West – East: The semiotics of axiological convergences and divergences

AbstractThis study focuses on the verbal representation of life strategies in Vetalapanchavimshati, an old Indian collection of stories, which is part of Somadeva’s Kathasaritsagara. On the basis of the aspect of gain ~ loss, two basic life strategies are identified. The first one, the lower strategy, is defined by an attempt to obtain material gain, which is attained at the cost of a spiritual loss. The second one, the higher strategy, negates the first one (spiritual gain attained at the cost of a material loss) and it is an internally diversified series of axiological models. The core of the study explains the combinatorial variants which, in their highest positions, even transcend the gain ~ loss opposition. The final part of the study demonstrates the intersections between the higher strategy and selected European cultural initiatives (gnosis).

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Emotional Choices

10.1093/oso/9780198794349.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Robin Markwica

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Choice Behavior ◽

Choice Theory ◽

Cuban Missile Crisis ◽

Coercive Diplomacy ◽

The Core ◽

Present Book ◽

Action Model ◽

The Cost ◽

Dynamic Interplay

In coercive diplomacy, states threaten military action to persuade opponents to change their behavior. The goal is to achieve a target’s compliance without incurring the cost in blood and treasure of military intervention. Coercers typically employ this strategy toward weaker actors, but targets often refuse to submit and the parties enter into war. To explain these puzzling failures of coercive diplomacy, existing accounts generally refer to coercers’ perceived lack of resolve or targets’ social norms and identities. What these approaches either neglect or do not examine systematically is the role that emotions play in these encounters. The present book contends that target leaders’ affective experience can shape their decision-making in significant ways. Drawing on research in psychology and sociology, the study introduces an additional, emotion-based action model besides the traditional logics of consequences and appropriateness. This logic of affect, or emotional choice theory, posits that target leaders’ choice behavior is influenced by the dynamic interplay between their norms, identities, and five key emotions, namely fear, anger, hope, pride, and humiliation. The core of the action model consists of a series of propositions that specify the emotional conditions under which target leaders are likely to accept or reject a coercer’s demands. The book applies the logic of affect to Nikita Khrushchev’s decision-making during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 and Saddam Hussein’s choice behavior in the Gulf conflict in 1990–91, offering a novel explanation for why coercive diplomacy succeeded in one case but not in the other.

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A METHODOLOGY TO SUPPORT COMPANIES IN THE FIRST STEPS TOWARDS DE-MANUFACTURING

Proceedings of the Design Society ◽

10.1017/pds.2021.14 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 131-140

Author(s):

Federica Cappelletti ◽

Marta Rossi ◽

Michele Germani ◽

Mohammad Shadman Hanif

Keyword(s):

Environmental Impact ◽

End Of Life ◽

Design Stage ◽

Life Strategies ◽

Disassembly Sequence ◽

The Status ◽

The Cost ◽

Technical Solutions ◽

First Time ◽

Complex Activities

AbstractDe-manufacturing and re-manufacturing are fundamental technical solutions to efficiently recover value from post-use products. Disassembly in one of the most complex activities in de-manufacturing because i) the more manual it is the higher is its cost, ii) disassembly times are variable due to uncertainty of conditions of products reaching their EoL, and iii) because it is necessary to know which components to disassemble to balance the cost of disassembly. The paper proposes a methodology that finds ways of applications: it can be applied at the design stage to detect space for product design improvements, and it also represents a baseline from organizations approaching de-manufacturing for the first time. The methodology consists of four main steps, in which firstly targets components are identified, according to their environmental impact; secondly their disassembly sequence is qualitatively evaluated, and successively it is quantitatively determined via disassembly times, predicting also the status of the component at their End of Life. The aim of the methodology is reached at the fourth phase when alternative, eco-friendlier End of Life strategies are proposed, verified, and chosen.

