The Eastern Mediterranean in UAE Foreign Policy: Goals and Principles

The Eastern Mediterranean in recent years has become an arena of growing activity of regional states causing tensions among them. The importance of this region from political and military point of view combined with its strategic value in the world energy markets underpins the growing involvement of the UAE, a non-regional actor that lately has become deeply engaged in the regional agenda. Due to the fact that the UAE has taken up a quite active foreign policy course outside of its traditional Gulf circle only recently - with the Eastern Mediterranean becoming a new area of Emirati activities - the volume and scope of Russian and foreign research on this topic is rather limited. The existing works that in some way cover issues of the UAE foreign policy do not reflect the increasing influence of this small Gulf state in the Middle East and North Africa and beyond. For this reason, there is a need for complex research on the matter. This paper is based on analysis of existing works on topics related to some aspects of Emirati foreign policy and tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean, as well as analytical articles and statistics. The dramatically increased interest of the UAE in the Eastern Mediterranean is part of significant transformations in the monarchys foreign policy that have been taking place since early 2010s. These transformations manifest themselves in new goals and purposes of Emirati foreign policy, its expanding scale and new instruments for its implementation. Not only is the UAE policy in the Eastern Mediterranean consistent with its general goal of containing Turkey and fighting the threat of Islamism, but it is also a part of realizing Emirati global ambitions of becoming a leader in energy and logistics and ensuring its international status as an influential actor.

Peculiarities of purpose in providing the information stability of surveillance radar sensing modes in the process of their radio electronic suppression

It is possible to look at the special features of the goal setting while ensuring information stability of radar sounding modes when they are suppressed by the active interferences and interfering information influences. Overcoming the complexity of goal-setting processes, the validity and prompt decision-making with a shortage of time for its adoption is associated with insuring the consistency of goal-setting the levels of their intellectualization and formalization. This will contribute to imparting the desired properties, synthesized during the conflict, to the multipurpose strategies and the situational law of the control of the REP processes and the coordination of actions. An increase in the level of intellectualization of goal-setting processes is ensured by: decomposition of the general goal-setting problem into separate, simpler subtasks with effective solutions, implemented in the corresponding subsystems of the ACSstab (or basic associations of its functional elements) at stages of information support, preparation, adoption and implementation of the decision at the stages of hierarchical levels of management; cognitive analysis of goals and reflexive synthesis of goal-setting processes using the capabilities of a specialized intelligent decision support system to enhance the creative-reflexive abilities of the subject of management and increase the level of his professional competencies; combining the universality of the stages of rational management of the synthesis of the strategy for managing the REP processes with the specifics of conflict situations, subjectivity, cognition and reflexivity nature of intellectual control. Methods and means of partial formalization of goal-setting processes are presented, when the structuring of the main goal is carried out taking into account belonging to the strategies of internal and external control of the REP, the decomposition of the two-sided dynamic model of the conflict between the systems of the RES complex and the radar, the hierarchy of management levels, various approaches applied to goal-setting in a crisis management, as well as methods of justifying goals, resource costs and control of achieving the goals. These features can significantly reduce the degree of subjectivity of management for goal-setting and achieve their validity, completeness, consistency.

Strategi UMKM dalam meningkatkan pendapatan dimasa pandemi Covid-19 guna mempertahankan kelangsungan usaha di era revolusi industri 4.0 (studi pada UMKM makanan dan minuman di Kabupaten Pasuruan)

The purpose of this research is to find a strategy to increase MSME income during the COVID-19 pandemic to maintain business continuity in the era of the Industrial Revolution 4.0. The general goal is to increase the knowledge of MSME actors during the COVID-19 pandemic and increase the income of small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) for business continuity in Pasuruan Regency in the era of the Industrial Revolution 4.0. The method used in this study is a qualitative method using descriptive techniques, such as data reduction, data presentation, and concluding SWOT analysis. Informants in this survey are the Office of Cooperatives and Micro Enterprises and SMEs in Pasuruan Regency. The results showed that the Matrix Internal Factors (IFAS) and External Factors (EFAS) showed that MSMEs in the food and beverage business were located in cell V in identification, segment growth, investment choice, and specialization. The strategy that micro food and beverage businesses must be carried out in Pasuruan Regency to increase income to maintain their business in the face of the 4.0 industrial revolution. During the covid 19 pandemic, namely, on Strength Opportunity (SO), strategies used strength to take advantage of external opportunities were created.

