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Board Composition in National Sport Federations: An Examination of BRICS Countries
This study examined board composition in national sport federations (NSF) in the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). BRICS is a significant geopolitical group with a strong history and interest in sport, yet there has been relatively limited sport governance research in this context. Specifically, this study measured levels of board diversity (occupational and gender) and board size in the NSFs – factors that are widely considered to impact board effectiveness. Data were collected on 184 NSFs across the five countries from online sources. The results showed that across the BRICS countries NSF directors largely come from athletic backgrounds (45.1% of total), except for China where bureaucrats prevail (61.9%). Men dominate NSF board positions, from a high of 92.1% in India to 68.4% in South Africa. Board size ranged from 20.4 in India, to 14.2 in South Africa. This study brings sport governance research to new frontiers by generating insight into board composition in contexts that are under-researched and culturally diverse.
Lodiagin B., Nazarova V., Rincon C. J., URBAN, PLANNING AND TRANSPORT RESEARCH 2026 Vol. 14 No. 1
This study applies an established social cost–benefit analysis (CBA), combined with sequential shock scenarios (COVID-19 and the post-2022 sanctions) and Monte Carlo sensitivity analysis, to evaluate the welfare robustness and recovery dynamics of the Pulkovo Airport PPP renovation project (St. Petersburg, Russia). Using traffic, operations, and cargo forecasts through 2040, we compare a pre-shock baseline ...
Added: May 17, 2026
Brodetskiy G., Gerami V., Shidlovskii I. et al., Транспорт: наука, техника, управление 2026 № 3 С. 3–8
В статье предложен специальный метод модификации процедур многокритериальной оптимизации. Он позволяет расширить набор критериев выбора, чтобы учитывать предпочтения лица, принимающего решения (ЛПР) как раз в моделях транспортного обеспечения работы цепей поставок. Реализуется изменение наклона направляющей для линий уровня критерия выбора в пространстве значений частных критериев (с нацеливанием выбора на утопическую точку). Разработаны и представлены требуемые ...
Added: May 17, 2026
Федоров Н. С., Финансовый журнал 2025 Т. 17 № 6 С. 99–112
The DCF model is one of the most commonly used models in valuing companies for investment deci sions. Nevertheless, estimating the accuracy of this model remains an important research question. This article presents an assessment of the accuracy of DCF model specifications based on analyzing the variance of fair share prices of companies listed on ...
Added: May 15, 2026
Федоров Н. С., Финансы и бизнес 2025 Т. 21 № 3 С. 34–50
Currently, the role of artificial intelligence is increasingly playing a significant role in various fields, including the increasing role of machine learning in finance. On the other hand, company valuation remains an important part of research due to its difficulty in correctly predicting the accuracy of target stock prices. This study provides an analysis of ...
Added: May 15, 2026
Morozov D., Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета. Серия 1: Богословие. Философия. Религиоведение 2026 № 124 С. 45–58
The article analyzes the concept of “aesthetic humanism” (AH) presented in the works of V. V. Zenkovsky. Within his original conception, AH is regarded as the fundamental principle of Russian secularism. The article focuses on Zenkovky’s historical-philosophical dialectic, the key to which is the overcoming of AH — a “spiritual malady” of Western origin that ...
Added: May 14, 2026
Semenova D., Radygina A., Zaripova J. et al., Nutrition and Food Science 2026 P. 1–13
Purpose
This study aims to investigate how objective (chemical composition, processing method) and subjective (perceived fat content) milk characteristics influence taste perception.
Design/methodology/approach
A blind tasting experiment was conducted with 36 participants who evaluated six commercial milk samples (all 2.5% fat) differing in thermal processing and brand territorial coverage. Each sample was tasted twice, yielding 432 observations. Fatty ...
Added: May 14, 2026
Balashov D., Антиномии 2026 Т. 26 № 1 С. 27–48
The movement of effective altruism, which emerged at the beginning of the 21st century, represents a new form of utilitarian philosophy that has had a significant impact on Anglo-American philosophical thought in the 19th and 20th centuries. A key feature of effective altruism is its emphasis on practicality. The movement positions itself as an entity ...
Added: May 13, 2026
Petrov I., Автоматика и телемеханика 2026 № 6 С. 82–118
Системам связанных агентов и сетевому управлению посвящено большое число отечественных и зарубежных исследований. Исторически, наибольший интерес в теории управления возникал к усредняющим системам и, в частности, к задаче консенсуса. Однако сетевое взаимодействие может характеризоваться более специфическими функциями, отражающими зависимость от действий соседей по сети, что особенно явно проявляется в моделях стратегического взаимодействия на сети, которое ...
Added: May 12, 2026
Gurkov I. B., Paulas R., Pacific Standard (USA) 2017
This article describes the study of Prof. Igor Gukov devoted to ribbon-cutting ceremonies for opening of new industrial objects ...
Added: May 11, 2026
Гвоздин М. М., Rodkin P. E., Знак: проблемное поле медиаобразования 2026 № 1(59) С. 27–38
The article is devoted to identifying the specifics of the business models of music companies in South Korea, their work with artists, as well as the restrictions imposed by the industry on idols. An idol is a professional artist who has undergone systematic training in an entertainment agency and performs the function of a comprehensive ...
Added: April 23, 2026
Жигунов А. Ю., Оводова С. Н., Вестник Томского государственного университета. Философия. Социология. Политология 2022 № 66 С. 100–110
The aim of the article is to identify the influence of metamodernism on modern philosophical concepts of culture, aesthetic ideas of modernity, embodied in specific cultural phenomena. The problem of the research is the need for a philosophical understanding of the phenomenon of metamodernism, which is due to the influence of aesthetic and ethical attitudes ...
