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Innovative materials in construction and their role in improving the organizations efficiency
Authors: Yudenko M N , Chepachenko N V , Polovnikova N A , Nikolikhina S A 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
The article discusses the results of the innovative concrete types application in the buildings and structures construction. A classification of effects types according to the recommended features is proposed. The methodological approaches to the cost-benefit analysis methods substantiating at the stage of assessment and implementation of a construction project by the organization using innovative constructional materials are investigated and proposed. The methodical approach of determining the profitability of the production and sale of construction products has been expanded through the approach of evaluating efficiency based on the resource and optimization methods use.
Formation of the innovation potential of the region on the basis of the investment activity activization process in the construction industry
Authors: Lyulyuchenko M V , Demura N A 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
The team of authors made an attempt to study the main trends and problems in the formation of the innovative potential of the region based on the process of enhancing investment activity in the construction industry. The theoretical aspects of the innovation potential and investment activity in the construction industry within the region were analyzed and systematized in the article. The mechanism of the activating investment activity process influence in the construction industry on the formation of the innovative potential of the region and its development has been studied. The main opportunities for increasing the innovation potential by means of the investment activity intensification are identified.
Sustainability assessment for environmental construction projects, implemented in the arctic zone of the Russian Federation
Authors: Tsurkan M V , Artemiev A A 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
The relevance of this article is caused by the construction development in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation. These construction works should be performed considering ecological safety. The objective of this article is to elaborate methods of evaluation for sustainability of ecological construction projects, implemented in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation. This process should be based on systematization of data on the essence of the projects in question, taking into consideration ecological, economic and social aspects of the notion “sustainability”. The paper defines such notions as “sustainability of results of ecological construction projects” and “ecological construction projects sustainability” and distinguishes between them. The article suggests methods of evaluation for sustainability of ecological construction projects, considering the need for prolongation of positive impact, when these projects are over.
Cost-benefit analysis of the cast-in-place building framework vertical bearing structural members
Authors: Takhumova O V , Degtyareva O G 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
The article features three types of construction solutions on vertical bearing members of the researched building which are compared according to the architectural, constructive and technological peculiarities of their construction. As a result of the research, the most rational technical solutions on vertical bearing members of the facility in question were established taking into account cost-benefit indicators. The work is based on the statements of the finite-element method, the ultimate-load method as well as the construction management method and brick and cast-in-place multistoried building technology.
The main factors causing the outsourcing use in the construction organizations’ activities
Authors: Klochko E N , Britikova E A , Kovalenko L V 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
The current trend of optimizing business in construction in Russia indicates a growing orientation of construction organizations to foreign experience in the use of outsourcing, as a technology to transfer the certain types of activities or functions of their business along with responsibility for the result of the latter to outside specialized organizations. The article discusses the factors affecting the construction organization management system and causing the use of outsourcing in these organizations. The authors propose to group these factors into external ones in relation to the control system, as well as to the system of construction production and internal ones - factors reflecting the subject and object of management characteristics. Considering the outsourcing internal factors use in the field of building production management, the authors believe that it is necessary to take into account their close relationship with goals, objectives, various needs, functions, organizational structure, production technology, personnel policy of the building organization. The article identifies two directions for the outsourcing us, which affect the construction organization competitiveness growth, identifies goals and objectives that the construction organization solves in the process of using outsourcing.
Methods of increasing the construction organization efficiency in terms of using outsourcing
Authors: Klochko E N , Putilina I N , Britikova E A 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
The current trend in optimizing construction business in Russia indicates a growing orientation of construction organizations to foreign experience in the use of outsourcing as a technology to transfer to outside the specialized organizations some certain types of activities or functions of their business along with responsibility for the result of the latter. The article proposes a methodology for improving the construction organization efficiency in terms of the industrial outsourcing use. Within the methodology framework, indicators that can be used to identify the effectiveness of the outsourcing use in these organizations are indicated. The authors believe that to substantiate the using outsourcing expediency, functional modeling of the business processes under consideration is used. It was determined that the construction company can focus on two types of outsourcing - full and partial form, which is explained by their high degree of influence on the current economic activities of the construction company. The process of carrying out or implementing business process outsourcing in a construction organization as a part of developing an outsourcing project should include several stages, for each of which the options are offered by the construction organization’s management according to the scenario of using outsourcing or abandoning it.
