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The article investigates a case of color usage in Revelation 6:8 and various ways it has been translated into Danish. The Greek χλωρός used to describe the horse under the fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse is polysemic and thus rather difficult to interpret, which resulted in numerous variations among translators. The image of Death on a pale horse has become part of the Western cultural heritage, although linguists have argued if this equivalent is indeed accurate in terms of color meaning comprised within the original lexeme. Fourteen translations, from medieval to modern, allowed to scrutinize some particular features of rendering this intricate color term in Danish, rising the main question of the study: why do so many Danish translations opt for the chromatic meaning of yellow in the given passage? In order to answer that, firstly, all of the translations were examined from the point of view of the time they were made, the primary source that the works were based upon and the special characteristics of chosen equivalents of χλωρός. Secondly, a few external sources were introduced in order to put the issue in a broader linguacultural context, such as the language, color symbolism and early Danish church art. This approach has helped to determine possible reasons for Death’s horse turning yellow, like the influence of German, deadly connotations of the Danish color term gul ‘yellow’ when referring to paleness and the bad symbolic reputation of color yellow itself.

Letters from Russia by Robert Watt, published in Denmark in 1867, were born as a result of the Danish writer’s trip to Russia to cover Princess Dagmar of Denmark’s arrival in Russia and wedding with Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich in 1866. Robert Watt was a journalist, a writer, a translator, and the artistic director of Tivoli Gardens amusement park from 1866 to his death in 1894. Letters from Russia contains seventeen chapters, in which the writer describes his impressions of his trip to Russia, from the moment he said farewell to Denmark standing on the deck of “Mermaid” frigate, which was raising sails heading to Kronstadt, to the ceremonial reception of the Danish Princess. Road diaries of those who travelled across Russia have always been an important source of information about the country and the epoch, and Robert Watt’s book is no exception. Watt’s book is partly a guidebook — he describes all places of interest in Moscow and St Petersburg, but he also ponders on specific features of life in Russia and the national character. Most of his characteristics are highly positive, he doesn’t pay much attention to unsightly sides of life. The observer’s assessment depends on their personality, previous experience, the recipient (in this case the book was aimed at the Danish reader), and the political situation. We could assume that as the writer was sent to Russia to cover Princess Dagmar of Denmark’s wedding he did not intend to pay attention to the ugly sides of the Russian life. Nevertheless, Robert Watt’s book, unknown to a wide audience in Denmark and Russia, is an important cultural monument which supplements the history of relations between Denmark and Russia

The article deals with K. Hamsun’s novel Victoria (1898). The author offers an overview of various researchers’ approaches to the work and points out that most literary scholars analyzed this story from the point of view of social roles and psychology of the characters. It is further argued that a productive method of research can be to analyze the genre similarities of the novel with medieval Scandinavian ballads, with the author relying on Hamsun’s own assertion that Victoria is nothing but a lyric. The article point at the features of the composition and plot of the story, which are also characteristic of the ballad genre, in particular, its episodic structure and hyperbolized dramatic quality of the plot. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the prose poem Labyrinths of Love, according to the plot written by the protagonist Johannes. The author of the article points out the intertextual connections in the poem with the Bible and medieval ballads, emphasizing that these connections have the character of dialogue. It is further argued that Labyrinths of Love plays an important role in the development of the plot, providing a smooth transition between the episodes of the story and affirming the main idea of the work about love as a powerful force that plays with people’s lives. The tragedy of the protagonists is not a consequence of their social inequality or inner discord, but is predetermined by fate. Due to the dialog with biblical texts and medieval ballads, the seemingly “banal” story of Johannes and Victoria acquires a timeless, universal character, and they become one of the long row of “eternal lovers” such as Hagbard and Signe, Tristan and Isolde, Romeo and Juliet

Dit artikel richt zich op de mogelijkheden van het spraakcorpus Corpus Gesproken Nederlands (CGN) als hulpmiddel voor het onderzoek naar de sociale taalvariatie in het Nederlands. Het CGN, dat in de vorm van een webapplicatie beschikbaar is, omvat ongeveer duizend uur spraakopnames van sprekers uit Nederland en Vlaanderen, met een totaal van circa tien miljoen taalelementen, ook wel bekend als tokens (waaronder woordvormen, leestekens, aanduidingen van non-verbale uitingen en onverstaanbare spraak). Het corpus beschikt over een orthografische transcriptie en een fonetische transcriptie van de teksten, evenals annotaties — zowel linguïstische (morfologische) als extralinguïstische (informatie over de opgenomen fragmenten en de sprekers). Ondanks de aanzienlijke hoeveelheid taalmateriaal en de mogelijkheid om gebruik te maken van een reeks parameters, zoals sociale (leeftijd, geslacht, opleidingsniveau, sociale rol) en situationele (het CGN is onderverdeeld in veertien categorieën, die elk overeenkomen met een specifieke communicatieve situatie) parameters, zijn er fouten en onvolkomenheden in de morfologische en extralinguïstische annotatie. Ten eerste hebben we geconcludeerd dat niet alle linguïstische (morfologische) data van het CGN handmatig werden geverifieerd na de automatische verwerking, wat de onderzoeker dwingt de zoekresultaten extra te controleren. Ten tweede zijn de fragmenten waarin twee of meer sprekers voorkomen, voorzien van informatie alleen over één spreker, wat leidt tot onbetrouwbare resultaten met betrekking tot de verdeling van taalelementen over bepaalde sociale parameters, evenals tot de noodzaak om ons te beperken tot fragmenten die alleen monologische en, wat nog belangrijker is voor een dergelijk onderzoek, spontane spraak bevatten

