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Impacts of Change: Analysing the Perception of Industrial Heritage in the Vogtland Region
Authors: Bockelmann Leo
Published: January 2023

Beyond metropolitan areas, many peripheral regions and their cities in Europe have, in manifold ways, been significantly shaped by industrialisation. In the context of the relocation of industrial production to other countries over the last decades, the question has been raised as to the role this heritage can play in futural regional development as well as the potential local identification with this history. Hence, this article seeks to analyse the perception of the industrial heritage in the Vogtland region, located alongside the border of three German federal states and the Czech Republic. It inquires as to the perception of the industrial heritage by the local population and related potential future narrations. Based on spontaneous and explorative interviews with local people as an empirical base, a discrepancy between the perception of the tangible and intangible dimensions of the industrial heritage can be observed. On the one hand, the tangible heritage like older factories and production complexes are seen as a functional legacy and an “eyesore” narrative is attributed to them. On the other hand, people often reference the personal and familial connection to the industry and highlight its importance for the historical development and the wealth of the region. But these positive associations are mainly limited to the intangible dimension and are disconnected from the material artefacts of industrial production.
Algorithm Sensemaking: How Platform Workers Make Sense of Algorithmic Management
Authors: Möhlmannn Mareike ,   Bentley University, Salge Carolina Alves de Lima ,   University of Georgia, Marabelli Marco ,   Bentley University
Published: January 2023

Algorithmic management can create work environment tensions that are detrimental to workplace well-being and productivity. One specific type of tension originates from the fact that algorithms often exhibit limited transparency and are perceived as highly opaque, which impedes workers’ understanding of their inner workings. While algorithmic transparency can facilitate sensemaking, the algorithm’s opaqueness may aggravate sensemaking. By conducting an empirical case study in the context of the Uber platform, we explore how platform workers make sense of the algorithms managing them. Drawing on Weick’s enactment theory, we theorize a new form of sensemaking— algorithm sensemaking—and unpack its three sub-elements: (1) focused enactment, (2) selection modes, and (3) retention sources. The sophisticated, multistep process of algorithm sensemaking allows platform workers to keep up with algorithmic instructions systematically. We add to previous literature by theorizing algorithm sensemaking as a mediator linking workers’ perceptions about tensions in their work environment and their behavioral responses.
On Scholarly Composition: From Acceptable to Exceptional
Authors: Leidner Dorothy E. ,   University of Virginia, Birth Monica ,   The Association for Information Systems
Published: January 2023

Scholarly writing is a difficult skill to develop. This editorial presents our observations on how to move from acceptable to exceptional writing in academic manuscripts. We discuss three phases of writing—the predrafting, drafting, and postdrafting phases—and provide suggestions based on our experiences for improving the quality of academic manuscripts prior to their submission.
THE EFFECT OF CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK VIA A COMPUTERIZED COURSE ON OMANI EFL LEARNERS` WRITING PERFORMANCE
Authors: AL GHAITHI Ali , BEHFOROUZ Behnam
Published: January 2023

The present research investigates the efficiency of interactional corrective feedback on Omani EFL learners` writing performance through electronic platforms. To this end, 94 Omani English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners were selected based on the college placement criteria. The participants were randomly assigned into one experimental group and one control group, each including 47 students. Before starting the treatment, both groups were pretested by a writing test to collect the required data. The experimental group then received the treatment using interactional corrective feedback and additional comments, whereas the control group received only corrective input on forms and structures of the final draft. In addition, to elicit the students’ attitude towards interactional corrective feedback, a survey was distributed among the experimental group’s participants. The Mann-Whitney U test for comparing the control and experimental groups showed a significant difference between the mean scores of the two groups. It means that interactional corrective feedback had a statistically significant effect on EFL learners’ writing performance. Besides, the survey findings showed that participants emphasized the importance of receiving interactional corrective feedback from their teachers. The current study results can have some implications for teachers to implement more feedback sessions, not only on students’ writing tasks but also on the other skills equally.
TOO MUCH SCREEN? AN EXPLORATORY EXAMINATION OF DIGITAL EXHAUSTION OF EDUCATORS IN TURKIYE
Authors: LIMAN KABAN Aysegul , KAYNAR Neslihan
Published: January 2023

Screen time is now widely available and due to the increasing use of these technologies in school and home, it is important to consider teacher views about their use and possible results. The purpose of this study is to analyze the digital exhaustion of educators in Turkey and its proposed antecedents. 534 educators participated in the study. The data obtained were analyzed using descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and thematic content analysis. Key findings were that educators had digital exhaustion and they offered some practical solutions.
A PARTICIPATORY PEDAGOGICAL MODEL FOR ONLINE DISTANCE LEARNING: IDEATION AND IMPLEMENTATION
Authors: GORIA Cecilia , KONSTANTINIDIS Angelos
Published: January 2023

