World Space Research Articles

Соцієтальні наслідки сучасної гібридної війни: теоретичні засади та інституційний вимір

The article reveals the concept of societal in the political-economic discourse, and shows its connection with the relevant philosophical and sociological vision. It is argued that the current Russian-Ukrainian war has clear signs of a modern hybrid war, which is generated by the global-local hybrid system of "peace – war" and combines a whole range of means, from military-political and economic to cybernetic and cultural and humanitarian ones. Based on the combination of political-economic and sociological discourses in a broad sense, it is substantiated that the main components of the hybrid system "peace – war" from the point of view of the transformation of social relations are: armed-military, financial-economic, and informational-spiritual components, which cause a comprehensive impact on people’s worldview, positioning and behavior, which leads to significant societal consequences. The authors give various characteristics of the institutional dimension of the war’s societal consequences. Theoretically, the phenomenon of emergent institutional order is taken as the basis for considering the institutional dimension of the societal consequences caused by the hybrid war. It is revealed that in the martial law conditions, the role of the trust institution is growing (the trust institution is considered as a defining and integral construct of the socio-economic system’s institutional architecture, embodied both in trust in the state and power structures, and in trust in new institutions created by the hybrid war (volunteers and various forms of amateur civil movements)). The authors show that in the context of societal development in the conditions of war shocks and post-war recovery of Ukraine, the quality of institutions and the state’s institutional potential play an extremely important role. Analysis of the societal consequences of the Russian Federation’s invasion in Ukraine in the institutional dimension shows the need to overcome the key institutional destructions generated both in the previous period and during the war. Also, it is necessary to create an institutional basis for a new economic model focused on ensuring a combination of Ukrainian effective reconstructive recovery in the post-war period and its full integration into the European Union and the world space.

메타버스를 위한 3D 디자인 시스템 분석 및 제안

This study defines the metaverse as a space where the real world and virtual space are converged, and analyzes and proposes a metaverse 3D design system to provide an optimized user experience. It compares and analyzes existing design systems. Based on Mike Wolfson's considerations, this paper derives the 3D design system for the metaverse. First, as a basic consideration, the name of each stage in the 3D design system hierarchy and design terms should use common terms. Presence should also be considered. Second, in the application and expansion of the existing design system, it is important to maintain consistency and unity by applying and extending design tokens and design components. Third, animation, camera, lighting, and audio are presented as unique specifications of the metaverse 3D design system. The 3D design system can optimize user experience by applying and extending the unique characteristics of the metaverse and the principles of existing design systems. It improves collaboration and efficiency and has scalability to apply to various metaverse environments.

THE HISTORY OF THE ECOLOGICAL POSTER MUSEUM CREATION AT THE KHARKIV STATE ACADEMY OF DESIGN AND ARTS

The article attempts to analyze in a chronological dimension (1991–2021) the history of creation and functioning of the International Triennial of Ecological Poster “4th Block”, the largest artistic and environmental action in Ukraine, aimed at drawing attention to environmental problems in the world and the spiritual and moral foundations of life. The features of each triennial are consistently reflected, the changes in time of the pictorial component of the modern poster as they move away from Chernobyl tragedy are traced, its artistic and communicative features and innovations used by designers to promote important universal human aspirations are identified. The basis of the study was the materials of albums-catalogs of eleven triennials held, the collection of graphics and posters itself, the book of memoirs of the founder of the triennial. Attention is focused on the natural process of transforming the collection of posters and graphics into a museum that can become the center of modern design culture. A special role of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts in the organization and support of the “4th Block – Museum, Archive, Laboratory” was noted. An institution of higher education with a powerful creative and scientific potential, its own traditions and original teaching methods, KSADА constantly organizes the educational process in such a way as to acquaint students with history and new trends in contemporary art, including graphic design. This approach attracts new generations of the artistic elite of Ukraine to participate in a dialogue between representatives of different cultural regions and broadcast their own artistic experience to the world space in order to spread the best ideas of mankind. The article presents the conclusions from this study and the prospects for further research in this direction.

