IT Area Research Articles

On improving the efficiency of providing budgetary places in Russian universities (on the example of engineering and technical areas of study)

Relevance. In the current economic and political conditions in Russia, there is an acute shortage of welltrained engineers, and not only in the IT field. In order to overcome this problem, the state annually raises the admission target numbers (CAP) for technical educational programs. This increases the amount of public funding for universities (both per capita and for general development); it is measured in hundreds of billions of rubles, which requires studying the efficiency of resource use. The purpose of the article is, based on the results of a comprehensive empirical analysis, to identify the key problems that reduce the effectiveness of state financing of state-funded places in engineering and technical areas, and to substantiate proposals for minimizing them. Methodology and methods. The methodological basis is a systematic approach, within which general scientific methods (deduction, induction, generalization, comparative analysis, etc.) were used, as well as special economic and statistical research methods. Results and scientific novelty. It was revealed that the use of the current methodology for the distribution of CSC by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia leads to the fact that a significant part of budget places in engineering and technical areas of study are occupied by students with low (18.2% excluding IT areas) and extremely low (at least 14.5 %) by the level of incoming knowledge. In a number of areas, the proportion of such students reaches 87%, despite the fact that ¾ of the applicants have an extremely weak physical and mathematical base (within the framework of the school course). The actual scale of the problems turned out to be greater due to the non-linear scale of the Unified State Examination, “tuned” by the Ministry of Education of Russia to overestimate the score for “C” students. Taken together, this naturally leads to the training of engineers of the appropriate level at the state expense. A set of measures is substantiated to change the methodology for distributing budgetary places, aimed at improving the efficiency of the use of public funding. Practical significance. The results of the study can be used by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, as well as by the administrations of technical universities to improve the quality of applicants for engineering education programs.

Analysis of Logistics Curriculum and Recruitment Requirements Based on Text Mining: A Case Study of China

This study aims to explore the logistics curriculum and the recruitment requirements and to compare the relationship between the two systems. Text mining is applied to collect data from an online recruitment website, extract latent topics, and dynamically visualize the extracted latent topics. The online and on-site survey is conducted to collect logistics curriculum syllabi from 29 selected universities in China. This study demonstrates that (1) The logistics curriculum direction in China mostly meets the employment demands; (2) The curriculum distribution does not fully match the employment demands. That is, knowledge areas of general management and logistics IT are over-supplied, whereas knowledge areas of transportation and distribution are under-supplied. It is suggested that to balance the actual talent demands, Chinese higher education should increase the courses concerning transportation and distribution and appropriately reduce the courses related to logistics IT, and universities need to apply course modules into the logistics curriculum revision to meet the changes in the demand of the employment market.

PERSEPSI AKUNTAN PEMERINTAH TERHADAP PENGETAHUAN TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI YANG HARUS DIKUASAI OLEH AKUNTAN PEMERINTAH DI INSPEKTORAT DAERAH PROVINSI SULAWESI SELATAN

NUR AKHMAD ALBAR. Assessing Accountants' Perceptions on the Importance of Information Technology at the Regional Inspectorate of South Sulawesi (supervised by Mahfud Nurnajamuddin and Asriady Bakri). This study rigorously aims to investigate and elucidate the perspectives about the information technology competencies required by government accountants. Descriptive qualitative research is employed in this study. Data collection technique was carried out through interviews with 3 informants working as accountants. The study's findings demonstrate that while all elements of information technology expertise are deemed relevant, government accountants are not required to possess all facets of IT expertise because the level of the skills needed varies based on the duties and position of each government accountant. The amount of expertise required by each accountant in each area of IT might differ depending on the complexity of the task, the demands of the work, and their own skill set.

