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The Contributions of John Nichols to Boswell's Life of Johnson
Authors: Hart Edward
Published: January 2021

The monumental collections of biographical material published by John Nichols are, combined, the richest source of eighteenth-century literary biography. Nichols is known to have been as generous as he was prolific. It would be strange, therefore, if the two greatest biographers of the period, Johnson and Boswell, had not been indebted to some extent to him. That Johnson was so indebted for material included in six of the Lives of the Poets, I have shown previously. I shall show here that Boswell was similarly indebted, by examining the contributions of Nichols to the Life of Johnson.
Science and Structure in Milton's Doctrine of Divorce
Authors: Svendsen Kester
Published: January 2021

The scientific and pseudo-scientific lore in Milton's prose, like that in his poetry, is impressive for its bulk and its conventionality. What may at first seem recondite information is anticipated repeatedly in such vernacular encyclopedias and common handbooks as Bartholomew's De Proprietatibus Rerum (c. 1230), Stephen Batman's Batman vppon Bartholome (1582), Peter de la Primaudaye's The French Academie (1618), and John Swan's Speculum Mundi (1643). The range is tremendous: astronomy, astrology, herbal, animal, and lapidary lore, physiology, medical lore—all are drawn upon in their customary associations for illustration, argument, invective, and the other devices of controversial prose. Medical and anatomical allusions recur with great frequency. Anyone writing about the ills of the body politic, as Milton did, will make the expected comparisons with human disease; but the emphasis in Of Reformation and Eikonoklastes on fevers, flesh and skin diseases, insanity, and other ailments goes beyond the casual to the insistent and the directive. In Eikonoklastes and the Defences, for example, the stress falls upon disease and distortion rather than remedy : distemper, palsy, abortion, false pregnancy, and miscarriage. In these Milton is arguing more against an opponent than for an idea, and the morbid associations are part of his strategy.
Herry Lovelich's Merlin
Authors: Ackerman Robert W.
Published: January 2021

Recent studies have demonstrated the existence in fifteenth and even fourteenth-century England of “bookshops” to which scriveners, limners, and perhaps members of the bookbinders' craft were attached in a sort of lay scriptorium for the purpose of producing books as they were ordered by patrons. Out of such shops, located, it would seem, principally in London, rather than out of monastic scriptoria, came the bulk of English secular literature. Many of the MSS. of the Canterbury Tales are authoritatively said to be “shop-made,” and the same claim is made about the mid-fourteenth-century Auchinleck MS. Mrs. Loomis, moreover, argues convincingly that the shops of the early stationers sometimes included translator-versifiers whose routine task it was to turn French prose romances into English verse, generally into highly conventional and pedestrian couplets.
The Athelstan Gift Story: Its Influence on English Chronicles and Carolingian Romances
Authors: Loomis Laura Hibbard
Published: January 2021

To saints and their relics in the Middle Ages great men did great reverence. The mighty Charlemagne zealously collected and distributed relics of Christ and the saints; so, too, did the noble King Athelstan of England, who was, to his own contemporaries, something of “an English Charlemagne.” Certain tales relating to these two famous rulers and the holy relics acquired by them, are full of interest in themselves and in the relationship, at special stages, of the stories to each other. The Continental Carolingian narratives—the Pèlerinage de Charlemagne, the Descriptio qualiter Karolus Magnus clavum et coronam Domini a Constantino poli Aquis Grani detulerit, the Fierabras tell how Charlemagne, either on a fabulous journey to the East, or by warfare in Spain, got a hoard of precious relics which included some from the Crucifixion but never, in the oldest versions of these stories, any part of the Passion Lance. An ancient story, of English origin, tells how Athelstan received, as a gift from France, a hoard which likewise included some Passion relics. Among the gifts was the Passion Lance which was said to have belonged to Charlemagne; there was also the vexillum of St. Mauricius. For the Carolingian stories named above there is no extant text that antedates the latter half of the twelfth century, no conjectured source that antedates the latter half of the eleventh century. The Athelstan Gift Story, as we shall call it, was first set forth in an Anglo-Latin poem eulogizing the English king (d. 939). This panegyric was quoted and summarized by William of Malmesbury (1125) and is now accepted, though it was long ignored, as an authentic tenth century source. It may have been this almost unknown poem which inspired in the Chanson de Roland, in that earliest Anglo-Norman copy known as the Oxford Roland, four concepts connected with Charlemagne's reported possession of a bit of the Passion Lance. Our concern here, however, is not with the ancient Latin poem, but with the version of its Gift Story by William of Malmesbury. To it he gave new life, new currency; its influence can be traced in various chronicles and in certain English Carolingian romances. It throws new light on their development and relationships. Strangely enough, it was in these English Carolingian stories and not in their Continental sources and analogues that the idea that Charlemagne had once possessed the Passion Lance took root and flourished.
The Making of Ramblers 186 and 187
Authors: Sherbo Arthur
Published: January 2021

