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REVIEW: Noted: Building bridges for climate change science
Authors: Cass Philip
Published: July 2020

Science Writing and Climate Change, by Crispin C.Maslog, David Robie and Joel Adriano. Manila, Philippines: Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication, 2019. 106 pages. ISBN 9789718502198

DESPITE the omnipresent threat of climate change, journalists still face an uphill battle communicating accurate and timely information to the public and governments, many of whom, sadly, still need to be convinced that the looming catastrophe is real. This book is aimed not just at print journalists and editors, but also teachers educating their students to write about science, trainers and broadcast and online writers.
Solidarity statement by academics attending MMFF
Authors: Media Freedom Forum Melanesia
Published: July 2020

Delegates to the Melanesia Media Freedom Forum express their solidarity with media workers in Melanesia in their struggle for freedom of expression, security, and professional recognition. Delegates note the words of Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum Dame Meg Taylor who told the Asia Lecture at Griffith University, Brisbane, on 11 November 2019:  ‘We live in unprecedented times of change which will test our abilities to respond.’
The Effects of Service Quality Dimensions on Students’ Satisfaction: HEDPERF Model Adoption
Authors: Omar Ali Siti Rapidah , Md Shariff Nor Alesha , Mohd Said Nur Shafini , Mat Khalid Amin
Published: July 2020

Service quality has become one of the greatest imperative factors of students’ satisfaction in higher education industry these days. As the education sector is primarily considered service providing establishment, the service quality aspects are the key to sustainable competitive advantage. This study aims to determine the relationship between service quality aspects namely academic aspects, non- academic aspects and reputation towards students’ satisfaction. The HEDPERF model was used as a research framework. A set of 265 questionnaires were distributed to the undergraduate students in a public university in the East Coast of Malaysia by using stratified random sampling. A total of 260 of the questionnaires were returned equivalent to 95.84%. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistical analysis, Pearson Correlation and Multiple Regression. The findings revealed that all three dimensions of service quality have a positive relationship with the students’ satisfaction. Academic aspect revealed to be the most significant influence towards the students’ satisfaction. Suggestion to the management of higher education also been made particularly in the areas where improvement is required.
Brand Reputation Management And Brand Experience Towards Reputation of Malaysian Polytechnics
Authors: Azham Nur Azreen Azriana , Tg Ahmad Tg Aroal Hawa Delaila
Published: July 2020

In higher education, reputation management is essential to ensure the higher education institutionscontinue relevant and significant in the eye of the shareholders worldwide. There are many efforts toincrease reputation by improving the ranking in the world level. Currently, the brand reputation (BR) ofhigher institution cannot be proud of yet as BR management is critical in growing a business or service.The research aim to identify the relationship between brand culture (BC), brand expression (BE) andbrand experience (BEX) regarding polytechnic BR among polytechnic students of the northern region inMalaysia. In addition, this research also aims to identify which of the variables has the strongestrelationship with BR among polytechnic students. The study employs a quantitative method. 378questionnaires were distributed to polytechnic students of the northern region. The study resulted a significant relationship between BC, BE and BEX in the BR of polytechnic’s students. Based on these results, it is found that BC has the strongest relationship with BR among polytechnic’s students of  the northern region in Malaysia. The findings from this research can be used by next researchers, practitioners, government, university authority as well as academician, as guidance for them to manage well their BR.
Competitive Intelligence Practices and Organizational Performance Linkage: A Review
Authors: Mohd Asri Dian Aszyanti Atirah , Abdul Mohsin Ainul Mohsein
Published: July 2020

Scholars have intensely researched competitive Intelligence or CI for decades. This topic has been under constant investigation and development concerning business strategy in soaring business performance. This paper critically examines and integrates the Competitive Intelligence Practices by different industries and its relationship on organizational performances.  The review employed Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) and utilizes three databases (Science Direct, Scopus, and Proquest) from January 2014 to November 2019. This timeframe and databases were preferred because the articles collected have been through a quality control process and comprehensive source for research performance data and analytics. As many as 666 articles were narrowed down to 20 articles to meet the criteria of this study.  Conclusively, six main themes were identified, which are Organizational awareness, CI process, Social capital, CI Challenges, Competitive advantages and Sustainability based on the thematic analyses. Furthermore, another five sub-themes emerge from these key themes. A deduction is made concerning a relationship between Competitive Intelligence Practices and Organizational performance. This paper also suggests conducting more studies in service industries, especially the hospitality industry because of its economic impact and the changing landscape in today's consumer.
Ensuring the quality and reliability of power equipment components during their production and testing as part of a prototype
Authors: Trukhanov V. M. , Sultanov M. M. , Gorban’ Yu. A. , Kukhtik M. P.
Published: July 2020

