Openness as a feature of the cultural code of Russian architecture: from ancient Russia to the Russian avant-garde

The article describes the cultural feature of the national character of the Russian people - openness. The manifestation of this feature in Russian medieval architecture is considered, and the influence and development of this feature in the architecture of the Russian avant-garde is traced. The author reached conclusion about the continuity and development of openness in Russian medieval architecture and the architecture of the Russian avant-garde.

Remaking Conjugality

This chapter analyzes the temporalities of international migration as they shape conjugality between older migrants and their spouses. It discusses the interplay among international migration, acculturation into US society, and experiences of aging that motivates immigrants to reconstruct their intimate relationships. It also explains how most migrant couples transform their intimate connections as they encounter new contexts and new cultures, as well as how migration to the United States sets the stage for these changes by affecting socioeconomic standing and connections to kin in the homeland. The chapter cites that the immigrants' perceptions of Americanization shape gender hierarchies and clarifies how entering the later life leads older immigrants to rethink gender norms. It refers to egalitarianism as the dominant cultural feature of spousal relations in the United States, emphasizing the importance of maintaining harmonious relationships with their immigrant spouses through mutual communication, coordination, and respect.

Linguistic And Extralinguistic Factors In The Formation Of Phrases In The English And Uzbek Languages

This article discusses the influence of internal and external language factors in the formation of English and Uzbek phrases. In both languages, the influence of habitat, flora, fauna and poultry, national costumes, food, and religious values on the formation of phraseological units is studied. It is argued that each of these phraseological units, which represent the national-cultural feature of different structural languages, can become a separate research topic.

Vocal instrumentality as the ethno-cultural feature of V. Martyniuk's composer style (the case of compositions for wind instruments)

The article discloses the instrumental language nature of Dnipro composer Valentina Martyniuk from the perspective of the ethno-cultural features for master's author style. The investigation is being carried out on the basis of compositions for wind instruments, namely "Interview on a given topic" for clarinet solo, Vocalize for flute and piano, as well as Melody for horn (or flute) and piano. The investigation has established the defining foundation of the vocal of the composer's instrumental language to be the phenomenon of folk singing style of artistic instrumental creations. This phenomenon is born on the productive basis of national genre, namely Ukrainian solo singing. V. Martyniuk realizes artistic creative potential in the singing expressive melody, improvisation, priority of solo representation of musical compositions, the composer removes the assignment of a certain instrument for a specific musical composition, creates the priority for secondo-third interval connections. The author of the article affirms the contemporary conception of Ukrainian instrumental solo singing in the academic instrumental music.

Organisational culture of construction companies in Lagos State, Nigeria

The study investigated the cultural features of construction companies in Lagos state and determined the organisational culture profile of the construction companies in the study area, with a view to providing information that could enhance the organisational performance of Nigeria construction firms. Primary data were sourced through the administration of 196 structured questionnaires to 98 construction companies (i.e., two questionnaires per company) represented by their construction professionals and administrative staff. The information elicited from the returned 140 questionnaires (71% return rate) included features of organisational culture and dominant characteristic element of organisational culture profile of the construction companies. Data collected for this study were analysed using percentages, factor analysis and mean score (MS). The result showed a dominant organisational cultural feature of strategic direction explaining 17.73% variance in respondent’s perception. However, communication (9.66%), adaptability (8.43%) and employee involvement (6.88%) were also relevant. The organisational culture profile showed a predominant market culture (MC) with focus on production and goal accomplishment (MS = 3.62), a hierarchy culture (HC) of a coordinator, organiser and efficiency expert (MS = 3.60) and an ad hoc culture with strategic emphasis on dynamics and readiness (MS = 3.56). The family type of culture is undermined within the companies (MS = 3.47). The study concluded that strategic direction being a MC feature corroborates a predominant MC revealed by assessing organisational culture of construction companies in Lagos state, Nigeria.

Cumulative Environmental Impacts in the Gwich’in Cultural Landscape

Environmental changes are impacting northern environments and human communities. Cumulative impact assessments are vital to understanding the combined effects of regional industrial developments and natural disturbances that affect humans and ecosystems. A gap in cumulative impacts literature includes methods to evaluate impacts in cultural landscapes. In this study, we utilized spatial overlay analysis to assess cumulative environmental impacts in the cultural landscape of northern Canada’s Gwich’in Settlement Region. In three analyses, we quantified and mapped: (1) Cultural feature density, (2) cumulative environmental disturbance, and (3) potential overlap between disturbances and cultural features. Our first analysis depicts the extent and pattern of cultural relationships with regional landscapes and illustrates the Gwich’in cultural landscape, with widespread harvesting trails, named places, traditional use areas, and archaeological sites found in highest densities near important waterways. Our second analysis suggests that spatial overlay can track multiple disturbances, illustrating diffuse, lower intensity cumulative environmental impacts. The final analysis shows that overlaying disturbance and cultural feature data provides a novel way to investigate cumulative impacts in a cultural landscape, indicating relatively low levels of potential overlap between Gwich’in cultural features and disturbances. These methods provide one way to investigate cumulative impacts, relevant for well- documented cultural landscapes.

The Projection of Cultural Shift Rejuvination about Fostering Islamic Education and its Counterpart within Malay Community

The article projected the cultural identity resistance to preserve the young generations within the Malay community among Southeast Asia nations. The article uncovered the challenge of cultural shifts young people to bear with global life. The Modernism way of life might not suit to the original way of life; it only took to hedonism, personal logic, and contemporary then merely to maturity. At the same time, it might also endanger the existence of Malay Identity for the long term. This article conveyed the friction of cultural shift among Malay young people who influenced to expose the change in their personal identity and role model. The friction carried a serious threat to the whole Malay as an origin identity. The article composed the research focuses on the Malay race tradition who embraces Islam as a way of life. The Malay community embraces Islamic Identity as a cultural feature “adat bersendikan syarak” the collocational Islamic tradition within the cultural identity. The identity-preserved religion and culture inseparable and integrated one to another as ethnographically proposed research articles applied implemented participant and key informant interviewing from issues phenomenon.

"Dictionary" human anatomy: features of somatic lexis definition in dictionaries of the Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and English languages

Somatic lexis, which includes the partitives – the names of the external parts of the body, has long been the subject of linguistic studies. The proposed research of the lexical meaning of partitives in dictionaries lies at the intersection of lexical semantics, psycholinguistics, and theoretical lexicography. The aim of this article is to analyze four groups of somatisms denoting the head, chest, waist and elbow, and to identify certain trends in their definition, as well as to describe the correlation between definitions and features of conceptualization of somatisms in the minds of native speakers. As research materials are the definitions selected from twelve dictionaries. The main method of research is the definitions analysis, which aims to identify their internal structure and content. The analysis has shown that the definitions of each of the four groups of somatisms do not have identical models of description; all definitions relating to the same part of the body differ in the number of descriptive features and their content. The definitions are dominated by perceptual features obtained by visual observation (shape, structure and localization of the body part); only some definitions have a structural and functional feature (the head contains the brain; the elbow is the place where the arm bends; the waist divides the body into upper and lower parts). The authors of some definitions rely on anatomical concepts that are redundant in dictionaries designed for ordinary speaker. Other illogical aspects of the definition of partitives have been also revealed, in particular the description of the visible part of the body through invisible (brain, bones), reference in definitions to a cultural feature (the waist is defined as the place where the belt is worn). Lexicographic description of the partitives also reveals some difficulties in categorizing of body parts.