The Relationship Between Environmental Technology Patenting and Environmental Performance Index in Countries: What Does It Mean and How Can We Measure It

National governments need to make informed decisions to ensure sustainable development and the use of new technologies. Thus, two major problems emerge: how to evaluate governments’ success in encouraging companies to invest in environmental technologies, and how to measure the efficiency of technology diffusion in terms of environmental well-being. The knowledge about the relationship between environmental performance and environmental technologies at the country level enables decision-makers in the field of sustainable development to more rationally plan the costs of developing new technologies, as well as track the return on their implementation. As a result, society and industry will receive signals about the effectiveness of the implemented sustainable development policy. The main goal of the research was to overcome the gap in the field of environmental wellbeing: how to measure at the macro level the dependence of countries’ success in environmental performance on how developed they are in environmental technologies. The specific objective of the study was to quantify the relationship between the integral indicator of environmental well-being Environmental Performance Index (EPI) and innovative activity in the field of environmental technology at the cross-country level. To evaluate the development of environmental technologies, the platform solution Orbit Intelligence was used, specifically, the FamPat worldwide patent database. It was confirmed that the more developed the economy, the higher EPI and the level of development of environmental technology. At the same time, no relationship was found between the 10-year change in EPI and the 10-year change in the patent activity index. The hypothesis about the statistical significance of the relationship between the integral indicators of patent activity in the field of environmental technology and the current value of EPI was confirmed. A regression dependence was determined, which was well approximated by the linear regression of EPI on the logarithm of the country’s patent activity index in the field of environmental technology. The dependence can be interpreted as a slowdown in the growth of EPI when a certain level of patenting is reached. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that a framework has been proposed and implemented for assessing the relationship between environmental well-being and environmental technology. This framework can be used to study individual environmental problems in countries in more detail and to identify the level of available technologies for solving these problems

New biologically pure fertilizers in grape nursery

The effect of new biologically pure organic fertilizers, Dia Guma and Gumi Turf, on the yield and quality of grape seedlings on nutrient-poor soils has been studied. The positive effect of silicon - organic fertilizer Dia Gum in combination with the growth stimulator Zircon on the survival rate of shanks, the formation of the aboveground part and the root system of plants is shown (the survival rate of shanks in relation to the control (pure water) increases almost 2 times from 36 to 70%, the diameter of growth - from 4.3 to 7 mm, total growth - from 32 to 54 cm, the volume of the root system - from 15 to 25 cm3). The use of peat - sapropel concentrate Gumi Peat in combination with the growth stimulator Zircon, according to the results of the yield and quality of the planting material, is close to the use of Dia Guma + Zircon. These fertilizers allow to a greater extent to biologize the process of growing planting material in the nursery

The Relationship Between Environmental Technology Patenting and Environmental Performance Index in Countries: What Does It Mean and How Can We Measure It

National governments need to make informed decisions to ensure sustainable development and the use of new technologies. Thus, two major problems emerge: how to evaluate governments’ success in encouraging companies to invest in environmental technologies, and how to measure the efficiency of technology diffusion in terms of environmental well-being. The knowledge about the relationship between environmental performance and environmental technologies at the country level enables decision-makers in the field of sustainable development to more rationally plan the costs of developing new technologies, as well as track the return on their implementation. As a result, society and industry will receive signals about the effectiveness of the implemented sustainable development policy. The main goal of the research was to overcome the gap in the field of environmental wellbeing: how to measure at the macro level the dependence of countries’ success in environmental performance on how developed they are in environmental technologies. The specific objective of the study was to quantify the relationship between the integral indicator of environmental well-being Environmental Performance Index (EPI) and innovative activity in the field of environmental technology at the cross-country level. To evaluate the development of environmental technologies, the platform solution Orbit Intelligence was used, specifically, the FamPat worldwide patent database. It was confirmed that the more developed the economy, the higher EPI and the level of development of environmental technology. At the same time, no relationship was found between the 10-year change in EPI and the 10-year change in the patent activity index. The hypothesis about the statistical significance of the relationship between the integral indicators of patent activity in the field of environmental technology and the current value of EPI was confirmed. A regression dependence was determined, which was well approximated by the linear regression of EPI on the logarithm of the country’s patent activity index in the field of environmental technology. The dependence can be interpreted as a slowdown in the growth of EPI when a certain level of patenting is reached. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that a framework has been proposed and implemented for assessing the relationship between environmental well-being and environmental technology. This framework can be used to study individual environmental problems in countries in more detail and to identify the level of available technologies for solving these problems

SCIENCE AND INNOVATION: FOUNDATIONS OF RUSSIAN ECONOMIC SECURITY IN THE 21st CENTURY

A concept of national safety under expansion of informational economics was established. Dominating role of science and high technologies was considered and concretized for a subsystem of economic security. The problems and means of glossary construction, innovation policy, legislative control, and financing of scientific efforts were discussed

EFFICIENCY OF SOME IMMUNOMODULATORY DRUGS FOR PREVENTION OF RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND THEIR COMPLICATIONS IN YOUNG SCHOOLCHILDREN WITH RECURRENT RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS

Abstract. We performed a study of efficiency for various immunocorrective drugs in a group of 548 young schoolchildren with recurrent respiratory infections. Frequency of respiratory infections and complication rates were taken as endpoints in this study. It was revealed, that preventive immunocorrection by bacterial lysates or glucosamine muramildipeptide combined with vitamin-mineral complexes may reduce frequency of respiratory infections and their complications at statistically significant levels, as well as to restore some abnormal parameters of immune profile, i.e., CD3, CD4, CD16, induced NBT test, IFNγ, TNFα and IgG. Preventive use of Echinaceae purpurae herbae succus or interferon alpha-2b in combination with vitaminmineral complexes statistically significantly reduces only the frequency of respiratory infections, and partially restores some deficient parameters of immune status (IgG, TNFα, CD16). Introduction of preventive immunocorrection in childhood institutions, with > 90 % coverage of children with recurrent respiratory diseases is associated with a decrease in frequency of respiratory infections not only in this cohort, like as among general population of the same age group