Development of intellectual and creative competence of future teachers by Dilsora N. Abduvalieva

“…The intellectual and creative competence of a teacher directly determines his competitiveness in the professional sphere and his readiness to use his intellectual experience for the benefit of the future of his country. …”
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CHARISMA: RELIGIOUS MEASUREMENT by Olga G. Sladneva

“…Especially brightly this phenomenon is reflected in the religious sphere of life of society. Conclusions. It is revealed that the concept of charisma exists in other world religions and has common features. …”
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Mass Higher Education in Russia: Features of Dynamics by V. F. Pugach

“…The main cause of the boom in the sphere of higher education at the turn of the century is the social and economic transformation of the society. …”
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Omni directional video coding rate distortion optimization method based on weighted-to-spherically-uniform structural similarity by Yufeng ZHOU, Mei YU, Baozhen DU, Yang SONG, Gangyi JIANG

“…Aiming at the shortcomings of the coding rate distortion model in traditional video coding,considering the characteristics of equal rectangular omnidirectional video,a method of omnidirectional video coding rate distortion optimization based on spherical weighted structural similarity (WS-SSIM) was proposed.By considering the distortion of the internal structural similarity of the projection plane and the relationship between the spherical distortion and the projection plane distortion,the “spherical weighted structural similarity” was proposed to describe the degree of distortion of the planar omnidirectional image local block relative to the viewing sphere,which was applied to the rate-distortion optimization process of omnidirectional video coding and adaptive selection of quantization parameters to improve vision-based coding efficiency.The experimental results show that compared with the HEVC video coding standard HM16.9 test platform,the proposed method can save an average of 24.48% code rate under the same visual quality,which indicates that the method has significant performance for improving the omnidirectional video coding rate distortion performance.…”
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Admirable Alterity on the Frontier: French Women’s Agency in the Hollywood Western (1931-1980) by Lara Cox

“…These women are understood as incarnating an “admirable alterity,” and are often compared to indigenous and Mexican women, sometimes aiding the latter in the sphere of interracial romance. These broadly positive representations of the Frenchwoman as agent and potential ally to other women would last until 1980 and Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate. …”
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Theoretical and Legal Approaches on Determining the Content of the Notion of “Health Tourism” by A. O. Podzirov

“…The content of the concept of “medical tourism” has been studied; its constituent elements have been singled out; the author’s definition of the concepts of “health tourism”, “medical tourism” has been formulated; the sphere of their law-enforcement has been defined. …”
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Needs Assessment in Intervention Programs for Rural Development by A.J. Adegbola, O.M. Olatilewa, S. Akor, O. Obarein

“…It expounded the term needs assessment, and showed the indispensable nature of the process and why it must be undertaken for success of government or donor funded intervention and projects that have relevance to rural development in all sphere. The article also delved into germane subtopics as: when and why to conduct a needs assessment; methods to conducting a needs assessment; stages involved in carrying out needs assessment; and models of needs assessment. …”
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The Promise of Cultural Diplomacy by Hedda Krausz Sjögren, Kristina Hagström-Ståhl

“…Co-authored by Krausz Sjögren and one of her collaborators during this period, a theatre director and researcher, Kristina Hagström-Ståhl, it also attempts to reflect the shared experience of collaborative work in this sphere. As such, the text is written from within a combination of diplomatic, cultural, and professional practices, as well as from within a diverse set of skills informing the practices that shaped the body of work to which the article refers. …”
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BRICS Countries Energy Cooperation. Significance of the Issue by M. O. Ryazanova

“…However, notwithstanding the possibility of the intergroup multilateralrelations in this sphere and overall strengthening of economic ties among the members, the BRICS energy cooperation iscurrently of bilateral and unequally developed nature, which is determined by a number of historically formed circumstances and national interests.…”
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Ricci Curvature for Warped Product Submanifolds of Sasakian Space Forms and Its Applications to Differential Equations by Fatemah Mofarreh, Akram Ali, Nadia Alluhaibi, Olga Belova