In spite of its increasing popularity, distance education faces challenges – levels of digital literacy, access to technology, workload and time management, students’ feelings of isolation and disconnection – that can have a significant impact on the experience of the learners.
In addressing these issues, we propose a pedagogical model for distance learning which promotes the synergy of eight ingredients – Community, Openness, Multimodality, Participation, Personalisation, Learning, Experience, Technological-Enhancement, with their initial letters generating the acronym COMP-PLETE – for the shaping of a highly participatory online learning experience and the creation of an active and cohesive community characterised by a strong sense of commitment towards the learning of the individuals and that of the group.
This paper presents the theoretical rationale for and implementation of COMP-PLETE. It also provides recommendations for researchers and practitioners interested in cultivating an online learning community which responds well to the aforementioned challenges posed by distance education.
AN ANALYSIS OF PERSONAL FACTORS AFFECTING LEARNING MOTIVATION: A RESEARCH ON THE ONLINE EDUCATION PROCESS DURING COVID-19 PERIOD IN TURKIYE
Authors: ISMAN Aytekin , SABUNCUOGLU INANC Ayda , AKINCI COTOK Nesrin
Published: January 2023

In 2019 Covid-19 appeared and spread quickly all over the world, affecting every structure of society, as well as the education system. One of the measures taken to prevent the further spread of the disease was mandatory online education at universities in Turkey. This sudden change has significantly affected students' learning motivations for face-to-face education. In this context, this study aims to determine the factors of arousal, beliefs, goals, and needs that affect the students' learning motivations as personal factors during online education in Turkey during the Covid-19 pandemic. For this aim, a semi-structured interview technique was used on a sample of 34 students. According to the findings, the internal factors on arousals were; mainly interest/curiosity and the external factors on arousals were mainly; compulsory attendance requirements. Also, the internal factors on success beliefs were mainly; determination, and the external factors mainly include motivational speeches. Besides, the internal factors on goals were mainly; the need to learn for the future, and the external factors on goals were mainly; homework and studies. Lastly, findings indicated that the internal needs of the students were mainly; success, and the external needs were mainly; communication
MINORITY EDUCATION DURING THE PANDEMIC: THE CASE OF THE SLOVENE MINORITY IN ITALY
Authors: DOZ Daniel , STEMBERGER Tina
Published: January 2023

Much research has been done on the first quarantine period in 2020, however little is known for what it concerns distance learning in Italian schools with Slovene as language of instruction. No extensive research explored teachers’ and students’ perceptions of this distance learning period, nor analyzed their opinion about positive and negative aspects of online learning, especially those related to the teaching material in Slovene language, which should address the Italian program. The present article presents the analysis of online semi-structured interviews that involved 15 high school teachers and 15 students who teach or attend Italian high schools with Slovene as teaching language, and it aims to answer these questions. We found that teachers and students preferred face-to-face classes, since they faced several issues connected with distance learning, such as a lack of interaction during distance learning, technology and connection problem, health issues and psychological distress. High school teachers and students faced less problems than those reported by primary schools’ pupils and teachers, since they are older and more independent than primary school pupils. High school students did also communicate through several social applications and peers might have helped them to overcome the language obstacles.
RELIABILITY MODEL USER INTERFACE
Authors:   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Tolok I.V. , Banzak G.V. ,   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Leschenko O.I. ,   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Published: January 2023

Complex technical objects in modern society are extremely important. Such objects belong to the class of recoverable objects of long-term multiple uses. They tend to be expensive and require significant maintenance costs. To ensure the required level of reliability during their operation, maintenance is usually carried out, the essence of which is the timely preventive replacement of elements that are in a pre-failure state. The problem is that when developing such facilities, all issues related to maintainability and maintenance should be addressed already at the early stages of designing the facility. If you do not provide in advance the necessary hardware and software for integrated monitoring of the technical condition (TC) of the object, do not develop and “embed” the maintenance technology into the object, then it will not be possible to realize in the future a possible gain in the reliability of object due to maintenance. Since all these issues must be resolved at the stage of creating an object (when the object does not yet exist), mathematical models of the maintenance process are needed, with the help of which it would be possible to calculate the possible gain in the level of reliability of object due to maintenance, to estimate the cost costs required for this. Then, based on such calculations, make a decision on the need for maintenance for this type of objects and, if such a decision is made, develop the structure of the maintenance system, choose the most appropriate maintenance strategy, and determine its optimal parameters.
Government Failures in The Implementation of Effective Contracts
Authors:   Siberian Federal University, Kurbatova Margarita, V. , Donova Inna, V. ,   Kemerovo State University
Published: January 2023

