«Peeping Tom»: the Impact of a Single Idiom on Modern World Art and Literature

The paper studies the factors of secular stagnation. Key factors of long-term slowdown in economic growth include the slowdown of technological development, aging population, human capital accumulation limits, high public debt, creative destruction process violation etc. The authors analyze key theoretical aspects of long-term stagnation and study the impact of these factors on Japanies economy. The authors conclude that most of the factors have significant influence on the Japanese economy for recent decades, but they cannot explain all dynamics. For Russia, on the contrary, we do not see any grounds for considering the decline in the economy since 2013 as an episode of secular stagnation.

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INNOVATIVE ARCHITECTURAL IDEAS OF THE FUTURE DWELLINGS

Vìsnik Nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu "Lʹvìvsʹka polìtehnìka". Serìâ Arhìtektura ◽

10.23939/sa2020.02.067 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 67-75

Author(s):

Dzhyhil Yu. ◽

Keyword(s):

Personal Responsibility ◽

Traffic Noise ◽

Modern World ◽

Future Research ◽

Housing Design ◽

Residential Architecture ◽

Planning Decisions ◽

National University ◽

Methodological Principles ◽

The Impact

Residential architecture has one of the most conservative styles based on its specifics. However, today this type of architecture seeks to actively respond to changes in the modern world. These changes are caused by multiple factors, among them are: technological and information progress; lack of resources and environmental pollution; military conflicts and population migration etc. The purpose of this article is to summarize the experience of the Department of Architectural Environment of Lviv Polytechnic National University over housing issues and outline the methodological principles of innovation in designing both individual houses and the architectural environment of residential formations. While writing this article, we analyzed the 15-year experience of Architectural Environment's Department diploma projects. The unique feature of these projects is the priority on the design of the environment. The evolution of diploma project topics is revealed on multiple distinctive examples such as the reconstruction of old buildings in Lviv and the construction of prefabricated homes and container-type housing. Futuristic settlements are represented in projects such as “The Ocean Settlements” and “Prykarpatsk - the City of Future”. Research projects were developed to study current trends in housing design and the impact of innovative technologies on planning decisions. These projects discoursed the protection of housing from traffic noise and issues related to environmental preservation. Innovative architectural ideas of future housing, developed by students in these projects, are based on a combination of aesthetic, technical, and social components of architecture. The conclusion indicates that when educating future architects, it is important to teach them the basics of the craft, as well as the ability to defend their innovative ideas. The emphasis is placed on the importance of educating the architect's personal responsibility for their own design solutions. It is stated that professional motivation and the ability to constantly renew previously acquired knowledge and skills will be among the main tasks in training future architects.

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Exploring Impact of Age and Gender on Sentiment Analysis Using Machine Learning

Electronics ◽

10.3390/electronics9020374 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 374 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Sudhanshu Kumar ◽

Monika Gahalawat ◽

Partha Pratim Roy ◽

Debi Prosad Dogra ◽

Byung-Gyu Kim

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Sentiment Analysis ◽

Short Term Memory ◽

Age Groups ◽

Modern World ◽

Support Vector ◽

Digital Information ◽

Age And Gender ◽

And Gender ◽

The Impact

Sentiment analysis is a rapidly growing field of research due to the explosive growth in digital information. In the modern world of artificial intelligence, sentiment analysis is one of the essential tools to extract emotion information from massive data. Sentiment analysis is applied to a variety of user data from customer reviews to social network posts. To the best of our knowledge, there is less work on sentiment analysis based on the categorization of users by demographics. Demographics play an important role in deciding the marketing strategies for different products. In this study, we explore the impact of age and gender in sentiment analysis, as this can help e-commerce retailers to market their products based on specific demographics. The dataset is created by collecting reviews on books from Facebook users by asking them to answer a questionnaire containing questions about their preferences in books, along with their age groups and gender information. Next, the paper analyzes the segmented data for sentiments based on each age group and gender. Finally, sentiment analysis is done using different Machine Learning (ML) approaches including maximum entropy, support vector machine, convolutional neural network, and long short term memory to study the impact of age and gender on user reviews. Experiments have been conducted to identify new insights into the effect of age and gender for sentiment analysis.

