War in Times of “Beyond Man”: Reflections on a “Grand” Contemporary Topic

2020 ◽  
pp. 121-130
Author(s):  
Alexander Reymann ◽  
Roland Benedikter
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Topic

scholarly journals WASTE AND DIRT IN SHORT FOLKLORE FORMS

Traditiones ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-139
Author(s):  
Saša Babič
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
The Other ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
Words And Images ◽  
Contemporary Topic

The article examines the concept and metaphorical meaning of waste and dirt in short folklore forms, including archival material (phrasemes, proverbs, and beliefs) and also internet memes as a new, contemporary folklore form. Waste and dirt are traditionally conceptually linked to metaphors of unwanted, used, lower-quality, or even immoral. Slovenian proverbs and phrasemes, on the other hand, do not thematize waste management or handling dirt; only beliefs show some part of this. New forms, on the other hand, emphasize environmental pollution directly, using concepts of waste and pollution combined in words and images intended to persuade the viewer or recipient to change their behavior into environmentally responsible behavior. Waste and dirt reveal themselves as important metaphorical elements, as well as a contemporary topic for new folklore genres.

scholarly journals DIAGNOSIS OF ENDOCRINE DISEASE: Drug-induced endocrinopathies and diabetes: a combo-endocrinology overview

2019 ◽  
Vol 181 (2) ◽  
pp. R73-R105 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Diamanti-Kandarakis ◽  
L Duntas ◽  
G A Kanakis ◽  
E Kandaraki ◽  
N Karavitaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Endocrine System ◽  
Therapeutic Agents ◽  
Hormone Production ◽  
Drug Induced ◽  
Endocrine Disease ◽  
Clinical Scenarios ◽  
Laboratory Results ◽  
The Right ◽  
Pharmaceutical Agents ◽  
Contemporary Topic

In the currently overwhelming era of polypharmacy, the balance of the dynamic and delicate endocrine system can easily be disturbed by interfering pharmaceutical agents like medications. Drugs can cause endocrine abnormalities via different mechanisms, including direct alteration of hormone production, changes in the regulation of the feedback axis, on hormonal transport, binding and signaling, as well as similar changes to counter-regulatory hormone systems. Furthermore, drugs can interfere with the hormonal assays, leading to erroneous laboratory results that disorientate clinicians from the right diagnosis. The purpose of this review is to cover a contemporary topic, the drug-induced endocrinopathies, which was presented in the monothematic annual Combo Endo Course 2018. This challenging part of endocrinology is constantly expanding particularly during the last decade, with the new oncological therapeutic agents, targeting novel molecular pathways in the process of malignancies. In this new context of drug-induced endocrine disease, clinicians should be aware that drugs can cause endocrine abnormalities via different mechanisms and mimic a variety of clinical scenarios. Therefore, it is extremely important for clinicians not only to promptly recognize drug-induced hormonal and metabolic abnormalities, but also to address the therapeutic issues for timely intervention.

The Soviet opera project: Ivan Dzerzhinsky vs. Ivan Susanin

2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARINA FROLOVA-WALKER
Keyword(s):  
State Committee ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Musical Language ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Contemporary Topic ◽  
Central Claim ◽  
Better Than

The subject of this article is the failure of the Stalinist Soviet opera project. Although similar proposals had appeared years before, the project was inaugurated in 1936, and its realisation was placed in the hands of the State Committee for Artistic Affairs. The archival materials discussed in the article (including transcripts of the Committee's meetings) demonstrate that even publicly acclaimed productions were seen as failures by these senior bureaucrats. On the one hand, there were demands for realism and contemporary topics, and on the other, for monumentality and elevated musical language; these demands proved to be in deep conflict with each other. In addition to this crippling problem, it soon became apparent that any treatment of a contemporary topic was bound to become unacceptable before long, given the ever-shifting political landscape. While novels and films were certainly under close scrutiny, many operas were subjected to so many demands for revision that they never saw production at all. The article's central claim is that the 1939 Soviet reworking of Glinka's A Life for the Tsar as Ivan Susanin fulfilled the state's needs much better than any newly created Soviet opera could have, resulting in the effective curtailment of the project by 1946.

Environmental hydraulics: a contemporary topic

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 395-396
Author(s):  
Don L. Boyer ◽  
Olga Alexandrova
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Hydraulics ◽  
Contemporary Topic

Developing a National Eco-System for Sustainable Vegatable Supply Chain in Sri Lanka

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruchira T. Gunarathne ◽  
◽  
Yapa Mahinda Bandara ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Fresh Produce ◽  
Distribution Channels ◽  
High Price ◽  
Price Fluctuations ◽  
Contemporary Topic

Fruits and vegetables supply chain in Sri Lanka has always been a contemporary topic due to its significant value to the economy of the country. The existing fruits and vegetables supply chain is already suffering from dilemmas such as high price fluctuations, excess supply and wastage, involvement of large number of intermediaries and lack of infrastructure. The recent Covid-19 pandemic has put a tremendous pressure on already trembling supply chains. Sudden lock downs have led to disruption of existing distribution channels resulting farmers throwing away millions of tons of fresh fruits and vegetables while consumers in urban areas paying extremely high prices for fresh produce. The current situations clearly demonstrate the need for a more responsive and integrated vegetables supply chain for Sri Lanka. This paper attempts to create a conceptual model for the vegetable supply chain ecosystem for Sri Lanka.

