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Purpose of the study: The need for knowledge, skills, expanding the established functionality of a professional is increasing more and more. That is why young professionals-trans-professionals, who are able to realize themselves not only in one sphere but who are ready to delve into problems of other, absolutely "foreign" for the scientific and technical fields and cooperate effectively with specialists of these areas in one team, will be responsible for creation of new technologies determining the wellness of our country. The article is aimed at the analysis and generalization of foundations of the convergence and identifying its sense-creating content in the development of trans-professionalism as an integral characteristic of the activity subject in a rapidly changing social-professional environment. Methodology: The leading methods in the study of this problem are the theoretical and methodological analysis of the subject and the problem of the research based on the study and logical generalization of scientific literature. Description of the phenomenon of convergence and trans-professionalism was carried out based on multidimensional, transdisciplinary, project and process approaches. Results: The results of the study are content components of trans-professionalism of the activity subject, justification of the convergence theory as a fundamental basis of integration of educational content and new technologies as well as technology foresight of the formation of trans-professionalism of subjects on the basis of convergence. Applications of this study: Materials of the article may be interesting for methodologists, Methodists, and teachers of the continuous professional education system. Novelty/Originality of this study: The components that allow combining the different parameters of the activity subject, showing its qualitative change in the problem field of trans-professionalism, are stated to be the content components of trans-professionalism for activity subjects. The methodology of convergence provides a synergistic effect of the interaction of social-humanitarian and natural sciences. Improving the process of development of trans-professional competencies of activity subjects is associated with the development of new technologies-tools and methods. © Zeer et al. The article is published with the financial support of the grant of the RFBR 18-013-01147 "Social and humanitarian paradigm of the formation of trans-professionalism of the subjects of socionomic professions".

This study gives a summary of lessons learned during the absolute calibration of the airborne, high-power Ka-band cloud radar HAMP MIRA on board the German research aircraft HALO. The first part covers the internal calibration of the instrument where individual instrument components are characterized in the laboratory. In the second part, the internal calibration is validated with external reference sources like the ocean surface backscatter and different air- A nd spaceborne cloud radar instruments. A key component of this work was the characterization of the spectral response and the transfer function of the receiver. In a wide dynamic range of 70 dB, the receiver response turned out to be very linear (residual 0.05 dB). Using different attenuator settings, it covers a wide input range from-105 to-5 dBm. This characterization gave valuable new insights into the receiver sensitivity and additional attenuations which led to a major improvement of the absolute calibration. The comparison of the measured and the previously estimated total receiver noise power (-95.3 vs-98.2 dBm) revealed an underestimation of 2.9 dB. This underestimation could be traced back to a larger receiver noise bandwidth of 7.5MHz (instead of 5 MHz) and a slightly higher noise figure (1.1 dB). Measurements confirmed the previously assumed antenna gain (50.0 dBi) with no obvious asymmetries or increased side lobes. The calibration used for previous campaigns, however, did not account for a 1.5 dB two-way attenuation by additional waveguides in the airplane installation. Laboratory measurements also revealed a 2 dB higher two-way attenuation by the belly pod caused by small deviations during manufacturing. In total, effective reflectivities measured during previous campaigns had to be corrected by +7.6 dB. To validate this internal calibration, the well-defined ocean surface backscatter was used as a calibration reference. With the new absolute calibration, the ocean surface backscatter measured by HAMP MIRA agrees very well (< 1 dB) with modeled values and values measured by the GPM satellite. As a further cross-check, flight experiments over Europe and the tropical North Atlantic were conducted. To that end, a joint flight of HALO and the French Falcon 20 aircraft, which was equipped with the RASTA cloud radar at 94 GHz and an underflight of the spaceborne CloudSat at 94 GHz were performed. The intercomparison revealed lower reflectivities (-1.4 dB) for RASTA but slightly higher reflectivities (C1:0 dB) for CloudSat.With effective reflectivities between RASTA and CloudSat and the good agreement with GPM, the accuracy of the absolute calibration is estimated to be around 1 dB. © 2019 Author(s).

