Trend Of Social Development Research Articles

Iran’s Strategy for Natural Gas

Natural gas as one the most significant fossil fuels is playing a crucial role in national energy mix in different countries. Nevertheless, its applications have not been limited to energy providing, and has been used widely as the feed stock in production of different varieties of petrochemicals. So that most of new petrochemical complexes around the country are designed and constructed based on natural gas feed. Natural gas was produced as one of the byproducts of crude oil and mostly was burned. Gradually along with increasing volumes of extracted natural gas, planning on gathering and using associated gas resulted in more usage of natural gas in different sectors including petrochemical feed and fuel. Following the developments, National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) was established in 1965 as one of the subsidiaries of the petroleum ministry with initial capital of 25 million Rials. Since its establishment, NIGC has gradually achieved capabilities and managed to have access to various sources and facilities such as experts and efficient human force equipped with scientific and theoretical vision and knowledge, tools, equipment, machinery and various advanced workshops for implementing its operations proportionate with the economic and social development trend of the country, so that it can independently accomplish all the related tasks complying with the valid international acceptable standards. Today, NIGC as one of the 4 mail subsidiaries of petroleum ministry is supplying more than 70 percent of total energy in the country as well as the feed stock for tens of petrochemical and industrial complexed around the country. The company also is operating one of the biggest high pressure gas transmission and distribution networks of the world facilitating export, import, transit and swap of natural gas in the country. In the point of natural gas treatment and supply, the company has the first position in the Middle East and one of major gas companies around the world. At the time being, the number of the NIGC permanent staff is more than19000official staff and more than 19300 total staff

Analysis of the Impact of Interest Rate Liberalization on Internet Finance

With the wide application of Internet information technology, every industry has been organically combined with the Internet and has gained new development, which is an inevitable trend of social development. Internet financial products are the new products of the combination of Internet and financial industry. At the same time of the birth of Internet finance, China is carrying out financial market reform. In this context, we want to know how its development will be affected. The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of interest rate liberalization on the development of Internet finance. This paper first analyzes the relationship between the internet finance and the interest rate marketization, then analysis the influence of interest rate marketization on internet financial; Finally, an empirical model analysis demonstrates the influence of interest rate marketization on internet financial, the empirical test shows that although a certain time lag, but the money market and bond market is the granger cause of the internet financial. The interest rate marketization will impact the internet financial operations, commercial bank as the conduction intermediary, can make the market interest rates move in same direction with the internet financial interest rates. Therefore, financial enterprises have to adapt to the interest rate marketization and grasp the actively response to the new environment of interest rate liberalization in order to make themselves get better and faster development.

Threats, chances and opportunities: social capital in Europe in times of social and economic hardship

ABSTRACTThe 2008 financial and economic crisis, characterized by an economic breakdown unparalleled since the Great Depression, provides a unique opportunity to study the relationships between economic developments and social capital by asking: How does social capital change in times of social and economic hardship? In order to explore the trends of social capital development, data from the European Social Survey 2002–2016 are used. The results suggest that economic decline – particularly increasing unemployment – is associated with a decline in social capital, especially in southern European countries. Furthermore, increasing long-term interest rates as an indicator of government future debt sustainability appear to be detrimental for social capital development. The impact of economic decline, however, appears to be contingent upon the functioning of state institutions: especially in countries characterized by well-functioning governments social capital is significantly less affected by economic decline than other countries.

Understanding the Future of Criminology: an Overview of Current Trends

The study and evaluation of established and evolving views of scholars regarding the future of criminology, expressed in articles as well as books, requires their generalization and makes it possible to formulate certain conclusions. Speculations regarding the future of criminology are primarily connected with the future crime trends and the projected reaction of the society and the theories of crime to their changes. Is the following theoretically and logically sound chain going to be perspective: technological development and rapid technological progress - use of new technologies by criminals - structural changes in crime - systemic changes in the law enforcement structures that meet the new criminal threats? Rapid technological progress, worsening social and economic inequality gave rise to futurological criminological research. Modern theory of criminology has many areas of urgent importance. They include the following issues debated in the academic circles: first, the effective methodological basis for such research, second, the possible ways of improving crime prevention theory that is dependent on the social processes and third, how and in what direction will criminology evolve in connection with the social trends and if it will be able to «incorporate» and take into account future, intensively and actively predicted trends of global social development, while gaining the status of the science of the future. Global criminology, fundamental criminology, digital criminology - what is the attitude of scholars to these theoretical constructs in todays academic discussions? Do speculations on the future of criminology have and prospects? Viewing science today as one of the forces that can help overcome the global civilization crisis has encouraged criminologists to discuss a wider consistent approach to future criminology as a source of ensuring criminological safety of the future society. The authors discuss the necessity and appropriateness of returning, in criminology as well as science in general, to the holistic worldview at the level of scientific knowledge. Criminology should develop by sprouting new branches supported by technological progress. A special part should be played by the criminology of hi tech that converges the knowledge of natural sciences.

