Geography, Regional studies
A ĐE JE TO NAŠE? BOŠNJACI-SANDŽAK-BOSNA
Author(s): Ismet Dedeic / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 65-66/2015
Selmanaga Kardović, ratnik s Galipolja, bio je jedan od glavnih junaka mog djetinjstva u Rožajama. On je izrazitim govorničkim darom zarazno privlačio publiku, a posebno pričom o tom Galipolju, bitci nad svim bitkama iz Prvog svjetskog rata. Tada je Turska uspjela da zadrži strateške moreuze Bosfor i Dardanele i porazi ujedinjene snage Britanskog Kraljevstva i Francuske. Pričao bi Selmanaga da su napadači granatama preoravali i zatrpavali linije branilaca, ali bi ovi, kad krene pješadija, uvijek iznova iznicali iz čudesnih podzemnih tvrđava i fanatično išli prsa u prsa, iza čega bi Galipolje ostajalo prekriveno hiljadama, a ponekad i desetinama hiljada mrtvih.
A METHODOLOGY FOR CALCULATING INDIVIDUAL INDICATORS OF TOURISM ACTIVITY
Author(s): Vasyl Kyfyak,Olexander Kyfyak / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2018
The purpose of the article is to find modern approaches for calculating the quantity of given characteristic features and accompanying tourist services and goods purchased by tourists, to determine the number of tourists visiting a city and forecasting the volume of travel services for the future. Solutions to the tasks set out in the article have been carried out with the help of both general academic and specialist research methods: analysis and synthesis, systematization and generalization, expert evaluation and extrapolation. Using the example of the city of Chernivtsi (Ukraine) the number of tourists visiting the city has been determined, the volume of services rendered and the average annual growth rate of tourism service implementation over the last five years has been calculated contributing to forecasting the volume of service delivery for the future.
A multi-objective optimization approach of housing in Algeria. A step towards sustainability
Author(s): Khadidja El-Bahdja Djebbar,Souria Salem,Abderrahmane Mokhtari / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018
The present study focuses on the evaluation of the energy and environmental performance (EEP) of a typical multi-storey building in Tlemcen, Algeria. It aims to contribute to the development of Algeria's thermal regulation by establishing a list of actions to be taken in short, medium and long term, in terms of thermal rehabilitation in existing housing areas as well as in new ones, in urban regions with a similar climate. An appropriate multi-criteria methodology is developed by determining its thermal performance using a static method as well as establishing a multi- objective strategy of EEP optimization. The assessment of: the potential of primary-energy-saving and that of the CO2-emissions' reduction and indoor-environmental-quality of a real state of construction by simulation using DesignBuilder software, together with investment-cost are reported. Therefore, this study is conducted using the potential of parametric evaluation methodology to investigate the impact of passive energy-efficiency-measures on the building envelope from energy, environmental, economic and thermal-comfort points of view. Insulation and ventilation reduction are the main measures saving more than 75% of energy and 44% of CO2-emissions. Besides, the winter comfort is significantly improved. But from the economic standpoint, policy measures must be taken; namely tariffs reforms and energy control law enforcement.
A new gate-tower type in Pannonia Inferior. The northern gate of Annamatia
Author(s): Péter Kovács / Language(s): English / Issue: 1-3/2006
Roman forts can several times be dated only on the basis of the ground-plans of their gate-towers. This observation is true in the case of the forts in the Pannonian provinces as well. Here the earlier hypothesis that most of the Pannonian earth-timber castella were built into stone only after the Marcomannic wars on the basis of the gate-towers (projecting in the ratio 1/3:2/3 from the face of the fort wall) was confirmed by archaeological evidence in several places. In this paper we publish an earlier unknown gate type from Annamatia (Pannonia Inferior, Baracs) which was uncovered in the years 2000–2001.
