Effectiveness of Increasing Realism Into Cybersecurity Training

This article describes how cybersecurity is a field that is growing at an exponential rate. In light of many highly publicized incidences of cyber-attacks against organizations, the need to hire experienced cybersecurity professionals is increasing. The lack of available workforce to fill open positions is alarming and organizations are finding that potential candidates with academic degrees and certifications alone are not as valuable as those with experience. Gaining rapid experience requires immersion into realistic virtual environments that mimic real-world environments. Currently, cybersecurity competitions leverage many technologies that immerse participants into virtual environments that mimic real-world systems to improve experiential learning. These systems are expensive to build and maintain, and to continuously improve realism is difficult. However, the training value of cyber competitions in which the participants cannot distinguish from real-world systems will ultimately develop highly experience cybersecurity professionals.

“Nobody can be ... a professor without a doctorate”: discussions about the doctoral dissertation of Andrey Ugyansky

The university charter of 1863 gave Russian universities the right and responsibility to approve academic degrees, which led to indecision of professors in making appropriate decisions. On the basis of archival materials of Kazan and Moscow universities, the article reconstructs the process of discussing several variants of a doctoral dissertation of the Kazan classical philologist Andrey Ugiansky in 1863–1868.

Compliance of the Directions and Programs of Training in Postgraduate Studies: The Transition Period

The new classification of scientific majors for which academic degrees are awarded and the amendments to the Federal Law “On Education in the Russian Federation”, which came into force on September 1, 2021, have significantly changed the list of scientific majors and the status of postgraduate studies. There is a need to establish the correspondence between scientific and pedagogical personnel training directions in postgraduate studies and scientific majors of the Classification 2021, in which academic degrees are awarded. The article presents an analysis of the adapting document “Fields of training in the postgraduate studies of OKSO 2016 – Scientific majors/branches of science of the Classification 2021” and considers measures on the way to reorganize the system of training and certification of academic degree holders.

Introduction of a new nomen-clature of academic specialities in Russia: Continuity and innovations

Introduction. The nomenclature of academic specialities to be awarded academic degrees is a system-forming element of academic degree holders’ certification system in any country of the world. Therefore, there is a need to revise and update the relevant structure of academic specialities in order to meet the prospective demand from research and development sector of high-tech industries. Apparently, the current nomenclature of 2017, as the instrument of realisation of public policy in the sphere of the state certification of academic and teaching staff in Russia, needed updating.The aim of the present research was to analyse a new version of the nomenclature of academic specialities in Russia to be awarded the degree of Doctor or Candidate of Science, and to make conceptual proposals on the implementation of new nomenclature provisions taking into account possible transformation of scientific and educational environment, including the emergence of new complex areas of academic research.Methodology and research methods. The research object is a system of certification of academic and teaching staff from the position of a three-level structure of the nomenclature of academic specialities, according to which academic degrees are awarded. The methods of comparison and data statistical analysis were applied to assess structural changes in the nomenclature.Results and scientific novelty. The authors considered the prerequisites for update of the nomenclature of academic specialities approved in 2017. The features of a new edition of the nomenclature of academic specialities were highlighted. The analysis of its new structure and content changes was carried out. It is demonstrated that current network of dissertation councils (1696 councils) can be divided into 4 groups according to the degree of compliance of academic specialities and fields of science with the previous and recent versions of nomenclature. It is necessary to create new dissertation councils for 20 new academic specialities.Practical significance. The authors revealed the features of the new nomenclature, requiring the reorganisation of councils network for the defense of doctoral and candidate dissertations. On this basis, to provide promising areas of academic research, the proposals on the implementation of new nomenclature provisions are outlined. The stages of re-opening of dissertation councils network are described.

Sleep Habits and Disorders among School Students in the Jazan Region, Saudi Arabia

Sleep deprivation (failure to get enough sleep) is a public health issue that can negatively impact our body including cognitive function. Many studies have been done in Saudi Arabia to evaluate the impact of poor sleep and academic performance but almost all of them were done at university level. To investigate the relationship between sleep quality and general degree of academic achievement in school students. This is a cross-sectional, school-based study, conducted at Jazan Region, Saudi Arabia. A total of 957 participants (615 male and 342 female) were recruited from a state school. The study used a standardized, confidential, validated self-administered questionnaire to assess sleep quality and habits. By using Statistical Package for Social Studies (SPSS 22), achievement of the students was significantly related to the following parameters; laziness and fatigue after wake-up time and during school time, lack of concentration during school time, difficulty in complete tasks during school time and inability to maintain wakefulness during school time. Furthermore, students with poor academic degrees reported more significant incidence of sleeping at school, excessive daytime sleepiness, and other sleep related disorder than good academic degrees. Students with poor sleep quality have lower school grades.