Training of IT Specialists at the University in Modern Conditions

The article considers the areas related to the training of IT specialists in Russia. Currently, the state pays more attention to the formation and development of the IT industry, official documents have been adopted concerning the training of relevant specialists, budget places for applicants to IT specialties are increasing. Considering that everything is changing and developing rapidly in the IT field, specialists have to constantly study, since the knowledge gained at the university is not enough after a while. The article discusses the main problems that one has to face in the educational process when preparing «IT specialists». Technical and technological support for practical classes and research activities, involvement of business practitioners in the educational process, advanced training of teachers involved in training personnel for the IT industry, interaction «college — university», «school — university» are just some aspects for the successful implementation of training programs in IT areas and specialties.

Technological development in telemedicine: bibliometric analysis, research gaps, and literature trends

The aim of this article was to analyze the literature on technological development in telemedicine through bibliometrics, by identifying the state of the art, research gaps, and trends in the literature. The analysis covers a total of 67 articles related to the field of study, published between 2010-2020 in the Springer Link, Science Direct, Wiley Online Library, Web of Science, and Scopus databases. The data was processed using the software StArt, Excel, IBM SPSS Statistics, and Iramuteq. The results presented bibliometric analysis of the articles, classified into the areas of Management (52.2%), IT (25.4%), and Medicine (22.4%), along with a Table of 34 suggestions for future research. Literature trends encompassed six study clusters (health, study, service, technology, patient, and telemedicine), which further subdivided into nine research themes (digital platform, telemedicine service management, telemedicine service operation, end-user perception, business opportunities, healthcare professional perception, covid-19, regulation, and robotics). An observed outcome was a significant increase in the number of publications in the area due to covid-19.

The Use of Software in Mathematics Activities at School.

The purpose of this work is to verify whether the teaching of mathematics can become more interesting for the student through the use of technological tools. In this context, Excel, PowerPoint and Geogebra AR software emerge as a means of assisting in the educational process, with the aim of promoting playful and dynamic teaching, stimulating graphic memory and visual intelligence. In this way, the use of computers and software makes it possible to build the introduction of this new methodology for teaching and learning content in schools. Through these activities, we aim to awaken greater interest and curiosity in students, due to the ease and speed of this software, in addition to taking advantage of the desire to learn and know that students demonstrate in the area of ​​IT – a space that appears to be little used by teachers.

USING THE GEOGEBRA ENVIRONMENT IN THE MATHEMATICAL TRAININGOF ECONOMIC STUDENTS

The use of information technology in the learning process has of learning in institutions of higher education already become commonplace, but new tools that constantly help teachers and students. In order for education to really meet the demand of modern realities, it is necessary to continuously modernize the forms and methods of education. One such most relevant assistant in teaching mathematics is the Dynamic Mathematics System GeoGebra. The article deals with the issue of modernization of methodological systems for teaching mathematical disciplines studied by students of economic specialties. in IT areas. The possibilities of the GeoGebra tool are revealed, which are important for improving the quality of mathematical training of future economists in the context of the implementation of the didactic principle of visibility and the inclusion of students in research and project activities. Particular attention is paid to the practical aspects of using GeoGebra in solving plot, applied problems associated with the use of active techniques and methods of teaching mathematical disciplines, the growth of students’ creative and intellectual activity when working with topics that require visualization of mathematical concepts and objects. The conditions of methodologically expedient inclusion of Geogebra into the practice of teaching mathematical disciplines for the preparation of economists and the modernization of already existing methodological systems for teaching mathematical disciplines are highlighted. It has been proven that the use of the interactive geometric environment GeoGebra allows visualization of abstract mathematical concepts, which contributes to the fastest possible perception of the material, a deeper understanding of it and increases interest in the discipline being studied. In addition, the use of dynamic mathematics systems both in the classroom and in non-classroom work has a positive effect on the success of students. Completing mathematical tasks using the GeoGebra environment arouses students' cognitive interest in exact sciences and promotes the development of visual and creative thinking. GeoGebra should be considered a special visual environment not only for solving specific problems related to mathematics and mathematical modeling, but also an environment for the implementation of interdisciplinary projects of an integration nature.

