic imitation.

System dynamics applied in enterprise engineering – a systematic literature review

Purpose This study aims to investigate the combined use of System Dynamics (SD) applications in Enterprise Engineering (EE) research and practice. SD application in EE is becoming widely accepted as a tool to support decision-making processes and for capturing relationships within enterprises. Design/methodology/approach A systematic literature review (SLR) is conducted using a standard SLR method to provide a comprehensive review of existing literature. The search was conducted on ten platforms identifying 30 publications which were analysed through the use and development of a codebook. Findings The SLR showed that 90% of the result set consisted of peer-reviewed academic conferences and journal papers. The SLR identified a highly dispersed author set of 83 authors. Amongst these authors, Vinay Kulkarni was an active author who has co-authored up to four publications in this research area. The analysis further revealed that the combined use of SD applications and EE is an emerging research area that still needs to develop in maturity. While all phases of EE have received attention, the current research work is more focused on the design phase. The important gap between model development and implementation is identified. Originality/value The study elucidates the existing status of interdisciplinary research combining techniques from the SD and EE disciplines, suggesting future research topics that combine the strengths of these existing disciplines.

Crossing Linguistic Barriers: Authorship Attribution in Sinhala Texts

Authorship attribution involves determining the original author of an anonymous text from a pool of potential authors. The author attribution task has applications in several domains, such as plagiarism detection, digital text forensics, and information retrieval. While these applications extend beyond any single language, existing research has predominantly centered on English, posing challenges for application in languages such as Sinhala due to linguistic disparities and a lack of language processing tools. We present the first comprehensive study on cross-topic authorship attribution for Sinhala texts and propose a solution that can effectively perform the authorship attribution task even if the topics within the test and training samples differ. Our solution consists of three main parts: (i) extraction of topic-independent stylometric features, (ii) generation of a small candidate author set with the help of similarity search, and (iii) identification of the true author. Several experimental studies were carried out to demonstrate that the proposed solution can effectively handle real-world scenarios involving a large number of candidate authors and a limited number of text samples for each candidate author.

President of the Republic of Belarus – head or head of state?

Using linguistic and historical and legal methods, the author set out to show that the President of the Republic of Belarus is not the head of state, but the head of state. It is noted that the constitutional content of the concept of “head of state” does not significantly depend on the form of government. The issues of incorrect translation and substitution of words in аrt. 79 of the draft Constitution of the Republic of Belarus at the republican referendum on November 24, 1996. As a result, the President of the Republic of Belarus unreasonably, in addition to the will of the people, received the status of ,,Head of State”. An assessment of the consequences for the country and society of the ,,President-Head of State” union is given. It is shown that such a combination allows the President not to act, but to rule alone, which leads to the formula: ,,president” – ,,head of state” – ,,sovereign”. In conclusion, it is concluded about the monarchization of the institution of the presidency and the formation of a new atypical form of government in the country – the ,,republican elected monarchy”.

EPIDEMIC OF CRUELTY: THE STATE AND CATHOLIC CHURCH IN ITALY AGAINST BULLYING

The article deals with bullying and cyberbullying. The serious consequences of traditional bullying and virtual bullying in social networks, which seriously harm the mental and physical health of children and adolescents, force them into suicide, make school bullying one of the most current social problems. The author set out to analyze the measures taken by the Italian State and the Catholic Church in Italy to prevent this phenomenon. Bullying manifests, the systemic crisis in secular societies. It was caused by a number of factors, including: dominance in the public consciousness of deviant cultural codes, stereotypes and norms that legalize the use of violence; atomization and secularization of society, failure of today’s educational tactics, uncontrolled digitization, aggressive models of «new humanism» and transhumanism, ethical relativism. Lay and Catholic pedagogues agree that the efforts of the family, educational institutions, ecclesiastical parishes and law enforcement should aim not only to eradicate bullying, but also to channel youth aggression in a creative direction. It is also necessary to stimulate a positive microclimate in school communities. However, the Italian State and the Catholic Church have different approaches to solving the problem: the State will give preference to repressive methods of education, while the Church – to preventive pedagogy.

Social Quality Management in the Lens of Philosophy and Methodology of Science

Relevance. Quality problems have been relevant for many centuries. At the same time, quality is viewed from the perspective of various sciences and industries indirectly: as a category identified with any sphere. Quality management is also of interest to many scientists and specialists, but most often in the technical or economic sphere. At the same time, its social aspect is obvious. Moreover, in the context of social management (social) quality management is an effective tool aimed at ensuring and improving the quality of life. However, despite the widespread application and adaptation of (social) quality management in various fields of science and practice, philosophical understanding is presented quite selectively. In this regard, in this study, it is advisable to present social quality management from the perspective of philosophy and methodology of science.Purpose. In the work, the author sets himself the purpose of conducting a comprehensive analysis of social quality management from a philosophical and methodological perspective.Objectives. To achieve this goal, it is relevant to solve the following tasks: analysis of social quality management as a post-non-classical concept of the philosophy of complexity; assessment and interpretation of social quality management in a broad plane of humanitarianism; attempt to define the philosophical understanding of social quality management.Methodology. To achieve this goal, the author uses in his work such methods and methodologies as the theory of complexity (complexity), the semiotic-digital dimension, and the methodology for constructing sociotechnical landscapes of digital reality. Results. The paper presents the results of a comprehensive analysis of social quality management from a philosophical and methodological perspective.Conclusions. Based on the results of the study, the author's understanding of social quality management in a philosophical and methodological context is substantiated; social quality management is presented as a concept of the complexity paradigm; the interrelationships of social quality management and the sociotechnical landscape of digital reality in a single field of modern humanities are established.

Pagoejoeban Pasoendan 1913-1942

The study was entitled "PAGOEJOEBAN PASOENDAN 1913-1942". The author takes the topic of Paguyuban Pasundan with the title above, because based on the results of the literature study that the author did, that there are still few works that discuss Paguyuban Pasundan, even though the role of Paguyuban Pasundan as an organization has a major impact on the Indonesian independence movement both nationally and West Java. The author sets out three formulations of the problem in this paper, namely, what is the history of the birth of the Pasundan Community? What is the ideology of Paguyuban Pasundan organization? How were the organizational activities of Paguyuban Pasundan in 1927-1942? The method used is a historical method consisting of four stages, namely: Heuristics, Criticism, Interpretation, Historiography, and is also assisted by using an interdisciplinary approach from the social sciences (especially from Sociology and Politics). The technique that the author uses is a literature study related to the theme that the author is studying. Based on the results of the literature study that the author conducted, that Paguyuban Pasundan was born becauseof disappointment with Budi Utomo's organization which prioritized the interests of Javanese and Madurese. So, because of these factors, an organization that accommodates Sundanese people was established, namely Paguyuban Pasundan. At the beginning of the establishment of the Paguyuban Pasundan organization moved for the benefit of the Sundanese people but turned into a national interest as evidenced by the period 1927-1942 establishing PPPKI, GAPI and active in the Volksraad. The Pasundan Guyuban movement covers the fields of Politics, Social, Economy, and Education.