Personnel security of the “new industrialization”: the demanded qualities of the production manager in the next thirty years and an effective mechanism for ensuring them

The article presents the results of the author’s research on the relevant topic of “new industrialization” for the country, which is the most important direction in the formation of the advanced economic development of Russia. Based on the author’s forecasting method “Phase calculation of solving strategic tasks of human resources management in Russia”, the demanded qualities of the production manager in the next thirty years are identified and determined. The industrial and educational cluster is defined as a mechanism for staffing the “new industrialization”, the author’s description of the industrial and educational cluster is given on the example of the Tver region. The main distinguishing feature of an effective industrial and educational cluster is the presence in its structure of the institute of cooperation as a connecting non-profit link of all the actors of the cluster and in the person of scientific and expert non-profit organizations serving both to counter threats of the predominance of formalism and opportunistic narrow corporate interests, and to eliminate conflicts of interest in the interaction of state and commercial structures.

Kovelman, A. (2019). The visitors to the Pardes. Paradoxes of the Jewish, Christian, and secular cultures. Moscow: Knizhniki. (In Russ.)

The review is concerned with the language of the humanities, in particular, the one on the border between rationalism and mythologising. With the help of V. Shklovsky’s concept of defamiliarisation (ostranenie), the author explores the logic whereby some schools of thought and their related sets of values convert into others. The study paints a kaleidoscopic picture of conversion undergone by elements of humanity’s intellectual history. The main distinguishing feature of such a view of history is a moving picture, whose parts can become elements of completely different holistic entities, whilst remaining perfectly self-identifiable. The book focuses on the key metaphors that determined the way of thinking in a particular period. A metaphor, too, is used to organise the author’s reasoning and argumentation. The review shows how A. Kovelman’s book brings the language of theory back into the fold of literal meanings and their historical transformation.

Making meaning with be able to: modality and actualisation

This article sheds new light on the usage constraints of be able to, by combining empirical evidence from the British National Corpus (BNC, Davies 2004–) with theoretical insights on the semantics–pragmatics interface. First, we show that be able to does not, contrary to the general assumption, express only ‘ability’ but it shares most of the root meanings usually associated with the possibility modals can and could (Coates 1983: 124). The data analysis shows that what is called ‘opportunity’ in Depraetere & Reed's (2011) taxonomy is the most frequent meaning of be able to. We then turn to the notion of actualisation, which is often claimed to be the main distinguishing feature between be able to and can/could. The qualitative analysis of the BNC dataset provides the empirical evidence, lacking in previous research, for the claim that actualisation is indeed a defining property of the modal periphrastic form. Starting from a reassessment of the semantics–pragmatics interface in terms of a fourfold distinction, we argue that actualisation is a generalised conversational implicature and constitutes conventional pragmatic meaning (that is, conventional non-truth-conditional meaning).

Celebrating 100th Issue of Politeia: on Journal’s Past and Future

This work represents the views of the prominent Russian political scientists about the past and the future of Politeia. O.Gaman-Golutvina identifies several dimensions that together, from her point of view, define the face of Politeia and allow the journal to fulfill the mission of a development institution. A.Melville pays attention to the continuity and dynamics in the development of the journal and outlines a number of promising directions for its future. According to B.Makarenko, the main distinguishing feature of Politeia is that it has always been a community rather than just a journal. M.Ilyin draws attention to the meaning of the word πολιτεία, which became the title of the journal, suggesting that it is this title that turned into a compass that allowed the journal to simultaneously focus on political philosophy and sociology of politics. R.Turovsky views Politeia as a mirror of the contemporary Russian politics and its evolution rather than just one of the leading Political Science journals in Russia. According to A.Akhremenko, the key feature of Politeia that sets it apart from other journals is a sense of balance, an equilibrium at the intersection of methods, problems and meanings. F.Aleskerov talks about Politeia’s platform for publishing works on mathematical modeling in politics as one of the journal’s advantages and delineates several thematic blocks within this area, which, in his opinion, should appear on the pages of the journal. O.Malinova draws attention to Salmin Award, established in 2005 in memory of A.Salmin, the journal’s founder, considering this award one of the traditions that contributes to the development of the Russian professional community of political scientists.

A new species of Ceroxylon (Arecaceae) from Cordillera Azul National Park – Peru

A new species of Ceroxylon from the Cordillera Azul National Park in Peru is described and illustrated. The main distinguishing feature of the new species, named C. ravenii, is its acaulescent habit. So far, only one population has been recorded at an elevation of 1240 m in the wilderness zone of the protected area.

Order-Stability in Complex Biosystems from the Viewpoint of the Theory of Open Quantum Systems

This paper is our attempt on the basis of physical theory to bring more clarification on the question ``What is life?'' formulated in the well-known book of Schr\"odinger in 1944. According to Schr\"odinger, the main distinguishing feature of biosystem's functioning is the ability to preserve its order structure or, in the mathematical terms, to prevent increasing of entropy. Since any biosystem is fundamentally open, it is natural to use open system's theory. However, Schr\"odinger's analysis shows that the classical theory is not able to adequately describe the order-stability in a biosystem. Schr\"odinger should also appeal to the ambiguous notion of negative entropy. We suggest to apply the quantum theory. As is well-known, behaviour of the quantum von Neumann entropy crucially differs from behaviour of the classical entropy. We consider a complex biosystem $S$ composed of many subsystems, say proteins, or cells, or neural networks in the brain, i.e., $S=(S_i).$ We study the following problem: if the composed system $S$ can preserve the ``global order'' in the situation of increase of local disorder and if $S$ can preserve its entropy while some of $S_i$ increase their entropies We show that within quantum information theory the answer is positive. The significant role plays entanglement of the subsystems states. In the absence of entanglement, increasing of local disorder generates disorder increasing in the compound system $S$ (as in the classical regime).

