Humaneness and creativity in the moral development of young people

Humaneness is a manifestation of morals. The present paper discusses the problem of overcoming moral crisis in modern society and analyses the development of humaneness and creativity in the moral development of young people. Features of self-actualizing personality in foreign humanistic psychology do not correspond to the concept of moral personality in domestic psychology. The analysis demonstrated differences in approaches to the concepts of “humaneness” and “creativity”. The empirical study carried out in 2012–2016 involved 992 persons. The obtained results revealed average levels of young people’s humaneness and creativity. Moreover, psychology and pedagogy students and young experts (especially girls) had lower rates of “good” and “evil” functions than respondents in other samples. Hence, moral development and a moral choice between good and evil are especially important in the formation of professionally significant qualities of future pedagogues and psychologists. The data showed (a) the negative correlation among creativity, “good”, and “humaneness factor”, (b) the positive correlation between creativity and “evil”. The development of young people’s creativity decreases the level of moral development by the factor of humaneness. The theoretical analysis and the findings from the empirical study of the association between humaneness and creativity established the necessity of critical understanding of foreign humanistic psychological propositions, because of their contradiction with the person’s realization of enduring universal moral principles and norms. The formation of the ability to assess what is going on according to the criteria of humaneness is required to support the personal development of young people

Sustainable architecture: trends in higher professional architectures’ education

In the article we tried to investigate theoretical ideas concerning actual students’ reasons for education in the field of architecture in frame of the second level of higher professional education system. We present the results of survey that we conducted last year. We collected data about students’ reasons to enrol for architectures’ and others master programmes and their expectations of programmes’ content, programmes’ volume, curriculum structure, placement periods. We analysed the teaching methods, structure and trends in architecture’s master programmes that was legally introduced by government standards. As a result, we concluded that the changes of education standards mostly meet expectations of master programmes contenders. However, the contenders will succeed in higher school only if their motivation is enough strong and appropriate

The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management

Risk management has reduced vulnerability to floods and droughts globally1,2, yet their impacts are still increasing3. An improved understanding of the causes of changing impacts is therefore needed, but has been hampered by a lack of empirical data4,5. On the basis of a global dataset of 45 pairs of events that occurred within the same area, we show that risk management generally reduces the impacts of floods and droughts but faces difficulties in reducing the impacts of unprecedented events of a magnitude not previously experienced. If the second event was much more hazardous than the first, its impact was almost always higher. This is because management was not designed to deal with such extreme events: for example, they exceeded the design levels of levees and reservoirs. In two success stories, the impact of the second, more hazardous, event was lower, as a result of improved risk management governance and high investment in integrated management. The observed difficulty of managing unprecedented events is alarming, given that more extreme hydrological events are projected owing to climate change3

Panta Rhei benchmark dataset: socio-hydrological data of paired events of floods and droughts

As the adverse impacts of hydrological extremes increase in many regions of the world, a better understanding of the drivers of changes in risk and impacts is essential for effective flood and drought risk management and climate adaptation. However, there is currently a lack of comprehensive, empirical data about the processes, interactions and feedbacks in complex human-water systems leading to flood and drought impacts. Here we present a benchmark dataset containing socio-hydrological data of paired events, i.e., two floods or two droughts that occurred in the same area. The 45 paired events occurred in 42 different study areas and cover a wide range of socio-economic and hydro-climatic conditions. The dataset is unique in covering both floods and droughts, in the number of cases assessed, and in the quantity of socio-hydrological data. The benchmark dataset comprises: 1) detailed review style reports about the events and key processes between the two events of a pair; 2) the key data table containing variables that assess the indicators which characterise management shortcomings, hazard, exposure, vulnerability and impacts of all events; 3) a table of the indicators-of-change that indicate the differences between the first and second event of a pair. The advantages of the dataset are that it enables comparative analyses across all the paired events based on the indicators-of-change and allows for detailed context- and location-specific assessments based on the extensive data and reports of the individual study areas. The dataset can be used by the scientific community for exploratory data analyses e.g. focused on causal links between risk management, changes in hazard, exposure and vulnerability and flood or drought impacts. The data can also be used for the development, calibration and validation of socio-hydrological models. The dataset is available to the public through the GFZ Data Services (Kreibich et al. 2023, link for review: https://dataservices.gfz-potsdam.de/panmetaworks/review/923c14519deb04f83815ce108b48dd2581d57b90ce069bec9c948361028b8c85/).</p

