Digital Trends Research Articles

Prediction models and testing of resilience in regions

A significant amount of research has been conducted regarding the resilience of the regions and the factors that contribute to allow them to face challenges, crises, or disasters. The rise of promising sectors like Machine learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can enhance this research using computing power in regional economic, social, and environmental data analysis to find patterns and create prediction models. Through Machine Learning, the following research introduces the use of models that can predict the performance of a region in disasters. A case study of the performance of USA Counties during the Covid19 first wave period of the pandemic and the related restrictions that were applied by the authorities was used in order to reveal the obvious or hidden parameters and factors that affected their resilience, in particular their economic response, and other interesting patterns between all the involved attributes. This paper aims to contribute to a methodology and to offer useful guidelines in how regional factors can be translated and processed by data and ML/AI tools and techniques. The proposed models were evaluated on their ability to predict the economic performance of each county and in particular the difference of its unemployment rate between March and June of 2020. The former is based on several economic, social, and environmental data -up to that point in time- using classifiers like neural networks and decision trees. A comparison of the different models' execution was performed, and the best models were further analyzed and presented. Further execution results that identified patterns and connections between regional data and attributes are also presented. The main results of this research are i) a methodological framework of how regional status can be translated into digital models and ii) related examples of predictive models in a real case. An effort was also made to decode the results in terms of regional science to produce useful and meaningful conclusions, thus a decision tree is also presented to demonstrate how these models can be interpreted. Finally, the connection between this work and the strong current trend of regional and urban digitalization towards sustainability is established.

Modern branding in the digital economy

The article analyzes the impact of the dominant trends of qualitative changes in the modern economy on fringe formation. The trends of digitalization and personalization of nanoeconomy subjects are considered as such trends. Aspects of the digital economy and informatization are studied. Digital branding helps to establish a meaningful connection with the target audience, using a unique offer to highlight the brand and its distinctive competitive advantages. Innovations that increase the intensity of information flows shape and promote a digital brand. It has been established that modern branding is influenced by the relations born within the nanoeconomy. For example, a brand is an institution that depends on nano-actors, including owners, producers, and consumers. The institution of property implies that a person with savings can invest in a business that can develop its brand. A brand is subjective and reflects an individual approach to a product (good or service). The owner initiates the brand and becomes a reference from this owner to various consumers and business customers. The manufacturer is responsible for producing a particular product when the production conditions dictate the quality of the product or service, and the brand image is formed. The latest digital technologies affect economic processes, including the efficiency and stability of business processes. Digital technologies can improve the efficiency of targeting marketing strategies and increase the compliance of goods with consumer expectations. At the same time, it has been shown (proved) that the increase in the efficiency of economic processes under the influence of consumer activation is explained by the titles of the modern science of nanoeconomics. Nanoeconomic systems differ in peacetime and during military operations. Since Ukraine is going through difficult military times with aggression from Russia, it is necessary to consider the specifics of nanoeconomic development in these conditions and the post-war period. It is determined that the mental construction of a modern brand should include, in addition to product characteristics, elements of both digitalization and aspects of the behavior of individual economic agents, as opposed to the traditional neoclassical paradigm. Keywords: brand, trademark, nanoeconomy, digital communications, branding, brand management.

EFFECTIVE METHODS OF DEVELOPING THE SKILLS OF ORGANIZING AND CARRYING OUT PREVENTIVE WORK FOR STUDENTS STUDYING IN THE SPECIALTY «NURSING»

The article reveals the features of using various methods to consolidate the skill of carrying out preventive measures on the example of training future nurses at the Institute of Nursing Education of the Voronezh State Medical University named after N.N. Burdenko. Given the rapid development of the digital space, the constantly changing working conditions of physicians, it is important to instill in a modern specialist flexibility in acquiring skills, develop his ability to effectively select and use various methods and techniques. The article presents the techniques used at the Burdenko State Medical University in the training of future nurses, which take into account the specifics of their profession, the trend of digitalization of medicine and the development of preventive health care.