Expansion of photovoltaic systems in multicampi higher education institutions: evaluation and guidelines

Considering the multicampi organizational structure of higher education institutions (HEIs), the expansion of photovoltaic (PV) systems previously installed in the facilities, the great potential for PV generation in Brazil, and the 2030 Agenda, the general goal of this research study is to evaluate and promote the expansion of the aforementioned PV systems. For this purpose, the PV system installed at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Piauí comprising a future expansion is characterized by a thorough literature and documentary research. The solar resource available at the campuses of the institution was estimated using the second version of the Brazilian Atlas of Solar Energy. The technical–economic viability of the system expansion is assessed through the average parameters and minimum performance indexes required by the institution. Thus, it is possible to prove the effectiveness of the methodology to identify investment priorities and guide the construction and expansion of other PV systems, confirming that this process is technically and economically feasible as associated with strategic adherence, also bringing several environmental benefits.

Pedagogické přístupy a didaktické postupy zaměřené na volnočasovou kompetenci

The article offers an overview of the pedagogical approaches and didactic procedures used for leisure education in school facilities (after-school club, school clubs, children's and youth homes) and evaluates them in terms of the development of leisure education, whose general goal is leisure literacy. In the introductory part, the authors explain the basic concepts. The first (most extensive) chapter is focused on education (extra-curricular education, education outside teaching). Information on various methods, mostly traditional, is followed by a section devoted to methods based on constructivist pedagogy. The first chapter concludes with a section devoted to the methods used in so-called open youth work (Offene Jugendarbeit, Open Youth Work). The second chapter is devoted to the concept of leisure competence, and the third chapter contains an evaluation of educational methods in terms of their suitability for education focused on leisure literacy.

Motivating the Journey: An Integrative Framework of Prevention Versus Promotion Goal Pursuit Activities

Does a focus on gains versus non-losses influence the kinds of activities people are motivated to use when pursuing their goals? This paper proposes that the prevention and promotion systems posited within regulatory focus theory motivate fundamentally different activities in the process of goal pursuit. We present a novel, integrative framework of regulatory focus-specific goal pursuit process activities and provide initial evidence testing this framework. First, across two studies involving activity sorting tasks, we predicted that participants would consistently categorize activities from the proposed framework as reflecting the hypothesized regulatory focus, and in making these categorization decisions, would sort regulatory focus-specific process activities from the proposed framework more quickly than more general goal pursuit process activities. Furthermore, in two follow-up studies probing activity accessibility, we hypothesized that motivationally relevant process activities (i.e., those reflecting individual differences in participants’ own regulatory focus) would be more accessible as measured by output primacy than process activities that were not motivationally relevant. Across these four studies, using both correlational and experimental methods, we found converging evidence in support of these predictions and our proposed framework. We suggest that this framework provides new insight into the motivational antecedents of distinct goal pursuit activities. Furthermore, it may be useful in generating new hypotheses about how best to motivate effective goal pursuit processes.

EU dialogue with Russian society: A reality check

Engagement with Russian civil society is the least contested part of the EU’s current and expected future approach to Russia. There is broad agreement on the need to conduct a dialogue with Russian citizens and to facilitate people-to-people contacts, as well as to support civil society as such. However, this general goal is not fully matched by a clear understanding of what the basic features and sentiments of Russian society are today. This article seeks to sketch an unvarnished picture of Russian society, knowledge of which is essential for the effective design and successful conduct of any engagement activities (their formats, channels of communication and content). The key problems include the lack of enthusiasm among ordinary Russians for the European project, and their growing confusion—fuelled by authoritarian control and disinformation—about European institutions and norms.

PERAN PENDIDIKAN ISLAM MENURUT PEMIKIRAN AZYUMARDI AZRA

Azyumardi Azra narrows the purpose and role of education into two parts, namely general goals and specific goals. According to Azyumardi Azra, the purpose of Islamic education is inseparable from the purpose of human life in Islam, namely to create personal servants of Allah who always fear Him, and can achieve a happy life in this world and in the hereafter. In the context of social-society, nation and state, this pious person becomes rahmatan lil 'alamin, both on a small and large scale. The purpose of human life in Islam is what can also be called the general goal or end of Islamic education.

