Ecosystem controlling as a solution to complex task of optimizing the technological process of industrial production by I. A. Loskutov, V. G. Iskandarova

“…The introduction provides evidence of the need to search for new solutions to optimize and improve modern domestic industry. The first section analyzes definitions related to the ecosystem. …”
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Common Transport Policy of the European Union: a Road Map for the Eurasian Economic Union by Y. V. Pak, T. N. Polyanova

“…When working out its own CTP the EEU faces similar challenges to that of the EU though Eurasian integration offers a unique opportunity to evade European mistakes on its way to creating a modern regional transport and logistics infrastructure at lower costs. …”
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Forgotten but not lost: Notes about the status of the often overlooked Chilean desert endemic Loasa rotundifolia (Loasaceae) by Rafael Acuña-Castillo, María Teresa Eyzaguirre, Ludovica Santilli, Nicolás Lavandero, Dylan Cohen

“…The main objective of this contribution is to provide a modern revision for this rare taxon, including an amended description, a description of its distributional range, ecological notes, and a preliminary assessment of its conservation status. …”
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Effect of Precision Nitrogen Fertilization of Grassland on Soil Microbial Structure by Anna Miernik, Jerzy Korończok

“…However, despite the widespread use of modern technologies, the microbial status of the soil is often neglected, even though it significantly impacts soil productivity. …”
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CAREER ADMINISTRATION AS A DETERMINANT OF PROACTIVE BEHAVIOR by Azman Ismail, Wan Aishah Wan Mohd Nowalid, Azmawaty Mohamad Nor

“… Career guidance and counselling and its numerous services are meant to address issues bordering on career development, social changes and challenges. One of the modern challenges and threats to effective functioning, productivity and efficient service delivery in organizations is rapid changes in the 21st century, which needs to be addressed headlong. …”
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Distribution and genetic diversity of three apple viruses in Belarus by P. V. Kuzmitskaya, O. Yu. Urbanovich

“…Virus-infected apple trees were identified by RT- PCR in modern horticultural plantations and were not found among old trees aged more than 50 years. …”
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Occupational Hazards Knowledge among a Sample of Medical and Paramedical Staff in Baghdad City by Sajjad M. hasan, Suhair M. Hassoun, Luma H. Ali

“…Results observed more than half responses regarding of sub domain "General Knowledge's items" had a “Good” evaluating and assigned for 6 (54.55%), while the leftover item are assigned an “Accepted” evaluation, then followed by the second sub domain of "Specific Knowledge's items" an “Accepted” evaluating for 4(57.14%) items, while leftover items assigned a “Good” evaluation. The introduction of modern educational programs among medical and paramedical personnel is essential in order to expand their understanding of occupational hazards in their respective fields of practice. …”
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Real-Time Incompressible Fluid Simulation on the GPU by Xiao Nie, Leiting Chen, Tao Xiang

“…Moreover, we discuss several optimization techniques including using fast on-chip shared memory to avoid global memory bandwidth limitations and thus further improve performance on modern GPU hardware. With our framework, the realism of real-time fluid simulation is significantly improved since our method enforces incompressibility constraint which is typically ignored due to efficiency reason in previous GPU-based SPH methods. …”
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M. T. Ramírez. The body by itself. From the phenomenology of the body to an ontology of the embodied self / trans. from Span. А. К. Zhaparova by А. К. Zhaparova

“…A properly thought «Philosophy of the body» could bring back that reality which modern criticism has driven so far away. To offer a way out of universal solipsism, it is necessary a Philosophy of the body capable of rethinking Realism. …”
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Examining the attitude towards social media advertisements on purchase intention by Mohammad Saeid Kiani

“…Purpose: The emergence of the Internet in the modern business environment has become so pervasive that no large or small company can ignore its influence. …”
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Effective methods of rational water resource use in the agrarian sector of Kazakhstan by Yerzhan Amirbekuly, Adaskhan Daribayeva, Aigul Toxanova, Darima Zhenskhan, Nurzhamal Kurmankulova

