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Observando las transformaciones articuladas en la sociedad, la cultura y la comunicación, con énfasis en el uso ampliado de las plataformas digitales en la vida cotidiana de los sujetos, este artículo busca presentar premisas teóricas centrales para categorizar la noción de intelectual en plataforma, en contraste con la presencia de influencers digitales en las redes sociales. A partir del marco teórico desarrollado por Antonio Gramsci para definir al intelectual y su praxis política, discutimos las características de este sujeto y su campo de acción en una sociedad plataformatizada. A partir de un debate teórico y una investigación documental exploratoria, discutimos el potencial, los límites y las estrategias de la actividad intelectual en una sociedad plataformatizada viendo cómo sus creaciones funcionan como forma de educación política.

People involved in scientific research should keep their cognitive status high since this is necessary for preserving their intellectual potential and maintaining their work efficiency. Given that, it seems important to determine what impacts scientific work might have on mental health, to estimate potential disorders and to develop a strategy aimed at preventing cognitive impairments. Our research goals were to perform screening assessment of executive functions, to examine signs of premature ageing and to explore behavioral and social risk factors among Russian researchers. We accomplished a cross-sectional study with 213 researchers employed by state scientific institutions in Moscow participating in it; they were 116 women and 97 men aged from 23 to 78 years (their average age was 45.48 ± 15.33 years). As a result, we established that risk factors causing a decline in professional efficiency were rather frequent among the participants. Probable cognitive disorders were detected in 9.85 % of them and we should note that these disorders were not age-related. We detected signs of senile asthenia in 3.28 % of the participants and senile depression in 2.34 %. Two thirds of the participants had subclinical depression (74.6 %). Only one fifth of the respondents (19.71 %, n = 42) did not have any cognitive impairments, asthenic syndrome, or depression. A quarter of the researchers (25.34 %) were not sufficiently committed to healthy lifestyle. Low physical activity established for 79.3 % of the respondents was the major risk factor; among others, we can mention irrational nutrition, primarily among those researchers who worked with students; poor stress management skills among physicians who combined clinical practice with science; difficulties in interpersonal relationships among people who dealt solely with research. It is necessary to implement corporate programs aimed at prevention and rehabilitations for researchers in order to preserve their scientific activity and professional efficiency as well as to extend their professional longevity

Zamoyska presented reflections unique for the European social thought. She identified with philosophical and religious views considering work as the fundamental manner of fulfilling man’s individual and social life. However, from the standpoint of a practical human life, these ideas lacked an important factor. And namely, showing precisely the way of performing work itself. Thus, work requires employing an appropriate method, which translates directly into the practice of human life. And she did not mean a narrowly conceived method, concerning selected jobs or some kind of man’s professional activities. The suggested method referred to work which every man needs to undertake in order to fulfill his or her life. It concerned work which enables men to fulfill themselves in the most fundamental dimension as humans. This is accomplished by man undertaking systematically three kinds of work throughout their life: physical, intellectual and spiritual. They are interdependent and mutually complementary, this is why none of them may be excluded during human life. Only their parallel continuation ensures man’s harmonious development. The suggested method is universal since it concerns the way of performing work as a factor conditioning the fulfillment of human life. Thereby, her considerations on the method of work bring new meaning into the field of practical philosophy.

La investigación en cuestión tiene como objetivo el acercamiento a la personalidad de Rafael Graciano Argilagos Loret de Mola, el cual contribuyó a la promoción e investigación de la cultura y la historia de Cuba desde el Oriente del país. Para la realización de la misma se utilizaron diferentes métodos, tales como el histórico-lógico, el análisis-síntesis, la inducción-deducción y el hermenéutico que permiteron identificar el problema de investigación a partir del diagnóstico historiográfico sobre el tema. Se consultaron las fuentes documentales existentes en los archivos históricos provinciales de Camagüey, Santiago de Cuba y el Nacional de Cuba. La investigación en cuestión tiene como objetivo el acercamiento a la personalidad de Rafael Graciano Argilagos Loret de Mola, el cual contribuyó a la promoción e investigación de la cultura y la historia de Cuba desde el Oriente del país. Para la realización de la misma se utilizaron diferentes métodos, tales como el histórico-lógico, el análisis-síntesis, la inducción-deducción y el hermenéutico que permiteron identificar el problema de investigación a partir del diagnóstico historiográfico sobre el tema. Se consultaron las fuentes documentales existentes en los archivos históricos provinciales de Camagüey, Santiago de Cuba y el Nacional de Cuba.

