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... indices that take into account various components affecting the quality of life. This article analyses the current level and changes in the social development of the Baltic States in 1990—2016. The analysis is based on the values of human development index. Having distinct advantages and disadvantages, this index remains to be the most popular and influential tool for assessing a country’s social development. A statistical analysis carried out with the use of HDI values makes it possible to divide ...

.... The study aimed to identify the reasons for the disparity in the development of small towns in Latvia. A comprehensive approach was taken to integrate the results of territorial, spatial and socio-economic analyses. By employing the methodology of indexing and ranking large-scale empirical data characterising the development of all small towns in Latvia, the authors attempt to identify the reasons for the disparity in the development rate of small towns in Latvia. The index of territorial development ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Natsional’nyi psikhologicheskii zhurnal [National psychological journal], no. 2 (14), p. 27—35 (in Russ.). doi: https://doi.org/10.11621/npj.2014.0204 . 30. Natsional’nyi indeks razvitiya tsifrovoi ekonomiki: Pilotnaya realizatsiya [National Index of Digital Economy Development: Pilot Implementation], 2018, Moscow, State Corporation “Rosatom” (in Russ.). 31. Digital Economy Country Assessment for Russia, 2018, Moscow, Institute of the Information Society, 158 p. 32. Zadorin, I. V., Maltseva,...

... jetnicheskij sostav naselenija [Social Atlas of Russian Regions: the ethnic composition of the population], Nezavisimyj institut social'- noj politiki [Independent Institute for Social Policy], available at: http://www.socpol.ru/ atlas/overviews/settlement/index.shtml#ethnic (accessed 15.01.2014). 10. Stepanov, V. V. 2003, Jetnicheskaja identichnost' i uchet naselenija [Ethnic identity and registration of the population]. In: Jetnografija perepisi [Ethnography census], Moscow, p. 31—62. 11. Stepanov,...

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 ...

... volunteers (the patient's position, food intake, respiratory phase, number of measurements) were iden­tified, which resulted in mean values of spleen stiffness. It was found that spleen stiffness does not depend on gender, height, body weight, and body mass index. The study reveals a range of diseases in which the spleen stiffness is significantly higher than normal values, and it includes liver cirrhosis, por­tal hypertension, esophageal varicose veins Grade III and portal vein obstruc­tion. A discussion ...