Organization Of Space Research Articles

Теоретико-методологічні аспекти становлення комунікативної системи публічного управління

The article establishes the need for the formation of a system of administrative communications to ensure the coordination of activities of subjects of state, municipal, public authorities, and mass media in the management of social processes. It has been proven that the formation of effective public communication, the communicative complex of the public power subsystem, is possible by reforming the public administration system. The theoretical and methodological principles of forming the administrative communications system were defined, and its structural and functional model was developed. Emphasis is placed on the theoretical description of the communicative process in modern scientific discourse, which uses various, and sometimes mutually exclusive, hypotheses, positions, and approaches; quite often, communication as a process is considered a relatively narrow sphere of human activity, and the application of the used models for local self-government seems problematic. Attention is paid to the fact that in the conditions of public administration reform in Ukraine, one of the urgent tasks is the modernization of the public communications system, bringing it closer to the standards of the EU and leading countries of the world, building an effective model of communication activities of state authorities. The subject and methods of communicative interaction of social subjects implementing communicative public policy are defined. The importance of communication in state administration and local self-government is also proven by its (communication) feature, which is a reliable and constant supplier of valuable information, which is then used in the management process. Public administration communications should be considered as a set of subsystems of informational and motivational interactions. It is noted that, in general, it is appropriate to define the communication system of public administration as mutually agreed complexes of communicative horizontal and vertical, internal and external, formal and informal interactions of subjects of public space (bodies, organizations, institutions, and representatives of state, self-governing, public, media authorities and citizens ) at the central, regional and local levels, thanks to which the coordination of the activities of the subjects regarding the management of social processes is achieved. Keywords: communicative interaction, communicative strategy, public administration bodies, state administration, mass communication media, civil society institutions, communicative system of public administration, local self-government.

Building resilience of agricultural workers in the agrifood system in a post COVID-19 Era in Africa

In many economies in Africa, agriculture is the backbone for the economy. Additionally, it contributes significantly to the employment of many citizens in Africa. The COVID-19 pandemic affected various sectors across the world ranging from economically, socially, and physically. COVID-19 impacted agriculture and the work life of many agricultural workers in Africa. The effects of COVID-19 in African agriculture, calls for reengineering of the future and work life for agriculture workers in a post COVID-19 era. Agricultural workers are the drivers of agriculture, they are classified into various categories ranging from farmers, extension service providers, agribusiness development providers, among others. This paper through a theoretical review of thematic literature highlights how COVID-19 impacted on agricultural workers and agriculture in Africa. It also provides solutions towards the re-engineering of work life for agricultural workers in a post COVID-19 era. Reconstructing of work life in a post COVID- 19 era is key to job creation and a food secure continent. This results in an active workforce and other economic sectors working well and a thriving continent. The paper entails findings that farmers, agribusiness service providers and governments in Africa will find useful to ensure sustainable agriculture in Africa. Agricultural service providers, local and international organizations in the agriculture space will use the findings to design interventions that will enable smooth transition in the work life in a post COVID-19 era leading to a thriving agriculture landscape in Africa.

Developing Advanced Technological Environment of Production Enterprises

Transformations aimed at shaping advanced technological environment are necessary to maintain competitiveness and develop production enterprises in constantly changing market conditions. Technological transformation of the enterprise implies a set of steps aimed at introducing information and communication, resource-saving and other technologies, so that the enterprise will be able to put out innovative goods, reach serious organizational improvement in business and comply with fast growing needs of market. The article gives the author’s classification of transformation processes according to their speed and necessity of conducting, at the same time a model of technological transformation of industrial enterprises is put forward. The model includes 4 lines of transformation: production processes, purchase and sale operations, organization of work space and finance processes. Through analyzing benefits of technological transformations it becomes clear that they could speed up work operations, cut excessive steps and resource spending, as well as improve the quality of customer service and efficiency of enterprise functioning in general. The principle challenge of shaping the advanced technological environment at enterprises is absence of support of the part of top management and ordinary workers, high cost of introducing innovation and threat of data storage security. Practical significance of research findings is connected with possibility to use them in finding strategic lines and policy of technological transformation of industrial enterprises.

