Ecology Outside of Theology

"In the 1990s, Belarus became a champion of teaching ecological awareness courses in the university framework: compulsory courses were introduced in the curriculum, and, in 1992, a unique ecological research and educational institution named after Soviet human rights activist and dissident Andrey Sakharov was established. Involvement of the Belarusian Orthodox Church and its units in raising eco-awareness is also significant, e.g. vast foreign church-related humanitarian aid and ecumenical cooperation connected to ecological topics, a unique department on ecology of the Hrodna diocese139 and visible presence of events with strong ecological content in the framework of activities of the Youth Union of the Belarusian Orthodox Church and Synodal Department for Youth Affairs of the Belarusian Orthodox Church. Paper delivered at the international consultation on "Resources and Best Practice Models for Ecotheology, Climate Justice and Food Security", held at the Academy of Volos, Demetriades Diocese of Church of Greece, 10-13 March, 201

Pan-Orthodox commitment to Human Rights

Paper presented at the Conference on Christian Perspectives on Human Dignity and Humans Rights held in Wuppertal (Germany) online from 9–12 April 202

Collective Solutions on Sets of Stable Clusterings

Two clustering problems are considered. We consider a lot of different clusters of the same data for a given number of clusters. Data clustering is understood as their stable partition into a given number of sets. Clustering is considered stable if the corresponding partitioning remains unchanged with its minimum change. How to create a new cluster based on ensemble clusterings? The second problem is the following. A definition of the committee synthesis as ensemble clustering is introduced. The sets of best and worst matrices of estimates are considered. Optimum clustering is built on the basis of the clusterings obtained as being closest to the set of the best estimation matrices or as the most distant from the set of worst-case matrices of estimates. As a result, the problem of finding the best committee clustering is formulated as a discrete optimization problem on permutations

USE OF SPECIFIC TYPES OF CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS TO STUDY ‘OLD’ CULTURAL CONCEPTS

The article focuses on studying concepts by means of the gestalt analysis that contributes to distinguishing implicit features of the concept. Research works in the field of ancient (so-called ‘dead’) languages are unlikely to be carried out in terms of a complete conceptual analysis, as, for instance, it is impossible to perform an associative experiment. Thus, the gestalt analysis is of paramount importance in defining the structure of such concepts.Purpose. To apply the gestalt analysis to studying Old English cultural concepts as it might provide profound understanding of the way the Anglo-Saxons perceived complex phenomena.Methodology and research methods. To carry out the research, the gestalt analysis was used as the main method for the purposes of the study. In addition, the textual analysis as well as the contrastive one were used.The results of the study. Upon carrying out the research, the author identified a number of implicit features that form the inner structure of the concept under study.Practical implications. The results of the work can be used in History of English, Cognitive Linguistics, Linguistic and Cultural Studies, as well as other academic courses that include teaching the interrelation between language and culture

Software package for reconstructing reflective properties of the Earth's surface in the visible and UV ranges

A description of a software package for reconstructing the distribution of the reflection coefficient of the Earth’s surface, as well as procedures developed for a considerable reduction of the computation time, is presented. By an example of a test region in the western coast of Africa, a comparison has been performed for results obtained by the proposed algorithm, the algorithm of homogeneous correction, and the standard MOD09 NASA algorithm. The correlation coefficients of results for this test region are as follows: between the new algorithm and homogeneity correction algorithm, 0.999; between the new algorithm and the MOD09 algorithm, 0.984

Estimation of the error of the algorithm for reconstructing the reflection coefficient of the Earth surface on the example of images with the low atmospheric turbidity

An algorithm for atmospheric correction of satellite images combining the consideration of the main factors influencing imaging and a number of techniques allowing the computational time to be decreased considerably is analyzed. On the example of a series of images of the South of the Tomsk Region recorded from 7/13/2013 to 7/17/2013 with the low atmospheric turbidity, a comparison of the results of atmospheric correction using the suggested algorithm with the results obtained using the NASA MOD09 algorithm is performed. The correction error is estimated under assumption of a linear change of the reflection coefficient from image to image. Our comparison demonstrates that the results of correction differ within the correction error. © (2015) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only

The Use of Solar Energy for Ventilation System of Cult Buildings

Ventilation system, heating system, air heating, solar energy, energy efficiency, reduced heat loss, religious buildings, Chapel, flat solar collector, solar air heating, ecohouse, energy-efficient House, Trombe wall, Edward Morse, Felix Thrombus, tilt attractive solar panel passive heating system, the building's fa?ade, the building walls, ventilation of the cult buildings with shutters-grille, air duct