scholarly journals Direct Economic Inputs from Internationally Funded Science Projects to the Abaco Islands, The Bahamas

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Layman ◽  
Olivia Patterson Maura ◽  
Sean T. Giery ◽  
Jacob E. Allgeier ◽  
Andrew L. Rypel
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
The Bahamas ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Major Equipment ◽  
Business Sectors

International expenditures for scientific research are important for small island developing nations, especially for those local communities that directly support research activities. We used the Abaco Islands, The Bahamas, as a case study to quantify the direct monetary inputs to a local economy via internationally-funded scientific research. We found that over two years the external monetary influx was $995,310, via 24 research teams, that was spent across diverse business sectors on Abaco. A direct survey approach ensured this was a conservative estimate, leaving out numerous indirect economic impacts, thereby suggesting the actual monetary infusion was significantly higher. The highest expenditures were for services (e.g., local salaries and boat guides), lodging, food/drink, and major equipment (e.g., vehicles). In addition to the research-based contributions that give rise to conservation and management decision-making, scientific activity brings benefits through the injection of money into local island economies. This relationship warrants study at larger regional scales, including across The Bahamas archipelago.

scholarly journals Experience and Problems of Increasing the Efficiency of Scientific Activity of National Libraries

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir R. Firsov
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
National Library ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Research Function ◽  
National Libraries

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the further development and increase of the efficiency of scientific research and scientific-methodical activity as the main type of activity of the National Libraries (NL). There is presented the analysis of the legal basis of the research function of NL — legislation in the field of librarianship, science and scientific and technological policy. The author considers the reflection of this function in the Statutes of NL of different times and stages of development. The article reveals the modern forms of institutionalization of scientific activity and scientometric approach to assessing the efficiency of scientific institutions. The author records the necessity of comparative analysis of the legal substantiation of the forms of organization and content of scientific activity of the National libraries of different countries. The author analyses domestic and foreign sources on this problem, as well as determines the scope of missing information for more profound and comprehensive assessment of the current state of research activities of NL. To this end, the author examines the official websites of the libraries and reveals the following results. Most of NL are engaged in scientific research. Based on the analysis, the article substantiates the conclusion about the presence of general trends in their content, corresponding to the modern requirements of socio-economic and cultural development. The author presents the conclusion on the need to develop scientific activity of the National Library of Russia in accordance with the “Concept of Development of the National Library of Russia for 2018—2025”. The article analyses the normative and regulatory documents of domestic and foreign NL, as well as the experience of domestic and foreign researchers over the past 20 years, which proves the important place and role of scientific research in the activities of the modern NL. The conducted analysis will contribute to improving the efficiency of scientific activities of NL, strengthening of their role as a scientific and methodological centre for the Central libraries of the Russian Federation, as well as the role of regional libraries in the formation of the research space and the environment of professional scientific communications.

Geography and Statistics: On the Anniversary of the Russian Geographical Society

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-104
Author(s):  
E. S. Zavarina
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Geographical Society ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Historical Relationship

The article is dedicated to the anniversary of the Russian Geographical Society (RGS), primarily to the interaction between geography and statistics. The author examined in detail the evolution and stages of this interaction, noting that since its foundation, despite all the political storms, the Society has not ceased its activities, preserved continuity and traditions established by its founders.The article opens with the analysis of the historical background and economic prerequisites for the foundation of geographical societies worldwide. The author gives a detailed account of the founding history of the Russian Geographical Society (following in the footsteps of France, Germany and England), focusing on trials and tribulations that accompanied the foundation and naming of the Society. The author provides biographical information on statesmen and scholars who are founders and organizers of the RGS, describes the functions specified in the Charter. One of the four branches in the structure of the RGS was the department «Statistics», which allowed the author in the following sections to consider the interaction between statistics and geography.A separate section of the article addresses the historical relationship between geography and statistics, which has resulted in the development of a methodological and analytical tool for management decision-making on social and economic development of countries and regions. The article also describes a new direction of scientific activity in the world «Regional science», combining a multitude of sciences into its research, including statistics, economic geography and demography. In conclusion, in the twentieth century, statistics and geography were within the same scientific discipline, complementing and enriching one another and giving an impetus to social development.The article concludes with information on the celebration of the 175th anniversary of the Russian Geographical Society in the Russian Federation and prospects for the development of a modern public organization.

Development of Methods to Increase the Efficiency of Management of Research and Research Activities of a Research and Production Enterprise

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-65
Author(s):  
V.S. Boldyrev
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
General Structure ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Research Management ◽  
Effective Strategy ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Automated Information System

The features of scientific activity of scientific and industrial enterprises are considered. The analysis of the functioning of a research and production enterprise in carrying out complex scientific research has been carried out. The contour of scientific research management is presented in the form of the main stages of the technological process of their implementation. The possibility of using the program-target approach as an effective strategy for managing research in solving complex and complex problems of a research and production enterprise is shown. An example of a matrix organizational structure of management is given as the most effective for the approach under consideration, with a description of the main stages. The use of automated information systems to improve the efficiency of research management is proposed. The diagram of the inclusion of an automated information system in the general structure of management of scientific research of the enterprise is shown. The described methods have been introduced in the NPO "Lakokraspokrytie" and are successfully used in the implementation of innovative projects for the development, design and commissioning of energy-saving painting lines, within the framework of one of which a painting line for freight cars was designed and put into operation JSC "SPC "Uralvagonzavod" in Nizhny Tagil city, which allows painting up to 16 thousand different modifications of freight cars per year

scholarly journals Errors in hypothesis as a methodological reflection subject of a teacher-researcher

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 11-42
Author(s):  
A. F. Zakirova
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Expert Assessment ◽  
Error Management ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Teacher Researcher ◽  
Methodological Reflection

