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Slovak Republic’s Performance in the UN Security Council (2006-2007)

Slovak Republic’s Performance in the UN Security Council (2006-2007)

Author(s): Peter Burian / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Slovakia; 2006; 2007; performance; evaluation; UN; security council;

Our membership in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was a unique opportunity to show that the Slovak Republic is a responsible member of the international community capable of contributing to the resolution of both global and regional issues. It was historically the first membership of the independent Slovak Republic in the UNSC, which is generally considered the most effective instrument for dealing with the questions of international peace and security. Slovakia was thus given the historically first opportunity to assume an appropriate share of global responsibility and directly take part in the resolution of current security issues and challenges in the world and in the adoption of the relevant decisions of this body.

The domination of brains and bodies

La domination des cerveaux et des corps

Author(s): Alain Leduc / Language(s): French / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Sade; Mirbeau; Vailland; religion; atheism; athéisme

Has reading and studying Sade, Octave Mirbeau or Roger Vailland become impossible?Are atheists, secularists, materialists now ostracized minority in Europe? It seems that in France, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, etc., henceforth, debating between the believers, the religious faithful, is only allowed. Followers and representatives of the three revealed religions, basically.In the face of the decline of free thinking, prejudices that multiply, we must defend the heritage of the Enlightenment, their values, against obscurantism in full revival. The values of reason, knowledge, education.The author, a careful reader of Sade, a board member of the Friends of Octave Mirbeau, creator and editor of the site Roger Vailland, will build on these three writers, decidedly atheistic and materialistic.All three are direct descendants of the Enlightenment. Straight away for the first, the second at the turn of two centuries, the nineteenth and twentieth, the third dead here fifty years, in 1965.

Expansion at the state’s expense: Novatek as a driving engine of the Russian LNG sector

Expansion at the state’s expense: Novatek as a driving engine of the Russian LNG sector

Author(s): Szymon Kardaś / Language(s): English

Keywords: Russian LNG sector

A deal for France’s Total to acquire a 10% stake in the Arctic LNG 2 project for US$2.55 billion was struck on 24 May during the International Economic Forum in Saint Petersburg. This project envisages the construction of a natural gas liquefaction plant on the Gydan Peninsula and is being implemented by Novatek, Russia’s largest private natural gas producer. In December 2017, the company launched the first production line of an LNG terminal on the Yamal Peninsula – the Yamal LNG project. In addition to this, Gazprom and Rosneft have confirmed their intention to implement their own LNG projects.

Mothers’ employment and its consequences for investment in children

Mothers’ employment and its consequences for investment in children

Author(s): Piotr Michoń / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Expansion at the state’s expense: Novatek as a driving engine of the Russian LNG sector

Ekspansja na koszt państwa: Novatek motorem rosyjskiego sektora LNG

Author(s): Szymon Kardaś / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Novatek; Russian LNG sector

24 maja podczas Międzynarodowego Forum Gospodarczego w Petersburgu zostało podpisane porozumienie o zakupie przez francuski koncern energetyczny Total 10% udziałów w projekcie Arktyczny LNG 2 za 2,55 mld USD. Przedsięwzięcie to, przewidujące budowę zakładu skraplania gazu na Półwyspie Gydańskim, jest realizowane przez rosyjską spółkę Novatek – największego prywatnego producenta gazu w Rosji. W grudniu 2017 roku firma uruchomiła pierwszą linię produkcyjną terminalu LNG na Półwyspie Jamalskim – projekt Jamał LNG. Ponadto zamiar realizacji własnych projektów LNG podtrzymują wciąż Gazprom i Rosnieft’.

