353 research outputs found
Virtual skin: assessing player experience of attractiveness with the User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ) / Noraziah Mohd Razali, Azahar Harun and Ruslan Abdul Rahim
No full textThere are numerous subfields within visual communication, one of which is new media, alongside conventional practices such as advertising, photography, the web, animation, and signage. Blogs, social media, video games, email and the pervasiveness of smartphones have all resulted in the emergence of new media that are inextricably linked to the internet and the online environment. since the first mobile game, "Tetris", in 1994 and “Snakes" in 1997, the visual element in mobile games has evolved significantly, culminating in the modern-day mobile gaming world. These changes have involved progress from the black and white images of the early games to the variety of colours used in game visuals today and the creation of virtual goods in-app games. A skin is one of these virtual goods or items and is synonymous with a virtual appearance, outfit or cosmetic item that can be used to modify and enhance the appearance of a player's avatar. This is a cosmetic item and purely aesthetic in nature, serving no functional purpose. Among players, the desire for a skin is undeniable. Apart from the "beauty factor," another hidden value is inherent in players' perceptions of their interactions with purely aesthetic items. To determine the attractiveness of the skin in mobile games, preliminary research on skin evaluation was conducted to ascertain players' perceptions of recent virtual skins they had used in-game. The purpose of the study was to identify players’ perceptions of the attractiveness of the skin they used. To conduct the research, the Standard User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ) was used to determine the attractiveness of the skin as a virtual product. The UEQ is composed of six scales and twenty-six items that assess attractiveness on a hedonic and pragmatic level. Thirty respondents were chosen, and data analysis was performed using UEQ Data Analysis Tools. The product's benchmark was divided into five UX quality categories: excellent, good, above average, below average, and bad. The results indicate that stimulation is an excellent proxy for the UX quality of skin and efficiency is above average; meanwhile, attractiveness, perspicuity, dependability, and novelty were below average
On the History of the Name Ruslan
No full textВ публикации постулируется тезис о существовании общего пласта российского антропонимикона, формирующегося в результате взаимодействия национальных именников. Основная часть сообщения посвящена истории прецедентного в российском антропонимиконе имени Руслан. Прослеживается генетическая связь антропонима с широко распространенным в тюркских языках именем Арслан, имеющим доономастическое значение ‘лев’, выявляются варианты имени в архивных документах, исторических источниках XV–XVII вв., русском сказочном фольклоре. Оценивается роль поэмы А. С. Пушкина «Руслан и Людмила» в формировании ассоциативного фона исследуемого антропонима. Особое внимание уделено производным от имени патрониму и фамилии, а также образованному от него женскому имени Руслана. Прослеживается динамика именования, определяется период его наибольшей популярности в советское и постсоветское время. Отмечается, что имя приобретает определенную семантическую ауру и популярность особенно на Кавказе; оно становится своеобразным маркером российской идентичности, что способствует объединению российского социума и формированию единого антропонимического пространства. Этот вывод подтверждается данными социологического опроса, в котором участвовало около 40 респондентов — представителей разных народов Кавказа. Участники опроса отмечают положительные коннотации имени, ощущают его связь и с исходным тюркским антропонимом Арслан, и с именем пушкинского героя. Ряд респондентов воспринимает имя как «немусульманское», многие авторы анкет оценивают его как русское и подчеркивают, что именно так оно воспринимается за границами России. Культурная история имени Руслан, его трансонимизация представляются перспективными для научного исследования, особенно в условиях новых возможностей интернет-коммуникации и формирования новых ономастических дискурсов.The authors postulate that there exists a common stock of Russian personal names resulting from a partial blending of national anthroponymicons. The main part of the paper focuses on the history of the personal name Ruslan which has etymological ties with the widespread Turkic name Arslan having the pre-onomastic meaning ‘lion’. The authors study the variation of the name in Russian folklore and in the 15th–17th centuries documents and historical sources. They also pay particular attention to the role of Pushkin’s poem Ruslan and Ludmila in the formation of the associative background of the studied name and to various onomastic derivatives, the latter include patronyms, surnames and the female name Ruslana. The author conclude that the name Ruslan became especially popular in Soviet and post-Soviet periods when it acquired a specific “semantic aura”, namely, in Caucasus where Ruslan became a kind of mark of Russian identity and, thus, contributed to the unification of the anthroponymic space. This conclusion was verified in the course of a survey done among 40 respondents representing different peoples of Caucasus. For most respondents the name has positive connotations and is associated with the Turkic name Arslan and the name of Pushkin’s character. However, some respondents consider it as a “non-Muslim”, Russian name and point out that it is often perceived as such outside Russia. The history of the name Ruslan and the ways of its transonymisation can be an interesting object for further research, especially due to the emergence of new communication technologies and onomastic discourses
