Special-purpose Program Research Articles

Support software for plastic bending of waveguides on a rotary draw bending machine

The paper addresses the problem of ensuring the bending quality of the waveguide on an automated pipe rotary draw bending machine by winding. This bending method is currently the most common, but has limitations on the allowable values of bend angles and radii, which ensure the accuracy and quality of the bend region geometry without losing the stability of the section shape in the form of wrinkles and ruptures. Modern requirements for minimizing dimensions and masses require the use of the minimum possible bending radii, which depend on the geometry of the section and the material of the work piece. Calculations to determine the limits of permissible bend parameters using general or special purpose programs are very time-consuming require high-performance computers and high qualification of the computing engineer. To solve this problem, it is proposed to create support software that, based on interpolation of results of more accurate calculations, allows you to determine the areas of permissible bend parameters for the selected shape and section dimensions, as well as the work piece material. This approach allows you to quickly obtain solutions for both the engineer in the design of the structure and the operator of the pipe bending machine and to obtain a product with guaranteed bending quality.

Process Query Language: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation

Organizations can benefit from the use of practices, techniques, and tools from the area of business process management. Through the focus on processes, they create process models that require management, including support for versioning, refactoring and querying. Querying thus far has primarily focused on structural properties of models rather than on exploiting behavioral properties capturing aspects of model execution. While the latter is more challenging, it is also more effective, especially when models are used for auditing or process automation. The focus of this paper is to overcome the challenges associated with behavioral querying of process models in order to unlock its benefits. The first challenge concerns determining decidability of the building blocks of the query language, which are the possible behavioral relations between process tasks. The second challenge concerns achieving acceptable performance of query evaluation. The evaluation of a query may require expensive checks in all process models, of which there may be thousands. In light of these challenges, this paper proposes a special-purpose programming language, namely Process Query Language (PQL) for behavioral querying of process model collections. The language relies on a set of behavioral predicates between process tasks, whose usefulness has been empirically evaluated with a pool of process model stakeholders. This study resulted in a selection of the predicates to be implemented in PQL, whose decidability has also been formally proven. The computational performance of the language has been extensively evaluated through a set of experiments against two large process model collections.

ОПРЕДЕЛЕНИЕ СТЕПЕНИ ГОТОВНОСТИ УЧИТЕЛЕЙ ФИЗИЧЕСКОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ ДОШКОЛЬНЫХ ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНЫХ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЙ К РЕАЛИЗАЦИИ ФИЗИЧЕСКОГО ВОСПИТАНИЯ С ДЕТЬМИ С ОГРАНИЧЕННЫМИ ВОЗМОЖНОСТЯМИ ЗДОРОВЬЯ

The purpose of the study was to determine the degree of readiness of physical education teachers to work with pre-school children with special needs. During the study, a questionnaire survey was carried out among the teachers in order to find out their level of education, years of experience and the features of the teaching process at pre-school educational institutions. To achieve good results in working with special needs children, educational and special-purpose programmes in adapted physical culture need to be developed for teachers. For this purpose not only material, technical and methodological support is needed. It also requires teachers’ advanced training and experience sharing.

Промышленная система Российской Федерации: факторы роста и развития

The institutes for implementing industrial policy in the Russian Federation at the present time are considered. The main activities of industrial policy, which are provided for by the Federal Law on Industrial Policy, are stated. The problems that arise in the process of carrying out industrial policy at different levels of government are analysed in detail. The paper shows that local governments do not have a budgetary interest and legally stipulated powers to fulfil industrial policy, the federal level of authority can mainly exercise universal managerial influences. Thus, it is established that at present only regional government bodies have the opportunity to carry out industrial policy measures, taking into account the characteristic features and the region problems. The paper suggests using the cubic spline function to assess the industrialization level and the factors influencing it, as well as the sensitivity coefficient to evaluate the managerial impact effectiveness on the industrial system. The presented criteria were tested in the process of assessing both the industrialization level and the state support activities for industry. The main factors of growing and developing the country’s industrial system are identified. Conclusions are drawn on the impact degree of the state programme of supporting industry and federal special-purpose programmes on target indicators for developing the country’s industry; prospects for further research are outlined.

