World Practice Research Articles

INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO UTILIZING WATER INFRASTRUCTURE IN RESORT ECONOMY

Topicality. The article is dedicated to the analysis of existing international experience in developing business activities utilizing water infrastructure. It explores the resort economy of Israel in comparison with Ukraine, using the city of Odesa as an example. The focus is on the similarities in demand for recreation and experiences, as well as disparities in water infrastructure provision between the two.Aim and tasks. The aim of the article is to analyze and incorporate the best world practices in resort economy to align with global trends and a competitive environment. The tasks of the article include identifying the infrastructure components for water supply in the resort economy, identifying disparities in the water management system of the Odessa region, and outlining strategies to overcome these disparities.Materials and Methods. The theoretical framework of the research was formed through the method of analysis and clarification of concepts. To identify key disparities in the water infrastructure that supports the functioning of the resort economy, statistical and comparative methods were employed.Research results. The article establishes that ensuring the population of the Odessa region with drinking water is one of the most crucial issues that must be addressed to preserve health, improve living conditions, and enhance the quality of life for the region's residents. The development of the Odessa region as a resort area is impossible without providing quality services for the supply of safe drinking water and access to modern wastewater systems. A key aspect of improving water resource management is the experience of Israel in implementing a self-financing system in the water sector, covering not only the supply of drinking water to urban populations but also servicing all participants in the water cycle.Conclusion. Water resource management is a key factor in the development of the resort economy. Innovative solutions such as wastewater treatment, desalination processes, and sustainable water management policies will enable meeting the growing demand for water while conserving limited natural resources. By combining institutional reforms with pricing mechanisms based on full cost recovery, promoting operational efficiency and implementing practical public-private partnerships, whereby direct budgetary subsidies in the resort economy sector can be phased out and self-financing of the water sector achieved.

Legal, scientific, informational and ideological measures to ensure sustainable use of wildlife objects: russian and foreign experience

This article deals with the ecological education as an important means in the process of animal world preser-vation. Legal education is supposed to form a high level of legal awareness and legal culture among citizens and society. The result of legal education should be regarded in knowledge, citizens’ respectful attitude to the current legislation. According to this article, a high level of legal culture and legal education will allow everyone to realize the need to preserve the biodiversity of wild animals for the present and future generations. Based on the analysis of certain provisions of the legislation on the animal world and law enforcement practice, the article states that there is no comprehensive system of legal measures for the sustainable use of wildlife in Russia. The legal, economic, ideological, organizational measures proposed in this article will make it possible to achieve such use of the animal world that will preserve and increase the number of wild animal popula-tions, maintain ecological balance, and ensure satisfaction of the needs of present and future generations in a favorable environment. The measures proposed will create a legal basis for sustainable management of the animal world. These measures will be useful in the development of national programs for the sustainable use of wildlife, strengthening the dialogue of the authorities with the population to involve them in the process of sustainable use of wildlife objects in order to ensure a balance of economic, environmental and social interests.

