The article examines one of the key factors of modern European philosophy and outlook - neocolonialistic and orientalistic mentality of nowadays Europe and its impact on the informatioanal sphere and the character of inernational relations. Neocolonialism and orientalism are, thus, studied in the context of the analysis of western media coverage of Ukrainian crisis which occasionaly appears to be stereotyped and deeply engaged.

This article analyses creation and development of weekly newspaper Nashe Slovo (Our Word) and its role in the protection of Ukrainian identity. Also the author analyzes the role of news- paper in strengthening of Ukraine-Polish relations and the maintenance of Ukrainian national iden- tity in Poland.

In 2017, organizations face intensifying pressure to accelerate digital delivery while maintaining reliability, security, and customer satisfaction. Traditional process frameworks provide valuable structure but often fail to capture the dynamic, cross-functional realities of Lean-Agile and DevOps transformations. To address this gap, this paper proposes a structured Lean-Agile and DevOps Maturity Model that guides enterprises on their journey toward continuous improvement. The model synthesizes industry frameworks such as SAFe and Scrum with DevOps practices including automated testing, continuous integration, and telemetry. It defines clear levels of maturity across dimensions such as deployment automation, release management, observability, security integration, and organizational culture. By providing a staged roadmap, the model enables teams to benchmark their current capabilities, identify bottlenecks, and prioritize investments. Through case studies in financial services, telecommunications, and e-commerce, we demonstrate how organizations applying this model reduced release lead times by more than 70%, improved deployment success rates by 40%, and institutionalized continuous improvement practices at scale. We conclude that structured maturity models remain essential in 2017 for aligning leadership, technology, and culture, offering both a diagnostic lens and a continuous improvement engine for modern enterprises.

Pattern recognition has become one of the fastest growing research topics in the fields of computer science and electrical and electronic engineering in the recent years. Advanced research and development in pattern recognition have found numerous applications in such areas as artificial intelligence, information security, biometrics, military science and technology, finance and economics, weather forecast, image processing, communication, biomedical engineering, document processing, robot vision, transportation, and endless other areas. The achievement of pattern recognition is most likely to benefit from some new developments of theoretical mathematics including wavelet analysis. An approach for feature extraction using wavelet transforms using its property of multilevel decomposition in pattern recognition application is proposed. The multilevel decompositionproperty of discrete wavelet transform provides texture information of an image at different resolutions. Iris recognition system using multilevel wavelet transform is explained. The technique developed here is implemented using three and four level decomposition of Discrete Wavelet Transform. Four level decomposition gives better results at increased threshold value. Reduced feature vector size improves the speed.

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Shear Reinforcement of reinforced concrete members has been great challenge, especially for reinforced concrete beams. The sudden shear failure of reinforced concrete beams due to excessive shear forces made the design for shear reinforcement even more challenging. This type of failure is completely undesirable and it demands higher factor of safety. This pushed researchers to look for other alternatives. Several alternatives to the traditional shear reinforced will be introduced and discussed in this study. New concept of shear reinforced called swimmer bars shear reinforcing system is explored in this study. This new type of swimmer bars require no welding but perform as good as the welded swimmer bars. This study focuses on new and innovative type of swimmer bars. This new swimmer bars system used in this study is called three dimensional space swimmer bars system. This type of swimmer bars are proven to be effective in taking care of the shear forces in reinforced concrete beams. Also, this type of improved swimmer bars system improves on the shear failure mechanism of reinforced concrete beams. Several beams were prepared and tested in the lab. Three different types of beams were prepared; beams reinforced with the new swimmer bars system, beams reinforced with welded swimmer bars system, and beams reinforced with the traditional stirrups. The results of the tests are discussed and presented. The three dimensional space swimmer bars system is basically a reinforcing bar bent several times in the three dimensions forming special configuration along with its coupling swimmer bar. This configuration makes the shear reinforcement system act as plane-crack interceptor rather than linear bar-crack interceptor. This new type of shear reinforcement is proven to be effective and economical. Flexural cracks are monitored throughout the test. The deflection of the beams under gradually increasing load is also measured and presented in this study

