Academic Articles & Research Papers

Punk’s not dead? Not red? Not bad? Ideology and identity of punk rock in Czechia

The paper examines the ideology, identity and values of punk rock in the Czech context using a cross-sectional ex post facto survey of musical subcultures. The study analyzed effects of gender, age and value preferences on identification wi...

The Issue of Corruption Crimes in the Sphere of Natural Resources Protection (Criminology Aspect)

The article is devoted to the manifestations of corruption in the field of natural resources’ protection. The author gives examples of investigative and judicial practices, suggests the ways of improving legislation in law enforcement optim...

Mujeres con pena privativa de libertad: ¿quiénes son y cómo viven en una cárcel de Ecuador?/ Women's imprisonment: Who they are and how they live in a prison in Ecuador?

Los estudios acerca de personas con pena privativa de libertad tradicionalmente han excluido en el análisis al grupo de mujeres presas bajo el argumento de su escaso número. Esta ausencia en el conocimiento motivó la realización del present...

PUBLIC INTEREST IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

The basis of legal relations in public procurement are private and public interests. The purpose of the study is a substantive assessment of the authors hypothesis that the purpose of legal regulation and financial support of public procure...

人性的探討及其啟示：J. Bruner與賈馥茗之觀點的交融 The Discussion of Human Nature and Its Implications: The Integration of the Viewpoints of J. Bruner and Jia Fuming

有關人性的探討，歷來多所討論，但未盡周全。本文以美國心理學家J. S. Bruner與我國學者賈馥茗的觀點為據，採取詮釋學方法，進行分析和詮釋，綜整歸納，期能更明確掌握人性。本研究指出，前者認為人類因其較長的未成熟狀態，而提升其受教性，同時受人類所創造的社會文化之薰陶，啟迪心智，因而發展出複雜的思考能力，增進其適應力；後者則主張人性具有自然之性、基本情感、欲求以及官能。綜括而言，兩者的論點各具特色，統觀之，有助於增進人性輪廓的完整性，而善用人類的未成熟狀態則能降低風險和欲求，...

Technosignatures Longevity and Lindy's Law

The probability of detecting technosignatures (i.e., evidence of technological activity beyond Earth) increases with their longevity, or the time interval over which they manifest. Therefore, the assumed distribution of longevities has some...

Research software: A key (neglected) component of the digital research infrastructure ecosystem

Firms’ Characteristics and Debt Maturity Structure of Listed Oil and Gas Firms in Nigeria

The objective of our paper is to examine the nexus between firms' characteristics and debt maturity structure in Nigeria. The financial statements of all oil and gas listed firms in Nigeria between 2012 and 2023 provided the secondary data ...

Designing Stress Tests for UK Fast-Growing Firms and Fintech

This paper captures advances in prudential regulation and supervision for challenger banks and fintech in the UK. It presents a critical analysis of the prudential supervisory approaches towards fintech. The focus is placed on fast-growing ...

Observer-Based Robust Finite-Time Trajectory Tracking Control for a Stratospheric Satellite Subject to External Disturbance and Actuator Saturation

The stratospheric satellite is regarded as an ideal stratosphere flight platform and is able to accomplish various missions such as surveillance, earth observation, and remote sensing, which requires a robust and effective trajectory tracki...

Assessment of polygenic architecture and risk prediction based on common variants across fourteen cancers

In cancer many gene variants may contribute to disease etiology, but the impact of a given gene variant may have varied effect size. Here, the authors analyse summary statistics of genome-wide association studies from fourteen cancers, and ...

Lie Symmetry Analysis of C1m,a,b Partial Differential Equations

In this article, we discussed the Lie symmetry analysis of C1m,a,b fractional and integer order differential equations. The symmetry algebra of both differential equations is obtained and utilized to find the similarity reductions, invarian...

Active querying approach to epidemic source detection on contact networks

Abstract The problem of identifying the source of an epidemic (also called patient zero) given a network of contacts and a set of infected individuals has attracted interest from a broad range of research communities. The successful and tim...

Adventures of the Kingdom of Reason in the Land of Bolsheviks

The article aims to reveal the main features of the Bolshevik project to build the Kingdom of Reason in the USSR, associated with the radical reformatting of the relationship between the rational and irrational in the establishment of the ...

Improvement of the external municipal financial control system in the context of public authority reform

The subject. The implementation of external municipal financial control cannot be called fully competent in Russia. Many practical problems are currently being addressed mainly through the transfer of powers to implement external financial ...

True 2-D Resistivity Imaging from Vertical Electrical Soundings to Support More Sustainable Rural Water Supply Borehole Siting in Malawi

To improve borehole siting for rural water supply, an advanced resistivity method was adapted for developing country use and demonstrated in Malawi. The method was designed to be low cost, developing-country accessible, efficient. It allows...

A robust and uncertainty-aware machine learning framework for PM2.5 prediction in a coastal urban Indian environment: implications for sustainable air quality management

Abstract Accurate prediction of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) remains challenging because atmospheric processes are nonlinear, nonstationary, and influenced by temporal variability, measurement uncertainty, and episodic pollution events. ...

Influence of strain measurement methods on crack initiation and crack damage thresholds of shale

Abstract The crack initiation stress (σ ci) and crack damage stress (σ cd) are two important stress thresholds for describing the progressive failure process of rocks. Accurately obtaining these two stress thresholds is crucial for analyzin...

Study of a constrained finite element elbow prosthesis: the influence of the implant placement

Abstract Background The functional results of total elbow arthroplasty (TEA) are controversial and the medium- to long-term revision rates are relatively high. The aim of the present study was to analyze the stresses of TEA in its classic c...

Designing tax incentives and disincentives for urban cultural heritage conservation: a behavioral policy framework

This study proposes a systematic policy framework that leverages special tax measures to steer stakeholder behavior toward urban cultural heritage conservation. Integrating comparative policy analysis, microeconomic modeling, systematic pol...