In 1734 Edward Cave, founder of the Gentleman's Magazine, received a pseudonymous letter whose writer made a number of suggestions for the improvement of the magazine. The writer, “S. Smith,” was a young man named Samuel Johnson who, four years later, was to take over duties which made him virtually the editor of the Gentleman's Magazine until 1745. During the period from 1738 to 1745, then, Johnson may be assumed to have had full knowledge of all contributions to the magazine as well as no little voice in the selection of those thought worthy of publication. Possibly the implications of this fact have not been fully realized. Johnson probably read most of the contributions with the critical eye of an editor and, I suppose it proper to conjecture, re-read or glanced over the periodical upon its monthly appearances. In short, one can assume Johnson's close familiarity with much of the contents of the Gentleman's Magazine for a number of years, and it is not surprising in view of his remarkable memory that he should sometimes fall back upon this large body of material, consciously or unconsciously, in his own writings. I hope to demonstrate here one such use of the contents of the magazine that led to the writing of Ramblers 186 and 187.
The Thirteenth Recorded Manuscript of the Cronaca di Partenope
Authors: Bühler Curt F.
Published: January 2021

To the dozen MSS. of the Cronaca di Partenope previously known to students of medieval Neapolitan literature, one may now add a thirteenth codex of this “prima opera scritta nel dialetto napoletano.” This text is found in M 801 of the Pierpont Morgan Library, a MS. as well known to the art historian as it is (apparently) unfamiliar to literary historians. For the past half-century the Cronaca di Partenope in M 801 has been described as a “diary of events at Naples,” a title which was fathered upon the present tract by no less an authority than Sir Edward Maunde Thompson.
An Examination of Ramiro de Maeztu
Authors: Nozick Martin
Published: January 2021

A proper evaluation of the work of Ramiro de Maeztu at this point is hampered primarily by two factors: an almost frenetic admiration on the part of those who exalt him as a martyr to the cause of Falangism, and the emotional charge implicit in the mantle of oblivion thrown over his memory by those who consider him a lost leader and turncoat. Recently an entire issue of a review published in Madrid was dedicated to apotheosizing the writer who was executed in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War; throughout the four hundred pages comprising the issue it would be impossible to glean a single word of refutation, a single adverse critique of Maeztu's thought. In another issue of the same review, Dionisio Gamallo Fierros announces that 13,000 articles written by Maeztu would be collected in an Obras Completas of 76 volumes. Such a project, we are forced to conjecture, would put far too much emphasis upon much that is topical, hasty, and obsolete in journalistic work covering a span of almost forty years. Yet it is undeniable that Maeztu's spiritual and ideological evolution is one of the most dramatic and characteristic of our times. Although we cannot place him among those who worshipped and later turned away from “The God that Failed,” he is a true enfant du siècle in so far as we can trace the metamorphosis of his enthusiasms from the cause of liberalism and progressivism to a denial of the validity of these attitudes in favor of reaction, tradition, obedience, hierarchy, and clericalism. It is tempting—and perhaps even justifiable —to allow an objective consideration of Maeztu's contributions to literature and thought to be influenced by a natural aversion for his later anti-Semitism, his approval of the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, his admiration of Hitler and Mussolini, his dire predictions of the collapse of democratic Europe and America. But perhaps for that very reason we should focus our attention on the phenomenon of yet another man whose enlightenment provided no inoculation against forces of darkness, whose disappointment with the cult of progress led him to wish ardently for the suppression of even the best aspects of modernity, whose religion crowded out all tolerance and left room only for submission. Furthermore, we cannot dispute the fact that Maeztu was sincerely convinced he had found the right formula for the salvation of mankind, that his convictions were rooted in religious faith and the ardent belief that not only Spain and Hispanic America, but all of humanity, could be saved if the lessons of his country's history were correctly interpreted. Lastly, we must concede that Maeztu's voice was raised in denunciation of Communism, that he warned his readers that the materialism of an over-materialistic age would atomize and dehumanize a society bereft of absolute values.
Heidegger's Existential Philosophy and Modern German Literature
Authors: Jaeger Hans
Published: January 2021

Hermann Hesse in the “Tractat vom Steppenwolf” makes the following pungent remark about Faust, actually meaning modern man: “When Faust speaks the words which are so famous among school teachers and admired with awe by philistines : ‘Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast!‘ Faust is forgetting Mephistopheles and quite a lot of other souls that he likewise has in his breast ... The breast, the body is always uniform, of course; the number of souls in it, however, is not two nor five but infinite.” The bewildering multiplication of souls in our chaotic age produces an equally bewildering increase of conflicts. This fact cannot be denied, at least not for Germany. Also its literature bears it out. On that basis Hesse's diagnosis is even too simple. The body is by no means uniform. It too is in discord, as the literature of sexual life from Wedekind to Ferdinand Bruckner reveals. The artist as sensitive barometer of his age is particularly affected by the general disintegration. Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse have treated this phenomenon with frightening perspicacity, Hesse most penetratingly in his description of Klingsor's self-portrait. Decadence has become a common slogan for the modern way of life, in Germany and elsewhere.
Melville's Reading of Arnold's Poetry
Authors: Bezanson Walter E.
Published: January 2021