Creation of programs for sustainable administration of low-rise housing construction programs in remote areas with special climatic conditions

Objective: The research is aimed at creation of programs for development of low-rise housing construction which are suitable for remote territories with special climatic conditions. They allow intensifying low-rise housing construction and contribute to the development of a natural resource base from local building materials. Methods: Authors used the methodology, which is based on the creation of regional programs for the development of low-rise housing construction (LRC) that aim to solve socio-economic problems through a new organizational and economic mechanism. Results: The procedure for creation of regional programs for development of low-rise housing construction has been developed. At a fundamental level of the created programs there is an organizational and economic mechanism which includes subject-object relations regarding implementation of low-rise housing construction development programs and is aimed at achieving the key outcome – construction of low-rise energy-efficient block-type houses for certain categories of citizens living in remote territories with special climatic conditions. The organizational and economic mechanism is based on taking into account interests of individual groups of subjects which makes it possible to achieve the highest level of efficiency in implementation of regional programs for the development of low-rise housing construction in remote territories with special climatic conditions. Suggestions: The proposed model of the Departmental special-purpose program offers solutions to the problem of providing low-rise housing with a high level of comfort and quality for certain categories of citizens employed in socially significant industries. The procedure developed in the article is recommended to be used by executive and state authorities for the creation of regional programs for the intensification of low-rise housing construction.

On technical debt in mathematical programming: An exploratory study

The Technical Debt (TD) metaphor describes development shortcuts taken for expediency that cause the degradation of internal software quality. It has served the discourse between engineers and management regarding how to invest resources in maintenance and extend into scientific software (both the tools, the algorithms and the analysis conducted with it). Mathematical programming has been considered ‘special purpose programming’, meant to program and simulate particular problem types (e.g., symbolic mathematics through Matlab). Likewise, more traditional mathematical programming has been considered ‘modelling programming’ to program models by providing programming structures required for mathematical formulations (e.g., GAMS, AMPL, AIMMS). Because of this, other authors have argued the need to consider mathematical programming as closely related to software development. As a result, this paper presents a novel exploration of TD in mathematical programming by assessing self-reported practices through a survey, which gathered 168 complete responses. This study discovered potential debts manifested through smells and attitudinal causes towards them. Results uncovered a trend to refactor and polish the final mathematical model and use version control and detailed comments. Nonetheless, we uncovered traces of negative practices regarding Code Debt and Documentation Debt, alongside hints indicating that most TD is deliberately introduced (i.e., modellers are aware that their practices are not the best). We aim to discuss the idea that TD is also present in mathematical programming and that it may hamper the reproducibility and maintainability of the models created. The overall goal is to outline future areas of work that can lead to changing current modellers’ habits and assist in extending existing mathematical programming (both practice and research) to eventually manage TD in mathematical programming.

Numerical model validation of non-composite slim floor beam subjected to fire

Abstract Compared to traditional composite steel-concrete beams, where the concrete slab is supported by the top flange of a steel profile, in slim floor systems, the beam is integrated into the height of the concrete slab. These configurations are popular due to their cost-effectiveness and fire performance. However, fire design requires advanced calculation models, as Eurocodes do not provide a simplified method for the analysis of these types of beams when exposed to fire. The validation of the numerical models is an important issue for researchers, designers, software developers, and authorities. The European Standard for the fire design of composite steel and concrete structures, EN 1994-1-2, states that advanced calculation models must be validated against experimental test results. The paper presents the validation of a numerical model, for the thermal and mechanical analysis of slim floor beams, using SAFIR software. SAFIR is a special purpose computer program, based on the Finite Element Method, developed for the analysis of structures under elevated temperature conditions. The model is validated against an existing experimental fire test, available in the literature. The temperatures on the cross-section and the vertical beam displacements obtained numerically are reproducing very well the experimental results.

