Persons who can be criminally liable for handling an event and for arrangement bets

In the Republic of Moldova, individuals and legal entities, respectively, can be held criminally liable for handling an event and for arranged bets. It was found that the subject of the offense of arranged betting has the special quality of a person who knows with certainty about the existence of an agreement regarding the cheating of the betting event. It is also not excluded that the organizer of the arranged bet may be the organizer of the bet. In fact, these games of chance can only work and be maintained if the majority of those who bet, lose more than they win. Last but not least, it has been established that those who commit harmful acts in cyberspace, who are liable to criminal liability for handling an event and for arranged bets (and not only), cannot remain incognito. They need to be identified and differentiated from justice.

PHYSICO-CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF MERLOT WINE FROM ȘARBA / ODOBEȘTI

Merlot wines are full of fruity, delicate wines, the variety being of French origin from the Bordeaux area. Merlot wine from Șarba / Odobești, harvested in 2019, has a special quality, being ideal to be used as such or in combination with plant extracts. Polyphenols do not have high values, so they are used to prepare appetizers.

Prospects and strategies for food exports from border areas: a case of West Kalimantan Province, Indonesia

Border areas can be a source of growth in food production in Indonesia. One of the provinces in the border areas having prospects as a source of food growth for export is West Kalimantan. This province has started to export food (mainly medium and special quality rice) to Malaysia via Sanggau district. However, food exports from the Kalimantan border are still in limited quantities and face several obstacles that have resulted in unsustainable food exports. This study aims to analyze the prospects and strategies for food exports (especially rice) from West Kalimantan border area. The study was conducted in September 2018 in three subdistricts of Sanggau District, namely Entikong, Sekayam, and Kembayan. Data were collected through focus group discussion, and SWOT analysis was employed. The results show that rice exports from the West Kalimantan border areas are in the Weakness-Opportunity (W-O) quadrant, indicating an opportunity to export but cannot yet be utilized because the existing strength is not enough to carry it out. The main opportunity is that the rice market actors are ready to export, while the main weakness is that the rice prices are not competitive with those from other exporting countries. The decision that can be taken is either (1) releasing existing opportunity and looking for other alternatives or (2) forcing them to work on this opportunity.

Effects of Long-Term Non-Pruning on Main Quality Constituents in ‘Dancong’ Tea (Camellia sinensis) Leaves Based on Proteomics and Metabolomics Analysis

‘Dancong’ tea is a famous traditional Oolong tea. In order to keep the original taste of “ancient tea trees”, most of the ’Dancong’ tea plants are planted in a single plant pattern without pruning. The objective of this study was to explore the effects of long-term non-pruning on main quality constituents in ‘Dancong’ tea. The results showed that the contents of free amino acids, chlorophylls, and floral-honey aromatic substances in tea leaves of unpruned tea plants were higher than those in every year pruned tea plants, while the catechin content in leaves of pruned tea plants was higher than that in leaves of unpruned tea plants. Quantitative proteomics analysis showed that most enzymes involved in biosynthesis of catechins were downregulated in leaves of unpruned tea plants. Five proteins involved in chlorophyll metabolism and 12 proteins related to photosynthesis were upregulated, and the results suggested that higher chlorophyll content and more efficient photosynthetic energy conversion may be important for the higher accumulation of special quality components in leaves of unpruned tea plants. The findings of this study will advance our understanding of the mechanism of formation of different metabolites in leaves of unpruned and pruned tea plants.

Landscape/mindscape/langscape: The ephemerality of the digital and of the real in Marlene Creates’s video-poems for ice and snow

The present essay aims at illustrating Marlene Creates’s web project Brickle, nish, and knobbly (2015), as a key example of Eco-Digital Humanities. First of all, it is a digital work of art made of ice images. Besides, it is also a digital archive meant to salvage a linguistic treasury of local idioms that both name and describe all types of snow and ice formations in Newfoundland, Canada. Therefore, the present analysis proves the special quality and inevitable ephemeral status of this project, for it constitutes a multimodal and multimedia web-archive, subject to possible erasure, or obsolescence in the face of new computer programmes and platforms developments. The archive is also an open instrument for everybody’s use: a digital audio-visual (poetic) dictionary, that ultimately functions as a challenge to climate change effects, that might dissolve both the ice formations and the language that accompanies them. Since the real world is no less ephemeral than the world of the web, this contribution also proves how Marlene Creates’s artwork envisions and embraces an ecological salvaging of our present and future landscape, mindscape, and langscape.

