True Motives Research Articles

Simbolik Geometri Dalam Catan Sulaiman Esa Melalui Prinsip Seni Islam

This paper explains geometric motifs through Islamic aesthetic point of view in the painting Garden of Mystery VI (1992) by Sulaiman Esa. Islamic art prescribes the whole way of life and all the activities that humans carry out in syumul (complete togetherness), including in the study of art. Islamic art is one of the advances in the civilization of the Islamic world and geometry is among the three motifs of Islamic art that are highly praised by the world community apart from calligraphy and Arabes. Islam has established those religious aspects play an important role in determining the basis and foundation to produce an element in the arts. It can be identified in geometric motifs through shape, meaning and symbolism that tend to have the concept of ‘Shari'a’. The main purpose of the study was to identify the types of geometric motifs and patterns in the painting artwork Garden of Mystery VI (1992). Explore the relationship between formalistic aspects of Islamic art and aesthetics through the production of Sulaiman Esa's paintings. This study also aims to see the aesthetic value of Islam which involves the pronunciation of symmetry in the context of mathematical culture. The written and visual data collection methodology in this study uses a qualitative approach that involves the design of case studies based on fieldwork empirical data obtained. Methods of observation, documentation and visual recording were used for the collection of research information. The findings of the study show that geometric motifs are decorations in Islamic art that comply with Islamic law and have their own privileges. An understanding of the form, purpose, philosophy, concept and purpose of geometric design application should be applied in Islamic painting artwork to form Islamic images and identities. Once again guide Islamic painters to internalise, understand and try to stimulate painters to dignify the true motives of Islam.

NETANYAHU BEHIND ANGER AND VENGEANCE: A CHARACTER ANALYSIS

The continued bombing of Gaza by Israel has sparked outrage in the world community. The United Nations officials and medical groups have reiterated the harrowing conditions in the Gaza Strip due to Israel's war on Hamas. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the most significant U.S. Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, demanded international action to prevent starvation, disease, and genocide. Netanyahu's character traits are analyzed through his statements and comments published in the international news media during the seven months from October 7, 2023, the first day of Israel's military operation in Gaza, to April 7, 2024. Netanyahu has blamed Hamas for civilian deaths and claimed that civilians have been warned to leave Gaza and move to the South, which is called a safe zone. However, the military escalation in the South defied the reassurance people had received about moving south to be safe. Hospitals, mosques, churches, bakeries, and over 60 UNRWA buildings and schools have been hit across Gaza. Netanyahu's statements aimed to conceal his true motives. The contradiction between words and deeds is apparent. He says that they will never agree to a ceasefire and will continue their offensive to achieve their goals with minimal civilian casualties. However, Israeli attacks broadcast live on television always target civilian settlements. Netanyahu's goal is to confine the Palestinian people to a narrow area in the south, leaving them with no place to go. The international community has criticized Netanyahu's actions, and demonstrations against Israel are taking place worldwide. The perceived recklessness has marred his career, and Netanyahu's political narrative is scrutinized to analyze his character traits. Diplomatic sources say that Netanyahu's statements are far from convincing. The international community demands a solution to the conflict, and Netanyahu's actions are not helping to achieve peace. The situation in Gaza remains dire, and the world community is watching closely, hoping for a peaceful resolution.

«Без божества, без вдохновенья», или как РАПП нашел себе работу в ФОСП

The history of the Federation of Organizations of Soviet Writers (FOSP) has so far only been studied through periodicals. Archival documents could explain the context, the driving forces, and the true motives of the actors of the literary process. The theoretical framework of the institutional approach seems to be the most suitable for considering the history of FOSP, which is inseparable from the history of the struggle of VAPP/RAPP (All-Russian Association of Proletarian Writers / Russian Association of Proletarian Writers) for its share in the symbolic capital of the new Soviet culture. After the defeat of the Proletkult, the main financial and power resources were concentrated with fellow travelers. FOSP was needed to achieve VAPP’s hegemony on the literary front. VAPP used the communist faction of FOSP to manipulate the Press Section of the Central Committee. VAPP created a mass writer and a mass consumer of proletarian literature, provided conditions for the destruction of “groupism” in FOSP, ensuring the only suitable environment for the formation of a nationwide, homogeneous, mass writers’ union – the Union of Soviet Writers, controlled directly by the Politburo.

