Covid-19 Cases Growth and Business Continuity in Indonesia: A Causality Test

The objective of this study is to examine the causality between Covid-19 cases growth and business continuity in Indonesia, thus can be formulated the post-Covid business strategies. The Covid-19 cases are modeled into ‘daily case’ and ‘active case’, while business continuity proxied with human mobility to grocery and pharmacy, also to retail and recreation. Using daily data ranging from March to December 2020, the Granger causality results show that there is a bidirectional causality between daily case and grocery-pharmacy business, whereas interestingly there is a unidirectional relationship from retail-recreation business to daily case. In active case model, author found a unidirectional causality from active case to both grocery-pharmacy and retail-recreation business. This research may be used to improve business strategy in order to maintain the business life during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Indonesia.

Communicative Model – Author, Hero, Text, Recipient in a Postmodern Novel

The study deals with the communicative interaction between the author, the hero, the text, the reader in a postmodern novel. A similar and ambiguous reality, on the one hand, sometimes led to the subjectivist hypertrophy, absolutizing the author’s world view, and at times minimized and devaluated the author’s identity, on the other. Therefore, from the end of the 1990s the ways of expressing author’s “Self” changed dramatically, which directly affected the means of creating a hero in the contemporary Ukrainian literature. An important place in the communicative literary model was occupied by the text as an independent semantic unit and the reader as an interpreter of the text. The specifics of deploying the dialog between the author and the hero point to the transformation of their functions in the Ukrainian postmodern novel. Considering the statement of the death of the author proclaimed by R. Barthes, the former stops being the main holistic text creator, thus rather becoming its product and the way of expression. The author, the hero and the text have a certain integrity aimed at the interpretative game with the recipient, who diffuses the newly created semantic integrity into a diversity of meanings.

Along the Routes of the Ecumene: The Journey of Sir George Wheler to the Levant (1675–1676)

The article presents the French edition—printed in The Hague in 1723— of a significant example of travel literature from the end of the 17th century: A Journey into Greece (1682) by Sir George Wheler (1651–1724). The book made a profound mark on the studies of archeology, epigraphy, and the numis­matics of the Balkans, Greece, and the Byzantine world. The article illustrates the significant data collected by the English traveler, botanist, scholar of classi­cal antiquity, and clergyman, relating to the cultural and confessional mosaic in the space of southeastern Europe. His descriptions should be interpreted as a representative portrait of the remains of the ancient Euro‑Mediterranean ecumene. The traveler-churchman’s spirit of observation and sensitivity made Wheler a model author in the scholarly travel literature of the 17th century.

Software Quality Assesment using COCOMO-II Metrics with ABC and NN

Time, cost and quality predictions are the key aspects of any software development system. Loses that result due to wrong estimations may lead to irresistible damage. It is observed that a badly estimated project always results into a bad quality output as the efforts are put in the wrong direction. In the present study, author proposed ABC-COCOMO-II as a new model and tried to enhance the extent of accuracy in effort quality assessment through effort estimation. In the proposed model author combined the strengths of COCOMO-II (Constructive Cost Model) with the Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) and Neural Network (NN). In the present work, ABC algorithm is used to select the best solution, NN is used for the classification purpose to improve the quality estimation using COCOMO-II. The results are compared and evaluated with the pre-existing effort estimation models. The simulation results had shown that the proposed combination outperformed in terms of quality estimation with small variation of 5-10% in comparison to the actual effort, which further leads to betterment of the quality. More than 90% projects results into high quality output for the proposed algorithmic architecture.

Influence of Organizational Capabilities on Innovative Climate and Talent Retention

Organizations in the highly competitive world give attention towards providing a innovative climate to retain the talented employees in the organization. Organizational capabilities are emerged to respond to the global changes in the business environment. Organizational capabilities play an important role in managing and developing its resources to sustain in the highly dynamic environment. Building right organizational capabilities will help the organizations in retaining the right talent and creating an innovative climate in the organization. The paper aims to develop a conceptual model by linking organizational capabilities, innovative climate and talent retention. To frame a conceptual model author did an extensive review literature that revealed the relative dimensions under the variables of organizational capabilities, innovative climate and talent retention. The revealed dimensions used for framing a conceptual model to understand the influence of organizational capabilities on innovative climate and talent retention. The study revealed that to retain talented employees organizations must provide innovative climate and build right capabilities in the organization to sustain in the highly dynamic and competitive environment.

