An analysis of climate continentality index for Russia's NorthEast
Analysis of climate continentality is a powerful tool for studying and forecasting weather. Considering the continentality index enables determining current climate characteristics and predicting potential changes. This study aims to assess climate change in Russia’s North-East by analysing the continentality index as a complex integral indicator of these changes applicable ...
Modern indicators of urban development: challenges and opportunities for creating integral approaches to city management
... world. In modern Russia, this need is reaffirmed by the transformation of regional economies, the economic acceleration of many major cities, and by the active introduction of strategic management tools (KPI, etc.). The article analyses the current indexes and rankings of urban development. The author explored the main methodological approaches to the assessment of the rate of urban development. One of the topical issues of contemporary research on this subject in Russia is an attempt to create ...
The ecological state of the Vistula lagoon using indicators of water quality and eutrophication
... parameters was analyzed for the lagoon as a whole and separately for four regions characterized by specific conditions. The highest level of water pollution is characteristic of the eastern region and the Primorskaya Bay. The Russian Water Quality Index (SCWPI) and the widely used world index, the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment Water Quality Index (CCME WQI), demonstrated similar seasonal and long-term variability. The launch of modern treatment facilities in 2016 led to a significant ...
“They call the main entrance a porch”: social meaning in semantics and metapragmatics
... has been used to describe pragmatic increments in the meaning of a language unit, which it receives in context. New explanatory approaches have developed from a sociolinguistic perspective in metapragmatics, where social meaning is seen as a social index that emerges in context. Social index (the index meaning of a sign) refers to typified social situations and social roles of participants of a communicative act. Social meaning is actualized when it can be interpreted in social interaction as ...
On a new corpus dictionary of dreams
This article addresses the problem of “prophetic” dreams. It considers the issue of compiling a new dictionary of dreams, which should contain such necessary elements as a corpus and an index of its symbolic images. The index will help perform the following: easily find certain symbolic dream images, conduct their qualitative analysis, and compare them with symbolical forms of culture. The articles of the proposed dictionary can contain ...