The object of study is the power equipment of thermal power plants. When developing new parts and components of power equipment, a problem arises of ensuring the quality and reliability at the stage of their putting into production and in the process of serial production. To solve this problem, the following tasks have been set: to develop ways and methods to ensure the quality and reliability of the development batch of equipment; to determine the scope of running-in tests of components as part of a prototype during serial production; to show the influence of production factors on the quality and reliability of the output product; to determine the nomenclature of production quality parameters and their impact on the manufacturability and reliability of products. The scientific novelty consists in generalization of methods, ways, mathematical models for ensuring the quality and reliability of newly created similar products. The theoretical approaches, which are proposed in the article, can be aimed at creation of state-of-art conditions for manufacturing of parts, structures and components of power equipment with new process and material characteristics in terms of reliability. The practical significance is determined by implementation of the developed methods, ways, mathematical models in the normative and technical documentation of newly created equipment. A procedure is described for holding running-in and acceptance tests. The factors, which affect the quality and reliability of components of power equipment of thermal power plants, are considered. Various groups of parameters for assessment of the quality of output products have been described. Equations are presented for calculation of manufacturability parameters, in particular, for labor-intensity, material consumption, material utilization rate, production prime cost, as well as for standardization and unification parameters. Methods are considered for determination of the product quality parameters.
The use of low-temperature secondary energy resources using heat transformers in non-ferrous metallurgy
Authors: Prishchepova S. A. , Sultanguzin I. A. , Alimgazin A. Sh. , Evseenko I. V. , Fedyukhin A. V. , Bartenev A. I. , Yavorovsky Yu. V.
Published: July 2020

The concepts of developing efficient and reliable schemes for the use of waste heat of low-potential energy resources in heat transformers (HT) are considered. Examples of using HT in several non-ferrous metallurgy plants in Russia and Kazakhstan are given: the production of nickel, zinc and ferroalloys. In the case of nickel production, two schemes are proposed for consideration: for summer and winter modes. The main object of study is a nickel production scheme using a lithium bromide absorption chiller (AbCh). Recycled water is the main source of utilized low-grade waste heat for AbCh. The cold obtained in AbCh is necessary for the technological process. The basic parameters were calculated under various extreme conditions, the energy effect of the modernization of the circuit was estimated, and equipment was selected. Studies have shown the feasibility of introducing AbCh into circuits with a large amount of waste heat. Low-grade heat utilization of nickel production using heat pump unit (HPU) in winter allows to obtain heat energy for heating water from the heating network and raw water for feeding the boiler house of a thermal power plant.

Another example of HT use is a heat pump unit (HPU) in the production of zinc and ferroalloys. HPU is designed to heat feed water before chemical water purification and at the same time “cool down” the circulating water, which is then used on a series of electrolysis, replacing purchased artesian water. In winter, the heat produced at HPU is used for heating, ventilation and hot water supply, which allows to dispense with the services of a third-party thermal power plant.
Models of Conceptual Metaphorization of Word “Udacha” [Luck] in Context of Linguistic Objectification of the Concept in Russian
Authors: Makschantseva Anna L.
Published: July 2020

One of the aspects of the complex linguo-cognitive description of the concept UDACHA (LUCK) and the features of its linguistic representation in Russian speech is presented in the article. Attention is paid to the discourse actualization of models of conceptual metaphorization of the word luck as a basic representative of the concept of the same name. The aim of the research is to analyze cognitive models and conceptual schemes of metaphorical reification and animation of the concept UDACHA, actualized in contexts. The research material was extracted from the Russian National Corpus and collected in the course of the Internet monitoring conducted by the author of the article. The method of research is the procedure of conceptual analysis adopted in the Nizhny Novgorod school of concept research. The question is raised that the rethinking of abstract entities through concrete-sensory representations is generally characteristic of the folk-mythological perception of the world, presented in the “naive” picture of the world, reflected in natural language. It is shown that in metaphorical models of reification, luck is figuratively represented as an inanimate concrete-sensual object, as a point localized in space, as a substance, as a container (receptacle), as a physical environment. It has also been established that in metaphorical models of animation and / or personification, luck is metaphorically represented either in general as a living, actively acting entity, or as a supernatural or human being. It is concluded that in the Russian linguistic consciousness, the cognitive schemes of the linguistic conceptualization of the world are active and stable, which arose at the early stages of the spiritual evolution of the Russian world and have a centuries-old tradition not only in Russian, but also in world culture.
Means of Language Objectification of the German Knight Image in the Artistic Picture of World in Middle Ages
Authors: Obukhova Olga N. , Baykova Olga V.
Published: July 2020

