Тваринний світ у аспекті давньокитайської філософії

Ancient Chinese philosophy has a deep ontological and culturological character. This philosophy is characterized by its symbolic and spiritual meaning, which consists in certain ways of understanding the essence of the world and the place of man in it. This world is inseparable from the feeling of being nature and its perception as one of the foundations of the existence of living things. The embodiment of the natural essence of the world is the flora and fauna, with which man has many relationships - from practical utilitarian to symbolic and cultural. The very cyclical existence of the world is measured in the Chinese socio-cultural space through the existence of the animal world - each year of existence of Chinese civilization, which is more than 5,000 years old, is marked by a certain animal symbol. These symbols have a deep meaning in the sense of human perception of natural attributive phenomena in their cyclicity and immutability. On the other hand, through dichotomous pairs - living - inanimate, light - dark, black - white, female - male, Chinese mythology, philosophy, in general, culture, express a specific vision of the world and human attitude to this world. Regarding the animal world, Chinese culture has its own specific vision, which is expressed through an understanding of its origins and course of life. Animals for the Chinese are not so much exotic at the level of zoos and tourism, as the practical plane of existence of Chinese society. From the domestication of wild animals and their transformation into the first helpers in the economy, Chinese civilization has come a long way, which today is embodied both at the level of people’s lives and everyday life, and at the level of the most thorough and meaningful gaps in cultural life.These gaps are realized through mythology, religion, philosophy, art, education and upbringing. From the point of view of the holistic perception of Chinese culture, it is difficult to separate scientific and non-scientific elements, especially in the field of attitude to the animal world - wild and domesticated. The traditional Chinese worldview is broad and diverse in terms of the ratio of rational and non-rational, mystical, elements. The cult of flora and fauna is for Chinese culture is perfectly embodied in Chinese culture at the level of mentality, emotional and cognitive perception. Recreational lacunae of Chinese life completely reproduce the life of nature - this is health practices, and cultural leisure areas, especially represented in mass forms - in the form of festivals “snakes”, “dragons”, "tigers”, this is the cult of pandas, this is the daily economic occupations of the Chinese, in which animals and plants are present, it is also restaurant business, it is also ecological tourism, etc. These traditions, recorded at the level of cults, rites, rituals, also have a philosophical basis in certain philosophical disciplines: in ontology, in epistemology, in anthropology, social philosophy, especially philosophy of culture, art, literature and education.Давньокитайська філософія має глибинний характер. Їй притаманний символьно-духовний зміст, який полягає в своєрідному осягненні світу й місця в ньому людини. Цей світ є невіддільним від розуміння природи в якості її цінності для всього живого, включаючи людину. Фокусом такого розуміння є єдність флори й фауни, з якими людина має безліч стосунків – від практичних утилітарних до культурних. Циклічність світу вимірюється в китайському соціокультурному просторі крізь призму тваринного світу, факт існування якого є невіддільним від китайської цивілізації. Символи світу природи в сенсі її сприйняття людиною уособлюють глибинний зміст давньокитайської філософії. Через дихотомічні пари – живе – неживе, світле – темне, чорне – біле, жіноче – чоловіче, китайська міфологія, філософія, в цілому культура, виражають своєрідне бачення світу й ставлення людини до нього. Тварини для китайців – це не стільки екзотика на рівні зоопарків й туризму, скільки соціокультурна площина існування китайського соціуму. Від одомашнення диких тварин й перетворення їх на найперших помічників у господарстві, китайська цивілізація пройшла великий шлях, що втілений, як на рівні народного побуту, на рівні лакун культурного життя. Ці лакуни реалізовані через міфологію, релігії, філософію, мистецтво, освіту й виховання. З точки зору цілісного сприйняття китайської культури важко відділити наукові та поза наукові елементи. Традиційне китайське світобачення є широким й різноманітним з точки зору співвідношення раціональних й поза раціональних його елементів. Культ флори й фауни є для китайської культури втіленням народної ментальності на рівні емоційно-когнітивного сприйняття природи. Рекреаційні лакуни китайського суспільного життя відтворюють життя природи у вигляді оздоровчих практик; вони презентовані в масових формах:  «тваринні» фестивалі, культ панди; це і ресторанний бізнес, екологічний туризм і т.д. Народні традиції, зафіксовані на рівні культів, обрядів, ритуалів, є обґрунтованими у філософській онтології, гносеології, антропології, соціальній філософії, філософії культури, мистецтві, літературі, освіті

