bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
La personalidad de Leonardo Polo
Authors: Sellés Juan-Fernando
Published: March 2020

En este trabajo se expone la personalidad de Leonardo Polo de acuerdo con 234 testimonios más el propio del autor, y se expone en tres ámbitos: el familiar, el del plano de la amistad y el laboral o profesional.
Man and the natural world
Authors: Hołub Grzegorz
Published: March 2020

The paper takes up Paul W. Taylor’s theses (beliefs) concerning the relations between human beings and the environment. First thesis sets forth that humans are members of the Earth community of life; second, humans are interrelated with other species; third, all organisms are teleological centers of life tending to fulfill their inner good; fourth, humans are equal with other living creatures. These theses are analyzed in-depth and critically assessed. Most controversial is the last belief. It implies that all living creatures have the same value and should be treated equally. The paper shows that these assertions are not viable. More realistic is the idea that natural living creatures differ as far as their values are concerned. Hence, in the paper is undertaken an attempt to figure out a method of disclosing these axiological differences, starting from a personalist model describing mutual relations between anthropology and ethics.
Adversarial Attacks on Crowdsourcing Quality Control
Authors: Checco Alessandro , Bates Jo , Demartini Gianluca
Published: March 2020

Crowdsourcing is a popular methodology to collect manual labels at scale. Such labels are often used to train AI models and, thus, quality control is a key aspect in the process. One of the most popular quality assurance mechanisms in paid micro-task crowdsourcing is based on gold questions: the use of a small set of tasks of which the requester knows the correct answer and, thus, is able to directly assess crowd work quality. In this paper, we show that such mechanism is prone to an attack carried out by a group of colluding crowd workers that is easy to implement and deploy: the inherent size limit of the gold set can be exploited by building an inferential system to detect which parts of the job are more likely to be gold questions. The described attack is robust to various forms of randomisation and programmatic generation of gold questions. We present the architecture of the proposed system, composed of a browser plug-in and an external server used to share information, and briefly introduce its potential evolution to a decentralised implementation. We implement and experimentally validate the gold detection system, using real-world data from a popular crowdsourcing platform.  Our experimental results show that crowdworkers using the proposed system spend more time on signalled gold questions but do not neglect the others thus achieving an increased overall work quality. Finally, we discuss the economic and sociological implications of this kind of attack.
HumidOSH: A Self-Contained Environmental Chamber with Controls for Relative Humidity and Fan Speed v1
Authors: Kiat Lau Soon , Subbiah Jeyamkondan
Published: March 2020

Relative humidity is a measure of water availability in air that can affect physical, biological, and chemical changes in biological samples through modification of water activity and is also known to be important in the fabrication of sensitive electronic devices. The HumidOSH is a free, open source, and self-contained system for creating a controlled relative humidity environment within the range of 3 to 97 % with a 0.2 % tolerance. Each HumidOSH unit also comes with a fan with adjustable fan rotational speed to improve moisture uniformity inside the chamber. The system includes many additional features such as glove ports for manipulating samples, a sample door for transferring objects in and out of the system, ceiling lights for illuminating the work area inside the chamber, and two-point calibration for the relative humidity sensor. While relative humidity and fan rotational speed readings are displayed in real-time on the built-in user-friendly interface, the readings can also be recorded through a USB connection to a laptop or computer and the optional computer program. The design files, source code, and build instructions of the HumidOSH can be accessed at https://dx.doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/WCKHM.
Single Nuclei RNA Sequencing of Tendon Tissue - small tissue biopsies v1
Authors: Cribbs Adam , Y Mimpen Jolet
Published: March 2020

This protocol is used the the Tendon Seed Network to extract nuclei from small tissue biopsies of Tendon tissue. For larger pieces opf tissue we use the GentleMACS protocol. This protocol is an iteration of various nuclei extraction protocols (Martelotto, Humphreys, Macosko) developed specifically for tendon single-cell RNA-seq experiments, using drop-seq based techniques. The protocol can be used to isolate nuclei from both small (less than 3mmx3mm) pieces of tissue. The protocol has an optional (but recommended) FACS based isolation step if the sample contains lots of debris that can make nuclei counting difficult and sample blockages in the microfluidics more likely. However, this leads to significantly increased loss of nuclei so you may not have enough to perform your single-nuclei experiments at the end of the protocol. The protocol used has been developed iteratively using healthy snap-frozen hamstring tendon but should be amenable for any tendon. The protocol is used routinely within the tendon seed network for single nuclei experiments using drop-seq methods.
WOUND UP MALAYSIAN COMPANIES' PATTERN EXPLORATION USING DATA MINING METHODS
Authors: Zainudin Suhaila
Published: March 2020

