Survey of the world practice of implementing energy-efficient technologies in terms of mining enterprises

Purpose is the analysis of world practice of applying the best available techniques to increase energy saving and energy efficiency of mining enterprises being the important factor of the economic development. Methods. The research methodology is based on the scientific approaches: historical-evolutionary, interdisciplinary, integration, process, and situational. Methods of retrospective, categorical, and system analysis as well as modeling have been applied. The analysis was performed on the basis of both initial information sources (original texts of legislative documents, strategies) and material of the international analytical organizations (International Energy Agency, World Bank) as well as the data of official statistical records. Findings. For the first time, different variants of the best available techniques in Japan, the USA, and the EU have been analyzed as well as the role of a state in applying institutional measures of energy efficiency support, including mining complex, and prospects of its use in the Russian Federation. It has been determined that energy efficiency is the effective and economically feasible tool in reaching sustainable development of the national economy. It has been demonstrated that energy saving and increased energy efficiency may reduce the needs in investment, raise industrial competitiveness and consumer welfare as well as improve environmental protection owing to the reduced greenhouse gas emissions and decreased air pollution. Energy efficiency growth has direct effect upon the industrial competitiveness; it can be achieved by means of innovations. Originality. Emphasis has been put on the key scientific and technical aspects and approaches stimulating increased energy efficiency in the developed countries under the effect of strong, coordinated, and consistent national policy in different sectors of economy. Practical implications. The carried-out analysis is useful in terms of the innovative and technological development of different industries of the Russian Federation in the context of its complicated cooperation with European countries and the USA, dependence on foreign technologies, and limited access to them.Мета. Аналіз світового досвіду використання найкращих доступних технологій для підвищення енергозбереження та енергетичної ефективності гірничодобувних підприємств, які є важливими факторами інноваційного розвитку і економіки. Методика. В основі методології дослідження застосовані наукові підходи: історико-еволюційний, міждисциплінарний, інтеграційний, процесний і ситуаційний. Використано методики ретроспективного, категоріального, системного аналізу, моделювання. Аналіз виконувався на основі як первинних інформаційних джерел (оригінальні тексти законодавства, стратегій), так і на основі матеріалів міжнародних аналітичних організацій (Міжнародного енергетичного агентства, Світового банку), а також даних офіційного статистичного обліку. Результати. Вперше проаналізовані різні варіанти найкращих доступних технологій в Японії, США, ЄС, роль держави у застосуванні інституційних заходів підтримки енергоефективності, в тому числі у гірничодобувному комплексі, а також перспективи їх використання у Російській Федерації. Визначено, що енергоефективність є дієвим і рентабельним інструментом досягнення сталого розвитку економіки країни в цілому. Показано, що енергозбереження та підвищення енергоефективності може знижувати потребу в інвестиціях, збільшити конкурентоспроможність промисловості й добробут споживача, а також покращувати охорону навколишнього середовища, завдяки зниженню викидів парникових газів та зменшенню забруднення повітря. Підвищення енергоефективності безпосередньо впливає на конкурентоспроможність промисловості та може бути досягнуто за рахунок інновацій. Наукова новизна. Виділено ключові науково-технічні асп екти й підходи, що стимулюють підвищення енергоефективності в розвинених зарубіжних країнах під впливом сильної, скоординованої та послідовної політики держави у різних секторах економіки. Практична значимість. Проведений аналіз корисний у побудові інноваційного та технологічного розвитку різних галузей Російської Федерації в умовах її непростої взаємодії з країнами Європи і США, залежно від зарубіжних технологій та обмеженого доступу до них.Цель. Анализ мирового опыта использования наилучших доступных технологий для повышения энергосбережения и повышение энергетической эффективности горнодобывающих предприятий, которые являются важными факторами развития экономики. Методика. В основе методологии исследования применены научные подходы: историко-эволюционный, междисциплинарный, интеграционный, процессный и ситуационный. Использованы методики ретроспективного, категориального, системного анализа, моделирования. Анализ выполнялся на основе как первичных информационных источников (оригинальные тексты законодательства, стратегий), так и на основе материалов международных аналитических организаций (Международного энергетического агентства, Всемирного банка), а также данных официального статистического учета. Результаты. Впервые проанализированы различные варианты наилучших доступных технологий в Японии, США, ЕС, а также роль государства в применении институциональных мер поддержки энергоэффективности, в том числе в горнодобывающем комплексе, перспективы его использования в Российской Федерации. Определено, что энергоэффективность является действенным и рентабельным инструментом достижения устойчивого развития экономики страны в целом. Показано, что энергосбережение и повышение энергоэффективности может снижать потребность в инвестициях, увеличить конкурентоспособность промышленности и благосостояние потребителя, а также улучшать охрану окружающей среды, благодаря снижению выбросов парниковых газов и уменьшению загрязнения воздуха. Повышение энергоэффективности напрямую влияет на конкурентоспособность промышленности и может быть достигнуто за счет инноваций. Научная новизна. Выделены ключевые научно-технические аспекты и подходы, стимулирующие повышение энергоэффективности в развитых зарубежных странах под влиянием сильной, скоординированной и последовательной политики государства в различных секторах экономики. Практическая значимость. Проведенный анализ полезен в построении инновационного и технологического развития различных отраслей Российской Федерации в условиях ее непростого взаимодействия со странами Европы и США, зависимости от зарубежных технологий и ограниченного доступа к ним.This article was prepared as a part of the project section of the government contract as requested by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation on the subject formulated as “Development of Methodological Principles and Organizational Economic Mechanism of Strategic Management of Economic Security in Russia” (Assignment No. 26.3913.2017/4.6)

