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This paper deals with femininity and uses this concept as a starting point for a dialogue between scientific and artistic approaches to women. The aim is to show several meanings for women's taboos, which have long been inscribed in the history of humanity, but overlooked in the narrative of today's pop culture. Especially the female body, its functions and values appear in the discourse of the following images and texts. Both images and words make up the dozen grafic and lexical miniatures, created in shape of a woman's "stream of consciousness". The presented text can be seen as a case study of the expression of femininity in form of lexical images.
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Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud by David Whyte and Jörg Wiegratz, 2016, New York: Routledge.
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Within organizations in industrialized countries, the quality of human resources tends to become a major issue on the path to achieving a competitive advantage. According to the author’s research, the implementation of the five-factor model of Costa and McCrae provides the solution for the abovementioned problem. This article demonstrates the crucial utility of the five-factor model of Costa and McCrae in the context of life insurance industry effectiveness from both the theoretical and practical perspectives based on a case study of the four largest life insurance companies 796 most effective agents. Results imply the existence of a positive correlation between the level of the selected personality traits intensities and the life insurance agent’s sales efficiency. Moreover, as levels of the personality traits of “openness to experience,” “consciousness,” “agreeableness” and “neuroticism” are the predictors of life insurance company effectiveness, there are fundamentals for induction to be appropriate for the whole retail financial sector human resources management system.
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The purpose of the current study is to develop a data collection tool that can be used to determine the values of secondary school students. The study group consists of 299 students attending secondary schools in the city of Mugla, Turkey, who voluntarily participated in the study. For the construct validity of the scale, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted. As a result of the exploratory factor analysis (EFA), a three-factor structure was elicited for the factors of “Sensitivity”, “Trustability”, and “Responsibility”. This three-factor structure together explains 41.11% of the total variance. The scale comprises of 30 items that can be assigned scores ranging from “1 (Never)” to “4 (Always)”. When the findings obtained through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were evaluated, χ2/df ratio was found to be 2.93. The 30-item, three-factor structure obtained as a result of EFA was also examined using CFA and the results showed that the scale yields good fit values. For the trustability of the scale, item-total correlation and Cronbach’s Alpha internal consistency coefficient were analyzed. In conclusion, a valid and reliable scale with adequate psychometric features was developed in order to determine the values of secondary school students (VSS).
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This study aimed to examine the effect of different stretching exercises on vertical jump performance. A total of 14 national male athletes sporting in the elite level took part in the study. The age average of the participants was 20.25±1.03 year, the average height was 1.80±.08 m, the average body weight was 77.14±18.91 kg, average of sporting age was 9.87±3.31 year and the average number of participation in international games was 10.0±3.31. As stretching protocol: Method 1 (5 minutes of jogging and 2 minutes of active rest) followed by Method 2 (static stretching for 4 different muscle groups 3 repetitions for 15 seconds of static stretching, rest for 10 seconds between groups) and then consecutively, Method 3 (Dynamic stretching exercises with 3 repetitions for 15 seconds and 10 seconds rest between different muscle groups) were applied in the study. The vertical jump performance before and after different stretching exercises of the participants was determined by means of the vertical jump test using the smart speed lite system. Before and after the training of all athletes, HR was recorded with a heart rate monitor (RS 800, Polar Vantage NV, Polar Electro Oy, Finland) with 5 seconds intervals. Before the study, the chest band of the heartbeat monitor was placed on the chest of the athlete and the HR was recorded from the monitor. SPSS 15.0 statistical package program was used for evaluation and calculation of the data. In this study in addition to descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) paired samples t-test was used to determine the difference between the vertical jump performance of the participants before and after different stretching exercises. As a result, this study showed that; applying the dynamic and static stretching exercises consecutively affected the vertical jump performance 4.5 cm positively (p<.05). It is suggested that different dynamic and static stretching exercises should be included in the vertical jump.
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In recent years, European countries are facing new waves of immigrants and refugees, who follow the classic immigration routes from east to west and from south to north. This social and demographic phenomenon, whose current dynamics could not be predicted, leads to multiple and various problems at the political and social level, as well as to challenges at both cultural and structural, macro-social level. The diverse contrasts between the native culture of immigrants and the culture of the host societies can generate dissensions and even social conflicts. That is why various discussions, both theoretically and practically, have emerged, dealing with possible solutions to such problems. Furthermore, the debates are not limited only to the field of culture and social interactions, but they also focus on the initiation of some actions at the social level of policies and concrete measures to facilitate the integration of migrants. The present paper is a sociological contribution to these discussions. The primary objectives are, on one hand, to conceptualize the terms of diversity and integration, and on the other hand to delimit the links between the cultural level of the practices, values, and symbolic representations and the structural level of integration policies. In this regard, the concept of “integration” is analytically and operationally approached, and the desiderata of integration politics are addressed.