Identifying Motivations for Relationship Alternatives: Analyzing College Students' Backburner Relationships

Backburner refers to a desired prospective romantic/sexual partner with whom one interacts with the purpose of possibly creating a future romantic or sexual relationship. Modern technology has made it easier to develop and maintain relationships with backburners. This study analyzed the different motivations that individuals (N = 762) use towards their backburner relationships. Results from this study revealed that there were six main motivations for backburner relationships: 1) sex or possibility of sexual intimacy; 2) previous romantic feelings with this person (e.g., first love, previous romance, ex-boyfriend/girlfriend); 3) to maintain a friendship in hopes of a potential romantic relationship; 4) because it is exciting or fun to keep in contact with this person; 5) social contact to keep tabs on their life; and 6) there is no true motivation. Findings suggest that individuals typically communicate with their backburner relationships through text messages.

The Ultimate Metaverse Match: An Analysis of First Amendment Protections and Unauthorized Trademark Use in Non-Fungible Tokens

The First Amendment has long provided protections for artists’ creative expression and is a fundamental right for all United States citizens. However, with the rise of a predominantly digital world, those protections begin to blur with the introduction of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Artistic creation often stems from an inspired source, and sometimes, that inspiration may come from registered intellectual property, specifically trademarks. Trademarks are everywhere we look, so it is not unusual for artists to be inspired by the logos, images, colors, figures, or symbols that are featured on billboards, magazine covers, or everyday items. When these trademarks are used in third-party artistic works, the situation often results in trademark owners gearing up to protect their marks and artists invoking their First Amendment rights to protect their creations. NFTs have become an extremely lucrative market, presenting a new route for artists to explore their creative ideas and an appealing business opportunity for luxury brands to enter into a unique space. Courts and practitioners must focus their attention on the rise of NFTs and trademark-related issues as litigation gradually increases. There has been a longstanding precedent formed by Rogers v. Grimaldi that gives courts some guidance on how to balance First Amendment protections and trademark rights, but with the introduction of NFTs, circuit courts are interpreting and applying the Rogers test in various ways resulting in inconsistent outcomes. This calls for another look at the Rogers test and a reconsideration of its design to balance First Amendment and trademark interests. This Article examines the nuances of First Amendment and trademark law to determine the effectiveness of the traditional Rogers test. This Article concludes that while courts have applied Rogers in unique ways, the emergence of NFTs requires a uniform approach that can only be accomplished by reconsidering Rogers’s application to the digital world. This Article encourages courts to include a more fact-intensive analysis in Rogers cases so fact finders can distinguish between expressive artistic works and ordinary consumer products while discerning the works’ true motives.

ТИПЫ НАПРАВЛЕННОСТИ ЛИЧНОСТИ ПЕДАГОГОВ СОВРЕМЕННОЙ ШКОЛЫ: ЭМПИРИЧЕСКОЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ

The orientation of the teacher's personality which determines his/her moral appearance and behavior is the most important basis for understanding the true motives of his/her activity, since its positive pole is a necessary condition for professional development and effectiveness. The article presents the results of an empirical study of the peculiarities of the orientation of teachers of modern secondary schools. 215 teachers of two educational institutions of St. Petersburg took part in the study using the method of personality orientation diagnostics by of V. Smekal and M. Kucer. The results obtained indicate that almost half (48%) of the teachers of the studied sample have a collectivist orientation of personality (for interaction), every third (34%) has a business orientation (for a task), only 18% are focused on themselves (motives of personal well-being). Despite the decreasing tendency of the intensity of teachers' focus on interaction and the increasing number of teachers with a focus on the task as the length of their experience increases, no significant changes in pedagogical orientation at different stages of professionalization were revealed. This makes it possible to characterize the orientation of the personality of teachers of a modern school as a stable construct reflecting the specifics of the activity performed. The results obtained can be useful for the development of educational and correctional-developmental programs for the professional development of teachers, as well as for monitoring the effectiveness of the organization of their work in an educational institution.application into the educational process.

