Results of Archaeological Excavations Conducted at the Rakhat Monument in Almaty Region (Based on the Reporting Materials for 2015-2016)

In the article was described the geographical location of the settlement area andunique features of the region Rakhat During 1994-2005 settlement area was carried out archaeological excavation of the joint Kazakh-American expedition under the leadership by K M Baipakov F P Grigoriev K Chang There were done expertise and description to the archaeological excavation of monuments which located in settlement area of Rakhat in the Institute of Archaeology named after A Kh Margulan in 2004 As well as in the Upper Paleolithic place the various levels of mineral excavation exploration work were characterized fully by the leadership of O N Artyukova in the location of Rakhat in 2006-200

Development of a polymer composition to protect textile material from bio-damage

The article presents a method for increasing the microbiological resistance of textile materials under operating conditions. Studies were conducted using polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), maleic acid (MA) and a solution of silver ions (SI). This fabric was treated with an dressing composition to improve the antimicrobial properties of the textile material. In addition, research has been conducted to identify the physical and mechanical properties of samples treated with different concentrations of dressing composition, to prevent negative effects on the protection function and practicality of wear. The study revealed the most optimal concentrations of the composition components: PVA - 8 g/l, SI - 50 ml/l, MA - 5 g/l

The use of composite ferrocyanide materials for the treatment of high salinity liquid radioactive wastes rich in cesium isotopes

Several factors affecting the removal of cesium from LRW, namely total salt content, pH and organic matter content, were also investigated. High concentrations of complexing organic matter significantly reduced the sorption capacity of ferrocyanide sorbents

Iodide removal by use of Ag-modified natural zeolites

In the present work Ukrainian clinoptilolite was modified with Ag and applied for the removal of iodide from aqueous solutions. The effect of three different modifications was studied, one resulting in an Ag+ ion exchanged form, and two resulting in zeolites decorated with silver oxide and zero valent metallic nanoparticles. The results indicated the strong potential affinity of the Ag-modified zeolite materials towards iodide

Nitrogen-grafted activated carbon for removing nitrate from water

Nitrate (NO3~) and nitrite (NO2~) ions are ubiquitous in the environment and considered hazardous to humans. The primary health hazard from drinking water containing NO3~ occurs when it is transformed to NO2~ in the digestive system (Robillard et al., 2006). Currently nitrate is removed from water using polymer anion exchangers. However, this process is expensive and requires a lot of brine (NaCl) for the exchanger regeneration. Alternative physicochemical methods such as reverse osmosis are expensive and inefficient. The proposed research aims to develop anion-selective nitrogen-containing activated carbon, NGAC that can be regenerated electrochemically and does not require concentrated brine for regeneration. The key to the selectivity of the NGAC is achieved by the deposition of N-bearing conductive polymers or other species such as polypyrrole, polyaniline, pyridinium, quaternary ammonium, etc. onto the AC surface. Our preliminary results indicate that the polypyrrole charge can remain stable through multiple redox cycles (at least 50)

Research of camel shanks proteinhydrolyzates by electrophoregram

This research aims to study the degree of hydrolysis, determining the nature of protein hydrolyzates, which determine their size and molecular weight by the method of electrophoregram. In this research, a camel pancreas suspension was used to hydrolyze proteins from camel shanks. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) was used to monitor the distribution of proteins and evaluate their molecular weights at different incubation times. Electrophoregram processing using the BioCapt program (Vilber Lourmat, France) determines the nature of the hydrolysis of protein and peptide profiles among hydrolyzates and the hydrolysis time for 8 hours shows the most significant accumulation of low molecular weight compounds with a molecular mass of <20 kDa, which is a favorable result for the potential activity of peptides

Behaviour of aquaporin forward osmosis flat sheet membranes during the concentration of calcium-containing liquids

This study aims to examine the scaling and performance of flat sheet aquaporin FO membranes in the presence of calcium salts. Experiments showed that the application of calcium sulphate (CaSO4) resulted in an 8%–78% decline in the water flux. An increase in the cross-flow velocity from 3 to 12 cm/s reduced the decline in the flux by 16%. The deposition of salt crystals on the membrane surface led to the alteration in the membrane’s intrinsic properties. Microscopy, attenuated total reflection-Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy, and X-Ray fluorescence (XRF) analyses confirmed measurements of the zeta potential and contact angle. The use of a three-salt mixture yielded severe scaling as compared with the application of calcium sulphate dehydrate (CaSO4 × 2H2O), i.e., a result of two different crystallisation mechanisms. We found that the amount of sodium chloride (NaCl), saturation index, cross-flow velocity, and flow regime all play an important role in the scaling of aquaporin FO flat sheet membranes

MultiModN- Multimodal, Multi-Task, Interpretable Modular Networks

Predicting multiple real-world tasks in a single model often requires a particularly diverse feature space. Multimodal (MM) models aim to extract the synergistic predictive potential of multiple data types to create a shared feature space with aligned semantic meaning across inputs of drastically varying sizes (i.e. images, text, sound). Most current MM architectures fuse these representations in parallel, which not only limits their interpretability but also creates a dependency on modality availability. We present MultiModN, a multimodal, modular network that fuses latent representations in a sequence of any number, combination, or type of modality while providing granular real-time predictive feedback on any number or combination of predictive tasks. MultiModN's composable pipeline is interpretable-by-design, as well as innately multi-task and robust to the fundamental issue of biased missingness. We perform four experiments on several benchmark MM datasets across 10 real-world tasks (predicting medical diagnoses, academic performance, and weather), and show that MultiModN's sequential MM fusion does not compromise performance compared with a baseline of parallel fusion. By simulating the challenging bias of missing not-at-random (MNAR), this work shows that, contrary to MultiModN, parallel fusion baselines erroneously learn MNAR and suffer catastrophic failure when faced with different patterns of MNAR at inference. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first inherently MNAR-resistant approach to MM modeling. In conclusion, MultiModN provides granular insights, robustness, and flexibility without compromising performance.Comment: Accepted as a full paper at NeurIPS 2023 in New Orleans, US

Surface interactions and mechanisms study on the removal of iodide from water by use of natural zeolite-based silver nanocomposites

In this work a natural zeolite was modified with silver following two different methods to derive Ag2O and Ag0 nanocomposites. The materials were fully characterized and the results showed that both materials were decorated with nanoparticles of size of 5−25 nm. The natural and modified zeolites were used for the removal of iodide from aqueous solutions of initial concentration of 30−1400 ppm. Natural zeolite showed no affinity for iodide while silver forms were very efficient reaching a capacity of up to 132 mg/g. Post-adsorption characterizations showed that AgI was formed on the surface of the modified zeolites and the amount of iodide removed was higher than expected based on the silver content. A combination of experimental data and characterizations indicate that the excess iodide is most probably related to negatively charged AgI colloids and Ag-I complexes forming in the solution as well as on the surface of the modified zeolites