Aim. To study the key forms of existence and functioning ideology in modern Russian society. Methodology . The main methods research are systematic, comparative, phenomenological. Results. There de facto two Russia. This is official ideology, dominant social groups, which liberalism (but at same time there no jure Russia cannot be), catacomb inherent groups that do not occupy positions economic...

SCIENCE CONTINUES It was no just in relationship to commerce, industry and social welfare, however, that the great scientific achievements of the nineteenth century had an impact. By this time the perspectives of the Enlightenment had so affected both philosophy and science that the climate was more favorable than ever for asking totally new kinds of questions and for challenging old assumption...

As information becomes available for many groups of organisms a general pattern of phylogenetic conservatism in ecological characters or morphological traits is now widely recognized. Conversely, conservatism of external ecological attributes throughout a lineage is still a contentious theme in ecology. Moreover, the studies exploring this topic have focused on free-living organisms, and have i...

UNLABELLED The conservatism of conservatism (CoC) database presents statistically analyzed information about the conservation of residue positions in folds across protein families. AVAILABILITY On the web at http://kulibin.mit.edu/coc/

Recent authors have reported a relationship between women's fertility status, as indexed by menstrual cycle phase, and conservatism in moral, social and political values. We conducted a survey to test for the existence of a relationship between menstrual cycle day and conservatism. 2213 women reporting regular menstrual cycles provided data about their political views. Of these women, 2208 prov...

Evidence suggests that politically right-leaning individuals are more likely to be closed-minded. Whether this association is inherent or subject change has been the of debate, yet not formally tested. Through a meta-analysis, we find evidence changing between conservatism and facets closed-mindedness in U.S. international context using 341 unique sa...

We study the effect of the mandatory adoption of IFRS in Europe in 2005 on conditional conservatism. To capture conditional conservatism, we use three measures: the Basu (1997) measure, the Khan and Watts (2009) measure, and a measure controlling for potential shifts in unconditional conservatism and cost of capital after the adoption of IFRS. From a sample of 7,251 firm-year observations drawn...

Abstract: This paper examines the extent to which professional forecasters exhibit conservatism in their announced inflation forecasts. Conservatism occurs as a result of a secondary objective captured in the forecaster’s loss function: they would like to avoid having large forecast errors, but also would like to avoid making large revisions to previously announced forecasts. As a result of for...