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IMPROVING THE CAPILLARY METHOD OF NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING
Authors: Lopatin V. V. 
Published: November 2019

The history of capillary control began in the 40s of the last century for the needs of the aerospace industry. Currently, the cost of quality control in the aerospace industry is up to 12 - 18% of the cost of products. Similar amounts of expenses in the nuclear and defense industries are not lagging behind other industries. For example, for the control of welded joints of oil and gas pipelines of large diameter and considerable length, the labor costs for inspection reach 10% of the total labor costs. Capillary quality control method is based on the ability of indicator liquids (penetrants) to penetrate into the cavities of surface defects (discontinuities). Over the 70 years of its existence, the capillary method of control has not undergone fundamental changes, and its principles have remained unchanged. In international practice, the abbreviated designation of types of non-destructive testing (AWS) is adopted, and the control with the use of penetrating liquid denoted RT. This method is applicable to the detection of all types of surfacedead-end and through defects, such as cracks, delamination, leaks, in products made from any non-porous materials, including glass, ceramics, plastics and other non-metallic materials. The analysis of the capillary method of nondestructive testing of the surface of a solid body is carried out, the possibilities and ways of its improvement are indicated. The method of the capillary method of non-destructive testing of a solid surface, the physics of the method and its implementation are considered in detail. It is shown that the wetting ability and spreading are important characteristics of capillary control fluids; therefore, they must be evaluated and analyzed when developing new ones, choosing or comparing known capillary flaw detection materials. The possibility of using the Rebinder effect to improve the capillary method of non-destructive testing of a solid surface has been proved. A refined method of capillary defectoscopy is proposed by taking into account the wetting ability, density, viscosity and evaporation of a liquid, which makes it possible to make an optimal choice of liquid to ensure high efficiency of surface (capillary)control. An improved method for assessing the wetting ability of liquids is proposed, which makes it possible to evaluate the wetting ability of liquids by the size of the spreading spot of their droplets, taking into account the influence of density, viscosity and evaporation of liquids intended for capillary flaw detection (penetrants).
THE MAIN CHARACTERISTICS AND FEATURES OF THE LOW-FREQUENCY WAVE PROCESS IN THE STRETCHED PIPELINES
Authors: Bondarenko O. G. 
Published: November 2019

The problem of determining the technical condition of various pipeline systems, ensuring their reliable аnd safe operation has recently become the subject of geopolitics. In this situation, constant monitoring of their technical condition is essential for the maintenance of pipelines. However, it is technically difficult to monitor the technical state of pipelines by conventional methods of non-destructive testing (NDT).
An analysis of the essence of the wave process in diagnosing the technical condition of long pipelines by low-frequency ultrasound directed waves is performed. The types of modes of directed waves and peculiarities of the wave process in the solid medium of the pipeline are given. Dispersed diagrams of ound velocities for different modes of directed waves are considered, on the basis of which their main features are formulated in the diagnosis of the technical state of extended pipelines. The analysis of the wave process in the long pipeline from the position of the acoustic location of its solid medium by low-frequency directional waves is made, the model of the active localization system is developed in diagnosing the technical state of the pipeline, the principles of excitation and displacement of the particles of the medium of the pipe wall are considered in the distribution of longitudinal, twisted and bending mods of low-frequency ultrasonic directed waves.
When choosing the frequency and mode of the directed wave to diagnose the technical state of long pipes, it is necessary to take into account that the directed wave is the result of the interaction of the vibrations generated by the transducers with the pipe surface. A significant factor determining the efficiency of energy transfer from the antenna to the body of the drainage pipeline is the harmonization of the internal resistance of the converter and the load due to the static force of pressing the piezoelectric transducers to the pipe surface. When creating systems of low-frequency ultrasonic diagnostics of long-distance pipelines directed waves it is necessary to take into account the main features of the wave process, which has a complicated mechanism of propagation over the thickness of the pipe wall.
A Comparison of the Structural Elements of the Integrated Reporting and the Management Report
Authors: Bezverkhiy K. V. 
Published: November 2019

