THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO ENSURING THE SERVICEABILITY OF VEHICLES IN CONDITIONS OF LOW LEVEL OF RENEWAL OF THE VEHICLE FLEET

Background. Organizational behavior plays a significant role in the effectiveness of enterprises specializing in nanotechnology. Its negative side – counterproductive work behavior (CWB) – has not been analyzed sufficiently in this industry. We evaluated different theoretical approaches to this problem. Objective. To estimate the predominant forms of counterproductive work behavior in relation to dimensions such as the intensity of the nanotechnology industry, seniority in the organization, and the age and gender of the subjects. Design. We used a descriptive exploratory methodology that analyzes the preponderance of counterproductive work behavior in profile companies throughout the Russian Federation. CWB was assessed through a self-report questionnaire and in-depth interview with each employee. The results were analyzed by correlation-regression analysis in SPSS. Results. We found significant correlations between the variables “intensity of the nanotechnology industry within the organization”, “seniority of employees within the organization”, “age of employees”, and the total score of CWB. Regarding the CWB dimensions, the highest average of the scores was obtained for “low level of conscientiousness” (mean = 21.75; SD = 2.9), followed closely by “low level of personal development” (mean = 20.53; SD = 3.09). Among the CWB dimensions, it seems that the conscientiousness of the employees plays a key role in the continuation of their professional activity and consequently in the increase of seniority in the organization. Conclusion. A professional difficulty can be perceived as a challenge by an employee with good physical and/or psychological resilience. Russian nanotechnology companies should evaluate their approach to dealing with employees and mitigate situations that might be unnecessarily stressful. From the data obtained through the semi-structured interview, we found that what happens in a work group is essential in the emergence of CWB. Organizations need clear policies that empower employees to deal with certain work tasks and with employees who engage in specific CWB.

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Conceptual bases of forming the regions’ economic security strategies

Regional Economy ◽

10.36818/1562-0905-2020-4-3 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 24-31

Author(s):

Yuliya V. Tymchyshyn

Keyword(s):

Growth Parameters ◽

Adaptive Strategies ◽

Economic Security ◽

Inclusive Development ◽

Economic Activities ◽

Active Growth ◽

Low Level ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

Security Indicators ◽

High Level

The article systematizes the existing theoretical approaches to revealing the essence of the definition "a region’s economic security strategy". The strategy of economic security should be a priority in ensuring the goals of inclusive development of regions, their competitiveness and stability. The order of development of this strategy includes: 1) forming the strategic goals of economic security of the region taking into account the management hierarchy; 2) strategic analysis of the external and internal security environment of the region; 3) identifying the strategy options; 4) determining the strategic alternatives and priorities of economic security of the region; 5) implementing the strategy; 6) monitoring the determinants of the economic security management process; 7) control; 8) adjustment of appropriate measures for economic security in the region. A number of new strategies are proposed: 1) of equalization and elimination of risks, threats, and dangers, 2) of growth and activation of growth poles; 3) of active growth; 4) of advanced safety-oriented development; 5) innovation-investment and adaptive strategies. Strategies for equalization and elimination of risks, threats, and dangers for areas with signs of depression and a critically low level of security are aimed at overcoming imbalances in the socio-economic system of the region and restoring positive economic growth parameters. Strategies for growth and activation of growth poles are focused on identifying profitable economic activities in the region, increasing innovation and investment, and overcoming the existing low level of economic security. Strategies of active growth provide for positive dynamics of development of the economic subsystem in the region and indicators of its security and increase of internal potential for an economic breakthrough. Strategies of advanced security-oriented development are typical for leading regions with a high level of development of the economic subsystem in the region and its security with a focus on the long-term increase of regional economic activity and security indicators. Innovation-investment and adaptive strategies are typical for the region with the highest level of economic security based on the adequacy of financial security and concentration of innovation and investment potential in the region.

