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COMMUNICATION ON THE HORIZON OF TECHNOLOGY. PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

Author(s): Gheorghe Cristian Popa / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

This study proposes an assessment of how technology influences interpersonal communication and human thinking. In this respect, the contributions of some authors who have asserted themselves as philosophers of technology will be underscored, their reflections being essential to the understanding of communication media, and especially to understanding how they work on different levels of human communication (with self, with other people, with the world, with divinity).

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Multimodal Digital Communication in L2 Teaching/Learning Context

Author(s): Alina Resceanu,Alina Andreea Dragoescu Urlica / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

The unparalleled experience of teaching through the COVID-19 pandemic has generated far-reaching effects on the way in which conventional educational practices were conceived, forcing both teachers and students to adapt to the changed situation. When shifting from off-line to online, many changes occurred and affected not only the teaching and learning activities, but also other components of the educational system, like the assessment methods, curriculum and syllabus. Nowadays, once the pandemic passed, we cannot go back to the way things were before, but we have to strive to improve and re-adapt, by acknowledging the important role that new technologies and methods brought along by digitalisation play in L2 settings (i.e. English as a Foreign Language and English for Specific Purposes). Thus, we discuss aspects related to multimodality and to how the introduction of digital technologies fostered the use of various modes at once to create meaning. We pay particular attention to elements that are linked to multimodality and that could enhance the quality of teaching/learning in L2 contexts: the extensive use of technologies, the transfer of specialised content during multimodal teacher-student interaction and the stringent need to develop 21stcentury skills in EFL students at tertiary level (multimodality at the interface of disciplines). These elements are the results of a qualitative analysis of students’ formal feedback provided anonymously at the end of the semester. The aim is to account for the need of innovative pedagogical approaches of multimodal communication, which utilize diverse media to represent visual, audio, gestural, spatial, and tactile dimensions of communication in addition to traditional written and oral forms (Cope & Kalantzis, 2009) and to analyse the implication for EFLteaching/learning practice.

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The Contradiction of the Age: Online Teaching and Learning Vs the Limits on the Use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

Author(s): Miroslava Tsvetkova / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

Nowadays the expansion of the Internet and accessibility as well as the Covid-19 pandemic have resulted in an increase in the demand for online learning across the globe. The vast development of educational technology in the last few years has led to the deconstruction of various barriers and challenges that the traditional approaches were incapable of overcoming. The question that arises is if we are over-concerned about being “overconnected”. The answer is contradictory and provoking. It is a contradiction between the past and the present that is changing our mind and attitude towards information and communication technologies (ICTs). It is a contradiction between technology addiction and technology requirements. Research about the influence of ICTs on children’s cognitive and physical development and the language of the digital age together with the provided survey among students of English philology, Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen aimed to identify the effectiveness of various online tools and technologies at any age, the preferred learning methods of students, and other factors that might influence the teaching–learning process. The study concluded that technology addiction was replaced by technology requirements. It proved that, although language itself changes slowly, ICT fosters the process of this change because technical support is essential in the age of online learning and critical thinking, and the creativity of students increases with innovative educational methods. Thus, we must support all types of interaction possibilities and build a sense of community engagement among online leaners. The underlying problem, therefore, is not so much technology, but the content and the approach that is applied in the context of education. At the end of the article a set of recommendations is given on the implementation and use of information and communication technology tools in fostering English language teaching and learning.

