SURGICAL MASK AS A SYMBOL OF LIFE TRANSFORMATION

The article examines the history of the emergence and use of surgical masks. Despite such a significant variety of masks types,the meaning and main function of them are the same in any case: to cover the face, not to let you see emotions, experience, feelings that are always reflected on the face. Hiding the face from others, translated from the language of symbols, means the symbolic "death of the person". The person who puts on the mask "dies", ceases to exist in the familiar form for others and is "reborn" in a new form. Such self-transformation affects not only a different perception for others, but also self-awareness. The surgical mask, updated during the coronavirus pandemic, is becoming a part of people's lives instead of a medical attribute. Today there is a whole world behind these masks: human health, environmental crisis, identity crisis, protest symbol, and surgical masks exacerbate alienation and create an external standardization and template. We would like this symbolic meaning of confusion and fear, loneliness and isolation, uncertainty about the future to turn into a sign of care and a gesture of community of people.

Wdowie wioski czernihowszczyzny. Sytuacja wiejskich kobiet w Ukrainie

Problems with access to professional healthcare services have a negative impact on the health of women inUkraine’s rural areas. The pilot program of prevention of civilisational diseases focused on educating ruralwomen in providing first pre-medical aid and promoting a healthy lifestyle. The monitoring conducted withthe use of sociological quantitative methods in 3 villages of the Czernihiv region was supplemented within-depth autobiographical-narrative interviews based on the methodology of oral history. The interviewsand their analysis, which followed Fritz Schütze’s method, were aimed at obtaining a picture of theconditions underlying the everyday lives of rural women, the dominant hierarchy of social relations andtheir conceptual structure. The collected data was used to build a system of social support in the villages.A collective biographical profile of the interviewees emerges from the analysis of the interviews, makingexplicit within the course of their lives the following themes: hunger, childhood and youth, labour, family life,transformation of the political system in the 1990s. On this basis, biographical action schemes are proposed,as well as institutional action patterns, trajectories understood as experiencing the external coercion, andmore positive biographical transitions. The results indicate a decay of the traditional rural community,initiated by the oppressive system of soviet kolkhozs and completed through its transformation in the 1990s.

Analysis Of Youth Activities In The Digital Age: Time-Geographical Approach

The study analyses daily activities of youth in the virtual and actual environment within the framework of theoretical and applied achievements of time geography. The role of mobile devices in youth life, transformation of traditional activity and changes in the daily organization of actions due to digitalization are discussed. Empirical data for the research were obtained via a diary method (the respondents were 18–22-year-old students). Features of individual daily foreground and background activities, digital devices used, activities relation and localization are evaluated by geovisualization performed within the time-geographical concepts. Regardless of the smartphonization, individuals reserve time spans not associated with virtual activities; their online activities are localized within places of residence, study and traffic routes, while public spaces serve as “live communication” platforms (but a complete rejection of virtual activity does not occur here). An attempt to compare youth daily activity under ordinary conditions and during the period of forced isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic is being made.

Strategic Data and Cyber Security Management in the Arab World

In this chapter, the author will discuss the human life transformation during the last 100 years, moving from the transmission of a message through pigeons and going forward to living a digitalized way of life that could be described as a life where human interaction and communication is taking place predominantly through devices. The chapter will discuss technological advancements such as automation, digitalization, digital transformation, data science, data analytics, real-time data acquisition, artificial intelligence, and predictive intelligence and how all these aspects are affecting the lives of people in the Arab world. The author will discuss how today's people are living within an interconnected world where humans and devices are communicating through the world wide web (the internet). Then, the author will discuss the cyber challenges and how businesses and humans can utilize these technology advancements in a safe and secure way.

Everyday Life Transformation of the Urban Population of Russia in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

The article examines changes in the life space of individuals in an extreme situation caused by the covid19 pandemic. It is shown that the pandemic situation actualizes reflection on the spatial parameters of everyday life of citizens. This situation initiates a revision of the significance of direct interpersonal contacts in different spheres of life of the population. For the analysis of remote work practices, the material of the CovidFOM Project was used, according to which these practices covered more than 10 % of the urban population of Russia during the lockdown period. It is shown that these practices problematize the concepts of workplace and working time, increasing the functional load on the home.

Rank Estimation for Mean Residual Life Transformation Model

This paper proposes a new and important class of mean residual life regression model, which is called the mean residual life transformation model. The link function is assumed to be unknown and increasing in its second argument, but it is permitted to be not differentiable. The mean residual life transformation model encompasses the proportional mean residual life model, the additive mean residual life model, and so on. Under maximum rank correlation estimation, we present the estimation procedures, whose asymptotic and finite sample properties are established. The consistent variance can be estimated by a resampling method via perturbing the U -statistics objective function repeatedly which avoids the usual sandwich choice. Monte Carlo simulations reveal good finite sample performance and the estimators are illustrated with the Oscar data set.

Coronavirus as a Social Driver of Everyday Life Transformation

The article considers the influence of non-political risks of the COVID-19 pandemic, its manifestation as a social phenomenon, which contributes to the formation of new social drivers and the transformation of every-day life. The presented analytical review of the data of a number of sociological studies of Russian society on adaptation and reaction to changes in everyday life caused by self-isolation and measures to prevent Corona-virus infection, and the results of social media analytic during the period of active self-isolation in two Russian capitals - Moscow and St. Petersburg - led to make conclusions about the formation of new communicative trends related to the informational assessment of the situation of the Coronavirus epidemic and the problems of staying in self-isolation. The study was supported by the RFFR in the framework of the scientific project No. 19-29-07443/19 “Scientific and educational centers as a factor in the formation of human capital in Russia: the format for creating world-class scientific and educational centers according to the Presidential Decree “On National Goals and Strategic Tasks of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2024”.