BLOCKCHAIN: PHILOSOPHY, TECHNOLOGY, APPLICATIONS AND RISKS

The main ideas and properties of blockchain have been examined: architecture, models of blockchain use, in particular, decentralized autonomous organizations and applications, private blockchain – systems and blockchain – services. Blockchain infrastructure in implementation has been analyzed: reality and myths. An attention has been paid to current trends of blockchain usage in business and society in terms of opportunities, threats and risks. The areas of blockchain implementation have been presented, such as government, business, financial organizations, cryptocurrency and ICO, smart contracts and current trends of using blockchain technology

Translation Solutions for Sustainable Collocations of the English Political Mass Media Discourse

The article discusses the issues of syntactic-semantic solutions of fixed collocations translation. A review of collocation samples under study has been performed; and their definition has been given. The authors undertake a comparative analysis of the collocations in the process of their translation from English into Russian. The results of the functioning of the phrases studied in the English-language political mass media texts have been presented. Particular attention is paid to such word combinations that make up the periphery of phraseology. This approach is the authors development of the topic of the collocations. It is shown that the latter have not yet fully adopted their final form of use. The authors also assume that the collocations under analysis have not yet been recorded in the dictionaries. This is the core point of the authors’ development. The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that for the first time the presence of the related meaning of one of the components of such collocations is formulated. It is concluded that its direct and figurative meanings cannot but affect the translation solutions. The authors argue that the probability of borrowings and metaphorization among such word combinations is very high. The classification of models of formation of these constructions has been proposed. The relevance of the study can be explained by the difficulties of their rendering. The authors of the article offer their innovative approaches of translation solutions of mass media collocations under study

Contemporary experience of education digitalization

The article considers the evolution, forms and current situation in the field of education based on information technologies (ITE). The authors investigate directions of changes in the educational sphere as a form of activity, as well as the system and process of knowledge transfer under information and communication technologies (ICT) influence. The paper defines the general properties of the forms of education, based on information technologies. The authors use as a tool of studying the impact of the information and communication technologies on educational institutions and on a learning process the idea of a value chain and employees routine loops reflection in it. The study highlights three areas in which information and communication technologies are changing educational organizations: pedagogics, infrastructure, and organization. The article shows how these changes are seen in the value chain. The paper considers a number of trends in the widely understood process of digitalization of education, the COVID-19 pandemic impact on the development of on-line education, evaluates the existing experience of such education and the limits of its applicability

Genre Specificity of the Official Site of the Parish (Based on the Website of the Sem Klyuchei Parish in Honour of the Vladimir Icon of the Blessed Virgin)

В работе рассматривается официальный сайт прихода на предмет взаимосвязи религиозного и публицистического стилей. Анализируется жанровая специфика сайта.The article studies the official website of the parish and specially considers the relationship between religious and journalistic styles. The genre specificity of the site is analyzed

English Mainstream Texts and Specifics of Their Discourse Expansion

The paper discusses English mainstream discourse specifics and its expanding under the lens of collocations. With discourse definition being provided, discourse vs text differences are reviewed. Based on the mainstream discourse definition, collocation examples borrowed from the authentic English sources have been collected and studied. The paper analysis is focused on featuring their semantics, with some of the examples undergoing reinterpretation of the words’ direct meaning. Other cases are emphasized as hard to reveal the direct meaning due to lack of information transparency or triviality conveyed by a marked out component of the collocation. The scientific originality of the study is expected to be found in the way the authors verbalize the information. The specific intentions are conveyed by “ packing ” them into a language structure with specific features attached. The backdrop knowledge used embraces both the language structure insights and those of the social context, social “landscape”, anthropogenic figurativeness, etc to reach the targeted addressee. The research topicality as considered by the coauthors, involves identifying the usual discourse expansion features which characterize general or specific language “landscape”. The verbs and collocations with a certain role to play in a verbal and cognitive process of discourse expanding, its dynamic changes and mainstream text organization are analyzed as a part of the respective semantic field