Are reforms unavoidable? Belarus’s economy facing a reduction of subsidies from Russia

Are reforms unavoidable? Belarus’s economy facing a reduction of subsidies from Russia

Author(s): Kamil Kłysiński / Language(s): English

Keywords: Belarus; reforms; economy; economic policy; economic development; economic relations with Russia;

2018 brought a continuation of the economic growth in Belarus which started in 2017 and which followed a period of recession that had lasted several years. This does not equate to a genuine improvement in the condition of the Belarusian economy, which is still based on ineffective methods of planning and management dating back to Soviet times. Independent Belarusian economists and foreign experts agree that Belarus is currently stuck in a lowgrowth trap of around 2–3% annually, which prevents it from catching up with other countries of the region. In addition, Belarus’s economic situation is aggravated by the fact that, since mid-2018, Russia has been increasing the rate at which it is reducing its subsidies. These subsidies are among the main drivers of economic growth and form the precondition of the stability of the Belarusian economy as a whole. Moscow is making its continued support for Belarus conditional on Minsk’s readiness to engage in genuine integration under the Union State of Russia and Belarus, which has formally been in place since 1999. As a consequence, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka is now facing the challenge of either maintaining Belarus’s independence from Russia or losing at least a portion of Russian subsidies that currently account for 10% of Belarus’s GDP. An economic overhaul could be an alternative to the support Minsk receives from Moscow. However, the reforms implemented so far are limited and relate mainly to the IT sector as well as small and medium-sized companies. Fearing an excessive weakening of his system of power, in particular in the context of the upcoming presidential election, Lukashenka will continue to block more decisive actions, including the privatisation or closing of selected unprofitable state-controlled industrial plants. This means that Minsk will need to seek an agreement with Moscow despite the latter stepping up its demands. The price of this agreement will be Belarus’s increasing dependence of Russia.

Little Secrets About a Great Monument

Male tajne o velikom spomeniku

Author(s): Rodoljub Šabić / Language(s): Serbian

Keywords: Spomenik; Monumet; Stefan Nemanja; coruption; system of public procurement;

A Character Facing the Supernatural in Ken Bugul’s La Folie et la Mort and De l’autre côté du regard

Le personnage face au surnaturel dans La Folie et la Mort et De l’autre côté du regard de Ken Bugul

Author(s): Anna Swoboda / Language(s): French / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Ken Bugul; Senegal; fantastic literature; marvelous; supernatural;

When analyzing African fantastic literature, one needs to be aware of the specific context of its emergence. Unlike in Western fantastic literature, the supernatural is rooted in everyday life and often does not evoke any fear nor surprise. This article aims to analyze the heroines’ reaction to the supernatural in two novels by a Senegalese writer Ken Bugul: De l’autre côte du regard and La Folie et la Mort. The hesitation between belief and disbelief of the supernatural, as defined by Todorov, is possible when the protagonist has an ambivalent relationship with the African tradition and is influenced by the Western thought. However, if the protagonist is not at all surprised or afraid of the supernatural, we are dealing with a neighboring genre: the marvelous. In my study, I will refer to the Western, as well as the African theories of fantastic literature.

Education

Education

Author(s): Severin Kazimierz Turosienski / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: illiteracy; school-system;

Yugoslavia, young in its present political form but very old in traditions and culture, organized an educational system in 1918 that was free and obligatory for all its youth from infancy to early manhood and womanhood. Education has always had a significance beyond mere instruction in dry facts. It has become a national symbol of vital importance to a people who for hundreds of years were repressed as ignorant serfs by Turks, Magyars, Germans, or Italians. The tremendous value of education to the Yugoslavs can be better appreciated when it is remembered that “Black George,” the liberator and first ruler of Serbia, was an illiterate who could sign official documents only by making a rude cross. // Even to this day, illiteracy is high in the country. In the southern districts, where the Turks ruled longest, only 27-37 per cent of those over ten years of age could read and write. By way of comparison, in the Slovene districts, where the somewhat more enlightened Austrian rule had permitted education at a much earlier date, more than 94 per cent were literate. But in spite of the higher degree of literacy in the north, only 54.8 per cent of the nation as a whole could read and write. Among women this proportion was only 43 per cent, though men made a better showing (67.3 per cent).

