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Incrementando la flexibilidad del diseño del compensador de filtro comb mediante optimización de enjambre de partículas
Authors: Salguero Luna Sergio Alberto , Jovanovic Dolecek Gordana
Published: March 2021

El filtro comb es el filtro de decimación más simple que tiene todos los coeficientes iguales a la unidad, y en consecuencia, no requiere
multiplicadores. Sin embargo, el filtro comb tiene una caída en la banda de paso que podría deteriorar la señal decimada y debería ser compensada por el filtro denominado compensador de filtro comb. Este artículo presenta el diseño del compensador de filtro comb de banda ancha sin multiplicadores con la respuesta en magnitud sintetizada de dos funciones sinusoidales. Las amplitudes de las funciones sinusoidales determinan el desempeño del compensador. Primero, se aplica la Optimización de Enjambre de Partículas (PSO, por sus iniciales en inglés) para obtener los valores óptimos de las amplitudes de las funciones sinusoidales variando el número de filtros comb conectados en cascada K, de uno a seis. Los valores obtenidos son prácticamente independientes del factor de decimación M, para M > 10. Los valores óptimos obtenidos dan como resultado un mínimo del máximo valor absoluto de la desviación en la banda de paso del filtro comb compensado. Después, las amplitudes de las funciones sinusoidales se representan como suma de potencias de dos, variando el número de sumas de 0 a 6, lo que resulta en un número total de sumadores del compensador que varía de 9 a 15. Los valores absolutos resultantes de la máxima desviación en la banda de paso se aproximan a los obtenidos mediante PSO, para el número máximo de sumadores de 15. Las comparaciones con los métodos de la literatura muestran el beneficio del método propuesto.
Las tecnologías visuales en movimiento
Authors: Dupré Sven
Published: March 2021

En su estudio fundacional, Las técnicas del observador (1990), Jonathan Crary postula que una historia de la visión o de la percepción “depende mucho más que de una simple enumeración de cambios o desplazamientos de las prácticas representacionales […]. La visión y sus efectos son siempre inseparables de las posibilidades de un sujeto observador, que es a la vez un producto histórico y el lugar de ciertas prácticas, técnicas, instituciones, y procedimientos de subjetivación”. Así, en las décadas de 1810 y 1820, Crary sitúa una ruptura del régimen escópico entre un modelo de visión geométrico y un modelo fisiológico. Este artículo defiende que un abordaje metodológico enfocado en la materialidad de las tecnologías visuales revela que en la modernidad temprana (es decir, antes del siglo XIX) la observación dependía de un involucramiento y un entrecruzamiento corpóreo, más que de una división estricta entre sujeto y objeto. La palabra clave en tal aproxi-mación es movilidad, que actúa sobre tres niveles: 1) la movilidad y la animación de las imágenes; 2) la materialidad móvil de los instrumentos, y 3) la movilidad en términos de la portabilidad de las tecnologías visuales a lo largo de diferentes sitios y continentes.
Los artistas del Códice Laud: el enigma de su origen
Authors: Álvarez Icaza Longoria María Isabel
Published: March 2021

Este artículo es una síntesis de una investigación más amplia dedicada al Códice Laud que centra su atención en el problema de su procedencia e, indirectamente, en el del Grupo Borgia. Se presentan las cualidades estilísticas de este manuscrito pictográfico, incluidos sus materiales y técnica pictórica; se analizan los argumentos esgrimidos con anterioridad por otros investigadores sobre el enigma de su origen, y se muestran las comparaciones estilísticas e iconográficas entre el Laud y otras obras de arte —pintura mural, cerámica pintada, relieves y escultura—, de seis diferentes regiones de Mesoamérica. Por medio del análisis iconográfico se reconoce al Códice Laud como un documento pictográfico prehispánico náhuatl y se propone la región de Tehuacán como su lugar de origen.
Nuevas noticias sobre Alfonso de Pinos, un ensamblador oaxaqueño de la primera mitad del siglo XVIII
Authors: Zárate Edén
Published: March 2021

El texto aborda la vida de un carpintero oaxaqueño de la primera mitad del siglo XVIII llamado Alfonso de Pinos. A partir de nuevas noticias documentales, se reconstruye parte de su genealogía y se muestra cómo se entrelaza con la de Tomás de Sigüenza, uno de los doradores y ensambladores de Oaxaca más importantes de finales del siglo XVII y primeras décadas del  XVIII. Se propone que el vínculo familiar entre ambos permitió el aprendizaje del oficio y las recomendaciones para laborar en algunos templos en dicha ciudad, pero sobre todo en la Catedral de Oaxaca.
Career Strategies in the Context of Personal and Professional Development of Management Personnel
Authors: Tatarinova Lyudmila N. , Maslennikova Elena V.
Published: March 2021