INITIAL ASSESSMENT ON THE USE OF STATE-OF-THE-ART NERF NEURAL NETWORK 3D RECONSTRUCTION FOR HERITAGE DOCUMENTATION

Abstract. In recent decades, photogrammetry has re-emerged as a viable solution for heritage documentation. Developments in various computer vision methods have helped photogrammetry to compete against the laser scanning technology, eventually becoming complementary solutions for the purpose of heritage recording. In the last few years, artificial intelligence (AI) has progressively entered various domains including 3D reconstruction. The Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) method renders a 3D scene from a series of overlapping images, similar to photogrammetry. However, instead of relying on geometrical relations between the image and world spaces, it uses neural networks to recreate the so-called radiance fields. The result is a significantly faster method of recreating 3D scenes. While not designed to generate 3D models, simple computer graphics methods can be used to convert these recreated radiance fields into the familiar point cloud. In this paper, we implemented the Nerfacto architecture to recreate two instances of heritage objects and then compared them to traditional photogrammetric multi-view stereo (MVS). While the initial hypothesis posits that NeRF is not yet capable to reach the level of accuracy and density achieved by MVS as can be observed in the results, NeRF nevertheless shows a great potential due to its fractionally faster processing speed.

ПРОСТОРОВІ ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКИ ХУДОЖНЬОГО СВІТУ ЗБІРКИ ВАСИЛЯ СТУСА “ВЕСЕЛИЙ ЦВИНТАР”

The article deals in problem with constructing of space of fictional world in texts of collective poems Jolly Cemetery by Vasyl Stus (1971), and some parameters of poetics of the space modeling (imagenary, genre, composition). Radical points of interest to topography of space and local specifics of territories are: total elimination of space markers for creating mythical universal (here and everywhere) and detailed presentation of landscape or interier in some autobiographycal poems. As result of research three types of space modeling are describes. The first model is one-dimensional cosmos of absurd soviet every-day life described in narrative poetry. The second ones proposes two-dimensional world in texts of accumulative composition: physical space of human existence (as variant of it: human body/soul) and inner space of meditation, or memoirs of bygone days, or visions and dreams. Sometimes accumulative fragments are constructed to be a separate locus full of things and inhabitants (subterranian reservuar). Their forms are allegorical emblems or narrative episodes on private, political or hystorical motifs. The third model is metaphysical poetic proposition of configuration of three locis planis (three worlds) and man’s ability to move from one to another. Symbol of jolly cemetery and status of dead person is correspondent with one-dimentional world of soviet peoples’ life; and overcoming repressions and control by power authority, preserving of self and human reactions are related with two other space models.

Formation of communicative competency of foreign students in a multicultural environment of higher education

The article reveals a number of issues related to identifying the role of education in ensuring the level of communicative competency and determining the conditions that ensure this process. It is shown that in the system of higher education, when solving the problem, the formation and development of the level required in modern conditions is carried out. So in the article, the authors, when highlighting the tasks of higher education, one should determine the importance of education in ensuring the level of social and intercultural competency, calling upbringing of a widely erudite, cultural, active personality capable of effective communication in the world space among the tasks of higher education. The article highlights the problem of the formation of professional communicative competency of medical students. The analysis of the role of education in the modern world of the meaning of the concepts of “competencyˮ and “communicative competencyˮ in the interpretation of modern and foreign scientists is carried out. The article focuses on the need to create conditions for the formation and development of students' communicative competence through educational programmes of the humanitarian block, which include the discipline “Communication technologies in professional activityˮ, implemented in the training of foreign students – future medical workers. The authors focus on communicative competence as one of the leading among other competences and necessary for solving communicative tasks in professionally oriented and educational and cognitive activities. The allocation of this competency and the formation of communicative competence provides students with the opportunity to acquire professional knowledge, the necessary experience for constructive interaction in a multicultural environment.

Vertex Chunk-Based Object Culling Method for Real-Time Rendering in Metaverse

Famous content using the Metaverse concept allows users to freely place objects in a world space without constraints. To render various high-resolution objects placed by users in real-time, various algorithms exist, such as view frustum culling, visibility culling and occlusion culling. These algorithms selectively remove objects outside the camera’s view and eliminate an object that is too small to render. However, these methods require additional operations to select objects to cull, which can slowdown the rendering speed in a world scene with massive number of objects. This paper introduces an object-culling technique using vertex chunk to render a massive number of objects in real-time. This method compresses the bounding boxes of objects into data units called vertex chunks to reduce input data for rendering passes, and utilizes GPU parallel processing to quickly restore the data and select culled objects. This method redistributes the bottleneck that occurred in the Object’s validity determination from the GPU to the CPU, allowing for the rendering of massive objects. Previously, the existing methods performed all the object validity checks on the GPU. Therefore, it can efficiently reduce the computation time of previous methods. The experimental results showed an improvement in performance of about 15%, and it showed a higher effect when multiple objects were placed.

