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FIN-DE-SIÈCLE MALAISE, URBAN GOTHIC AND THE CRISIS OF VALUE AND JUDGEMENT IN ARTHUR MACHEN’S “THE GREAT GOD PAN” (1894)

FIN-DE-SIÈCLE MALAISE, URBAN GOTHIC AND THE CRISIS OF VALUE AND JUDGEMENT IN ARTHUR MACHEN’S “THE GREAT GOD PAN” (1894)

Author(s): Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay / Language(s): English / Issue: 02/2006

Keywords: rhetoric of horror; epistemological deadlock

The Gothic as a genre has something ghostly and it has persistently and obsessively haunted the literary scene since its official demise in the 1820s. Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan” (1894) and The Three Impostors (1895) represent paradigms of late Victorian Gothic texts, which deal with the past and its legacy, cultural and biological inheritance, and feature the sometimes conflicting interrelation between science and myth. In the late Victorian context, these aspects hinge on the question of modernity, and appear as a direct response to the contemporary crisis of value and judgement, in the aftermath of evolutionist theories that postulated the risk of man’s devolution, and of sociological studies that saw the fin de siècle as decadent, as the twilight of civilization. Machen’s fiction repeatedly features the uneasy coexistence of modernity and the ancient Roman and Celtic past of Wales which never died and constantly threatens to resurface and destabilize the structure of modern civilized society. This is reminiscent of Freud’s famous theory of the unheimlich. In Machen’s fiction, London is mysterious, sinister and labyrinthine, harbouring unspeakable horrors beneath the reassuring surface of the everyday, the familiar and the commonplace. His texts testify to the loss of a real sense of direction and control both for the “flâneur” characters, and for the reader faced with the decentralised, interpolated, fragmented narratives which no longer feature a single consciousness or focalizer, or any genuine authoritative voice. Fin-de-siècle Gothic fiction is striking for its puzzle-like construction, its blanks, ellipses and representational problems. Indirection, reticence, the unsaid, linguistic incapacity represent the typical fin-de-siècle rhetoric of horror. This epistemological deadlock is a sign of the times, one of the symptoms of pervasive disintegration: of society, values and certainties.

The Religious Determination of Value Orientations among Muslims in Bulgaria

The Religious Determination of Value Orientations among Muslims in Bulgaria

Author(s): Vesselin Bosakov / Language(s): English / Issue: Spec. 2/2010

The subject of this analysis is the relationship between religious identity and the value orientations registered in the survey. Hence, of chief importance is the hypothesis that affiliation to Islam and Muslim identity form a different and distinct value profile. The obtained survey results and comparisons with results of prior surveys provide grounds for formulating the hypothesis that in the past ten years the importance of religion as a whole has changed in Bulgarian society. The conclusion is that the predominant secular values have expanded their influence among the Christian group of respondents, while among Muslims in Bulgaria there is an on-going process of consolidation around Islam as a core of values. The data show that, among those who have indicated religion, work and the family as very important in their lives, there is a greater proportion of respondents who define themselves as Muslims. It is around these three spheres that are concentrated the most distinct groups of value orientations, for which we can claim with a high degree of probability that they are shared by Muslims in Bulgaria. Religious affiliation is becoming a factor of the entire social, civic, and political conduct of Muslims. For a significant part of respondents who self-identified as Muslims in this survey, religion is no longer something separate, but a complete environment that determines the attitude to all other values and attitudes. The leading importance of religion as a value determines the various degree of importance of other topics, such as leisure time, relations with friends, and the striving for individualized social self-expression.

From Family Memories to Digital Archives – Europeana and the Educational Value of its Digital Collections

From Family Memories to Digital Archives – Europeana and the Educational Value of its Digital Collections

Author(s): Cristina Ioana Roiu / Language(s): English / Issue: 19/2015

Keywords: educational values of the digital archives; crowdsourcing projects; students engagement; digital informational resources

Mass digitisation of the collections held by GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums ) provide the users with huge historical, cultural, linguistical informational resources in digital format, which are more and more used in educational activities all over the world. The paper describes the experience and the outcomes of some non formal educational projects and activities associated with the creation and re-use of the digital archives Europeana 1914-1918 and Europeana 1989.

