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Verbo-Visual Pun in Memetic Warfare Against Russia’s Aggression in Ukraine
Get PDFPurpose: In a time when war-torn Ukraine faces a grave crisis amid Russia’s invasion attempt, social media chooses humor over aggression to fight back. Humor has
long been known as a kind of coping mechanism in extreme crises wherein the world
of jokes is quite similar with the world of memes, which instantly reacts to resonating
events. Puns and memes, armed with words and images, become weapons of mass disruption, influencing the hearts and minds of a target audience. This invites the examination of how memes detailing the Russian-Ukrainian military crisis employ verbo-visual
puns as a discursive strategy of information warfare to counter Putin’s propaganda
The Palestinian Question and the Role of ICC
Get PDFThis work deals with the latest ruling of the ICC of February 2021 and the situation in Palestine. It also
seeks to analyze and give an answer to a series of questions: What is the relative application for the initiation of
a search for crimes committed in the territory; When in the neighboring territories have opened for the first time
the discussion of statehood according to general international law; What is the role of the Prosecutor of the ICC
to open an investigation without the manipulation of countries that wanted to hinder such actions and certainly
not to question the commission and the violation of gross violations of human rights; What is the juridical role of
the prosecutor? And final what is the position of the pre-trial Chamber with the relative sentences, the fundamental
notions of the international general law and of the international criminal justice
How culturally unique are pandemic effects? Evaluating cultural similarities and differences in effects of age, biological sex, and political beliefs on COVID impacts
Get PDFCC BY 4.0Despite being bio-epidemiological phenomena, the causes and effects
of pandemics are culturally influenced in ways that go beyond national
boundaries. However, they are often studied in isolated pockets, and this
fact makes it difficult to parse the unique influence of specific cultural
psychologies. To help fill in this gap, the present study applies existing cultural
theories via linear mixed modeling to test the influence of unique cultural
factors in a multi-national sample (that moves beyond Western nations)
on the effects of age, biological sex, and political beliefs on pandemic
outcomes that include adverse financial impacts, adverse resource impacts,
adverse psychological impacts, and the health impacts of COVID. Our study
spanned 19 nations (participant N = 14,133) and involved translations into
9 languages. Linear mixed models revealed similarities across cultures, with
both young persons and women reporting worse outcomes from COVID
across the multi-national sample. However, these effects were generally
qualified by culture-specific variance, and overall more evidence emerged for
effects unique to each culture than effects similar across cultures. Follow-
up analyses suggested this cultural variability was consistent with models
of pre-existing inequalities and socioecological stressors exacerbating the
effects of the pandemic. Collectively, this evidence highlights the importance
of developing culturally flexible models for understanding the cross-cultural
nature of pandemic psychology beyond typical WEIRD approaches
Linked Data as a Cornerstone of Linguistic Data Science
Get PDFAt present, we are witnessing incredible advancements in language technologies,
natural language processing, and related fields, mostly stimulated by the success of deep
learning technologies and the increasing availability of huge amounts of textual data on
the Web. Algorithms and models that were commonly used a few years ago are rapidly
substituted by newer, more effective ones, with little time for researchers and practitioners to adapt to them. In such an evolving and challenging scenario, what is the role
of linguistic data science? We understand linguistic data science as a subfield of data
science which focuses on the systematic analysis and study of the structure and properties of linguistic data at a large scale, along with methods and techniques to extract new
knowledge and insights from it. To that end, it is necessary to provide a formal basis to
the analysis, representation, integration, and exploitation of such data at their different
levels (syntax, morphology, lexicon, etc.)
Brief introduction to technological and heuristic aspects of the investigation of crimes
Get PDFThe article examines the problems of the technological and heuristic aspects
of the investigation. It was reported that in the investigation there are
information-cognitive, information-retrieval, procedural-certifying, organizational
and managerial, psychological, technological, heuristic and other aspects
of this activity. It is substantiated that knowledge in the investigation is
specific in many circumstances that characterize it. The features of the technological
nature of crime investigation activities are highlighted. Clarified that
the provisions relating to interrogation are more of a tactical recommendation
for the application of appropriate tactics, and the provisions regarding the examination, more attention is paid to the technological rules of the investigator’s
actions. It is explained that all this indicates that the problems of
a technological approach to the study of objects of criminalistics – activities
to investigate crimes and criminal activity – acquire general methodological
significance. It is emphasized that when developing and using technological
investigation programs, algorithms for investigative actions and tactical operations,
it is necessary to be able to adapt them to the conditions of a specific
investigative situation, to identify and take into account its peculiarity, to find
the appropriate means of solving the task. It has been shown that an integrated
approach to understanding the technological and heuristic aspects, the ability
to practically use the technological and heuristic (search and creative) aspects
of investigative activity is seen as the key to the successful achievement of the
goals and objectives of the investigation
Approval of a restructuring plan without the approval of creditors
No full textCC BY-NC-ND 4.0This article analyzes the problems of approval of a restructuring plan without the
consent of creditors at various stages of the restructuring process: negotiations on the restructuring
plan, submission of the draft restructuring plan to the court, and its approval. The article reveals
the significance of the absolute and relative priority rules in the restructuring process, analyzes the
best-interest-of-creditors test – as regulated in the directive when it is to be applied, or as provided
for in the Law on Insolvency of Legal Entities of Republic of Lithuania – only when a complaint
against a restructuring plan is lodged.
