The steppe elephant Mammuthus trogontherii (Pohlig) from the Irtysh region near Omsk

A Pleistocene elephant skeleton was found in 1989 in the alluvial beds of the Tobolsk age on the Om River near the village of Ust’-Tarka (Ust’-Tarkskii District, Novosibirsk Region). The forelimbs and some thoracic and caudal vertebrae are not preserved. Judging from the heavy wear of M3/m3, this animal was about 50–60 years of individual age. The skeleton is about 3.5 m high at the withers. The geological age of the beds enclosing the skeleton and its morphological features suggest that it should be assigned to Mammuthus trogontherii

BELARUSIAN FOLK TALE «YOU WON’T GET ENOUGH OF STOLEN GOODS» IN RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE LESSONS

В статье рассматриваются возможности многостороннего использования текста белорусской народной сказки «Краденым сыт не будешь» для формирования различных компонентов коммуникативной компетенции иностранных учащихся.=In the article Belarusian folk fairy tale «You won’t get enough of stolen goods», that may be used as a source of important country-specific information, is discussed. So Belarusian folk tale is a good instrument for the developing of different components of language competence of the foreign students

BELARUSIAN FOLK TALE «YOU WON’T GET ENOUGH OF STOLEN GOODS» IN RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE LESSONS

В статье рассматриваются возможности многостороннего использования текста белорусской народной сказки «Краденым сыт не будешь» для формирования различных компонентов коммуникативной компетенции иностранных учащихся.=In the article Belarusian folk fairy tale «You won’t get enough of stolen goods», that may be used as a source of important country-specific information, is discussed. So Belarusian folk tale is a good instrument for the developing of different components of language competence of the foreign students

Methodology of contract managers’ project competency formation in CPE

The paper defines and systematizes the key methods, which influence the results of continuing professional education (further referred to as “CPE”) implementation and quality control of CPE process. All this will allow providing coaches, tutors, business consultants, contract managers and professionals with an effective tool to identify and improve project competency of contract managers (contract officers, specialists in procurement further referred to as “contract managers”). The key methodused is a logicalmodeling, which allows to examine the problem of project competency formation as a purposeful and conscious process of forming professional skills of contract managers. The following approaches were also used: statistical and heuristic techniques, such as questionnaires, interviews of representative groups of contract managers. The authors introduce a study on key points in formation of project competency of contract managers at different levels: as a specialist in procurement and expert in procurement, according to professional standards, adopted by the Ministry of Labour of the Russian Federation № 625n and № 626n of 10.09.2015. The authors give some recommendations on project competency formation of contract managers, taking into consideration competency-based and business oriented training. The mentioned above approach in CPE, in authors’s opinion, contributes to the efficient development of competencies (competency clusters) of contract managers according to the expectations and interests of employers on the labour market. Aspects of project competency and stages of formation of such competency are considered from several perspectives. In order to cover above-mentioned issues the specially developed questionnaire was suggested by authors. The authors used a systematic literature review approach, starts with literature review, problems identification, selection process, assess, synthesize and write down the ideas proposed, and then make conclusions. © 2016 Pecherskaya et al

Methods of functioning of the information-measuring and control system for the synthesis of transparent conductive oxides

Background. The object of the study is an information - measuring and control system for the synthesis of transparent conductive oxides. The subject of the study is the method of functioning of the specified system designed for the synthesis and measurement of parameters of transparent conductive oxides. The purpose of the work is to increase the controllability of the synthesis of transparent conductive oxides by spray pyrolysis, to improve the reproducibility of coatings obtained on the basis of the spray pyrolysis method. Materials and methods. The development of a methodology for the functioning of an information- measuring and control system for the synthesis of transparent conductive oxides is based on the model proposed by the authors of the relationship between the parameters of the synthesized coatings by technological modes, as well as on the creation of the information content of the system. In turn, the information content of the system consists of databases of functional dependencies of the quality parameters of the created coatings on influencing factors. For example, a database of the dependencies of surface resistance on temperature and on the technological modes of synthesis of transparent conductive oxides has been developed. Results. The method of functioning of the information-measuring and control system for the synthesis of transparent conductive oxides has been developed, which selects the technological modes of application of transparent conductive oxides, as well as measurement and control of the temperature regime and surface resistance of transparent conductive oxides. Conclusions. The developed method of functioning of the information- measuring and control system for the synthesis of transparent conductive oxides allows you to effectively control the process of synthesis of transparent conductive oxides by spray pyrolysis, which guarantees the reproducibility of coatings with specified properties and allows you to control the quality of products based on the measurement of surface resistance

The steppe elephant Mammuthus trogontherii (Pohlig) from the Irtysh region near Omsk

A Pleistocene elephant skeleton was found in 1989 in the alluvial beds of the Tobolsk age on the Om River near the village of Ust’-Tarka (Ust’-Tarkskii District, Novosibirsk Region). The forelimbs and some thoracic and caudal vertebrae are not preserved. Judging from the heavy wear of M3/m3, this animal was about 50–60 years of individual age. The skeleton is about 3.5 m high at the withers. The geological age of the beds enclosing the skeleton and its morphological features suggest that it should be assigned to Mammuthus trogontherii

The metrological aspects of converters based on operational amplifiers used to measure the electrical parameters of oxide coatings

Background. The study is devoted to the issue of improving the accuracy of automated measuring instruments for the electrical parameters of oxide coatings. In measuring instruments, integrating circuits based on an operational amplifier, which is a universal amplifying device, are used to perform linear mathematical operations on analog signals. The disadvantage of the integrating circuit is the use of an operational amplifier, when using which it is necessary to take into account many parameters and factors that can affect the output signal, and hence the accuracy of the measured value. Materials and methods. Methods of indirect measurement of voltage and current on the studied sample with an oxide coating using the proposed structures of measuring channels are presented. It is shown that the parameters of operational amplifiers have a significant influence on the additive and multiplicative errors of measurement results, for the analysis of which a linear model of an operational amplifier is considered. Results. Based on the metrological analysis of the voltage measurement channel on the test sample, formulas for estimating additive, multiplicative and nonlinear error components are obtained. The contribution of multiplicative and additive parameters of the operational amplifier to the error of measurement results is analyzed in detail. Conclusions. Metrological analysis of the equivalent circuit of an operational amplifier with feedback has been performed, which can be used to estimate additive and multiplicative errors of circuits based on operational amplifiers widely used in instruments and measuring systems. It is shown that the total relative error of the developed channels for measuring current and voltage does not exceed 0.5%, which makes it possible to measure these values of the studied oxide coatings with guaranteed accuracy