Counting, Carrying, Crafting

The article shows that Soviet art has specific characteristics that allow writing about it as a unique phenomenon of world culture. Soviet art has become not only a reflection of unprecedented social creativity, not only one of the “tools” for creating a new life, but also the most valuable achievement of culture, which puts it on a par with the greatest social transformations of the Soviet period in Russian history. The main problem of the research: how is it possible to create artistically significant art in the absence of freedom of creativity in the USSR? In the context of the problem, the article considers the factors that determine the flourishing of Soviet art: firstly, the organic connection of art with the actual existence of socialist construction and the ideal future; secondly, the novelty of life, which predetermined the originality of the event content of Soviet art, reflecting this life and serving as an inspiring stimulus for creativity; thirdly, Soviet art was associated with an element of the artists active participation in a real event, sometimes very dangerous for life, which, in the end, becomes a work of art; fourthly, the peculiar democracy of the organization of artistic culture. The elements of the state-party leadership of art are analyzed, which limit the freedom of creativity, but at the same time, to a certain extent, positively influenced the formation of its specific properties. It is shown that the authorities, exercising leadership of artistic culture, using art for ideological purposes, controlled not only the content aspect of artistic creativity, but also the formal one. But one of the main goals of socialist development was proclaimed by them to be the creation of conditions for the harmonious development of the individual. Therefore, the artist was required to democratize the language, focusing on the established, traditional forms, so that the people would understand his works. On the other hand, a system of art education and upbringing of the masses was created, allowing the people to “rise to a level” that allows them to adequately perceive works of serious art. The article substantiates the conclusions: despite the new ideological tasks that were set by the Soviet authorities and solved by artists, art became a continuation of the cultural tradition that had been formed in Russia before the revolution, which explains the interest in socialist art that exists in modern Russia; not only artistic merit and new life content reflected in art, but also rooted in national history and culture make Soviet art a unique “page” in the history of world culture.

We identify situations in which conditioning on text can address confounding in observational studies. We argue that a matching approach is particularly well‐suited to this task, but existing matching methods are ill‐equipped to handle high‐dimensional text data. Our proposed solution is to estimate a low‐dimensional summary of the text and condition on this summary via matching. We propose a method of text matching, topical inverse regression matching, that allows the analyst to match both on the topical content of confounding documents and the probability that each of these documents is treated. We validate our approach and illustrate the importance of conditioning on text to address confounding with two applications: the effect of perceptions of author gender on citation counts in the international relations literature and the effects of censorship on Chinese social media users.

Automatic detection of expert models: The exploration of expert modeling methods applicable to technology-based assessment and instruction

Background. Over the past decades, digital technologies have transformed artistic practices, expanding the boundaries of artistic expression and exhibition formats by integrating new media, interactive elements, and virtual components into the creative process. This shift is largely driven by technological and societal transformations within contemporary culture. The purpose of the article is to examine the role of digital technologies in the transformation of Ukrainian exhibition and display practices. Methods. To trace how digital technologies have changed exhibition and exposition practices and the ways in which audiences interact with works of art, the study employs a comprehensive approach grounded in cultural analysis. A comparison of traditional and contemporary formats is employed to identify the specific features of immersive art exhibition practices. Additionally, the study adopts a systematic approach, considering immersive technologies not as an isolated phenomenon but as part of a broader digital transformation of culture. Results. Immersive formats engage the viewer as an active participant rather than a passive observer in the artistic process. This creates new opportunities for artistic communication and makes cultural artefacts accessible to a wider audience, regardless of geographical boundaries. Immersiveness also changes the mechanisms of interaction with the art: visual perception becomes supplemented by the complex spatio-physical experience, based on movement and tactile contact. Special role in transforming Ukrainian exhibition practices plays the revitalization of industrial and public architectural spaces, which not only gives new life to abandoned buildings but also creates favourable conditions for large-scale multimedia exhibitions. Conclusions. The study of current transformations in Ukrainian exhibition and display practices demonstrates that the use of new media technologies is reshaping traditional formats. The actualisation of media art, the rise of immersive exhibitions, and the development of VR and AR technologies blur the boundaries between physical and digital spaces and create new ways of interacting with the audience. Immersive technologies have already become an integral part of contemporary art spaces, and their further development creates prospects for expanding the boundaries of artistic expression. At the same time, analyzing this phenomenon–which encompasses not only cultural but also technological, social, and economic dimensions–requires interdisciplinary approaches.