KEY DEVELOPMENT FACTORS FOR THE UKRAINIAN ECONOMY

The aim of the article is to reveal the key factors of economic development of Ukraine at the present stage. In order to achieve the goal, the following tasks are addressed: the main tendencies of Ukrainian economic development are revealed; the main factors of influence are substantiated; the prospects of economic development of the state are considered. The subject of the study is the key development factors of the Ukrainian economy. Methodology. The analysis of legal regulations of Ukraine and scientific literature enabled to examine the current economic situation, the status of Ukraine and to determine strategic priorities and goals of economic development of Ukraine; in addition, dialectical method, scientific abstraction method, methods of system analysis were used. The results of the study revealed the authors’ perspective on the strategy, ways, and mechanisms to overcome the systemic crisis and to guide the country to the dynamic growth. The solution of socio-economic problems is linked with the protection and strengthening of demographic potential, priorities of human development, tasks of consolidation of the Ukrainian political nation and formation of an integral socio-humanistic space of Ukraine. Practical implications. The situation and important trends of economic, social, political, legal, and humanitarian development of Ukraine under threats and risks related to crisis processes in the modern world are analysed. The macroeconomic changes, transformations of the real economy, energy, and ecology insecurities are reflected. The issues of achieving effective public administration, overcoming the political crisis, stabilizing the financial sector, developing power – business – civil society dialogue, and transforming the socio-humanistic sphere are considered. Relevance/originality. The study revealed the state of affairs in the economic system of Ukraine, as well as perspective tendencies of the Ukrainian economy were further developed.

Социальная трансформация как фактор гуманизации отношений в системе «человек – организация»

The study discusses the main aspects of social management of modern organizations. The author regards the relationship humanization in the person – organization system as one of the key aspects of this process. At the same time, the ongoing social transformation can be considered as its main determinant. This determines the changes in the regulation forms of interaction in the internal environment of an organization and its relations with the external social environment, the application of innovative methods of social management, the reflection of the main trends of social development in management practice. Increasing efficiency and effectiveness of organizations, providing their employees with the opportunities to fulfill their professional and personal potential as well as assisting in successfully addressing the problems of modern society can be treated as the result of these processes.

Investigation analysis of nurses' service willingness on 'Internet + home care'

Objective To analyze the willingness and attitude of nurses on home nursing service under internet mode. Methods A total of 2 039 nurses worked in 13 Class Ⅱ or higher grade hospitals in Ningbo city from November to Decemeber 2015 were selected using objective sampling method. Self-designed Ningbo cloud-hospital home care service willings questionnaire was conducted to investigate nurses. Results 67.1% of nurses were willing to provide the Internet-based home care services. Nurses prefered to provide subcutaneous and intramuscular injection services. Many nurses were worried about the safety of nursing services and the personal rights protection. Conclusions 'Internet + home care' service conforms to the trend of social development, but requires the solution of problems including nursing risk guarantee, nursing services quality control, and reasonable service prices so as to meet people's demands of nursing services and further develop the value of nurses. Key words: Nurses; Internet+; Home care

Research on Human-Computer Interaction Design of Self-service Public Facilities for Aging

With the continuous improvement of the level of modernization, the public facilities that provide self-service have become more and more frequently appearing in people’s life. On the basis of traditional human-computer interaction technology, the rise of multichannel human-computer interaction technology provides a pluralistic interaction mode between human and machine, and provides more choices for human-computer interaction design of self-service public facilities than before. However, the technical advancement should not be the primary term which is taken in consideration for the self-service public facilities. The purpose is to serve the public. The main features of the self-service public facilities are studied in this paper. This paper puts forward the design principle of “maximum compatibility”, expounds the influence of aging social development trend on the popularization of self-service public facilities, and studies the design method of human-computer interaction to adapt to the current trend of aging.