Системи управління схемою гарячого водопостачання для сучасних новобудов

Housing and communal services in Kyiv have more than 10,000 multi-storey houses, and in Ky-iv region, there are more than 5,000. Reducing energy consumption for housing, heat and water supply, and lighting services should be considered as reducing energy costs. The trouble-free operation of the equipment is of the utmost importance. Its resource on many utilities has a minimum margin of safety. Centralized analysis of the equipment control, accounting of motor resources and, accordingly, timely preventive work allow extending the service life of many components of engineering systems in the utility sector, transport, and industry. These problems are solved by distributed systems of automated control of engineering equipment, including control systems of the hot water supply scheme for modern new buildings. In modern new buildings, there is used a scheme of hot water supply (HWS) with two circulating pumps and the HWS regulator. The control cabinet, developed in the IMMSP of the NAS of Ukraine, is made on the basis of the MRTP-7 controller with the corresponding software consisting of gen-eral and special purpose programs. The article considers the principles of building a control sys-tem for hot water supply, considers the software functions of the system, presents a mathemati-cal model of the HWS system, describes a laboratory test site for testing algorithms for HWP control and modeling the HWS control process. The scientific and technical solutions provided in the article can be used in the development of automated control systems for engineering equipment in the utility sector.

MULTIVARIABLE COMPONENTS OF INTERESTS OF PERSONALITY AS PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY CONSTITUENT OF FITNESS AND RECREATION

Introduction. The structure of components of interests of personality is considered In the article, as a psychophysiology constituent of fitness and recreations soil of that is a healthy way of life. At the same time, researchers among the factors of recreation and healthy way of life on anything estimate such factors as active rest and leisure - from one side, and necessity of the regular engaging in physical exercises - from other, thus these factors need a study and analysis, in fact understanding of the most effective factors, that assist bringing in of people to engaging in motive activity, fitness and recreation is the condition of optimal changes in the health of people, especially on a background a pandemic. In literary sources numerous researches are examined from the study of separate components that is included in the structure of personality, orientation of interests and aspirations of personality, having a special purpose and motivational programs, the level of tastes and attitude toward own is healthyʼI. Among the components of interests to personality distinguish many factors: from the rational planning of vital career and achievement of high quality of life to the psychical and emotional adjusting in a fight against stresses and observance of healthy way of life, but most essential from them - engaging in physical exercises and, on the view of author, does not get the optimal volume of motive activity near-term value. The aim of work is research of the most meaningful components of personality, that assist bringing in of man to the fitness and recreation. Results. Among the multivariable components of interests to personality the rational planning of vital career and achievement of high quality of life, personal hygiene, social activity is considered, high level of the psychical and emotional adjusting in a fight against stresses and pernicious habits, observance of healthy way of life, including engaging in physical exercises and optimal volume of motive activity. All afore-named components of interests of personality are the inalienable psychophysiology constituents of fitness and recreation. But last two factor is a necessity of engaging in physical exercises and observance of optimal volume of motive activity, an author examines as the underestimated factors of recreation, unlike specialists, that into first place put active rest and leisure, that does not need the regular engaging in physical exercises and often in force of mentality of our nation substituted by chaotic departures on nature with shashlicks and alcohol

Land management support for formation of specially protected natural reservations system