The purpose of the article is to study the aesthetic principles of expressionism that influenced the development of modern architecture. An analysis of the concepts and means of artistic expression of the direction under study is proposed. The conditions for the emergence and formation of expressionism, its artistic methods of expression from conventionally realistic to abstract, as well as the manifestation of this direction of art in architectural design are considered. A brief analysis of the connection between expressionism and other parallel trends or movements of art of the twentieth century is given. Variations of expressionism from the standpoint of abstract art are identified, where the search for interactivity between the artist and the viewer in the process of visual perception of the painting is indicated. It is concluded that imagination is one of the main ways of artistic thinking in the process of author’s artistic design. The manifestation of the aesthetic principles of expressionism in the architecture of individual countries is considered. It has been revealed that expressionism in architecture is characterized by a departure from traditional forms in order to achieve the maximum emotional impact on the recipient. The study of the stated topic allows us to draw a conclusion about the relevance of expressionism at the beginning of the 21st century, which, with its traditions, continues the achievements of expressionism of the 20th century. and at the same time gives a new impetus to artistic expressions of the personal views of artists and architects on the ongoing processes in society. Parallels of the beginning of the 20th – beginning of the 21st centuries. revealed similarities in the aesthetic principles of the formation of the subject-spatial architectural environment. Expressionist techniques, means and methods of working on a painting or object are most accurately able to express the feelings of artists and architects, their psychological stress, the conviction that the viewer must go through a new experience while looking at an architectural or artistic work.

The human resource (HR) domain contains various types of privacy-sensitive textual data, such as e-mail correspondence and performance appraisal. Doing research on these documents brings several challenges, one of them anonymisation. In this paper, we evaluate the current Dutch text de-identification methods for the HR domain in three steps. First, by updating one of these methods with the latest named entity recognition (NER) models. The result is that the NER model based on the CoNLL 2002 corpus in combination with the BERTje transformer give the best combination for suppressing persons (recall 0.94) and locations (recall 0.82). For suppressing gender, DEDUCE is performing best (recall 0.53). Second NER evaluation is based on both strict de-identification of entities (a person must be suppressed as a person) and third evaluation on a loose sense of de-identification (no matter what how a person is suppressed, as long it is suppressed).

my colleagues of the value of this type of assignment. Several of my colleagues generously took the time after the meeting to look through the projects and celebrate their excellence. Sharing my students' writing is a wonderful way to let my work as an educator speak for my methodology, but I owe myself and my colleagues a more thoughtful analysis of the academic virtues of multigenre projects. My strongest motivation for studying multigenre writing is the compelling responses of my students who have authored writing projects that have awed me with their power and elegance. I am moved to think of my students' writing as more than reports or papers. They are works of art, not simply because of their visual or poetic inclusions, but because of their aesthetic meaningfulness. For support of my point about aesthetics, I turn to the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, a Russian literary critic, whose scholarship masterfully presents a similar case for accepting the dialogic language of the novel as art. Yet as I do so, I fully realize that some would not accept the mixed quality of these multigenre projects as academic writing. Perhaps the most persuasive argument that I can marshal to convince others of the usefulness of the multigenre assignment is that this type of writing requires much more in the way of academic skills than the minimal requisites of the traditional monogenre research paper. Combining these two perspectives, to foster writing as both an art and a skill, demonstrates how multigenre writing can be utilized to teach critical analysis, documentation of sources, and aesthetic unity. Before examining multigenre writing in more depth, I need to respond to the myth of the traditional college research paper format. most authoritative voice that I can invoke on this matter is that of composition scholar and journal editor, Richard Larson. In his article, The 'Research Paper' in the Writing Course: A Non-Form of Writing, he explains that universities house a plethora of conflicting disciplines, all of which have competing notions of what academic research requires. I would add to Larson's critique that in any one area of study such as polymer engineering, market research, or geriatric sociology, what qualifies as research itself has probably changed significantly in the last twentyfive years and will continue to change, perhaps even more rapidly in the future. Understandably, high school teachers and general education professors harbor the unrealistic desire that one report format could be decided upon that would satisfy all of the disciplines and all of the courses at the university. If

The study of the main works that codified the classical forms of the Chinese text is important for analysing the ways of development of poetic works and determining the formation of their stylistic norms, mechanisms, and thematic concepts. The research aims to analyse the peculiarities of the stylistic codification of ancient Chinese traditional verse forms based on the theoretical material of Zhong Rong’s “Shi-Ping” (诗品). The following methods were used: deductive, content analysis, and comparative. The research results determined that ancient Chinese poetry is known for its unique depth, sophistication, and richness of images. Zhong Rong’s treatise “Shi-Ping” influenced the formation of stylistic features of classical Chinese five-line poetry. The analysis of its textual data has shown that this anthology emphasises the importance of the poetic form, especially rhythm and melody, and provides specific recommendations for the use of iambic pentameter, which contributed to its popularisation and development. The practical significance lies in the use of the information by scholars in the fields of philology, linguistics, cultural studies, linguistics, as well as specialists who study the traditional forms of Chinese poetic text.

There has been a growing interest in bringing creative arts as methods and processes into social work education and practice to enhance student learning and contribute to practices tackling issues of social justice and anti-oppression. This paper builds on the current conversation about the intersection of art and social work to propose the need for engagement with ethical considerations to guide our practice. Relying on examples of arts-informed and arts-based projects that tackle issues of ableism and racism, the discussion focuses on the need to consider issues of consent, representation, appropriation and agency of participants in these projects. Borrowing from the metaphor of photographic practice, the article concludes by proposing three ethical principles to guide arts-informed and arts-based practices in social work.