The article deals with the issues of personal and professional development of the management personnel reserve. The authors focus on the problems of staffing the public administration system, primarily the public civil service, emphasize that one of the key issues that directly affect the quality of public administration and the effectiveness of the public civil service is the personal and professional development of management personnel, effective leadership. Based on the analysis of the results of sociological research and statistical data, key problem areas in staffing and the implementation of personnel policy in the civil service, the possibility of implementing personnel strategies are determined. Noting the role of the managerial personnel reserve, the directions for improving the work with the personnel reserve in the context of a personality-oriented approach are substantiated, trends in changes in career expectations and the possibility of taking them into account in the formation of developmental activities are noted.
Employees’ Post-service Plans and Options in Nigeria
Authors: Okolie Ugo Chuks
Published: March 2021

One of the greatest challenges that faced typical employees throughout their working life is life after retirement. Despite government roles at providing social security, retirement epoch has been a tension provoking and overwhelming phenomenon in Nigeria and other emerging economies of Africa, Asia and Latin America. A close observation of many retirees in Nigeria society and the problems they are facing draw the attention of all and sundry. These problems seem to range from sudden death, dwindling status, lack of occupation, loss of the usual monthly salary, decreased strength and deteriorated health condition, physical disabilities, aging and anxiety about a residential home. In Nigeria, the regular non-payment of pensions and gratuities benefits has brought untold hardship and sudden death to many retirees, thereby making retirement something that is dreaded by workers. This problem is further compounded to lack of planning and management of post-service epoch and conditions. It is against this backdrop that this paper seeks to identify and discusses strategies available for managing post-service condition in Nigeria. The paper calls on Nigerian workers to embrace one of the options to remain moderately productive and healthy after retirement. The paper suggests, among others, that both employers and government should undertake regular pre-retirement training for their workers in order to save the country the embarrassment of seeing their retirees going to early graves or turning into destitute on the streets.
U.S. Migration Policy Radicalization (2017-2019): Case of Mexico and Central America
Authors: Eremin Arkadiy Alekseevich
Published: March 2021

This article is an attempt to critically analyze the policy of the 45th President of the United States Donald Trump regarding the southern border of the USA with Mexico. The paper analyzes the approach of Washington under the administration of D. Trump to the problem of the joint border between USA and Mexico, as well as conducts a comprehensive assessment of the main programs underlying the most pressing changes in D. Trumps policy in this area. In particular, the paper focuses on the structure of migration flows between 2017 and 2019, as well as on the reasons behind those changes. The author looks at the root causes of the unprecedented increase in the flow of potential migrants and refugees, and correlates them with the ongoing political, economic and humanitarian crises in the Central American sub-region. An important focus is given to the increasing role of Mexico in the settlement of this issue, as well as to the potential impact of such cooperation between the authorities of the United States and Mexico on the situation in Central America and Latin America in general. The significance of this paper is determined by the objective necessity of academic evaluation of the Donald Trumps administration impact on the United States governmental and foreign policy course. The author argues that the approach of the 45th president of the United States regarding traditionally sensitive issues like US - Mexico border control and migration has been mostly based on coercive tactics with obvious disregard towards social basis and root-causes of the issue at hand. One of the most distinguished traits of this approach is the practice of outsourcing managing the problem of refugees from Central America to the border-country, which in this specific case is Mexico.
Venezuelan Aspect of “Emerging Partnership” between Turkey and Latin America: Factors, Dynamics and Risks
Authors: Piatakov Andrei Nikolaevich
Published: March 2021

The article provides an analysis of Turkish-Venezuelan relations amid Turkey-Latin American ties enhancing. In 2015-2019, this way of intercontinental cooperation has reached a peak. This was reflected in the intensification of trade and economic relations, as well as in the strengthening of diplomatic ties. The author analyzes the causes and international factors of the ongoing rapprochement. The analysis is carried out by tracking the trajectory of the changes in Turkey's foreign policy from the perspective of its gradual departure from the pro-Western course. The main emphasis is placed on the evolution and current stage of the Turkish-Venezuelan relations. After periods of recession and boom by 2016 relations between Venezuela and Turkey had come into a turning point. In recent years, their bilateral partnership has been markedly distinguished on the background of Ankaras relations with other states of the region. Venezuela has a record frequency of interstate official visits and a high degree of mutual understanding with the Turkish leadership on fundamental issues. The author carried out a comparative analysis of the two states political and historical special characteristics. The author comes to the conclusion that the format of Turkish-Venezuelan partnership is built on the basis of responding to common to the two states current external challenges. Both states are under sanctions pressure, although with a varying degrees of severity; both economies are experiencing crisis moments. These factors contribute to the development of economic interaction between the states on a mutually beneficial basis. For Venezuela, its economic cooperation with Turkey is a significant factor mitigating the negative effects of the permanent economic crisis. The supply of Turkish foodstuffs helps to reduce a food shortage, while Ankara's purchases of Venezuelan gold contribute to the replenishment of the Venezuelan budget with currency assets. We can talk about the existing geostrategic partnership, which has, if not long-term, then medium-term potential.
Book review: Mamdani, M. (2020). Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities. Cambridge: The Belknap Press, 416 р.
Authors: Morgunova (Petrunko) Oksana Alekseevna
Published: March 2021