ГЕНЕТИЧНІ АЛГОРИТМИ В ЗАДАЧАХ ОПТИМІЗАЦІЇ РОБОТИ ФЕС

Solving the tasks of finding the maximum in the field of renewable energy sources. The scientific work is devoted to the application of genetic algorithms to solve the problems of optimizing the efficiency of solar energy in renewable energy sources. The main focus of the work is on finding the maximum parameter values in solar power plants. The relevance of the study is due to the constant growth in the popularity of the use of solar energy and the need to increase its conversion efficiency. The application of genetic algorithms in solving the tasks of finding the maximum in solar energy is an important step in achieving optimal configurations of FES and ensuring the stable functioning of this type of power plants in general. The work includes the analysis of the influence of various parameters on the efficiency of photovoltaic panels and the development of optimal strategies for the use of genetic algorithms to improve their performance. The obtained results open up new opportunities for increasing the competitiveness of FES in the field of renewable energy sources. The genetic algorithm is recognized for its ability to provide quality results and work faster than the selection method. This method is widely used in world practice [6]. Modern algorithms for tasks where the size of the search space is so large that the exact finding of the optimal solution becomes impossible, then in such cases heuristic solutions meet the requirements, have also been studied. One of the goals of the research is the analysis of optimization algorithms and their applicability for solving the optimization tasks of solar energy. Genetic algorithms, although effective, have their limitations - in many cases, they tend to converge to a local optimum (or even an arbitrary point), instead of a global one. This indicates their inability to decide how to maintain high fitness in the short term. Additionally, the complication is related to how to protect evolutionarily formed parts from destructive mutations [7, 9]. In the process of research, the specified limitations were taken into account and mechanisms were developed to reduce their negative impact. The algorithm considered in the work is not only resistant to local minima, but also, due to the internal parallelism expressed in working with individual solutions, rather than whole classes of solutions, provides a relatively fast search for the optimal solution. Research methods basically use the iterative technique of improving results

Кримінально-правові підходи аналізу профілактичних програм протидії злочинності в США

It was emphasized that in Ukraine, representatives of all types of law enforcement activities develop certain methods and measures to combat crime at the level of their own competence. Of course, there are national and regional programs, but specific bodies and their divisions have considerable freedom of action regarding the direction of professional implementation. This approach has positive points and some caveats. Guided by national programs, representatives of a specific law enforcement branch can determine on the ground the main "risk zones" and the contingent of citizens with whom it is expedient to work more intensively. The point of concern is that all services and units need to act in a coordinated manner so that preventive work is carried out in a planned manner and covers all areas of the population without gaps and duplication of measures. It is noted that the introduction of grant programs is a powerful factor for the full implementation of preventive measures to prevent crime. Each grant program provides for a specific direction of implementation of measures that will ensure work with the target audience based on a certain set of methods. Programs for work with minors are, as a rule, educational, those that cover the population in general - legal education, work with the elderly is aimed at familiarization with social guarantees and opportunities, in particular, with regard to inheritance law, lifetime maintenance contracts, etc. It was found out that today in all developed countries of the world, in particular in the USA, large-scale work on preventive activities is carried out at the state level. The authorized bodies develop perspective programs and create specialized units that implement these projects in practice. World practice on crime prevention is implemented through practical application after being established in the relevant regulatory and legal acts. Attention is focused on the importance of conducting preventive work with persons released from prisons in the context of their resocialization. Such persons need psychological and material support in order not to commit crimes due to the rejection of them by society, because many of them claim that it is easier for them to be in places of deprivation of liberty than in a prejudiced environment, when it is difficult to get a job, to restore lost social connections ties, etc.

The Value-Creation Role Of Accessibility Through the Critical Realism Method: Istanbul Bus Rapid Transit System

Public investments in "mass transit systems" provide an equal right of accessibility economic and social opportunities for everyone. Concurrently, they generate an increase in land value both along the mass transit line and within the accessible area of the stations. This article focuses on the socio-economic and spatial effects of the increased land value resulting from the accessibility created by the mass transit system. By reviewing world wide case studies and practices, it examines these causal processes within the framework of the Critical Realism Method using the example of the Istanbul Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) System. As a result of the Extensive Analysis, an analytical method of the Critical Realism Method, it was observed that the rate of land value increase in the Istanbul BRT System was 28% and the rate of land value increase at all stations along the line varied between 20% and 280%. In the Intensive Analysis, it was observed that the increase in land value at selected stations varied depending on the proximity of the station to Istanbul's Central Business District, new incoming land use types, plan changes made by the public, the presence of vacant lands that would enable land speculation, and the presence of large projects around the station. This article provides insights which explains that “the change in land value resulting from accessibility” does not cause the same magnitude of value increase at every station along the line and does not create the same socio-economic and spatial impact at every station. It presents an empirically tested study by comparing the accessibility created by the Istanbul BRT System before and after its implementation.

