Russian Ministry of the Emergency Situations

About: Russian Ministry of the Emergency Situations is a government organization based out in Moscow, Russia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Combustion & Liquid crystal. The organization has 218 authors who have published 172 publications receiving 453 citations. The organization is also known as: Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters.

Existence of a linear Pfaff system with arbitrary bounded disconnected lower characteristic set of positive Lebesgue m-measure

Abstract: We give a constructive proof of the existence of a completely integrable Pfaff system with infinitely differentiable bounded coefficient matrices and with an arbitrary disconnected lower characteristic set of positive Lebesgue m-measure.

Synthesis of Ethyl 5-(Arylcarbamoyl)-6-methyl-2-oxo-1,2-dihydropyridine-3-carboxylates

Abstract: A one-step procedure has been developed for the synthesis of previously unknown ethyl 5-(arylcarbamoyl)-6-methyl-2-oxo-1,2-dihydropyridine-3-carboxylates by reaction of ethyl 2-cyano-3-ethoxyprop-2-enoate with acetoacetanilides in the presence of a catalytic amount of piperidine in ethanol at room temperature.

Building a model and an algorithm for modeling the movement of people carrying goods when they are evacuated from premises

Abstract: Evacuation is often the only way to save a person who is in a life-threatening situation. At present, evacuation software is used to simulate the movement of human flows, which does not always reflect the real processes of their movement. Therefore, it is a relevant task to build models for modeling the movement of human flows for different types of emergencies, different categories of human movement, and various spatial forms of their representation. Such a task arises when evacuating people from premises for various functional purposes. During evacuation, people often carry some goods. When people move carrying some goods, their horizontal projection takes a more complex shape than an ellipse or circle considered in earlier studies. Moreover, in practice, there is often a task to model the movement of people taking into consideration the maximum permissible distances between them. This paper reports the new quasi-phi functions of interaction between the ellipse and rectangle accounting for the maximum allowable distances between them. The proposed mathematical apparatus has made it possible to formalize the interaction between objects, thereby enabling the construction of a well-substantiated mathematical model, as well as the methods and algorithms for modeling the movement of people carrying some goods. The possibility to simulate the movement of people with certain objects has shown taking into consideration the maximum permissible distances between them. A test example of the movement of people along four corridors was simulated, in each of which there were 28 people subsequently merging into one flow. Given the uniform distribution of three types of cargo: «backpacks», «suitcases», and «bags on wheels», the movement slowed down by about 4 %. When half of the evacuees had «bags on wheels» that can move away from people at arm’s length, the slowdown was about 6 %.

A Viscometric Study of the Liquid Crystalline Phase of Alkyloxybenzoic Acids

Abstract: The viscosities of three benzoic acid derivatives (p-n-heptyloxy-, p-n-decyloxy-, and p-n-dodecyloxy-) were measured on a unique viscometer of the class of CS-rheometer-viscometers with controlled shear stress over the whole temperature range of the liquid crystalline state. Shear rates were calculated and flow and viscosity curves constructed from the experimental shear stress values taking into account the Rabinovich-Moony correction. The smectic and nematic phases were characterized by non-Newton and Newton viscosities, respectively, in all the samples studied. The activation parameters of viscous flow were calculated for Newton viscosity. The results are discussed in terms of intermolecular interactions and structural peculiarities of liquid crystalline phases.