Culture Transformation Research Articles

Role of Electronic Media in The Globalization Of Culture

Human history depicts that man always endeavored to build relations with other human beings as well as societies. Because of technological advancement and improvements in means of communication, the speed to build relationships with other nations or people has been increased which gives birth to globalization. Advanced technologies of means of communication for example internet and satellite television have joined the people globally. Media is playing a role in the emergence of global culture and urban regions of the world have a resemblance and cosmopolitan culture is emerging. The whole world has been transformed into a global village. The media process of homogenizing the World Cultures is continuing. This study revolves around the media as an agent of globalization of culture. This research explores how media has played a role in the transformation of world cultures into global cultures. The study is qualitative in nature so, qualitative methods are used for data collection. It is analytical and descriptive in nature. For the analysis of data, analytical model is used. Secondary data is used for research. A different point of view is taken from previous studies. This technique is supported to construct an objective approach to the problem and to derive a conclusion to give recommendations.

Developing intercultural competences through participatory strategies: a multiple case study

ABSTRACT The training of professionals for a global world remains a challenge for Higher Education. From an intercultural educational approach, this study describes and analyses two educational proposals in Italy and Spain, which have helped to develop students’ intercultural competences, thanks to a teaching framework based on participatory strategies. A multiple case study with a qualitative approach is elaborated to analyse the data on the situation in order to describe and recognise the relevance of examining participation, collaborative culture and social transformation in two Master’s Degrees. Findings show that the synergy between participatory strategies and intercultural competences enhances dialogue and renegotiation of meanings, reconceptualisation of diversity, critical thinking and agency for change. The conclusions point to the need to generate collaborative networks to further mobilise the knowledge generated in training for intercultural professionals.

Recognition of Safety Helmet Wearing Of Operator Local Ground Floor Unit 2 Suralaya PGU Based On Improved YOLOv3

PT. PLN Indonesia Power Suralaya Power Generation Unit requires its operators on the local ground floor to wear safety helmets to prevent head injuries while performing their tasks. Observation of workers wearing safety helmet must be ensured by the company to prevent head injury by operators. The Culture Transformation Program of K3 PT PLN Indonesia Power brings a new observation method to detect safety helmet wearing of operator local ground floor using real-time detection. YOLOv3 is an application which can be used to real-time detection helmet wearing of workers using the darknet53 algorithm based on YOLOv1 and YOLOv2 by using data images that have been collected. Based on YOLOv3 model, the improved version of YOLOv3 is proposed to improve accuracy and speed detection of safety helmet wearing by combining multi-scale detection training. Different YOLOv3 versions will be used to compare results of helmet recognition. The improved YOLOv3 show results 96.63% mAP50 and 725,711 milliseconds better than the other versions of YOLO to detect helmet safety. The experimental result show that the improved YOLOv3 have satisfying with the detection speed and accuracy of safety helmet wearing detection by operators at PT PLN Indonesia Power Suralaya Power Generation Unit.

Modele edukacji włączającej w wybranych placówkach oświatowych w Czechach – edukacja włączająca a kultura organizacji

Employees and managers of educational institutions have been dealing with numerous challenges related to changes in nowadays world for years. The idea of striving for “excellence in teaching” based on Fullan’s paradigm of school culture transformation has become a reason for deeper reflection in this area. Using the comparative analysis method, a picture of work models in educational institutions within the same system guidelines has been obtained. In order to make comparisons, strategies focused on providing the most effective support for pupils with special educational needs and the process of evaluating activities were taken into account. Based on three experiences of implementing the idea of inclusive education, some strategies for coping with required changes were shown. The presented case studies showed that while the strategies of each educational institution varied, they aimed to offer functional and effective counseling services which enhanced the personal and social development of children. The differences between them are related to specific practices: whether they are occasional or systematic, focused on teachers or problems, communication or action, part of the school daily work routine or applied to deal with emerging problems. The research results present a certain type of narrative related to eliminating resistance to change and monitoring its effects in a positive way according to the specific culture of organization.

