Topical issues of formation state anti-corruption policy in Ukraine

The purpose of the article is to identify existing problems in the formation and implementation of anti-corruption policy in Ukraine based on the analysis of research results of the current state of corruption in Ukraine, analysis of relevant regulations and practice of its implementation. The methodology is based on the dialectical method of scientific knowledge, as well as special research methods based on modern scientific principles of legal, political, managerial and related sciences. Results of the research. The article analyzes the current issues of state anti-corruption policy in Ukraine at the present stage. It is noted that corruption is one of the biggest problems of Ukrainian society and has a great resistance to the development of Ukraine as a state. Ukraine currently has a whole system of anti-corruption bodies, some of which perform purely anti-corruption functions, while others perform anti-corruption functions as well. At the same time, the Basic Anti-Corruption Law defines a limited list of specially authorized entities in the field of anti-corruption. It is proved that the reserve of influence of public organizations in combating corruption offenses is still poorly used by the state on the initiative of the state itself.

Materials of Construction

The requirements for materials are covered in Chapter III of ASME B31.3. Selection of the appropriate material for a given service is not covered by the Code. As stated in para. 323.5, “Selection of materials to resist deterioration in service is not within the scope of this Code.” Practical considerations make it impossible for the Code to provide guidance relevant to the essentially unlimited process applications covered by the Code. Some precautionary considerations are included in Appendix F based on specific experience or interests of Code Committee members, but this is a very limited list of considerations.

METHOD OF DESIGNING RESIDENTIAL COMPLEXES IN VORONEZH WITH THE USE OF BLOCK-SECTIONS OF COMPLEX CONFIGURATION

Statement of the problem. Improving the architectural and artistic appearance of the new development of the city, its individualization has long been an urgent problem. In the 1960s and 70s, many houses were built in Voronezh according to standard projects, which made the development of new areas of the city monotonous and of the same type. New districts in different cities of our country have lost their identity, have become similar to each other. In Voronezh, the monotony and monotony of new built and under construction areas such as Shilovo, Otradnoye and other microdistricts have created a problem that again needs to be solved. The development is very monotonous and impersonal, because it is conducted according to standard (re-used) projects with a very limited list of standard sections. Results. The methodology of the approach to design proposed by the authors of the projects of residential complexes allowed us to implement a number of objects of mass development quite interesting, not similar to each other. The article analyzes several residential complexes of mass development built in Voronezh, the architectural originality of which was achieved through the development and use of block sections of complex configuration.Conclusions. The use of sections of complex configuration can help urban planners working on projects of new residential complexes to find original space-planning solutions that ensure the uniqueness of the development of Voronezh. The architectural and artistic quality of the new districts, provided that they are unique and diverse, will be worthy of the historical center of the city of Voronezh.

A NEW APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS OF INEQUALITY IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF CASH INCOMES OF THE POPULATION OF THE URAL FEDERAL DISTRICT

The article analyzes income inequality in the regions of the Ural Federal District using methodological innovations proposed by scientists from the Study Center of Sociocultural Changes at the Institute of Philosophy of the RAS and the Vologda Scientific Center of the RAS who introduced a family of income inequality centile coefficients into scientific circulation. These indicators characterize the ratio of incomes of the population various groups in the context of its depersonalized representative macrostrates.In the context of deepening economic inequality, the relevance of these innovations increases significantly, since in the current practice of identifying and analyzing the differentiation of the population incomes, a limited list of indicators is used, while the proposed new indicators make it possible to significantly expand the analytical possibilities of substantiating social policy. However, the complexity of the innovations application lies in the fact that the published statistical information does not allow directly calculating new characteristics. In this regard, the goal of the article is to substantiate and experimentally test a new toolkit that allows, on the basis of limited factual data, to determine the decile distribution of the regions population by the level of monetary income and to form the possibility of further calculating income weights and centile indicators of inequality. Experimental calculations were performed using the example of the Ural Federal District regions for 2000-2018. As a result of calculations and subsequent analysis, macrostrains of the supposed middle class with a stable share of monetary incomes in their total volume are identified that are stable over a long time. At the same time, the growth of inequality was mainly due to the redistribution of incomes from the low-income group in favor of the population part with the highest incomes.