PHYSICO-BIOLOGICAL NATURE OF DARK ENERGY

It has been suggested that the surrounding empty space (cosmic vacuum) is not only a physical object, but also a biological organism. Which is capable, like any biological object, of multiplying – generating structures similar to itself. The concept of “Elementary cell of space” is introduced. The model shows the order of assembly, the possible mechanism of this process, as well as its two main driving forces. Reproduction of electromagnetic quanta inside the cells of space underlies the process of accelerated expansion of the Universe – Hubble's law and other experimental observations. The need to create a new scientific discipline – “Physical Biology of space“, which will study the nature of most known and still unknown phenomena from the perspective of the principles of space organization, including for Life in its various manifestations, is once again emphasized.

Automatic 3D cell segmentation of fruit parenchyma tissue from X-ray micro CT images using deep learning

BackgroundHigh quality 3D information of the microscopic plant tissue morphology—the spatial organization of cells and intercellular spaces in tissues—helps in understanding physiological processes in a wide variety of plants and tissues. X-ray micro-CT is a valuable tool that is becoming increasingly available in plant research to obtain 3D microstructural information of the intercellular pore space and individual pore sizes and shapes of tissues. However, individual cell morphology is difficult to retrieve from micro-CT as cells cannot be segmented properly due to negligible density differences at cell-to-cell interfaces. To address this, deep learning-based models were trained and tested to segment individual cells using X-ray micro-CT images of parenchyma tissue samples from apple and pear fruit with different cell and porosity characteristics.ResultsThe best segmentation model achieved an Aggregated Jaccard Index (AJI) of 0.86 and 0.73 for apple and pear tissue, respectively, which is an improvement over the current benchmark method that achieved AJIs of 0.73 and 0.67. Furthermore, the neural network was able to detect other plant tissue structures such as vascular bundles and stone cell clusters (brachysclereids), of which the latter were shown to strongly influence the spatial organization of pear cells. Based on the AJIs, apple tissue was found to be easier to segment, as the porosity and specific surface area of the pore space are higher and lower, respectively, compared to pear tissue. Moreover, samples with lower pore network connectivity, proved very difficult to segment.ConclusionsThe proposed method can be used to automatically quantify 3D cell morphology of plant tissue from micro-CT instead of opting for laborious manual annotations or less accurate segmentation approaches. In case fruit tissue porosity or pore network connectivity is too low or the specific surface area of the pore space too high, native X-ray micro-CT is unable to provide proper marker points of cell outlines, and one should rely on more elaborate contrast-enhancing scan protocols.

Digital Rights to the City: Local Practices and Negotiations of Urban Space on Decidim

The organization, management, and production of urban space through digital information and communication technologies have become a central means for governing urban life. To overcome a lack of citizen-centered practices in today’s smart cities, governments and municipalities institutionalize citizen-centered digital infrastructures such as Decidim, a digital infrastructure proposing non-corporate, decentralized, and collaborative forms of digital production to evoke participatory governance practices and ultimately social transformation (Barandiaran et al., 2018). Swiss city administrations have adapted the Decidim platform for participatory budgeting processes and city-wide participation platforms since 2019. This article explores the process of institutional adoption, focusing on how the use of Decidim impacts local practices and negotiations for governing urban space. The examination of the Decidim platform in the Swiss cities of Zurich and Lucerne will be framed by re-conceptualizing Lefebvre’s right to the city in the age of digital transformation. The findings show that for a successful introduction of the Decidim platform based on principles of the right to the city (a) local needs for a new digital democratic instrument need to be pre-existent, (b) government employees must implement a scope of action which allows organized civil society and grassroots initiatives to appropriate the infrastructure for their own purposes, and (c) local practices of hybrid communication and organizing must be aligned with the structure of the platform. Nevertheless, digital participation tools such as Decidim cannot solve entrenched inequalities such as the financialization of land, the issue of disadvantaged neighborhoods, or the absence of voting rights for certain communities. Therefore, city administrations need to integrate hybrid participation strategies which prioritise collective power over distributive power as well as tackle urban inequalities through political means.

