Chinese outbound tourism: between state control and autonomous individual travel. The case of honeymoons in France by Marine L’Hostis, Maxime Dejean

“…Fully aware of the importance of this market in a sector that represents almost 10% of global GDP, the Chinese authorities are looking to exploit these outbound flows to increase China’s sphere of influence. This strategy may work with developing countries – who are often islands and/or yet to develop their own tourism image – however, major international tourism destinations seem to be less receptive to this form of instrumentalization. …”
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History of international relations development among Russia and African countries in the beginning of the XXI century by M. M. Mahamat

“…At the beginning of the 21st century, Russia and African countries strengthened their cooperation in the economic sphere. It had a positive impact on both sides, contributing to African countries development and Russian companies’ expansion in this market, and strengthening regional stability. …”
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ON CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY OF BELARUS by D. M. Krupsky

“…The key directions of the digital transformation of the Belarusian economy, covering the development of the corresponding infrastructure, as well as digitalization of the sphere of services and material production, are determined. …”
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Nuclear Education in Russia and Abroad by Yu. N. Volkov, N. I. Geraskin, A. N. Kosilov

“…The article discusses such issues as interaction between state, nuclear industry and higher education institution; the quality of nuclear education (four basic principles of training nuclear specialists in MEPhI), the transition to two-tier system in nuclear education; the international cooperation in nuclear sphere; export of nuclear education; and vocational guidance for school students.…”
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Generalized α-Attractor Models from Elementary Hyperbolic Surfaces by Elena Mirela Babalic, Calin Iuliu Lazaroiu

“…For each elementary surface, we discuss its decomposition into canonical end regions and give an explicit construction of the embedding into the Kerekjarto-Stoilow compactification (which in all three cases is the unit sphere), showing how this embedding allows for a universal treatment of globally well-behaved scalar potentials upon expanding their extension in real spherical harmonics. …”
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Ground Pearls, Earth Pearls, Pearl Scale, Margarodes spp. (Insecta: Hemiptera: Margarodidae) by Anthony Camerino

“…The voided waxy spherical covering of the insect is the most likely structure to be encountered. The sphere is pink to yellowish-brown in color and measures from 1/6 of an inch in diameter to as small as a grain of sand (Short). …”
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Social Justice as a Principle of Social Security by Olha Kuchma

“…Deteriorating demographic situation and other reasons that affect the amount of funding for the social sphere are forcing authorities to make unpopular decisions that worsen the conditions of social security. …”
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Characterising cheerfulness as a value for young people by A. M. Lesin

“…The value under study is to a greater extent associated with the personal sphere of young people, is not associated with the manifestation of their initiative and is negatively associated with some career orientations. …”
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ANALYSIS OF STATE SUPPORT EFFECTIVENESS FOR HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIES by I. V. Milkina, S. V. Lits

“…It also has been concluded, that measures to support the domestic economy sectors related to its high-tech segment by the state are insufficient, which leads to backwardness of Russia behind the leading economically developed countries (the USA, Japan, Germany) in the development of high-tech industries of the civil sphere. This situation requires the adoption of measures to support and develop the high-tech segment of the domestic economy at the state level. …”
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INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES AND POLITICAL STABILITY IN THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC by A. O. Blokhina

“…The author focuses on new elements in the sphere of division of powers between the head of state, the prime minister, and the legislative power. …”
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CHARISMA: RELIGIOUS MEASUREMENT by Olga G. Sladneva

“…Especially brightly this phenomenon is reflected in the religious sphere of life of society. Conclusions. It is revealed that the concept of charisma exists in other world religions and has common features. …”
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Mass Higher Education in Russia: Features of Dynamics by V. F. Pugach

“…The main cause of the boom in the sphere of higher education at the turn of the century is the social and economic transformation of the society. …”
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Admirable Alterity on the Frontier: French Women’s Agency in the Hollywood Western (1931-1980) by Lara Cox

“…These women are understood as incarnating an “admirable alterity,” and are often compared to indigenous and Mexican women, sometimes aiding the latter in the sphere of interracial romance. These broadly positive representations of the Frenchwoman as agent and potential ally to other women would last until 1980 and Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate. …”
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Theoretical and Legal Approaches on Determining the Content of the Notion of “Health Tourism” by A. O. Podzirov

“…The content of the concept of “medical tourism” has been studied; its constituent elements have been singled out; the author’s definition of the concepts of “health tourism”, “medical tourism” has been formulated; the sphere of their law-enforcement has been defined. …”
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Needs Assessment in Intervention Programs for Rural Development by A.J. Adegbola, O.M. Olatilewa, S. Akor, O. Obarein

“…It expounded the term needs assessment, and showed the indispensable nature of the process and why it must be undertaken for success of government or donor funded intervention and projects that have relevance to rural development in all sphere. The article also delved into germane subtopics as: when and why to conduct a needs assessment; methods to conducting a needs assessment; stages involved in carrying out needs assessment; and models of needs assessment. …”
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The Promise of Cultural Diplomacy by Hedda Krausz Sjögren, Kristina Hagström-Ståhl

“…Co-authored by Krausz Sjögren and one of her collaborators during this period, a theatre director and researcher, Kristina Hagström-Ståhl, it also attempts to reflect the shared experience of collaborative work in this sphere. As such, the text is written from within a combination of diplomatic, cultural, and professional practices, as well as from within a diverse set of skills informing the practices that shaped the body of work to which the article refers. …”
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BRICS Countries Energy Cooperation. Significance of the Issue by M. O. Ryazanova

“…However, notwithstanding the possibility of the intergroup multilateralrelations in this sphere and overall strengthening of economic ties among the members, the BRICS energy cooperation iscurrently of bilateral and unequally developed nature, which is determined by a number of historically formed circumstances and national interests.…”
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Ricci Curvature for Warped Product Submanifolds of Sasakian Space Forms and Its Applications to Differential Equations by Fatemah Mofarreh, Akram Ali, Nadia Alluhaibi, Olga Belova

“…We find the necessary conditions for a base B of a C-totally real-warped product submanifold to be an isometric to the Euclidean sphere Sp.…”
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IMAGE OF A FAMILY IN TEENAGERS WHO HAVE EXPERIENCE OF LIVING IN CLOSED INSTITUTIONS by S. S. Solonchenko

“…Home teenagers give meaning to relationships, household sphere and symbols in the image of the family. The image of the family in teenagers who are raised in blood families is described in more detail than in their peers from closed institutions and foster families.…”
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Género y gestión del riesgo de desastres: análisis comparado de la agenda internacional y latinoamericana y caribeña by Ana Gabriela Fernández-Saavedra, Rosario González-Arias, Sandra Dema-Moreno

“…The article carries out a comparative documentary analysis in a double sense: on the one hand, on the incorporation of the gender perspective in the main multilateral agreements on disaster risk reduction approved in the international, Latin American, and Caribbean sphere and, on the other, on the treatment of disasters risk reduction in the equality agenda in the same territorial area. …”
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