The analysis of historical, culturally motivated ideas about the German knight, which are objectified in the language not only in conventional, unified standards, but primarily in socio-ethnocultural assessments and stereotypes, is presented. The material of the study was German knightly novels: “Tristan” (“Tristan”) by Gottfried of Strasbourg, “Poor Heinrich” (“Der arme Heinrich”) by Hartmann von Aue, “Eneasroman” by Heinrich von Veldeke. Particular attention is paid to the study of indicators of the national specificity of the image of the German knight. It is proved in the work that the actualization of lexical units that serve to represent the image of a knight is largely specific and due to the genre specificity of Western European literature texts of the Middle Ages. It is stated that the knowledge of medieval German culture bearers about the surrounding reality, objectified by the semantics and pragmatics of linguistic and speech units, structures, compositions, united as a whole by the characteristics of the surrounding world are accumulated in the artistic picture of the world in the Middle Ages. It is concluded that the image of a knight embodies the complex of worldview coordinates and values of the knightly estate, which are recorded in a verbal (artistic) text in the form of a specially organized system of knowledge and ideas about the world.
Reflection of “Philosophy of Unreal” in Tragedy of O. Wilde “Duchess of Padua”
Authors: Valova Olga M.
Published: July 2020

The analysis of O. Wilde’s early tragedy “The Duchess of Padua” was made in the light of the “unrealistic philosophy” and the writer’s complex of representations of irrational power. Attention is paid to the reasons for Wilde's appeal to the genre of tragedy, which lies in the desire for popularity, in the aspiration to show the talent of the playwright, and in the implementation of philosophical and aesthetic principles. The novelty of the research results is seen in the fact that the play, deprived of the attention of Russian literary critics, is shown as meaningful and ideologically significant. A review of works studying the traditions of the Renaissance tragedy, including Shakespearean, romantic is performed. The provision on the formation of the principles of the "new" drama, combined in the “Duchess of Padua” with the scale of the philosophical problems of ancient texts, is substantiated. The topics identified in the play by domestic and foreign literary scholars are named. The main elements of the plot in the framework of external and internal conflicts are considered. Particular attention is paid to internal conflict, reflecting Wilde’s philosophical views. Studying the tragedy from the perspective of the “unrealistic philosophy” made it possible to reveal Wilde’s ideas about the pressing issues of the contemporary world. It is proved that the most significant problem for him is the victory of pragmatism, the rational principle over spirituality.
The Plot of Heroic Battle in Buryat Versions of Epic about Geser
Authors: Dampilova Liudmila S. , Khabunova Evdokia E.
Published: July 2020

To establish the genesis and transformation of motives in different versions of the Buryat epic texts about Geser, for the first time in a comparative typological aspect, a plot about a heroic battle is analyzed. The similarities and differences in the motive fund of one plot in different local traditions are determined. From the perspective of the main goal of the study to identify the initial motive fund characteristic of the epic tradition of the Mongol peoples, it is relevant and significant to highlight the variation of motives in the local tradition. The static nature of the event series in the invariant of the motives of the fight and victory in the Ekhirit-Bulagat version shows the presence of one main variant of the motive for the fight with the enemy: the traditional fight. The use of variants of the motive of traditional types of wrestling and archery and new variants of the motive: battle and group battles, fighting with the “force of the point”, that is, with a dagger, a spear is revealed in the article. A comparative typological analysis of the motive fund in one plot in different versions establishes the preservation and transformation of the epic text, a feature of the regional variants of the national epic. The revealed discrepancies in the development of the plot about the heroic battle and the composition of the motivational fund show different stages in the addition of two versions of the heroic epic.
Features of Fixing the Folklore of Peoples of Yakutia (1930-1970): the Method of Selecting Informants according to G. U. Ergis
Authors: Charina Olga I. , Larionova Anna S. , Petrova Valentina A.
Published: July 2020