В статье поднимается извечный вопрос: может ли документальное кино сегодня оставаться документальным, если реальность больше не одна, а расколота на множество правд? Постправда, постистина, метамодерн - всё это ставит под сомнение саму природу doc-произведения. Даже братья Люмьер снимали постановки под видом хроники. Современный документальный проект уже не тот, что был вчера. Он живёт здесь и сейчас - в ответ на вызовы цифровой эпохи. Сегодня doc вбирает в себя реконструкции, анимацию, виртуальную реальность, ИИ и интерактивность. Это не предательство достоверности, а эволюция языка: родовой признак - связь с подлинными событиями - остаётся, даже если автор выбирает театрализацию или VR-докудраму. На основе аналитического отбора фестивальных и образовательных кейсов (в том числе из курса «Экранный документ в пространстве современных аудиовизуальных искусств») выявлены ключевые тенденции: гибридизация жанров, иммерсивность, персонализация повествования и технологическая смелость. От«Вальса с Баширом» до VR-проекта «Бабушка» - документалисты всё чаще говорят с аудиторией на языке игр, соцсетей и нейросетей. Главное - сохранить исходный код документа: не искажать факт, даже если его подаёшь через анимацию или deepfake. Иначе doc рискует превратиться не в медиасреду, а в симулякр. Технологии больше не украшение - они становятся языком, на котором новое поколение режиссёров говорит о войне, травме, экологии и памяти. Но остаётся открытый вопрос: где проходит грань между смелой интерпретацией и манипуляцией? На него, возможно, ответит не теория, а время.

Silicene, as a silicon analogue of graphene, has attracted increasing attention due to its combination of physical and chemical properties, making it a relevant material for flexible electronics and nanotechnology. In this study, molecular dynamics simulations were used to study the effect of dislocation dipoles on the deformation behavior and mechanical properties of silicene under uniaxial tension. The wrinkle formation during tension was analyzed. Dislocation dipoles with different arm lengths were considered. A comparative analysis with graphene, the benchmark two-dimensional material, was also performed. The results showed that the strength of silicene smoothly decreases with increasing defect size. In contrast, graphene exhibits a sharp drop in strength when a critical defect size is reached; thereafter, further increases in the defect size have little effect on its mechanical properties. At the same time, the fracture strain of both materials depends only weakly on defects due to their ability to form wrinkles, which redistribute stress throughout the structure. The simulation results revealed differences in the wrinkle morphology of graphene and silicene, which are determined by their atomic structures. The planar structure of graphene forms uniform one-dimensional ripples, whereas the buckled structure of silicene leads to the formation of inhomogeneous wrinklons. Unlike graphene, with transition from a flat to a wrinkled state and from a wrinkled to a flat state again during deformation, the wrinkles in silicene persist until failure. These results are important for studying the strength and defect influence in two-dimensional materials, as well as for assessing their potential applications in flexible electronics.

In conditions when cities become centres of attraction for resources and people, while experiencing significant problems of environmental, social, economic nature, it is extremely important to form new approaches to urbanised territories development. The article aims to design a mechanism for managing the development of smart cities using a regional approach. Methodologically, the research rests on the theory of the digital society and the propositions of urbanised territories’ public management. The methods include the system-logical method, graphical modelling, and qualitative analysis. The paper propounds a mechanism for smart city public management and proposes its interpretation as a set of measures, actions of management structures, society and business for resource provisioning, as well as technologies for managing the processes of formation and development of a smart city. The main functions of this mechanism include creating conditions for the interaction of ecosystem participants, stable functioning of governing bodies, transparency of management processes, as well as ensuring feedback. The article constructs a graphical model of the mechanism of urbanised territories’ public management under digitalisation. Based on the theoretical developments the paper structures the experience of the Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk oblast and concludes that despite quite an extensive list of the smart city initiatives, their implementation largely overlooks such aspects as determining the state and development directions of the digitalisation objects, assessing the risks of smart city projects, maintaining quality of implementation processes, and auditing smart city projects. The findings can contribute to planning the smart cities development at the regional level

