68 research outputs found
Institutional Transition and Local Self-Government in Russia
No full textThis paper includes the following parts: 1) "Vertical or Triangle? Local, regional and federal government in the Russian Federation after Law 131.", by Adrian Campbell, and 2) comments to the paper "Softness and hardness of the institutions in Russian ocal self-government" by Satoshi Mizobata, 3) "Local budget and local self-government in Russia" by Kazuho Yokogawa and 4) "The Struggle for Power in the Urals" by Adrian Campbell and Elena Denezhkina.
Studies of the structure of the Solovetsky reproductive gathering of beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) in the White Sea using the photo identification method
No full textАНАЛИЗ ВЛИЯНИЯ НАКОПИТЕЛЕЙ НА ПОТЕРИ ЭЛЕКТРОЭНЕРГИИ В ЭНЕРГОСИСТЕМЕ. Часть 2
No full textMathematical relationships characterizing a storage impact on energy losses in case of different charge/discharge power ratio in the device have been obtained in the paper. The relationships have used as a basis for calculations that have estimated changes in energy losses for a wide scope of variants pertaining to setting up reference conditions and charge/discharge power ratio of the storage. The obtained results have made it possible to compare various storage operational modes on the assumption of an energy losses reduction criterion.Получены математические зависимости, характеризующие влияние накопителей на потери электроэнергии при неравенстве мощностей заряда/разряда устройства. На их основе проведен ряд расчетов, оценивающих изменение потерь электроэнергии для широкого диапазона вариантов задания исходных режимов и мощностей заряда/разряда накопителя. C использованием полученных результатов осуществлено сопоставление различных вариантов работы накопителей исходя из критерия снижения потерь электроэнергии
About Possibility of Remote Diagnostics of the Respiratory System by Auscultation
No full textDevelopment of technical base, software, accumulated information on the diagnosis of the respiratory system provided the prerequisites for creating remote diagnostics of the human respiratory system through auscultation. The known methods do not solve the problem of determining auscultation points at patent´s housing without a diagnostic specialist. The purpose of this study is to develop a method for remote diagnostics of the respiratory system which provides ability to determine the points of auscultation without presence of a diagnostic specialist. The definition of auscultation points is provided using a computer program that allows to calculate the points´ coordinates based on the coordinates of points that determine the anatomical structure of the patient's torso. The patient or his assistant places the recording device at the auscultation points combining their images on the display with the image of the location of the recording device. The signal recorded at the auscultation point is remotely transmitted to a specialist for direct analysis and/or computer processing. The diagnostic module consists of two main units. The first unit contains a stethoscope, microphone, and amplifier connected to a mobile phone or other similar device containing an accelerometer. The patient or his assistant at the housing uses the unit. The second unit is a mobile phone with a mechanical marker or a computer with the ability to access the network in conjunction with the necessary software and is used remotely by a diagnostic specialist. The layout of the unit for recording and transmitting breath sounds was made. To avoid discrepancies in the diagnostic results the technical characteristics of the module elements must be normalized. Unified software is required for the module to function. The organizational tasks that need to be solved for the implementation of diagnostics are formulated. Use of the method of remote diagnostics of the respiratory system, providing the ability to determine points of auscultation without the direct presence of a diagnostic specialist and the module will allow increasing efficiency of treatment of pulmonary diseases reduce infection risks and economic costs
Terror and Transcendence in the Void: Viktor Pelevin’s Philosophy of Emptiness
No full textThis dissertation explores the Russian experience of the “void” left in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union as it is reflected in Viktor Pelevin’s Chapaev and Pustota (1996), Generation “P” (1999), The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (2004), and Empire “V” (2006). If, as postmodernist theory suggests, there can be no overarching cultural (or other) narratives, then in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse post-Soviet Russia found itself in a void, with no old, established national narrative and no new “Russian idea” to shape future identity. At the very moment when post-Soviet Russians found their identities in greatest flux, communication and the search for identity were complicated by a global “crisis of signification” in which words lost their power to convey meaning about one’s reality. On the semiotic level, postmodernism posited the breakdown of the binary sign (signifier and signified), severing word from meaning