Digital Trends of Criminology and Criminal Justice of the 21st Century

Objective: to define the key trends in the development of criminology and criminal justice under significant broadening of digitalization and using modern technologies.Methods: the priority of analytical method combined with descriptive method provided an optimal set of tools for searching and revealing the main digital trends in the development of criminology and criminal justice in the 21st century.Results: the growing dependence was revealed between criminal-legal science and digital technologies, which leads to the change in essence and types of contemporary criminality, models of criminals’ behavior, methods and mechanism of crime control and prevention in the light of requirements of criminal policy and justice. The dual role of the global digitalization trend is highlighted, the achievements of which are used both by the agencies of criminal justice system (in particular, for crime control, management and prevention) and criminals when implementing their criminal intents. It was determined that the essential transformation of criminology and criminal justice is largely caused by a dramatic development of digitalization in the 21st century, as well as by the modern technologies created on its basis, which appear to be more effective than the standard methods of traditional criminology, including quantitative and qualitative estimations, observation, interviews, polls, etc.Scientific novelty: new spheres of criminal-legal knowledge are introduced, as well as the corresponding disciplines formed exclusively under the influence of digitalization, such as cyber criminology and cyber victimology; algorithmic (computational) criminology, based on actuarial justice and the theory of risks, is highlighted as the most recent trend in criminological science.Practical significance: the account of trends and positive experience gained in the sphere of digitalization determines the successful solution of the tasks associated with crime counteraction, transformation of approaches to the content, goals and methodology of applied criminology and criminal justice. The global megatrend of digitalization essentially changes the appearance of the criminal-legal science, sets the new theoretical and applied directions of its development. Timely upgrade and adaptation of knowledge, skills and capabilities in compliance with the achievements of digitalization will allow criminology and criminal justice to correspond to the tasks of the new millennium.

Facilities Management Digitalisation Model: A Systematic Literature Review

Facility or facilities management (FM) helps ensure that the built environment is efficient, safe, comfortable, and sustainable. The goal of FM is to raise productivity and improve people's quality of life. FM involves working with a variety of service providers to ensure that buildings and associated facilities are well maintained. The role of the facility manager is becoming more prominent in a digitally enabled world. The recent pandemic has boosted the rate at which innovation is being embraced in most organisations. This research will look at the current trends in FM that are emerging as a result of digitalisation. The main objective of this research is to propose the FM digitalisation model, which might influence future FM practices. This systematic literature review is based on a search of articles across Scopus and Google Scholar using keywords such as "facilities management" and "digitisation". On July 6th, 2022, the searches yielded 614 articles, including 64 articles in Scopus, 113 articles in WoS, and 437 articles in Google Scholar. After screening, 29 Scopus articles, 93 WoS articles, and 398 Google Scholar articles were excluded. According to this study, the field of FM digitalisation is still in its early stages of development. The study also identifies FM digitalisation trends over the previous twelve years, establishing contextual knowledge. As a result, a conceptual model that focuses on sustainable FM digitalisation is proposed.

Digitalization in health care: Promising tools

Aim. The presented study aims to consider the possibilities and features of the development of digitalization in health care under modern conditions (through the example of Russia).Tasks. The authors describe the essence and trends of digitalization and the industry-specific features of its manifestation in health care; analyze the available digital technologies from the perspective of their use in health care; identify directions for the development of RWD and RWE systems in Russia and assess the need for a transformation of the institutional environment of health care in the context of their introduction.Methods. This study uses general scientific research methods (analysis, synthesis, monographic method, grouping), as well as methods of institutional and sectoral techno-economic analysis.Results. The process of digital transformation in the health care sector is analyzed, and the introduction of RWD and RWE systems and artificial intelligence systems is examined in detail. In the context of a study of development trends in digital health care, recommendations for improving the collection, processing, and storage of medical information are given. New means of working with medical data and directions for the development of digital medical services and medical care using digital technologies are described.Conclusions. Digitalization in health care is aimed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of medical care and medical services through the application of innovative approaches and the expanded use of digital tools. Global experience shows that patients and medical organizations can successfully use personalized solutions in the field of digital health care to improve disease prevention, self-care, and access to health care, providing that they are designed with allowance for the needs and preferences of the patient. However, these issues require improved processes not only at the level of organizations, but also at the level of industrial regulatory bodies.

