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2022 ◽  
pp. 223-241
Author(s):  
José G. Vargas-Hernández

The present chapter analyzes two cases of a joint venture stage to determine the successes and failures undertaken by the PROMUSAG and Uber as a model and strategies of collaborative economies to improve the quality of life. First, it is analyzed PROMUSAG as a program to finance women entrepreneurship aimed to improve the quality of life and the second case aims to analyze the different strategies taken by Uber to join the global market successfully, positioning itself in different countries. The analysis concludes that the empirical knowledge of entrepreneurs, in this case were not sufficient to direct the business to success, and that the lack of structured knowledge and adequate scientific support for this project strongly directed towards the non-permanence on the market. Taking terms as work global, it is considered Uber as a technology-based company and sees it from an overall, same strategy refers to a strategy that follows the company having a worldwide standardized product, another issue that would revise the importance of the theory of institutions.


Author(s):  
Михайло Васильович Плєтньов

The need to implement a project to provide scientific support for financial planning for the development of territorial communities in eastern Ukraine is due to the presence of major risks arising from the military conflict and the COVID pandemic. The implementation of the project on decentralization of fiscal processes in territorial communities in the East of Ukraine will help communities to orientate in financial planning, as well as will benefit other stakeholders. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the project on the need and possibility of scientific support for the decentralization of fiscal processes in territorial communities in eastern Ukraine. The object of research - territorial communities in eastern Ukraine. Methods used in the study: comparative and expert analysis, detailing and generalization. The hypothesis of the study was the assumption that the project to decentralize fiscal processes in local communities in eastern Ukraine should be implemented by experts - economists and lawyers in the number of six people who will perform the proposed list of scientific and analytical work within - six months. Presentation of the main material: in order to intensify the process of decentralization of fiscal processes in territorial communities in eastern Ukraine, it is appropriate to implement a project involving the formation of a group of experts (economists and lawyers), logical and related research to be carried out by specific experts. which should get the appropriate results. The proposals developed by experts will create sustainable financial mechanisms that will help reduce the risk of disasters at the community level. The originality and practical significance of the study lies in the proposal to involve in the project relevant specialists who must perform the established list of scientific and analytical work and obtain concrete results. Conclusions and prospects for further research. Substantiation of the project on the need and possibility of scientific support for decentralization of fiscal processes in local communities in eastern Ukraine led to the conclusion that the project will help local communities in eastern Ukraine to understand the features of financial planning, as well as benefit other stakeholders. financial opportunities and sources of development of territorial communities in order to strengthen their economic potential. The proposals developed by experts will create sustainable financial mechanisms that will help reduce the risk of disasters at the community level. Further research should be aimed at implementing the proposed proposals and evaluating their effectiveness.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cirit Mateus De Oro ◽  
Daladier Jabba Molinares ◽  
Ana María Erazo Coronado ◽  
Rodrigo M. Campis Carrillo

