Water resilience under climate change in Azerbaijan is increasingly vital as rising temperatures and erratic precipitation patterns strain water resources. Addressing these challenges requires a ...comprehensive strategy that integrates adaptive water management practices and stakeholder collaboration to ensure sustainable water access and mitigate the impacts of climate variability. The aim of this article is to analyze the challenges posed by climate change on water resources in Azerbaijan and propose strategies to enhance water resilience. The paper discusses how effective are existing water conservation policy in Azerbaijan, are and what effective solutions can be proposed to enhance water resilience in the face of scarcity under climate change. The research employs both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to comprehensively address various dimensions of water scarcity. Quantitative methods, including hydrological modelling and statistical assessments, enable an exploration of the tangible aspects of water availability and distribution, aiding in our understanding of the physical dynamics involved. In terms of ensuring water resilience in Azerbaijan during the analysis of changes in the volume of water taken from natural water sources was observed a decrease in the volume of water taken from surface water sources, an increase in the volume of water taken from groundwater sources. If the amount of extracting from water sources continues at the current rate, it is projected to reach 13.8 km3 in 2030, 14.8 km3 in 2040, and 15.8 km3 in 2050 in Azerbaijan.
The article presents the summary of the Ninth International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences. The authors focus on the key issues of tourism development in the Arctic and Subarctic regions, such as ...sustainability, involvement of local people and climate change. The conference reveals how research in the field of tourism is based on multidisciplinary approaches combining economics, sociology, history and meteorology. Another part of this review is dedicated to the definitions and nature of ecotourism, its development and history in the national parks of Finland and the Republic of Karelia. National parks Koli and Paanajärvi were taken as case studies of ecotourism development.
The mesoporous high surface area MCM-41 material was synthesized and used as a support material for the preparation of Co/MCM-41 samples. Co2(CO)8 was deposited from the gas phase onto the MCM-41 ...surface in a fluidized bed reactor. Pure MCM-41 and Co/MCM-41 samples were characterized by various spectroscopic and analytical methods. The MCM-41 mesoporous material showed considerable ability to adsorb Co2(CO)8 from the gas phase. The monolayer coverage after one direct deposition and decarbonylation cycle was ca. 20 wt % of cobalt. The metal loading increased up to 41 wt % using the pulse deposition method. The results of IR spectroscopy indicated that all silanols are accessible to the cobalt carbonyl. According to the N2 adsorption/desorption studies, the surface area and pore size distribution were almost unaffected even in the case of high cobalt loadings. The samples were found to have a good metal dispersion.
The field of context awareness is ever increasing due to the proliferation and omnipresent nature of mobile computing devices. Not only is learning becoming ubiquitous, but the sensors in mobile ...devices are permitting learning systems to adapt to the context of the learners. This paper provides a classification framework for the field of context-aware mobile learning, which is applied to papers published within selected journals from January 2009 to December 2015 inclusive. Obtained from the combined fields of context awareness and educational technology, a total of 2,968 papers are reviewed, resulting in 41 papers being selected for inclusion in this study. The classification framework consists of three layers: hardware architecture layer, context architecture layer and an evaluation layer. The framework will allow researchers and practitioners to quickly and accurately summarize the status of the current field of context-aware mobile learning. Furthermore, it has the potential to aid in future system development and decision making processes by showing the direction of the field as well as viable existing methods of system design and implementation.
Hackathon is an event where programmers and subject field specialists collaborate intensively in teams with the ultimate aim to create and design fresh ICT (information and communication technology) ...based solutions to a given task in a limited time. In this study, we analyzed students' perceptions and experience in a hackathon where they were to design a concept for an application aimed at people that are preparing for their own death. The hackathon was part of a Digital Theology (DT) course at the university for Computer Science (CS) students. A group of 12 students participated in the event. The participants were divided into three groups. The assignment was presented to all the groups to brainstorm and create a mock-up artefact suitable to tackle the challenge. In the end, each group presented their solution. Due to the limited number of students, we applied descriptive statistics rather than exploring into inferential statistics to analyze the data. By collecting data through questionnaires and interviewing the participants, we concluded that the use of hackathon helped to achieve the learning goals of learning DT. The students expressed their satisfaction in the fact that it provided them with motivation to learn through practice. Also, students agreed that the event helped them to think collaboratively for a refined ideas. The overwhelming satisfaction expressed by the students goes to confirm that hackathon brings out the best creative skills from people through problem-solving.
Europe experienced an unprecedented peak in asylum seekers in 2015. Over a million asylum seekers entered the European Union across the Mediterranean Sea and travelled by all means of transport, ...including by foot, from South to Central and Northern parts of the EU. This “migration crisis” became to define much of the political-territorial atmosphere in the continent with severe impacts on the European security but, significantly, also to the way countries communicated migration related threat images into desires for re-bordering. Towards the end of 2015 and early 2016, a bit strange episode happened up in the North, when asylum seekers travelled to Northern Norway and Finland through Russian Federation. Despite locating very far from the Mediterranean and Balkan routes to Europe, the Russian North appeared to become part of so-called Arctic route to the Schengen area with over 7000 African, Middle-Eastern and Asian asylum seekers. Due to the history of very strict border management and control, very few illegal border crossings and extremely distant location, the “Arctic route episode” to Norway and Finland became matters of security in many ways. After describing the overall character of this “Arctic route episode”, we will analyse different perspectives to migration related security. A particular attention will be paid to Finland, Finnish border management and foreign citizens who applied for asylum at one of the “Eastern” border crossing points (Salla or Raja-Jooseppi) in Northern Finland. The Finnish-Russian case illustrates well the networked - but still rather specific - migratory processes in Europe. The public discussion on the episode expresses well many of the international political fears and threats migration poses for those who actually are on the move.
The urge to progressively motivate e-counseling in schools is somewhat dependent on students' behavioral intention towards the use of counseling technologies. This paper presents an empirical ...approach of using Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology model to ascertain students' behavioral intention to adopt and use e-counseling in Ghana. Questionnaires were used to collect data from two hundred and fifty (N=250) randomly selected students from Ghana. Cronbach alpha (α) was first employed to validate and ascertain the reliability of the data. Subsequently, Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) was performed in analysing the data. After that, a follow-up interview was conducted to explore the variance in our findings from the collected data through the questionnaires. In the end, the reliability of the test items contained in the questionnaire yielded strongly at 87.6 %. Also, whereas the outcome of the research suggests Performance Expectancy (PE) (B = .511 , p= .000) and Social Influence (SI) (B = .165 p = .001) as the influencing constructs (factors) towards students' behavioral intention to adopt and use e-counseling, Facilitation Condition (FC) (B= .014, p= .723) and Effort Expectancy (EE) (B= .086 p= .080) had no significant effect on the behavioral intention of students to adopt and use e-counseling in Ghana.
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