International Scientific Journals
of Scientific Technical Union of Mechanical Engineering "Industry 4.0"

Climate change is causing disasters such as floods, whirlwinds, storms, drought, or other extreme weather events that have not yet occurred in certain areas of the world or have not occurred to such an extent and intensity as it is happening now or is predicted in the foreseeable future. Government and, in particular, crisis management system should reflect these facts in order to prepare itself and the population on such events. People should also be interested in preparing for and adapting to these changes and related crisis events. The aim of the article is to examine preparedness of the population in the Slovak Republic and, in particular, to analyse the barriers to climate change adaptation of the population. For the analysis are used the questionnaire survey results on this topic. The initial results indicate the influence of the population by various barriers and factors.

Massive open online courses have a significant impact on the cross-cultural communication. More and more online courses become a part of modern university curriculum. This creates a way to share knowledge not only between different scientific facilities but provide an opportunity for students to take courses from top rated universities free of charge. Our research deals with the way to bring massive open online courses into cross-cultural educational field. The article deals with the translation’s editor work features in preparation for massive open online technical course to voice over and broadcasting on the example of the most popular programming course in the world “CS50 2019” (Harvard University). The main problems faced by the translation’s editor are highlighted. A step-by-step plan for the translation’s editor is suggested.

The conditions are substantiated for the loss of thermodynamic stability of a tribosystem and for its adaptation with a decreasing wear rate at the moving frictional contact of parts from materials with an ultrafine-grained structure produced by equal-channel angular pressing. The regularities of the influence of the structure’s dispersion degree and the friction contact’s temperature on the tribotechnical characteristics of ultrafine-grained materials are established theoretically and experimentally.