Zamyatin's Reception of Wells's Fiction

In their article "Zamyatin's Reception of Well's Fiction," Natalia Aksenova and Marina Albertovna Khatyamova examine several essays written by Yevgeny Zamyatin on Herbert Wells's texts and analyse Zamyatin's reception of Wells's work. Wells's ironic mindset, plot-driven writings, and attraction to parody drew Zamyatin's attention. Zamyatin felt a rapport with the central role of plot dynamics, unorthodox socialist politics, and dystopian tendencies in Wells's fiction. Discussions of the artistic qualities of Wells's writings allow Zamyatin to expound upon his own aesthetic program, known as "synthetism." In these discussions Zamyatin interprets Wells's work as a complex interpretation of technological modernity where the line between humans and gods is actively blurred, and traces the origins of Wellsian fiction to his predecessors, mostly English-language adventure writers. In doing so, Zamyatin gives Wells credit for extending the typical adventure novel into a philosophical realm while keeping it entertaining and captivating. Furthermore, in terms of the reimagining of the Apollonian and Dionisyan opposition as an opposition between English and Irish in Zamyatin's "English stories" of the same period, Wells is read as a typical Englishman: an unorthodox heretic. Ultimately, it becomes clear that these are the qualities that Zamyatin values most in Wells

Application of the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) for development of a financial organization ontology

The article considers an approach to a formalized description and meaning harmonization for financial terms and means of semantic modeling. Ontologies for the semantic models are described with the help of special languages developed for the Semantic Web. Results of FIBO application to solution of different tasks in the Russian financial sector are given

Structural features and formation of lower Cretaceous AV[1] layer in the Soviet oil field (Tomsk Oblast)

The analysis of the collected geological and geophysical information on AV[1] layer known as Ryabchik formation is carried out. The facial conditions of this formation which define structural features of "Ryabchik" sandstones formations are considered. Maps characterizing permeability and porosity of reservoir are plotted. Areal tracking technique of sand streaks is given

Developing Student's Motivation to Learn Foreign Language in Tertiary Classroom and Beyond

Correction of time deficit in acquiring the required level of command of English is possible only due to more active use ofextramural activities: student's independent work and project work. Unfortunately, many students, especially those at a lowerlevels of command of language have insufficient motivation to continue their learning. The aim of the paper is to present a setof techniques used to boost motivation to learn English among students of engineering tertiary school. The techniques usedwere partially borrowed from secondary and primary school practice and adapted to suit the new demographics. At the heart ofthe method is the notion to make students use language outside classroom in preselected but non-adapted context: readingexcerpts from Wikipedia, declamation, creative tasks. It is further informed by psychology and builds upon feeling of fulfillmentbinding it with studying English. The method was applied to several group of engineering students and resulted in someincrease in attendance and significant increase in attempts at homework which we interpret as indicators of increasedmotivation. Intensive use of different games, unusual tasks and assignments allowed students to show their creative ability andimagination. The use of authentic materials while a naturally more challenging task is more rewarding not only from linguisticpoint of view, but motivationally as well. Many students regardless their level of English are interested in technology andresults of modern research. This interest may and should be used to boost motivation

Application of numerical signal differentiation methods to determine statio-narity of A process

Among important tasks requiring their solution when creating an integrated mathematical model of a major oil pipeline is a problem to determine stationary character of different processes in the pipeline. Importance of this task is defined by the fact that both mathematical description and analysis of stationary and non-stationary processes may significantly differ. Mathematical models of stationary processes (modes, objects) are as a rule significantly less complex than the models of nonstationary processes. For example, they may often be described by systems of linear equations which are easy to solve, while for nonstationary processes the researcher has to solve a system of differential equations of different orders, which a much more difficult and laborious task. It is obvious that there is a necessity to not just identify the process as a stationary or nonstationary, but also precisely determine the moment when it starts changing its stationary state to the opposite type. Meeting this requirement is linked to necessity to timely employ mathematical apparatus corresponding to the current process. In this paper, we propose a new method for the determination of stationary processes, based on the application of the algorithm of numerical differentiation of signals (NDS) using a moving quadratic approximation and pseudoinverse matrices. A wide spectrum of applications that need to identify the intervals of stationary regimes of observed and/or controlled processes, as well as a variety of conditions in which the mentioned intervals should be estimated, determine the relevance of improvement of existing and creation of new methods for solving the problem under discussion. The essence of the method lies in the fact that, during the analysis of stationarity of processes, we take into account not only the values of the signal itself, but also the values of its first and second derivatives. This approach opens up the opportunities to determine the boundaries of the regime of controlled process more precisely and to predict the behavior of process in time. We present the formulation of the real-time NDS problem and the description of the proposed algorithm for its solution, as well as the description of some of the results of research and a new method of determining intervals of stationary processes based on the proposed NDS algorithm, and comparison of the proposed method with well-known in mathematical statistics method for determining the stationary processes based on the use of the criterion of inversion. The proposed method allows to calculate precisely the values of derivatives, as well as to determine the modes of stationary processes of real objects. The method has significantly higher noise immunity in comparison with the methods based on the use of classical statistical tests of stationarity. We recommend applying the proposed method for the development of mathematical models of complex dynamic objects operating in real tim

Indirect measurement of flow of liquid pumped with pump packages

This paper discusses some research results for indirect measurement methods for pump packagesbased on their head-capacity curves. The paper shows the results of experimental research intoindirect measurement by approximation of vertical lift performance of a pump package with algebraicpolynomials of 2nd and 3rd order illustrating their applicability to solution of tasks pertaining toretrospective estimation of polynomial coefficients for the vertical lift performance approximation.Values of relative errors for indirect measurement of transferred liquid flow with such polynomialsare given