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LABOR IN THE 21ST CENTURY: CHALLENGES OF POST-FORDISM / NEOLIBERALISM AND THE SITUATION OF WORKING PEOPLE IN THE MODERN GLOBAL WORLD

Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing ◽

10.15407/sociology2021.01.060 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 60-81

Author(s):

VITALINA BUTKALIUK

Keyword(s):

Global Economy ◽

Working Environment ◽

Social Progress ◽

Modern World ◽

Quality Of Working Life ◽

Working People ◽

High Utility ◽

Political Configuration ◽

Post War ◽

The Impact

The article examines the current problems of the global sphere of work and employment. The author historically assesses the causes and consequences of the structural transformations of the economy and social and labor relations as a result of the transition of the capitalist economy from fordism and keynesianism to post-fordism and neoliberalism at the end of the 20th century. Based on the analysis of a significant array of statistical and sociological information the author concludes that in the conditions of neoliberal economic globalization, labor has undergone significant changes in comparison with the period of the "glorious post-war thirty years" of capitalism. The implementation of radical economic reforms has led to an increase in employment vulnerability and a decrease in the quality of working life for many categories of workers in the modern world. The decline in the share of labor in GDP, the lag in wage growth rates from labor productivity, and the widespread incidence of informal and vulnerable employment, characteristic of this period, have become the main reasons for the growth of socioeconomic inequality and widespread poverty and poverty in the working environment in recent decades. Having considered the impact of the current process of automation, robotization and digitalization of the global economy, the author concludes that without changing the socio-economic and political configuration of the structure of the modern world, the potentially high utility of the latest achievements of science and technology will be significantly limited and subordinated mainly to the economic interests of capital owners, and will not work for the benefit of all humanity and social progress. The article pays special attention to studying the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of their impact on the position of employees in the modern world.

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Crisis of the Modern Age and the Way Out: An Examination of T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets

European Scientific Journal ESJ ◽

10.19044/esj.2016.v12n2p225 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 225

Author(s):

Fatima Falih Ahmed Al-Badrani ◽

Abdullah Fawaz Al-Badarneh

Keyword(s):

World War I ◽

Human Life ◽

Religious Faith ◽

Modern World ◽

Spiritual Values ◽

God's Will ◽

The Troubles ◽

Four Quartets ◽

The Individual ◽

The Impact

The twentieth century was one of change and unrest. What characterises the age is that society, up to a high degree, was hostile to spiritual life. The spiritual values seemed to be neglected or totally abandoned for the material, more matter-of-fact values. This left society in a state of increasing confusion that was substantially realised in the outbreak of World War I. The impact of the war revealed the degeneration of the modern world with the breakdown of religion and moral and spiritual traditions. T. S. Eliot was fully aware of the ills of modern civilisation that surrounded people with a number of faiths established haphazardly to fight against the troubles of modern life. These faiths refer to political and social ideologies, parties, and allegiances. Eliot finds that all modern ideologies are poor and futile substitutions for religious faith. He finds that society should be built not upon power and its corruption, but upon a higher system of values which are mainly spiritual and moral. This research paper demonstrates how Eliot's Four Quartets affirms the possibility of spiritual regeneration and gives a positive projection of hope. The central theme of the poem is that if the heart of the individual is ever to be at rest, if his/her tormented apprehension about the transience of human life is ever to be calmed, it will be so when he/she accepts the conviction that humans’ peace is in God's will.

