Behaviour of the Blazar CTA 102 during two giant outbursts

Blazar CTA 102 underwent exceptional optical and high-energy outbursts in 2012 and 2016-2017. We analyze its behaviour during these events, focusing on polarimetry as a tool that allows us to trace changes in the physical conditions and geometric configuration of the emission source close to the central black hole. We also use Fermi gamma-ray data in conjunction with optical photometry in an effort to localize the origin of the outbursts.AST-1615796 - Boston Universit

Everyday Life of a Provincial Estate: A diary of a servant of the Ural Landowners Golubtsov

Marina Larionova, a specialist in the history of Russia, a candidate of historical sciences, presents her Everyday Life of a Provincial Estate (Yekaterinburg, 2013). The book was written with reference to a rare historical source, a diary of a servant of the Ural Landowners Golubtsov that is kept in the State Archive of Sverdlovsk Region (GASO, f. 67, op. 1, d. 69). The diary is anonymous, and the authorship was established as a result of an inquiry into its origin; Matvey Andreev, a descendant of a family of serfs was finally given credit as the author, and, according to the diary, he was a petty bourgeois of Kungur, an uyezd town, by the time the diary was started. For 3 years and 5 months (1872-1875), he wrote an account of daily life in the estate and in the manor house located in Aleksandrovskoye Settlement of Vladimir Platonovich Golubtsov, a Perm landowner. The diary describes the everyday life of a Ural petty manorial estate located in Krasnoufimsk Uyezd, Perm Governorate, the day-to-day routine of the owner and the dwellers of the manor, the relationships between them and the ones characteristic of the life of an uyezd community, the emotional experience of the people mentioned in the diary, and other details shedding light on the previously unknown events in the history of the Urals. In her talk with Lyudmila Dashkevich and Yevgeny Neklyudov, professors of history, research fellows of the Institute for History and Archaeology (Russian Academy of Sciences, Ural Branch), and with Irina Shalina, professor of philology, the author discusses the academic significance and informational potential of the source in question. The comparison drawn of the document with some previously known similar sources gives evidence proving its uniqueness conditioned by its comprehensive character, the author's viewpoint and the quality of the publication. Thus, it does not only comply with the text and has few editorial corrections, it also contains a variety of academic historical, cultural and biographic commentaries. The diary both describes the problems a 19 th -century manor could face on a daily basis and dwells on some general issues connected with the relationships between social classes, the historical psychology of servants, the perseverance of serf consciousness after the abolition of serfdom, the patriarchal character of life, and the modernization of the region's economy. © 2015 Ural Federal University. All rights reserved

Approaches to assessing cost-effectiveness of technological innovation: The russian industrial companies experience

Industrial sector is a core of Russian economic. Industry forms approximately 26% of all gross added value in the country, practically all production directed at export into countries of former Soviet Union and outside of former Soviet Union is a result of industrial enterprise activity. The share of industry is also high in the budget of Russia, mostly by cost of oil-gas income. So, within the last decade the income of consolidated budget from export of oil and gas were 21 - 27% of total amount of income (minfin.ru). High dependence of Russia from export of initial non-processes raw material resources (mostly fuel-energetic) create risks for its economic. The major objective of research is to analyze the effectiveness of costs for innovations in industrial sector of Russian economic. The research is based on analysis of data by regions of Russian economic in period of years 2010-2014. We applied the regression analysis for determination on major tendencies in changes of effectiveness of costs for innovations. Besides, relative indexes were constructed and grouping (by costs of innovations and investments into capital assets) of branches of industrial sector of Russian economic was conducted, which allowed to detect their current condition and make conclusions about the need of growth of investments into innovations

The American aid to the Russian reforms at the end of the twentieth century

The importance of the studied problem is caused by the USA’s leading role in the development of modern world order and the economy, its influence in the international economic organizations. The article is aimed at revealing the reasons of choosing neoliberal strategy for Russian reforms, the amount and results of the American financial and technical aid to these reforms. The leading approach of researching this problem is the complex one. It allows finding out economic, internal political, geopolitical and cultural factors which influenced the implementation and the results of the American assistance to the Russian reforms. Authors draw a conclusion about considerable influence of the USA on domestic policy of Russia in the early nineties of the XX century. The amount and the content of the American financial and technical assistance to the Russian government are analyzed. Promises of massive financial aid from the international economic organizations and the USA were realized partially and much later, than it was necessary for economic transformations. The article’s content and conclusions can be used in other scientific works on American-Russian relations history, Modern history of Russia, during elaboration the effective strategy of reforms for the countries which are in a condition of a transitional economy. © 2016 Tarasova et al

Art technologies in the development of students’ emotional intelligence

The article presents an overview of domestic research devoted to the development of students’ emotional intelligence by means of art technologies. The relevance of the problem of developing emotional intelligence in modern students is determined by the objectives of higher education. Despite the serious experience gained in Russia in the use of art in teaching and personal education, the active penetration of art technologies into the education system began to occur relatively recently, which explains the time frame of the review study – 2019–2021. The analysis was performed in December 2021 using the national bibliographic database of scientific citation. The research was conducted using such combinations of keywords as “emotional intelligence”, “development of emotional intelligence of students”, “art therapy”, “pedagogical art therapy”, “art technology”, “art therapy at the university” in Russian for the period of 2019–2021. Out of 902 publications devoted to art therapy, the problem of using art technologies in higher education, the development of emotional intelligence through art technologies, the authors selected 49 publications. The analysis of the selected publications showed that the problem of the development of emotional intelligence arouses increased interest among researchers. However, the development of emotional intelligence in students is not a priority. In the system of professional education, the topic of emotional intelligence is not given enough attention, which is unacceptable and does not meet the requirements for the level of training of modern specialists. In recent studies, the possibilities of using art technologies in the development of students’ emotional intelligence have not been sufficiently disclosed. There is a need for further development of a program for the development of students’ emotional intelligence, presentation and description of art therapy techniques and techniques, their place and role in the development of emotional intelligence. Undoubtedly, building up the evidence base and substantiating methods for verifying the effectiveness of various art technologies will be a promising direction

Diffusion and ballistic contributions of the interaction correction to the conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas

The results of an experimental study of interaction quantum correction to the conductivity of two-dimensional electron gas in A$_3$B$_5$ semiconductor quantum well heterostructures are presented for a wide range of $T\tau$-parameter ($T\tau\simeq 0.03-0.8$), where $\tau$ is the transport relaxation time. A comprehensive analysis of the magnetic field and temperature dependences of the resistivity and the conductivity tensor components allows us to separate the ballistic and diffusion parts of the correction. It is shown that the ballistic part renormalizes in the main the electron mobility, whereas the diffusion part contributes to the diagonal and does not to the off-diagonal component of the conductivity tensor. We have experimentally found the values of the Fermi-liquid parameters describing the electron-electron contribution to the transport coefficients, which are found in a good agreement with the theoretical results.Comment: 11 pages, 11 figure

The influence of cisplatin on transcriptional profile of tumor-associated macrophages of breast cancer and colon cancer

In the present study we demonstrated the whole transcriptome analysis of model tumor-associate