Semantic modeling in the construction of digital twins of energy objects and systems

The article deals with the problem of building Digital Twins and Smart Digital Twins for control and management in power systems. The energy system is understood as a set of energy resources of all types, methods for their production (extraction), transformation, distribution and use, as well as technical means and organizational complexes that ensure the supply of consumers with all types of energy. Integrated intelligent energy systems are analyzed as one of the important trends in the Russian energy sector, and the main directions of digitization of the energy sector are considered. The concept of "digital twins" in technical fields is considered as one of the main digitalization trends, an ontological approach to building digital twins and semantic models for building smart digital twins are proposed. It is proposed to use a fractal approach when performing ontological engineering, which makes it possible to formalize the concepts of the subject area and allows you to build different-scale ontologies using metalevels of ontologies. Formalized models of digital twins and smart digital twins are presented. The developed approaches are illustrated by the example of construction of digital twins of a solar power plant and smart digital twins of a fuel and energy complex. The approach described in the article makes it possible to integrate different levels of digital and smart digital twins into a single digital solution when modeling energy facilities and power systems.

The relationship between economic and political factors and the development of the manufacturing industry

With the development of global economy, people can often see many foreign products, which can not be separated from the development of national politics, economy, and there is an excellent general environment. The development of the manufacturing industry is crucial to the economic and political development of a country, through the analysis of the economic, political and Covid-19 perspectives on the development of the manufacturing industry. Many manufacturing industries are facing the possibility of bankruptcy under the influence of Covid-19. Firstly, this paper investigates that economic development and political measures have different degrees of impact on the manufacturing industry through extensive data analysis. Secondly, By analyse the impact of the global spread of coronavirus on the manufacturing industry, such as the decline in the quality of raw materials leading to a lack of market demand and the increased risk of plant closures. Businesses, oversupply. In the face of the Covid-19, regionalization and digitalization trends, a three-step countermeasure is proposed to help the manufacturing industry recover from a macro perspective and to better assist the subsequent transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry.

Modern trends in the development of the transport and logistics system of Russia, taking into account external challenges and transformations of the domestic market

The role and place of modern digital trends in logistics as the main factor that compensates and neutralizes the negative trends that arise in the current crisis post-pandemic conditions are considered. The article explores and analyzes the experience of foreign companies and leading domestic companies in the field of informatization and digitalization of business processes in transport logistics.

Formation of innovation potential at the macro-, meso- and microlevels under the conditions of digitalization

Under the conditions of martial law and post-war reconstruction of territories, it is important to ensure the formation of innovative potential, which will serve as a driving force for their recovery and development. The mandatory consideration of modern trends and challenges of digital transformation is important in the formation of innovative potential at the macro-, meso- and microlevels. Innovative potential under the conditions of digitalization plays a key role in the process of post-war recovery of both a separate territory and the country. That is why the implementation of the process forming innovative potential at the macro-, meso and microlevels under the conditions of digitalization is quite relevant and timely. The purpose of the article is the process of formation of innovative potential at the macro-, meso- and microlevels under the conditions of digitalization. The process of forming innovative potential at the macro-, meso- and microlevels under the conditions of digitalization has been carried out. The relations of the components of the enterprise's potential and its interaction with the external environment was carried out. Factors influencing the modernization processes of enterprises in the context of innovation and digitization trends are determined. The basic components of the digital economy have been formed. The list of necessary actions for successful digitization at the meso- and microlevels has been determined. The strategic priorities of digital transformation at the macro-, meso- and micro levels and the economy have been formed. It has been proven that it is important to consider the components of the external (management, export, research) and internal environment (marketing, production, information, intellectual, logistic, financial and credit) in the formation of innovative potential. It was determined that the factors influencing the modernization processes of enterprises in the context of innovation and digitization trends are divided into external and internal. It was revealed that the main components of the digital economy are infrastructure, digital business operations and e-commerce. It was determined that the corresponding active development of the components of the digital economy is observed in society today. It has been proven that the main elements of modern digital infrastructure innovations are technological, informational, communication and technical. The right elements allow to unlock and innovate fully using digital infrastructure. Keywords: digitalization, digital economy, innovation potential, micro-, meso-, macrolevel.

