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The impact of Albanian cartoon films on the learning process, stimulating thought, imagination, and their use as un instructional tool for improving and facilitating the implementation of the preschool curriculum

Author(s): Albana Xhemali,Elkjana Gjipali,Elona Hasko / Language(s): English / Issue: 22/2023

Keywords: children; cartoon; problem-solving skills; movies; language;

With the development of technology, teachers face the challenge of finding new and creative methods to improve the educational process in their work with preschool children and cartoon films for children can be un instructional and educational tool for using in the classrooms, preschools or other educational activities for preschool children. Using cartoon films for children could be a very interesting method, instructional and could improve children’s attention, improve language and communication skills, establish relationships between subjects in the film and develop problem-solving skills, enhance their imagination and help comprehend emotions and discussions about them. In an experiment realised with children 4-6 years in 4 public and private preschools in Tirana, while showing cartoon films for children in Albanian language and produced by public artistic institutions during the years ’80, ’90, it was noticed that the children were interested and engaged in discussing about the topics of the cartoon films content. Showing cartoon films for children as un instructional method for explaining topics about hygiene and health, respecting rules and community, helping others and preventing bullying, resulted to be a very useful tool for implementing the activities of the basic-preschool-curricula and that facilitated the work of teachers in getting the attention of children, explaining important topics and involving children in discussions.

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Views of Albanian literature for children

Author(s): Ermir Nika / Language(s): English / Issue: 22/2023

Keywords: literature; legend; poem; novel; writer; study; children;

After the New Age, a period which many contemporary researchers define as the stage where the first foundations of modernity were laid in the society-wide mentality, we have another relationship with the mythical past, since they were no longer seen as figures with strength and size divine, but as creatures from which the past came through artistic whimsy. Thus, oral traditions and fairy tales had a much greater and direct influence on the literary process. They strengthened it and became a primary source of subjects, a wide gallery of characters further delineating the various literary genres and genres. Regarding the Albanian literature for children, we can affirm that during the period of the National Renaissance, in the wake of the numerous social, political, and cultural contributions undertaken by the protagonists of this great movement, a very useful work was done for the drafting of texts money for Albanian schools. The renaissance saw the creation of books for the younger generations as a major obligation, and in this way, the number of writings dedicated to children increased significantly. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to document the progress of Albanian children’s literature in distinctive styles, forms, and norms through which this literature passed and was consolidated. Method: To realize this article, I relied on two basic methods; in the synchronic and diachronic one, with the aim of bringing a more complete and analytical view of the phenomena that appear in this literature. Conclusion: Following the tradition and enriching it with works and authors of different periods with consolidated literary styles and physiognomy, is proven through a detailed analysis where the evolutionary process of this literature is verified.

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Firing Costs and Inventor Turnover

Author(s): Emre EKİNCİ / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2023

Keywords: Patents; Innovation; Wrongful Discharge Laws; Firing Costs; Worker Turnover;

This paper examines the effect of firing costs on inventor turnover using the patent data provided by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for the 1975-2003 period. The adoption of the wrongful discharge laws in the US is considered as an exogenous increase in firing costs. As states adopt these laws at different dates, a quasi-experimental setting allows us to estimate a casual effect. Using the existing holdup theories investigating the employment relationship, we conjecture that the effect of firing costs on inventor turnover hinges on the extent to which the inventor’s knowledge set is transferable to competing firms. We measure knowledge transferability by the number of co-authors an inventor has filed a patent with, his or her specialization across technological classes and reliance on the prior art patented by the current employer. Our analysis shows that these variables alter, as predicted by the theory, how increased firing costs affect inventor turnover.