Umberto Eco’s semiotics of the text: Theoretical observations and an analysis of the parable of the banquet

In this article I have attempted to use Umberto Eco’s semiotics of the text in order to analyze the famous “parable of the banquet,” which has come down to us in three versions from the gospels of Luke (14,15–24), Matthew (22,1–14) and Thomas (logion 64). In particular I have tried to consider (i) the socio-cultural context, or in other words the Sitz im Leben of the community within which the parable was written; (ii) the narrative structure of the parable, with the narrative nodes that stimulate the reader to cooperate in the work of interpretation and to draw inferences; (iii) the way in which the Model Author is portrayed in the text; (iv) the kind of Model Reader who is prefigured in the parable. The analysis has shown how in the parable of the banquet, the original level (deriving directly from the preaching of Jesus) characterized by a salvationist and social slant is always overlaid with another level that is hortatory, pedagogical or ecclesiological, and which takes on different connotations according to the different contexts. Generally the Evangelists are suggesting to their communities that they make changes in their behavior ranging from renunciation of wealth to the resetting of social ties, from a stance of constant vigilance to the practice of an active faith, from healthy detachment from worldly frivolity to a rigorous asceticism. Thus the editorial layers reveal differing narrative nodes in function of particular interpretative responses, different Model Authors and different Model Readers.

A Different Text Mining Process for Classifying Journal Databases using Machine Learning Algorithms

Google is the information repository for the entire world and is an important Search engine used for Information Retrieval. Accessing web pages is getting increased everyday which can be compared to the speed in which light travels. Biggest Challenge is identifying the user interest and providing them information based on the high relevancy. Mostly researchers search journal documents for their research every day. Classifying the content as papers or Slides or thesis is very difficult as the words used in these documents are not semantically checked. To mine the correct content in web page Data Mining is used by most of the researchers. Text Mining is one of its application. Text mining in nutshell is extracting useful information from unstructured data. The proposed Model Author Keyword Weightage in Journal Ranking (AKWJR) is developed to retrieve relevant journals that will help the researchers to identify the relevant documents from the pool of irrelevant documents. In many keyword ranking applications such as RAKE and TEXTRANK author annotated keywords were compared and used for ranking. The assignment of keywords to article by the author is different in their form and perspective. Though they were not choosing the keywords in a controlled vocabulary the keywords were used to describe their own content in the article. Two algorithms were used to arrange the keywords according to topics and the keywords inside the journals will be scored depending on its presence in various fields in the article. Depending on the score the journals will be ranked in such a way that the author can decide whether to open the article for their requirement. This is achieved through Latent Dirichlet Allocation, RankSVM and TF-IDF Algorithms.

Sapphic Echoes in Catullus 1–14

This chapter argues that a pattern of Sapphic allusions in the first fourteen poems of Catullus’ poetry book constitute a hitherto neglected unity similar to that which scholarship now recognizes as a group of allusions to the Greek epigrammatist Meleager in the same Catullan corpus. This Sapphic pattern, inter alia, confirms the importance of Sappho as a model author for Catullus. The argument emerges from a close examination of Catullus’ first fourteen poems, particularly poems 2, 3, 6, 8, and 11, as well as Catullus’ epithalamial poem 62, in comparison with Sappho poem 1, her fragments 105b (Voigt), and 137, whose metrical form of Alcaics (uniquely among extant Sapphic fragments) paves the way for an investigation into the institution of ancient symposia and the theme of friendship in Greek and Roman poetry.

Monitoring in Youth Sport: A Paradigm Shift

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