With ten volumes of prose fiction behind him, Herman Melville (1819-91) turned to writing poetry at the age of forty. When inability to market his first volume of verse set him to studying poets and poetry it was natural that he include Matthew Arnold (1822-88). Arnold had emerged as an important though not popular young poet in the mid-fifties. Whether or not Melville watched his rise in the British periodicals, which were reviewing his own books, he must have noted it in the pages of Putnam's Monthly Magazine, to which he was a regular contributor and subscriber. By the time Melville passed through England on his way to the Mediterranean late in 1856, Arnold was a figure of some repute. On the way back Melville dropped in at Longmans (27 April 1857), publishers that month of The Confidence-Man; they were Arnold's publishers too and were currently bringing out a third edition of the Poems. Later in the week Melville spent a memorable Sunday at Oxford University. “Most interesting spot I have seen in England,” he wrote in his journal. “Made tour of all colleges. It was here I first confessed with gratitude my mother land, & hailed her with pride… . Amity of art & nature. Accord… . Learning lodged like a faun… . Sacred to beauty & tranquility… . Soul & body equally cared for… . I know nothing more fitted by mild & beautiful rebuke to chastise the (presumptuous) ranting of Yankees… .” Melville's temporary yearning for the peace and tranquility of Oxford life, as he imagined it, where “learning lodged like a faun,” coincided almost exactly with Arnold's moment of consummation. Three days later (5 May) Arnold was elected by convocation to the Oxford Professorship of Poetry. Melville's words had not been those of an innocent abroad; they sheltered the value judgments of one who anticipated difficult years of wide-open readjustment. Melville's destiny lay elsewhere, but the Oxford incident marks symbolically the dawning community of interests between the later Melville and Arnold. For a moment the American scholar-gipsy looked down on the lights of Oxford, turned, and was gone. Five years later he began to read the Professor's poetry with a sense of coming upon a major contemporary.
Thackeray's Narrative Technique
Authors: Lester John A.
Published: January 2021

To one who would explore the range and variety of fictional technique, the Victorian novel presents an infinite resource. It shows us novelists in the exciting awareness of a new literary genre shaping under their hands, aware of a vast new audience to whom they could appeal. They write often uninhibited by conscious theories of technique; they write with gusto and with what Edith Wharton once called the true mark of vocation in any art—abundance.
The Vatican Leaves of the Skeireins in High-Contrast Reproduction
Authors: Bennett William H.
Published: January 2021

Three leaves of the Skeireins (III, IV, VIII) are in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, where they have been incorporated into Cod. 5750. Like the Ambrosian fragments of the Skeireins document, they have been badly damaged in the course of the last fourteen centuries, all extant leaves having been torn from the codex binding, erased with pumice, written over with Latin, and stained with tincture of nut-gall. The remaining edges of some inner margins are badly tattered, and the Gothic text is frequently obscured by heavy smudges as well as by the superscribed Latin. On the whole, however, the leaves have suffered more from bleaching than from any other single factor. The effects of bleaching are most noticeable along page margins, where a steady penetration of light has nearly obliterated some parts of the text; the torn, extremely narrow inner margins have been especially vulnerable. Some marginal additions are no longer visible under ordinary lighting, and although interlinear corrections have been less subject to bleaching, they are often hidden by smudges or by superscribed Latin characters. Outlines of letters showing through the parchment, holes, blots, and flaking along inner margins also offer some difficulty but are generally less troublesome than bleaching and smudging. In the prefecture of Msgr. Achille Ratti (later Pius XI) the Vatican leaves were coated with gelatin in order to prevent their further deterioration, but the marks of age and prior damage are of course ineradicable.
Richard Barnfield, “Amyntas,” and the Sidney Circle
Authors: Morris Harry
Published: January 2021

The Appearance of the pastoral name “Amyntas” in the poems of Richard Barnfield and in those of well-known members of the Sidney circle points to a network of interesting relationships not hitherto perceived generally. Barnfield's elaborate and extended references to Amyntas not only reveal some of the influences upon this poet's early compositions but also shed additional light upon the authorship of Greenes Funeralls, a work interesting both for its importance in the Greene-Harvey controversy and for its allusion to Greene's attack upon Shakespeare. Of significance also is the precise nature of Barnfield's connection with the group of writers who, after Sidney's death, attached themselves to Mary Herbert but retained still the spirit of Sir Philip. It is a connection that can be established clearly only if we understand aright the identity of Amyntas and the intention of the poet in employing the name.

In four English works published between 1592 and 1595, Amyntas represents under the guise of pastoral allusion various persons whom the authors desired to praise: “Colin Clovts come home againe,” Pierce Penilesse his Svpplication to the Diuell, The Affectionate Shepheard, and Greenes Funeralls. Amyntas appears also in pastoral poems by Thomas Watson and Abraham Fraunce as an unfortunate shepherd who dies for love, and again in the works of other writers who wish by this method to allude to Watson's work or to Fraunce's. The name is met then in three ways: as a poetic name for an historical personage contemporary to the writer who uses it, as a name appropriate to a shepherd but having no topical significance in the fashionable Arcadian romances of the last two decades of the sixteenth century, and as a reference to poems using the name Amyntas either in their titles or in their subtitles.
Voltaire, Philosopher of Human Progress
Authors: Topazio Virgil W.
Published: January 2021