The paper examines the results of reforms in the remuneration system of university lecturers. Two stages of the transformation process have been considered: the transition to the new remuneration system in 2008 and the introduction of effective contracts in 2012. The paper explains how the political and bureaucratic mechanisms of the formation of the remuneration system have changed. We have made an attempt to describe the government failures in the implementation of effective contracts. It is assumed that the new mechanism remains over-regulated and is based on the idea of the local nature of the academic labor market. The imitation regulation is considered to be one of the most important reasons of the state failures. On the one hand, the government manifested the establishment of understandable and achievable indicators, on the other hand, the authorities failed to solve real problems of the production and transfer of the new knowledge. Governmental stakeholders in education are interested in maintaining and further expanding of their functions. Meanwhile, insufficient professionalism in decision-making and short-termism become the reasons for inefficient waste of budgetary resources for the indicators production and elaboration of various of insurance procedures. The study shows that for many universities the achievement of the target salary level is associated with serious difficulties. There are also significant differences in remuneration systems between universities. Interregional differences in the level of wages of university staff create different conditions for investment in the human capital of university lecturers and incentives for interregional staff turnover that weakens the resource potential of universities in a number of regions.
Market and State Failures in The Healthcare Model under The COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors:   Ural State University of Economics, Orekhova Svetlana V. , Safarov Mikhail A. ,   Ural State University of Economics
Published: January 2023

The health care market has special features associated with the production of both private and public goods, it has a special structure of competition and transactions. The business models of medical organizations are based on a two-level value proposition – organizations in the analyzed field work for their clients (the population of a territory) and simultaneously for the state, which plays a role of a customer of the public good. This leads to the mixture of the healthcare and insurance markets and, as a result, the development of specific monetization scheme in the field of medical services. The article focuses on market and institutional coordination mechanisms in the Russian healthcare market transformation in the context of the 2020-2022 pandemic. The research methodology is based on neo-institutional economics, theories of industrial markets and the public sector theory. The paper assesses the market failures of the healthcare system and institutional instruments that are designed to neutralize these failures. We also describe the general institutional context of the health care in Russia. The methods of the empirical part of the study are a survey and a narrative analysis. Our results are based on 584 interviews. The respondents assessed changes in the conditions for the provision of medical services in 2020-2022. It was found that the effectiveness of institutional coordination mechanisms in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic were reduced, this resulted in new failures of the state. We prove that a new model in the Russian Federation healthcare market has been created as a result of the pandemic. This model is characterized by a simultaneous strengthening of the role of the state in some market segments and private players in other segments, as well as a decrease in the efficiency of production of both private and public goods.
The Institutions and Mechanisms of The Russian Innovation System's Regulation in The Mirror of Narratives
Authors:   Southern Federal University, Volchik Vyacheslav V. , Tsygankov Sergei S. ,   Southern Federal University, Fursa Elena V. ,   Southern Federal University, Shiriaev Igor M. ,   Southern Federal University, Maskaev Аrtem I. ,   Southern Federal University
Published: January 2023

The innovation system is a set of institutions and regulatory mechanisms that create an environment for the interaction of organisations and actors in the academic sphere, business and the state. An analysis of the formal institutions of the Russian innovation system (RIS) showed that it has a complex structure consisting of numerous overlapping institutions and duplicating regulatory mechanisms. The state and the academic sphere are closely integrated into a single management hierarchy, and interaction with the business is carried out indirectly through development institutions and the mechanism of public procurement. In cooperation with the academy, large private and state-owned companies often solve the problem of training their own human resources rather than creating innovations. Comparison of the multi-level structure of the RIS and its reflection in the actors' narratives made it possible to show the complexity of the systemic perception of innovation activity in Russia and highlight the following dysfunctions of the RIS: The low quality of formal institutions and the lack of consistency in regulation; Selectivity and inconsistency of the ongoing state innovation policy; Underdevelopment of mechanisms for the formation of links between science and business; Lack of infrastructure, production and production capacities for scaling innovative products; Underfunding of education, science and innovative developments by the state and private business; Breach of the mechanisms for the reproduction of human resources for innovation.
Reformatting The Russian Higher Education System: General Macrostructural Configuration
Authors:   Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Ekimova Natalia A.
Published: January 2023