Passively Maintained Closed Cavity Façade—Experimental Validation of the Mathematical Thermal Model

Although glass façades have been on the market for over a century, new improvements, following sustainable standards, are still being invented. An improvement of the actively maintained CCF has occurred in passive maintenance with natural ventilation of the cavity and insulation glass unit placed on the external side, which has served as a true motivation for further research. To develop the idea, a new type of CCF was invented, followed by the creation of the software, whose purpose is to determine optimal CCF façade components. During this research, an experimental and mathematical model was made regarding the thermal behavior, later validated by the measurements on-site in Rugvica, Croatia. Using simplified but unconventional methods, numerous formulae and variables, a simulation of climatic loads onto the CCF was conducted. Validations of the thermal model were made during winter and summer periods for southern and western façade orientation, explaining how heat transfers from the environment to close cavity façade elements. It was found from the analysis that air temperatures of the façade elements follow the outer air temperature, by constant air exchange with the outer space. The results showed great potential with up to 3 °C (5–10%) of difference in experimental and calculated results, thus creating a basis for further improvement of the software with the addition of structural and hygric behavior of the façade element, regarding climate conditions.

How the World Economic Forum damages the credibility of climate science

AbstractThe World Economic Forum (WEF) was established in 1971 with the nominal purpose of bringing together leaders to discuss global problems. However, it is well on its way to becoming the most powerful institution in the world, merely by setting forth an agenda for global management that is attractive to many political and business leaders. Two of the central issues on which the WEF has focused are climate change and the pandemic. The first has a depth of scientific support, but the WEF's stance and official pronouncements on the latter were never based on normal scientific review procedures. Since the WEF was a catalyst in the rush to judgment on COVID‐19 lockdowns and vaccine mandates, this suggests that the WEF is primarily guided by political motives, not by science. In fact, the way the WEF approaches the climate issue—as an excuse to restrict freedom without promoting renewable energy sources—makes evident the true motives of the WEF. As a result of the WEF's political use of the climate issue, the validity of climate science has been tarnished in the public mind. If there were true political will to solve the existential problem for future generations, the following could be undertaken immediately: To convert the oil industry to renewable energy, national governments of the world could agree to require that the fossil fuel companies receiving tax dollars convert to renewable energy at a rate of 7%–8% per year. Compounded, within 10 years, these companies would still be dominating the energy game, but with safe sustainable alternatives.

Universal Health Coverage in India Challenges, Barriers, Opportunities and Role of WHO

Government of India and the Indian state governments have the overall responsibility to offer loose and typical get right of entry to the healthcare offerings and make certain that there shall now no longer be any denial of healthcare at once or in a roundabout way to each person via way of means of any health care carrier provider, public or private, via way of means of laying down minimal requirements and suitable regulatory mechanism. India is one of the nations with-inside the international with an excessive infection burden. The health final results signs described as time- certain objectives for reducing maternal and toddler mortality, malnutrition amongst children, anemia amongst ladies and girls, fertility, and growing the kid intercourse ratio with-inside the eleventh plan have now no longer been completely realised. India health effects in the back of in Sri-Lanka and Bangladesh. Inadequate financing, a loss of synergy among sickness manipulate and different social quarter programmes, beside the point use of traditional structures of medicine, inadequate regulatory mechanisms, and a lack of ability in health management plague the country’s health care system. There is significant interstate variance in health indicators, as well as disparities between rural and urban metrics, improving Reproductive, Maternal, New born, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) and addressing mental health disorders is crucial to achieving UHC. The government’s approach to provide enough funding, recent ambitious social policy measures and innovations such as the food security bill, increased civil society engagement in all health problems, and a huge initiative through numerous states together with Tamil Nadu to enhance health, water and sanitation offerings are true sufficient motives for wish that UHC may be carried out through 2022.