Удаленная занятость в больших городах: выгода для работников в терминах заработной платы

Introduction. The transition to telecommuting in response to restrictive measures implemented in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic raises the question of its long-term effects in defining a new post-covid labor market. Purpose. The article aims at establishing spatial aspects in the analysis of the profession-defined differences found among remote workers’ wages. Materials and Methods. The data base of the research includes HeadHunter job vacancies with a remote work schedule posted in the period from December 12, 2022, to January 12, 2023. Econometric analysis methods help estimate the return of job vacancies in large cities in terms of population on the remote workers’ proposed wages. Results. Unlike in small cities, remote employment in large cities has a negative influence on the proposed wages, except for IT and sale areas. It is worth highlighting an IT area with the highest increase in the offered wages taking into consideration the size of the post vacancy city: employment in Moscow, St Petersburg, and other million-plus cities are “rewarded” by 45.5, 20.8, and 8.4 %, respectively. At the same time, Moscow employers in science and education, marketing, advertisement, PR, and administration offer the lowest wages among both large and small cities’ employers. Conclusions. The transition to remote employment in the post-COVID labor market has led to refocusing on secondary forms of employment, as well as spatial heterogeneity in the remote workers’ wages. Further research may be devoted to the research of differences in the office and remote IT workers’ wages in terms of compensatory differences.

Model of the Influence of Employee Competencies on Performance Considering Burnout

The study was conducted as part of a current task of studying factors in the development of an organization's human capital that have a direct or indirect impact on employee productivity. The set of such factors includes indicators of the level of development of competencies and the degree of burnout of the individual. The work aims to develop economic and mathematical tools that would quantitatively describe the impact of employee competency values on their key performance indicators (KPIs), taking into account the level of burnout determined by the values of loyalty, involvement, and satisfaction. To achieve this goal, a hypothesis is put forward about the possibility of constructing a tool that makes it possible, based on a fuzzy classification of employees by level of competency development, to construct functional dependencies of KPIs on burnout indicators for each category. The initial data used were the results of a self-assessment of competencies and burnout of employees, mainly working in the areas of IT and HR in seven large Russian companies, calibrated by the immediate supervisors of the respondents, and the actual values of their KPIs. The work proposes an approach that includes two stages. As the first step, a fuzzy model is built that makes it possible, based on a weighted integral indicator of competency development with optimal weighting coefficients, to divide the range of values of the integral indicator into categories of uneven size, with the help of which it is possible to predict the achievement of KPIs. As the second step, an econometric model of the dependence of KPI on employee burnout indicators was built using the weighted least squares method to explain the dispersion of KPI values of employees belonging to individual competency categories in a fuzzy formulation, around the expected KPI value. The proposed tool will make it possible to predict the achievement of KPIs by employees depending on the input values of competencies and the level of burnout. In the future, this will make it possible to form an optimal portfolio of well-being program activities that will influence the development of employee competencies and reduce their level of burnout, and, therefore, contribute to the maximum progress in achieving target KPI values.

Применение нейросетевых технологий для прогнозирования состояния работы объектов предприятий АПК

All agricultural facilities in Russia are currently going through digital transformation. However, the process needs a unified approach for the entire agricultural sector. Neural network methods have already proved extremely effective in various areas of IT. The authors used neural networks to analyze statistic data and assess the performance of agricultural infrastructure.
 This study involved technical data from the production cycle of agro-industrial enterprises, namely packaging and greenhouses. The data obtained were analyzed using artificial neural networks.
 The procedure included identifying a set of factors that described an agro-industrial complex or some of its properties that corresponded to a specific task. These data were used in planning and making managerial decisions. The program identified five factors that described the state of an agricultural enterprise. These factors were used to build a model while its elements served as output data for the neural network. The model calculated the future state of the object. Trials were run on a limited data set on a multilayer perceptron. The neural network showed reliable results for a small data set. The root mean square error of was 0.1216; the mean modulus deviation was 0.0911.
 In this research, modern neural network technologies demonstrated good prospects for the domestic agro-industrial complex as a method of control, management, and dispatching. However, specific operational patterns require further studies.

