Degradation of higher education in Kazakhstan as an example of post-transitional crisis

It is shown, that objectives of degradation of Higher Education in most part of post-soviet countries are connected with the specific factors appeared at the economical situation appeared at the end of transitional period (transition from planned economy to market one). Decreasing of quality of higher education in such countries as Kazakhstan may be interpreted in frameworks of Baudrillard’s concept of evolution of connection between "The Sign" and "The Reality"; such interpretation directly shows that overcoming of negative trends in post-soviet countries education cannot be realized by traditional administrative instruments. The problem may be solved by taking into account concepts of institutional economy

THE DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS’ CRITICAL THINKING IN LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

This article deals with the issue of working out and incorporating in educational process of higher educational institutions of the innovative technology for developing skills of critical thinking for the future Management specialists. The research is aimed at revealing both theoretical and practical ideas about critical thinking development in English language teaching. To enhance critical thinking in learners, foreign language teachers use various methods and techniques, consequently there have been described the following methods such as “Lead-in”, “Socratic Questioning”, “Business role play”, “Active reading”, and “Translation”. The use of the above methods by foreign language teachers in classes contribute to the development of critical thinking among students and motivate them for learning a foreign language, as well as making the study process be possible to turn from routine work into interactive, interesting and challenging activities.This article deals with the issue of working out and incorporating in educational process of higher educational institutions of the innovative technology for developing skills of critical thinking for the future Management specialists. The research is aimed at revealing both theoretical and practical ideas about critical thinking development in English language teaching. To enhance critical thinking in learners, foreign language teachers use various methods and techniques, consequently there have been described the following methods such as “Lead-in”, “Socratic Questioning”, “Business role play”, “Active reading”, and “Translation”. The use of the above methods by foreign language teachers in classes contribute to the development of critical thinking among students and motivate them for learning a foreign language, as well as making the study process be possible to turn from routine work into interactive, interesting and challenging activities

Documentary Narrative in Social Media

Благодарности: научному руководителю, доктору филологических наук, профессору Евразийского национального университета имени Л. Н. Гумилева Ишановой Асиме Калимовне.Acknowledgements: to the scientific supervisor, Doctor of Philology, Professor of the L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Isanova Asima Kalimovna.Документальный нарратив в социальных медиа меняется в зависимости от информационной повестки. Авторы документальных проектов в YouTube обращают внимание на актуальные проблемы, однако упускают из вида важные составляющие нарратива.The documentary narrative in social media varies depending on the information agenda. The authors of documentary projects on YouTube pay attention to current issues, but overlook important components of the narrative

PREPARATION MAGNESIUM DIBORIDE BY MAGNIATHERMAL BORON OXIDE BASED ON SUPERCONDUCTING PROPERTIES

Results of receiving a diborid of magnesium are given in work by magniathermal oxidation of boron composite compounds at different argon pressures and temperatures. The relevance of a research is proved by superconducting properties of magnesium diboride. Synthesis of magnesium diboride itself accelerates, due to wall burning and thermal explosion of exothermic mixture of the reaction products of magniathermal. It is shown that the use of SHS method at high argon pressure and temperature allows to obtain magnesium diboride of high purity

Using Supply Chain Management Strategy for Regional Economic Clusterization in Kazakhstan’s Chemical Industry

This article develops an approach to forming innovative development clusters in Kazakhstan’s chemical industry as an opportunity to promote the effectiveness of the sector’s development and to increase its competitive advantage based on the supply chain management. An expert evaluation method is used to form a system of indicators for assessing innovative development in the country’s regional chemical industry. A scaling technique was also incorporated to distinguish these clusters according to the quality levels of innovative development among the chemical industry regions in a modern context, with industrial gas production as an example. Two chemical clusters of innovative development in Kazakhstan’s regions were formed though a cluster analysis – and their economic efficiency substantiated – using multivariate linear regression modeling. The efficiency from creating Chemical Cluster No. 0 for innovative development indicates that its total regional product would grow by 0.68%, while Cluster 5 exhibited an efficiency of 4.23%. The presented methodological approach is based on a horizontal integration of the manufacturers and suppliers of chemical products, and considers specific characteristics of the industry’s operation; this allows for the creation of chemical clusters with highly efficient communication in the innovation process. The research findings contribute to modernizing the country’s chemical industry and increasing its competitive capacity in the international market

