Large-scale Transformation Research Articles

THE MIGRATION INFLUENCE ON THE RESULTS OF WRESTLERS

Introduction. Modern society is characterized by permanent large-scale transformations, which entail the transformation of social institutions. The course of the process of internationalization of professional sports is significantly influenced by economic factors. Becoming an important element of international relations, sports migration helps to realize humanitarian and cultural dialogue between countries and peoples. Aim of the research: to identify the main trends of migration processes in Olympic wrestling and their impact on the achievements of athletes. Material and methods. The careers of the participants of the 2018 and 2019 World Championships in wrestling (a total of 28 careers of migrant wrestlers) were analyzed. In order to determine the main ways of development of athletes, an analysis of age and results of achievements before and after migration was conducted. Results. Seven athletes (25.0%) changed their citizenship before the age of 22, and another six athletes (17.9%) changed their citizenship between the ages of 22 and 23, while still in the U23 age group. The largest number of athletes change their citizenship after the age of 26: 10 wrestlers (35.7%) changed their citizenship at the age of 27-29 and two wrestlers (7.1%) changed their age at the age of 30 and older. Before migration, athletes participated on average 7.4 times and 2.1 times less than after migration, respectively, freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestlers. Conclusions. Based on the analysis, it is advisable to identify two main groups of wrestlers who have changed their citizenship to continue their sports careers: - wrestlers under 23 years old and wrestlers over 26 years old. The analysis of achievements showed that the average number of performances in the international arena and the average number of won prizes after migration increases several times.

Методы и результаты управления сельским хозяйством в хрущёвский период - опыт реконструкции повседневности (50-60-е гг. XX В., на материалах Западной Сибири)

The purpose of the study is to analyze the methods and results of transformations in the agrarian sector of the West Siberian region during the period of renewal of the command-аdministrative system on a democratic basis during the reign of N.S. Khrushchev. The task is to identify the ideological and economic attitudes and decisions of the central and local government bodies in the period of the 50-60s of the 20th century in agriculture. As well as the results of large-scale transformations through the prismof everyday life unfolding through the labor activity of the peasantry and the leadership. The interrelated contradictory processes are considered: the declaration of democratic principles of leadership and their practical implementation in the context of the adoption of large-scale voluntaristic projects and decisions. The analysis of archival sources associated with this period is carried out, which allows us to state both the positive results of management activities and the unrealizability of many undertakings. It also concludes that the village workers themselves were more susceptible to change than the leadership. Soviet historiography of post-Stalinist modernization focused on the phenomenon of transformations, party leadership, and the negative results of the changes that took place. At the turn of the 80-90s of the 20th century there was a turn in the historiographic process, primary attention was paid to the human factor, the everyday life of the historical process. The authors localized their attention to studying the content of the interaction between theory and practice, will and objective conditions, the influence on the course of events in the agricultural sector of an ordinary worker in the collective and state farm period. On the basis of archival sources, periodicals, memoirs and historiographic analysis, an assessment of the methods of state and economic management of agriculture as humanistic, including, is given, while the inconsistency of the methods is not questioned. The importance of this approach is associated with the need to comprehend modernization processes not only as reforms "from above", but also as the need for the participation of the population itself in these processes. Another thing is that this participation had a corrective influence: both visible: positive and negative, which became the subject of this work, and hidden, which may be the topic of the next article. The contradictory nature of the Khrushchev era (the interweaving of democratic and conservative traditions in the management system) did not exclude the interest of the direct workers of the village in a motivated contribution, both collective and personal, to the development of agriculture at the local level when solving socially significant problems of village life. The voluntaristic decisions favorably perceived by the population could not be objectively resolved in full; they were lowered to the local level, subjectively corrected by those who directly implemented them: the workers themselves and regional managers.

International monitoring of institutions in overcoming the resource dependence of the Russian sector of the transport economy

The paper presents the tools identified by the authors that contribute to the improvement of the Russian sector of the transport economy. According to the authors of the study, the Russian transport economy requires large-scale transformations at all levels of the hierarchy. The authors conducted a rating assessment of eleven countries of the world for 2017-2018 according to three key indicators that affect the development of the Russian economy, including transport. The foreign international methodology of K. Schwab was studied. The key factors and their relationship with the parameters of mega development are identified. Practical recommendations are given on the transport economy in Russia to achieve sustainable development of the industry by improving the main indicators. The developed toolkit will make it possible to change the traditional model of the socio-economic development of the Russian transport economy to an innovative one. The calculations of geoinformation research are highlighted and presented. The paper is of interest to specialists in the field of regional and municipal management, for researchers, teachers, graduate students, undergraduates and students of economic and management universities.