Влияние цифровизации на физическую культуру и профессиональную физическую подготовку спортсменов в России

The purpose of this scientific article is to study the influence of digitalization processes on physical culture. The relevance of this work lies in the fact that modern trends in digitalization penetrate into all spheres of society, including the process of professional physical training of athletes and students of sports educational institutions. The hypothesis of the conducted scientific research is that the digitalization process has a huge impact on physical culture, and the novelties of scientific and technological revolution make it possible to develop new methods for professional physical training, as well as improve all main indicators of this educational activity. The article gives a definition of digitalization, outlines the process of professional physical training before the mass use of advanced digital tools and techniques, their essence and shortcomings. Besides the main tasks, which the educational sphere and society face, are given, their accomplishment being necessary for a radical transformation of this area of education and sports. It has been ascertained that the impact of digitalization on the educational sphere will increase exponentially in the future. Ignoring this fact, as well as continuing to use old methods of physical training in the educational sphere, may lead to a decline of the general professional level of training of our athletes.

Digital Trends in Strategic Development of Nuclear Power Engineering Enterprises

This article substantiates the benefits of digitalization for the strategic development of industrial enterprises. The main directions of digital transformation of all business processes are defined. The experience and key results of the technological development strategy of the mechanical engineering division of SC "Rosatom" and the specifics of the nuclear power industry as a management object are considered and presented.

Adoption of AI in response to COVID-19-a configurational perspective.

Although the importance of artificial intelligence (AI) has often been highlighted in strategic agility and decision outcomes, whether it helps firms strengthen their competitiveness and the means firms use to achieve such competitiveness are still under-researched. Our research thus joins the recent discussion on digitalization trends and strategic responses to COVID-19 to better understand how firms strengthen their competitiveness during such challenging times. Namely, this study incorporates the strategic responses to COVID-19 into the technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework by investigating the impacts of different configurations of TOE contexts and strategic responses on a firm's competitive advantage. We used fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to investigate how TOE contexts and strategic responses integrate into configurations and impact a firm's competiveness. By applying a configurational approach with data from 514 exporting firms in China, we find a strong indication of the equifinality of different strategies, indicating that multiple strategic paths can be used to respond to crises. The adoption of AI, while important, is not sufficient to enhance a firm's competitiveness. Our results stress the significance of data quality, organizational resources and capabilities, and digital business model innovation for AI adoption. We also identify successful strategic paths of AI adoption aversion and ambidextrous strategies. The findings have practical implications for firms seeking effective strategies to respond to future crises and sustain their competitive advantages.

Animation & visual effects technologies influence on global production trends & digitalization of cinema from 1990 to 2020

The acceleration of globalization has increased considerably in the last thirty years. Among many reasons for this condition, technological advancements and the use of web have an important place. This situation has changed the dynamics of capitalist finance, social life, educational processes, artistic production methods and production design trends which are positioned at the center of the article. In a period when the interaction is increasing and capitalist control mechanisms may not ignore this interaction, the expectations of people both economically and artistically changed, also simultaneous changes have occurred in the production methods. Now, the media production method has moved out of the processes where the cinema industry is marketing through digitalized mediums and contents in many different media platforms. The audience is now more directly involved in cinema, television, literature and other media as a consumer. The main goal of the research is to analyze this trend of digitalization in cinema through technologies connected to animation and visual effects. In the article firstly, history of animation and technological developments will be summarized and then digitalization of cinema will be described in different aspects. Both technological, artistic and political variations will be analyzed and after that the trends will be shown by graphics from statistical data. This data is taken from “Box Office Mojo” website and the trend include mainly, changes in animation and visual effects technologies. This article will basically try to reveal the changes in the technological and cinematic understandings of production companies that have been most integrated into thisorientation in the thirty-year period. In summary, the process will be analyzed through statistics that will reveal the course of globalization, both in terms of orientation towards animation, visual effects and films produced through digital cinema.