The process of de-globalization of the world economy, which began in 2022, requires a radical reformatting of the current university system of the Russian Federation. The aim of the article is to substantiate a set of initial start-up measures aimed at practice-oriented restructuring of the Russian university market. In particular, it is substantiated that the concept of a world-class university has already lost its relevance, in connection with which it should be replaced by a more operational concept – top-class university (TCU), taking into account not the abstract scientific achievements of the university team, but meeting the specific needs of national and regional economy. The network of higher education institutions should become the driver of the process of technological sovereignty of the Russian Federation, so the aim of the ongoing reform of higher education is to create it. The article substantiates that despite the loss of universality and efficiency of university rankings, the analytical potential inherent in them should not be completely ignored. In particular, the identification of potential TCU on the basis of world university rankings by subject QS, ARWU and THE made it possible to identify the core of Russian universities, which currently consists of 53 universities, which should be in the focus of attention of federal and regional authorities. To ensure the technological and economic sovereignty of Russia, it is advisable to classify all universities of the country into 4 categories: classical, technological, life-supporting, socio-humanitarian and regional-branch universities. This will make it possible to form a pool of the best universities of each group both at the level of regions and at the level of the whole country, which will provide the necessary level of balance of the national system of higher education of the Russian Federation and ensure its maximum interface with the real economy.
Enclave Economies and Political Connections of Big Business in Emerging Market Countries
Authors:   Kemerovo State University, Sablin Kirill S.
Published: January 2023

Relationship between enclave economies functioning and political connections using by large businesses in emerging markets countries is considered in the article. Enclave economies have their origins in the colonial past of these countries, and these political and economic systems make it difficult to transfer to a model of linkages economy. Linkages economy is characterized with the presence of multiplier effect that ensures the production of high-tech in manufacturing industries, the emergence of small innovative enterprises, the formation of demand for human capital in the field of research and development. On the contrary, enclaves of wealth represent that part of the economy that is embedded in global value chains, but does not work to form domestic markets, does not provide basis for the development of high added value manufacturing industries, blocks the emergence of fast-growing companies from the innovation sector, and the directions of human capital investments are determined precisely with the extraction of natural and mineral resources. The everlasting existence of enclave economies is grounded by special interest groups including representatives of the ruling elites and politically connected firms. Access to wealth enclaves is linked with certain privileges for politically connected firms. Mineral rents can be used by the ruling elites as a source to set patronage sinecures that to strengthen existing regimes.
Reproductive Approach to Managing The Sustainability of Environmental and Economic Ecosystems in The New Realities
Authors:   Southern Federal University, Ovchinnikov Victor N. , Ketova Natalia P. ,   Southern Federal University
Published: January 2023

The article, against the background of consideration of the traditional unity of the four moments of the classical theory of social reproduction, outlines the specificity of the conditions of its functioning in the new realities, which predetermines the relevance of the publication. The necessity of taking into account the mega-economic, macroeconomic and foreign policy environment, as well as the internal socio-political stability of civil society and the possibility of implementing the constructive potential of the system of relations of social structure of production is emphasized. The imperatives of the reproductive approach to ensuring the sustainability of national economic development from the position of taking into account the state of reproductive and ecological functionality of its natural ecosystem and the management of this process are disclosed. It emphasizes the importance of the functional role of natural ecosystems in the provision of ecosystem services for the formation of favorable conditions of human life – the subject and object of social development. The purpose of the article is the author's statement of imperatives of providing conditions of sustainable-dynamic mode of reproduction and organic system-supplementary interaction (combination, functional compliance and parametric adequacy) of all moments (elements) of the reproduction process. The subject of the research is the ecological and economic imperatives that ensure a reproductive-sustainable mode of functioning of natural ecosystems. The main results of the study consist in substantiating the necessity of including the costs of restoring the reproductive potential of the natural environment as a producer of ecosystem services provided by nature to man in the balance of the cost of sustainable mode of reproduction according to the procedure of evaluating the unit of environmental benefits similar to the cost of the corresponding unit of natural resources. This would allow an objective and complete assessment of the volume of national wealth in monetary terms. The scope of the obtained results is determined by the possibilities of ensuring the sustainability of natural ecosystems in Russia, taking into account global technological trends to overcome the existing challenges and solve the complex socio-economic problems facing the country.
Institutional Development of Sustainable Finance: its Potential and Current Limitations
Authors:   Southern Federal University, Korytsev Maksim A. , Morozov Serafim A. ,   Southern Federal University
Published: January 2023

Sustainable finance instruments have invaluable importance for achieving SDGs and mitigation of the global climate change in particular. Despite significant market capitalization, there are some serious challenges for the further growth of this market such as blank spaces in legislation and lack of transparency in evaluation of the real impact of projects claimed to be sustainable and companies willing to borrow funds on this market, which confuses investors. This paper analyzes the current state and prospects of the global sustainable finance market and the institutional infrastructure supporting it. A brief overview of the national Russian sustainable finance market is included.
Accelerated Legal Proceedings in The Light of The Differentiation of The Criminal Procedure Form
Authors:   Southern Federal University, Tsyganenko Sergey S.
Published: January 2023