and creating “empty signifiers.” The crisis was intensified by the twin realizations that the pervasive symbols of the Soviet regime had become “empty” and meaningless, while the western capitalism and hyperconsumerism that replaced them were equally empty and meaningless. All that was real was the void between signifier and signified. Many contemporary Russian writers engaged the void in their work, seeing it as a negative concept. Pelevin’s novels are unique in their treatment of the void as simultaneously positive and negative, as both emptiness and potentiality. The void (emptiness), as symbol and as philosophical concept, becomes prominent in times of great change that challenge national and individual identities. Historically, the void has played a prominent role in Russian philosophy and literature. It does so again in the post-Soviet period. Pelevin uses the East-West binary to explore Russia’s post-collapse void. East and West are the two most important cultural identities with which Russia has historically engaged. Pelevin explores Western values (specifically capitalism and hyperconsumerism) in Generation “P” and Empire “V” and portrays them more negatively. This “negative void” is the emptiness that underlies not only the symbols and language of the now defunct Soviet system, but also the advertisements and language of imported Western models. Both turned out to be simulacra—images with no meaning in reality, a mask over the void. Eastern values predominate in Chapaev and Pustota and The Sacred Book of the Werewolf; Pelevin portrays them more positively. Engaging with Mahāyāna Buddhism, Pelevin seeks to resolve the problems of hypermaterialism, empty signifiers, and pervasive simulacra that plague the West. In Buddhism both signifiers and signifieds are illusory, making the problem of the breakdown of the binary sign moot. Pelevin suggests that emptiness, or the void, offers a possible escape from the conundrum that faces the West by transcending its materialism and its ills. While Pelevin personally favors the eastern Buddhist model of self that embraces the void, he does not recommend that Russia imitate the East, as this would amount to little more than a reversal of Peter the Great’s westernization (and another iteration of Lotman and Uspenskii’s binary cultural model). Pelevin ultimately fails to suggest a new model for Russian national identity in these four novels. The author may still be looking for such a model or, perhaps, the “nothingness” that his search has yielded is his answer
Production of hydrogen, nitrogen and argon pellets with the Moscow-Jülich pellet target
No full textTargets of frozen droplets ("pellets") from various liquefiable gases like H-2, D-2, N-2, Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe are very promising for high luminosity experiments with a 4 pi detector geometry at storage-rings. High effective target densities (>10(15) atoms/cm(2)), a small target size (circle divide approximate to 20-30 mu m), a low gas load and a narrow pellet beam are the main advantages of such targets.Pioneering work on pellet targets has been made at Uppsala, Sweden.(1) A next generation target has been built at the IKP of FZJ in collaboration with two institutes (ITEP and MPEI) from Moscow, Russia. It is a prototype for the future pellet target at the PANDA experiment at FAIR/HESR (supported by INTAS 06-1000012-8787, 2007/08) and makes use of a new cooling and liquefaction method, based on cryogenic liquids instead of cooling machines.(2) The main advantages of this method are the vibration-free cooling and the possibility for cryogenic jet production from various gases in a wide range of temperatures. Different regimes of pellet production from H-2, N-2 and Ar have been observed and their parameters have been measured.(3) For the first time, mono-disperse and satellite-free droplet production was achieved for cryogenic liquids from H-2, N-2 and Ar
Spectral and kinetic features of thermoluminescence in hexagonal boron nitride powder after UV-irradiation
No full textThermally stimulated luminescence (TL) from UV-irradiated h-BN powder synthesized using carbamide technique was studied. Three TL peaks at T max = 380, 500 and 600 K during linear heating with 2 K/s rate in RT - 773 K temperature range were observed. It was found that the 2.90 and 3.25 eV emission bands, which were related with recombination centers on the basis of VN and BO--complexes, dominate in TL spectra of h-BN. Experimental TL glow curves were analyzed in terms of general order kinetics and energy parameters of responsible capture levels were estimated. It was shown, considering the independent data on the luminescent properties of hexagonal boron nitride in different structural states, that TL peaks at 380 K and 600 K were due to traps based on the one-boron and the three-boron centers with thermal depth EA = 0.7 and 1.0 eV, respectively. The possible origin of the trap with EA = 1.6 eV, responsible for the TL peak at 500 K, is discussed. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Observation and measurement of hydrogen and nitrogen frozen droplets (pellets) at the Moscow-Jülich Pellet Target
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