Jet fuel price variations and market value: a focus on low-cost and regular airline companies

Jet fuel price variations and market value: a focus on low-cost and regular airline companies

Author(s): Barbara Gaudenzi,Alessandro Bucciol / Language(s): English / Issue: 6/2016

Keywords: jet fuel price volatility; low-cost airlines; market value; airline sector; risk management; stock price;

We analyze the relationship between dynamics to stock prices and jet fuel prices, conditional on financial and company-specific variables, in the airline sector. In particular, our contribution to the literature is in the comparison between regular and low-cost airline companies. We run a set of fixed-effect regressions where the dependent variable, the stock daily return of the airline company (observed between 2008 and 2014) is regressed over three sets of explanatory variables (financial, company-specific and time variables). While large and small companies provide similar results, we find that the company price return – among different variables – correlates only with the jet fuel return and the stock market return. Our work also suggests that there is a difference between regular and low-cost companies. We speculate that this possibly arises because low-cost companies stock-pile in a more efficient way, which depends less on current jet fuel price. Our evidence then sheds light on the efficiency of the low-cost model and may suggest to export part of its practice among regular airline companies.

Brief Critical Analysis of Concepts Used for Assessing the Market Value to Ecosystem Goods and Services in Urban and Spatial Plans

Brief Critical Analysis of Concepts Used for Assessing the Market Value to Ecosystem Goods and Services in Urban and Spatial Plans

Author(s): Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

Keywords: holistic approach; carrying capacity; ecological infrastructure; ecosystem services

Estimating the market value of natural capital is largely influenced by the perception of the environment. Anthropocentric approaches, particularly the sectoral ones still used today by non-specialists tributary to conceptions lasting since the 1950’s, made economists see the environment as an endless resource for human development. This reasoning – “only money matters” – led to the ecological crisis. Its first solution, the ‘zero growth’ concept of the Club of Rome, based on the same model, proved unviable. Later the sustainability concept embedded the progress of systemic ecology, including the shift of its object to coupled socio-ecological complexes. Paradigm changes modified the interpretation of ecological balance, and implicitly the perception of the relation between socio-economic development and biodiversity conservation, analyzed finally through the carrying capacity. The dynamic of this theoretical framework changed the methods used to find the market value of environmental goods and services, moving from the money approach (economic) to the carbon footprint (environmental) and then to ecosystem services provided by the ecological infrastructure (holistic). Sustainability must rely on seeing the environment as hierarchy of coupled socio-ecological systems, and, in practice, impact assessment must look at the effects of human actions on structural integrity and level of ecosystem services provided by the ecological infrastructure.

The Value of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Preservation of the National Religious Rights оf the Ukrainians: 60s–70s of the 20th Century

The Value of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Preservation of the National Religious Rights оf the Ukrainians: 60s–70s of the 20th Century

Author(s): Nadia Kindrachuk / Language(s): English / Issue: 22/2017

Keywords: Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Ukrainian; Western Ukraine; national identity; state-church relations; struggle; confrontation; atheism; anti-religious campaign

In the article we studied the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church as an integral part, a national factor in the religious process of the Ukrainians, living in western regions of the USSR during the 1960s and 1970s. The research gave a comprehensive analysis of the place and role of the church in nation-building and preservation of ethnic and national identity of the titular representatives of the Ukraine’s nation during the Soviet anti-religious campaign. We described the activities of the Greek Catholic clergy, whose aim was the consolidation of national-patriotic forces and the formation of religious opposition among the Ukrainians. The article also outlined the policy vectors of the atheistic communist ruling elite and revealed their essence, covered violent reorientation of Greek Catholics to Orthodoxy. In terms of religious oppression and persecution, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church continued its development of underground and become a consolidating factor in Western Ukrainian struggle for their national and religious rights. It has become an important factor in ethnicity creation and a spiritual and cultural self of the Ukrainian people.