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The global demand for organic foods has inspired the academicians and practicing professionals to explore consumer purchase behavior in this sector. The multiple promises that organic foods hold for the future – like sustainable food production, food safety, food security, nutrition and reduction of green-house gases – all might have influenced the recent rise of behavioral research in the organic food sector. Interestingly, Bangladesh has been a producer of organic foods since the early ‘80s; however, only a handful of studies could be traced that actually studied consumer behavior in this sector. The current paper explored the important roles that organic foods might play in Bangladesh, synthesized findings of past studies under Bangladesh context, and justified probable areas that might be investigated in future. Therefore, plausible gaps were explored in the existing literature pertaining to Bangladesh context and a tentative research agenda for future researchers was proposed.
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The economy of Mongolia has been growing, especially due to imports growing more than exports. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of a Korean country-of-origin on Mongolian consumer product evaluation and purchase intention using a Korean laptop. Specifically, this study tested the independent and moderating roles of human values and socio-psychological variables in the relationships between country-of-origin, product evaluation, and purchase intention. The survey was conducted with 143 young respondents in Mongolia. The results of this study indicate that Korean country-of-origin positively affects Mongolian consumer product evaluation and purchase intention. Second, because the human value of power is tied into consumers’ social status and positions, Mongolian consumers with more power had weaker purchase intention for Korean country-of-origin products. However, findings show that the international social network moderates effects of Korean country-of-origin in product evaluation. In other words, Mongolian consumers with connections to international people tend to positively evaluate products imported from developed Asian countries.
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Fast developments in the food retailing industry have led to growth of shopping malls, particularly in the large cities of Saudi Arabia. The purpose of this study is to compare men and women for differences in mall shopping. Using empirical research, this paper examines differences between the genders associated with mall patronage. Based on a survey of 513 shoppers across Saudi Arabia, the study finds significant differences in shopping behaviour. The paper discusses the findings and makes recommendations to mall operators.
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The article analyzes the problem of the formation of the imperative of human activity’s explication in outer space. It is asserted that the existing international agreements and legal framework for the regulation of human activities in outer space requires thorough study and close attention from researchers. The main challenges, generated by outer space exploration, bring not only potential benefits but global threats and risks to the existence of human civilization. The enlisted problems in the outer space exploration have two levels of solutions in the legal aspect: improvement of the existing legal framework of international instruments and the design of regulation of human activity in the subsequent challenges of the interstellar world exploration. The need for legal regulation of all major manifestations of activity in outer space indicates the embryonic state of the relevant imperatives, which are closely linked to the challenges to the safety of mankind and its civilization progress. The content of the outer space exploration strategy is demonstrated from the point of non-classical paradigm of philosophy and epistemology, which significantly delegitimize modern ethical and axiological principles. The search of strategies of legal support of the civilization development in the context of space exploration is carried out according to following formulated trends: the demarcation of nationalized airspace and universal space, the problem of the militarization of the space expansion of mankind, the development of telecommunication technologies and the use of geostationary orbit, technological, medical and biological research — all these activities significantly change the direction of our daily routines and the overall security status of the earth civilization development.
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The author takes advantage of reading Alan Watson's book "Shame on American Legal Education" to reflect on what is happening today in iusfacultaire culture. On the basis of Watson's assertion that American legal education is shamefully bad and deficient, the author examines successively the false Socratism, which today, in an anti-pedagogical way, undermine the teaching of law; the lure of the case-book method and the legal incompetence that is lodged there; and the phenomenon of poorly trained professors and shoddy research that are becoming more and more widespread. The author deplores the fact that a new legal anti-culture has taken root in the shortcomings and that there is a rampant stupidisation of legal education. He takes a stand in favor of a legal education promoting intelligence and rationality, which takes seriously the demands of modern law and above all its quality, and who can manage the indispensable dialogue between theory of law and practice of law.
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The actual value of the topic. Nowadays, the state, each of its branches has a fairly extensive system of controlling bodies, which sphere of activity actually and legally covers all spheres of life in the country. The scientific community insists on the institutional formation of the control authority, which confirms the functional capacity of the controlling bodies and their significance. But in practice, the effectiveness of their activities is low and does not justify the expectations of citizens.The request of society to improve the efficiency of the law-enforcement system, in particular, anti-corruption bodies and national police, raises the question of strengthening the control of this system by citizens. The active part of society wants to take an active part in the control processes. Public control becomes important as a source of relations between the state and citizens. Thus, consideration of the possibility of coexistence of control authorities and public control is necessary today and relevant.The development of the subject. Separately, the problem of control activity of the state, control power and public control in the national science is widely developed. However, the definition of the status and place of public oversight in the control system remains the subject of scientific discussion, taking into account the recent update of the national security legislation.The methodology of the research is based on an integrated combination of general scientific, philosophical and special legal methods.The aim of the work is an attempt to determine the place of civil control in the existing system of control in the state.In the main part of the publication, the author analyzes the concept of control, control power and public control, tries to find out the connecting features. The analyzes are also subject to the provisions of the Law of Ukraine "On National Security" in terms of determining the status of public control in the security sphere.Conclusions. Having a clear mechanism for monitoring virtually all spheres of life, creating new supervisory bodies (e.g., anti-corruption bodies (NABU, NAPC, SAP, WACS)), the state is not able to fulfill its functions. Public control is the reaction of citizens to the imperfection and inefficiency of the state control system. The desire of citizens to participate directly in control activities shows the seriousness of the citizens and the desire of the society to see clear positive developments in the field of security and defense. Therefore, public control can be considered an important and necessary element of the control authority, through which the public engages in control activities, but has a limited functional.
