Forming domestic ergonomics and ergodesign in the soviet period

Ergodesign ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
pp. 288-305
Author(s):  
Galina Stepanova ◽  
Alexandr Sudarik
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Scientific Research Institute ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
The Status ◽  
New Type ◽  
Intensive Development ◽  
Union Scientific Research Institute ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The 60s-80s of the last century are characterized by emerging a number of theoretical and methodological works devoted to new understanding of design as a person’s interaction with his objective world. These are the works of designers (Fedorov M.V., Minervin G.B. and others), philosophers (Kantor K.M., Shchedrovitsky G.P., Yudin E.G.) and psychologists (Zinchenko V.P., Munipov V.M., Chainova L.D. and others). Common positions were noted in a variety of interpretations; these positions are interdisciplinarity and project-based design. Intensive development of technical means of labour activity determined the need to have an integral system of ideas about a working person, his labour activity, his relationship with the machine and with the environment, his ergonomics. Thanks to the research and development of prominent Russian philosophers, engineers and psychologists, ergonomics received the status of an interdisciplinary, scientific and design discipline of a new type, based on a systemic methodology and an activity approach. On the basis of the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Technical Aesthetics, founded in 1962, a productive integration of design and ergonomics tools was fulfilled; a direction was formed, which would later be called ergodesign. Special interdisciplinary research, projects and developments were organized where specialists from different fields of knowledge studying the human nature participated. In the process of these events the ideas of various disciplines were synthesized. A significant part of the research in the field of ergodesign in the period of 1960s-1980s was carried out within the framework of a closed problem in the field of space ergonomics and defence technology. Some of the solutions in the field of space ergonomics and defence technology related to the developments conversion in the post-Soviet period are discussed in this article.

Purposes and Structures of Canadian Hospital-Based Research: Results of a National Survey

1996 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Dan W. Harper ◽  
Patricia A. O'Hara ◽  
Jeannine Sigouin
Keyword(s):  
National Survey ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Canadian Hospital ◽  
Research Results ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status ◽  
Almost All ◽  
University Affiliation

Little is known about the current extent, purpose and organization of research within Canadian hospitals. As hospitals face the challenge of reorganization, such information would seem essential. To explore this issue, the authors surveyed Canadian hospitals with more than 100 beds. The results, reported here, reveal that almost all of responding hospitals had engaged in some form of research in the previous 12 months, although the type and number of research projects tended to vary with the size of hospital and the status of university affiliation. The study also found that most hospitals have resources specifically dedicated to research, conduct ethical reviews and engage in interdisciplinary research. The vast majority of respondents felt that hospital-based research would assume more importance in the future.

scholarly journals HUNGARIANS OF TRANSCARPATHIA IN RELATIONS BETWEEN UKRAINE AND HUNGARY AT THE TURN OF THE XX-XXI CENTURIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 316-327
Author(s):  
Efim Iosifovich Pivovar ◽  
Alexander Stanislavovich Levchenkov ◽  
Alexander Vladimirovich Gushchin
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Period ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media ◽  
Hungarian Population ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The article is devoted to the influence of the problem of the status and situation of the Hungarian population of the Transcarpathian region of modern Ukraine on the Ukrainian-Hungarian relations. Based on a wide range of sources - legislative acts, interstate agreements and other diplomatic documents, statements of politicians and public figures, published in the Hungarian and Ukrainian press, as well as in the media of other countries, the dynamics of changes in the approaches of the two countries to the Hungarian issue in Transcarpathia throughout the post-Soviet period is studied. The prerequisites and reasons for the aggravation of relations between Ukraine and Hungary in the 2010s are determined, including both the features of the historical, cultural and socio-economic development of Transcarpathia itself, and the transformation of the political systems of the two countries. The key factors that provoked the acute Ukrainian-Hungarian crisis in the mid-second half of the 2010s were the educational and language policy of Kiev, aimed at Ukrainization, as well as the refusal to make concessions on the autonomy of the Hungarians of Transcarpathia. At the same time, the issue of Transcarpathian Hungarians is only part of a larger problem of Ukrainian domestic and foreign policy - an attempt to form an ethnocentric model in a multicultural society.

scholarly journals Influence of Turkey on the policy of neutrality and foreign policy of Turkmenistan (1995–2016)