Value-centered entrepreneur role model design

Value-centered entrepreneur role model design

Author(s): Eduard Maltsev / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: conceptual model; entrepreneurship; life cycle; role model; value creation;

The article is devoted to developing a change model for entrepreneurial roles that allows to create a conceptual design for the roles of an entrepreneur at different stages of business development. The article highlights four key stages in the business development life cycle. At each step, business focuses on a certain type of client and the value created for that client. The business focus requires an entrepreneur to concentrate on performance of a certain role. An analysis of the literature about role modelling is provided. The article considers entrepreneurs’ roles at different stages of business development. There are several methodological approaches applied in the article. The systems approach and systems thinking allow to describe a business as a whole. Conceptual modelling allows to deal with complexity of a real business. Design approach allows to implement conceptual models in practice of the real business. The article proposes a change model for entrepreneurial roles and the related roles composition at the different stages of business development life cycle. This article uses the conceptual model as an analytical tool to develop a change model for entrepreneurial roles. The further development of the research relates to research of sub-roles composition for different entrepreneurial roles and abilities, necessary to perform the sub-roles efficiently.

Media business models. Breaking the traditional value chain ed. Klaus Zilles, Joan Cuenca

Media business models. Breaking the traditional value chain red. Klaus Zilles, Joan Cuenca

Author(s): Tadeusz Kowalski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2016

Impact of CEO pensions on value relevance of R&D expenditures

Impact of CEO pensions on value relevance of R&D expenditures

Author(s): Kyung Jin Park,Kyoungwon Mo / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2018

Keywords: CEO pension; firm value; inside debt; R&D expenditures; value relevance;

Since CEO pension is unsecured and unfunded liabilities of the firm, it induces CEOs to have long-term incentives towards minimizing their firms’ default risk. Motivated by the unique characteristics of CEO pension, this study investigates the impact of CEO pension on the value relevance of R&D expenditures. Using Tobin’s Q ratio to measure firm value, the empirical results show that CEO pension intensifies the relation between R&D expenditures and Tobin’s Q ratio. The results remain robust in two-stage least square and propensity score matching regression analysis to address the endogeneity issues in the relation between CEO pension and the value relevance of R&D expenditures. In addition, the regression results with ROA and F-score as the alternative dependent variables also confirm that CEO pension intensifies the relation between R&D expenditures and firm value.

Analysis of the Role of Export Value on the Reserve of South Africa

Analysis of the Role of Export Value on the Reserve of South Africa

Author(s): Collins C. Ngwakwe / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2017

Keywords: export value; reserve; economic growth; governance; public policy;

South Africa’s reserve played a vital economic defence role during the economic crises of the recent past. However, little research has examined the relationship between export value and the reserve of South Africa. This paper contributes by assessing the impact of four independent variables (export value, government effectiveness, foreign direct investment and GDP) on the reserve of South Africa. Data were from the World Bank Archives of Global Financial Indicators and from the World Bank Archives of Governance Indicators from 1996 to 2014. A cointegration and the OLS regression test showed a long run relationship between export value, government effectiveness, foreign direct investment and the reserve of South Africa. The Granger causality test revealed that foreign reserve may influence export value (unidirectional), and that reserve may enhance government effectiveness. The paper offers policy recommendations that may improve the level of reserve and provides an agenda for further research.