Influence of the Dielectric Coating of the Outer Side of the Cathode in the Anode&ndash;Cathode Pairs of a Molecular Electronic Sensitive Element on the Conversion Coefficient

Molecular electronic sensors of motion parameters use miniature electrochemical cells as a sensitive element, in which the interelectrode current is sensitive to external mechanical influences. New approaches for creating conversion elements are based on precision methods of micromachining materials. The use of new technologies has opened up the possibility of creating sensitive elements with configurations that have not been previously studied, and for which there is no clear understanding of the regularities that determine the output parameters depending on the geometry of the conversion elements. This work studies the influence of the dielectric coating on the surface of the cathodes on the conversion coefficient. The transforming structure has been made from three plates. The outer plates were an anode&ndash;cathode electrode pair. The middle plate served as a separator between the pairs of electrodes. It was found that an insulating layer on the side of the cathode facing away from the adjacent anode allows the conversion factor to be doubled. This result is applicable for a wide class of conversion elements made with microelectronic technologies, as well as structures made of mesh electrodes

Methods for assessing the value of innovative industrial products in agribusiness

The purpose of this study is to develop a methodology for assessing the cost of innovative products in the field of industrial production in agribusiness, adequate to the processes of reducing the life cycle of innovations and increasing the share of the intellectual component in its value. A multifactor model for assessing the value of industrial products has been formed, on the basis of which a system of assessment criteria has been developed, covering the functional orientation and degree of radicalism of innovation. As a result, a comprehensive analytical model for assessing the value of the intellectual component of innovative industrial products in agribusiness was obtained, covering commodity, product, technological, organizational, and managerialgroups

Sustainable architecture: trends in higher professional architectures’ education

In the article we tried to investigate theoretical ideas concerning actual students’ reasons for education in the field of architecture in frame of the second level of higher professional education system. We present the results of survey that we conducted last year. We collected data about students’ reasons to enrol for architectures’ and others master programmes and their expectations of programmes’ content, programmes’ volume, curriculum structure, placement periods. We analysed the teaching methods, structure and trends in architecture’s master programmes that was legally introduced by government standards. As a result, we concluded that the changes of education standards mostly meet expectations of master programmes contenders. However, the contenders will succeed in higher school only if their motivation is enough strong and appropriate

New Kinds of Sapropel and Peat Based Fertilizers

New types of fertilizers based on peat and sapropel were developed and can be used as solid and liquid forms of organic and organicmineral fertilizers and preparations for different crop cultivation. It was shown that use of SAPROAgro and SAPROЕlixir fertilizers increases productivity of agricultural plants by 9-16 %. Use of EleGum liquid humic microelement fertilizers provides an increase of winter wheat grain yield up to 0.88 t ha-1 , maize green mass up to 5.0 t ha-1 and maize grain to 2.06 t ha-

River ice phenology and thickness from satellite altimetry: potential for ice bridge road operation and climate studies

International audienceRiver ice is a key component of the cryosphere. Satellite monitoring of river ice is a rapidly developing area of scientific enquiry, which has wide-ranging implications for climate, environmental and socioeconomic applications. Spaceborne radar altimetry is widely used for monitoring river water regimes; however, its potential for the observation of river ice processes and properties has not been demonstrated yet. Using Ku-band backscatter measurements from the Jason-2 and Jason-3 satellite missions (2008-2019), we demonstrate the potential of radar altimetry for the retrieval of river ice phenology dates and ice thickness for the first time. The altimetric measurements were determined to be sensitive enough to detect the first appearance of ice and the beginning of thermal breakup on the lower Ob River (Western Siberia). The uncertainties in the retrieval of ice event timing were within the 10 d repeat cycle of Jason-2 and Jason-3 in 88 %-90 % of the cases analysed. The uncertainties in the river ice thickness retrievals made via empirical relations between the satellite backscatter measurements and in situ observations, expressed as the root mean square error (RMSE), were of 0.07-0.18 m. A novel application of radar altimetry is the prediction of ice bridge road operations, which is demonstrated herein. We established that the dates of ferry closing and ice road opening and closing in the city of Salekhard can be predicted with an accuracy (expressed as RMSE) of 3-5 d