Research Progress and a Prospect Analysis of Asexual Bamboo Reproduction

Bamboo possesses various characteristics that make it a promising renewable biomass resource. These include rapid growth, early timber production, strong adaptability, high yield, ease of planting, wide distribution, and ease of processing. With the increasing demand for bamboo resources, rapid propagation, species selection, and breeding have always been the focus of bamboo research. However, the long and unpredictable flowering cycle of bamboo, coupled with the difficulties of obtaining seeds, has made it difficult for mass-scale propagation and the introduction of desirable traits through classical breeding methods, which hinders the genetic improvement of bamboo. Asexual propagation, tissue culture, and genetic transformation present an effective breeding method to hasten the breeding process, improve breeding efficiency, and screen and create superior new varieties, and may significantly enhance the genetic improvement of bamboo and the development of the bamboo industry. This study reviews recent research on the asexual propagation of bamboo, propagation methods, cultivation means, influencing factors, and transgenes. The bamboo species that participated in asexual reproduction were systematically sorted according to the type of explants, the formula of the culture medium, and the results achieved. In addition, the bottlenecks and development trends in each training process were identified. This study provides a reference for the rapid propagation and genetic breeding of bamboo plants.

Indonesian agroindustry business agility: Enablers and challenges in the poultry industry based on ISM model

The Indonesian agroindustry is a crucial sector for food security, comprising several platforms such as the poultry industry that play a role in providing animal protein. Despite the advantages portrayed by the poultry sector in the country, stiff competition is still encountered with business transformation situation. The rigid and static structures of the Indonesian poultry industry are also reflected in bureaucracy, fear-based cultures, the inefficiency of functional silos, and aversion to change, leading to the need for appropriate agility incorporation. Therefore, this study aims to identify and analyze the key challenges and enablers influencing the achievement of business agility, as well as construct a structural interpretation model for the process through ISM (Interpretative Structural Modeling). The results showed that the hierarchical structure establishment of the influential factors emphasized a logical linkage through ISM implementation. This structural level also identified the major challenges to attaining business agility, indicating the difficulties encountered in work culture transformation and mindset adjustment toward an agile orientation. Meanwhile, management response and knowledge deftness are key enablers in achieving business agility. These results are expected to help business professionals in implementing sustainable organizational model, due to the existence of business agility.

A Sea of Stars? Towards an Astropelagic Reading of Outer Space with Jacques Lacan and Hannah Arendt

Starting from the fact that the International Outer Space Treaty (Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies/UNOOSA, 1967) has been modeled on international laws of the seas, this essay investigates the epistemic consequences of conceiving outer space archipelagically, or, more specifically and following Craig Santos Perez, terripelagically. By reversing center/periphery structurations in line with both archipelagic approaches to and philosophical theorizations of outer space by Jacques Lacan and Hannah Arendt, the article critiques the current discursive transformation in both science and popular culture of celestial bodies into desirable territories of capitalization, exploitation, and imperialism, and it suggests the term astropelago as an alternative conception. We argue that as a continuation of imperial exploratory mobilities, terripelagic outer space projections, which are becoming increasingly real, demonstrate the need for an outside of capitalism on ever new frontiers to continue ecological—human and nonhuman—exploitation on Earth. In a second part, we explore the initiative “For All Moonkind” and the TV series For All Mankind and the ways in which they center Mars and Earth’s moon respectively as spaces that reaffirm and renew imperial desires.

The potential of metabolomics in assessing global compositional changes resulting from the application of CRISPR/Cas9 technologies.

