scholarly journals ADMINISTRATIVE BARRIERS AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE EFFICIENCY OF ORGANIZATIONS IN HOUSING CONSTRUCTION: THE CASE OF ST. PETERSBURG

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey Oparin ◽  
Marina Yudenko ◽  
Nadezhda Polovnikova ◽  
Svetlana Nikolikhina
Keyword(s):  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
Integral Method ◽  
Housing Construction ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Formal Rules

The purpose of the article is to draw attention to the importance of the issue related to administrative barriers in the field of housing construction, the redundancy of which leads to the rise of transaction costs and reducing the effectiveness of organizations. The estimate of the creation of formal rules in the context of social infrastructure in St. Petersburg is given. The conclusion is made about the direct impact of the effective standard on the effectiveness of the organization. An integral method for measuring the economic efficiency of the resources used is proposed, which improves the quality of the measurement and the evaluation of their effectiveness, taking into account the impact of transaction costs.

School improvement plans, a tool to improve the quality of education

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 440-450
Author(s):  
Ignacio Hernan Gonzalez Escobar
Keyword(s):  
School Improvement ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Educational Improvement ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
The Impact

Much has been said about school improvement plans (SIPs), which have been implemented in many countries, with different characteristics and with different results in each of them. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate, through the research carried out, the impact of SIPs on students’ learning and, from that perspective, to determine what characteristics the research should have in order to have a direct impact on students’ learning. To this end, an exhaustive bibliographic review will be carried out to show the effects of the improvement plans in the communities, counties or countries that have implemented them. The result of the above will be to determine, according to the few existing investigations, the elements that SIPs must have in order to have an impact on student’s learning. Keywords: School improvement plans, improving the quality of education, educational improvement, accountability.

scholarly journals Depressed spaces as an instrument for transformation of urban areas

2020 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 02008
Author(s):  
Valentina Kurochkina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Recently, more and more often urban abandoned and depressed spaces that were previously used as industrial facilities or temporarily used are becoming the sphere of architectural and landscape transformations. These territories can occupy a significant part of the city. This paper examines the features of the formation of urban planning systems, as well as the impact of depressed spaces on the quality of the urban environment. This paper studies such depressed spaces as abandoned industrial areas and objects of unfinished construction. The paper assesses the impact of depressed spaces, identifies criteria that reflect the nature, scale and features of their impact on the environment, on the safety and quality of the urban environment, as well as their role in the structure of the city as a whole. The principles and features of the formation of such urban depressed spaces, as well as the patterns of their development are revealed. The features of the formation of open public space of urban systems, as well as ways of transforming depressed spaces, aimed at increasing their social significance, integrating them into the general urban development, and improving the ecological and social situation are considered. The paper concludes that the problem of restoration of depressed spaces is very important and urgent today. The creation of a continuous urban tissue is impossible without the reorganization of such spaces, as well as the creation of an integral compositional, functional and communication urban planning system.

scholarly journals Urban water bodies as the basis for functioning of public spaces

2020 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 02005
Author(s):  
Valentina Kurochkina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Water Bodies ◽  
High Rate ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Recently, housing construction in cities has been carried out at a high rate. Increasingly, urban abandoned and flooded depressive spaces near water bodies (often rivers), which were previously used as industrial facilities or temporarily used, are becoming the sphere of architectural and landscape transformations. The restoration of such territories helps to improve the quality of urban space and improve its ecological properties. Correct development of territories near rivers and various water bodies has a great health-improving effect on the urban environment, improves its natural and climatic conditions. In addition, social and economic factors play an important role in this process, since such transformed territories and territories adjacent to them significantly increase investment attractiveness. This paper examines modern approaches to the development of urban public spaces, based on the formation of architectural environments that ensure the relationship of urban development with water bodies and adjacent territories. The paper notes that water bodies are not only an important component of the natural-ecological framework, but are also the basis for the framework of urban-planning natural-technogenic systems as a whole. And the creation of a continuous urban fabric is impossible without the organization of a ‘water’ line of development, provision of compositional, functional and communication interconnection of open urban and water spaces, which is actively being introduced today in architectural and urban planning practice. The paper examines the role of water bodies in the ecological system of the city, as well as in its structure as a whole. The aim of the study is to identify the features of the formation of a public urban space, to determine the patterns of its development, to identify criteria that reflect the nature, scale and features of the impact of urbanization on a water body. Some principles of revitalization of coastal areas, as well as the creation of a system of publicly accessible, compositionally expressive spaces are considered. The principles of space transformation aimed at the formation of a holistic image of the city, as well as the impact of such a spatial arrangement of urban and water bodies on the safety and quality of the urban environment are considered.

