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Intelligent animal husbandry is becoming a priority area of the industry. On the basis of digital technologies, genomic assessment, and artificial intelligence, new opportunities are being formed to improve the organization of breeding and technological processes. For effective horse breeding, coupled with classical breeding methods, modern breeding resource management systems based on innovative approaches are needed. Accurate quantification of phenotypic information about an animal is a difficult task. Of particular importance there are the issues of objectification of animal characteristics by exterior due to the fact that the assessment of external forms is based on visual perception, is not devoid of a subjective approach and is subject to inaccuracies. One of the ways to solve this problem is to switch to a digital assessment of the phenotypes of interest. The article presents the results of the application of deep learning to solve the problem of automatic marking of characteristic points on a digital image of the studied objects. It was revealed that the created and trained neural network architecture as a whole demonstrated good accuracy.

The article presents the experience of Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev—KAI (the former HEI’s name is KAI—Kazan Aviation Institute) in the implementation of the policy of career guidance of students and prospective students. The purpose of the article is to share the original KAI practices in the field of career guidance of prospective students, as well as to reveal the essence of the solutions incorporated into the key career guidance activities of the university. Original solutions are described, including: installation of the first supersonic passenger aircraft TU-144 on the territory of the KAI campus; the first scientific-practical conference of young aviators “Aviation of the Future: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities”, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the first flight of the TU-144 aircraft; creation of an educational complex “Technopolis” for the development of children’s engineering creativity; an online course for schoolchildren during the university’s career guidance campaign “KAI Online School CYBER.TECH”; extended day groups for schoolchildren; the project for the training of new generation of engineers “Wings of Rostec” implemented with the support of the State Corporation Rostec, and some other projects. The factors of entry and retention of personnel in professional communities are identified and systematized, taking into account the professional life cycle of a specialist. It has been identified that in modern conditions, career guidance activities have begun to significantly influence the updating of educational content and modes of study at the university, which is confirmed by the presence of interactive and online KAI events. The university forms and develops an environment favorable for self-determination and self-realization of all participants in the educational process, while covering a variety of target groups.

The research of the system of linguistic means, which express the strategy of evasion in dialogues within the framework of pragmalinguistics, contributes to a comprehensive study of this phenomenon, meeting the requirements of the nowadays scientific demands. The appeal to this topic is due to insufficient knowledge of the system of linguistic and pragmatic means that realize the strategy of evasion in dialogical speech. The aim of this paper describe the specifics of such language system analyzing some works of G. Ibsen, A. Miller, T. Williams and other well-known modern writers. The paper reveals the specifics of a dialogue as well as the phenomenon of speech influence, whose aim is to convince interlocutors consciously and / or unconsciously to accept someone else's point of view. The authors reveal the realization of the strategy of evasion in the dialogical unity studying some corresponding communicative tactics such as repetitions (including resentment, replay, reproach and overexpression), delay of response and mitigation of categoricity of response. All of them are represented by a great variety of multi-level linguistic means. The identified set of communicative tactics of the evasion strategy makes it possible to understand what communicative actions an addresser can perform to influence the addressee.

The paper focuses on the metaphorical thinking and conceptualizing the reality on the basis of the spatial linguistic means for expressing various concepts such as time, manner, purpose. The research is based on the analysis of different idioms and set expressions in the Latin, English and Russian languages. The main aim of the paper is to support the idea of the systematic process of creating metaphors on the basis of spatial relations. The paper includes the introductory part which dwells upon the subject of universal character of the notional category of space and spatial cognition. The body is devoted to the analysis of different idioms in the three languages which demonstrate the systemic character of the metaphorical processes built on the spatial relations. The conclusion encompasses the ideas that universal category of space is one of the main grounds for metaphorical thinking.