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FORMATION PROJECT OF THE FORMER MUSTANGI DUS
Get PDFTitle article “Evaluation of the possibilities of revitalization of the former DUS Mustangi in the degraded territory” The aim of the article is to survey the information about the degraded territory of the former DUS Mustangi, to assess their current condition, to evaluate the possibilities of restoration and to offer a possible alternative for cleaning up the territory. During the development of the article, the concept of brownfields and the causes of their formation were considered. An on-site assessment of the condition of the facility was surveyed
LASER HARDENING PROCESS ON Ck 45 DEPENDING ON THE LASER PARAMETERS - a small review
Get PDFThis study displays the effect of laser surface hardening parameters on the Ck 45 steel. The method is mostly based on experimental tests, with micro-hardness data being used to obtain the hardness profile Ck 45.The beauty of the surface laser hardening technique is that, it hardens a specific area without changing the surface qualities of the surrounding area. Due to its versatility and capacity to manufacture parts with complex geometry, laser heat treatment is regarded one of the best-performing manufacturing technologies currently in use
INCREASING THE CULTIVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BEEF CATTLE FEED BASE OF THE KALNZIEDI FARM BY REDUCING GHG EMISSIONS
Get PDFThe 21st century has brought a number of challenges to the world that humanity has to face. Climate change is one of them and the world community must do everything it can to improve the current situation. Scientists have shown that the main cause of climate change is the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere, driven by human economic activity. The environmental impact of the agricultural sector, in the form of increasing GHG emissions, is becoming more pronounced and farmers need in-depth knowledge of the greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural activities and their potential reduction on farms. This is all the more so as EU support for farms is planned to be linked to measures taken to reduce GHG emissions
POSSIBLE USE OF LASERS FOR CLEAVAGE OF PHENOLS TILL BASE SUBSTANCES (REVIEW)
Get PDFThe purpose of this review article is to explain the hazards of phenol and phenol compounds to human health and the environment. To describe where and how phenol and its compounds occur, especially in industrial effluents. To study the possibility of using laser technologies for phenol cleavage, as well as for the treatment of industrial wastewater from phenol compounds. Removal of phenol and its compounds using biological wastewater treatment process is widely used worldwide. This method is cost-effective and environmentally friendly. On the other hand, exceeding the tolerable phenol concentration, which is individual for each biological treatment plant, may result in severe intoxication and lead to death of activated sludge system. Thus, the biological treatment process of industrial wastewater is halted until the phenol concentration is reduced to an acceptable level and the microorganisms have time to recover. Such a procedure can be time consuming and unpredictable due to the susceptibility of microorganisms to changing conditions. Based on this, sources of literature have been studied that could help to understand which laser equipment can be used to cleave a phenolic compound or benzene ring to simpler compounds
SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN ACADEMICS: THE PARADIGM OF LEGAL EVALUATION IN LITHUANIA
Get PDFThe article focuses on the insights` analysis of the nowadays relevant social problems, related to sexual harassment in the academics, its legal evaluation in Lithuania. It is discussed, whether sexual harassment situations, that could be faced or happened in academics, could be seen as the ethic, moral violations or even more – criminal deeds. The authors go into deep and analyse the relationships between culprit and victim as they are not equal as such in the academic community. They have vertical relations, for instance, a lecturer and a student, etc. Then the principal question is raised – whether the guilty of the culprit should be proved / argued using presumption of innocence or there is a converse – the words and emotions of a victim take the prior place to incriminate a culprit. Another one question should be seen as the relevant one – does the legal situation change if there are enough assumptions to say “a culprit intended to have intimate relations with the victim”? It is also argued, that one of the biggest problems to uncover the situation’s real face is time of victim’s keeping silence as a victim, usually, is depending on culprit’s will (for instance, the lecturer and the student still have educational relations)
MODELS AND ALGORITHMS FOR OPTIMIZING LEGAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL IN THE CORPORATE NETWORK OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
Get PDFWith the rapid growth of information in the global network, the challenges of finding information quickly and easily in a narrow range of fields of study and specialization are increasing. People are constantly looking for information in some form throughout their lives. This is the result of the constant striving of human beings for innovation, efforts to improve personal and professional competencies. One of the main objectives of libraries is to meet people’s needs for information. In short, this process can be called the type of informational support. The main purpose of this research is to develop models and algorithms to optimize the effective search of information about health information in corporate networks. Electronic libraries in the field of jurisprudence serve not only to train personnel in the field of jurisprudence, but also to increase legal literacy in society, to make citizens aware of their rights and obligations, and to prevent them from becoming victims of various frauds. For organizations, it serves as the most important repository of knowledge for their employees to constantly update their legal knowledge, to draw up normative-legal documents, contracts and agreements within the framework of legal requirements. Despite the fact that the field of jurisprudence is one of the most important areas of activity, the provision of scientific information to this field is not sufficiently systematized. Different organizations and institutions store their existing legal literature in the way they choose, and there is no single mechanism for making it available to users, digitizing, classifying, and searching for it. Most library users rate the efficiency of the library by the availability of the necessary literature. A survey of law students and professors was conducted to examine the interest of library users in legal electronic literature and their use. More than 50% of respondents use the electronic library daily, 93% are looking for legal literature, and 50% of participants said it is difficult to find legal literature. Also, all respondents (100%) approved the need to create a single corporate network by pooling electronic resources of higher education institutions providing legal training