Purpose of the study: The research is aimed at determination of the competitiveness level of teachers with different experience in pedagogy and different level of education, and at establishing of a connection between content components of competitiveness and full teacher’s self-realization in his/her professional activity. Methodology: The main methods include experimental research which allows comprehensive analysis of the issue of preschool teachers competitiveness improvement; theoretical and methodological analysis of the subject and the problem of the research that is based on the studying of scientific literature and its logical compilation; empirical methods (analyses of documents, testing), plus mathematical-statistical and interpretative methods. Results: The article presents the empirical research of the competitiveness of pre-school teachers and the system for improvement of their competitiveness. The adequacy of psycho-diagnostic methodologies for research of competitiveness levels of pre-school teachers is proved, the interconnection between the competitiveness level of teachers and various experiences of pedagogical activity and the level of education is established. Applications of this study: The results of the study will be useful for developing educational strategies in the preschool education system, they can help pre-school education leaders creating social-psychological-pedagogical conditions for the effective interaction of all subjects of the educational process as well as for the full realization of the individual in the modern educational process and improving individual efficiency. Novelty/Originality of this study: The results of the empirical study show that the applied set of psychodiagnostic methods turned out to be reliable and valid tools that ensured the goals achievement: the level of competitiveness of teachers with different lengths of pedagogical activity and level of education was determined, the relationship between the content components of competitiveness and full self-realization of a teacher in professional activities was determined based on prioritizing social and psycho-pedagogical characteristics of the person. © Zeer et al. Russian Foundation for Basic Research, RFBR: 18-013-01147 The article is published with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant No. 18-013-01147 “The social and humanitarian paradigm of the formation of trans-professionalism of the subjects of socioeconomic professions”.

Topicality of the issue under study is caused by the changed socio-economic conditions and socio-technological development of the Russian economy, which resulted in a considerable transformation of the scope of professions in the postindustrial society: these professions disappear, those are transformed and still those appear for the first time ever. Along with conventional concepts of “profession” and “specialty”, today’s profession studies (or professiology) refer, in increasing frequency, to “transfession” - a new term denoting a type of labour activity which is realized on the basis of synthesis and convergence of professional competences belonging to different specialized scopes. Transprofessionalism as an ability to perform a wide range of specialized activities can be regarded as one of profession studies features. It is signification of socio-humanitarian technologies of development of this integral ability of specialists in the system of continuous education which conditioned topicality of this study. The purpose of this article is reviewing and generalization of bases and prerequisites of transprofessionalism as a socio-humanitarian requirement and an integral quality of a subject of socionomic professions in a dynamically changing socio-professional environment. Leading methods of studying this issue are theoretical methodological analysis of the subject and issue of the study on basis of examining and logical generalization of scientific sources; plus, hypothetic methodological and project methods can be considered. Description of the transprofessionalism phenomenon was performed with supporting on the multidimensional, trans-disciplinary, network and project approaches. The article presents a socio-humanitarian psychology-pedagogical definition of transprofessionalism, its sense-generating content, as well as criteria of transprofessionalism manifestation in a dynamically changing socio-professional environment. Topicality of the transprofessionalism phenomenon as a requirement to a subject in its integral quality demanding the qualitatively new substantial and technological training of socionomic profession specialists has been substantiated. In particular, it is stated that as the world’s and Russian socio-technological economy develops, profession as a concept loses its initial meaning as a scope of the social division of labour, while transprofessionals able to perform a wide range of professional activities become competitive and highly sought on an employment market. Materials of the article can be of interest for methodologists, methodology supervisors and pedagogues of continuous vocational education. © 2018 by the authors.

7th International Beam Instrumentation Conference, Shanghai, China, 9 Sep 2018 - 13 Sep 2018, In January 2018, a Topical Workshop on Emittance Measurements for Synchrotron Light Sources and FELs was held at ALBA inside the ARIES network. This talk will summarize the state of the art of the different emittance measurements techniques for these type of accelerators, and will present the relevant topics shown during the workshop.

Since the beginning of railway electrification, power quality has been a main problem in railway networks because of their special characteristics. Many ways of power quality improvement have been investigated and applied to ac and dc traction systems through railway electrification history. This paper presents a perspective on power quality issues through railway electrification development and investigates the necessity of power quality and system requirements for appropriate power quality. Compensation strategies are classified and compared. This aims to provide a comprehensive perspective of the power quality issue in railway power/distribution networks for researchers and engineers working on railway electrification. Less than 100 research articles are referenced for researchers to obtain good background information.