Vol 3, No 4 (2014)

The article contains the results of exploring association fields encircling the concepts of ‘contemplation’, ‘deed’, ‘communication’ and ascertained through a receptive experiment. Universal and idioethnic properties of the concepts are discovered in the contexts of the Russian and English linguocultures.

Russian performing art of wind players, being now on the way of its further development, inevitably faces creative challenges and contradictions. An important condition for overcoming certain difficulties is the analysis and understanding of problematic issues of practice and, as a consequence, - development of scientific and theoretical principles. One of these guidelines is developing theoretical approaches in the sphere of synthesis of musicians’ creative experience. Thanks to the creative efforts and rich professional experience of many generations of Russian wind instruments players the art of playing them has solid theoretical basis. Accumulated musical and creative experience and traditions are all necessary information and spiritual sources for further development of the theory of today’s art of playing the wind instrument. The nature of today's interests of national musicians is determined not only by their professional achievements , but their development in the future as well.

This paper considers the problem of encouraging students studying to get bachelors’ degrees in economics at technical universities to focus more on higher mathematics. As an example, research projects on unit "Differential Equations" are presented .

The author considers the process of developing critical thinking of students enrolled in IT programs through a system of tasks aimed at proving or disproving some claims.

This article is dedicated to the work of the British historian Steven Ellis. The author analyzes the role of Anglo-Scottish border in England’s political life at the period of the Tudors’ monarchy. From the researcher’s point of view the borderlands fell victim to the politics of centralization and civilizing aspirations of the Tudors. The acculturation of borderlands, their “civilizing” resulted in the political regress.

This article briefly highlights some important aspects of Kuibyshev region’s garment factories’ conversion to tailoring civilian clothes (1945 - 1946). The sources are mainly archival documents.

The article deals with the classification of troubled bank loans in a commercial bank. Based on analysis of the distinguishing features of bad assets , the classification is given for loan portfolio risk management.

The paper deals with issues related to decline in efficiency of mathematical education at schools and universities. The author shares the ways of training mathematics teachers in a pedagogical university based on the principle of continuity in mathematical education.

The paper dwells upon the impact of rail transport on the environment pollution. The factors are identified and the main sources of pollution are pointed out.

Specific features of translation as “other-culture” interpretation of the original text are highlighted in the paper. These features are defined with reference both to intercultural differences resulting from different background knowledge and the peculiarities of target language.

This article displays the features of the transition from the Late Neolithic to the Early Eneolithic in the steppes of Eastern Europe in 5300-5100 B.C. It dwells upon the role of relations between the populations of the steppe and Balkan, highlights foreign items and innovations bearing the evidence of the contacts above mentioned.

The article narrates about the perception of the life and the most characteristic features of Russian people during the reign of Peter I by a Scottish officer Peter Bruce.

The article gives the analysis of amnesty of the British government in the Highlands of Scotland during the largest Jacobite rebellions (supporters of returning the Stuarts excluded in the Glorious revolution to the British throne), in 1715-1745. Connection between amnesty and weak military and political role of London in the Highlands in the context of legalist tradition and negative attitude of the British political nation to an impressive regular army in Britain is revealed.

The concept of social and cultural spaces of the Neolithic age of the Ural in archeology is analyzed. The main signs on which it is possible to reveal identity of ancient societies are considered. The conclusion is that Neolithic population in Trans -Urals, Volga-Ural and Kama regions was a social system, identity and social and cultural space of which was identified through combination of several traditions typical for particular descent lines revealed in the ways of preparing clay dough and systems of decorating ceramics.

Under the influence of anthropogenic factors the environmental situation is unfavorable. Today determining the state of urban areas can be provided through qualitative and quantitative characteristics of fungi-mushrooms (macromycetes). The aim was studying the mycobiota of the city and identifying its characteristics in relation to natural conditions and anthropogenic factors. Currently, a systematic list of fungi-mushrooms consists of two parts, three classes, 17 orders, 30 families, 51 genera and 87 species.

The authors studied the issues of war prisoners of Napoleon’s Grand Armee in Russia in 1812-1814 and analysed both archival documents and about 100 prisoners’ recollections. The latter included anonymous remimniscences attributed to A. Montravel by historians. However, the authors proved that they were written by a different person, Captain P.Nokaz.

Interactive technologies in senior secondary school at the lessons of History are analyzed. Using them can result in making the process more efficient as they contribute to students’ cognitive learning operations development.

The solution of the analogue problem Δ 2.

This article analyzes the concept and essence of methodological competence of a teacher, considers its structure, proves its significance for wide-scale teaching practice.

The authors used IR spectroscopy in studying the functional groups of the mixture of activated carbon grades AC-95 and AC-3, chemically modified by oxidizing with the mixture of nitric acid and urea. The article also highlights the main physical and chemical characteristics, such as total static exchange capacity, volume weight and bulk weight.

The article gives the complex analysis of the notions «competence» and «competency» based on Russian and foreign authors’ works, in which they implement competency approach in theory and practice of the pedagogical science in Russia. The paper also presents the characteristics of professional and pedagogical competency of a modern teacher.

The article focuses on the influence of Solar activity on man. The scheme of influence of space weather on Biosphere as well its interrelation with ecological factors are shown.

The article dwells upon the example of employing didactic potential of interactive whiteboards in teaching higher mathematics, unit "Numerical and Functional Series" in particular. It highlights the options of improving the quality of teaching through a combination of traditional and innovative IT-methods in the educational process at the university.

The article overviews approaches to the concept of personal professional self-development. The analysis results in highlighting the main features and giving the integral definition of the concept “personal professional self-development”.