At the final stage of the global crisis: Economic tasksin 2017-2019

The paper deals with the global and national trends of economic and social development at the final stage of the global structural crisis. Special attention is paid to intellectual challenges economists will face with in the post-crisis world: prospects of growth without inflation, new global currencies and the role of cryptocurrencies, central banks independence and their role in economic growth stimulation, new tasks and patterns of government regulation, inequality and growth. Special features of Russian post-crisis development are also under consideration. Among them: prospects of macroeconomic support of growth, inflation targeting, new fiscal rule, social dynamics and new challenges to welfare state. The paper concludes that the main obstacles for economic growth in Russia are concentrated in the non-economic area.

Цифровизация и ее влияние на российскую экономику и общество: преимущества, вызовы, угрозы и риски

The current stage of world economic and social development is characterized by a significant impact on it digitalization. As a new trend of world social development, which replaced information and computerization, it is characterized by the following: it is based on a digital representation of information that, in the economic and social life of a country and the whole world, leads to higher economic efficiency and better quality life. The comprehensive disclosure of digitalization features as a modern trend in the world development includes the disclosure of the essence of digitalization, the features of digital representation of information, the prerequisites and possible positive consequences of digitalization for Russia, the relationship between digitalization and digital economy, challenges, threats, possible negative consequences and risks of digitalization for Russia, measurement methods the degree of digitalization coverage of a particular country, and also includes a description of the current state and tasks of digitalization for the Russian economy.

Cross-Border Integration: Reflections on the Development of Academic Journals

The “Internet ” era is the current general trend of social and economic development. Internet academic publishing has promoted the diversity of academic publishing media, and has also had an important impact on the traditional academic publishing industry. The traditional media-media academic journals have experienced a decline in their dissemination, and their market-oriented operations have been difficult to adapt to the current difficulties of dissemination and homogenization. Internationalization, digitalization, and networking are the requirements of the times. Academic journals need to face the academic world, carry out the second transformation, change the way of thinking, and achieve common innovation and collaborative research. Only by starting from the demand of network society for all kinds of knowledge and information, and strengthening the power of full-media publishing and development, can academic journals shift from the traditional publishing model to the knowledge service industry with “Internet ” as the main feature, in order to enhance their knowledge service capabilities and information dissemination capabilities.

Synthetic Method in Interdisciplinary Terminological Landscape Research of Digital Economy

The science in the digital age focuses on interdisciplinary research as the main driver of the development. Modern studies of semantic and thematic contexts taken from the digital scientific resources are important for tasks of information technology use in science, education, management and business. As a rule, interdisciplinary research emerges in response to the trends in social and economic development. Socio-political and cultural environment has also a great influence on the introduction of new terminology into the scientific discourse. The delay of scientific discourse regarding the public discourse generates problems of both scientific and philosophical nature. Furthermore, those challenges influence the education system, making demands for new curricula and courses, which, among other things, reflect the categorical and conceptual basis of the new subject areas. The actual objective is to reveal the trends in the terminological landscape of developing interdisciplinary research directions. The present study offers the Synthetic Method, which combines various approaches and tools of Digital Humanities. This Method allows using context query for the search for information resources; the context knowledge explication and clarification of the terminological landscape of interdisciplinary scientific direction “Digital Economy: e-governance and smart technology”.

Identify Social Enterprises

Social enterprises have become an inevitable trend of future social development. At present, the development of Chinese social enterprises faces internal and external adversities, and the prospects of the development of social enterprises are not clear. In order to build a good environment for the development of domestic social enterprises, this article fully draws on international experience and combines with China’s actual conditions, and evaluates the existing standards of certification for civil society enterprises in China from five dimensions: organizational goals, income sources, profit distribution, asset disposal, and profit distribution. On this basis, further proposals are proposed to improve public awareness of social enterprises and lay a practical foundation for future legislative work.

