Implementation Of High Technologies Research Articles

The Effect of Government ICT Policy and Technology Leadership on Teacher’s Technology Integration

This study aims to analyze the influence of principals' technology leadership on teachers' technology integration and the moderating role of government ICT policy in all public junior high schools in Surabaya in the new normal era. The research sample consisted of 100 respondents, including 25 principals and 75 teachers from State Junior High Schools in Surabaya with high technology implementation. The data in this study were successfully collected through questionnaires. All collected data will be processed using the PLS-SEM method in the SmartPLS 3.0 software by setting a significance level of 5%. The results indicate that technology leadership positively and significantly affects teachers' technology integration. Further, the results show the role of government ICT policy, which has been proven to strengthen the positive influence of technology leadership on teachers’ technology integration.

Going in Circles: Key Aspects for Circular Economy Contributions to Agro-industrial Cooperatives

The global agribusiness context faces at the same time challenges of feeding a growing global population that is used to safe and nutritious food, opportunities based on innovation, high technology and efficiency in the agri-food production systems from field to table. Given the context, this article aims to present the main key aspects of the circular economy to agro-industrial cooperatives. These contributions were named key aspects, such as circular and symbiotic practices, competitive advantages, innovation, cooperation and barriers and opportunities. The field presents a problem that few literature in fact discusses circular economy approaches in the context of agro-industrial cooperatives. As a methodological procedure, a literature review was carried out in three databases to obtain relevant documents and thus analyse and discuss some characteristics based on circular economy practices applied in agro-industrial cooperatives. As a result, a diagnosis of the current scenario that agro sector organizations are facing in terms of the main rural activities and sustainable practices that relate to the circular economy; measures taken to generate competitive advantage; innovation behaviour; and how linear and circular business models are being applied in the agroindustry. A framework is presented to show potential routes strategies for closing the cycle in an agro-industrial cooperative. The opportunities are based on the implementation of high technology in the field, the use of bioenergy and the development of new circular business models throughout the agro-value chain. The study has contributions to rural properties and managers of cooperatives in terms of waste reduction, innovation generation and increases in activities and processes based on circular economy.

Management lag: can social management keep up with high technologies?

The article is devoted to the social management challenges in the digital age. Much attention is paid to the consequences of the high technologies introduction in society, including the “management lag” phenomenon and the issue, whether a society with “smart” technologists absorbed by the ubiquitous digitalisation processes, has time to manage social processes effectively. The relevance of the issue is also determined by the events related with the shift to remote working for many enterprises in the COVID-19 pandemic, during which the world encountered the organising work challenge using information and communication technologies. The functioning of E-Government platforms as one of the innovations examples in social governance in the world is considered in the article through the prism of government programmes of a number of developed countries and relevant statistical data. The Russian and foreign statistical agencies materials, major organisations electronic databases, keeping high-tech development records: Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Boston Consulting Group, United Nations, World Bank, Russian Government, etc., were used for the analysis. It has been concluded that contemporary high-tech society is forced to look for new, efficient governance methods. The management system must be updated to simultaneously meet the social reality demands and keep up with digital changes. Management decision-making processes in an electronic digital society are in the transformation process, and the high technology implementation isues in society are being debated in the scientific community. The digitalisation speed and scale are faster than cultural and managerial development, which is a threat to social progress.

ТРАНСФОРМАЦИЯ ТЕХНОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ УКЛАДОВ: ТЕОРЕТИЧЕСКИЕ АСПЕКТЫ И СОВРЕМЕННОЕ СОСТОЯНИЕ В АГРАРНОМ СЕКТОРЕ РОССИИ

The problems of development and implementation of high technologies in the manufacturing sector are currently in the spotlight. In our country, the issues of technical and technological modernization, digitalization of the agrarian sector of the economy, the dissemination of the achievements of the fifth technological mode and the transition to the sixth mode, which is based on high technologies, have acquired particular relevance. As part of the scientific study, the economic categories "technological mode" and "techno-economic paradigm" are analyzed, a variety of approaches to the definition of the concept of "technological mode" is established, which indicates both the existing differences in the theoretical knowledge bases of researchers, and the complexity of the concept itself. The author's definition of the category "technological mode" is given in relation to the agricultural sector, taking into account the multi-structural nature of agricultural production that has developed in our country. The properties of the technological mode as a complex socio-economic and technological system are considered, the characteristics of technological modes are presented, the approaches of economists to their periodization, manifestations of technological modes in the agricultural sector of the economy are considered. It has been established that in the domestic agricultural sector, production is carried out within the framework of the second, third, fourth and fifth technological modes with a predominance of the third and fourth. It has been determined that the multi-structural organizational and economic structure of the agro-industrial production in Russia, based on a combination of various forms of management, is a factor that significantly complicates the widespread use of scientific achievements of the fifth technological order and complicates the transition to the "rails" of the breakthrough sixth technological order, and therefore, in our opinion opinion, the implementation of a unified comprehensive state policy for the modernization of the agricultural sector of the domestic economy is required.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INFORMATION SEARCH AND PROVISION OF INTERLIBRARY SERVICES

