scholarly journals Iconography transformed: a few notes on the god Vaiśravaṇa

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-124
Author(s):  
Sarah-Allegra Schönberger
Keyword(s):  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Religious Images ◽  
Artistic Work ◽  
Analysis Of The Images ◽  
Transformation Processes

This article aims at an integration of the topic of iconographic transformation processes into a wider context of meaning, in order to enhance its importance from a religious and cultural-scientific point of view. In this sense, my research is not interested in asking how a deity is depicted, but why it is depicted in a particular way; what conclusions can be drawn, and what factors might influence artistic work? Thus, the topic of the image’s context, its usage, and its meaning become the focus of attention. By taking the example of the god Vaiśravaṇa, my analysis of ‘religious images’ of him is composed of two interlinked parts: an exemplary study of a transcultural iconographic transformation process, as well as an analysis of the images’ context. 

THE IMPACT OF UKRAINE'S EXCISE DUTY POLICY ON THE TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES OF THE TOBACCO MARKET

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10) ◽  
pp. 19-33
Author(s):  
Nadiia NOVYTSKA ◽  
◽  
Inna KHLIEBNIKOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Changes ◽  
Tax Avoidance ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Tobacco Products ◽  
Excise Duty ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Transformation Processes

The market of tobacco products in Ukraine is one of the most dynamic and competitive. It develops under the influence of certain factors that cause structural changes, therefore, the aim of the article is to conduct a comprehensive analysis of transformation processes in the market of tobacco and their alternatives in Ukraine and identify the factors that cause them. The high level of tax burden and the proliferation of alternative products with a potentially lower risk to human health, including heating tobacco products and e-cigarettes, are key factors in the market’s transformation process. Their presence leads to an increase in illicit turnover of tobacco products, which accounts for 6.37% of the market, and the gradual replacement of cigarettes with alternative products, which account for 12.95%. The presence on the market of products that are not taxed or taxed at lower rates is one of the reasons for the reduction of excise duty revenues. According to the results of 2019, the planned indicators of revenues were not met by 23.5%. Other reasons for non-fulfillment of excise duty revenues include: declining dynamics of the tobacco products market; reduction in the number of smokers; reorientation of «cheap whites» cigarette flows from Ukraine to neighboring countries; tax avoidance. Prospects for further research are identified, namely the need to develop measures for state regulation and optimization of excise duty taxation of tobacco products and their alternatives, taking into account the risks to public health and increasing demand of illegal products.

scholarly journals Macro- and Micronutrient Cycling and Crucial Linkages to Geochemical Processes in Mangrove Ecosystems

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 456
Author(s):  
Daniel M. Alongi
Keyword(s):  
Transformation Process ◽  
Early Diagenesis ◽  
P Availability ◽  
Geochemical Processes ◽  
Nutrient Cycles ◽  
Physiological Mechanisms ◽  
Retention Efficiency ◽  
Mangrove Ecosystems ◽  
N Metabolism ◽  
Transformation Processes

High mangrove productivity is sustained by rapid utilization, high retention efficiency and maximum storage of nutrients in leaves, roots, and soils. Rapid microbial transformations and high mineralization efficiencies in tandem with physiological mechanisms conserve scarce nutrients. Macronutrient cycling is interlinked with micronutrient cycling; all nutrient cycles are linked closely to geochemical transformation processes. Mangroves can be N-, P-, Fe-, and Cu-limited; additions of Zn and Mo stimulate early growth until levels above pristine porewater concentrations induce toxicity. Limited nutrient availability is caused by sorption and retention onto iron oxides, clays, and sulfide minerals. Little N is exported as immobilization is the largest transformation process. Mn and S affect N metabolism and photosynthesis via early diagenesis and P availability is coupled to Fe-S redox oscillations. Fe is involved in nitrification, denitrification and anammox, and Mo is involved in NO3− reduction and N2-fixation. Soil Mg, K, Mn, Zn and Ni pool sizes decrease as mangrove primary productivity increases, suggesting increasing uptake and more rapid turnover than in less productive forests. Mangroves may be major contributors to oceanic Mn and Mo cycles, delivering 7.4–12.1 Gmol Mn a−1 to the ocean, which is greater than global riverine input. The global Mo import rate by mangroves corresponds to 15–120% of Mo supply to the oceanic Mo budget.

scholarly journals Pentingnya Membangun Platform Kolaborasi Multi-Stakeholder sebagai Key Enabling Factor dalam Membangun Ekosistem Inovasi Industri 4.0 di Era New Normal

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Satrio Utomo ◽  
Agus Nugroho Harjono
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Industrial Transformation ◽  
Program Manager ◽  
National Priority ◽  
Industry Policy ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