A company is wound up when the company is unable to pay financial debts or is experiencing serious financial distress. From the year 1998 until 2003, an average of 1166 companies were wound up yearly. This research focuses on the knowledge exploration of wound up companies in Malaysia using association rules mining techniques (quantitative) and the involvement of domain expert in knowledge evaluation (qualitative). Association Rules Mining technique is used to mine the implicit patterns of wound up companies by analyzing relationships between attributes such as total asset, total liability and profit and loss. The human expert functions to verify the significant relation between attributes and the mined patterns. This research succeeded to mine 2 quantitative criteria and 9 qualitative criteria related to wound up companies. The criteria combination can be utilized for evaluating the risk of wound up Malaysian companies in the future.
Theoretical study of non-linear heat conduction in multi-layer medium with phase transformation in the layers
Authors: Mizonov V.Е. , Mitrofanov A.V. , Basova E.V. , Shuina E.A.
Published: March 2020

The heat conduction is an important part of heat transfer processes in power engineering, civil engineering, chemical technologies, etc. Variety of researches is devoted to theoretical and experimental study of the heat transfer by the heat conduction. At present, the main attention is concentrated on the non-linear heat conduction when the material properties change with the temperature variation, and the outside conditions change with time. One of the reasons of non-linearity appearance is the phase transformation in the material due to its melting, or drying. The problems of modeling of such processes are also set up and solved in many works. However, the overwhelming majority of such works is related to single-layer materials but not to multi-layer once. Modeling of the heat conduction in a multi-layer medium with phase transformation in its separate layers requires additional investigation, which is the objective of the present paper. In order to solve the problem, the method of mathematical modeling is used. The model uses the mathematical tools of the theory of Markov chains. It is adapted to the case of multi-layer medium, the phase transformation can occur in separate parts of which. The heat transfer by heat conduction and heat processes during the phase transformation are described by the classical equations of heat balance. The numerical experiments were used to investigate the influence of parameters on the process behavior. A mathematical model that allows describing transient heat processes in a multi-layer medium with the possibility of phase transformation in its separate layers is developed. The results of heat process calculation for heating up the three-layer wall with the low-melt intermediate layer surrounded by high-melting layers are presented. The obtained results are consistent physically and validate workability of the model. The developed model of non-linear heat conduction in multi-layer medium with phase transformation in its layers can be successfully used to calculate various physicochemical processes in the layers: drying, freezing and defrosting, pyrolysis, and others.
Analysis of Approaches to the Assessment of Psychological Well-Being of Students
Authors: Umnyashova I.B.
Published: March 2020

The psychological well-being is an essential condition of development and socialization of students. There are several approaches to understandIng and assessing psychological well-being of children and teenagers. The psychological well-being of school schoolchildren is considered by researchers as subjective feeling satisfaction of life or as a condition of psychological health. Multiple-factor models of psychological well-being (M. Yagoda, K. Riff, Yu.V. Bessonova, A.M. Prikhozhan) indicate the connection of psychological well-being with physiological and socio-psychological characteristics of the personality, which are the basis for self-realization of a person. To develop a program of psychological and pedagogical support aimed at strengthening the psychological wellbeing of schoolchildren, it is relevant to assess the emotional sphere (anxiety, depression, etc.), the cognitive sphere (optimism, reflective abilities), as well as the diagnosis of the characteristics of the social situation of development and the environment child, especially the family development situation and psychological safety of the educational organization.
Проблемы формирования медиакультуры студентов России
Authors: Ткачев Георгий Андреевич
Published: March 2020

Информационные и медиа-технологии становятся неизбежной частью жизни у людей, профессия которых вынуждает работать в медиа-среде, но, помимо этого, она становится элементом досуга у людей различных социальных групп. В связи с этим растет необходимость компетентности при работе с современными информационными технологиями для обеспечения безопасности личных данных.

Текст доклада автора на XV Международной научной конференции «Высшее образование для XXI века. Роль гуманитарного образования в контексте технологических и социокультурных изменений», которая прошла 14–16 ноября 2019 года в Московском гуманитарном университете.
Organizational Culture and Job Satisfaction in Bank: Perceptions and Reactions of Employees
Authors: Hakim Md. Abdul
Published: March 2020