Extension Project Based on Flipped Classroom to the Development of Hard and Soft Skills in Brazilian Outskirts: Case studies

The pandemic has brought many consequences for society, especially in education for those that are less fortunate. In Brazil, public policy measures taken weren't enough to help an expressive percentual number of students in their academy journey during the pandemic. Giving this, this paper presents a teaching-learning model based on flipped classroom to the development of hard and soft skills in universities students and young people from Brazilian outskirts, helping to fill the gap left by the insufficient educational formation during the pandemic and encouraging them to start a higher education, especially in the IT market, which is a promising area with many opportunities. In the proposed model, university students learn by themselves, instructed by professors, about IT area content and then, beyond bringing the content to be discussed in the classroom, from the traditional flipped classroom method, they also have to give lessons about the content they learned to underprivileged young people from the outskirts. Three case studies were carried out by this paper, with outskirts from three states of Brazil. Results show that the model is scalable and therefore, can be applied in different communities with small adaptations. It could be observed that university students developed many skills by participating on the project and young people from the outskirts learned new contents, developed their confidence and their motivation to start higher education and some of them even got job opportunities because of the project. The study demonstrated a class attendance rate exceeding 70%, with over 75% of students from the three case studies expressing satisfaction with their participation in the project.

English Language Skills Required in Marriott Convention Centre in Algeria

The present research aims at analyzing the need to English in hospitality industry which emphasized two hotels from the Marriott Convention Centre in Algeria. It seeks to find out the need to the English four skills in the specific areas of hotel reception desk, IT and maids departments. Since empirical data were needed for the purpose of the study, two main types of research: were conducted quantitative and qualitative. Hence, structured interviews were conducted and Likert scale questionnaires were distributed to a sample group of thirty six respondents. The results revealed that the majority of participants in this study rated all four skills as highly needed in their work.

The impact of the legal norm under Article 134.3 of the Homeland Defence Act (“Ustawa o obronie ojczyzny” - UoO) on the personnel potential resulting from the involvement of people with disabilities on thing of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland

ObjectivesTo identify assumptions of the legal norms, in the context of the impact of the involvement of people with disabilities for the implementation of the tasks and objectives of the Polish Armed Forces on the examples from the U.S, Canada and Israel.MethodsSystematic review of the literature and websites on the possible inclusion of persons with disabilities in the Armed Forces.ResultsThe analysis determined the significance of the legal norm Article 134.3 of the Act on the impact of the involvement of persons with disabilities for the implementation of tasks by the Polish Armed Forces.ConclusionsIn previous regulations related to military service, people with disabilities were not able to be on duty neither actively function within the national security system, remaining, outside the system. One of the revolutionary changes connected with implementation of the Article 134.3 of the Homeland Defence Act is the admission of people with disabilities to the military service. The article contains suggestions for the Polish Armed Forces on how to involve persons with disabilities in the effective implementation of their goals and tasks. The highly qualified, competent, and knowledgeable personnel will be engaged, e.g. in the IT area especially since a new component has been created within the Polish Armed Forces: Cyberspace Defence Forces (DK-WOC). An effective increase in the level of awareness, competence, and knowledge in the field of military service by persons with disabilities may be of key importance for shaping the state security system and provide support to the Polish Armed Forces.