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Problem setting. Modern IT technologies consolidate a new attitude to legal knowledge, which from a technological point of view is a "raw material" for artificial legal systems. Technological approach to legal knowledge can not be identified with technology or method, as it is a special operational system of legal acts with legal knowledge for the purpose of its translation from society into an artificial dialogue system, in particular intellectual. Therefore, it is necessary to study the cognitive and informational aspects of the movement of legal knowledge, in particular, their means of obtaining, the mechanisms for selection, dissemination, transformation, accumulation, translation and application, as well as ways to automate these complex processes based on modern high-tech digital devices. We are talking about little-known and extremely topical issues of processing legal knowledge and transforming them into an active information resource. These problems require comprehensive, multidimensional comprehension.Recent research and publications analysis. The results of the analysis of scientific sources and publications indicate that these trends require a deep and thorough study of the particularities of the practical relationship to legal knowledge. New information technologies have contributed to the development of the idea of the diversity of human knowledge. The results of the research of these problems give an opportunity to note that, in general, systematic scientific comprehension of the complex, volumetric and multidimensional problems of practical relevance to legal knowledge need further study.Paper objectiv. The purpose of this article is to consider certain aspects of the practical relation to legal knowledge based on the results of understanding this issue by various representatives of the humanities and interdisciplinary researchers.Paper main body. The article substantiates that the practical attitude to legal knowledge with the advent of artificial intellectual systems has highlighted the problem of extracting, representing and using knowledge in the field of jurisprudence. It is revealed that new information technologies have translated the issues of the specifics of human knowledge, the peculiarities of the interrelation of its main levels into the plane of practical problems associated with the transformation of personal knowledge into formalized (computer). It is determined that the practical attitude towards legal knowledge cannot be identified with either technology or method. It is shown that the attitude towards knowledge as a resource includes the operation of "extracting" knowledge from an expert. The questions are analyzed how and in what way the subject can become aware of the implicit components of personal knowledge.Conclusions of the research. Technological attitude to legal knowledge mandatory stage in the design of artificial intelligence systems, which includes an action on the study of the microenvironment (knowledge and information needs of users), as well as the design of the intellectual basis of the computer, so that the latter becomes a quasi-subject in communication with the user, that is, the computer understands the system's requests, stores the subject of the dialogue, knowledge of the subject area and poorly structured problems, secondary texts the arguments of one or another computer solution. The analysis of technological attitude to legal knowledge requires new methodological schemes. Technological attitude to legal knowledge is not identical neither with formalization, nor with algorithmic methodology. The methodology of technological relation to legal knowledge is a complex problem that can be solved on the basis of a constructive dialogue between the developers of artificial intelligence systems and lawyers. The structure of knowledge is fundamentally complex, it includes various facts from the relevant field of law, the relationship between them, the rules of action, knowledge of how to include knowledge in the artificial intelligence system. All this translates into the specifics of human knowledge, the peculiarities of the relationship between its main levels in the area of actual practical problems that require the attention of scholars, therefore the prospects for further research in this direction are directly related to the study of the structure of knowledge in the field of law.
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The development of society in the direction of space exploration makes its own adjustments to the development of trade unions. A new system of social partnership is being created in society, in which individualized forms of labor use are dominated. It became possible to establish direct informal contacts between employers and employees. In fact, modern labor relations do not provide for mediation services that have historically been performed by trade unions. However, the activities of trade unions have gone beyond the narrow framework of the previously inherent to them functions of protecting the interests and rights of employees. Trade unions have become a social institution that provides a balance of social and economic interests of employees and employers. In the article, the authors proved that, reflecting the interests of civil society on the transition from planetary to space activities, the unions of the aerospace industry had changed the format of their activities: 1) the educational function became the priority function of trade unions of the aerospace industry, which oriented the work of trade unions towards continuous staff development; 2) the qualified personnel was in need of special working conditions and protection. In order to preserve qualified personnel in the aerospace industry, trade unions with a complex of institutional, infrastructural and legislative measures had to ensure the most favorable working conditions and their protection.
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