This study examines employees’ perceptions and reactions regarding the organizational culture for their job satisfaction where the five variables or organizational culture are selected as working conditions, compensations, respect from co-workers, relationships with supervisors and opportunity for advancement. The key purpose of this study effort was to investigate how organizational culture can affect job satisfaction of the employees in response their perceptions and reactions towards the organizational culture factors. This study operationally defined culture in terms of working conditions, compensations and benefits, respect from co-workers, relationships with supervisors and opportunity for advancement. To this research, both primary and secondary data are used where the statistical population included the employees of bank organizations in Bangladesh. Almost primary based, the data were collected through the distribution of a standardized questionnaire among 500 employees through convenience sampling. This study revealed that Respects from the co-workers as the components of organizational variable has the most domination in framing Job Satisfaction in respect of the employees perceptions  of the bankers where working conditions has the least among five explanatory variables. The statistical result of this paper also found that the selected organizational culture related variables have the direct effect over the level of job satisfaction to either increase or decrease. The results of this study supported the reliability measures of the organizational culture questionnaire over the populations, regardless of the reality that the sample size for this study was inadequate. A further suggestion for future research would be to establish whether improving measurement and response mechanisms in the jobs of social workers would positively influence job satisfaction and perception of organizational culture by employees in this job category.
Job Satisfaction of the Employees of the General Insurance Companies in Bangladesh
Authors: Uddin Mohammad Jashim , Chowdhury Md. Masud , Yasmin Masuma , Akter Aklima
Published: March 2020

This study investigates the employees’ job satisfaction of general insurance companies in Bangladesh. A questionnaire was utilized to collect primary data from both public and private general insurance companies. The first part of the questionnaire comprises of the demographic profile of the respondents and the last part indicates the key measuring variables on a Likert scale ranging from 5 (strongly agree) to 1 (strongly disagree) of job satisfaction. The total number of respondents for this study was 385. 74.80 percent of the total respondents have taken from the private general insurance companies, and the remaining percentage from the public general insurance company. 70 percent of the total respondents were male respondents, and 30 percent of the total respondents were female respondents. Factor analysis and correlation matrix have been conducted to analyze the collected data. This study postulates that employees of general insurance companies have positive as well as negative feelings. Three factors reflect positive feelings toward their jobs. These factors are pay and promotional potential, the well-organized chain of command and general working condition. On the other hand, two factors are responsible for negative feelings. These factors are poor team spirit and poor job security. This paper also advocates some recommendations to maximize the positive feelings and to minimize the negative. The proper higher authority should ensure participating decision method to take any decision, the fair delegation, and direct relationship with sub-ordinates to enhance the team spirit for minimizing the dissatisfaction of the employees and should ensure the job security of the employees to get their best effort to achieve the organizational goal.
Customer Perception on Bank Service Quality: A Comparative Study between Conventional Commercial Banks and Islamic Commercial Banks in Bangladesh
Authors: Rezina Sonia , Ahmad Nur , Mitu Farhana , Mustafi Mohitul Ameen Ahmed
Published: March 2020

Customer perception refers to the process by which a customer selects, organizes, and interprets information inputs to create a meaningful picture of the service quality within an organization. In the fast growing banking industry like Bangladesh, every bank is looking forward towards faster growth through providing better service quality than others. However, there are certain challenges started rising in front of the booming banking sector which are needed to be addressed immediately; such as, managing compliance, mitigating fraud/ cyber security, managing hiring decisions etc. It is obvious that, those who will efficiently handle these challenges will certainly lead the market and gain higher customer contentment. The main purpose of this study is to compare the customer perception towards the service Quality offered by Conventional Commercial Banks and Islamic Shariah-based Commercial Banks in Bangladesh through using SERVQUAL instrument. 204 respondents have been randomly selected for the study among them 162 is from Conventional banks and 42 are from Islamic banks. The findings of the research should help the policy makers and regulators in banking industry to have a deep insight towards the different perception of customers and assist in taking effective measures to achieve organizational goal through improving their service Quality.
Analysis of the Financial Soundness of Footwear Industry in Bangladesh: An Empirical Study using Z-score
Authors: Jahan Ishrat , Zaman Fareen
Published: March 2020

Among all the available statistical techniques, Altman’s Z-score is found to be the most reliable technique to measure the financial soundness of any given business organization. In this paper, we have selected footwear industry which is the second largest foreign currency earner in Bangladesh. This industry is contributing in a greater scale to the economy of our country. The prime objective of this study is to assess the financial heath, i.e. analyze the probability of bankruptcy of the listed companies of the footwear industry. We have studied the financial statements of five companies listed in the stock exchange for a period of 2011 to 2015. The study revealed that the footwear industry overall is in a safe position i.e. financially sound, showing two of the selected companies in the safe zone, one in the grey zone and two in the distress zone. The findings of the study will help different groups of stakeholders to make decisions regarding their investments and other choices, considering the soundness of this specific industry.
Examining the Performance of Islamic Banks in the Context of Bangladesh
Authors: Siddiqua Ayesha
Published: March 2020

As a unique banking system Islamic Banking gained popularity all over the world. In 1983 Bangladesh also came forward with Islamic banking. This study focused on the performance of six selected Islamic banks in Bangladesh during 2011-2015. Researchers collected data from the annual reports of the Banks. Variables such as investment, total asset, deposit, earnings per share (EPS), return on asset (ROA) and return on equity (ROE) were selected for the study. In this study the main tools were growth and trend analysis. This empirical investigation revealed that the growth of total asset, deposit and investment was up to the mark but the Banks were not able to increase the growth rate of EPS, ROA and ROE. The result also showed that Islamic banks are doing good job in Bangladesh although the Banks are operating according to the conventional banking framework.

