Fully Remote Software Development Due to COVID Factor

The internal transformation and using the fully remote software development under the influence of the pandemic has not only changed the industry, but heralded the construction of a new reality. This article presents the results of a study that covered the experience of transformation of 26 project teams from the world's leading IT corporations, software vendors, and high-tech companies with strong internal development practices: Alphabet, Amazon, BSC Group, Custis, Deutsche Bank, Evernote, Exness, Positive Technologies, PromSvyazBank, Sberbank, VTB, Yandex. Experts determined the results of rapid adaptation to changes, considered the medium-term impact of the pandemic factor on work processes, and made forecasts for 2021. The results of the study are accompanied by brief comments and recommendations of the author, the main idea of which is the need to quickly understand a new trend in software development, hiring specialists, and organizing teams associated with the refusal of high-tech IT companies to return to teamwork in shared offices.

Memory

This chapter begins from the image of the book of memory with which the Vita Nova opens in order to demonstrate both the role that it plays in the structure of the libello and its links with the tradition of the art of memory. In the Convivio, memory takes on an ethical dimension, meaning that the writer feels the need to give knowledge to humankind. In the Commedia, memory continues to be essential in the writing of the work, however, it is memory of the other world, which endows it with a new value. The ordered structure of the three realms of the other world is animated by Dante’s encounters with diverse characters, who become in their turn imagines agentes of the sin committed or of the virtue that defined them. Thus, the pilgrim’s journey imprints on his body and mind the memory of divine order and generates an internal transformation.

A transformation agenda for tertiary agricultural education in Africa.

This chapter synthesizes the discussion on tertiary agricultural education (TAE) in Africa, offering recommendations for transforming TAE systems and institutions. The chapter synthesizes the change process defined and explored throughout this volume, providing a review of the external environment, the components of internal transformation processes and the ways in which TAE entities can take advantage of different types of networks and partnerships.

Borders and Territorial Identity in Moldovan ASSR: Transnistria and the “Bessarabian Question” b e t we e n 1918 and 1940

Bessarabia’s unification with the rest of the Romanian historical provinces in order to create the Greater Romania in 1918 opened up a dispute between the new state and Soviet Russia. The loss of its previous gubernia to the detriment of Romania, combined with a series of strategies imposed by its tremendous internal transformation, made the Soviet Union to reconsider its western borders. This article provides an overview of the formation of the Moldavan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (MASSR) – the political ancestor of contemporary Dnestr Moldovan Republic or Transnistria – and then proceeds to analyse its role as propaganda and political tools inside the USSR. In such context, Transnistria will be studied as borderland of Greater Romania in order to better understand its socio-political profile in accordance with Soviet policies. The main aim of this paper is to give an objective account of the events from the historical perspective and to reassess the socio-political engineering which the MASSR underwent from its creation in 1924 up until its union with Bessarabia in 1940.

“Prisoners of the Earth, come out”: Links and Parallels between William Burroughs’s Writing and Gnostic Thought

William Burroughs’s works are rarely read in relation to any religious context. I would like to present a correspondence between the vision that emerges from his Nova Trilogy and some of the most popular Gnostic ideas. In the cut-up trilogy, mankind is left alone, trapped in a hostile cosmos ruled by antihuman forces. Through the manipulation of words and images, Demiurge-like agents spread their control over an illusory reality. Like Gnostics, Burroughs envisions the physical world, and also the body, as a prison to the transcendent spirit. To him, one way of escape is through cut-ups. The writer shows that by breaking away from arbitrary notions and a routine mode of thinking, one can attain gnosis — saving knowledge. Burroughs creates his own mythology which, like Gnostic teachings, promotes the ideas of self-knowledge, internal transformation and transcendence.

Czarodziejska góra Tomasza Manna jako przestrzeń transgresji

THOMAS MANN'S MAGIC MOUNTAIN AS A SPACE OF TRANGRESSIONThomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain is analysed with regard to elements pointing to the transgressive nature of the mountain and its impact on the protagonists of the novel. The author of the article focuses on the impact of time spent in the sanatorium on the mountain on the patients’ perception of the world below, on the plains, taking into account both external and mental changes. The selected fragments refer primarily to the transformations of the main protagonist, i.e. Hans Castorp, but also those of other protagonists, for example Dr Behrens or patients in whom changes of moral character can be observed. Life “up there” prompts people to see the world “down there” differently and thus figures as a place of internal transformation and crossing of boundaries, which should not be seen only topographically in this case.]]>