scholarly journals Using satellite images in teaching geography at school

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Satellite Images ◽  
Visual Image ◽  
Dust Storms ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Atmospheric Fronts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Memory Representations ◽  
Control Knowledge

Satellite images occupy a signifi cant place in the Earth Sciences. This fully applies to geography. Images of the Earth from space are used in various activities: to assess crops, to establish the boundaries of a phenomenon, to determine the degree of contamination of land or ocean surfaces, to search for minerals, and so on. But in school geography, satellite images are used very rarely - for example, to prove the sphericity of the Earth or to show the view of each continent from space. The purpose of this article is to highlight the methods of using satellite images in geography lessons at school and to create tasks based on these means of training. Main material. The history of using satellite images in school geography has been considered in the article. Advantages and disadvantages of satellite images as training tools are also noted. The role of satellite images in the formation of geographical representations is highlighted by the authors. These images realistically depict many natural phenomena (atmospheric fronts, cyclones, dust storms, etc.). Therefore, as a means of visualization, they contribute to the formation of memory representations in schoolchildren. Examples of a number of satellite images show how they can be used in teaching geography. The article off ers a methodical way of the use of satellite images at diff erent stages of learning. These images can be used to explain the training material, repeat it, control knowledge, and so on. Satellite images can be used to solve cartographic tasks. As practice has shown, we can perform creative tasks based on images. Conclusions. Satellite images play an important role in the system of teaching geography. The use of satellite images allows us to improve the pupils’ interest in the subject. Satellite images form geographical memory representations create a visual image of the natural appearance of the Earth. The study of educational opportunities of the Earth’s images from space has revealed three groups of requirements: pedagogical, technical and specific, determined by the content of school geography. The teacher should select satellite images based on the content of educational tasks of school geography.

scholarly journals Media aesthetic component of communication and its manifestation in infographic content

Lumina ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-96
Author(s):  
Svetlana Simakova
Keyword(s):  
Visual Image ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

The goal of the present study is to demonstrate the media-aesthetic potential of infographic messages on particular cases. This can be done due to an integrated approach to the analysis of the visual content of media content. That indicates the case study method implementation as well as description and generalization. The theoretical basis of the research is represented by scientific studies of various directions. That includes the history of media and visual media culture; features of the concepts of media culture and media language, media aesthetics; infographics as a tool of media language. The empirical basis of the study is journalistic materials containing infographic content of such publications as by RIA Novosti (ria.ru), TASS (tass.ru). The examples of visual image implementation in the transmission of information — media content containing infographics — are given and analyzed. Considering media aesthetics as the formation of a sensory perception of the proposed media content, the author turns to the philosophical and aesthetic foundations of visual practices in the media and post-humanistic trends in journalism. As a result of the analysis of the theoretical and practical basis of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that today the role of the media aesthetic component of messages is most relevant. And infographics, as the connecting link of language and consciousness, is its most striking tool.

A ‘milky mass’ and ‘uniform material’: white marble in eighteenth-century French discourses on sculpture and geology

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-225
Author(s):  
Marthe Kretzschmar
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Grain Size ◽  
Denis Diderot ◽  
Art Theory ◽  
White Marble ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Earth ◽  
History Of ◽  
Interdisciplinary Network

Knowledge of the materiality of stone during the Enlightenment expanded following the exploration of mineralogical structure, to alter ideas about taxonomy and challenge the role of rocks in the history of the earth. Close studies of the material of marble sculpture generated expertise on grain size, surface varieties and stone deposits. This mode of reception became intertwined with contemporary controversies about the age of the earth. This article focuses on both French sculpture and geological discourses of the eighteenth century to reveal an international and interdisciplinary network centring on protagonists such as Denis Diderot, Paul-Henri Thiry d’Holbach and Étienne-Maurice Falconet; through these figures, debates can be connected concerning both geology and art theory. Within these contexts, the article discusses the translation processes between these artistic and geological interests.

scholarly journals The Role of Observation With Horizontal Meridian Circle in China for Establishing an Inertial Frame

1990 ◽  
Vol 141 ◽  
pp. 142-142
Author(s):  
Li Zhi-gang ◽  
Qi Guan-Rong
Keyword(s):  
Inertial Frame ◽  
Minor Planets ◽  
Meridian Circle ◽  
Horizontal Meridian ◽  
Proper Motions ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Radio Stars