Sustainability and urban climate: How Metaverse can influence urban planning?

Metaverse is a unique space in a virtual world that with many capabilities and features shows us a world in which we can experience life in all its dimensions. The presence of Metaverse in the global arena and the use of the facilities of this technology are effective in improving living conditions in developing cities. In this study, two sample projects that Metaverse can support are presented in India and Ghana. The remarkable thing is its innovative method that can solve many problems in the cities of the world. One of the most important challenges in the world today is saving cities from climate change and its adverse effects. Metaverse is one of the innovative methods to reduce the effects of greenhouse gas emissions in the cities of the world. The question is whether Metaverse can influence the urban planning of many cities in the world and change urban planning in the world internationally? And can Metaverse challenge the theoretical foundations in the city? The purpose of this study is to clarify the effects of the Metaverse on the city level. This study aims to introduce a new way to solve the problems of today and the future of world cities by examining Upland and its effects on urban sustainability and ways to prevent climate change. In this context, Metaverse technology has been used as a new solution to provide jobs, reduce poverty, increase public health, prevent climate change and, as a result, realize a better life for future generations. The results of this study, due to being cross-border and creating a global perspective on the Metaverse in urban planning, can create a new scientific perspective based on technological advances in urban studies.

Mythenchronologische Inkonsistenzen in den Argonautica? Beobachtungen zum prima navis-Motiv bei Valerius Flaccus

Abstract In Roman literature, the Argo commonly ranks as the first ship. The Flavian poet Valerius Flaccus seems to place himself in this line of tradition too by constantly stressing the Argo’s pioneer status. Yet it has rightly been noted that nowhere in the Argonautica is the Argo explicitly said to be the first ever ship. Her exceptional role is based rather on her status as the first sea-going ship to sail across the open sea from Europe to Asia, opening the seas to global marine trade. From this perspective, the hitherto inadequately explained mentions of ships in the Phlegyas simile (3,124–132) and the Lemnos episode (2,107–114; 285–305) can also be analysed as only apparent inconsistencies. The interpretive effort required here draws the attention of the reader or audience, which is called upon to compare the earlier ships to the Argo. In this, the poet suggests a pessimistic judgement: a consequence of the opening of the seas was shipping disasters and human tragedies. Also, it did not only lead to the expansion of civilising achievements, but also held the danger that rituals and customs of a periphery which is read as barbaric would penetrate into the cultural space of the Mediterranean world.

INTEGRATION OF RESEARCH INFORMED COMPONENT IN THE TRAINING PROCESS OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENTS

The processes of world and European integration enter an increasingly large sphere of higher education in Ukraine. Our country has clearly defined the benchmark for entering the world and European educational environment, modernizing educational activities by the requirements set. This leads to scientifically based approaches to the training of specialists of the new generation. In conditions of Ukraine’s integration into the world and European educational space, it is expedient to study and reflect to the foreign experience of forming research and development skills of students of institutions of higher education. This aspect became the goal of our research. Applied research methods: analysis and synthesis of psychological and pedagogical literature (to clarify the specifics of research and developnet training); theoretical generalization (to formulate author’s conclusions). Currently, one of the leading global trends in university education is the integration of the research and developmetn component into the process of training of future specialists. The introduction of a research component to university curricula and programs has differences in different institutions of higher education. This component can be integrated into educational courses or can be provided by courses on the methodology of scientific research taught. However, researchers of the issue prefer a consistent holistic approach to the formation of research skills of undergraduate and graduate students. Therefore, the inclusion of opportunities for the development of research skills in undergraduate and graduate curricula should be encouraged. The pespectives for the further research we see in the study of foreign experience in the organization of research training of future specialists in the social sphere.