Religious Orientations of Modern Kazakhstani Youth

The article examines the religious orientations of Kazakhstani youth in the context of modern life. Modern life is characterized by the growing role of religion in society and the strengthening of its influence on the consciousness, worldview, system of life values and religious orientations of young people. On the one hand, young people strive for self-determination and self-realization, and on the other hand, they face a situation of social uncertainty, forcing them to turn to religion. In this connection, the question arises, what are the true motives for turning young people to religion and how does it affect their behavior and life? The purpose of our work is to study the religious orientations of modern Kazakhstani youth. We conducted a survey “Religious orientations” according to the method of I.M. Bogdanovskaya among young people aged 16 to 28 years old living in the Karaganda region, which revealed that the main motive for turning young people to religion is “the search for an ideal and spiritual emptiness”. The analysis of the obtained results showed that the external religious orientation prevails over the internal religious orientation among modern Kazakhstani youth, that they treat religion not as a value, but as a means used in problem situations.

Putting our money where our mouth is? The degree of women-centred family planning in the era of FP2020.

The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development was a landmark moment for the international family planning community, who committed to adopt a women-centred approach to programming-one that would prioritise the reproductive and contraceptive intentions, or autonomy, of individuals over population-level demographic concerns. The FP2020 partnership, established in 2012 and lasting until 2020, also described itself using women-centred language. However, throughout the period of FP2020, critics questioned the extent to which women-centred principles truly defined why family planning programmes were funded and how they were implemented. In this study, we use thematic discourse analysis to examine six major international donors' rationale(s) for funding family planning and the measurements they used to articulate successful programming. We present an overview of the rationales and measurements used by all six donors before offering four case studies to demonstrate divergences in their approaches. Our analysis demonstrates that, although donors described the importance of family planning for fostering women's autonomy and empowerment, they also justified family planning on the basis of demographic concerns. In addition, we identified a misalignment between how donors described family planning programmes-using the language of voluntarism and choice-and how they measured their success-through increased uptake and use of contraceptive methods. We call on the international family planning community to reflect on their true motives for funding and implementing family planning and engage in radically rethinking how they capture programme success, in order to better align their rhetoric with their practice.

Sustainable Cruise Tourism: Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Areas

The cruise shipping industry has existed for centuries. However, sustainability is a relatively new trend that could make a big difference and someday impact the industry. A growing body of research on sustainable cruise tourism includes studying changes among industry stakeholders, internal and external processes, and more. However, until now, there have been no comprehensive and systematic reviews of the academic literature on this topic and proposals for future research areas. The sample for our research consists of 56 articles structured into the following themes and subthemes: (1) corporate social responsibility (public interaction and emissions management); (2) territory management (collaboration with stakeholders and infrastructure development); (3) training in sustainable behavior (passengers, ship personnel, and other stakeholders). These themes fully explore the various use cases for sustainable cruises, forming a conceptual framework for understanding trends for the industry’s sustainable development. We direct the attention of other researchers to the following areas for further research: GHG emissions of cruising; biodiversity impacts; quantitative understanding of the target audience and their participation in sustainability financing; in-depth understanding of the reasons for cooperation between stakeholders; identifying the true motivation for participation in sustainable development; the long-term trends; and how the shipping industry is adapting to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Resource Nationalism and Indigenous Capital Accumulation: Interrogating the Motivations Behind the Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation (ZIMCO) Bond Redemptions, 1969–1975