A PERJÁMOSI SÍR (1885) ÉS HELYE AZ 5. SZÁZADI LEMEZFIBULÁS NŐI TEMETKEZÉSEK KÖZÖTT
Author(s): Péter Prohászka / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1-2/2003
In Perjámos (heute Periam, Rum.) wurde 1885 ein Grab mit Beigaben aus der Völkerwanderungszeit gefunden, in dem sich auch zwei große Silberblechfibeln befanden, die für eine spezielle Gruppe der Frauenbestattungen des 5. Jahrhunderts typisch sind. Die Funde kamen noch in demselben Jahr ins Ungarische Nationalmuseum und wurden schon 1886 von Ferenc Pulszky, dem damaligen Direktor des Museums, im Archaeologiai Értesítő veröffentlicht (Abb. 1–2).1–2 Interessant an seiner Studie ist, daß er außer einer kurzen Beschreibung der Gegenstände vor allem über den parallelen Fund von Ilok detailliert berichtet. So hat er sich weder mit dem Fundort noch mit den Fundumständen beschäftigt. József Hampel hat in seinen monumentalen Werken von 1894 und 1905 den Perjámoser Fund etwas ausführlicher behandelt, 3 wir erfahren von ihm beispielsweise, daß es sich um Beigaben einer Skelettbestattung handelte. Die wissenschaftlichen Publikationen, die auf diese Fundgegenstände hinweisen, berufen sich bis heute auf Hampels Werk, so daß eine kritische Aufarbeitung des Perjámoser Grabes nötig wurde. Diese wurde durch die Berichte von der Auffindung bzw. die amtliche Korrespondenz über die Verbringung ins Museum gefördert, auf die ich im Historischen Datenarchiv des Ungarischen Nationalmuseums gestoßen bin. Damit stehen Briefe und Berichte mit zahlreichen wichtigen Angaben zur Verfügung, die bei den bisherigen Untersuchungen nicht berücksichtigt wurden. In einem Brief vom 2. Juni 1885 informierte der Vizegespan des Kom. Torontál, Béla Tallián, das Ungarische Nationalmuseum über die Funde von Perjámos, die am 21. Mai bei Erdarbeiten entdeckt wurden.
A Pilgrimage through Traditional Romania
Memory, History, Religion: Exploring Irish-Romanian Boundaries in Peter Hurley's THE WAY OF THE CROSSES
Author(s): Nicoleta Stanca / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016
This paper will look at the manner in which Romania is perceived by an Irishman, Peter Hurley, living here for twenty years, traveling on foot from Săpânța to Bucharest (26 days, 650 kilometers) and recounting it all in a book, The Way of the Crosses (2013). The title of Hurley's book may have been inspired by a hybrid Irish-Romanian experience, signaled to the author by another Irishman, Shaun Davey, who, in 2009, composed music triggered by the "lyrics" of the epitaphs on the crosses in the Merry Cemetery of Săpânța, Romania. Traveling, being inspired by Romanian landscape and culture, with the background of the Irish writer's "sense of place", Hurley's account is meant to reach audiences beyond the Romanian border and enable further interaction. The project of walking the way of the crosses and the writing about it, drawing maps and showing pictures fit in the Irish author's preoccupations with bringing to the fore authentic traditional Romania. His travel writing becomes a means through which Romanian-Irish personal and collective memory are transmitted beyond boundaries, avoiding ideological perspectives, using elements such as Dacian pottery, Romanian ceramic production today and the story of the last family of potters in Maramureș. The translation of aspects of Romanian culture involves recalling legends, rituals, beliefs, stories, historical accounts, which are resituated in a transnational context (for instance, haystack making in Maramureș and the West of Ireland, Romanian children in popular costumes playing with plastic Chinese-made toy-guns, a Romanian peasant as the Last of the Mahicans). Hybridity also results from the author's bilingualism (e.g. praying at a troiță in Romanian and translating the prayer into English in the book or keeping the Romanian words for "traistă", "horincă", "zacuscă", "șindrile").