“…The study aimed to determine effective methods of rational water resources use in the agricultural sector of Kazakhstan. The impact of modern irrigation technologies, such as drip and sprinkler irrigation, as well as automated monitoring systems on crop productivity, soil condition and adaptability of farms to climate change was analysed. …”
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Study of the role and function of medium-sized cities in the spatial development of the region (Case Study: Nasimshahr) by Gholamreza Malekshahi, Taher Parizadi, Kolsoum Rezaei

“…The study of the roles and functions of cities and their developments is an important question in modern geographic studies. The unbalanced spatial distribution of populations, irregular migration to metropolises and imbalances in the distribution of economic opportunities between regions have led to focus on the idea of ​​medium-sized cities as one of the most effective approaches to planning of the territory. …”
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An Intelligent Heuristic Manta-Ray Foraging Optimization and Adaptive Extreme Learning Machine for Hand Gesture Image Recognition by Seetharam Khetavath, Navalpur Chinnappan Sendhilkumar, Pandurangan Mukunthan, Selvaganesan Jana, Lakshmanan Malliga, Subburayalu Gopalakrishnan, Sankuru Ravi Chand, Yousef Farhaoui

“…The development of hand gesture recognition systems has gained more attention in recent days, due to its support of modern human-computer interfaces. Moreover, sign language recognition is mainly developed for enabling communication between deaf and dumb people. …”
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Predictors of Quality of Life in Portuguese Obese Patients: A Structural Equation Modeling Application by Estela Vilhena, José Pais-Ribeiro, Isabel Silva, Helena Cardoso, Denisa Mendonça

“…Obesity is considered a relevant public health problem in modern societies. To determine the comparative efficacy of different treatments and to assess their impact on patients’ everyday life, it is important to identify factors that are relevant to the quality of life of obese patients. …”
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Labor capital development of the region in the focus of sociological research: factors and problems by A. G. Karimov, S. S. Selivanova, R. G. Fatkullina

“…These values act as factors in the formation of high-quality labor capital in the conditions of modern Russia…”
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River school: An attempt of reproducing community’s green lifestyle culture in Kampung Code Yogyakarta, Indonesia by Demartoto Argyo, Zunariyah Siti, Ramdhon Akhmad

“…River problem still needs much consideration in Indonesia in modern era. Material use and natural resource exploitation increases natural disaster risk as a result of this problem. …”
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Understanding the psychological pathways to translation technology competence: emotional intelligence, self-esteem, and innovation capability among EFL students by Junfeng Zhao, Xiang Li, Jin Wei, Xinyuan Long, Zhaoyang Gao

“…Abstract Background The accelerated advancement of information technology and artificial intelligence in the modern globalized world has necessitated a high level of technology competence from translators to adapt to the increasing needs of clients and the language industry. …”
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Anesthesiologists’ Preferences regarding Visitor Presence during Placement of Neuraxial Labor Analgesia by Sangeeta Kumaraswami, Suryanarayana Pothula, Mario Anthony Inchiosa, Keshar Paul Kubal, Micah Alexander Burns

“…Neuraxial labor analgesia has become an integral part of modern obstetric anesthetic practice. Presence of a familiar person during its placement may be beneficial to the patient. …”
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Tutor Support as a Tool of Social-Cultural Adaptation ofInternational Students in Russian Universities by O. A. Beregovaya, S. S. Lopatina, N. V. Oturgasheva

“…The authors analyze the concepts of “socio-cultural adaptation”, “tutor support” and show their relationship.The article considers such principles of modern education as openness, variability, dialog, individualization, creation of open information environment, and shows compliance with these principles of tutor support practice. …”
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Efficient Parallel Implementation of Active Appearance Model Fitting Algorithm on GPU by Jinwei Wang, Xirong Ma, Yuanping Zhu, Jizhou Sun

“…However, the high-dimensional texture representation causes very time-consuming computations, which makes the AAM difficult to apply to real-time systems. The emergence of modern graphics processing units (GPUs) that feature a many-core, fine-grained parallel architecture provides new and promising solutions to overcome the computational challenge. …”
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