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“The General Said”: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Covid-19 Memes of General Mutafchiyski

Author(s): Desislava Cheshmedzhieva-Stoycheva / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

Starting from the premise that internet memes are units carrying cultural information and the fact that they are usually ideological as well as intertextual in nature, the paper provides an analysis of a corpus of memes featuring General Ventsislav Mutafchiyski, the Chair of the National Crisis Management Staff during the first wave of COVID-19. The memes were circulated in social media, mostly Facebook, between 13 March and 30 May, 2020. In order to analyze the general ideas that users in Bulgaria saw as humorous in the presentation of the new crisis and to find the underlying ideology and the intertextual references employed to that end, the paper resorts to Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA) as well as CDA, the former being preferred when analysis of verbal and non-verbal means of expression is required, while the latter is used in matters that touch on ideology and the way it is related to a particular social reality. Some of the main conclusions reached are that the image of General Mutafchiyski is presented through various intertextual references to events, artists (both Bulgarian and international), fairy tales, movies, even aliens, for the sake of providing a general idea of his position in the fight againstCOVID-19. Despite the humorous effect, the image of the general is predominantly positive and shows the respect of the authors behind the memes circulating in social media at the time.

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MULTI-DOMAIN OPERATIONS VERSUS “MOSAIC” WARFARE: THE LATEST TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS TO OPERATIONALISE THESE CONCEPTS

Author(s): Crăişor-Constantin Ioniţă / Language(s): English Issue: 84+85/2022

The fierce struggle for international (High Tech) market cornering and dominance is constantly taking place in the global Competition Continuum. The dominance of the technological market fits perfectly into the broad political-military disputes regarding the change of the current world order, in which competition between the great powers is becoming increasingly acute. While MDO has grown in popularity among the military after including two new operational domains ̶ space and cyberspace ̶ , “mosaic” warfare is viewed more condescendingly by defence researchers, being explained much more technically, as an art of assembling small pieces (of coloured glass, stone, sandstone or other materials), hence its name. As a result, the present paper aims to analyse the progress and continue to present the cutting-edge technological achievements of today according with those competition for global and regional power.

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The Empirical Study of the Impact of Firm- and Country-level Factors on Debt Financing Decisions of ICT Firms

Author(s): Inna Alexeeva-Alexeev / Language(s): English Issue: Special/2023

The capital structure has been extensively analysed in the empirical literature. Despite of the great contribution of the technological industry to the global economy, little research has been conducted regarding corporate finance of ICT firms. Moreover, the previous literature barely considers the effect of macroeconomic variables on financial decisions, focusing much more on internal determinants, such as cash flow, firm’s size or growth opportunities. The objective of this work is to reduce this gap by disentangling the reasons behind the financial decisions of technological firms. The sample included 1,510 public ICT firms from 23 countries over the period 2004 – 2019 (17,342 observations). The variables used in this study are obtained from S&P Capital IQ, World Development Indicators, Main Science and Technology Indicators from OECD, and FMI dataset. The two-step system generalized method of moments (GMM) was used as methodology. Consistent with the extant literature, more profitable and liquid ICT firms and those with an increased non-debt tax shields are less leveraged. However, the companies which present higher risk, measured as volatility of EBIT, increase their use of debt financing. Contrary to the findings of many other studies, the analysis of a firm’s size and tangible assets shows non-conclusive results. Regarding macroeconomic determinants, only economic growth and foreign direct investment inflows were found to generate a positive effect on financial decisions of ICT firms. The findings of this work can be used to design and develop policies, measures, and facilitate mechanisms for optimal management of the financing decisions of ICT firms.

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ALFA KUŞAĞININ İLETİŞİM BECERİLERİNİN GELİŞTİRİLMESİNDE SANAL GERÇEKLİK UYGULAMASININ KULLANIMI

Author(s): Gamze Gezginci,Muhammet Lütfullah GÜVENÇ,Mustafa İbrahim ALOĞLU,Bedriye TOPRAK / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 57/2023

The basic principle in primary school education, which is defined as the "basic education" step of the Turkish Education System, is to support the personal and social development processes of students. Primary school education aims to provide a student with the basic knowledge, skills and habits necessary to be a good person in accordance with the general principles of National Education. Primary school, which is the place where the child is alone with social processes, human relations and interpersonal communication processes, is the basic step in gaining communication skills in this context. This study has a descriptive screening model on the application of virtual reality technology as an education system compatible with the requirements of the age in order to gain and develop communication skills in the primary school process for children born after 2010, defined as the alpha generation.