Methods and approaches in the selection of informants for fixing folklore works of Russians, Evens, Yakuts, who have inhabited the North-East of Yakutia since ancient times, are considered. The authors dwell on such issues as ways of finding informants; clarification of the status (narrator, singer and performer); concretization of the performer’s personality and his repertoire. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that at the present stage, methods of selecting informants are being studied; the approaches to the selection of performers of song folklore, used by M.N.Zhirkov, are specified; the change in the status of the storytellers of Russian folklore is traced; the main features of the performance of the Even epic by the narrators are analyzed. The relevance of the research is due to the fact that the history of the study of the epic and song heritage of personalities-performers of the song-prose epic of the Russians Ustye, Evens and Yakuts by the staff of the Institute of Language and Culture is examined. Methods and approaches of M. N. Zhirkov in the selection of performers, as well as their repertoire to be fixed, are revealed. The importance of summarizing the already achieved results and setting new tasks in collecting and fixing folklore and musical material in the context of the extinction of folklore tradition and a reduction in the number of experts of traditional culture is affirmed.
Crisis in Ukraine 2014-2016 Reporting in the British Press
Authors: Geht Anton B. , Patrusheva Daria A. , Reznikov Bogdan K. , Shutman Denis V.
Published: July 2020

This work is devoted to studying the issue of how the events of the political crisis of 2014-2016 in Ukraine were reflected in the UK media. The main features of the British print media are highlighted, the characteristic features of the British newspaper and journalistic discourse are revealed. The study was conducted on the basis of journalistic texts of 2014-2016. The appearance and transformation of the prevailing in the UK opinions about the Ukrainian crisis and its assessments in the press are shown. It raises the issue of coverage by the British media of a referendum on the entry of Crimea into the Russian Federation, the armed confrontation in the South-East of Ukraine and the conclusion of the Minsk agreements. The authors infer that over the course of two years there has been a noticeable change in the tone and rhetoric of newspaper publications in British press: if in 2014 the judgments of the journalists were mostly pronounced negative, then over time the estimates became more balanced and restrained. It is noted that by the end of 2015 there was a noticeable decline in interest from large British print media to cover the Ukrainian conflict, which was manifested in a noticeable reduction in publications affecting this topic.
The Law of Russian Empire on Jews as a Nationalist Text
Authors: Golikov Leonid M.
Published: July 2020

The results of the study of the Law of the Russian Empire on Jews are presented. It is stated that these documents form a hybrid discursive community of texts, combining the directivity of the law and the persuasiveness of the nationalist text. The relevance of the work is due to the fact that the study of the normative texts of the legislation of the Russian Empire (XVIII, XIX centuries) allows not only to reveal the patterns of development of the language of law, but also to supplement information about the linguistic and pragmatic characteristics of speech genres. The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that examples of the mutual influence of legislative and socio-political discourses are considered. From the layer of legislative acts regulating the legal relations of Jews, the author singles out the nationalist law on Jews, which distinguishes the focus on forcing the addressee to causate the situation of protecting Christianity from the hostile influence of the Jews, on overcoming the situation of non-use (harm), where the agents are Jews. This circumstance ensures the presence of a motivational part in the structural-content scheme, which justifies the usefulness of legislative regulation by the negative nature of the image of Jews as an ethnic and religious community, the expression of contrasting prescriptions that are discriminatory towards Jews and preferential against the opposing Jews to national and religious groups. The author, analyzing the use of the nomination jude , highlights the general non-invective nature of the nationalist law on Jews.
Aron Aleksandrovich Solts - Fate of Revolutionary and Soviet Statesman (1873-1945)
Authors: Ratkovsky Ilya S.
Published: July 2020

A detailed biography of a prominent Russian revolutionary, statesman of the USSR A. A. Solts (1873-1945) is laid down for the first time in the article. It is reported that before the revolution he was known for his publication work, the publication of a whole series of revolutionary issues. It is noted that it was during this period that his circle of communication was formed, which included such famous revolutionary figures as F. E. Dzerzhinsky, brothers M. I. and B. I. Goldman, I. V. Stalin and many others. The article clarifies his date of birth, in details and accurately covers the circumstances of his education at Vilna Gymnasium and at St. Petersburg University. The content of his pre-revolutionary activity, including his relationship during this period with I. V. Stalin, is revealed. The author draws attention to the fact that after the revolution, Solts continues to work in the central Bolshevik publications, and later becomes one of the leaders of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspectorate. Based on archival data, his activities in this body of Soviet power, the role of the inspectorate in the formation of the USSR, as well as in the formation of punitive and repressive organs of Soviet power is described in the article. His attempts to uphold the principles of socialist legality are described. His confrontation with Y. Vyshinsky is shown.
Time and Space of Memories of Factory Workers in Construction of Collective Identity of First Uralmash Builders
Authors: Gramatchikova Natalia B. , Enina Lidia V.
Published: July 2020