Protected quantum bits and Josephson junction arrays
No full textIn this thesis we consider a Josephson junction device whose symmetry is described by the point group Td. It can be visualized as a tetrahedron that contains two Josephson junctions on each edge. We find the conditions under which the ground state of the system is degenerate or almost degenerate. In this case, the low-energy degrees of freedom can be mapped to the Hilbert space of a quantum spin 1/2. We evaluate effects of different physical perturbations on the degenerate ground state and find that they are small for most perturbations. We argue that this system can be considered as a very promising candidate for a protected quantum bit with built-in error correction. We propose and discuss an experimental method that allows to test validity of some of the theoretical results obtained for the tetrahedral Josephson junction array and other similar symmetric circuits. We have chosen a simpler pyramidal array to demonstrate the main ideas of our method. Even though the noise resistance and theoretical decoherence time of the pyramidal array are worse than those of the more complex tetrahedral systems, it is much easier to realize the pyramid experimentally. The proposed design can be used with any symmetric Josephson junction circuit. We explore a natural generalization of the tetrahedral quantum bit and consider devices whose symmetry can be described by one of the higher-order permutation groups Sn. We study the level structure and the associated built-in protection of some conceptually simple circuits and show that these circuits have many interesting properties. In particular, their ground state can be highly degenerate and stable with respect to perturbations violating the symmetry. Unfortunately, these highly symmetric systems consist of a large number of identical Josephson junctions. This makes them too complicated for experimental realization.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Ruslan Usmano
Author gender identification for Urdu articles
No full textThis is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science on 21/09/2022. The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published versionIn recent years, author gender identification has gained considerable attention in the fields of computational linguistics and artificial intelligence. This task has been extensively investigated for resource-rich languages such as English and Spanish. However, researchers have not paid enough attention to perform this task for Urdu articles. Firstly, I created a new Urdu corpus to perform the author gender identification task. I then extracted two types of features from each article including the most frequent 600 multi-word expressions and the most frequent 300 words. After I completed the corpus creation and features
extraction processes, I performed the features concatenation process. As a result each article was represented in a 900D feature space. Finally, I applied 10 different well-known classifiers to these features to perform the author gender identification task and compared their performances against state-of-the-art pre-trained multilingual language models, such as mBERT, DistilBERT, XLM-RoBERTa and multilingual DeBERTa, as well as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). I conducted extensive experimental studies which show that (i) using the most frequent 600 multi-word expressions as features and concatenating them with the most frequent 300 words as features improves the accuracy of the author gender identification task, and (ii) support vector machines outperforms other classifiers, as well as fine-tuned pre-trained language models and CNN. The code base and the corpus can be found at: https://github.com/raheem23/Gender_Identification_Urdu
"#KonotopIsTheLandOfTheLegends" by Ruslan Horovy: the strategies of comic creatin
No full textThe article is devoted to poetical features and narrative strategies of the cycle “#KonotopIsTheLandOfTheLegends” by Ruslan Horovy. Their choice is due to the peculiarities of the recipient’s perceiving of the texts in Facebook and the author’s notion about the reader of his writings. The author achieves the comic effect by combining a number of techniques: the standard narrative schema, the conciseness and the savings of language means, the unexpected end, the predominantly smart and sympathetic main character, the reader’s doubts about the reliability of the narrator, intertextuality, and the mockery.Статтю присвячено поетикальним рисам і наративним стратегіям циклу “#КонотопЗемляЛегенд” Руслана Горового, вибір яких зумовлений особливостями сприймання реципієнтом текстів у Facebook та уявленням автора про читача його дописів. Комічного ефекту автор досягає за допомогою комбінування низки прийомів: стандартна схема наративу, лаконічність і економія мовних засобів, неочікувана розв’язка, переважно кмітливий і симпатичний головний персонаж, сумніви читача в надійності наратора, інтертекстуальність, стьоб тощо