JEL Classification Code: G 21
Arteria labial de calibre persistente a propósito de un caso
Authors: Quisiguiña Salem Cinthya María
Published: March 2020

La arteria labial de calibre persistente es una lesión relativamente rara que se puede encontrar en diferentes órganos como el estómago, el yeyuno o los labios; la cual se presenta como una rama arterial de diámetro anormalmente grande para su situación superficial. La persistencia del calibre de la arteria labial ocurre generalmente en el labio inferior, pero existe reporte de su situación en el labio superior, paladar y vestíbulo bucal. Es una entidad de etiología controversial, que clínicamente se manifiesta como una tumefacción o una erosión que se debe tomar en cuenta siempre que se realice un examen intraoral para evitar tratamientos invasivos que provoquen un sangrado profuso. El objetivo de esta publicación es reportar el caso de una paciente que presentó persistencia del calibre arterial en el labio superior.
Cultural Obstacles in Transnational Trade Union Cooperation in Europe
Authors: Larsson Bengt
Published: March 2020

This article focuses on cultural difficulties in trade union cooperation and transnationalization in Europe. The aim is to understand cultural differences that are seen as obstacles to cooperation by trade union representatives with transnational work experience from the ETUC and ETUFs. The theoretical inspiration for this work comes from the sociological variant of neo-institutionalism and organization theory, as well as from existing approaches in industrial relations and trade union research. The empirical analysis is based on 38 interviews with 46 representatives from trade unions from nine European countries. The findings point to problems arising because of language and translation issues, differences in cultural conceptions, values and everyday practices, and differences in trade union traditions, ideologies and identities.
Evaluation of Lifelong Work Satisfaction among Former Postal Service Workers
Authors: Niska Miira , Prakash K.C , Siukola Anna , Kosonen Hanna , Luomanen Jari , Lumme-Sandt Kirsi , Neupane Subas , Nikander Pirjo , Nygård Clas-Håkan
Published: March 2020

While policymakers emphasize the need to delay retirement age, numerous traditional industries, among them postal services, emphasize the need for employee downsizings. These can be contradictory needs. Downsizings can reduce work life satisfaction (WLS) among workers, and reduced WLS can decrease willingness to delay retirement age. In this cross-sectional study, we explore WLS trajectories of former postal service workers by analyzing quantitative survey data (N = 201) and qualitative interview data (N = 40). In the data, workers aged 50–67 years evaluate their lifelong work satisfaction. The results of the quantitative and the qualitative study complement and mirror each other. Same trajectories of WLS were identified in both data. One-third of the survey respondents reported decreasing WLS, which according to the qualitative data relates to employee downsizings. The article highlights the importance of acknowledging contextual elements of work satisfaction measurement and the benefits of combining methodological traditions to understand the longer-term dynamics involved
Organizational Hindrances to the Retention of Older Healthcare Workers
Authors: Jonsson Robin , Lindegård Agneta , Björk Lisa , Nilsson Kerstin
Published: March 2020

The Swedish healthcare sector is currently experiencing recruitment difficulties combined with increasing demand for healthcare services. This study accordingly seeks knowledge of the obstacles to and opportunities for retaining older employees in the Swedish healthcare sector. Results of interviews with line managers and human resource (HR) partners indicate that the informants have positive attitudes toward older healthcare workers in general, particularly acknowledging their contributions based on long experience and skill. However, line managers’ high workload, the absence of age-management strategies, and universal HR policies not conducive to older workers’ individual needs are considered obstacles to retention on an organizational level. To retain older healthcare workers and maintain their ability and motivation, the healthcare sector and especially HR strategies need to be more proactive in addressing these issues, and formalized policies are required in order to benefit from the potential labor reserve that older employees constitute.
FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGIES’ IMPACT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF BANKING
Authors: Ya. A. Shmuratko  , S. A. Sheludko
Published: March 2020

The development of financial technologies, so-called FinTech, has fundamentally changed the architecture of the modern financial services market, significantly affecting the role of banks in it. These changes determine the need of new approaches for the market behavior of both banks (to maintain competitive positions) and regulators (in order to prevent potential crisis phenomena).

It is substantiated that at the present stage of development of financial-credit intermediation, determinants of competitive behavior of banks are nonconventional factors such as a degree of freedom to enter the market, an information asymmetry, a level of services and marketing support, an emergence of electronic channels for banking products’ distribution, the development of electronic payment systems and transfers of other banking information.