Exhaustive analysis of genetically modified crops over multiple decades has increased societal confidence in the technology. New Plant Breeding Techniques are now emerging with improved precision and the ability to generate products containing no foreign DNA and mimic/replicate conventionally bred varieties. In the present study, metabolomic analysis was used to compare (i) tobacco genotypes with and without the CRISPR associated protein 9 (Cas9), (ii) tobacco lines with the edited and non-edited DE-ETIOLATED-1 gene without phenotype and (iii) leaf and fruit tissue from stable non-edited tomato progeny with and without the Cas9. In all cases, multivariate analysis based on the difference test using LC-HRMS/MS and GC-MS data indicated no significant difference in their metabolomes. The variations in metabolome composition that were evident could be associated with the processes of tissue culture regeneration and/or transformation (e.g. interaction with Agrobacterium). Metabolites responsible for the variance included quantitative changes of abundant, well characterised metabolites such as phenolics (e.g. chlorogenic acid) and several common sugars such as fructose. This study provides fundamental data on the characterisation of gene edited crops, that are important for the evaluation of the technology and its assessment. The approach also suggests that metabolomics could contribute to routine product-based analysis of crops/foods generated from New Plant Breeding approaches.

The Classical Chinese Gardens as a Medium: Rethinking the Visual Transformation in Chinese Culture in the Twentieth Century

ABSTRACT The enormous diversity between the Chinese and Western cultures led to two different visual principles. Western visuality followed the perspective based on the retina, while the Chinese painters used the “far and near method” (yuanjin fa 遠近法). Before the twentieth century, the representation and dissemination of Chinese gardens at the visual level were dominated by traditional landscape painting. However, the Chinese gardens’ visual representation gradually shifted from traditional landscape painting to Western cartographic techniques (site survey and photography) after the Opium War (1840–1860). When studying the history of Chinese gardens, images provide a symbolic reference for interpreting the past of these gardens as crucial visual evidence. This article uses the visual evidence of classical Chinese gardens as a medium to reveal the influence and role of Western-centric theories on Chinese culture. Fundamentally, this paper attempts to analyse the impact of these changes on the inheritance of cultural memory from an intercultural and interdisciplinary perspective.

An efficient and optimized protocol for tall fescue tissue culture and Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation

An efficient and optimized protocol for tall fescue tissue culture and Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation

Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture and Political Transformation in Poland. EwaStanczyk. Ohio State UP, 2022, 211 pp. $34.95 paper.

Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture and Political Transformation in Poland. EwaStanczyk. Ohio State UP, 2022, 211 pp. $34.95 paper.

A data-driven decision support system for sustainable supplier evaluation in the Industry 5.0 era: A case study for medical equipment manufacturing

Effective supplier management is critical for an enterprise’s success, as supplier procurement accounts for up to approximately 70% to 80% of total manufacturing costs. Correct supplier selection can ensure the competitiveness of the enterprise and contribute to supply chain integration and innovation. In recent years, supplier evaluation frameworks based on Industry 4.0 concepts have contributed to the development of the industry. However, the novel concepts of Industry 5.0 require examination from a people-oriented and sustainable perspective. Unfortunately, at the present time, supplier evaluation frameworks based on Industry 5.0 are lacking. Therefore, the primary task of this study is to develop a novel and comprehensive supplier evaluation framework for the Industry 5.0 era. This study proposes a data-driven decision support system to execute the supplier evaluation process. First, variable precision- dominance-based rough set approach (VC-DRSA) is applied to extract the core criteria, to remove the noise factors and to generate decision rules for the decision-makers’ reference. Second, the criterion importance through intercriteria correlation (CRITIC) approach is adopted to obtain the dependency weights of the core criteria and their ranking. Finally, a modified classifiable technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (CTOPSIS) is used to integrate the final performance values of suppliers when new alternative suppliers are added. The research concept is in line with the conception of data-driven decision support in business intelligence and does not rely on the subjective judgments and opinions of experts. Data provided by a multinational medical equipment manufacturer are used as an example to demonstrate the proposed model. VC-DRSA retains nine core criteria from the original twenty criteria, which greatly reduces the labor and cost of supplier audits. In addition, the CRITIC results show that digital transformation, real-time information sharing, and organizational culture transformation are the three main factors affecting the development of enterprises towards Industry 5.0. The results show that CTOPSIS can be used to quickly assess the ratings of new alternative suppliers are listed.

