Due to high uncertainties and “no-knowledge” spots, and because of their highly politicised contexts, Chernobylrelated environmental and health issues represent an ideal post-normal science situation (PNS). The history of ...

The excitation of TE-guided modes in a planar waveguide by the intracavity radiation of a He-Ne laser was experimentally demonstrated. The excitation was performed using a new type of coupling prism of double internal ...

The article analyzes such basic methods of drying compressed air of pneumatic systems of machine-building enterprises as condensation, sorption, diffusion and force action and determines the advantages and disadvantages ...

Ability of plants to purify contaminated indoor air using vertical hardware-biological complex of recirculating type was studied. Laboratory experiments were made for assessing capability to purify indoor air against ...

This paper takes a case of Xavier snowstorm of March 15–16, 2013 in two Belarusian cities of Minsk and Mahiliou˘ , and uses it to demonstrate how failures in communication in organisation hamper adaptation to an extreme ...

After the collapse of the Soviet system, every new independent state selected its own way of development, own goals and speed of transformation. Dramatic changes were linked not only to the political and economic sphere, ...