A new type of reporting has been introduced both in the international and Ukrainian practice: the integrated reporting and the management report. The integrated reporting in Ukraine is not subject to regulation by central government, whereas the structure and format of the management report is legally fixed (the Law of Ukraine “Accounting and Financial Reporting in Ukraine). However, as of 01.12.2018, a unified format for the management report was not approved by the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine. According to the abovementioned Law of Ukraine, micro-enterprises and small enterprises are exempt from the management report, whereas medium enterprises are not obliged to show non-financial data in the management report. The integrated reporting can be submitted separately from the financial reporting, but, following the above Law of Ukraine, the management report is to be submitted together with the financial statement and the consolidated financial reporting in the legally fixed procedure and time limits.
The purpose of the study is to compare the structural elements of the integrated reporting according to the International Integrated Reporting Framework, the management report according to the Draft Methodical Recommendations on Compilation of Management Report by the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, and the management report according to the Draft Methodical Recommendations on Preparation of Report from Kreston GCG, in order to identify their differences and the feasibility of their simultaneous application in the national reporting practice. Based on the analysis, the main differences between the Integrated Reporting and the Management Report are highlighted. A comparative analysis of the structural elements of the integrated reporting and the management report is conducted, to find out the correlation of their structural elements. It is demonstrated that the differences between the integrated reporting and the management report are negligible; it is, therefore, recommended to combine these two types of reporting in one optimal format.
Investment and Military-Technical Cooperation of Ukraine with Azerbaijani Republic: The Current State and Prospects
Authors: Motuzka O. M. , Hrynchak N. A. , Tarasenko A. G. 
Published: November 2019

The analysis of investment cooperation between Azerbaijani Republic and Ukraine shows a positive trend from 2014 and on. As of December 31, 2017, the Ukrainian economy attracted investment of 213 million USD from Azerbaijan. The main sectors of Azerbaijani investment in Ukrainian are wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles, construction and industry. Direct investment of Ukraine to Azerbaijan in 2017 amounted to 25 million USD.
The clear position of the Azerbaijani government in terms of facilitating business conditions can help attract Ukrainian investment and Ukrainian business to cooperate with Azerbaijani companies. Comfortable taxation, the termination of two years of inspections of business entities, the possibility of obtaining financing: all this increases the attractiveness of investment in small and medium businesses in Azerbaijan and makes the country attractive for foreign business.
The study shows that the current state of military-technical cooperation is not in the best condition, but it has significant potential for development. In this regard, the promising area of military-technical cooperation between Azerbaijani Republic and Ukraine is the transfer of Ukrainian experiences in the production of light-weight wheeled vehicles such as APCs, radar detection of air targets, and anti-personnel combat weapons. Most importantly, all of this technique will be more competitive in terms of price compared with Western counterparts and with the already existing experience of counteracting the latest Russian technology and technologies (which are actively used in the Donbass).
A promising area of cooperation may be the transfer of experiences in the modernization of anti-aircraft missile systems of Soviet production. This problem is now very actively engaged in our country at the state level and there are already real results. For example, Ukrainian companies were able to master the repair and modernization of missiles for such anti-aircraft missile systems as the S-300 (including modifications B1), Osa-AKM, and Cub-M1. There are good variants of modernization of missiles for the complex С-125, which is being armed with air defense of Azerbaijan.
Determining the Essence of the Labor Potential Components for Enhancing the Effectiveness of Business Management
Authors: RAIKOVSKA I. 
Published: November 2019

The article’s objective is to outline the essence labor potential and its components in the business management system. The objective is achieved through investigating the structure and content of the labor potential as part of the business management system, with determining change in its semantic content.
An extensive review of economic literature is made. It shows that the labor potential can be interpreted as (i) the integral measure of quantitative and qualitative parameters of the economically active population, which, being subjected to the operations of formation, transformation, relocation and realization, carry out physical, career, professional and qualification transfer in the spatial and temporal interval; (ii) the totality of able-bodied population whose intellectual development, competencies, abilities, experiences, moral values, customs, traditions, ideologies and patriotism create a source of the business competitive advantage. It is proposed that labor potential should be created by components such as health, culture and education of personnel, which is a necessary condition in complex business management; the essence of each structural component that has critical importance for the enterprise performance and macroeconomic growth is revealed.
In accordance with the modern understanding of labor potential, the role of the labor potential is highlighted at not only at individual, but at business enterprise level at which the labor potential can be interpreted as the totality of qualifications and professional skills of all the business enterprise employees and their achievements in effective organization of labor and development of personnel.
The Securities Market in Ukraine: Theoretical Aspects of Historic Development
Authors: ZALIUBOVSKA S. S. , KOLUPAYEV Yu. B. , TOKАREVA К. R. 
Published: November 2019

