Evaluating the Application of Leadership and Governance in Higher Education Institutions

This chapter aims to evaluate the application of leadership and governance in higher education (HE) organizations in the Kingdom of Bahrain and the UK. The method of the study relies on reading lists of governance standards from several advanced educational institutions and uses a “comparative methodology” based on the collected data from both counties. This research reviews the various models of “the higher education governance” and analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of each model. The study employs the three principles of UNDP (transparency, participation, and accountability) to assess application of leadership and governance in higher education institutions. The findings of this study reveal that Arab universities need to perceive the significance of clarifying the reason for governance. The study likewise distinguishes the significance of relating their job and commitment to the procedure of change to the learning-based economy and world informatics. Further, it features the need of broadening the cooperation of stakeholders in the key basic leadership.

Analysis of Selected Service Industries in Terms of the Use of Photovoltaics before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Previous analyses of the PV market (and the impact of the pandemic on it) have focused on the market as a whole. The literature does not contain analyses of selected services sectors (e.g., catering, hotel services) in terms of the use of photovoltaics. There are no studies that would show in which segments the demand profile for electricity most closely matches the production from photovoltaic installations (not to mention the impact of the pandemic). The authors analyzed selected service sectors (catering and hotel) in terms of the use of photovoltaics before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper proposes a comparative methodology for the use of photovoltaics for self-consumption, including statistical analyses and calculations of the self-consumption index for representatives of various selected services sectors. The highest value of the self-consumption ratio at the level of 52% was shown for cafes and restaurants (during the pandemic). Surprisingly, in the pandemic, the self-consumption rate increased for restaurants and cafes for the same size of installations (compared to pre-pandemic times).

International Aspects of the Protection of Victims' Rights in the Conditions of Armed Conflict in Ukraine

Using a comparative methodology based on documentary, the objective of the research was to analyze the international aspects involved in the defense of the rights of the victims of the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine. The priority of using military force to resolve questionable issues, national contradictions of an ethical, religious, political, territorial, economic, etc. nature that are in dispute, remains one of the essential characteristics of today's realities. Everything allows us to conclude that in almost all regions where there are armed conflicts, laws are violated and prohibited means and methods of warfare are used, related to the violation of the principles of distinction, of proportionality admitted in the process of artillery rocket attacks and air attacks of rockets and bombs, recruitment, training, financing and/or use of mercenaries in military activities, destruction of human settlements, executions in the form of intentional killings for reasons of hatred or political, ideological, racial, national, religious enmity, torture, among other inhumane behaviors and appalling atrocities, which by their nature and degree of brutality cannot go unpunished and constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Modern Details in Meaningful Architecture

Architecture is the art of shaping space, system, and technology. A close relationship is established between the building and its user, as the facility provides shelter and communicates with the inhabitants by meanings encoded in the form. The reception of architecture occurs through an ideological narrative and the quality of construction and material solutions. Contemporary pro-environmental postulates exert an increasingly clear influence on how architecture is shaped, especially on its aesthetic and semantic solutions. In this context, the article refers to the interdependence between art and technology in shaping the architecture of meanings through detail. The work aims to expand qualitative research on shaping contemporary detail in the context of pro-environmental trends in architecture. The detail was selected based on its clear message—its meaning provides the leading feature of the structure, both in technical (engineering solutions) and semantic (narrative) terms. The article provides an attempt to answer the question of how a semantic detail should be shaped, with the account to contemporary concepts on sustainable development architecture. A synthetic-comparative methodology was adopted; specific groups of completed objects were analyzed in the context of the indicated topics. The conclusions from this part of the work constitute case study guidelines, which was conducted on the example of an original project.

The Prospects for Socialist Politics in South Africa

Our article endeavours to critically examine the prospects for socialist parties and socialist policy reform in South Africa. Firstly, we seek to provide an appraisal of modern socialist politics and policies globally. Secondly, we attempt to diagnose why South Africa has been as yet unable to fashion a suitable socialist workers’ party during the democratic epoch. In this, the article discusses the prospects of socialist parties and policy reform in South Africa after examining the failure of the Socialist Revolutionary Workers’ Party (SRWP) to make an impact at the 2019 polls. Using a combination of comparative methodology and critical inquiry, our study presents not only that socialist politics and policies are valuable to democratic systems, but also that socialist politics should have a more viable vehicle in South Africa. The prospects for deepened ideological development, particularly the formation of a successful socialist or workers’ party, remains quite weak in South Africa but there is considerable evidence to suggest that civil society both requires and desires a more vibrant relationship with modern socialism.

Early States and Power in the Baltic Sea Region (8th–11th Centuries): A Comparative Study

The aim of the article is to trace the emergence and the development of the early states of the Scandinavians, the Polabian and the Pomeranian Slavs and to investigate their main power centers. The author relies on previous research, uses theoretical achievements of historical anthropology and combines them with comparative methodology to study both archaeological and written sources. This approach allows to establish distinct political typologies in the region, namely various types of chiefdoms and principalities. The paper illuminates similar and mostly simultaneous trajectories of the evolution of those polities, emphasizes the role of central places in the respective political systems and in the governing mechanisms. During the late 8th – the early 11th centuries there had existed complex chiefdoms and chiefdom confederacies, which slowly declined towards the end of the period.