With the emergence of philosophy in the nineteenth century as a separate discipline which stressed primarily questions insoluble by empirical or formal methods, Voltaire's reputation as a philosopher has gone into gradual eclipse. It has become unfashionable and degrading for philosophers to concern themselves with the practical aspects of philosophical enquiry. In eighteenth-century France, on the other hand, the identification of philosophy with science, which by twentieth-century standards had vitiated philosophical thought, produced the “philosophes” or natural philosophers who were on the whole more interested in human progress than in the progress of the human mind. And Voltaire was by popular consent the leader of this “philosophe” group, the one who had unquestionably contributed the most in the struggle to make man a happier and freer member of society. Yet, ironically, despite a lifelong effort in behalf of humanity, Voltaire's reputation as a destructive thinker has steadily grown even as the critics have pejoratively classified him as a “practical” rather than a “real” philosopher. Typical of this criticism of Voltaire is Macaulay's statement: “Voltaire could not build: he could only pull down: he was the very Vitruvius of ruin. He has bequeathed to us not a single doctrine to be called by his name, not a single addition to the stock of our positive knowledge.”
Meeting of the Executive Council
Authors: Long Percy W.
Published: January 2021

The Executive Council met in the Hotel Pennsylvania, New York, N. Y., on March 28–29 in three sessions: 2:30–6:00 p.m., 8:00–10:00 p.m., and 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. There were present throughout the sessions all officers and members except Professor Schevill (proxy Professor Horatio Smith) and Dean Gauss (proxy Professor Ira Wade). Informal reports of the Secretary and Treasurer and various committee reports were presented. An extended discussion was held on Association activities in war time. The following actions were taken.
Radikalizmus a Nyugat-Balkánon
Authors: Bihari Rita
Published: January 2021

A nyugat-balkáni államok az európai integráció reményében fejlődést mutatnak az Európai Unió által kijelölt reformok végrehajtásában, a régióban azonban továbbra is a szocioökonómiai trendek negatív tendenciája érvényesül. A társadalmi, gazdasági kihívások, vallási konfliktusok jelenleg is a régiót érintő valóság. A nyugat-balkáni országok lakosságának általánosan bizonytalan a jövőképe, így érzékenységet mutathatnak a radikalizmusra. A nagyarányú muszlim népesség, az 1990-es években Boszniába érkező mudzsahidek, az iszlám vallás szuggesztív szerepe, a humanitárius szervezetek tevékenysége, a gyenge kormányzás, valamint az utóbbi évek migrációs nyomása fokozza az iszlám radikalizmus térnyerését. A nyugat-balkáni radikalizmusról több különböző felfogás létezik a szakirodalmakban. Írásommal egy összegzést szeretnék adni a jelenség okairól, a közelmúlt eseményeiről és a radikalizmus aktuális helyzetéről a régióban.
THE PROCESS OF IMPLEMENTING NATIONAL PROJECTS IN THE REGION. PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Authors:   FSAEI HE «Samara National Research University named after academician S.P. Korolev», Ivanenko L.V. , Timoshchuk N.A. ,   FSBEI HE «Samara State Technical University»
Published: January 2021

The main purpose of this article is a comprehensive analysis of the implementation of national projects as a form of public administration, as well as the organization and control of the implementation of national projects. It is shown that currently the implementation of national projects can be carried out using a method called "project management" or project management, public administration. The concept of "project" is given as generalizing into a certain system and combining procedures, actions and activities to achieve the goal. Today, these methods have almost acquired the status of a standard. It is noted that project management has recently developed into a practical methodology that is used in various areas of human life. The article presents various types and types of projects: technical, organizational, economic, social, investment, innovation, research, etc. There are short-term, medium-term, and long-term projects that can include, for example, municipal, regional, Federal, state, or national projects. Special attention is paid to national projects. The latter are intended for organizing powerful scientific and technological and effective socio-economic development of the country and each specific region. In the process of their implementation, the goals of self-realization and improving the standard of living of the population are pursued. It is also reported about the official introduction of project management in public authorities in the Russian Federation. Thorough methodological and organizational preparation is shown for effective implementation of national projects. However, national projects are not being implemented actively enough. The Samara region has organized activities for the implementation of almost all national projects. As an example, the national project "Safe and high-quality roads" is proposed, the characteristics, state of the project management and its implementation in the Samara region are considered. The assessment of the state of highways in the studied region is given. The obvious relevance of the introduction and implementation of the national project "Safe and high-quality roads" in the Samara region is confirmed. Analysis of the content of the national project "Safe and high-quality roads" in General shows that its implementation or implementation set extremely complex goals. The article proposes to implement their achievement using the "project management" method. The success of using the project management method is determined by the fact that management is carried out in accordance with the principles of project management throughout the project lifecycle.
MODELS FOR FORMING BUSINESS PROJECT INDICATORS AT THE PRE-PROJECT STAGE OF INVESTMENT EFFICIENCY ASSESSMENT IN THE FORM OF CAPITAL INVESTMENTS
Authors:   FSBEI HE «Ufa State Petroleum Technological University», Maisky R.A. , Nizamova G.Z. ,   FSBEI HE «Ufa State Petroleum Technological University», Pavlova Yu.A. ,   FSBEI HE «Ufa State Petroleum Technological University»
Published: January 2021