Концепт и методологические аспекты обеспечения сбалансированного инновационного развития транспортной системы Российской Федерации

The growth of significance for innovative economic development of the Russian Federation determines necessity of deeper investigation of properties and specific features of its subsystems functioning, content and forms of their interaction, search for increasing efficiency of control systems. The transportation system is the most important strategic link of social and economic development of the country, one of the most dynamic, multiplicative and promising segments of the market, which makes 12.5 % of the gross domestic product (GDP) of the Russian Federation. An analysis of transport activity has demonstrated a smoldering recession over the last years which is accompanied by reduction of values for the most important resulting indicators. Strategic benchmarks of developing transportation activity are objectified by the consumers’ demands not only in safe, but in comfortable life medium with high environmental characteristics and aesthetic requirements. The satisfaction of such requirements is possible under condition of large-scale modernization of transportation sphere with the use of breakthrough scientific and technical solutions in all segments of human activity. All this can afford ground that it is necessary to change fundamentally an approach to investigating properties, peculiarities and factors of the transportation system development that provokes modernization of the control system for providing a balanced innovative trend and high standards of population life quality. The results of the investigations have shown that important factors of transportation system development are the following: fair competition, freedom of economic activity, development of market mechanisms, corporate culture and moral values. Study of functioning and scientific approaches to balancing innovative development of the transportation system of the Russian Federation has made it possible to create a conceptual vision and methodological basis with due account of main principles of systems theory, self-organization and synergetics and present it in brief in the given paper

Exchange coupling in Eu monochalcogenides from first principles

Using a density functional method with explicit account for strong Coulomb repulsion within the 4f shell, we calculate effective exchange parameters and the corresponding ordering temperatures of the (ferro)magnetic insulating Eu monochalcogenides (EuX; X=O,S,Se,Te) at ambient and elevated pressure conditions. Our results provide quantitative account of the many-fold increase of the Curie temperatures with applied pressure and reproduce well the enhancement of the tendency toward ferromagnetic ordering across the series from telluride to oxide, including the crossover from antiferromagnetic to ferromagnetic ordering under pressure in EuTe and EuSe. The first and second neighbor effective exchange are shown to follow different functional dependencies. Finally, model calculations indicate a significant contribution of virtual processes involving the unoccupied f states to the effective exchange.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figure

The Civil War and Russian Society: Relapses of Confrontation and Stages of National Reconciliation (To the 100th Anniversary of the End of the Russian Civil War)

This article examines the consequences of the Civil War, that had an impact on the life and functioning of the political system of Soviet society, as well as modern Russia. In the citizenries mass mind complex and contradictory processes are still going on. It indicates that the social split has not been completely overcome. Despite the large number of works devoted to the issues of the Civil War, it is not paid enough attention to the political, moral and mental consequences of the Civil War. This circumstance significantly hinders the process of national reconciliation on the most important issues of the country’s past and hinders the formation of socio-political unity of Russian society. The authors substantiate the need for a consolidated view of the Russian nation on the events of the Civil War, based on the absolute priority of the self-value of Russian statehood as the main form of survival of the people and the special mission of the unique Russian civilization in a multipolar world. In modern Russian society there is an extremely acute need to form a stable rejection of violent ways to resolve social problems and contradictions, radical methods of transforming various spheres of public life. The creation of an effective state-legal mechanism based on the development of a national consensus may prevent the repetition of such tragedies in the future of our country

