scholarly journals MAIN DIFFICULTIES IN TRANSLATING CONTRACTUAL DOCUMENTATION (ENGLISH/RUSSIAN)

2021 ◽  
pp. 291
Author(s):  
Lilia Timofeeva ◽  
Maria Morozova ◽  
Tamara Potapova
Keyword(s):  
Equivalence Principle ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Text Structures ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Text Formation ◽  
Language Dependence

The article is devoted to one of the most common translation problems in the sphere of law, namely finding the adequate equivalents in vocabulary, especially it concerns foreign terminology, in grammar and in text structure.While it is well-known that equivalence is one of the key concepts in translation, the research on practical applications of this principle in different professional spheres is still limited. With the rise of the interest to the machine translation, the special attention to the most common translation problems in the sphere of law can contribute to the overall understanding of the translation process. The methodological approach taken in this study is a mixed methodology based on comparative, structural, socio-linguistic and socio-cultural aspects of translation. The material presented in the article is based on the original contracts developed in English and Russian for the major oil and gas projects to be implemented in Russia 2006-2009. The examples of vocabulary, grammar and text structures equivalents can show the reasons for emergence of the main translation difficulties - polysemantic structure of some  terms, absence of concept  in either language, dependence of the meaning of the term on the context, idiomatic expressions, historically established traditions in legal text formation – emphasizing the idea that equivalence principle should be considered as a priority when translating contractual documentation.

Student attitudes towards linear algebra: an attempt to roll back the fog

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry J Griffiths ◽  
Samantha Shionis
Keyword(s):  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Linear Algebra ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Linear Independence ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Roll Back

Abstract In this study, we look at student perceptions of a first course in linear algebra, focusing on two specific aspects. The first is the statement by Carlson that a fog rolls in once abstract notions such as subspaces, span and linear independence are introduced, while the second investigates statements made by several authors regarding the negative emotions that students can experience during the course. An attempt is made to mitigate this through mediation to include a significant number of applications, while continually dwelling on the key concepts of the subject throughout the semester. The results show that students agree with Carlson’s statement, with the concept of a subspace causing particular difficulty. However, the research does not reveal the negative emotions alluded to by other researchers. The students note the importance of grasping the key concepts and are strongly in favour of using practical applications to demonstrate the utility of the theory.

scholarly journals The dynamics of Pecking Order and Agency theories on crowdfunding concept as alternate finance for start-up businesses

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Francis Kwaku Kuma ◽  
Mohd Effandi Yosuff
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Aspect ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Pecking Order ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship

The study explores the relevance of theoretical aspect of crowd financing by reviewing the defining literature on Pecking Order and Agency theories in details and evaluates applications of these theories based on crowdfunding. In particular, the study critically considers the key concepts of these theories and how they could be applied in practical terms. The study decides to adopt Pecking Order and the Agency theories because they provide valuable insights into the trend of crowdfunding streams available to firms. The paper primarily adds to existing literature on the broader definition of crowdfunding as a concept and then examine the relationship between this concept and its practical applications to the chosen theories. The study combines these theoretical perspectives with the practical aspects of startup companies raising finance using the crowd because a broad reading of the literature tends to point to in this direction. The key concepts of these theories are critically considered and the study is conducted in the form of review of literature and expression of opinion. Citation: author1, author2, author3. The dynamics of Pecking Order and Agency theories on crowdfunding concept as alternate finance for start-up businesses. 2020; 4(1): 1－13.Received: (February 2, 2020) Accepted: (March 31, 2020)

Factors influencing touristic consumer behaviour

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasco Santos ◽  
Paulo Ramos ◽  
Bruno Sousa ◽  
Nuno Almeida ◽  
Marco Valeri
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Tourism Marketing ◽  
Tourist Behaviour

