University performance and regional development: the case of Russia’s North-West
... ‘third mission’, universities exert influence on the economy, politics and socially responsible industries in their home region. A better understanding of the role of universities in regional development requires a comprehensive evaluation of their performance. This study aims to evaluate the performance of regional universities and examine its impact on regional socio-economic indicators. The paper proposes a methodology for evaluating the performance of regional universities and presents the results ...
Measuring performance of cultural organizations on the data of the envelopment analysis
The article focuses on the issue of cultural organizations performance measurement. The author explains the benefits of applying a non-parametric “Data Envelopment Analysis” that is based on comparison of input and output indicators, to performance measurement of cultural organizations. Using statistical ...
The formation of the narrative and the performative in public communication
Since the British philosopher John Austin, narratives and performatives have been considered as opposite concepts covered by the generic concept of speech act. At the same time, these concepts were separated according to whether a narrative, inducement, a description, or an imperative was present in the text....
Evaluating the efficiency of the research sector in Russian regions: a dynamic data envelopment analysis
... we employ DEA to assess the efficiency of regions in terms of research and technology. The two latter publications are based on Russian regional data allows comparing the findings.
We view DEA as an approach to evaluate the efficiency of objects’ performance, as we do regression analysis, the index method and stochastic production frontier analysis. The results of such evaluations, as a rule, underpin guidelines for increasing the efficiency of objects’ performance and help identify inefficient ...
Client-side performance issues for web resources
Availability of information resources and client-side performance issues are reviewed. There is a generic approach to resolve website availability issues related to client side.
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Антопольский А. Б.
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Innovation performance of Russia’s Northwestern regions: a comparative evaluation
Innovative activities underpin the economic development and competitiveness of Russian regions. This article seeks to compare the innovation performance of Russia’s north-western regions, which are among the most progressive in the country, and their available resource. A review of the literature suggests that most Russian publications combine systems of composite indices with econometric ...
Poor academic performance at university from the perspective of graduates
This article considers approaches to research on poor academic performance at higher educational institutions as a didactic phenomenon. The authors address the need to prevent poor academic performance and structure the training process so that the potential of each student is fully developed. The article analyses ...
A typology of the Baltic region states according to excellence in science and technology
... on R&D (% of GDP) and the number of researchers per 1000 inhabitants. These indicators were considered the most important characteristics of each group that could help to characterize scientific and technological development. The cluster analysis was performed using IBM SPSS Statistics ver.22 software, applying the hierarchical clustering method with squared Euclidean distance and Ward’s connection method.
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The Baltic Sea region countries can be differentiated based on their level ...
The means to express the category of performativity
This article analyses the concept of performative utterance, its primary characteristics, and properties. Audio and video sources are employed to identify secondary forms expressing performative utterances in the mother-child communication and to examine the use of such utterances in the ...
Developing and testing a balanced scorecard for a trading company
This article presents a case of developing a balanced performance scorecard for a Kaliningrad trading company. A general solution includes five stages: analysing economic performance, studying dependencies between performance indicators, building strategic map charts, identifying goals and planning relevant ...
A new role of cooperation under economic sanctions as seen by residents of the Kaliningrad region
... in small business development compared to other Russian territories. Notably, in 2021, 90,700 residents of the region were employed in small enterprises, 45,800 in micro-enterprises, and another 40,000 people were self-employed. By the net financial performance of small and micro-enterprises (64,995 million roubles and 45,881 million roubles, respectively), the region ranked second in the North-Western Federal District, following St. Petersburg, Russia’s northern capital. The volume of subsidies ...
Expressiveness in the theatre as a meaning-making technology and the role of gestures in its realization
... attempts to prove that in heterogeneous discourse expressiveness manifests itself as a meaning-making resource responsible for the form-content fusion. The analysis is carried out on the basis of two different kinds of theatrical discourse: theatrical performance and public play-reading. The author turns to theatrical interpretations of the plays by Alexander Vampilov, Alexander Kazantsev, Natalya Sadur, and to two public readings of the play “A man from Podolsk” by Dmitry Danilov, with the total ...