During the past decades, sport, in general, has become one of the most powerful competitions and the most popular in the world. As well, everyone is waiting for the winner and who will be the champion in the end in different tournaments. Among these sports, football's popularity is higher than all other sports. Football match results prediction, as well as the champion in various competitions, has been seriously studied in recent years. Moreover, it has become an interesting field for many researchers. In this work, the Poisson model has been presented to predict the winner, draw, and loser of the football matches. The method is applied to the Spanish Primera Divisin (First Division) in 20162017; the data has been downloaded from the football-data.co.uk website, which will be used to find the prediction accuracy.

This study was conducted to evaluate the feeding value of fungi treated Jatropha curcas kernel cake on feed intake, weight gain /loss , digestibility coefficient and blood parameters of West African dwarf goat. Five diets were formulated with diet A (control, without Jatropha curcas kernel cake); B (50% Penicillium treated Jatropha curcas kernel cake +50% Soybean cake), C (50% Aspergillus niger treated Jatropha curcas kernel cake + 50% Soybean cake), D (100%Penicillium treated Jatropha curcas kernel cake ) and E (100% Aspergillus niger treated Jatropha curcas kernel cake). The animals (n=15) were randomized against the experimental diets in a completely randomized design model for a 56 day period. The results revealed highest crude protein intake for diet A and the least for diet E. The ether extract (EE) and crude fibre (CF) consumption were significantly higher for the control diet (A) compared to the fungi treated based diets. The crude protein digestibility was highest in diet A and least in diet C. The serum and haematological values are within the normal range for goat. It was concluded that West African dwarf goat can be fed a diet consisting of 50% Aspergillus niger treated Jatropha curcas kernel cake /or 50% Penicillium treated Jatropha curcas kernel cake in a mixed ration. Keywords: Aspergillus niger, Penicillum sp, feed intake, digestibility coefficient, blood parameters

The aim of this paper is to define a new class of functions namely totally *- continuous functions and slightly *- continuous functions and study their properties . Additionally, we relate and compare these functions with some other functions in topological spaces.

Tourism has emerged as a major global industry today. It is a sizable but complex service industry. In the last 50-55 years, tourism has seen rapid and continuous growth. Tourism is a key sector earning foreign exchange for Indian economy. It is working as a harbinger of 'more inclusive growth' in India by promoting other industries inside the economy through backward and forward linkages and generating employment in various sectors such as hospitality, travel, and entertainment. The significance of tourism has been recognized in both developed and developing countries. This sector has emerged as Travel Tourism and Hospitality Industry contributing considerably towards Indias GDP and expected to increase from 234.03 US billion$ in 2017 to 492.21 US billion $ in 2028. India offers geographical diversity, attractive tourist destinations, 37 world Heritage sites, 29 Cultural sites and 25 bio- geographic zones. It has emerged with diverse portfolio of niche tourism products like cruise, adventure, medical, and wellness, sports, eco-tourism, film, rural and religious tourism. This sector directly supported 5% of the total employment and expected to touch the figure of 8.4 % of total employment by 2028. Although tourism sector has emerged as growth engine and is having vast potential for generating employment and earning huge amounts of foreign exchange besides giving a fillip to the countrys economic and social development. But much more needs to be done to make India as world player in this sector. Although this sector has adopted aggressive marketing strategies and launched number of creative and attractive tourism products but still it needs to be strengthened by focusing on positive growth in terms of Foreign tourist arrivals, Foreign exchange earnings and foreign as well as domestic investments. Present paper is an attempt to focus on the emerging trends of this sector in India with and to evaluate the trends of foreign direct investments, domestic investments foreign exchange earnings , foreign tourist arrival with its comparative outlook.