Universities multistakeholder contribution to smart city ecosystem development

Purpose: This paper investigates the mutually advantageous value-driven innovations brought by Universities as a key actor in the development of innovation exploiting Smart City opportunities. The final aim is to under-stand the role, tasks and contribution of Universities in Smart City pro-jects. Methodology: The study followed an exploratory and qualitative meth-odology and consisted of 44 in-depth semi-structured interviews with Smart City experts. The choice of the respondents was adjusted to approve the direct and indirect effect of developing the smart ecosystem in various organizational multistakeholder environments. Results: The study found three main areas in which Universities may con-tribute to Smart City projects: a) knowledge/technology creation and transfer; b) social/societal involvement; c) ecosystem facilita-tor/networking.Implications: This paper offers several implications for different stake-holders such as policy makers, Universities’ top managers and firms. Impli-cations for policy managers imply the change in the approach to consumers because most of them do not understand why they need smart solutions. Moreover, it highlights that bureaucracy and lack of an innovative mental-ity kill smart city projects, so the governmental structures should be wired first. Finally, it calls for a huge financial platform (incentives and new fi-nancial mechanisms) and legal changes (legal frameworks should be aligned with peculiarities of Smart Cities).Implications for top managers of Universities are related to the rethink of Universities in smart city innovation ecosystems with the possibility to play an active role. Implications for MNEs and SMEs include that Univer-sities may help in understanding the opportunities around Smart City initi-atives (there is often opacity on the return of investments). At the same time, Universities may help in dealing with public governments and local stakeholders (public and private)

Why Scientific Research of a Lecturer is the «Lame Horse» of Modern Science?