Market power of green buildings in sustainable development goals
Authors: Medvedkina Y A , Khodochenko A V 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
This article is dedicated to the development of the green building sector falling under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The paper illustrates major trends of green economy development and provides indicators for projects assessment in terms of green building. As the international practice shows, the implementation of modern environmental and energy projects and the introduction of special property of material are now becoming a strategic task in the construction sector. International companies are actively introducing technologies and new materials to reduce energy consumption in industrial buildings and offices. This study contains the analysis of green projects implemented in practice nowadays.
Enhanced technology of quantitative assessment for technological suitability of real estate for technical improvements
Authors: Schenyatskaya M A , Krutilova M O , Sharapova A V , Markova A A 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
The key problems of organizing a rational investment in technical improvements (repair and reconstruction) of buildings and structures, as a way to improve the real estate functional efficiency are the quantitative ranking problems of objects to be improved according to the actual resource needs of work, the resulting economic assessment and reconstruction social effect, technical feasibility integrated assessment and work conditions. Particularly up to date is the question of quantifying the conditions for making improvements when implementing investment programs financed by budgetary funds, under which, as a rule, complex territorial improvement is carried out, or targeted programs are being implemented to improve the municipal real estate for functional purposes. To contribute to the effective solution of these problems and to be an effective tool for the established practice of managing urban real estate background, the methodological approaches presented in the work and the algorithms for constructing a quantitative assessment of the technological suitability of real estate for functional improvement are presented. The paper demonstrated the proposed methodologies practical use examples, evaluating the potential effectiveness of the property manager’s activities, proposed tools for the practical implementation of the techniques in industry software.
Modeling the formation of acoustic resonant waves in a closed space
Authors: Pershin I , Sidyakin P , Belaya E , Shchitov D 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
An analysis is made and a method for calculating resonant acoustic waves, which allows determining the effect of sound pressure at any point in a room with different finishes for enclosing structures, is developed. The method allows taking into account the type of finishing material for vertical and horizontal structures.
Application of theoretical studies for a description of the process of dust subsidence of chrysotile-asbestos dust and cement dust
Authors: Azarov V N , Burkhanova R A , Kovtunov I A , Vinshu M S 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
The authors have sampled dust samples in the modelling shop of the enterprise, that produced asbestos cement products, performed the dispersal analysis of chrysotile asbestos dust and cement dust, built areas of integral curves particle mass distribution by diameters for aspiration systems, general exhaust ventilation and sanitary protection zone. For description of dispersal composition of dust were used two-link splines in log-probabilistic coordinate system. Carried out a mathematical evaluation of these functions as random. The method of "dissection" is used for their description.
Density functional theory study on electrical properties of graphyne propane under tension and compression deformation
Authors: Wei Lin , Liu Guili , Zhang Guoying 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
Based on the first-principles of density functional theory, this paper systematically studied the effect of tensile and compression deformation on the electrical properties of graphyne. The study show that the graphyne has an direct and adjustable band gap under deformation. Under uniaxial deformation, the band gap tend to be in the decline with the increase of the deformation, but under biaxial deformation, the band gap is positively correlated with the deformation, which increases with the rising of the tension deformation, and decreases with the increase of the compression deformation. The band gap value calculated by the HSE06 method is larger than what is obtained by the GGA method, but the shape characteristics of the band structure obtained by the two are basically the same, as well as the same trend between band gap and strain. With the tensile and compressive deformations increase, the charge transfer between C atoms in the graphyne is intensified. Compressive deformation makes the graphyne system more stable, while tensile deformation reduces the stability of graphyne. Compared with uniaxial, biaxial deformation has a more severe effect on the stability and band gap of the graphyne system, but less on charge transfer.
The effect of Tb doping on the magnetic properties and microstructure of a TbNdFeCoB/Fe7Co3 nanocomposite permanent magnet
Authors: Ding Hewei , Cui Chunxiang , Yang Wei , Sun Jibing 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
Melt-spun NdFeB-type nanocomposite magnetic materials are important in a number of applications, including electromagnetic sensors, magnetic resonance imaging, and voice coil motors. Herein we investigated the magnetic properties and microstructures of melt-spun Tb
x
Nd10−x
Fe80Co4B6/Fe7Co3 (x = 0.1, 0.2, and 0.3) ribbons by means of x-ray diffractometry, scanning electron microscopy, and magnetization experiments. Tb doping resulted in the formation of a 2:14:1 phase with a higher anisotropy field, which suppressed the separation of Fe7Co3 branch crystals and improved the magnetic properties of the material. Optimum magnetic properties that include a remanence (J