The search for the requested document is one of the most important processes in the provision of interlibrary services. At the same time, it becomes quite difficult to conduct search procedures in a variety of information retrieval systems (IRS) that operate according to certain rules. This problem requires constant study as new technical search solutions are emerging that need to be mastered by experienced users and novices in the expanding digital workspace. The purpose of the article is to show the existing possibilities for improving the quality of information retrieval in the IRS to meet user orders. The objectives of the research are to uncover the main causes of users’ dissatisfaction with information search in interactive systems and to identify ways to improve them. A brief overview of the history of development and transformations in the use of the reference and retrieval apparatus in interlibrary services is given. Positive changes were noted in the search for documents related to the use of information and communication technologies, as well as the contribution of employees of the information and library sphere to the creation and operation of electronic catalogs. The profound interrelationship of the processes of interlibrary services, the relevance of searching and the implementation of high technology is emphasized. Special attention is paid to the analysis of foreign scientific publications 2015–2019. They covered the use of IRS, search models, the dissatisfaction with search, the improvement of efficiency and modernization of systems, the prospects for their development. The article summarizes scientific and practical results of information search in relation to interlibrary services in domestic and foreign online systems of information and library institutions. The novelty of the article is that it focuses on the study of the effectiveness of IRS, which fundamentally affects users’ satisfaction with interlibrary services.

Management of changes in companies of the agro-industrial complex: implementation of high technologies

Digitalization is the most powerful tool for increasing the efficiency of agricultural enterprises. A computerized microclimate control system, the use of chip tags for animals and scanners to read information from these tags and enter data into the system, the use of flow meters, equipping machines with GPS sensors, the implementation of precision farming, space survey can improve the quality of production and monitoring, as well as neutralize the negative influence of the external environment on production efficiency. The ability to digitize agro-technological processes based on the creation of expert systems carrying out multiple factor analysis based on complex mathematical models. Monitoring and accounting of certain factors influence is performed on these platforms based on machine learning and a neural network. The introduction of high technologies should be carried out in close connection with the business processes reengineering, management of ongoing changes to achieve the maximum effect from the high technologies implementation.

The Council of the President of the Russian Federation on Ethics

The paper is devoted to investigating the main problems caused by the development of ethical regulation in various fields of professional activity. In the opinion of the author, the problem of ethical regulation is particularly acute in the field of science and innovation, which requires the development of such a direction as ethics of high technologies. The ethics development requires: to elaborate common approaches to ethical regulation, ethical responsibility, ethical expertise; to revise, systematise ethics legislation; to prepare scientifically justified ethics recommendations; to respond timely to ethical problems caused by the emergence and implementation of high technologies. In view of the scope of the tasks that need to be solved, the author believes it is necessary to start the elaboration and implementation of the Ethical Concept of the Russian Federation. This work can be carried out by the Presidential Council on Ethics created by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of the same name. According to the author, possible tasks of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation on Ethics, requiring independent discussion, could include: resolution of issues related to the resolution of individual ethical conflicts (e.g., in the field of high technology and other areas where ethical standards are still developing); appeal against holding individual categories of persons ethically responsible (highest ethical authority).

Industrial property management: sectorial aspect

The necessity to determine the theoretical foundations of the effective management system organization for the creation and implementation of high technologies into the economic activity of domestic enterprises has been substantiated in the paper. The study objective is to formulate the theoretical foundations for the organization of an effective industrial property management system in the economic sector. The comparative characteristics of the industrial property items by their names, the form of legal protection and the classification features defined by the current legislation of Ukraine has been provided. The use of Structured Analysis and Design Technique (SADT) has been proposed in the paper to ensure the organization of the industrial property management process. As a practical implementation of the mechanism of organizational support for the process of industrial property management in the economic sector, the authors of the article have developed a business model for the organization of industrial property management in the economic sector with an in-depth structuring of business processes. The systematization of the industrial property management functions within the developed business model will help to identify the ways to improve the process of creation and sale of industrial property items in the mining industry.