PurposeThis paper aims to present a content analysis of two major constructs among tourism settings, namely involvement and emotions, strictly related to tourist behaviour, due to the fact that there are still some critical gaps in the knowledge about tourists' emotions and involvement.Design/methodology/approachAn in-depth content analysis of involvement and emotions was adopted as the methodological approach. This methodology addressed an amalgam of different definitions, frameworks, mixed theoretical and practical applications and approaches, results, comparisons as well as a blend of a set of scales of involvement and emotions by confrontating of authors.FindingsThe major findings state that emotions and involvement demonstrate greater progress and scientific development to the level of tourism, marketing and consumer behaviour, representing an important issue for the integrated tourism experiences.Originality/valueThis study presents a critical reflection on the importance of emotions and involvement in specific contexts of leisure and tourism.

METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH TO ASSESSING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE USE OF A SEPARATE SERVICE WHEN ORGANIZING GEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 29-37
Author(s):  
O. V. RUDENOK ◽  
◽  
N. V. ZONOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Geological Exploration ◽  
Exploration Drilling ◽  
Oil And Gas Enterprises

The article discusses the issues of evaluating the effectiveness of organizing exploration drilling based on a separate service. A methodological approach is presented and an assessment of the efficiency of using a separate service is given in comparison with various methods of organizing exploration drilling, including those based on the principles of outsourcing. The results obtained can be applied in the development of organizational and management solutions to optimize the system for attracting service organizations at oil and gas enterprises.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Edward M. Geist
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Civil Defense ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Garrison State

This introduction describes the scope of the book and its methodological approach. It defines key concepts such as “civil defense,” “garrison state,” and “agitation” that are employed in the subsequent chapters. It also provides an outline of the book and previews its arguments.

A Journey through the Wilderness

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry T. Kidd ◽  
Carolyn Ashe ◽  
Natasha Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Enterprise Resource Planning ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Behavioral Studies ◽  
The Social

Autoethnography has emerged as a relatively new methodological approach within the fields of project management, information technology, organizational behavioral studies, and more broadly within the social sciences. As a reflexive methodology it offers the beginning and experienced researcher a means of critically exploring the social forces that shapes ones involvement in the information technology project implementation process and subsequent the project management experience. In this article the authors discuss the significance of autoethnography as it was utilized to research the experiences of project managers in the enterprise resource planning systems implementation process. The process involved recollecting, writing and re-reading experiences in light of social capital and organizational theories that explore the socio-psychological and cultural aspects within the implementation period of an enterprise resources planning system. The autoethnographic approach used in this article contributes to the emergent methodological literature that embraces the textual or narrative turn within qualitative studies of information technology and project management.

scholarly journals Semiotic dimensions of human attitudes towards other animals: A case of zoological gardens

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 209-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelly Mäekivi ◽  
Timo Maran
Keyword(s):  
Animal Species ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Communicative Interactions ◽  
The People ◽  
Perceptions And Attitudes ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
Cultural Connotations

This paper analyses the cultural and biosemiotic bases of human attitudes towards other species. A critical stance is taken towards species neutrality and it is shown that human attitudes towards different animal species differ depending on the psychological dispositions of the people, biosemiotic conditions (e.g. umwelt stuctures), cultural connotations and symbolic meanings. In real-life environments, such as zoological gardens, both biosemiotic and cultural aspects influence which animals are chosen for display, as well as the various ways in which they are displayed and interpreted. These semiotic dispositions are further used as motifs in staging, personifying or de-personifying animals in order to modify visitors’ perceptions and attitudes. As a case study, the contrasting interpretations of culling a giraffe at the Copenhagen zoo are discussed. The communicative encounters and shifting per ceptions are mapped on the scales of welfaristic, conservational, dominionistic, and utilitarian approaches. The methodological approach described in this article integrates static and dynamical views by proposing to analyse the semiotic potential of animals and the dynamics of communicative interactions in combination.

scholarly journals Approaches to Assessing the Strategic Sustainability of High-Risk Offshore Oil and Gas Projects

