Publications
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Book
The Innovation Competitiveness of BRICS Countries
The book is devoted to the assessment of innovation competitiveness of BRICS countries. It covers different aspects of science, technology and innovation in BRICS including status of STI in each country, the intra-BRICS collaboration in the field of STI, prospects of collaboration with BRICS+ countries, as well as a special chapter covering innovation development of BRICS in ICT. The book presents chapters authored by leading experts in STI policy and analysis from BRICS countries. The key questions addressed in the book cover peculiarities of national innovation systems of BRICS countries, their science, technology and innovation policies.
Springer, 2025.
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Article
Neurocognitive mechanisms of source credibility: how work experience and patient ratings modulate the processing of medical veracity cues
Inroduction:
Source credibility is fundamental to how medical information is processed,yet the underlying neurocognitive mechanisms remain poorly understood. We investigated how two credibility cues — a doctor’s expertise (years of work experience) and aggregate patient ratings (star ratings) — modulate brain responses to veracity cues (‘True’ vs. ‘False’) presented after health- related headlines.
Methods:
We recorded EEG from 36 participants while they evaluated true and false headlines across various medical topics (e.g., vitamins, GMOs, vaccination). Each headline was paired with a fictional doctor’s profile that systematically varied in expertise (work experience) and patient ratings (star ratings).
Results:
Behaviorally, while both doctors’ characteristics predicted opinion change and persuasiveness of veracity cues, patient ratings exerted a significantly stronger effect than work experience only on the persuasiveness of veracity cues. Critically, ‘False’ cues elicited a significantly stronger FRN(RewP)-like response when delivered by highly rated doctors compared to less rated ones; no such modulation was observed for ‘True’ cues. Source localization using standardized low-resolution electromagnetic tomography (sLORETA) identified frontal and posterior medial cortices as the likely neural generators of this effect.
Discussion:
Overall, our findings suggest that source credibility cues modulate the effectiveness of medical veracity feedback, revealing distinct neurocognitive mechanisms that underpin how credibility differentially shapes the processing confirmatory and disconfirmatory cues.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 2026. No. 20.
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Book chapter
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Working paper
EXPLORING ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN PARKING OCCUPANCY RATE AT RESIDENTIAL ESTATES AND SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS. THE CASE OF YEKATERINBURG
Financial losses due to low demand for parking spaces in garages at residential estates is a key motivation for this research. The purpose of this paper in particular is to statistically explore the relationship between parking occupancy rates and various factors on transport supply, characteristics of location and the building. The occupancy rate of parking was measured as the ratio of actual number of cars to total number of parking spaces. The fieldwork on counting occupied parking spaces was conducted 2 times per day during a week on a sample of 13 locations in different areas of a 1.4-million Yekaterinburg city in Russia. 4700 observed parking spaces give sample size of 173 records. Statistical analysis shows that the crow-fly distance to the city center as well as the number of public transport stops are strongly associated with occupancy rate for parking. Also, occupancy rate is much more affected by the type of parking ownership. Private owning means purchase of a parking space or renting it while public ownership suggests free access. So private parking means a 45% decline in occupancy compared to the public parking regime. Research provides empirical results and some theoretical underpinnings are also highlighted.Urban and Transportation Studies. URB. НИУ ВШЭ, 2020. No. 9.
About the School
Vysokovsky Graduate School of Urbanism (GSU) is a learning and research division of the Faculty of Urban and Regional Development of HSE University. Founded in 2011, the School takes a multidisciplinary approach towards studying and planning modern cities, using the excellent foundation that one of Russia’s top universities has formed in the humanities and socioeconomics. The School’s mission is to create a centre in Russia for learning and research in urban studies and urban planning. It is envisioned that this centre will respond to the needs of the 21st century city and the corresponding era of megacities that are home to tens of millions of people with diverse interests and aspirations.
School in Figures
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175+
enrolled students every year
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150+
experts in various fields of urban development
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20+
partnerships with international and Russian organizations and universities
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70+
lecturers
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350+
graduates
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10+
expeditions to Russian regions