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Effective facilities management estimation for business continuity

The migration from conventional maintenance to facility management is an on-going process for all high-rise buildings in Malaysia, especially for government-owned buildings. For a government-linked company (GLC), the situation is different as the budget for the maintenance is allocated internally and the internal maintenance staff overheads will be borne by the GLC. Nowadays, organisations will focus on their core business to maximise their profits and will leave the building maintenance to their maintenance contractor to provide such services for their buildings. The decision to carry out the maintenance internally or to outsource to a Facilities Management (FM) service provider will depend on the amount of budget allocated. The qualitative technique is used in this research to source the information by interviewing experienced managers who are experienced in FM. Internal data from companies applying for direct negotiation works is also a source of information. Findings show that there is a direct correlation between FM cost and the scope of work (as defined in JKR FM2008) required for the building. Selecting such services is critical as the cost per square foot will vary from RM0.12 to RM1.20; such cost will run into millions as the FM contract duration is around 3 years. This study will give an indicator and guidelines to organizations to estimate the need for FM service provider for their business continuity. The guidelines will also help owners of the buildings on how to derive a budget, tender, evaluation procedures and the award process. Without these guidelines, the organizations embarking on FM will have to employ an experienced FM manager to limit the mistakes that an inexperienced FM manager will make. The FM Pilot Project presented is a good example on what not to do if you are embarking on FM

Production of biodiesel from jatropha curcas seeds and used cooking oils / Nurul Nabila Shamsul Khamar

Jatropha curcas is a plant that grows in arid condition with variety of applications and economic potential. Jatropha curcas seeds contain high amount of oil that can be converted to biodiesel and used as alternative fuel. Used cooking oil (UCO) causes severe environment problems. This oil has potentials as raw material for biodiesel production. The aim of this study was to produce biodiesel from Jatropha curcas seeds and also from UCO through transesterification process 120 minutes of reaction time. Soxhlet extraction was used to extract oil from the Jatropha curcas seeds. Visual inspection was performed to observe the layers that indicate successful biodiesel reaction while pH value and FTIR analysis was used to determine the production of biodiesel. Flame test was used to testing the biodiesel. Result showed oil can be obtained by using soxhlet extractor. All the samples form two phases layer after transesterification process. Ester compound were present in all the samples using FTIR analysis. All the samples showed positive flame test. The oil from Jatropha curcas seeds and used cooking oil could be useful as biodiesel feedstock

Performance Analysis of Reputation based Proof of Credibility Consensus Mechanism for Blockchain based Applications

Blockchain is a decentralized transaction and data management technology first developed for the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. Blockchain technology is gaining popularity due to its core attributes which provides security, anonymity and data integrity without any involvement of third party. Consensus mechanism is a procedure by which all peers in the blockchain network agrees to a common agreement on the current state of the distributed ledger. It plays vital role in increasing efficiency of any blockchain environment. Though we have many consensus mechanisms working currently in different areas but they still lack in parameters like status of validators, latency, node failure etc. In Our proposed algorithm Proof of credibility, we have tried to incorporate all above factors in it. We have also implemented two or more factors of proposed algorithm and have evaluated and compared with existing consensus algorithm. In future research we aim to implement RPoC in any blockchain network and then we will evaluate it in terms of different evaluation parameters such as performance, security, scalability

Olive pomace compost use for fenugreek germination

Morocco is among the major olive-growing countries around the Mediterranean, its productivity increases from one year to the next, especially after the introduction of the Green Morocco plan, which aims for an increase in the olive-growing area by the year 2020. The increase in productivity especially in olive oil is strictly accompanied by an increase in waste generated after crushing. The objective of this study is to value the olive pomace compost from traditional system as a soil amendment, and study its effect on the cultivation of herbaceous plants. The germination test is carried out in small pots, placed in a sunny place in a laboratory. 25 Fenugreek seeds were germinated in each pot which contains soil and a well-defined percentage of compost (5%, 10%, 15%, 20% and 25%). The seeds were irrigated regularly twice a week. All the tested seeds in different percentages of compost germinated at a rate of more than 90%. The final germination rate for the different concentrations was significantly important from the control (the pot that contains only soil). However, the 5% compost concentration allows an optimal germination rate. As well as the vigour of the seedlings that approves the positive effect of using olive pomace compost with a significantly high vigour index for all compost percentages (5%, 10%, 15%, 20% and 25%). The olive pomace compost use also improved the dry matter weight of the fenugreek seedlings for all percentages