It is investigated main approaches to the definition of financial technologies (FinTech). It is justified the necessity of distinguishing this concept and the FinTech segment, it is proposed to define financial technologies in the narrow sense as the provision of financial services by non-banking institutions using modern information technologies, which is rationalizing the analysis of the FinTech’s role in the banking.

In the article it is identified and characterized external (caused by the objective development of society and fundamental changes in the banks’ environment) and internal (caused by the need of maintaining the competitive positions by banks) factors of financial technologies’ development.

It is proved that the FinTech’s impact on banking is determined by changes in the structure of the financial services market, a decrease in barriers to entry the market, and an increase of its spatial coverage. The development of FinTech leads to lower costs and higher efficiency of banks, increased competition in the banking environment, reduced information asymmetry, increased financial inclusion, but at the same time leads to the generation of new financial and technological risks for banks.
ORGANIZATION OF ACCOUNTING AND RISK-MANAGEMENT OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY: DEVELOPMENT DIRECTIONS IN THE CONDITIONS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Authors: I. M. Vyhivska  , О. О. Hryhorevska  , G. I. Lyakhovich  , H. Y. Khomenko
Published: March 2020

The article aims to justify the measures for organizing the formation and provision of information from the accounting system for the risk management process in order to ensure the stability and sustainability of the development of higher education institutions. The goal has been realized on the basis of the application of the methods of observation, comparison, analysis, synthesis, generalization and economic-statistical method. The made analysis allowed to determine the risks of non-fulfilment of information needs regarding the functioning of higher education institutions for each study group (applicants, students, participants, parents of students/applicants, administration, employers, customers of research projects, teachers, government, society, governing bodies), which made it possible to offer an organizational approach to the information support of risk management of educational activities. This approach covers corrective management actions (in terms of accounting functions) on each of the defined processes of the risk management system (admission process for higher education, planning the educational process, organizing the educational process, staffing educational activities), executives, responsible entities and output data. Taking into account the provisions of regulatory documents, scientists' developments and practical experience in risk management has allowed to determine the stages of risk management in educational activities of a higher education institution (risk analysis, risk assessment, direct risk management, risk monitoring, risk management reporting) indicating the role of accounting personnel in each of them. It has been substantiated that the main advantages of the proposed approach to information management of risk management of educational activities of higher educational institutions are the simplicity of use (provided with properly devised documentation), the complexity of the approach (coverage of all quality management system processes), responsiveness to identified risks; accounting structure of higher education institutions. It is proved that the proposals will contribute to the improvement of the accounting display of actions to minimize the risks of educational activities of higher educational institutions, thereby ensuring the strengthening of their competitiveness on the market of educational services.
MONETARY AND FINANCIAL POLICY OF UKRAINE: THEORETICAL-EMPIRICAL CONNECTIONS AND PRIORITIES OF STATE REGULATION
Authors: T. H. Vasyltsiv  , O. I. Klipkova  , R. L. Lupak  , N. G. Mitsenko  , I. P. Mishchuk
Published: March 2020

The essential characteristics of the monetary policy of the state as a system of measures and instruments of state regulation of the monetary sphere, the direction of state influence on monetary and credit relations are specified. Its subjects and objects are identified, principles, goals and modes are defined. The relationship between the formation and implementation of monetary policy and the strengthening of financial security of the state are shown. Using the method of the main components, an integrated assessment of the state of monetary and security of Ukraine in 2000, 2005, 2010—2018 was conducted. The weighting coefficients of Ukraine’s monetary security indicators are determined and its integral values are calculated. The highest level of influence of such indicators was identified as the ratio of the monetary aggregate M3 to GDP (23,3 %), the ratio of GDP to the volume of the monetary aggregate M2 (22,5%), the amount of cash to GDP (22,6 %). The conclusion was made that the level of monetary and credit security of Ukraine in 20132018 was decreasing. The lowest was the value of monetary and security of the state in 2016 — 0,49 (on a scale from zero to one), in 2018 the index rose to 0,51, but its value is low. The existence of a statistically significant link between monetary and financial security of Ukraine is empirically assessed and established. For the period 2000-2018, the determination coefficient was 0,86. Accordingly, the tendency to lower the level of monetary security leads to a virtually parity deterioration of the state financial security. The strategic priorities of the state policy of the development of monetary and credit sphere in the context of ensuring the financial security of the state are grounded. Strategic priorities of state regulation are defined: ensuring the price stability and stability of the national monetary unit, strengthening the stability of the banking system, its creditworthiness, forming a high-quality exchange-exchange rate environment, the development of the stock market, and improving the institutional principles of state regulation of the monetary sector. Identified measures, the implementation of which allows to achieve the identified strategic priorities and improve the financial security parameters of Ukraine.
BEHAVIORAL FINANCE: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND AND EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
Authors: I. Lyutyy  , M. Knir  , N. Plieshakova  , O. Plieshakova
Published: March 2020

