Intertextual inclusions (quotations, reminiscences, allusions) functioning in Russian spiritual epistolary communication are considered.Their types are presented: biblical (Old Testament and New Testament), patristic, prayer, hymnographic (from psalms and akathists), hagiographic.Their main functions are indicated: meaning-forming, argumentative, p
Between practical ethics, which seeks to define a wide range of ethical norms and ways of ethical reasoning on firm philosophical basis, including the definition of the foundation of ethics, and business ethics, environmental ethics or health ethics the difference is only about the degree we get to apply practically ethics.The Business Ethics Cente
Introduction: The alteration in serum lipid profile; increase in total cholesterol (TC), triacylglycerol ENERGIN (TAG), and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C); and reduction in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) are key factors in cardiovascular disease progression.The high prevalence and severity of cardiovascular diseases requi
Slump is a workability-related characteristic of concrete mixture.This paper investigates the efficiency of a novel optimizer, namely ant lion optimization (ALO), for fine-tuning of a neural network (NN) in the field of concrete slump prediction.Two well-known optimization techniques, biogeography-based optimization (BBO) and grasshopper optimizati
Quantitative characterisation of morphology and shape parameters of pozzolanic materials, as a fundamental problem of characterisation of pozzolanic materials, has received significant consideration in literature.Thus far, previous research works have not paid much attention to the circularity, roundness and solidity of pozzolanic materials Plant P