A Survey on Performance Analysis of AODV in MANETS

Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) is a temporary network built up to satisfy momentarily certain condition. This paper gives an introduction to one of the MANET reactive routing protocol AODV i.e. Adhoc on demand distance vector routing protocol. It also includes general working of AODV protocol .It also includes survey of performance of AODV protocol depending on different input parameters. This paper also present NS2 simulator being used in simulating it?s performance

Risk Management & Corporate Governance Characteristics in the Malaysian Islamic Financial Institutions

Purpose – Aim to examine the association between board characteristics and risk management committee (RMC) whether it is combined or separate with audit committee in the Malaysian Islamic financial institutions. This study will give an in-depth overview to explore about the risk management and corporate governance practices in the Islamic financial institutions especially on the oversight function and performance. Design/methodology/approach – This study employs secondary data collected from the Islamic banks’ annual reports for the period 2006 – 2009. Findings – It was found that the existence of RMC is significantly associated with proper governance at the board of directors’ level and thus, an effective and adequate Board member with larger size tends to have greater oversight monitoring function towards the company’s activities. It is easier to establish a separate risk management committee (RMC) and with greater levels of resources offered by larger boards, there would be less pressure to establish a combined risk management and audit committee. Furthermore, the result shows that company leverage has positive significant relationship with the existence of RMC and separate risk management committee with audit committee (SRMC) where a large proportion of long-term liabilities entail greater financial risk and firms with high leverage are more likely to have debt covenants and higher going concern risks. Originality/value – Since there are lack of studies conducted in this area, specifically among the Islamic banks in Malaysia, this study will broaden the scope by providing empirical evidence of the relationship between risk management committee and board characteristics in the Islamic financial institutions. Keywords: Risk Management, Corporate Governance, Islamic Financial Institution

Evaluation of electric field for electrode of a pulse electroacoustic (PEA) equipment

The usage of electricity had shown a higher number of increments nowadays. It is due to a higher number of users requesting an improvement of power system equipment with a high level of reliability and safety. The power system grid connects the power plants through the high voltage transmission lines and distribution lines to the consumers. The high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission line is usually used to transfer the power being generated to the load area. HVDC transmission shows lower losses, low cost, easy to control and adjust compared to the high voltage alternating current (HVAC) transmission. In the HVDC transmission line, the polyethylene (PE) power cable has been widely used as electrical insulation for power cables due to its electrical and mechanical properties. In the last two decades, a significant effort has been made to understand better the internal charge distribution inside dielectric materials. There are two types of methods being used which were destructive and non-destructive methods. However, the development of the non-destructive method has a better result which gives details about charge distribution inside a dielectric material. Low-Density Polyethylene was used during this study as sample selected due to its characters with a density range between 0.910 – 0.925 g/cm3, weaker intermolecular forces, lower tensile strength, higher ductility and can be produced under high pressure. However, it also has excellent properties such as low dielectric loss, high dielectric strength, chemical inertness, low moisture uptake and ease of extrusion, making it easy to use in many kinds of power applications. In this study, the effect of an electric field with different edge electrodes on dielectric material was being observed and analyzed using the Finite Element Method (FEM). Based on the results, we can see that the electric field is higher at dielectric insulating materials when the radius(r) approaches 0mm due to the sharp edge of the electrode. As the radius of the electrode edge increases, the electric field decreases. It proves that the edge of an electrode has an effect on the electric field in a dielectric material. The electric field additionally diminishes as the gap between electrodes increases. The presence of epoxy during the simulation didn’t give a high impact on the electric field distribution but it needed to improve the insulation and prevent the discharge between the electrodes. In this examination, the field calculations were done utilizing the FEM