Public Investments in Domestic Software as a Tool for Accelerating the Economic Development of Russia

Purpose of the study. The state policy aimed at stimulating national economic growth should necessarily be based on justified scientific conclusions and the results of empirical studies. In particular, a relatively new method for accelerating the country’s economic development is state investment in the digitalization of the economy. In this respect, the present study aims to roughly estimate the economic effect of additional public investments in the development of domestic software and databases and the increase in the share of IT specialists in the total employment structure.Materials and methods. The paper used regression analysis methods for panel data based on Rosstat statistics. In particular, the authors applied the econometric fixed effects model.Results. The study demonstrated the higher efficiency of investment in the development of software and databases as compared to the similar efficiency of capital investment in other types of fixed assets. The possible economic effect of additional budget financing for domestic software developers was estimated. The results of calculations clearly demonstrate that additional capital investments in Russian software and databases in the amount from 0.16 to 0.64% of the Russian Federation’s consolidated budget annually (in 2020 prices and in relation to its size for the same period) can accelerate GDP growth in Russia by 0.16-2.44 percentage points per year. At the same time, these calculations hardly make it possible to speak about a strong impact of additional government spending on the increase in the number of people employed in the IT sector. Consequently, it cannot be stated with certainty that it is advisable to further increase the number of state-funded places at Russian universities in IT areas. However, this conclusion is based on panel data, the time interval of which ends in 2020. Taking into account the recent years’ trends can question the relevance of the obtained conclusion.Conclusion. Thus, additional public investment in the digitalization of the national economy and automation of business processes at Russian enterprises is an important tool for accelerating Russia’s economic development. Currently, many domestic enterprises and organizations implement large-scale projects aimed at deepening automation (creating “smart factories”, transferring state-financed institutions’ document flow into an electronic form, introducing artificial intelligence, and many others). Besides, the reduction in the presence of some foreign software manufacturers in Russia makes it relevant to minimize losses associated with the termination of access to foreign software and databases. One of the options for solving this problem is the financial stimulation of developers of their domestic counterparts.

A brief overview of artificial intelligence in dentistry: Current scope and future applications

In present times, artificial intelligence (AI) has diversified in the fields of healthcare, education, finance, and cyber security. AI is expected to eliminate behavioural and perceptive bias in human interactions and bring forth a diversification in the working ethos across industries. Although the areas of IT, manufacturing, gaming, astronomy, data security are utilising the multitude of advantages offered by AI, there are several untapped areas where AI could be highly beneficial. Presently in healthcare, AI is in its nascent stages of development and it may take a few years for its complete integration in the field of medicine and dentistry. However, it offers promising prospects in terms of improved diagnosis, timely management, superior outcomes and cost reduction. The aim of this article is to review the current applications of AI in dentistry and its potential scope in the future.

The impact of Covid-19 on organization: A case study from the IT area on changing culture perceptions in organization

Article provides in-depth research on perceptions of organizational culture in the context of COVID-19 pandemic from IT area. Empirical research presents a preliminary study with qualitative approach within which the OCAI questionnaire was distributed. MAXQDA software explores the statistical relationship between the variables of interest. The reliability and validity test was performed using the Cronbach’s Alpha. The index is statistically significant compared to normal reliability standards in both periods. The survey revealed a difference in culture types between the observed periods. Dominant culture during COVID-19 is the Hierarchy culture type and before the outbreak of COVID-19 was Clan culture type. Both cultures are focused internally, emphasizing integration, cooperation, and efficiency. The shift between different types of culture responds to the changing environment conditioned by the ‘survival’ of organizations. Transition causes the focus on structure, and top-down management and decision are made up high and passed down to managers and employees.

Energy Saving Practices in the IT Area as a Factor of Sustainable Development of the Organization: A Case Study of Poland

Today’s company has to operate in a turbulent market environment, where the policy of sustainable development is still gaining importance. Therefore, it has been forced to look for a strategic orientation that would allow it to face the growing demands of the changing reality. Each organization must therefore adapt to the changes in the environment. These changes include the need to implement sustainable energy usage practices. This article presents determinants that build such an attitude in a company and thus contribute to the sustainable development of the organization. This article is based on the results of an empirical study conducted in December 2021 on a sample of 690 respondents (later, due to the purpose of the study, the sample was narrowed to 578 working people) using a survey questionnaire. A structural model was estimated using the maximum likelihood method. It allowed us to determine the variables that influence the degree to which companies use energy saving practices, as well as to illustrate the strength of influence between endogenous variables. Establishing these relationships will allow us to determine the factors that are determinants of the implementation of the idea of sustainable development in the company.

