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The article reveals the goal and objectives of the socio-economic development of the subject of the federation. The analysis and assessment of the Strategy for the socio-economic development of the Kaluga region, indicators of the socio-economic development of the region for 2019-2020 and 10 months of 2021 and the competitiveness of the region in comparison with the regions of the Central Federal District and the Russian Federation as a whole are carried out. Based on the analysis and assessment of the socio-economic development of the Kaluga region, the main problems are identified, on the basis of which the author’s directions for their solution and improvement of the social and economic development of the Kaluga region are developed and proposed.

The article aims to assess the improvement of the process capability by implementing the Six Sigma methodology in furniture enterprises with different levels of the quality management system (QMS) and ownership. The implementation of the Six Sigma methodology according to the DMAIC steps, also analysis, evaluation, and comparison of the implementation results were performed to improve the process performance. The implementation of the Six Sigma methodology was carried out in an international enterprise with foreign capital and a certified Quality Management System (QMS) and in a domestic enterprise with purely domestic capital without an established Quality Management System. The implementation results confirmed the positive development in the key indicators of critical processes, namely, in the reduction of DPMO, the increase of efficiency and the level of Sigma Process, and the values of process capability indices. The positive effects were more pronounced in the international enterprise compared to the domestic. The application of the Six Sigma methodology brings better results in manufacturing companies with international management skills and implemented certified QMS. These two aspects can be key success factors by managing and improving process capability. The practical contribution of the paper can be seen in the proposal of suitable methods and tools by implementing Six Sigma conception in furniture manufacturing regardless of the ownership or level of quality management systems.

The judicial system is experiencing an increase in the workload in almost all countries due to the increase in the number of cases being considered, which certainly affects the quality of the administration of justice. In 2019, about 19 million cases in Russia were considered in the courts, with a population of about 140 million. In such circumstances, increasing the staff of the judicial staff is costly for the budget and senseless, which means that it is necessary to implement various conciliation procedures in the Russian legal system. Russia adopted a law in 2019 that establishes the institution of pre-trial and judicial reconciliation, but its effectiveness is almost zero. The authors analyze the epistemological essence of conciliation procedures and their applied significance at the doctrinal level in this article. Methods: the disclosure of the topic was carried out from the standpoint of general scientific methods (sociological, systemic, structural-functional, historical), the method of theoretical analysis, private scientific methods (comparative jurisprudence, technical and legal analysis, concretization, interpretation). The methodological basis of the study was the method of the theory of knowledge. The purpose of the study: To determine the essence of such categories as conciliation procedures; alternative dispute settlement procedures; pre-trial, out-of-court, and judicial dispute settlement procedures; to identify the relationship between conciliation procedures and civil proceedings; to determine the reasons for the low effectiveness of the use of conciliation procedures in Russia. Results: the gnoseological essence of conciliation procedures was revealed; their relationship with alternative dispute settlement procedures, the relationship between conciliation procedures and the civil procedure was shown, the reasons for the low efficiency of the application of conciliation procedures in Russia were revealed.

Contains fulltext : 233696.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) The actions and feelings questionnaire (AFQ) provides a short, self-report measure of how well someone uses and understands visual communicative signals such as gestures. The objective of this study was to translate and cross-culturally adapt the AFQ into Dutch (AFQ-NL) and validate this new version in neurotypical and autistic populations. Translation and adaptation of the AFQ consisted of forward translation, synthesis, back translation, and expert review. In order to validate the AFQ-NL, we assessed convergent and divergent validity. We additionally assessed internal consistency using Cronbach’s alpha. Validation and reliability outcomes were all satisfactory. The AFQ-NL is a valid adaptation that can be used for both autistic and neurotypical populations in the Netherlands. 7 p.

In human communication, social intentions and meaning are often revealed in the way we move. In this study, we investigate the flexibility of human communication in terms of kinematic modulation in a clinical population, namely, autistic individuals. The aim of this study was twofold: to assess (a) whether communicatively relevant kinematic features of gestures differ between autistic and neurotypical individuals, and (b) if autistic individuals use communicative kinematic modulation to support gesture recognition. We tested autistic and neurotypical individuals on a silent gesture production task and a gesture comprehension task. We measured movement during the gesture production task using a Kinect motion tracking device in order to determine if autistic individuals differed from neurotypical individuals in their gesture kinematics. For the gesture comprehension task, we assessed whether autistic individuals used communicatively relevant kinematic cues to support recognition. This was done by using stick-light figures as stimuli and testing for a correlation between the kinematics of these videos and recognition performance. We found that (a) silent gestures produced by autistic and neurotypical individuals differ in communicatively relevant kinematic features, such as the number of meaningful holds between movements, and (b) while autistic individuals are overall unimpaired at recognizing gestures, they processed repetition and complexity, measured as the amount of submovements perceived, differently than neurotypicals do. These findings highlight how subtle aspects of neurotypical behavior can be experienced differently by autistic individuals. They further demonstrate the relationship between movement kinematics and social interaction in high-functioning autistic individuals. LAY SUMMARY: Hand gestures are an important part of how we communicate, and the way that we move when gesturing can influence how easy a gesture is to understand. We studied how autistic and typical individuals produce and recognize hand gestures, and how this relates to movement characteristics. We found that autistic individuals moved differently when gesturing compared to typical individuals. In addition, while autistic individuals were not worse at recognizing gestures, they differed from typical individuals in how they interpreted certain movement characteristics.