PEDAGOGICAL POTENTIAL OF A PICTURE TO ENHANCE SPEECH FOR CHILDREN WITH LANGUAGE DISORDERS
Get PDFThe scientist A. Leontyev assures that the language competence is the result of development of continuous use of each language. Only through active communication and active speech activity an understanding about language emerges for the child (Leontyev, 1977). The scientist Glukhov (2005) outlines the skill to improve the language abilities by performing the speech activity in the process of communication. Whereas, one of the most significant factors in the process of mastering the language is a positive emotional background, where the child is encouraged to perceive visible, apparent things, living beings, natural phenomena, to listen and pronounce words which designate them. This also inspires to investigate the pedagogical potential of a picture to enhance speech for children with language disorders.The picture is a significant visual aid for a child not only to be taught but also to have fun for improving the language skills. Therefore, it is worked out a set of pictures as a help for the parents to work with a child at home. In a such way a speech therapist is involving the parents in a teaching process to prolong an educational process with a child. As a result, the parents get a pedagogic experience and the efficient development for a child language.
DIGITAL INTERMEDIATION, INTERNET USAGE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF COGNITIVE STYLES
Get PDFApplication of information and communication technologies in education has changed not only the forms of organization of educational process but also the way students learn. Studies over the last decade have shown that availability of the internet has changed the way students search, perceive, remember and assimilate new information and knowledge. This paper uses the works of cultural-historical psychology, media studies and cognitive psychology to ground the idea that the use of the media affects the development of cognitive styles. Computer technologies are conceptualized as cultural means, as psychological tools and new forms of intermediation between the consciousness and productive activity. As such, computer technologies and specifically the internet have the potential of influencing the development of higher psychic functions, the forms of cognitive self-control and self-government. The paper discusses the application of Sternberg’s conception of thinking styles to the problems of the influence of computer technologies on the development of styles of cognitive self-control. As empirical evidence the paper uses the materials of five focus group discussions with school and university teachers conducted within the project “The impact of internet usage patterns on the development of youth’s cognitive styles”
APPLYING OF DESIGN THINKING APPROACH IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE COURSE
Get PDFA lot of people comprehend the necessity to acquire foreign languages and particularly foreign languages for their professional needs, but in most cases, their enthusiasm and motivation decrease and sometimes even disappear when hard work on a regular basis starts. The greatest advantages of the Design Thinking approach in teaching foreign languages are the development of foreign languages’ competencies and the making of the learners more motivated. The aim of the paper is to analyze the development outcomes of communicative competencies by applying the Design Thinking approach to teaching foreign languages to Bachelor level law students who acquire legal English and Bachelor level Information Technology students who study German as a second foreign language. The following methods were used while doing the research: survey data analysis of the foreign languages courses’ target audience and the qualitative analysis of the data content. A questionnaire of the students was developed and carried out, the answers were processed. The research experience was analyzed, the conclusions were drawn and the proposals for future work were worked out. The framework of learning was based on the Stanford method: empathizing, defining the problem, ideating, prototyping, and testing. The results of the study proved that the design thinking approach is effective as the learners solve many real-life problems. This encouraged collaboration and activity as they discussed simulated professional and real-life issues. The results also proved that the design thinking approach is recommended for learners with a higher level of foreign language proficiency. The pros and cons of the approach, based on the learners’ results and questionnaires have been summarized
FORMS OF THE DIFFERENTIATION OF WORK WITH TEXTS IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Get PDFThis article justifies the importance and relevance of the use of differentiated work with texts starting with primary school. Results of the analysis of scientific and methodological literature, modern teaching practice on the reflection of the issue of using various forms and kinds of differentiation are described. It is underlined that differentiation of learning is based on discovering and reckoning with the individual characteristics of students and their differences. Individualization of teaching is interpreted as the highest stage of differentiation. Described ways and kinds of differentiation are the most adequate for the effective differentiated work with texts. Such criteria as the level of a student’s autonomy in completing tasks and the complexity of an educational work are at the heart of this classification. Varying levels of autonomy in educational work are ensured by joint completion of tasks, independent work, playing the role of a consultant. The difficulty of tasks is provided by various ways of formulating tasks and the variation in their content. One more regulator of the tasks’ difficulty is the volume and the level of difficulty of texts. As a result of effectiveness checks of the use of aforementioned forms and ways of differentiation of primary school students with educational texts significant positive effect was found.