Added: April 20, 2026
Singh A., , in: Деньги в Южной Азии: экономика, (гео)политика, социум, культура.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2025.
В истории Индии деньги сыграли важную роль. С древних времен торговые сообщества прибрежных и внутренних регионов связывали субконтинент с различными цивилизациями. Одним из ключевых аспектов этой торговли было то, что наряду с денежным обменом происходил обмен культурными ценностями и традициями. Деньги были не только инструментом обмена товарами, но и "культурным капиталом". Появление денег в Индии ...
Added: April 12, 2026
Abankina T., В кн.: Государственная культурная политика России: традиции и новации.: Московский государственный институт культуры, 2026. Гл. 1 С. 7–21.
The article analyzes existing approaches to the development of creative industries and assesses their impact on the development of territories, competitiveness and investment attractiveness of countries, cultural identity and innovation potential. The evolution of the impact of creative industries on territorial development is increasingly shifting towards restoring the "local" as a strategic policy focus. It ...
Added: March 27, 2026
Abankina T., Креативные индустрии 2025 № 4 С. 10–38
The article analyzes the relationship between culture and creative industries, as well as existing and promising models and forms of interaction between cultural institutions and creative industries. The analysis is based on an expert study that involved the heads of legislative and executive authorities in Russian regions, the Federation of Creative Industries, the Association of ...
Added: March 5, 2026
СПб.: Скифия-принт, 2025.
The collection includes 51 articles selected based on double-blind peer review, grouped into thematic blocks corresponding to the main areas of the conference. Of particular value is the section "Contemporaries on the Era," which features personal testimonies from participants in the events. The publication reflects the current state of research on Perestroika and the 1990s, ...
Added: March 3, 2026
Псков: Псковский государственный университет, 2025.
В коллективной монографии обобщается научный опыт отечественных и зарубежных исследователей в области лингвистики, межкультурной коммуникации, современной образовательной парадигмы. Издание может быть полезно научным работ- никам, специалистам-практикам, преподавателям всех уровней образования, интересующимся проблемами развития совре- менной науки и образования. ...
Added: February 11, 2026
Мгн.: Магнитогорский государственный технический университет им. Г.И. Носова, 2025.
The collection contains the materials of the XVI International Scientific Conference "The Worldview Foundations of the Culture of Modern Russia". The presented works reveal the worldview foundations, social, spiritual, moral, and informational factors of the culture of modern Russia. The collection can be useful for specialists, postgraduate students, senior students, and anyone interested in philosophy. ...
Added: February 7, 2026
Liakhnovich K., Lashinin O., Babkin A. et al., Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 2025 P. 2754–2758
Relevance and diversity are critical objectives in modern information retrieval (IR), particularly in recommender systems. Achieving a balance between relevance (exploitation) and diversity (exploration) optimizes user satisfaction and business goals such as catalog coverage and novelty. While existing post-processing reranking methods address this trade-off, they usually rely on greedy strategies, leading to suboptimal outcomes for ...
Added: February 3, 2026
G. L. Tulchinskii, Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences. (Российская федерация) 2025 Vol. 95 No. 1 P. 73–83
An attempt is made to consider the process of meaning making from the pragmasemantic point of view. This makes it possible to show how the main factors of meaning making—sociocultural practices and agency—interact. Their interaction is not linear. Agency is the result of assimilation of sociocultural experience and accompanying communication in a narrative format. Self-awareness is the ...
Added: January 29, 2026
Gusarova E., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2025 Vol. 5 P. 191–200
Ethiopia is one of the most ethnically heterogeneous countries of the African continent. The overwhelming majority of its peoples have no literary tradition of their own. As a result, their lifestyle, manners and customs can be examined through field researches with only few exceptions. In this connection the Amhara and the Təgräy ethnic groups, who ...
Added: December 29, 2025
Kurakin D., Sociological forum 2025 P. 1–12
The role of emotion in meaning-making remains undertheorized in cultural sociology. This article argues that emotions and affect are intrinsic to meaning-making and proposes cathexis—the attachment of emotions generated in social interaction to objects, symbols, and ideas—as the fundamental mechanism by which emotions co-constitute cultural meanings. Durkheim implied this constitutive role of affect in his theory ...
Added: December 18, 2025
Sorokin P. S., Novikova V., Goshin M. E., Frontiers in Psychology 2025 Vol. 16 Article 1716164
Agency is a multidisciplinary concept denoting individual ability to initiate and carry out actions that transform one’s own life and social environment. Traditionally, in psychology, agency is viewed as an internal characteristic—a constellation of motives, attitudes, and cognitive schemas that drive human action. Studies of this sort focus on the desire to be active, the ...
Added: December 11, 2025
Sorokin P. S., Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science 2026 Vol. 60 No. 1 Article 7
This paper examines the project of cultural psychology proposed by Aaro Toomela through the prism of recent discussions in sociology, primarily the theory of neo-structuration. This theory claims the increasing is principally not determined by social environment. Toomela is right and timely in his critique of the mainstream and his call for a structural-systemic approach ...
Added: December 11, 2025
Musaev A., Cross-Cultural Research 2026 Vol. 60 No. 2 P. 243–272
We examine whether regional sectoral employment structure helps explain cross-regional variation in individualism–collectivism (IC) beyond income. Using a representative CATI survey of more than 18,000 respondents from 60 Russian regions (2019–2020) linked to employment statistics, we estimate OLS models of regional IC with log GRP per capita and controls (inequality, education, life expectancy, latitude, political ...
Added: November 23, 2025