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Interrelationships in Inventory Turnover Performance Between Supplier and Customer Firms

Author(s): Joseph J. Henry,Peter Christensen,James C. Brau / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2023

Keywords: Inventory Turnover; Supply Chain Efficiency; Inventory Factor Model;

Using inventory turnover to measure the efficiency of corporate inventory management, we perform econometric analyses to verify whether the inventory efficiency of a firm’s supply chain partners is a statistically significant driver of the firm’s own inventory efficiency. We test two mutually exclusive hypotheses. First, suppliers hold inventory on behalf of customers, effectively displacing inventory up the supply chain and resulting in a negative correlation between supplier and customer inventory turnover. Alternatively, inventory efficiency is integrated along the supply chain, resulting in a positive correlation between supplier and customer inventory turnover. Our bivariate and multivariate analyses of both firm- and industry-level data support the “integration” hypothesis of higher inventory efficiency along the supply chain. Our findings highlight the importance of expanding the research and practice of working capital management beyond the firm-level.

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The Analysis of The Dynamic Relationship between Corporate Sustainability and Financial Performance

Author(s): Ebru Aydoğan,Esen Kara / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2023

Keywords: Corporate Sustainability; Financial Performance; Endogeneity; Panel Data; System GMM;

One of the frequently mentioned issues in the literature is that studies analyzing the relationship between corporate sustainability and financial performance do not reach a consensus on the existence and direction of the relationship. This study is aimed to contribute to the literature by analyzing the relationship between corporate sustainability practices and financial performances of 58 non-bank firms included in the Borsa Istanbul (BIST) Sustainability Index between the years 2015-2021. The study employed the System Generalized Method of Moments (system GMM) estimator, which is one of the dynamic panel data models. The results of the analysis can be summarized as follows; (i) there is a positive relationship between corporate sustainability practices and both market-based and accounting-based financial performance indicators, (ii) corporate sustainability positively affects different financial performance indicators at different terms, (iii) sustainability investments affect the market value of businesses more and faster than the return on assets, and (iv) the relationship between corporate sustainability and financial performance is dynamic, and the endogeneity problem should be taken into account in the analysis of the relationship between them.

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Analyzing the Challenges to Adoption of Drones in the Logistics Sector Using the Best-Worst Method

Author(s): Sinan Çıkmak,Gökhan Kırbaç,Buşra Kesici / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2023

Keywords: Drones; Logistics; Unmanned Aerial Vehicle; Challenge Analysis; Best-Worst Method;

Drones, which are unmanned aerial vehicles, are used in various areas. Some important worldwide companies have been interested to integrate drone technology into their logistics applications. Although the use of drones promises various advantages such as reducing costs and improving responsiveness in the logistics sector, there are also various challenges to the adoption of this technology. Therefore, this study aims to identify and prioritize the challenges to drone technology adoption in the logistics sector. Initially, 34 challenges under seven major dimensions for the study were identified by a thorough literature review and consultation with selected experts. Then, the best-worst method (BWM) is applied to rank these major challenges and associated sub-criteria. The results show that “terrorist attacks”, “lack of legal regulations”, “difficulty of flight permit processes”, “flight area limitation due to restrictive visual line of sight (VLOS)”, and “personal data protection” are the top five challenges that confront the logistics sector for adopting drone technology. The findings of this research will provide important insights to practitioners and researchers interested in new technologies that can be applied in the logistics sector.

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The Effect of Organizational Pride on Job Satisfaction: A Research in the Tourism Sector

Author(s): Belkıs Dilek Özbezek,Hacı Mustafa Paksoy,Veysel Mehmet Gültekin / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2023

Keywords: Organizational Pride; Job Satisfaction; Tourism; Hotel Management; Employee;

The tourism sector generally has features such as labor intensive, simultaneous production and consumption, and inability to store the product. Due to these features, the human element has great importance and role in terms of both production and business profitability. The main purpose of this study is to examine the effect of organizational pride on job satisfaction in terms of tourism sector employees. The research was carried out by survey method on 392 personnel in five-star the hotels in Antalya region. The results of the correlation analyses showed that it was determined that organizational pride and its sub-dimensions had a positive and low-level relationship with job satisfaction and its sub-dimensions. According to the results of the multiple regression analysis, it was concluded that the emotional pride dimension, which is one of the sub-dimensions of organizational pride, has a significant effect on job satisfaction and its sub-dimensions.