The article is the result of a long-term study of autobiographies and memoirs from the Fund of the First Builders of Uralmash, collected in 1967-1984 and dedicated to the construction of the plant (1926-1934). The question of the role of spatial and temporal markers in the construction of the collective identity of factory workers is considered. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between strong discursive practices and the “weak positions” of the official discourse, which allow authors to independently write their personal history into the history of the plant. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that the Foundation's documents are viewed not as a factual source, but as a way of creating collective and personal identity of factory workers in the process of forming the concept of the FIRST BUILDER and as a body of texts, which reflects the practice of constructing the “Soviet”. It is emphasized that a special perception of space (the plant and the social city of Uralmash) and the placement of oneself in a certain historical era (with the opposition “then-now”) unite most of the Foundation's texts, among the authors of which are workers of the plant of different specialties and social status. It is proved that the texts have a common chronotope associated with the axiological picture of the world and with the practice of social communication through the text.
La distancia, ¿importa? (I): el grado de cumplimiento normativo de la legislación sobre las distancias entre casas de apuestas y centros educativos
Authors: Ortiz García Jordi
Published: July 2020

La alarma social provocada por el auge del juego y las apuestas entre menores, la publicidad de casas de apuestas y la proliferación de estos locales en nuestras ciudades y pueblos ha obligado a las diferentes instituciones españolas a reaccionar, de manera más o menos meditada, mediante la elaboración de normas que regulen -más- el sector del juego. Entre sus objetivos identificamos la minimización de posibles efectos psicológicos y socio-económicos del juego, frenar la participación de la población más vulnerable, regular la publicidad o limitar la apertura de nuevos locales en función de la distancia entre éstos, los centros educativos y otros locales. Una de las primeras Instituciones en tomar medidas ha sido la Junta de Extremadura, a través del Decreto- Ley 1/2019, de 5 de febrero, que regula la distancia mínima obligatoria entre los establecimientos de juego a los centros educativos y la distancia mínima obligatoria entre los propios establecimientos de juego. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el grado de cumplimiento de estas medidas en Extremadura, con especial atención a la ciudad de Cáceres.
Evaluation of return on the use of fixed assets
Authors: Chernenko A.F. , Maslova T.N.
Published: July 2020

Subject. The article substantiates and develops a new method for assessing the economic performance of fixed assets.
Objectives. The aim is to develop a method for assessing the return on the use of fixed assets enabling to correctly assess the balance between resources invested in fixed assets and the conditional return on resources generated by these assets.
Methods. The study relies on methods of analysis, synthesis, comparison, abstraction, specification, and generalization.
Results. We reviewed the existing methods for assessing the return on the use of fixed assets, underpinned a new method, enabling to reveal an adequate ratio of invested and repaid resources spent on fixed assets. The paper offers a new way to assess the return on fixed assets utilization, which meets the management objectives that are achieved through economic analysis. The offered method provides reliable information about the real ratio of investments in fixed assets and the result from their utilization.
Conclusions. The new methodological solution helps calculate the return on fixed assets utilization. It has certain advantages, like comparability of factors used and correlation of investments in a particular type of resource and results from its use.
Human capital as the main force of progress in science and technology
Authors: Filin S.A. , Yakushev A.Zh. , Lanchakov A.B.
Published: July 2020

Subject. The article addresses the impact of human capital on scientific and technological progress.
Objectives. The paper identifies and substantiates trends shaped by scientific and technological revolutions, which change technologies and energy sources prevailing in the cycle that interact with human capital; proposes recommendations on improving the Russian system of governance and creating conditions for a scientific and technological breakthrough.
Methods. The study employs logical research methods based on the system-creative approach and the methodology for technological cycles. The key method is the systems analysis.
Results. We analyze the human capital concept from a historical perspective and at the present stage. The paper proves that the increasing threats and complexity in the world are to a large extent associated with the development of artificial intelligence; innovation and scientific activity rest on creative work of individuals and their teams with synergistic effect. We offer and rationalize the concept of the synergistic cycle model and the formalization of efficient use of human capital for enterprises active in innovation.
Conclusions. The proposed approach will improve the prediction of the management system development, which is needed to move to higher synergistic cycles.
Conceptual framework for corporate competitiveness of engineering companies of the nuclear industry
Authors: Leont'ev N.Ya. , Plekhanova A.F. , Ivanov A.A. , Ivanova N.D.
Published: July 2020