Following the acquisition of a 51 per cent stake in the country’s copper mines in 1969, the Zambian government issued repayment bonds (that is, ‘ZIMCO bonds’) to their minority owners, Anglo-American Zambia (AAZ) and Roan Selection Trust (RST). On 31 August 1973, Kenneth Kaunda announced that these bonds were to be redeemed and the management, sales and technical service contracts with the minority owners were to be cancelled. The expansion of the Zambian copper mining industry, it was said, was being held back by the reluctance of the minority shareholders to fund exploration, invest in new projects, or facilitate Zambianisation, as they preferred instead to collect exorbitant management and sales fees and to repatriate profits to overseas shareholders. Contrarily, Andrew Sardanis, the former managing director of the Industrial Development Corporation (INDECO) and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of State Participation, maintained that the true motivation behind the redemption of the bonds was to enrich Lonrho’s notorious chief executive, Tiny Rowland, and a select number of Zambian co-conspirators. This article interrogates both of these diverging narratives, nationalist and cynical, and argues that the redemption of the ZIMCO bonds as well as the cancellation of the management and sales contracts can be partially attributed to pressures emanating from Zambian contractors to secure larger and more frequent contracts from the mines. By advocating for greater state involvement in the management of the mines, principally in the awarding of service contracts, these contractors shaped the country’s resource nationalist agenda. Drawing on archival material from multiple sources, newspaper articles and key informant interviews, this article maintains that indigenous capital accumulation is an important factor in understanding Zambian resource nationalism. The article concludes by drawing parallels between the more recent ‘second wave’ of Zambian resource nationalism and this historical episode.

STOCKHOLM SYNDROME IN CRIMINOLOGICAL PRACTICE

Stockholm syndrome is a psychological phenomenon in which the victim completely loses control over his own life for a certain period of time, subsequently takes the side of the aggressor, begins to support him and even protect him from punishment. The syndrome has three phases of mental development in time. In the first phase, the victim experiences positive emotions towards the aggressor; in the second phase, she develops a negative attitude towards the environment and helping her; in the third phase, the victim develops a mutual traumatic connection. The article describes an example of everyday Stockholm syndrome in a minor in the criminological practice of the authors. The authors explain the pathogenesis of sacrificial, emotional and dependent connection with a partner, with a psychopathic personality. Disharmonious relationships in families and couples, where a woman expresses humility, and a man expresses physical strength and superiority, form everyday Stockholm syndrome and pathological attachment to it. In the practical work of employees of law enforcement and supervisory authorities, the psychological portrait of the victim may not fit into the picture of victim behavior during rape. Knowledge of psychological phenomena and pathological love in gender relations can greatly facilitate the work in determining the true motives, actions and behavior of persons involved and not involved in the crime.

Aspecte privind evolutia artei oficiale in Romania comunista in perioada 1965–1974

A definite relationship of determination between the geopolitical map and the cultural map of the world always existed. The centers of political power, voluntary or involuntary, have contributed to the development of models to be followed for the artistic milieu. For the European culture a major role was played by the division after WW II, when the states of Central and Eastern Europe came under the influence of the USSR. Following the establishment of the communist regime in Romania, the evolution of the Romanian fine arts began to differ significantly from that of the fine arts in the countries left outside the totalitarian bloc. Starting from the premise that this evolution was determined by specific sociocultural rules, the article analyzes the relationship between the sphere of power and the artistic sphere throughout the Ceauşescu period of the communist regime. It proposes a synthetic vision combining art history with political science and sociology. The cultural revolution was also continued by the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, within the project of training the new man. The rise to power of Nicolae Ceausescu was established on the background of a trend of de‑Stalinization initiated since the time of Gheorghe Gheorghiu‑Dej. From the evolution of culture standpoint, but not only of it, this meant an openness to the West, simultaneously with the exacerbation of nationalism. Until the mid–1970s, there was a relaxation of the artistic milieu, inasmuch as the regime gave the illusion that political interference in art would be increasingly limited. The management of the artistic discourse was no longer done by force, by constraining from the center, but was directed from within. Even so, the opening period did not turn out to be very long. The moment of glory of the Ceausescu regime came with the condemnation of the 1968 armed intervention of the Warsaw Pact in Czechoslovakia, except Romania. This demarcation toward Moscow established a positive image of Nicolae Ceausescu among the Western countries, but, at the same time, it coincided with the opening of the path from hero to idol. Hence, at the beginning of the 70’s of the 20th century, the raher short but fertile contact of the Romanian artistic milieu with the European cultural context quickly gave birth to some promising signals within the art of the moment. An international level production emerges, confirmed also by exhibitions organized abroad and several international awards obtained by Romanian artists in Paris, Edinburgh, Berlin, etc. But this inflorescence will not have time to be fully fulfilled in those few years of “socialist liberalism” authorized by the regime for political reasons which the intellectuals of the time can neither understand nor influence in their true motivation.