Использование MVP в разработке программного продукта информационной системы мониторинга инфекционных заболеваний.

In world practice, the effectiveness of management decisions taken to organize medical care for the population in the context of the COVID‑19 pandemic is associated with the construction of mathematical models based on statistical data implemented in the software of medical information systems and the development of digital technologies that allow remote observation and interaction with the patient. As information about COVID‑19 accumulates, the issue of automating the processes of collecting, accumulating, storing, analyzing and visualizing medical data has become relevant for executive authorities in the field of protecting the health of citizens in the Russian Federation. Purpose of study. To develop and to implement a software module for monitoring infectious diseases to automate basic business processes related to the provision of medical care to patients with COVID‑19. Methods. The basis for the development of MVP was the e-document flow system (EDF) «Bureaucrat». The main tool was the CUBA platform, and the following technologies were used: Spring, Groovy, YARG, HL7, SOAP, REST API, Tomcat, Vaadin, Activiti. Results. At the first five stages of creating an MVP information system for monitoring infectious diseases, the “Questionnaire” and “Observation Sheet” forms were introduced, and also integration with the Federal Register of COVID‑19 Patients was carried out, functionality for creating emergency notifications about infectious diseases was introduced, and integration with the regional information system was partially implemented. The sixth and seventh stages provided for the separation of MVP based on the Bureaucrat EDF into an independent software product with expanded functionality. Conclusions. As a result of the work, a software product was obtained, first as a module within the Bureaucrat EDF, and then as an independent information system “Infections.Net”, which was able to quickly act as an addition to RMIS in the Tyumen region and automate all necessary business processes at the regional level related to work on COVID‑19 patients in a short time frame.

ТОПЫРАҚ ТҰРАҚТЫҒЫНА pН ОРТАСЫНЫҢ ӘСЕРІ

Abstract. In world practice, the process of structure formation of mineral dispersions with polymers is one of the effective methods for solving many environmental problems. Patent research over the past 15 years has shown that the developments available in this area relate mainly to the structure formation of soils and soils with salts of low molecular weight substances and polymers. The main disadvantages of modern structure formers are the high salt content in the polycomplex formulation, insufficient water resistance, low aggregation ability and unsatisfactory adhesive properties. Soil particles having a diameter of 12 microns, in the pH range 10.0 - 3.0, the soil suspension should be practically stable, since the value of the energy barrier significantly exceeds the energy of thermal movement of the particles and is 166 kT (pH 10.0), 125 kT (pH 8.0), 63 kT (pH 6.0) and 41kT (pH 5.0). A further decrease in pH leads to a natural decrease in the barrier, which at pH 4.0 is 6 kT, and completely disappears at pH 3.0. Thus, for a fraction of a soil suspension with a diameter less than 12 µm, noticeable coagulation can be observed at pH £ 4.0. It is easy to show that larger soil particles with a diameter of 30-33 microns should be practically aggregatively stable even at pH 3.0, since the energy barrier in this case is 10-15 kT. When interacting with the smallest particles (a = 1 μm), the energy barrier values are: 44 kT (pH 10.0), 28 kT (pH 8.0), 18 kT (pH 6.0), 7 kT (pH 5.0) and 2 kT (pH 4.0) and only for these particles at pH < 4.0 can one expect a noticeable loss of aggregation stability by the dispersion. However, the experiment shows that significant coagulation of particles occurs already at pH 5.0 and continuously increases as the pH decreases. Key words: structure-forming agent; soil; flocculation; coagulation; interaction energy; optical density; potentiometric titration; electrophoretic mobility.

