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We study the humanities alongside other academic fields so that students can apply their skills in various areas.

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We maintain active international ties, which allows students to undertake internships and study abroad, as well as broaden their outlook and cultural experiences.

**3. Research

We encourage and support student participation in research projects. This gives them an opportunity to apply their knowledge in practice and make a contribution to the development of the humanities.

Our graduates pursue careers in public and commercial organisations and various types of mass media. They also implement their own media, cultural, social, and educational projects.

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One paragraph description of the project’s scope and content
Societies are systems composed of a great number of various social institutions. Societies change as a result of emergence, transformation, and interaction of institutions. As systems of social institutions, societies have a fundamental characteristic that can be called a “basic principle of societal organization.” The principle of organization a society embodies depends on the way its institutions are arranged with respect to one another. Two basic principles can be distinguished: heterarchical, at which institutions interact being unranked with respect to one another or can be ranked in different ways, and the opposite principle, homoarchical, at which institutions interact being rigidly ranked in the only way and have no or very limited potential for being unranked or ranked in other ways. Societies of the same level of overall cultural complexity and with the same basic principle of organization can take different specific forms, as alternativeness exists not only between but also within the heterarchical and homoarchical macrogroups of societies. The division of societies into predominantly heterarchical and homoarchical is a constant fact of human sociocultural history. The dichotomy of heterarchy and homoarchy has considerably determined the non-linear and alternative nature of the global sociocultural process. This book examines the varied modes of interaction between societies shaped by different organizational principles, in a variety of historical and regional contexts.
L.; NY: Anthem Press, 2026.
Background
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Down syndrome (DS) are among the most common types of neurodevelopmental conditions that have co-occurring language impairments. Usually, non-verbal IQ has been reported as one of the main predictors of language functioning in children with these conditions. Although language abilities of children with ASD and DS have been described in the previous studies, there is still a lack of direct comparisons of language profiles in the non-verbal IQ-matched groups of children with these disorders, and, therefore, it is largely unexplored whether language difficulties in these populations are of similar or different origins.
Aims
The study provided a direct comparison of language profiles in non-verbal IQ-matched children with ASD and DS at different linguistic levels (phonology, vocabulary and morphosyntax) in both production and comprehension and explored the influence of different psycholinguistic variables on accuracy. Also, the study assessed whether non-language factors (non-verbal IQ and age) influence language skills in both groups of children.
Methods and Procedures
In total, 60 children participated in the study: 20 children with ASD, 20 children with DS and 20 typically developing controls (7–11 years old; all groups were age-matched). The language testing included seven tests from the Russian Child Language Assessment Battery, assessing expressive and receptive language skills at phonological, lexical and morphosyntactic levels.
Outcomes and Results
Overall, we revealed both similarities and differences in language profiles between children with ASD and DS. At the group performance level, children with ASD and DS were comparable in vocabulary and syntax but differed in phonological processing, on which children with ASD had higher accuracy. Some psycholinguistic variables that influenced accuracy in language test performance were present uniquely in the ASD group: for example, autistic children struggled more with verbs than nouns in naming or comprehended sentences with canonical SVO word order more accurately than sentences with noncanonical OVS word order. In comparison to children with DS, in the ASD group, non-verbal IQ was related to language skills in three out of seven tests, with evidence of a positive association between them.
Conclusions and Implications
This study provided new insights on the differences in language profiles of non-verbal IQ-matched children with ASD and DS and identified specific impairments related to linguistic levels and structural language characteristics in each group. These findings contributed to speech and language therapy strategies, as they highlighted specific ‘linguistic deficits’ that should be targeted during intervention and therapy.
International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders. 2026. Vol. 61. No. 1. P. 1-14.
Book chapter
Александрова А. К.
The example of the interactions between the Church of Greece and the state, both historically and in recent years, shows the dichotomy of homoarchy and heterarchy. The contemporary Greek state, established two centuries ago, has steadily shifted towards heterarchy throughout this period, especially in recent decades once the European integration began, the EU being a heterarchical organization. At the same time, the homoarchical institution of the Church is deeply integrated with the state. The role the Church played historically determined its connection with the Greek nation and state, and Orthodox Christianity was established as a cornerstone of the Greek national identity. The political drive to deeper integration with the EU is a challenge for the Church, since its traditional values do not always mesh with the democratic norms of contemporary European Union and the Greek identity inevitably has a significant religious component, recently supplemented by an element of a shared European identity.
Presently, the contemporary Greek heterarchical state, integrated into equally heterarchical EU is very carefully and slowly, but consistently, attempting to push the Church out of the state system. This confirms to the previously mentioned trend – the more homoarchical the state is, the closer its connection to the Church (it was the strongest during the absolutist Bavarian rule and under the Regime of the Colonels), and, conversely, the more heterarchical the state becomes, the more problematic its connection with the Church.
In bk.: Principles and Forms of Sociocultural Organization: Historical Contexts of Interaction. L.; NY: Anthem Press, 2026. Ch. 9. P. 177-197.
In this paper, I apply linguistic methods of analysis to non-linguistic data, chess plays, metaphorically equating one with the other and seeking analogies. Chess game notations are also a kind of text, and one can consider the records of moves or positions of pieces as words and statements in a certain language. In this article I show how word embeddings (word2vec) can work on chess game texts instead of natural language texts. I don't see how this representation of chess data can be used productively. It's unlikely that these vector models will help engines or people choose the best move. But in a purely academic sense, it's clear that such methods of information representation capture something important about the very nature of the game, which doesn't necessarily lead to a win.
arxiv.org. Computer Science. Cornell University, 2024

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