Agroparks as a network form of business organization in agriculture

In this study, the authors substantiate the relevance of the creation of agro-industrial parks as a network form of organizing the business of agricultural producers. Agro-industrial parks in modern conditions are becoming a kind of growth points for the innovative development of agricultural producers, providing accelerated growth in production and import substitution in order to achieve food security in the Russian Federation and its regions. The results of the study allow us to conclude about the growing interest in this form of business organization.

Features of the Implementation of Additional Education Programs Using the Networked Learning

Relevance: currently, the development of network interaction of educational organizations, especially higher education, as a specific organizational form of integration of participants in the educational process is becoming increasingly relevant. At the same time, the issues of regulatory support for the network form of training have not been fully studied. In addition, the use of a network form of implementing additional vocational education programs has its own peculiarities, which, according to the authors, have not yet been taken into account in the legislation on education, and requires a separate discussion. The purpose of the work: from the point of view of the requirements that are imposed on modern education, including additional professional education, as well as taking into account the rapid development of educational technologies, the authors justify the need for educational organizations to use the network form when implementing advanced training courses and professional retraining programs. Methods: during the research, such traditional methods and methods of scientific cognition as analysis, synthesis, methods of induction and deduction were used. Results: on the basis of normative and methodological acts, the authors identified various types and tasks of network cooperation of educational organizations, noted certain difficulties in applying the network form of implementing additional professional education programs, including in terms of regulatory legal regulation of these issues. The authors come to the conclusion that the network training is useful in the field of additional vocational education, since this significantly improves its quality and responses the needs of employers and employees, as well as leads to the emergence of new educational programs that meet the demand in the labor market. In addition, joint projects of organizations have a positive impact on educational technologies and methods that I use in the learning process, stimulating the mutual exchange of best educational practices.

FONDUE: A Framework for Node Disambiguation and Deduplication Using Network Embeddings

Data often have a relational nature that is most easily expressed in a network form, with its main components consisting of nodes that represent real objects and links that signify the relations between these objects. Modeling networks is useful for many purposes, but the efficacy of downstream tasks is often hampered by data quality issues related to their construction. In many constructed networks, ambiguity may arise when a node corresponds to multiple concepts. Similarly, a single entity can be mistakenly represented by several different nodes. In this paper, we formalize both the node disambiguation (NDA) and node deduplication (NDD) tasks to resolve these data quality issues. We then introduce FONDUE, a framework for utilizing network embedding methods for data-driven disambiguation and deduplication of nodes. Given an undirected and unweighted network, FONDUE-NDA identifies nodes that appear to correspond to multiple entities for subsequent splitting and suggests how to split them (node disambiguation), whereas FONDUE-NDD identifies nodes that appear to correspond to same entity for merging (node deduplication), using only the network topology. From controlled experiments on benchmark networks, we find that FONDUE-NDA is substantially and consistently more accurate with lower computational cost in identifying ambiguous nodes, and that FONDUE-NDD is a competitive alternative for node deduplication, when compared to state-of-the-art alternatives.

Composition Regulation and Microstructure Characterization of Fe100-xGax Films in the Manufacturing Industry

Fe100-xGax giant magnetostrictive films (GMF) are attracting ever increasing attention for their potential application to manufacturing integrated magnetostrictive displacement sensors. However, it is difficult to fabricate Fe100-xGax thin films with different compositions at will. The influence of compositions on alloy phases, grain sizes, film surface roughness, and magnetic domains of the films and magnetization of magnetron sputtered Fe100-xGax films was investigated. Changing the ratio of the pure iron slice areas to alloy target areas, the desired film composition was achieved by the improved Mosaic method. The morphologies, magnetic domain structure, microstructure, and compositions of Fe100-xGax films revealed by SEM, EDS, XRD, MFM, VSM, and TEM. The results show that there are <1 1 0 > texture in magnetron sputtered Fe100-xGax films. The sharp peak attributed to the A2 microstructure suggests that the film is crystalline. The magnetic domain structure of Fe100-xGax films presents a network form, and the domain width decreases with the decrease of gallium content. It is also found that the magnetic domains of the films are not uniform. The TEM result shows that there are some strip patterns in the films, and the diffraction ring is discontinuous because of the structure extinction. For a suitable candidate of microdevice applications in MEMS, the optimum composition film should be Fe83.25Ga16.75 film.

Commemorations of cultural-historical reconstruction in the context of network society

The relevance of this article is substantiated by the need for scientific comprehension of the versatile experience of commemorative activity of the communities united within the framework of the All-Russian Public Movement &ldquo;Clubs of Historical Reconstruction of Russia&rdquo;. The object of this research is the collective commemorations that accumulate various forms of culture-making memorial initiatives of the indicated movement. The subject is the transformation processes of commemorative practices of the reenactment movement in the context of network society. The goal is to determine the key vectors of transformation of commemorations of the cultural-historical reconstruction, which reflects fundamental changes in the modern memorial space in the context of network society. The author advances the opinion that major changes in the commemorative practices of reenactors are substantiated by the transition towards the project-network form of interaction with a wide circle of social actors, the cooperation with which is based on the mutually beneficial exchange of deficit resources. The novelty of this work lies in explication and empirical testing of the concept of &ldquo;memorial management&rdquo; ( terminology of Aleida Assmann) for articulation of the specificity of the current stage of transformation of commemorations of cultural-historical reconstructions in the context of project-network society. The new material on the public memorial initiatives in the network projects of reenactors is introduces into the scientific discourse, which allows concluding that the transformation of commemorations of cultural-historical reconstruction is a complex multi-vector process that reveals a range of multidirectional trends characteristic to the Russian memorial space. The fundamental changes in commemorative practices of reconstruction manifest in the expansion of their scientific, educational, and inclusive components.