Historical Laws in the System of Modern Knowledge about the Past of Human Society

This article examines the question of the existence of specific historical (general sociological) laws that operate throughout all stages of human history and differ from other laws of social existence. The authors have attempted to formulate the most obvious basic historical laws based on the available scientific developments, methodological approaches and ideas of researchers from both the distant and very recent past. The authors define the following list of historical laws: the law of cyclicity; the law of civilizational, event-based and personal uniqueness of the historical process; the law of balance and struggle of personal, group, corporate, state and civilizational interests; the law of cause-and-effect relationships; the law of unrealized alternatives; the law of unintended consequences. They reflect in the most concentrated form the current level of knowledge about the world historical process. They relate to the entire array of the past of human society. They are synthetic, complex, multidimensional and all encompassing. They manifest themselves in all periods of human history without exception. Therefore, they open up the possibility of a more conscious perception of the present and the formation of general scientific ideas about the deep mechanisms of the future development of society

Концепт и методологические аспекты обеспечения сбалансированного инновационного развития транспортной системы Российской Федерации

The growth of significance for innovative economic development of the Russian Federation determines necessity of deeper investigation of properties and specific features of its subsystems functioning, content and forms of their inter-action, search for increasing efficiency of control systems. The transportation system is the most important strategic link of social and economic development of the country, one of the most dynamic, multiplicative and promising segments of the market, which makes 12.5 % of the gross domestic product (GDP) of the Russian Federation. An analysis of transport activity has demonstrated a smoldering recession over the last years which is accompanied by reduction of values for the most important resulting indicators. Strategic benchmarks of developing transportation activity are objectified by the consumers’ demands not only in safe, but in comfortable life medium with high environmental characteristics and aesthetic requirements. The satisfaction of such requirements is possible under condition of large-scale modernization of transportation sphere with the use of breakthrough scientific and technical solutions in all segments of human activity. All this can afford ground that it is necessary to change fundamentally an approach to investigating properties, peculiarities and factors of the transportation system development that provokes modernization of the control system for providing a balanced innovative trend and high standards of population life quality. The results of the investigations have shown that important factors of transportation system development are the following: fair competition, freedom of economic activity, development of market mechanisms, corporate culture and moral values. Study of functioning and scientific approaches to balancing innovative development of the transportation system of the Russian Federation has made it possible to create a conceptual vision and methodological basis with due account of main principles of systems theory, self-organization and synergetics and present it in brief in the given paper.Возрастание значимости инновационного развития экономики Российской Федерации обусловливает не-обходимость более глубокого исследования свойств и особенностей функционирования ее подсистем, содержания и форм  их  взаимодействия,  поиска  путей  повышения  эффективности систем  управления.  Транспортная система – важнейшее стратегическое звено социально-экономического развития страны, один из самых динамичных, мультипликативных и перспективных сегментов рынка, на который приходится 12,5 % ВВП Российской Федерации. Анализ транспортной деятельности показал вялотекущую рецессию в последние годы, сопровождающуюся снижением значений важнейших результирующих показателей. Стратегические ориентиры развития транспортной деятельности объектируются запросами потребителей не только в безопасной, но и в комфортной среде жизни с высокими экологическими характеристиками и эстетическими требованиями. Удовлетворение таких требований возможно при условии масштабной модернизации транспортной сферы с применением прорывных научно-технических решений во всех сегментах человеческой деятельности. Все это дает основание для заключения о том, что необходимо принципиальное изменение подхода к исследованию свойств, особенностей и факторов развития транспортной системы, что провоцирует модернизацию системы управления для обеспечения сбалансированного инновационного тренда и высоких стандартов качества жизни населения. Результаты исследования показывают, что важными факторами развития транспортной системы являются добросовестная конкуренция, свобода экономической деятельности, развитие рыночных механизмов, корпоративной культуры и нравственных ценностей. Изучение функционирования и научных подходов к обеспечению сбалансированного инновационного развития транспортной системы Российской Федерации позволило сформировать концептуальное видение и методологический базис с учетом основных положений теорий систем, самоорганизации и синергетики и кратко представить в данной работе.