메타버스에 관한 법적과제

ICT convergence technology related to the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the social disaster of coronavirus are accelerating the metaverse society in the intelligent information society. Metaverse is also actively used in the field of public administration services, including the game and education industry. Since economic transactions and administrative services are actually carried out in the metaverse, the virtual world space of the metaverse is emerging as a legal challenge to how real world laws should be applied in the metaverse. The issue of taxation on acts or income in the virtual space of the metaverse and taxation when taxpayers use it as a tax haven are also emerging. In addition, XR is an invasive data collection and monitoring by facial recognition technology by VR headsets and AR glasses combined with other wearables, making privacy and privacy issues a legal challenge. In addition, the transition to an immersive virtual world using virtual reality headsets can be used for excessive advertising by collecting detailed information such as users' facial expressions, voices and accents, and vital signs than companies can collect through existing screens. In addition, if the Metaverse Act is enacted, whether the metaverse industry will be uniformly self-regulated or regulated self-regulation, the metaverse will be classified as 'illegal profit and harmful contents/services', 'freedom of expression, freedom of press and publication, freedom of business' (freedom of advertising), content/service related to privacy protection', and 'legal but harmful content/service', and it is a question of whether to regulate authoritatively, regulated self-regulation, or self-regulation according to the principle of proportionality. Therefore, in this paper, after examining the concept and characteristics of the metaverse and the current state of metaverse utilization in the public domain, the legal status of avatars in the metaverse, cybersecurity reinforcement issues in the metaverse, regulation of excessive advertising, and metaverse Review the legal tasks related to self-regulation issues and tax imposition issues that were regulated at the time of enactment of the law, and suggest tasks for improvement.

Snow globes and instant coffee: transparent commodities and the global infrastructures of late capitalism in contemporary fiction

ABSTRACT Fredric Jameson’s 1984 essay ‘Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism’ famously calls for new forms of representation that can provide a better notion of the sublime world space of multinational capital. Jameson states that such aesthetic scale models are yet unrealised, but this essay argues that a number of contemporary novels, including Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven, Ben Lerner's 10:04 and works by Matias Faldbakken, Sally Rooney and William Gibson, present us with global figurations that are both more banal and more sublime than Jameson could have imagined. These novels all contain scenes where ordinary commodities are turned inside out in staggering leaps of scale, which constitute original figurations of the global infrastructures of late capitalism. Drawing on Bill Brown’s thing theory, Jennifer Wenzel’s notion of commodity biographies, and different theories of scale in the Anthropocene, I analyse different examples of this figure, which I term transparent commodities. In the concluding section, I show how these figurations prefigure the current global supply chain crisis, and I return to Jameson’s original demand for representations of the global totality, which I discuss in dialogue with my analyses as well as theories of planetarity by Gayatri Spivak and Dipesh Chakrabarty.

A Note on Verisimilitude and Accuracy

M. Schoenfield has constructed examples of proper inaccuracy measures that value verisimilitude (in a certain sense) in spaces of worlds equipped with a particular variety of verisimilitude metric. However, Schoenfield left it as an open question whether `for every space of worlds, there is a proper inaccuracy measure that values verisimilitude.' Here we answer this question in the affirmative.

Innovation in China’s space industry: overcoming decoupling

ABSTRACT China’s space program is a case study in how China has been able to become a world space power despite US export control restrictions. China’s progress in space technologies can be attributed to several factors, including high-level leadership attention, long-term planning and funding, and technology transfer, both legal and illegal. Although US export control restrictions appear to have slowed People’s Republic of China (PRC) advancements in space technologies, they have not been able to prevent China from achieving its goals. As a result, the US’s primary focus should be on maintaining its lead in space technologies through research and development rather than only attempting to restrict PRC access to US technology and knowhow.

