http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/5157 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:17:40 GMT 2026-04-04T03:17:40Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/5162 Title: Symbolical and Informational Component of the Organizational Culture in Displaced Higher Education Institutions of Ukraine (On the example of Mariupol HEI) Authors: Turenko, Oleg; Surovtseva, Iryna; Nykolaieva, Valentyna Abstract: This paper analyzes organizations (corporate groups) that have withdrawn assets and personnel to the territory controlled by Ukraine consistently based on the relevant Ministry (Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine) decision. In the first years of displacement, the "routine" issues associated with launching the educational process became relevant, as distinguished from the "high third mission" consisting in creating innovative infrastructure facilities, forming the entrepreneurial culture of employees and students, and suchlike. Organizations (rectorates) that followed integrated (overarching) strategies had a consistent (agreed) internal and external image, or they have elaborated a uniform organizational culture and succeeded in assisting their employees in the search for narratives. "Workplace" has become almost the only factor enabling reinforcing the professional and individual self-worth for displaced employees. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/5162 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/5161 Title: Quality Assurance Practices as Determinants of Academic Staff Effectiveness in South-West Nigerian Polytechnics Authors: Ibrahim, Abdulrahman Olanrewaju; Titilayo, Alabi Afusat; Suleiman, Yusuf; Ishola, Mustapha Adam Abstract: Quality assurance practices are input, process and output systems that are put in place by school administrators in order to ensure academic standards. It is on this premise that this study examined quality assurance practices as determinants of academic staff effectiveness. The study population consists of 6,577 academic staff in South-west Nigerian Polytechnics. Stratified and random sampling techniques were used to select 327 academic staff. An adapted instrument titled “Quality Assurance Practices Questionnaire’’ (QAPQ) and “Academic Staff Effectiveness Questionnaire’’ (ASEQ) were used to collect relevant data. Data collected were analysed using percentage and correlation methods. Findings indicate several quality assurance practices, which include quality assurance in recruitment of lecturers, staff supervision, capacity building, and library services. Also, the study revealed a significant relationship between quality assurance practices and academic staff effectiveness. Specifically, it was found that ensuring quality assurance in recruitment of lecturers is a determinant of academic staff effectiveness. Similarly, quality assurance in library services is a key determinant of academic staff effectiveness. Based on the findings of the study, it can be said that quality assurance practices had great influence on academic staff effectiveness as revealed in the study and that the predominantly used quality assurance practice among Polytechnics management in South-west Nigerian Polytechnics was library services. The study recommends that management of polytechnics should sustain the optimal utilization of quality assurance practices, to boost institutional effectiveness. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/5161 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/5160 Title: Oil Pipelines: Eurasian geopolitical reconfiguration Authors: Labardini, Rodrigo Abstract: The Caspian Sea is an important source of oil for the world, particularly Europe. However, the landlocked area was surrounded by neighbors who were commercial rivals and possessed major regional access routes. Examination of Eurasian oil pipelines evidences two large regions: Northern European and Mediterranean European systems involved in competition and collaboration in close quarters with competition and confrontation to reach the European markets from the Caspian Sea sources. With the demise of the Soviet Union, and driven by EU and US interests, as well as counting on their support, the Caspian region broke the Russian oil monopoly in less than a decade. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/5160 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/5159 Title: The conjunction commutativity law does not hold in natural language: Difficulties in the search for syntactic support Authors: López-Astorga, Miguel Abstract: Orenes and Johnson-Laird gave arguments to show that the conjunction commutativity law, that is, the principle providing that the order of the conjuncts has no influence on a coordinating conjunction such as ‘and’, is not respected by natural language. Their point was that both semantics and pragmatics are more important than syntax, and that, for that reason, semantic and pragmatic factors can change the sense of a sentence with ‘and’ if the order of its conjuncts is reversed. This paper keeps following this direction and tries to argue that it is really hard to find syntactic characteristics in sentences that can explain changes such as those ones. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/5159 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z