r
) of 0.62 T, a coercivity (H

ci
) of 612.0 kA m−1, and a maximum magnetic energy product ((BH)max) of 94.9 kJ m−3 were obtained for the annealed Tb0.3Nd9.7Fe80Co4B6/Fe7Co3 ribbon. Furthermore, the effective anisotropy constant,

K

e
f
f

,

and the saturation magnetization,

M
s
,

in the nanocomposite were determined by the LATS (law of approach to saturation) method. In this study, the values of

K

e
f
f

and

M
s

were found to lie between those of hard and soft magnetic phases, consistent with the exchange-coupling concept.
Magnetic susceptibility measurement and heavy metal pollution at an automobile station in Ilorin, North-Central Nigeria
Authors: Orosun Muyiwa Michael , Oniku Sunday Adetola , Peter Adie , Orosun Rapheal Olugbenga , Salawu Naheem Banji , Hitler Louis 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
Magnetic susceptibility measurement was carried out on 26 top-soil samples randomly collected from the study area and 5 selected top-soil samples outside the station, using the Bartington MS meter linked to a computer operated using Multisus2 software. The Measurements was done at both low (0.47 kHz) and high (4.7 kHz) frequency susceptibilities which was further used to calculate the frequency dependent susceptibility (ΧFD). The values for low frequency mass magnetic susceptibility ranges between 96.6 × 10−5 m3 kg−1 and 146 × 10−5 m3 kg−1 with an average value of 117.35 × 10−5 m3 kg−1 and standard deviation of 12.22 × 10−5 m3 kg−1. The result reveal high magnetic susceptibility values at the station compared with the values observed outside the station which ranges between 53.0 × 10−5 m3 kg−1 and 72.3 × 10−5 m3 kg−1 with an average value of 63.2 × 10−5 m3 kg−1 and standard deviation of 7.01 × 10−5 m3 kg−1. This significant magnetic enhancement indicates high concentration of ferrimagnetic minerals in the soil and thus evidence of pollution due to the activities at the station which implies that the magnetic enhancement is of anthropogenic source than pedogenic and lithogenic. Analysis of the heavy metals also reveals higher values at the station. The correlation analysis between the mass specific magnetic susceptibility and the heavy metals concentrations (i.e. Cu (R = 0.92), Fe (R = 0.88), Cr (R = 0.85), Zn (R = 0.83), Cd (R = 0.79), Mg (R = 0.72), Mn (R = 0.60), Pb (R = 0.67)) which was conducted to further investigate the relationship between the soil magnetic susceptibility values and elemental variations, demonstrated magnetic susceptibility can be used as a proxy method for assessing the pollution of these heavy metals.
Eliciting and Measuring L2 Metaphoric Competence: Three Decades on from Low (1988)
Authors: O’Reilly David , Marsden Emma 
Published: December 2019

AbstractIn 1988 and 2006, Applied Linguistics published Low’s and Littlemore and Low’s seminal theoretical accounts of second language (L2) metaphoric competence (MC). Meanwhile, attempts to elicit metaphor-related skills/competences have been mixed. Instrumentation has varied in reliability, been limited in scope, and used arguably flawed reliability coefficients (McNeish 2018). Factor analysis, used in first language (L1) MC and other areas of L2 research (Loewen et al. 2009; Plonsky and Gonulal 2015), has not been used to explore latent L2 MC variables. To address these issues, we developed a large battery of MC tests to elicit Low/Littlemore’s constructs, administering it to 112 L1 Mandarin speakers of L2 English and 31 L1 English speakers. Data cleaning revealed some operationalization challenges, but resulting overall reliability was high and demonstrated innovative use of ordinal omega as a powerful alternative to Cronbach’s alpha, the most common instrument reliability index in L2 research (Plonsky and Derrick 2016). Exploratory factor analysis suggested four latent L2 MC variables: Productive Illocutionary MC, Metaphor Language Play, Topic/Vehicle Acceptability, and Grammatical MC, broadly supporting Low/Littlemore’s proposals.
PheGWAS: a new dimension to visualize GWAS across multiple phenotypes
Authors: George Gittu , Gan Sushrima , Huang Yu , Appleby Philip , Nar A S , Venkatesan Radha , Mohan Viswanathan , Palmer Colin N A , Doney Alex S F 
Published: December 2019