Цифровая компетенция как один из компонентов профессиональной подготовки инспектора ПДН

Today, many researchers note the trend of digitalization, which represents the introduction of innovative technologies in all spheres of public life, while law enforcement is no exception. An absolute novelty of the current time has become the need for the interaction of the PDN inspector with the digital space, which is justified primarily by the increase in the activity of minors in the information space. In modern realities, the PDN inspector must be competent in matters of the digital space, moreover, the digital competence of an employee can help improve the efficiency of professional activities in general. The article substantiates the importance of the formation of digital competence in the PDN inspector, as one of the components of professional training. The subject of the study is digital competence as an integral element of the professional activity of a PDN inspector. 
 The purpose of the study is to substantiate the importance of the digital competence of the PD inspector, to determine the components of digital competence, as well as to identify the main components of the formation of digital competence. 
 Based on the results of the study, it was revealed that the formation of digital competence even at the stage of professional training of a PDN inspector allows a specialist to rationally interact with innovative products and apply digital technologies in the process of performing job duties, thus increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of professional activities in general.

Does the Digital Economy Promote Domestic Non-Tradable Sectors?: Evidence from China

The impact of the digital economy (DE) has become the important faction of the market volume of domestic non-tradable sectors (DNSs). As rising digitalization supersedes traditional market power as a driving force, there is increasing concern about the volume of trade and economy; however, the literature of how the DE procession changed the DNS’s are limited, although the Chinese government is eager to enlarge the scale of the domestic market to be consistent with the trend of digitalization. This paper addressed this issue by employing a series of data from prefecture-level cities between 2010 and 2019 in China. Using panel data methods under fixed effect, synthetic difference-in-differences (SDID), and temporal-spatial econometrics, the paper’s hypothesis sheds light on the positive impact of the DE on DNSs. The regression results showed a 14.84% of improvement for the effects of DE development on DNS growth. The policy impact effect increased the average treatment effect by 3.9% average treatment effect, accompanied by temporal and spatial correlations. Further analysis illustrated that a possible intermediary mechanism through which the DE promotes the development of DNSs is the enhancement of the local product market development. It was concluded that policy-makers of developing countries should be devoted to breaking down domestic trade barriers among different regions to enhance the benefits of digitalization.

ICT in inclusive education by AI blockchain technology

A new trend of digitalization of inclusive education for education in the framework of the UNESCO report "Futures of education. Learning to become". It was discussed how digitalization of education can make it more accessible for children with disabilities, studying in conditions of inclusion. The presented technology allows for a long time to consistently collect and analyze pedagogical, psychological, and medical information on the results of observations and examinations of each child for supervisory groups and consultations while maintaining full confidentiality of personal data. The information collected serves as the basis for drawing up individual educational routes for the students, and for the teacher, it makes it possible to work in the zone of the children's closest development without comparing them with each other. The presented development met with lively interest because the widespread introduction of inclusive practices in education is not always provided by the ergonomic technologies of the teacher, who has to work simultaneously with children with different educational needs.

Remote follow-up after cataract surgery (CORE-RCT): study protocol of a randomized controlled trial