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-58
Author(s):  
Nurbibi Kh. Khudaiberdieva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
External Influence ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
The Status ◽  
Regional Leaders ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The paper analyzes the attitude of Turkey to the policy of neutrality of Turkmenistan in the period from 1995 to 2016. Based on the geopolitical situation in the Central Asian region in the post-Soviet period, the author identifies the reasons for Turkmenistan’s adoption of a neutral status. Among the reasons for this decision by the Turkmen leadership are the deterioration of the situation in the region, the desire of the great powers and regional leaders to strengthen their positions in Central Asia, including in the energy sector, Turkey’s active position in the post-Soviet period aimed at developing political, energy, and humanitarian contacts, and the desire of The Niyazov regime to limit external influence on the country’s internal and foreign policy. The author noted the influence of the status of neutrality on the implementation of Turkmenistan’s foreign policy and the attitude of Turkey to this process. In the development of Turkmenistan’s neutrality policy in 1995–2016, two stages can be conditionally distinguished: the first is 1995–2006 when the policy of neutrality bordering on isolationism, which seriously limited Turkey’s contacts with Turkmenistan; the second is 2007–2016 when the expansion of cooperation between Turkmenistan and Turkey, including in the security sphere. In the 2007–2016 Turkey sought to expand its geopolitical influence over Turkmenistan by maintaining its neutrality, which led to the formation of a close political and economic dialogue between Ankara and Ashgabat.

The risks of social adaptation of servicemen transferred to the reserve, to the conditions of civilian life in Russia and strategies to overcome them

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Razov ◽  
Sergey Evenko
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Civilian Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Military ◽  
Post Soviet Period

It analyzes the risks of social adaptation to civil life in Russia — one of the main difficulties of servicemen transferred to the reserve — as well as strategies to overcome them. The urgency of studying this problem by sociologists due to the importance of sociological understanding of specific social adaptation of discharged military personnel and caused by the process problems, because their solution depends not only social and professional well-being of the social group, but also the status of the military in Russian society, the prestige of military service, much lower in the post-Soviet period. Designed for graduate students, researchers interested in the sociology of risk.

scholarly journals The Status of Livestock of the Inhabitants of the Villages of Seitovo and Timshinyakovo at the End of the 20th Century (Preliminary Results of Study)

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2 (26)) ◽  
pp. 129-139
Author(s):  
Marina N. Tikhomirova
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Rural Population ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Farm Animals ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Livestock Breeding ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Village ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The article summarizes and comprehends quantitative data that make it possible to assess the state of livestock in personal subsidiary farms of the rural population in the conditions of the economy of the post-Soviet period. The text analyzes the dynamics of numbers for all types of farm animals and poultry kept in the inhabitants farms of the villages of Seitovo and Timshinyakovo in absolute and average terms (per 1 household). Also, these data are compared with similar indicators for other settlements of the Samsonovo rural administration. In conclusion, it is concluded that in the 1990s among all the settlements of the Samsonovo rural administration, livestock breeding was most developed in the Tatar settlements of Isheevo, Seitovo and Sibilyakovo. In the inhabitants of the village of Timshinyakovo, livestock breeding decreased due to a decrease in the inhabitants.

Ārzemju ceļojumu iespaidi latviešu rakstnieku darbos t. s. „Brežņeva laikmetā”: liecības par atļauto un liegto

2021 ◽  
pp. 119-136
Author(s):  
Jānis Oga
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
American Anthropologist ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Status ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Bear Witness ◽  
Post Soviet Period

This paper examines travels outside the Soviet Union by Latvian writers who were recognised by the occupation regime and acclaimed by the public during the Brezhnev era –from the 1960s into the 1980s – as one of the privileges enjoyed by the so-called creative intelligentsia, and how those travels were reflected in their literary and journalistic writings. The writers studied were born between 1910 and 1939 and can be seen as belonging to three different generations. The generational differences have a significant impact on how their experiences were treated in their works. Some of the texts considered in this paper are manifestations of their authors’ authentic creativity, whilst others exhibit obeisance to the status quo of their time and obligatory praise for the regime. But can a line between the two be clearly drawn? What were the goals and possibilities for travel among recognized and materially secure writers? What were they permitted to tell those readers who had no such travel opportunities? How did the notes they published in periodicals differ from the versions that later appeared in books? The methodological basis for this paper is the work of Alexei Yurchak, a Russian-born American anthropologist who provides a unique understanding of the concept of ‘the abroad’ (заграница) in the Soviet Union as demarcating not actual borders or territory but an imagined space, and the insights of the Canadian historian Anne E. Gorsuch about Soviet tourism abroad. Gorsuch has studied how Soviet citizens internalised Soviet norms and supported Soviet goals, but also the attempts by tourists to evade official constraints on their experience in foreign lands and how they sought to devise their own individual itineraries. Journeys abroad elicited conflicting emotions. Writers had to be comparatively affluent to travel, but they often experienced humiliation when confronted with the reality of their meager financial means outside the U.S.S.R. and the fact that they remained in durance even in the free world. Versions of their writings published in the post-Soviet period and later commentaries bear witness to episodes that could not be described in the Brezhnev era as well as self-censorship.