TRANSFORMATIONAL PROCESSES IN THE CHURCH CULTURAL AND ADAPTATION SITUATION OF MODERN RUSSIA

Purpose. The work consider the main issue the processes of transformation in church culture. The church adaptation situation in modern Russia is taken as a subject. The authors see necessity on this basis to reveal the features of cultural situation of modern society.
 Methodology. The basis of the study is the phenomenological method, the axiological approach taken in the cultural-diachronic aspect.
 Results. The results of the work are that the process of restoring church organizational structures in the new conditions of the 90s is described. The article explicates the new situations that the Church has faced in modern Russia in recent decades. This is an explosive uncontrolled transformation of the media space, challenges from other religious movements, and much more. Secular society in Russia is also currently in a situation of difficult relations between society and religion, which claims to form a general humanitarian basis for social morality for the whole society. At the same time, there is a need for such foundation, traditional religious associations have the necessary competencies to form such basis. The paper explicates the need of a cultural dialogue in this situation.
 Practical implications. The results of the study can be applied in the sphere of cultural studies.

A simplified protocol for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of cell suspension cultures of the model species Medicago truncatula A17

This manuscript describes a unique protocol for the rapid transformation of Medicago truncatula A17 cell suspension cultures mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Medicago cells were collected on day 7 of the growth curve, which corresponded to the beginning of the exponential phase. They were then co-cultured with Agrobacterium for 3 days before being spread onto a petri dish with appropriate antibiotic selection. The Receptor Binding Domain of the Spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 was used as a model to develop this protocol. The presence of the transgene was assessed using PCR, and the integrity of the product was evaluated by SDS-PAGE and Western-blotting.

An approach to customer trust In the portuguese banking system

Globalization, seen as a simultaneous transformation in economics, politics and culture, has led to more intense competition in different sectors of the economy. In the banking sector the analysis of customer satisfaction, loyalty and trust has been considered of great interest in recent years. In this study, we analyse the development of bank customer satisfaction and loyalty and, with more detail, the development of customer trust, using the results of surveys carried out with relevant statistical samples in Portugal and, for the first time, we also extend this analysis to bank customers in Spain. Scientific development, particularly in the field of behavioural economics, which includes many contributions from psychology and sociology, as well as in the field of neurology, which gave rise to neuroeconomics, allowed for the adaptation and change of traditional economic decision-making theories, based only on economic rationality, in the wake of the Cartesian dualism and Newtonian atomism, allowing for a better understanding of decision-making. It has been demonstrated in previous studies that the currently most relevant element for customer approval and loyalty to their main banking institution in Portugal is trust. Therefore, the growth or downward trend of these two variables will be a good indicator to understand the development of customer trust in banking evolution. It has been verified that customer trust in banking and in the development of banks in the last years is not as negative as could be expected, considering all the problems that have affected this sector, mainly in Portugal. However, customer satisfaction has been declining over the past two years. A significant change in the banking activity is taking place, a different approach has been implemented, and this change may lead to a decline in customer trust.

Plant-made pharmaceuticals: exploring studies for the production of recombinant protein in plants and assessing challenges ahead.

The production of pharmaceutical compounds in plants is attracting increasing attention, as plant-based systems can be less expensive, safer, and more scalable than mammalian, yeast, bacterial, and insect cell expression systems. Here, we review the history and current status of plant-made pharmaceuticals. Producing pharmaceuticals in plants requires pairing the appropriate plant species with suitable transformation technology. Pharmaceuticals have been produced in tobacco, cereals, legumes, fruits, and vegetables via nuclear transformation, chloroplast transformation, transient expression, and transformation of suspension cell cultures. Despite this wide range of species and methods used, most such efforts have involved the nuclear transformation of tobacco. Tobacco readily generates large amounts of biomass, easily accepts foreign genes, and is amenable to stable gene expression via nuclear transformation. Although vaccines, antibodies, and therapeutic proteins have been produced in plants, such pharmaceuticals are not readily utilized by humans due to differences in glycosylation, and few such compounds have been approved due to a lack of clinical data. In addition, achieving an adequate immune response using plant-made pharmaceuticals can be difficult due to low rates of production compared to other expression systems. Various technologies have recently been developed to help overcome these limitations; however, plant systems are expected to increasingly become widely used expression systems for recombinant protein production.