Facilities and Infrastructure Management in Improving Student Non-Academic Field Achievement

This research aims to discuss managing facilities and infrastructure to improve students' non-academic achievements. This research uses a type of field research with a phenomenological approach. Data collection techniques are done through observation, interviews, and documentation. Data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion are the data analysis techniques used. Testing the validity of the data is a triangulation of sources, methods and time. The results of this research show that the implementation of facilities and infrastructure management is carried out at the planning stage through meetings with the principal and deputy principal for the facilities and infrastructure section as well as all assistant principals, the procurement stage through providing facilities for organizational spaces and extracurricular spaces with student operational assistance funds and contribution to educational development, use step through implementing rules and making schedules for facility use, storage stage by storing facilities in a particular place with a separate person in charge, inventory stage through coding and recording assets in the Muhammadiyah Asset Management Information System, maintenance stage through two types, namely daily maintenance and periodic maintenance, elimination stage by removing damaged facilities. To improve students' non-academic achievements, all school parties, especially the facilities and infrastructure department, are renewing and providing the best non-academic infrastructure for students to gain enthusiasm and comfort in achieving.

Healing from Intersectional White Supremacy Culture and Ableism:

In this exploratory article, we build on the existing literature to identify and discuss the patterns of white supremacy culture (WSC) that are pervasive in our organizational spaces. We argue that because WSC, racism, and ableism are deeply intersectional forms of oppression, our social equity approaches must include a disability justice (DJ) lens, which centers the leadership of multiply marginalized disabled, queer, trans*, Black, Indigenous, and negatively racialized People of Color (QTBIPOC). Using an embodied approach, we invite our readers into a deeper reflection and critical analysis of the intersectional manifestations of white supremacy culture and ableism in organizational spaces. We explore the ways in which the 10 principles of disability justice could serve in creating supportive countercultural norms, values, and behavioral practices needed to create the conditions for healing from white supremacy culture.

Коммунальная квартира (коммуналка) в референтном поле современной художественной литературы для детей и подростков

Representation in the modern culture of the Soviet past is associated with such a phenomenon as a communal apartment, which is also in demand in modern literature for children and adolescents. In the article, based on the material of the Corpus of Russian Prose for Children and Youth, as well as the most representative examples from the works of the last decade for children and adolescents, an attempt is made to determine the specifics of the topos of a communal apartment, which has become a “system sign” (referent) of Soviet childhood. The vectors of interpretation of a communal apartment set the ideological and spatial “us vs them” and “individual vs common” oppositions and their assessment. At the same time, various attributes of a communal apartment are significant for artistic modeling, defining the subject organization (neighbor, family member, etc.), the organization of space (room, corridor, kitchen, etc.), subject realities (bell, door, etc.). Modern writers’ work with the topos of a communal apartment is based on the tradition that developed in children’s literature of the Soviet period. The child hero, reproducing the stable components of the associative field of the concept “communal apartment” necessary for the objectification of the attribute, translates a potentially conflict situation associated with the concept of neighbor and determined by a stable set of plot situations and motifs into a comic one. In children’s and adolescent literature, the process of blurring the boundaries between anomaly and norm under the influence of communal life is reflected (the character type “crazy old woman”, zoomorphic images of neighbors, the acquisition of supernatural significance by things, the process of segmentation of “our” space, etc.). The transformation of the binary opposition “us vs them” can occur due to the inclusion of the element “nobody’s”, fixed in the definition of a unique type of character - “nobody’s grandmother”. In modern children’s literature, the situation associated with the marginal position of “nobody’s” old people in communal apartments, due to inclusion in the context of children’s play, loses its negative assessment, due to the functional connection of the types of “nobody’s grandmother” and “nanny”, which leads to the correlation of “nobody’s” and “common” in the picture of the communal world. The semantics of the “common” is more often manifested in relation to referents defining the spatial organization. The allocation of certain loci in a communal apartment that transmit ideas about one’s own and someone else’s or about one’s own and common, returns us to the description of relations with neighbors in the apartment, more precisely, to the predominance of emotive characteristics of the topos in question, objectified through the motif of quarrels and conflicts over the use of common places and property. “Common” loci (kitchen, corridor, restroom), being a boundary space, can, depending on the plot situation, actualize the “own” or “alien” semes. For example, a corridor, in accordance with the strategy of mastering and appropriating someone else’s space during the game, can also act as “own” space. The representation of the topos of a communal apartment in children’s literature, of course, reflects the realities of the Soviet era and the everyday life of the “inhabitants” of the communal apartment, with its “conflict zones”, but the child’s consciousness, acting as a focalizer of the narrative, allows emphasizing the semantics of the common. We can talk about the transformation of the opposition “us vs them” according to the laws of dialectics. The realities of the time, seen through the eyes of a child, allow us to consider the topos of a communal apartment/kommunalka as a “system sign” (referent) of Soviet childhood, as a dialectical image expressing the collectivist pathos of Soviet culture and metaphorically reflecting Iosif Vareikis’ idea of a communal apartment as the USSR. The authors declare no conflicts of interests.

