Foreign trade and marketing processes in the context of sustainable development

Purpose: The article aims to study foreign economic and trade relations between the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the CIS and the Western European countries. In addition, the study improves forms of foreign economic cooperation between the countries and suggests the stages of its implementation in the integration group. Design/Methodology/Approach: Central and Eastern European countries are experiencing the increase and acceleration of the labour migration to Western European countries, which has a negative impact on their medium-and long-term development. As a theoretical and methodological basis, the article uses historical-logical, dialectical principles and contradictions, the method of the scientific abstraction. The process-system approach, which was used in the study of foreign economic relations between the partner countries, gained special importance in the argument of the need to implement stages. Findings: Authors presented the form of the foreign economic cooperation between the countries as the geostrategic economic block and the stages of its implementation. As the study shows, these stages will help to smooth out the economic inequality between the Central and Eastern regions of Europe and Western European countries. Practical implications: In practice, authors investigate the phased implementation of the geostrategic economic bloc form, which will reduce inequality between the partner countries of the European Union. Originality/Value: The economic inequality between developed and developing countries of the European Union is increasing every year, which can lead to the transformation of the integration group, so it is necessary to develop new forms and mechanisms of foreign economic relations between the partner countries.peer-reviewe

On a boundary value problem for a higher-order elliptic equation

We obtain a sufficient condition for this problem to be Fredholm and present a formula for the index of the problemyesBelgorod State Universit

Online technologies and digital solutions in educational sphere

The author статьи focuses attention on modern speedy development of the reality in all spheres of human life. It makes science and educations correspond to the requirements of the society, be one step ahead of other fields of the world economic managementАвтор статьи акцентирует внимание читателя на современном скоростном развитии действительности во всех сферах жизнедеятельности человека, что вынуждает науку и, соответственно, образование соответствовать запросам общества, идти на «шаг впереди» других отраслей мирового хозяйствовани

Diagnosis of emotional and olitional self-regulation of primary school aged pupils’ in terms of the vocal and choral activities

The aim of the study is to investigate emotional and volitional self-regulation of primary school children during musical activities such as a choral performance. Methods. The proposed method of diagnosing emotional and volitional selfregulation in the process of choral activities, and methods of mathematical statistics are applied. Results and scientific novelty. The author formulates the definition of emotional and volitional self-regulation; criteria and indicators for its diagnosis are developed. The main criteria for the development of emotional and volitional selfregulation are: «self-control in the process of hearing musical performance», «emotional performance of a musical work», and «arbitrary regulation of psychophysiological state». The data obtained in the course of diagnosis in the Ural College of Music in vocal and choral activities at primary school children are analyzed. The use of mathematical statistics to summarize the data is justified. Practical significance. The development techniques of emotional and volitional self-regulation of future musicians to choral exercises are described; this technology may be used in music colleges, children’s art schools, as well as the highest level of musical performing and musical-pedagogical education. Research materials can be useful both to psychologists, and experts in the field of music educationЦель исследования, изложенного в статье, – изучение эмоционально-волевой саморегуляции детей младшего школьного возраста во время такого вида музыкальной деятельности, как хоровое исполнительство. Методика и методы. В работе использовались методики диагностирования эмоционально-волевой саморегуляции и метод математической статистики. Результаты и научная новизна. Сформулировано определение эмоционально-волевой саморегуляции; разработаны авторские критерии ее диагностирования: «слуховой самоконтроль в процессе музыкально-исполнительской деятельности», «эмоциональное исполнение музыкального произведения», «произвольное регулирование психофизиологического состояния» и др. Проанализированы данные диагностики, проводившейся в Уральском музыкальном колледже и Детской хоровой школе №1 г. Екатеринбурга. Обосновано использование математической статистики для обобщения полученных результатов.Практическая значимость. Описана методика развития эмоционально-волевой саморегуляции будущих музыкантов-исполнителей на хоровых занятиях, которая уже начала успешно применяться в музыкальных колледжах, детских школах искусств, а также на высшей ступени музыкально-исполнительского и музыкально-педагогического образования. Материалы исследования будут полезны как психологам, так и специалистам в области музыкального образовани

National competitiveness as the object of indicative planning in the context of re-industrialization

Three years after the adoption of legislation regarding strategical planning we are able to see the first statistical results, reflecting actual conditions of regulated objects. The subject of this article is to examine the system of indicators of state economic policy, targeting to stimulate the development of economic potential with the aim to improve national economic competitiveness. The objective is the competitiveness of domestic economy as the subject of regulation. The aim is the analysis of the system of indicators on the basis of comparison of actual and planned data, detecting weakly correlated indicators and to make recommendations to correct the system of indicators. The article analyses the indicators that are being used in normative and legal documents. The authors consider long-term and medium-term targets for economic frontier development, as well as main factors that should be accounted while formulating the system of indicators for the economic potential in long- and medium-term. As the list of indicators of economic development in the strategic documents is vast, the chosen direction considers the production with high added value. The indicators considered reflect the indicative aim of scientific development, national innovation system and technology as the most important foundations for improvement of national economic competitiveness. Multidirectional trend of economic development and administration indicators has been detected. The formation of system of supplementary indicators that reflect the development of production frontier has been proposed.peer-reviewe

