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    The idea of «Questions» conscious in the aspect of teaching in comprehensive schools

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    In article is considered didactic importance and practical particularities of the using to idea «Questions» in realization of the principle to consciousness’s in education (on example of the study physicists). It highlights the main advantages and disclosed didactic importance of the issues in the study of material. The article shows the methodological feasibility of their use in the educational process, highlighted the basic techniques of student learning and the formation of posing questions. Awareness of the material being studied depends on the completeness of its perception, a holistic view of the problem. The ability to formulate a question displays a person's ability to perceive, synthesize and analyze incoming information. The emergence of the issue indicates that the student's conscious approach to the consideration of the problem in question, which is crucial in the study of natural sciences.Key words: consciousness, education, teacher, question, activity.В статье на основе архивных материалов и анализа педагогического опыта рассмотрено дидактическое значение и особенности практического применения идеи «Почемучки» в реализации принципа сознательности в обучении (на примере изучения физики), выделены основные преимущества и раскрыта дидактическая значимость вопросов при изучении материала, показана методическая целесообразность их использования в учебном процессе, выделены основные приемы обучения учащихся формированию и постановке вопросов. Осознание изучаемого материала напрямую зависит от полноты его восприятия, целостного представления о проблеме. Умение формулировать вопрос отображает способность личности воспринимать, синтезировать и анализировать входящую информацию. Появление вопроса свидетельствует о сознательном подходе учащегося к рассмотрению изучаемой проблемы, что принципиально важно в изучении естественных наук.Ключевые слова: сознательность, обучение, педагог, вопрос, активность

    Contact line motion for partially wetting fluids

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    We study the flow close to an advancing contact line in the limit of small capillary number. To take into account wetting effects, both long and short-ranged contributions to the disjoining pressure are taken into account. In front of the contact line, there is a microscopic film corresponding to a minimum of the interaction potential. We compute the parameters of the contact line solution relevant to the matching to a macroscopic problem, for example a spreading droplet. The result closely resembles previous results obtained with a slip model

    Demand-side solutions for climate mitigation: Bottom-up drivers of household energy behavior change in the Netherlands and Spain

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    © 2019 The Authors Households are responsible for 70% of CO2 emissions (directly and indirectly). While households as agents of change increasingly become a crucial element in energy transitions, bottom-up mechanisms facilitating behavioral change are not fully understood. A scientific understanding of individual energy use, requires eliciting factors that trigger or inhibit changes in energy behavior. This paper explores individual energy consumption practices and behavioral aspects that affect them. We quantitatively study the determinants of three energy actions: (1) investments in house insulation, solar panels and/or energy-efficient appliances, (2) conservation of energy by changing energy-use habits like switching off unused devices or adjusting house temperature, and (3) switching to green(er) electricity sources. To address this goal, we conduct a comprehensive survey among households (N = 1790) in two EU regions: Overijssel, the Netherlands and Navarre, Spain. We use probit regression to estimate how behavioral factors, households’ socioeconomic characteristics and structural attributes of dwellings influence energy related actions. Our analysis demonstrates that awareness and personal and social norms are as important as monetary factors. Moreover, education and structural dwelling factors significantly affect households’ actions. These results have implications for governmental policies aimed at reducing residential CO2 footprints and facilitating demand-side solutions in a transition to low-carbon economy

    Roughness of moving elastic lines - crack and wetting fronts

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    We investigate propagating fronts in disordered media that belong to the universality class of wetting contact lines and planar tensile crack fronts. We derive from first principles their nonlinear equations of motion, using the generalized Griffith criterion for crack fronts and three standard mobility laws for contact lines. Then we study their roughness using the self-consistent expansion. When neglecting the irreversibility of fracture and wetting processes, we find a possible dynamic rough phase with a roughness exponent of ζ=1/2\zeta=1/2 and a dynamic exponent of z=2. When including the irreversibility, we conclude that the front propagation can become history dependent, and thus we consider the value ζ=1/2\zeta=1/2 as a lower bound for the roughness exponent. Interestingly, for propagating contact line in wetting, where irreversibility is weaker than in fracture, the experimental results are close to 0.5, while for fracture the reported values of 0.55--0.65 are higher.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figure