The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into achievements of scientific studies in various fields which have been reflected in modern finance, particularly in behavioral finance, as well as to consider some patterns of individual behavior which influence the effectiveness of investments in the financial market. The paper is based on the review of the existing theoretical  in different fields of study. The necessity of studying behavioral finance as an important direction of modern financial science is considered. The main theories from different fields of studies which influence the formation of behavioral finance as a scientific direction are highlighted. The empirical evidence of some aspects of the irrational behavior and its influence on the effectiveness of the financial processes. The findings are likely to be useful for practitioners and researchers to gain knowledge about the background of behavioral finance. From a practical point of view, the possibility of synthesizing various approaches to people's behavior allows us to use the obtained results in building more efficient processes in the financial environment. The paper contributes to the discussion about the rational and irrational behavior and its influence on the processes in finance.
THE MAGNITUDE AND NATURE OF THE SHADOW ECONOMY IN UKRAINIAN BORDER REGIONS
Authors: Kh. M. Prytula  , S. L. Shults  , A. V. Samilo  , V. O. Maslov
Published: March 2020

The peculiarities of the formation and functioning of the shadow sector of economy of the border regions of Ukraine have been considered. It has been substantiated the importance of studying the nature of the emergence of the shadow economy and finding the effective tools for leveling the preconditions for its development.

The main regularities and indicators of the emergence and growth of the shadow economy have been outlined. Among them there are the levels of tax burden and social protection, regulatory measures, the quality of social services, the number of self-employed, etc. It is substantiated that the important direction of reducing the shadowing of economic processes is to stimulate the socio-economic development of territories. Positive tendencies of economic development, availability of sufficient opportunities for employment and obtaining decent remuneration for their work, etc., suspend the processes of shadowing in the economy of any country and its regions.

The level of the shadow economy has been estimated based on direct and indirect approaches. It has been found that given the importance of retail trade in the economy of the border regions (borderline location, active participation of local residents in the local border traffic, more significant share of services, etc.) and relatively lower levels of socio-economic development, the share of unaccounted economic activity in the official economy of the territories is higher compared to its average in the country.

The results of an expert survey of representatives of local authorities on the issues of socio-economic development of the border areas under the terms of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement have been presented. In particular, the main reasons for the shadowing of the economy, types of economic activity in which the share of economic activity, which is in the "shadow", is the highest, etc. have been outlined.

It has been revealed that the illegalization of economic activity and population’s income in the medium- and long-term time period creates preconditions for the outflow of production factors (including the workforce) abroad and reduces investment attractiveness of Ukrainian border territories. In addition, the negative impact of border trade is strengthened by forming of substantial dependence on import of certain types of goods, discouraging the development of domestic production; by avoiding the payment of taxes and therefore — the shortfall in revenues to local budgets, etc.
ФІНАНСОВА МЕДІАЦІЯ — НЕОБХІДНІСТЬ І ОСОБЛИВОСТІ НОРМАТИВНО-ПРАВОВОЇ РЕАЛІЗАЦІЇ
Authors: V. V. Sergienko  , N. N. Sylenko
Published: March 2020

Проаналiзовано концептуальнi підходи до формування правової позиції під час застосування процесу медіації як процедури альтернативного врегулювання спору згідно з проєктом закону України про медіацію. На жаль, проблеми забезпечення альтернативних способів несудового захисту сторін під час урегулювання спору між сторонами в галузі цивільного, трудового, сімейного чи адміністративного права на законодавчому рівні не було вирішено, що негативно впливає на судову практику.

Наголошується на важливості впровадження в Україні інституту альтернативних способів урегулювання спорів шляхом застосування процедури медіації в розв’язанні проблеми реалізації права кожної особи. Адже це сприятиме поліпшенню доступу громадян до правосуддя та скороченню навантаження на суди, у зв’язку з чим допоможе скоротити строки розгляду справ i відсоток оскаржуваних рішень, зменшити судові витрати, поліпшити якість судових рішень та досягнути примирення між сторонами.

У зв’язку з цим метою статті є розроблення пропозицій щодо внесення змін до законопроєкту про медіацію, зокрема, наголошується на необхідності передбачити на законодавчому рівні відповідальність сторін спору, а також детальніше окреслити перелік обставин, які унеможливлюють нейтральність медіатора, та наслідків недотримання медіатором заборони щодо участі у медіації спорів, у яких він має особистий інтерес. На нинішній день у законі не відображені санкції, які можуть застосовуватися до медіатора за невиконання ним його обов’язків щодо процесу медіації.