Fruit and vegetable production in Kazakhstan: status, problems and ways of solution

The development of fruit and vegetable sector is given special attention throughout the world. The production of fruits and vegetables is an important component of the agro-industrial complex and one of the most common types of agricultural activities in terms of the income of small and medium-sized producers and the food security of the republic. Fruits and vegetables, being a source of vital minerals and vitamins, occupy one of the key places in the diet and are among the essential goods. Goal - current issues of increasing the efficiency of fruit and vegetable production and its potential are considered. Methods - analysis, comparison, generalization, allowing to identify problems whose solution is important for the food supply of the country's population. Results - the experience of world practice of market trade in horticultural products was studied. The authors substantiate the need to develop and implement measures of state support for elite seed farms and originators of varieties, create and restore infrastructure for the procurement, storage, processing and sale of vegetables, berries and fruits, organize wholesale markets for environmentally friendly vegetable raw materials. The state of fruit and vegetable subcomplex is shown. An analysis of the volumes of cultivation of fruit and vegetable crops by various organizational and legal entities is given. Examples of an effective sales system for fruits and vegetables abroad and mechanisms for the distribution of products are given. The need for state regulation and stimulation of the fruit and vegetable industry is noted. Conclusions - there are all the prerequisites for expanding and further building the potential of competitive and sustainable agricultural formations in the fruit and vegetable sector, capable of fully satisfying domestic consumer demand. This can be achieved through the introduction of new resource-saving technologies, the implementation of high-tech projects taking into account adaptation to climate change, environmental protection, and maintaining balance in the food supply chain.

Application of international experience in solving problems of technical and logistical support of troops of the Republic of Kazakhstan

The article discusses the current problems of technical and logistical support of the troops of the Republic of Kazakhstan and ways to solve them, including the use of international experience of the leading developed countries of the world. It is strategically important for our country to study the world practice of modernization of the logistics support system on its preparation for actions during operations to resolve crisis situations both independently and as part of the OSCE coalition group. Despite the fact that the provisions of the Military Doctrine of the state on the use of military force are strictly defensive in nature, the military security of the republic directly depends on new forms and methods of using armed forces. The logistics system plays an important role in this regard. The article highlighted problems like national differences in approaches to the preparation and conduct of joint military operations; incompatibility of a number of national military systems; an underdeveloped network of transport infrastructure facilities and the complexity of logistics of supply transportation. As an option for their solution, the development of a logistics support system model based on cooperation with the civil sector of the economy under the Public-Private Partnership program is proposed. At the same time, digitalization and automation of logistics management processes, accounting and distribution of material resources should be highlighted as the main direction of modernization of logistics and technical support.

Optimising a co-production framework for developing public health interventions: application and testing of school-based Research Action Groups

Existing frameworks for developing public health interventions have limited guidance for researchers on how to work with stakeholders to co-produce context-specific interventions. To address this, a promising framework for the co-production of public health interventions was developed through a previous review of school-based co-production. The present study aimed to optimise this co-production framework through applying and testing it in real-world secondary school contexts. Within schools, Research Action Groups (RAGs) were established with multiple school stakeholders supported by an external facilitator to use school data to produce school-specific mental health and wellbeing interventions. A mixed method process evaluation of two contextually diverse case study secondary schools in the UK was used to optimise the co-production framework. The process evaluation sought the views of those involved (students, school staff, school Senior Management Team (SMT) members, and the external co-production facilitator/researcher) on the co-production functions they were involved in so they could be modified, if needed. Data collected for the process evaluation during co-production were a researcher diary (n = 45 entries), and observations of student photography (n = 21) and RAG meetings (n = 8). Post co-production, interviews, and surveys with RAG students (n = 18) and staff (n = 8), and two school-specific SMT focus groups (n = 10) were conducted. The study identified four recommendations to optimise and integrate co-production into real world practice. They include the need to: assess schools for their readiness to undertake co-production; more effectively communicate the necessity to have stakeholders from the whole system involved; work with SMTs throughout co-production functions; involve stakeholders outside the school to support producing solutions to change school mental health and wellbeing priorities. The framework is intended to be used by researchers to integrate stakeholders into a shared decision-making process to develop interventions that meet the needs and contexts of individual schools. It could be transferred to other settings to support the development of public health interventions for other health areas, and populations. Further evaluation to test its use in other settings is needed.

