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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.

Lead‐free halide perovskites is a novel class of environment‐friendly nonlinear optical materials, that already demonstrate high potential for second harmonics generation (SHG). Here a synthesis protocol is optimized to create single‐crystal CsGeI3 nanoparticles (NPs) supporting optical Mie resonances that efficiently convert infrared light to visible both via lasing and SHG mechanisms. Such high‐quality resonant NPs allow us to achieve up‐conversion lasing in the broadband excitation wavelength (1200–1520 nm), which is accompanied by efficient spectrally tunable SHG with intensity comparable with that for lasing depending on temperature. Experimental and theoretical study of linear and nonlinear optical properties of CsGeI3 material in the form of high‐quality thin film and NPs of different sizes reveal that coupling incident light with a magnetic dipole resonance leads to a strong enhancement of SHG by one order of magnitude. As a result, the study provides a novel strategy where individual NPs can support both up‐conversion lasing and SHG in a broad range of excitation wavelengths. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The suborder Heteroptera (order Hemiptera) is one of the most interesting groups of Rynchota. It is found in various ecosystems around the world and belongs to predators, parasitous (in particular hematophagous), mycetophagous and herbivorous types. Species with mixed nutrition are common. The study is aimed to describe the fauna and distribution of hemipteran insect species in the Republic of Mordovia (the central part of the European part of Russia). The study was conducted from 2004 to 2022. Specimens were collected using traditional hemipteran insect collecting methods (manual collecting, light trap, entomological net, Malaise trap, Merike plates, window and soil traps). We examined 4895 specimens of Hemiptera. Species diversity of Heteroptera (order Hemiptera) of Republic of Mordovia accounts for 363 species from 34 families. Of these, 15 species (Campylosteira verna, Allorhinocoris flavus, Grypocoris sexguttatus, Acetropis gimmerthalii, Geocoris grylloides, Platyplax salviae, Emblethis ciliatus, Aellopus atratus, Rhyparochromus quadratus, Parapiesma quadratum, Berytinus montivagus, Pyrrhocoris marginatus, Enoplops scapha, Dybowskyia reticulata, Ventocoris halophilus) are listed for the region for the first time. Twenty-three species (Agramma femorale, Adomerus biguttatus, Aelia acuminata, Carpocoris fuscispinus, Coreus marginatus, Dolycoris baccarum, Eurydema oleracea, Gerris lacustris, Graphosoma lineatum, Kleidocerys resedae, Labops sahlbergii, Lopus decolor, Lygus pratensis, Nithecus jacobaeae, Palomena prasina, Polymerus unifasciatus, Prostemma aeneicolle, Pyrrhocoris apterus, Rhyparochromus pini, Stenodema calcarata, Cymus glandicolor, Eremocoris plebejus, Aphanus rolandri) constitute the main population of the Heteroptera fauna given in the dataset. The species diversity of Heteroptera of the Republic of Mordovia is roughly similar in number of species to that of neighbouring regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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.

Various measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 have altered mobility flows worldwide and caused people to adopt new ways of being and moving in public space. These changes have been considerably pronounced across modes of public transportation. This paper explores the experiences of individuals who continued riding and working in public transport throughout the pandemic to yield insight into changing mobility meanings and grounded realities of urban mobility processes in the context of COVID-19 and beyond. Through the combined analysis of ethnographic fieldwork, participant observations and interviews, the paper unpacks lived experiences of riding and working in public transport in the city of Amsterdam during lockdown by addressing the changed nature of embodied encounters and mobile sociability in public transit. Findings denote that COVID-19 has altered the conditions of mobile sociability in spaces of public transport, and has produced complex experiences of daily travel with others involving mutually negative and positive impressions. As a result, we argue that when challenged by COVID-19 related restrictions, mobile sociability and fleeting encounters on the move significantly shape the experience of traveling with others in ways that call into question how we think of public transport as a social space in cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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.