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Book review: Adiong, N.M., Mauriello, R., & Abdelkader, D. (Eds.). (2019). Islam in International Relations. Politics and Paradigms. London, New York: Routledge, 236 p.
Authors: Chikrizova Olga Sergeevna
Published: March 2021

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Eurasian Concept: Central Asia in Russian and Chinese Foreign Policy
Authors: Zabella Anastasiya Aleksandrovna , Katkova Evgeniya Yur’yevna , Shabaga Andrey Vladimirovich
Published: March 2021

This article focuses on the reasons for both increasing attention to Eurasian ideology among political and scientific circles in Russia and the Chinese interest in Central Asia. Given a realistic paradigm, the authors analyzed aspects of Russian and Chinese foreign policy in the context of strengthening their influence in the region. Based on traditional values the ideology of Eurasianism is considered as a basis of Russias foreign policy in Central Asia. The authors paid attention to an analysis of the effectiveness of the Russian concept of Eurasianism and the Chinese initiative the Belt and Road Initiative, reminiscent of the Silk Road, in Central Asia. The paper covers theoretical-analytical and systemic-historical methods that offered an opportunity both to analyze the approaches of Russia and China to strengthen their influence in Central Asia and to examine the possibilities and contradictions of cooperation between Russia and China in Central Asia. The authors consider an interface among the EAEU and the Belt and Road Initiative as an opportunity to increase the efficiency of Russian-Chinese interaction, to create significant benefits to the countries in the Central Asia, and to expand the Russian and Chinese presence in the region. The authors pointed out the strengths and weaknesses of Russia and China in their interaction with the countries of Central Asia. Although Russia enjoys significant advantages, China is strengthening its presence in the region by its investments. The main hypothesis of this article is that the interface among the EAEU and the Belt and Road Initiative initiatives may curb competition between Russia and China in Central Asia, but the authors do not rule out the Shanghai scenario, which demonstrates a gradual strengthening of Chinas position.
Philosophy of Music in the Image of the World: From Antiquity to the Modern Time
Authors: Kolomiets Galina G.
Published: March 2021

The article presents philosophical views on music in the context of the transformations of the worldview from Antiquity to the Modern Time. In this research author also mentions the contemporary issues, and uses her own philosophical concept of the music, which can be described as following: the value of music as a substance and the way of the valuable interaction of a person with the world affirm the essence of musical being, in which the invariable principle of Harmony, the principle of Chaos-Form movement, is preserved (see "The Value of the Music: Philosophical Aspect"). Music expresses the fluid essence of the world and changes of being in space and time. Philosophy of music as a field of philosophical knowledge considers music from ontological-epistemological and phenomenological-axiological prospectives, as something more than just a form of art. It explores the deep, ultimate foundations of the existence of music as such and the philosophical and aesthetic foundations of musical art. Since ancient times music has been a representation of the world in the human conscience and served as the harmonic equivalent of cosmological philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, and astrophysics (Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Aristoxenus, Porphyry et als.). The scientific view on music was enriched in the Modern Time by the expanded view on the cosmo-sound space reflected in musical art, which at the same time transforms the mathematical ideas of geometricity, squareness etc. The tendency to create integral world music in the musical practice of the XX-XXI centuries explains the attempt of mankind to present music by modern methods of composing musical art as an expression of fear towards the secret Harmony of universal existence, and, on the other hand - as a form of search for salvation and mental balance, intuitively reflecting what is happening in natural science, which more and more points to the abyss of unknowable universe, and the unstable place of man in the world.
Russian Idea" of F.M. Dostoevsky: from Soilness to Universality
Authors: Nizhnikov Sergei A.
Published: March 2021

