Flipped classroom in the higher education system: A pilot study in Finland and Russia

This article shows specifics of the transition from conventional educational practice to the Flipped classroom model in modern education system. It is focused on professors’ perception of the video-based teaching approach. Conducted sociological survey involves the teaching staff from one European and one Russian university, namely the Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) and Ural Federal University (URFU). The survey investigated professors’ awareness of the Inverted classroom, their readiness to employ it and prime barriers they face. Results reveal that teachers from Russia have less information about the model and practically do not embed it in the education arrangement comparing to professors from Finland. Lack of time, lack of support and assistance are shown to be the prime barriers preventing them from flipped classroom implementation. Drawn implications are of use for the integration of the flipped classroom. © 2017, Adam Marszalek Publishing House. All rights reserved

National Debt Management and the Lengthening of Debt Maturities in the 1970s of the U.S.A. (I)

© MCSER-Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research. The current economic growth rate in the Republic of Tatarstan cannot serve as the only progress and welfare index of the region. This can be due to the fact that the continual economic growth of public welfare caused a number of adverse effects, such as environmental disorder, social strain intensification, etc. that is why it is necessary to reinforce another measure of our further well-being. This article specificates a particular criterion, forming part of the integral “life quality” rate, i.e. the expected life expectancy at birth. To complete this task a profound scientific research at a regional level is required. This article presents results of an analysis of life expectancy rate at birth as a way to evaluate life quality in the Republic of Tatarstan. The research results show that there is a territorial and gender disparity. The authors make this fact conditional on job distinctive features, unhealthy lifestyle, carelessness which leads to disregard one’s own health. So, they suggest including this rate as an indicative one while assessing the heads of the Republic of Tatarstan municipal units. This research aims to assess life quality from the perspective of life expectancy at birth. This work presents a monitoring of expected lifespan for the Republic of Tatarstan population as compared to other regions of the Volga Region Federal District. It also considers the situation within the republic at a municipal level. Practical implementation of the recommendations drawn up in the course of the research will promote development of a reasonable regional programme to maintain and improve public welfare. This research is based on traditional methods: cartographical (methodologically founded on subject and complex mapping and advances in geoinformation technologies), comparative and descriptive, spatial analysis method and the statistical one. Processing and analysis of fact sheets was carried out with the help of special geoinformation, cartographic and statistic software

Calculation of product costs of dairy cattle breeding in Russia

© MCSER-Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research. This article considers a scheme to calculate the production cost of dairy breeding products in Russia. It offers scenarios to improve it by changing calculation schedule, arranging cost accounts, determining the most reasonable cost allocation bases between joint products

The medical workers in system of interaction with a patient: problems and contradictions

The article is based the results of sociological research conducted in the villages of the Dalmatovo district of the Kurgan region considers the problem of interaction of medical workers and patients during the recently completed modernization of the Russian healthcare. The paper are shown the preferences of medical workers and patients in a choice of interaction’s model, the critical relation of medical personnel to modernization of the Russian healthcare, the threat of commercialization of medical service.В статье на основе результатов социологического исследования, проведенного в селах Далматовского района Курганской области, рассматривается проблема взаимодействия медицинских работников и пациентов в ходе завершенной недавно модернизации российского здравоохранения. Показаны предпочтения медицинских работников и пациентов в выборе модели взаимодействия, критическое отношение медперсонала к модернизации российского здравоохранения, угроза коммерциализации медицинского обслуживания

Evaluation of the elastic properties and topography of leukocytes’ surface in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus using atomic force microscope

The aim of study was to examine some morphometrical parameters (height, diameter) of the leukocytes (white blood cells - WBCs), their specific surface morphology (globular prominences and depression in WBCs) as well as their local elastic properties (Young’s modulus) in healthy persons and in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) by means of the atomic force microscopy (AFM). Morphological and morphometrical parameters of human leukocytes were evaluated by AFM in tapped mod

Literature review of minimum wages

This document summarizes findings about minimum wages from many aspects in economics literature and may provide a starting point for researchers who are interested in further studying minimum wage in China

The paternalism as the ideology of the interaction of a physician and a patient in the system of the rural health care

В работе рассмотрены особенности взаимодействия врачей и пациентов в системе сельского здравоохранения. Опираясь на результаты опроса пациентов и медицинского персонала в статье указывается, что взаимодействие строится на идеологических основах патернализма, который воспроизводится медицинским персоналом, а пациенты стремятся к коллегиальной модели взаимодействия.The paper discusses the features of the interaction of a physician and patient in the system of the rural public health. Based on the results of the research of patients and the medical staff in the article indicates that the interaction is founded on the paternalistic ideology that is reproduced by the medical personnel but patients tend to the Collegial model of the interaction

The external environment and the system of economic relations between the regions

© 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, London.This study looks at the basic strategies of territorial approach to studying regions. The paper aims at analyzing the main features of the regional territorial system with a view to develop interregional economic cooperation; the authors study the concept of the regional (external) environment and present a definition based on the case study of the Republic of Tatarstan interregional cooperation

Analysis of life expectancy rate at birth in the Republic of Tatarstan

© MCSER-Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research. The current economic growth rate in the Republic of Tatarstan cannot serve as the only progress and welfare index of the region. This can be due to the fact that the continual economic growth of public welfare caused a number of adverse effects, such as environmental disorder, social strain intensification, etc. that is why it is necessary to reinforce another measure of our further well-being. This article specificates a particular criterion, forming part of the integral “life quality” rate, i.e. the expected life expectancy at birth. To complete this task a profound scientific research at a regional level is required. This article presents results of an analysis of life expectancy rate at birth as a way to evaluate life quality in the Republic of Tatarstan. The research results show that there is a territorial and gender disparity. The authors make this fact conditional on job distinctive features, unhealthy lifestyle, carelessness which leads to disregard one’s own health. So, they suggest including this rate as an indicative one while assessing the heads of the Republic of Tatarstan municipal units. This research aims to assess life quality from the perspective of life expectancy at birth. This work presents a monitoring of expected lifespan for the Republic of Tatarstan population as compared to other regions of the Volga Region Federal District. It also considers the situation within the republic at a municipal level. Practical implementation of the recommendations drawn up in the course of the research will promote development of a reasonable regional programme to maintain and improve public welfare. This research is based on traditional methods: cartographical (methodologically founded on subject and complex mapping and advances in geoinformation technologies), comparative and descriptive, spatial analysis method and the statistical one. Processing and analysis of fact sheets was carried out with the help of special geoinformation, cartographic and statistic software