Facilitating simulation development for global challenge response and anticipation in a timely way

Data availability: No data was used for the research described in the article.Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). An important subset of today’s global crises, such as the 2015 migration crisis in Syria and the 2020 COVID pandemic, has a rapid and hard-to-extrapolate evolution that complicates the preparation of a community response. Simulation-based forecasts for such crises can help to guide the selection or development of mitigation policies or inform the efficient allocation of support resources. However, the time required to develop, execute and validate these models can often be intractably long, causing many of these forecasts to only become accurate after the damage has already occurred. In this paper, we present a generic simulation development approach (or SDA) to tackle this challenge. It consists of three important phases: identifying anticipatory activities required for developing application-agnostic modelling tools, identifying activities required to adapt these models to address specific (global) challenges, and automating a large subset of the aforementioned activities using existing software tool. Here, a key aspect is to ensure that our models are reliable: this involves a range of tasks for validation, ensemble forecasting, uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis. To showcase the added value of a generic simulation development approach, we present and discuss two specific applications of this approach: one in the context of modelling conflict-driven migration and one in the context of modelling the spread of COVID-19.This work is supported by the ITFLOWS, HiDALGO and STAMINA projects, which have received funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement nos 882986, 824115 and 883441. This work has also been supported by the SEAVEA ExCALIBUR project, which has received funding from EPSRC under grant agreement EP/W007711/1

Complementary information on the biology of Bactrian camels (Camelus bactrianus) in the Mangistau region of Kazakhstan

The morphometric body parameters of male and female Bactrian camels, Kazakh Bactrian, were studied. Compared to camels of other breeds, the Kazakh Bactrian turned out to be one of the largest camels, having up to 750 kg for males and 690 kg for females, as well as powerful musculature and thick fur. Sexual dimorphism in body size and weight of males and females has been shown. The height at the withers of males was higher than in females by about 3.2 %, oblique length of the trunk by 4.5 %, chest girth by 1.3 %, and tibia girth by 6.6 % higher than in females. The greatest difference was in the live weight of the animals - 23,4 %. A histological study of one of the important internal organs - kidneys - was carried out, which allow camels to adapt to the conditions of waterless deserts. As a result of histological study of the kidneys of Kazakh Bactrians, the following characteristics of camel kidneys were established: the kidney capsule is rather thick (470±12 μm) and is made up of two layers: a layer of collagen fibres (400 μm) and thin (70 μm) inner smooth muscle cells. The relative thickness of the capsule and the presence of the smooth muscle cell layer within it appear to be related to the kidney’s ability to hold high intrarenal pressure while producing highly concentrated urine. The second feature of the Bactrian kidney was that the medullary layer was much thicker than the cortical layer. Their ratio was 1:4. The thick cerebral layer in camels provides relatively long renal tubules and loops of Henle, which are essential for the excretion of concentrated urine

SMES DEVELOPMENT AND CORRUPTION: CASE OF KAZAKHSTAN

The article presents a study of the corruption perception and the involvement of SMEs in corruption practices. The main goal of the paper is to provide an analysis of corruption perception of the SMEs representatives, its parts and research methodology to provide an adequate picture and analysis of corruption of the Kazakhstan. For obtaining a comparative picture, we interviewed 500 representatives of SMEs and 500 civil servants. We used a mass survey (face-to-face) method. The results show that the presence of “gap” between perception of corruption and degree of the respondents’ involvement in corrupt practices. The respondents believe that corruption is widespread, but they themselves were rarely involved in corrupt practices. The key message is that the SMEs representatives consider this problem to be acute, but they are not ready to talk about their own experience in this regard

Sorption of petroleum products with natural sorbents

This article presents the results of a study of cleaning the water surface from contamination with petroleum products. Kulantaussky vermiculite, the birthplace of the Turkestan region, was studied as a sorbent. Studies have shown that the modified vermiculite is able to retain the sorbed oil up to 2 days after the expiration of the main sorption time (4 hours). It is established that the oil capacity depends on the thickness of the oil film, the sorption time and the amount of the sorbent taken