Study on the Motivations for Volunteer Work of Employed Youths in Macau

Influenced by social progress, voluntary work has become a trend of social development. As an important human resource of the community, the role of volunteers merits closer attention. Human resource management of voluntary service is emphasized heavily by both public and private sectors. For voluntary organizations and managers, understanding the participation motivation and characteristics of volunteers would surely help to better understand volunteers. Due to the declining passion for participation in social service of the Macau youth, this study tried to understand the motivations of the Macau employed youth volunteers. It further classified the types of volunteers to provide references for volunteer recruitment, as well as improve the operation and management of relevant volunteer departments and organizations.

(Impact of Public Employment Services on the Dynamics of Labor Market in Bulgaria)

Russian Abstract: Докладът разглежда ролята и значението на обществените служби по заетостта (ОСЗ), отчитащи съвременните тенденции в социалното и икономическо развитие в Европа и подчертавайки особеностите в Република България. Основните принципи на работа са свързани с динамиката на пазара на труда и необходимостта от прилагане на нови подходи и промени в работата на обществените служби по заетостта. English Abstract: The paper discusses the role and significance of public employment services (PES) considering contemporary trends in social and economic development in Europe and underlining peculiarities in the Republic of Bulgaria. The main principles of work are concerned in connection with the dynamics of labor market and the need of application of new approaches and changes in the work of public employment services.

Pedagogical Readiness of Mathematics Teachers to Implement Innovative Forms of Educational Activities

The purpose of this study is to develop and validate the evaluation indicators of teaching. The relevance of the present study is due to the problem of improving the quality of school education in the Russian Federation by means of renewal of the content of general education, provided by the RF State program “Development of Education for 2013-2020”. The vectors of updating are determined by the tasks of transition to the democratic and constitutional state, the market economy, the need to overcome the dangers of the country lagging behind global trends of economic and social development and, what is the most important, by the growing influence of the human capital on the economy of the country. The aim of this study is to identify the level of readiness of teachers to implement innovative forms of educational activities into the educational process with the help of the analysis of the responses of mathematics teachers to reflexive questions. The presentation of lessons with innovative forms during the methodical workshop and the systematic analysis of the experimental data are the main technologies. As a result of the experimental study, conducted in 2015-2017 in the Kirov region with a group of 71 mathematics teachers we can present the experience of the implementation of innovative organization forms of educational process and summarize the results in the form of the subjective reflective assessment. The article justifies the high level of pedagogical readiness of mathematics teachers to introduce innovative forms of organization of educational activities such as: event-based learning, adaptive teaching, ‘bring your own devices’, computational thinking, and stealth assessment.

Tendencies and Prospects of Tourism Industry in Russia: Sociological Analysis of Stereotypes among Population during Tourism Trips

1. Introduction Global and integration trends of social development are leading to the increase of tourism industry, as one of the leading and the most dynamically developing fields of the world economy. In this context, identification and choice of prosperous tourism market, analysis and demand forecasting on the tourism trips are becoming fundamental bases for the economy of many developed and developing countries ensuring inflow of investments in the development of objects of historical and cultural potential of the territories, their infrastructure. The peculiarity of tourism industry allows observing it from both sides: as a subject of economic analysis and social study. It reveals such aspects as: immersion of population in the cultural and historical values, style and life of peoples of different countries. Besides, social characteristics of tourism service directly depend on the stereotypes different social groups have, peculiarity of social and cultural perception of tourism potential of the regions. Due to the prolonged economic crisis, and unstable political situation in the world, economists and social scientists are focusing their attention on strategic planning of tourism trips considering rapid transformation of social and economic conditions of modern states. This situation is particularly acute in Russia. According to the results of the independent social survey, the level of attractiveness of some regions is not high enough (except such traditional destination, as the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus). 2. Analysis of recent publications on this problem Significant amount of studies has been devoted to the problem of tourism development and to the main aspects of planning and organising tourism activity. Theoretical issues, analysis of the conceptual framework of working and developing tourism industry and tourism infrastructure were analysed in the studies of such scientists as M.A. Zhukhova (Zhukhova, 2006), V.G. Gulyaev (Gulyaev, 2003), M.B. Byrzhakhov (Byrzhakhov, 2014), S. Medlik (Medlik, 2012), Kh. Godfree (Godfree, 2000), Lasha R. Zhiba, Khatuna K. Shat-ipa (Zhiba, Shatipa, 2012), D. MacCannell (MacCannell). Special attention in the modern studies is being paid to the mechanisms of tourism development providing high quality of tourism service (Ottenbacher, Harrington, 2013; Massidda, Mattana, 2013, Emsden, 2013). It is highly interesting to pay attention to the works on creating demand on tourism service, especially among students, gamification of tourism business (Kirillov et al., 2016; Vinichenko et al., 2016; (Anikina et al., 2016; Bashmakov et al., 2015; Menshchikova and Sayapin, 2016; Shatkovskaya et al., 2017; Faizova et al., 2015). There are also important studies devoted to factors of development of tourism territorial potential, territorial image, activity of local authorities with the aims of social and cultural economic development of the territories including tourism infrastructure (Kryukova et al., 2014; Frolova, 2016; Jones and Stewart, 2012; Bondaletov et al., 2015; Kryukova et al., 2016; Firescu and Popescu, 2015). The less worked out issues refer to the mechanisms and administrative ways of influence on the processes of the development of cultural and educational tourism. Goals and objectives of the study include analysis and definition of the stereotypes which diverse social groups of Russian society follow while planning their trips. We also study their perception of the cultural and educational tourism potential and tourism service in the Russian cities. 3. Methods Considering the necessity of solving the mentioned-above goals and objectives, as well as the aim of expansion of social knowledge, developing prospects for the Russian tourism market, the authors conducted a social study in 2016. The topic was the following: "The prospects of the development of tourism industry in modem Russia", underpinned with the empirical base of the municipal districts of Moscow region. …