The aim of the article is to represent reflections on the crisis of science and logical thinking (within the framework of Social Science, Humanities and higher education) that has its local and global manifestations; the author focused own attention on the manifestations in order to understand its depth and possible ways of overcoming them. Methods. A number of theoretical methods have been used in the article: analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, comparison and classification, methods of extrapolation and modeling, as well as participant observation. Results. Local manifestations of the crisis of science and logical thinking associated with human factor in the national system of higher professional education in the era of virtualization and commercialization are expressed in reducing efforts and productivity of scientific research, due to the existing contradictions between changed requirements that enumerate professional duties of a lecturer and possibilities of combining and productive implementation of traditional and new professional roles. In particular, researches turn to promoters of themselves to solve financial and organizational issues of a scientific research and promotion of ratings. Changes in the sense of scientific activity in respect to educators and their personal attitude to new requirements will eventually face the eternal problem of attitude to knowledge and to the actual problem of change of knowledge subject in non-classical model and post-non-classical model of science. Expression of a researcher’s individuality encounters many obstacles (the author has identified 10 of them) and is complicated by new facets of this subjectivity, induced by «logistics turn point» in science. Scientific novelty. The author proves that it is necessary to change nonclassical subject knowledge model (where the corporate subject leaning for the general ways and collective norms of scientific activity dominates) for postnonclassical – individualized, wherein the subject possesses own way of thinking, own language; as it allows to create new knowledge. However, occurrence of such researcher is complicated by many obstacles. The author introduces the concept of «scientific logistics», i.e. scientific advancement of research results in virtual and real-life spaces in order to gain a dividend in material or symbolic form. When scientific logistics from a subsidiary position is moved to the center of academic life «logistics turn point» in science occurs. The meaning of learning is changing. Now it is more about search of potential consumers of the information then search of the truth. Scientific logistics measured in scientometric quantitative indexes and in their income as a calculated direct commercial effect performs the image function for a research, providing improved individual and corporate status. At the same time, these changes can turn into the veiled substitution of true scientific creativity, its transformation into formal manufacture of «a pseudoscientific spam». Practical significance. The research implementations can be useful for conceptual foresight of possible ways of improving scientific research at university, including possibility of making a new working agreement – «and effective contract», grounding its alleged advantages and objective limits on the way of increasing efforts and productivity of scientific researchАвтор статьи размышляет о кризисе высшего профессионального образования и науки в области социально-гуманитарного знания; выявляет глобальные и локальные проявления этого кризиса и причины низкой активности и продуктивности научной деятельности в отечественных вузах. Методы исследования. В работе использованы теоретические методы анализа и синтеза, индукции и дедукции, методы сравнения и классификации, экстраполяции и моделирования, а также эмпирический метод включенного наблюдения. Результаты. Показано, что локальные проявления кризиса науки и логического мышления в российской высшей школе связаны с «человеческим фактором». Попытки «перековать» преподавателей вузов в «научно-педагогические кадры» не обеспечиваются надлежащими условиями для научной деятельности и должными механизмами оплаты труда. Рассмотрены причины низкой эффективности научно-исследовательской работы (НИР): формализация данной деятельности, отсутствие у большинства преподавателей познавательного интереса, антинаучный цинизм, профессиональный пессимизм, игнорирование тенденций виртуализации и коммерциализации науки и образования и др. Обозначены специфические особенности организации и реализации НИР в российских вузах, в частности ее дополнительный и ненормированный характер по отношению к основному учебному поручению и/или менеджерским обязанностям работников образовательного учреждения. Преподавателю помимо лекционной и прочей традиционной учебной нагрузки вменяются новые обязанности – научное промоутерство совместно с маркетингом образовательных услуг организации-работодателя и рекрутингом абитуриентов в течение круглогодичных профориентационных кампаний. Научная новизна. Доказывается необходимость смены модели субъекта познания с неклассической, где господствует корпоративный субъект, опирающийся на общие способы и коллективные нормы научной деятельности, на постнеклассическую – индивидуализированную, в которой субъект обладает собственным способом мышления, собственным языком, что и позволяет ему создавать новое знание. Однако появление такого исследователя осложнено многими препятствиями. Вводится понятие «научная логистика» – продвижение результатов исследований в виртуальном и реальном жизненном пространстве с целью получения дивидендов в материальной или символической формах. По мнению автора, в науке происходит «логистический поворот»: меняется смысл познания, которое теперь состоит не столько в поиске истины, сколько в поиске конъюнктурного спроса на информацию и ее возможных потребителей. Успешная научная логистика, измеряемая наукометрическими количественными показателями и их доходностью в виде исчисляемого прямого коммерческого эффекта, выполняет имиджевую функцию НИР, обеспечивая повышение индивидуальных и корпоративных статусных позиций. Вместе с тем эти перемены могут обернуться (и оборачиваются) завуалированной подменой истинного научного творчества, превращением его в формальное производство «псевдонаучного спама». Практическая значимость работы заключается в прогнозировании развития и возможных путей совершенствования НИР в российских вузах, в том числе за счет новой формы рабочего соглашения с преподавательскими кадрами – «эффективного контракта», обоснования его предполагаемых сильных сторон и объективных ограничений

The collection, processing and analysis of psychological monitoring of students

Настоящая статья посвящена возможностям создания схемы психологического мониторинга учащихся с применением информационных технологий. На примере опросника «Учебная мотивация» были продемонстрированы некоторые возможности программного продукта «1С: Психодиагоностика образовательного учреждения». Результатами данной работы стало значительное сокращение времени на проведение психологического мониторинга учащихся, обработку и анализ результатов.This article describes the creation of the scheme of psychological monitoring of students using information technologies. On the example of the questionnaire "Learning motivation" demonstrated some of the capabilities of the software product "1C: Psychodiagnostics educational institution". The results of this work has been a significant reduction in time to conduct psychological monitoring of students, processing and analysis of results

Leaf anatomy of valuable species of genus Primula

In this research, we discovered a number of structural adaptations and informative characteristics for the leaf blades of the studied species from the genus Primula L. The species under study were found to have anomocytic stomatal type. The leaf blades are hypostomatic (P. denticulata) or with the predominant abaxial stomata (P. macrocalyx, P. pallasii). The following indicators have low variation (CV < 20 %): size of stomata, number of cells in the upper and lower epidermis, height of cells in the upper mesophyll layer, lamina thickness near the midvein and central part, phloem cross-section area, and vascular bundle area. High and very high variation level is observed for the quantitative indicators describing the leaf indument density, number of stomata and stomatal index of the upper epidermis. The data obtained can be used to evaluate the species adaptability and to develop the appropriate light and hydrothermal regime for cultivating the species in the Western Siberia sub-boreal forest environment