North African countries in XXI century: the processes of formation of a new social appearance. Part 1

The countries of North Africa, which are currently at different stages of social transit, have been undergoing significant, qualitative changes in recent decades, mainly in the 2000s. The evolution of the social image of the Arab States has become one of the most important consequences of the ongoing large-scale transformations in this region and, more broadly, in the globalized world. Geopolitical and geoeconomic parameters/features of the object of the study - the North African countries with their hundreds of tribes and clans predetermine significant differences in the nature and dynamics of transformation and development of selected states. This is due to significant differences in historical-cultural development, ethnic and confessional composition within a large group of countries, and their population. This group includes numerous states that differ in natural and geographic environment and have a rich historic background with its particular case in each country. Today there exists a rather mixed picture of positions that selected countries of the region hold in the “world ranking” of the level and dynamics of economic development, quality of human capital, scale of poverty, framework conditions for investment, demographic factor, urbanization, environmental protection, etc. All of this directly affects implementation of renovation/modernization concept - the key mega trend of social development of the region in recent decades. On the whole, for the past 50 years the shifts have been limited (but anyone could say that this is just the beginning). This article is devoted mainly to the analysis of the factors influencing the formation of a new social image of the North African countries.

Complexity Theory in sociological theorizing and metamodern culture — the contours of mutual legitimation

The focus of the article is on two large-scale transformation processes that are currently taking place in the Western scientific and socio-cultural spaces. On the one hand, it is the emergence on the cultural horizon of a new macrocultural era, called Metamodern, on the other hand — the transformation in the paradigm field of Western science and the emergence of a paradigm of complexity (complexity theory). The statement is argued, that they are the different manifestations of the general large-scale socio-cultural and scientific tectonics and can serve as contours for mutual legitimacy and justification. The metamodern project captures the emergence of a new worldview in Western culture, which is characterized by a new sincerity, openness, holism in contrast to postmodern alienation, irony and sсepticism. In terms of experiencing the I-World relationship, the logic of cultural progress from Tradition to Metamodern can be described as a movement from complete immersion of the Self in the World (Tradition), through confrontation and struggle between the Self and the World (Modern), chaos of the I (multiple identity) and the World (current modernity) in the postmodern era, to a new dialectical combination of the I and the World in the Metamodern era. Complexity Theory in its sociological theoretical proposals can offer a parallel view on the process of changing cultural epochs, but through the prism of transforming the dominant mechanism of change and maintenance of social order, emphasizing the existence of two such mechanisms — organizational one and self-organizational one. The logic of changes in this dominance leads us from Tradition (self-organization), through Modern (organization), and Postmodern (chaos, no domination, the mutual distancing) to Metamodern — dialectics, tense unity of organization and self-organization. In socio-cultural terms, it looks like a dialectic of modernity (rationality, purposefulness, result, organization) and tradition (myth, game, process, self-organization), and at the level of basic experience of the world as a dialectic of acute experience of one's self combined with the experience of its unity with the world. It is at this point that the metamodern project and the paradigm of complexity in its sociological interpretation do meet. Here, they can give each other legitimizing support.