Subject. The article addresses the conceptual framework for competitiveness at the company level and development of original proposals for its perfection. Objectives. The study aims to improve the concept of corporate competitiveness in accordance with current trends in economics and management and the specifics of nuclear engineering companies. Methods. We employed general scientific research methods, classification and graphic visualization techniques. Results. The paper systematizes scholarly works on corporate competitiveness, formulates disadvantages of existing developments and ways to eliminate them, taking into account industry characteristics and specifics of engineering. We developed our own provisions of the concept of competitiveness of engineering companies operating in the nuclear industry, considering the external conditions, sector-specific issues, and promising trends in the management, economics, and business. We also introduced new concepts, including the notion of the agent of competitiveness, offered their classification to develop and analyze competitiveness. Conclusions. The specifics of engineering activities, threats and challenges to the nuclear industry, trends in the society, business and environment lead to the need to develop the foundations of the concept of competitiveness. The satisfaction of mainly market needs and the emphasis on the priority of economic indicators as criteria for assessing competitiveness limit the scope and functionality of traditional concepts, requiring their improvement.
A mechanism to improve the allocation of public investment funds
Authors: Larionov A.V.
Published: July 2020

Subject. This article deals with the issue of improving the public investment allocative efficiency. Objectives. The article aims to develop an approach to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of public investment in the economy. Methods. The study is based on a panel data regression with random effects. Conclusions and Relevance. All sectors of the economy have different demand for investment resources attracted, determined by operational and technological aspects. The results of the study can be used to develop an effective system of public investment.
Studying the factors of regional insurance market development using the correlation and regression analysis
Authors: Prokop'eva E.L.
Published: July 2020

Subject. The article investigates and quantifies factors of insurance markets functioning in Russian regions, and reveals possibilities to manage them.
Objectives. The purpose of the study is to substantiate regional factors that determine the specifics of regional insurance market development; to quantify them to increase the efficiency of regional insurance.
Methods. The study draws on statistical methods, functional analysis, algorithm development, correlation and regression analysis.
Results. I calculated coefficients of pair and multiple correlation with the indicators of insurance markets in the context of the subjects of the Russian Federation, and composed regression equations. Based on the analysis, I determined the algorithm for inverse effect of the insurance market on the economic, social, fiscal and environmental performance of the region, offered appropriate measures aimed at developing the economic potential of the region and its social sphere.
Conclusions. The paper considers the case of the Republic of Khakassia, one of depressed subjects in the Siberian Federal District. The developed models can be used for other regions of Russia, given the geographical and economic features of development. The findings may help generate regional strategies for socio-economic development at the country level. The scientific contribution and the novelty of the work consist of systematizing and quantifying the factors affecting the insurance mechanisms of regional markets, and assessing the inverse effect of insurance mechanisms on integrated development of the region.
Establishing a risk management system with comprehensive assessment of events
Authors: Cherkashin S.A. , Cherkashina V.S.
Published: July 2020

Subject. The availability and adequacy of the risk management system of any company is taken into account by government regulation, rating agencies, auditors, and company owners and shareholders. Therefore, companies make arrangements for risk management in some form or other. However, the assessment of event risk and creation of a transparent and effective event assessment system raise many questions.
Objectives. We focus on solving the problem of attaining an objective assessment of event risk for company's units, creating an effective risk management system for companies operating in a rapidly changing environment.
Methods. The methodology of the study draws on the use of parallel work of departments on assessing event risk and adopting measures to mitigate it.
Results. We offer a solution for creating an effective system for event risk assessment. The system also deals with events that simultaneously affect different departments.
Conclusions. Organization of simultaneous work of units on assessment of events, their classification as event risk, and taking measures to minimize the impact on company's activities will reduce the time for the analysis of events and increase the objectivity of event risk assessment.
Cyber Security Master's degrees in the United Kingdom: a comparative analysis
Authors: Urbanovics Anna , Sasvari Peter
Published: July 2020