BackgroundCataract surgery has become one of the most performed surgical procedures worldwide. Postoperative management consists of routine clinical examinations to assess post-operative visual function and detect possible adverse events. Due to the low incidence of complications, the majority of clinic visits after cataract surgery are uneventful. Nonetheless, valuable time and hospital resources are consumed. We hypothesize that remote post-operative follow-up involving teleconsultations and self-assessments of visual function and health status, could be a valid alternative to face-to-face clinical examinations in selected patient groups. The practice of remote follow-up after cataract surgery has not yet been evaluated. The aim of this study is to investigate the validity, safety and cost-effectiveness of remote cataract surgery follow-up, and to report on the patients’ experiences with remotely self-assessing visual function.MethodsThis study is a multicenter, open-label, randomized controlled trial. Patients planned for cataract surgery on both eyes, without ocular comorbidities, are eligible for participation. Participants will be allocated (1:1) into one of the two study groups: ‘telemonitoring’ or ‘usual care’. Participants in the ‘telemonitoring’ group will perform in-home assessments after cataract surgery (remote web-based eye exams and digital questionnaires on their own devices). Participants in the ‘usual care’ group will have regular post-operative consultations, according to the study site’s regular practice. Outcome measures include accuracy of the web-based eye exam for assessing visual acuity and refraction, patient-reported outcome measures (visual function and quality of life), adverse events, and cost aspects.DiscussionInvestigating remote follow-up after cataract surgery fits the current trends of digitization of health care. We believe that remote self-care can be a promising avenue to comply with the increasing demands of cataract care. This randomized controlled trial provides scientific evidence on this unmet need and delivers the desired insights on (cost)effectiveness of remote follow-up after cataract surgery.Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04809402. Date of registration: March 22, 2021.

ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЕ МЕТОДЫ НИВЕЛИРОВАНИЯ УГЛЕРОДНОГО СЛЕДА В ЗЕРНОПРОДУКТОВОМ ПОДКОМПЛЕКСЕ

Trends in digitalization and leveling the carbon footprint predetermine priority areas for the grain product systems development. The role of sustainable development of such systems, which covers the entire chain of agro-industrial enterprises, is growing, since 25% of the entire carbon footprint is formed in agriculture and related industries. The energy profile of the world economy is undergoing fundamental structural changes under the influence of the emerging global climate policy, on the one hand, and under the influence of massive technological innovations, on the other hand. Currently, there are no single schemes for reducing the carbon footprint and its impact on the efficient production of large economic systems in the agro-industrial complex. The scientific novelty of the research will lie in the application of deductive, inductive and traductive reasoning in the study of the problems of reducing the carbon footprint and its impact on the efficient production of large economic systems using the grain product subcomplex as an example. Assessment of the impact of the carbon footprint on the economic efficiency of the economic mechanism of the grain product subcomplex, including its innovative and investment component is a problem that does not have an unambiguous solution. In modern economic conditions, grain product subcomplexes are complex social and economic systems that have diverse hierarchically structured connections. The analysis of the impact of the distribution of the carbon footprint in conjunction with the assessment of the economic efficiency of the economic mechanism of the agro-industrial complex of the region, its innovative and investment component in the context of the digital path of economic development is among the most relevant and significant for the national economy of the country. The theoretical significance of the study lies in combining the concept of ecologization of the economy (carbon footprint) with the concept of determining the economic efficiency of hierarchically complex economic systems. The practical scientific significance lies in the development of a methodology for evaluating the performance of hierarchically complex economic systems in the context of a digital path of economic development. The scientific problem is to identify patterns in the distribution of the carbon footprint throughout the chain of production, distribution, exchange and consumption of grain, as well as in an objective and systematic assessment of the economic efficiency of the economic mechanism of the grain subcomplex (including the innovation and investment component), including in the possibility of assessing and non-economic activities (social, environmental, etc.).

Digitalization Trend and Its Influence on the Development of the Operational Process in Production Companies

The subject of digitization is currently very widely described. Implementing digitization is a complex task and there are many variants of its implementation. The authors of this article asked themselves what current trends affect the digitization of processes and what factors resulting from the characteristics of production enterprises affect the development of operational processes. The CAWI method was used in the study. In the analysis of the results, the following methods were used: Partial Least Squares Path Modeling (PLS), Mood’s Median Test, or visualization using a box plot. The analysis of the results allowed us to conclude that the development of operational processes of production enterprises is related to digitization trends, but this relationship is not direct. It is necessary to link digitalization trends with software development trends. The conducted research also indicated that there are company characteristics that determine the degree of use (absorption) and the perception of significance for digitalization trends. These characteristics are the type of a company and the age of a company.