Actualization of gifted schoolchildren’s intentional experience in the process of mastering geometric concepts: from support to activity mechanism

People’s intellectual abilities become a powerful civilization resource. Therefore, intellectually gifted schoolchildren’s development should be the focus of the state educational policy. Russian opinion leaders interpret the phenomenon of giftedness as a systemic quality that describes the child’s psyche as a whole. Such an approach turns into a priority to update and enrich the gifted schoolchildren’s intentional experience during geometry teaching. It assumes the development of a particular subjective state of orientation and selectivity of individual cognitive activity in preferences. This unique state becomes a mental activity mechanism, not just an accessory. The statistical data analysis confirms the hypothesis: the efficiency of actualizing gifted schoolchildren’s intentional experience in the form of their individual dispositions, beliefs, and emotional assessments while solving geometric problems during academic competitions is provided by specifically organized educational activities. It positively correlates with the level of mental activity development during mastering the activity methods with geometric concepts.

The Category of Media Text Converse as a Reflection of the Author’s Idiostyle

Dynamically altering reality stimulates the use of new means and ways of communication in the process of textual activity. Peculiarities of present-day media communication (polycode, polydiscursiveness, intertextuality, interactivity, openness, etc.) and anthropocentrism of the modern linguistic paradigm determine the dialogue between the author and the addressee based on the text, which requires special study. The identification of the means and ways of expressing the category of media text dialogicity in the aspect of idiostyle is carried out on the basis of the analysis of the texts regulativity in the context of the communicative-activity approach to it. A broad range of linguistic and extralinguistic means of dialogization, which are typical of the author's journalistic texts, was revealed in the mainstream of the theory of regulation as one of the directions of communicative stylistics, based on the articles of 2020 in the "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" by the famous journalist and political scientist L. Radzikhovsky. The sphere of communication, the author's idiostyle, the peculiarities of the representation of regulation as a systemic quality of the media text are considered as factors that influence the dialogue with the addressee. The approach to the analysis of the media text based on the allocation of various regulatory means, structures, methods of regulation, and regulatory strategy that controls the cognitive activity of the addressee allows us to judge upon the specificity of the dialogic character of the modern publicistic text in accordance with the genre of the article in the aspect of the author's idiostyle. The proposed approach also is of interest for media linguistics and mediastylistics, the communicative theory of text, theory of speech impact.

Systemic Quality Assurance of Doctoral Studies at the University of Maribor

The paper gives an overview of the Rules and Regulations on Doctoral Studies at the University of Maribor, and focuses on the topics that the University of Maribor found to be most important in ensuring the quality of the scientific-research-based Doctoral studies.

Hiring Auditors with a Part II Quality Control Report: An Opportunity for Increased Earnings Management or Lower Audit Fees?

ABSTRACT The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's (PCAOB) Part II inspection reports, which disclose systemic quality control issues that auditors fail to remediate, signal poor audit quality for triennially inspected audit firms. Auditors that receive a Part II inspection report typically experience a decrease in clients, which demonstrates a general demand for audit quality. However, some companies hire auditors that receive Part II inspection reports. We examine potential reasons for hiring these audit firms. We find that relative to companies that switch to auditors without Part II reports, companies that switch to auditors with Part II reports have higher discretionary accruals in the first fiscal year after the switch, which indicates lower audit quality and a heightened risk for future fraud. We find no difference in audit fees. Our results suggest that PCAOB Part II inspection reports may signal low-quality auditors to companies that desire low-quality audits. Data Availability: Data are available from the public sources cited in the text.

MANAGING THE ECONOMIC GROWTH OF THE AGRICULTURAL COMPLEX IN THE REGION UNDER UNSTABLE CONDITIONS ECONOMIES

Обозначено нарастание противоречий и разногласий во внутренней среде агропромышленного комплекса (АПК) региона вследствие нарастания проявлений кризиса в региональной экономике. Указано на необходимость включения инновационного компонента в разработку элементов комплекса маркетинга и в формирование маркетинговых филлеров субъектов для создания нового системного качества в АПК посредством их маркетингово-поведенческой адаптации к требованиям конкурентного рынка и платежеспособного спроса потребителей. Раскрыта значимость модернизационных структурных и иных преобразований в условиях нестабильности экономики. Выявлено ее влияние на удержание конкурентных позиций субъектами АПК за счет изменений разного характера. Введены в научный оборот понятия «поведенческо-ресурсная компенсаторность» и «инновационно-инвестиционная резонируемость». Разработана концептуальная модель управления экономическим ростом бизнеса в АПК посредством активизации антикризисных компонентов субъектов региона. The growth of contradictions and disagreements in the internal environment of the agroindustrial complex of the region due to the increased manifestation of crisis phenomena in the regional economy is indicated. It is pointed out that it is necessary to include an innovative component in the development of elements of the marketing mix and in the formation of marketing fillers of subjects to create a new systemic quality in the agroindustrial complex through their marketing and behavioral adaptation to the requirements of a competitive market and solvent demand of consumers. The significance of modernization structural and other transformations in the conditions of economic instability is revealed. Its influence on the retention of competitive positions by agribusiness entities due to changes of a different nature has been revealed. The concepts of “behavioral-resource compensation” and “innovation-investment resonance” were introduced into the scientific circulation. A conceptual model for managing the economic growth of a business in the agroindustrial complex through the activation of anti-crisis components of the region’s subjects has been developed.

SELF-LEADERSHIP AS A PERSONAL RESOURCE OF THE SUBJECT OF COPING

The article is devoted to the analysis of self-leadership as a personal resource of the subject of coping. Self-leadership, being a systemic quality of personality, includes constructive thinking, responsibility, self-confidence, autonomy and authenticity, selfcontrol, self-motivation, realistic optimism, tolerance to uncertainty, which allows the subject of coping to solve emerging life problems independently, show creative activity in situations of uncertainty, increase productivity and self-effectiveness through a conscious choice of behaviors in accordance with personal characteristics and requirements of a difficult situation.

Responses by hospital complaints managers to recommendations for systemic reforms by health complaints commissions

Objective This paper explores how hospital complaints managers react to recommendations for systemic quality reforms by health complaints commissions in response to complaints by patients in Queensland and New South Wales. Methods Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with complaints managers in 17 hospitals. Interview transcripts were then thematically analysed and data on responses to health complaint commissions was organised in relation to Valerie Braithwaite’s typology of motivational postures. Results Respondents supported involvement by an independent authority where patients had serious complaints about the services they received in hospital, but wanted more negotiation with commissions on service improvement recommendations. Conclusions Hospital complaints managers mostly responded as virtuous or rational actors to the symbolic power of complaints commissions. This may be context dependent because Australian health commissions operate within a pro-reform context as a result of recent publicity around health system failures. What is known about the topic? Little is known about regulatory relationships between complaints commissions and hospitals. There has been no Australian research considering how complaints managers respond to commission recommendations for quality improvements and reforms to hospital services. What does the paper add? The paper uses a novel theoretical framework based on regulatory theory to understand and describe the reactions of complaints managers to commission recommendations. What are the implications for practitioners? Commissions should seek commentary from complaints managers through open dialogue before making final recommendations. This will ease the progress of reforms and make recommendations more acceptable and ‘genuine’ in the specific context of the hospital.