Mecanismul de recunoaștere și contabilizare a diferențelor de sumă
No full textGRAUR, Anatol, HAREA, Ruslan. Mecanismul de recunoaștere și contabilizare a diferențelor de sumă. In: International scientific conference on accounting, ISCA 2021 [online]: Culegere de articole științifice, 10 Edition, April 1-2, 2021. Chişinău: ASEM, 2021, pp. 208-215. ISBN 978-9975-155-25-0.This article describes how to recognize and account for differences in amount. The author presents the way of recalculation of receivables and liabilities expressed in foreign currency or conventional units at various official exchange rates of the MDL or exchange rates established in the contracts concluded between the residents of the Republic of Moldova. The tax treatment of the amount differences is presented as a price adjustment, the manner of issuing the tax invoice. Based on some examples, it is analyzed how these differences are reflected in the accounting accounts in different practical situations. JEL:M46
Unemployment and labor market dynamics in Russia
No full textThe past 15 months have seen the beginning of structural change in Russia but a failure of the economy to stabilize. The balance sheet, conclude the authors suggests that a return to centralized control remain almost impossible, but the dencentralization that has occurred contain many undesirable features. In framing their analysis, the authors draw on aggregate data and firm-level data from the first-round results of a 1992 survey covering 41 firms in the Moscow region. The survey results suggest that the greater autonomy of firms has facilitated the exploitation of market power while failing to dampen the demand for easy credit from the budget or banking system. For the most part, demand has been satisfied, enabling firms to meet current wage claims and, to a lesser degree, sustain output levels. Buoyant nominal profits can be traced either to pricing behavior derived from market power or to transfers or subsidies channeled through the fiscal monetary system. This in turn has artificially sustained the revenue side of the government accounts. Official employment was no more than 1 percent of the labor force by the end of 1992, but evidence on the importance of marginal unemployment indicates that the underlying pass-through into open unemployment will be great. By the third quarter of 1992, this"augmented"unemployment rate approached 4 percent of the labor force. Even so, the authors observe non-trivial outflows from unemployment to jobs and in some regions to jobs in the private or collective sector. In Russia, outflows to state sector jobs dominate. Survey evidence shows considerable turnover in the state sector and resilient hiring. Much of the churning in labor markets seems to be through voluntary separations and job transitions. Net changes to employment have been limited, and have involved mostly ancillary or clerical staff. The authors discern a core or membership rule dominating Russian firms'decisions which it would be dangerous to assume will be maintained. They interpret it as a holding strategy in a complex game the firms have been playing with government. Lack of a credible reform program has weakened any impulse toward large-scale restructuring of firms. Wages have been more volatile and have regional dispersion, but the authors predict no large consistent shift in relative wages. Rather the wage path has probably been governed by current streams and additional transfers, and then set consistent with the stable employment rule. The path of wages over 1992 is clearly associated with changes in Russia's monetary and fiscal stance and allied institutional features.Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Banks&Banking Reform,Markets and Market Access,Access to Markets
On the analysis of the tin-inside-H3S Mössbauer experiment
No full textA simple analysis is presented of the particular experiment used to prove the bulk nature of very-high-Tc superconductivity in H3S compound under ultra-high pressure. In the experiment, an internal magnetic field was sensed by the synchrotron Mössbauer spectroscopy in tin placed inside the H3S sample. The experiment showed peculiar anisotropy with respect to the direction of the applied field at first sight. By considering actual experimental geometries and parameters of the experiment, we show that this particular observation is consistent with the expectations for a regular type-II superconductor with Meissner expulsion and pinning.This is a manuscript of an article published as Prozorov, Ruslan, and Sergey L. Bud’ko. "On the analysis of the tin-inside-H3S Mössbauer experiment." Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism 35, no. 10 (2022): 2615-2619.
