HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE IMAGE OF THE KAZAN VIRGIN IN THE EDUCATION OF SPIRITUALITY, MORALITY, AND PATRIOTISM

Purpose: The article presents an analysis of the historical values and roles of the Kazan Virgin in the formation and development of the Russian state, the spiritual, moral and patriotic education of citizens and, above all, the younger generation of the country through the prism of the modern socio-cultural situation. Methodology: The study implemented the principle of consistency, the principle of objectivity, the principle of the subject-subject approach. Result: The Kazan Icon of Holy Virgin, the significance of which cannot be overestimated, is a very strong image that has protected the Russian land from foreign invaders from time immemorial. Not only ordinary people prayed to her, but also princes, kings. Particular emphasis is placed on the consideration of the educational component in the modern system of national education, the formation and development of appropriate values and orientations of students, systems of spiritual and moral values, civic identity, the place of spirituality and spiritual culture in the personality structure. The authors substantiate the importance of the image of the Kazan Virgin in solving the problem of spiritual, moral and patriotic education of the population. Applications: This research can be used for universities, teachers, and students. Novelty/Originality: In this research, the model of Historical Significance of the Image of the Kazan Virgin in the Education of Spirituality, Morality, and Patriotism is presented in a comprehensive and complete manner

A new, purely photometric method for determination of resonance locations in spiral galaxies

The knowledge of the positions of the corotation resonance in spiral arms is a key way to estimate their pattern speed, which is a fundamental parameter determining the galaxy dynamics. Various methods for its estimation have been developed, but they all demonstrate certain limitations and a lack of agreement with each other. Here, we present a new method for estimating the corotation radius. This method takes into account the shape of the profile across the arm and its width and, thus, only photometric data is needed. The significance of the method is that it can potentially be used for the farthest galaxies with measurable spiral arms. We apply it to a sample of local galaxies from Savchenko et al. and compare the obtained corotation radii with those previously measured in the literature by other methods. Our results are in good agreement with the literature. We also apply the new method to distant galaxies from the COSMOS field. For the first time, corotation locations for galaxies with photometric redshifts up to $z\sim0.9$ are measured.Comment: accepted in MNRAS Letter

Reaction rates and transport in neutron stars

Understanding signals from neutron stars requires knowledge about the transport inside the star. We review the transport properties and the underlying reaction rates of dense hadronic and quark matter in the crust and the core of neutron stars and point out open problems and future directions.Comment: 74 pages; commissioned for the book "Physics and Astrophysics of Neutron Stars", NewCompStar COST Action MP1304; version 3: minor changes, references updated, overview graphic added in the introduction, improvements in Sec IV.A.

The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes

This is the final version. Available on open access from Nature Research via the DOI in this recordData availability: All collapsed and paired-end sequence data for samples sequenced in this study are available in compressed fastq format through the European Nucleotide Archive under accession number PRJEB44430, together with rescaled and trimmed bam sequence alignments against both the nuclear and mitochondrial horse reference genomes. Previously published ancient data used in this study are available under accession numbers PRJEB7537, PRJEB10098, PRJEB10854, PRJEB22390 and PRJEB31613, and detailed in Supplementary Table 1. The genomes of ten modern horses, publicly available, were also accessed as indicated in their corresponding original publications57,61,85-87.NOTE: see the published version available via the DOI in this record for the full list of authorsDomestication of horses fundamentally transformed long-range mobility and warfare. However, modern domesticated breeds do not descend from the earliest domestic horse lineage associated with archaeological evidence of bridling, milking and corralling at Botai, Central Asia around 3500 BC. Other longstanding candidate regions for horse domestication, such as Iberia and Anatolia, have also recently been challenged. Thus, the genetic, geographic and temporal origins of modern domestic horses have remained unknown. Here we pinpoint the Western Eurasian steppes, especially the lower Volga-Don region, as the homeland of modern domestic horses. Furthermore, we map the population changes accompanying domestication from 273 ancient horse genomes. This reveals that modern domestic horses ultimately replaced almost all other local populations as they expanded rapidly across Eurasia from about 2000 BC, synchronously with equestrian material culture, including Sintashta spoke-wheeled chariots. We find that equestrianism involved strong selection for critical locomotor and behavioural adaptations at the GSDMC and ZFPM1 genes. Our results reject the commonly held association between horseback riding and the massive expansion of Yamnaya steppe pastoralists into Europe around 3000 BC driving the spread of Indo-European languages. This contrasts with the scenario in Asia where Indo-Iranian languages, chariots and horses spread together, following the early second millennium BC Sintashta culture

DISTINCTIONS OF OPERATION OF ROTOR-PISTON ENGINE (RPE) DURING ACCELERATIO

There the study object is the single-section RPE of VAZ-311 type. The purposes are to study the influence of unsteady regimes, which are created by the opening of flaps, at the diverse combination of adjusting and operating factors on the dynamics of change of torque, to find the causes of these influence. The developed mathematical model, the fullscale experiments allowed to obtain the data about the change of torque, to ascertain the causal and effect relations hips and to determine the ways to improve the dynamic and toxic characteristics of RPE during the acceleration for the first time. The obtained data are useful during the designing, suring the operational development of RPE of vehicles and allow to optimize the characteristics of accelerating pump at the designing stage. The study results are used in the Special Design Office of RPE, Joint-Stock Company "AvtoVAZ"Available from VNTIC / VNTIC - Scientific & Technical Information Centre of RussiaSIGLERURussian Federatio

Modeling of Heavy Armocement Deformation for the Conical Shape of the Heat Accumulator Body by the Methods of Computer Engineering

The computer simulation of the structural material is required to study the stress-strain state of the structural material of the high-pressure hull (in particular, the heat accumulator body). Laboratory experiment requires significant financial expenses, which is a significant drawback of this type of study. Therefore, the authors considered finite element modeling of structural material by adapting modern software systems for calculating the considered models. A modern design solution for high-pressure hulls of heat accumulators made of non-prestressed reinforced concrete involves the usage of heavy reinforcement cement as a structural material. The proposed method allows gaining rather certain calculations avoiding time-consuming laboratory research

Modeling of Heavy Armocement Deformation for the Conical Shape of the Heat Accumulator Body by the Methods of Computer Engineering

The computer simulation of the structural material is required to study the stress-strain state of the structural material of the high-pressure hull (in particular, the heat accumulator body). Laboratory experiment requires significant financial expenses, which is a significant drawback of this type of study. Therefore, the authors considered finite element modeling of structural material by adapting modern software systems for calculating the considered models. A modern design solution for high-pressure hulls of heat accumulators made of non-prestressed reinforced concrete involves the usage of heavy reinforcement cement as a structural material. The proposed method allows gaining rather certain calculations avoiding time-consuming laboratory research