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This paper examines whether the Haar-Karman assumption can be used to determine stresses during axisymmetric upsetting of cylindrical specimens. The authors compare stress components derived from measured strains, strain rates, hardness distributions, and grid distortion in Kh18N9T steel and lead wi…
The paper examines how information about a university classroom schedule can be stored and retrieved to support dispatching work, especially the search for free rooms and the assessment of room utilization. It models the schedule as binary memory cells indexed by classroom, day, and class period, co…
This paper develops a method for producing central projection images of three-dimensional geometric objects on an analog computer, with display on a cathode-ray indicator. It derives projection relations that connect the coordinates of a spatial point with its image on a plane, using angular paramet…
The paper addresses the construction of planar projection images for registering three-dimensional graphical information produced by computing machines, especially functions of two variables represented as surfaces. It distinguishes free images from rigid images and argues that rigid projection is n…
This paper extends an earlier analysis of unavoidable interpolation error for trigonometric polynomials from one variable to a rectangular grid of nodes in the plane. It models experimentally determined node coordinates as random perturbations of an equidistant grid, linearizes the resulting deviati…
This paper presents an algorithm for digitally simulating the packing of a rectangular planar region by equal circles and for evaluating geometric characteristics of the resulting discrete structure. The method fills the rectangle layer by layer, determining circle centers from boundary and tangency…
The paper considers how to describe the geometry of bodies treated as discrete structures, such as crystal lattices with radiation damage or concrete containing coarse aggregate. It introduces filling density as an integral measure of homogeneity and defines a coefficient of linear homogeneity to ch…
The paper describes a method for constructing curves lying on multidimensional surfaces by means of an analog computer. It represents points on a given surface through a radius vector from a chosen point and angular parameters, using implicit-function tracking and, when necessary, a bounding ball to…
This paper addresses analog-computer modeling of planar articulated mechanisms, especially four-link mechanisms whose driven link rotates through 360 degrees, a case in which earlier projection-based solutions could become unstable or indeterminate. The authors propose reducing complex articulated m…
This paper examines implementation difficulties of the method of lines on an analog computer for a nonstationary one-dimensional diffusion problem in two coupled zones with zero-gradient boundary conditions and matching conditions at the interface. The differential equations are converted into finit…
This paper presents an active electrical grid model for solving nonstationary second-order partial differential equations with distributed sources and sinks, such as those arising in heat conduction, diffusion, and chemical processes. The authors approximate the equation by finite differences and co…
This paper describes hardware modifications to the Promin electronic digital computer intended to mitigate its limited 100 cell command memory by replacing frequent command sequences with single new operations. The authors explain how unused combinations of operation codes and nonzero addresses are …
The paper describes an interpretive system that enables floating point computation on the fixed point Minsk-1 digital computer by executing programs written in a pseudocommand language. It explains the representation of single-cell floating point numbers, the interpretation of arithmetic and logical…
This paper addresses resource constraints in network planning and management, where conventional critical path analysis assumes unlimited labor or equipment and can therefore underestimate project duration or misstate activity dates. It formulates the inverse scheduling problem of minimizing the max…
This paper examines how to estimate in advance the likely effect of a heuristic schedule optimization procedure for network graphs in project management systems with limited resources. It argues that the improvement coefficient depends on graph topology, job durations, resource intensities, and espe…
This paper describes a program for constructing a class schedule time grid on the Minsk-1 computer, using a previously proposed algorithm for partitioning instructional activities into compatible blocks and assigning them to time cells. It details a compact coding scheme for instructors, groups, cla…
This paper formalizes the construction of a time grid for class scheduling as a problem of partitioning an initial set of class elements into compatible blocks and then assigning those blocks to time cells. It introduces symbolic timetable elements, compatibility conditions, blocks, and hyperelement…
This article examines moral needs as a specific aspect of human needs within a Marxist philosophical account of society, labor, and moral regulation. It reviews definitions and classifications of needs, distinguishes need from objective requirement, and argues that moral directedness arises historic…
This article examines the relation between spontaneous social influences and purposeful education in the aesthetic development of students, using a Marxist-Leninist framework to compare capitalist and socialist conditions. It argues that in capitalist society aesthetic consciousness is shaped largel…
This article examines how party organizations in Western Siberian higher technical schools addressed shortages of highly qualified teaching staff between 1966 and 1970. Using institutional statistics, archival materials, and examples from polytechnical, engineering, construction, transport, and elec…
The article examines the role of student research work in Soviet engineering education under the conditions of the scientific and technological revolution. It argues against treating such work either as a universal remedy or as a temporary extracurricular supplement, instead presenting it as a stabl…
This article examines the development of cognitive interests in learning as a problem shaped by changes in modern science, including theorization, integration of knowledge, and the growing importance of systems and deductive approaches. It argues that instruction should not be organized solely aroun…
This article examines educational labor as a distinct form of social practice in the context of scientific, technological, and socialist social development. It reviews philosophical, pedagogical, sociological, and policy uses of concepts such as study activity, instruction, learning, and academic la…
This study examines how selected university factors affected the direct production activity of young engineers trained at Tomsk Polytechnic Institute and employed in industrial, design, and research organizations in Western Siberia. Using factory and university records, interviews with supervisors, …