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Wage and employment decisions in the Russian economy : an analysis of developments in 1992
No full textThe authors analyze changes in the Russian labor market in 1992. They focus on the path of wages and employment in a context of partial price liberalization and considerable ambiguity about government and central bank policy. Under the former Soviet economy, the firm was the bedrock of the centrally planned system. The relaxation of centralized controls did not result in substantial employment losses partly because of the implicit moral economy of the system and partly because of continuing constraints on wages. In 1992, the wage structure and employment levels in the economy's state sector exhibited surprising stability, reflecting the system's immense inertia. Despite announced regime changes, at the end of 1992 the number of jobseekers was no more than 1.5 percent of the labor force. But significant changes have been made: wage and employment decisions have been widely liberalized; some restraints on labor mobility have been removed; changes have also been made in ownership title; and there has been some expansion in the private sector, as yet largely concentrated in services. These substantive changes are important for future expectations about entitlements to jobs and incomes, but the changes remain restricted and the sources of these restrictions imply significant economic costs. The underpinning of the current stagflation is the inability to break the soft budget constraint on state firms and to impose realistically a systematic, transparent set of constraints on the firms'financing demands. This has combined with the firms'continuing ability to exercise market power alongside weak controls on wage claims. Employment transitions have been dominated by high levels of quits at the base of the skill structure. Involuntary separations have been limited, involving mostly women and white collar workers. Firms commonly provide de facto unemployment compensation to workers in the form of minimum wage payments with little or no work requirement. There is evidence of some increase in the proportion of laid-off workers among the unemployed, but firms seem to prefer hoarding labor in light of uncertainty about policy, firm, or product-specific market prospects. Wages have been more volatile. Wages initially bore almost all of the adjustment costs, but have shown mild recovery thereafter. Lax monetary policy and decentralized insider power, giving rise to relative employment stability and real wage rigidity, are powerful ingredients for hyperinflation.Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Banks&Banking Reform,Municipal Financial Management
The Contribution Of Waqaf Properties Toward Acehnese Dayah’s Educational Empowerment
No full textWaqaf, throughout the Islamic history, serves tremendous dedications to sustain the Islamic development. For almost one and half millennium, waqaf is one of the key success factors in supporting the Islamic education. In the context of Aceh, waqaf has widely been used to fund the traditional institutions of education (Dayah). This study intent to examine the roles of waqaf properties in supporting the educational development, how dominant is the waqaf system has been perceived as an important function in Acehnese Dayah, and whether the spirit of generosity among Acehnese towards the Islamic education is reflected through the waqaf tradition. This research based on the interview sessions with the principal leaders of Dayahs in three different regions where the largest number of Dayah is found.
The results of the study showed that Waqaf has played the significant roles in supporting the Islamic traditional education or dayah in Aceh, and become the important source for many dayah since waqaf properties are utilized for the purpose of facilitating, enhancing and achieving the educational processes towards the student development. Besides, waqaf system has been also perceived its important function in funding the dayah institutions via four ways; providing the infrastructure facilities of the Dayah, supporting the principal, teachers and other dayah educational staffs in conducting the teaching learning processes, managing the programs and activities, controlling and evaluation the rules and strategies towards better student’s achievement, preparing the financial assistance to the teachers and tutors, and by handling the daily operational cost of these institutions. The findings also mentioned that the Acehnese generosity towards the Islamic education has been reflected by community as their dedications through the waqaf donations. As the territory that the Islamic Sharia is implemented, waqaf should be reactualize in maximaling its contribution towards better educational development in Aceh
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