When assessing the value of capital investments, they often do not pay due attention to those capital investments that are associated with the formation of a sufficient amount of working capital, focusing on fixed assets. Meanwhile, capital investments in the project working capital formation are necessary to cover the costs of the preparatory process, inventory formation, and the creation of a reserve for the period until payments are received for receivables on products sold. During the period of acquisition of assets, one of the important components of investment costs, along with capital expenditures in fixed assets and intangible assets, is net working capital, which is the cost of increasing working capital (current assets). It should also be noted that when evaluating the effectiveness of real investment projects at the stage of feasibility study, it is neither possible nor necessary to calculate net discounted income for individual periods, since at this stage of analysis, it is unlikely that annual differentiation of costs and results will be provided. Thus, when determining the effectiveness of an investment project at the stage of pre-feasibility study of the main decisions, it is justified to use simplified calculations of operating results based on annuity models. An important problem should be recognized as modeling the mechanism for returning invested amounts. To ensure the adequacy of the algorithm taking into account the reimbursement of non-recurring costs in the calculation of investment performance should take into account the flow of funds sinking Fund (in the form of means for reproduction of fixed assets and the depreciation; or funds that ensures return on investment). In the same section, the organization's assets that remain after the end of the business project should be taken into account. In the article, the authors present the improvement of the model for forming business project indicators at the pre-project stage of evaluating the effectiveness of investments, taking into account all these aspects.
IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF NATURAL RESOURCE POTENTIAL FOR RURAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN KARAIDELSKY DISTRICT OF THE REPUBLIC OF BASHKORTOSTAN
Authors:   FSBEI HE «Ufa State Petroleum Technological University», Khalfin A.S. , Salisheva E.G. ,   FSBEI HE «Ufa State Petroleum Technological University», Shaikhmurzina Z.R. ,   FSBEI HE «Ufa State Petroleum Technological University»
Published: January 2021

The relevance of the problem considered in this article is due to the positive impact of rural tourism on the preservation and development of rural areas, rational use of their resource potential, improving the welfare of the local population, reducing social tension, stimulating the development of farms and personal subsidiary plots, preserving folk crafts, culture and identity. Based on the analysis of the experience of rural tourism development in European countries, it is concluded that there is a high potential of this direction in the Republic of Bashkortostan. Among the municipal districts of the republic, the authors distinguish the Karaidel district, which has unique ecological and economic characteristics. The authors have identified the most promising direction for the development of rural tourism in the area under consideration – the development of a complex of guest houses providing accommodation and catering services for guests, as well as excursions, horseback riding, etc. The attractiveness for tourists in this type of accommodation lies in the possibility of living in peasant estates, as well as acquaintance with the traditions and rituals of the indigenous population of the republic. The article proposes recommendations for improving the efficiency of using the natural resource potential of rural tourism development in the Karaidel region of the Republic of Bashkortostan. The article presents the results of a SWOT analysis of the prospects for the development of rural tourism, offers directions for the development of rural tourism in the context of market segments and measures to promote the territory. The proposed measures for the development of rural tourism in the area: creation of an ecosystem (recreation, impressions, functional food); unification into a cluster (farms, accommodation facilities, recreation centers, local residents, personal subsidiary plots); development of a unique selling proposition; using the method of geoanalytics to analyze the target audience; certification of rural tourism objects, development of a culinary atlas of national dishes. Trends towards individualization of travel, the growing influence of ecology and ethics on the consciousness of the population are favorable factors for the development of rural tourism in the Karaidel region and the Republic of Bashkortostan as a whole.
INFLUENCE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES ON CAPITALIZATION OF OIL AND GAS BUSINESS
Authors:   FSBEI HE «Ufa State Petroleum Technological University», Malykh O.E. , Khodkovskaya Yu.V. ,   FSBEI HE «Ufa State Petroleum Technological University»
Published: January 2021

The problems of global economic growth are largely due to factors in the dynamics of the oil and gas sector. New requirements for the quality, quantity and timing of the supply of hydrocarbons create opportunities for the development and increase of the efficiency of the oil and gas business, including the growth of its capitalization. For the oil and gas industry, the digital transformation goes beyond the tactical use of technology, the business model is being transformed by accelerating the spread of innovation and the constant growth of practical efficiency, which significantly changes strategic guidelines. The article presents an analysis of the impact of digital technology on the financial aspects of the oil and gas business. The objective obstacles to its digitalization are described, which can form the basis for developing recommendations for promoting digital technologies in this segment of the economy. The advancement of scientific and technological progress and the automation of many stages of production processes are factors in the possible growth in the capitalization of the oil and gas business. Studies have shown that existing technologies are not always able to facilitate this process. Underfunding of the information and computing infrastructure of companies can become a serious problem on the way to strengthening the financial component of the oil and gas business. In the Russian oil and gas industry, the use of additional digital platforms and innovations is an additional advantage for increasing operating profit. The article discusses the cybersecurity of the oil and gas business based on an integrated approach and the implementation of all aspects of the oil and gas company: information, organizational and technological. A group of cyber defense tools is proposed. A new model of the digital transformation of oil and gas companies is proposed to formulate an action plan for the use of digital technologies, to solve tactical problems and strategic goals of the oil and gas business, to ensure its capitalization growth. It is shown that business capitalization under the influence of digital technologies allows the oil and gas industry to implement the latest achievements in the field of cloud computing, digitalization of oil fields, service-oriented architectures and industrialization, significantly expanding the possibilities of corporate financial management.
PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL ECONOMY IN THE CORPORATE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
Authors:   FSBEI HE «Ufa State Petroleum Technological University», Gasanov E.S.
Published: January 2021

