Issues Of Information Support Research Articles

Information Support of the Cultural Sector: Achievements, Problems, Prospects

The 2nd International Scientific and Practical Online Conference “Information Context of Culture: Resources, Technologies, Service” was held on October 11—12, 2022. Conference organizers are the Russian State Library (RSL), the Russian State Library of Arts (RSLA) and St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture (SPSIC). The purpose of the event is to summarize scientific research and practical experience on the issues of information support in the cultural sector, demonstrate the best achievements, identify problems and ways to overcome them. The leitmotif of the forum was the topic of cooperation between libraries, archives and museums of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States. During two days of the forum, more than 80 representatives of the cultural sector from the RSL, the RSLA, the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, the national libraries of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, public libraries of almost two dozen regions of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia, as well as from the universities of culture in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Chelyabinsk, Tashkent, as well as from the South Ural State University, worked in video communication mode. During the event, more than 900 viewings of the broadcasts of the meetings were recorded on the RSL YouTube channel. Within the framework of the conference, there were held the plenary session, two sessions of the Section “Information potential of libraries for the development of the cultural sector” and two special events: The 12th Conference/Meeting of the heads and specialists of information services on culture and art “Libraries — in the Year of Cultural heritage of the peoples of Russia” and the Round table “Development of library and information space on the basis of border libraries of the CIS member states: conceptual approaches and advanced directions”. In order to improve the work on information support for representatives of the cultural and art sector, the conference participants recommended to promote digital transformation aimed at the formation of common access resources on culture and art and improvement of information services; as well as to strengthen cooperation on the formation and mutual use of information resources created by the libraries of the CIS member states.

Current Issues of Information Support of Russian Foreign Policy in the New Political Environment

Introduction. In the context of growing anti-Russian information wars, intensive and sharp ideological confrontation active information support of Russia’s foreign policy becomes more and more crucial. Methods. Authors use mainly the methods of expert evaluation and trends, opinion polls to prove that the US has long been waging information wars against Russia first using the term (“information war”) back in 1992. Moreover, with time the United States makes the methods of struggle more and more sophisticated and has already attracted the EU and NATO as associates. In addition, the methods of comparative analysis of research results of leading domestic and foreign experts in the field of information and ideological component of modern international relations and issues of information support of foreign policy of the Russian Federation, as well as general scientific and special methods of knowledge of legal phenomena and processes made as the object of the research: the method of systematic and structural analysis, comparative legal and formal-logical methods have been used. Analysis. Along with the tools of public diplomacy our state takes all the needed measures to defend its information sovereignty at all levels. Despite the fact that the Russian state strategy has consistently created a system of detecting, preventing and eliminating threats to its information security, still it is necessary to deal with ever growing amount of antiRussian false information in the global media space. Results. Being one of the instruments of public diplomacy and foreign policy of any sovereign state, soft power takes into account the objective conditions of international relations and world politics and proceeds from the requirements of the national interests of the state as the main actor of the entire system of modern international relations. In the world practice of implementing the policy of soft power, starting with the creation of the Westphalian system of international relations, there was no precedent, when the state regardless of the socio-political nature of building a political system or the purposes of the foreign activity would be guided by different objectives and methods of analysis of world politics, the entire system of international relations and other goal-setting action in the international arena, including defined in the last decade by the concept of soft power. In the history of international relations, there has not been any world policy free from its ideological component. The thesis of de-ideologization of international relations, which received its definite distribution in the period immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, in the practice of foreign policy actions of all the main actors of modern world politics has clearly proved its complete failure. Today, in the context of “hybrid wars” within the entire system of international relations, the world politics is no less ideologized than during the “cold war”. The political leadership of Russia allows the hypothetical possibility of cyberwarfare, provoked by the actions of the Republican administration of the United States. In December 2019, the White House authorized the preparation of a plan for conducting an information war with the Russian Federation by special forces of the U.S. Army, assigning the solution of this task to the above-mentioned cyber command. The policy of soft power of Russia, as well as its public diplomacy, as the whole complex of foreign policy activities of the Russian Federation in the international arena, is derived from the fundamental function of defending the national interests of Russia in the new political reality. The Russian Federation has consistently opposed the transformation of international relations into an arena of ideological confrontation with the use of tools of the so-called “information wars”. State sovereignty is unified. Information security, as a factor of ensuring information sovereignty, is a basic component of the unified state sovereignty. This is an accepted truth underlying the understanding of the nature of modern international relations, the principle underlying the foreign policy activity of any modern sovereign state, due to the objective regularity of the growth of the ideological factor of modern international relations. Moreover, in the face of targeted misinformation Russia needs to ensure its information security at both levels: political (ideological) and technical (technological) ones combining cyber as well as soft power tools. Only such a combination of these two crucial elements and continuous improvement can lead to victory in hybrid wars.