Industry 4.0 is an era of technological disruption or industrial revolution 4.0 because it puts more emphasis on system automation and connectivity which will make the mobility of the industrial world movement and  job competition non-linear . The use of digital technology is one of the keys. Industry opportunities for industrial development 4.0 are an effort to increase industrial competitiveness, but many industries do not yet understand the concept and how to start the stages. One of the ways proposed as a policy in preparing industry 4.0 should be taken a multi-stakeholder collaborative approach to facilitate development, including gathering digital transformation initiatives so that limited resources can be optimal. As a form of soft industry policy, a platform organization is also needed as a sustainable program manager and provides technical facilities. From a technical point of view, it is necessary to prepare enabling technology that can be utilized by all actors in the cross-sectoral digital economy in an affordable manner. The Ecosystem Platform becomes a medium to be able to build synergy and collaborative across industries with all stakeholders in an effort to accelerate the transformation of industry 4.0 according to the national priority program of Making Indonesia 4.0. In line with that, coordination was carried out between parties in the industrial transformation 4.0 process, as well as building networks to develop positive cooperation, including government, academics or R&D, industry players / associations, technical providers, consultants and of course financial actors in accelerating the industrial transformation process 4.0.

Mother’s love in “Shakhnameh” by Ferdowsi and “Khamsa” by Nizami

2021 ◽  
pp. 102-115
Author(s):  
Nodira J. Ashurova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Medieval Literature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Comparative Aspect ◽  
Behavioral Features ◽  
Analysis Of The Images ◽  
Images Of Women

The image of good-natured women mothers in medieval literature has always been in the center of attention of writers to express instructive thoughts and lofty humanistic ideas. In this regard, in order to give aesthetic significance to their works, writers with great professional creative skill in their works vividly depicted the images of women. Along with beauty, tenderness, restraint and courage, motherly love was the source of their power and strength in the writer's work. The article attempts to make a comparative analysis of the images of bold and beautiful women in “Shahnama” by Ferdowsi and “Khamsa” by Nizami. The novelty of the research comes down to the fact that the comparative aspect of the concept of a woman-mother is considered from the point of view of typological commonality and character differences. The images in the above-mentioned works are analyzed and the behavioral features, beauty, charm, knowledge and mind of women are characterized, the differences in images are determined.

Industry 4.0 From a Management Perspective

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Ilknur Taştan Boz ◽  
Özden Ibrahimağaoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Management Perspective ◽  
Fundamental Transformation ◽  
Transformation Processes ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Industries have undergone three fundamental transformation processes that were revolutionary. Following these processes, industries have been confronted with the phenomenon of Industry 4.0, known as the 4th Industrial Revolution, that is acknowledged as a new transformation process. The basic dynamics of this phenomenon include smart robots, simulation, the internet of things, cloud, additive manufacturing, and big data. It is of utmost importance for businesses that are involved in this process, that are new and trying to adapt to the process, to be prepared and adapt to the effects of Industry 4.0 dynamics. These dynamics lead to significant developments in business models, business processes, organizational structures, employees, and human resource processes. When Industry 4.0 and its dynamics are evaluated in general, businesses that follow the process and make necessary managerial adjustments will be ahead of the competition.

Actors

2019 ◽  
pp. 42-52
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Merkel ◽  
Hans-Jürgen Wagener
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Action Theory ◽  
System Change ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Subjective Assessments ◽  
Collective Decisions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Transformation Processes ◽  
Empirical Approaches

Methodological individualism is widely accepted in the social sciences as a fundamental theoretical paradigm. In this context, it means attributing collective decisions or societal acceptance to individual behaviour. From the perspective of action theory, the outcome of transformation processes therefore depends less on objective circumstances (structures) or power configurations than on the subjective assessments, strategies, and actions of the relevant actors. As a rule, elites are the predominant actors in political and in economic system change. Since in the transformation process the basic institutions of society are generally reformulated at the negotiating table, much of the attention is centred on negotiation theories that use game-theoretical tools. By contrast to modernization, culturalist, and structuralist theories, actor theories set out from the micro and meso levels of the actors. Different approaches can be discerned. Historical-empirical approaches do not go beyond the description of transformation processes. Economic public choice approaches assume rather simplistic motivational structures of actors. In actor-centred institutionalism, the social sciences find a typical fusion of paradigms: action- and structure-theoretical approaches are combined.