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STUDY ON THE PROCESS OF RAPESEED HULLING BY THE IMPACT

Известия вузов. Пищевая технология ◽

10.26297/0579-3009.2019.2-3.19 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

А.О. РЕНЗЯЕВ ◽

О.П. РЕНЗЯЕВ ◽

С.Н. КРАВЧЕНКО ◽

Р.В. КРЮК

Keyword(s):

Rotational Speed ◽

Calculated Data ◽

Quality Characteristics ◽

Complete Separation ◽

Edible Oil ◽

Siberian Region ◽

The Core ◽

The Cost ◽

The Impact

Исследованы прочностные и физико-механические свойства оболочки рапса с точки зрения ее разрушения и удаления. Установлено, что наиболее рациональным является двухстадийный способ обрушивания: 1-я стадия – на вальцовых мельницах, 2-я – на центробежной обрушивающей машине. Определены параметры центробежной обрушивающей машины для обеспечения минимальной необходимой линейной скорости 10,81 м/с: угол наклона отбойной пластины (90 ± 2)°, частота вращения барабана (2400 ± 150) об/мин. Установлено, что правильно подобранные условия и угол, под которым происходит удар, позволяют значительно снизить количество не до конца обрушенного семени и содержание расколотого ядра. При этом при свободном ударе об отбойную пластину под углом, отличным от 88–91°, или подаче недостаточно равномерного потока семян значительно увеличивается содержание необрушенных семян. На разрушение 1 кг семян необходимо затратить 58,45 Дж. Таким образом, по расчетным данным, для семян рапса диаметром 1,5 мм частота вращения барабана должна находиться в диапазоне от 2221 до 2565 об/мин при ударе семени под углом 90°. Диаметр семян рапса, выращиваемого в Сибирском регионе, составляет от 0,8 до 1,8 мм. Установлено, что подсушивание семян рапса в течение 30–40 с при температуре 100°С позволяет увеличить эффективность разрушения оболочки до полного ее отделения от ядра рапса. Представленные результаты позволяют повысить качество очистки семян рапса от оболочки и улучшить качественные характеристики получаемого масла, облегчить последующие технологические процессы получения пищевого масла, снизить затраты на рафинацию и дезодорацию на 2%. The strength and physico-mechanical properties of the shell of rapeseed in terms of its destruction and removal are investigated. It is established that the most rational is a two-stage method of seed hulling: the 1st stage – on roller mills, the 2nd – on a centrifugal hulling machine. The parameters of the centrifugal hulling machine to provide the minimum required linear speed of 10,81 m/s are defined: the angle of inclination of the turnback plate (90 ± 2)°, the rotational speed of drum (2400 ± 150) RPM. It is established that the correctly selected conditions and the angle at which the impact occurs, can significantly reduce the amount is not completely hulling seed and the substance of the split nucleus. At the same time, with a free impact on the turnback plate at an angle different from 88–91°, or the supply of an insufficiently uniform flow of seeds, the content is not completely hulling seed increases significantly. On hulling of 1 kg of seeds it is necessary to spend 58,45 J. Thus, according to the calculated data, for rape seeds with a diameter of 1,5 mm, the rotational speed of drum should be in the range from 2221 to 2565 RPM when the seed is struck at an angle of 90°. The diameter of rapeseed grown in the Siberian region ranges from 0,8 to 1,8 mm. It was found that drying of rapeseed for 30–40 s at a temperature of 100°C, can increase the efficiency of destruction of the shell to its complete separation from the core of rapeseed. The presented results make it possible to improve the quality of cleaning of rape seeds from the shell and improve the quality characteristics of the obtained oil, facilitate the subsequent technological processes of obtaining edible oil, reduce the cost of refining and deodorization by 2%.