Ordinary Transubstantiations: Gadamer’s Notion of ‘Speculative’ and Material Logic of Hermeneutic Experience

According to Gadamer, the main distinguishing feature of hermeneutic experience is its ontological dimension epitomized by complex and multilayered transformative processes expressed in such formulae as ‘increasing in being’, ‘transformation into the true’ or ‘total mediation’. This notion of ontological experience as a transformative event allows two readings. The weak reading of Gadamer’s hermeneutic ontology (favoured by Gadamer himself as well as by all his interpreters and critics), laying the stress on interpreter’s self-consciousness, contents itself with just ‘subjective’ side of transformative effects of hermeneutic experience. The strong treatment of transformative potential of hermeneutic experience, which corresponds better to the universality claim of philosophical hermeneutics, presupposes equally strong transformation affecting not only interpreter’s self-consciousness but also her body as well as material environments of interpretive experience. We find the elements of such a ‘strong’ treatment of the transformative (i.e. ontological) potential of understanding in Gadamer’s conception of the speculative, adumbrated in the concluding sections of his ‘Truth and Method’. Drawing on this conception, the paper proposes the notion of transubstantiation as a model for describing the bodily-material dimension of transformative processes making up the core element of hermeneutic ontology.

Order-Stability in Complex Biosystems from the Viewpoint of the Theory of Open Quantum Systems

This paper is our attempt on the basis of physical theory to bring more clarification on the question ``What is life?'' formulated in the well-known book of Schr\"odinger in 1944. According to Schr\"odinger, the main distinguishing feature of biosystem's functioning is the ability to preserve its order structure or, in the mathematical terms, to prevent increasing of entropy. Since any biosystem is fundamentally open, it is natural to use open system's theory. However, Schr\"odinger's analysis shows that the classical theory is not able to adequately describe the order-stability in a biosystem. Schr\"odinger should also appeal to the ambiguous notion of negative entropy. We suggest to apply the quantum theory. As is well-known, behaviour of the quantum von Neumann entropy crucially differs from behaviour of the classical entropy. We consider a complex biosystem $S$ composed of many subsystems, say proteins, or cells, or neural networks in the brain, i.e., $S=(S_i).$ We study the following problem: if the composed system $S$ can preserve the ``global order'' in the situation of increase of local disorder and if $S$ can preserve its entropy while some of $S_i$ increase their entropies We show that within quantum information theory the answer is positive. The significant role plays entanglement of the subsystems states. In the absence of entanglement, increasing of local disorder generates disorder increasing in the compound system $S$ (as in the classical regime).

Three-line hybrid of sunflower Nika

A three-line sunflower hybrid Nika was developed by hybridization of a simple sterile hybrid Donskoy 59 and a line-restorer of pollen fertility ED 155 at the Don experimental station. It is characterized by high productivity, over the years of testing, it exceeded the control on seed yield by 0.25 t per ha, on oil collection per hectare by 0.16 t per ha. According to the length of the vegetative period (98–104 days), it can be attributed to the middle-early group. Plant height is up to 170–180 cm. The leaves are large, the bubbling is very weak, and serration is large. Heads of medium size when maturing turned down with a straight stem. Achenes are broadly ovate, black with grey stripes along the edges and between the edges. The main distinguishing feature of the hybrid is its high productivity and resistance to the new aggressive races of broomrape (E, F, G) and downy mildew (race 330). The hybrid Nika has been included into the State register of protected breeding achievements of the Russian Federation since 2019 and allowed to be cultivated in the Central Black Soil (5), Northern Caucasus (6), Middle Volga (7), Low Volga (8), Ural (9), and Western Siberian (10) regions of Russia.

Ecosystem Development as the Main Trend of Banking Business Transformation

In recent years, technology companies have been appearing on the financial market, providing a wide range of financial services in a new digital format, creating serious competition for banks. In the context of declining revenues from traditional services and rising transaction costs, banks began to develop and implement partner services — ecosystems. This requires banks to change the way they provide services, their product range and a qualitative restructuring of operational processes. These services provide banks with an influx of revenue and customer loyalty. This article considers the necessity and reasons for the emergence and development of banking ecosystems. The most popular directions of their development are summarized. The main models of their functioning are characterized. The examples of banking ecosystems currently operating in Russia are given. The conclusion is made about the need for digital transformation (digitalization) of the banking business, which covers all aspects of the activities of not only the Bank, but also its clients. The main distinguishing feature of this transformation is its complexity. All this will help to maintain the banking segment in the market, as well as increase the efficiency of banking services due to their complexity and reduce operating costs.