The article is devoted to theoretical issues of the essence and concept of accelerated legal proceedings as a type of modern Russian criminal process. The author uses examples of historical and comparative legal nature to reveal the true essence and main content of the institute of accelerated legal proceedings as a type of modern Russian criminal process. It argues for a complex historical evolution throughout the existence of the institution of accelerated legal proceedings, as well as constant attempts to adapt it to meet the current goals and objectives of criminal and criminal procedural politics. Ultimately it shows the futility of directions that use the ideas of accelerated legal proceedings for so-called hybridisation and modern eclecticism in the field of procedural form. An original definition of accelerated legal proceedings is formulated.
Characterizing Multisubevent Earthquakes Using the Brune Source Model
Authors: Liu Meichen , Huang Yihe , Ritsema Jeroen
Published: January 2023

Although the Brune source model describes earthquake moment release as a single pulse, it is widely used in studies of complex earthquakes with multiple episodes of high moment release (i.e., multiple subevents). In this study, we investigate how corner frequency estimates of earthquakes with multiple subevents are biased if they are based on the Brune source model. By assuming complex sources as a sum of multiple Brune sources, we analyze 1640 source time functions of Mw 5.5–8.0 earthquakes in the seismic source characteristic retrieved from deconvolving teleseismic body waves catalog to estimate the corner frequencies, onset times, and seismic moments of subevents. We identify more subevents for strike-slip earthquakes than dip-slip earthquakes, and the number of resolvable subevents increases with magnitude. We find that earthquake corner frequency correlates best with the corner frequency of the subevent with the highest moment release (i.e., the largest subsevent). This suggests that, when the Brune model is used, the estimated corner frequency and, therefore, the stress drop of a complex earthquake is determined primarily by the largest subevent rather than the total rupture area. Our results imply that, in addition to the simplified assumption of a radial rupture area with a constant rupture velocity, the stress variation of asperities, rather than the average stress change of the whole fault, contributes to the large variance of stress-drop estimates.
Active Faults Revealed and New Constraints on Their Seismogenic Depth from a High-Resolution Regional Focal Mechanism Catalog in Myanmar (2016–2021)
Authors: Fadil Wardah , Wei Shengji , Bradley Kyle , Wang Yu , He Yumei , Sandvol Eric , Huang Bor-Shouh , Hubbard Judith , Thant Myo , Htwe Yin Myo Min
Published: January 2023

We derive a new earthquake focal mechanism catalog for 86 Mw>4.0 earthquakes that occurred in the Myanmar region from 2016 to 2021. We apply the generalized Cut-and-Paste inversion method to a new set of regional broadband waveform data to obtain the earthquake focal mechanism and centroid depth with uncertainties estimated in a bootstrapping manner. Compared with global earthquake catalogs, our results are better aligned with mapped, active faults and reveal seismic activity along unmapped, blind faults. Our new catalog shows that the Sagaing Fault is more active in its northern segment with deeper seismogenic zone (∼27 km) compared to its southern segment that has a shallower seismogenic zone (∼10 km), sandwiching a seismic gap in its central segment. Earthquakes that occurred on the unmapped, blind faults beneath the Central Myanmar Basin at shallow depths (3–12 km) suggest a dominating northeast–southwest compressional stress field. Shallow earthquakes beneath the Indo-Myanmar Range (IMR) are rare, instead, north–south-oriented strike-slip faults are active within the deep accretionary wedge or lower crust of the Myanmar plate between depths of 20 and 40 km. At the eastern edge of the IMR, earthquakes with high-angle thrust mechanisms occurred between depths of 30 and 48 km, likely along steep faults separating the accretionary wedge from the Myanmar forearc crust. High-resolution intraslab focal mechanisms show that to the north of 22° N, slab deformation is dominated by strike-slip earthquakes with subvertical fault planes down to a depth of ∼25 km beneath the slab, suggesting lateral shear within the slab due to the northward motion of the Indian plate. To the south, more normal-faulting earthquakes suggest a stronger role of plate-bending processes in the slab deformation.
Decoding the role of loratadine in optimally managing and in alleviating the burden of allergic rhinitis
Authors: Bangale Nikhil , Balasubramanyam A M  , Kolwadkar Nandu , Pereira Carlton , Bihani Jawahar , K R Meghanadh  , Prakash Manish , Mukherjee Monoj , Patel Navin K , Singhal Pawan , Kishore Srinivas , Agarwal Uttam
Published: January 2023

Despite an alarmingly rise in prevalence of allergic rhinitis in the last 2 decades, yet till date it remains underdiagnosed, undertreated, or mistreated in India. The distinguishing features of allergic rhinitis are commonly misinterpreted with the common cold and thus early detection of allergic rhinitis is often delayed in primary care. Poorly controlled allergic rhinitis adversely impairs overall long-term productivity at work or school, quality of life (QoL) and can also trigger underlying comorbidities like asthma. Thus, early diagnosis and timely referral is the need of the hour for more effective management which will reduce the overall burden of allergic rhinitis in India.

