Crisis management in Russia: overcoming institutional rigidity and resource constraints

Journal ArticleThe editors would like to express their gratitude to a number of persons and institutions for making this book on Russian crisis management possible. We are grateful for the generous financial support from the Swedish Agency for Civil Emergency Planning (?CB) which has made the CM Europe program (of which this volume is a part) possible. Special thanks to Sture Ericson, Bo Richard Lundgren, and Harald T?rner of ?CB for their help in launching this endeavor and bringing it to fruition

Functional Relationships between Kinetic, Flow, and Geometrical Parameters in a High-Temperature Chemical Microreactor.

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations and isothermal approximation were applied for the interpretation of experimental measurements of the C10H7Br pyrolysis efficiency in the high-temperature microreactor and of the pressure drop in the flow tube of the reactor. Applying isothermal approximation allows the derivation of analytical relationships between the kinetic, gas flow, and geometrical parameters of the microreactor, which, along with CFD simulations, accurately predict the experimental observations. On the basis of the obtained analytical relationships, a clear strategy for measuring rate coefficients of (pseudo) first-order bimolecular and unimolecular reactions using the microreactor was proposed. The pressure- and temperature-dependent rate coefficients for the C10H7Br pyrolysis calculated using variable reaction coordinate transition state theory were invoked to interpret the experimental data on the pyrolysis efficiency

Vermipharyngiella Unica gen. et sp. n. (Plathelminthes, Tricladida, Paludicola), a new planarian genus and species from lake Baikal with peculiar pharyngeal structure

An illustrated description of a new monotypical genus of endemic Baikal planarians, Vermipharyngiella gen. et sp. n., is provided. The representatives of the new genus differ from those of all other known freshwater planarian genera by a very unusual structure of the pharynx. There are three well-separated, compactly arranged muscular layers in the wall of the pharyngeal canal: subepithelial circular, medial longitudinal and inner circular. Such arrangement of the muscular layers has not been found in any of four freshwater triclad families known. The problem of the attribution of the new genus to one of these families is discussed

Microarchicotylus ochroleucus gen. et sp. n. (Plathelminthes, Tricladida, Paludicola): A new genus and species of dwarf planarians in Lake Baikal

© 2016, Pleiades Publishing, Inc.This paper gives an illustrated description of a new genus and species of endemic Baikal planarians, Microarchicotylus ochroleucus gen. et sp. n. The morphological similarity in the structure of the pharynx, male copulative organs, and external features allowed the authors to include two more species, M. stringulatus (Korotneff 1912) and M. elegans (Porfiriev et Timoshkin 2009), formerly belonging to a poorly investigated genus Archicotylus, into the new genus. Microarchicotylus gen. et sp. n. planarians are attributed to dwarf forms, since their maximal body length does not exceed 5–6 mm. One more distinctive external feature of these Microarchicotylus species is a bright and uneven coloration of the dorsal part of the body, sometimes being dark brown, light brown, or ochreous with distinct white transverse strokes or without them. The anterior part of the body is bright orange or blackish, its color always being different from the remaining body, separated by a white transverse collar behind the pair of eyes. The pharynx is either short cylindrical barrelshaped (length-to-width ratio of ~1) or elongated cylindrical (ratio, 3: 1). The copulative organ is compact and resides behind the pharynx, with its apical part directed downwards. The seminal receptacle, its canal, and the male and common atriums are asymmetrically located relative to the medial longitudinal body axis and centrally located gonopore

Numerical study of the aerodynamic performance of NACA 0012 in the presence of an unsteady heat source

The objective of this paper is to study the effect of an unsteady moving heat source on the aerodynamic performance of an NACA 0012 airfoil section, with particular focus on the lift and drag coefficients. The compressible Navier–Stokes equations are solved using a finite volume method as well as Spalart-Allmaras Model for turbulence simulation. The heat source periodically moves over the lower surface of the airfoil in the downstream direction. The numerical results show how the drag and lift coefficient strongly depend upon the velocity of the source. For a constant source power, a progressive improvement in the mean values of lift and drag coefficients is observed as velocity increases

MODERNIZATION OF INSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL BASES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC

Purpose: the purpose of the research is to evaluate proposals on the formation of a fundamentally new support and zonal structure for managing the development of the Russian Arctic and related changes in the regulatory and legal support for this development.Methods: research is carried out with the use of interdisciplinary methodologies which integrate specific tools of research of economic, sociological, political science, ecological, legal and other issues of spatial systems’ functioning.Results: there is an active modernization in the production, infrastructure and defense spheres on the territory of the Russian Arctic, the accelerated development of which can be considered a prerequisite for solving the social and economic problems of the integrated development of the whole macroregion. At the same time, the gradual modernization of the institutional and legal bases for the development of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation (AZRF) began. An additional impetus was given to it by the adoption of Decree №1064 of the Government of the Russian Federation of August 31, 2017 on a new state program for the development of the Arctic that made significant adjustments to earlier decisions on public administration and legal support for the development of the Russian Arctic.Conclusions and relevance: the authors showed that one of the main reasons for the slow implementation of the justifiably ambitious intentions of the country's leadership on the complex socio-economic re-development of the Russian Arctic was the underestimation of the importance of modernizing the institutional and legal bases for the re-development of the Russian Arctic. The modernization of the institutional and legal bases of spatial development is becoming an important factor in the stable functioning of not only the state, regions and municipalities, but also for the implementation of any investment projects. The data on innovations in the structure of the institutes and legal regulators of the development of the Russian Arctic confirms the undoubtedly positive potential for modernizing the institutional and legal bases for the spatial development of the Russian Arctic and the need for experimental verification of the decisions taken so that that potential could be fully realized

A new species of the genus Archicotylus (Tricladida, Dendrocoelidae) from Lake Baikal

The Baikal turbellarian fauna is abundant and diverse. The planarians are one of the most interesting groups of this fauna. The genus Archicotylus Korotneff 1912 (Turbellaria, Tricladida, Paludicola) is endemic for Lake Baikal. An illustrated description of two species of the genus Archicotylus (Archicotylus stringulatus (Korotneff 1912) and Archicotylus elegans sp. n.) is given. Archicotylus elegans sp. n. is described as a new member of the Lake Baikal fauna. A detailed description of the reproductive system, pharynx, and musculo-cutaneous sac is provided