Tangent developable surfaces elements in thinwalled structures

This report demonstrates the capabilities of an advanced research area of the applied mathematics, i.e., computational geometry to be applied for shaping dimensional structures. Vector-matrix models are provided to purpose of piecewise-smooth structures modelling by surface elements with zero Gaussian curvature (elements of developable surfaces). The elements of tangent developable surfaces can be built on the directing curves pieces located arbitrarily in space. The paper presents an analytical algorithm for drawing a cutting for the tangent developable surface element with two specified directing curves and the edge of regression known. An analytic algorithm for the curve on tangent developable surface development via the parametric equations of the edge of regression and the curveitself is obtained based on the tangent developable surface edge of regression development algorithm

Russian Reflections of the Story of Belakva: Tentetnikov, Oblomov, Lavretsky

The article examines the images of three landowners — Tentetnikov from the second volume of “Dead Souls” by N. V. Gogol, Oblomov from the novel of the same name by I. A. Goncharov, and Lavretsky from “The Noble Nest” by I. S. Turgenev — which stand out among the literary representatives of this social group have a common crucial property — laziness. Traditionally, these characters are usually brought together based on belonging to the “superfluous person” type, but this does not shed light on the reasons for their similarities. The article proposes to look for its foundations in a general literary source, which is the “Divine Comedy” and, in particular, in the image of the lazy Belacqua from the second cantica. In this regard, the mediation of S. P. Shevyrev, whose interpretation of Dante influenced Gogol and Goncharov, is significant. In the works of writers, there is an interpretation of spiritually criminal lazy apathy. Belacqua is too lazy to save himself. The responsibility for awakening lies upon the person himself — this Dantean idea appeared close to both Gogol and Goncharov. In the case of Lavretsky, we are already dealing with Goncharov’s mediation in the adaptation of Dante’s ideas

Nuclear States with Abnormal Radii

The radius of a nuclear state is one of the most important its characteristics. Presently there were developed some methods exploiting special features of the nuclear reactions leading to short – lived excited states and allowing determination of their radii. Evidence of existing nuclear excited states with enhanced radii (size isomers) was obtained

THE GASTRONOMIC IMAGE OF THE TERRITORY: STRUCTURE AND SPECIFICITY

The article is devoted to the gastronomic culture and its derivative – the gastronomic image of the territory. Gastronomy, as a field of knowledge, reveals the connection between food and culture and is an urgent topic of cultural research. Within the framework of this article, the subject of research is the study of the gastronomic image of the territory from a theoretical point of view. The author seeks to answer the questions: what are the system-forming elements of the gastronomic culture, how do the concepts of “gastronomic image” / “gastronomic brand” relate, what is the structure and what is the specificity of the gastronomic image of the territory in comparison with other perspectives of the positioning of the territory. Method and methodology: the ideas of this article are based on systematic, practical, semiotic approaches in understanding the gastronomic culture, modern gastronomic practices, and the gastronomic image of the city. The novelty and the author’s contribution lies in the theoretical positions that fit into the mainstream of cultural knowledge. The author offers his vision of the system-forming elements of gastronomic culture and his vision of the structure of the gastronomic image of the city as a 4-component fashion: food, places, people, events. The author identifies three specific characteristics of the gastronomic image of the city: 1) authenticity as an optional, not a mandatory feature; 2) dynamism as an indicator of the potentially high variability of the gastronomic image following changing living conditions and available resources; 3) a possible break with the local cultural tradition existing in hidden everyday life, while the gastronomic image is formed in the public sphere with the help of traditional and new media, greedy for hype. The results of the study can be applied in such an area of applied cultural studies as geobrending. A good theory is a guide to action, if you undertake to form a gastronomic image of the city, you need to understand its structure and specifics. The scope of the results: geobranding, cultural industries related to food, brand communications in regional media and new media, tourism