Social Conflict through Conceptual Metaphor in Media Discourse

AbstractThe article deals with the problem of metaphorical modeling of social conflict in Russian media discourse. News and analytical texts of newspapers and news agencies, telling about the conflict in Greece are analyzed. The conflict components metaphorically represented in media discourse are sorted out and studied. The ways of social conflict metaphorical interpretation and shaping of its image within the framework of conceptual metaphors are described

Increasing the efficiency of automation in shipbuilding and ship-repairing by building a control system using lean manufacturing principles

Shipbuilding companies often suffer from long production cycles, low staff utilisation and an unbalanced production line. To solve these problems, a lean shipbuilding regime is used which involves work breakdowns, production plans and virtual flow operations that combine lean production with modern information management technology in shipbuilding. Production planning manages all the production activities of a shipbuilding facility. Production plans are achieved just-in-time through intelligent organisation, reducing loss of staff and time. A virtual flow operation is then carried out, achieving high efficiency in flow production and high flexibility in production. By implementing a lean shipbuilding regime based on task package planning and its production system, the ship's production cycle is reduced, the number of workers is reduced, but the level of production balance is increased

Development of Critical Thinking in Gifted Human by Supply Chain Strategies

Abstract this article discusses the development of supply chain for the gifted humans in education system. The article describes the experience of identifying potentially gifted students at the initial stage of their education, as well as the organization of work with gifted children in primary school. The article notes that special attention should be paid to the self-realization of a gifted student during the lesson and during extracurricular hours. Finally it confirmed by the reviewing the literature review the effectiveness of supply chin strategy in critical thinking

Symptomatic and silent cerebral ischemia (detected on MRI) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus after carotid revascularization procedures

Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a significant independent risk factor for ischaemic stroke. Carotid revascularisation procedures are an effective method of primary and secondary stroke prevention. However, patients developed postoperative acute ischaemic lesions (AILs), which were identified via magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brains. Most of the patients with these AILs lack clinically overt symptoms. Aims: To assess the risk of ischaemic brain damage in patients with T2DM in the setting of carotid angioplasty with stenting (CAS) or carotid endarterectomy (CAE). Materials and methods: This open prospective study comprised of 164 patients with carotid atherosclerosis, who have undergone either CAS or CAE. Patients with T2DM were included in Group 1: 38 patients and 28 patients with CAE. Group 2 included patients without T2DM: 62 patients with CAS and 36 patients with CAE. All patients underwent a thorough neurological examination and diffusion-weighted brain MRI. In patients with T2DM, plasma glucose levels and glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) were determined and their relationships to brain damage were evaluated. Results: In CAS, there were no statistically significant differences in the AIL frequency in patients with and without T2DM. AILs were found in 15 patients with T2DM (39.8%) and 29 patients without T2DM (46.8%, р = 0.24); three patients without T2DM were diagnosed with stroke. Of the 28 patients with T2DM who underwent CAE, 13 had AIL (46.4%); three had stroke (10.7%). In patients without T2DM, AILs were less prevalent in seven cases (19.4%, р = 0.012) and appeared asymptomatic. Following CAS, the baseline HbA1c levels were higher in patients with T2DM who developed AILs compared to those who did not develop AIL, 7.8% ± 1.4% vs 7.1 ± 1.1% (р = 0.0469). Negative impact of hyperglycaemia on the risk of cerebral ischaemia was observed in patients who underwent CAE, the baseline fasting plasma glucose level was 8.5 ± 1.9 mmol/l vs 7.0 ± 1.5 mmol/l in patients without AIL (р = 0.014). The baseline HbA1c levels in patients with and without AILs were 8.0% ± 1.7% and 6.9% ± 0.9% respectively (р = 0.023). Conclusions: Carotid revascularisation procedure for patients with carotid atherosclerosis may be associated with risk of stroke and asymptomatic acute cerebral ischaemic lesions, which are more prevalent in patients with T2DM. Also, increased HbA1c levels is a risk factor for AIL

Approaches to Analysis of Interstate Cooperation

At the present day cultural diplomacy plays a rather important role in the development of international relations and world politics. This concept is receiving increasing attention from various countries, international and non-governmental organizations and other actors. This trend exists due to a number of reasons, such as the desire of states to create a positive image of their country, the expansion of international cooperation, changes in the global and domestic political situation, the protection of national interests, the prevention of conflicts between states, etc. Cultural diplomacy, beyond historical precedents, consists of a relatively new practice of a country’s foreign policy, which has traditionally focused on trade and security and defense issues. It is true that in European countries there are institutions of cultural foreign relations since the beginning of the century, but in the last decade the issues, related to the projection of the international image of countries, have become more important

Pedagogical support of professional self-determination of students

The essence of the concepts of pedagogical support, professional self-determination, professional orientation. The analysis of pedagogical experience on pedagogical support of professional self-determination of pupils is carried out. The program of the elective course "Professional self-determination", the plans-summaries of lessons on pedagogical support of professional self-determination of schoolchildren. Organized, conducted and analyzed experimental work on the basis of MBOU "SOSH № 15" Vladimir

Increasing the efficiency of automation in shipbuilding and ship-repairing by building a control system using lean manufacturing principles

Shipbuilding companies often suffer from long production cycles, low staff utilisation and an unbalanced production line. To solve these problems, a lean shipbuilding regime is used which involves work breakdowns, production plans and virtual flow operations that combine lean production with modern information management technology in shipbuilding. Production planning manages all the production activities of a shipbuilding facility. Production plans are achieved just-in-time through intelligent organisation, reducing loss of staff and time. A virtual flow operation is then carried out, achieving high efficiency in flow production and high flexibility in production. By implementing a lean shipbuilding regime based on task package planning and its production system, the ship's production cycle is reduced, the number of workers is reduced, but the level of production balance is increased

The environmentally safe method of control of broomrape (

Orobanche cumana Wallr., an obligate parasite of sunflower, is widely spread in most countries cultivating this crop. It is one of the main factors limiting the cultivation of sunflower. The aim of our research was to determine the influence of application of oil crops (Brassicaceae) green manures on the sunflower infection with broomrape under greenhouse conditions. We used the green mass of white, black, common mustard and winter rapeseed as a green manure. We added the crushed green mass of these crops (62.5-90.0 g) to vessels with a soil-sand mixture mixed with broomrape seeds. After 15 days, we sowed the seeds of sunflower variety susceptible to all races of broomrape. We did not add the green manures in the control. The green manure of white mustard (variety Ruslana) showed the highest percentage of decrease in the infection degree – 44.7 %. The common mustard (Yunona) and black mustard (Niagara) reduced the infection by 25.9 and 27.0 %, respectively, the rapeseed (Tavrion) – by 24 %. We recommend using the green manures of these crops to reduce infection of sunflower crops with broomrape and as an environmentally safe method of clearing the field from its seeds