As allergic rhinitis needs long-term management, it is also paramount to prescribe highly efficacious, cost-effective treatment with minimal side effects like drowsiness to prevent disruption of patient’s QoL. However, current therapies including intranasal corticosteroids have adverse long-term complications and antihistamines like cetirizine, levocetirizine, and fexofenadine have varying degrees of sedation.

With these concerns, a management algorithm was developed to aid for early diagnosis in primary care which provides cost effective option of right medication for a proper duration of time to optimize overall patient care. After a thorough discussion of key opinion leaders and evidence-based recommendations, it was highlighted that loratadine deserves to be considered as a first-line antihistamine therapy due to its rapid and long-lasting symptom relief, non drowsy, and low complication rate for long-term management of allergic rhinitis.
Supply-side versus Demand-side Innovation Policies in Peru: The Impacts of Public Procurement of Innovation
Authors: Crespi Gustavo , Castillo Rafael
Published: January 2023

This paper exploits new data on the participation of Peruvian firms on public tenders to shed light on the potential for public procurement to encourage innovation. Many industrialized countries have gradually enlarged their innovation policy mix to include demand-side interventions, among them the use of public procurement to stimulate innovation investment at the firm level. Latin America, though, exhibits an unbalanced policy mix with little deployment of policy interventions that tackle the conditions that affect the demand for innovation. Using nonexperimental impact evaluation techniques, this research not only assesses the impacts of participating in public procurement projects on firm-level innovation efforts and outcomes but also compares these impacts with traditional supply-side approaches. The findings suggest that public procurement has a significant impact on innovation outcomes, but the results only hold when public procurement requires the development of new solutions. Regular or noninnovative public procurement does not show any impact on firm-level innovation.
Science fiction as the sphere of interpenetration and mutual influence of scientific and everyday consciousness
Authors: Tverdynin Nikolaj M.
Published: January 2023

The process of creating a science fiction work is considered as a process of interaction of two concepts related to both everyday knowledge and scientific knowledge and being in dialectical interaction. It is shown that in a science fiction work, the share of both scientific and fantastic has a limit. In both cases, when such limit is reached, the work can no longer be related to science fiction. The influence of the modular-block structure of technical knowledge on the process of formation of a science fiction object is considered: a book, a film, a computer game. The works in the style of cyberpunk and steampunk are established to serve as the basis for works in the genres of utopia and dystopia, but the possibilities of each style are different, that is, there is a kind of asymmetry that appears both in the works themselves and in their perception.
Historicism as an aspect of novel thinking
Authors: Zhuravleva О. А.
Published: January 2023

The article deals with the peculiarities of implementing the historicism principle in modern European literature. Intellectual field at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries is characterized by the emergence of the so-called "sense of history", the intensive transformation of the past - present relationship, the formation of a new historical concept, arguing that there is no universal formula for the historical process, progress and the time linear concept, the fundamental historicization of ideas about human, society, culture, the formation of the philosophy of history and historical science. In the romanticism period the idea of development is the central philosophical concept, while openness to changes is considered as an essential feature of both the human personality and the historical process. Based on the idea of the past as autonomous and different from the present, the historicism principle puts forward the requirement to learn the past in its own categories. In this regard, the novel research function is considered, that turns out to be the most appropriate form for experiments in the reconstruction of the life and customs of the historical period. Focused on unfinished reality, the novel portrays the historical period as not closed, but in close relation to the present. Special attention is paid to the mimesis problem in the novel and historiographical genre.
Samara the fantastic
Authors: Kazarina Tatyana V.
Published: January 2023