Virtual games represent one of the most important contemporary possibilities to enhance learning processes in educational environments. There is ample evidence of their applications in teaching cultural aspects, citizenship, science, and the development of critical thinking, among many others. However, despite the scientific support, many questions arise about the effectiveness of gamification in education. Most studies and reviews of empirical studies on gamification indicate that they generally have a positive effect on motivation, concentration, and other cognitive aspects, as well as on interaction and prosocial behavior. However, there are gaps in terms of purposes and outcomes between gamification and the application of serious games. This is a review aimed at elucidating these differences, to argue for the reinvention of educational processes.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Eigenschink ◽  
Luise Bellach ◽  
Sebastian Ronan Leonard ◽  
Tom Eric Dablander ◽  
Julian Maier ◽  
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Introduction Despite the paucity of evidence verifying its efficacy and safety, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is expanding in popularity and political support. Decisions to include TCM diagnoses in the International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision (ICD-11) by the World Health Organization (WHO) and campaigns to integrate TCM into national healthcare systems have occurred whilst the public perception and usage of TCM, especially in Europe, remains undetermined. Accordingly, this study investigates the popularity, usage patterns, perception of scientific support for TCM, and its relationship to homeopathy. Methods A cross-sectional survey was performed in Austria and data from 1382 participants were analysed. A Bayesian network model retrieved partial correlations indicating distinct associations between sociodemographic determinants, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) usage patterns, readiness to vaccinate, and TCM related variables. Results TCM was broadly known by the Austrian population (89.9% of women, 90.6% of men), with 58.9% of women and 39.5% of men using TCM between 2016 and 2019. 66.4% of women and 49.7% of men agreed with TCM being supported by science. We found a strong positive relationship between the perceived scientific support for TCM and trust in TCM-certified medical doctors. Moreover, perceived scientific support for TCM was negatively correlated with the proclivity to get vaccinated. Additionally, our Bayesian network model yielded distinct associations between TCM-, homeopathy-, and vaccination-related variables. Conclusion TCM is widely known within the Austrian general population and actively used by a substantial proportion. However, a crucial disparity exists between the commonly held public perception that TCM is scientific and findings from evidence-based studies. As public opinion towards TCM, and the proclivity to use it, are promoted through institutionalisation and official acknowledgement, it would be critical to sustain and support the distribution of unbiased, science-driven information by governmental institutions and policymakers to encourage informed patient-driven decision-making.


Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Joseph Cabeza-Lainez

The aim of this article is to orient the evolution of new architectural forms offering up-to--date scientific support. Unlike the volume, the expression for the lateral area of a regular conoid has not yet been obtained by means of direct integration or a differential geometry procedure. In this type of ruled surface, the fundamental expressions I and II, for other curved figures have proved not solvable thus far. As this form is frequently used in architectural engineering, the inability to determine its surface area represents a serious hindrance to solving several problems that arise in radiative transfer, lighting and construction, to cite just a few. To address such drawback, we conceived a new approach that, in principle, consists in dividing the surface into infinitesimal elliptic strips of which the area can be obtained in an approximate fashion. The length of the ellipse is expressed with certain accuracy by means of Ramanujan’s second formula. By integrating the so-found perimeter of the differential strips for the whole span of the conoid, an unexpected solution emerges through a newly found number that we call psi (ψ). In this complex process, projected shapes have been derived from an original closed form composed of two conoids and called Antisphera for its significant parallels with the sphere. The authors try to demonstrate that the properties of the new surfaces have relevant implications for technology, especially in building science and sustainability, under domains such as structures, radiation and acoustics. Fragments of the conoid have occasionally appeared in modern and contemporary architecture but this article discusses how its use had been discontinued, mainly due to the uncertainties that its construction posed. The new knowledge provided by the authors, including their own proposals, may help to revitalize and expand such interesting configurations in the search for a revolution of forms.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Domicele Jonauskaite ◽  
Amber Gayle Thalmayer ◽  
Lauriane Müller ◽  
Christine Mohr

The claim that favourite colours reveal individuals’ personalities is popular in the media yet lacks scientific support. We assessed this claim in two stages. First, we catalogued claims from six popular websites, and matched them to key Big Six/HEXACO trait terms, ultimately identifying 11 specific, systematic, testable predictions (e.g., higher Extraversion among those who prefer red, orange, yellow, pink, or turquoise). Next, we tested these predictions in terms of the Big Six personality trait scores and reports of favourite and least favourite colours from 323 French-speaking participants. For every prediction (e.g., red-extraversion), we compared trait scores between participants who chose or did not choose the predicted colour using Welch’s t-tests. We failed to confirm any of the 11 predictions. Further exploratory analyses (MANOVA) revealed no associations between colour preferences and personality trait. Favourite colours appear unrelated to personality, failing to support the practical utility of colour-based personality assessment.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Bagwell