The transition to digital space and the formation of a digital economy is a key priority for the development of the entire global community. The development of digital technologies has reached a stage when their mass and widespread use is causing revolutionary transformations in the world economy, from the organisation of business processes and management technologies to the destruction of the traditional economic model and the formation of a new technological pattern. It is the level of digitalisation that today determines the competitiveness of countries, and in the near future will be its main indicator. The business community faces a number of challenges on the road to digital transformation. In article, on the basis of studying and the analysis of publications of domestic and foreign authors, statistical and analytical reviews and researches of expert agencies and communities on questions of formation and development of digital economy, classification of problems of development of digital economy in the corporate environment of business according to which, the general and most serious group of the problems accompanying all information processes in a digital society is allocated is given. a group of specific problems inherent in the processes of digitalisation and digital transformation in Russia - the digital inequality between regions within the country, the technical and technological failure of our country in the area of ICT development, as a result of technological dependence on foreign solutions and the immaturity of public consciousness for fundamental changes in the economy and public life; a group of problems accompanying the development of the digital economy in the corporate business environment – this is, first and foremost, the provision of human resources for work in the corporate business environment. Prompt objective diagnosis of existing problems and their classification into groups can be the basis for further diagnostic and prognostic procedures and development of solutions to identified problems, the implementation of which will determine the success of the digital economy in the corporate business environment.
INDICADORES PARA AVALIAÇÃO DE PLATAFORMAS EAD
Authors:   UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO, PROGETTI CLAUDIA BIANCHI
Published: January 2021

A MODALIDADE DE EDUCAÇÃO A DISTÂNCIA (EAD) NAS INSTITUIÇÕES BRASILEIRAS DE ENSINO SUPERIOR SEGUE REGULAMENTADA DESDE 1998. SÃO INÚMEROS OS DESAFIOS ENFRENTADOS, E A TECNOLOGIA COMO BASE FUNDAMENTAL PARA ESSA NOVA PLATAFORMA NEM SEMPRE É EMPREGADA DA MELHOR MANEIRA, UTILIZANDO TODOS SEUS RECURSOS DE FORMA EFICIENTE. VISANDO CONTRIBUIR COM ESTE CENÁRIO, ESTE TRABALHO TEM POR OBJETIVO APRESENTAR UM MODELO DE AVALIAÇÃO DE PLATAFORMAS EAD. PARA ISSO, FOI EFETUADO UM LEVANTAMENTO DE INDICADORES ESSENCIAIS PARA GARANTIR A INTERATIVIDADE DIGITAL, A QUALIDADE DE SOFTWARE E A SUSTENTABILIDADE DAS PLATAFORMAS ANALISADAS.
O YOUTUBE COMO RECURSO HÍBRIDO NO PROCESSO DE ENSINO-APRENDIZAGEM DE LÍNGUA MATERNA NA EAD
Authors:   UNIVERSIDADE DE UBERABA, FREITAS HENRIQUE CAMPOS , BARBOSA LUCIANA GÓIS ,   UNIVERSIDADE DE UBERABA, FABRI KÁTIA MARIA CAPUCCI ,   UNIVERSIDADE DE UBERABA
Published: January 2021

ESTE ESTUDO PRETENDE APRESENTAR UMA PRÁTICA, DA DISCIPLINA LINGUÍSTICA APLICADA AO ENSINO DE LÍNGUA MATERNA, DO CURSO DE LICENCIATURA LETRAS-PORTUGUÊS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE UBERABA (UNIUBE). ESSA PRÁTICA ACONTECERÁ A PARTIR DO SEGUNDO SEMESTRE DE 2020 E PARA DESENVOLVÊ-LA SERÃO UTILIZADAS DIFERENTES ESTRATÉGIAS ATIVAS, INCLUINDO O ENSINO HÍBRIDO. ESSE RECURSO ENVOLVE TECNOLOGIAS E SERÁ MOBILIZADO EM ESPAÇOS DIFERENTES COMO O FORMATIVO, POR MEIO DA SALA DE AULA EAD, NA PLATAFORMA DO AVA, E O NÃO FORMAL, QUE CONTEMPLA O DESENVOLVIMENTO DA PRÁTICA EM DIFERENTES ESPAÇOS DA COMUNIDADE COMO UMA AÇÃO EXTENSIONISTA. A FUNDAMENTAÇÃO TEÓRICA DESTE ESTUDO TERÁ COMO BASE A ANÁLISE DO DISCURSO, COM CONCEITOS COMO LÍNGUA, LEITURA, TEXTO E DISCURSO; A LINGUÍSTICA APLICADA, NO QUE DIZ RESPEITO ÀS QUESTÕES IDENTITÁRIAS DOS SUJEITOS E A LINGUÍSTICA DO TEXTO QUE TRAZ CONCEITOS DE TIPOLOGIA TEXTUAL. ALÉM DISSO, SERÁ CONTEMPLADO O ESTUDO DO ENSINO HÍBRIDO. PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO DESTA PROPOSTA HÍBRIDA, QUE COMBINA O ENSINO ON-LINE COM AÇÕES NA COMUNIDADE, PARTE-SE DE UMA HISTÓRIA EM QUADRINHOS (HQS) DA TURMA DA MÔNICA, DE MAURÍCIO DE SOUZA, QUE ESTÁ À DISPOSIÇÃO NO YOUTUBE. DIANTE DISSO, ESPERA-SE COLOCAR O ALUNO EM UMA POSIÇÃO ATIVA E PARA TAL ELE TERÁ AS ORIENTAÇÕES DISPONÍVEIS NA PLATAFORMA DO AVA, QUE INCLUI FÓRUNS, TIRA-DÚVIDAS, VIDEOAULAS, PALAVRA DO TUTOR ETC., ASSIM COMO ELE CONTARÁ COM A PRESENÇA ATIVA DO PROFESSOR-TUTOR, QUE CONDUZIRÁ EM CONJUNTO COM OS ALUNOS PARA O SUCESSO DA ATIVIDADE.
O ENSINO DE DESIGN DE MODA A DISTÂNCIA: UM OLHAR SOBRE OS MATERIAIS DE AVALIAÇÕES PRÁTICAS DE APRENDIZAGEM
Authors:   UNICESUMAR, CALVI GABRIEL COUTINHO CALVI , FRANCHINI SANDRA DE CÁSSIA ,   UNICESUMAR, VALLIM CIBELLE AKEMI ,   UNICESUMAR
Published: January 2021