The Value of Friendship in Anthologies of Short Stories by Dewi Lestari

The Value of Friendship in Anthologies of Short Stories by Dewi Lestari

Author(s): Satria Ariasena,Didik Nurhadi / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2018

Keywords: Value of friendship; Positive attitudes; short stories; buddy; attitudes

This paper focuses on describing the positive attitudes of the value of friendship in anthologies of short stories by Dewi Lestari. The method used in this research was qualitative. Objects of this research were fourty two short stories in three anthologies of short stories by Dewi Lestari. Three of those anthologies short stories were Filosofi Kopi, Rectoverso, and Madre. The research data were collected by reading the three books anthologies of short stories conscientiously. Then, data coding, data selection, data reduction, and test of validity were conducted. Each data was analyzed through intrarater and expert judgment to obtain their reliability. Finally, the data was displayed. In conclusion, the results of the research show that by using research’s instrument in positive attitudes of the value of friendship in three anthologies of short stories by Dewi Lestari, there were seven positive attitudes. The seven positive attitudes include care, understanding of buddy’s uniqueness, empathy, listen to advice, mutual assistance, keep gathering, and give a beneficial thing. In addition, as many as fourteen short stories had a few or all main elements as a means to teach the value of friendship.

Cognitive Decision-Making Algorithms, Cyber-Physical Systems, and Smart Industrial Value Creation

Cognitive Decision-Making Algorithms, Cyber-Physical Systems, and Smart Industrial Value Creation

Author(s): Therese Whittle,Clive Lafferty,Eilis Bourke / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

Keywords: Industry 4.0; cyber-physical system; smart production; data-driven innovation;

Using and replicating data from Accenture, BCG, BI Intelligence, British Science Week, Business Insider, Capgemini, Deloitte, eMarketer, Forbes, Frontier Economics, Gartner, IDC, OECD, PwC, Statista, YouGov, and Zebra Technologies, we performed analyses and made estimates regarding the main areas of interest for manufacturers within Industry 4.0 (%), how Industry 4.0 is delivering revenue, cost and efficiency gains (%), implementation of Industry 4.0 (%), industries targeted by machine learning application developers (%), workers in jobs at high and medium risk of automation (%), spending on Internet of Things worldwide by vertical in 2015 and 2020 (in billion U.S. dollars), technology developments that enable Service 4.0 (%), Internet of Things security spending worldwide (2016–2021, by segment, in million U.S. dollars), potential impact of artificial intelligence on real gross value added worldwide (%, by country, by 2035), retailers planning to invest in artificial intelligence and Internet of Things technologies by 2021 (%), and benefits of implementing artificial intelligence (%). Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling.

Do larger boards improve shareholder value creation? – Effects of the board size on business performance in Eastern Central Europe

Do larger boards improve shareholder value creation? – Effects of the board size on business performance in Eastern Central Europe

Author(s): Zsolt Lakatos / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2020

Keywords: corporate governance; board size; firm performance; G30; G31; G32; G34

The aim of this study is to analyse the impact of board size on a firms' operational and market performance at the largest East Central European listed non-financial, non-public utility firms. The literature debates the effects of the size of the board. While the resource dependency theory supports a positive effect, the agency theory supports a negative impact on firm value. This question is rarely investigated in two-tiered corporate governance models. This paper estimates the effects of management board and supervisory board size, between 2007 and 2016. The results indicate that the effect of management board size depends heavily on the size of the observed company. In both fixed effects and GMM-type dynamic panel regression models, using Tobin's Q, market-to-book ratio, total shareholder value and ROA as firm performance measures, increase in management board size has a significant positive impact on firm performance; however, in the case of larger firms, the effect is significantly negative. Moreover, the increase in the ratio of outside directors has a positive impact on the firm's performance in all dynamic panel regression models and this effect is even more significant in Tobin's Q and market-to-book ratio models. This can indicate the effective monitoring role of the supervisory board.

Absolute value and diversity of household spending: analysis on International Comparison Program (ICP) 2011 data

Absolute value and diversity of household spending: analysis on International Comparison Program (ICP) 2011 data

Author(s): Denys Verba,Alevtyna Kudinova / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

Keywords: household spending; entropy of consumption basket; consumption patterns; consumer choice; grouping of household spending categories;