Entrepreneurial knowledge and intention focus on understanding an individual’s interest in and abilities towards entrepreneurial activities. Another issue is the impact of cultural differences on entrepreneurial intention. The purpose of the study is to reveal the impact of entrepreneurship knowledge on entrepreneurial intention of international students receiving higher education in Turkey. We also examine whether there are differences in entrepreneurial knowledge and entrepreneurial intention according to gender, department, having an entrepreneurial business idea, receiving entrepreneurship education or not and monthly expenditure amount. The methodological basis of the study resides in the concept of entrepreneurial knowledge and planned behaviour theory. Among the research methods are frequency and regression analyses, parametric tests, convenience sampling method. A total of 380 students enrolled in 20 public and 5 private universities in Turkey in the 2021–2022 academic year participated in the survey and completed the questionnaire. Participants were reached through electronic and social media environments or face-to-face communication. The research results reveal that there are statistically significant differences between entrepreneurial knowledge and intention with educational status, entrepreneurial idea, department of study and the amount of monthly expenses. Furthermore, regression analysis showed that entrepreneurial knowledge and entrepreneurship education have a significant positive effect on students’ entrepreneurial intentions. The findings of this study provide valuable guidance for policymakers and curriculum preparers to understand international students’ entrepreneurial intentions and promote entrepreneurial intentions in universities

In a highly competitive Azerbaijani coffee shop market, knowing what drives consumer behaviour is crucial for marketers and businesses looking to separate out from the competition and encourage customer loyalty. The article examines the effects of brand image, product quality and price on consumer purchase intention. The study is based on marketing theory, consumer behavior theory and the concept of customer-centric marketing. The methods of logical-structural, quantitative, factor and regression analysis are used. Within the scope of the research, the data were collected through an online questionnaire. The data set of the study is represented by data from an online survey of 298 customers of coffee shops in the city of Baku, collected in the period April-May 2023. According to the findings of the study, brand image, product quality and price, which are independent variables, have a significant and positive effect on the dependent variable, the purchase intention. The results contribute to the understanding that businesses need to focus on building a strong brand image in order to increase consumer purchase intention. By gaining a deeper comprehension of the factors influencing the purchasing decisions of customers, businesses can create more effective marketing campaigns, increase their market share, develop a solid market position and build consumer loyalty in an increasingly competitive environment. The study adds to the ongoing discussion about customer-centric marketing by throwing new insight on the elements that influence consumer behaviour.

In the time of fast technology growth, digitalization is transforming the landscape of many businesses. However, the antecedents of digital adoption within small and medium-sized enterprises in crisis are yet not fully understood. This study’s objective is to pinpoint factors that influence entrepreneurs’ intentions to utilize digital technologies in times of COVID-19 crisis in the Russian Federation. The study is based on the theory of planned behaviour. The analytical procedures performed on the data involved logistic regression modelling. This research draws on the Russian part of the 2021 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Database (GEM) Adult Population Survey which measures the level and nature of entrepreneurial activity in different countries. Perceived behavioural control was revealed to be a key determinant of the intention towards digital technologies’ adoption – entrepreneur’s perception of opportunities and self-efficacy positively affects their intention to adopt digital technologies during a crisis. Notably, previous experience with digital technologies had a negative impact during the crisis. Further, an individual’s age inversely affects their tendency to pursue digital entrepreneurial initiatives. The research extends the theory of planned behaviour to volatile contexts and signals how entrepreneurs can adapt to upheavals during crises through digitalization, thus advancing understanding of entrepreneurial behaviour under extremities

Presenteeism is among the key factors that negatively affect employee efficiency and, therefore, company organizational performance. The existing measurement tools for assessing presenteeism highlight health-related issues as the main reason behind this counterproductive behaviour. On the other hand, other factors that influence modern business life and processes are omitted. The paper’s primary purpose is to develop a comprehensive measurement tool suitable for the individual and organizational multi-factor structure of presenteeism that accurately reflects the complex nature of today’s business world. Methodologically, the research is shaped within the framework of grounded theory. In the study, mixed methods research combining qualitative and quantitative methods was utilized. In this context, firstly, the authors conducted a literature review and focus group interviews with experts in the field in order to reveal the conceptual structure. We analysed the data using content analysis and then moved on to writing 18 scale items. We performed exploratory factor analysis using the SPSS program and confirmatory factor analysis using the AMOS program. As a result, we develop a four-dimensional scale for presenteeism covering work focus, stress management, social loafing, and performance. The verified multidimensional scale fills a vacuum in the literature by offering a comprehensive and dependable instrument to gauge presenteeism on organizational and individual dimensions. Among the possible avenues for further research are testing the scale in different cultural contexts and addressing the organizational causes of presenteeism

In the intersection of digital marketing and sustainability, emerging trends and innovations are shaping the landscape as businesses increasingly recognize the importance of environmental and social responsibility. The article is devoted to the impact of digital marketing solutions on the process of achieving sustainable development goals. It analyzes trends indicating a significant shift in consumer preferences towards environmentally friendly products and socially responsible consumer behavior. The article provides examples of several international campaigns that illustrate successful efforts contributing to sustainable development. The role of digital technologies in achieving sustainable development goals examined, emphasizing the necessity of integrating sustainability issues into corporate digital strategies