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The manual is meant for teachers and secondary school pupils, college and university undergraduate students studying Ecology. The materials of the manual can be used to assess the students’ knowledge as well as to facilitate their preparation for contests in Ecology.

The manual provides tasks on the five sections of Ecology: General ecology (Bioecology), Social ecology and Human ecology, Natural resources and their use (Environmental management), Environmental pollution (Applied ecology), and Environmental protection. The tasks are formulated as tests of different levels of complexity and various kinds (free-answer and alternative questions).

When writing the manual its authors applied their experience of teaching Ecology and developing the base of the tasks for different levels of the All-Russian contest on Ecology and ‘Lomonosov’ contest on Ecology at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

The author’s notes, based on personal experience as well as conversations with heads, teachers and graduates, allowed him to draw the story of the first years of the Faculty of Fundamental Medicine of the Moscow State University. The notes give the main features of classical university medical education at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. This historical and artistic publication is devoted to the 20th anniversary of the Faculty.

Igor Aleksandrovich Dedkov (1934–1994) is an outstanding Russian literary critic and publicist of the 20th century, author of many remarkable articles and books, including the ‘Diary’ published in 2005. This book includes his autobiographical essays of 1970-1990, where the literary critic appears to be a man of bold and independent thought.

The collection of memoirs of writers, journalists, scientists, school and university friends, and younger contemporaries of I. Dedkov give the reader some interesting insight on the social and literary life of the second half of the 20th century. The collection is illustrated with photographs from a family album.

The book is meant for a wide range of readers.

Popov’s book presents essays on the history of photography written using documentary materials. You will find information about photographic societies in Russia, lithographs and lithographic institutions that produced photographic forms, photographers of Russian emperors and many other materials that will help clarify some facts from the history of Russian photography and help researchers in the authentication of photographs. The publication uses photographs from the Russian State Library of Arts and the author’s personal archive.

The book is addressed to graduates and teachers of Moscow State University. It is meant for a wide range of readers interested in problems of national history, culture, literature and journalism.

The textbook is based on a course of lectures given by the author at the Faculty of Biology and the Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics of Lomonosov Moscow State University. The article examines the metabolic features characteristic of atherosclerosis, obesity, hypertension, osteoporosis and neurodegenerative diseases. It describes the role of mutations, lifestyle and chronic inflammation that occurs in aging cells in their pathogenesis.

The publication is intended for university students studying in the following areas: Biology"; "Fundamental and Applied Biology", "Bioengineering and Bioinformatics", "General Medicine", "Pharmacy".

The publication contains a collection of selected works: the books "Numerical Methods of Algebra. Theory and Algorithms", "Roundoff Errors and Stability in Direct Methods of Linear Algebra", "Computational Foundations of Linear Algebra"; lectures "Computational Mathematics and the Structure of Algorithms"; three articles, including the first publication by V. V. Voevodin, devoted to calculating the roots of algebraic polynomials and two articles, the results of which have become widely known in the world, but the articles themselves were published in rotary-print collections and therefore are not accessible to the general reader and are a bibliographic rarity.

The book can be recommended as an additional source for undergraduate and graduate students of universities and colleges who are beginning to study works on computational algebra. It will be useful for young specialists and teachers of this discipline, researchers in related fields of knowledge, as well as historians of science.

The first edition of this book was prepared for the 250th anniversary of Moscow University in 2005. The book presents publications of the first university newspaper “Moskovskie Vedomosti” (Moscow Gazette), published from 1756 to 1917, which contain a significant part of the history of Moscow University. In the second half of the 18th century. it was the only newspaper in Moscow. “Moskovskie Vedomosti” (Moscow Gazette) was prepared by professors and students of Moscow University, printed at the university printing house, and sold in the university bookstore. Gazetny Lane in Moscow is named so because the printing house, where the latest issues of the newspaper Moskovskie Vedomosti were distributed to subscribers, was located there at the beginning of the 19th century.

The book is addressed to everyone who is interested in the history of higher education in Russia and the history of Moscow University.

The textbook discusses the theoretical and substantive provisions of engineering geology and its scientific directions. Its structure consists of five parts. The first of them describes the theoretical foundations, content, structure and tasks of engineering geology, its position in the system of geological knowledge. The second, third and fourth parts set out the fundamental
positions, structure and content of three scientific areas of engineering geology: soil science, engineering geodynamics and regional engineering geology, respectively. In the final, fifth, part, the general provisions of the methodology of engineering-geological research, their implementation in
the system of engineering-geological surveys for construction are considered.

For students and postgraduates of classical, geological exploration and mining universities, as well as specialists related to the study of engineering and geological conditions and solving environmental problems.

The monograph explores the development of Russian small business and the institutionalization of social partnership in this area. It reveals the peculiarities of studying small business as an object of economic and sociological analysis and the role of the institution of social partnership in the development of small business. The book also analyzes the dynamics, factors and prospects of small business development in Russia and the features of the social partnership institutionalization process in small business.

For students, graduate students, undergraduates, scientists and practitioners interested in the development of social partnership and small business in Russia.

The textbook describes methods and tools for developing, debugging and profiling parallel programs oriented to work in systems with shared memory. It considers various software packages, such as Intel Thread Checker, Intel Thread Profiler, and Intel Threading Building Blocks. The book gives introductory information on Intel Parallel Studio package and Intel MKL library. It demonstrates the whole cycle of development, including the creation of sequential implementation as a basis for comparison, preparation of the parallel version, its debugging, profiling and optimization. The study is conducted on model problems that do not require presence of specific subject areas knowledge. It requires reader's acquaintance with the basics of programming (the base language — C. C ++), some problems require information from higher mathematics (the Dirichlet problem).

The textbook was developed in the Laboratory of Information Technologies (ITLab) of the Faculty of the Higher School of Management of the UNN using materials prepared under the Priority National Project ‘Education’ with the support of Intel Corporation and the Grant Council of the President of the Russian Federation (Grant No. NSH-64729.2010.9).

For teachers and researchers, as well as postgraduate students and students of higher educational institutions.

The textbook presents modern data on the most common and rare infectious diseases of man, the history of their study, etiology, pathogenesis, clinic, diagnosis, treatment, epidemiology and prevention. It gives the materials necessary for a modern doctor to timely recognize an infectious disease and effectively treat the patient. It gives special attention to unsolved urgent issues of infectious pathology.

For students of medical universities and medical faculties of universities, as well as graduate students, clinical residents and general practitioners.

Current trends in Russian education and the policy of modernization require the introduction of information and communication technologies (ICT) into the process of foreign language teaching (FLT). This book is an attempt to select and organize the necessary minimum of special knowledge which could serve as a guide to using ICT in the everyday professional work of foreign language teachers. The role and place of distance learning (DL) in today’s education system, its foundations, didactic principles, strategies and methods are discussed. A concrete experience of teaching English online is considered. Suggested tasks include the practical application of described approaches. 

For students and post-graduates of universities and departments of pedagogy, teachers of foreign languages and all interested in using distance education and ICT in FLT.

The peculiarity of this textbook on data Analysis is that the main attention is paid to those examples that, although using the correct theoretical models and methods, contain one or more widespread errors leading to incorrect conclusions. The necessary concepts for understanding the error are described in detail, the correct solution is shown, and alternative approaches to analyzing the situation based on data mining methods are presented.

The manual reveals the use of MS Excel, STATISTICA, Genehunter, FuzzyXl software products for various data analysis tasks: hypothesis testing, dependency search, trend highlighting, forecasting, and object clustering.

The textbook is recommended for sociologists, marketers, political scientists, specialists in finance, economics, management, public administration.