The Czech Republic and Slovakia in Terms of Mortality from Malignant Neoplasms: Similar or Opposite Tendencies?

In Europe, a steady mortality decline has been observed from the 1950s, however, Central and Eastern Europe underwent a period of stagnation or even worsening from the 1960s to 1980s. Since that time an evident mortality decline could be observed in that part of Europe too. Within the post-communist countries, mortality development has been most favourable in Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The aim of this study is to describe the latest development of cancer mortality in two selected countries - the Czech Republic and Slovakia. These two countries have much in common, including many similar long term trends in demographic or social indicators' development. The study evaluates whether cancer mortality development differs in the two countries or rather follows a similar trend. From the presented results it is clear that the development apparently differs namely according to sex. The results according to selected particular causes of death (from the group of malignant neoplasms) are presented as well. It could be assumed that many aspects could be improved by prevention programmes or screening.

Measurement of social development: evidence from India

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the progress of social development in terms of social development index (SDI) of India in the pre- and post-reforms period.Design/methodology/approachThis study used the methodology of Ray (1989, 2008) for the construction of composite index for social development, i.e. SDI. The study also used the ordinary least squares method of regression analysis for checking the impact of development expenditure, non-development expenditure and Per Capita Net National Product (PCNNP) on the SDI value.FindingsThe results show an increasing trend in social development. The findings of this study also suggest that there is a sharp increase in the index over the period between 2002/2003 and 2010/2011. But in the remaining period, sluggish improvement in social development has been observed. Though there has been growth in the social sector, but it is not much heartening and perhaps more efforts need to be done in the social sector in India. The results also exhibit that development expenditure, non-development expenditure and PCNNP are significantly affecting the SDI value.Practical implicationsThe study suggests that the government should focus more on social sector programs and there is an urgent need to increase development and non-development expenditures to improve the overall social condition of the country.Originality/valueThe work is different in terms of number of development variables from the already existing literature in India. The author constructed the SDI by using the weighted sum of 12 transformed social variables which has not been studied previously.

Research on Cultural Development of Characteristic Towns in China

<p><em>Under the background of new-type urbanization, based on local culture, economy, science and technology, innovative-type small towns have become a major trend in social development. With the rapid development of characteristic towns in different areas, the construction of towns are also faced with many problems. For example, unitary cultural features, excessively apparent similarities, backward ideological and cultural construction have led to the lack of motive force in development, defective social benefits, and shortage of talents. As a consequence, cultural development of characteristic towns doesn’t have guarantee. Sheer focus on benefits causes imbalance between economic effectiveness, cultural and social effectiveness. The lack of emphasis on scientific and technological innovation leads to the shortage of modern vitality and vigor. From the perspectives of these issues, the paper will propose relevant measures, so that cultural factors can play a better role in construction of characteristic towns.</em><em></em></p>