World Space Research Articles

Least-Squares Estimation of Tangent Space for a Triangular Mesh

This paper presents a novel method for computing an orthonormal tangent space at every vertex of a triangular mesh provided with texture coordinates, which is essential in normal mapping. Our method employs least-squares estimation of rotation between two sets of corresponding points: one set from the positions of the 1-ring neighbors of a vertex in texture space and the other set from their corresponding positions in world space. This optimal rotation represents a local space transformation that defines the tangent space at the vertex. Consequently, our method ensures that the resulting tangent space is inherently orthonormal, eliminating the need for intricate operations such as averaging and orthonormalization, which are required in the previous methods. In addition, we introduce texture space alignment of triangles to address vertices on seams, which are inevitable in texture mapping to a closed surface mesh. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods in various experiments.

THE REVERSE IMPACT OF THE «SOCIALIST REALISM» METHOD IN CREATING A HERO'S PERSONALITY AND MODERN KAZAKH NOVEL

The era of the Soviet Union proved that real national literature cannot be created under colonialism. The "socialist realism" method created by the authorities had a reverse impact on the nature of the artistic image. The characters in the work are politicized. Special attention was paid to the class division (rich and poor), and the images were depicted one-sidedly. The collapse of the USSR allowed the development of a new type of literature in the post-Soviet countries. In the research paper, we made comparisons, and the damage caused by the method of "socialist realism" to fiction is mentioned. However, these years were also successful. Kazakh literature has developed in terms of genres. The genre of the novel has been mastered. Talented writers have mastered describing the reality of life with clues. Literary tradition and skill practices were used in the literature of the period of Independence. The fate and history of the nation were shown in innovative novels. Modern realities and changed human psychology were depicted together with the world space. A stream of postmodern, realistic novels came to literature. The release of the novel from political restrictions allowed genre change (historical, biographical, satirical, fantasy, etc.). The storytelling style has been renewed. There was new artistic and stylistic research in creating a hero’s personality.

Диалог как приоритетная стратегия межкультурного взаимодействия в условиях новых ориентиров

The article considers the actual problems of the dialogue of cultures in the context of contradictory socio-cultural processes. Based on the study of the modern cultural situation, it is concluded that dialogue is the only possible way of interaction between cultures of the world space. As an example, the author cites Russia, which historically has a desire for dialogue with communities and cultures of the Eurasian space. The transformation-al processes taking place in the modern world have determined the inclusion of Russia in the format of Eura-sian intercultural cooperation. In this article, the author sets the task to consider the initial attitudes of the study of intercultural dialogue, to determine its practical potential in establishing intercultural interaction with the countries of the eastern continent; to show that in the context of a steady trend towards Eurasian cooperation between different cultures as independent entities acting from their own positions, dialogue becomes a promis-ing model of intercultural interaction. The scientific novelty consists in the following: the importance of intercul-tural dialogue for mutual understanding between Eastern and Russian cultures is explicated; intercultural dia-logue is analyzed as a priority strategy for intercultural interaction in the context of the Eurasian partnership; it is shown that the Eurasian peoples, which differ significantly from each other, have common values that have developed over a long period of joint existence. Being a phenomenon unique in its depth, dialogue is able to stimulate the optimal way of cultural interaction between Russia and the East in the context of the “change of epochs” and the search for a new spiritual paradigm.

Impossibilities without impossibilia

ABSTRACT Circumstantialists already have a logical semantics for impossibilities. They expand their logical space of possible worlds by adding impossible worlds. These are impossible circumstances serving as indices of evaluation, at which impossibilities are true. A variant of circumstantialism, namely modal Meinongianism (noneism), adds impossible objects as well. These are so-called incomplete objects that are necessarily non-existent. The opposite of circumstantialism, namely structuralism, has some catching-up to do. What might a structuralist logical semantics for impossibilities without impossibilia look like? This paper makes a structuralist counterproposal. We present a semantics based on a procedural interpretation of the typed λ-calculus. The fundamental idea is that talk about impossibilities should be construed in terms of procedures: some yield as their product a condition that could not possibly have a satisfier, while the rest fail to yield a product altogether. Dispensing with a ‘bottom’ of impossibilia requires instead a ‘top’ consisting of structured hyperintensions, intensions, intensions defining other intensions, a typed universe, and dual (de dicto and de re) predication. We explain how the theory works by going through several examples.