Creation of High Technologies: Comparative Analysis of Countries

Abstract Research purpose. High technology creation, as a rule, requires national support systems although the flow of the created value in an international level is unexplored. The national innovation systems are becoming globalized; thus the distinct process of creation, dissemination and implementation of high technologies is becoming globally fragmented and therefore the added value distribution within the global value chain (GVC) should be investigated. Design/Methodology/Approach. The brief and extensive academic literature review dedicated to high technology creation is introduced, although the empirical investigation is narrowed to the scientific research and development sector, depicted as M72 by NACE statistical classification. Thus empirical research design is based on the sectoral level data, considering M72 sector as the main economic activity for high technology creation. The data for the comparative analysis of countries is retrieved from the 2014 world input–output data (WIOD) which enables to exclude double counting of added value inherent for the convenient import and export data and holds information of intermediate and final consumption of added value within a country and between different countries. The descriptive statistic based on WIOD data is provided and further prescriptive statistics for the data interpretation is conducted. While developing the predictive models, the number of investigated countries varies while the data for M72 sector is not available for all countries provided in WIOD and including to the model basic science and technology indicators as independent variables, retrieved from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development database, the number of countries reduced additionally, also due to the data shortage. Findings. The key result is the provided methodology for the positioning of the countries evaluating the involvement in the upstream and downstream GVC processes, hereby introducing new indicators that may have an impact on the sector’s performance. Originality/Value/Practical implications. The evaluation of high technologies creation performance would provide insights into the international management and innovation policies, and the matrix concept for the positioning countries by the pattern of involvement to the GVCs could be applied to other sectors.

The Essence and Content of Cybercrime in Modern Times

This article discusses the main characteristics of cybercrime as a new criminal threat to modern society. The authors attempted to explain the appearance of a new type of crime in the period of development and implementation of high technologies in all spheres of life of the world community. Using the dialectical method of cognition, as well as formal logical methods, steps in order to develop the conceptual apparatus of the investigated phenomenon of cybercrime were taken. Such terms as ‘cyberspace’ and ‘cybersecurity’ acquired the authors' explanations. According to the authors, criminality in cyberspace has been one of the most difficult problems of the international community in recent years due to the development of information and communication technologies. The article analyzes the phenomenological aspects of criminality in global information networks, discusses the definition of ‘cybercrime’, and considers the current trends in its development. Revealing the essence of the investigated type of crime, the authors analyzed the content and marked the differences of cybercrime from Internet crime, computer crime, crime in the information sphere, etc. The authors analyzed the modern normative, scientific and expert approaches to the study of the structure and state of cybercrime in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The results of the study and the conclusions of this article can be used as a theoretical contribution to the enrichment and expansion of scientific vision of cybercrime at the formation of approaches and the system of existing views, forming the concept of criminological security, and can also serve to further development of scientific ideas in the sphere of criminal law and criminological provision of prevention of cybercrime.

Determinants of energy efficiency and energy consumption of Eastern Europe post-communist economies

Energy consumption reduction and energy efficiency improvement are recognized as global priorities in the context of the green economy and sustainable development. In this paper, determinants of energy efficiency and energy consumption for the panel of 11 post-communist countries in the Eastern Europe during 1996–2013 are investigated. The stochastic frontier function approach and comparative analysis were used to examine long-run dynamic relations. The research results show that GDP growth is a key factor increasing both energy efficiency and energy consumption. The research results on energy efficiency relations show that CO2 emissions per capita, a fixed capital and the share of industry in the economy are other important drives. In the context of per capita energy consumption growth, the factors of structural changes determined by industry share in the national economy and innovation concerned with development and implementation of high technologies are significant. The European Union accession and participation in the European energy policy promote to energy efficiency improvements in the post-communist countries while progress in governance and enterprise restructuring as measured by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is not important for energy efficiency and per capita energy consumption in the post-communist countries. According to the research results, energy efficiency policy in the sample countries should be aimed at providing further economic growth enhancing a positive impact of other factors and implementing energy efficiency projects.

Efficient implementation of high technologies in educational process

The paper describes the aspects of the augmented reality application development on the base of ARToolkit for Android. The steps consistently used for the augmented reality application development have been considered. The simplest Java-based examples of augmented reality have been discussed.

IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF CAR SHED BY INTRODUCTION OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES

To increase the efficiency of car shed proposed and justified the introduction of innovativetechnologies in all spheres of its production activities with the use of multi-level automated control system of technological processes implemented on the basis of automated data collection and processing of data on theimplementation of the individual process steps. Expected development in this direction is to create a moderninnovative system repair cars that will solve the other problems of innovation processes and implementationof high technologies in the practice of repairing cars.

Comprehensive Review of the Limitations of Relative Value Unit Measurements of Productivity in Academic Departments

Measuring radiologist, especially sonologist, productivity has never been of greater interest than now, as radiology has moved from its historical status as a cost center to the largest revenue generator in most institutions. With more local institutional and federal oversight and regulation into the reimbursement and valuation of imaging procedures, including emphasis on outsourcing, overvalued procedures, and bundling, the ability to measure productivity and to draw meaningful conclusions from the data becomes increasingly imperative if we as radiologists and sonologists expect to contribute meaningfully to the process. This article presents a history of the "relative value unit" and discusses the valuation of radiologist/sonologist productivity in this era of ubiquitous high-technology implementation.

Robot workcell design for hydraulic cement mortars mixing process

One of the primary problems in the production of cement testing cubes is inconsistency in quality due to skill differences between operators and low repeatability in human performance of identical operations. To eliminate this problem and to enhance productivity, a state‐of‐the‐art robot workcell system, which utilized a multitasking control strategy and tool changer and sensor technology to automatically produce cement testing cubes, was designed and integrated. A comparative analysis of compressive strength values of specimens made by human operators and robots indicated that the specimens made by the robot workcell system had lower variation than the human made ones. This study not only demonstrates that robot workcells are flexible and robust enough to be used in cement testing cube production, but also suggests that revision of American Society of Testing Methods (ASTM) procedures to facilitate implementation of high technology in the materials testing process should be considered.

Societal Risk as Seen by the French Public

Mean risk magnitude judgments expressed by French students on 90 hazardous activities are reported and compared with findings on American, Hungarian, and Norwegian samples. In many respects, rating of perceived risk in the French sample is highly comparable to rating in American subjects. American and French people tend to share the same preoccupations to the same extent. The only major differences concern hallucinatory drugs and oral contraceptives. The Norwegians and French ratings differ much more. Norwegians and French people generally have the same preoccupations (which make Norwegian ratings the best predictor of French ratings) but not to the same extent. The French are much more concerned with a whole series of activities connected to violence, the implementation of high technology or agricultural technology. However, like the Norwegians, the French are extremely concerned about the spread of hallucinogenic drugs. The Hungarian and French ratings differ on practically all instances, except on basic activities or substances in all industrialized nations (caffeine, motorcycles, …). Differences were observed within the French sample itself. Women more than men consider that home appliances in general and large‐scale public transportation are potentially dangerous. Science students more than art students tend to fear a certain number of medical techniques and a certain number of toxic substances (e.g., smoking).

Technical Training Approach — Safe operations, maintenance and service of lasers in manufacturing

Much has been written, in the past 20 years, about the resources necessary to support our manufacturing facilities. It has been a 20 year period of continued change that has seen an unprecedented implementation of new technology resources. The dust is now beginning to settle following this technology explosion and the one common and single most consequential thread that is emerging is the “worker” — the human resource: the most important aspect of the process. The person who has made the commitment to the lifelong education and training necessary to support the technology. The person who faces change on a daily basis. The personwho is confronted with the new challenges in a complex and integrated manufacturing environment. The worker on the floor whose every approach to each situation must begin with the consideration of safety. The quality, productivity and efficiency gains we aspire to achieve through the implementation of high technology cannot be accomplished without the support of a well-trained, competent and productive workforce. Only people can execute this new technology plan. The better the tools (the training and education to gain the necessary skill and knowledge levels) the better your chances to accomplish your task.Much has been written, in the past 20 years, about the resources necessary to support our manufacturing facilities. It has been a 20 year period of continued change that has seen an unprecedented implementation of new technology resources. The dust is now beginning to settle following this technology explosion and the one common and single most consequential thread that is emerging is the “worker” — the human resource: the most important aspect of the process. The person who has made the commitment to the lifelong education and training necessary to support the technology. The person who faces change on a daily basis. The personwho is confronted with the new challenges in a complex and integrated manufacturing environment. The worker on the floor whose every approach to each situation must begin with the consideration of safety. The quality, productivity and efficiency gains we aspire to achieve through the implementation of high technology cannot be accomplished without the support of a well-trained, com...