Reputation core of Russian authorities: the case of the regional level of executive power
... developed the Bureaucratic Reputation Scale (BRS), which is based on the theoretical framework proposed by Carpenter, who applied organizational reputation to public administration [38]. The BRS consists of four indicators, including the reputation of performance (ability to effectively achieve goals), moral reputation (ethical behaviour and adherence to moral obligations), the reputation of procedure (fairness of processes used for decision-making), and technical reputation (competence).
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Ports of Eastern Baltic and Russian transit policy: competition and cooperation
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An Assessment of the Economic Performance of the EU Baltic Region States
The paper explores how the common economic space, a product of the EU, influenced the economies of the Baltic Sea Region states in 1995—2015. The authors investigate changes in the economic performance of the developed (Germany, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden) and Eastern European countries (Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia) during the integration of the latter states into the EU. Performance dynamics is analyzed for eight EU Baltic Sea ...
Case study: treatment of a patient with Т- cell lymphoma (delta-gamma-variant)
In this article, we present a clinical case of a patient with T-cell lymphoma (delta-gamma variant) complicated by neuroleukemia. We performed a differential diagnosis from other lymphoproliferative diseases. Our diagnosis was based on trepanobiopsy and immunophenotyping data: delta-gamma-T/NK-cell lymphoma, hepatolienal form. The first NHL-BFM 90 protocol block was obtained. We ...
To the question of creating a stationary plasma engine of increased power
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Economic Development of the Baltic and Nordic Countries: Characteristics of Еconomic Models
... the Nordic model of economic development is acclaimed internationally for the effective use of national and external resources, which is not the case in the Baltics. The Nordic and Baltic national models demonstrate that similar financial and economic performance does not translate into similar economic development results. The article tracks ten years of economic performance of the Nordic and Baltic countries and analyses economic models from the perspective of new institutionalism. The authors ...
The functioning of performatives in the texts of documents: The case of appeal letters
This article deals with the functional and semantic features of performative verbs in the texts of documents. Performatives are defined as significant structure and content components of text solving the pragmatic task of establishing the contact between the addresser and addressee. The author identifies the communicative ...
Key problems of the preparedness of marketers to the new challen¬ges of digital communications era and their impact on a company’s performance
... changes in the level of requirements for and the expected competencies of professional marketers in the age of digital communications. The article discusses the role and evaluates the contribution of mar-keting specialists to the economic and financial performance of companies and organisations. The author analyses the applied methods and indicators that used to assess the level of specialists' competencies in the area of marketing.
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Local features of regional difference in the modern Ukraine
This paper attempts to analyse the existing regional disparities with the help of the proposed population and territory performance indices. A regional analysis is carried out on the basis of index calculations; certain territorial groups of regions are identified. The author examines the state regional
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Performance optimization methods for web resources of culture organizations
Client-side optimization methods are very efficient to improve performance of web resources of culture organizations. In comparison to server-side optimization these methods are related to frontend architecture only and can’t be achieved only with additional hardware.
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Мациевский Н. С.
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... the cargo handled by Baltic seaports. The severance of traditional international trade ties, which occurred in 2022, created a situation where Russia’s Northwest, for the first time, was a laggard rather than a front-runner in terms of economic performance. To a significant extent, this resulted from logistics restructuring and international companies exiting Russia.
This state of affairs inevitably brings the prospects of the Russian Baltic regions to the forefront of scholarly attention and ...
Comparative analysis of the territorial support frame of settlement in coastal areas: the case of St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad regions
... support frame of settlement (TSFS) [30], [31], [32]. The TSFS is the location and combination of its elements — settlements (nodes) and transport links (lines) — and the interaction between them. Each TSFS has a main city, which is the core that performs the function of political administration, concentrates people, industries, and resources. Additionally, there are linear elements comprising thoroughfares, with roads and railways being the most important ones. As Pavel Polyan wrote in 1988, ...
Comparison of heart rate parameters in students with different achievements in rest and conditions of short-term mental stress
Frequency and variability of heart rate served as instruments to assess the stress resistance of two groups of students with different average academic performance in different periods of the educational process: at the beginning and at the end of the autumn semester. Mental stress always statistically significantly increased the heart rate in both groups of students, but significantly decreased heart ...