The article explores the role and contribution of intellectual work to the process of ensuring and improving the main aspects of human life in accordance with the Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Intellectual work is considered as an important resource for the creation of high-quality, innovative production, which provides for solution of important global problems of sustainable development. As part of a multilateral integrated approach, the impact of intellectual work results on the achievements of SDGs is researched. It is determined that the SDGs are interconnected and reinforce each other in the process of achievement, which is why their results are also comprehensive, that is, the result of improvements in the field of one goal is the way to achieve another one. A reflection of the dominant role of intellectual work in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals is the ninth SDGs – innovation and infrastructure. The development of technologies, creation of innovations and breakthrough solutions are crucial in the context of achieving the SDGs, and, accordingly, intellectual work, intellectual property and innovations are increasingly becoming socially significant and, due to the increased importance, need developing and implementing the policy of the integrity of scientific research along with protecting their results. Prospect for further research in this direction can be the issues of enhancing the efficiency of intellectual workers and increasing the opportunities to use the potential of intellectual activity for the further development of society.

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This article aims to empirically determine effective strategies to manage intellectual work (IW) productivity (IWP) in distance learning (DL) using the example of university teachers in Georgia. Based on expert assessment methods, indicators for assessing the level of Teacher Intellectual Work Productivity (TIWP) of three large universities in Georgia and its current level were analyzed using the method of integral assessment. The main factors influencing the TIWP at DL were determined using the ANOVA method. We used the decision tree to systematize the factors of influence to TIWP and substantiate effective management strategies, taking into account teachers' qualifications, age categories, and competencies to ensure the continuity and quality of DL. The results allow flexibility in managing the TIWP in DL conditions and determining the most effective management strategies, considering the characteristics of teachers and the current level of development of the TIWP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to answer the questions What is human intelligence? How does human intellect evolve? How does intellectual worker differ from knowledge worker? How does intellectual work differ from knowledge work? As a synthesis of the literature review, the ‘rise of human intellect’ framework is presented. The novelty of the paper is in proposing to change the ‘knowledge worker’ and ‘knowledge work’ concepts introduced by Peter Drucker in the 1950s to ‘intellectual worker’ and ‘intellectual work’ because they seem to be more appropriate terms with the move from the knowledge economy to the creative and mind economy.

The article aims to empirically determine the effective strategies to manage intellectual work (IW) productivity (IWP) in distance learning (DL), for example, university teachers in Georgia. Based on the expert assessment methods, determining indicators for assessing the level of Teacher Intellectual Work Productivity (TIWP) of three large universities in Georgia and its current level was analyzed using the method of integral assessment. Using the ANOVA method, determined the main factors influencing the TIWP at DL. We use the decision tree to systematize the factors of influence to TIWP and substantiate effective management strategies, taking into account teachers' qualifications, age category, and competencies to ensure the continuity and quality of DL. The results allow flexibility in managing the TIWP in the DL conditions and determining the most effective management strategies, taking into account the characteristics of teachers and the current level of development of the TIWP.

The purpose of our article is to explore the theme of female precariousness described in a story by Aldo Nove entitled Storia di Roberta. Our idea is to analyze the protagonist's experience through the perspective of her profession: Roberta is a teacher and an intellectual with a passion for politics and civil causes. Our interest is to understand how the perspective of meta-biography - where the story of the other becomes the privileged stratagem to express the point of view of the author - allows the emergence of a series of social problems indispensable for the understanding of the reality of women at work in contemporary societies. In particular, we focus on the overlapping - from which the notion of professional intersectionality derives - of gender, work, and desire. If Roberta's experience insists on the precarious condition of women in today's society, at the same time this story raises the question of gender to illustrate how job instability becomes the source of a series of problems that are corollaries of economic fragility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article consideres the nature and concepts of a creative economy, identifies the prerequisites, key factors and intermediate results of formation of creative industries abroad and in Russia. The priority of creative industries in the national policy of Great Britain has become a response to the crisis in 1980s. The support for self-organizing economic clusters of artists, cinematographers, architects, creators of advertising and media content, computer games and software made it possible to generate an innovative supply on the global market of labor division and to bring the country out of crisis. Not only European and developed Asian countries followed Great Britain, but so did Australia, the USA, New Zealand, and Canada. The phenomenon of creative economics is carefully studied to identify the most effective models and strategies for shaping the conditions under which the intellectual components of the capital and labor are factors of innovation, which make it possible to take the countries to the big leagues. In this regard, there is an increase in the importance of ideas, intellectual resources, the ability of individuals to solve emerging and potential problems innovatively, with a high degree of competitiveness and obtaining additional economic and social effects. The creative economy creates conditions for the diversification of the economies of not only developed but also developing countries creating new directions of productive economic activity.