The author reveals Fyodor Dostoevsky's works main features, his importance for Russian and world philosophy. The researcher analyzes the concept of "Russian Idea" introduced by Dostoyevsky, which became a study subject in Russian philosophy's subsequent history. The polemics that arose regarding the characteristics of Dostoevsky's soilness ( Pochvennichestvo ) ideology and his interpretation of the Russian Idea in his Pushkin Speech and subsequent comments in A Writer's Diary are unveiled. The author concludes that Dostoevsky overcomes the limitations of soilness and comes to universalism. The universal for him does not have a rootless cosmopolitan character but is born from the national's heyday. Diversity adorns the truth, and national diversity enamels humankind. People's real unity is in that all-human value that is found in the highest examples of each national culture. The truth is not in rootless cosmopolitanism or nationalism - it is in the "golden mean," which, in our opinion, the writer-philosopher sought to express. Dostoevsky wanted to rise above the dispute, to recognize the points of view of the Slavophiles and Westernizers as one-sided, to get out of any particularity to universality.
Transcendental Turn in Contemporary Philosophy-5: The Transcendental Method and Modern Science
Authors: Katrechko Sergey L. , Shiyan Anna A. , Evstigneev Maxim D.
Published: March 2021

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The Idea of the Church as the Best Social Structure: F.M. Dostoevsky and V.S. Soloviev
Authors: Besschetnova Elena V.
Published: March 2021

The article presents the reconstruction of the views of F.M. Dostoevsky and Vl.S. Solovyov on the nature of relations between church and state. A line of mutual influence of thinkers in the context of the perception of Christian truth is drawn. It is shown that Dostoevsky was impressed by a series of lectures by Solovyov's "Readings on God-manhood" and adopted from them the idea of the possibility of religious and moral improvement not only of an individual, but of society as a whole. The article shows that not without the Solovyov's influence Dostoevsky arrives at the Slavophil idea of sobornost and the impossibility of salvation outside of church communion, while speaking of the Church as an ecclesia, that is, an assembly of believers. The author of the article shows that the sophistic and mystical moments in the novel "The Brothers Karamazov" appear under direct influence on Dostoevsky's "Readings on God-manhood" and a joint trip of thinkers to the Optina Pustyn monastery. It is also noted that in the novel "The Brothers Karamazov" the idea was expressed about the gradual growth of the state into the truth of the Church. Solovyov continued this line within the framework of his project of free theocracy in the 1880s, developing the thought of F.M. Dostoevsky - about the Church as the best social order. At the same time, the article shows the principled position of both thinkers on opposing the ideal of socialism and the idea of the Christian community, within which the term "Russian socialism", formulated in the "Diary of a writer". The author shows that Solovyov in his work "Three speeches in memory of Dostoevsky" was the first to explain the term "Russian socialism" precisely through the concept of the Christian community.
Food security in the GCC: specific characteristics and solutions
Authors: Kodzhakova Zarema R.
Published: March 2021

Food security is an issue of critical importance for GCC countries. The share of domestic agricultural production remains low, because water supplies and arable land are an extremely scarce resource in the region. These countries currently import most of what they consume and will continue to do so, since national food production is not a viable option. The study reveals the specific characteristics of the food problem of GCC countries and the ways to solve it, which can be used to ensure more optimal food imports. Special attention is paid to investment projects in the food sector of the GCC countries.
Gas industry - a factor of international competitiveness
Authors: Lavrov Sergey N. , Simonov Alexander G.
Published: March 2021

This is the first article of a series, devoted to a comprehensive problem of economic and geopolitical rivalry of the leading global powers in energy sector. It is dedicated to a number of topical issues of world economy and Russian economic environment. A systematic analysis of long-term world energy economy development trends is performed. For this purpose, a cause-and-effect relationship between international supply chains and energy procurement, on one hand, and revolutionary changes of international economic relations, caused by USA - China and Russia - USA, EU sanctions exchange, on the other, is derived. It is concluded that a developed gas industry is to play a decisive role in insuring global energy leadership of the major global powers on a mid- and long-term basis. A scenario analysis of further European gas market developments is provided. The external effects of developing gas industry are contemplated for Russian economic environment. In this framework most efficient options of action by Russian state are observed.
From the corporate culture of national university to the global university: the case of the RUDN University
Authors: Glagoleva Anna V. , Zemskaya Yuliya N. , Kuznetsova Evgeniya A.
Published: March 2021

The relevance of the research is associated with the increasing competition in the global educational market, where Russian universities enter and pretend to the status of a global university due to the Project 5-100. Today an academic institution needs to form a brand in the actual international infosphere. This process based on many factors, one of which is the corporate culture (CC) of the university, and the study is concerned with the exploration of its features. The main characteristics of the concept of global university and the description of the features of the CC of the university are given. The results of the study of CC of the RUDN University, that were received in 2019 through a survey of teachers, staff and students of the university, are presented. In conclusion, the recommendations on how to transform the CC of a university so that it allows to form its brand in the global educational space are formulated. These recommendations will be useful to any university that works in Russia or enters the global education market.
Analysis of the living conditions of the city of Sevastopol
Authors: Starostina Veronika V. , Garmashova Elena P.
Published: March 2021