Aim. The project National Register of Patients with Mucoviscidosis (MV), introduced in Russia, opened the widest perspectives for comparative analysis and summarizing of clinico-epidemiological data all over Russia, federal districts, regions and separate territories. The register data permit to generalize the experience of observation and management of MV patients in centers. Comparative analysis of the clinico-epidemiological characteristics of MV and volume of therapy in patients living in Perm Krai (PK) with the other regions of Privolzhsky Federal District (PFD) and Central Federal District (CFD) of Russia was carried out. Materials and methods. According to the Register of MV Patients in the Russian Federation for 2017, the data of 1576 patients with MV were analyzed: 930 (59.0 %) patients were observed in CFD, 600 (38.1 %) in PFD, 46 (2.9) in PK. Results. Among MV patients in PFD and PK, there was noted a great variety of variants of the gene CFTR, associated with both the presence of autochthonic and relatively closed ethnic groups and migration of the population. A high allele frequency of the variant E92K was revealed in patients of Chuvash Republic (55.3 %). A group of patients from PK, registered in 2017, had a low mean age, the lowest age of making a diagnosis. Conclusions. Clinico-epidemiological studies, according to the data of MV patients register, permitted to detect some peculiar features that can be significant for practical healthcare. Further studies on MV patients register should be continued.

Contains fulltext : 212931.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) Social interaction requires us to recognize subtle cues in behavior, such as kinematic differences in actions and gestures produced with different social intentions. Neuroscientific studies indicate that the putative mirror neuron system (pMNS) in the premotor cortex and mentalizing system (MS) in the medial prefrontal cortex support inferences about contextually unusual actions. However, little is known regarding the brain dynamics of these systems when viewing communicatively exaggerated kinematics. In an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging experiment, 28 participants viewed stick-light videos of pantomime gestures, recorded in a previous study, which contained varying degrees of communicative exaggeration. Participants made either social or nonsocial classifications of the videos. Using participant responses and pantomime kinematics, we modeled the probability of each video being classified as communicative. Interregion connectivity and activity were modulated by kinematic exaggeration, depending on the task. In the Social Task, communicativeness of the gesture increased activation of several pMNS and MS regions and modulated top-down coupling from the MS to the pMNS, but engagement of the pMNS and MS was not found in the nonsocial task. Our results suggest that expectation violations can be a key cue for inferring communicative intention, extending previous findings from wholly unexpected actions to more subtle social signaling. 12 p.

Background: Historical ethnobotanical data can provide valuable information about past human-nature relationships as well as serve as a basis for diachronic analysis. This data note aims to present a dataset which documented medicinal plant uses, mentioned in a selection of German-language sources from the 19th century covering the historical regions of Estonia, Livonia, Courland, and Galicia. Methods: Data was mainly obtained by systematic manual search in various relevant historical German-language works focused on the medicinal use of plants. Data about plant and non-plant constituents, their usage, the mode of administration, used plant parts, and their German and local names was extracted and collected into a database in the form of Use Reports.

Darba teorētiskajā daļā tiek analizēti tradicionālo un lokālo ekoloģisko zināšanu un etnobotānikas jēdzieni, to mijsakarības ar kultūras izpratni, Tiek sniegts 5-6 gadīgu bērnu psiholoģiskais un fiziskais raksturojums pētāmās problēmas aspektā, raksturojot etnobotānikas zināšanu apguves īpatnības bērna vecumā tradicionālajās kultūrās un mūsdienās. Analizēti pieejamie etnobotānikas zināšanu avoti, to skaitā – mūsdienu lauka pētījumi un to izmantošanas iespējas pirmsskolas mācību procesā, akcentējot divas savvaļas augu sugas. Darba praktiskajā daļā, pamatojoties uz apgūto teoriju, veikts empīrisks pētījums par etnobotānikas zināšanu izmantošanu bērnu kultūras izpratnes sekmēšanai. Pētījuma rezultātā konstatēts, ka ir uzlabojusies bērnu izpratne par mācību procesā iekļautajiem augiem un to pielietojumu tradicionālajā kultūrā, tādējādi veicinot kultūras izpratni., The theoretical part of the work analyzes the concepts of traditional and local ecological knowledge and ethnobotany, their interrelationships with cultural understanding. The psychological and physical characteristics of 5-6-year-old children are presented in the aspect of the researched problem, characterizing the peculiarities of acquiring knowledge of the ethnobotany at a child's age in traditional cultures and nowadays. The available sources of the ethnobotanical knowledge are analyzed, including modern field studies and the possibilities of their use in the preschool learning process, emphasizing two wild plant species. In the practical part of the work, based on the learned theory, an empirical study was conducted on the use of the traditional ecological knowledge to promote children's cultural understanding. As a result of the research, it was found that the children's understanding of the plants and their use in traditional culture has improved, thus promoting cultural understanding.