Addressing the stagnation issue in accounting education research while incorporating mainstream publications and professional practice into the accounting curriculum

The accounting practice and academic research-oriented sides of the profession have had difficulties concerning the integration of their outputs. The practice side has maintained that very little of the “mainstream” research produced by academics has been of value in their day to day activities, and the research side has complained about the lack of cooperation as to the availability of data from the practice segment that is needed to conduct academic research. Add to this situation the teaching focused faculty of the profession, who contend that the research conducted in the “mainstream” is of little value to their efforts in teaching undergraduate and graduate students. Additionally, faculty in the classroom need input from the practice side to determine what information the students need to be successful after graduation. The problems were noted in 2012 by the AICPA and AAA supported Pathways Commission in their major report, with questionable efforts to date addressing the concerns. Take all of these components together and you have a view of our current “situation” in accounting.We attempt, in this paper, to further address the previously identified stagnation in accounting education research (Rebele and St. Pierre, 2015) and, at the same time, to bridge the gaps between these different accounting groups noted by the Pathways Commission. We do this by offering a potentially unique solution to address the current accounting environment. First, we analyze the findings from a mainstream research study that both examines the practice side of the equation and directly affects our classroom coverage of topics in several of the required undergraduate and graduate courses typically found in accounting programs around the country. Second, this paper breaks from many of the current education articles in that we examine what should be taught in the classroom based on actual real - world practice issues rather than hypothetical academic approaches to the topics covered. Third, our efforts in tying together the three components - mainstream research, practice, and classroom content - will hopefully move our colleagues in a direction that benefits our students and opens new accounting education research opportunities.

Ensuring Safety of Gas Field Infrastructure Using ALARP and a Systematic Approach

Introduction. A significant part of the global and state economy is the production and supply of hydrocarbon raw materials. The issues of safety in this area will remain important in the coming decades. The problem is actively discussed in the professional and scientific community. Theoretical and applied works are published. Local, point-based methods are calculated and implemented, which allow predicting and preventing emergencies in certain units of the considered objects. At the same time, there are no sufficiently justified and reproducible system solutions that can take into account the state of, for example, oil or gas field as a single complex and act as indicators not only of ordinary local accidents, but also of systemic accidents — catastrophes. Such a scientifically and experimentally based solution is described in this article. The approach is proposed as part of the formation of a comprehensive scientific and technical program (CSTP) to ensure the safety of natural and technogenic objects (NTO). The aim of this work was to describe the practice of its application in the conditions of specific gas fields and to justify the refusal to focus on solutions that took into account only the minimum practically acceptable risk, that is, built on the ALARP principle (as low as reasonably practicable). Materials and Methods. The article was based on the results of field tests of natural and technogenic objects (NTO) of the oil and gas complex — the Yuzhno-Russkoye field of OJSC Severneftegazprom (SNGP), LLC Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg (GDYA) and the gas pumping station (GPS) Orlovka-2 (Ukraine), conducted with the authors’ participation. Significant results were obtained and evidence-based physically interpreted during acceptance tests of an explosion-proof certified, created under the guidance of the authors of a prototype of a disaster response system (DRS) at the integrated gas treatment plant (IGTP) in LLC GDYA in 2006. At the same time, for the first time in the world practice, the fact of early detection and parrying without consequences by means of DRS on the UKPG-2 of the development of a large-scale general industrial disaster was confirmed. In the form of graphs, the revealed patterns of NTO have been visualized, which made it possible to form harbingers of the development of accidents and catastrophes at the NTO of LLC "GDYA", SNGP and GPS "Orlovka-2". Information on the high experimental reproducibility of the obtained results was presented. The technology has been developed of early detection and parrying of all types of potentially dangerous self-exciting systemic phenomena on real NTO infrastructure — self-oscillations. Three cases of their excitation in real gas fields were presented. Results. The paper shows the fragmentary nature and locality of emergency protection systems based on the ALARP principle. The consequence of this was its complete unsuitability for early detection and counteraction to the most large-scale and costly system accidents — catastrophes that were multifactorial processes, in which none of the factors was decisive. The alternative complex solution of the problem proposed by the authors and brought to working condition was based on a system approach adapted to the NTO of the oil and gas complex. The measured parameters of various NTO infrastructure — fields of LLC "GDYA" and SNGP were processed and analyzed at the moments of development of self-oscillating modes on them, due to self-sustaining nonlinear mechanisms of interaction of NTO elements with constant (non-oscillatory) sources of energy replenishment. Three such modes of self-excitation were illustrated. The most informative in this case were the transient modes of operation of the equipment. According to the technologies experimentally developed by the authors, the areas of critical operating modes of equipment with pronounced potentially dangerous bifurcation points were analyzed. The result of superimposing treatments of the measured parameters of eight full-scale tests of NTO — graphs of dimensionless amplitude-frequency characteristics of the interconnections of a real dynamic system was presented: "input — gas cooling housing" → "output — pipe casing" at the frequency of self-oscillations. Discussion and Conclusion. The capabilities of ALARP did not meet the tasks of system monitoring of the occurrence and development of dangerous incidents in gas fields. This conclusion can be attributed to all standard sizes of NTO infrastructure in Russia. Fundamentally different solutions should be used to ensure comprehensive observability, controllability, and safety of NTO. A comprehensive scientific and technical program is recommended: "Innovative hardware and software tools and technologies to ensure the observability, controllability, and safety of the NTO infrastructure of Russia".