MECHANISMS AND DIRECTIONS FOR INCREASING THE LEVEL OF INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF THE OIL AND GAS COMPLEX OF RUSSIA

The article describes one of the important directions of increasing the level of innovative development of the oil and gas complex of Russia - the development of hard-to-recover hydrocarbon reserves (HTR). The search, exploration and development of hard-to-recover reserves can bring the domestic oil and gas and related industries to a new level of technological development, provide a significant multiplier effect for related industries, and create new jobs and infrastructure. The authors estimated the share of HTR in modern oil production, analyzed the dynamics and structure of hydrocarbons of special quality and conditions.

A Study On Story-Telling Associating Local Specialties And A Historical Person

Local specialties are items of special quality that originate from certain regions. For local specialties to be labelled as luxury goods, storytelling based on historicity and popularity is required. The existence of these items over a long period of time is emphasized to increase historicity. To increase popularity, it has been emphasized that these products were used by famous people like kings. To elaborate on some such cases, I have analyzed local specialties from Korea, China, and France. An important ingredient in Korean food, red chilli pepper paste,is known for being made in the Sunchang area. However, it was made 250 years ago, and the story of the relationship with Lee SeongGye, from more than 600 years ago, has been used to popularize the same. XiHuLongjing Tea, the representative tea of China, is a high quality teabut was rated as intermediate. It has gained fame over time and has been associated with Emperor Qianlong. Brie cheese, representing France, the land of cheese, has been associated with Louis XIV as a luxury item to overcome the historicity of Roquefort cheese and the popularity of Comté cheese. In this way, local specialties have been made into luxury productsthrough a halo effect by bringing historicity or popularity using storytelling.

Conjoint Analysis for Consumer Preferences Towards Buying Plaster Sheets

In buying a product, consumers usually decide to purchase through certain stages and consumers understand their needs. Consumers also get stimuli from other people’s opinions including for problem identification, information seeking, evaluation, and decision-making activities. This study aimed to analyze the attributes that affect consumer preferences in buying plaster sheet products of CV Anugrah Jaya Sentosa. The questions studied in this research were: What are the attributes that affect consumer preferences in buying plaster sheet products? What are the most critical attributes for consumers of CV Anugrah Jaya Sentosa plaster sheet products? The most important attribute was a product thickness of 12 mm with a special quality, then a layer of purchase of goods only and a layer of paint + stain that simplifies the work for finishing and produces maximum results. Keywords: ceiling products, quality, coating, thickness, purchase

Horizontal-resource models of happiness

“Happiness” is not even considered by many as a scientific term. Meanwhile, some practitioners are concerned with improving the quality of life and the objective reasons for people’s subjective satisfaction while others note the prevalence of problems related to “unhappiness”. Thus, in the best case, people turn to clergy, significant others, or psychotherapists to change either themselves or their lives for the better. However, theoretical interpretations of the phenomenon of happiness in many sciences that are based on the models of balance, the correspondence between the desired and the available, etc., use a fragmented and practically unstructured terminological apparatus. The goal of the study is to identify the conceptual models in all the diversity of interpretations and studies of happiness that allow uniting groups of researchers from different fields of knowledge, as well as to present the views of the authors of artworks on the mechanisms of experience and empathy with the processes of gaining and losing happiness. Methods: Comparative analysis of views on the phenomenon of happiness and the related states presented in works of art, spiritual and cultural life, and studies of the social and human sciences. The analyzed material allowed us to show the presence of a large number of models of interpretation of the state of happiness often associated with the assessment of resources available to the individual (horizontal-resource models of happiness). This distinguishes them from the vertical-level models that contrast the highest levels of happiness of special quality with the manifestation of different, lower-order states also referred to as happiness. It is important to note that in horizontal-resource interpretations, many models do not treat happiness simply as a significant share “of the total pie”. Resource-based approaches assess the available or absent potential (of varying nature), as well as the absence or presence of the possibility of approaching a subjectively meaningful state.