Methodological approaches to assessing companies contribution to the implementation of SDGs and counteraction to COVID-19

The methodological approaches to improving the non-financial reporting of Ukrainian enterprises in the context of implementing the provisions of the document issued by UNCTAD (GCI), in terms of the private sector's contribution to the COVID-19 are highlighted. The authors identified the lack of unified approach to the standardization of non-financial reporting and the harmonization of companies' core indicators with macro-indicators of SDGs' achievement in the relevant areas. The hypothesis of the study: the GCI as an effective tool to ensure comparability of information disclosed in non-financial statements between companies, industries, geographical areas, countries, can be used to quantify core indicators that should be disclosed by Ukrainian companies for providing the information suport for SDGs monitoring. The purpose of the study is to substantiate information support and assessment of business contribution to process of SDGs' monitoring and overcoming the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including indicator 12.6.1, by defining the limited list of universal indicators within the national legislation, GCI recommendations and initiatives aimed at disclosure of coronavirus disease's impact on the company's activities. The authors within the study proved that the application of core indicators suggested by the GCI would not only promote the level of data transparency on the impact of reporting entities, but also provide the opportunity to compare information between companies, industries, geographical areas, countries. Based on the results of the study and conducted analysis of international initiatives, the institutional basis for improving the preparation of non-financial reporting within the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic was formulated. This allowed to substantiate the suggestion on inclusion of additional indicators in the management report in terms of disclosing information about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the activities of enterprises and their contribution to combating the spread of the disease.

Foreign economic activity of Ukrainian agrarian enterprises as a factor of accelerating their production modernization and implementing the innovation and investment processes of their development

The subject of the research is the processes of influencing foreign economic activity on the modernization of production and innovation and investment processes of the development of agricultural enterprises. The purpose of the work to identify and assess the impact of foreign economic activity on the need for modernization and innovation and investment support for the development of agricultural enterprises in Ukraine, foreign experience in their implementation and problems that require urgent solutions to improve competitiveness in the European and world agricultural markets. The methodological basis of the article was monographic, historical, system-structural analysis and synthesis, statistical groupings, problem-target. Results of work. The influence of foreign economic activity on the need to modernize agricultural production and accelerate innovation and investment processes in the development of agricultural enterprises is revealed. The experience of organizing innovation and investment activities abroad is presented. The directions of innovation and sources of investment, as well as the forms of their attraction at the level of agricultural enterprises to maintain and increase their competitiveness in the external economic dimension have been determined. The field of application of results. The results can be used by enterprises united by territorial communities, regional and state authorities. Conclusions. The prospects of agricultural enterprises, their foreign economic activity and competitiveness in foreign agricultural markets are associated with the implementation of innovative and innovative investment projects. However, their introduction has not yet become widespread. Summarizing the procedure for their implementation, it is possible to identify the main problems of their implementation at the level of agricultural enterprises. Now it is imperfection and lack of formation of institutional support; a limited list of assets that banks can accept as collateral.

PREPROCESSING ARABIC DIALECT FOR SENTIMENT MINING: STATE OF ART

Sentiment Analysis concerns the analysis of ideas, emotions, evaluations, values, attitudes and feelings about products, services, companies, individuals, tasks, events, titles and their characteristics. With the increase in applications on the Internet and social networks, Sentiment Analysis has become more crucial in the field of text mining research and has since been used to explore users’ opinions on various products or topics discussed on the Internet. Developments in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics have contributed positively to Sentiment Analysis studies, especially for sentiments written in non-structured or semi-structured languages. In this paper, we present a literature review on the pre-processing task on the field of sentiment analysis and an analytical and comparative study of different researches conducted in Arabic social networks. This study allowed as concluding that several works have dealt with the generation of stop words dictionary. In this context, two approaches are adopted: first, the manual one, which gives rise to a limited list, and second, the automatic, where the list of stop words is extracted from social networks based on defined rules. For stemming two, algorithms have been proposed to isolate prefixes and suffixes from words in dialects. However, few works have been interested in dialects directly without translation. The Moroccan dialect in particular is considered as the 5th dialect studied among Arabic dialects after Jordanian, Egyptian, Tunisian and Algerian dialects. Despite the significant lack in studies carried out on Arabic dialects, we were able to extract several conclusions about the difficulties and challenges encountered through this comparative study, as well as the possible ways and tracks to study in any dialects sentiment analysis pre-processing solution.