The housing and communal conditions of the city of Sevastopol are examining. The purpose is to determine the level of development of the housing and communal services of the city based on the study of housing conditions and the regulatory framework in this area. In particular, the analysis showed that there are positive trends in this industry, such as an increase in the total housing stock, major repairs in most of the apartment buildings, a decline in the proportion of emergency housing and an increase in the improvement of housing stock with water and gas pipelines, and heating. There is also a positive trend in the actual and planned indicators, which reflect the level of development of the housing and communal services of the city of Sevastopol. It was revealed that a fairly large number of the population needs to be provided with residential premises, but, on average, only 2% of the population of the city receive it annually.
BRICS Network University potential as an educational platform for innovative cooperation
Authors: Chernikov Sergey Y.
Published: March 2021

The prospects for increasing the share of training and coverage of educational cooperation in the field of innovation in the BRICS Network University - one of the most important modern forms of cooperation in the field of education at the international level - are studied. The concepts of network structure and network university are considered. The effects of network interaction and the principles of functioning of network universities are revealed, and an overview of the approach to classifying network structures by the target feature of formation is given. The purpose is to search for opportunities to set up an innovative orientation of the BRICS Network University educational process as the general innovative cooperation stimulation platform of the participating countries. For this purpose, the experience of participation of Russian universities in other network universities (CIS and SCO) was explored, and possible formats of cooperation between innovation teams and interested students in the BRICS countries were proposed to stimulate both traditional mobility of students, teachers and employees, and general innovation exchange through the BRICS Network University.
Innovation and productivity: the case of Nordic countries
Authors: Balashova Svetlana A. , Abramova Anastasia A.
Published: March 2021

Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden form a group of the Nordic countries, considered welfare states and the global leaders in innovative development. The link between the growth rate of total factor productivity and innovative development, controlling such factors as trade openness and prices volatility in commodity markets, is examined. The econometric analysis results show that the relationship between the level of innovative development and the rate of productivity growth is more robust for the Nordic countries than for the EU countries on average. Features of the national innovation systems and financing of RD in the Nordic countries and factors contributing to the impact of innovation activity on productivity are highlighted.
Methodological tools for managing intellectual resources: overcoming limited resource potential
Authors: Digilina Olga B. , Lebedeva Daria V.
Published: March 2021

Intellectual resources, in the form of human (labor) and information resources are increasingly important in an economic environment wherein firms limited resource potential impedes innovation. Their assessment, analysis, accounting and distribution are necessary for the effective implementation of innovation activities. However, Russias regions differ in the number of staff engaged in research and development and firm innovativeness. Furthermore, geography can present barriers to innovation that undermine firm competitiveness, which ultimately aggravates the socio-economic development of Russia. This problem can be solved by transforming the methodological tools used in the regional development strategy. Whilst each region is distinctive, the authors propose a methodology for assessing the minimum acceptable levels of available intellectual resources necessary for the implementation of an innovative project. This methodology considers activity at different project stages and can be scaled to any economic level and innovative project. The proposed method evaluates the minimum optimal distribution of intellectual resources necessary for the successful implementation of innovative activities, which are considered necessary for transforming the Russian economy and building resource potential. This methodology also allows to assess the sufficiency of available intellectual resources, create a system of metrics for their accounting and replenishment, and utilize intellectual resources across multiple innovative projects simultaneously.
Human rights and modern biomedicine: problems and perspectives
Authors: Romanovskiy Georgy B. , Romanovskaya Olga V.
Published: March 2021

The article is devoted to the emerging threats to human rights in the context of the development of biomedical technologies, as well as to the identification of social risks requiring legal resolution in this area. It suggests a human rights model for regulating innovative methods of diagnosis and treatment. The purpose of the article is to analyze legislation in the field of modern biomedicine, genetic engineering, and related innovative technologies. A comparative legal study applied in the work made it possible to substantiate a framework model for regulating modern biomedicine. The main task of such a model is to identify risks affecting fundamental human and civil rights and freedoms. With this approach, the details of regulation are the subject of bylaws or the corresponding prescriptions of professional medical organizations. Methods . The basis of this research was formed by such research methods as analysis of legal regulation, formal legal and comparative legal methods. The main results of the study are to determine the legal links between modern biomedical technologies and the concept of personalized medicine. In fact, the lack of interaction of new advances in biomedicine with the basic provisions of medical care has been revealed. The article proves the need to impose restrictions on the alleged popularization of innovative technologies by persons without medical education, using them for dubious social purposes. The risks of developing updated eugenics have been outlined. The tendency of relativism in consolidating the principles of mutual relations between a person, state, and society has been identified. Conclusions. The development of biomedicine requires an adequate response from the Russian legislation, which does not yet take into account most of its achievements. This creates certain risks for human and civil rights and freedoms. The article substantiates the introduction of bans on the most ethically questionable technologies and experiments. It is proposed to expand the powers of professional medical organizations (including the transfer of some of the regulatory powers to them).
Preimplantation and prenatal genetic diagnostics in Russian Federation: ethical and legal issues
Authors: Lapaeva Valentina V.
Published: March 2021