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Management Methods and Concepts for Building Competitive Advantage in Hospitality Companies

Polish Journal of Sport and Tourism ◽

10.2478/pjst-2014-0018 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 178-183

Author(s):

Beata Gierczak

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Management ◽

Competitive Advantage ◽

Emerging Market ◽

Final Part ◽

Management Process ◽

Practical Application ◽

The Core ◽

Knowledge Based ◽

Management Concepts ◽

Market Management

Abstract Introduction. Competitive advantage determines the success of modern enterprises, such as hospitality companies, on the market. In turn, competitive advantage is gained as the result of skillful management, taking into account the factors that characterize the company environment. In the management process, methods and concepts that, when properly applied, facilitate the company's innovative activities play the key role, thus contributing to building competitive advantage. The purpose of this paper is to specify and characterize the methods and management concepts most commonly used by hospitality companies in the process of building competitive advantage. The core benefit of these considerations is that they serve to identify those activities of hospitality companies in which the analyzed methods and concepts found practical application. The final part of the article is devoted to an attempt to identify barriers and problems that significantly limit the use of these methods and concepts. Material and methods. In order to achieve this objective, a survey and interviews were carried out in all three- and four-star hotels in the Rzeszów area in the first quarter of 2012. Results. The results revealed that the concept most commonly used by hoteliers was knowledge-based organization (knowledge management), followed by outsourcing, benchmarking and internal competition, respectively. Conclusions. The study also demonstrated that the managers of these hospitality companies significantly lacked substantive knowledge of emerging “market” management methods and concepts.

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Å balansere mellom barnevernets prinsipper

Verdier i barnevern ◽

10.23865/noasp.103.ch3 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 49-65

Author(s):

Grethe Netland

Keyword(s):

Child Protection ◽

Reflective Equilibrium ◽

Best Interest ◽

Moral Intuitions ◽

The Core ◽

Child Protection Service ◽

Biological Principle ◽

The Cost

The focus of this chapter is the potential conflicts between the values that are basic in the work of Norwegian child protection service. Such values are expressed in principles that serve as guidelines for judgement and decisions in the field. ‘The best interest of the child’ principle is held to be grounding. The ‘mildest intervention’ principle and the ‘biological’ principle are normally held to be at the core of how the best interest of the child is to be understood. Important in child protection work, is to interpret the principles, weigh them, and consider what implications they should have in specific cases. I argue that if, for some reason, one principle is ascribed too much weigh on the cost of others, the solution for the child might not be in its best interest. I highlight the importance of not only weighing the principles against each other, but also creating a coherent balance between the principles, people’s moral intuitions and the actual practices of the service. To this end, I suggest that John Rawls’s model called reflective equilibrium might be workable.

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ЗНЕЦІНЕННЯ ПРИНЦИПУ СПРАВЕДЛИВОСТІ ЧИ СПРОБИ ЙОГО ПІДМІНИ ПРАВОМ СИЛЬНОГО: ПЕРСПЕКТИВИ РЕФОРМУВАННЯ ТРУДОВОГО ЗАКОНОДАВСТВА ПРОЄКТОМ ЗАКОНУ ПРО ПРАЦЮ

Збірник наукових праць ХНПУ імені Г. С. Сковороди "Право" ◽

10.34142/23121661.2020.31.06 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 58-86

Author(s):

О. О. Коваленко

Keyword(s):

Human Life ◽

Labor Law ◽

Scientific Paper ◽

Modern World ◽

Conceptual Content ◽

The Core ◽

Labor Legislation ◽

Principle Of Justice ◽

The Right ◽

The Cost

The purpose of the scientific paper is to characterize the correlation between the conceptual content of the principle of justice and the concept of reforming the labor legislation under the draft law of Ukraine «On Labor» with determining the prospects of future labor law of Ukraine. The author emphasizes that labor law rules, like no other branch of law, should be based on justice. This justice, once acquired at the cost of human life, has become so commonplace and commonplace that labor law rules are taken for granted and contain absolutely unnecessary elements that can be changed, eliminated, ignored… But in reality, all of these are important. and the necessary elements of a single interconnected mechanism, the core of which is justice. It is noted that the disappearance of at least one element of this mechanism means that justice is fading, and is therefore inadmissible in labor law. It is concluded that the draft Labor Law is an attempt to replace the principle of justice with the right of the strong, and therefore it is alien to the modern world and national consciousness and has no potential for reforming the labor legislation of Ukraine.