Introduction Metabolic Syndrome is a set of interrelated risk factors for the emergence and progression of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, such as central obesity (abdominal), elevated blood pressure and disorders of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism. Peri- and postmenopausal women are particularly at risk of developing MS, by aging and the loss of protective effect of estrogen on the body, additionally by intellectual work associated with a sedentary lifestyle and job stress. The aim of our study was to analyze the frequency of MS and its criteria in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women doing intellectual work, as well as selected factors on which metabolic syndrome depend. Material and methods The study group consist of 300 women aged 44–66 working intellectually. Research methods used: metabolic syndrome’s criteria, Greene Climacteric Scale, body fat accumulation, medical interview. Statistical methods used: logistic regression analysis, analysis of variance, χ2 test of stochastic independence. Results The MS was diagnosed in about ¼ of the women in perimenopausal and postmenopausal period working intelectually, in most of them abdominal obesity ( ¾ ), in more than a half hypertension, in every sixth hypertriglyceridemia, in every seventh hyperglycemia and in every tenth low HDL-C. Prevalence of MS and its criteria was correlated with BMI, body fat accumulation and parity. Prevalence of arterial hypertension was associated with the severity of menopausal symptoms and lack of physical activity. Conclusions Prevalence of MS and some of its criteria depended on BMI, body fat accumulation, parity, severity of menopausal symptoms and lack of physical activity, whereas did not depend on: age between 44-66, educational level, marital status or HRT taking.

Objectives: The analysis of the relationship between stress at work and results of cognitive functions amongst women, at peri- and post-menopausal age, performing intellectual work. Material and Methods: The study group included women, aged 45–66 years old, employed as intellectual workers. Research instruments were: the Montreal Cognitive Assessment; computer tests of the CNS Vital Signs; the Subjective Work Characteristics Questionnaire, and a questionnaire designed by the author. The results were statistically analyzed. Results: Nearly a half of respondents experienced high stress at the place of work; 1/3 – on the average level, on a low level – every fifth. The largest number of respondents experienced stress caused by social contacts. Among a half of the women, stress was caused by the lack of awards at work, followed by the lack of support. Slightly fewer of them experienced stress caused by the feeling of psychological load related to the complexity of work or the feeling of uncertainty caused by the organization of work. Every third woman experienced stress due to the sense of responsibility or the lack of control. The smallest number experienced stress caused by physical arduousness, the sense of threat and unpleasant working conditions. The examined women obtained the best results with respect to simple attention, the worst results – with respect to the reaction time. The results concerning the remaining 9 cognitive functions were ranked in the middle of the aforementioned results. The intensity of stress at work and factors which caused this stress, negatively correlated with simple attention of women in the early peri-menopausal period, while positively correlating with the psychomotor and processing speed of women in the late peri-menopausal period. Among the post-menopausal women, negative correlations were observed between the majority of cognitive functions and the intensity of stress at work, and the majority of factors which caused this stress. Conclusions: Cognitive functions of the examined women remained within the range of average evaluations, and were correlated with stress-inducing factors at the place of work. Int J Occup Med Environ Health 2017;30(6):943–961

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The article reveals the essence of the intellectual product, its relationship with research of higher schools in the region, the role of intellectual property in the development of innovative capacity of the region. It also contains the author’s definition of an intellectual product of Higher Education, a classification of intellectual products. Based on the analysis of existing theoretical approaches and regional practices, relations between concepts «intellectual product», «intellectual work», «intellectual capital» and «intellectual property» are especially highlighted by the author.

In the first part of this contribution the main guidelines that have characterised the training of secondary teachers in Italy in the last 15 years will be drawn. They will highlight the legislative and regulatory issues for the completion of university education in order to gain access to the paths of employment in secondary schools. In particular, we will emphasise the organisational and political conditions that have given form and content to the paths of specialisation/ teaching qualification and, on the basis of a widely established literature in the current debate, we will reflect on how much and how these settings correspond to precise cultural views that feed a certain idea of school, of teacher and ultimately of society. In the second part, starting from direct experience of initial training for secondary school teachers, we will resume the steps of a reflective practice on the political and cultural role for the teacher, whose valorisation must be explicitly invoked in the context of training and refresher courses, to complete the process of professional preparation adequate for the challenges of our time.