Assessment of Social Environment Competitiveness in Terms of Security in the Baltic Capitals

Personal security is one of the many factors that must be assessed comprehensively when planning an urban competitiveness strategy. The aim of this article is to assess the competitive position of the social environment of cities in terms of security with regard to time and other competing cities. Having conducted a systemic and comparative analysis of the concepts published in the scientific literature, we analysed the concepts of sustainable cities and the social environment, reviewed the particularities of urban competitiveness, conducted research into the methods of assessing urban competitiveness, and presented an integrated assessment model (MDK) of social environment competitiveness in terms of security in the Baltic capitals. The following research methodology was used: systemic and comparative analysis of concepts and methods published in the scientific literature, statistical processing and multicriteria assessment methods. The results of the study can be used as a tool to determine the competitive position of a city in terms of time and other competing cities, a tool to identify factors that strengthen or weaken the sustainable competitiveness of cities, a tool to justify strategic decisions of cities, and a tool to determine the effectiveness of the strategic decisions taken.

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ESTIMATING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE PERMAFROST CARBON FEEDBACK

Climate Change Economics ◽

10.1142/s2010007817500087 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 08 (02) ◽

pp. 1750008 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

LOUISE KESSLER

Keyword(s):

Greenhouse Gas Emission ◽

Damage Function ◽

Integrated Assessment Model ◽

Assessment Model ◽

Baseline Scenario ◽

Temperature Changes ◽

Emission Pathway ◽

Global Mean Temperature ◽

The Social ◽

Very High

The permafrost carbon feedback (PCF) is not currently taken into account in economic assessments of climate change, yet it could have important implications for the social cost of carbon (SCC) and the associated choice of the optimal greenhouse gas emission pathway. Although this feedback is still imperfectly known, there are enough estimates of its potential strength to now include it in our assessments. In this paper, I present a model of the PCF and integrate this feedback in the DICE Integrated Assessment Model to examine its consequences. I find that doing so increases the SCC by 10–20% in the baseline scenario, but that this impact is much more significant in the case of a damage function which is more reactive to very high temperature changes, and can reach up to 220%. It follows that setting industrial emission targets without taking into account this feedback would lead to excessive atmospheric carbon: I find that it increases the optimal emission control rate by circa 5% points on average over the period 2015–2110 and that this difference becomes much more significant when the constraint of limiting the increase in global mean temperature to [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text] is added to the model.

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On Mystical Metamorphosis in Christianity and Islam: Dante’s Divine Comedy and Rumi’s Masnavi in Comparative Perspective

CLEaR ◽

10.1515/clear-2016-0010 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 16-24

Author(s):

Nour Seblini

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Present Article ◽

Social Environment ◽

Divine Comedy ◽

Comparative Perspective ◽

Complex Nature ◽

Human Beings ◽

Clash Of Civilizations ◽

The Social ◽

Islam And Christianity

Abstract Journey emerges in multiple faces in literature. But when this substantial subset of quests adopts the mystical aspect, it creates a mystery that triggers the discovery sense in human beings. The present article develops a comparative analysis on the complex nature of mystical metamorphosis as expressed in two of the most influential writings of the East and West: Rumi’s Masnavi and Dante’s Divine Comedy. The first part discusses the concept of mysticism and poetry, and reveals the nature of their connection. The second part of this work investigates the historical setting of Dante’s and Rumi’s lives in relation to the social environment of the time. The last part emphasizes the idea of mystical metamorphosis as expressed in the Divine Comedy and Masnavi through two fundamental vehicles: love and faith. This work demonstrates how, in a world rife with wars and misery, mysticism provides a vital key to building a strong bridge between Islam and Christianity, and on a larger scale, to metamorphosizing the “clash of civilizations” into a “confluence of civilizations”.

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STUDENTS SOCIAL HEALTH FORMATION IN THE CONDITIONS OF DISTANCE LEARNING

Педагогічні науки теорія історія інноваційні технології ◽

10.24139/2312-5993/2020.09/098-109 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9(103) (9(103)) ◽

pp. 98-109

Author(s):

Nataliia Bakhmat ◽

Keyword(s):

Distance Learning ◽

Social Environment ◽

Scientific Literature ◽

Social Health ◽

Self Organization ◽

Psychological Barriers ◽

The Social ◽

Barriers To Communication ◽

Modern Technologies

The article analyzes the theoretical aspects of the students’ social health formation in terms of distance learning, substantiates the issues covered in the scientific literature on improving the level of social health of students. It is established that formation of students’ social health in the conditions of distance learning depends on their readiness to fully realize themselves in society, the ability to unleash their potential in all areas of the social environment, the ability to apply modern technologies for learning and the ability to overcome psychological barriers to communication with a teacher, peers and self-organization.

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Better Understanding the Population Size and Stigmatization of Psychologists Using Questionable Research Practices

10.31234/osf.io/3v7hx ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nicholas William Fox ◽

Nathan Honeycutt ◽

Lee Jussim

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Data Collection ◽

Social Environment ◽

Scientific Literature ◽

Scale Up ◽

Research Practices ◽

Questionable Research Practices ◽

The Past ◽

The Social ◽

Insight Into

There has been low confidence in the replicability and reproducibility of published psychological findings. Previous work has demonstrated that a population of psychologists exists that have used questionable research practices (QRPs), or behaviors during data collection, analysis, and publication that can increase the number of false-positive findings in the scientific literature. The present work sought to estimate the current size of the QRP using population of American psychologists and to identify if this sub-population of scientists is stigmatized. Using a direct estimator, we estimate 18.8% of American psychologists have used at least one QRP in the past 12 months. This estimate rises to 24.40% when using the generalized network scale up estimator, an estimating method that utilizes the academic social networks of participants. Furthermore, attitudes of psychologists towards QRP users, and observed behavioral data collected from self-reported QRP users suggest that QRP users are a stigmatized sub-population of psychologists. Together, these findings provide better insight into how many psychologists use questionable practices and how they exist in the social environment.