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The use of textures as a visual design element in cut-out illustrations

Author(s): İrem Akbaharer Arslan / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: Cut-out illustration; Visual Texture; Children’s Book Illustration;

As digital media changes and evolves with technology, it has become an indispensable part of human life, offering various opportunities in terms of design and illustration. It is up to the illustrator’s creative imagination to use these opportunities to the best of their ability because while opportunities may change, the only constant is creativity. With the use of more and more digital software and tools, visual arts are now appearing in digital media. In this context, the research aimed to consider texture as a design element in digital illustration rather than just using painting tools in the software. The contribution of texture to design as a visual texture through the cut-out technique was examined.

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The case of cultural schizophrenia: Alleged tampering with DNA codes via Covid-19 vaccines

Author(s): Atilla Kılınç / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: Biopolitics; Vaccine Resistance; Disinformation; Reproductivity; Turkey;

The covid pandemic, which started in December 2019, was announced with a delay of two months in many developing countries like Turkey. With the announcement of the first cases in Turkey in the second week of March 2020, it became clear that a precise different situation would be experienced in the socioeconomic and health fields, which people had never faced before. Also, It took time for the World Health Organization to decide whether Covid-19 was a pandemic or an endemic. Meanwhile, the first problem faced by the public was the contradictory statements made by politicians about what happened. However, the issue that everyone discussed the most was the immune system and the biopolitics of politicians regarding the covid -19 vaccine and its development process. Public understanding of science has led governments to be unable to eliminate covid-related manipulations during covid’s evolution from endemic to the pandemic. After a while, governments tried to cover up the lack of vaccination by using these manipulations by the media. This whole process was built on the biopolitics of immunization and eventually led to the strengthening of public opposition to vaccines. The first aim of this article is to present how the government’s science communication strategy in Turkey has developed a collective resistance to vaccines through a case study. This analysis applies the “Four Moments” processes from Michael Callon’s article “Law, Power, action, and Belief: a new sociology of knowledge.” In addition, the article aims to show the underlying reasons for the anti-vaccination opposition that has been experienced in Turkey in the last two years and has grown stronger over time.

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Generating video game characters using StyleGAN2

Author(s): İsmail Ergen / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: Generative art; Videogame; StyleGAN;

GANs have been getting better and better each year. The state of the art GAN models for generating 2D images have become so good it is hard to differentiate generated images nowadays. In this paper we create 3 different sparse data sets from video game assets and train them with StyleGAN2 to generate new artwork based on the previously existing artworks of the video game in question.

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Learning English as a Foreign Language, Second Language and Speakers of Other Languages

Author(s): Elena Tribushinina / Language(s): English / Issue: 6/2022

Keywords: English language; foreign languages learning; second language;

Language instruction for individuals learning English might be referred to as English as a subsequent language, English as an unknown dialect, English as an extra language, English as Another Dialect, or English for speakers of different dialects. The perspective wherein ESL is educated is alluded to as Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) or Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).

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Development of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Technology on Robotics

Author(s): Catherine Davies / Language(s): English / Issue: 6/2022

Keywords: machine learning; development; artificial intelligence; robotics;

Robot learning is the investigation of procedures that empower a robot to procure new information or abilities through AI calculations. A few applications that have been investigated by robot learning incorporate getting a handle on objects, object classification and, surprisingly, semantic communication with a human companion. Learning can occur through self-investigation or by means of direction from a human administrator. To learn, astute robots should aggregate realities through human information or sensors. Then, the robot's handling unit will contrast the recently procured information with recently put away data and foresee the best game-plan in light of the information it has gained.