Leitura compartilhada: interação entre pais e filhos em situação natural

Abstract Objective The present study aimed to describe and analyze how parents naturally carry out shared reading with their children, without specific instructions. Additionally, the effect of a brief intervention to teach parents to use shared reading strategies was evaluated. Method Four families with children between the ages of four and five without a diagnosis of any disorder participated. We analyzed home footage captured by parents of shared reading moments, and to analyze the intervention, we measured the number of language stimulus strategies used by the parents as well as measures of the children's language. Results The description of the natural situation generated four categories of analysis: organization of the physical space, contact with the book, the way the story is told and the emotional relationship between parents and children. After the brief intervention, improvements were found in all measured variables when compared to pre-intervention data. Conclusion The importance of guiding families to use more language stimulation strategies in the context of shared reading is discussed, in order to enrich the child's speaking opportunities.

Simulation modeling as a means of forecasting passenger traffic at Moscow Metro transfer stations

The article substantiates the necessity of simulation modeling for passenger traffic processes at Moscow Metro stations. The study aims to develop a simulation model based on pedestrian flows to predict changes in their density and directions in the organization of the station space. The use of the method of structural analysis allowed to establish all the key objects of the studied processes and the links between them. Input parameters and process interaction rules are obtained using abstraction, synthesis, grouping, and statistical analysis techniques. Based on the results obtained, formal models of the behavior of each group of objects have been developed. A 3D twin model corresponding to the real research object was created to visualize the simulation model results and demonstrate the results of the scenario implementation. Moscow Metropolitan can use the results obtained for the operational management of flows at the stations and the modernization of their infrastructure.

МАСОВА ЖИТЛОВА ЗАБУДОВА КИЄВА ЧАСІВ СРСР: ПРОЯВ НАЦІОНАЛЬНИХ ОСОБЛИВОСТЕЙ МІСТОБУДУВАННЯ ЧИ ФОРМУВАННЯ УНІФІКОВАНОГО ПРОСТОРУ РАДЯНСЬКОГО МІСТА

The purpose of the article is to identify the peculiarities of urban development in Kyiv through the study of residential areas built in the modernist era and the possibility of taking them into account in the interests of post-war reconstruction of Ukrainian cities and Kyiv's development in the future. Methods. The planning features of the three socialist-era residential areas of Kyiv selected by the authors were assessed using a matrix of criteria developed on the principle of a comprehensive assessment of the territory in terms of three main functional zones. The results of the assessment served as data for building models in the form of petal diagrams that reflect the level of planning features of residential areas in the context of each zone. Results. The article reveals the peculiarities of mass housing construction in the capital of Ukraine in the second half of the twentieth century as a consequence of the adaptation of the Ukrainian urban planning scientific school and practice to the realities of Soviet ideology in urban planning. The article analyses the change in the urban face of Kyiv in the modernist era, the formation of various trends in the capital's urban planning, forms of implementation and trends in urban planning during the period of its Soviet ideologisation. Kyiv became an arena of struggle in urban development and redevelopment in the post-World War II period against the backdrop of rapid urbanisation, changes in housing requirements and acute manifestations of colonialism. A comparative analysis of three cases of housing construction, which recorded the progress in housing construction in terms of urban planning at different stages of post-war development of Kyiv - the residential areas "Berezniaky", "Syneozernyi" and "Teremky 1" - was carried out, which can better reveal the urban planning context in which the construction of a "European" and/or "Soviet" city is confronted. Scientific novelty. The tested methodology of field research of architectural and urban planning compositions, arrangement of urban spaces of different types, microzoning in order to compare residential areas and establish their user properties is the author's development. It has been established that despite the colonial policy, which had a significant impact on urban planning in Ukraine during the Soviet era, Ukrainian urban planners under the pressure of the Soviet ideological machine attracted the best European experience in planning and designing in the interests of the residents of the capital of Ukraine. Practical significance. The proposed methodology and the results obtained can be used in the planning and organisation of urban space. Mass housing construction will remain an urgent task in Ukraine and requires comprehension of negative experience and the use of the best practices of Kyiv's development in the modernist era.