Although the external influence of scholars has usually been approximated by publication and citation count, the array of scholarly activities is far more extensive. Today, new technologies, in particular Internet search engines, allow more accurate measurement of scholars' influence on societal discourse. Hence, in this article, we analyse the relation between the internal and external influence of 723 top economists using the number of pages indexed by Google and Bing as a measure of external influence. We not only identify a small association between these scholars’ internal and external influence but also a correlation between internal influence, as captured by receipt of such major academic awards as the Nobel Prize and John Bates Clark Medal, and the external prominence of the top 100 researchers.

Accurately predicting scientific impact and ranking researchers remains a central yet complex challenge in research evaluation. Traditional metrics such as citation counts, publication totals, hybrid measures, and h‐type indices each capture limited aspects of scholarly influence, making it difficult to establish a universally accepted standard. This study proposes a novel composite index designed to enhance the robustness and fairness of researcher ranking. A dataset of 1060 neuroscience researchers comprising both awardees and non‐awardees was analysed to evaluate the ability of existing indices to identify top‐performing scientists. The five indices most strongly associated with awardees were selected and further refined using deep learning models to determine their distinctiveness and combined effectiveness. Eleven statistical models were then tested to integrate the most independent pair of indices. The H2 upper and K indices exhibited the highest disjointness value (0.97), and their harmonic mean produced the most balanced and consistent performance with an average impact score of 0.76. The resulting composite index outperformed traditional metrics, offering a more comprehensive and unbiased measure of researcher impact. This approach demonstrates a scalable and data‐driven framework for improving the accuracy of scientific evaluation and ranking systems.

Research visibility is crucial in enhancing a researcher's academic recognition, accessibility, and impact. This study examines the research productivity and scholarly influence of faculty members in the Anesthesia Department at AIIMS, New Delhi, using Google Scholar metrics, including total publications, citation count, h-index, and i10-index. Among the 48 faculty members, only 27 have a Google Scholar profile, and just 12 have integrated a verified email ID, indicating limited adoption of the platform for academic visibility. The analysis of scholarly output reveals that Associate Professor Dr Anju Gupta has the highest number of publications (532). At the same time, Additional Professor Dr Souvik Maitra leads in citations (5,969), h-index (33), and i10-index (66), reflecting a strong research influence. Mid-career faculty members, particularly additional and associate professors, demonstrate higher engagement in research, while senior professors appear to focus more on mentorship and administrative responsibilities. The study also highlights gender representation in research, with female faculty members making substantial contributions. The findings emphasize the need for increased institutional support and awareness regarding the benefits of Google Scholar to enhance research visibility, foster collaboration, and strengthen the department's academic impact.

This chapter presents a case study of Facu Diaz, a Spanish satirist whose on-line ridicule of the Spanish government created a political furor that brought him before the courts. The chapter engages the problem of the criminalization of political dissent by liberal states in the digital age. The case highlights how digital media is now being used to create content for satire, as well as to replicate and infiltrate more traditional political and media forums, changing many traditional forms of political practice. The case [points to some of the central problems inherent in liberalism which may give reason to curb the enthusiasm of those who think that new digital media creates fresh opportunities for augmenting the ‘public sphere'. It is argued that liberalism as a political theory and ethos, tends to be blind to non-traditional political expressions like satire and other artistic work. In addition, the expansion of security laws in many countries suggests, liberalism's ostensible commitment to freedom needs to be reframed by recalling its historical preoccupation with security.

This research assignment invites students in a first-year writing preparation course to explore topics of social justice through protest art. The course is taught at a small, private liberal arts college in a course for “emerging writers.” I have taught this assignment at a predominantly White institution (PWI), in a course where the majority of students are Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). Students choose a work of protest art from the campus library special collections, frame the social justice issue it addresses in a local context using local sources, and then write an essay that puts that research in conversation with their own story. Finally, linking public history to civic engagement, students create their own protest art as a community call to action. The multimodal, local, and personal nature of this writing assignment creates opportunities for students to see the connections between their emerging identities as writers and civic actors. This assignment can create space for students to use their multilingual identities to speak back to the structural inequality within our institution, developing confidence in their own voices to call for meaningful change.

This article examines problems and issues of the juvenile justice and drug & alcohol systems in the context of treatment resistant, substance dependent, delinquent youth. The evaluation research on traditional medical model treatment shows high drop-out and relapse rates along with limited impact on polydrug users. Outdoor challenge programs are reviewed as an alternative within the context of Opponent-Process Theory and the therapeutic use of stress. These forms of stressful challenge may produce improved self-esteem and positive affect which may be useful as alternative forms of substance abuse treatment, especially for resistant delinquent youth who have not benefitted from more traditional forms of treatment.