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Financing of Agricultural Pensions on the European Continent

Andras Giday Tatay Tibor

Publication Name: Public Finance Quarterly

Publication Date: 2022-01-01

Volume: 67

Issue: 1

Page Range: 83-99

Description:

Supporting agriculture in Europe is important for many reasons: on the one hand, to secure food supplies, and on the other, to ensure the sustainability of rural lifestyles. But in recent decades, rural populations have also been affected by population ageing. Different agricultural pension schemes have been set up in European countries, taking into account the specificities of the agricultural sector. Pension funds have tended to be more important where the role of small farms was significant and the pension system was of the fully Bismarckian type. In general, they were not introduced where a 'kolkhoz system' existed in East-Central Europe before 1990. In our study we looked at the different forms that have been implemented. We have reviewed the changes that have taken place in recent decades and found that in some countries, states have supplemented contributions to pension payments by up to 75-85%. Our methodology involves document analysis and comparative assessment. We argue that it is worthwhile to encourage farmers to continue production on smaller farms by providing special sectoral support, career funding and pensions in order to meet social and environmental objectives.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.35551/PFQ_2022_1_5

Effect of genetic and nongenetic factors on chemical composition of individual milk samples from dromedary camels (Camelus dromedarius) under intensive management

P. Nagy J. Reiczigel Zs N. Fábri J. Juhász L. Varga

Publication Name: Journal of Dairy Science

Publication Date: 2017-11-01

Volume: 100

Issue: 11

Page Range: 8680-8693

Description:

The aims of the present study were to monitor the changes in gross chemical composition of individual dromedary camel milk over a 5-yr period, to provide reference values, and to determine the effect of genetic and nongenetic factors influencing camel milk composition under intensive management. A total of 1,528 lactating dromedary camels were included in the study. Animals were fed a constant diet and were milked twice a day in a herringbone parlor. Milk samples were collected at monthly intervals using a sampling device and then fat, protein, lactose, total solids (TS), and solids-nonfat (SNF) concentrations of raw camel milk were determined with an automatic milk analyzer. For each milk sample, production parameters were recorded and quantities (grams) of milk constituents were calculated. The overall mean quantity and fat, protein, lactose, SNF, and TS concentrations of the morning milk were 4.0 kg, 2.58%, 2.95%, 4.19%, 8.08%, and 10.46%, respectively. Milk quantity showed a positive correlation with lactose and a negative correlation with all other components. Parity exerted a strong effect on all milk parameters. Primiparous dromedaries (n = 60) produced less milk with higher concentrations of components than did multiparous animals (n = 1,468). Milk composition varied among the 7 breeds tested, but none of the genotypes was found to be superior to the others in this respect. We detected a significant, yet small calf sex-biased difference in milk yield and composition. Stage of lactation and season strongly influenced milk yield and all milk components. We also found a significant interaction between month postpartum (mPP) and month of the year. The concentration of all milk components decreased from 1 to 5 mPP. Later, lactose concentration and quantity continued to decrease parallel with decreasing milk production. The concentration of other components showed a temporary increase in mid lactation, from 6 to 11 mPP, and in late lactation, from 18 to 23 mPP. Mean fat, protein, SNF, and TS concentrations showed a high seasonal variation (9.5 to 28.7%), with the lowest and highest values being measured during summer and winter, respectively. This seasonal variation was independent of nutrition and may reflect an endogenous circannual rhythm. We observed a noticeable variation among years. Dromedary camels could provide a useful in vivo model to study the homeorhetic regulation of mammary cell function by endogenous and environmental factors.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.3168/jds.2017-12814