Саме тому одним з основних призначень нашого дослідження є привернення уваги вчених до необхідності формування загальновизнаного понятійного апарату професійної відповідальності, у тому числі і понятійного апарату професійної відповідальності медіаторів, оскільки його відсутність негативно впливає на юридичний практику. Наявність гармонійної системи професійної відповідальності медіатора може виступати потужним стимулом надання якісних послуг з медіації, а потім і одним з вагомих факторів розвитку інституту медіації. При цьому вбачається, що в ході подальшого розвитку медіації в Україні та зростанні кількості медіаторів це питання матиме актуальний характер і вимагає свого подальшого наукового вивчення та законодавчого врегулювання.
CURRENT ASPECTS OF TRANSFORMATION OF ECONOMIC RELATIONS: CRYPTOCURRENCIES AND THEIR LEGAL REGULATION
Authors: N. M. Pantielieieva  , N. V. Rogova  , S. M. Braichenko  , S. V. Dzholos  , A. S. Kolisnyk
Published: March 2020

The article is devoted to the analysis of transformation of economic relations due to the emergence of such phenomenon as cryptocurrency. It is substantiated that its appearance is connected with the development of the information society, the formation of the virtual economy and the spread of digitization processes in all spheres of economic activity. It is proved that despite the innovative nature of the revolutionary character and the considerable potential for stimulating radical changes in the sphere of economic relations and economic model of modern society, the cryptocurrency is a confirmation of the evolution of money. From the point of view of the theory of money, the ability of cryptocurrency to perform the functions of money (measures of value, means of payment and medium of exchange, accumulation, world money), as well as new specific functions — social, regulatory, indicative and others, — have been proved.

Analysis of the practice of cryptocurrencies spread gave the opportunity to reveal their characteristic features on grounds of the format of money, unit of account, legal status, money creation, stability of payment, mechanism of exchange, regulation and supervision, risks, etc. In addition, the positive properties of cryptocurrencies and their possible negative effects are identified.

It is emphasized that the adoption and active spread of cryptocurrencies leads to the transformation of economic relations, and more precisely, the objective formation of a new system of economic relations as a compensator of the negative manifestations of a modern economic society, which, at the same time, has exacerbated to some extent the threats to the traditional monetary system. This is confirmed by the tendencies of the development of the cryptocurrency market, changes in the position of the central banks of the countries of the world from rigid rejection to the development of national cryptocurrencies, including in Ukraine.

The problematic aspects of determining the legal status of cryptocurrencies in the regulation of cryptocurrency in Ukraine from the point of view of civil-law relations and relatively criminal-law context have been identified. It is concluded that it is necessary to determine the legal status of cryptocurrency in Ukraine, taking into account the position of the leading countries of the world.
UNIVERSITY INNOVATIVE HUBS AS POINTS OF GROWTH OF INDUSTRIAL PARKS OF UKRAINE
Authors: I. Britchenko  , N. Kraus  , K. Kraus
Published: March 2020

The purpose of the article is generalization of features of expediency of the creation of innovative parks in Ukraine. Practical output of the results consists in the discovered success factors of the activity of innovative parks in Ukraine in order to create new opportunities of innovation development of the country.

Current organizational and functional system of innovative entrepreneurship of Ukraine is an imperfect, complex and by all indications, is in the process of formation. It is assumed that infrastructure of international educational innovative hub can structurally corrected according to the area which operates a hub that is: stimulate the dialogue between academics, businessmen and government officials; provide an interactive exchange of explicit and implicit knowledge; generate shared vision on adaptation measures of dynamic environment.

Evaluation of the results of scientific and pedagogical activities of working group of innovative hub should be made for following indicators: development of skills of teaching and research work; introducing of innovative approaches for practical individual activity; formation of innovative approaches for collective practical activity; working on the chosen scientific and methodological theme.

Main advantage of proposed university innovative hubs is that laid all necessary foundations in order to high school could be as soon as effectively integrate the results of university, academic and sectoral sciences of Ukraine, well as advanced research results of scientific world community in the development and implementation of innovative projects and development innovation
СТРАТЕГІЧНИЙ АСПЕКТ СОЦІАЛЬНОГО ІНВЕСТУВАННЯ В КОНТЕКСТІ РЕГІОНАЛЬНОГО РОЗВИТКУ
Authors: I. V. Zablodska  , I. V. Tiazhkorob  , K. I. Sieriebriak
Published: March 2020