In today’s digitized world, where most of our activities are related to online platforms, the information security has become more essential than ever. Most countries have launched national strategies for the implementation of cyber security. In these, the education and training of information security professionals get particular roles. The National Cyber Security Centre created a common framework for cyber security education in the United Kingdom for the universities offering degrees in information security. The aim of this paper is to examine and compare the British cyber security degrees. The first chapter examines and compares the British universities and degrees from a theoretical aspect, including the necessity of these programs. The second chapter examines the degrees from several aspects based on the data of the Scopus database, with a special focus on the thematic modules, and the academic activities of the 1,650 examined university instructors.
Building an effective information security awareness program
Authors: Legárd Ildikó
Published: July 2020

Many researchers and experts in the field of information security agree that the user is the weakest link in an organization’s chain of information security. Even if the system’s and the stored data’s physical and logical protection is well developed, the human factor exposes security to significant risk. The effective protection against the threats is to provide security awareness through implementing a well-developed and successful Information Security Awareness Program.
Although organizations are able to recognize the importance of information security awareness, the implementation of the awareness programs can be difficult. The aim of this study is to help organizations to develop an effective Information Security Awareness Program tailored to the characteristics of the organization. The paper presents how we can build a program that influences and improves the user’s knowledge, attitude and behavior the most towards information security and makes positive changes in the security culture of an organization. To achieve that goal, the study identifies the key elements of the implementation, compares traditional awareness programs with modern trainings and highlights the importance of communication channels and methods. There is no single solution to improve information security, the essay summarizes and shows the most effective techniques that experts can use in order to seize the user’s attention toward information security, to establish credibility and trust, and to motivate action.
Impacts of computerization and digitization: some health issues
Authors: Berényi László , Sasvári Péter László
Published: July 2020

Computerization and digitization are effects and the engines of development at the same time. Computers surround both work activities and beyond. There are several benefits available, including the faster, easier, and cheaper way of managing our tasks. However, there are undesirable health impacts to consider, but these are less pronounced. Exploring these impacts and preventing the occurrence is essential for improving the efficiency of computerization.
The study focuses on the effects of computer work by analyzing its exhausting characteristics and the tiredness or pain in different body parts. The research method uses a survey of full-time and parttime higher education students. The sample consists of 200 randomly selected responses collected between 2018 and 2019. It allows analyzing the differences of perceptions between respondents with and without job experience. Beyond descriptive statistics, ANOVA and correlation analysis was conducted for exploring the relations. Data analysis was supported by IBM SPSS version 25.
The results show that the perceived undesirable health impacts are timeless and ageless. Eye-related problems, as well as back and shoulder, are considered the most critical by the respondents. The main implication of the study is that more attention must be paid to the field, appearing in regulations and developing training programs for computer users. The results presented in this paper aim to highlight the importance of the prevention of harmful symptoms of computer work, which are not in the mainstream right now.
Social impact of e-Government in urban marketing
Authors: Cevallos Stefany
Published: July 2020

The New Technologies of the Information and Communication (ICT) bet by a new model of city in function of the new social needs and the construction of an image for their own countries and the international arena. This research questions and describe the social impact of eGovernment in the construction of the cities to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Public management plays a fundamental role in the development of different programs in the field of the digitalization of services to generate viable solutions to improve the quality of life of its inhabitants. Urban marketing and the ICT are a fundamental support for these. Citizens, businesses, governments and employees are a policy priority because cities are key factors for the new industrial scenario to converge all segments of society for ICT deployment and use. In addition, the paper presents the progress on e-government service development to understand that social impacts on social groups within a community in advance of the decision making process such as quality of housing, local services, living environment, cultural and political inclination, transportation condition, etc.
System dynamics modelling of public ICT platforms
Authors: Somogyi Róbert , Radnó Norbert , Nemeslaki András
Published: July 2020

The objective of this paper is to show how system dynamics modelling can be applied to simulate the behavior of information communication technology based platforms to formulate and validate strategies or development policies of these platforms in the public sector. Typical platforms in the domain of public sector for instance are mobile apps connecting the sides of users and developers, or horizontal or vertical government portals connecting different authorities on one side and users or corporations on the other side. We show in our contribution how system dynamics provides new insights for modelling two-sided markets in general and public ICT platforms in particular. Conclusions and results of our work are mainly theoretical: as an initial step we extended the classic microeconomic equilibrium models mainly concerned with how to determine pricing of the opposing sides into more general parameters of platform quality, externalities and causality analysis of different variables. Based on these theoretical models we suggest simple inference to policy making and some pragmatic decisions in connections with public ICT platforms.
eInvoicing: the influence of the EU on the expansion of electronic administrative services
Authors: Posselt Katja
Published: July 2020