Private banking market developments: Evidence from Hungary

Eszter Kazinczy

Publication Name: Journal of Infrastructure Policy and Development

Publication Date: 2024-01-01

Volume: 8

Issue: 12

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

Private banking institutions serve the financial sector’s wealthiest clientele via a dedicated value proposition. Based on the relevant tendencies and statistics, a remarkable expansion can be outlined since the mid-1990s. The aim of this study is to elaborate the Hungarian private banking market’s development as a case study. The paper also intends to add to the literature on this unique segment of the financial market. Based on the available statistics, the analysis primarily focuses on the Hungarian private banking market’s rapid development process. This can be underpinned by the clientele’s savings, number of accounts and respective segmentation limits of the institutions. Referring to the amount of savings, a correlation analysis indicates significant co-movements with specific social and economic variables. The growth rate of the Hungarian clientele’s savings outperformed the respective indicator in Western Europe during the review time period (2007–2020). The current paper also includes a section that summarises general challenges that private banking managers need to address during the development process. Generally, the literature on private banking can still be considered scarce, whereas there is a lack of studies on the Central-Eastern European region. The analysis of the Hungarian sector’s development path can serve with relevant information to any financial expert in the field.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.24294/jipd.v8i12.8483

Breakage test of railway ballast materials with new laboratory method

Szabolcs Fischer

Publication Name: Periodica Polytechnica Civil Engineering

Publication Date: 2017-10-24

Volume: 61

Issue: 4

Page Range: 794-802

Description:

This paper summarizes the results of a R&D work in 2014. Five different types of andesite railway ballast material with different LARB (%) (Los Angeles abrasion) as well as MDERB (%) (Micro-Deval abrasion) values were investigated in laboratory with pulsating test which models the real condition much better (the used parameters were determined accordance with international dynamic design method). Grain size distributions related to the five several aggregates were defined before and after pulsating tests. Particle breakages were then calculated by different method publicized in international literature. Relationships were searched between particle breakages due to laboratory test and LARB (%) as well as MDERB (%) values of railway ballast samples. Time interval (cycle) of ballast cleaning work were attempted to compute with help of special parameters used by Hungarian and other railway companies underlined the limits of calculation method. Finally recommendations were formulated related to use of this new laboratory test method for estimation of ballast particle breakage.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.3311/PPci.8549

Comrades in theory, outsiders in practice: Cuban and Polish workers in the Kádár era in Hungary

Csaba Sándor Horváth Lőwi Ildikó Horváth Csaba Sándor

Publication Name: Labor History

Publication Date: 2025-01-01

Volume: Unknown

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

This study examines the political, ethnic, and social dimensions of transnational guest worker migration to Hungary during the late Kádár era, with a focus on Cuban and Polish workers. The research explores whether an institutionalized form of exploitation ‒ resembling colonial oppression ‒ emerged under state socialism despite official ideological commitments to racial equality. It also considers whether the socialist rhetoric of international solidarity was compatible with the realities of ethnic hierarchy and exclusion. Drawing on international and domestic literature, archival documents, statistical data, press sources, and focus group interviews, the study employs a primarily qualitative methodology to analyze the lived experiences of guest workers. The findings suggest that a form of socialist-style colonial exploitation was reproduced, especially in the case of Cuban workers, and that a complex mix of latent ethnic bias and overt national stereotypes shaped efforts to integrate guest workers. Finally, the research identifies key patterns that influence the acceptance or rejection of culturally distinct labor migrants and examines the broader ideological and social contradictions that these dynamics reveal.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2025.2566424

Development of tire-road noise measuring system

Balázs Vehovszky István Horváth Zsolt Gaszner

Publication Name: Advances in Acoustics Noise and Vibration 2021 Proceedings of the 27th International Congress on Sound and Vibration Icsv 2021

Publication Date: 2021-01-01

Volume: Unknown

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

In vehicles there are 3 main noise sources: powertrain noise (e.g. engine, gear engagement or exhaust noise), aerodynamic noise (or wind noise), and the noise from the tire-road contact. The first two are traditionally in the primary focus of vehicle manufacturers, however, due to both the already made powerful developments and the spreading of electric vehicles, the rolling noise is gaining more and more attention during the vehicle development process. There are two major influencing factors of this noise source: tire (geometrical and material) characteristics and road (surface) characteristics. The separation of their contribution is not straightforward, investigated rarely, and the requirements of homologation standards do not expect it neither. However, if one would like to meet the new vehicle pass-by noise regulations, it is more and more inevitable to have a sophisticated break-down of rolling noise. A straightforward solution is the usage of a one-wheel testbench developed directly for acoustical measurements. Such design process is presented in this paper, where the most important requirements are: enabling the users to compare tires from acoustical aspect under totally objective conditions, modelling the typical conditions of vehicles and ensuring data for rolling noise simulations. One further functionality of the testbench is to reproduce the real rolling noise by mounting realistic road surface sections onto the superficies.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: DOI not available