Fascism's Spatial Imaginary at the Threshold

This article returns to the work of Leo Löwenthal and Norbert Guterman to theorize the spatial imaginary of fascism, a dimension missing from existing analyses of the social psychology of the authoritarian personality. The fascist spatial imaginary can be defined in terms of a Manichean sense of world space, a dominance of spatial binaries such as inside versus outside, mythic/romantic spatial imagery, a paranoid mood, and finally, spatial projection in which internal contradictions are externalized. As a historical case study, the article charts the rise and fall of the American fascist compound and its replacement by more flexible and mobile terrorist cells, connecting this change in fascist spatial formations to underlying shifts in the composition of capitalism. In conclusion, the article turns to Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben to argue that, in the last instance, the fascist spatial imaginary cannot conceptualize thresholds, states of indistinction where the inside‐outside binary blurs, and that dwelling within the threshold (rather than closing it) might be a tactic to disrupt the power of fascist spatial logics.

Overlapping spaces and identities in Quiara Alegría Hudes’s Water by the Spoonful: a metatheatrical approach

This article discusses the overlapping relationship between setting diversification and character creation as experimented by Puerto Rican American playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes (1977–) in her metatheatrical drama Water by the Spoonful (2011). The play, which emerges in a second chronological order in Hudes’s so-called Elliot Trilogy, presents diasporic characters of different ethnicities and mixed cultural backgrounds as operating interactively within three different, though intersecting, realms or spaces: the real world, virtual cyberspace, and metaphysical space. The real world of the play features interacting Puerto Rican Americans, Japanese Americans, African Americans, and White Americans in a way that highlights their ethnocultural diversity in real American, Puerto Rican, and Japanese settings. Some of these binational, bilingual, and bicultural characters, who belong to different generations (20 s, 30 s, 40 s, 50 s), also occupy, and actually favor, the virtual realm or cyberspace of the internet where they assume unreal identities but negotiate real issues spurred by real life circumstances and reveal secrets about themselves and their families through online group therapy sessions. The metaphysical space is used as a magical realist element and is exclusively reserved by Hudes for exposing her Puerto Rican American characters’ restless spiritual and mental struggle with the obsessive feelings of nostalgia, homesickness, regret, and displacement. The three realms or spaces intersect and collide in a way that determines the social attitudes and psychological moods of diasporic characters.

Political Geographies of the Far-Right: The Environment, Space and Ideology in a Warming World

Political Geographies of the Far-Right: The Environment, Space and Ideology in a Warming World

Regulation of Import Operations under Sanctions Restrictions

In terms of market relations, Russia actively integrated into the world space as an outcome of globalization processes, which significantly determined its foreign economic activity. Increased political tension, growing threats to Russia’s national interests and unprecedented sanctions pressure bring to the fore the need seeking for new ways and tools for the country’s economic development. Analysis of import operations in real circumstances helps to identify factors of influence and opportunities for strengthening the Russian economy. In particularly such as analysis of the structure and dynamics of imports, expenses managing of import operations, income and efficiency, formats of interaction between counterparties. The study’s aim is to consider the issues of legal regulation of import operations in the Russian Federation, considering international and national legal norms, as well as aspects that reveal the analysis’ basis and accounting of import operations in nowadays realities. Timely analysis of import operations and identifying factors influencing efficiency allows developing additional procedures. The authors consider the need focusing on cost savings, conducting simplified customs declaration procedures within the framework of international and national law and minimizing risks.

To Put Afoot a New Black Woman: On Hortense Spillers and the Possibilities of Gender

Abstract This essay maps Hortense Spillers's figurations of the black woman across three essays published in the 1980s—“Interstices,” “An Order of Constancy,” and “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe”—to illustrate the myriad ways in which Spillers imagines black women as vital symbolic and material forces in the (re)production of New World spaces. Situating the US 1980s as a critical geo- and sociopolitical context for Black feminist, specifically Spillersian, knowledge production, this essay puts afoot a new Spillers, demonstrating how her critical value is not exclusively tied to her interventions into symbolic and material formations of Man but rather might also be measured through her theoretical efforts on behalf of, and insights into, diverse and polymorphous communities of (Black) feminists and women. By close-reading Spillers's visionary considerations of the perils and possibilities of gender, and with attention to critical innovations in Black (trans)feminist and queer studies, this essay (re)claims the Black woman—and, by extension, Black women—as the critical and material loci of Black feminisms.