Research background: This article investigates the connection between consumer’s budget growth and diversification of household spending. The main question of research is “are there new drivers of modern processes of consumer spending's diversification, at a time when spending on food has reached the minimum share in the consumer budget. Purpose of the article: The objective of the article is to clarify the hypothesis about the existence of a certain limit of income (and consumer spending) after which the growing of consumer’s purchasing capacity loses power of influence on spending diversity. Methods: Theil entropy index was used for measuring the diversity of household spending. This index was defined as a sum of within-group and between-group entropy, which allows for comparing the diversification of household spending in two aggregate groups of expenditure, which were formed by the authors. The Workings’ equation was used for modeling the spending entropy’s dependence on their absolute value. Two categories of household spending were regrouped (consolidated) by us through forming a group more related to the development of human economic potential (SMRHD) and less related to these processes (SLRHD). The research was done on the basis of ICP (2011) data, which covers 178 countries and refers to 2011 year — the latest available on the moment of the article was completed. Findings & Value added: The results obtained in this research confirmed that there is a limit of household spending’s size, beyond which further increasing of consumers’ economic opportunities loses a significant impact on the diversity of consumption spending. However, the weakening of the link between size of spending and its entropy reflects impact of two qualitative differenced factors. The first is relatively much more radical decrease of spending growth influence on within-group entropy for SLRHD. The second — is relatively much less significant decrease of entropy’s sensitivity to spending growth for SMRHD. Such results reflect the increase in the importance of "non-functional demand components", which reduces the capacity of data on functional distribution of household expenditures to characterize the extent of their diversification.

Usefulness and fields of the application of the Earned Value Management in the implementation of construction projects

Użyteczność i zakres stosowania metody Earned Value Management przy realizacji kontraktów budowlanych

Author(s): Agnieszka Dziadosz,Oleg Kapliński,Mariusz Rejment / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2014

Keywords: control of construction progress; risk; earned value

The Earned Value Method allows the prediction of future values of the total cost and duration of the construction project realization, and also it allows the early detection of the collisions between the schedule and the construction project budget. It is more often indicated its usefulness for monitoring and controlling the construction work progress in the time and cost formulation. It is used, in the indirect way, to control the risk in terms of the cost overruns of the construction project realization and in case of the failure to meet the deadline for completion of the construction project. The authors’ goal was not only to indicate the advantages of the method (widely discussed in the literature) but also to indicate some inaccuracies in the application of the Earned Value Method, which may affect the costs forecasting and the date of completion of the construction project. The conclusions are based on the analysis of several construction project realizations.

“Let us, therefore, stimulate one another”: John Fothergill’s Letters and the Notion of Value and Professionalism

“Let us, therefore, stimulate one another”: John Fothergill’s Letters and the Notion of Value and Professionalism

Author(s): Marcel Hartwig / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Keywords: eighteenth-century America; letters; networks; history of medicine; history of science; the Pennsylvania Hospital; the Enlightenment

Around the middle of the eighteenth century, the London Quaker John Fothergill, M.D., established himself as an essential node in a transatlantic epistolary network. Via letter writing, Fothergill closed book deals, forwarded anatomical drawings, and exchanged botanical seeds and investment schemes that eventually culminated in the financial politics of the first North American hospital, the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. He also provided books for the Hospital’s first Medical Library and made suggestions for people to be employed and teaching tools to be used in the first anatomical lectures in Philadelphia. Fothergill’s network sheds much needed light on transatlantic trade and the circulation and commercialization of medical print media in North America’s first regulated medical institutions. The many letters that he wrote provide insights into practices of knowledge production in these institutions. In this article, Fothergill’s epistolary web is represented as a semi-institutionalized network showing colonial medical practice to have been linked to semi-institutionalized spaces that were themselves connected to custodians of knowledge but also functioned as social networks. I argue that such networks were user-based and community-driven, and that they relied on a semi-authoritarian dispersion of knowledge.