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ICT Leapfrogging Amidst Labour Force-Economic Growth Nexus in EAP and ECA Regions

Author(s): Bosede Ngozi Adeleye,Bede Uzoma Achugamonu,Tayo George,Mercy Ejovwokeoghene Ogbari,Oluyomi Ola-David / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Towards achieving the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, this study revisits the information and communication technology (ICT) leapfrogging hypothesis of Steinmueller (2001), and Fong (2009) to expand the literature by testing its relevance in the labour force-growth dynamics in Asia. To achieve this, the study addresses four objectives: (i) test the ICT leapfrogging hypothesis; (ii) investigate the growth-enhancing impact of labour; (iii) examine whether ICT enhances or distorts the productivity of labour on economic growth; and (iv) if these effects differ by economic development. The study uses an unbalanced panel data on 81 countries located in East Asia and Pacific (EAP) and Europe and Central Asia (ECA) from 2010 to 2019. Two estimation techniques, namely panel spatial correlation consistent fixed effects (PSCC-FE) and random effects instrumental variables two-stage least squares (RE-IV2SLS), are deployed. To appraise if the impact differs by economic development, the study engages income group analysis. Among other findings: the leapfrogging hypothesis holds; labour is a significant predictor of economic growth; mobile phones usage is a more potent ICT indicator with more leapfrogging potentials relative to fixed telephones subscription; the net effect of labour on growth is mostly positive in the mobile phones’ models.

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Modeling strategic planning for sustainable competitive advantage in supply chain management

Author(s): Minwir Al-Shammari / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This paper proposes a knowledge-based customer-centric strategic model to respond to environmental challenges and achieve sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) in the supply chain management (SCM) context. The proposed model strives to leverage knowledge-based distinctive core competencies (DCCs) to improve customer satisfaction and achieve SCA. An exploratory research design has been adopted. The study undertook a systematic literature review approach with 36 articles or books published between 1970 and 2020 to construct the strategic planning model. The paper presents an integrated multi-dimensional model for SCM, including value chain activities, competitiveness strategies, business process re-engineering (BPR), and SCA. The practical result of the article is to develop a theoretical strategic planning model for SCM as a holistic framework for using the company’s DCCs and creating an SCA in a highly competitive and dynamic business environment. The proposed model comprehensively covers the supply chain (SC)’s competitive advantage strategy. For businesses that tend to adapt and triumph, the proposed model helps reduce order cycle times, reduce inventory levels, increase accuracy and efficiency, reduce costs, and improve customer service and satisfaction.

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ECOLOGY OF INFORMATION, A BENEFICIAL COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH IN ARTS HIGHER EDUCATION

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ECOLOGY OF INFORMATION, A BENEFICIAL COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH IN ARTS HIGHER EDUCATION

Author(s): Florin Grigoraş / Language(s): English Issue: 26/2023

Recent research carried out in various fields of knowledge have led to significant results, which are also decisively imposed in the sphere of the arts. These contributions expand not only the area of artistic practices (new means of artistic production are established), but also the range of approaches from art theory, related to these practices. Our study illustrates this fact through a review of the scientific literature: articles, specialized publications, monographs and programmatic documents of some relevant institutions. The complexity of the information constellation in which the practice and theory of art are circumscribed, in the recent period, is thus highlighted, which necessarily leads to new specific requirements regarding the instructional design in the field of arts higher education.