The topicality of the article is due to the strategy of transition to personalized medicine in Russia, based, among other things, on technologies of preimplantation and prenatal genetic diagnostics. The purpose of the article is to analyze the main directions of ethical and legal support for the development of these technologies. The work is based on the study of relevant international regulations, foreign and Russian legislation using the methods of legal-dogmatic and philosophical-legal analysis. The article substantiates the need for a clearer distinction between legal and moral-religious approaches to regulating relations in applying these technologies. The task is to find legal structures that can take into account the moral aspects of the problem without replacing legal regulation with an appeal to moral and religious values and norms. An example of this approach is the development of a legal regime for manipulations with embryo in vitro, in which the necessary legal protection of the embryo is provided by recognizing its special ontological status as a constitutional value of the common good. From these positions, the author identifies a range of issues that should form the organizational and legal context necessary to ensure adequate guarantees of human rights in the field of application of the considered genetic technologies. The legal regulation of this range of issues should be fixed in a special federal law on genetic testing.
Legal regime: the concept and features
Authors: Belyaeva Galina S.
Published: March 2021

The purpose of the study is to conduct a general theoretical analysis of scientific approaches to the definition of the concept and essence of the legal regime in order to overcome its narrow industrial understanding and identify the role and significance in the process of legal regulation. General scientific and private scientific methods of knowledge including formal legal and comparative legal methods have been chosen as research methods of this paper. Logical techniques allowing to reveal the essence of legal regimes and formulate the author's definition of them have also been applied. The analysis of scientific works expressing various opinions indicates that at present an instrumental approach to the definition of the concept and essence of the legal regime prevails directly (or indirectly through the procedure of legal regulation) as a set of legal means (instruments). The following are mentioned as signs of the legal regime: mandatory normative legal consolidation (formal legal nature), specific target, special regulatory order based on a combination of legal means and methods of legal regulation, in relation to subjects of law, i.e., in a subjective sense, creating of favorable (or unfavorable) conditions to achieve certain interests, systemic and integrated character of a regime and its special structure. As a result, the author's definition of the legal regime is presented as a special procedure for the legal regulation of public relations, based on a certain combination of legal means and methods of legal regulation (permits, prohibitions, and positive obligations) aimed at achieving the relevant legal goals and planned optimal socially significant result.
To the anniversary of RUDN Professor Vadim Makhov: Post-release of the International scientific and practical conference
Authors: Vasilenko Alexandra S.
Published: March 2021

On November 19, 2020, the annual International Research and Practice Conference Ignatov Readings took place. It was dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the outstanding scientist - Vadim Nikolayevich Makhov - an Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Legal Sciencies, Full Professor, whose life and scientific work have been inextricably intertwined with the RUDN University for more than a quarter of a century. The article is dedicated to Vadim Nikolaevich Makhov - a practitioner with the richest experience, an outstanding scientist, and a talented teacher!
Implicit vs explicit evaluation: How English-speaking Twitter users discuss migration problems
Authors: Gabrielova Elena V. , Maksimenko Olga I.
Published: March 2021

The current research answers the question how Twitter users express their evaluation of topical social problems (explicitly or implicitly) and what linguistic means they use, being restricted by the allowed length of the message. The article explores how Twitter users communicate with each other and exchange ideas on social issues of great importance, express their feelings using a number of linguistic means, while being limited by a fixed number of characters, and form solidarity, being geographically distant from each other. The research is focused on the linguistic tools employed by Twitter users in order to express their personal attitude. The subject chosen for study was the migration processes in Europe and the USA. The aim of the current investigation is to determine the correlation between the attitudes of English-speaking users towards migration and the way they are expressed implicitly or explicitly. The authors make an attempt to define which tools contribute to the implicit or explicit nature of the utterances. The material includes 100 tweets of English-speaking users collected from February 1 to July 31, 2017. The choice of the time period is defined by significant events in Trumps migration policy and their consequences. The research is based on the content analysis of the material carried out by means of the Atlas.ti program. The software performs the coding of textual units, counts the frequency of codes and their correlation. The results of the research show that Twitter users tend to express their critical attitudes towards migration, rather than approve of it or sympathise with migrants. Criticism is more often expressed implicitly rather than explicitly. In order to disguise the attitude and feelings, the English-speaking users of Twitter employed irony, questions and quotations, while the explicit expression of attitudes was done by means of imperative structures. It is also worth mentioning that ellipses, contractions and abbreviations were used quite frequently due to the word limit of tweets. At the same time, the lack of knowledge about extralinguistic factors and personal characteristics of users makes the process of interpretation of tweets rather challenging. The findings of the current research suggest the necessity to take into account implicit negative attitudes while carrying out the analysis of public opinion on Twitter.
Translating deictic motion verbs among Bulgarian, Croatian, and Serbian: A corpus-based study
Authors: Nedelcheva Svetlana , Šarić Ljiljana
Published: March 2021