This article examines the role of socio-political practice in the training of students at a higher technical institution, arguing that preparation for engineering work under developed socialism must include not only technical and economic functions but also civic, organizational, and ideological act…
This article examines the worldview dimension of the relationship between art and science within a Marxist-Leninist framework. It argues, against both mystical accounts of artistic intuition and rigid oppositions between scientific and artistic cognition, that both science and art are forms of refle…
This article examines the scientific and technological revolution as a complex transformation of science, technology, production management, education, and social life, interpreted within Soviet political economy. It distinguishes scientific and technical revolutions from evolutionary progress and f…
This article examines the economic efficiency and labor productivity of Soviet student construction brigades, arguing that they represented a significant and mobile labor resource for construction projects during the Ninth Five-Year Plan period. Drawing on reported output figures, cost comparisons, …
This article examines the growing economic role of education under the conditions of the scientific and technological revolution, with particular attention to Soviet social production. Drawing on Marxist political economy, Lenin’s writings, and Soviet statistical data, it argues that changes in the …
This article examines the relationship between general scientific, humanities, and specialized professional training in engineering education, responding to claims that Soviet technical education was narrowly vocational. It compares Soviet and American discussions of engineering curricula, drawing o…
This article examines occupational and skill mobility as a central expression of the relationship between the social division of labor, technological progress, and the reproduction of labor power. Drawing on Marxist-Leninist theory and Soviet economic-statistical materials, especially occupational c…
The article examines the role of bonuses as a material incentive for accelerating scientific and technological progress in the Soviet planned economy. It argues that ordinary wages and enterprise incentive funds do not adequately reflect the creative, variable, and often delayed results of work conn…
The article examines remuneration for academic and teaching work in Soviet higher education in relation to the quality of specialist training and the recruitment of qualified faculty. It argues that scientific-pedagogical labor has a distinctive dual character, combining research activity with pedag…
This article examines the relationship between scientific and technological progress, socialist production, and the growth of workers’ incomes in the Soviet economy. It argues that mechanization and automation reduce the role of physical labor while increasing the importance of skills, education, an…
The article examines how scientific and technological progress in the Soviet logging industry increased the need for better general education, vocational training, and stable engineering personnel. Drawing on personnel records from timber enterprises of the Tomlesprom association and sectoral statis…
This article examines the role of scientific and technical exchange among socialist enterprises during the Soviet reconstruction of the national economy. It argues that mastering technology, expanding technical propaganda, and disseminating production experience were treated as central conditions fo…
This article examines the economic mechanism linking scientific research, technology, and production in the industrial assimilation of scientific achievements under socialist planning. It argues that the “research, production” cycle should be understood as an internally contradictory unity: science …
This article examines the economic nature of expenditures on scientific research within a Marxist political economy framework, asking whether such expenditures should be treated as production costs and how they should be reflected in social product accounting. It argues that social production includ…
The article examines the collective interests of scientific institutions within the socialist system of economic interests, arguing that the relative economic separateness of research organizations gives rise to distinct collective scientific and economic interests. It analyzes science as both a sph…
This article examines whether and how science can be understood as a sphere of economic activity and as an object of economic analysis. Using Marxist political economy, Soviet planning concerns, and comparative examples from capitalist economies, it clarifies the meanings of economics, material prod…
This article examines women’s labor in the context of the scientific and technological revolution, using comparative statistical evidence from capitalist and socialist countries to trace changes in female employment, occupational structure, and social conditions. It argues that technological progres…
This article examines debates in Soviet political economy over the definition and accounting of social wealth under conditions of the scientific and technological revolution. Drawing on discussions of national wealth, natural resource valuation, services, education, science, and production experienc…
This article examines the nationwide economic interest as the primary form within the socialist system of economic interests and argues against interpretations that reduce it to moral incentives, state coercion, distributional claims, or the aggregate of individual and enterprise interests. Drawing …
This article examines the role of economic needs in socialist society under the conditions of the modern scientific and technological revolution. It develops a political-economic argument about the interaction between production and needs, distinguishing productive and nonproductive needs and relati…
This article examines how scientific and technological progress affects the socialization of labor and production under capitalism and socialism, using Marxist-Leninist categories to distinguish the material, technical, and ownership dimensions of socialization. It argues that large-scale machine in…
This article examines how criteria of efficiency in social production should inform the economic evaluation of scientific labor and the product of science. It develops a theoretical argument that production efficiency involves both the maximization of socially necessary output and the minimization o…
This reply addresses criticisms raised by V. D. Ivanchenko concerning an earlier analysis of nonlinear distortion in transistor amplifiers with emitter feedback. It argues that Ivanchenko’s formulation incorrectly treats the transistor output resistance and neglects internal nonlinear feedback throu…
This letter responds to V. M. Sergeev’s article on nonlinear distortions in a common-emitter transistor amplifier, focusing on its treatment of internal feedback and its criticism of V. D. Ivanchenko’s earlier work. The author compares Sergeev’s claims with the cited source and argues that Sergeev m…
This paper addresses the problem of designing precision test equipment for electrical and radio measuring instruments whose characteristics must substantially exceed those of ordinary working instruments. It outlines a design sequence from surveying existing instruments and defining technical requir…
