HSE University-St Petersburg opened a representative office of the Satellite Laboratory on Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Campinas in Brazil. The platform is going to unite research and educational projects in the spheres of sustainable development, communications and social innovations.
Women are more likely than men to avoid political and economic news, but the reasons for this behaviour are linked less to structural inequality or family-related stress than to personal attitudes and the emotional perception of news content. This conclusion was reached by HSE researchers after analysing data from a large-scale survey of more than 10,000 residents across 61 regions of Russia. The study findings have been published in Woman in Russian Society.
The HSE International Laboratory for Logic, Linguistics and Formal Philosophy studies logic and rationality in a transformed world characterised by a diversity of logical systems and rational agents. The laboratory supports and develops academic ties with Russian and international partners. The HSE News Service spoke with the head of the laboratory, Prof. Elena Dragalina-Chernaya, about its work.
Belyaeva N. G., Chernen'kova T. V., Morozova O. V. et al., Contemporary Problems of Ecology 2018 Vol. 11 No. 7 P. 729–742
The coenotic diversity of forests of the model region in southwestern Moscow oblast with an area of 51 500 ha has been assessed using data from field studies, remote sensing (Landsat-5 TM, Landsat-8 OLI, and TIRS), and digital terrain models of the landscape. Forest communities are classified using two different methods: eco-phytocoenotic and eco-floristic. We ...
Korznikov K. A., Belyaeva N. G., Sandlerskiy R., Contemporary Problems of Ecology 2021 Vol. 14 No. 7 P. 723–732
The study concerns mapping of the actual vegetation cover of the Vengeri River basin (eastern coast of the central Sakhalin) with an area of more than 33 000 ha. A cartographic model has been created with the use of the algorithm of stepwise discriminant analysis based on the original geobotanical data, a digital elevation model, and ...