The Process of the Aging of Articles on Acoustics. The View from Akusticheskii Zhurnal

By analyzing references, one can obtain interesting information about the kind of research that is being performed, what approaches exist, information about scientists working in a field of interest, the institutions where such research is being carried out, and journals that reflect this information. Citation issues are discussed in the Akusticheskii Zhurnal articles. An analysis of the cited literature showed that with the advent of the Internet, the depth of citation increased, as did the reduced half-life of articles. Attention is drawn to references to Akusticheskii Zhurnal (hereafter – Acoustics or AJ) itself. An analogy is drawn with the statement of academician V.L. Ginzburg that our scientists do not receive the Nobel Prize “primarily due to their colleagues: Soviet physicists,” who, as it turns out, do not really nominate their compatriots. The same can be attributed to the inadequate impact factor of Acoustics, which is decreased by the authors themselves. The issues of information support in the field of Russian-speaking acoustics are discussed.

Methodical Aspects of Indirect Assessment of Household Incomes in Determining the Eligibility for Government Social Support

In present-day Ukraine, a large number of families and individuals are beneficiaries of programs for social support of the population. Economic and political crises, reforms in tariff and social policies, added by the pandemic of coronavirus infection in the latest time, result in the worsening life standards of a considerable share of the population in certain periods of time. In was in 2015–2018 that in some of the quite populated localities social programs covered as many as 70% of the population. This triggered a respective growth in the social support from the central and local budgets. Such situation aggravated the problem of targeting of the government social support, decreasing the number of cases when a social aid is assigned in an improper or baseless manner, and the scopes of fraud in this sphere.
 One of the ways for reforming the system of social support in the present days is to adopt the method of assigning all the categories of support with consideration of incomes and property status of applicants. The property status of families or individuals can be quite accurately measured given the access to the registers containing data on houses, land plots, transport vehicles etc. either possessed or disposed by them. However, given a high level of employment in the informal sector, large scales of the shadow economy and external labor migration, assessment of the actual income level of families constitutes a serious problem. Quite often the stated incomes do not correspond with actual ones, and applicants do not have stimuli to disclose their real life standards. 
 The article’s objective is to expose a methodological approach to operational assessment of potential incomes of applicants and recipients of social support. Approaches based on statistical models of correlation between life standards and sets of households’ or individuals’ characteristics have been constructed and used in many developing countries where the conditions for formation of the population incomes are similar to the ones in Ukraine. The article highlights methodological foundations for building up the models for operational assessment of the population income, with due account to issues of information support to modeling and use of income assessment results. Examples of computations by the proposed models are given.

ТЕНДЕНЦИИ РАЗВИТИЯ ИНФОРМАЦИОННОГО ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЯ В ОБЛАСТИ ОБОРОНЫ И ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЙ ПОЛИТИКИ

Information support as a special type of activity in modern society, which emerged from the practical plane of global informatization of all spheres of human life and activity, is now in dire need of acquiring an agreed conceptual apparatus. The authors of this article, realizing the need to give clear guidelines to a new type of activity and its focus on creating and supporting objective public opinion not only within the state, but also in the international arena, note in the proposed article how the Russian Ministry of Defense developed the problem of finding approaches to defining the conceptual apparatus this type of activity. The issues of information support at the present stage of development of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were studied. In the article, the authors actualize the problem, pay special attention to the need for the formation of the concept of "information support" agreed with the scientific community, the importance of which has increased, for the comprehensive and high-quality functioning of federal executive bodies, as well as the preparation of a future specialist.