ТРАНСФОРМАЦИЯ СФЕРЫ ЗАНЯТОСТИ РЕГИОНА: ФАКТОРЫ И ОСОБЕННОСТИ

The object of the study is the determinants of the transformation of regional employment, determining the trends and features of its development. The aim of the paper is to study approaches to the identification of factors determining the processes taking place in the field of employment, as well as to analyze the features of the transformation of the employment sector using the example of the Tyumen region. The research objectives are, firstly, to study the approaches of both international and domestic authors to identify the determinants of the transformation of the employment sector in the conditions of the transition of countries to a digital economy; secondly, to highlight the features of the employment sector of the Tyumen region on the way to the digitalization of its economy; thirdly, to find the generalization and systematization of factors determining the large-scale transformation of the employment sector and the labor market of the region. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that in modern economic conditions the employment system is undergoing significant changes, which are determined by a number of factors that have objective significance for the modern Russian economy. At the same time, the system of determinants is not limited only to the digitalization of the economy but depends on many other system-forming factors. This determines both the scientific discussion and the relevance of the issue under consideration. The main research methods are as follows: analysis of scientific literature, analysis, and synthesis, statistical methods, methods of generalization and modeling, systematization, and grouping. One of the main results of the study is the substantiation of the system of determinants that contribute to the development of a new quality of the employment sector and labor market of the region and the formation of a model. The theoretical provisions and practical results of the study formulated and substantiated by the author allow us to conclude that the results obtained can be used in further scientific research, as well as in planning and managing the socio-economic development of the region.

The impact of climate change on agriculture in the regions of the Russian Federation

The subject of the research reflected in this article is climate change, which causes serious problems in the development of agriculture in the world. This is especially true in countries where the place and role of agriculture in the economy are decisive. Russia also belongs to them. Changes in solar activity combined with large-scale transformations of agricultural holdings lead to rapid changes in the sectoral structure of agricultural enterprises and agriculture at the national level. The article reveals the features and current state of the agro-industrial complex of Russia on the example of the southern regions, which are considered the most favorable for agriculture. The main conclusions of the study are the identified future trends in the development of agriculture in the southern regions of Russia, taking into account changes in climatic conditions, namely: 1) the beginning of a gradual change in the production focus of individual regions towards completely new crops for climate-altered natural conditions of agricultural lands; 2) the consequence of global warming for agriculture is a reduction in agricultural production due to a decrease in crop yields and livestock productivity, but this is not a negative factor, since the expansion of soil fertility (geography of favorable conditions for agriculture) will allow to optimize yields with a higher economic effect (to cultivate land where the early there was a climatic opportunity for this, to use the most fertile areas for growing new valuable crops).

ASSESSMENT OF THE CURRENT STATE OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE REGIONS OF UKRAINE

In the course of writing the article, the cultural environment is analyzed, which is the most important prerequisite for qualitative improvement of productive forces, increasing the efficiency of social production. An urgent problem is the implementation of large-scale transformation, exacerbated the problems of culture, unresolved which has led to negative social and economic consequences, among which a special place is occupied by problems at the regional level. Approved standards, deterioration of logistics, dismissal of a significant number of employees, etc.). At the same time, an important condition for strengthening the market economy is a high level of education and intellectual training of the population, intensification of spiritual renewal and cultural progress of society, the cultural level of the population. Attention is paid to the factors of preservation and development of the existing network of cultural institutions in all regions of the country, providing them with modern material and technical base, stimulating the development of film production and improving film service, its transfer to new screening technologies, museum development, creative unions of Ukraine, in particular their local organizations, ensuring the further development of cultures of national minorities, improving the conditions of creative activity and life of masters of arts, cultural workers, increasing their wages, etc. All this testifies to the dynamism of the cultural sphere, its focus on adapting to social change and international integration. The main goal of Ukrainian business culture is that it should take on more concrete forms. With the age of social media and the availability of information, reputation is becoming increasingly important. The institute of reputation is born in the Ukrainian realities and it happens not in politics or other spheres of life, but in business.

Beyond S&OP Implementation: A maturity model and meta-framework for assessing and managing evolution paths

Goal: The purpose of this paper is to present an S&OP meta-framework that combines specific S&OP tools and an original S&OP maturity model as an approach to reduce uncertainty and increase commitment in the S&OP implementation process. Design/ Methodology/ Approach: A systematic review led to the development of a six-pillar S&OP tool framework. Then, a maturity model and an S&OP implementation meta-framework, were defined for managing the introduction and evolution of S&OP dimensions. Results: The S&OP maturity model provides a structured model for identifing critical gaps in the S&OP process. Furthermore, the S&OP meta-framework - combining Action Research (AR), Kotter’s 8 steps, and agile project management approaches - provides an holistic implementation guide for promoting large-scale transformation in S&OP implementation efforts. Limitations of the investigation: The S&OP maturity model and implementation system are new empirical contributions to the literature and have not been validated in this article. Practical implications: This work provides a set of tools to address specific S&OP environments; a maturity model to diagnose the S&OP process; and an S&OP implementation framework to reduce uncertainty and increase commitment in the change process. Originality / Value: This article fills a literature gap of necessary S&OP implementation practices, contributing to: (1) an S&OP tools framework, (2) an S&OP maturity model based on evolutionary boundaries correlated to the presence of specific tools, processes and metrics, and (3) an S&OP implementation meta-framework, raising awareness in under researched S&OP dimensions for more oriented research and practices needed to promote sustainable change.