Moral Grandstanding as a Narcissistic Intrinsic Satisfaction

The aim of this study is to define the concept of moral grandstanding and discuss its antecedents, motivations behind it, and implications. Moral grandstanding is described as contributing to moral discourse to persuade others that one is morally respectable. Individuals who value their moral standing are more concerned about their own self than the topics that they claim to discuss. Therefore, it is likely that individuals who perform moral grandstanding may be high on the narcissistic personality trait. Although moral grandstanding can bring about reputation and fame to individuals, it can be associated with society contribution in some cases. While advertising their prosocial behavior, individuals’ true motivation may not be obvious. Thus, it is essential to understand their actual motivation for the behavior in question as well as their level of narcissism in order to understand whether the behavior is considered as an example of moral grandstanding. Pathological narcissism and the intrinsic-extrinsic motivation concept of self-determination theory were used to extend the current understanding of the moral grandstanding concept in the present study. Lastly, the real-life implications of moral grandstanding were discussed with reference to current issues like the pandemic.

The Importance of Informative Interventions in a Wicked Environment

The Importance of Informative Interventions in a Wicked Environment

Twilight of Human Judgment

Twilight of Human Judgment

COMPARATIVE IDIOMS WITH AN ANTHROPONYMIC COMPONENT IN SPANISH

The article deals with Spanish comparative idioms with an anthroponomic component. Revealing the true semantic motivation of phraseological units is still a challenging issue since motivation attributes may be partially or completely erased from the memory. The proper names of many characters become deanthroponyms and/or turn into symbolic figures that exist only in phraseological corpus and are used in order to express a determinate evaluativity. The present article is supposed to reveal the semantic motivation of comparative idioms with an anthroponomic component and to systemize them according to personal data of the characters. The study of comparative idioms with an anthroponomic component has made it possible to determinate the most significant individuals of the Spanish linguoculture, to describe the associations they evoke and their nature, to define the component composition of phraseological units and their semantic features, to specify the national-cultural peculiarity of representing universal concepts.

The moderating role of CEO sustainability reporting style in the relationship between sustainability performance, sustainability reporting, and cost of equity

This paper explores the role of individual managers in the relationship between sustainability performance, sustainability reporting, and cost of equity. Based on prior research showing that both sustainability performance and reporting reduce the risk premium, this paper contributes to the literature by acknowledging that the true motives behind a manager’s corporate sustainability engagement are not apparent to investors. Thus, investors need to rely on further information to assess the relationship between sustainability performance and risk. We argue that CEOs’ values and preferences drive their decisions regarding sustainability activities. Thus, their fixed effect on sustainability reporting conveys a signal to investors about the motives behind corporate sustainability engagement and the extent of reporting. In the first step of our empirical analysis, we document that a CEO’s specific reporting style indeed has significant statistical power in explaining a company’s level of sustainability reporting. In the second step, we find that improved sustainability performance is associated with increased cost of equity when the CEO exerts a strong personal influence on sustainability reporting. However, cost of equity declines if the CEO’s influence on the reporting of improved sustainability performance is low. Our results are consistent with the argument that investors interpret CEO’s fixed-effect on sustainability reporting as a signal. That is, for a high CEO fixed-effect, increases in sustainability engagement are conflated with the CEO's self-interested values. In further tests, we show that the signal seems to be particularly important for normative sustainability activities (vs. legal sustainability activities).