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Науково-методичні аспекти прогнозування витрат і планування сталого розвитку агропідприємства

Author(s): Yuriy Kernasyuk / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 33/2018

The purpose of the article is the generalization and development of scientific and methodical approaches to forecasting expenditures in combination with planning for sustainable development of an agricultural enterprise based on the use of economic modeling methods, system analysis and intelligent computer technologies. In the modern economy, one of the important aspects of the competitive functioning of agribusiness enterprises on the principles of sustainable development is the effective management of their financial and material resources. Now it is difficult and problematic to achieve high performance results in the management of enterprises without a comprehensive use of economic modeling methods, system analysis and intelligent computer technologies that significantly expand the existing information and analytical support for forecasting costs and the level of profitability of production activities. The article deals with the organization of ensuring the forecasting of expenditures and planning the sustainable development of an agricultural enterprise. The analysis of the current economic state of the development of agrarian enterprises at the regional, zonal and national levels is carried out. The theoretical aspects of defining the definition of "sustainable development" for an agrarian enterprise are generalized. The methodical approaches to forecasting costs and planning sustainable development of an agricultural enterprise, taking into account the influence of the market environment and other factors were substantiated scientifically. It was suggested to use the tool in the Excel spreadsheet editor, which is called the "Scenario Manager" to automate the calculation of the cost forecast. The scenario approach of the forecast of costs based on 5 variants is grounded. An economic model of cost forecasting based on the example of soybean production is developed. The advantage of this is the ability to provide management with a convenient tool for substantiating and making informed decisions taking into account the influence of the market environment, weather and climate, environmental conditions and other factors. The forecasting model allows to take into account a significant number of factors of influence and trends in the development of super complex systems, including agriculture, and also to ensure a higher level of its reliability

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ОСОБЛИВОСТІ СПІВІСНУВАННЯ ЛЮДИНИ ТА ДЕРЖАВИ У СФЕРІ КІБЕРБЕЗПЕКИ: ЄДНІСТЬ ЧИ ПРОТИЛЕЖНІСТЬ?

Author(s): Volodymyr Anatoliyovych Trofymenko / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 4/2022

The publication is devoted to the question of the place of the state and citizen-user in cyberspace. Two opposite approaches are considered, each of which is based on the positions of the primacy of a state or a person in the issue of cybersecurity. The arguments of the supporters of both approaches are given and the conclusion is made about the effectiveness of their dialectical interaction in order to increase the effectiveness of cybersecurity measures.

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SCURTE CONSIDERAȚII PRIVIND TELEMUNCA

Author(s): Livia Florentina Pașcu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 53/2023

The global phenomenon of digitalisation and robotisation has a significant impact on working conditions and labour markets. Teleworking, a form of remote work organization, represents a more flexible approach to work organization, which in the current economic context brings clear benefits to employers, workers and jobseekers, it leads to increased productivity and employment and to job retention.The legal regulation of telework must ensure equal treatment between teleworkers and employees who continue to work on the employer’s premises. This principle is based on the fact that remote work does not create a special professional status for teleworkers, even if, the way of organizing work changes.The teleworker, like any employee who performs work at the workplace indicated by the employer, enjoys the right to disconnect, respect for health and safety at work, is guaranteed the right to private life, to balance between professional and private life.

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STĂPÂNIREA CONTROLULUI MANAGERIAL: SFATURI ȘI STRATEGII PENTRU UN MANAGEMENT EFICIENT

Author(s): Ionica Oncioiu,Mihaela Mirela Dogaru / Language(s): English Issue: 53/2023

As a manager, controlling the actions of your team is an essential part of ensuring that everyone is working towards the same goals. But what exactly is managerial control, and how can you use it effectively? In this article, I’ll be discussing the importance of managerial control in effective management, the different types of control, the role of technology, strategies for effective control, tips for mastering control, common challenges, and examples of successful control in different industries.