The transition to remote education format in medical university: opinion of students about transformation of education process at the outset of COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic came out as an imperative of large-scale transformations in higher education system, including higher medical school. At that, introduction of self-isolation regime in the spring 2020 highlighted the task of organizing education in remote format with maintaining education quality. The article presents results of sociological survey with purpose of studying perception of students of medical university of transition to remote learning format at the COVID-19 pandemic outset. The majority of respondents perceived remote learning format as an emergency measure to maintain continuity of education process, that, however, cannot completely replace full-time practice-oriented teaching "at the bedside of the patient". Understanding the special tasks of training medical specialist required new solutions from higher school and additional efforts from all subjects of educational process - restructuring organizational infrastructure ensuring communication of teaching staff and students, solving organizational problems of access to educational content, adapting to practice of digital medical education, expanding use of AR, VR, mixed reality and simulation learning technologies. The students, highly assessing quality of digital content, noted difficulties of self-organization in "home" format due to a lot of distracting factors (family, domestic life, etc.) that had key impact on motivation of their learning activities. Nevertheless, among respondents of medical university, a number of students formed subgroup that considering personal experience of remote learning assumed that this format is actual and effective and allows one to fully master university curriculum. The transition to remote learning format in university as emergency measure during pandemic, will obviously be consolidated as an invariant standard of organizing educational process.

Frame-Based Locality Preservation Matching for Images Involving Large-Scale Transformations

Feature matching refers to the establishment of reliable correspondence between two sets of local features, which is an essential approach in remote sensing applications such as image registration and mosaicking. In this paper, a simple yet effective method, called frame-based locality preservation matching, is proposed for robust remote sensing image matching. We primarily focus on those images pairs that involve large-scale geometric transformations (e.g., extreme zoom). The key idea of our approach is to dig up the frame knowledge, such as the feature orientation and scale implied by common features like SIFT. The frame knowledge is free to obtain, and we find it to be of great significance in feature matching, especially for our focus -- large-scale geometric transformations. The proposed method can easily handle the geometric challenges and high outlier proportions, and significantly improves the performance compared to other state-of-the-art methods.

ОБЛІК ДОХОДІВ НЕПРИБУТКОВИХ КОМУНАЛЬНИХ МЕДИЧНИХ УСТАНОВ ТА ШЛЯХИ ЙОГО УДОСКОНАЛЕННЯ

The implementation of an effective healthcare system is the main task of state administration because it is through the healthcare system that the state fulfils the basic constitutional law and respects human rights. A legal and democratic state with a socially-oriented market economy actively ensures the quality of medical services to the population, therefore, the financial resources that are allocated from the state budget for medicine and health care require constant study and improvement. Particularly acute is the issue of financial support for non-profit communal medical institutions, this problem is of particular relevance in the fight against the global COVID 19 pandemic, which actualizes the search for ways to improve income accounting. As of today, Ukraine has taken a number of effective steps towards reforming the healthcare system, namely, in accordance with the Concept of Health Care Financing Reform and a number of laws signed by the President of Ukraine in December 2017. Since 2018, the implementation of a large-scale transformation in the financing the healthcare system has started. The proposed financing model is a patient-centred focus and is also aimed at ensuring the implementation of state guarantees for medical care and allows for clearly defining the roles and obligations of the Government, local governments and management of medical institutions. Available debatable issues in the activity of non-profit communal medical institutions concerning their income accounting are connected with the introduction of the medical reform in Ukraine. Organizing income accounting remains problematic, including its documentation, analytical and synthetic accounting, which determined the goal, objectives, subject and structure of scientific research. The priority areas for the development of non-profit communal health care institutions are increased rates of income, expanding the range of services provided, as well as their timely confirmation and recognition in the accounting system. The question of the sufficient budget financing level for the healthcare institutions remains relevant since the proper quality of medical care depends primarily on financial support. Volumes of the budget financing are determined according to scientifically based standards per capita, the State Budget of Ukraine, budgets of local and regional governments finance the public healthcare institutions. The article examines the income accounting of non-profit communal health care institutions and identifies ways to improve it under the influence of reforms in the health care system of Ukraine. In the study of the current state of financing the healthcare sector in Ukraine, the methods of observation and detailing were used; in the study of statistical material and data of the enterprises surveyed the methods of grouping and comparison were implemented, as well as the methods of synthesis and analysis.

