Humanistic Mentoring in Graduate Education

In a global health pandemic context, a group 16 of education Master's students met voluntarily with their tutors in a virtual research support seminar, during the Saturday mornings of the first and second semester of 2020. This study aimed to know to what extent did mentoring and human tutoring characteristics emerge in a virtual research seminar experience. Through a qualitative research approach that included the analysis of the conversations and dialogues of the recorded sessions, insights showed that some of these characteristics emerged naturally along with the sessions, but as time passed, emotional and personal aspects were appearing more often than some others, showing that students felt more comfortable talking about themselves and supporting their classmates, as well as expressing their academic doubts and project thoughts freely because of humanistic tutoring approach. Most of them achieved the goal of finishing their project chapters on time. The humanistic and professional characteristics of teachers emerged as the main factors to develop this humanistic tutoring approach.

Peripheral realism of Carlos Escudé

In this article the author analyzes a theoretical direction called “Peripheral Realism”, which has arisen within the scope of neorealism in 1990s due to an acknowledged Argentinean political scientist Carlos Escudé. The author makes an attempt to provide a complex analysis of the original theory of 1992 and compares it with the modern realities of international relations. The author also conducts a comparative analysis of the original theory and its revised version of 2016, in order to trace the dynamics of its development. The main objective of the study is to establish whether the theory of peripheral realism can be attributed to the so-called ‘non-Western’ theories of international relations. First of all, the article is based on an in-depth analysis of the theoretical basis of Carlos Escudé’s peripheral realism theory on the basis of his main writings of 1992 and 1995, as well as an analysis of subsequent variations of the theory in 2012 and 2015. The study also uses a comparative analysis method, which contrasts the features and theoretical positions of the canonical ‘grand’ theories of international relations (especially realism and neo-realism, being the origins for the theory) and correlates them with those of the theory of peripheral realism in order to highlight the role and place of this theory in the configuration of Western and non-Western theories of international relations. The author concludes that the uniqueness of the concept comes from assessing reality from the point of ‘weaker’ and developing countries, which is not generally customary for Anglo-Saxon theories. This unique feature puts the concept of peripheral realism beyond the perceptions of the nature of world politics generally accepted in the research community. The study was originally drafted for the research seminar “Non-Western Theories of International Relations” of the Department of theory and history of international relations of RUDN University, as well as for the joint research seminar of RUDN and HSE University “Non-Western Theories of International Relations in a Polycentric World.”

Prospects of AI Implementation into Business Management Practices: a Survey (based on the materials of the Research Seminar on Digital Economy Studies at the Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov Moscow State University)

The article represents the survey of main results of the regular research seminar on digital economy studies at the Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov Moscow State University with the focus on artificial intelligence (AI). The survey includes the discussion on the AI concept itself, the assessment of AI impact on labor markets through the lens of human workforce substitution, and the summary of real and prospective directions of AI use by Russian companies. In particular, those directions include production, marketing, pricing, insurance, accounting and audit, security. The barriers for AI development in Russia are also identified.

Seminar on research results: the violation of the maxim of quantity produced by the undergraduate students at the english department STKIP YPUP Makassar

This study aims at analyzing the violation of the maxim of quantity produced by undergraduate students in research seminar and the reason why they violate this kind of maxim. The researchers applied qualitative research design by using observation and in-depth interview. Four undergraduate students were the participants of this research recruiting using purposive random sampling. The results show that most of the participants violated the maxim of quantity by doing circumlocution (not to the point), providing more explanation, and talking too much. They considered that it was valuable for them to provide more information than needed to obtain the attention of the examiners. They assume that the more they speak the good outcome for their research seminar will be accomplished because having more explanation means they master their research content well.

Crystallographic actions on Lie groups and post-Lie algebra structures

This survey on crystallographic groups, geometric structures on Lie groups and associated algebraic structures is based on a lecture given in the Ostrava research seminar in 2017.

DEVELOPMENT OF A WORKSHOP «A MODERN APPROACH TO THE MEANS FOR PREPARATION AND PUBLICATION OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS»

The article discusses the issues of educational and methodological development of a research seminar on the topic "Modern approach to the means of preparation and publication of scientific publications" for scientific and teaching staff and graduate students. The aim of the seminar is to master the full cycle of writing and publishing scientific publications using modern information and technical means.