Car depreciation: How much is new car worth after purchase in Uzbekistan?

Depreciation of a car is a decrease in its value over time. World practice shows that depreciation depends on the car model, make, content and other factors, but depreciation of a new car can reach 20% (or even more) after purchase. In the local market of Uzbekistan due to shortage of supply budget cars, the demand is high. UzAuto Motors is only budget car manufacturer in the country. At the end of November 2023, in the secondary market offer price of new cars is less than one in the primary market. In this article this case was analyzed, calculated the real paying price (in USD) of UzAuto Motors cars (Onix PR2) considering waiting time. It is found that nowadays people cannot make profit from resale.

Технологии увеличения нефтеотдачи на месторождениях Северного Каспия

Permanent modernization of production processes for the extraction of hydrocarbon raw materials is an integral part of rational subsoil use. Research and implementation of the latest technologies in the process of oil produc-tion ensures production and economic efficiency. In the world practice of oil production, vast experience has been accumulated in experimental research and practical implementation of various methods that can significantly increase oil recovery. In the process of choosing a method or combination of methods for increasing oil recovery, many criteria are taken into account, but the geological conditions of the deposit under development, as well as the composition and physico-chemical characteristics of reservoir fluids are of primary importance. Of all the methods of increasing oil recovery, the biological method has become the least common today due to its little knowledge. The relevance of the research and further implementation of the technology of enhanced oil recovery by the biological method is primarily due to the criterion of environmental safety. A significant advantage of the biological method of increasing oil recovery is that microorganisms are capable of multiplying and enhancing biochemical activity depending on the physico-chemical conditions of the environment. One of the biological methods of increasing oil recovery is the activation of reservoir microflora. This technology consists in cyclic injection of nutrient medium into the formation, which stimulates an increase in the number of certain types of microorganisms in it that can affect the fluid and rock. The article considers the technology of activation of reservoir microflora, namely silicate bacteria, as a method of increasing oil recovery at the sites of the Northern Caspian.