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 995
Author(s):  
Alexey Cherepovitsyn ◽  
Anna Tsvetkova ◽  
Nadejda Komendantova
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Project Management System ◽  
The Face ◽  
Hierarchy Analysis ◽  
Offshore Oil And Gas ◽  
Offshore Oil

In the face of today’s global challenges, oil and gas companies must define long-term priorities and opportunities in implementing complex Arctic offshore projects, taking into account environmental, economic, technological and social aspects. In this regard, ensuring strategic sustainability is the basis for long-term development. The aim of the study is to analyze existing approaches to the concept of “strategic sustainability” of an offshore Arctic oil and gas project and to develop a methodological approach to assessing the strategic sustainability of offshore oil and gas projects. In the theoretical part of the study, the approaches to defining strategic sustainability were reviewed, and their classification was completed, and the most appropriate definition of strategic sustainability for an offshore oil and gas project was chosen. The method of hierarchy analysis was used for strategic sustainability assessment. Specific criteria have been proposed to reflect the technical, geological, investment, social and environmental characteristics important to the offshore oil and gas project. The strategic sustainability of 5 offshore oil and gas projects was analyzed using an expert survey as part of the hierarchy analysis method. Recommendations were made on the development of an offshore project management system to facilitate the emergence of new criteria and improve the quality of the strategic sustainability assessment of offshore projects in the Arctic.

scholarly journals High Throughput Virtual Screening of 230 Billion Molecular Solar Heat Battery Candidates

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mads Koerstz ◽  
Anders S. Christensen ◽  
Kurt V. Mikkelsen ◽  
Mogens Brøndsted Nielsen ◽  
Jan H. Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Free Energy ◽  
Energy Barrier ◽  
Storage Capacity ◽  
Chemical Reactivity ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Parent Compound ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Back Reaction ◽  
Free Energy Barrier ◽  
Practical Applications

<div> <div> <div> <div> <p>The dihydroazulene/vinylheptafulvene (DHA/VHF) thermocouple is a promising candidate for thermal heat batteries that absorb and store solar energy as chemical energy without the need for insulation. However, in order to be viable the energy storage capacity and lifetime of the high energy form (i.e. the free energy barrier to the back reaction) of the canonical parent compound must be increased significantly to be of practical use. We use semiempirical quantum chemical methods, machine learning, and density func- tional theory to virtually screen over 230 billion substituted DHA molecules to identify promising candidates. We identify a molecule with a predicted energy density of 0.38 kJ/g, which is significantly larger than the 0.14 kJ/g computed for the parent compound. The free energy barrier to the back reaction is 11 kJ/mol higher than the parent com- pound, which should correspond to a half-life of about 10 days - 4 months. This is considerably longer than the 3-39 hours (depending on solvent) observed for the parent compound and sufficiently long for many practical applications. Our paper makes two main important contributions: 1) a novel and generally applicable methodological approach that makes screening of huge libraries for properties involving chemical reactivity with modest computational resources, and 2) a clear demonstration that the storage capacity of the DHA/VHF thermocouple cannot be increased to >0.5 kJ/g by combining simple substituents. </p> </div> </div> </div><br></div>

scholarly journals The Concept “Youth” in English and Tatar Linguistic Cultures

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 415
Author(s):  
Zukhra A. Motygullina ◽  
Leila A. Nurgalieva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Key Concepts

<p>The purpose of this article is to compare the concept of "youth" in two genetically unrelated languages – Tatar and English. The study implements methods of comparative, definitional, component and contextual analysis and ethnic-linguistic-culturological comparison. An exceptional importance of the concept of "youth" made it one of the key concepts of many peoples. In this paper, based on English and Tatar dictionaries, we presented the concept of "youth" in the form of a frame. We identified the distinctive and similar features of the concept of "youth" in English and Tatar. The materials of this article can be used in the practice of intercultural communication, in the translation process of teaching English to the Tatar audience at higher education institutions and schools in order to develop intercultural communication among learners.</p>

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