Generalization capability of neural networks based on fuzzy operators

László Gál Rita Lovassy Laszlo T. Koczy

Publication Name: Applied and Computational Mathematics

Publication Date: 2011-01-01

Volume: 10

Issue: 2

Page Range: 340-355

Description:

This paper discusses the generalization capability of neural networks based on various fuzzy operators introduced earlier by the authors as Fuzzy Flip-Flop based Neural Networks (FNNs), in comparison with standard (e.g. tansig function based, MATLAB Neural Network Toolbox type) networks in the frame of simple function approximation problems. Various fuzzy neurons, one of them based on a pair of new fuzzy intersection and union, and several other selected well known fuzzy operators (£ukasiewicz and Dombi operators) combined with standard negation have been proposed as suitable for the construction of novel FNNs. We briefly present the sigmoid function generators derived from fuzzy J-K and D flip-flops. An advantage of such FNNs is their easy hardware implementability. The experimental results show that these FNNs provide rather good generalization performance, with far better mathematical stability than the standard tansig based neural networks and are more suitable to avoid overfitting in the case of test data containing noisy items in the form of outliers.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: DOI not available

Optimizing Video Resolution for Machine Learning-Based Traffic Monitoring Systems: A Performance Analysis

Ferenc Erdos Enas Elshebli

Publication Name: International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies Iceet

Publication Date: 2024-01-01

Volume: Unknown

Issue: 2024

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

This study explores the impact of video resolution on the performance of machine learning-based traffic monitoring systems. Using a combination of empirical analysis and theoretical modeling, we assess how different resolutions affect detection accuracy, resource consumption, and computational efficiency. While other factors such as noise level, or compression artifacts also influence performance, resolution was chosen as a primary variable due to its critical role in balancing detail capture and computational cost. Higher resolutions can enhance object detection accuracy but also significantly increase data processing demands, making resolution a key trade-off in designing efficient surveillance systems. Findings of this study show significant insights into these trade-offs, guiding transportation authorities and system developers in making informed decisions to design scalable traffic monitoring solutions that meet the demands of modern urban environments.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1109/ICEET65156.2024.10913642

Analysis Of The Dynamics Of Cashless Payments In Kazakhstan In The Context Of The Covid-19 Pandemic

Laszlo Vasa Anna Kredina Aigul Akparova

Publication Name: Economy Strategy and Practice

Publication Date: 2021-01-01

Volume: 16

Issue: 2

Page Range: 54-61

Description:

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the development of FinTech and the transition to cashless payments of the population of various countries, including Kazakhstan. For provision of cashless payments there are created platforms which work in NFC & MFS systems, they protected by security protocols (Secure Element (SE)) and allow to store confidential user data. Changes in the business model of banks have led to the emergence of a new format of banking products and services that can be used through smartphones (the main operating systems Android and iOS). The goal of the study is to analyze the dynamics of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of cashless payments through national payment systems in Kazakhstan. Based on the goal, a null and an alternative hypothesis were set, of which the second was confirmed in the result. Research methods used to write this article are economic and statistical analysis and synthesis, graphical method, analysis of the series of dynamics. The data for the study was taken from the NBK Statistical Bulletin: data on cashless payments through the Interbank System of Money Transfer (ISMT) and the Interbank Clearing System (ICS) for the period from 2002 to 2020. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the dynamics of the transformation of cashless payments made by using financial technologies has been proved. Recommendations for further improvement of the financial system are given. The development of national payment systems makes it possible to reduce the level of fraud in the financial sector, to increase the speed of cashless transfers and level out transaction errors. Study limitation: only national payment systems ISMT and ICS were used.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.51176/1997-9967-2021-2-54-61