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Perception of the city in different groups of children residing in a megapolis: comparative analysis

Izvestiya of Saratov University New Series Series Educational Acmeology Developmental Psychology ◽

10.18500/2304-9790-2021-10-4-314-322 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 314-322

Author(s):

Tatiana V. Drobysheva ◽

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Maria Yu. Voytenko ◽

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Preschool Children ◽

Urban Environment ◽

Social Environment ◽

Environmental Problems ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Self Control ◽

Personal Agency ◽

The Social ◽

The City

The problem of interaction of preschool children with the urban environment is analyzed. The study appears to be of relevance due to its focus on children’s personal agency investigated through their perception of objects and phenomena of the social and physical space of the megalopolis. The study aims to perform a comparative analysis of how groups of children who differ in their modality and orientation of their attitude to the urban environment perceive the city. Presumably, there are differences in the perception of the megalopolis by preschool children. It is also assumed that there is correlation between the attitude of children to the city and the degree of their personal agency properties. The study involved 115 children aged 5.5 to 6.5 years old, living in full families, in two districts of Moscow (58% of them are girls, 42% of them are boys). The experts were teachers of preschool institutions attended by the respondents. Psychodiagnostic tools were used including a semi-structured interview, a drawing test "The City Where I Live", the methodology "Peculiarities of Manifestation of the Preschoolers’ Will" (R.M. Gevorkyan), the scale "autonomy" of the methodology "Typology of Subject Regulation of the Child" (S. V. Khusainova and G. S. Prygin), and a questionnaire. The results of the research demonstrate that children differ in their orientation and modality of attitude to objects and phenomena of the social, natural, objective and spatial environment of the city, and in their attitude to environmental problems of the city and orientation towards their solution. The selectivity and scope of the perception of the urban environment depends on the meaning which children attribute to these objects and phenomena, as well as on personal experience of interacting with them. The importance of the social environment of the city is associated with children’s pronounced independence and self-control; the negative modality of attitude to objects and phenomena of the social environment is associated with reduced self-control of behavior. The increased attention of children to the environmental problems of the city is due to the upbringing by grandparents. The research shows that in conditions of limited interaction with objects and phenomena of the urban environment, children compensate for the lack of experience with fantasies about a fabulous and ideal city. The results of the study can be used to identify priorities in the field of social policy in relation to children at the stage of early socialization, as well as when making decisions on optimizing the urban environment which is friendly to children.

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The Prevalence of Adolescent Depression in Modern Russian Society

Scientific Research and Development Socio-Humanitarian Research and Technology ◽

10.12737/2306-1731-2021-10-3-80-84 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 80-84

Author(s):

T. Bonkalo ◽

S. Hromov ◽

E. Zhuravleva

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Empirical Study ◽

Social Environment ◽

Empirical Data ◽

Adolescent Depression ◽

Modern Society ◽

Russian Society ◽

The Social ◽

Depressive States ◽

Modern Russian

One of the pressing problems of modern society is the problem of teenage depression. The article presents the results of an empirical study, which involved 600 adolescents aged 15-16 years. The aim of the study was to analyze the prevalence of depressive conditions in modern adolescents. As a result of a comparative analysis of the empirical data obtained with the data of other studies, it was concluded that at present in adolescence, manifestations of depressive states are quite frequent, while objective changes in the social environment lead to an increase in the frequency and intensity of depressiveness indicators.

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An Integrated Competitiveness Assessment of the Baltic Capitals Based on the Principles of Sustainable Development

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13073764 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (7) ◽

pp. 3764

Author(s):

Renata Činčikaitė ◽

Ieva Meidute-Kavaliauskiene

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Ecological Factors ◽

Assessment Model ◽

Urban Hierarchy ◽

Urban Competitiveness ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Environment And Development ◽

The Baltic

The competition between cities involves the search for different ways and means to create, attract, sustain, and use diverse resources, knowledge, ideas, and innovations to support the economic growth of each individual city and, as a result, to strengthen the city’s position in the urban hierarchy both short-term and long-term. However, for each city, urbanisation does not only mean an increase in competitive economic power but also a number of problems such as pollution, poverty, crime and unemployment. In order to address the challenges posed by the urbanisation processes, the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) issued the 1987 Report that emphasised the need for sustainable socio-economic development that would also consider ecological factors. Given this, the article examines the issue of urban competitiveness on the basis of sustainable development principles. After a systematic and comparative analysis of the concepts published in the scientific literature, this article accomplishes the following: It defines the concept of competitiveness in urban areas; it identifies the inclusion aspects of the sustainable development principles into the assessment of urban competitiveness; it presents the research into urban competitiveness assessment models; and it carries out an integrated competitiveness assessment of the Baltic capitals in the period of 2014–2019 based on the principles of sustainable development by applying the integrated competitiveness assessment model that is based on the principles of sustainable development (MDK).

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