Retrograde endobiliary interventions for acute biliary pancreatitis
The article analyses the results of the examination and treatment of 18 patients with acute biliary pancreatitis (ABP). They underwent endoscopic retrograde endobiliary interventions (EREBV), which were performed in the X-ray surgery under endotracheal anesthesia using X-ray vision and included the following: endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreaticography (ERCP), endoscopic papillosphincterotomy (EPST), lithotripsy, lithoextraction, duct stenting....
Application of adaptive control algorithms to improve the performance of a wireless optical communication channel
The possibility of using adaptive control algorithms in wireless optical systems to improve their performance is considered. The use of feedback is proposed to create a dynamic system using the adjustment of the transmitted power level, changing the type of modulation and coding rate for atmospheric attenuation. Modeling and analysis of the system ...
The population of the Kaliningrad region and the digital economy: a sociological analysis
... improve the quality of life by creating information infrastructure and streamlining public administration. The regional Ministry of Digital Development has already presented an interim report on its implementation focused, however, mainly on the economic performance.
The study aims at conducting a sociological analysis of the region’s population as a participant in digital transformation. It employs the questionnaire survey method with 384 respondents selected by quota sampling. The results show ...
Theatrical interpretation of a literary work from the standpoint of semiotic creativity
The study presents the results of linguosemiotic analysis of sign correlations between the play “The Elder Son” by Vampilov and 22 theatrical performances based on it (The International on-line Festival “The Elder Son — 55”, November, 2020). The play and its multimodal interpretations are viewed as parts of a unique communicative space. These parts may be specified as the original communicative ...
Modern indicators of urban development: challenges and opportunities for creating integral approaches to city management
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Hybrid texts as a form of interaction between avant-garde artistic and political discourses
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Modern aspects of diagnostics of compressional neuropathy of the median nerve in the carpal canal
... diagnosing patients with CCS. The study was performed on 98 patients examined in the Kaliningrad regional clinical hospital, the department of traumatology and orthopedics at the IKBFU Clinical and Diagnostic Center in 2013—2019. Diagnostics was performed on a Toshiba Aplio 500 ultrasound machine with a linear sensor of a scanning frequency of 7—14 and 12—18 MHz and an Acuson S2000 device, an 18 L6 HD sensor; electromyography was performed on a Wiking Quest Nicolet device. The age of patients ...
The Institutional Architecture of Territorial Innovative Systems: Towards a Spatially Targeted Regional Policy
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Cognitive training as a method of developing cognitive functions in young athletes
The relevance of the study is determined by the importance of cognitive functions for high performance in sports. Cognitive training is one of the ways to develop cognitive functions. The study shows a positive influence of the method proposed on the state of cognitive functions in young athletes in the recovery period of the training cycle....
The Late Poetry of A. Bashlachev: Changes in Performance and New Meanings
This article investigates variations in a synthetic text manifested in word, sound, and performance. Based on earlier literary studies of the synthetic art phenomenon and its relevant methods, the authors set a theoretical and analytical framework for this research. The object of the study is verbal and musical subtexts, each performing ...
Problems of modeling of the working processes of a stationary plasma engine
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Small and medium public-private enterprises in the Brest region of the Republic of Belarus: performance and characteristics
This article analyses the performance of small and medium public-private enterprises in the Brest region of the Republic of Belarus in 2010—2014. The authors examine the legislative and normative framework for the development of national small and medium enterprises and addresses ...
The illocutionary aims of the positive-evaluative speech acts (in English artistic discourse)
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Metatheatre under the sign of Chekhov (based on plays by V. Levanov, O. Bogayev, A. Mardan)
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Investigation of influences parameters and topology of magnetic field peripheral zone stationary plasma thruster on the efficiency of the cathode-compensator
... calculations suggests influence on efficiency of cathode-compensator operation either magnetic field topology or magnetic field induction in cathode position. It is founded a correlation between magnetic field induction in cathode position and thruster performance. It is determined assumptive magnetic field induction less as 30 Gauss in cathode position for better performance and requisite lifetime of thruster.