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THE ISSUE ASSESSMENT OF ROAD TRANSPORT IN RUSSIA

Alternative energy sources in the transport-technological complex problems and prospects of rational use of ◽

10.12737/19482 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 641-646

Author(s):

Кузьмина ◽

N. Kuzmina ◽

Анциферова ◽

V. Antsiferova ◽

Ягодкин ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Road Safety ◽

Road Transport ◽

Remote Areas ◽

Low Level ◽

The Road ◽

Transport Services ◽

Current State ◽

Technical Production ◽

Vehicle Fleet ◽

High Level

The current state of the vehicle fleet in the aspects of road safety, the low level of develop-ment of the road network, a high level of harmful impact on the environment, lack of access to transport services in remote areas, the low-level of technical production base, ever-increasing cost of fuel and lubricants

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Age Features of the Socialisation of Children with Intellectual Disability in Special Psychological and Pedagogical Research

Scientific Bulletin of Mukachevo State University Series “Pedagogy and Psychology” ◽

10.52534/msu-pp.6(2).2020.173-184 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 173-184

Author(s):

Viktoriia Ye. Kovalenko

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Disability ◽

Social Development ◽

Intellectual Disabilities ◽

Theoretical Modelling ◽

Social Significance ◽

Low Level ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

Pedagogical Research ◽

Age Features ◽

Children With Intellectual Disability

Understanding the ontogenetic features of socialisation of children with intellectual disability is of great social significance. The purpose of the scientific article is to identify the age characteristics of socialisation of children with intellectual disability in special psychological and pedagogical research. In the course of the study, the following methods were used: analysis of general and special psychological and pedagogical literature; systematisation and generalisation of theoretical approaches to solving the problem of children with intellectual disabilities’ social development; definition of key concepts’ content; theoretical modelling to create a hypothetical model of socialisation of the child with intellectual disability at different ages. It was found that the socialisation of a personality with intellectual disability in preschool age was manifested in disorders of self-perception, decreased emotional sensitivity, ability to empathise, lack of understanding and adequate assessment of life situations, social skills’ disorders. Due to the existing behavioural disorders, younger students have a feeling of loneliness, lower social competence. The semantic sphere of adolescents with intellectual disability is manifested in the delayed development of semantic life orientations, low level of life satisfaction, unformed higher emotions, dominance of primitive interests, violations of self-control, dominance of low level of adaptation to the social environment. Senior students with intellectual disability have a distortion of self-awareness, which is manifested in undifferentiated and uncritical perceptions of adolescents about themselves, inadequate self-esteem. The established age features of children with intellectual disabilities’ social formation make it possible to work out a system of corrective influence on their social development taking into account the “structure of the disorder” based on the “bottom-up” correction principle

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Interaction Topologies in Mobile-Based Situated Networked Music Systems

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing ◽

10.1155/2019/9142490 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2019 ◽

pp. 1-9 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Benjamin Matuszewski ◽

Norbert Schnell ◽

Frederic Bevilacqua

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Framework ◽

Mobile Phones ◽

Short Description ◽

Multiple Point ◽

Web Browser ◽

Low Level ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

Networked Music ◽

Technical Framework ◽

Complete Framework

In this paper, we present a complete framework, both technical and conceptual, aimed at developing and analysing Networked Music Systems. After a short description of our technical framework called soundworks, a JavaScript library especially designed for collective music interaction using web browser of mobile phones, we introduce a new conceptual framework, we named interaction topologies, that aims at providing a generic tool for the description of interaction in such systems. Our proposition differs from the theoretical approaches generally proposed in the literature by decoupling the description of interaction topologies from the low level technical implementation of the network. We then report on a set of scenarios and prototypes, illustrating and assessing our framework, which were successfully deployed in several public installations and performances. We particularly show that our concept of interaction topologies succeeds at describing and analysing global aspects of interaction from multiple point of views (e.g., social, human-computer) by allowing for composing simple abstract figures. We finally introduce a discussion on agencies and perception of users engaged in such systems that could later complete our framework to conceive and analyse Networked Music Systems.

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Theoretical Approaches to Inflation Expectation Management Justification in Today’s Russia

Moscow University Economics Bulletin ◽

10.38050/01300105201462 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2014 (6) ◽

pp. 35-51

Author(s):

Ilya Gurov

Keyword(s):

Economic Environment ◽

Inflation Expectations ◽

Economic Agents ◽

Low Level ◽

Inflation Expectation ◽

The Past ◽

Inflation Forecasts ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

Expectation Management ◽

The Subject

Inflation expectations significantly influence economic environment. During the past decades there was high and unstable inflation and systematic excess and mismatch between actual inflation and official forecasts in Russia. At present economic agents have low level of trust in official inflation forecasts. The subject of the research are inflation expectations in Russia. The aim of the research is to justify the possibility of inflation expectation management provision in Russia. The article shows that currently, nowadays inflation expectations are predominantly adaptive in Russia. Nevertheless, inflation reduction and stabilization in 2011-2013 can become the basis for inflation expectations anchor provision and perceived inflation uncertainty minimization.