A PROMINENT HEPHTHALITE: KATULPH AND THE FALL OF THE HEPHTHALITE EMPIRE
Author(s): Szabolcs Felföldi / Language(s): English / Issue: 2-3/2001
The Byzantine author Menander Protector reports the story of (Katulph), a member of Hephthalite nobility. This prominent Hephthalite took part in the events of the defeat of the Hephthalite Empire. He was one of the most important political persons of that epoch and area, someone who was the advisor not just of the Hephthalite ruler, but later the Türk Istämi and what is more the Persian Great King Xusrö Anösarwän I. This treatise deals with the so far unexamined story and tries to define who Katulph actually was. Beside the thorough examination of the Byzantine source and the name Katulph I clarify some serious misunderstandings (such as the identification of Katulph with the last Hephthalite ruler), which are widespread in the secondary sources (for example in the works of Drouin, Haussig and Ghirshman).
A SHORT HISTORY OF POLISH-UKRAINIAN TERMINOGRAPHY
Author(s): Marek Wojciech Lukasik / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2016
Specialised dictionaries fulfil a plethora of linguistic and cognitive functions in specialised communication. In particular, such reference works help introduce, harmonise and standardise national terminologies, thus playing an indispensable role in disseminating high quality specialised knowledge. An even more important role may be attributed to bilingual and multilingual specialised dictionaries, whose primary goal is to facilitate the flow of scientific and technical information at an international level. This function has come to the fore in today's multinational and interconnected professional world. In light of the developing and ever stronger cooperation between Poland and Ukraine, an attempt is being made to evaluate bilingual and multilingual terminographic works containing Polish and Ukrainian which have been published in Poland to date. The aim is to assess the positive developments and to identify the gaps in Polish-Ukrainian terminography. It is hoped that the findings presented in this paper will be applied by terminographers in order to compile terminological dictionaries of higher quality, which satisfy the needs of specific users and follow terminographic principles.
A STUDY ON COMPARATIVE ADVERTISING IN SOCIAL MEDIA: EXAMPLE OF TURKEY AND POLAND
Author(s): Ishan Eken / Language(s): English / Issue: Special/2014
Developments on globalization and communication technologies has effected advertisement as well as many other areas. New advertisement channels has come out by the Improvement in communication technologies. Social media is gaining more importance day by day in whole world and in our country, and the market share is increasing in whole advertisement channels. Consequently, social media is turning into an important advertisement channel. One of the methods used in advertisement is comparative advertisement. In comparative advertisement, both the advertiser submits his product's good quality compared to competitors and the consumer can have a chance to compare the products and make a better choice. Conversely, if the comparison in the advertisement is not objective, misleading and false informative, the advertiser exploitation and consumer misleading can occur; if the comparative advertisement is banned this can prevent the positive effects that should be reflected to competition and the consumer. At that point, the limits of the comparative advertisement must be determined. Depending on this, to see the effects of social media and globalization easily, the study purposes to observe the comparative advertisements used on social media in Turkey and Poland by content analysis method.
A STUDY ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY, IN ARGES, ROMANIA
Author(s): Andrei Dumitru / Language(s): English / Issue: 04/2016
" Purpose: To assess the impact of cerebral palsy on health-related quality of life of Arges county-Romania children.This is a cross-sectional survey. The study involved 54 children (33 males and 21 females), between 1 and 12 years of age, with cerebral palsy. The socio-demographic details of the participants were obtained through interviews. Their HRQoL was assessed using the Child Health Questionnaire-Parent Form. Severity of motor disability was assessed and classified using the Gross Motor Function Classification System. Data were summarised using descriptive statistics. The participants' overall scores and scores on each domain of were very low.
A Survey of Subjective Opinions of Population about Seismic Resistance of Residential Buildings
Author(s): Dunja Demirovic,Kristina T. Košic,Vasile Surd,Lejla Žunic,Yulia A. Syromiatnikova / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2017
The unpredictability and the seriousness of the potential earthquake consequences for people and residential buildings in Serbia imply the need for improving the resilience of local communities. The paper presents the results of a quantitative research regarding the level and factors of influence on the awareness of citizens about the seismic resistance of their residential buildings to earthquake consequences. Multiple-point random sampling was used to survey 1,018 citizens (face to face) during 2017 in 8 local communities: Kraljevo, Lazarevac, Jagodina, Mionica, Prijepolje, Vranje, Lapovo and Kopaonik. The questionnaire consisted of two segments: questions on demographic, socio-economic and psychological characteristics of respondents and questions regarding resistance of residential buildings to earthquake consequences. The results show that 35% of respondents state that they live in residential buildings that are not resistant to earthquakes, while 70.7% state that they live in buildings built of reinforced concrete, which are considered safe. Beside that 9.2% of respondents examined the resistance of their facilities to earthquake consequences. Inferential statistical analyses show that men to a greater extent than women state that their buildings are resistant to earthquake consequences. Starting from the multidimensionality of citizen vulnerability to earthquakes, it is necessary to conduct additional studies and further elucidate the sociological dimension of vulnerability and resilience.
