50 research outputs found
From the Epistolary Legacy of Emanuel Vardidze
No full textBased on materials found in the Vatican archives, this research discusses the epistle of Emanuel Vardidze, a Georgian Catholic clergyman „the head of the Catholic Diocese of Georgia and the Vicariate of Armenia-Azerbaijani’’, dated on February 2, 1925, addressed to the Catholic parishes of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. This epistle is significant because the atheistic Soviet regime persecuted followers of varoius religous denominations. This was especially painful for the Catholic parish and clergy, because the head of the Catholic Church-the Pope-could not protect the rights of Catholics living in the USSR due to the Soviet Government. The introduction of the epistle notes that his salutation is related to the beginning of Great Lent. Because of this, Emmanuel Vardidze pays attention to the need that the Catholic parish had to protect. The salutation emphasizes the importance of Great Lent, which is a means of cleansing a person from spiritual and physical sins. The epistle specifically mentions that, since the teaching of the Divine Law was removed from schools due to the new Soviet regime, both parents and tutors should work twice as hard to raise a healthy generation. Emanuel Vardidze appeals to parish and Catholic clergy to deepen their faith in Christ: „We must understand more deeply day by day the truths of Christ’s teachings, taught through authentic learning. This will increase our numbers, eradicate ignorance and our christian example will have such an effect on the believers who separated from the church that they, too, will recognize One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.Based on materials found in the Vatican archives, this research discusses the epistle of Emanuel Vardidze, a Georgian Catholic clergyman „the head of the Catholic Diocese of Georgia and the Vicariate of Armenia-Azerbaijani’’, dated on February 2, 1925, addressed to the Catholic parishes of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. This epistle is significant because the atheistic Soviet regime persecuted followers of varoius religous denominations. This was especially painful for the Catholic parish and clergy, because the head of the Catholic Church-the Pope-could not protect the rights of Catholics living in the USSR due to the Soviet Government. The introduction of the epistle notes that his salutation is related to the beginning of Great Lent. Because of this, Emmanuel Vardidze pays attention to the need that the Catholic parish had to protect. The salutation emphasizes the importance of Great Lent, which is a means of cleansing a person from spiritual and physical sins. The epistle specifically mentions that, since the teaching of the Divine Law was removed from schools due to the new Soviet regime, both parents and tutors should work twice as hard to raise a healthy generation. Emanuel Vardidze appeals to parish and Catholic clergy to deepen their faith in Christ: „We must understand more deeply day by day the truths of Christ’s teachings, taught through authentic learning. This will increase our numbers, eradicate ignorance and our christian example will have such an effect on the believers who separated from the church that they, too, will recognize One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church
“New new media” in social welfare
No full textThe article is describing the use of ICT tools in social welfare, equally in area of social work, vocational training for social service and shaping the social policy. Based on the desk research the author explains the basic issues related to the implementation of new media tools into the practice of social work – case studies – and characterizes the potency of digitalization in the process of modelling the social welfare, innovative preventions measures and the improving the qualifications of social services
Self-education and information technologies – changeability of forms and difficulty of classification
No full textInformation technologies determine changes in learning processes and have a significant impact on the revision of self-education methods. The evolution of this form of learning requires reflection and research. The article addresses three issues that are important in this context: an attempt to organise the phenomenon in its new version; location of the newly defined form of incidental e-learning as a self-learning process in the context of heutagogy and microlearning, and finally, some answers to doubts concerning the role of social media in formal learning. The first two issues are based on the results of previous research and literature studies, as well as author's personal observations. To explain the last issue, author presents the results of his research in the extent and nature of the use of social media as a tool to support teaching and learning process at primary, junior high/high school and higher education level. The main research problem undertaken by the author is the attempt to answer the question whether new media are properly used as means of self-education supporting general development of a student
Artificial intelligence: a new educational challenge
No full textArtykuł stanowi próbę wyjaśnienia i uporządkowania kwestii związanych z konsekwencjami, jakie generuje rozwój sztucznej inteligencji (SI) dla systemu nauczania. Pojawienie się SI implikuje zmiany zarówno ilościowe jak i jakościowe. Dotykając wielu obszarów życia stanowi wyzwanie zarówno dla całego systemu edukacji. Analiza tego zjawiska w kontekście koniecznych zmian edukacyjnych stanowi ważny i pilny problem. Podejmując go, autor wskazuje na zagrożenia i szanse zarówno w obszarze sposobów jak i treści nauczania, a także samokształcenia. Poprzedzająca działanie refleksja, w tym zakresie, wydaje się warunkiem koniecznym dla właściwej adaptacji systemu nauczania do nowej dynamicznej rzeczywistości.Rapid development of Artificial Intelligence is influencing most of the human’s domains. It impacts our reality in quantitative and qualitative way. This situation is challenging, also for the educational system – in many aspects. Analysis of this situation in the educational context is important and urgent matter. In the article author is attempting to explain and to structure the problem, pointing out, both chances and the threats, of the phenomenon, focusing on the area of educational content the measures