ЛОГИКО-ФОРМИРУЮЩИЕ ЗАДАЧИ В РАЗВИТИИ ЛОГИЧЕСКОЙ КОМПЕТЕНЦИИ У АБИТУРИЕНТОВ-ИНОСТРАНЦЕВ ИТ-ПРОФИЛЯ

The article introduces the definition logical competence of the context of future IT professionals. The difference between existing approaches to the definition of logical competence and logical competences is considered. The importance of logical competence as a main competence on the formation and development of the professional competence of future IT specialists is presented. Difficulties in the process of formation and development of logical competence and ways to solve them are described. An overview of various educational systems of the world aimed at the formation of the logical competence of applicants for IT areas is presented. Also, the difficulties arising in the development of logical competence among foreign applicants of future IT specialists in Russian universities are considered. Despite the seemingly obvious problem of insufficient knowledge of the Russian language for learning, the main difficulty is the difference in programs and methods of learning in different countries. If the Russian educational system in the training of future IT specialists attaches great importance to the fundamental serious mathematical base, then even the best IT education systems in various countries focus on the applied part of disciplines. As you know, in the development of any kind of competencies, the foundation, the basic subjects on the basis of which the competencies are formed, is of paramount importance. The article describes tasks that form and develop the logical competence of applicants for future IT specialists. The proposed definition of logical competence, as well as the ways of its formation and development among applicants for IT areas, can be extended to other technical areas with appropriate refinement and recommended for work with applicants or undergraduate students.

Educational and Professional Program Web Project Management, Digital Content Design: Labor Functions and Activities’ Types of the Future Specialist

The purpose of the research is to identify the main labor functions and activities of a future specialist in the current educational and professional program Web Projects Management, Digital Content Design of the specialty Information, Library, and Archival Affairs.
 Research methodology. General scientific research methods were used, in particular, analysis and synthesis; a hypothetical method, which made it possible, based on the analysis of interdisciplinary educational and professional programs in other humanitarian specialties, to formulate the didactic validity and pedagogical expediency of the proposed educational and professional program Web Projects Management, Digital Content Design of the specialty Information, Library, and Archival Affairs; methods of semantic and logical analysis of an array of documents (professional scientific publications, content of Internet resources) – to identify the state of theory and practice of training specialists under interdisciplinary educational and professional programs; the method of analogies – to establish similarities between pedagogical systems based on the signs of interdisciplinarity to justify the didactic possibility of implementing the studied educational and professional program.
 The scientific novelty of the research consists in identifying the labor functions and types of activities of the future specialist under the educational and professional program Web Projects Management, Digital Content Design.
 Conclusions. Strengthening the social-communicative function of organizations in the document and information sphere, in particular in the presentation of their activities in the web environment, actualizes the training of IT specialists for this subject area.
 The requirements for a modern specialist in the document and information field, the convergence of activities’ types and tasks that appear in the course of his work, determine the convergence of the program content Management of Web Projects, Design of Digital Content with the areas of IT and project management activities.
 The interdisciplinarity of the studied educational and professional program corresponds to the content of the activities of an information resources specialist in the context of digitalization.
 The analyzed drafts of professional standards and the experience of pedagogical systems functioning, the main concept of which is the integration of knowledge in the subject area with knowledge in the field of implementation and support of digital technologies that ensure its innovative functioning, are pedagogically appropriate and require further research to determine the content, forms, and methods of specialist training.

Методика прогнозирования востребованности выпускников ИТ-направлений

In article propose a method for predicting the employment of students studying in IT areas at universities. The methodology is based on a continuous analysis of IT vacancies in the labor market, a multi-parameter optimization model for designing competency achievement indica-tors, as well as a method of interval assessment of the correspondence of a student's competencies to the vacancy profile. The methodology allows assessing the quality of training of IT specialists at universities.