Актуалізовано, що все більшої значимості набувають соціальні програми бізнесу, реалізація яких позитивно впливає на регіональний розвиток. Зазначено, що особливо важливими такі проєкти є для регіонів, які в силу територіальних і кліматичних особливостей не в змозі залучити інвесторів. Зазначено, що на регіональному рівні реалізація соціального інвестування є проблематичною у зв’язку із відсутністю єдиного уявлення про соціальні інвестиції та системного підходу до соціального інвестування як процесу. Констатовано, що поняття соціальних інвестицій є багатозначним і багатоплановим, його можна розглядати щодо системного, організаційно-управлінського, функціонального (цільового), процесного, ресурсного, формального і структурного підходів. Акцентовано, що процес реалізації соціальних інвестицій передбачає складні та непрямі механізми повернення коштів. Підкреслено, що ефективність використання соціальних інвестицій обумовлена інформаційними, кількісними та якісними характеристиками. Зазначено, що напрямами прискорення процесу реалізації інвестицій у соціальну сферу є вдосконалення нормативно-правових методів регулювання соціально-орієнтованої інвестиційної діяльності. Визначено, що активізації процесу соціального інвестування як стратегії, націленої на підвищення капіталізації українських компаній та збільшення їхньої участі в розв’язанні соціальних проблем регіону, сприятиме формування нового змістовного підходу, що передбачатиме виділення функції реалізації соціальних програм за межі корпоративного контуру на основі партнерства громадянського суспільства, бізнесу та влади. Запропоновано використання міжнародного досвіду щодо застосування таких інвестиційних інструментів, як проведення конкурсів соціальних проєктів, реалізація волонтерських програм, розвиток соціального підприємництва, імпакт-інвестування.
Automatic Control of Operating Modes of Packed Apparatus for Selective Gas Emissions Cleaning
Authors: Merentsov N.A. , Persidsky A.V. , Lebedev V.N. , Golovanchikov A.B.
Published: March 2020

A modified system for automatic control of hydrodynamic operating modes of packed adsorption columns for the selective cleaning of gas emissions is described, which allows automatic adjustment of the operating modes of packed mass transfer apparatus. Presents the scheme and algorithm of developed system with the automatic adjustment (calibration) mode of main operating parameters. The main features and advantages of using elastically deformable blocks of packed material are given on the example of metal chips, i.e. waste of machine tools as a packed material that meet all requirements of the ongoing mass transfer processes and are amenable to automated regulation. The developed system of automatic regulation of parameters of packed units, but also to solve a very serious environmental problem of industrial waste recovery. A classification technique of studying the hydrodynamics of packed materials, capable of concluding the suitability of this sample of packing material for a specific mass transfer process, in particular the adsorption process for the selective cleaning of gas emissions.
Reduction of Anthropogenic Impact of Alumina Sludge Storage on the Environment
Authors: Shepelev I.I. , Nemerov A.M. , Eskova E.N. , Zhukov E.I. , Sochaczew A.Yu. , Pylaeva O.V. , Kiryushin E.V. , Potapova S.O.
Published: March 2020

To reduce the impact of alumina sludge storage on the environment, a number of environmental technical solutions have been tested and implemented. Laying a polymeric film on a bed slurry maps and the construction of artificial water level decrease led to the absence of anthropogenic interference, and created favorable conditions for ensuring the stability of the ecological system in the area adjacent to the sludge storage. After the implementation of the environmental events area negative impact of sludge decreased to 150–200 m from the contour of the slurry of the map, outside this zone there are qualitative changes in the chemical composition of groundwater, the alkaline reaction of the environment decreases less than 8.0 units, chemical composition of groundwater is virtually the same background.
RAGE p.82G>S Polymorphism Is Not Associated with the Risk of Multiple Sclerosis in Iranian Population
Authors: Valizadeh Hamideh , Eslami Gilda , Rahnama Reyhane , Rahimdel Abolghasem , Dashti Fateme  Sadat , Mansouri Reza
Published: March 2020

Background and Aims: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is known as a partially inheritable inflammatory autoimmune disease which involves the nervous system. Different studies suggest that immune dysregulation has an important role in the pathogenesis of MS, but its exact pathomechanism has not yet been explicated. The receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) is a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily of cell surface molecules. In MS patients, the expression of membrane-bound RAGE on peripheral blood mononuclear cells, as well as the serum levels of the RAGE ligands are upregulated.
Materials and Methods: In this case-control study, we evaluated the association between MS incidence and RAGE p.82G>S polymorphism (rs2070600) compared with healthy controls in an Iranian population. A total of 158 patients and 156 healthy blood donors were enrolled. This polymorphism was genotyped by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism.
Results: Allele frequencies (p=0.319) and genotype distribution (p=0.315) of the RAGE p.82G>S gene polymorphism in MS patients and controls were not significantly different.
Conclusions: The present study indicated no relationship between RAGE p.82G>S polymorphism and the risk of MS in Iranian population.