Eliminativists sometimes invoke evolutionary debunking arguments against ordinary object beliefs, either to help them establish object skepticism or to soften the appeal of commonsense ontology. I argue that object debunkers face a self-defeat problem: their conclusion undermines the scientific support for one of their premises, because evolutionary biology depends on our object beliefs. Using work on reductionism and multiple realizability from the philosophy of science, I argue that it will not suffice for an eliminativist debunker to simply appeal to some object-free surrogate theory of evolution that results from converting any scientific proposition about some object K into a proposition about simples arranged K-wise. In the process, I examine some hazards peculiar to eliminative reductions of scientific theories, and propose a trilemma for eliminativists who attempt to recoup generality for ontologically sparse reducing theories by appealing to pluralities of simples arranged K-wise. The paper is intended to define and develop the object debunker’s self-defeat problem for further study, and to clarify some of the ways sparse and abundant ontologies interact with scientific theory.


Author(s):  
А.Ю. Полунов

В статье рассматривается процесс выработки концептуальных и институциональных основ научного обеспечения государственной национальной политики в постсоветский период. Отмечается, что необходимость разработки новых подходов к анализу этнополитических процессов, совершенствования механизмов научной экспертизы была связана с резким обострением межэтнической напряженности в конце 1980-х – начале 1990-х гг. В новых условиях выдвигались концепции, подчеркивавшие значительную роль субъективного фактора в определении этнических идентичностей, возможность смены самоидентификации, изменчивость межгрупповых границ. Делался акцент на необходимость формирования гражданской нации, объединяющей россиян независимо от этнической и конфессиональной принадлежности. Идеи, связанных с указанными положениями, нашли отражение в основополагающих государственных актах Российской Федерации – Конституции 1993 г., Концепции государственной национальной политики. Воплотить в жизнь новые принципы должен был ряд законов, в частности, закон о национально-культурных автономиях 1996 г. Вместе с тем острые дискуссии в академическом сообществе по вопросу о природе этничности, постепенное снижение интереса властей к регулированию межэтнических отношений затруднили выстраивание эффективной системы научного обоснования государственной национальной политики. Существенные позитивные сдвиги в этой области происходят только в 2010-е гг. The article examines the institutional mechanisms and conceptual foundations of the scientific support of the state national policy in the post-Soviet period. The need to develop new approaches to the analysis of ethnopolitical processes and improve the mechanisms of scientific expertise was caused by the rise of interethnic tension in the late 1980s - early 1990s. The concepts proposed in the new situation emphasized the significant role of the subjective factor in ethnic identification, the possibility of changing self-identification, and the variability of intergroup boundaries. Emphasis was placed on forming a civil nation that would unite all Russians regardless of ethnicity and confessional affiliation. These ideas influenced important provisions of the fundamental state acts of the Russian Federation - the Constitution of 1993, the Concept of State Ethnic Policy. A number of laws were supposed to implement the new principles, particularly the 1996 Law on national and cultural autonomies. At the same time, heated discussions in the academic community on the nature of ethnicity, the gradual decline of the authorities' interest in regulating interethnic relations made it difficult to build an effective system of scientific support of the state ethnic policy. Significant positive shifts in this area took place only in the 2010s.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 591
Author(s):  
Russell L. Blaylock

The ongoing “pandemic” involving the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 virus (SARS-CoV-2) has several characteristics that make it unique in the history of pandemics. This entails not only the draconian measures that some countries and individual states within the United States and initiated and made policy, most of which are without precedent or scientific support, but also the completely unscientific way the infection has been handled. For the 1st time in medical history, major experts in virology, epidemiology, infectious diseases, and vaccinology have not only been ignored, but are also demonized, marginalized and in some instances, become the victim of legal measures that can only be characterized as totalitarian. Discussions involving various scientific opinions have been eliminated, top scientists have been frightened into silence by threats to their careers, physicians have lost their licenses, and the concept of early treatment has been virtually eliminated. Hundreds of thousands of people have died needlessly as a result of, in my opinion and the opinion of others, poorly designed treatment protocols, mostly stemming from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which have been rigidly enforced among all hospitals. The economic, psychological, and institutional damage caused by these unscientific policies is virtually unmeasurable. Whole generations of young people will suffer irreparable damage, both physical and psychological, possibly forever. The truth must be told.


