Subjective well-being significantly influences migrant students' academic performance, the attractiveness of the host region, and their self-assessed quality of life. This study aimed to establish the relationship between subjective wellbeing, linguistic development, and academic outcomes among international students in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, with a focus on identifying socially responsible practices that support their adaptation and continued studies. A quantitative survey conducted at three universities (n=324) examined motivations for choosing a university, barriers to adaptation, and factors connected to well-being and academic success. The findings show that the leading motivations for choosing a Russian university were the price-to-quality ratio, opportunities related to language and work, perceived quality of education, and the influence of the social environment, including recommendations from friends and relatives. Among the barriers, students identified several social and institutional factors, such as tuition fees (44.7%), language proficiency challenges, dormitory availability (55.8%), limited opportunities to study Russian (25.6%), and concerns about safety at the university (10.1%). Respondents noted that their desire to continue studying at their chosen institution would increase if universities and city authorities paid more systematic attention to the needs of international students and applied social work approaches tailored to their experiences. Overall, the study indicates that subjective well-being acts as a lever for strengthening the sustainable competitiveness of regional universities. Policies aimed at attracting and retaining international students should integrate social work measures that create a comfortable environment for communication and living, support linguistic and cultural development, expand employment opportunities, and provide clear legal guarantees.
Subset V 1pt ' ⊂ V(G) is called a ε -dominating set of vertices of graph G with neighborhood ε if for any vertex v ∈ V\ V 1pt ' there is vertex u ∈ V 1pt ' such that the length of the shortest path connecting these vertices d( u,v ) ⩽ ε ; δ_ε(G) is the number of vertices in the minimal ε -dominating set; δ_ε(G) = 1 for r( G ) ⩽ε⩽ d( G ) ; for ε < r(G) the numbers δ_ε(G) > 1 , but the calculation of δ_1(G) = δ (G) is an NP‑complete problem. This paper considers class of trees t_d^ρ of diameter d whose degrees of all internal vertices are equal to ρ . Constructive descriptions of trees t ∈ t_d^ρ are given. Procedures are developed for computing the values of δ_ε(t) in the range 1 ⩽ε < r( t ) . Asymptotic estimates are established for δ_ε(t) and their proportion of the total number of vertices in t ∈ t_d^ρ as d →∞ . Computational examples are given.
This study is a natural continuation of the description of the lexical devices employed to create personification in V. Malenko’s poetic texts. The object of the analysis is the grammatical means of expressing personification in his poems. The article aims to identify the structural semantic variants of these devices and to describe the conditions of their functioning which facilitate the personification of inanimate objects. The source material for this research was V. Malenko’s poetry collections "The Sea Rises in Different Ways" and "Electric Poems". To examine the linguistic material, we used structural-semantic, componential, and comparative analysis. The study shows that even though the lexical factor has the major role in creating the living world image, substantive prepositional-nominal forms are also actively involved in the process. They either directly express the semantics of the subject or contribute to its formation in inanimate nouns through the meanings of purpose, instrument, or compatibility. The personification function was identified in reflexive verbs with the meaning of reciprocal-reflexive action of persons as well as in imperative mood forms. These morphological devices function together within a specific syntactic structure which ensures the necessary semantic and grammatical connections between word forms. The specialised syntactic means of personification include constructions with subordinate clauses of purpose when the goal-setting subject is non-human as well as constructions with nouns of direct address and direct speech coming from an inanimate object or addressed to it. The semantic basis for such constructions often lies in the semantisation of the formal grammatical gender of inanimate nouns. The article concludes that personification semantics formation stems from the functional interaction between the lexical and grammatical language resources. The studied poetic discourse, whose elements reveal diverse semantic and figurative connections, convincingly demonstrates the field organisation of the animacy/inanimacy category. Moreover, the significance of a particular linguistic means type varies across different poetic texts.
Introduction. This article explores the functional characteristics of lexical-semantic groups in literary texts. The study is based on the anthropological approach, which is relevant in contemporary linguistics. The source of the material is Yevgeny Zamyatin’s dystopian novel. The focus was on the lexical-semantic group “Materials”. The objectives of the study were to determine the composition and structure of this group, identify the individual authorial components of meaning in the meanings of its components, and describe their systemic connections. Methods. The study utilizes component and contextual analysis, as well as a semantic-stylistic approach. Results. The functional characteristics of this group in the novel “We”. As a result, it was concluded that the lexical-semantic group “Materials” serves as a reflection of a significant fragment of the individual author’s picture of the world. The words that make up this group develop contextual meanings that are actualized under the influence of the immediate syntagmatic environment and are conditioned by the influence of a number of extralinguistic factors: the ideological views of the writer, the genre nature of the text, its ideological and artistic originality and compositional features. The functioning of the words of the group under consideration is connected with the antithetical construction of a dystopia, where two artistic realities are contrasted: the world of the One State and the society beyond its borders. This construction led to the formation of contextual antonyms, as well as specific synonymous series that combine adjectives with qualitative meanings. Conclusion. The study showed that the aesthetic function of a lexical-semantic group in a literary text is associated with the development of individual authorial components of meaning in the meanings of its constituent components, and is determined by the author’s communicative intent and the specific organization of the artistic world of the work.