This article deals with translating South Slavic deictic verbs. Specifically, we consider translations among Bulgarian, Croatian, and Serbian. Deictic verbs are verbs whose interpretation is dependent on the location of speech-act participants (Fillmore 1997), such as come and go. In research on Slavic, certain motion verbs prefixes have been discussed as deictic prefixes (see Grenoble 1991, Filipović 2009, Łozińska 2018). Particular emphasis in this analysis is on the prefixed motion verbs dojda/doći, idvam/dolaziti, otida/otići, and otivam/odlaziti found in Bulgarian, Croatian, and Serbian literary texts and their translations. We present a brief quantitative overview and conduct a qualitative study of deixis-related meanings, paying necessary attention to other non-deictic meanings. Special attention is given to the constructional interplay of various deictic elements that co-occur with deictic verbs. Since we deal with literary texts and not everyday interaction, we consider the genre and context and apply the notion of viewpoint, which also covers the mental viewpoint adopted by the narrator, in addition to the deictic viewpoint of one of the speech participants. In the study, we observed shifts in point-of-view from deictic to non-deictic construal and vice versa, and from dynamic to static construal. These phenomena relate to the fact that in a text with a third person narrator, there is no innate deictic centre, while in casual conversation, the interlocutors create the deictic centre. The results show a preference for using come when motion towards a protagonist is described in a neutral context.
CHOREOGRAPHIC NATURE. A DISTANCED LOOK TOWARDS MOVEMENT (DANCE MOVIE 'NON-BREAKING SPACE' (2021) | ESSAY)
Authors: Greta Pundzaite
Published: March 2021

NON-BREAKING SPACE is a dance movie revealing the vulnerability of creation process to its context when questioning the nature of movement and looking at choreography through a zoomed-out lens. Thirteen minutes lasting continuous floating in sound, colour, shape and time starts with an impulse of a meandering line through drawing and of a floating thought through text imposing the interconnectedness and shared choreographic characteristics. The movie continues with moving mass, however, maintaining a distanced look towards movement.
Material Words for Voicing Dancers (Appendix VII)
Authors: Robert Vesty
Published: March 2021

This is the seventh appendix to my doctoral thesis: Material Words for Voicing Dancers. The thesis stems from practice-led research that has investigated the role of voicing (both linguistic and non-linguistic sound) in improvisatory dance-based performance practices. My research is rooted in the pedagogies of three independent practitioners — Ruth Zaporah (US), Julyen Hamilton (UK/ES) and Billie Hanne (BE) — which took place intermittently between 2012 and 2017 in Spain, Belgium and the UK. Reference is made to pedagogical processes and Instant Composition performance practice, as well as the my own artistic performance experiments and outcomes, to draw out the figure of a voicing dancer. The analysis considers: 1) how a dancer might ‘access’ feeling for voicing, taking a somatically-oriented approach that also utilises my experience as a practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method; 2) how voicing can be ‘arranged’ in a compositional environment with objects; 3) how voicing is amplified for performance in an enlivened acoustic space drawing on theatre aurality. Working through these stages (‘accessing’, ‘arranging’ and ‘amplifying’) aims to discern and differentiate the way voicing and dancing can be considered a potentially unified but situated act, as well as offer an analytical model for researching such practices. I argue that to describe such practice in terms of ‘embodied voice’ is limited and I use Tim Ingold’s relational ontology, and particularly his notion of ‘ensoundedness’, as a foundation for expanding the terms of engagement. I suggest that ‘voicing-and-listening’ can more fully account for how voicing(s) are produced by dancers in a studio and performance environment. Reference is made to my own artistic performance experiments and outcomes that have attempted to extend the research. The performance documents that stem from this are housed in this digital appendix.
Application of a Flood Risk Assessment Model Combining Analytic Hierarchy Process Modified by Trapezoidal Fuzzy Number and Variable Fuzzy Set Theory: A Case Study in Zhejiang Province, China.
Authors: Wu Xu , Shen Xiaojing , Li Jianshe , Yang Meijian
Published: March 2021

