Article-Reflections on the Book by Kira Belostotskaya «How Lucky I Am! My Life in the Experimental Design Bureau: People, Events» [1]

The article is devoted to the multifaceted topic of attitude to labour, which remains relevant for representatives of a number of social sciences and practices due to the extraordinary complexity of the phenomenon of labour itself and the increasing rate of change in the structure of employment. Representatives of the exact sciences also do not ignore this topic. A worthy example is the fascinating book of autobiographical essays by the famous radio engineer and scientist Kira Belostotskaya, Honored Creator and Tester of space technology. In addition to the undoubted literary merits, these are undoubtedly useful for professionals carefully documented observations about labour and work, expressed in a literary, emotionally caring form. About their fullness of meanings associated with a specific job in the outstanding work collective of Experimental design bureau of MPEI, a talented social community and its outstanding persons. This is a cognitively interesting story about the value foundations of highly qualified creative engineering labour, about the choice of “work that matches your soul” and professional growth, behavior at work and effective organizational culture, leadership and personnel policy, about many other things that are important for organizing work with personnel that meet the requirements of the time. The list of problems that form the whole subject of activity of specialists in personnel management would take up too much space. However, even the listed ones allow us to recommend reading the book under discussion to representatives of this demanded profession as a rare opportunity for a broader view of the corresponding labour activity that goes beyond current affairs.

Improving the learning process using computer technologies in a foreign language communication

The monograph presents materials on the following topics: the experimental formation of algorithms of professional activity of a military specialist in a foreign language environment; features of the implementation of educational functions in classical and distance learning methods; communicative competence of future bachelors of cultural science and subject-language integrated learning (on the example of the disciplines "Art History" and "English language"); foreign language as a component of professional training of ship radio engineer; analysis of the paradigm of cognitive linguistics; the use of thematic corpuses of texts when translating specialized discourse; expressiveness in the scientific and technical text; representation of linguistic personality in the field of maritime professional activity. The monograph is intended for researchers, university professors and students of psychological, pedagogical, methodical and linguistic specialties.

Estimating ionospheric cross-modulation

A method of predicting the modulation imposed on a wanted radio wave by a powerful disturbing transmitter is described. It is shown that there are five general cases, depending on the positions of the receiver and the wanted and disturbing transmitters, their frequencies, the time of day and some other factors. Each case is examined in detail and it is decided whether the simple theory of Huxley & Ratcliffe is applicable for the situation. If not, then some modifications are suggested to this theory. More elaborate refinements are also described, but generally they need not be used by the radio engineer who is concerned only with achieving a rough guideline to indicate cross-modulation as a possible source of interference in communications. Some examples of the way in which the simple theory can be easily amended to produce more reliable results are given.