On the Issue of Research of Information Support of Sustainable Agricultural Landscapes Formation

Purpose. To characterize the methodological approaches that we develop in the formation of a system of information support for the creation and maintenance of the functioning of modern sustainable agricultural landscapes and to show the results of their implementation on the example of the territory of some agricultural enterprises of the Kharkiv region. Methods. Cartographic, geoinformation analysis, calculation, statistical and mathematical. Results. Some results of the work of the collective on the issues of information support for the creation and maintenance of the functioning of modern sustainable agricultural landscapes. Namely, verification of erosion models, studies of the functionality of shelter belts, the formation of an agroeconet (an extensive network of natural and quasi-natural landscapes) on agricultural land massifs, which ensures the maintenance of stable functioning of meso and macrolevel agrolandscapes, as well as the experience of using magnetic prospecting methods to verify the results of mathematical modeling of erosion processes. Conclusions. A number of methodological approaches to information support of the formation of sustainable agricultural landscapes in the natural and socio-economic conditions of Ukraine have been developed. They relate to the functioning of anti-erosion measures of permanent action, the processes of modern transformation of agro-landscapes, the ecological impact of erosion processes on the environment. The connection between the length of forest belts per unit of arable land and soil erosion is shown. A methodical approach has been developed to estimate the amount of soil washed away from arable land and to calculate the measures necessary to eliminate its harmful effects on the environment.

INFORMATION SUPPORT OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING ACTIVITIES OF LOGISTICS ORGANIZATIONS

The article is devoted to topical issues of information support of management accounting of logistics organizations. It has been noted, that the basis of rational management of the logistics sector are information resources, which are formed by the movement, processing and structuring of data, necessary to improve the efficiency of the enterprise. Therefore, the collection and analysis of reliable information, that can influence management decisions, is a priority task to ensure economic processes in the enterprise. It has been proved, that the decision of problems of information support in activity of the logistic organization has to have complex character. The functional components of the information support of the logistics organization have been highlighted. Elements of information support of activity of the logistics organization have been listed. For the purpose of effective management, the study developed the basic principles of information management accounting activities of logistics organizations. The system of the main characteristics of the information component, through which the quality, reliability and completeness of the output flow of information is predetermined, has been adduced

Valuation of Biological Assets at Fair Value

Today the globalisation of the world market leads to the necessity of constructive interaction in the international market and forming common standards of accounting. Transnational corporations as a phenomenon of worldwide integration are businesses with units in different countries of the world. Special issues of information support of management in agricultural organisations have become very important in the conditions of the market economy. Clear and transparent accounting in such enterprises requires the existence of common international standards. Such standards could become International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). They are designed to provide an understanding of financial processes in different countries for the interaction between investors and potential investment projects located in different national accounting systems. The standard “Agriculture” has great importance for the Russian Federation. Agriculture is one of the leading sectors of our country, supplying products for both domestic and foreign market. Accordingly, the adoption of this standard and the implementation of its provisions is an important and urgent issue of today’s economic reality. Introduction of this standard leads to the formation of fundamentally new methodological bases of the accounting of agricultural activities based on the market value of assets because paragraphs 12–13 of this Standard states that during the initial and subsequent valuation of biological assets will be measured at their fair value fewer costs to selling. Thus, the need to allocate biological assets in the separate account-economic category, their reflection in the accounting at fair value by the provisions of IAS 41 has determined the relevance of the topic, goal, objectives and logic of the article.

Current issues of information support of the Russian Federation state policy in the sphere of physical culture and sports

The purpose. With the rapid development of the information society and information technologies executive authorities of the Russian Federation feel the need for high-quality, prompt, objective coverage of their activities, and for the information support of all areas of public policy, through traditional communication channels and modern media. In this sense, issues of information support of the state policy of the Russian Federation in the field of physical culture and sport occupy a special place. Research methods and organization. The paper focuses on comparative analysis of the most significant authorities in the field of information activities of the Ministries of Sport of Russia and the Republic of Tatarstan. Research results and discussion. The study demonstrated a high level of information coordination between federal and regional executive bodies carrying out state policy in the field of physical culture and sports. At the same time, the study revealed abundance of structural departments responsible for information activities, and the lack of the central body for processing and distribution of information. Conclusion. It is necessary to develop social understanding of a long-term program for modernization of the infrastructure for physical culture and sports in Russia. At the same time, the Ministry of Sport of the Russian Federation and other executive bodies representing state authority should demonstrate their willingness to continue this activity. Today, the Ministry should deliver a wide information anti-crisis campaign in mass media.