Should the best-interest-of-creditors test be applied earlier in the restructuring process? The
legal position of creditors in the restructuring process is also analyzed, both in terms of their division
into creditors affected by the restructuring plan and those not affected, and the division into groups
in which the plan is subsequently voted on. The question arises as to whether disregarding the views
of conflicting groups of creditors when approving a restructuring plan constitutes an interference in
private legal relations, or whether this institute is designed to achieve the objectives of the restructuring process, even in cases where creditors do not agree to provide financial assistance to a company
which seeks restructuring. The main purpose of this article is to raise the problematic issues that
should be considered both by the legislator when improving legislation and by courts that interpret
and apply the law. Because many problematic cases require extremely detailed analysis, this article
does not set out to provide answers or a specific opinion on all the issues that arise
Towards the Integration of Sign Languages Data in the Linguistic Linked Open Data Cloud
Get PDFPurpose: In the field of electronic lexicography, there is an increasing interest in
offering ways to represent and interlink lexical data originating from different modalities. This topic is particularly discussed within initiatives and projects concerned with
the representation of lexical information in a Linked Data (LD) compliant format, so
that they can be published within the Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD) cloud. In
this context, we can observe that Sign Language (SL) lexical data are not currently represented in the datasets included in the LLOD cloud. Looking at the “Overview of Data-sets for the Sign Languages of Europe”, published by the “Easier” European project,3 we
also do not see any mention of a dataset being available in an LD-compliant format. We
therefore investigate ways of representing SL data in the LLOD cloud and linking them
to other types of language data already available in an LD-compliant format
Challenges in the literature search during the process of conducting a systematic literature review for the conceptualisation of critical thinking
Get PDFCC BY-NC-ND 4.0This article discusses challenges in the literature search during the process of conducting a
systematic literature review for the conceptualisation of critical thinking. The literature search process
is described in two interconnected stages: the selection of journals and the sampling of articles.
Analysis is followed by discussion, which also includes the subjective reasoning and reflections of the
project team. The process of searching the relevant literature for a systematic literature review was
presented in order to discuss the initial stage before literature analysis that very often remains a “grey
area” and is still underrepresented in the literature. The process of selecting journals and sampling
articles was impacted by objective limitations such as language and availability of access of material,
as well as by subjective limitations which required flexibility in adjusting the envisaged research
plan. These factors led to the unique path by which the research team processed the search and coped
with methodological challenges. Some lessons, like the necessity of additional time, were already
known and experienced during earlier research; however, they showed themselves in other aspects.
Some lessons, such as not limiting the literature review to articles from Q1 journals, were new and
unexpected, and led to the decision to discuss these challenges, thus enriching a very limited analysis
on methodological issues of the literature search process for the term conceptualisation. This article
focuses on how material on critical thinking for the literature review was sought, rather than the
content that was found. This experience is intended to broaden the understanding of the initial
phase in a systematic literature review process and to help increase awareness of what preparation
for a literature review actually means
Інтелектуальні транспортні системи як інструменти управління транспортними потоками(на прикладі м. Києва)
No full textCC BY 4.0The low quality of public transport services, the inconvenience of
routes, the long duration of trips and several other problems encourage Kyiv residents
to increasingly choose a car for everyday correspondence, which, in turn, increases
delays, travel time and leads to environmental pollution of territories. These problems
are especially acute in large cities, where numerous industrial, labour, and cultural
and household connections are within the city. There is a need to create a single
efficient transport system that serves as a city and implement effective traffic flow
management approaches.
First of all, the article defines the concepts of "traffic flow management", "urban
mobility" and "urban mobility regime". Four groups of problems of urban transport
systems were identified and two ways of solving them were formed: extensive and
intensive. Using the instrumental case of Kyiv, the level of implementation of systems
for monitoring and managing traffic flows in Ukrainian cities was evaluated. The levels
of the legal framework regulating the urban mobility of the population in Ukraine are
described. The characteristics of intelligent transport systems and their key subject
areas have been studied. Commonly accepted services for users of intelligent transport
systems (ITS) are distinguished and segmented according to the needs of these system
users. Features, methods of application and technologies of intelligent transport
systems are presented. Services that are a priority for potential users of intelligent
transport systems in Ukrainian cities are highlighted. The world experience of the
formation and development of intelligent transport systems, as well as European
programs for their implementation, is characterized. A SWOT analysis of the
implementation of intelligent transport systems in Kyiv was carried out and
recommendations were made for the creation of an ITS implementation program in
Kyiv.
The information base of the article consists of publications by prominent
Ukrainian and foreign researchers, data from the Tom Tom transport analytics service,
the current legal framework of Ukraine, which regulates urban transport systems, and urban development strategies. The following methods of scientific research are used in
the research process: dialectical method; method of scientific abstraction, analysis and
synthesis; method of induction and deduction; comparative method; method of
systematization and graphic method