Apontamentos sobre o ordenamento jurídico na perspectiva do direito comparado

Os primeiros registros de comparação entre direitos distintos remetem a antiguidade, contudo, veio a firmar-se como um estudo sistemático somente em meados do Século XIX. Hodiernamente, é inquestionável a importância do método comparatista, para o aprimoramento dos Sistemas Jurídicos que regem as nações. Sendo este, uma fonte extremamente importante para o cotejo de semelhanças e diferenças entre normas, instituições, mecanismos etc., que poderão futuramente ser recepcionados por um determinado país. Pode-se afirmar, nesse contexto, que é importante a comparação entre realidades similares para evitar inoperabilidade ou mau funcionamento do conceito importado. Por exemplo, tem-se o caso do instituto da delação premiada que ao ser importada e recepcionada no ordenamento jurídico do país que o recepcionou desvirtuou-se de sua proposta inicial. Entende-se, portanto, que o estudo comparativo do direito é fundamental para a análise e compreensão das distintas famílias jurídicas, sendo um método indispensável para resolver situações de conflitos entre normas de países diferentes, assim como, para o aprimoramento das normas e mecanismos vigentes no país. Sob esta perspectiva, de auferir essencialidade à metodologia comparativa entre distintas concepções normativa, é que o presente trabalho tem por objetivo refletir sobre o ordenamento jurídico na perspectiva positivista kelseniana, verificar o sentido e a compreensão sobre a metodologia comparativa e dimensionar a importância da interface entre ordenamentos jurídicos na perspectiva comparada. Concluindo que não existem ordenamentos jurídicos porque há normas jurídicas, mas existem normas jurídicas porque há ordenamentos jurídicos distintos dos ordenamentos não jurídicos – perspectiva essencialmente comparativa. The first records of comparison between distinct rights refer to antiquity, however, it came to be established as a systematic study only in the mid-nineteenth century. The importance of the comparative method is undoubtedly important for the improvement of the legal systems that govern nations. This is an extremely important source for the comparison of similarities and differences between norms, institutions, mechanisms, etc., which may be approved by a given country in the future. In this context, it can be stated that it is important to compare similar realities to avoid inoperability or malfunction of the imported concept. For example, there is the case of the institute of the awarding donation that when being imported and received in the legal system of the country that received it distorted its initial proposal. It is understood, therefore, that the comparative study of the law is fundamental for the analysis and understanding of the different legal families, being an indispensable method to resolve situations of conflicts between norms of different countries, as well as, for the improvement of the norms and mechanisms in force in the country. In this perspective, to gain essentiality to the comparative methodology between different normative conceptions, is that the objective of the present work is to reflect on the legal order in the positivist kelsenian perspective, to verify the meaning and the understanding about the comparative methodology and to dimension the importance of the interface between comparative perspective. Concluding that there are no legal systems because there are legal rules, but there are legal rules because there are different legal orders of non-legal systems - an essentially comparative perspective.

Независимо используемый дательный падеж в литовском, русском и словенском языках: некоторые замечания к сопоставительному анализу

The present article examines independent or non-subcategorized uses of the dative case in three languages: Lithuanian, Russian, and Slovenian. The analysis is based on the classification of the dative functions proposed in the literature on Lithuanian (Holvoet & Čižik-Prokaševa 2005; Rembiałkowska 2007): 1) dativus ethicus, 2) dativus iudicantis; 3) dativus sympatethicus; 4) dativus commodi. The comparative methodology is based on establishing similarities and differences between the examples in each group identified in Lithuanian and their Slavic counterparts. The analysis shows that the first group is represented in all three languages, while in the other three groups considerable differences are observed. In some cases, in the second group, the Lithuanian non-subcategorized dative corresponds to the Russian construction для (‘for’) + GEN, and to the Slovenian construction za (‘for’) + ACC. In the third and fourth groups, the Lithuanian dative case, which usually represents an external possessor, often corresponds to the Slovenian dative, differing nonetheless from Russian where the construction y (‘at’) + GEN is used.

Introduction

The Introduction chapter starts by evoking the first encounter of the author with the compared texts. Keeping in mind that most readers might not be equally familiar with both texts and their traditions, the chapter continues by presenting the Cántico espiritual and Rāsa Līlā within their larger religious and cultural-historical contexts. Then, the Introduction outlines the main resonances between the texts and their traditions that will be explored in the subsequent chapters. Next, it delineates the book’s comparative methodology, and establishes its dialogue with the work of other comparative scholars. To close, the Introduction offers an overview of the main topics and subtopics of each of the four chapters that comprise Savoring God.

Don Kichoci, Podziemni i Rewizjoniści. Postawy środkowoeuropejskich pisarzy wobec wolności

The article uses comparative methodology and juxtaposes the attitudes of Polish, Czech and, to a lesser extent, Ukrainian authors towards freedom obtained after 1989. The author distinguishes three main attitudes, calling them “Don Quixotes”, “Undergrounders” and “Revisionists”. The first type is related to retrotopic thinking and means attempts to mystify reality in order to counteract the degradation of the writer’s role in society. Don Quixotes try to fight the rules of the new postcommunistic time, emphasizing their role in the idealized past. The writers associated with the underground during the communism, such as Yuri Andrukhovych, Jáchym Topol, Petr Placák or Tomasz Jastrun, react differently: they are sensitive to attempts of political misusing of the works of culture. The younger generation of authors, called in this text “Revisionists”, born most often after the collapse of totalitarianism, tries to revise the social discourse and historical myths and express all what has been so far unspoken and “rotting”. This formation includes, among others, Radka Denemarková, Kateřina Tučková, Magdalena Platzová or Stanislav Biler.