ESTIMATION OF FINANCIAL STABILITY OF AGRARIAN ENTERPRISES IN UKRAINE by Nadia Davidenko, Natalia Wasilewska

“…In this paper the system of factors influencing the formation of financial solvency was investigated, the financial sustainability of agricultural enterprises of Ukraine was evaluated, and an approach was developed to define and help ensure the financial sustainability of enterprises in the face of contemporary economic and market challenges. According to the research, the main principles for maintaining financial sustainability are: responsiveness to internal and external changes; governance systems; risk management; analysis of financial ratios; real assessment of the financial solvency of the enterprise; integration with the overall management system; orientation towards achieving the strategic goals of the enterprise; use of qualitative methods to inform financial decisions in the face of uncertainty and risk.…”
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Typology, topography and tectonics – Categories and models for the urban project by Santiago Gomes

“…Mutation, unpredictability and indeterminacy characterise the contemporary urban question and are generating, after the initial bewilderment, disciplinary developments that proceed in search of hybrid forms of Planning, less and less conformative and prescriptive. …”
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La promenade dans les jardins de Versailles : analyse d’une expérience spatiale by Catherine Szanto

“…The methodology consists in corroborating the physical space of the garden with the existing descriptions, in order to develop an analysis of the spatial dialogue based on contemporary philosophical and scientific theories of perception.…”
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« Quelque chose de rouge » : l’esthétique des tableaux vivants dans Salammbô by Dominique Jullien

“…The question of tableau vivant also links Flaubert’s novel with more recent fiction writing (Roussel, Perec) as well as contemporary performance art.…”
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ANTICORRUPTION POLICY IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND NEW ACADEMIC ETHICS by Marina N. Makarova, Roman V. Vakhrushev

“…The main directions of anticorruption policy in higher education include adoption of ethical codes and other ways of shaping “culture of integrity” in contemporary higher education. The modified academic code accentuates the issues of academic honesty and ethics, includes sanctions and punishments for its infringement, formulates concrete and intelligible standards and regulations.…”
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Tributary by James Davoll, Paul Dolan, Pete Howson

“…It showcases the intensive energy requirements required to prop up the digital infrastructure of contemporary life. These include cryptocurrency mining, cloud storage, digital image production and media streaming.  …”
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Heritage for a sustainable future – The theoretical principle of reversibility and its reflections on architecture by Roberta Fonti

“…The experiences, which the contribution critically exposes, are oriented towards the possibility of ensuring the effective reversibility of interventions while addressing the theme of the design of reversible architectural elements and revisiting traditional techniques and materials, reinterpreted in a new key, also about the themes of demographic increase and the growing need for ‘flexibility’ typical of the contemporary era.   Article info Received: 21/09/2024; Revised: 11/11/2024; Accepted: 12/11/2024 …”
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A plenitude de um vazio em que a pobreza não é mais paisagem: a periferia em Paulo Lins e Ferréz by Alva Martínez Teixeiro

“…This article intends to place Paulo Lins’ novel Cidade de Deus and Ferréz’s novels Capão Pecado and Manual prático do ódio in the panorama of Brazilian contemporary “new-realisms”, evaluating thematic choices and narrative techniques and proce- dures. …”
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Rejuvenescence American Style: Longevity, Aging, The US Tradition of Rejecting the Old & the US Baby Boom Generation Now by John Dean

“…This Cultural History essay’s focus is age, aging, longevity and the consciousness of a generation in contemporary United States and the verifiable foundations of these issues: how age is real and artificial both. …”
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Wyznania, Rousseau i dyskurs edukacyjny – zarys badań w perspektywie (post)foucaultowskiej by Helena Ostrowicka

“…Part two provides an overview of selected studies in which the category of confession was used in the analyses of contemporary education. The last part refers to the Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s “Confessions” and presents selected aspects of research on educational discourse in the light of the concept of confession. …”
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Los actores de la vida universitaria en la España de los siglos xix y xx by Jean–Louis Guereña

“…As part of a collective research, it has advanced considerably, not only in knowledge -both quantitative and qualitative- of essential actors in academic life -university teachers and students- at various historical moments of contemporary Spain -mainly during the Restoration and under Franco, especially from 1939 to 1956- but also in their interpretation and the way we consider them. …”
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Die geboortedatum van Christus as 'n historiese probleem by F. P. Retief, J. F. G. Cilliers, M. J. H. Hoffman

“…In this article the limited primary historical sources are carefully examined and contemporary interpretations of these sources are critically reviewed. …”
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Sposoby ujmowania edukacji ekologicznej by Agnieszka Bernadkiewicz

“…This article shows the ways of understanding ecological education, the areas of its interest, its essence, and the most important trends and values in the contemporary world.…”
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Hostel (Eli Roth, 2005 et 2007), le torture-porn et le cinéma d’exploitation : l’être humain à l’ère de sa reproductibilité technique by Pierre Jailloux

“…The system depicted in Hostel (you pay to torture and kill someone) is at the basis of a deliberate critique of a globalized contemporary world governed by rampant economic liberalism according to which anything or anyone can be bought or sold. …”
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La topographie légendaire des itinéraires de la navette by Xavière Lanéelle

“…The commuter, the train and the route have been the object of a myth to serve a commercial policy as well as a development of the served cities.But the legend settled down only because it is one of the anthropological foundations and because the myth allows to combine incompatible elements, here the combination of the requirements of contemporary modernity and a more traditional life of provincial rooting.One of the aspects of the myth is that the TGV is a sterile environment and the countryside it goes through, a "black hole". …”
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L’éducation et le soin comme agir sur soi : liminaire by Jean-Marie Barbier

“…This is the most general case for all "societal professions". In the contemporary western context, acting on oneself, acting by oneself and acting for one-self come often from the same culture of action. …”
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Quelle alternative philosophique et éducative au consumérisme contemporain ? by Etienne Kola

“…The market is a central paradigm of contemporary economic intelligence. Adopted by the majority of the modern States, he has a spiritual shift in current humans making him a fanatic of consumption. …”
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Interactions of Neanderthals and Modern Humans: What Can Be Inferred from Mitochondrial DNA? by Krzysztof A. Cyran, Marek Kimmel

“…The branching-process method is applied to infer the upper limit of hypothetical Neanderthal admixture, consistent with the evidence based on mitochondrial DNA sequences of contemporary modern humans, as well as Neanderthal and early modern European H. sapiens fossils. …”
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« La bru Gemotsang s’est fait teindre en blond » by Françoise Robin

“…This article explores how an attentive reading of contemporary Tibetan literature makes it possible to describe the evolutions of female hairstyles and, by extension, the socioeconomic upheavals affecting today’s Tibetan young women. …”
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DIVERSIFICATION OF FOREIGN TRADE RELATIONS BETWEEN AFRICAN COUNTRIES AND RUSSIA by A. Sapuntsov

“…The main trends of contemporary economic situation in African countries, determinants of foreign economic specialization have been identified, and their prerequisites of participation in international trade agreements have been generalized. …”
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