ОБЛІКОВО-АНАЛІТИЧНІ АСПЕКТИ ФОРМУВАННЯ ІНФОРМАЦІЙНОГО ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ УПРАВЛІННЯ ГРОШОВИМИ ПОТОКАМИ

The article is devoted to the study of the essence of cash flows and their accounting and analytical support. The urgency of solving issues of information support for cash flow management is substantiated, taking into account the current conditions of economic development and factors influencing the movement of cash resources. Using previous work, the authors of the article proposed their vision for the definition of «cash flows» as a set of all types of cash assets that serve the enterprise, are transformed and ensure its continuous operation. Classification is improved taking into account modern business conditions on the basis of non-cash. Accounting and analytical support for the formation of information in the cash flow management system is developed, which has a separate accounting and analytical component. The necessity of carrying out the administrative analysis of cash flows of the enterprise on the basis of a technique based on implementation of analytical procedures of the relevant information and acceptance of the corresponding administrative decisions is proved. According to the authors, accounting and analytical support of cash flows is a system that is based on financial and management accounting data as an informative basis for their analysis, is part of the overall process of managing the activities of the enterprise. The proposed system of accountingиand analytical support is focused on solving problems of cash flow management and control, which are the subject of interest of opportunistic managers. When developing forms of management reporting and methods of analysis, the tasks to be solved should take into account the interests of the owners. Further research is proposed to develop a methodological approach to management analysis of cash flows and search for key indicators to assess the level of efficiency of generating cash resources of the enterprise to avoid agency conflicts.

Information-analytical system assessing the needs of the regional economy in specialists

Object. To form theoretical and practical approaches to the assessment of the needs of the region in order to address the issues of information support for managerial decision-making in education and the labour market. Material and methods. Designed information-analytical system for management decisions on various activities of the education sector related to the reduction of volumes and profiles of training qualified personnel in accordance with the needs of the labour market. The author used such research methods as a synthesis of the scientific literature on monitoring needs of the regional economy in personnel and methods of managerial decision-making. Results and discussion. Describes the application of the method of building an information system based on the formation of balance of labour resources. Proposed a method of constructing and using information-analytical system for management decisions related to the reduction of volumes and profiles of training qualified personnel in accordance with the needs of the labour market. Conclusion. The creation and implementation of information-analytical system of monitoring staffing needs will not only reduce the share of state budget aimed at determining the needs of the staff, due to information support of decision-making on the choice of a profession by secondary school graduates, but also to reduce the degree of tension and imbalance in the professional qualification section.

Some issues of information support of ergatic systems

In this article we deal with the problem of providing with high operating availability of ergatic systems, also we notice that complete performance of operational tasks by purpose is defined by getting of reliable information both about operation effectiveness, technical condition of system's parts and effectiveness of personnel work. We suggest a method based on calculation of effectiveness of making decisions on all stages of system life cycle; notice the necessity of conduction of functional and parametric analysis; discuss various issues of development of information support hardware and implementation of suggested decisions.

Barriers to sustainable water-quality management

Due to the pressures of increasing population and developing economy all over the world, the present situation of water-quality management is far from satisfactory. To enhance sustainability of water-quality-management systems, in-depth research of the related barriers and the relevant mitigation approaches is desired. In this paper, recent developments, advancements, challenges, and barriers associated with practices of water-quality management were analyzed. A number of related methodologies, applications, and policy considerations were examined. Issues of information support, technology development, system integration, and policy implementation were discussed. Perspectives of sustainable water-quality management in the twenty-first century were investigated, demonstrating many demanding areas for enhanced research efforts, including issues of data availability and reliability, concerns in system complexity and methodology validity, limitations of computer techniques, usefulness of research outputs, difficulties in policy implementation, and necessity of training programs.