Special-purpose programs and documents on environmental protection and sustainable development adopted at the international and regional levels demonstrate the world community’s equal attention to economic, social and environmental components as well as their recognition that with the degradation of natural environment human society’s development is impossible. At the same time, creation and development of a system of specially protected natural reservations is an integral part of the country’s nature protection system, which ensures preservation and restoration of landscape and biological diversity sufficient to maintain natural systems ability to self-regulate and compensate for the consequences of anthropogenic activities. The real mechanism for organizing the rational use of land territories and regulating land relations is land management, which solves the entire range of legal, socio-economic and environmental issues. Therefore, all actions related to the formation of some new and reorganization of existing specially protected natural reservations, organization of land rational use should be carried out only in accordance with land management procedures. The inconsistency and unsystematic nature of land management work in recent years, the involvement of incompetent organizations in implementing that work led to the fact that decisions related to the land use were made without appropriate legal, economic and environmental justification, without compliance with requirements for rational use of territories and their protection. The above-mentioned actions resulted in a number of problems in organization of rational use of territories of all categories, including land of specially protected reservations and objects. The above said statement determines the need to improve the regulatory and methodological support for formation and functioning of specially protected natural reservations of federal, regional and local significance.

Ulyanovsk State Technical University (USTU)

Subject. A considerable amount of agricultural innovation pursues to create sustainable production systems, including land and water resource management, the development of agri-environmental approaches to using ecological and biological processes to reduce the consumption of non-renewable resources. Despite the apparent importance of the issue, the national agriculture still scarcely uses innovation. Objectives. We investigate the enhancement of the sustainable development in agriculture through innovation. Methods. The study relies upon proceedings of foreign and Russian scholars on theoretical and practical aspects of the sustainable development in agriculture, official statistical data and documents of governmental and special-purpose programs for agricultural development in the Russian Federation. The study is methodologically based on the systems approach. Results. Agriculture is found to be in transit to the sixth wave of innovation, with its core comprising NBICS-technologies and synthesizing nano-, bio- and computer technologies, genetic engineering and cognitive ties. Biological innovation and land cultivation innovation are the most popular and sought-for, since they ensure the prolonged economic effect. We determine factors impeding the innovative development in agriculture. Computer systems and public-private partnership are supposed to be the main tools for activating innovation. Conclusions and Relevance. I conclude that, despite some disputable aspects of some innovative solutions in agriculture, sustainable development in agriculture is undeniably impossible without such innovative solutions. Rising controversies can only be resolved through further and more profound research. The State should assist in the emergence of the effective innovative environment, which would allow all agricultural market actors to actively implement innovation.

The effect of dome properties on design of the axial symmetric cylindrical wall

The usage of computer software in civil engineering has expanded in last decades. Many general-purpose and special-purpose commercial programs perform a very important function, especially at the design stage. In this study, a computer program is introduced for the analysis and design of the axial symmetric cylindrical wall considering the dome effects. Analysis processes are carried out according to Flexibility theory with long wall assumption and during the reinforced concrete (RC) design of the wall, ACI 318-Building code requirements for structural concrete are considered. In numerical investigation, the effects of the dome properties (thickness and height) on the analysis and design of the wall are investigated by performing a totally 72 case analyzes. These cases include different support condition at bottom of the wall, wall heights, dome thicknesses and heights. According to analysis results, it is concluded that effects of dome thickness and heights on the wall on the wall are very limited.

ПРИНЦИПЫ ОТБОРА СОДЕРЖАНИЯ ДИЗАЙН-ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ ДЛЯ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТНОГО ОБУЧЕНИЯ СТУДЕНТОВ С ОГРАНИЧЕННЫМИ ВОЗМОЖНОСТЯМИ ЗДОРОВЬЯ

The modern sociocultural environment puts forward requirements for ensuring equal opportunities for vocational education for active members of the society. The established requirements for the organization of the educational process in mixed groups, including normo-typical students and students with disabilities, indicate the need to search for new methodological approaches to ensure the successful implementation of vocational education. The article highlights the problem of choosing didactic components of practice-oriented content for teaching students with disabilities. The aim of the work was to identify the principles of new didactics, which make it possible to adapt the structure of basic design education to the special educational needs of students and to optimally organize educational activities in a mixed group without losing the quality of professional development and an increase in general competencies. The article provides some of the fundamental meanings of design practice, which make it possible to find permits for the introduction of inclusive methods in the system of special-purpose training programs. The approaches to the formulation of combined tasks are disclosed that allow the variability of equivalent design solutions of different levels of complexity. New approaches to the choice of methodological and didactic techniques were determined in the course of a pedagogical experiment, using elements of a longitudinal study. The author gives examples from the experience of training students in secondary vocational education in mixed groups, points out aspects that have a particular impact on the achievement of equal positive results by students, names the methods of formulating practical tasks that minimize the difference in time spent by students with different abilities. The conclusion about a sufficient basis for the chosen direction of methodological and didactic support was made on the basis of signs of positive dynamics of mastering the techniques of project design activity by students with disabilities.