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ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ЕМОЦІЙНОЇ СФЕРИ СТУДЕНТІВ ТЕХНІЧНОГО ЗВО З РІЗНИМ РІВНЕМ ПСИХОЛОГІЧНОЇ ЗРІЛОСТІ

Humanities journal ◽

10.32620/gch.2018.2.12 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 113-119

Author(s):

Н. Л. Калайтан ◽

А. О. Макаренко ◽

Т. П. Старовойт

Keyword(s):

Emotional Intelligence ◽

Cognitive Activity ◽

General Level ◽

Low Level ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

Reactive Anxiety ◽

Personal Anxiety ◽

Psychological Maturity ◽

The Individual ◽

High Level

The article is devoted to the problem of psychological maturity of the individual. The basic theoretical approaches to the phenomenon of maturity of the person are considered.The concept of «maturity» correlates with the study of existential aspects of human life and is considered from the point of view of its significance for society. In the course of ontogeny, maturity acts as a criterion and a condition for the successful development of various social roles, statuses, biological and socially determined functions. Psychological maturity is defined in the narrow sense as an indicator of the work of sensory, mnemonic and intellectual functions of a person; in the broad sense – as a period of conscious regulation by a person of his own behavior, which involves the realization of man as a person.There are two main approaches to understanding the structure of psychological maturity of the individual. According to the first approach, the concept of mature personality can be described by such properties as synergy, autonomy, responsibility, contact, self-acceptance, decentralization, tolerance, depth of experiences, life philosophy and creativity. According to the second approach, the structural model of the person’s psychological maturity, which consists of cognitive, motivational and behavioral components, is considered. Formation of conditions for psychological maturity is an important task for mental development in youth.The article presents the results of studying the features of emotional sphere of students with different levels of psychological maturity. In the group of boys and girls with a high level of psychological maturity, emotional profiles dominated the emotions of interest and joy. Moderate levels of personal anxiety and reactive anxiety were diagnosed. Indicators of aggressiveness and hostility are slightly higher than average values. The dominant man infestation of aggression is a verbal form. Sufficient development of emotional intelligence for students with a high level of psychological maturity is revealed.In boys and girls with a low level of psychological maturity, the main emotions were interest, joy and shame. High levels of personal anxiety and reactive anxiety are revealed, as well as the general level of aggressiveness. The results of the study of emotional intelligence indicate low values for all scales, which in sum form the low integrative values.At a high level of psychological maturity, boys and girls are characterized by a higher level of cognitive activity, emotional stability, and developed emotional intelligence. On the contrary, boys and girls with a low level of psychological maturity are more likely to prevail in the emotional profile of negative emotional experiences, anxiety, negativism and self-inducing reactions.

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Tryptophan-Niacin Metabolism in Rat with Puromycin Aminonucleoside-Induced Nephrosis

International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research ◽

10.1024/0300-9831.76.1.28 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 76 (1) ◽

pp. 28-33 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Yukari Egashira ◽

Shin Nagaki ◽

Hiroo Sanada

Keyword(s):

Body Weight ◽

Urinary Excretion ◽

Enzyme Activities ◽

Treated Group ◽

Control Group ◽

Puromycin Aminonucleoside ◽

Low Level ◽

Key Enzyme

We investigated the change of tryptophan-niacin metabolism in rats with puromycin aminonucleoside PAN-induced nephrosis, the mechanisms responsible for their change of urinary excretion of nicotinamide and its metabolites, and the role of the kidney in tryptophan-niacin conversion. PAN-treated rats were intraperitoneally injected once with a 1.0% (w/v) solution of PAN at a dose of 100 mg/kg body weight. The collection of 24-hour urine was conducted 8 days after PAN injection. Daily urinary excretion of nicotinamide and its metabolites, liver and blood NAD, and key enzyme activities of tryptophan-niacin metabolism were determined. In PAN-treated rats, the sum of urinary excretion of nicotinamide and its metabolites was significantly lower compared with controls. The kidneyα-amino-β-carboxymuconate-ε-semialdehyde decarboxylase (ACMSD) activity in the PAN-treated group was significantly decreased by 50%, compared with the control group. Although kidney ACMSD activity was reduced, the conversion of tryptophan to niacin tended to be lower in the PAN-treated rats. A decrease in urinary excretion of niacin and the conversion of tryptophan to niacin in nephrotic rats may contribute to a low level of blood tryptophan. The role of kidney ACMSD activity may be minimal concerning tryptophan-niacin conversion under this experimental condition.

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