Life in Every Breath: Ester Blenda: Reporter, Adventurer, Pioneer by Fatima Bremmer

Reviewed by: Life in Every Breath: Ester Blenda: Reporter, Adventurer, Pioneer by Fatima Bremmer Rosie Clarke FATIMA BREMMER Life in Every Breath: Ester Blenda: Reporter, Adventurer, Pioneer Trans. Gloria Nneoma Onwuneme. Seattle. Amazon Crossing. 2022. 452 pages. EXTENSIVELY RESEARCHED and written with clear respect and affection for its subject, Fatima Bremmer's biography of Sweden's first investigative journalist details the full, tumultuous life of Ester Blenda or "Bansai." Bremmer uses letters, diaries, interviews, and a mass of archival content to vividly depict a brave and reckless woman trying to carve out space in a hostile world. Thanks to parental support and an obvious talent for writing, in 1911 Blenda was made Stockholms Dagblad's youngest reporter at twenty years old, quickly establishing herself [End Page 89] as an innovative voice. Working during a significant time in the women's suffrage movement, journalism provided an opportunity for adventure and life beyond the gender and class expectations she struggled against from childhood. Throughout her career, Blenda's reportage brought important attention to those suffering exploitation and oppression, whether rural farm maids, indigenous Sami people, or new immigrants to America. But while her fame and prosperity grew, she seemed to favor the challenge of the story over real benefit to its subjects. Despite undeniable compassion and solidarity, Blenda's radicalism often missed the mark. Bremmer doesn't shy away from this, and her generous exploration of Blenda's character captures the good and the bad. A significant thread in Blenda's life story was her relationship with Carin Frisell. Due to Swedish law criminalizing homosexuality, they could never live their truth, but evidence shows a deep, powerful love confined to secrecy. Bremmer carefully explores how lifelong sexual repression may have contributed to Blenda's poor mental health and lifelong use of alcohol to quiet her "anxiety, restlessness and buzzing thoughts." Later, Bremmer sensitively details Blenda's gradual descent into alcoholism and illness. Despite earlier allusions, this sudden derailment is disturbing after so much time adventuring. Blenda's later years are lived in relative solitude and hardship, giving her story a somber end, but one comfort is that Blenda and Carin reunite with familial support for their relationship. This is a well-written, entertaining, and superbly translated work, depicting a thrilling and tumultuous life. Bremmer does occasionally digress into tangential and boring exposition and could have spared detail without sacrificing quality. Regardless, she does justice to such an exciting, complex, and inspiring figure with her skilled and seamless weaving together of facts with a tender exploration of that which lies between certainty and speculation. Rosie Clarke London Copyright © 2023 World Literature Today and the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma

Meaningful Place: A Phenomenological Approach to the Design of Spatial Experience in Open-world Games

With the development of game engines and graphics technology, open-world games have gained popularity all over the world recently. One of the key features of this genre is a realistic open world space for the players to explore, to the extent that some even deemed it as the prototype of virtual world and the Metaverse. However, in comparison with the growing world size, the player's spatial experience is a downward spiral. Interaction in an ever-increasing game space suffered from a repetitive design pattern which rendered the world grandeur on the surface but hollow deep down. How to find meaning in this seemingly hollow world and what game designers can learn from it? From a phenomenological perspective, this paper distinguishes “place” from “space,” and, according to this, proposes a three-dimensional meaning structure of place, that is “orientation-identification-time,” as a design approach to reconstruct a meaningful spatial experience in the game world.

IDENTIFICATION AND FORECASTING MODELS OF COUNTRIES DIGITALIZATION STATUS IN WORLD SPACE

The article is devoted to development issues of identification and forecasting models of countries digitalization status in world space. The problems and prospects of countries digitization are becoming relevant at the current stage of the technological sphere development of mankind was proved. Digitization is becoming the most important factor in the economic growth of any country and is generally a modern trend in its development. Untimely elimination of digitalization problems can cause negative consequences in the scale of the entire country's economy. Therefore, the prospects of the digital development of countries and the corresponding models of identification and forecasting of their digitalization status require special research. It will reveal the factors of digital growth. In addition, the work shows that the justification based on the system approach and assessment of the sustainable digital development of countries using modern methods of system analysis and multidimensional analysis Data Science, as one of the most effective in performing mathematical modeling of the researched processes status, has not received sufficient development in scientific works and needs further development. Therefore, the purpose of the article is to improve the complex of mathematical models for estimation and analyzing countries digitalization status in world, which, unlike others, will be built on the basis of intellectual analysis methods of multidimensional objects. Based on the set purpose, the distribution of the world countries by clusters on the basis of spatial and dynamic data sampling is carried out and analyzed in the article. Using the methods of multidimensional analysis and Data Science, the positioning of Ukraine in relation to the countries of the world was found. It has been established that Ukraine belongs to the countries with an average status of digitization and at the same time below average rates of socio-economic development. In order to predict the status of countries digitization, experiments were conducted on the construction of various types of classification tree models and the best model was obtained. A detailed analysis of the links between the set of digitalization and countries socio-economic development indices allowed us to come to a conclusion about the high level of their mutual influence and the importance of forming a system of measures in these directions to ensure the proper level of country digital development. Keywords: model, classification trees, forecasting, digitalization, indicators of digitalization, telecommunication development.

