scispace - formally typeset
Search or ask a question
Institution

National Research University – Higher School of Economics

EducationMoscow, Russia
About: National Research University – Higher School of Economics is a education organization based out in Moscow, Russia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Politics. The organization has 12873 authors who have published 23376 publications receiving 256396 citations.


Papers
More filters
Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a theory of seven cultural value orientations and apply it to understand relations of culture to significant societal phenomena, and analyze how distance between countries on cultural value orientation affects the flow of investment around the world.
Abstract: This chapter presents my theory of seven cultural value orientations and applies it to understanding relations of culture to significant societal phenomena. The first section explicates my conception of culture – a conception of the normative value system that underlies social practices and institutions. I then derive seven value orientations that are useful for describing and comparing societies. Next, the chapter discusses the conceptual underpinnings for measuring the cultural value orientations. It then presents the survey methods developed for this purpose, and the empirical validation of the content of the value orientations and of the structure of relations among them. This is based on analyses of data across 77 national groups in 75 countries. Brief comparisons of these value orientations with two other dimensional approaches to culture are followed by an analysis that justifies treating countries as cultural units. The middle section of the chapter uses the seven validated cultural orientations to generate a worldwide graphic mapping of national cultures. This map permits comparison of national cultures with one another on each orientation. It reveals eight distinct world cultural regions that reflect the influence of geographic proximity, history, language, and other factors. To illustrate the meaningfulness of the cultural map, I discuss the distinctive cultural profiles of each world cultural region. The final third of the chapter examines associations between culture, measured by the value orientations, and a variety of variables of economic significance: the socioeconomic level of countries, their level of corruption, the social net they provide to citizens, their level of democracy, and the competitiveness of their market systems. It discusses the reciprocal causal processes that may account for these associations. Finally, the chapter analyzes how distance between countries on cultural value orientations affects the flow of investment around the world. The current approach differs from well-known theories of cultural dimensions (e.g. Inglehart and Baker, 2000 , Hofstede, 2001 ) in deriving the constructs to measure culture from a priori theorizing and then testing the fit of these constructs to empirical data. Moreover, whereas other approaches seek orthogonal dimensions, I assume that correlated dimensions capture culture better because they can express the interdependence of cultural elements. My theory of culture specifies a coherent, integrated system of relations among the seven cultural orientations. These orientations form three correlated bipolar dimensions. Empirical measures of the seven orientations support the coherence of culture by revealing that the cultural profiles of societies rarely exhibit incompatible value emphases.

92 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: The current meta-analyses are the first to examine concordance and age-related changes across the healthy adult lifespan in brain areas engaged when performing the n-back task and show that prefrontal cortex engagement is concordant for young, to a lesser degree for middle-aged adults, and absent in older adults.

92 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the statistics of eigenfunctions and energy levels on random regular graphs (RRG) and show that the results of exact diagonalization are in outstanding agreement with analytical theory based on the saddle-point analysis of the effective supersymmetric action supplemented by numerical solution of the corresponding self-consistency equation.
Abstract: Anderson localization on random regular graphs (RRG) attracts much attention in view of its relation to many-body localization. Here, the authors study the statistics of eigenfunctions and energy levels on RRG, focussing on the delocalized (ergodic) phase and the critical regime. Results of exact diagonalization are in outstanding agreement with analytical theory based on the saddle-point analysis of the effective supersymmetric action supplemented by numerical solution of the corresponding self-consistency equation.

92 citations

Book ChapterDOI
30 Oct 2006
TL;DR: This work presents an application of formal concept analysis aimed at representing a meaningful structure of knowledge communities in the form of a lattice-based taxonomy and considers two approaches to building a concise representation that respects the underlying structural relationships, while hiding uninteresting and/or superfluous information.
Abstract: We present an application of formal concept analysis aimed at representing a meaningful structure of knowledge communities in the form of a lattice-based taxonomy The taxonomy groups together agents (community members) who interact and/or develop a set of notions--ie cognitive properties of group members In the absence of appropriate constraints on how it is built, a knowledge community taxonomy is in danger of becoming extremely complex, and thus difficult to comprehend We consider two approaches to building a concise representation that respects the underlying structural relationships, while hiding uninteresting and/or superfluous information The first is a pruning strategy that is based on the notion of concept stability, and the second is a representational improvement based on nested line diagrams We illustrate the method with a small sample of a community of embryologists

92 citations

Posted Content
TL;DR: Most of BRICS' growing share of global medical spending was heavily attributable to the overachievement of People's Republic of China, and such trend is highly likely to continue beyond 2025.
Abstract: Global health spending share of low/middle income countries continues its long-term growth. BRICS nations remain to be major drivers of such change since 1990s. Governmental, private and out-of-pocket health expenditures were analyzed based on WHO sources. Medium-term projections of national health spending to 2025 were provided based on macroeconomic budgetary excess growth model. In terms of per capita spending Russia was highest in 2013. India's health expenditure did not match overall economic growth and fell to slightly less than 4% of GDP. Up to 2025 China will achieve highest excess growth rate of 2% and increase its GDP% spent on health care from 5.4% in 2012 to 6.6% in 2025. Russia's spending will remain highest among BRICS in absolute per capita terms reaching net gain from $1523 PPP in 2012 to $2214 PPP in 2025. In spite of BRICS' diversity, all countries were able to significantly increase their investments in health care. The major setback was bold rise in out-of-pocket spending. Most of BRICS' growing share of global medical spending was heavily attributable to the overachievement of People's Republic of China. Such trend is highly likely to continue beyond 2025.

92 citations


Authors

Showing all 13307 results

NameH-indexPapersCitations
Rasmus Nielsen13555684898
Matthew Jones125116196909
Fedor Ratnikov123110467091
Kenneth J. Arrow113411111221
Wil M. P. van der Aalst10872542429
Peter Schmidt10563861822
Roel Aaij98107144234
John W. Berry9735152470
Federico Alessio96105442300
Denis Derkach96118445772
Marco Adinolfi9583140777
Michael Alexander9588138749
Alexey Boldyrev9443932000
Shalom H. Schwartz9422067609
Richard Blundell9348761730
Network Information
Related Institutions (5)
Saint Petersburg State University
53.4K papers, 1.1M citations

88% related

Moscow State University
123.3K papers, 1.7M citations

88% related

Russian Academy of Sciences
417.5K papers, 4.5M citations

84% related

Carnegie Mellon University
104.3K papers, 5.9M citations

83% related

École Polytechnique
39.2K papers, 1.2M citations

82% related

Performance
Metrics
No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
2023129
2022584
20212,477
20203,025
20192,589
20182,259