Scenario Modeling of Sustainable Development of Energy Supply in the Arctic

The 21st century is characterized not only by large-scale transformations but also by the speed with which they occur. Transformations—political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal-in synergy have always been a catalyst for reactions in society. The field of energy supply, like many others, is extremely susceptible to the external influence of such factors. To a large extent, this applies to remote (especially from the position of energy supply) regions. The authors outline an approach to justifying the development of the Arctic energy infrastructure through an analysis of the demand for the amount of energy consumed and energy sources, taking into account global trends. The methodology is based on scenario modeling of technological demand. It is based on a study of the specific needs of consumers, available technologies, and identified risks. The paper proposes development scenarios and presents a model that takes them into account. Modeling results show that in all scenarios, up to 50% of the energy balance in 2035 will take gas, but the role of carbon-free energy sources will increase. The mathematical model allowed forecasting the demand for energy types by certain types of consumers, which makes it possible to determine the vector of development and stimulation of certain types of resources for energy production in the Arctic. The model enables considering not only the growth but also the decline in demand for certain types of consumers under different scenarios. In addition, authors’ forecasts, through further modernization of the energy sector in the Arctic region, can contribute to the creation of prerequisites that will be stimulating and profitable for the growth of investment in sustainable energy sources to supply consumers. The scientific significance of the work lies in the application of a consistent hybrid modeling approach to forecasting demand for energy resources in the Arctic region. The results of the study are useful in drafting a scenario of regional development, taking into account the Sustainable Development Goals, as well as identifying areas of technology and energy infrastructure stimulation.

Exploring the transformative potential of urban food

Urban food is a key lever for transformative change towards sustainability. While research reporting on the urban food practices (UFPs) in support of sustainability is increasing, the link towards transformative potential is lacking. This is because research on urban food is often place-based and contextual. This limits the applicability of insights to large-scale sustainability transformations. This paper describes UFPs that aim to contribute to transformative change. We present signposts for potential change based on the types of intended transformative changes as described in the reviewed literature based on the processes and outcomes of the urban food policies and programmes. Secondly, we classify diverse UFPs to elevate them beyond their local, place-based contexts. We find that UFPs carry a lot of potential to facilitate sustainability transformations. Based on that analysis, we provide insights on how urban food research can further contribute to harnessing the transformative potential of UFPs for actionable purposes.

The transformative innovation potential of cellular agriculture: Political and policy stakeholders’ perceptions of cultured meat in Germany

The current animal-based food systems are being challenged by environmental, social and economic sustainability issues. A systemic transformation from conventional agriculture to a more sustainable cellular agriculture utilising cell-cultivation technologies to produce animal products has been proposed. The aim of this study is to explore the political and policy stakeholders’ perceptions about cellular agriculture; how they perceive of the current food system and its potential transformation into a cellular agricultural system. The qualitative data comprises 13 interviews conducted with representatives of German stakeholders. The data were analysed with the Transformative Innovation Policy approach. Perceptions of the transformative potential of cultured products were classified into drivers and bottlenecks that either advance or hinder the progress of cellular agriculture in Germany. The results show that the political and policy stakeholders are aware of the changes that are needed, but anticipate that large-scale transformation to the cellular agriculture system may not be a plausible solution in the near future.

Advanced Modeling Strategies for Hydraulic Engineering and River Research

Our society in general and the work environment in particular are currently undergoing a large-scale digital transformation [...]