The culture transformation: situs Gambyok in mathematics teaching learning with pancasila student profile

This article aims to describe the transformation of the knowledge process, namely the gambyok site into an indicator of mathematics learning tools with a Pancasila student profile. The research used is descriptive qualitative research. The instrument is an interview sheet that is used to gather information from cultural actors, mathematical concepts, learning outcomes and learning objectives (ATP). Transformation process data obtained from interviews with informants, cultural actors studied by collecting information by translating interview scripts, data reduction by classifying information that is relevant to what is needed in such a way that the transformation process variables can apply to the indicators indicator . The results shown in this article are indicators that can be used to develop mathematics learning tools with a Pancasila student profile.

Quantifying the degree of change in supply chain determinants and resilience during the 2014–2015 economic crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic: placing emphasis

The study examines the management culture transformation in supply chains digitalisation. The hypothesis of the study was that the digitisation of culture in companies will become an important tool for optimising the internal and external environment in supply chain management, considering the needs of business, shareholders and society. The aim of the study is to identify the determinants of supply chain management that have changed against the backdrop of digitalisation. Using a conceptual approach, two crises in the context of supply chain management determinants were explored: the commodity price crisis (2014–2015) and the COVID-19 pandemic crisis (2020–2021). Three main determinants of management are considered: planning, tracking and reputation. The result of the initial conceptualisation is derived from reviews of case studies and pandemic resilience monitoring of the business environment and supply chain. A set of external and internal factors have been identified that each group of countries needs to develop in order to achieve sustainability in their local supply chains. The most important drivers of global supply chain resilience that need to be developed to offset the effects of major crises have been identified. The results of the study can be used for effective corporate governance practices and a better understanding of supply chain management culture in a digitalised and COVID-19 environment.

Evaluation of CRISPR/Cas9 Constructs in Wheat Cell Suspension Cultures.

Despite intensive optimization efforts, developing an efficient sequence-specific CRISPR/Cas-mediated genome editing method remains a challenge, especially in polyploid cereal species such as wheat. Validating the efficacy of nuclease constructs prior to using them in planta is, thus, a major step of every editing experiment. Several construct evaluation strategies were proposed, with PEG-mediated plasmid transfection of seedling-derived protoplasts becoming the most popular. However, the usefulness of this approach is affected by associated construct copy number bias and chromatin relaxation, both influencing the outcome. Therefore, to achieve a reliable evaluation of CRISPR/Cas9 constructs, we proposed a system based on an Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of established wheat cell suspension cultures. This system was used for the evaluation of a CRISPR/Cas9 construct designed to target the ABA 8'-hydroxylase 1 gene. The efficiency of editing was verified by cost-effective means of Sanger sequencing and bioinformatic analysis. We discuss advantages and potential future developments of this method in contrast to other in vitro approaches.

Heterologous Production of Artemisinin in Physcomitrium patens by Direct in vivo Assembly of Multiple DNA Fragments.

The sesquiterpene lactone compound artemisinin is a natural medicinal product of commercial importance. This Artemisia annua-derived secondary metabolite is well known for its antimalarial activity and has been studied in several other biological assays. However, the major shortcoming in its production and commercialization is its low accumulation in the native plant. Moreover, the chemical synthesis of artemisinin is difficult and expensive due to its complex structure. Hence, an alternative and sustainable production system of artemisinin in a heterologous host is required. Previously, heterologous production of artemisinin was achieved by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. However, this requires extensive bioengineering of modified Nicotiana plants. Recently, a technique involving direct in vivo assembly of multiple DNA fragments in the moss, P. patens, has been successfully established. We utilized this technique to engineer artemisinin biosynthetic pathway genes into the moss, and artemisinin was obtained without further modifications with high initial production. Here, we provide protocols for establishing moss culture accumulating artemisinin, including culture preparation, transformation method, and compound detection via HS-SPME, UPLC-MRM-MS, and LC-QTOF-MS. The bioengineering of moss opens up a more sustainable, cost effective, and scalable platform not only in artemisinin production but also other high-value specialized metabolites in the future.