    Hydrodynamic theory of de-wetting

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    A prototypical problem in the study of wetting phenomena is that of a solid plunging into or being withdrawn from a liquid bath. In the latter, de-wetting case, a critical speed exists above which a stationary contact line is no longer sustainable and a liquid film is being deposited on the solid. Demonstrating this behavior to be a hydrodynamic instability close to the contact line, we provide the first theoretical explanation of a classical prediction due to Derjaguin and Levi: instability occurs when the outer, static meniscus approaches the shape corresponding to a perfectly wetting fluid

    Asymptotic theory for a moving droplet driven by a wettability gradient

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    An asymptotic theory is developed for a moving drop driven by a wettability gradient. We distinguish the mesoscale where an exact solution is known for the properly simplified problem. This solution is matched at both -- the advancing and the receding side -- to respective solutions of the problem on the microscale. On the microscale the velocity of movement is used as the small parameter of an asymptotic expansion. Matching gives the droplet shape, velocity of movement as a function of the imposed wettability gradient and droplet volume.Comment: 8 fig

    Front pinning in capillary filling of chemically coated channels

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    The dynamics of capillary filling in the presence of chemically coated heterogeneous boundaries is investigated, both theoretically and numerically. In particular, by mapping the equations of front motion onto the dynamics of a dissipative driven oscillator, an analytical criterion for front pinning is derived, under the condition of diluteness of the coating spots. The criterion is tested against two dimensional Lattice Boltzmann simulations, and found to provide satisfactory agreement as long as the width of the front interface remains much thinner than the typical heterogeneity scale of the chemical coating.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Physical Review

    Partial level density of the n-quasiparticle excitations in the nuclei of the 39< A <201 region

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    Level density and radiative strength functions are obtained from the analysis of two-step cascades intensities following the thermal neutrons capture. The data on level density are approximated by the sum of the partial level densities corresponding to n quasiparticles excitation. The most probable values of the collective enhancement factor of the level density are found together with the thresholds of the next Cooper nucleons pair breaking. These data allow one to calculate the level density of practically any nucleus in given spin window in the framework of model concepts, taking into account all known nuclear excitation types. The presence of an approximation results discrepancy with theoretical statements specifies the necessity of rather essentially developing the level density models. It also indicates the possibilities to obtain the essentially new information on nucleon correlation functions of the excited nucleus from the experiment.Comment: 29 pages, 8 figures, 2 table

    Ecosystem and human health assessment to define environmental management strategies: The case of long-term human impacts on an Arctic lake

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    Abstract There are rich deposits of mineral and fossil natural resources in the Arctic, which make this region very attractive for extracting industries. Their operations have immediate and vast consequences for ecological systems, which are particularly vulnerable in this region. We are developing a management strategy for Arctic watersheds impacted by industrial production. The case study is Lake Imandra watershed (Murmansk oblast, Russia) that has exceptionally high levels of economic development and large numbers of people living there. We track the impacts of toxic pollution on ecosystem health and then -human health. Three periods are identified: (a) natural, pre-industrial state; (b) disturbed, under rapid economic development; and (c) partial recovery, during recent economic meltdown. The ecosystem is shown to transform into a qualitatively new state, which is still different from the original natural state, even after toxic loadings have substantially decreased. Fish disease where analyzed to produce and integral evaluation of ecosystem health. Accumulation of heavy metals in fish is correlated with etiology of many diseases. Dose-effect relationships are between integral water quality indices and ecosystem health indicators clearly demonstrates that existing water quality standards adopted in Russia are inadequate for Arctic regions. Health was also poor for people drinking water from the Lake. Transport of heavy metals from drinking water, into human organs, and their effect on liver and kidney diseases shows the close connection between ecosystem and human health. A management system is outlined that is based on feedback from indices of ecosystem and human health and control over economic production and/or the amount of toxic loading produced. We argue that prospects for implementation of such a system are quite bleak at this time, and that more likely we will see a continued depopulation of these Northern regions
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