The role of heat transfer time scale in the evolution of the subsea permafrost and associated methane hydrates stability zone during glacial cycles

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Climate warming may lead to degradation of the subsea permafrost developed during Pleistocene glaciations and release methane from the hydrates, which are stored in this permafrost. It is important to quantify time scales at which this release is plausible. While, in principle, such time scale might be inferr ed from paleoarchives, this is hampered by considerable uncertainty associated with paleodata. In the present paper, to reduce such uncertainty, one-dimensional simulations with a model for thermal state of subsea sediments forced by the data obtained from the ice core reconstructions are performed. It is shown that heat propagates in the sediments with a time scale of ∼ 10–20 kyr. This time scale is longer than the present interglacial and is determined by the time needed for heat penetration in the unfrozen part of thick sediments. We highlight also that timings of shelf exposure during oceanic regressions and flooding during transgressions are important for simulating thermal state of the sediments and methane hydrates stability zone (HSZ). These timings should be resolved with respect to the contemporary shelf depth (SD). During glacial cycles, the temperature at the top of the sediments is a major driver for moving the HSZ vertical boundaries irrespective of SD. In turn, pressure due to oceanic water is additionally important for SD ≥ 50 m. Thus, oceanic transgressions and regressions do not instantly determine onsets of HSZ and/or its disappearance. Finally, impact of initial conditions in the subsea sediments is lost after ∼ 100 kyr. Our results are moderately sensitive to intensity of geothermal heat flux

Locomotion of the fish-like foil under own effort

Self-locomotion of the fish-like foil is simulated by the mesh-free method of viscous vortex domains (VVD). The foil consists of three rigid sections connected by the spring hinges. The forcing periodic moment is applied between first and second sections imitating the muscular effort of the fish. The hinge between the second and third sections is elastic and passive. The task is solved as coupled flow-structure interaction

Vibration Briquetting of Ash of Combined Heat and Power Plant

Ash and slag materials of combined heat and power plant (CHPP) are a unique resource that can be successfully used in construction, road and agricultural industries. However, their industrial use is accompanied with significant organizational and technical problems. Granulation of coal ashes improves the conditions of their storage and transportation, allows mechanizing and automating the subsequent use, increases productivity, improves the working conditions and reduces the loss of raw materials and finished products. This paper proposes a method of compacting of Seversk CHPP (Russia) ash by vibration briquetting using a number of binders (polyvinyl alcohol, glyoxal, liquid sodium glass). The main characteristics of Seversk CHPP ash such as chemical composition, particle size distribution, bulk density, content of unburnt carbon and radioactivity have been determined. Investigation of the effect of binder concentration on the static strength of granules revealed that the increase of binder concentration results in the growth of static strength of the dried granules that reaches a maximum at the concentration of 10 wt %: 0.28 MPa for polyvinyl alcohol, 0.63 MPa for glyoxal and 0.40 MPa for liquid sodium glass

Music game as a means of development of emotionaland volitional self-regulationof younger schoolchildren in cholor activities

A sufficient level of development of emotional-volitional self-regulation is the guarantor of high-quality performance of a musical work, elimination of stage excitement, and a conscious analysis of each concert performance. The purpose of this article is to present a set of musical games that contribute to the development of emotional-volitional self-regulation of elementary schoolchildren in the process of choral classes in an institution of additional musical education.Целью данной статьи является представление комплекса музыкальных игр, способствующих развитию эмоционально-волевой саморегуляции младших школьников в процессе хоровых занятий в учреждении дополнительного музыкального образования

Digital sociology and new opportunities for social and educational rehabilitation of disabled people

Based on the conducted sociological research and using modern methodological approaches of digital sociology, the feasibility of developing institutional conditions for improving the educational rehabilitation of disabled people by means of modern Internet technologies has been justified. Examples of the development of analogical problems in the works of domestic and foreign authors have been given. The possibilities of scientific and methodological support of social experiments on the development and implementation of educational Internet communications to overcome the disability of disabled people using the Arsenal of digital sociology have been described separately. The data on the attitude of disabled people to higher education in the system of their rehabilitation and life activity, with the identification of social groups with positive, uncertain and negative attitudes with a predominant positive attitude to the possibility of educational rehabilitation have been provided. The educational needs of people with disabilities in various areas have been described, their quantitative characteristics with the definition of priorities and areas of education that are not relevant for people with disabilities have been presented. A significant place in the article has been given to the possibilities of involving disabled people in the process of developing educational programs and in research activities, both in terms of the availability of willing people among them, and the use of various forms of their integration into real research projects as part of temporary creative teams. The conditions for the implementation of scientific support for the development of training programs in the Internet space by conducting their practical testing on the example of the Zagorsk experiment have been characterized separately. Attention to supporting individual research projects of people with disabilities in the course of higher education has been paid, ways to help them collect experimental material have been substantiated. Separately, the role and place of joint forms of scientific activity of disabled people, teachers and students in the performance of state tasks have been shown. Taking into account the important role of social inclusion of disabled people in Internet communications, the prevalence of creating accounts in the Internet information and communication network and using various Internet resources among disabled people and family members has been separately reflected