Rethinking the subject in feminist research: narrative personae and stories of ‘the real’

The subject of the research is new tools for business financing using the initial coin offering (ICO) in the context of the development of cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technologies as their basis. The purpose of the work was to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the ICO in comparison with traditional financial tools as well as prospects, limitations and problems of using digital financial tools. Conclusions are made in relation to possibilities, limitations and application areas of digital business financing tools, particularly in the real sector, taking into account the specifics of the Russian economy and legislation. It is shown that the main problems of using the digital financial tools are related to the economic sphere and caused by the lack of adequate approaches to evaluation of assets as well as the shortage of objective information. The problems and new tasks of corporate finance in the digital economy are defined.

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EXPERIMENTAL ONLINE CASE STUDY FOR A BREAKTHROUGH IN STUDENT ENGAGEMENT: FOCUS GROUP RESULTS

Online Learning ◽

10.24059/olj.v8i3.1822 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

Author(s):

James Theroux ◽

Cari Carpenter ◽

Clare Kilbane

Keyword(s):

Student Engagement ◽

Focus Group ◽

Real Time ◽

Group Discussion ◽

Full Time ◽

The Real ◽

Building Process ◽

New Type ◽

The Subject

A new type of case study, called the real-time case (RTC), was produced in the fall of 2001 and distributed via the Internet to business classes at four universities in the US and Canada. The real-time case presented the story of one company's growth and development throughout a 14-week semester. A case writer stationed full-time at the subject company published case installments weekly on the Web, allowing students to view the company-building process as it happened. The 14-week coverage of RTC enabled students to study the subject company in unprecedented depth and detail. RTC's real-time interactivity allowed students to share their analyses and best thinking with the company leadership during the company’s decision-making process.A major objective in producing the case was to heighten student engagement with the case material. To evaluate whether this objective was achieved, a survey and a focus group discussion were conducted with one of the participating MBA classes. Results from the survey and the focus group showed a high degree of engagement, plus many other benefits from the new type of case study.

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The specifics of interpretation of the history in the story by A. Doronin «A Wolf Ravine»

Bulletin of Ugric studies ◽

10.30624/2220-4156-2021-11-1-139-147 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 139-147

Author(s):

S. V. Sheyanova ◽

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N. M. Yusupova ◽

Keyword(s):

Literary Criticism ◽

Historical Narrative ◽

Volga Region ◽

Psychological States ◽

The Real ◽

The Subject ◽

The Individual ◽

Relationship Of ◽

First Time ◽

The Relationship

Introduction: at present the reader’s audience is particularly interested in creative experiments in which the historical fate of the Russian peasantry in the «turning» eras is artistically comprehended. The article is devoted to the study of the problem-thematic range of modern Mordovian historical prose. The subject of analysis is the peculiarity of the reception of the period of collectivization and dekulakization in the story by Erzyan prose writer A. Doronin «A Wolf Ravine». Objective: to reveal the features of the artistic reconstruction of the events of the 1930s, the modeling of the relationship between a man and society in the story by A. Doronin «A Wolf Ravine».Research materials: the story by A. Doronin «A Wolf Ravine». Results and novelty of the research: the historical story « A Wolf Ravine » for the first time becomes the object of scientific understanding and is introduced into the context of Finno-Ugric literary criticism. A. Doronin artistically interprets the real events and circumstances of the resettlement of dispossessed peasants of the Volga region to the uninhabited steppes of Kazakhstan. As a result of the study, we conclude that the actualization of this problem-thematic cluster is due to the creative concept of the historical writer; the individual author’s approach to the reconstruction of historical narrative can be traced in the writer’s desire to realistically reveal the relationship of personality and society in the tragic 1930s; to analyze intentions of people and of the psychological states of the characters. Problems of a sociopolitical nature, actualized in the story, are filled with philosophical, axiological content, and lead to a multi-faceted understanding of the «man and history» problem.