A Tale of Two Ahmadiyya Mosques: Religion, Ethnic Politics, and Urban Planning in London
Author(s): Marzia Balzani / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2015
Built on the site of a disused dairy in London, the Ahmadiyya Baitul Futuh Mosque is simultaneously a regenerated postindustrial site, a signal achievement for the community that built it, an affront to local Sunni Muslims, a focus for Islamophobic protest, and a boost to local regeneration plans and tourism. Using town planning documents, media articles, and ethnographic fieldwork, this article considers the conflicting discourses available to locals, Muslim and non-Muslim, centered on the new Baitul Futuh Mosque and an older, smaller, suburban Ahmadiyya mosque located nearby. These discourses are situated in the broader transnational context of sectarian violence and creation of community where ethnicity, faith, and immigration status mark those who attend the mosques. The article considers the different historical periods in which the two mosques were built, the class composition of residents in the neighborhoods of the mosques, and the consequences these have for how the mosques are incorporated into the locality. The strategies diverse local groups use to define the space in different and conflicting terms, and their cross-cutting claims, are discussed to present a range of religious, political, and ethnic positions shaping ideals of self-realization and aspirations for the future at individual and community levels.
A TECHNOLOGICAL APPROACH OF A MICROLITHIC ASSEMBLAGE: THE SITE OF TATA (MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC, HUNGARY)
Author(s): MARIE-HÉLÈNE MONCEL / Language(s): English / Issue: 1-2/2001
The palaeolithic site Tata dated to the oxygen isotopic stage 5 is famous for its very strange lithic assemblage, most of which are smaller than 30 mm. Other OIS 5 sites in Central Europe have yielded microlithic assemblages which are not always related to the specific raw material conditions. The technological analysis of the cores provides new patterns about the technological choice for flaking, which seems to belong to a specific tradition.This hypothesis could be confirmed by the comparative studies of several Middle European microlithic assemblages from OIS 11 to 4–3.
A Theban tomb of the late Third Intermediate Period on El-Khokha
Author(s): Gábor Schreiber,Zsolt Vasáros / Language(s): English / Issue: 1-3/2005
The profound social changes occuring under the late Ramessides and the early years of the Libyan rule have not remained without an effect on Egyptian material culture. One of the best indicators of this phenomenon is funerary art and, more specifically, the funerary artefacts retrieved from the tombs of the Theban necropolis. Although the material from regional cemeteries in Middle Egypt, the Delta and especially the royal necropolis at Tanis also provides valuable data to a better understanding of the characteristics of this change, it is only at Thebes that a vast sequence of tomb groups preserved by favorable climatic conditions can serve as a basis for more elaborate studies yielding a compass for the assessment of contemporary corpora throughout Egypt. The significance of the Theban material was already recognised by early scholars following the discovery of tomb groups in Deir el-Bahari, the Ramesseum and other sites at Thebes. More recent investigations have also convincingly shown that the period between the 11th and mid-7th c. BC is far from being homogeneous with regard to cultural patterns and paradigms expressed in material culture. Relying on typological studies of various genres of this material,2 the production of the 21st and early 22nd dynasties is now safely distinguishable from the preceding and successive Theban corpora. The present study offers a summary of the digging activities carried out in a mortuary complex that dates to the second part of the Third Intermediate Period, i.e., the late 22nd and 25th dynasties.