scholarly journals Approaches to Evaluating Efficiency and Quality of Integrated Health Care: State of the Evidence

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iga Rudawska
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Integrated Health Care ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Integrated Health ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis paper investigates the outcomes of integrated health care model in terms of its economic efficiency and quality. The quality refers to subjective assessments of a patient, measured by a satisfaction indicator, as well as to the health benefits to a patient, measured by health status.A systematic literature review has been applied to study the results of care coordination. The author performed the ordered analysis of existing research evidence, based on peer-reviewed literature available on health science and business databases.The model of integrated health care delivery seemed to have positive effects on the quality of care. This encompasses mainly the quality of life, functional status, health outcomes, and process outcomes. The equal positive impact of integrated health programmes on economic efficiency has not been revealed. Only 15% of the effects reported in the reviews have been significant.The work contributes to the worldwide debate dedicated to the impact of integrated health care programmes. The gathered research evidence concerning positive influence on costs remains unclear. It might require further investigations. The work also revealed some significant gaps that are prevalent in the field of standardized instruments of measurement referring to integration outcomes, including quality and efficiency over time at levels of the system, programme, provider, and patient.

5. The century of the child and beyond

2018 ◽  
pp. 96-122
Author(s):  
James Marten
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Children Health ◽  
War And Conflict ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Impact

The 1989 Convention of the Rights of the Child, issued by the United Nations, provided a far more detailed and supposedly binding set of conditions and rights than the 1924 Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which would define childhood globally. And yet the dying and injustice and exploitation continue. “The century of the child and beyond” considers the impact of war and conflict on children; the creation of global agencies and organizations designed to provide aid to and advocate for children; health, poverty, and quality of life; child labor and slavery; changes and challenges in education; modern forms of families; and the globalization of children’s culture.

scholarly journals Auditing Quality, Investor Sentiment and Earnings Response---Evidence from the Chinese A-Share Market

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Ling Zhang ◽  
Chao Ge ◽  
Wun-Hong Su
Keyword(s):  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Investor Sentiment ◽  
Market Response ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Quality Signals ◽  
Earnings Response ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Auditor Reputation ◽  
A Share

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether auditing quality mitigates the impact of the investor’s sentiment on share market response to earnings news. Auditing quality involves auditor reputation quality and auditor implicit quality. The high-quality of auditing work can not only enhance the investors’ confidence, but also reduce the transaction costs. Using 12,345 observations from the Chinese A-share market over the period 2007 to 2014, the empirical results demonstrate that the different auditing quality signals generate the distinct influences on the investors. Specifically: (1) there is an insignificant relation between auditor reputation quality and the influence of investor sentiment on share market response to earning news; (2) there is a significant association between auditor implicit quality and the influence of investor sentiment on share market response to earning news.

scholarly journals Are People with Aphasia (PWA) Involved in the Creation of Quality of Life and Aphasia Impact-Related Questionnaires? A Scoping Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 688
Author(s):  
Marina Charalambous ◽  
Maria Kambanaros ◽  
Jean-Marie Annoni
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Eligibility Criteria ◽  
Direct Involvement ◽  
Scoping Reviews ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact

Background: Quality of Life (QoL) questionnaires are used to describe the impact of aphasia on stroke survivors’ life. People with aphasia (PWA) are traditionally excluded from research, potentially leading to a mismatch between the factors chosen in the tools and the realistic needs of PWA. The purpose of this review was to determine the direct involvement of PWA in the creation of QoL and aphasia impact-related questionnaires (AIR-Qs). Methods: A scoping review methodology was conducted by an expert librarian and two independent reviewers on health sciences based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Metanalyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) protocol, through a literature search in five databases: Medline Complete, PubMed, PsychINFO, Scopus, and Google Scholar. Search terms included ‘stroke’, ‘people with aphasia’, ‘communication’, ‘well-being’, and ‘quality of life’. Results: Of 952 results, 20 studies met the eligibility criteria. Of these, only four AIR-Qs studies (20%) were found reporting the direct involvement of PWA, while no QoL tools did so. Evidence showed involvement in the creation phase of AIR-Q, mainly in a consultation role. Conclusions: There is an absence of a framework for conducting and reporting the involvement of PWA in qualitative participatory research studies, which limits effectiveness to promote equitable best practice in aphasia rehabilitation.