Theoretical foundations and innovative model of occupational health

Gozhenko A. I., Badyuk N. S., Lebedeva T. L., Goncharenko O. O., Zukow W. Theoretical foundations and innovative model of occupational health. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2016;6(11):383-389. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.168237http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/4011   The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 755 (23.12.2015).755 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7© The Author (s) 2016;This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, PolandOpen Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,provided the original author(s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercialuse, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.Received: 01.11.2016. Revised 12.11.2016. Accepted: 23.11.2016.   Theoretical foundations and innovative model of occupational health Gozhenko A. I.1, Badyuk N. S.1, Lebedeva T. L.1, Goncharenko O. O.1, Zukow W.2 1Ukrainian Research Institute of Transport Medicine, Odessa, Ukraine2Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland     AbstractHealth is a basic human value. One of the main criteria for health is still a rate of a, which in civilization’s countries is constantly decreasing, which causes the lengthening of life.However, along with this significantly changes the structure of morbidity: reduction of infectious diseases accompanied by increased infectious. All of these diseases can be divided into professional and vocational-conditioned.   Key words: health, disease, occupational diseases, professional diseases due to

Magnetic fluctuations in frustrated Laves hydrides R(Mn_{1-x}Al_{x})_{2}H_{y}

By neutron scattering, we have studied the spin correlations and spin fluctuations in frustrated Laves hydrides, where magnetic disorder sets in the topologically frustrated Mn lattice. Below the transition towards short range magnetic order, static spin clusters coexist with fluctuating and alsmost uncorrelated spins. The magnetic response shows a complexe lineshape, connected with the presence of the magnetic inhomogeneities. Its analysis shows the existence of two different processes, relaxation and local excitations, for the spin fluctuations below the transition. The paramagnetic fluctuations are discussed in comparison with classical spin glasses, cluster glasses, and non Fermi liquid itinerant magnets

Clinical and microbiology studies of the oral cavity under periodontal inflammation and its treatment with new hygienic means

Violation of microbiocenosis of the oral cavity leads to the development of inflammatory periodontal diseases that presents medical and social problem. Purpose of research: clinical and microbiological ground for local application of developed apigel for oral cavity care in the complex treatment of chronic generalized periodontitis. Material and methods: 42 patients with chronic generalized catarrhal gingivitis and chronic generalized periodontitis of 1st degree and 14 healthy people were conducted clinical studies. All patients were divided into 3 groups: 1 – the control group (healthy patients), 2 – the basic group, patients with inflammatory diseases of periodontium having complex therapy with a local treatment with the new apigel, 3 – the comparison group, patients having a traditional therapy with local use of the dental gel with chamomile. Efficiency of treatment was estimated with clinical, laboratory, microbiological methods of examination. Results: Local application of the new apigel based on propolis (bee glue) in the complex treatment of patients with chronic generalized catarrhal gingivitis and ChGP of the 1st degree favourably affects the clinical symptoms of inflammation in the oral mucous membrane and periodontium, that was manifested in the decline of hygienic and periodontal index figures. As compared with patients who had traditional anti-inflammation therapy with the local use to the dental gel with chamomile, the recovery terms in patients treated with local application of new apigel reduced by 2–8 days. Microbiological studies on background of changed normal microflora in the oral fluid and contents of periodontal pockets in patients with inflammatory diseases of oral mucous membrane and periodontium revealed increase of anaerobic bacteroids, Fusiformis and Prevotellas. In case of local treatment by the “Apisan” gel on the 10-14-th day after the beginning of medical treatment the considerable decline of pathogenic microflora in researched biotopes of patients with inflammatory diseases of the oral cavity, that testifies to the antibacterial action of preparation. Conclusions: the local application of the “Apisan” gel in the complex therapy of inflammatory diseases of oral mucous membrane and periodontium promotes efficiency of medical treatment and reduces terms of renewal of structural-functional integrity of oral mucosa, improves the hygienic state of oral cavity, having bacteriostatic action, lowering the number of pathogenic microorganisms in the oral cavity, removing violations of microbiocenosis of the sulcus