Gender Identification of the British News Text

The article is devoted to studying the impact of gender on speech behavior in mass media discourse. Gender peculiarities of English news text-formation are examined through coordination of various language means that belong to different levels of the language system with predetermined socio-cultural factors and psychological peculiarities attributed to man as a representative of masculine subculture, a communicative leader, characterized by autonomous thinking, logic, rationality, objectivity, lingua-creativity, reduced emotionality, and woman as a representative of feminine subculture, characterized by a greater degree of emotionality, empathy, cooperativeness. A number of gender parameters is listed, including content and structural features, specification / generalization of information, stylistically neutral / marked vocabulary etc. These parameters are being viewed as related with the categories of informativeness and expressiveness. It is determined that the features of the news text on the structural level manifest themselves in the selection of aspects of the events described, the organization of informative blocks. On the stylistic level gender specificity is expressed by linguistic realization of emotionality, evaluation, imagery. Gender parameters of the news text determine masculine and feminine styles of news text-formation and are included in the developed matrix of gender identification of the author of the news text. The psycholinguistic experiment allowed to verify the validity of gender parameters of the news text and to establish that the degree of sensitivity to its gender characteristics is determined by socio-cultural differences of native and non-native speakers of English

Physiological action of UVB radiation on wheat seeds and sprouts (Triticum aestivum L.)

This work continues the cycle of our research on the physiological effect of UVB radiation on plants. Two research cycles were conducte

The influence of heat treatment on homogeneity of strength properties and structural peculiarities of low-carbon steel Fe-Mo-Nb-V-C processed by high-pressure torsion

A homogeneity of strength properties (microhardness) through the specimens and the peculiarities of an ultrafine-grained structure produced in low-carbon steel Fe-Mo-Nb-V-C by cold high-pressure torsion, depending on initial heat treatment of steel were studied. As a result of high-pressure torsion, the microhardness of steel was increased up to 700-770 HV (in the middle part of disk radii), and the mean (sub)grain size was reduced to ?100 nm. Initial quenching of low-carbon steel provides a more homogeneous distribution of microhardness through the disk and the higher strength properties after high-pressure torsion in comparison with a normalizing initial state

Pre-sowing stimulation of wheat with UVB radiation of XeCl-excilamp

The share of UVB spectrum range (290-320 nm) in the solar radiation flux accounts for an average of about 1.5% ofthe radiant flux on the planet. Taking into account the fact that plants adapt to living conditions in the course of evolution, it can be assumed that the flow of UVB radiation is also used by plants, but at the level of subdoses that reach the Earth's surface. The aim of current work is to study the growth and development of spring wheat ("Irgina" cultivar) when treated with subdoses of UVB radiation. For processing, XeCl-excilamp (High Current Electronic Institute SB RAS) radiation was used. The spectrum of this lamp is a narrow band with a maximum at a wavelength of 308 nm, which corresponds well to the UVB range. In the course of study, the pre-sowing UVB radiation dose values for seeds were found, under the influence of which wheat sprouts had an increase in such indicators as the length and dry weight of the root, the length of the leaf and the ratio of the root/shoot masses. It was shown, that as plants developed, the nitrogen balance index was always higher in the experiment with radiation in plants whose seeds were subjected to pre-sowing treatment with UVB radiation. This indicates the activation of growth and development processes in plants, as well as the accelerated absorption and assimilation of nitrogen compounds. Under the action of dose 0.5 J/cm2 the weighting parameters grain productivity such as weight of grains per ear, spike weight, weight of 1000 pcs seeds and the grain yield exceeded the check by 10.2 %. The UVB processing did not affect the quality of the wheat grain. Based on the obtained data, it is concluded that the use of XeCl-excilamp UVB radiation for pre-sowing stimulation of wheat is promising

The influence of heat treatment on homogeneity of strength properties and structural peculiarities of low-carbon steel Fe-Mo-Nb-V-C processed by high-pressure torsion

A homogeneity of strength properties (microhardness) through the specimens and the peculiarities of an ultrafine-grained structure produced in low-carbon steel Fe-Mo-Nb-V-C by cold high-pressure torsion, depending on initial heat treatment of steel were studied. As a result of high-pressure torsion, the microhardness of steel was increased up to 700-770 HV (in the middle part of disk radii), and the mean (sub)grain size was reduced to ?100 nm. Initial quenching of low-carbon steel provides a more homogeneous distribution of microhardness through the disk and the higher strength properties after high-pressure torsion in comparison with a normalizing initial state

Microstructure and mechanical properties of heat-resistant 12 % Cr ferritic-martensitic steel EK-181 after thermomechanical treatment

The effect of high-temperature thermomechanical treatment (TMT) with the deformation in the austenitic region on the features of microstructure, phase transformations and mechanical properties of low-activation 12% Cr ferritic-martensitic steel EK-181 is investigated. It is established, that directly after thermomechanical treatment (without tempering) the sizes and density of V(CN) particles are comparable with those after a traditional heat treatment (air quenching and tempering at 720°C, 3 h), where these particles are formed only during tempering. It causes the increasing of the yield strength of the steel up to ≈1450 MPa at room temperature and up to ≈430 MPa at the test temperature T = 650°C. The potential of microstructure modification by this treatment aimed at improving heat resistance of steel is discussed