Vectorization of Flat Loops of Arbitrary Structure Using Instructions AVX-512

Widespread application of supercomputer technologies in various spheres of life, as well as the need of high-performance calculations allows us to speak about the relevance of the problem of increasing the performance of computer codes on supercomputers of modern architectures. Vectorization of program code is a low-level optimization that can, with a relatively local and compact application, increase the productivity of computational codes by several times. Modern Intel microprocessors have support for a unique set of instructions AVX-512, which, due to its features, allows you to vectorize almost any kind of code written in a predicate form. A set of simple restrictions when developing programs along with vectorization tools to enable the use of the AVX-512 instruction set can significantly speed up the resulting program. The article discusses approaches to vectorization of flat loops—a special-purpose program context, the successful vectorization of which allows to increase the productivity of supercomputer applications even for such program code for which optimizing compilers are powerless.

Special-purpose programs to strengthen national food system in regions of the Russian Federation

The national food system is currently a priority in the economic and social security of the regions in the Russian Federation and the state as a whole. The article specifies the concept of national security as a strategic direction for the development of a modern state, as well as tasks and role of special-purpose programs to ensure the security. The special-purpose programs applied to develop regional food security, its legislative support, and institutional component have been analyzed. Special-purpose programs implemented in the regions of Russia in frameworks of investment projects for strengthening the food security have been demonstrated. The article also reveals a number of relevant problems limiting the regional food security using special-purpose programs; and the ways for its optimization have been proposed.

Difficulties and priorities of the development of the digital economy in the Agri-Industrial Complex

Subject. The digital economy reveals the extent of technological obsolescence of the AIC. However, although the public gets more and more interested in this innovative line of development, there is still a lack of good understanding of the substance and content of the digital economy. The country has appropriate conditions for mastering digital technologies, but systemic difficulties impede their diffusion in the AIC. Objectives. The study examines respective difficulties and determines priorities of the digital economy development in the AIC. Methods. The study rests on proceedings by foreign and Russian scholars who examined theoretical and practical aspects of agricultural digitalization. We also refer to official statistics and documents on governmental and special-purpose agricultural development programs. The study involves the systems approach, monographs, statistical, graphical methods. Results. We sorted the existing approaches to interpreting the content of the digital economy. The article determined what impedes the digitalization in agriculture and examines the practices of mastering digital technologies. The scientific community was found to be very interested in the digital agriculture. However, Russian scholars are not very conversant with the digitalization practices due to multiple difficulties. Therefore, there should be respective information campaigns, involving the government. Operational cases of agricultural businesses should be showcased. Conclusions and Relevance. To overcome difficulties integrating the digital economy in agriculture, market actors should pull through serious barriers, such as high investment risks associated with investment in digital technologies, poor awareness of business communities about opportunities and successful cases of digital solutions, insufficient involvement of authorities and many other economic and political aspects.

Current state of Gagarin Park: its problems and the ways to improve the comfort of recreational environment

The state of recreational facilities and their accessibility for citizens is an integral part of life quality. Within the scope of work aimed at transition to comfortable urban environment, one of the most significant recreational facilities in Samara - Yuri Gagarin Park– has been examined. The following indicators have been researched and evaluated as the indicators of the park environment’s comfort- the character of the established functional zoning has been described- the zones of acoustic comfort have been defined- the quality of water in water bodies has been evaluated- the recreational load has been measured- the expression of the recreational landscape has been evaluated.The recommendations how to improve the comfort of the environment have been worked out, and they may be in demand while developing urban special-purpose programs.