On the issue of changes in labor legislation on remote (remote) work (experience of the COVID-19 pandemic)

The sphere of social and labor rights has undergone a large-scale transformation due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictive measures. Almost all enterprises and organizations during the period of restrictive measures were forced to switch to a remote (remote) mode of operation. Some, and sometimes all, employees of organizations were forced to perform their labor function, stipulated by an employment contract, at home.At the same time, before the introduction of the above-mentioned forced measures and subsequent amendments to the labor legislation regarding the regulation of the work of “homeworkers”, there were no provisions in the domestic labor legislation that would allow establishing legal regulation of the emergence of this kind of relationship between an employee and an employer.In December 2020, the Federal Law “On Amendments to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation regarding the regulation of remote (remote) work and temporary transfer of an employee to remote (remote) work on the initiative of the employer in exceptional cases” was adopted.This article is devoted to a conceptual review of the amendments to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation adopted in 2020, aimed at establishing the regulation of remote (remote) work, as well as the procedure for temporary transfer of an employee to remote (remote) work on the initiative of the employer in strictly exceptional cases.

Austrian Transition to Open Access: a collaborative approach

This article presents a collaborative project, the ‘Austrian Transition to Open Access’ (AT2OA), initially running from 2017 to 2020, which had the overarching goal of enabling the large-scale transformation of publishing outputs from closed to open access (OA) in Austria. The initiative, which has recently secured funding for a second four-year cycle from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, brings together all key players: universities, research institutes, the national library consortium and a cOAlition S funding member, the Austrian Science Fund. The project outcomes include a transition feasibility study that builds on the methodology of the 2015 Schimmer et al. article, the seeds of a national OA monitoring data hub and transformative agreements with major publishers. In addition, the project helped launch institutional OA Publishing Funds across the country and explored alternative publishing models. Furthermore, it saw the emergence of a nationwide network of OA experts. The authors also share their thoughts on lessons learned.

Improving the economic efficiency of oil productionat the “Gazpromneft-Khantos” fields

Aim. As part of a large-scale business transformation, Gazprom Neft is implementing new approaches to improving economic efficiency. One of such approaches is the launch of the “Renovation” project program, the purpose of which is to achieve maximum profitability of the basic well stock. The article describes the results of the study and formation of a set of measures to improve the economic efficiency of oil production at the fields of Gazpromneft-Khantos. Materials and methods. The key feature of “Renovation” is that the goal setting and the formation of key performance indicators of project teams are made not from the previously achieved result, but from the potential. To do this, a detailed technical and economic analysis of the factors affecting the profitability of oil production is first carried out, and the potential for increasing profitability is determined. After that, hypotheses are worked out to increase the economic efficiency of production and a set of measures is formed to realize the identified potential. The cross-functional teams of the “Renovation” program projects are formed around the core-team that includes specialists in geology, development, production, engineering, energy management, economics and IT. This allows teams to solve non-standard tasks in a short time, in a complex way, without attracting external leverage, which is an absolute competitive advantage. Results. The program of optimization measures developed by the cross-functional team of the Renovation project will provide the potential for the growth of the profitability of Gazpromneft-Khantos in the period from 2021 to 2030. Conclusions. The article presents the developed and implemented cases on reducing operating costs in various areas — geology and reservoir engineering, energy efficiency, oil production technologies, downhole operations and hydraulic fracturing, oilfield chemistry.

Digitalization of the provision of GIBDD public services

The article is devoted to the study of the problems and the role of digitalization in increasing the efficiency of the functions of the executive branch, the possibility of digitalizing the provision of traffic police services. The author considers the domestic and foreign experience in the implementation of powers for the provision of public services, and also investigates the sources of the regulatory framework for the provision of public services in electronic form. Particular attention is paid to the large-scale transformation of the provision of public services into electronic form. The article indicates the total number of the provision of electronic services by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, its divisions, the prospect of the development of the provision of electronic services in the near future is noted: the transition from the provision of separate administrative procedures to the provision of a complete (complex) public service, specific regulatory provisions (steps)are indicated. It is concluded that the transition to an exclusively electronic provision of all services at this stage of development of legal regulation is impossible, as well as the inability of artificial intelligence to completely replace and eliminate the human factor in the provision of all public services in electronic form.