Postwar Foreign Economic Relations

Postwar Foreign Economic Relations

Author(s): Jozo Tomasevich / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

The wartime damages sustained by the Yugoslav economy influence and will, for a number of years, continue to influence the production and export capacity of the country and its import needs. Most of the following data come from the reports of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Mission in Yugoslavia, which obtained them from official Yugoslav sources and, when possible, checked them. Since most of the data were compiled by local liberation committees which were inexperienced in administrative work, and since statistical services in Yugoslavia have always been poor, final computations of damages will necessitate much revision. Nevertheless, the data are sufficient to convey the order of magnitude of the destruction and damage sustained during the war.

Treaties, Agreements, Conventions Published in 2019

Treaties, Agreements, Conventions Published in 2019

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Slovakia; 2019; foreign policy; treaties; agreements; conventions;

1. Presidential treaties and agreements; 2. Governmental treaties and agreements; 3. Multilateral treaties and agreements

Considerations Regarding the Assessment and Measurement of Financial Performance

Considerations Regarding the Assessment and Measurement of Financial Performance

Author(s): Izabela Diana Hada / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: financial performance;ROA;ROE;net profit margin;pharmaceutical field;

Financial performance is a complex indicator that has represented and represents a priority, an assurance of profitable economic results, and also a hard to reach indicator. Given the importance and necessity of measuring the financial performance both for the internal and external environment of the economic entity, the main purpose of this article is to present concepts regarding the financial performance: typology, importance, indicators that measure the performance. The paper also aimed to highlight the importance of knowing and measuring performance, based on an empirical study conducted on a sample of five companies in the pharmaceutical field (companies whose object of activity is the retail trade of pharmaceuticals, in specialized stores - CAEN 4773) for which profitability indicators were analysed for a period of fifteen years (2004-2018). The five companies were chosen on the basis of turnover, representing the five best performing companies in the field of trade in pharmaceuticals. The research results show that financial performance is the goal of an economic and social game whose main actors are economic entities, also it is a measure of profit, growth, productivity, value creation, being a complex indicator that confirms the profitability of the business, and performance evaluation involves meeting the requirements of stakeholders. In addition to obtain profit, an entity must focus on sustainable development business, on a capitalization of factors of production, obtaining the best and optimal results in relation to the resources consumed.

Durtal’s tetralogy: objectives of Huysmans’ deconstruction of the traditional formula of novel

La tétralogie de Durtal: les objectifs de la déconstruction huysmansienne de la formule romanesque traditionnelle

Author(s): Agata Sadkowska-Fidala / Language(s): French / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: novel; naturalism; document; mysticism; protagonist; modification

From "À rebours", the Huysmansian novel, faithful to the naturalistic aesthetic and to the traditional formula, sets off in a direction which is immediately identified by Zola as a blow to naturalism, and which also constitutes a blow brought to the novel as a genre. In the catholic trilogy, the plot deteriorates from novel to novel, the document takes over, the protagonist’s monologue invades the story. The author explains it by a desire to renew the novel formula, which arrived at an impasse; the pedagogical design of the cycle contributes to the need to seek a new form. But that’s not all. The changes introduced reflect the wishes and needs of the protagonist, who seeks to huddle in a safe place and dreams of finding a haven of peace in the spiritual realm.

Community-Based Solution for a Community Spread Requires Incentive-Compatibility Considerations

Community-Based Solution for a Community Spread Requires Incentive-Compatibility Considerations

Author(s): Frank Lorne,A.C. Lai,Sairam Katla,Krish Kale,Daniel Bocanegra Diaz / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Nonpharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs); Contact Tracing; Community-based Solutions;

