777 research outputs found
An unknown poem by Gennady Shpalikov
No full textGennady Shpalikov’s poem “Ballada pro tikhoye otchayanie” (‘A Ballad About a Quiet Despair’), dedicated to film director Larisa Shepitko, is hereby published for the first time. The piece survived as part of Shpalikov’s letter to Shepitko dating from the 1960s. The author of the article examines key motifs of the poem and places it in the context of the whole output of the scenarist and poet, showing how it reverberates with his other lyrical pieces as well as screenplays.В статье впервые публикуется стихотворение Геннадия Шпаликова Баллада про тихое отчаяние, посвященное кинорежиссеру Ларисе Шепитько. Стихотворение сохранилось в составе письма Шпаликова к Шепитько и датируется концом 1960-х годов. Автор статьи рассматривает основные мотивы публикуемого стихотворения и ставит его в контекст творчества кинодраматурга и поэта, обнаруживает переклички с другими его лирическими произведениями и сценариями
The North-West of Russia: the potential and areas of Russian-Lithuanian research and innovation cooperation
No full textThis article considers the present state and prospects of Russian-Lithuanian cooperation in the field of research and innovation. The author analyses the tendencies of innovation activities of economic entities in the North-West of Russia in terms of relative innovation activity indicators. Special attention is paid to the role of cross-border and trans-border cooperation in the Baltic macroregion as a mechanism of managing the innovative development of regional economy
The Workload process with a Poisson cluster input can look like a Fractional Brownian motion even in the slow growth regime
No full textThe workload process with a Poisson cluster input can look like a Fractional Brownian motion even in the slow growth regime
Vicky Fasen_and Gennady Samorodnitsky ?
May 20, 2008
Abstract
We show that, contrary to the common wisdom, the workload process in a _uid queue with
a cluster Poisson input can converge, in the slow growth regime, to a Fractional Brownian
motion, and not to a L?vy stable motion. This emphasizes lack of robustness of L?vy stable
motions as _bird-eye_ descriptions of the tra_c in communication networks.
AMS 2000 Subject Classi_cations: primary: 90B22 secondary: 60F17
Keywords: cluster Poisson process, _uid queue, Fractional Brownian motion, slow growth regime, scaling limit, workload process
? Center for Mathematical Sciences, TU M?nchen, D-85747 Garching, Germany, email: [email protected]. Parts of the paper were written while the _rst author was visiting the Department of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University. Financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through a research grant is gratefully acknowledged.
?School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, email:
[email protected]. Samorodnitsky's research was partially supported by an NSA grant MSPF-05G-049 and an ARO grant W911NF-07-1-0078 at Cornell University
The housing market in the Russian Federation : privatization and its implications for market development
No full textThe author reviews sociological data on privatization and the development of a housing market in Russia through 1996. Using data from urban surveys largely unknown outside Russia, she also considers demand for housing and household mobility in Russia. Since early 1997 the Russian government has increasingly focused on housing reform. Current policy calls for a reduction (in stages) of housing subsidies (for which both owners and tenants of privatized apartments are eligible), with the goal of 100 percent cost recovery by 2003. But household incomes are not expected to rise commensurately, so housing's share of the household budget is likely to grow for most Russians. By the end of 1996 about 55 percent of Russian housing was privately owned. The rate of privatization peaked in Moscow in 1993 and has since abated considerably, essentially coming to a halt in 1996. The pattern was the same in smaller cities, but with a later starting date. Not surprisingly, high-quality apartments in city centers have much higher rates of privatization than lower-quality housing some distance from the center. Also affecting the decision to privatize are demographic characteristics of the occupants and household incomes, values, and education levels. Privatization has produced a far-from-uniform class of owners. The two groups most likely to have privatized their apartments--pensioners and the relatively well-off--have quite different effects on the housing market . Pensioners--the larger group--are generally not inclined to move and thus exert a negative effect on housing mobility. The well-off--a much smaller group--can be expected to participate actively in the housing market. There has been some movement toward a more efficient allocation of housing. Because of economic forces, part of the mover households moved from their original apartments to apartments that were somehow inferior. Moreover the housing market allows poorer households to find housing more in keeping with their ability and willingness to pay for it. Many renters in Russia have chosen not to privatize their apartments, influenced largely by the sense of"occupation rights"inherited from the former Soviet Union. Many Russians have little incentive to privatize their housing, but data from Moscow and two smaller cities indicate that market ideas about searching for housing are beginning to penetrate the Russian public's mentality.Real Estate Development,Land andReal Estate Development,Municipal Housing and Land,Banks&Banking Reform,Housing&Human Habitats,Housing&Human Habitats,Urban Housing,Municipal Housing and Land,Real Estate Development,Land and Real Estate Development
SPATIO-TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF WARM DENSE PLASMAS: MOLECULAR DYNAMICS MODELING
No full textSPATIO-TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF WARM DENSE PLASMAS: MOLECULAR