How to defend your dissertation

Many applicants for academic degrees are sure that their main task is to write a good dissertation. In fact, it is necessary to solve not one, but at least two tasks: first, of course, to prepare the work, and secondly, to successfully protect it. But this is not so much a scientific as a managerial problem that requires its own ways and methods of solution. The methods of its solution are discussed in the proposed work. The book is aimed primarily at applicants defending PhD theses, but it may also be of interest to those who are preparing for the defense of doctoral theses or are interested in the organization of scientific activities.

Do German University Medical Centres promote robust and transparent research? – A cross-sectional study of institutional policies.

Background In light of replication and translational failures, biomedical research practices have recently come under scrutiny. Experts have pointed out that the current incentive structures at research institutions insufficiently incentivise researchers to invest in robustness and transparency and instead incentivise them to optimise their fitness in the struggle for publications and grants. This cross-sectional study aimed to describe whether and how relevant policies of university medical centres in Germany support the robust and transparent conduct of research and how prevalent traditional metrics are. Methods For 38 German university medical centres, we searched for institutional policies for academic degrees and academic appointments, as well as websites for their core facilities and research in general. We screened the documents for mentions of indicators of robust and transparent research and for mentions of more traditional metrics of career progression. Results While Open Access was mentioned in 16% of PhD regulations, other indicators of robust and transparent research (study registration; reporting of results; sharing of data, code, and protocols; and robustness) were mentioned in less than 10% of institutional policies for academic degrees and academic appointments. These indicators were more frequently mentioned on the core facility and general research websites. Regarding the traditional metrics, the institutional policies for academic degrees and academic appointments had frequent mentions of the number of publications, grant money, impact factors, and authorship order. Conclusions References to robust and transparent research practices are, with a few exceptions, generally uncommon in institutional policies at German university medical centres, while traditional criteria for academic promotion and tenure still prevail.

Notification of Ukrainian Diploma as a Doctor-Pharmacist in Poland

The article represents the peculiarities of recognizing higher medical education obtained in Ukraine in Poland. Nostrification (from German Nostrifikation derived from Latin Noster – “our”, and Latin Facere – “to do”) is a procedure for the recognition of diplomas issued by educational establishments of other countries. All the certificates and diplomas obtained in Ukraine can be legalized in Poland. The paper describes the procedure for preparing the documents needed and the basic legal components of a successful nostrification of diploma in medicine, pharmacy. The recognition of foreign diploma grants you the right to continue your education and professional activity in Poland and is carried out on an individual basis. If you want your diploma to be recognized in Poland, you should contact the Ministerstwо Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego or Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange – NAWA. An Agreement between the Government of Ukraine and the Government of Republic of Poland on Mutual Recognition of Education Documents and Scientific Degrees was signed on May 31, 2006 (Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 769). Thus, the Polish documents of secondary education, higher education levels, as well as academic degrees provide the opportunity to continue education in Ukraine and, accordingly, such documents received in Ukraine guarantee this opportunity in Poland. However, the agreement does not apply to certain professional rights including extra payments for academic degrees or ranks. The confirming university shall confirm or refuse to confirm the completion of studies at a specified level within 90 days from the date of submission of the request. In case of differences in study curriculum, learning outcomes or duration of studies, the confirming university may oblige the person to take specific examinations or undergo a professional traineeship. Obtaining a certificate of nostrification allows you to continue the process of recognizing higher medical education in order to ultimately be able to work as a doctor in the European Union.

Problems of Implementation of Principles of Transparency and Accessibility in the System of Scientific Personnel Certification in the Russian Federation

The paper is devoted to the implementation of the principles of transparency and accessibility in legal acts regulating the procedure of academic certification in Russia. The authors highlight two characteristic properties of legal principles of accessibility and transparency. The paper examines the manifestation of principles of transparency and accessibility in federal legislation and local regulations of organizations that have the right to award academic degrees independently. The authors have determined local regulations subject to mandatory official publication in order to have the principle of publicity implemented. The paper provides examples of violations of the requirements of the current legislation in local regulations on the issues of independent awarding of academic degrees. The conclusion is made about the need for additional study of local regulation in order to eliminate contradictions and bring it into line with the principles of transparency and accessibility.

Development and Evaluation of Blockchain based Secure Application for Verification and Validation of Academic Certificates

Academic degrees are subject to corruptions, system flaws, forgeries, and imitations. In this paper we propose to develop a blockchain smart contract-based application using Ethereum Platform, to store, distribute and verify academic certificates. It constitutes a trusted, decentralized certificate’s management system that can offer a unified viewpoint for students, academic institutions, as well as for other potential stakeholders such as employers. The article describes the implementation of three main parts of our proposed solution that includes: verification application, university interface and accreditor interface. This application avoids administrative barriers, makes the process of deployment, verification, and validation of certificates faster, efficient, and more secure. Additionally, it offers confidentiality of the data by using AES encryption algorithm before creating transactions and allows bulk submission of multiple academic certificates.