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The influence of alkanes С₃–С₅ on the ignition of their binary mixtures with methane in air at a temperature 523–1000 K and a pressure of 1 atm is studied. It is shown that the presence of only 1% alkanes С₃–С₅ considerably reduces the ignition delay of methane. At a concentration of 10–20%, the ignition delay practically corresponds to the autoignition delay of the added alkane. The effect of additives of heavy alkanes becomes less noticeable with increasing initial temperature. These results can be used to estimate the permissible content of the C₅₊ heavy species in the gas turbine engine fuel at which their influence on the fuel knock resistance is sufficiently low. It is only 0.5%.

This paper presents the results of experimental studies of the cavitation mechanism of fluid breakdown in a wide range of shock-wave loading. The velocity of the free surface of liquids and the velocity spectrum of the cloud of particles and jets was measured using a laser heterodyne interferometer (photon Doppler velocimetry method), and their size was determined. The spall strength of distilled water was determined.

This paper presents the comparative analysis of the results of more than fifty experiments on measuring the electrical conductivity of detonation products of RDX, HMX, PETN, TNT, and TATB-based explosives. It is revealed that there is a correlation between the electrical conductivity and the mass fraction of carbon both in the chemical spike and at the Chapman-Jouget point.

The dynamic compression and localized adiabatic shear in samples of an HMX based explosive using the Hopkinson split bar technique was studied. Experiments to study dynamic compression were performed at strain rates (0.3-2.0) × 103 с^-1. Fracture of the explosive samples was found to occur at stresses of 60-80 MPa. The behavior of HMX based samples was also studied in experiments on localized shear at different strain rates (200-2500 s^-1). The issues of the initiation of explosive transformations under the dynamic loads are discussed.

This article examines the topical problems of preservation and development of local University cultures and civilizations in the modern global educational world. The authors analyze trends in the interaction between local and mass, paying attention to changes in cultural and educational spheres. Considering this issue, the authors use the concept of glocalisation, as a compromise between the preservation of distinctive cultural features of certain territories and contemporary development in accordance with the requirements that are put forward in modern global world. From the point of view of the present situation of higher education, on the one hand, glocalization is a way high-quality, effective development of local universities in the global educational world that is an opportunity for them not to be destroyed by the massive trends. But on the other hand, this integration of global and local can be an important problem especially for small civilizations. There is no clear concept, effectively glocal development, but it is obvious the fact that it is the most appropriate form of strengthening local cultures due to the active promotion of global, mass civilization. The mass and the universalization of social trends is a major difficulty in establishing glocal civilizations, including institutions of higher education. On this basis, the question of their development in the context of the global educational world is particularly important and topical. Also in the article the analysis of the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University as a modern example of the glocal university. The authors come to the conclusion that it is in glocalnet as «the compromise of development», the key is the novelty, the uniqueness, but at the same time and the problematic of the development of modern civilizations, universities, economies, cultures and global relations.

The global crisis of civilization has highlighted to humanity a variety of difficult socio-cultural, ecological-economic and technical-technological problems. Their solving is connected with going beyond disciplinary borders and using fundamental science integration as well as the potential of the applied and non-scientific knowledge. In the modern cognitive theory, transdisciplinary approach is considered as one of promising approaches for studying such problems and developing complex projects for their solving. For its practical application, specialists of new formation are required that possess a broad mind, deep knowledge of specific professional field, high level of ecological culture, competence in the related branches of study. In this context, the content of education is in need of conceptual changes. On one hand, it should become integrative, aimed to form a holistic view of world, but on the other hand, it should be differentiated, giving profound knowledge in the field of the future career. The relevance of this paper is associated with the need to form a preparedness of graduates to find professional solutions for difficult problems of natural, antropogenic and social character, to make intelligent decisions, to act wisely in emergency situations. The article aims to study possibilities of using this transdisciplinary approach in the context of graduate training. The paper reviews some methodological aspects of transdisciplinary approach in the training content modeling. Its correlation with multidisciplinary and integrative approaches is discussed. The contribution is revealed of the ideas, metaphors and postnonclassical models of science in the practical realization of the approach. A complex of methodological tools is presented with a system of learning courses and a set of active training technologies, in which the idea of transdisciplinarity is implemented. Didactic foundations are discovered for the modeling of the elective learning courses possessing transdisciplinarity attributes. Authors’ research shows that using the developed complex in the training practice has a positive effect on the formation of holistic world view of graduates, the ability to solve difficult problems and development of their ecological culture. However, authors note that the theory of transdisciplinarity is still in its infancy. Such phenomena as «transdisciplinarity» and «transdisciplinary approach» need a deeper methodological substantiation and a comprehensive philosophical understanding in order for them to take their rightful place in the theory and practice of modern education.

