The preliminary results of interdisciplinary research on the basic socio-economic and socio-cultural factors necessary for accurate and comprehensive assessment of human capital at the level of certain territories of Yenisei Siberia are presented. The parameters of socio-economic and socio-cultural development for these territories are considered through the methods of indices and statistics. The estimates of the significance of social diversity effects in the context of inter-regional comparisons and dynamic changes are made. The results obtained at different levels of the hierarchy are also benchmarked and discussed. The considered socio-economic indicators and socio-cultural factors are analyzed regarding their influence on the level, dynamics and quality of human capit
The article presents the results of the analysis and quantitative assessment of the phonetic variation of English in selected countries of East Asia. We adapt Levenshtein's approach to the numerical description of linguistic distances to determine the degree of phonetic differences, based on the analysis of the phonetic transcriptions of words from the Swadesh list. The work uses methods of multidimensional scaling to visualize the results of the study. The obtained quantitative estimates demonstrate a high degree of robustness both in relation to the applied measurement methods, and in relation to the degree of detail of accounting for detected phonetic differences, as well as to (small) changes in the size used to construct vocabulary estimates. The results allow us to estimate the degree of mutual remoteness of the considered phonetic “variations” of the English language (for native speakers of Chinese, Korean and Japanese) and its “standard”. The constructed matrices of phonetic distances can further be used as “proxies” in empirical studies of the interaction potential of the respective countries.
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