The article discusses three novels, where events take place in Samara (Kuibyshev). These are "Metro-2033: Bezymyanka [Underground-2033: Bezymyanka] (2010) by Sergey Paliy, "Bezymyanlag" (2016) by Andrey Olekh and "Pischeblock [Food Unit] (2018) by Alexey Ivanov. The work reveals the reasons for this localization of events that is identical for all the authors. In all the three cases, the location plays an important narrative role, which is explained in the article by both the authors' hope to get the Samara readers sympathetic attention, and the need to have specific recognizable details that is characteristic of mass literature, which give force to generally sketchy narration. Urban history facts, geographical marks, well-known loci local mythological narratives associated with them play the role of such details. The Samara portrait is constructed taking into account the tradition of depicting provincial existence as an alternative to metropolitan life, developed in the literature of the XIX century. The province could be idealized as a world of harmony, lost by the city, or ridiculed as a centre of savagery and backwardness. But these novels show Samara, surprisingly combining both the terror of urban life and the salutariness of suburbs. The heroes are tasked to escape to move from urban space to country one, facing unbelievable difficulties. Samara is a convenient locus for genre works: this city is not tagged with the characteristics firmly fixed in the mass consciousness, so anything can happen there. Such Samara absorbs all the worst and all the best that can be told about any city. The sharp polarization of its features enables to create a semantic field where events take place in a very way - that increases the dynamics of the described actions and makes them especially impressive in the readers eyes.
Students’ social psychological monitoring: research empiric methods
Authors: Egorova Svetlana , Avdoshina Natalya V. , Vaskina Yuliya V. , Zorina Svetlana V. , Demina Anna I. , Nesterov Alexander Yu.
Published: January 2023

The article grounds the mechanisms of solving the problem to develop the university students social psychological monitoring system as an education management tool that enables to fulfill the gap of knowledge about the object under control. The research represents the results of the second phase of the Samara university students and prospective students social and psychological monitoring system project. The research first phase formulated the students social and psychological monitoring conceptual framework, revealing readiness to maintain business and research activities as a personality integrative characteristic comprising needs, motivations, values and social attitudes. The present article gives the complex methodology that will be applied in the Samara university students social and psychological monitoring to study their readiness to maintain business and research activities. The methodology comprises social and psychological methods and research techniques, enabling to evaluate extensively the needs, motivations, values, social attitudes and readiness for education activities: 1) Likerts scale; 2) P.M. Lapin and T.V. Razinas adopted motive classifications; 3) M. Rokichs methodology for value orientation study; 4) S. Schwartzs methodology for diagnosing value orientations; 5) questionnaire for examining business and research intentions and attitudes; 6) A.L. Zhuravlev and V.P. Pozdnyakovs modified methodology for diagnosing business motives, Yu.S. Medvedeva and T.V. Ogorodovas methodology for revealing research motivations.The monitoring methodology, resulting from the research, will be realized as a program module in students accounts of the Samara university electronic educational system. The monitoring results will base the recommendations for both students and prospective students when choosing the individual academic path within the competency profile formation, and the university educational, research and business administration authorities.
Quality management of inclusive education at the present stage
Authors: Sorokoumova Elena А. , Cherdymova Elena I. , Cherdymova V. S.
Published: January 2023

At the present stage, the most important socio-psychological resource for improving the inclusive education quality is the extension of personal communication experience of disabled people and people without disabilities. This article analyzes the problems and features of the inclusive education quality in the transforming society culture. The work considers the ways the parents of children with disabilities see the improving of the inclusive education quality. The research distinguishes the following ways to improve the inclusive education quality in accordance with the view of parents of children with disabilities: society public education, that should be unobtrusive, but at the same time form tolerant attitudes; human resources are the key factors for improving the inclusive education quality; the need for teachers to take courses based on a social approach to disability, not on medical terminology; the need to introduce a tutoring system in inclusive classrooms; the need to develop all the measures to create an accessible environment, including the information environment, only after monitoring the educational needs of disabled children. The parents of children with disabilities emphasize the extension of personal communication experience of people with disabilities and without them as the most important socio-psychological resource for improving the inclusive education quality.
Technological factor in the transformation of intergenerational communications
Authors: Sudin Sergey А. , Smirnova G. P.
Published: January 2023

The paper analyzes the dynamics of intergenerational interaction under the influence of modern communicative practices of young people, in turn, conditioned by the development of information technology. Using M. Mead's concept of pre-figurative culture and S. Ward's concept of reverse socialization, the research explains the process of positive activation of intergenerational communication due to growing needs of elder generation for competences of their children and grandchildren that, however, changes the habitual vector of socialization influence. The authors conclude that the dynamics of intergenerational communication under the influence of information technology is ambivalent: the natural increase in value contradictions is compensated by the intensification of interaction in the course of exchanging the experience and competence.
Correcting caddisfly synonymy created by apophantic declaration (Trichoptera)
Authors: Oláh János
Published: January 2023

