scholarly journals Unique scientific installations as an object of state scientific and technical policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-33
Author(s):  
Sergey Egerev

The role of unique scientific installations (USI) in the course of the development of the Russian scientific system under exchange research restrictions is considered. The paper describes the dynamics of the number of USI over 30 years of post-Soviet development. The increase in the number of USI by July of 2020 resulted in 362 installations with some reduction in the scale of new installations. Measures of state support for unique installations are described. A comparison is made between the arrays of USI along with the centers for thecollective use of scientific equipment (CUSE) and the array of 7 megascience-type installations planned for commissioning by 2034. The need to review the policy of resource and thematic support for USI is shown. Greater attention to installations, their modernization and promotion of information about their real capabilities through the world scientific community will work well if Russia returns to equal cooperation with foreign research centers.

2021 ◽  

The COVID-19 pandemic forced physicians around the world to make tragic decisions: Whose life should be saved when it is apparent that available resources are insufficient to treat everyone? Under the heading of "triage" a broad societal debate ensued that also ignited the scientific community. This anthology unites voices from medicine, law, and philosophy for a conversation. It reveals controversies that are deeply rooted in ideas of law, morality, and the role of the individual in the state. Simultaneously, answers are being formulated to questions that have become sadly prominent in the COVID pandemic but could also valid beyond it.


2008 ◽  
Vol 07 (03) ◽  
pp. C06 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Morris ◽  
Susannah Sayler

In January 2006, my wife Susannah Sayler and I set out to photograph landscapes around the world that were being transformed by global warming. We called our work The Canary Project. From the beginning, as now, we had both activist aims and artistic ambitions. These two types of motivation overlap in places and in other places feel completely distinct. In general, we feel as though are carrying forward a torch that science cannot carry any further. Following are some thoughts on our role as activists and as artists and as collaborators with the scientific community.


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3 (88)) ◽  
pp. 27-35
Author(s):  
Kateryna Kolesnikova ◽  
Dmytro Lukianov ◽  
Viktor Gogunskii ◽  
Volodymyr Iakovenko ◽  
Ganna Oborska ◽  
...  

Bionatura ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1410-1417
Author(s):  
Daniel Tinôco ◽  
Suzana Borschiver

The World Scientific Community has carried out several studies on the novel coronavirus, responsible for the current COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to verify the development level and research evolution on COVID-19, summarizing experts' main trends in the first half of 2020. The most cited articles focused on understanding the disease, addressing aspects of its transmission, viral activity period, symptoms, health complications, risk factors, and the estimate of new cases. These papers also focused on the treatment/prevention and management of COVID-19. Several drugs and alternative treatments have been investigated, such as the convalescent plasma transfusion and stem cell transplantation, while an efficient vaccine is developed. Prevention and control measures, such as social isolation and immediate case identification, were also investigated. Therefore, the main COVID-19 trends were identified and classified in disease, treatment/prevention, and pandemic management, contributing to scientific understanding and future studies.


2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-66
Author(s):  
Heiner M. Fangerau

During the 1920s, the world-wide eugenics movement reached a peak level of popularity. Historians have stressed the key role of the textbook “Human Heredity and Racial Hygiene” in the popularisation of eugenic thinking in Germany. In this textbook the well known scientists Erwin Baur (1875-1933), Eugen Fischer (1874-1967) and Fritz Lenz (1887-1976) tried to combine genetics, anthropology and racial hygiene to form a “Magna Carta” of eugenics. This paper aims at quantitatively reconstructing the book’s development into a standard work. 325 contemporary reviews of the book were analysed. More than 80% of the reviewers evaluated the book positively recommending it to a variety of readers. Most of the reviewers were Medical Doctors concentrating on the eugenic aspects of the book. The reception study makes the reciprocity of eugenics as an accepted science and academics forming it into science prevalent. Explanations for the uniform reaction of the scientific community are discussed. *Key words*: reception study, interwar years, eugenics


2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (9) ◽  
pp. 2033-2049
Author(s):  
Hasan S. UMAROV

Subject. This article discusses the features and trends in the development of export credit agencies (ECA) in the world in the context of increasing competition of manufacturers for market share. Objectives. The article aims to show the peculiarities of the ECA's activities, reveal new aspects of their operation in modern conditions, and substantiate the need to change the international agreement in the field of export crediting and insurance. Methods. For the study, I used the comparative, statistical, and formal and logical methods. Results. The article shows the key role of ECA as an institution of State support for exports and a guarantor of the stability of the international trading system. It also finds that increased competition from Chinese and other ECAs that are not subject to the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits – OECD rules, as well as the expanded role of ECA during the pandemic, necessitate uniform approaches to State support for exports of domestic producers at the WTO level. Conclusions. ECAs’ support remains one of the effective tools in implementing the State foreign economic policy and increasing the international competitiveness of certain sectors of the economy. The need to improve international rules on export credit and insurance to ensure the stability and sustainable development of international trade is becoming increasingly apparent.


Author(s):  
O. D. Platonov ◽  
I. O. Shevtsova ◽  
O. Y. Radchenko ◽  
Y. O. Marchyk ◽  
R. O. Kovalenko

The article explores an approach to ensuring widespread and constant web access for society, state, and the world scientific community to relevant, complete, reliable, and historical data on all the results of fulfilling its statutory tasks both for the NAS of Ukraine as a whole entity and for each of its subjects separately. The same data is proposed to be used to significantly improve the internal production activities of the Academy: automation of monitoring and control of performance indicators of each subject of the Academy, automation of the assessment and certification processes of their activities, automated generation, and analysis of any reporting data on this activity. The purpose of the article is to disseminate in the scientific society of Ukraine the original concept of the systemic digital transformation of the NAS of Ukraine, which, according to the authors, presupposes, first of all, the current registration of the official results of scientific, scientific and technical, scientific and organizational, coordination, innovative, scientific and pedagogical and other activities of the Academy as a whole and each of its subjects by all scientific and leading personnel of the Academy with the corresponding automatic publication of this data about results on the public portal www.nas.gov.ua and corporate Intranet portals with authorized access for internal production use. The means of results registration are based on corporate cloud services, access to which is carried out under the digitized current job statuses of an employee in the NAS of Ukraine, membership in collegial bodies, and statuses of work orders. The first stages in the practical implementation of the concept confirmed the effectiveness of the developed approach.


Author(s):  
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kormin

This article aims to determine the meaning of metaphor for revealing the metaphysical foundations of aesthetics, as well as to analyze the methods reflected in the philosophy of Kant, Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida, and Mamardashvili. Their works clarify the structure of the metaphysical metaphor and its aesthetic matrix. Since old times, the aesthetic thought viewed the concept of the language of metaphor with its dual ambiguity, various metaphorical figures as the structures internally connected with the categorical reflection on the system of art; and the metaphor itself was considered as the form of semantic perception and creation of the artistic landscape. Revealing the place of aesthetics within the structure of metaphysics, the author views the aesthetic role of the metaphorical within metaphysics, complexity of interrelation between the concept of metaphor and fundamental metaphysical category of existence. The world scientific literature features numerous works that view metaphor as a rhetorical figure. However, the research of metaphysical metaphor is rare. This article is first within the Russian-language literature to outline the approaches towards the aesthetic comprehension of metaphysical metaphor, as they are reflected in the philosophy of Heidegger and Derrida. They reveal intuition of the metaphor as metaphysics, describe the representation of metaphysical metaphor of light, interpret the transcendental ego as metaphor, and elucidate the concept of the substance of metaphor. Special attention is given to the aesthetic-metaphysical interpretations of metaphor in the modern Russian philosophy.


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