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This paper addresses the problem of improving time series forecasts obtained from several extrapolation methods, each of which may produce substantial errors when used independently. It proposes forming a compromise forecast vector as a weighted mixture of forecasts generated by different algorithms…
This paper addresses the decomposition of digital circuit graphs into mutually disjoint subcircuits with a minimal number of interconnections, a problem relevant to circuit layout and packaging. Building on the notion of minimal strongly connected groups, it derives additional minimality conditions,…
The paper formulates the problem of assigning typical structures of a computing device circuit to blocks from a unified set so as to minimize the total number of interblock connections. It represents possible block assignments as variants derived from the circuit structure and incidence matrix, then…
The paper addresses the unification of functional blocks in computing-device design, arguing that minimizing interblock connections alone can produce too many block types and increase design and production costs. It formulates a method for designing a unified set of blocks for a specified class of f…
This paper addresses the design of digital computing devices using a nonstandard set of blocks obtained from prior circuit partitioning, with the aim of reusing existing structures while preserving functional and topological constraints. It formulates block and substructure selection in graph theore…
This paper surveys problems in organizing information arrays for automated control systems, where inefficient collection, storage, processing, and retrieval can offset the advantages of electronic computing. It discusses the selection of array structures and information retrieval languages, the opti…
This paper addresses the analysis of calendar plans for complex sets of operations, especially cases in which a synthesized or near-optimal schedule fails to satisfy deadline or feasibility constraints. It introduces the concept of paths and a limiting path in a calendar plan, gives an algorithm for…
This paper addresses operational management of preparing new production, especially in unit and small-batch industrial settings where schedule deviations affect enterprise responsiveness and economic performance. It presents a multistep control framework in which calendar plans are monitored at rati…
The article examines how automation changes the content and organization of industrial labor, arguing that the traditional distinction between main and auxiliary workers loses usefulness as servicing, setup, and repair functions become central. Using a study of an automatic milling-machine section a…
This paper examines how the functional division of labor affects standards for multi-machine servicing in automated production, using the milling-machine automatic line section of the Tomsk Cutting Tools Plant as a case study. Based on time study, workday observation, questionnaires, and interviews,…
This article examines the organization of labor for workers, employees, and engineering and technical personnel in geological exploration organizations, where work is often performed in remote, mobile, and difficult climatic conditions. It argues that labor organization should be treated as a scient…
This paper examines the economic problem of renewing machinery and equipment under conditions of accelerating scientific and technical progress. It critiques renewal indicators based mainly on retirement and depreciation norms, arguing that they can obscure inadequate replacement of the active part …
The paper addresses the selection of electron accelerator type and bremsstrahlung beam parameters for radiation flaw detection, where available accelerators differ substantially in cost, size, energy, and dose rate. It argues that effective selection requires an economic criterion tied to the purpos…
This paper examines how the prices of semiconductor elements used in static converters depend on key technical parameters, primarily rated voltage and current. Using wholesale price-list data grouped by functionally homogeneous device types, the authors compare possible correlation forms and propose…
The paper addresses the selection of economically preferable switching circuits for static converters when multiple circuit solutions can perform the same control functions under varying operating conditions. It proposes evaluating alternative circuit implementations by minimizing annual reduced cos…
This paper compares the economic efficiency of radiation methods for quality control of welded joints in thick-walled products, focusing on X-ray inspection, Co-60 isotope radiography, and betatron flaw detection. Using a methodology developed at NII EI, the authors estimate inspection time, capital…
