Organic agriculture as a factor in the development of rural tourism in the Sverdlovsk region

The authors in the article consider sectoral changes and structural transformations in the field of agriculture associated with the influence of global trends and growth factors in agricultural productivity. One of these trends, the authors identify rural tourism (ecotourism), the development of which increases the socio-cultural, financial and economic level of agricultural areas. The factors of development and implementation of agricultural technologies of organic agriculture, which have a positive effect on the development of rural tourism and form the demand for tourism products, have been identified. The ways of improving the organization and implementation of event and tourist activities as effective tools for attracting attention and popularizing rural areas have been identified, which in the context of the prevention of coronavirus infection around the world is an urgent factor for many categories of the population. In the context of the prevention of coronavirus, infection in many countries, domestic tourism is becoming a priority area for the development of the tourism industry, focusing, among other things, on the development of new products for rural and agro-industrial tourism.

Magneto-elastic coupling as a key to microstructural response of magnetic elastomers with flake-like particles

Using the combination of experiment and molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate structural transformations in magnetic elastomers with NdFeB flake-like particles, caused by applied moderate magnetic fields. We explain why and...

Structural transformations in boron clusters induced by metal doping

Would it be possible to eventually derive a simple methodology to predict the structure adopted by boron clusters based on its structural transformation induced by the doping with one or two metal atoms?

hoto-sensitive Hybrids Constructed from Diphenyliodonium and Metal-thiocyanates: Photo-induced Structure and Property Transformation

Strong electron-poor cation diphenyliodonium was firstly incorporated with transition metal thiocyanates to obtain three new photo-sensitive hybrids, (DPI)3[Mn(SCN)5(H2O)]∙0.25H2O (α-1), {(DPI)2[Ni(SCN)4]}n (α-2) and {(DPI)6[Cd3(SCN)12]}n (α-3) (DPI+ =diphenyliodonium), whose photo-induced structural transformations...

REGULARITIES OF STRUCTURE FORMATION IN BIMETALLIC NANOPARTICLES WITH DIFFERENT CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURES

В данной работе исследуются закономерности структурообразования на примере биметаллических наночастиц Au - Ag, Ti - Al, Ti - V. Данные биметаллические наночастицы обладают различным размерным несоответствием и различной температурой кристаллизации. Проведены серии молекулярно-динамических экспериментов, по результатам которых проанализированы конечные конфигурации с наименьшей энергией и получены концентрационные зависимости энергии смешения. Анализ концентрационных зависимостей энергии смешения позволяет прогнозировать составы и размеры биметаллических наночастиц, которые могут проявлять нестабильность, как например для биметаллических наночастиц Ti - V. Асимметричность отдельных концентрационных зависимостей энергии смешения свидетельствуют о специфических структурных превращениях, характерных именно для данного состава и размера. Установлено, что для биметаллических наночастиц Au - Ag, Ti - Al характерна структурная сегрегация, и она активно проявляется при малых концентрациях более легкоплавкого компонента. Конкурирующими фазами в данном случае выступают ГЦК и ГПУ фазы. Кроме того, для средних из рассматриваемых в статье размеров исследована зависимость температуры кристаллизации от состава биметаллических наночастиц. In this work, of the structure formation was investigated using Au - Ag, Ti - Al, Ti - V bimetallic nanoparticles as the patterns. These bimetallic nanoparticles have different atomic size mismatches and different crystallization temperatures. A series of molecular dynamics experiments was carried out. Based on their results, the final configurations with the lowest energy were analyzed and the concentration dependences of the mixing energy were obtained. An analysis of the concentration dependences of the mixing energy makes it possible to predict the compositions and sizes of bimetallic nanoparticles, which can exhibit instability, such as for Ti - V bimetallic nanoparticles. The asymmetry of individual concentration dependences of the mixing energy is evidence of specific structural transformations characteristic for the given composition and size. It has been established that structural segregation is characteristic for Au - Ag,Ti - Al bimetallic nanoparticles and it is actively manifested at low concentrations of a more low-melting component. The competing phases in this case are fcc and hcp phases. In addition, for the average sizes considered in the article, the dependence of the crystallization temperature on the composition of bimetallic nanoparticles was investigated.

Investigation of the Influence of Gamma Radiation on Structural Transformations in Portlandcement Stone

The radiation resistance of concrete under the influence of large doses of gamma radiation was investigated. To study the behavior of concrete under the influence of gamma radiation, two series of samples were taken: оne was the reference sample, and the other was exposed to gamma radiation. The temperature of the irradiated samples during testing did not exceed 40 °C, the reference temperature was also accepted to be 40 °C. The dose of gamma radiation was 109 rad. Its value corresponds to the dose that concrete can receive when it comes into contact with high-level radioactive waste from the Shelter over 300 years. Characteristics of an industrial gamma radiation equipment are: radiation energy is 1.25 MeV and dose rate is 2 Mrad/h. The use of such equipment allows reaching a dose of 109 rad in less than a month, and 108 rad - in 4-5 days. Concretes that were 28 days old and stored under normal conditions were exposed to gamma radiation.

The Role of Cations of the Precipitant in the Interaction of Protein Molecules in the Lysozyme Oligomers in Crystallization Solutions

At the moment, the main opinion is that protein crystallization depends mainly on the the precipitant anions, therefore, there have been only few works devoted to the problem of the influence of its cations. Using the molecular dynamics method, we investigated the stability, changes in the compactness and structural transformations of lysozyme dimers and octamers in solutions with different precipitants (LiCl, NaCl, KCl and CuCl2) in order to study the contribution of cations during crystal formation in more detail. As a result, we found that cations have a rather noticeable effect on the behavior of oligomers: the higher the atomic mass of the cation, the greater the changes in the dimers structures during its dynamics and, according to the data of SAXS experiments, the lower the concentration of dimers. However, for octamers, this dependence is more complicated.

Conceptualizing an Outside World

This article studies the concept of buitenland (the foreign) in a broad sample of Dutch newspapers in the period between 1815 and 1914. Buitenland emerged as a key concept in the nineteenth century. It referred to an “outside word” that was marked by semantic properties such as instability and closeness. As such, this apparently mundane spatial indicator bolstered the emergent “spatial regime” of globality and globalization. The article thus shows how a computational analysis of concepts that could be easily overlooked reveals structural transformations in the way past and present societies conceptualize (global) space.