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Implementation persistent scatterers interferometry in MATLAB environment on a high performance computer cluster
The features of the method implementation Persistent Scatterers Interferometry in MATLAB environment on a high performance computer cluster are considered. The process and results of interferometric processing of multi-time measurements made by radar ALOS/PALSAR in 2007—2011 is described. For processing software package developed used high-precision evaluation ...
Backaction of measuring tunneling current through double quantum dot on it’s dynamics
... current through double quantum dot on it’s dynamics. We propose a new method for evaluating of measured current operator. Results are demonstrated as a graph representing measured stationary current through double quantum dot as a function of detection performance. It is shown that increasing of detection performance leads to quick decreasing of current through double quantum dot, which is consistent with quantum Zeno effect.
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Measuring social well-being in the rural areas of the Kaliningrad region
... agricultural lands (threshold value of 50 %). Further analysis was based on the indices of geodemographic situation, investment potential, and production development. Rural municipalities were ranked according to these indices. The study showed that the best performing area are the suburban districts of Guryevsk and Bagrationovsk and the agricultural districts of Nesterov and Pravdinsk, whereas the worst performing ones are those of Gvardeisk, Krasnoznamensk, Ozersk, and Chernykhovsk. A comparison with the ...
The innovative process in the Baltic Sea region
... the region. Firstly, some definitions of innovations, innovation drivers, and characteristics of a favourable innovation environment are presented. Secondly, the current condition of innovation environments in the BSR is described and the innovation performances of Baltic countries are compared. Finally, the research aims to conclude, as well as to analyse, the future innovation development of the BSR. The research material for this desk study is collected from various sources, including journal ...
Empirical results on Russian companies' innovation activity
... competitive position in international markets. This paper is based on research designed to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the national innovation system in Russia. The objective of the study was to examine innovation activity and innovation performance in Russia, as well as to identify the priorities of the government’s policy for promoting innovation.
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Geopolitical regionalisation of the Baltic area: the essence and historical dynamics
... cross-border regions emerge from local-level collaborations, as seen in initiatives like the local border traffic regime that once facilitated transit between Poland and the Kaliningrad region [5], [13].
Based on their functions, i. e. types of activities performed by public agents, regions are categorised as follows:
1. Monofunctional (sectoral) regions. These include economical-geospatial or geoeconomic regions represented by regional international organisations (OECD, EAEU, VASAB [Vision and Strategies ...
Evangelical Lutheran church of Denmark: socio-economic and territorial-organisational aspects
The study exemplifies the use of an institutional-territorial approach for a comprehensive description of a national denominational landscape. The article aims to provide such an account by analysing relevant official data and performing statistical processing using computational tools. The focus is on the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark and its administrative-territorial structures. The study places emphasis on the financial aspect, one seldom discussed in academic ...
Sanctions risks and regional development: Russian case
... in other words, distorted the initial risk assessment. In essence, risks are evaluated here after the fact, when it is already known about the hazardous events and even approximate damage. Predictive assessment of such risks is much more difficult to perform.
First, the potential negative impact of trade restrictions on regional development must be assessed. This assessment can involve analyzing the proportion of imports and exports originating from and to potentially 'unfriendly' countries as a ...
Speech features clinical guidelines for patients
... types are proposed to be grouped together and qualified as an informative-imperative hyper genre. Through the analysis of texts, it is proven that the linguistic features of clinical recommendations for patients are determined by the functions they perform (pragmatic, attractive, personifying, explicative, regulatory, phatic). Informative, representational, and cumulative functions do not imply any linguistic specificity in the texts. It is revealed that the specificity of clinical recommendations ...
Vladimir Bibikhin: the connoisseur of poetry and the poet
... Verse Performer (The 1910s and 1920s). In: Izbrannye raboty. O stikhe. O stikhakh. O poetakh [Selected Works. About verse. About verses. About poets]. Moscow, pp. 102—122 (in Russ.).
Gasparov, M. L., 2005b. Bely the Verse Scholar and Bely the Verse Performer. In: Izbrannye raboty. O stikhe. O stikhakh. O poetakh [Selected Works. About the verse. About verses. About poets]. Moscow, pp. 123—135 (in Russ.).
Pavlov, I., 2019. An Ontology of Power as an Ontology of History: An Appraisal of Vladimir ...