Unexpectedness

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John-Carlos Perea ◽  
Jacob E. Perea
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
State University ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Short Survey ◽  
Wide Range

The concepts of expectation, anomaly, and unexpectedness that Philip J. Deloria developed in Indians in Unexpected Places (2004) have shaped a wide range of interdisciplinary research projects. In the process, those terms have changed the ways it is possible to think about American Indian representation, cosmopolitanism, and agency. This article revisits my own work in this area and provides a short survey of related scholarship in order to reassess the concept of unexpectedness in the present moment and to consider the ways my deployment of it might change in order to better meet the needs of my students. To begin a process of engaging intergenerational perspectives on this subject, the article concludes with an interview with Dr. Jacob E. Perea, dean emeritus of the Graduate College of Education at San Francisco State University and a veteran of the 1969 student strikes that founded the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University.

Russian Parliamentarism Party Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 245-255
Author(s):  
Rostislav F. Turovsky
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Managerial Positions ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The article is devoted to the study of the party model of Russian parliamentarism in post-soviet period. The focus is on the issues of party representation and its correlation with the distribution of the managerial positions and introduction of collective legislation at State Duma. These issues are examined from the point of view of reaching cross-party consensus and implementation of fair parliament party representation principle. According to the author Russian parliamentarism model aims at reaching full-fledged party consensus that corresponds better to the principles of popular representation than strict parliament polarization along the line of “authority-opposition”. Understanding of those issues by the majority of the players was noted from the very start of the State Duma activities, in spite of the acute conflicts in the 1990-ies.The author draws the conclusion that the equation of party representation continues to grow at the level of managerial positions in the parliament that allows to improve cooperation of the parties and to reduce authority and opposition conflicts. Thereby the Russian parliamentarism model makes an important contribution to the stabilization of socio-political situation of the country.

POST-SOVIET CITY AS A PALIMPSEST

2020 ◽  
pp. 48-68
Author(s):  
Elena A. Kosovan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
The Coordinator ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The author of the publication reviews the photobook “Palimpsests”, published in 2018 in the publishing house “Ad Marginem Press” with the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. The book presents photos of post-Soviet cities taken by M. Sher. Preface, the author of which is the coordinator of the “Democracy” program of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Russia N. Fatykhova, as well as articles by M. Trudolyubov and K. Bush, which accompany these photos, contain explanation of the peculiarities of urban space formation and patterns of its habitation in the Soviet Union times and in the post-Soviet period. The author of the publication highly appreciates the publication under review. Analyzing the photographic works of M. Sher and their interpretation undertaken in the articles, the author of the publication agrees with the main conclusions of N. Fatykhova, M. Trudolyubov and K. Bush with regards to the importance of the role of the state in the processes of urban development and urbanization in the Soviet and post-Soviet space, but points out that the second factor that has a key influence on these processes is ownership relations. The paper positively assesses the approach proposed by the authors of the photobook to the study of the post-Soviet city as an architectural and landscape palimpsest consisting mainly of two layers, “socialist” and “capitalist”. The author of the publication specifically emphasizes the importance of analyzing the archetypal component of this palimpsest, pointing out that the articles published in the reviewed book do not pay sufficient attention to this issue. Particular importance is attributed by the author to the issue of metageography of post-Soviet cities and meta-geographical approach to their exploration. Emphasizing that the urban palimpsest is a system of realities, each in turn including a multitude of ideas, meanings, symbols, and interpretations, the author points out that the photobook “Palimpsests” is actually an invitation to a scientific game with space, which should start a new direction in the study of post-Soviet urban space.

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