Pelatihan Membuat Ruang Belajar Metaverse Bagi Guru-Guru Di Wilayah Tangerang Selatan

After covid passed, many schools innovated in the learning process, so that the learning process could still run well. Students who have become accustomed to online learning need to be innovative again after COVID-19 has passed. The use of the metaverse has now been widely discussed for use in the learning process. Metaverse, a 3D digital space mixed with the real and virtual worlds, has been heralded as a future educational trend with great potential. However, as an emerging item, existing studies rarely discuss the metaverse from an educational perspective, so far, the metaverse is still used for games or product promotion. The community service that will be carried out is, so that teachers understand the concept of the metaverse, explain the role of the metaverse in the world of education and learning, design and build a simple metaverse ecosystem, operate metaverse applications, manage metaverse administration, choose pedagogic models that are suitable in the metaverse and represent the results of metaverse design. Thus, teachers are expected to make online learning fun. Training is held for ten (10) meetings, and each meeting is held for seven (7) hours. The results of the 100% training of participants consisting of 23 teachers ranging from kindergarten teachers to high school teachers, succeeded in creating a virtual learning space in the metaverse world.

Defining the concept of identity of national vocational education system

Introduction. Geopolitical, social and economic disasters of all over the world space cause the crisis of identity, which is fixed by the researchers of social and humanitarian sciences. The controversial nature of the process of internationalization of the vocational education system and its striving to keep in safety the traditional values of education are articulated. This process gives close attention not only on studying the problems of creating conditions to form of identity by means of the educational space of the country, but also understanding the phenomenon of identity of the national education system. Purpose setting. The aim of the article is the defining of some essential features, which can explain the concept of the identity of national vocational education system.Methodology and methods of the study. The methods of the research are the analysis of scientific literature, comparative analysis of proposed approaches, integration and synthesis for defining identity kinds and features of the identity of national vocational education system.Results. Some essential features of identity related to contemporary information age are defined. Among them are authenticity and simulativeness, multiplicity, dynamism, givenness and choice, axiology, recombination. Identity can be described as a form of predication of existence and the way of social understanding. The factors of globalization and regionalization have an influence on the identity transformation process. The ideological and civilization identity are described for better understanding the essence of the identity of national vocational education system.Conclusion. Determination of essential features of the identity of national vocational education system and studying of the processes of its formation and transformation indicate the domination of value components of the process. It can be used to explain the risks of transferring practices from foreign educational systems to national education system.

Language technologies impact on modern communication: analysis of new formats, challenges, and education

Updating modern communication requires the improvement of innovative language technologies to facilitate communication in remote conditions. The process of modern communication requires integration into the world and European space currently. Modern society faces more and more new communication challenges that need to be solved. Therefore, our research aimed to identify innovative language technologies that are often used by modern society and to determine their advantages and disadvantages. Moreover, the article deals with studying the peculiarities of modern communication. To achieve the purposes of the research, such methods were used: theoretical: analysis of scientific literature; empirical: questionnaires, interviews; graphics. The results of the study made it possible to define the most popular language technologies in Ukraine, and their pros and cons. Searching the problem provided the opportunities to determine the main formats and challenges that influence modern communication and the ways to improve innovative language technologies facilities for comfortable communication.

ЗАЛУЧЕННЯ ІНВЕСТИЦІЙ НА ЗАСАДАХ ДЕРЖАВНО-ПРИВАТНОГО ПАРТНЕРСТВА В УМОВАХ ПОВОЄННОЇ РОЗБУДОВИ НАЦІОНАЛЬНОГО ГОСПОДАРСТВА: ПЕРЕДУМОВИ ТА ІНСТРУМЕНТАРІЙ

The prerequisites for the implementation of the public-private partnership mechanism in the domestic economy are revealed, with an emphasis on the processes of national economy recovery in the post-war period. The importance and functional role of public-private partnership in building effective investment attraction strategies is argued, with the hypothetical assumption of their promotion of rapid modernization and development of key sectors of the national economy. The public-private partnership in various socio-economic and political environments was analyzed and it was established that it should be considered an adaptive system that uses a mechanism of its implementation adequate to the situation. It has been established that in many countries of the world, public-private partnership is currently recognized as an important socio-economic concept, which, moreover, with the change of socio-economic and political parameters in the world space, acquires new forms of its application, in particular methods of financing the development of infrastructure or providing higher quality and volume of various types of public services. The existing state of domestic legislative regulation of public-private partnership is summarized and the appropriate stages of its implementation in the processes of post-war recovery of the Ukrainian economy are given. Separate directions for creating a favorable investment climate in the post-war period are argued, which relate to the provisions of the legal framework and institutional infrastructure, investment guarantee criteria. It is substantiated that they are critically important for reducing risks for domestic and foreign investors, a factor in increasing the attractiveness of public-private partnership projects. It has been established that the Strategy for the implementation of public-private partnership in the process of socio-economic recovery of Ukraine should primarily be based on the rational planning of the stages of recovery work both for infrastructure projects important for the national economy, as well as the provision of public services and stimulation of economic growth, the application of regulatory mechanisms aimed at ensuring transparency, accountability and fair distribution of risks between public and private participants.