2021 ◽  
pp. 16-19
Author(s):  
Н.К. Антидзе ◽  
Н.А. Сакара ◽  
Ю.Г. Михеев ◽  
В.И. Леунов ◽  
И.А. Ванюшкина ◽  
...  

Увеличение численности населения на российском Дальнем Востоке (РДВ) и ее стабилизация связаны прежде всего с привлекательностью и оптимизацией здорового питания проживающего здесь населения. Основа такого питания – снабжение свежими овощами и пищевыми продуктами, изготовленными на основе свежих, переработанных и законсервированных овощей. Проблема самообеспечения населения Дальнего Востока продуктами сельского хозяйства возникла с начала его освоения, т. е. с середины XVIII века, и даже сегодня еще далека от решения. Для устранения дефицита овощной продукции (391,1 тыс. т) нами рассчитаны необходимые объемы производства овощей на Дальнем Востоке для полного самообеспечения населения на период с 2020 по 2025 годы. Приморский край, будучи самым южным регионом России, не отличается по уровню самообеспеченности населения овощами. Производство овощей резко изменяется по годам, вследствие чего этот показатель варьирует от 53,1 до 86,8%, что лишь немногим превышает самообеспеченность в целом по Дальнему Востоку. К числу причин, сдерживающих развитие овощеводства в Приморском крае, можно отнести и недостаточное научное обеспечение этой отрасли. Для решения этой проблемы была создана Приморская овощная опытная станция, история которой начинается с создания в 1980 году в селе Кневичи Приморского края Дальневосточного опорного пункта ВНИИ овощного хозяйства. Сотрудники этого учреждения стали вести исследования по актуальным проблемам овощеводства в Приморском крае (технологическая модернизация возделывания овощей в полевых условиях и зимних блочных теплицах; селекция и семеноводство; вопросы земледелия, агрохимии и защиты растений от болезней, вредителей и сорной растительности). Цель данной публикации – обобщить многолетнюю работу Приморской овощной опытной станции – филиала ФГБНУ ФНЦО по научному обеспечению овощеводства Приморского края и показать перспективу дальнейшей деятельности этого научного коллектива. The increase in the population in the Russian Far East and its stabilization are primarily associated with the attractiveness and optimization of a healthy diet of the population living here, which is based on the supply of fresh vegetables and food products made on the basis of fresh, processed and canned vegetables. The problem of self-sufficiency of the population of the Far East with agricultural products has arisen since the beginning of its development, i. e. since the middle of the 18th century, and is still far from being solved. To eliminate the above-mentioned shortage of vegetable products (391.1 thousand tons), we have calculated the necessary volumes of vegetable production in the Far East for full self-sufficiency of the population for the period from 2020 to 2025. Primorsky Territory, which is the southernmost region of Russia, does not differ in the level of self-sufficiency of the population with vegetables. Vegetable production varies dramatically over the years, as a result of which this indicator varies from 53.1 to 86.8%, which is only slightly higher than self-sufficiency in the Far East as a whole. Among the reasons hindering the development of vegetable growing in the Primorsky Territory, we can also include insufficient scientific support for this industry. For this purpose, the Primorsky Vegetable Experimental Station was created, the history of which begins with the creation in 1980 in the village of Knevichi of the Primorsky Territory of the Far Eastern reference point of the Vegetable Research Institute. As a result of the work of this institution, research began to be carried out on topical problems of vegetable growing in the Primorsky Territory (technological modernization of vegetable cultivation processes in the field and winter block greenhouses; selection and seed production; issues of agriculture, agrochemistry and plant protection from diseases, pests and weeds). The purpose of this publication is to summarize the long – term work of the Primorsky Vegetable Experimental Station – a branch of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution for the scientific support of vegetable growing in the Primorsky Territory and to show the prospects for the further activities of this scientific team.


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