The digital transformation poses major challenges for local authorities. In order to keep pace with modern development, various basic administrative procedures need to be digitized. The status of digitization in German municipalities demonstrates that they are reaching their limits. As administrative units are to be considered as an interface between society and state, the following paper will focus on this topic.
This paper reflects on the necessary expansion of eGovernment services in local authorities against a European background, with the aim of bringing together the European and municipal levels. The European Union (EU) has set itself the goal of contributing to the modernisation of digital public services and serving as a catalyst through various programs. This paper discusses to what extent the EU achieves its stated goal and whether its actions generate added value in local authorities by using eInvoicing as an example. With the Directive 2014/55/EU the EU set a standard, henceforth all European public administrations must be able to accept invoices in electronic format from their suppliers. The paper aims to demonstrate the significance of the above stated directive, with a specific focus on local authorities.
Thinking German IT consolidation to the end - An approach to user training in the context of IT consolidation
Authors: Hilgers Carolin
Published: July 2020

The consolidation and centralization of the IT landscape and software is meant to gain synergy effects and cost savings. Uniform processes and IT procedures within a corporate group or administrative department prevent redundant data storage, ensure uniform data maintenance and facilitate the evaluation of this data, assist cooperation and increase transparency.
In literature, various success factors are discussed in this context. These studies all focus on the changeover process, but not on the subsequent productive operations of the IT procedures. Accordingly, the published concepts of IT consolidation in Germany, for example, contain exactly this and end at the rollout of the various projects.
But, a structured user training is essential for the long term conservation of the advantages of uniform IT procedures mentioned above. Therefore, a consolidation of the IT procedures requires also a consolidation and structuring of the associated trainings. This paper discusses the necessity of structured and continuous training programs in the context of IT consolidation. It arranges the basic characteristics of those programs und derives the requirements for systems and trainings environments to operate them.
Clustering of textual inputs in large eParticipation projects
Authors: Prosser Alexander , Velikanov Cyril
Published: July 2020

eParticipation projects often comprise deliberation among participants, where proposals are collected, discussed and rated to be processed in further stages of the eParticipation. In the case of large-scale audiences, this initial stage involves mass-online deliberation (MOD), which has to cope with a potentially very large number of proposals advanced by the participants. To enable clustering, MOD rely on human- (i.e. participant)-based appraisals of proposals given in the course of the participation project. Based on these appraisals, this contribution then proposes a clustering algorithm that makes use of the whole set of the above individual ratings. (Dis-)approval ratings are first weighted by the indication of clarity, that is, the higher the clarity rating assigned by a person, the higher the weight with which the (dis)approval rating will enter the clustering.
Systematic review on process mining and security
Authors: Kelemen Robert
Published: July 2020

Security is an important issue that every organisation should address. One approach to secure systems could be the use of process mining techniques. Process mining is an emerging discipline which can extract knowledge from event logs that are available in information systems. In the security context, process mining is used to analyse security trails to detect anomalies in process execution. While some of the data mining projects are already implemented in banking, insurance and telecom sector the interesting question is: What is happening in public sector? This paper investigates the research on process mining techniques in security domain and tries to discover the examples of its implementation especially in public sector.
The systematic review has been conducted in order to give an overview of state-of-the-art process mining techniques used in security context, to classify the main areas of development, algorithms, tools and to identify possible future research course.
Discussion on information society building issues platform - Study case "discus" project, Moldova
Authors: Cosuleanu Ion , Stefanita Anastasia
Published: July 2020

The DISCUSsion on Information Society Building Issues Platform (established within a project supported by the International Visegrad Fund in 2015) represents an excellent opportunity for relevant stakeholders from Moldova to approach the information society aspects, from the European model perspective and experience of V4 countries in the field. The platform allowed the communication among different actors involved in the information society development process and facilitated an effective experience exchange between Visegrad countries and Moldova. DISCUS is focused especially on local public authorities from Moldova that lag behind compared to the central level, in terms of electronic public services. Ranges of events were organized in Chisinau in order to bring together both local and central levels, plus other relevant sectors and with participation of V4 experts. Important aspects and good practices of e-government (at local level) were presented by V4 experts, development partners, government, central authorities and academia representatives. The Research Studies that followed each project event emphasize the achieved results, including relevant conclusions and recommendations, as well as research on issues that emerged during the discussions.
The article briefly presents the project impact with an accent on situational analysis, lessons learnt, good practices applicable for Moldova and the next steps.