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Mineral Micronutrients in Asthma

Nutrients ◽

10.3390/nu13114001 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (11) ◽

pp. 4001

Author(s):

Dominika Zajac

Keyword(s):

Oxidative Stress ◽

Risk Factors ◽

Air Pollution ◽

Defense Mechanisms ◽

Redox Status ◽

Chronic Inflammatory Disease ◽

Modern World ◽

Medical Issues ◽

Persistent Inflammation ◽

The Impact

Asthma represents one of the most common medical issues in the modern world. It is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by persistent inflammation of the airways and disturbances in redox status, leading to hyperresponsiveness of bronchi and airway obstruction. Apart from classical risk factors such as air pollution, family history, allergies, or obesity, disturbances of the levels of micronutrients lead to impairments in the defense mechanisms of the affected organism against oxidative stress and proinflammatory stimuli. In the present review, the impact of micronutrients on the prevalence, severity, and possible risk factors of asthma is discussed. Although the influence of classical micronutrients such as selenium, copper, or zinc are well known, the effects of those such as iodine or manganese are only rarely mentioned. As a consequence, the aim of this paper is to demonstrate how disturbances in the levels of micronutrients and their supplementation might affect the course of asthma.

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The Impact of Patent Portfolio on Competitive Landscape of Digital Signage Apparatus

Jurnal Manajemen Teknologi ◽

10.12695/jmt.2021.20.1.5 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 79-97

Author(s):

Tommy Hendrix ◽

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Mahardhika Berliandaldo ◽

Eki Karsani Apriliyadi ◽

Firman Tri Ajie ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Technological Innovation ◽

Perceived Usefulness ◽

Modern World ◽

Research Subjects ◽

Digital Signage ◽

Patent Information ◽

Digital Era ◽

The Impact ◽

Patent Portfolio ◽

Technological Competitiveness

Abstract. The digital signage market has been flourishing every year, and this situation opens up new commercialization opportunities for stakeholders related to the acceleration function. The modern world has allowed technological innovation to satisfy market demands, primarily based on portfolio of patent information. The digital signage apparatus became an economical solution for the costly technology in the digital era. The purpose of this paper was to find the impact of the competitive landscape on the digital signage apparatus towards e-commerce development based on a patent portfolio from the WIPO database. The research was performed based on the patent information using Innograph software and information related to digital signage apparatus resulting in a total of 146 registered patents and 40 patents matching the research subjects. The results revealed that the patent portfolio on the digital signage apparatus has high perceived usefulness, but only few industries used this as a reference in benchmarking their technological competitiveness. This paper is beneficial to the industry that seeks for the impact of the latest technological implementation amidst the competitive commercialization of the digital signage apparatus. Keywords: Competitive Landscape; Digital Signage Apparatus; Impact; Patent Portfolio.

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HORIZONS OF RESEARCH IN GEOGRAPHY OF THE WORLD ECONOMY

HERALD ◽

10.7251/her2016003ak ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (20) ◽

Author(s):

Vladimir Alexandrovich Kolosov ◽

Elena Alexandrovna Grechko ◽

Xenia Vladimirovna Mironenko ◽

Elena Nikolayevna Samburova ◽

Nikolay Alexandrovich Sluka ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Division Of Labor ◽