“…We find the necessary conditions for a base B of a C-totally real-warped product submanifold to be an isometric to the Euclidean sphere Sp.…”
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IMAGE OF A FAMILY IN TEENAGERS WHO HAVE EXPERIENCE OF LIVING IN CLOSED INSTITUTIONS by S. S. Solonchenko

“…Home teenagers give meaning to relationships, household sphere and symbols in the image of the family. The image of the family in teenagers who are raised in blood families is described in more detail than in their peers from closed institutions and foster families.…”
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Género y gestión del riesgo de desastres: análisis comparado de la agenda internacional y latinoamericana y caribeña by Ana Gabriela Fernández-Saavedra, Rosario González-Arias, Sandra Dema-Moreno

“…The article carries out a comparative documentary analysis in a double sense: on the one hand, on the incorporation of the gender perspective in the main multilateral agreements on disaster risk reduction approved in the international, Latin American, and Caribbean sphere and, on the other, on the treatment of disasters risk reduction in the equality agenda in the same territorial area. …”
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The physics of meaning: More than inhuman? by Hartley John

“…It needs to take responsibility for applications of its discoveries that enter the cultural sphere only to threaten its total annihilation. An alternative to meaninglessness might be to take more seriously the marginalized and derided cultures of everyday thinking, as is attempted by Bogna Konior, and for physics-as-a-discipline to join the effort to reform science. …”
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‘What are people for?’ by Yat Shun Kei

“…In this effort, I pay particular attention to a co-evolutionary view of the technosphere, biosphere, and political sphere formulated by Nicholson. I also discuss the infiltration of eugenic and technocratic views in this reconceptualisation of the environment. …”
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THE CANDIDATE ENGINEERING ACADEMIC DEGREE REQUIRED NOW by A. I. Rudskoy, A. I. Borovkov, P. I. Romanov, K. N. Kiseleva

“…When improving the domestic system of training personnel of higher qualification it may be useful to analyze an experience ofprofessional doctorate training in the UK and other Anglo-Saxon countries of the world where professional doctoral programs focus rather on industry or business than on academic sphere.The article analyzes the world experience in implementation the programs of professional doctorate training and gives suggestions for using this experience in Russia by integrating the similar programs into the current system of scientific-pedagogical personnel training in postgraduate study.…”
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THE RUSSIAN LEGAL AND POLITICAL ORDER: THE SENSE OF THE RECENT REFORMS AND PROSPECTS FOR FURTHER CONSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS by A. N. Medushevskiy

“…That mean that the gravity center of analysis placed not in the area of its actual positioning, but in the sphere of hypothetical scenarios of its future transformation.…”
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Preconditions and Peculiarities of Implementing the Meta-Disciplinary Technologies in Primary School Teaching by Y. Y. Khan

“…To illustrate the modeling of the meta-technology and its application to the school subjects, the author takes the philology sphere. The process of simultane- ous addressing the piece of literature and work of art creates the associative edu- cational environment raising the collective creativity and resulting in the joint intel- lectual and esthetic experience of students and teaches. …”
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Experimental Study of Polarized Radar Scattering from the Tree Canopy at the Ka-Band by Chiung-Shen Ku, Pao-Chi Chang, Yang-Lang Chang

“…Radiometric calibration was conducted using a metal sphere, and a set of corner reflectors was used as the calibration target to ensure measurement accuracy. …”
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Compulsory and Voluntary Biometrics: Content and Distinction in Russian Law by Z. O. Mitianov

“…The article examines the peculiarities of separation and differentiation of two areas included in the sphere of biometric personal data processing in Russia: compulsory and voluntary biometrics. …”
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The System of Additional Professional Education of the University as a Platform for Implementation of the Federal Project «New Opportunities for Everyone» by M. F. Galikhanov, V. V. Kondratyev, D. V. Elizarov, L. T. Miftakhutdinova

“…The results of the “New Opportunities for Everyone” Federal project in the framework of the national “Education” project are aimed at developing human capital - a cross-cutting condition for achieving national development goals of the country (increasing life expectancy, accelerating technological development of the Russian Federation, ensuring accelerated implementation of digital technologies in the economy and social sphere, etc.). Additional professional education at Kazan National Research Technological University is considered as an integral and real part of the lifelong learning system. …”
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