Reading virtual spaces through ‘heterotopias’ and ‘thirdspaces’

Starting from the last decade of the twentieth century, the architectural circles started to show more interest in the concept called the ‘virtual realm’. From their perspective it was an untouched and strange territory. On the other hand, from users’ perspective it was a perfect tool to eliminate the difficult conditions of daily life flow, allowing them to socialize while visiting fantastic spaces and experiencing adventures. These places may be far beyond our understanding of the real world, and they may also seem like a utopia; but despite all these they have their own realities. This new world with its inspiring spaces deserves a better understanding. It can be stated that the virtual realm actually has certain convergences with the well-known space theories from Foucault’s ‘heterotopias’ and Soja’s ‘thirdspaces’. Based on this point, the study first introduces four different examples from the virtual world and discusses how the feeling of heterotopia or thirdspace in these spaces emerges. Discussing the fact of how to read a space in this new world, when time and sense of place seem to be lost but a unique and mythical order is created, will be the main emphasis of this article.

International scientific and technical cooperation with Russia's participation in the space sphere under sanctions: results and prospects

The article analyzes the anti-Russian sanctions regime imposed by Europe and the United States in the field of space cooperation. As a result, space became involved in a geopolitical confrontation, which was not observed during the Cold War. The purpose of the article is to understand the features and consequences of the sanctions regime in relation to international scientific and economic cooperation with Russia's participation in the space sphere. The article claims that the sanctions regime in the space sphere of international cooperation is characterized by specifics. It consists in supplementing Western sanctions with measures that Russia has taken on its part to withdraw from some international scientific and technical projects. Special attention was paid to the study of the negative consequences of sanctions, which consist in complicating the synergy of efforts so necessary to make a cardinal breakthrough in the space sphere in the interests of all mankind. General scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, abstraction and generalization were used. This made it possible to move from diverse empirical data to theoretical generalizations about the nature and models of sanctions regimes against the Russian space industry and space science. In addition to this, a comparative approach was used, as well as a modeling method and a forecasting method. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that in it the event analysis of the confrontation in the context of the "sanctions – counter-sanctions" bundle is built in the context of the theory of sanctions in the field of science and technology. In addition, the problems of Western sanctions in relation to Russia's participation in international cooperation are shown against the background of an objective trend of fragmentation of international cooperation in the field of space. The main conclusion of the work is the position on the radicalism of Europe in severing ties with Russia and the cautious approach of the United States. It is demonstrated that considering the current situation through the prism of the concept of scientific and technical isolation of Russia in the space sphere is an exaggeration. The study showed that the damage caused by sanctions and counter-sanctions in relation to the Russian space industry, as well as in relation to world cosmonautics and space science is not catastrophic. At the same time, the current situation stimulates Russia's proactive scientific and technical policy at the national and international levels.

LANGUAGE REFLECTION IN A RELIGIOUS PICTURE OF THE WORLD

The appeal to the religious picture of the world is due to the fact that religion, being a traditional form of worldview, is acquiring a new spiritual beginning in world space today. The religious picture of the world proceeds from the difference between being in itself and existence i.e., a world possessing being by its creation. The religious picture of the world is dualistic, since it contrasts the absolute, supernatural being, solemn with God, to the whole variety of natural things endowed with being. By recognizing the existing role of religious consciousness in the life of mankind, as well as analyzing religious vocabulary, one can determine the national values and consciousness of the people. The basis of religious consciousness is the religious picture of the world, which serves as a criterion of the essence of language and religion. In this regard, theolinguistics requires an analysis of sacred religious vocabulary and religious texts.