Public-private partnership in the Russian Federation at the present stage: Trends and problems of development

Aim. To generalize the trends and problems of public-private partnership (PPP) development in the Russian Federation (RF) at the present stage.Objectives. To perform a brief review of the history of PPP development in Russia; to disclose the essence of theoretical provisions regarding the features and principles of PPP; to analyze the data characterizing the development of PPP in 2018–2022 in terms of the number and types of projects, the amount of financing raised, the levels of their implementation (federal, regional, municipal); to study the features of the implementation of the concept of “PPP for the benefit of people” in modern Russian practice.Methods. With the help of general methods of scientific cognition in various aspects, the authors have considered the features, trends and problems of PPP development in Russia, characteristic of the current state, as well as determined the general directions of their solution.Results. PPP is a modern method of attracting private capital to solve socio-economic problems of development of industries and territories. Its features are revealed through economic, social, financial, legal, managerial, political sides. The actual set of principles includes expediency, efficiency, legality, priority of public interests, responsibility of the parties to obligations, information transparency. The world practice has accumulated experience in the use of various PPP projects. The modern trend is the inclusion of sustainable development goals in the PPP development concept, which significantly modernizes approaches to the selection of PPP projects. The main trends of PPP development in Russia include the predominance of PPP projects implemented by type (concession agreements), number (municipal level projects), financing volumes (regional level projects), specific financial capacity (federal level projects); expansion of the range of sectors, objects, introduction of new measures, tools and mechanisms for the development and modernization of social infrastructure, ensuring technological sovereignty. The multiplicity of problems of PPP development in Russia is caused by legal, macroeconomic, personnel, political, managerial factors, which determines the need for continuous improvement of organizational, legal, financial and economic mechanisms.Conclusions. The study of trends and problems of PPP development in Russia allows not only to identify the national specifics of attracting private capital to solve problems of socio-economic development, but also to identify ways, directions of improving the welfare of the population, the growth of competitiveness of individual territories on the basis of a fuller use of entrepreneurial potential of regions.

Особенности образования и использования твердых отходов в Республике Беларусь

The purpose of the work is to justify the priority of processing municipal solid waste over other solid waste. The methodology chosen is the analysis of statistical data characterizing the generation and use of solid waste in Belarus. It has been established that over 60% of solid waste in the Republic is generated as a result of the activities of OJSC Belaruskali, which specializes in the extraction of potassium salt and the production of mineral fertilizers. These production wastes are characterized by a low level of danger and are sent for temporary storage. Only 1.6% of all production waste generated is subject to burial, which in world practice is recognized as the least desirable method of disposal. Municipal solid waste accounts for about 6% of the mass fraction of all generated solid waste. However, the municipal solid waste segment accounts for 86% of all waste disposed of in landfills. There is a trend towards an increase in the share of municipal solid waste use from 9% in 2010 to 30% in 2021, which means a general decrease in the volume of waste disposal in Belarus. The growth in the use of municipal solid waste is hampered by its complex morphological composition, therefore, before using waste, it is advisable to sort it or separate collection. To improve monitoring of waste generation and use in Belarus, some additions to the existing statistical system of environmental indicators are also proposed.

КЛАСТЕРІЗАЦІЯ ТА ПОЛЯРИЗАЦІЯ МАЛОГО ПІДПРИЄМНИЦТВА ЯК ЗАПОРУКА ПІДВИЩЕННЯ ЙОГО КОНКУРЕНТОСПРОМОЖНОСТІ В ЕКОНОМІЧНОМУ ПРОСТОРІ ТЕРИТОРІАЛЬНИХ ГРОМАД