In the first article, there were formulated the ideas of the primary human-forming process, in which constitution and development of the human in human beings take place, the initial culture originates. It was demonstrated that the biological component of the human nature can be subjected to transformation in such forms and ways that it does not impede the human state of each particular person. In the context of these ideas, this article analyzes the modernization of «human substratum» as the change of cognitive process based on the conscious activity (the substitution or complementing through the symbiosis of the human organs related to the cognitive activity). It is shown that the elements of the second component of human corporality in this process create not only a symbiosis with the natural spiritual corporality, but also some sort of integrity, the making of which is represented as the process of spiritualization of these elements based on their inclusion into the topology of the subject. In this case, the boundaries of the human Self go behind the boundaries of the natural body to the boundaries of the spiritualized second component of human corporality (the «probe» phenomenon). However, the boundary of the Self with the necessity shifts back to the limits of the natural body when confronted with something new. Such backward motion of the Self constitutes the leading role of human being in his/her natural corporality in the process of modernization of the «human substratum» as well as clarifies the semantic modules providing the identification of the human foundations in the complex being. In these conditions, the modernization of the «human substratum» is implemented in the context of the «biosphere-noosphere-living space» evolution as a process of making of a human-forming contour embracing these essences. Concurrently, the human being him/hersef proceeds to the stage of the planetary and cosmic human being, moving in this contour and self-organizing (integrating into the second component of his/her corporality, building it up to the planetary scale). Such human being with love, morals and consciousness gains spiritual grounds for the change of the strategic and notional coordinates, including the aspects of overcoming the «friend or foe» confrontation. Moreover, this human being becomes totally denaturalized, thereby possessing the opportunities (in transcendence he/she «hears the calling» of being) for the total control over the directions of the «denaturalization of the intelligence carrier with symbiosis of its forms».

The article presents an analysis of the phenomenon of ethnic tolerance in the context of modern education. We explain the concept of ethno-cultural assertiveness as an essential component of the content of professional training of the teacher within the limits of formation of common cultural competences: ability to analyze the main stages and regularities of historical development for the formation of patriotism and civic awareness; ability to work in a team, tolerant to perceive the social, cultural and personal differences of students and others. We focused attention on the critical perspective on the category of tolerance in connection with the limited possibilities of using this category to denote effective interaction strategies on interethnic level.

The article considers one of the basic social phenomena for the rule-of-law state - legal awareness, reflecting the dominant the in society worldview. A stable connection between worldview and consciousness is recognized by most researchers in the field of philosophy, sociology and law. It is exactly worldview and the ideology based on it that determine the content of legal consciousness, especially on its mass level. In the Russian society, a sharp debate between «Westerners» and «national loyalists» has not lost its relevance for a long time. Certainly, the urgency of this discussionis reflected both on mass and on group levels. For some social groups, the Western-liberal worldview is more acceptable, which is characterized by legal awareness based on the primacy of natural rights, and which involves the attitude to the law, similar to the attitude of the representatives of Western civilization. For other social group, the national loyalist worldview is more acceptable, which puts justice and morality first and evaluates the law from this point of view, reserving the right to choose whether to obey or not to obey regulations. The analysis of the results of publications in the field of philosophy of education related to the issues of law allows the author to conclude: either the rules of law are deliberately not included by scientists into a set of important aspects of understanding the problems of domestic education (which is typical for « national loyalists») or the rules of law, regulating relations in the sphere of education, are perceived by researchers as an objective condition for the development of education (which is typical for «Westerners»). Thus, in the above two approaches, the mechanism of formation of rules of law which by definition must be formed on the basis of social order, is being actually ignored.

Globalization and integration trends that are observed in the world economic system affect all aspects of human life and society, including the educational system. We consider the problem of development of modern ethno-cultural education in the conditions of reforming the system of professional education. The carried out analysis of modern regulatory sources has allowed to formulate a number of topical trends aimed at the development of the individual, taking into account national traditions and ideals, fostering a culture of national identity and international relations, patriotism, development and sovereignty of the state in the face of increasing competition, the transition to a new technological level, the active cultural exchange and synthesis.