Transformation Strategies for Shared Service Centers in the Public Sector

2009 ◽  
pp. 35-50
Author(s):  
Haiko van der Voort ◽  
Hans de Bruijn ◽  
Marijn Janssen
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Policy Network ◽  
Support Functions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Cost Reductions ◽  
Shared Service ◽  
Transformation Processes

This chapter presents a set of critical choices for initiating a Shared Service Center (SSC) in a large public organization and the management of the transformation process towards it. A move to concentratingorganizational support functions in SSCs in public administration is encouraged by successes in the private sector. There is a lot to gain by concentrating functions including improved services through specialization, efficiencies through standardization, and cost reductions through economies of scale. Yet the transformation process does not resemble the simplicity of the concept of SSC and many challenges need to be bridged. In this chapter, the complexities of transformation processes of the introduction of a government wide SSC for human resource management are studied. By analyzing the perceptions of key stakeholders from a policy network theoretical lens, we found some major patterns determining success or failure in both designing and implementing SSCs. By listing these, we aim to clarify the complexities of transformation processes towards SSCs in public administration and provide some strategic suggestions for these transformations.

scholarly journals Improvements of Rackwitz–Fiessler Method for Correlated Structural Reliability Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (06) ◽  
pp. 1950077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheng-Tong Zhou ◽  
Qian Xiao ◽  
Jian-Min Zhou ◽  
Hong-Guang Li
Keyword(s):  
Structural Reliability ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Gaussian Copula ◽  
Normal Space ◽  
Copula Theory ◽  
Geometric Point ◽  
Nataf Transformation

Rackwitz–Fiessler (RF) method is well accepted as an efficient way to solve the uncorrelated non-Normal reliability problems by transforming original non-Normal variables into equivalent Normal variables based on the equivalent Normal conditions. However, this traditional RF method is often abandoned when correlated reliability problems are involved, because the point-by-point implementation property of equivalent Normal conditions makes the RF method hard to clearly describe the correlations of transformed variables. To this end, some improvements on the traditional RF method are presented from the isoprobabilistic transformation and copula theory viewpoints. First of all, the forward transformation process of RF method from the original space to the standard Normal space is interpreted as the isoprobabilistic transformation from the geometric point of view. This viewpoint makes us reasonably describe the stochastic dependence of transformed variables same as that in Nataf transformation (NATAF). Thus, a corresponding enhanced RF (EnRF) method is proposed to deal with the correlated reliability problems described by Pearson linear correlation. Further, we uncover the implicit Gaussian copula hypothesis of RF method according to the invariant theorem of copula and the strictly increasing isoprobabilistic transformation. Meanwhile, based on the copula-only rank correlations such as the Spearman and Kendall correlations, two improved RF (IRF) methods are introduced to overcome the potential pitfalls of Pearson correlation in EnRF. Later, taking NATAF as a reference, the computational cost and efficiency of above three proposed RF methods are also discussed in Hasofer–Lind reliability algorithm. Finally, four illustrative structure reliability examples are demonstrated to validate the availability and advantages of the new proposed RF methods.

scholarly journals Social representations and information security of children and adolescents: the point of view of teachers (Part 1)

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.B. Bovina ◽  
N.V. Dvoryanchikov ◽  
S.Yu. Gayamova ◽  
A.V. Milekhin ◽  
S.V. Budykin
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mechanism Of Action ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Theory Of Social Representations

The focus of attention of the authors is the consideration of information security of children and adolescents as the object of social representations. Discusses the need for the theory of social representations to develop prophylactic and preventive programs in the field of information security of children and adolescents, in particular, says that the effectiveness of prevention and preventive programs is determined by how this information is understood by the target group, through what filters it passes. Briefly outlines the main provisions of the theory of social representations, discusses the functions of social representations, the mechanism of action ideas. Analyzed in a few studies, the focus of which was the presentation on new technologies, particularly mobile phones and the Internet. Presents the results of a series of studies devoted to the study of information security of children and adolescents, including the results of the first part of a research project dedicated to the analysis of how parents and teachers understand information security and what strategies to protect children and adolescents from dangerous information they are ready to use.

scholarly journals The Once-Only Principle: A Matter of Trust

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Robert Krimmer ◽  
Andriana Prentza ◽  
Szymon Mamrot ◽  
Carsten Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Legal Framework ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Single Market ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Eu

AbstractThe Single Market is one of the cornerstones of the European Union. The idea to transform it into a Digital Single Market (DSM) was outlined several years ago. The EU has started different initiatives to support this transformation process. One of them is the program Horizon 2020 to support the process from a technical point of view. In parallel to this, initiatives were started to set up a sound legal framework for the DSM. The Single Digital Gateway Regulation (SDGR) is an outcome of these initiatives. The key aspect of the SDGR is the underlying Once-Only Principle (OOP), outlining that businesses and citizens in contact with public administrations have to provide data only once. “The Once-Only Principle Project (TOOP)” is the EU-funded project initiated for research, testing, and implementation of the OOP in Europe. The authors give an overview of the research questions of the different parts of TOOP. Besides that, they introduce the other chapters of this book and what the reader can expect as the content of them.

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