scholarly journals Research of the differentiation phenomenon of complex development in megalopolis: housing construction and provision rate of educational facilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-229
Author(s):  
S. A. Ershova ◽  
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T. N. Orlovskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Housing Construction ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Educational Facilities ◽  
Integrated Development ◽  
Complex Development ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The City

The article presents the results of research on the complexity of development of St. Petersburg districts. Differentiation analysis was carried out according to the indicators of housing commissioning, commissioning of educational facilities, and the ratio of housing commissioning and commissioning of educational facilities per 1000 square meters of housing. Based on the ranking results, there were identified three groups of districts: those with balanced commissioning of housing and educational facilities, those with an excess of commissioning of housing over commissioning of educational facilities, and those with an excess of commissioning of educational facilities over housing commissioning. The study based on the proposed methodology makes it possible to take into account the heterogeneity of the integrated development of the city territory for various factors. Testing the methodology by the example of matching the speed of housing construction and the creation of the most important social infrastructure facilities in the context of the administrative districts of St. Petersburg in the period of 2011-2018 allowed assessing the heterogeneity of the complex development of the city territories in terms of provision of the population with educational facilities. The results obtained can be used as analytical material for adjusting priorities of investment in housing and civil construction and forming programs for the integrated development of the city districts.

scholarly journals Performance Culture – The E.Q., Support of the Reposition of Companies on the Market – Answer To the Impact of Economic Crisis

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 269-278
Author(s):  
Mihaela Cristina Gheorghe
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Performance Culture ◽  
Basic Purpose ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
A Company ◽  
A Performance

In an economy where the co-operation is part of the success of any strategy, the putting at the staff’s disposition of the information needed in order to take the most appropriate decisions and its involvement in formulating and meeting the objectives of the company create competitive advantages, conjugated with a great individual responsibility.The topicality of methods, processes, strategies accentuates the interfering moment of the rational intelligence (I.Q.) with the emotional intelligence (E.Q.), synergy which can propel and capitalize strategies deeply touched by the importance of the quality of the staff, in the company’s success.The promotion of a performance culture, designed to support the strategies formulated, can be realized only inside a company which promotes the credibility and the confidence. A customer-centric and pro-active staff, aligned to the basic purpose of the company, would adapt with confidence and will contribute to the creation of a structure aimed to support the continuity of the company.

scholarly journals The system of maintaining the quality of education through public regulation of activity of higher education institutions

2019 ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Nazariy N. Popadynets ◽  
Yuliya V. Zhuravel ◽  
Olena V. Panukhnyk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
General Scheme ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. The purpose of the research is to determine government measures to form a mechanism toensure the formation of the quality of education in higher education institutions. Methods. In the course ofthe research, general scientific methods and approaches, a systematic approach, general logical researchmethods (analysis, synthesis, generalization, comparison) were used. Results. The article discusses key studies of the development of education in the country; in particular, attention paid to the processes of stateregulation of the activities of higher education institutions. On the basis of theoretical and methodologicalanalysis, a general scheme of the mechanism of state regulation of higher education is proposed, which consists of subject-objective, target, instrumental and information-analytical components. It was determined thatthe stimulation of educational institutions to continuously improve the quality and availability of educationalservices in accordance with the future needs of the labor market and the economy, the production of newservices occurs through partial regulation of these processes by the state. It has been proved that comprehensive legal, organizational, resource, information support for the development of the economy, employmentand social infrastructure capable of realizing the rights of education and development of the population, aswell as meeting the needs of various industries in qualified personnel, stimulating the demographic reproduction of the population directly depends on the quality of education in country, which is the basis for theformation of professional skills of each specialist. Practical meaning. Based on the analysis of the scientificworks of domestic scientists, as well as the practice of one of the universities, a system of indicators and keymeasures of the external system for ensuring the quality of education have been determined. Most educationalinstitutions in the country can use it by implementing in their practice those indicators to which this or thatinstitution responds. Prospects for further research. The results obtained determine the need for further assessment of the impact of other indicators for the implementation of a comprehensive assessment of theinternal and external system of education quality, which will help unify those indicators that will be mosteffective for a particular educational institution.

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