Scientific Journal of KubSAU

The research purpose is identification and justification of the scientific team’s recognition citation-based criteria. Such parameters of the educational environment as modality, latitude, social activity, social coherence, intensity, maturity etc. are assessable on the basis of the primary information about the scientific team’s research activity results. The authors of this article prove that the data about cross-citations within a scientific team is the primary information about the scientific and pedagogical team members’ recognition of their social system (such information is obtainable from modern scientometric databases, e.g. Russian Science Citation Index). The new scientific results of this research are the identified citation-based criteria for the scientific team’s recognition. The theoretical significance of these results is the possibility of using them as a scientific basis for further research in the sociology of science and for the development of the small social systems functioning models; the practical significance is the possibility to analyze the factors for the success of scientific and pedagogical teams’ research activity (i.e. applicability for the research activity monitoring systems). The research methods are: the methods of set, relations and graph theory, the methods of qualimetry, mathematical statistics (including the scree-plot method) and linear. The research methodology is based on the sociological approach (viewing the scientific and pedagogical team as a well-established social system), the qualimetric approach (declaring the necessity for the multicriterial diagnostics of scientific and pedagogical team’s recognition) and the probabilistic and statistical approach (viewing the scientific and pedagogical team’s recognition citation-based diagnostics as a statistic measurement)

The article considers an approach to managing the production process in agriculture based on modeling and evaluation of added value chains. The work has proposed a scheme of links for the production chain of added value creation that contains source control and financing cash flow which comes first in the link of agricultural production, then produced products are supplied to the accumulator, and from there it sequentially passes through the links of the value chain of the cyclic processing facilities, from which finished products are marketed and the resulting revenue is directed to the source of funding and management. We have given mathematical descriptions of the movement of financial and material flows in the links of the developed value chain, and mathematical models for calculating the volume of material and financial flows are proposed. Financial flows were also investigated to compensate for the cost of converting material flows and their mathematical descriptions. The article obtains a mathematical model of the economic efficiency of the production process and proposes a mathematical model for calculating the minimum price for socially significant processing products

The article discusses scale formation problems of greenhouse complexes with geothermal heat sources. Two-circuit geothermal heat supply systems with intermediate heat exchangers are used to prevent equipment and communications scale. Fresh softened water is heated by geothermal heat and is supplied to consumer needs. The heat exchanger and primary circuit communications contacting with the geothermal heat carrier (geothermal water) are subjected to scale formation in the existing system. A scale formation of heat exchange surfaces reduces the efficiency of the heat exchanger and requires a periodic cleaning and causes a chain of economic losses in the production, transportation and consumption of heat. Currently, we use physical, chemical, biological and combined methods of scale formation prevention. The article also considers hypothesis about the effect of an acoustic-magnetic field on solutions. It was found experimentally, that the acoustic-magnetic field affects to characteristics and dimensions of salt crystals. The number of particles increases and solid phase dimensions decrease. A large number of microcrystals suspended in water are formed as a result of the nonchemical acoustic-magnetic treatment of geothermal water. These crystals do not stick to the pipe surface and do not settle to the bottom, may be filtered out and carry out by water flow from the system