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• Knowledge and information sharing through social networking sites among postgraduate students at selected universities in Tanzania  Ponera, Msafiri Jaffar ( 2022 ) The study investigated the use of social networking sites (SNSs) in knowledge and information sharing among postgraduate students at selected universities in Tanzania. The uses of SNSs are known to have potential to ...
• Shaping the evolving role of academic librarians in the fourth industrial revolution through continuous professional development at the Durban University of Technology  Moonasar, Anushie ( 2023-05 ) Due to the proliferation of disruptive technologies that drive the fourth industrial revolution (4IR), academic libraries have undergone an evolution, which has also changed the role of academic librarians. With disruptive ...
• The transformative impact of current awareness services on promoting access and use of open access resources at the University of Zambia  Chitumbo, Eness Munzya Miyanda ( 2022-03-20 ) The study of open access usage in higher learning institutions in developing countries has been an area of concern over the past years due to the many opportunities it offers in academia, such as making available and ...
• Marketing and use of electronic library resource to students in technical universities in Ghana  Baayel, Patrick ( 2023-12 ) The low utilisation of e-resources from accessible databases among students in Ghanaian technical universities (TUs) is an issue of concern for library management. Effective marketing strategies are seen as a promising ...
• Preservation of audio-visual records at the South African Broadcasting Corporation radio in Limpopo regional offices  Ngoasheng, Cyril Patrick Maribolla ( 2020-09 ) Audio-visual records produced by public broadcasters play a role in preserving the history, culture, and language of the country. The records are used by broadcasters to repeat programmes and as snippets to support programmes ...
• A framework for web archiving for municipalities in the KwaZulu-Natal Province in South Africa  Luthuli, Lungile Precious ( 2022 ) A website is one of the tools that an organisation can use to communicate information to the outside world. Some of the records published on websites are often in paper format in record-keeping systems. Other records, on ...
• Developing a framework for the management of indigenous knowledge systems in public university libraries in Ghana  Asamoah, Cathrine ( 2021-01 ) The management of indigenous knowledge (IK) has not been part of the focus of academic libraries collections in Ghana. The need to manage such knowledge base of society has become vital in the era of information society ...
• Knowledge Sharing Practices Among Nurses During COVID-19: A Case Study of Makhanda in the Eastern Cape Province of South  Mugenyi, Andrew ( 2023-04-30 ) The importance of knowledge in this fast-changing world cannot be overstated. Knowledge is urrently considered a crucial organisational resource that transcends other resources, such as land and capital. It plays a vital ...
• Accessibility of Mabeskraal public library services by teachers in Bojanala, North West province of South Africa  Shibambo, Frans Sello ( 2023-06 ) Public libraries play a critical role as service providers that benefit various user communities. Such institutions have helped sustain societies’ information, educational, recreational, and leisure needs. Public libraries ...
• Opportunities and challenges of integrating information literacy as a credit-bearing module into first-year level academic programmes at the University of Venda, South Africa  Ndou, Alugumi Samuel ( 2022 ) The influx of emerging technologies has challenged the way in which the information literacy (IL) concept is defined in the 21st century, e.g. the construct of IL has evolved and expanded to include digital literacy and ...
• A social analysis of gamified information systems  Van der Poll, Arthur Emil ( 2022-11 ) Gamification is broadly defined as the use of game elements (for example, points, rewards and competition) in non-game settings like education, business and government. In information systems (IS) teaching and learning, ...
• Implementation of freedom of information legislation in South Africa and Zimbabwe  Mojapelo, Makutla Gibson ( 2022-06-13 ) The passage of Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation demonstrates a commitment to combating corruption and promoting democracy through public participation, openness, and transparency. Adoption of the legislation, ...
• Archives as a tool to support land restitution in South Africa  Mabapa, Lyborn ( 2021-11 ) Archives have become acceptable evidence in the context of land restitution to prove events that occurred in the past during land dispossessions. Although researchers agree that archives are not always available and ...
• A framework for disaster management for community libraries in the North West Province, South Africa  Chizwina, Sabelo ( 2019-07 ) A disaster may affect any library at any time. Libraries need to be prepared to mitigate and to recover from disasters. Plans need to be in place before, during and after a disaster to ensure that a library is able to ...
• Public libraries and early literacy development programmes for preschoolers at the Kenya National Library Services  Ouda, Penina Atieno ( 2022-09 ) The study aimed to investigate the state of early literacy development programmes and services for preschoolers at the Kenya National Library Services. Using a mixed method design, a sample of 244 library staff, including, ...
• Church technological growth and sustainability: insight from system dynamics  Matobobo, Courage ( 2022-10-28 ) Religious organisations that have realised the importance of ICTs are increasingly adopting and using various technologies to spread evangelism while seeking to grow membership. Currently, a few studies evaluating the ...
• Public librarians' perspectives of digital library for rural areas of Capricorn District Municipality, Limpopo Province  Mamabolo, Mapheto Johannes ( 2022-12 ) Even after two decades of a constitutional democracy that is prized as one of the most progressive achievements, public libraries and information services remain scarce in rural South Africa. This is despite the fact that ...
• Strategies for building user loyalty in selected university libraries in Ghana  Dankwah, Dominic Agyei ( 2021-01-11 ) Using business models in university libraries has proved to yield positive results. Employing an exploratory sequential mixed-method approach, this study investigated strategies for building user loyalty in selected ...
• Knowing the fabric-weaving landscape : information literacy practice of the weavers from the Bonwire Kente Centre in Ghana  Agyemang, Franklin Gyamfi ( 2022-06 ) The socio-cultural perspective to information literacy has gained attention in Information Science, with numerous information literacy studies having been conducted in various workplace landscapes; however, not in the craft ...
• Research data management in selected universities in South Africa  Manqola, Nambitha Ntsoaki ( 2022-11-30 ) Research Data Management (RDM) is an innovative trend that is growing exponentially, and globally influences the research arena, as well as academic institutions. However, the recipient of this ground-breaking research ...