A PRESENTE PESQUISA PROCURA FAZER UMA REFLEXÃO SOBRE COMO SE ESTABELECEM AS DISCIPLINAS PREDOMINANTEMENTE PRÁTICAS DO CURSO DE DESIGN DE MODA NA MODALIDADE EAD. ENTENDE-SE QUE PARA ESSE FORMATO DE EDUCAÇÃO É NECESSÁRIO REESTRUTURAR O MODELO DE AULAS DO ENSINO PRESENCIAL ADAPTANDO A PRÁTICA PARA UMA NOVA REALIDADE EM QUE O ALUNO NÃO SEJA PREJUDICA. COMO RESULTADO DA PESQUISA, ENTENDE-SE QUE AS DISCIPLINAS PRÁTICAS DO DESIGN DE MODA NA MODALIDADE EAD ACONTECEM DE FORMA QUE NÃO PREJUDICAM A APRENDIZAGEM DOS ALUNOS.
DESENVOLVIMENTO DE RECURSOS DIDÁTICOS PARA O ENSINO DE BIOLOGIA CELULAR UTILIZANDO METODOLOGIA DE AULAS SÍNCRONAS
Authors:   CENTRO UNIVERSITARIO DA FUNDAÇÃO HERMINIO OMETTO, ROBERTO MATHEUS MANTUANELLI , FIGUEIREDO CINTYA APARECIDA CHRISTOFOLETTI DE ,   CENTRO UNIVERSITARIO DA FUNDAÇÃO HERMINIO OMETTO, ESQUISATTO MARCELO AUGUSTO MARRETTO ,   CENTRO UNIVERSITARIO DA FUNDAÇÃO HERMINIO OMETTO, JUNIOR OLAVO RAYMUNDO ,   CENTRO UNIVERSITARIO DA FUNDAÇÃO HERMINIO OMETTO
Published: January 2021

NA ÁREA DAS CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS E DA SAÚDE, A DISCIPLINA DE BIOLOGIA CELULAR É DE FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTÂNCIA. O CORRETO ENTENDIMENTO DA CÉLULA COMO UNIDADE ESTRUTURAL E MORFOFUNCIONAL DOS SERES VIVOS, ASSIM COMO SUA INTERAÇÃO COM O MEIO, PERMITE A COMPREENSÃO DOS PROCESSOS BIOLÓGICOS BÁSICOS, NECESSÁRIOS AO ENTENDIMENTO E APLICAÇÃO EM OUTRAS DISCIPLINAS DO ROL DE PROFISSÕES DA ÁREA. TRADICIONALMENTE, O ENSINO DA BIOLOGIA CELULAR ENVOLVE O USO DE LIVROS DIDÁTICOS, LAMINÁRIO E O EMPREGO DE MICROSCOPIA CONVENCIONAL. CONTUDO, FRENTE AO DESENVOLVIMENTO TECNOLÓGICO VIVENCIADO, INCLUSIVE NA ÁREA EDUCACIONAL, SE FEZ NECESSÁRIO O REPENSAR DOS RECURSOS DIDÁTICOS EMPREGADOS NESTA DISCIPLINA. NESTE CONTEXTO, COM VISTAS A PROMOVER O APRENDIZADO INTERATIVO E SIGNIFICATIVO DA BIOLOGIA CELULAR, O PRESENTE PROJETO APRESENTA CINCO PROPOSTAS DE PRÁTICAS ADAPTADAS AO AMBIENTE VIRTUAL, A SEREM ADOTADAS COMO RECURSO DIDÁTICO DIGITAL NA REFERIDA DISCIPLINA.
Virtual Reality Bridging the Gap between Job Skills Required and University Curriculum Competency in South Africa
Authors:   Nelson Mandela University, South Africa, Tsits Gwatiringa , Chris Adendorff ,   Nelson Mandela University, South Africa
Published: January 2021