The article is devoted to the study of the theoretical and methodological foundations of clustering and polarization of business entities in the economic space of communities. The article notes that the design of growth poles, and especially growth centers on the scale of the regional (territorial) economy, not only exists, but has also been proven in world practice in countries with different levels of socio-economic development. At the same time, the main result of the implementation of the cluster policy should be to increase the competitiveness of the enterprises participating in the cluster and the economy of the country as a whole. The article examines the meaning of the definitions "competitiveness", "polarized territorial structure", "cluster", etc. In particular, special attention is paid to ensuring the competitiveness of economic entities in the formation of mutual relations with the external environment. Clusters are considered as one of the effective forms of organizing the interaction of geographically interdependent enterprises-suppliers of equipment, specialized production services, infrastructure, logistics centers, research centers, institutions of higher education and other organizations in order to increase the competitiveness of economic entities and territories. The main systemic effects of cluster development, which have a significant impact on the economy of the territorial community, the region and the country, are highlighted separately. The article substantiates that at the center of the development of any polarized territorial structure, in particular, a cluster, there is always a certain industry that is a priority for this locality (territory). In turn, the determination of priority types of economic activity for a separate territory inevitably leads to the activation of the process of concentration of production around the selected industry, that is, polarized development of the territory. The article notes that the following problems may theoretically arise during the formation of new growth poles: the power of the innovative impulse may be directed not to those regions (territories) that need support, but to highly developed ones, to which the propulsive industries of the growth poles naturally gravitate; shortage of financial, labor and other resources may be acute.

Assessment of sustainable innovative development of petroleum and gas chemical complex enterprises considering the impact of industrial risks

This study assesses the state of the petrochemical complex sustainable innovative development considering the influence of industrial risks. It is assumed that the comprehensive introduction of innovations with various types of effects in the long term will improve not only the economic indicators of the region, but also the social and environmental ones through the introduction of sustainable innovations. It should be also noted that within the framework of existing world and domestic practice, issues with the integration of indicators for the safe and accident-free operation of enterprises of the petrochemical complex remain poorly studied. The work investigates the main economic, social, and environmental indicators of the complex under consideration. An analysis of accident rates at enterprises was carried out. The main causes of emergency events have been identified and measures to reduce them have been proposed. As a result it is concluded that the development of the petrochemical complex in the long term should be safe and based on the introduction of sustainable innovations.

To Fend Off Cyberattacks, Build a Castle

Key TakeawaysWith the number and sophistication of cyberattacks increasing dramatically around the world, defensive and robust cybersecurity practices are a must.Using a Defense in Depth strategy offers water and wastewater utilities a multilayered system to guard against cyberattacks.Important cybersecurity barriers include risk assessments, access control, network segmentation, multifactor authentication, and security assessments.

World Practice of Applying State Support Measures for Organizations of the Military-Industrial Complex

The article is devoted to an analytical review of the best global practices in the implementation of measures of state support for organizations of the military-industrial complex (MIC). The purpose of the research was to study international experience in this area and determine its applicability in the context of the development of the Russian Federation’s MIC. The relevance of this work is determined by the need to ensure the solution of operational and strategic tasks of the Russian Federation’s military-industrial complex in the conditions of sanctions pressure from certain countries and the importance of assessing the available measures of state support for organizations of the complex. The study analyses the American Defense Manufacturing Community Support Program, which has been implemented in the United States since 2019. The program is based on the development of cooperation between public and private organizations, including enterprises of the military-industrial complex, scientific organizations, as well as local governments. The structure of the program provides for the formation of a community that brings together stakeholders to ensure sustainable development and competitiveness of the defense industrial complex. As part of the study of European experience, the activities of The European Defense Fund, established in the European Union in 2021 on the initiative of the Commission for the Support of Defense Cooperation of the European Union, were examined. The fund is focused on supporting and developing the European defense-industrial complex by financing innovative research, development and joint projects of international importance. The main objectives of the fund include increasing autonomy and competitiveness in the defense industry, as well as promoting integration and cooperation between the member states of the European Union. Within the framework of the article, each practice was analyzed, and conclusions have been drawn about what ideas from international practice could be applied in the development of the defense-industrial complex of the Russian Federation. The results of the study can be used by the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the Government of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Foundation for Advanced Studies and other state structures and organizations that determine the policy in the field of defense industry regulation as proposals for further development of state support measures in the Russian Federation.