Soft power and foreign policy of the Russian Federation: some aspects of the present

The article is devoted to the analysis of the development and transformations of the Russian Federation foreign policy. Since the beginning of hostilities in Ukraine, the policy of Russia is undoubtedly one of the most researching areas in modern political science these days due to many practical aspects. It objectively dynamically develops and transforms in accordance with the promising new role of this state on the world stage. The purpose of the article is to determine the involvement of Soft power elements in their modernization and transformation in the further implementation of Russian foreign policy in the world space in the short and medium term. As a result, the article attempts to determine the main conceptual changes in Russian foreign policy and certain forecasts about the directions of possible upgrades and improvements in the translation and promotion of Soft power by the Russian side in the foreign policy space. In the course of the analysis, the authors came to the conclusion that the main participants in the political confrontation on the world stage in the near future will actively develop and improve the Soft power technology in their foreign policy. Objectively, they will also receive a new impetus to the development of methods and technologies for counteraction, strengthening their constant application in practice. Thus, the leading countries, including Russia, are drawn into a kind of "arms race" in the format of the unarmed advancement of their foreign policy interests.

Аналіз надходження прямих іноземних інвестицій в Україну

The purpose of the study is to analyze the state, dynamics and structure of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in Ukraine. Such research methods as analysis, synthesis and comparison, graphical method were used. The article considers the theoretical foundations of the category of foreign direct investment, reveals the characteristic features. The significance of investments for the country’s economy is substantiated, a list of advantages of Ukraine in the context of investment attractiveness is provided. An analysis of the dynamics of foreign direct investment in the Ukraine showed that over the past 22 years there have been significant fluctuations. It is found that this is due to a number of factors, including: military operations, political instability, the coronavirus pandemic, and economic crises. The dynamics of the index of investment attractiveness of Ukraine is also considered; it is concluded that Ukraine has a fairly average investment attractiveness. However, at present there is again a relatively positive trend towards an increase in FDI inflows into the country’s economy, and under the conditions of a balanced economic policy, the end of the war, and the attraction of new investors, this trend may continue. Having considered the dynamics of the structure of foreign direct investment balances by country, it was possible to identify that in the period 2015–2022 the EU countries have invested in Ukraine’s economy. At that, the presence of countries that act as offshore zones is identified. This, in turn, carries certain threats and is a consequence of bribery and tax evasion. An important task of the Government of Ukraine should be to increase the level of attraction of economically and innovatively developed investments from leading countries, as well as to reduce the outflow of capital to offshore countries. Solutions in this direction can be the creation of innovation zones, the fight against corruption and the reform of the tax system. This will help attract new foreign investment, as well as increase the level of competitiveness of Ukraine in the world space. An analysis of the dynamics of the structure of foreign direct investment balances by types of economic activity for the same period showed that such sectors as industry, wholesale and retail trade, financial and insurance activities, real estate transactions represent the largest share. At the same time, such sectors of our country’s economy as energy, information technology, construction, industry (including agro-industry), transport and logistics, critical materials and green metallurgy have the greatest growth potential. In some of these areas, despite the existing challenges and problems, a positive investment trend is already noticeable today – large-scale projects are being developed and implemented. Prospects for further research in this direction are building a multifactor model for analyzing the impact of economic factors on the dynamics of foreign direct investment, as well as building a model for forecasting the indicator for future periods.