The article sums up a review of theoretical approaches to the interpretation of economic categories “securities market” and “stock market” and a chronological analysis of the stock market development in independent Ukraine.
It is shown that two general approaches to the interpretation of the above categories exist, legislative and scientific. The latter one can, in turn, be subdivided into narrower approaches: segment approach, with securities market treated as a part of the capital market or financial market; functional approach, with securities market seen as a floor for sales and purchase of securities; normative approach, with securities market addressed as a sophisticated mechanism used to set legal and economic relations between business entities; logical approach, with securities market considered as a set of transaction mechanisms. The authors’ definition of the securities market is proposed: a segment of the financial market, on which interactions between various market actors take place, related with issuance, purchase and sales of securities that have value, circulate freely and certify the relations of co-ownership or lending, with the purpose of effective distribution and rational allocation of financial resources in the socio-economic area of a country with due account for the society’s interests and needs.
The authors’ chronology of the securities market development in Ukraine is proposed, in which six phases are distinguished. The first phase is “reappearance” (1990). The second phase is “formation” (1991–1994), falling upon radical market-driven transformation in the Ukrainian economy. The third phase is “development” (1995–1999): search of the effective owners on the boosting market, setting up a system for control over sales and purchase of securities, creation of investment funds, financial and industrial companies and private pension funds. The fourth phase is “improvement” (2000–2002): creating a system for information support for circulation of securities issued in non-documentary form, and computer software for operating the State registers. The fifth phase is “recovery” (2003–2006): gradual decline of crisis tendencies in the economy along with the recover at the securities market. The sixth phase is “financial globalization” (from 2007 and on). This approach enables to investigate the securities market dynamics over 1991–2018 and give detailed descriptions of each phase with emphasis on core historic event in each.
A Statistical Analysis of Book Publishing Industry in Ukraine: 1917–2017
Authors: Horobets О. О. 
Published: November 2019

A broad statistical analysis of the book publishing industry over 1917–2017 is performed, with focus on the dynamics of industry indicators in 1991–2017. It is shown that throughout this period the average annual growth in the number of books and brochures produced by the book publishing industry made 620 units, or 5.13%. But the circulation had overall negative dynamics: its average annual decline made 3310 thousand, or 3.9%. The largest absolute decline in the circulation is recorded in 1993, 1999, and 2015. It is revealed that the per capita output in the industry was 1.5 books in 2013, 0.8 in 2015, and 1.1 in 2017. It is stressed that because books constitute a culture component and contribute in the moral enrichment of the society and book reading enhance the education level of a nation, the book supply of the population observed throughout the period of the Ukraine’s independence is unacceptable. A fact raising concern is that reading ranks fifth as a way of recreation in the Ukrainian society.
It is demonstrated that the assumption about minor significance of a printed book in the digital era is fallacious and ungrounded. Transformations in science and technology, politics or economy have been persisting in Ukraine, but its people remain to be book readers. A book may change the format or production methods and materials, but a book is an integral attribute of the humanity. The events in Ukraine, both positive and negative, had strong impact on the development and change of socio-economic paradigms, which had implications for the book publishing industry. The development of any industry cannot be considered in isolation, by taking its dynamics off the context of socio-political processes and phenomena. It is shown that in the present-day conditions, when the living standards of the population are largely dependent on the salary rate or the household income, the need to purchase books had lower priority than meeting vital necessities of daily life. The importance of a further in-depth study of the external factors with impact on the industry development is stressed.
The Drivers of the Total Factor Productivity
Authors: Kvasha T. K. 
Published: November 2019

The Total Factor Productivity (TFP) is now widely recognized as an important factor in both long-term economic growth and short-term growth fluctuations. Researchers of the International Monetary Fund came to the conclusion that the growth of the TFP was the most important long-term factor in raising the living standards. Therefore, the IMF and academics from different countries has been scrutinizing the reasons for the slowdown in TFP and investigating the underlying factors. The low rates of GDP grow in Ukraine call for finding the drivers, one of which is TFP growth. It raises the importance of analysis of the factors promoting this growth in Ukraine.
The purpose of this work is to define TFP drivers, which would be most effective for Ukraine. TFP drivers in foreign countries are analyzed, TFP dynamics for Ukraine is calculated by use of Solow model, and TFP drivers over 2000–2017 are determined.
The analysis of publications about TFP drivers at global level shows that they include: international transfer of knowledge and technologies, activities of small innovative fast-growing firms, the enhanced quality of quality of education, the increased expenditures on R&D and innovations, especially by business sector, the increased investments in intangible assets, the intensified patent activity, access of enterprises to lending.
The TFP dynamics in Ukraine, calculated by the Solow model, is characterized by high growth rates by 2012, a sharp fall in 2013-2015, and a return to the growth path in 2016-2017, but, as in the whole world, by very moderate pace. The factors contributing to this return are capital investment in intangible assets, the increasing patent activity of Ukrainian researchers, the intensified innovation in the high-tech sector. Factors constraining the TFP and the contribution of innovation to economic growth are a significant proportion of technology transfer in the form of “know-how, agreements for the acquisition (transfer) of technologies”, which holds back the widespread introduction of cutting-edge technologies, and the reduction of funding for R&D and innovation.
Further studies should be focused on searching for political decisions promoting implementation of structural reforms aimed to solve the existing problems and eliminate their consequences, especially in of the innovation and education field.
A Statistical Modelling Approach for Guiding the Optimum Surgical Intervention of Breast Cancer
Authors: Kovtun N. V. , Motuziuk I. M. , Ganzha R. O. 
Published: November 2019