Research of architectural projects of the building of the Russian Military Historical Museum on the materials of the Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer Troops and Signal Corps

Nowadays, there is an active reconstruction of the old and the creation of new militaryhistorical museums. In the process of this work, the curators set the task of reflecting its purpose through its appearance. It becomes possible understanding by studying the architecture of the museum through the centuries. The paper discusses the architectural projects of the Russian Military Historical Museum which were stored in the archive of the Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer troops and Signal Corps. The reader is informed that it was one of the stages of the work of the Committee on its Structure, created by Emperor Nicholas II’s order. The main ideas about museum buildings in the Russian Empire at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries were mentioned in the article. The main requirement was the correspondence of external and internal content. It was possible to identify common features: as a rule, these were two-storey stone buildings in the neo-Russian style, where, in addition to the exhibition halls, an arsenal, a lobby and a number of additional rooms were provided. The architects, whose projects were highly appreciated, took the palace buildings of the pre-Petrine period as a basis. As a result, the winner of the competition was Vladimir Pokrovsky’s the project which, unfortunately, was not implemented. However, the plot considered in the article is an example of an integrated approach to the organization of the museum, which was not developed in the USSR. The idea of building a Single Military Historical museum at that time did not lose its relevance. However, as a rule, it was assumed that the existing building would be adapted. Consequently, the competition of architectural projects of the Russian Military Historical Museum is one of the few examples in the history of museum construction in Russia when comprehensive work was carried out on the organization of internal and external space.

The evolution of infrastructure facilities for children: from clubs to quantoriums

The article is devoted to the development of the concept of children’s technoparks - facilities for supplementary education, which first appeared in Russia in 2015 and were formed largely due to the country’s general purpose clubs and children’s clubs, Houses and Palaces of Pioneers, which included technical creativity centers and stations for young scientists of natural-science orientation. The problem considered in the article consists not only in the semantic and practical, but in the corresponding typological development vector for this direction; the innovative approach to the organization of architectural space; the formation of functional and formal structure of these centers. The main aspects of the development of a new model of community center for children and adolescents are scientific and practical, informational and educational, socio-cultural and communicative, as well as typological approaches to the organization of quantoriums. The system-module approach becomes the basis for the structural organization of a technopark: a set of primary planning elements-modules for work in the relevant areas of future research activity and vocational skills of the students. Examples from architectural practice are given, as an approbation the project of the Children’s Technopark in the city of Yekaterinburg is presented.

Digital didactics in the context of Bachelor’s education

The article discusses the features of digital didactics as a neoplasm in didactics, provides a comparative analysis of the possibilities of digital and predigital didactics in bachelor’s education, the algorithm of the learning process from the standpoint of digital didactics, and the importance of the organisation of digital educational space. The subject of digital didactics is defined as managing the learning process and increasing the motivation of students to study in the digital educational environment, providing opportunities for self-development, education, and socialisation of bachelors. It is indicated that with the help of digital technologies, the learning process acquires an expansion of forms and methods of interaction with students due to individualisation, and the learning process becomes transparent at an early stage. Modification of the “packaging” of educational content in the digital educational space is described.

English Borrowings in Contemporary Italian: a Linguistic-Cognitive Aspect

In the article, the linguistic-cognitive aspect of English borrowings in contemporary Italian is considered. The globalization of the English language is one of the driving forces that raises questions about language contacts and interactions in modern linguistics. The presented scientific investigation aims to identify the linguistic-cognitive features of the usage of English borrowings in Italian-language news discourse. The linguistic-cognitive approach allows for analyzing the behavior of speakers and the organization of conceptual space in human consciousness. The article discusses the factors and phenomena to which users of the linguistic code are subordinate, as well as the impulses of internal and external systems that accelerate the penetration of English equivalents into the Italian language. English borrowings are revealed taking into account the universal characteristics of open systems. The article asserts that the analyzed linguistic-cognitive processes are universal-systemic, as they can be applied to the analysis of factors and phenomena of various natures, including linguistic and psychological.