Research Perspectives: An Encompassing Framework for Conceptualizing Space in Information Systems: Philosophical Perspectives, Themes, and Concepts

The conceptualization of space is integral to many of the diverse forms of information systems—for example, the physical space represented in geographical information systems and the virtual space of simulated worlds. Yet despite its importance and centrality, the conceptualization of space in information systems is not as sophisticated or mature as in other fields. A lack of attention to the diversity of perspectives on space hampers ongoing research and the re-visioning of phenomena that could lead to new insights in information systems. The aim of this paper is to develop an encompassing framework that provides a comprehensive view of philosophical perspectives, spatial themes, and concepts of space that are relevant to information systems. As a result of an extensive literature review, an encompassing framework is presented that includes four prominent spatial themes: representing space, differentiating space, disclosing space, and intuitive space. Each theme is related to its key characteristics and features and underlying philosophical perspectives. The paper demonstrates how the new framework can facilitate IS scholars’ expansive analysis in scholarly work and assist editors and reviewers in evaluating papers concerning space in IS and shows how the re-visioning of phenomena can lead to transformational shifts in understanding IS phenomena.

Comparison of the perception of space in virtual reality and in the real world

The subject of the study is investigation the accuracy and identify the features of spatial information perception in virtual reality. During the experiment, the subjects were asked to estimate the distances to objects and between objects in virtual environment in metric units without the presence of reference objects with known dimensions in the virtual environment. It was found that in the complete absence of metric support in the action space in the real world, subjects estimated metric distances with an error of about 2 meters at 8 meters, 3 meters at 13-15 meters, and 2 meters at 30 meters. In contrast, in a virtual environment, the subjects estimated a distance of 8 meters with an error of 4 meters, a distance of 13-15 meters with an error of 7-8 meters, and a distance of 30 meters with an error of 18 meters. Introducing metric support is likely to significantly improve the result, and abandoning the metric distance measurement scale, which is not natural for humans, will considerably increase the accuracy of spatial information perception. It should be noted that in the field of long-range vision (30 meters or more) in virtual reality, the accuracy of information perception is extremely low.

ҚАЗАҚ ФӘЛСАФАСЫНДАҒЫ КЕҢІСТІК ПЕН УАҚЫТ ФИЛОСОФИЯСЫН БАСҚА ХАЛЫҚТАРДЫҢ ФИЛОСОФИЯЛЫҚ ДӘСТҮРЛЕРІМЕН САЛЫСТЫРМАЛЫ ТАЛДАУ

The philosophy of space and time represents an important direction in philosophical research, enriching the understanding of the nature of time and space in the context of the cultural, historical, and philosophical traditions of various peoples. This article conducts a comparative analysis of the philosophy of space and time in the Kazakh philosophical tradition with the philosophical traditions of other nations, such as Chinese and Greek. The article emphasizes the relevance of studying this topic in the modern world, where rapid technological progress, climate change, globalization, and cultural diversity present us with new challenges and changes. The philosophy of space and time contributes to a deep understanding of the impact of these changes on our perception of the world. The analysis of the philosophical views of Kazakh philosophy, based on nomadic culture, Islam, and historical factors, reveals the unique features of this philosophical tradition. A comparison with Chinese and Greek philosophy highlights similarities and differences in the understanding of time and space, enriching the philosophical dialogue between cultures. Furthermore, the analysis of the influence of cultural and historical factors on the formation of the philosophy of space and time in Kazakhstan underscores the importance of these factors in shaping philosophical traditions. Thus, this article calls for the continued study of the philosophy of space and time in the modern world to better understand the challenges and changes we face and to develop deeper and more balanced approaches to addressing them.

Terminological correctness of the information environment through the eyes of physicists

The incorrectness of the concepts of "information society" and "information civilization" is considered, the justification of which is given by the author on the basis of the development of the information space and information technologies. It is shown that the use of these terms is one of the elements of the program of globalism, which threatens the transformation of the world space with the disappearance of nation-states and the domination of a transnational government. The latest trends in physical science are identified, where questions are raised about the importance of synthesizing quantum theory and general relativity with the existing problem of the possibility of combining local and non-local observations, the hypothesis of the existence of information fields. The integration of educational technologies is designed to show that the development of the information space is an important step in civilization, but humanity also faces more global challenges about the place and mission of Man in this world.

Formation of environmentally friendly production in conditions of sustainable development

The modern economy is developing in the context of globalization, this is what has a significant impact on the realization of the opportunities of the world economy and gives rise to economic, social and environmental problems. Greening today is becoming one of the main indicators of the country’s level of development. We analyzed the possibilities of greening production in conditions of sustainable growth. The development strategy of any state integrates all the main directions of development of the socio-economic system of society, forcing states to look for a unique path of development in the conditions of the formation of a single world space. We also looked at the innovative risks of greening the economy. The relevance of the article is due to the requirement to green the economies of the countries of the global economic community.