Malicky (2018) synonymized Tinodes karpathos Oláh, 2015 described from the Karpathos Island, Greece with Tinodes petaludes Malicky, 1974 described from the Rhodes Island. On the basis of re-examination of the T. karpathos holotype and compared it with the newly collected T. petaludes specimens the synonymy of the two species is rejected and Tinodes karpathos is reinstated here as a valid species, stat. restit.!
A Compound Heterozygous HPD Mutation in an Iranian Patient with Hypertyrosinemia Type III
Authors: Sarkargar Fatemeh , Madani Manshadi Seyed Ali , Mehrjardi Ehsan Zare , Khodaei Hosein , Kalantar Seyed Mehdi , Mohamamdi Seyed Ahmad
Published: January 2023

Background and Aims: Hypertyrosinemia type 3 (HT3) is an inherited error in tyrosine metabolism caused by a mutation in the 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPD) gene. Here we report a one and half-year-old girl infant who was diagnosed based on increased serum tyrosine levels and increased urinary excretion of p-hydroxyphenyl derivatives.
Materials and Methods: The proband was one and half-year-old Iranian girl who was diagnosed based on increased serum tyrosine levels and increased urinary excretion of p-hydroxyphenyl derivatives. In this study, we used Whole-Exome Sequencing to identify the genetic reason for the disease and the funded mutation confirmed by Sanger sequencing.
Results and Conclusion: Through whole-exome sequencing screening of heterozygotes c.413C>T (p.T138M) and c.75G.A (p.W25Ter) in the HPD gene and genetically confirmed by Sanger sequencing. There were heterozygous conditions c.413C>T (p.T138M) and c.75G.A (p.W25Ter) in father and mother respectively. This mutation in her parents was also confirmed by Sanger sequencing.
Mutational Screening in Exon 6 of the PSEN2 Gene in Iranian Patients with Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease
Authors: Salari Seyed Ali , Miresmaeili Seyed Mohsen , Mazaheri Naeini Mahta
Published: January 2023

Background and Aims: One of the most important genes involved in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the presenilin2 (PSEN2) gene, which is one of the main constituents of the gamma-secretase complex. Mutations in this gene promote the formation of amyloid plaques resulting in AD. The study aimed to evaluate the mutation variant in exon 6 of the PSEN2 gene in patients with Late-Onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD). Due to the important role of the PSEN2 gene in the formation of beta-amyloid aggregates and the investigation involves an association between PSEN2 mutations and their pathogenicity in LOAD progression, we presented this exon as a more efficient alternative.
Materials and Methods: The thirty patients with LOAD and 16 healthy subjects as a control group were involved in this experimental study. DNA was extracted from blood samples and purified. The desired gene fragment was propagated using polymerase chain reaction and the products were electrophoresed and the results were analyzed.
Result: A novel mutation was found in PSEN2 IVS6 + 30 G → C at the intron region of exon 6 in 20 cases of patients suffering from LOAD and 12 subjects in control cohort. In this mutation a guanine base was substituted by cytosine base which this position was 30 nucleotides separated from coding region.
Conclusions: The novel mutation was identified in both studied groups. These findings reveal no relationship between PSEN2 mutation and pathogenicity of LOAD disease. However, further studies are required to find the role of PSEN2 mutation in LOAD progression.
The effect of echinacea in the prevention of upper respiratory infections in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Authors: Sohrevardi Shamim , Ghodsi boushehri Yasaman , Sheikhpour Elnaz , Nourian Akram , Dehghan Mongabadi Hossein , Hashemi Azam
Published: January 2023

Background: The efficacy of echinacea products to treat upper respiratory tract infections (URTI) has been shown in some studies, however, there are few studies considering the efficacy of echinacea to prevent URTI. Therefore this study aimed to assess the effect of echinacea in the prevention of URTI in these children.
Materiala and Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted on 60 children with ALL in Shahid Sadoughi hospital from September 2020 to September 2021. These Children were divided into two groups (n=30). The case group received immunogen syrup, containing echinacea purpura root extract (200 mg/ml). This syrup was prescribed in the intervention group as 2 ml for children in the age range of 2-8 years and 0.5 ml for children in the age range of 1-2 years old for 3 months. The control group did not receive echinacea syrup. These patients were followed for 3 months regarding URTI.
Results: The frequency of URTI in the case and control groups was 40% and 66.7%, respectively, and a significant difference was noted between the two groups in terms of the frequency of URTI (P<0.05). Moreover, 23.3% of patients who received echinacea developed a second URTI, while 53.3% of patients who did not receive echinacea developed a second URTI (P<0.05). The mean time for the second URTI in the case and the control groups was 42.3±13.93, and 48.3±13.96 days, respectively (P=0.086). Regarding reducing the duration of URTS symptoms, there was no significant difference between the two groups (P>0.05).
Conclusion: According to the results, echinacea can be effective in decreasing the occurrence of URTI in these children. Therefore, regarding the efficacy of echinacea in decreasing URTI, it is recommended to use echinacea in the prevention of URTI.