The paper examines deficiencies in prevailing Soviet methods for planning and accounting the cost of well drilling, especially their weak ability to reveal equipment-related costs or encourage the introduction of improved drilling rigs. It argues that drilling equipment should be evaluated through t…
This paper assesses the supply prospects for nonmetallic raw materials in Siberia and the Far East in the context of planned industrial, housing, and construction growth. It reviews regional shortages of glass, molding, construction sands, kaolin, and ceramic raw materials, emphasizing the high cost…
The paper examines the accounting and reporting system used for repair costs at thermal power plants in the context of new planning and economic incentive arrangements. It reviews prevailing practices for recording current and major repairs, including work performed internally and by contractors, an…
This article examines the role of the technical and economic plan as the principal planning document for cost-accounting workshops in machine-building enterprises under new systems of planning and economic incentives. It argues that workshop plans must translate enterprise directive indicators into …
The paper examines how economic reform in Soviet enterprise management requires a distinct local, cost-accounting criterion for evaluating capital investments in new technology. It argues that neither the national economic efficiency norm nor planned profitability provides a suitable enterprise-leve…
This article examines the utilization of industrial fixed assets in Soviet industry, with particular attention to enterprises in Tomsk Oblast. It argues that substantial reserves for improving economic efficiency lie in shortening construction and commissioning periods, reducing uninstalled and surp…
This paper examines ways to improve the technical and economic efficiency of exploratory oil and gas drilling in Tomsk Oblast under the difficult transport and terrain conditions of Western Siberia. Using operational indicators from the Tomsk Territorial Geological Administration, cost comparisons o…
This paper develops an energy-based framework for describing the properties, stability, aging, and destruction of solid materials, especially crystalline and glass-like dielectrics with predominantly ionic bonds. It argues that lattice energy, atomization energy, vitrification heat, cleavage energy,…
This study compares several direct electrophilic iodination methods for aromatic compounds by using the ortho/para isomer ratio formed in diphenyl iodination as an indicator of iodinating agent activity and selectivity. Diphenyl was iodinated in acetic acid with iodine and additives including sulfur…
This paper examines the conversion of amidopyrine manufacture from a batch process to a continuous process, motivated by the need to increase output and improve operating conditions in chemical-pharmaceutical production. Focusing on the first methylation stage and the subsequent nitrosation stage, t…
This study supplies physicochemical data needed for intensifying amidopyrine production through a continuous process, especially for the methylation stage and subsequent crystallization of antipyrine benzenesulfonate. Using technical production materials, the authors measured bulk and melt densities…
This study examines the emulsion copolymerization of chloroprene with isoprene using organic sulfides as plasticity regulators and evaluates the vulcanization behavior of the resulting rubbers with various accelerators and additives. Copolymers were prepared at a 20:1 chloroprene to isoprene ratio, …
This study examines the vulcanization behavior of domestic cis-polyisoprene synthetic rubber SKI-3 as a substitute for natural rubber in rubber-technical products. Experimental and production formulations were compared by varying sulfur content, accelerator type, and accelerator combinations, follow…
This study examines a one-stage route to carbazolylacetic acids through the reaction of 9-methylcarbazole with chloroacetic acid, as an alternative to earlier multistage syntheses via acetamide intermediates. Several catalysts were tested, with positive results obtained using boron trifluoride ether…
This study examines the synthesis of unsaturated esters of 9-(2-hydroxy)-ethylcarbazole derivatives, compounds of interest as potential monomers. Maleates of unsubstituted, 3-chloro, and 3-nitro 9-(2-hydroxy)-ethylcarbazoles were prepared by heating the corresponding alcohols with maleic anhydride i…
This study examines the physicochemical properties and fractional composition of crude oils from the Luginetskoye and Olenye fields in Tomsk Oblast, comparing them with a reference crude oil blended from several Nizhnevartovsk arch fields. The oils were characterized by density, molecular weight, vi…
This study characterizes straight-run distillation products from low-sulfur, paraffinic crude oil of the Luginetskoye field in Tomsk Oblast, using laboratory distillation and standard product tests. The oil shows high yields of light fractions, with gasoline cuts lacking sulfur compounds but having …