A View of Planning in Romania
Author(s): Josefina López Galdeano / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0
About the necessity of scientific research concerning regional and ethnoregional parties in Central and Eastern Europe
Author(s): Malgorzata Mysliwiec / Language(s): English / Issue: 13/2016
The history of states situated in Central and Eastern Europe in nineteenth and twentieth centuries differs significantly from the history of contemporary than western democracies. In nineteenth century, when the majority of states in Western Europe have shaped their own models of horizontal and vertical division of powers, states in Central and Eastern part of the continent have fought for their political position in the context of larger, complex states or didn`t exist at the map of the world at all. The short period of peace between the First and the Second World War has allowed for some experiments with democratic institutions and procedures, but there was no time for their consolidation. After the Second World War that part of Europe has fallen under the influence of the Soviet Union, losing the chance to implement political solutions known by the Western Europeans for more than 150 years. The democratic transition, started symbolically in 1989, has allowed to undertake new efforts to establish democratic orders in states of Central and Eastern Europe. However, the horizontal division of powers was far more important than the reflection on necessity of vertical organization of the public authority. Mentioned problems have decisively caused difficulties in defining relations between political centres and peripheries in states of the Central and Eastern Europe. But it does not mean that politically significant processes in these states are taking place only in political centres and their only actors are state-wide-parties. For that reason the main aim of this paper will be to justify the necessity of scientific research concerning regional and ethnoregional parties as well as proto-parties in Central and Eastern Europe.
Abuse and violence against foreign domestic workers. A case from Hong Kong
Author(s): Akm Ahsan Ullah / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015
This paper explores various abuses Foreign Domestic Helpers (FDHs) or migrant domestic workers (MDW) in Hong Kong suffer and the strategies they take up to cope with this abuse. Data were collected from 215 domestic helpers (135 from the Philippines, 30 from Thailand, 41 from Indonesia, and 9 from Sri Lanka) all of whom had been in residence for at least six months. Selected by snow-balling technique, respondents were interviewed with structured and non-structured questionnaires. Research shows that sexual abuse is the most common form of abuse against MDWs followed by psychological and physical abuses. Female employers are the main perpetuators of psychological abuse while the male employers are culpable for sexual abuses. Coping strategies varied widely among the MDWs. Many of them endure the violence to keep the job; some quit the job and others struggle with the decision to stay or quit.
Accesul în zona rurală – problemă esenţială pentru dezvoltarea spaţială echilibrată
Author(s): Viorica NICULESCU / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 2/2010
The project aimed to: a) constitute a diversified strategy of development, adapted to the endogen potential of rural areas; b) strengthen the territorial role of small and medium cities as regional development poles, among others by ensuring their accessibility to the major communication network; c) protect and valorize the natural and cultural heritage in rural development strategies.
Accounts of Cannibalism, Human Sacrifice, Alcohol-Addiction and Filthiness among Northern Poeple
Author(s): Art Leete / Language(s): English / Issue: 1-3/2005
This paper provides an overview of the extreme descriptions of northern peoples, including themes such as cannibalism, human sacrifice, alcohol-addiction and filthiness, in writings of the period from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. These depictions are indicative of cultural barriers, extreme stereotypes and ethnocentrism – all phenomena that were relatively acceptable in the research of that period. In the eighteenth-century accounts, the medieval images were dropped completely and a scientific approach was adopted in the studies of northern cultures. Development of radical accounts of northern peoples in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries should be examined in a wider context of the most influential philosophers of that period.
ADAPTATION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSES IN EAST TOWNS TO THE HISTORICAL ENVIRONMENT (CASE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN)
Author(s): Javad ABDOLHOSEYNI / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2009
The greatest problem for such kind of historical cities is reconstruction ways of their structure and types of construction. Considering characteristic cities and regional specifications of Iran by this goal, some researching that belonging to changing possible to environment resolution for their development was carried out. For example, Yazd got the most power in the last periods for out of city buildings according to its natural climate and social-economical opportunities. These are low-storied yard spaces, construction complexes and many-storied buildings. Adaptation matter to historical environment and adaptation character of new viewing buildings and multi-storied buildings of Iran are in other direction fully. It is a separated system of powerfully prepared group construction of multi-sectional manystoried buildings.