The war on coronavirus is being fought on many fronts. Unquestionably, the battle is in the ICU rooms, but non pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) are equally important. Humans can win a battle but lose the war with the virus. If an increase in asymmetric information in human interactions is the social consequence of a spreading virus, that information problem has to be directly addressed.The challenge is more than a task in science. It is also a socio-economic institutional challenge. Health systems of the world, while largely adopting a TTT (Testing, Tracing, Treatment) procedure in managing the virus, has not sufficiently addressed to community spreads in designing mechanisms that can signal suspects and hotspots effectively. The need for examining the system outside the healthcare structure is essential once we understand the traveling journey of a virus. Contact tracing,while direct in identifying suspects of infected individuals, may not be effective even with technology such as AI embedded. Aside from privacy issues, digital contact tracing entails human execution that is a voluntary decision in a free society. There is no assurance that the public will necessarily cooperate. This paper articulates a reason for addressing community-based solutions that are outside the normal health system management. We argue that for a community-based solution to be effective,incentive-compatibility must be considered. Our paper proposes a solution that entails the least privacy intrusion.

Bibliometric Analysis of Studies Published on Alternative Tourism in Tourism Literature

Bibliometric Analysis of Studies Published on Alternative Tourism in Tourism Literature

Author(s): Elif Bak Ates / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Alternative tourism; Bibliometric analysis; Google Scholar;

The ever-growing and changing tourism sector offers alternative touristic products and promove. In parallel with the developments in the world, besides coastal tourism shaped by the sea-sand-sun trio, many alternative tourism types are coming out in Turkey. In the study, it is aimed to examine the bibliometric profiles of the articles titled “alternative tourism” within the framework of the determined parameters. In this context, the articles published between 2000-2022 were derived from the Google Scholar database. 42 articles accessed as a result of the searches lay with different variables with frequency analysis and graphics. The articles were examined on the basis of criteria such as the year they were published, the journal they were published in, the research method and research variables. As a result of this evaluation, it was seen that the most articles on alternative tourism were published in 2008. It has been determined that the research variables are mostly alternative tourism potential and centers. Theoretical studies are relatively more numerous than empirical studies. In terms of the findings, it is thought that the study will provide an important and comprehensive resource that researchers can benefit from. Other findings of the study show that the number of studies on alternative tourism has increased in recent years.

Facing Man, Facing the Animal

Face à l’homme, face à l’animal

Author(s): Mirosław Loba / Language(s): French / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: man; animal; history; care; ecological discourse; Élisabeth de Fontenay; literature

The author seeks to relate the ideas of Élisabeth de Fontenay to what is now called an ecological turn in the humanities − particularly in literary studies − to see how the work and thought of the philosopher can accompany us in the exercise of ecocritical discourse on literature. Particular attention is paid to the reading of her book "Gaspard de la nuit. Autobiographie de mon frère", which reveals human and animal fragility and invites the questioning of contemporary ecologically sensitive discourses.

Contractual Risks in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Projects

Contractual Risks in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Projects

Author(s): Iulia Daniela Postolea,Constanţa-Nicoleta Bodea / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: RPA; RPA projects; contractual risks; contractual liability; financial losses;

In a time of paradigm changes redefining the meaning of "work" concept and the way work is carried out, the processes automation became not only widespread but also necessary and efficient. These changes are supported by the usage of the software robots. The Robotic Process Automation (RPA) projects implement process automation solutions that might be used for different processes that involve repetitive tasks and indispensable, even if they do not have a significant added value per see. The initiation of this type of projects must take into consideration not only the benefits that might be achieved, but also the potential financial losses, due to contractual imperfections or/ and the defective results of robots’ performance. In this paper, the authors identify the contractual typologies applicable to RPA projects and evaluate the contractual elements that have the potential to cause financial losses as well as proposals for mitigating the identified risks. We consider that the paper covers a gap identified in the literature.