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Innovation of Educational Culture in Society

Author(s): Sandra Schwab / Language(s): English / Issue: 6/2022

Keywords: education; educational culture; innovation; society;

Educational cultures are the system where instructive exercises happen. In the current case, be that as it may, the local educators and the students don't on a basic level offer similar methodologies. Various customs have created explicit showing works on, including, for example, obviously recognized kinds of activities, for example, answering orally to questions, doing composed practices or delivering specific sorts of texts. These are not general, nonetheless, and posing the educator an inquiry is definitely not an OK practice all over.

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Learning New Languages to Improvises the Brain

Author(s): Wonil Choi / Language(s): English / Issue: 6/2022

Keywords: language; learning; education; brain;

Learning languages is a fundamental component of being exceptionally delicate and lovely while venturing out to new spots, when expected to be at some spot for must and should in the event of instructive or proficient reasons. In any event, learning only one language can totally change the manner in which you convey, the manner in which individuals see you, and the effect you make on individuals with whom you speak. Concerning self-improvement, solace, and certainty, it is presently viewed as an unquestionable requirement to study and get new dialects. Knowing an unknown dialect during your investigations and thusly when you wish to work is a tremendous advantage.

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The Quest for New Digital Skills for Opera Artists and Opera Companies during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Author(s): Sakhiseni Joseph Yende / Language(s): English / Issue: 6/2022

Keywords: Covid-19; digital skills; economy; opera artists; opera industry;

The coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic has emerged as a global phenomenon that significantly affects almost all sectors, irrespective of whether they have a well-established economic system. The inception of COVID-19 pandemic has increased and accelerated the demand for opera industry embrace digit technology to continue to produce performances and reach audiences. The brutality of the Covid-19 pandemic has affected most sectors, and opera artists are significantly affected in the Global South. South Africa, among others, is at the receiving end. The Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc and exacerbated the existing vulnerability of opera artists. Opera artists have difficulty obtaining employment and finding funding for performing arts organisations have caused seriously challenged opera artists to survive during the Covid-19 pandemic. This study is aimed to examine the quest for new digital skills for opera artists and opera companies during the Covid-19 pandemic. A qualitative research method was adopted using interviews with opera artists, selected retired opera practitioners and managers of opera companies. In this study, scholarly documents were reviewed to yield trustworthy findings. The findings demonstrate a high demand for opera artists to upgrade their current skills to meet the demand of digital skills. This demand for digital skills is partially attributable to the closed and suspension of live theatre performances due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The findings also reveal that digital connectivity in the performing arts sector become an essential driver of economic growth. This study concludes by affirming that digital skills are key skills required for resuscitating the opera industry.

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BA Projects at Linguistics for Business – at the Crossroads of PBL & PjBL

Author(s): Katarzyna Bednarska,Aleksandra Beata Makowska / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2022

Keywords: PBL; PjBL; BA project; BA thesis; project charter; groupwork;

Higher education must respond to dynamically changing job market needs and this has become the third mission of higher education institutions. Traditional methods of sharing knowledge and developing students’ skills are not satisfactory. For this reason, it is necessary to seek teaching alternatives, such as PBL (Problem-Based Learning) and PjBL (Project-Based Learning). This paper presents the idea of applying the above-mentioned methods to the BA in Linguistics for Business at the University of Lodz, an innovative and interdisciplinary BA programme combining linguistics with management. The participants combine skills and knowledge gained throughout their studies, i.e. linguistics, intercultural communication, accounting and finance, or selected aspects of running a business. Moreover, creating group BA projects reflects real-life situations students may encounter in the workplace.