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The “legendary style” in “The comprehensive life of Constantin (Cyril) the Philosopher”

Synopsis Text Context Media ◽

10.28925/2311-259x.2020.1.2 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 11-16

Author(s):

Svitlana Borshch

Keyword(s):

Phenomenological Analysis ◽

Historical Events ◽

The Real ◽

Historical Method ◽

Slavonic Language ◽

The New Testament ◽

The Subject ◽

Real Person ◽

The Universe ◽

Christian Society

The subject of the study is the “legendary style” of one of the most iconic hagiographic text of the IX century “The Comprehensive Life of Constantine (Cyril) the Philosopher”. This Pannonian legend belongs to the texts of Cyril-Methodius cycle and has the description of the re-finding and transportation Saint Clement’s relics by Constantine the Philosopher from Korsun (Chersonesus) to Rome. This episode is an important part of the process of legalizing the translation of the Divine Books to the so-called Church-Slavonic language. The phrase “legendary style” was borrowed from I. Franko’s work “Saint Clement in Korsun” (Lviv, 1902–1905) and has not been explained as a term yet. The purpose and the novelty of our research is to find out how “legendary style” was formed, which techniques were needed to create this concept. The relevance of this study is due to the analyzing sources for the legend as a genre (it was formed on the base of the hagiographical texts such as Jacobus da Varagine’s "The Golden Legend", XIII century). Ideological description of historical events ("tendentious historicity"), disclosure of holiness and using the category of the miraculous were clarified as the technique of “legendary style”, using the cultural-historical method, elements of comparative, structural and phenomenological analysis. Holiness, called by J. Le Goff “the most important value of Christian society”, is a predetermined aspect in “The Comprehensive Life of Constantine (Cyril) the Philosopher” and it connected the saint’s life with the events of the New Testament. The category of the miraculous is considered from the point of mythological view: miracles regulated the universe, restored harmony and established true rules and laws. According to A. Losev, the true Christian miracle occurred when the real person dialectically synthesized with his/her inner ideal at a certain moment. “Tendentious historicity” is observed in the episode about saint relics of Pope Clement I. There are variations in the very process of re-finding the holy remains: locations, heroes and time in some stories are not the same in different texts from the so-called Cyril-Methodius cycle. It gives reasons to consider these texts ideologically involved. It is advisable to include other hagiographic texts to confirm or refute, expand or narrow the “legendary style” as a term in further research.

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العوامل المنتجة للتجديد في أحكام التشريع الإسلامي: دراسة أصولية تحليلية

الفكر الإسلامي المعاصر (إسلامية المعرفة سابقا) ◽

10.35632/citj.v20i78.697 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 20 (78) ◽

pp. 40-11

Author(s):

رائد نصري أبو مؤنس

Keyword(s):

Islamic Law ◽

Influential Factors ◽

The Real ◽

The Subject

يتناول هذا البحث تحديد العوامل المؤثرة والمنتجة لتجديد الأحكام في التشريع الإسلامي، وعملية الاجتهاد الموصلة إليه، وتمييزها عن العوامل غير المؤثرة، تمهيداً لضبط دعوى التجديد في التشريع الإسلامي. وتوصل الباحث إلى أن العوامل المتعلقة بالاجتهاد تتمثل في: إمكانية الخطأ عند المجتهد، واحتمالية تعدد الحق في القضية محل الحكم، أو اختلاف طرق الاجتهاد وترتيب الأدلة، أو تبدّل في الظن الغالب، ومدى الكفاءة العلمية التي أظهرها المجتهد في اجتهاده. أما العوامل المتعلقة بالحكم فهي: مدى قصد المشرع إعلامنا بالحكم أو عدمه، ومدى تغيُّر موضوع الحكم وتحوّله جوهرياً وشكلياً، التفرقة بين تغير وسائل الأحكام وتجددها، والأحكام ذاتها. وعليه فإن نسبة التغير للزمان والمكان نسبة غير حقيقية، وليس تبدل الزمان، أو اختلاف المكان سبباً لتجديد الحكم أو تغييره. This purpose of the paper is to identify factors that influence and produce new provisions in Islamic law, and the process of Ijtihad that yield Tajdid, and to distinguish these factors from non-influential factors in order to control the renewal claim in Islamic law. The researcher found that factors relating to ijtihad are: the possibility of error committed by the scholar, the possibility of having multiple rights on the issue, different ways of ijtihad arrangement of evidence, change in the prevalent conjecture, and the intellectual competence shown by the scholar. Factors related to the ruling are: the intent of the legislature to inform the ruling, the change in the subject of ruling in form and substance, the distinction between change and renewal provisions means, and the provisions themselves. Accordingly, the time and place are not the real factors in the production of tajdid and change in ruling.