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A Future Primary School Teacher Competence Building Model through Application of Innovative Technologies

Author(s): Tetiana Zaporozhchenko,Marianna SHVARDAK,Liliia Stakhiv,Nataliia Kalyta,Iryna Sadova,Solomiya Illyash / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2022

Nowadays in the context of innovations in the education system it is necessary to substantiate the organizational and pedagogical conditions for the formation of mathematical competence. These changes necessitated the development of a model for the formation of the mathematical competence of future primary school teachers by means of innovative technologies. The purpose of the article is to get acquainted with the components of primary school teachers’ professional competence, to characterize the content of organizational and pedagogical conditions for implementing the model of mathematical competence of future primary school teachers by means of innovative technologies, to form our own model of mathematical competence. Realization of the purpose of the article will give an opportunity in the educational process of higher pedagogical educational institution to improve the professional training of the future specialist, in particular in the aspect of his mathematical competence formation. The educational and methodological support of the process of building mathematical competence is analyzed, in particular: a set of multimedia presentations in the courses “Mathematics” and “Methods of teaching in the educational field of “Mathematics”. a textbook “Methods of teaching in the educational field of “Mathematics”, a textbook “Fundamentals of work in the Moodle environment” and electronic methodological complexes “Mathematics” and “Methods of teaching in the educational field of “Mathematics”, created in the Mооdle environment.

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The Formation of English-Language Lexical Competence of Future Specialists of Information Technologies

Author(s): Nataliya Shandra,Lesia Matviienko,Svitlana Karpliuk,Roksolana Povoroznyuk,Valentyna Pochuieva,Olena Fonariuk / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2022

The article investigates the principle of information technology specialists' competence formation in the conditions of globalization and integration economic processes. In the course of the study, the factors determining the necessity of IT specialists' fluency in foreign languages, in particular in English of professional communication, are identified. Such processes are analyzed on the basis of the theoretical grounding of the researchers on this topic. The relevance of the article is due to the needs of today's globalized society in the context of the development of informatization and digitalization. The study clarifies the essence of English-language lexical competence of future specialists in information technology, identifies the pedagogical conditions, the theoretical rationale, practical development and experimental testing of the methodology for forming English-language lexical competence in future specialists in information technologies within the framework of masters’ degree programmes. The stages of formation of such competence in future IT specialists were determined, a system of tasks for forming English-language lexically competence (ELC) in professionally oriented written communication (POWS) was substantiated and concluded, a linguodidactic model was designed, an algorithm of collective preparation of a written product was proposed. Importantly, the article interprets the results of the experiment in order to verify the effectiveness of the developed method of forming their ELC. The method of analysis, synthesis, research and comparative generalizing method, problem solving method and information and communication method were used for research, a methodical experiment was conducted. On the basis of the obtained data the hypothesis about the effectiveness of the methodology of ELC formation in the POWS of future IT-specialists is confirmed.

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On the Two Types of Resources for Innovative Primary School Teacher Training

Author(s): Tetiana Zaporozhchenko,Tamara Turchyn,Serhii Marchuk,Petro Boichuk,Viktor Shakotko,Yuliia Barulina / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2022

In the article, the authors substantiate the approach to educational innovations as different types of resources - human and technological. Moreover, the concept of “innovation” is understood by the authors in a broad sense: these are objects, phenomena and trends that emerged recently, experienced unexpected development or require urgent changes. The authors discuss the role of human non-technogenic innovation resources and their prospects in personal and organizational-methodological meaning. The purpose of the article is to outline the prospects for the development of an innovative personality for future teachers and demonstrate them some zones of potential occurrence of innovations. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the educational technologies gradually drive out the teacher from the main role which threatens education, that has always been anthropomorphic, rather than technocentric. Methods. During the study, philosophical metaphysical methods were used, in particular the method of “monologic debate”, reflection on global trends in education. From more specific methods, an analysis of educational processes, generalization and modelling of possible educational consequences were used. This made it possible to outline possible directions of personal innovative growth of the teacher in the context of global changes (presented in Table 1). The result of the article. The authors also investigated Ukrainian and foreign scientific literature on the topic and evaluated it from the point of view of pragmatics and axiology. They also proved a thesis about the new ontological essence of educational and teacher innovation: the change of social and educational environments, the development of electronic technologies force to modify not so much the environment as the professional self-identification of the teacher, the specifics of their resources, professional and ontological “self”. Now the institutional resource support has become less important for the teacher, and the subjectivity comes to the fore, which actively uses innovative resources and is the source thereof. The international significance of the article is explained by the global crisis of the educational values, substitution of the anthropomorphic image of education with hi-tech, which should attract the attention of all civilized humanity.