АНТОНИМИЯ КАК СУБСТАНЦИЯ КОМИЧЕСКОГО В ПРОИЗВЕДЕНИЯХ Ф.М. ДОСТОЕВСКОГО

The article examines the phenomenon of the comic in the works of F.M. Dostoevsky in a particular aspect of its instrumental support – as a phenomenon based on various methods and angles of contextual actualization of the general linguistic category of semantic opposition (lexical antonymy). In the writer's work, the comic acts as the antithesis of the tragic and in the plot-narrative interaction with it. The special constructive role of antonymy in the organization of the semantic space of the writer's works is noted. It is shown that within the framework of the task of forming a text of an innovative type, the writer gives preference to contextual antonymy and phenomena of syntactic irregularity when creating a comic type. The thesis of the comic as a complex multifunctional pragmatic sign is substantiated. The productive role of linguistic connotations in comic contexts built on the category of semantic opposition is revealed. As a special method of structuring the comic, the possibility of antonymic substitution as part of a usual idiomatic syntactic group is demonstrated. As a separate structural variant of the comic, the technique of antonymization of actual linguistic semantics and presuppositions is singled out. In conclusion, the author concludes that it is legitimate and justified to single out and scientifically discursively actualize this particular aspect of the functioning of antonymy in the works of F.M. Dostoevsky as a research task within the framework of the fundamental traditional problem of "the language and style of the writer".

Структурно-морфологический подход к оценке качества городской среды

The article discusses the issues of analyzing the organization of urban space to assess its ability to meet the needs of residents and perform the required functions. Approaches to assessing the quality of an urbanized territory are explored, with an em-phasis on approaches to assessing territorial accessibility and the level of provision of a territory with any objects, as well as assessing the density of objects per unit area or population. The problems of structuring an urbanized territory are considered for the purpose of analyzing its provision based on administrative boundaries, regular grids of squares, hexagons or triangles, or according to elements of the city's planning structure (blocks, microdistricts, land plots, buildings, etc.). A hierarchical model of urban space is proposed, presented in the form of three systems: street blocks, land plots and build-ings.

Concepts of an ideal city in the history of philosophy.

This article reviews the primary ideas that have been proposed about the «ideal city» from the time of ancient civilization to the present, and it draws key findings that are important for comprehending the details of contemporary urban development. The article pays a lot of attention to the social essence of the dynamics of the city, ideas about the ideal organization of urban space and its infrastructure. The comparison of modern models of the ideal city with the views of Plato, Aristotle, Al-Farabi and other thinkers and scientists on the ideal city testifies to the importance of these ideas. The authors consider the evolution of ideas about the geometry of urban space, conditioned by certain socio-ethical, aesthetic, mythological and religious priorities, basic scientific concepts and prevailing worldviews, as well as practical tasks of ensuring the safety of the city. Projects of urbanization and social reconstruction, where the ideas of spiritual and moral transformation of man and society prevail, for all their utopianism, cannot sink into the past. They encourage thinking about the possibility of building models of urban and social reconstruction that meet millennial aspirations for security, justice, the common good, and comfort. The article draws attention to the growing negative consequences of the urbanization process, the need for a serious justification of the policy of formation and development of megacities, its implementation taking into account the principle of multifactoriality.

A CONSTRUÇÃO DA CULTURA ESCOLAR PRISIONAL COMO CATEGORIA DE ANÁLISE PARA A EDUCAÇÃO NO CÁRCERE

This article, the result of a doctoral thesis, presents itself as an excerpt from the case study of ethnographic inspiration in which we sought to understand how the relationships between school culture and prison culture occur, also considering the social cultures of reference of students, as relevant in the construction of the prison school culture analysis category. The understanding of the importance of dialogue between the cultures that cross the prison school context was the starting point for the research, for the reflection on the objectives of the prison sentence and prison education, in contemporary times. In this way, the concept of prison school culture was constructed to facilitate the understanding of the different networks of meaning, practices, values, customs and behaviors related to the school context constructed and experienced in prison. The research intended to discuss the concepts of school culture, school culture, prison culture and school routine, recognizing their intertwining, and using them as categories of analysis to understand the construction of memory of prison school culture, in relation to its pedagogical practices, to the organization of space and interactions between actors.