While HIPPARCOS is expected to measure positions and proper motions with more accuracy than those obtained by ground-based instruments, what can we do in the future for ground-based instruments? The observations with them still are important for establishing an inertial frame because of the long history of observations with them and improvements in the instruments. Moreover, it is necessary to have data of observations from them for research on problems related to the Earth. The horizontal meridian circle in China (DCMT) is expected to have advantage over the classical meridian circles. The DCMT will be assembled and tested this year. It should work in the following fields: (1) observing radio stars, (2) observation of minor planets, (3) absolute determinations of IRS.

scholarly journals Main biostratigraphic stages in the Earth history. Technogenic scenarios

2013 ◽  
pp. 127-138
Author(s):  
G. Rudko ◽  
P. Zagorodnyuk
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Anthropogenic Activities ◽  
Continuous Transformation ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Geological Processes ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Earth ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global Catastrophe

The biostratigraphic history of the Earth as a process of continuous transformation and adaptation from the primary forms of life and till its current state had been considered in the present article.  The development of life on the Earth had started due to the changes of geological processes, changes of the chemical composition of the atmosphere and the aquatic environment, within the period of global catastrophe. As a result of more than 3.8 billion years the anthropogenic system «human – geological and related environment» was formed; it transformed the biosphere in accordance with the needs of human, creating the precedent of inconsistency between human needs and biosphere resources.  The basic scenarios of human and biosphere development within the technogene were defined. The results of studies helped to identify the biostratigraphic conditions of the Earth life. The article investigates scenarios of technogene development as well as the role of human under the conditions of intensive biosphere transformation due to the anthropogenic activities.   

Philolaus (c.470–380/9 BC)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermann S. Schibli
Keyword(s):  
First Principles ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Greek Philosopher ◽  
Noteworthy Feature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Psychological Functions ◽  
Explanatory Concept ◽  
The Universe

The Greek philosopher Philolaus of Croton, a contemporary of Democritus and Socrates, was a pre-eminent Pythagorean. His book counts as the first written treatise in the history of Pythagoreanism. Surviving in fragments, it constitutes an important source for our knowledge of fifth-century Pythagoreanism and supplements the picture given by Aristotle of Pythagorean doctrine. Like earlier Presocratics Philolaus sought to furnish a comprehensive cosmology. Arguing from logical propositions, he posited two pre-existing principles: ‘unlimited things’ and ‘limiting things’. United by harmony these two principles account for the formation of the cosmos and its phenomena. Since Philolaus also invokes number as an all-powerful explanatory concept, it is likely that he associated his first principles and the things originating from them with numbers. The emphasis on harmony and number accords with early Pythagoreanism. Philolaus also wrote on musical theory and astronomy. A noteworthy feature of his astronomy is the displacement of the earth from the centre of the cosmos by fire, pictured as the ‘hearth’ of the universe. The fragments further attest Philolaus’ interest in embryology, the causes of diseases, and physiology combined with psychological functions. It was not unusual for early Greek philosophers to treat such a wide variety of topics. The distinctive elements of the thought of Philolaus are the logical arguments evinced in the fragments and the epistemological role of number for understanding the structure of reality.

Darwin, Concepción, and the Geological Sublime

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul White
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Earth History ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
The Earth ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Popular Audience

ArgumentDarwin's narrative of the earthquake at Concepción, set within the frameworks of Lyellian uniformitarianism, romantic aesthetics, and the emergence of geology as a popular science, is suggestive of the role of the sublime in geological enquiry and theory in the early nineteenth century. Darwin's Beagle diary and later notebooks and publications show that the aesthetic of the sublime was both a form of representing geology to a popular audience, and a crucial structure for the observation and recording of the event from the beginning. The awesome spectacle of the earthquake proved in turn the magnitude of the forces at stake in earth history, and helped to make geology an epic conjoining the history of civilization with the history of the earth.

scholarly journals Structural and semantic specificity and dynamics of the performance of passive constructions in the modern Committee Ukrainian

2018 ◽  
pp. 152-167
Author(s):  
Оlena Lavrinets
Keyword(s):  
High Time ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Passive Voice ◽  
Folk Traditions ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Substantial Advantage ◽  
History Of ◽  
Free Development ◽  
Construction Type