This paper addresses the chromatographic analysis of complex gases produced by high voltage pulsed discharge cracking of liquid hydrocarbons, which contain large amounts of hydrogen and acetylene along with methane, light paraffins, olefins, dienes, and acetylene homologues. The authors evaluate sep…
This study examines the aromatic hydrocarbon composition of the 200 to 250°C and 250 to 300°C kerosene distillates of Samotlor crude oil. Aromatic structural groups were separated by silica gel adsorption chromatography, narrower alkylbenzene fractions were analyzed by ultraviolet spectroscopy, and …
This paper examines the development of shrinkage stresses in molded peat during drying, with particular attention to the influence of iron oxide and magnetite additives on structure formation. The authors describe a tensometric method using an embedded resistance strain gauge to record internal stre…
The study examines the composition of liquid products formed by synthesis from carbon monoxide and steam over an iron, copper catalyst at elevated pressures. Using chemical analysis, distillation, chromatography, and spectral methods, the authors characterize the hydrocarbon and oxygen-containing fr…
This study examines structural and mechanical changes in peat and peat-ore materials during heat treatment, with particular attention to the reduction of iron oxides added to peat. High-moor peat containing powdered iron oxide was heated in an inert medium and compared with peat without additives an…
This paper evaluates processing schemes for a representative crude oil blend intended for the Aleksandrovskoye to Anzhero-Sudzhensk pipeline, based on its fractional composition and physicochemical properties. The authors characterize gasoline, kerosene, diesel, catalytic cracking, lubricating oil, …
This study examines how heating and thermal briquetting alter the alcohol-benzene extract of peat, with attention to the role of extract components in forming the strong structure of thermobriquettes. Peat was analyzed in its initial state, after heating to 250°C and rapid cooling, and after briquet…
This paper examines the individual hydrocarbon composition of gasoline fractions boiling up to 150°C from oils of the Luginetskoye and Olenye fields in the Tomsk Region. Fractions obtained by precision rectification were analyzed by gas liquid chromatography on a capillary column, with additional ad…
This study examines the composition of natural and associated gases from exploratory wells and newly identified oil and gas fields in Tomsk Oblast, with attention to variation by stratigraphic depth. A total of 130 samples from 23 oil-bearing areas were analyzed by a two-stage gas chromatographic pr…
This study evaluates the commercial properties of crude oil from the Olenye field by fractionating it into gasoline, kerosene, gas oil, oil, cracking feedstock, fuel oil, and residual fractions and comparing their characteristics with applicable GOST requirements. The analysis shows that the crude c…
This paper examines the resources and composition of light hydrocarbons in a reservoir sample representing typical oil from several Western Siberian fields. A blended reservoir sample was subjected to stepwise degassing, with gas yields, densities, and hydrocarbon compositions measured at successive…
The paper examines the mechanism of solid-phase reduction in mixtures of carbon and metal oxides, emphasizing that surface exchange processes between reacting particles are only indirectly accessible through gas evolution, thermogravimetry, and compositional changes. It argues that mass transfer occ…
This study examines the suitability of light gas condensate fractions from Tomsk Region fields as feedstock for producing lower olefins by pyrolysis, focusing experimentally on the initial boiling point to 62°C fraction of Luginets condensate. The authors varied temperature, contact time, and steam …
This study characterizes the hydrocarbon composition of fractions from a representative crude oil mixture from the Nizhnevartovsk region. Group composition was determined by the aniline-point method and liquid chromatography, structural-group composition by the n-d-M method, and the light gasoline f…
This study examines factors controlling the pour point of crude oils from several Western Siberian fields, treating pour point as an operational characteristic affected by prior handling and composition. The authors measured pour points under varying heat treatment temperatures, holding times, salt …
This work reports the synthesis of acyl derivatives of hydroxymethyl-(4-antipyryl) ketone as part of a study on structure and anti-inflammatory properties in substituted pyrazolones. The compounds were designed to combine an antipyrine fragment, an acylated oxyacetyl group related to corticosteroid …