The effect of employee affective and cognitive trust in leadership on organisational citizenship behaviour and organisational commitment: Meta-analytic findings and implications for trust research

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 662-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Fischer ◽  
Shannon Hyder ◽  
Arlene Walker
Keyword(s):  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Organisational Commitment ◽  
Cognitive Trust ◽  
Multidimensional Construct ◽  
Trust In Leadership ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
Organisational Trust ◽  
Contemporary Topic

Trust is a contemporary topic, as society is losing trust in prominent institutions. Understanding trust in the workplace is critical, yet, a consensus around trust as unidimensional or multidimensional has not emerged in the literature. Some measure trust globally, while others measure its dimensions. This article builds on organisational trust research by exploring the relationships between a model of trust multidimensionality and organisational citizenship behaviour, organisational commitment and its facets. Findings from this meta-analysis of 11 studies indicated that trust dimensions have different strengths of relationship with organisational citizenship behaviour and commitment. Although the number of studies included is small, similar meta-analyses are considered valuable and worth exploring for the purpose of theory development. In the context of inconsistent trust definition and measurement, these findings support confirmation that trust is a multidimensional construct. JEL Classification: L2

scholarly journals Take The “A” Train to the Stars

1990 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 335-336
Author(s):  
John Pazmino ◽  
Sidney Scheuer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
First Year ◽  
College Level ◽  
First Year College ◽  
School Year ◽  
The People ◽  
The City ◽  
Contemporary Topic ◽  
Public Lecture

Astronomers, in addition to their scholarly and academic functions, have the mission to bring enlightenment to the people. In the City of New York, astronomers fulfill this mission through the Amateur Astronomers Association. Over the decades, the Association, or AAA, evolved a multi-faceted scheme of public enlightenment in astronomy. Under this scheme, astronomy in New York City has become a freestanding cultural amenity on a par with streetfairs, artshows, plays, and parades.Once a month during the school year, the Association presents a formal public lecture on astronomy. These are convened in the American Museum of Natural History, the ancestral birthplace of the AAA. Occasionally, lectures are featured at a large university in the City for time and place variety. At these lectures, a professional astronomer explains some contemporary topic on a first-year college level, illustrated by slides and viewgraphs. The lectures — and all public activities of the AAA — are free of any charge. Area high schools and colleges employ the AAA lectures as an extra-curricular activity for their students.

Aggressive Client Reporting: Factors Affecting Auditors' Generation of Financial Reporting Alternatives

2002 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karla M. Johnstone ◽  
Jean C. Bedard ◽  
Stanley F. Biggs
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Securities And Exchange Commission ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Task Environment ◽  
Revenue Recognition ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Task Knowledge ◽  
Aggressive Financial Reporting ◽  
Public Oversight ◽  
Contemporary Topic

This paper examines how features of the task environment interact with task knowledge to affect auditors' generation of financial reporting alternatives. We study this issue in a setting in which an audit client proposes an aggressive financial reporting alternative for a complex revenue-recognition issue. Companies' aggressiveness in financial reporting is an important contemporary topic (e.g., Levitt 1999, 2000). For auditors, aggressive financial reporting increases litigation exposure (e.g., Palmrose and Scholz 2001) and attracts regulatory attention (e.g., Public Oversight Board 2000; Securities and Exchange Commission 1999). By proposing less aggressive financial reporting alternatives, auditors increase the likelihood that clients will report less aggressively, thereby reducing auditors' risks of litigation and regulatory exposure. We study the effects of two common features of auditors' task environment (the level of engagement risk and the availability of previously generated alternatives) on financial reporting alternative generation, investigating whether these effects are contingent on auditors' task knowledge. Our results support interactive effects for both task environment features. Higher engagement risk enhances generation of alternatives only among higher knowledge auditors, while the presence of an inherited alternative inhibits generation of alternatives only among lower knowledge auditors.

scholarly journals Influence of Sepitori on standard Setswana of its home language learners at three Tshwane townships

Literator ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valencia K. Wagner ◽  
Thabo Ditsele ◽  
Mary M. Makgato
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
University Students ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Home Language ◽  
Education For All ◽  
Mixed Language ◽  
Black Residents ◽  
Business District ◽  
Contemporary Topic

This article established how a mixed language spoken as a lingua franca by black residents of Tshwane, known as Sepitori, influenced learners who studied Setswana as a home language at three high schools in GaRankuwa, Mabopane and Soshanguve; all these three townships are located north of Pretoria’s central business district. Data were gathered from 90 learners (30 from each school) and six Setswana educators from the same schools. Learners wrote an essay in Setswana on an interesting and contemporary topic ‘free education for all university students’, while educators were interviewed individually. Data analysis showed that Sepitori significantly influenced the written output of learners. Some educators were adamant that it was unreasonable to wish away Sepitori in Setswana classrooms because learners and many educators (regardless of the subjects they taught) ordinarily spoke Sepitori at the three townships be it at school or at home.

Developing a Research Model for Mobile Wallet Adoption and Usage

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-98
Author(s):  
Ajimon George ◽  
Prajod Sunny
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Actual Usage ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Smartphone Technology ◽  
Contemporary Topic

The scope of the mobile wallet in a ‘Cashless India’, whose utility has been spurred by the exponentially growing smartphone technology, is a contemporary topic of deliberation. The reach of mobile wallets gets broader each day with the entry of new stakeholders into the scenario, making mobile wallets indispensible for meeting daily needs. Given the COVID-19 pandemic situation, increased reliance on mobile wallets, and its acceptability among the public and other associated e-services, researchers and service providers are eager to explore its adoption as well as its continued usage. This paper theoretically examines factors influencing behavioural intention and actual usage of mobile wallets through various technology adoption models and behavioural studies. Based on an extensive review of the literature, this paper attempts to draw a comprehensive conceptualization of mobile wallet adoption and actual use by exploring the influence of various key factors. This proposed model could successfully present the case of mobile wallet adoption and usage, as well as offer the possibility of deriving important managerial implications concerning effective marketing techniques.

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