DYNAMICS MODELING Cole Wenzel and Gennady Miloshevsky
Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, 401
West Main St, Richmond, VA 23284-3015
The exo-atmospheric detonation of nuclear device would be of great impact on the material integrity of orbiting satellites. The spectral energy distribution of high intensity X-ray flux, ~10 28 -10 35 photons/(cm 2 ∙s), originating from a nuclear blast is described by the Planck\u27s blackbody function with the temperature from 0.1 keV to 10 keV. Particular damage would occur to the multi-layered, solar cell panels of satellites. However, the X-ray flux incident upon the solar panels is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from a point where a weapon was detonated. For example, the X-ray flux is reduced by a factor of 10 -10 at the distance of 100 km. Even accounting for this geometric factor, the enormous power density, ~0.1 - 10 4 GW/cm 3 , absorbed within a few microns of a Ge slab of solar cells produces the extreme pressures and temperatures. The X-ray induced blow-off and Warm Dense Plasma (WDP) formation on the surface of materials, particularly in a gap between the unshielded Ge elements is initiated. In this work, the profiles of deposited energy and power density produced by cold X- rays (~ 1 keV) in the multi-layered materials are calculated using the Monte Carlo method within the Geant4 software toolkit. The power density is used as an input for the Molecular Dynamics (MD) modeling of WDP formation and expansion into vacuum. The MD computational model is implemented within the LAMMPS software toolkit. The spatio-temporal evolution of WDP as well as its temperature, stress, and mass density distribution are investigated for different X-ray irradiation conditions. Presenting author: Cole Wenzel This work is supported by Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Grant No. DTRA1‐19‐1‐0019.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/gradposters/1070/thumbnail.jp
Absence of the Volga from the Russian Poetry of Gennady Aygi
No full textGennady Aygi (1934 - 2006) is a poet from Chuvash, the Middle-Volga basin in Russia. During the Soviet era, Aygi had little chance of getting his works published in his home country. However, he was well-known to readers outside of Russia because many of his works had been translated into various languages. It is widely known that Aygi started his career by writing in his native language, in Chuvash, and later he began to write poetry in Russian on the advice of his mentor, Boris Pasternak. On the other hand, only few are aware that Aygi continued to write in Chuvash. His Chuvash poems are not as well known, because few, except the Chuvash people, understand the language. If we compare the Chuvash works of Aygi with his Russian poetry, we realize at a glance the difference between his writing styles. First, his works in Chuvash are filled with regular meter, whereas the Russian works lack this. Second, many names of places and people were described, and consequently readers get a more concrete view of the poet’s homeland in his Chuvash poems. These qualities are absent from his Russian language works. For example, the name of the Volga can hardly be found in his Russian works, except in a few cases, whereas it is easy to find the Volga mentioned in his Chuvash poetry. In fact, some works even make the river a subject of creation. Aygi was called “Mallarmé from the Volga” by his French friend. Some episodes in his biography show that Aygi himself considered the Volga to be irreplaceable in his life. There is a difference in terms of the way he deals with the Volga in his Russian works and Chuvash poetry, because Aygi regarded the two languages as quite incompatible in his creation. This paper initiates discussion by reading a Chuvash poem on the Volga. Based on the poem, this paper will discuss the extent to which the words reflect Aygi’s whole poetic view. At the same time, the absence of the Volga in his Russian works will be weighed. Some of his statements in interviews support the contention that Aygi regarded Russian words as visual, auditory, and even tactile things. A sense of words as things that conjure material images is the point on which his interests in Russian avant-garde art intersect with his interests in Chuvash folklore. The two genres, which seem to be in contrast to each other, reconcile themselves for Aygi in the concrete manner of his poetry. He sometimes remarked on the two-sidedness of poetic words. One side is the impressionist side, which is based on personal impressions and experiences. The other is the monumental side, which is regulated by general and social codes. This pairing can be compared to Blanchot’s dichotomy between raw and immediate words and essential words. The raw and immediate words represent things as they are, and they are held as the pragmatic criteria of our daily lexicon. On the other hand, the essential words are not based on the contents or meanings of things as objects, but in the existential aspects of words themselves. They capture the world through an absence of things. According to Blanchot, these two sides of words should be realized simultaneously in poetry. Aygi was sensitive to the two-sidedness of Russian poetic words, essentially because Russian was not his native tongue. Aygi’s shift of his main language from Chuvash to Russian was therefore not for pragmatic purposes, but a natural consequence of his pursuit of poetry. Writing in Russian, he could get closer to the border between the two sides of words; between words for representation of things on the one hand, and words on the basis of absence of things on the other. The difference between his Russian and Chuvash works when making the Volga imagery stems from the different ways in which he composed the poems; particularly, how much the works reflected an awareness of the border between the two sides of his words
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