Critical Review of Sustainability Priorities in the Heritage Sector: Evidence from Latvia’s Most Visited Museums

A vibrant debate about the role and participation of museums in urbanisation, industrialisation, human rights protection, technological progress, climate change and other global challenges has persisted in the field of museums ever since the boom of theoretical museology, which coincided with the development of the sustainable development concept. However, often culture is considered a part of social sustainability pillar, covering manifestations such as equity, participation, social justice etc. (Murphy, 2012; Vallace et al., 2011; Cuthill, 2010) or ignoring cultural aspects altogether (Chiu, 2004). Many voices have called to promote culture as the fourth pillar of sustainable development as a necessary foundation, condition or groundwork through which understandings of social, economic, and environmental sustainability may appear (Soini & Birkeland, 2014; Hawkes, 2001). Although the potential of cultural heritage institutions such as museums towards sustainable development is outlined in relevant literature, there has been no radical shift in museum practice (Ross, 2004; Simon, 2010; Nomikou, 2015). The paper aims to propose the first-ever critical review of sustainable development priorities in Latvia’s most popular museums with a view to finding out their strategic priorities and using these findings to identify today’s specific thematic development lines relevant to the museum sector within the sustainable development framework and to apply this bottom-up principle to propose potential ways to improve the general goal of Latvia’s museum accreditation system – that of promoting sustainable museum practices – with specific pointers and thematic building blocks for the broad umbrella concept of sustainable development. Research objectives include (1) conducting a critical review of relevant literature to identify the role of cultural heritage within the evolution of the sustainable development concept (2) identifying the themes of sustainable development that have been communicated as strategic priorities to stakeholders by the country’s nine most visited museums and (3) using research findings to illuminate and pinpoint a specific array of themes pursuant to the general goal of Latvia’s museum accreditation system – that of promoting sustainable museum practices – for the system to serve as a more comprehensive and targeted tool for fostering sustainabledevelopment in the heritage sector and beyond. Qualitative content analysis has been chosen to analyse museum development strategies and their collection, research, and communication policies, that is, the museum strategic documents to be submitted by the museums seeking to receive state recognition. The study covers Latvia’s nine most popular museums, whose joint annual share of visits amounts to 50% of the country’s total rate (Latvian Academy of Culture, 2018). The study reveals substantial diversity in how Latvia’s most popular museums approach sustainable development goals while also exposing a few significant downsides. According to the findings, museum priorities include (1) heritage preservation, efforts to strengthen national identity, and information and communication technology sustainability in the context of cultural sustainability, (2) financial sustainability as well as tourism- multiplication and image-building in the context of economic sustainability, (3) eco-cultural resilience and improvements in the infrastructure for better energy efficiency as well as a degree of progress towards more sustainable transportation solutions in the context of environmental sustainability and (4) physical, intellectual, socio-economic and emotional accessibility and a focus on boosting social capital in the context of social sustainability. Adjustment of accreditation requirements to meet the sustainable development priorities, at least identified within the study, should, in the long run, raise awareness within the field, enable museums to target their efforts at addressing their downsides and finding possibilities for growth in the context of sustainable development as well as foster sustainable development in the larger field of cultural heritage sites and institutions, which, unlike its kindred sector of museums, exists outside the scope of restrictions associated with accreditation. Such adjustments will help achieve a broader input from the heritage sector towards sustainable development goals.

Arrangement and transcriptions in creations by Alexander Siloty at the mention of traditions for musical and redactional practice at the end of XIXth – the first part of the XXth centuries

Purpose of the article. Consists of research of redactional heritage by Alexander Siloty at the border of the XIXth-XXth centuries and analysis of his arrangement and transcriptions. The methodology consists of using resources-studying, comparative methods, and also method of systematization and generalization. The resources-studying method was used for analyzing previous resources and working with the full edition of redactions by Alexander Siloty. A comparative method was necessary during the comparison of the first piece`s resource and its transcription. Method of systematization and generalization consists of generalization for processed material and summarizing of this exploring. This mythological approach allows the analysis of details previsions information at the thymes of arranging and transcriptions by Alexander Siloty. The scientific novelty of the article consists of an introduction to scientific circulation redactions by Alexander Siloty, which are not explored at this moment, and also in locating of the creating by Alexander Siloty arrangements and transcriptions for piano pieces for orchestral and vocal genres. Сonclusions. Arrangements and transcriptions by Alexander Siloty absorbed in itself basis points of edition`s working by representatives of the previous generation, as C. Cherny and F. Busoni. But pedagogical and performable functions in Alexander Siloty`s redactions were actually balanced, in the same moment when pieces by previous representatives were calculated for the most part only for professional pianists. Identifying during exploration this approach in the way of editions` deleting on amplifications and reductions, did conclusions, that they had full right to take place in the repertoire of the modern pianists and in the pedagogical base of professional piano teachers. Modern pianist sets a goal of the technical problem`s solving and maximally exactly represent of score`s text, and left interpretative goals on the second side. On the other hand, redactions by Alexander Siloty weren`t focused attention on the only pianistic tricks. The general goal of it becomes the individual mind through the personality of the single performer.