Introduction. The present article outlines the results of a theoretical and practical study of the mechanisms of hypothesis in scientific research on the problems of education.The current research is aimed to study the methodological resources for improving the quality of scientific research on the problems of education through understanding the errors in hypothesising as a methodological reflection subject of a teacher-researcher.Methodology and research methods are based on an activity-personal approach to the cognition of the education process and on research activities to investigate this process. In addition, the following areas of modern pedagogical science are used as the methodological framework of the study: the study of the axiological and conceptual foundations of scientific activity with an appeal to the cultural and historical concept; a hermeneutic phenomenological approach aimed at updating the interpretive potential of scientific texts; classical methods of theoretical analysis and synthesis, deduction and induction, comparison, modelling and extrapolation as tools for studying the research activities of a teacher, as well as methods of expert assessment and included observation. The methodology is based on the criticism of the methodological concept of inductivism and involves the addition of a hypothetical-deductive method with the idea of prolonged end-to-end hypothesising, based on reflexive reassessment and prevention of meaning-making errors by the researcher.Results. As a result of the study, the mechanisms of trans-level conceptualisation of pedagogical knowledge in the process of working out the methodological apparatus of scientific research were revealed. In addition to the existing ones, unconventional - special - requirements for scientific hypotheses are justified, aimed at updating their prognostic and diagnostic functions. The systematisation of hypothesis errors was carried out, which makes it possible to regulate reflexive scientific and pedagogical search, to carry out feedback in the process of methodological preparation and self-education, and to stimulate the development of scientifically justified heuristic pedagogical solutions. Methodological resources and positive results of using knowledge about the productive possibilities of preventive error management activities in the practice of training teachers-researchers are shown: pedagogical goals and installations of research activities, principles, specific didactic means of formation of methodological competence and error management.Scientific novelty. The phenomenon of hypothesis error was first described in the context of the conceptualisation and interconnection of elements of the methodological apparatus of scientific research, taking into account the prolongation, cumulativeness and trans-level of the hypothesis nomination process as a regulator of scientific search.Practical significance. The research results are recommended to be applied in the preparation of curricula for the course “Methodology of Scientific and Pedagogical Research” and as didactic material for academic studies in the process of teacher-researcher training in the framework of master’s, postgraduate, doctoral and postgraduate self-education. The proposed typology of hypothesis errors is used in the development of methodological requirements for the scientific level of dissertation studies on the problems of education.

scholarly journals MOTIVES AND MOTIVATION OF STUDENTS OF HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS TO RESEARCH ACTIVITY AND WAYS OF ITS INCREASE

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 152
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Notchenko ◽  
Yuriy Dyatlov
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Higher Educational Institutions ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
Participation In Research

This article examines and summarizes the views of the authors involved in the study of student participation in research activities. The concept of "motivation for research activity" is specified, the content of scientific research as a special type of intellectual activity of a person is characterized. Further, the authors on the basis of the method of interviewing collected, analyzed and summarized the material, which allowed to identify the motives that encourage students of higher educational institutions to participate in activities of a scientific and research nature. The main motives were defined: the remunerations received by the student as a result of participation in scientific research; the desire to realize the existing abilities for scientific activity; disclosure of other abilities or satisfaction of other needs for which research activity is a means to achieve goals. Also, the authors identified the lack of interest on the part of students to research activities, formulated and justified the reasons for the lack of motivation of students to this activity. According to the results of the study, recommendations were developed, the introduction of which in the educational process will increase the motivation of students to research activities carried out independently or under the guidance of experienced teachers and researchers of higher educational institutions. 

Centralization and Effectiveness of Reward Management in Multinational Enterprises

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Tekieli ◽  
Marion Festing ◽  
Xavier Baeten
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Multinational Enterprises ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Role Identities ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Subsidiary Managers ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Based on responses from 158 reward managers located at the headquarters or subsidiaries of multinational enterprises, the present study examines the relationship between the centralization of reward management decision making and its perceived effectiveness in multinational enterprises. Our results show that headquarters managers perceive a centralized approach as being more effective, while for subsidiary managers this relationship is moderated by the manager’s role identity. Referring to social identity theory, the present study enriches the standardization versus localization debate through a new perspective focusing on psychological processes, thereby indicating the importance of in-group favoritism in headquarters and the influence of subsidiary managers’ role identities on reward management decision making.

Emergency management decision-making during severe weather

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh A. Baumgart ◽  
Ellen J. Bass ◽  
Brenda Philips ◽  
Kevin Kloesel
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Severe Weather ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Management Decision Making

Providing additional education services for children: Challenges and solutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 675-687
Author(s):  
Yu.I. Brodovskaya ◽  
T.A. Smirnova
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Education Services ◽  
Supplementary Education ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Additional Education ◽  
Sociological Studies ◽  
Municipal Level

Subject. This article considers the issues of provision of supplementary education services for children and methodological tools for the formation of educational environment. Objectives. The article aims to assess the level of development of the system of supplementary education of children in Krasnoyarsk and offer a methodological approach to improving the management decision-making procedure in the formation of a portfolio of supplementary education services at the municipal level. Methods. For the study, we used the methods of theoretical, empirical, and logistic analyses, and sociological studies. Results. The article offers concrete solutions to the lack of a methodological approach to providing supplementary education services, considering one of the micro-districts of Krasnoyarsk as a case in point. It also offers tools that can be used by public authorities to organize educational space at the municipal level. Conclusions. A unified methodological approach should be used to provide a system of supplementary education, taking into account financial means, as well as differentiation in the distribution of educational facilities throughout the area. The relevance of the set of supplementary education services and consumer preferences should be taken into account, as well.

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