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Land use changes in the environs of Moscow

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This study illustrates the spatio-temporal dynamics of urban growth and land use changes in Samara city, Russia from 1975 to 2015. Landsat satellite imageries of five different time periods from 1975 to 2015 were acquired and quantify the changes with the help of ArcGIS 10.1 Software. By applying classification methods to the satellite images four main types of land use were extracted: water, built-up, forest and grassland. Then, the area coverage for all the land use types at different points in time were measured and coupled with population data. The results demonstrate that, over the entire study period, population was increased from 1146 thousand people to 1244 thousand from 1975 to 1990 but later on first reduce and then increase again, now 1173 thousand population. Builtup area is also change according to population. The present study revealed an increase in built-up by 37.01% from 1975 to 1995, than reduce -88.83% till 2005 and an increase by 39.16% from 2005 to 2015, along w...

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Land use/Cover Change in Russia within the context of global challenges. The paper presents the results of a research project on Land Use/Cover Change (LUCC) in Russia in relations with global problems (climate change, environment and biodiversity degradation). The research was carried out at the Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University on the basis of the combination of remote sensing and in-field data of different spatial and temporal resolution. The original methodology of present-day landscape interpretation for land cover change study has been used. In Russia the major driver of land use/land cover change is agriculture. About twenty years ago the reforms of Russian agriculture were started. Agricultural lands in many regions were dramatically impacted by changed management practices, resulted in accelerated erosion and reduced biodiversity. Between the natural factors that shape agriculture in Russia, climate is the most important one. The study of long-term and short-ter...

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Land use and land cover change is a complex process, driven by both natural and anthropogenic transformations (Fig. 1). In Russia, the major driver of land use / land cover change is agriculture. It has taken centuries of farming to create the existing spatial distribution of agricultural lands. Modernization of Russian agriculture started fifteen years ago. It has brought little change in land cover, except in the regions with marginal agriculture, where many fields were abandoned. However, in some regions, agricultural lands were dramatically impacted by changed management practices, resulting in accelerating erosion and reduced biodiversity. In other regions, federal support and private investments in the agricultural sector, especially those made by major oil and financial companies, has resulted in a certain land recovery. Between the natural factors that shape the agriculture in Russia, climate is the most important one. In the North European and most of the Asian part of the ...

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In recent decades, Russia has experienced substantial transformations in agricultural land tenure. Post-Soviet reforms have shaped land distribution patterns but the impacts of these on agricultural use of land remain under-investigated. On a regional scale, there is still a knowledge gap in terms of knowing to what extent the variations in the compositions of agricultural land funds may be explained by changes in the acreage of other land categories. Using a case analysis of 82 of Russia’s territories from 2010 to 2018, the authors attempted to study the structural variations by picturing the compositions of regional land funds and mapping agricultural land distributions based on ranking “land activity”. Correlation analysis of centered log-ratio transformed compositional data revealed that in agriculture-oriented regions, the proportion of cropland was depressed by agriculture-to-urban and agriculture-to-industry land loss. In urbanized territories, the compositions of agricultura...

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The Unique Burial of a Child of Early Scythian Time at the Cemetery of Saryg-Bulun (Tuva)

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In 1988, the Tuvan Archaeological Expedition (led by M. E. Kilunovskaya and V. A. Semenov) discovered a unique burial of the early Iron Age at Saryg-Bulun in Central Tuva. There are two burial mounds of the Aldy-Bel culture dated by 7th century BC. Within the barrows, which adjoined one another, forming a figure-of-eight, there were discovered 7 burials, from which a representative collection of artifacts was recovered. Burial 5 was the most unique, it was found in a coffin made of a larch trunk, with a tightly closed lid. Due to the preservative properties of larch and lack of air access, the coffin contained a well-preserved mummy of a child with an accompanying set of grave goods. The interred individual retained the skin on his face and had a leather headdress painted with red pigment and a coat, sewn from jerboa fur. The coat was belted with a leather belt with bronze ornaments and buckles. Besides that, a leather quiver with arrows with the shafts decorated with painted ornaments, fully preserved battle pick and a bow were buried in the coffin. Unexpectedly, the full-genomic analysis, showed that the individual was female. This fact opens a new aspect in the study of the social history of the Scythian society and perhaps brings us back to the myth of the Amazons, discussed by Herodotus. Of course, this discovery is unique in its preservation for the Scythian culture of Tuva and requires careful study and conservation.

Keywords: Tuva, Early Iron Age, early Scythian period, Aldy-Bel culture, barrow, burial in the coffin, mummy, full genome sequencing, aDNA

Information about authors: Marina Kilunovskaya (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Vladimir Semenov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Varvara Busova  (Moscow, Russian Federation).  (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Kharis Mustafin  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Technical Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Irina Alborova  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Alina Matzvai  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected]

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