Global Economy ◽

World Economy ◽

Spatial Organization ◽

Modern World ◽

High Tech ◽

Research Activities ◽

The World ◽

The Impact

The advent of "world economic transition" and the formation of a multipolar world is closely linked, according to experts, with loss of globalization advances, which strengthens regionalism, increases diversification and fragmentation of the modern world, creating risks and threats to the world development. In this light studying the spatial organization of the global economy becomes more important, and at the same time that complicates the choice of priorities in the research activities of the Department of geography of the world economy, Faculty of Geography, Moscow State Lomonosov University in 2016-20, requiring a new research “ideology”. The article summarizes some ideas expressed by the department staff. It specifies that concept of territorial division of labor, as well as the defined set of key actors in the world economy and common assumptions regarding their contributions to its development needs a significant revision. The above firstly concerns giant developing countries, in particular rapidly growing China – a kind of locomotive entraining other developing states. Further, the impact of multinationals on the overall architecture and the territorial organization of the global economy becomes more and more tangible. This phenomenon requires the creation of a new scientific area of concern – the corporate geography as a tool to thoroughly investigate the transnational division of labor. Changes in the balance of acting forces are closely related to changes in industry composition and spatial organization of the global economy. The article raises the issues of development of such processes as tertiarization of the economy, reindustrialization and neoindustrialization, the latter being understood as an evolutionary transition to a knowledge-intensive, high-tech, mass labor-replacing and environmentally efficient industrial production. Basing on preliminary research from the standpoint of a relatively new methodological approach – formation of value chains – the vector of "geographical transition" " in their creation from developed to developing countries was designated. This means increasing complexity of the territorial structure of the world economy and an increase in the importance of semi-periphery. A spatial projection of globalization processes in the form of emerging “archipelago of cities”, which consolidates the international network of TNCs as the supporting node frame of the global economy requires close attention and analysis. The need of comprehending the study scope in the field of geography of the world economy in medium Atlas Information Systems (AIS), which in terms of functionality belong to the upper class of electronic atlases, is noted.

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Effective budgeting as a priority of the company›s development

The economy: strategy and practice ◽

10.51176/1997-9967-2021-2-46-53 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 46-53

Author(s):

S. B. Kashkimbayev ◽

A. N. Zhakupov

Keyword(s):

Modern World ◽

Budget Process ◽

Budget Management ◽

Subsequent Formation ◽

Financial Condition ◽

Analysis And Synthesis ◽

Fierce Competition ◽

The Right ◽

Methodological Aspects ◽

The Impact

In the modern world, in the conditions of economic instability and fierce competition, companies need to have effective tools that can provide an opportunity to study the current financial condition, compare cash inflows and outflows, approve the right decisions that contribute to the subsequent formation and development of the enterprise, as well as optimize management costs. In a company, such an important tool for financial planning, as well as control, is budgeting.This article discusses the tasks, goals, methods, disadvantages and advantages of budgeting, illustrates the full continuous cycle of budget management and the stages of development of the concept of budgeting. In addition to the theoretical aspects, the article considers the empirical and methodological aspects. The purpose of this article is to generalize the theoretical provisions and develop the organizational and methodological aspects of the application of budgeting and the impact of effective budgeting on the development of the overall company. The article uses complex and systematic approaches to the processes and phenomena under study, which is achieved through the methods of analysis and synthesis, review and collection of information, statistical analysis, scientific abstraction and visualization.In the conclusion of the article, the conclusions are made, that a properly formed concept of budgeting, improvement of methods and elements of the budget process will make it possible to manage the capital, as well as a single commercial, and the company as a whole, establishing the sequence of business types, terms and trends of restructuring. This will allow the owners of companies to adapt their business in time to all possible changes in market conditions.

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Modern geopolitical challenges to russia's economic security: institutional factors and historical continuity

National Security and Strategic Planning ◽

10.37468/2307-1400-2020-1-76-81 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2020 (1) ◽

pp. 76-81

Author(s):

S Rabkin

Keyword(s):

Economic Analysis ◽

Russian Federation ◽

Institutional Analysis ◽

Economic Security ◽

Institutional Factors ◽

Modern World ◽

Historical Continuity ◽

Analysis Methodology ◽

The Russian Federation ◽

The Impact

Using the main elements of the institutional analysis methodology, the author considers the impact of geopolitical factors on Russia's economic security. Based on historical and economic analysis, it is concluded that the decisions of the Crimean (Yalta) and Potsdam (1945) conferences that defined the contours of the multipolar model of the modern world should be followed. As a counteraction to the geopolitical challenges to the economic security of the Russian Federation in a multipolar world, it is proposed to consider the issues of spatial development as an institutional basis for the formation of a future model of global security.

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