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Languages for Specific Purposes in the Business Services Sector in Poland 2021. Origins, Background, Results and Perspectives of the Language Barometer of Lódź

Author(s): Beata Grzeszczakowska-Pawlikowska,Jacek Makowski,Agnieszka Stawikowska-Marcinkowska / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2022

Keywords: Languages for Specific Purposes; LSP; Business Services; Professional Communication; German; Multilingualism;

The article contributes to current discourses on the opportunities, challenges and limits for foreign and specialized language didactics in the context of the closer cooperations between Universities and the wider economic and social environment. It presents and discusses the background, origins, results and perspectives of the research project “The Language Barometer of Lodz 2021. Employees of the modern business services sector”. The research questions of the survey are primarily directed at the required foreign language skills of the target group, areas of application of foreign languages, the knowledge and specialist areas to be mastered, language training in the company, as well as the aspect of multilingualism in the context of professional communication. The paper will present and discuss the global results of the survey, and also provide a full package of anonymous raw data collected during the survey for possible further analysis and study. The data obtained in the survey can be used for projects and research initiatives on various aspects of specialised communication in an intercultural work environment, but may also find application in, among other things, the development or modification of curricula at different levels of learning, the creation of specialisation modules, language courses, workshops or educational materials.

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Anthropolinguistic Tools to Study Political Linguistics. The Case of Donald Trump’s 2020 Campaign Discourse

Author(s): Marta Strukowska,Piotr P. Chruszczewski / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2022

Keywords: political linguistics; anthropological linguistics; communicational grammars; ethnography of communication; American presidential campaign discourse; text analysis; Donald Trump;

The paper presents an anthropolinguistic study of Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign discourse. The study can be situated within the scope of political linguistics. The interdisciplinary method of research applied here rests upon the understanding of human communication functioning in terms of communicational grammars of specific discourses that comprise rules of language use set against the background of immediate contexts of use. The key idea underbracing this study is that language is a rule-governed, conventions-based system of practice (e.g., de Saussure [1916] 2011, Sapir 1921, Hymes 1972, Saville–Troike [1982] 2003, Lucy [1996] 1999) and a conventional type of performance which allows for building a nexus of typified relations. Another overarching goal of this paper is to show that human interaction is mostly both a structurally hardwired and functionally (pragmatically) driven linguistic practice. The analysis sets out to explore Donald Trump’s texts according to the Anthropolinguistic Model of Communication (AMC) (Strukowska 2022) as a pattern recognition model that provides a contextual overview of elements of communication and functions as a solid platform for documenting discursive practices (Chruszczewski 2011: 199–263).

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Forestry Enterprises Diagnostic Audit of Compliance with the Social Responsibility Principles

Author(s): Larysa Cherchyk,Nina Khumarova,Anna Burda / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2023

Keywords: social responsibility; forestry enterprises; international standards; diagnostic audit

This article improves the methodological approaches to the formation of diagnostic audit of forestry enterprises on the basis of international standards FSC and SA 8000. Three components of the audit and corresponding groups of indicators are proposed as: institutional (including indicators of compliance with the current legislation, organizational structure and management system effectiveness requirements), social (indicators of labour safety, personnel safety, corporate social responsibility, interaction with stakeholders), environmental (indicators of forest management, forest protection, economic measures implementation and their impact on the environment). The methodology was tested on the materials of the state enterprise "Kivertsivske Forestry". The results show that whilst enterprises mainly operate in accordance with the social responsibility principles, but there are identified several positions that need to be improved.

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A Comparative Study of Seigniorage: Egypt and Qatar

Author(s): Ibrahim L. Awad / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2023

Keywords: Monetary Seigniorage; Fiscal Seigniorage; Structural VAR Model; Central Bank’s Balance Sheet

This study adopts the model of CB’s balance sheet and government budget identity developed by Klein & Neumann (1990) to investigate the question of “Will the effect of monetary seigniorage on CPI inflation and real GDP growth be differentiated based upon the adopted monetary policy regime and the initial source of seigniorage?” The study compares Egypt and Qatar, as both countries apply asymmetric monetary policy regimes. Conclusions by structural VAR model are: (i) monetary seigniorage does not affect either CPI inflation or GDP growth in Egypt. The opposite is true in the case of Qatar. (ii) in contrast to the case of Qatar, the mechanism of the money supply channel is broken in Egypt because the central bank of Egypt applies a sterilization policy to maintain dual objectives for monetary policy, namely foreign exchange rate and inflation rate.

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