Data-based support for petroleum prospect evaluation

We consider the challenging task of evaluating the commercial viability of hydrocarbon prospects based on limited information, and in limited time. We investigate purely data-driven approaches to predicting key reservoir parameters and obtain a negative result: the information that is typically available for prospect evaluation and is suitable for data-based methods, cannot be used for the required predictions. We can show however that the same information is sufficient to produce a limited list of potentially similar well-explored reservoirs (known as analogues) that can support the prospect evaluation work of human geoscientists. We base the proposal of analogues on similarity measures on the data available about prospects. Technically, the challenge is to define suitable similarity measures on categorical data like depositional environment or rock types. Existing data-based similarity measures for categorical data do not perform well, since they do not take geological domain knowledge into account. We propose two novel similarity measures that use domain knowledge in the form of hierarchies on categorical values. Comparative evaluation shows that the semantic-based similarity measures outperform the existing data-driven approaches and are effective in comparison to the human analogue selection.

COVID-19 Contact Tracing Solutions for Mass Gatherings

ABSTRACT Mass gatherings and high-density activities, such as sporting events, conventions, and theme parks, are consistently included among highest-risk activities given the increased potential for widespread coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) transmission. A more balanced risk management approach is required because absolute suppression of risk is unrealistic in all facets of life. Contact tracing remains a limiting factor in achieving such a balance. The use of Bluetooth or pairing devices is proposed to address this challenge. This simple approach, when applied in a manner that satisfies privacy and trust concerns, would allow high-risk encounters to be quickly identified, namely those where participants have spent 15 minutes or more within 6 ft of each other per current guidelines. If an attendee later tests positive for COVID-19 and tracing is required, the event organizer can provide a limited list of potential close contacts rather than an exhaustive list of all attendees. Contact tracers can, therefore, limit efforts to this concise group rather than needing to contact thousands of people or conduct mass media communications. Such a system, if institutionalized, supports risk assurance and safety measures for businesses by demonstrating a commitment to staff, customer protection, and ensuring high-risk encounters are logged, reinforcing longer-term societal pandemic resilience.

Legal Nature of Clauses Determining Arbitration Centers Resolving Disputes under the UDRP

Recent legislative amendments regarding an arbitration agreement incorporated into the agreement of accession have contributed to the formation of the concept in the Russian doctrine giving additional argumentation in favor of qualifying clauses envisaging the consideration of domain disputes under the UDRP as arbitration agreements. Taking into account a number of procedural and legal consequences determined by both the fact of the conclusion of the arbitration agreement and the fact of the award, the author raises the question of the nature of clauses providing for the consideration of disputes under the UDRP procedure. The study of the main properties and characteristics of the clauses under consideration leads to the conclusion that the balance between public law and private law foundations defined in the doctrine inherent to the arbitral agreement, does not meet the nature of the dispute resolution clauses under the UDRP (the impossibility for the domain name holder to refuse from the clause; the absence of the derogatory effect of the clause, etc.). Accordingly, enforceability of this clause cannot be determined under the provisions of the Federal Law on Arbitrazh [Arbitration] of 2015 and the Law of the Russian Federation on International Commercial Arbitration of 1993, providing the conclusion of the arbitration agreement, which, for example, include the principle of effective interpretation of an arbitration agreement that does not exclude in a number of cases the competence of the arbitral tribunal in the absence of the agreement signed by the parties. In this regard, the author questions the argumentation in favor of unenforceability of the clause under consideration based on the named laws.The study of certain principles of dispute resolution proceedings under the UDRP (limited list of remedies; resolution of the dispute in the form of oral hearings only on the initiative of an administrative commission; the unduly short period of time provided for both response to the claim and going to a competent court; the disparity of the dispute resolution clause, etc.) allows the author to conclude that, in some cases, such a clause is burdensome for the owner of the domain name due to the violation of the principles of legality and independence in the establishment and formation of a specific administrative commission.