The issuer content and status of passive voice paradigm in the system of Ukrainian, hierarchy and both – structural and semantic – features of its constituents are still a disputable question. Committee Ukrainian guidelines and reference books, dated by the first decades of the ХХІ century, were the resources of material for this research. Without regard to comparative free development of standard Ukrainian after getting of independence by Ukraine the paradigm of passive voice, that was substantial reviewed in the newest grammatical researches, has the transformation in a modern scholastic, and also in the in modern committee Ukrainian: it’s nexus is formed by constructions with verbs on -ся ending and periphery – with predicative forms on -но, -то ending and by participles on -ний, -тий ending. Choice of passive or active construction type depends mainly on tastes of compilers of professional editions in modern committee Ukrainian, which does not distinguish the syntactic peculiarities of standard Ukrainian and Russian. Substantial advantage of constructions with verbs on -ся above active constructions and other types of passive constructions in the modern standards of documents is the part of history of committee Ukrainian, and it is high time for it to fall off the edge of the earth. Two-part constructions with predicative forms on -но, -то must occupy a central part in the paradigm of passive voice. Their impersonal value predetermines their prevalence in those documents, where attention is concentrated on completion of action and its result, but not on a performer. In documents, where a role of a performer or an action is pulled out on the first plan matters timelessness, active constructions as specific feature of Ukrainian syntax must prevail. Peripheral performance of constructions with predicative participles on -ний, -тий in committee Ukrainian depends not on language sense of specialist, but on the flavour of the constructions meaning – specifically, the establishment of permanent regularity of action or state continuing. Decision of problem of “ideal” correlation of active and passive constructions, explaining of their usage in modern committee Ukrainian, taking into consideration their structural and semantic specific will help to return the national originality to Ukrainian and, in particular, will provide the continuation of folk traditions in the performance of its inherent grammatical models.

scholarly journals The differential diagnosis of benign and malignant ovarian neoplasms (history)

2016 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 68-78
Author(s):  
Mariya A Egunova ◽  
Irina G Kutsenko
Keyword(s):  
Ovarian Cancer ◽  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Ovarian Neoplasms ◽  
Imaging Techniques ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Radiation Imaging ◽  
Preoperative Stage ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
History Of

The history of the differential diagnosis of ovarian neoplasms at the preoperative stage is presented in the review article. This is still a problem due to the high incidence of tumors and tumor-like formations of ovaries, the continuing upward trend in the index of ovarian cancer, along with a slight decrease in mortality and 5-year survival. Considerable success of surgical treatment and chemotherapy in the early stages of ovarian cancer suggests the earliest possible detection and accuracy of differential diagnosis of ovarian neoplasms. It highlights the role of the different research methods, including radiation imaging techniques, tumor markers and their potential advantages and disadvantages.

scholarly journals Исследование результатов функционирования инновационной инфраструктуры: отечественный и зарубежный опыт

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-21
Author(s):  
Дарья Саханевич
Keyword(s):  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Innovation Infrastructure ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
Quantitative Indicators

Инновационная инфраструктура представляет собой сложную систему функционирования комплекса взаимосвязанных организационно-хозяйственных составляющих и взаимодействующих в инновационных процессах в рамках единой цели – распространение знаний, разработок и технологий. Малоэффективное функционирование существующей инновационной инфраструктуры Российской Федерации требует изучения путей совершенствования этого процесса. Это возможно лишь через анализ отечественного и зарубежного опыта создания и управления инновационными инфраструктурами, что и проведено в данном исследовании. The countries, regions and enterprises focusing on the increasing use of high technologies and achieving leadership in the "technology race" results in the necessity to stimulate the innovation activities. The latter depends on the functioning of the innovation infrastructure and its components. In this regard, there is an increasing necessity to study the domestic and foreign experience of the innovation infrastructures operating to identify the advantages and disadvantages of this process. The objective of the work was achieved due to the cross country and interregional comparisons of quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the innovation infrastructures functioning using the criteria method. Two groups of indicators were used for this investigation. The qualitative indicators include the components of the innovation infrastructure, the subjects interested in the innovation infrastructure development, the level of management, and others. The quantitative indicators include the number of the organizations with the innovation infrastructure, the amount of R & D financing by the state and the private sector, innovation activities and the contribution of the innovation enterprises to the country's GDP, etc. The investigation of the innovation infrastructure functioning, which is a complex of interconnected organizations, associations that perform the functions of promoting, servicing and maintaining the innovation processes, while creating, developing, introducing and disseminating the scientific and technological innovations, due to which the innovation activities are implemented, was carried out using a systematic approach. This approach considers the main organizational and managerial aspects (functions, tasks, goals, etc.), as well as the components of the system itself (innovation infrastructure). The work states the conclusions obtained during studying some regions and cities of the Federal significance in the Russian Federation (Saint Petersburg; Moscow; Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Vologda regions), as well as some countries (Russia; USA; Germany; Japan; China). The article describes the history of the innovation infrastructure formation as a system, its organizational structure, the role of educational institutions in the innovation infrastructure functioning, differences in the innovation activities financing and shows different entities (both enterprises and the government) involving, as well as the factors affecting the innovation infrastructure functioning.

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