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Supporting the Process of Designing and Planning Heritage and Landscape by Spatializing Data on a Single Support Platform. Case Study: Romania

Author(s): Atena-Ioana Gârjoabă,Cerasella Craciun / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2022

Data handling is a general objective of education, regardless of the educational level (middle school, high school, university or postgraduate) and branch. Being at the intersection between the humanities and the exact sciences, the field of design requires a continuous summation and overlapping of information from specialists. Obtaining data is essential for perceiving the current situation, but also for adapting the solution proposed in the planning process to the given situation, to the particularities and main characteristics of the context. How difficult it is to obtain information, but especially their overlap and correlation to obtain indicators specific to target areas, depends in most cases on the experience of the specialist in the field, but for a recent graduate, the training received during the years of university training is perhaps his most important support. However, there may be data that are predominantly available during university training and data that can be obtained predominantly outside the academic environment (financial data, communication with public institutions). The paper describes a proposal for a support platform to assist the process of architectural design, urban planning and landscaping in Romania, but which can also support adjacent studies and analyzes. The purpose of the platform is to support the design and planning process of heritage and landscape, architecture and urban planning, by simplifying the data acquisition process and also directing the design/planning process to a long-term perspective, which is based on resilient solutions for natural and built heritage and for the conservation of the local cultural landscape.

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Developing Legal Competence in Junior Bachelors: Prospects of Distance Learning

Author(s): Olena Lıtınska,Irina Ryzhenko,Liudmila Sımontseva,Olha Pravotorova,Tetiana Lıen,Nataliia Novak / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2022

The article shows how distance learning influences the development of legal competence in junior bachelors (those awarded certificates of complete general secondary education). The article aims to consider the postmodern tendencies when developing legal competence and how they can be practically used in Ukraine. Also, it is crucial to model and experimentally verify the effectiveness of distance learning in developing legal competence in junior bachelors. To this end, research methods include theoretical and practical ones with some elements of an experiment (a two-year (two academic semesters) pilot experiment involving first-year junior bachelors (a short cycle) from Izmail State University for the Humanities). The results from the validation of a research-based approach have statistically confirmed its effectiveness in terms of junior bachelors’ levels of legal competence developed during distance learning. This allows one to conclude about a positive influence of pedagogical resources of distance learning on the development of legal competence in junior bachelors. The obtained findings can be of interest to both research and teaching staff from higher education institutions. The international relevance of the article lies in the possibility of using these findings to resolve postmodern contradictions of legal education in developing countries, as well as in identifying the needs and readiness of law students in uncertain multimodal social conditions.

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A Study of 3D Graphic in Culture

Author(s): Modesta Lupașcu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

Ardabil, now known as one of the provinces of the country, has been one of the oldest and ancient cities in various historical periods, including Islam. This province comes to the end of the majesty and power during the reign of Safavid. Tombstone is among the heritage of the past that reflects culture and civilization. The existence of a tombstone on the tombs of Islamic period has always been observed in all parts of Iran. Though this issue exists in most cultures, it has always been considered by Muslims as an indicator of burial in the culture of the Islamic era and of Iran. The purpose of this research is to identify and study tombstone in the relevant area during the Safavid period. According to the results, the status of Shia religion can be clearly seen in all the tombstones of the Safavid period of Ardabil. In fact, it can be said that the combination of art and belief has caused the tombs of stone to be of particular importance and variety, and the line drawn on them represents the beliefs and cultures, as well as the scope of the literature of this region. Most of the designs include Islamic designs, flowers and leaves, animal designs and Quranic verses. The method used in this study is based on field study.

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