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Klassernes fortsatte forsvinden

Kvinder Køn & Forskning ◽

10.7146/kkf.v0i2-3.28088 ◽

2006 ◽

Author(s):

Stine Thidemann Faber

Keyword(s):

Gender Relations ◽

Feminist Research ◽

Sexual Preferences ◽

History Of ◽

The Subject ◽

Ways Of Thinking

The notion of intersectionality has become important in order to understand the condition of the subject in a society that among other factors are characterized by changing gender relations. The notion relates itself to a society in which categories such as gender, class, ethnicity, age, sexual preferences, etc. interact with each other in novel and a more fluid and fluctuant way than earlier. Even though, internationally, feminist research has begun to focus on the intersection between different categories, it seems that the attention directed towards class is still minimized; class somehow seems to continue to live in obscurity, which is why a reflection of a distant past comes to mind as the class category by various means has a history of marginalisation within the feminist agenda. The article thus emphasizes the need to develop new feminist ways of thinking and writing about class.

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Corpus Assisted Approach To Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

KENTE - Cape Coast Journal of Literature and the Arts ◽

10.47963/jla.v2i1.172 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 27-40

Author(s):

Samuel Kwesi Nkansah

Keyword(s):

Thematic Analysis ◽

Numerical Data ◽

Qualitative Description ◽

Literary Texts ◽

The Novel ◽

The Real ◽

The Subject ◽

Methodological Approaches ◽

Context Of Use ◽

Objective Investigation

Armah’s The Beautyful Ones are not yet Born is a novel known for its extensive portrayal of the ills and anomalies in the Ghanaian society right after independence. The majority of studies on the novel have overwhelmingly concluded that corruption is the preoccupation of the text. This view appears skewed in many respects. This paper argues that the corpus assisted approach can contribute methodologies to support objective investigation of the subject matters of the text. This study, adopting the corpus-assisted approach in a mix of numerical data and qualitative description of Armah’s The Beautyful Ones are not yet Born, used frequencies of the occurrence of pejorative terms in the text to determine the dominant subject matters in the novel. The approach reveals that “rot” and “decay” are the most dominant motifs used, followed by “filth”, “corruption”, and “bribery”. It suggests that clusters, i.e., recurrence of words, characters’ association with the words, and context of use serve as textual cues in thematic exploration. The approach aids in revealing that the real intent of The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is that the total breakdown of the society rests on seemingly insignificant characters. The paper has implications for methodological approaches to thematic analysis of literary texts, particularly, the novel.

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Analysis of the real estate market for business activities

Vestnik Universiteta ◽

10.26425/1816-4277-2021-5-60-68 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 60-68

Author(s):

O. A. Zemlyanskiy

Keyword(s):

Real Estate ◽

Real Estate Market ◽

Market Analysis ◽

Entrepreneurial Activity ◽

Market Segments ◽

The Real ◽

The Real Estate ◽

Doing Business ◽

The Real Estate Market ◽

The Subject

Effective business activities conducting in the real estate market is impossible without an objective analysis of the real estate market, its individual segments, comparing the possibilities and efficiency of doing business in different market segments. Based on the generalization of various methods, the author proposes an analysis of the real estate market to determine the possibility of effective business activity, including setting goals for the analysis of the real estate market and its individual segments, determining the subject, conditions and opportunities for entrepreneurial activity in the real estate market, analysing the market in accordance with the factors of market analysis, its characteristics and identification of the most attractive market segments and areas of activity in order to achieve these goals. The analysis of the real estate market determines the opportunities, conditions and prospects of presence on the market for various companies and types of business related to the creation and sale of real estate objects, as well as credit and financial, legal, insurance, valuation, commercial and other types of business.

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Inquiry through Industrial Chemistry in Compulsory Secondary Education for the Achievement of the Development of the 21st Century Skills

Education Sciences ◽

10.3390/educsci11090475 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (9) ◽

pp. 475

Author(s):

María Diez Ojeda ◽

Miguel Ángel Queiruga-Dios ◽

Noelia Velasco-Pérez ◽

Emilia López-Iñesta ◽

José Benito Vázquez-Dorrío

Keyword(s):

Secondary Education ◽

21St Century ◽

Real World ◽

21St Century Skills ◽

Educational Practice ◽

Pilot Test ◽

Industrial Chemistry ◽

Education Systems ◽

The Real ◽

The Subject

At a key moment when education systems are moving towards the development of 21st-century skills at school, we propose to develop them with a series of enquiry activities connected to the real world on the subject of Chemistry in Compulsory Secondary Education. The four selected topics have practical aspects, as they are related to industrial chemistry, and are proposed in educational practice using the 5E model. The results obtained in a pilot test with 22 students show that the context created facilitates the development of 21st century competences. It is understood that this novel proposal can be successfully employed in other contexts.

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