Abstract: The scientific evaluation of regional flood risk is
particularly important for flood management. Past studies build a
hierarchy evaluation index system with two factors and ten sub-factors
to assess flood hazard risk, each factor contains five sub-factors. The
weights of the sub-factors in their respective evaluation systems are
(0.065, 0.129, 0.210, 0.215, 0.378) and (0.399, 0.152, 0.155, 0.180,
0.109) respectively, from expert scoring results optimized by Analytic
Hierarchy Process (AHP) modified by Trapezoidal Fuzzy Number (TFN).
Variable Fuzzy Set Theory (VFST) is adopted to calculate the risk values
of the two factors, the weighted average of two factors risk values is
used as flood disaster risk value. Based on above steps, a flood
disaster evaluation model is established and applied to evaluate
regional flood risks in Zhejiang Province. Extremely low risk, low risk,
moderate risk, high risk, extremely high risk areas are 51017 km2,10090
km2,10112 km2,13428 km2 and 19153 km2, respectively occupy with 49.15%,
9.72%, 9.74%, 12.94%, and 18.45% of study region. TFN-modified AHP
calculates the weights of sub-factors, considering the subjective
cognition of experts and the objective response of factors, which makes
the results more representative and scientific. Application of VFST
decreases the randomness and uncertainty of flood risk assessment, which
improves the stability of evaluation process and reliability of
evaluation results. Meanwhile, 30×30m basic evaluation unit adopted in
this study accurately and objectively represent the spatial distribution
of flood hazard in Zhejiang Province, China. The evaluation results of
the model are validated to be consistent with the actual situation of
flood disaster.
Predictive Ecology: a Re-imagined Foundation and Toolkit for Ecological Models
Authors: McIntrie Eliot , Chubaty Alex , Cumming Steve , Andison David , Barros Ceres , Boisvenue Céline , Hache Samuel , Luo Yong , Micheletti Tatiane , Stewart Frances
Published: March 2021

Prediction from models and data in Ecology has a long history and can be
made from many types of statistical, simulation, and other classes of
models. To date, our ability to use the predictive approach as a tool
for developing, validating, updating, integrating and applying models
across scientific disciplines and to influence management decisions,
policies and the public has been hampered by disparate perspectives on
prediction and inadequate tools. We present a coherent perspective that
follows a Predictive Ecology approach based on 5 principles: Reusable,
Freely available and Interoperable models, built around a Continuous
workflow, which are Tested automatically (PERFICT). We describe the
SpaDES toolkit that helps implement these principles. We outline some
benefits for society of working with these principles, including 1)
speeding up scientific advances; 2) data science advances; and 3)
improving science-policy integration.
The Death Anxiety Level of Nurses During The COVID-19 Pandemic And Its Effect On The Fear Level Of Their Children Aged 6-10 Years
Authors: Yiğit Deniz , ACIKGOZ AYFER
Published: March 2021

Introduction: Nurses provide long-term care to patients diagnosed or
suspected of COVID-19 during the epidemic. This situation may cause
nurses to experience more fear and death anxiety and increase the fear
levels of their children. This study was conducted to determine the
effect of death anxiety levels of nurses on the fear level of their
children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This descriptive and
cross-sectional study was carried out online with 362 nurses. Data were
collected using an introductory information form, the Death Anxiety
Scale, and the Children’s Fear Scale. Results: It was found that the
death anxiety levels of nurses and fear levels of their children were
high. It was determined that the children of nurses who had high death
anxiety had higher fear levels. Conclusions: The findings emphasize the
importance of screening nurses’ death anxiety and children’s fear levels
during the pandemic period and providing psychological support when
necessary. Keywords: COVID-19, Pandemic, Nurse, Child.
Karl Popper 120th anniversary; Some reflections on the decision-making process in medicine
Authors: Krasin Elisha
Published: March 2021

Rereading Popper’s “The Logic of scientific discovery”, at his 120th
anniversary, brings some thoughts regarding the diagnostic process and
decision making in medicine from the viewpoint of the classical
scientific method. In recent years physicians are increasingly becoming
technical experts who base their decision-making on uniform criteria,
guidelines and classifications but unfortunately have moved away from
understanding the basic concepts in the philosophy of science. This
raises an ethically and philosophically important issue; what does a
medical diagnosis mean? Is this an absolute or a relative truth? The
implications of this question are enormous in terms of prognosis and
treatment. Both patients and physicians should be educated about the
nature of the diagnostic process.
A Case Report of Toxic Leukoencephalopathy induced by metronidazole in a woman with suture infection
Authors: Dana Hoorvash Faraji , Arani Lida Shojaei , Faraji Ali , Bahmani Kiumars
Published: March 2021

Metronidazole may rarely cause encephalopathy and neuropathy. In this
study we report a 30-year-old post-partum, ex-addicted female with
leukoencephalopathy due to metronidazole.
Anniversary
Authors: Editorial Article
Published: March 2021

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