Implementation Of Available Technologies Research Articles

Legal regulation of the digitalization of the environment in the Republic of Kazakhstan

This article discusses the legal regulation of digitalization of the environment in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The author examines the current state of the environmental problem, digital environmental safety and digital ecosystems in the implementation of available technologies. Actual environmental problems, environmental crises in certain regions of our country and in the world, in general, require a logical search for solutions, including using digital ecology and the rule of law. However, there are many questions regarding the legal implementation of digitization strategies. Digital transformation affects data protection, information technology security, technical design, liability, and regulatory issues. The theoretical significance of the scientific article is explained by the fact that its results supplement the theoretical concepts of environmental law with new scientific data and results. Logical-legal, systemic, functional, comparative-legal methodology, as well as methods of legal sociology were used as research methods. The scientific novelty of this work lies in the fact that the study of the problems of digitalization of environmental information is considered as a set of legal, economic, organizational, and technical measures aimed at ensuring the environmental safety of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as ensuring cybersecurity in the field of environmental information. Keywords. Environmental law, environmental protection, environmental safety, environmental information, digitalization, ecosystem, platform

Chemistry Teachers’ Awareness, Understanding, and Confidence toward Computational Tools for Molecular Visualization

Recent advances in cheminformatics and bioinformatics research have generated software and computational tools for molecular modeling and visualization that can be incorporated to improve chemistry teaching and learning in high school. Nevertheless, there have never been any study simultaneously reporting chemistry teachers’ awareness, understanding, and confidence toward contemporary computer-aided molecular modeling and visualization tools. This study examined 32 high school chemistry teachers’ knowledge, understanding and confidence toward nine new computational programs on molecular modeling and visualization namely ChemDraw, HyperChem, UCSF Chimera, Marvin Sketch, PsiPred, MBC (PS2), Rampage, Vienna RNA Package and Mode RNA following two days of professional workshop-based training. After completing the training and assessments, the teachers showed an enhancement in awareness, understanding, and confidence toward those nine computational programs. Intensive activities consisting of theoretical lectures, hands-on practices, assignments, and case study presentations seem to provide valuable resources to the increase in teachers’ knowledge, understanding, and skill that incorporates computational technology. Hence, the impact of this research pointed toward the value of teachers’ professional development that creates a platform to reduce the barriers of access, resources, knowledge, and skills. This study is expected to help improving teachers’ awareness, understanding, and confidence necessarily required for further implementation of available technology for instructional purposes.Â

Transition to a sustainable urban energy system from a long-term perspective: Case study in a Japanese business district

This paper investigates alternative prospects for an urban energy system from a long-term perspective in order to achieve a reduction in CO 2 emission by more than 50% of the current emission in the Japanese commercial sector. This will assist in making strategic choices with regard to the implementation of available technologies in order to create a substantial change. A simulation model based on the bottom-up approach – a fundamental part of the evaluation framework of technology implementation scenarios – provides insights into the changes required in all the components of urban energy systems from the equipment level to the entire building and systems level and finally to the neighborhood and city levels. This model is applied to the Yodoyabashi district, a central business district in Osaka, Japan, in order to predict the end-use energy consumption and CO 2 emission under various scenarios. This is based on different concepts of community energy management. The results of this case study suggest that we can achieve a reduction of 60–90% of the current CO 2 emission by the middle of the 21st century.

Workshop on industrial noise

Noise control in the design stage is more effective and less costly than retrofitting; but it is very important to know what to do. An understanding of noise generation is essential in order to control noise in the design state. There was much discussion regarding the general inadequacy of the performance specifications as a guaranteed route for obtaining quiet industrial facilities. Performance specifications lack a fundamental base of technology of noise control. To date, performance specifications simply do not work. Some very interesting case histories on noise reduction in industrial plants are described. Generally, the method consisted of enclosing either the noisy machine or the receiver. There are real problems in trying not to compromise either the operation or the safety of the operator when using enclosures. Although there are dangers from holes in enclosures, this is not necessarily a problem. The hole in the enclosure can be treated like a silencer in many clever ways - you can make penetrations in enclosures and still have the enclosures almost as effective as with no holes. You have to get things in and out of enclosures and holes are not necessarily a bugaboo. There is a great deal of technology available now. However, implementation of available technology is a problem, such as making the knowledge known. Until you can get available technology and techniques conveyed to people who are in the position to use it, there will be little progress. In other words, education is one of the first steps.