The value and mystery of the body in fulfilling the human as aspects of the iconic antropology inside of the theology of the Scythian Monks

The value and mystery of the body in fulfilling the human as aspects of the iconic antropology inside of the theology of the Scythian Monks

Author(s): Lucian-Dumitru Colda / Language(s): English / Issue: Suppl_1/2017

Keywords: Unus de Trinitatepassusest carne; Scythian monks (Dacian- Romans), the human body; Christology; iconic anthropology;

Starting from the wording Unus de Trinitatepassusest carne, the present study aims to discover through the Christology of the Scythian monks (Dacian-Romans) those essential elements of the iconic anthropology that make transparent the theological perspective of assuming the human body by the Divine Logos who, by becoming human , became His body forever, to shine through it the light and the life of the divinity in the epectasis process of deification. Thus the value and the mystery of the body illustrates the fulfillment of the human as an essential factor in the theological thinking referring to the possibility of the iconographic representation of the Son of God, of God’s Mother, of the saints and of the deifying events in the economy of the salvation.

UPGRADE IN LIPSCANI AREA. THE LOCAL IDENTITY BETWEEN CULTURAL VALUE AND USE VALUE

UPGRADE ÎN LIPSCANI. IDENTITATEA LOCALÃ ÎNTRE VALOARE CULTURALÃ ȘI VALOARE DE UTILIZARE

Author(s): Mihai Grigorescu / Language(s): English,Romanian / Issue: 4/2012

Keywords: local identity; cultural value; use value; upgrade; rehabilitation;

Lipscani, the old city centre, grained with history, tradition and culture, left too much longer in indifference and oblivion, began to revive again from piles of debris and stone. It is known that in the past, the Lipscani Street which gave its name to the area was one of the most important commercial streets of Bucharest. The marvellous architecture in neoclassical and neo-baroque style of nineteenth century gave a particular character to the centre of the Bucharest. In 1948, the buildings were nationalized, and in 1980, the communist authorities had given the houses to the gypsy citizens, they brought them into an advanced state of decay. The situation is applicable for the whole discussed area- Covaci, Gabroveni, șelari, șepcari and Smârdan Street. Many buildings were abusive occupied, the ownership is currently difficult to establish. The community that lived in the old centre of Bucharest is also hard to define. There is no truly local community, but a disparate, not interested, abusive one, often of a very poor condition. The true community is that who lives in the area, though it would be desirable, to an extended meaning, the community consists of people of Bucharest. Six years ago, I wrote an article together with two colleagues, an article that aimed to draw a warning against the lack of interest of the authorities in the rehabilitation of the area and in solving the problem of the abusive take-over the buildings from the historic area of Bucharest. Back then, the rehabilitation operation had not yet begun.

Psychopedagogy of meaning and value, that is about the relationship between existential therapy and transactional analysis (part 6)

Psychopedagogy of meaning and value, that is about the relationship between existential therapy and transactional analysis (part 6)

Author(s): Jarosław Jagieła / Language(s): English / Issue: 10/2021

Keywords: existential therapy; transactional analysis; educational transactional analysis;

The article discusses existential therapy and its possible connections with transactional analysis in its educational dimension.

KANT’S TRUST IN THE POLITICAL VALUE OF LABOUR AND GLOBAL MOBILITY. A NON-IDEAL ACCOUNT OF COSMOPOLITAN NORMATIVITY

KANT’S TRUST IN THE POLITICAL VALUE OF LABOUR AND GLOBAL MOBILITY. A NON-IDEAL ACCOUNT OF COSMOPOLITAN NORMATIVITY

Author(s): Nuria Sánchez Madrid / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2023

Keywords: Kant; cosmopolitanism; labour; citizenship; non-ideal approach

This account first endorses the normative strength of Kant’s cosmopolitan right, even if it is not lacking in non-ideal traits, and then takes issue with Flikschuh’s well-known interpretation of what she labels Kant’s “dilemma of sovereignty”. Second, I tease out some of the non-ideal features underpinning Kant’s cosmopolitanism with the help of the Kantian theory of labour, which in turn helps reveal the material conditions behind the qualifications of the subject who in Kant’s view is able to move through the world. Finally, I draw some conclusions about the advantages of a non-ideal approach for upgrading the normative value of global mobility in Kant’s juridical philosophy.