International interaction in the context of political processes of post-Soviet Russia: structural and institutional analysis

The article reviews the main problems of international interaction in the political space of post-Soviet Russia. This research topic has been a burning and vital issue of the day over the last years. Moreover, it has become even more significant and urgent nowadays. From time to time the number of racial tensions and inter-ethnic conflicts is increasing everywhere. This fact is likely to indicate some disadvantages and faults of evaluating the state of international interaction. One of the reasons why it happened is the fact that scholars have not come to an agreement about this issue yet. Having thoroughly examined the current scientific theories and research areas, the author of the article took into consideration the most popular and widespread points of view on the problem. Such factors as the soviet «heritage», integration of ethnic minorities into the cultural space of civil nation, a great many opportunities for preserving national identity, etc. influenced the principles of international interaction in the political space of modern-day Russia. The results of the analysis of the above mentioned factors can be put into practice with a view to assess the potential of international interaction which will let predict their social and political importance and reveal possible flash seats of conflictogenity. The author’s attention is focused on considering the issues of the role of the government in the optimization of inter-ethnic relations. The main fields of concern of public authorities have been investigated. Policy papers and special-purpose programmes have been scrutinized. The author has also outlined the leading political figures’ attitude to this acute problem.

Exploring Pedagogical Challenges of ESP Teachers at a Saudi Arabian University

English language is increasingly becoming an important communication tool worldwide, being studied for different reasons and needs, which explains the emergency of English for special purpose programs (ESP). This study investigated the perceptions of teachers towards issues related to the pedagogy in teaching ESP courses at the Saudi Arabian University. As such, a mixed quantitative and qualitative research approach was used to collect data from 50 ESP teachers. The results revealed that all the respondents were qualified enough to teach ESP. However, in terms of teaching challenges, the ESP teachers appeared to be inadequately prepared for the job, since they lacked ESP teaching skills and knowledge, which lead to limited ESP teaching capabilities. Therefore, professional training should complement academic training for quality ESP teaching and learning outcomes. Moreover, most teachers lacked skill development courses since they joined the current institution, which suggested the need for teacher development programs to prepare ESP teachers in areas of knowledge development and right instructional language command. In this light, future studies should focus on ascertaining factors that determine the teachers’ choices of pedagogic strategies in teaching ESP courses and those that influence learners to pursue ESP in universities and educational institutions.

Инвестирование кластерных инициатив на ТОСЭР моногородов: проблемы и направления совершенствования

Introduction. Analysis of existing support measures for single-industry towns, clusters, investment and cluster policy in the Russian Federation, as well as of the practices in investors and residents attraction to single-industry towns, efficiency assessment of support measures to single-industry towns, monitoring of research activities and authorities reports indicate that investment problems, including cluster initiatives in the territories for priority socio-economic development (TPSED) of single-industry towns are far from being resolved. They are conditioned by the limitations imposed by the development and implementation of government programs in the Russian Federation, Federal special-purpose programs, Federal targeted investment program, infrastructure, investment and other projects, by fragmentary character of infrastructure development, risks existing for investment in the TPSED of single-industry towns, problems of regional investment policy, presence of infrastructure limitations for cluster development in the TPSED, and the single-industry towns profile. Aims. The aim of this article is to define directions for improvement of cluster formation investment vehicles in the TPSED of single-industry towns. The following methods were used: theoretical research, system analysis. Results. Suggestions were made for changes in the law referring to support and funding clusters and the TPSED of single-industry towns, long-term planning improvement and organizational support to investment vehicles. Conclusion. Recommendations suggested may appeal to regional developers of TPSED of single-industry towns aiming to use cluster approach, as well as may be applied in adjusting investment and cluster policy in the Russian Federation.