AbstractMotivationPheGWAS was developed to enhance exploration of phenome-wide pleiotropy at the genome-wide level through the efficient generation of a dynamic visualization combining Manhattan plots from GWAS with PheWAS to create a 3D ‘landscape’. Pleiotropy in sub-surface GWAS significance strata can be explored in a sectional view plotted within user defined levels. Further complexity reduction is achieved by confining to a single chromosomal section. Comprehensive genomic and phenomic coordinates can be displayed.ResultsPheGWAS is demonstrated using summary data from Global Lipids Genetics Consortium GWAS across multiple lipid traits. For single and multiple traits PheGWAS highlighted all 88 and 69 loci, respectively. Further, the genes and SNPs reported in Global Lipids Genetics Consortium were identified using additional functions implemented within PheGWAS. Not only is PheGWAS capable of identifying independent signals but also provides insights to local genetic correlation (verified using HESS) and in identifying the potential regions that share causal variants across phenotypes (verified using colocalization tests).Availability and implementationThe PheGWAS software and code are freely available at (https://github.com/georgeg0/PheGWAS).Supplementary informationSupplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
LPM: a latent probit model to characterize the relationship among complex traits using summary statistics from multiple GWASs and functional annotations
Authors: Ming Jingsi , Wang Tao , Yang Can 
Published: December 2019

Abstract

Motivation
Much effort has been made toward understanding the genetic architecture of complex traits and diseases. In the past decade, fruitful GWAS findings have highlighted the important role of regulatory variants and pervasive pleiotropy. Because of the accumulation of GWAS data on a wide range of phenotypes and high-quality functional annotations in different cell types, it is timely to develop a statistical framework to explore the genetic architecture of human complex traits by integrating rich data resources.

Results
In this study, we propose a unified statistical approach, aiming to characterize relationship among complex traits, and prioritize risk variants by leveraging regulatory information collected in functional annotations. Specifically, we consider a latent probit model (LPM) to integrate summary-level GWAS data and functional annotations. The developed computational framework not only makes LPM scalable to hundreds of annotations and phenotypes but also ensures its statistically guaranteed accuracy. Through comprehensive simulation studies, we evaluated LPM’s performance and compared it with related methods. Then, we applied it to analyze 44 GWASs with 9 genic category annotations and 127 cell-type specific functional annotations. The results demonstrate the benefits of LPM and gain insights of genetic architecture of complex traits.

Availability and implementation
The LPM package, all simulation codes and real datasets in this study are available at https://github.com/mingjingsi/LPM.

Supplementary information
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Human Rights and International Investment Agreements: How to Bridge the Gap?
Authors: Zhang Sheng 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
Although an increasing number of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) now incorporate the concept of sustainable development, direct reference to human rights is still rare and remains embryonic. A close look at the positions held by some representative groups and countries, including the European Union (EU), the USA, China, India, South Africa, and Mercosur, reveals that the reference to human rights features divergence. The divided positions held by these groups or countries reveal the difficulties of operationalizing human rights obligations into international investment rule making. Even among developed countries or economies, a consistent approach to human rights is yet to be found. Based on these observations, this article proposes a number of pragmatic solutions to bridge the gap between these divided positions. In order to synergize international investment treaty regimes on human rights, internal engagement, including the reform of BIT dispute settlement regimes, and external engagement, including dialogues among stakeholders, should be made.
Teacher Observation of Classroom Adaptation-Checklist: Measuring Children’s Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Functioning
Authors: Bradshaw Catherine P , Kush Joseph M 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
There is a growing need for valid measures that can be administered efficiently in school settings to assess the impact of school-based preventive interventions. The current article aimed to establish a balance among assessment efficiency, reliability, and the measurement properties of an instrument widely used to assess the impact of school-based programs, called the Teacher Observation of Classroom Adaptation-Checklist (TOCA-C). We leveraged item response theory (IRT) analyses to create a shortened, more focused checklist version of the TOCA-C that is both valid and efficient for large-scale use in schools to track students’ behavioral, social–emotional, and family factors over the course of elementary school. The sample included 17,456 children in kindergarten through grade 5 (47.7 percent female, 54.2 percent African American). IRT analyses resulted in the retention of 33 of the original 39 items comprising seven subscales: (1) Concentration Problems, (2) Aggressive/Disruptive Behavior, (3) Prosocial Behavior, (4) Emotion Regulation Problems, (5) Internalizing Problems, (6) Family Problems, and (7) Family Involvement. IRT, item difficulty estimates, and confirmatory factor analyses revealed limited evidence of bias based on gender, race, or grade; together, the findings suggested that the 33-item TOCA-C is a highly valid and reliable measure.