ПРИМЕНЕНИЕ МЕТОДА ГЛАВНЫХ КОМПОНЕНТ ДЛЯ КЛАССИФИКАЦИИ УГЛЕРОД-МИНЕРАЛЬНЫХ МАТЕРИАЛОВ

Sapropels are multilayer deposits accumulating on the bottom of fresh water bodies. They are complex multicomponent systems containing both organic and mineral parts. The wide possibilities of using sapropels cause interest in studying their properties, processing methods and new sapropel-based materials. The specialized Sapropel Committee was established at the beginning of the last century. It carries out a large amount of work related to the study and processing of sapropels. In this paper we study the possibility of applying chemometric algorithms for the classification of carbon-mineral materials obtained by calcination of organic and mineral sapropels in an argon atmosphere, as well as products of acidic, alkali and steam treatment of initial carbon-mineral materials. For the chemometric data processing the principal component analysis is chosen as one of the most widely used chemometrical algorithms. In addition to the direct application, the principal component analysis serves as the basis for a group of other analogous chemometric algorithms. It is based on the decomposition of the initial data matrix into scores and loadings matrixes. In this paper, carbon-mineral materials chemometric classification possibilities by their physicochemical characteristics and elemental composition are studied. It is shown that carbon-mineral materials can be classified by initial sapropel type using any type of incomplete data set as well as data sets of various combinations. Based on the obtained results, it is concluded that it is possible to predict certain characteristics of carbon-mineral materials with use of the principal component analysis from the results of simpler and faster measurements.Keywords: principal component analysis, samples classification, carbon-mineral materials, sapropelDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/analitika.2018.22.3.002(Russian)E.N.Terekhova1, A.P.Komov2, I.V.Vlasosa21Institute of Hydrocarbons Processing SB RAS Russian Federation, 644040, Omsk, ul. Neftezavodskaya, 542F.M. Dostoevsky Omsk State University, Russian Federation, 644077, Omsk,ul. Mira, 55Сапропели – многослойные отложения, скапливающиеся на дне пресных водоёмов. Они представляют собой сложные многокомпонентные системы, содержащие органическую и минеральную части. Сапропели непрерывно накапливаются в водоёмах. Широкие возможности применения сапропелей вызывают интерес к изучению их свойств, способов обработки и переработки как самих сапропелей, так и полученных на их основе новых материалов. В данной работе изучена возможность хемометрической классификации углерод-минеральных материалов, полученных путем прокаливания в атмосфере аргона сапропелей двух типов – органического и минерального, а также продуктов кислотной, щелочной и паровой обработки исходных углерод-минеральных материалов. Для хемометрической обработки данных в работе использован метод главных компонент – наиболее распространённый хемометрический алгоритм, применяемый не только сам по себе, но и дающий основу ряду других аналогичных методов. Основной принцип данного метода – декомпозиция матрицы исходных данных с получением произведения матриц счетов и нагрузок. В качестве исходных данных для проведения классификации образцов углерод-минеральных материалов и продуктов их переработки использованы физико-химические показатели и данные о содержании ряда элементов в изучаемых образцах. Показано, что при классификации образцов с использованием даже неполного набора данных любого типа, а также их различных комбинаций наблюдается чёткое деление на группы по природе исходного сапропеля. На основании полученных результатов сделан вывод о возможности предсказания некоторых характеристик углерод-минеральных материалов с помощью метода главных компонент по результатам более простых и быстрых измерений.Ключевые слова: метод главных компонент, классификация образцов, углерод-минеральные материалы, сапропельDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/analitika.2018.22.3.00

Improving the components of health-saving technologies in a modern university

Nowadays, one of the important missions of higher educational institutions is the organisation and introducing students to a culture of health. The purpose of this study is to propose a strategy for the development of health-saving technologies by implementation of project activities into the educational process based on the Physical Education Department at the State University of Management for the formation of competencies in the chosen professional activity. The sociological survey was carried out among students at the State University of Management. The questionnaires included questions on students’ attitudes towards physical culture as an integral component of a healthy lifestyle. The degree of interest of the respondents in project activities in general and on the basis of the Department of Physical Education at the university, in particular, to improve the acquired professional competences was determined. The results of the study point to the need to modernise approaches to the formation of healthy lifestyle values, including the organisation of physical culture events, the development of a marketing plan to attract mass attention to the sports life of the university, where the main role is given to self-education and the realisation of the individual’s potential through active participation in university sporting life

The Concept of a Research Reactor of Small Power for Isotope Processing

The concept of a low-power research reactor for the production of radioisotopes is proposed, the results of calculations of the neutron-physical parameters of the core are presented, which can be used to substantiate the claimed reactor characteristics. In this article, the characteristics of the core of a research reactor of low power is substantiated, the main purpose of which is the production of radioisotope products for medical purposes. Nuclear medicine is one of the most advanced and demanded in the world of modern high-tech medicine, based on the using of atomic nucleus properties. As a rule, atoms with unstable nuclei are radionuclides. The reactor method of radionuclide production allows obtaining large quantities of radioisotope products at a relatively low price, but the reactor base is currently rather limited.     Keywords: radioisotope products, research reactors, neutron-physical characteristic

Analysis of the russian market of software products for real estate management

Active sanctions against Russia, including in the field of information technology, lead to a situation where the dependence of organizations on software products non-Russian origin may be a serious problem. Consequently, the task of analyzing the Russian software market, to which this article is devoted, seems relevant. The authors have reviewed one of the software classes – automation systems for real estate management, Computer Aided Facilities Management (hereinafter – CAFM-systems) in a foreign terminology. The article deals with the evaluation and ranking of software products, on the basis of which recommendations for their use in projects are formulated. For this purpose, a list has been formed consisting of twelve Russian CAFM-systems registered in the Unified Register of Russian Computer Programs and Databases; a set of evaluation parameters has been developed, divided into two groups – functional and non-functional parameters; an evaluation methodology using mathematical decision-making methods has been proposed; a group of experts has been formed; an expert evaluation and ranking of systems according to the developed methodology was conducted; a rating of systems with an indication of the companies-developers has been built. The results of the study show that the Russian market of CAFM-systems has been formed and provides customers interested in software products of this class with a fairly wide range of alternatives for choice. The conducted research, on the one hand, has practical value for specialists working with such software products, and, on the other hand, scientific value expressed in the proposed holistic methodology of market analysis, which can be extended to other types of software products by specifying a set of comparison parameters