Breast cancer is most common tumour diagnosis for women worldwide. Over the last almost 40 years widespread adoption of mammographic screening has established Breast Conserving Surgery (BCS) followed by irradiation as the most practised treatment of choice. However, in absence of tools to determine the optimal quantum of tissue to be excised the debate continues for achieving a balance between the effectiveness of surgical intervention and the later stage personalisation of treatment, and so, a wide variation in practice is a common phenomenon globally. We attempt to introduce a definite measure that determines efficacy of BCS while protecting aesthetic value of life for Women affected with breast cancer.
74 mammography examinations and the surgical interventions of those women underwent for the management of breast cancer were used to compute the coefficient of lesion. In first step the lesion and the mammary gland proper are measured applying geometry. In the second step volume of tissue mass to be removed was calculated taking into account the measures from the 1st step and we present the coefficient of lesion mathematically. We empirically illustrated our methodological approach for determining the tissue mass to be excised.
Conventionally, it is assumed that if the volume of tissues to be removed does not exceed 25% of the volume of the mammary gland, a Breast Conserving Surgery, is performed, however, our empirical illustration demonstrated that the established decision making parameter is not tenable for determining the extent / type of surgery undertaken.
We have developed a coefficient aligned with the stage of the carcinoma and founded the base for developing a statistical (mathematical) model. Application of such a model accommodating tumour biology and patient characteristics shall not only provide intraoperative real time information to surgeons but also predict the prognosis of optimal surgical intervention of breast cancer.
The next step is to develop a model using the data of the mammographic examination and the coefficient of breast lesion as covariates for determining the potentially effective volumes of surgical intervention needed, and plan reconstructive measures considering the effect of time on such intervention.
Creating an Authentic Experience
Authors: Osolen Rachel Sarah , Brochu Leah 
Published: November 2019

While working as production assistants for the National Network of Equitable Library Service (NNELS), an organization that creates and shares accessible versions of books to people with print disabilities, we were tasked with a challenging request from a user: Could we make an accessible version of the comic book The Walking Dead?
Audio description services are available to the visually impaired in a few different venues such as television, movies, and live theatre. Guidelines for the creation of these descriptive texts are available to potential creators, but in our case, we could find nothing that would help guide us to create a described comic book.
While some people and organizations have created prose novelizations of comic books, these simply tell the story, and do not include the unique visual aspects of reading a comic book. We have found that it is possible to create a balanced description that combines the visual grammar of a comic with the narrative story.
In addition to creating a described comic book, we are developing guiding documentation that will be a necessary tool to ensure that visually impaired readers have a comic book experience (CBE) that (a) closely matches the CBE of a sighted reader, and (b) is standardized across producers, so that the onus of understanding the approach to comic book description (CBD) is not put on the visually impaired reader. At this point in our work, we need more feedback from users with print disabilities to ensure we are meeting the highest standards.
Inclusive Library Service to Individuals with Mental Illnesses and Disorders
Authors: Green Michelle 
Published: November 2019

What does it mean to have a mental illness? According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, it is a condition affecting a person’s mood, emotions, or thinking and can interfere with a person’s ability to relate to others and function in their daily life. Mental illness of any kind affects approximately 18% of the United States adult population—around 45 million people, as of 2016.
Why does this matter to librarians and other information professionals? Librarians are likely to unknowingly encounter someone with mental illness, as one cannot simply look for violent or disruptive behavior in every case. This article briefly examines the literature to highlight what is being done in both public and academic libraries to meet the information needs of individuals with mental illness or any type of mental health issue. It suggests ways to improve service to and advocate for the information needs of these invisibly disabled patrons.