IMPLICATIONS OF CRIME ON SOCIETY IN THE CONTEXT OF RUSSIA’S WAR IN UKRAINE

IMPLICAȚIILE CRIMINALITĂȚII ASUPRA SOCIETĂȚII ÎN CONTEXTUL RĂZBOIULUI RUSO UCRAINEAN

Author(s): George-Ciprian Gîrleanu / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: money laundering Romanian crime; organized crime; public order; Russia’s war in Ukraine

The new geopolitical and geostrategic realities in the context of the war in Ukraine led to the exacerbation of common law crime and white collar crime and they represent a threat to National Security by making the integrated defence systems of National Security and public order vulnerable. An increase of corruption among civil servants and law enforcements led to the development of some unlawful underground economies powered by the war of Ukraine. Consequently, it results in a “sick” economy with direct effects on the regular citizen amplified by the arisal of new methods and forms of committing a crime in the context of the globalization of criminality which represent both a plague of this millenium and the biggest threat to the “healthy” development of a democratic state. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the legislative acquis and the system of public order and national security in order to fight against criminality in the context of new challenges that feed the anomie in society.

Temporary protection of Ukrainian citizens following the Russian military invasion of Ukraine

Protecția temporară a cetățenilor ucraineni, ca urmare a invaziei militare ruse din Ucraina

Author(s): Bianca-Ioana Petcu / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: military invasion in Ukraine; massive influx of displaced persons; temporary protection; solidarity; emergency mechanism; phenomenon management;

Following the military invasion by the forces of the Russian army launched on 24.02.2022 in Ukraine, at the level of its neighboring states and beyond, there was a massive influx of people displaced from this country, the groups of people being made up both from Ukrainian citizens and and from citizens of other states that, at the time of the invasion, were living in or transiting Ukraine. This aspect determined the creation of a mechanism for quick and appropriate measures both at European and national level to manage this phenomenon. At the European level, on 04.03.2023, the Council issued the Decision (EU) 2022/382 and activated the temporary protection provided by Directive 2001/55/EC regarding the minimum standards for granting temporary protection, in the event of a massive influx of displaced persons, and the measures to promote a balance between the efforts of the member states to welcome these people and bear the consequences of this reception, all displaced persons from Ukraine, who entered the territory of the EU after 24.02.2022, benefiting from this measure. At the national level, on 18.03.2022, it was issued the Government Decision no. 367 regarding the establishment of conditions for ensuring temporary protection as well as for the modification and completion of some normative acts in the field of foreigners, which regulated the granting of temporary protection on the territory of Romania. Temporary protection is an emergency mechanism that applies in the event of a massive influx of people and aims to provide immediate and collective protection. The aim is to ease pressure on national asylum systems and allow displaced people to enjoy harmonized rights across the European Union.

The procedure for performing discharge tests using the letter technique (TZO) for water distribution analysis

Procedura de efectuare a testelor de refulare prin tehnica literelor (TZO) pentru analiza distribuției apei

Author(s): Alexandru-Florin Chiojdoiu,Ion Anghel / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: letters technique; procedure; water distribution; discharge; water jet;

In order to streamline the extinguishing of fires that occur in enclosed spaces, it is necessary to know how the water is distributed at the level of the floor of a room, by using different water discharge techniques. The „T”, „Z” and „O” letters technique is one of the methods of water discharge used to extinguish fires that occur inside rooms. For a thorough knowledge on how the water is distributed inside the room, a procedure was developed to perform tests by discharging the water in the form of the „T”, „Z” and „O” letters which were especially constructed for this purpose. There were also constructed sheet metal boxes used for the accumulation of discharged water. The usefulness of this procedure has been verified by performing three tests to discharge the same volume of water using the „T”, „Z” and „O” letters technique, resulting in the following data: the largest volume of water was recorded in the immediate vicinity of the wall located perpendicularly to the direction of propagation of the water stream (in the first two rows of boxes), respectively in the corners of the test room, arranged at the level of this wall; using the „Z” letter technique, the smallest water loss was recorded; using the „O” letter technique, the water was discharged in the shortest time, being distributed more evenly than by using the „T” and „Z” letters technique.