SPICE-Aided Compact Electrothermal Model of Impulse Transformers

This article proposes a new form of compact electrothermal model of impulse transformers. The proposed model is dedicated for use with SPICE and it is formulated in the network form. It simultaneously takes into account electrical, thermal, and magnetic phenomena occurring in the considered device. Nonlinearity of the core magnetization characteristics and nonlinearity of the heat transfer efficiency are taken into account in this model. The form of the proposed model is shown. Equations of the presented model are given. Experimental verification of the proposed model is performed for selected impulse transformers. Selected results of the performed investigations are presented.

Unique Analysis Approach to Bridge-T Network using Floating Admittance Matrix Method”

The RC bridge-T Circuit are sometimes preferred for radio frequency applications as it does not require transformer (inductive coupling). The uses of the resistance-capacitance form of the network permits a wide tuning range. The article aims to develop a band pass filter's mathematical model using the Floating Admittance Matrix (FAM) approach. Both types of RC bridge-T network form the band-pass filters. The use of the conventional methods of analysis such as KCL, KVL, Thevenin's, Norton's depends on its suitability for the type of the particular circuit. The proposed mathematical modeling scheme using the floating admittance matrix approach is unique, and the same can be used for all types of circuits. This method is suitable to use the partitioning technique for large network. The sum property of all the elements of any row or any column equal to zero provides the assurance to proceed further for analysis or re-observe the very first equation. This saves time and energy. The FAM method presented here is so simple that anybody with slight knowledge of electronics but understating the matrix maneuvering, can analyze any circuit to derive all types of its transfer functions. The mathematical modeling using the FAM approach provides leverage to the designer to comfortably adjust their design at any stage of analysis. These statements provide compelling reasons for the adoption of the proposed process and demonstrate its benefits. The theoretically obtained equations meet the expected result for the RC bridge-T network. Its response peaks at the theoretically obtained value of the frequency. The simulated results are in agreement with the topological explanations and expectations.

Training of masters-geographers in the system of network interaction of pedagogical universities

The key goal of modern geographical education is the process of forming a holistic worldview based on the general picture of the world and, in particular, the formation of geographical thinking based on a systematic approach. This ensures the socialization of the individual, capable of independently building a trajectory of professional growth and personal development, subject to mastering both universal and professional competencies. The most effective form of education in the formation of a holistic picture of the world, from the point of view of the authors, is the network form, which is provided for by the law “On Education in the Russian Federation” (article 15). It is the network form of implementation of educational programs, including master′s, that provides an individual choice of educational trajectories of learning. The article outlines the problem of choosing an approach to assessing the effectiveness of master’s programs. The analysis of the experience in the formation of competencies for different levels of education, presented in scientific publications, confirmed the insufficient degree of knowledge of the process of the formation and development of the competencies of master geographers. The article describes the approaches to the content of the variable part of the network master′s program for the training of teachers of geography.

Improvement of QoS in an IoT Ecosystem by Integrating Fog Computing and SDN

The internet of things (IoT) creates immense volume of objects online. But cloud computing isn't suited to environmental demands. Hence, fog computing (FC) emerged which shifts the computation load into edge fog devices. However, FC also faces some obstacles which can be mitigated by software-defined networking (SDN). By combining SDN and FC, the network form can overcome almost all cloud limitations and can boost QoS. Within this article, architecture is proposed by combining SDN and FC to improve QoS for IoT ecosystem. With the architecture, an algorithm is propounded based on virtual partition. Then a use case is presented and evaluated through iFogSim simulator. The result shows a significant improvement of several QoS parameters in the execution of fog with SDN compared to the cloud-only execution. The results also show better results for energy consumption, network use (212.21% reduction), and latency (275.9% reduction) compared with previous similar use case.

Analysis of Height-to-Width Ratio of Commercial Streets with Arcades Based on Sunshine Hours and Street Orientation

By extracting and simplifying the characteristics of commercial streets with arcades (Qilou) in Nanning, the tissue map of Qilou streets which reflects the urban morphology, including the road network form, block scale, building scale and other characteristics in a hot and humid area is obtained. In addition, the sunshine simulation is performed by using sunshine design software in an environment comprising streets with arcades to simulate street sunlight environments under various conditions. The relationship among street height-to-width ratio, sunshine hours, and street orientation angle is achieved by nonlinear fitting analysis. Then, a model is established to adjust the street height-to-width ratio based on sunshine requirement and street orientation. The finding indicated that when the street is north–south, it is suggested that the street height-to-width ratio is 0.95–1.13 to reduce sunshine hours effectively, and when the street is east–west, it is proposed that one side of the street should have a recessed space to improve the thermal conditions. The results of this study can serve as the specific guidelines that can be adopted in the redesign and reformation of commercial streets with arcades to achieve thermal comfort of Qilou streets in hot and humid areas.