Pervasive technologies such as Virtual Reality are disrupting and transforming the way we work and learn, necessitating the development of new ways of education to allow future employees to flexibly react to the future world of work and meet the demands of such a digitised working environment. By way of futures methodology, the aim of the research was to identify the present forces, trends and drivers of change that impact the future of education and the future of work. The Six Pillars of Futures Studies approach to research by Inayatullah was applied throughout the study. The mapping (environmental scanning) of Virtual Reality technologies as a driver of change was done, highlighting the impact of such technology on tertiary education and on the world of work. The purpose of the environmental scanning was to uncover existing and driving forces that will influence the future of tertiary education and the future of work. The Causal Layer Analysis (CLA) was the primary futures methodology applied in this research. CLA was used to investigate deeper causal issues from various viewpoints in order to formulate scenarios for the future. The study developed four different future scenarios and the most favourable scenario was used to formulate the recommended vision, "Future Vision of Education and Work in South Africa towards 2030" which incorporates a realistic, attainable and desirable future that could foreground the improvement of the skills gap in the South African context. This preferred future envisages an education system that broadens access to opportunities and provides the skills and competences that people need to thrive in a new sustainable economy. Keywords: Virtual Reality, Future of Education, Future workforce, Job Skills Requirements, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Futures Studies.
On Stability with Respect to a Part of the Variables for Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems with a Random Disturbances
Authors: Vorotnikov V. I. , Martyshenko Yu. G.
Published: January 2021

Nonlinear discrete (finite-difference) system of equations subject to the influence of a random disturbances of the"white" noise type, which is a difference analog of systems of stochastic differential equations in the Ito form, is considered.The increased interest in such systems is associated with the use of digital control systems, financial mathematics, as well aswith the numerical solution of systems of stochastic differential equations. Stability problems are among the main problemsof qualitative analysis and synthesis of the systems under consideration. In this case, we mainly study the general problemof stability of the zero equilibrium position, within the framework of which stability is analyzed with respect to all variablesthat determine the state of the system. To solve it, a discrete-stochastic version of the method of Lyapunov functions hasbeen developed. The central point here is the introduction by N. N. Krasovskii, the concept of the averaged finite differenceof a Lyapunov function, for the calculation of which it is sufficient to know only the right-hand sides of the system and theprobabilistic characteristics of a random process. In this paper, for the class of systems under consideration, a statement ofa more general problem of stability of the zero equilibrium position is given: not for all, but for a given part of the variables defining it. For the case of deterministic systems of ordinary differential equations, the formulation of this problem goes backto the classical works of A. M. Lyapunov and V. V. Rumyantsev. To solve the problem posed, a discrete-stochastic version ofthe method of Lyapunov functions is used with a corresponding specification of the requirements for Lyapunov functions. Inorder to expand the capabilities of the method used, along with the main Lyapunov function, an additional (vector, generally speaking) auxiliary function is considered for correcting the region in which the main Lyapunov function is constructed.
Synthesis of the Algorithm for Control of the Thermal Power Plant Generating Equipment Based on System Dynamics Models
Authors: Fomin I. N. , Shulga T. E. , Ivaschenko V. A.
Published: January 2021

The article discusses an original solution for designing an algorithm for selecting the most optimal technical and economic indicators for the operation of generating equipment of thermal power plants, taking into account the requirements of the wholesale electricity market, the day-ahead market and the balancing market. To design an algorithm for controlling generating equipment, the activity of a generating company in the wholesale electricity market was considered in terms of system dynamics. The proposed solution made it possible to select and interpret the state variables of the model, build flow diagrams describing the functioning of a technical-economic system, and visualize cause-and-effect relationships in the form of structured functional dependencies. In this work according to the norms of industry legislation and previously conducted scientific research the most important parameters were identified that form the flows of a dynamic technical and economic system, which are optimization criteria in fact. On the basis of this data, a stream stratification of the production processes of generating companies was carried out and a complex of mathematical models of system dynamics was developed to determine and plan the financial efficiency of the operation of thermal power plants and generating companies. The mathematical apparatus and the algorithm of its functioning are developed on the basis of the digraph of cause-and-effect relationships between the investigated technical and economic indicators. On the basis of the graph of interrelationships of system variables, a system of nonlinear differential equations has been built, which makes it possible to determine planned performance indicators when various technical and economic conditions change. The novelty of the proposed approach is the use of new model solutions based on the mathematical apparatus of system dynamics to represent the proposed model in simulation systems, in industry ERP and MES systems, for the development of DDS.
Neural Network Method for Constructing Three-Dimensional Models of Rigid Objects from Satellite Images
Authors: Gvozdev O. G. , Kozub V. A. , Kosheleva N. V. , Murynin A. B. , Richter A. A.
Published: January 2021

A method has been developed for constructing three-dimensional models of rigid objects on the earth’s surface using one satellite image using the example of railway infrastructure. The method consists in step-by-step processing of satellite images with sequential application of two convolutional neural networks. In the first processing step, a satellite image is segmented by a neural network to select a plurality of objects of predetermined classes. At the second stage of processing with the help of neural network local analysis of image areas detected by results of the first stage of processing is performed. The results of the second processing step are used to estimate the parameters of the 3D model of the object. The possibilities of the method are shown by the example of processing a satellite image of the railway infrastructure. The following classes of informative areas are considered: building, wall edge, roof edge, building shadow, railway infrastructure, car, highway; rails, poles and shadows from poles (taken as reference objects for estimating scaling coefficients in certain directions). An example is given of using the developed method of highlighting typical railway infrastructure objects and for subsequent evaluation of the parameters of a three-dimensional building model partially obscured by trees.