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Creating continuous areas of old forest in long-term forest planning

Canadian Journal of Forest Research ◽

10.1139/x00-103 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 30 (11) ◽

pp. 1817-1823 ◽

Cited By ~ 50

Author(s):

Karin Öhman

Keyword(s):

Net Present Value ◽

Problem Formulation ◽

Core Area ◽

Northern Sweden ◽

Present Value ◽

The Core ◽

Long Range Planning ◽

The Cost

Harvest activities tend often to create landscapes where the old forest is fragmented into isolated patches that provide marginal conditions for species that inhabit forest interiors. This paper presents a long-range planning model designed to maximize the net present value and to create continuous patches of old forest. In this model, the spatial structure of old forest is controlled by core area and edge habitats. Core area is defined as the area of old forest that is free of edge effects from surrounding habitats. The core area requirement is set to a fixed value for each of a number of time periods, whereas the area of edge habitats, which should be as small as possible, is weighted against the net present value. The model is applied in a case study to an actual landscape consisting of 755 stands of forest in northern Sweden and solved using simulated annealing. The results show that distinct continuous patches of old forest are created when both a core area requirement and consideration of the amount of edge habitats are included in the problem formulation. The cost of creating continuous areas of old forest was found to be significant.

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A brief review on the erosion-corrosion behavior of engineering materials

Corrosion Reviews ◽

10.1515/corrrev-2018-0022 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 36 (5) ◽

pp. 435-447 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Roshan Kuruvila ◽

S. Thirumalai Kumaran ◽

M. Adam Khan ◽

M. Uthayakumar

Keyword(s):

Adverse Effects ◽

Industrial Process ◽

Industrial Applications ◽

Appropriate Technology ◽

Material Loss ◽

Adverse Conditions ◽

Wide Range ◽

Erosion Corrosion ◽

The Cost ◽

Selection Of

AbstractThe efficiency of industry depends upon the working conditions of the equipment and components used in the industrial process. The biggest problems faced by the industries are the problems of erosion and corrosion. The harmful effects of corrosion will lead to material loss, which results from the degradation of the equipment. The degradation of the equipment will cause the breakdown of the plant; moreover, it is a threat to the safety of people, and also from the point of conservation, it can cause the exploitation of available resources. The cost of replacing equipment increases the expense, and it can also result in the temporary shutdown of the plant. The protection of surfaces from the adverse effects of corrosion and erosion-corrosion is a matter of great concern in most industrial applications. Advancements in technology provides a wide range of techniques to overcome adverse conditions. The selection of appropriate technology must be from the viewpoint of their interaction with the environment. This review paper addresses the adverse effects of erosion-corrosion in the present scenario.

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Development of shape memory alloy hybrid yarns for adaptive fiber-reinforced plastics

Textile Research Journal ◽

10.1177/0040517518770678 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 89 (8) ◽

pp. 1371-1380 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Moniruddoza Ashir ◽

Andreas Nocke ◽

Chokri Cherif

Keyword(s):

Shape Memory ◽

Technological Development ◽

Fiber Reinforced ◽

Material Loss ◽

Reinforced Plastics ◽

The Core ◽

Hybrid Yarn ◽

Pull Out ◽

The Matrix ◽

Fiber Reinforced Plastics

The application of shape memory alloys (SMAs) for the development of adaptive fiber-reinforced plastics has been expanding steadily in recent years. In order to prevent matrix damage and optimize the actuating potential of SMAs during the process of thermally induced activation, a barrier layer between SMAs and the matrix of fiber-reinforced plastics is required. This article approaches the textile technological development of SMA hybrid yarns as a core–sheath structure using friction spinning technology, whereby the SMA serves as the core. Four types of hybrid yarns are produced by varying the number of process stages from one to three, as well as the core and sheath materials. The decoupling of the SMA from fiber-reinforced plastics is crucial for optimizing the actuating potential of SMA, thus it is tested by means of the pull-out test. Although the material loss coefficient increases by raising the number of process stages, the three-stage processing of SMA hybrid yarn with an additional glass roving is found to be the most suitable variation for decoupling SMA from the matrix of fiber-reinforced plastics.

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