Impact of IT on management and humans in modern conditions

The introduction of IT changes the organizational structure and all the elements of management processes, particularly the way we manage organizations. The problem is the fact that information technology is not adequately implemented in all the parts of the business process. Specifically, it is applied to the operatively executive, administrative, accounting jobs, archiving, retrieval and selection of data for planning and analysis, and its implementation is lagging behind in leadership and management. This paper aims to highlight the impact of IT on the management process, i.e. on people as the most valuable potential of each organization

Experimental Limit on the Cosmic Diffuse Ultra-high Energy Neutrino Flux

We report results from 120 hours of livetime with the Goldstone Lunar Ultra-high energy neutrino Experiment (GLUE). The experiment searches for <10 ns microwave pulses from the lunar regolith, appearing in coincidence at two large radio telescopes separated by 22 km and linked by optical fiber. Such pulses would arise from subsurface electromagnetic cascades induced by interactions of >= 100 EeV neutrinos in the lunar regolith. No candidates are yet seen, and the implied limits constrain several current models for ultra-high energy neutrino fluxes.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, revtex4 style. New intro section, Fig. 2, Fig 4; in final PRL revie

Sub-nanosecond Pulse Generation from a Two-section Laser-thyristor: Theoretical Analysis

We have developed a theoretical model of a two-section laser-thyristor. It is shown that using a 4 µm weakly doped p-base can increase blocking voltage up to 50 V, which makes it possible to generate 2 ns 10 A current pulses. It is demonstrated that the proposed device utilizes passive Q switching to generate high-power short optical pulses that account for up to 80% of output power. By picking the optimal passive section length, we have achieved optical pulses of ∼30 ps full width at half maximum (FWHM) and ∼100 W peak power. &nbsp; &nbsp; Keywords: pulsed laser, semiconductor N-p-N-i-P heterostructure, laser-thyristor, dynamic model of pulsed lase

RC J1148+0455 identification: gravitational lens or group of galaxies ?

The structure of the radio source RC B1146+052 of the ``Cold'' catalogue is investigated by data of the MIT-GB-VLA survey at 4850 MHz. This source belongs to the steep spectrum radio sources subsample of the RC catalogue. Its spectral index is $\alpha$ = -1.04. The optical image of this source obtained with 6m telescope is analysed. The radio source center is situated in a group of 8 galaxies of about 24$^m$ in the R-filter. The possible explanations of the complex structure of radio components are considered.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, uses psfig.sty. This was the poster as presented on Gamow Memorial Internat. Conference GMIC'99 "Early Universe: Cosmological Problems and Instrumental Technologies" in St.Petersburg, 23-27 Aug., 1999. Submitted to Proceedings to be published in A&A Transaction

Study of the level of public awareness about the diagnosis and prevention of hypo - and hyperparathyroidism

The article deals with such diseases as hyperparathyroidism and hypoparathyroidism. The increase in morbidity, as well as the lack of optimal treatment, which can lead to complications of patients, dictate the need to study the epidemiological and clinical structure of these diseases to determine the scope of medical care, as well as the dissemination of information about hyper- and hypoparathyroidism as endocrine diseases by the questionnaire method.В статье рассмотрены такие заболевания как гиперпаратиреоз и гипопаратиреоз. Рост заболеваемости, а также отсутствие оптимального лечения, что может привести к осложнениям пациентов диктуют необходимость изучения эпидемиологической и клинической структуры данных заболеваний для определения объема медицинской помощи, а также распространение информации о гипер- и гипопаратиреозе как эндокринных заболеваниях методом анкетирования

Self-healing polyurethane-polypropylene oxide copolymers for the protection of carbon and glass fiber-reinforced composites

Polyurethane-polypropylene oxide block copolymers containing fragments of an adduct capable of self-healing by the Diels-Alder reaction mechanism have been synthesized and studied for the first time. All obtained polyurethane copolymers were characterized by IR spectroscopy. The temperature transitions and thermal stability of copolymer melts were determined by using the methods of differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetric analysis. The self-healing effect was confirmed using a thermal cycling procedure on pre-damaged samples of modified polyurethanes and surface morphology studies. The perspective of the work begun on the creation of self-healing protective polyurethane coatings are shown

RATAN-600 7.6-cm Deep Sky Strip Surveys at the Declination of the SS433 Source During the 1980-1999 Period. Data Reduction and the Catalog of Radio Sources in the Right-Ascension Interval 7h < R.A. < 17h

We use two independent methods to reduce the data of the surveys made with RATAN-600 radio telescope at 7.6 cm in 1988-1999 at the declination of the SS433 source. We also reprocess the data of the "Cold" survey (1980-1981). The resulting RCR (RATAN COLD REFINED) catalog contains the right ascensions and fluxes of objects identified with those of the NVSS catalog in the right-ascension interval 7h < R.A. < 17h. We obtain the spectra of the radio sources and determine their spectral indices at 3.94 and 0.5 GHz. The spectra are based on the data from all known catalogs available from the CATS, Vizier, and NED databases, and the flux estimates inferred from the maps of the VLSS and GB6 surveys. For 245 of the 550 objects of the RCR catalog the fluxes are known at two frequencies only: 3.94 GHz (RCR) and 1.4 GHz (NVSS). These are mostly sources with fluxes smaller than 30 mJy. About 65% of these sources have flat or inverse spectra (alpha > -0.5). We analyze the reliability of the results obtained for the entire list of objects and construct the histograms of the spectral indices and fluxes of the sources. Our main conclusion is that all 10-15 mJy objects found in the considered right-ascension interval were already included in the decimeter-wave catalogs.Comment: 26 pages, 18 figure

Radio Spectra of Giant Radio Galaxies from RATAN-600 Data

Measurements of the flux densities of the extended components of seven giant radio galaxies obtained using the RATAN-600 radio telescope at wavelengths of 6.25 and 13 cm ar e presented. The spectra of components of these radio galaxies are constructed using these new RA TAN-600 data together with data from the WENSS, NVSS, and GB6 surveys. The spectral indices in the stu died frequency range are calculated, and the need for detailed estimates of the integrated contributi on of such objects to the background emission is demonstrated.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, 5 table