Jeżow – Beria – Sierow a sprawa Polaków. Na szczytach totalitarnej władzy
No full textNikolai Ivanovich Yezhov was Minister (People’s Commissar) of the Interior (NKVD USSR) from 1936 to 1938. In these years falls the period of the so-called Great Terror. Using the hands of Yezhov, Stalin carried out the genocide of his own citizens. Poles – citizens of the USSR – suffered the most. Yezhov was shot. In his place there came Lavrentiy Beria (December 1938). Beria was the second person after Stalin for 15 years. His right hand man was a NKVD General – Serov. From the beginning of World War II until the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, State Security General Ivan Alexandrovich Serov was an active participant in all of the most important events of those years. He was the only person in the Soviet Union to be the head of both the “civilian” Committee of State Security (KGB) and the military Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU). In particular, Serov was responsible for the criminal pacification of Poland after 1944. The author of the article used mainly two priceless documents: The secrets of general Serov’s briefcase. Journals of the first Chairman of KGB. 1939–1963 (Polish: Tajemnice walizki generała Sierowa. Dzienniki pierwszego szefa KGB. 1939–1963). The Polish version was published in 2019. The second document are the memories of Beria’s son – Sergo Beria: Beria, mon pḕre. Au coeur du porvoir stalinien (Polish: Beria mój ojciec. W sercu stalinowskiej władzy, the Polish version was published in 2000). Moreover, the author used: P. Sudoplatov, Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness – A Soviet Spymaster (Polish: Wspomnienia niewygodnego świadka, the Polish version was published in 1999).Nikołaj (Mikołaj) Iwanowicz Jeżow był ministrem (ludowym komisarzem) spraw wewnętrznych (NKWD ZSRR) w latach 1936–1938. Na te lata przypada okres tzw. Wielkiego Terroru. Rękami Jeżowa Stalin przeprowadził ludobójstwo własnych obywateli. Najbardziej ucierpieli Polacy – obywatele ZSRR. Jeżow został rozstrzelany. Na jego miejsce przyszedł (grudzień 1938) Ławrientij Pawłowicz Beria, który przez 15 lat był drugą osobą po Stalinie. Jego prawą ręką był generał NKWD Sierow. Od chwili wybuchu II wojny światowej aż do kryzysu kubańskiego w 1962 r. generał bezpieki Iwan Aleksandrowicz Sierow czynnie uczestniczył w absolutnie wszystkich najważniejszych wydarzeniach tych lat. Sierow był jedyną osobą w Związku Radzieckim, która stała na czele zarówno „cywilnego” Komitetu Bezpieczeństwa Państwowego (KGB), jak i wojskowego Głównego Zarządu Wywiadowczego (GRU). W szczególności to Sierow po 1944 r. przeprowadził zbrodniczą pacyfikację Polski. W artykule wykorzystano głównie dwa bezcenne dokumenty. Są to: The Secrets of General Serov’s Briefcase. Journals of the First Chairman of KGB. 1939–1963 (Tajemnicze walizki generała Sierowa. Dzienniki pierwszego szefa KGB. 1939–1963, polskie wydanie 2019 r.). Drugi dokument to wspomnienia syna Ławrientija Berii – Sergo Berii: Beria, mon pḕre. Au coeur du porvoir stalinien (Beria mój ojciec. W sercu stalinowskiej władzy, polskie wydanie 2000 r.). Ponadto wykorzystano także: P. Sudoplatov, Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness – A Soviet Spymaster (Wspomnienia niewygodnego świadka, polskie wydanie 1999 r.)
David Kldiashvili’s Character Names
No full textეძღვნება თსუ-ს ემერიტუს პროფესორ ლელი ბარამიძის დაბადებიდან 90-ე წლისთავს/ Dedicated to the 90th Birthday of Emeritus Professor of TSU Leli BaramidzeIn classical literature the choice of character names does not seem to be an
automatic, easy process. This is the case with David Kldiashvili’s works as well. Unlike E.
Ninoshvili and G. Tsereteli, David Kldiashvili does not employ any telltale names in his
writings. At first sight, the character names evidenced in his works are ordinary, widespread
Christian names encountered in Imereti region of Georgia: Platon, Kirile,
Aristo, Jimsher… Melano, Elene, Dariko; the family names also sound realistic: Samanishvili,
Miminoshvili, Bregadze, Kamushadze… Thus, picking a specific Christian or
family name for a character does not seem to be essential for D. Kldiashvili. However,
the study of the writer’s manuscripts has proved the opposite: in the process of creating
his works the author often changed character names, he seemed to be in constant
search of suitable names for them. In this reference, Sergo Kldiashvili’s (David Kldiashvili’s
son) memoirs on one of the stories -“Solomon Morbeladze”, are of particular
interest: David Kldiashvili told his son: “I had the plot of the story, but I couldn’t decide
on a name for the main character; that troubled me and hindered me from finishing the
story.” At that time, it happened so, that he heard the family name Morbedadze, that
according to D. Kldiashvili struck him “as a surprise, I modified Morbedadze to Morbeladze,
the family name ‘dragged’ the Christian name Solomon, and the story was
written with ease. It was not just work but a true pleasure!’ It is difficult to say why the
family name Morbeladze ‘dragged’ the Christian name – Solomon, or why the writer
considered this pair to be a perfect match for his character.
Obviously, David Kldiashvili tries to fit names to his characters on the basis of their
personal qualities; as the writer suggests: every character should have “a name of their
own and not a borrowed one”. The given phenomenon triggers a number of questions;
is it plausible to answer them or find any explanation to the above-said? Presumably,
the answers are known to the author…or, more convincingly, to the one “who grants us
inspiration” (Anna Kalandadze)
David Kldiashvili’s Character Names
No full textIn classical literature the choice of character names does not seem to be an automatic, easy process. This is the case with David Kldiashvili’s works as well. Unlike E. Ninoshvili and G. Tsereteli, David Kldiashvili does not employ any telltale names in his writings. At first sight, the character names evidenced in his works are ordinary, widespread Christian names encountered in Imereti region of Georgia: Platon, Kirile, Aristo, Jimsher…Melano, Elene, Dariko; the family names also sound realistic: Samanishvili, Miminoshvili, Bregadze, Kamushadze… Thus, picking a specific Christian or family name for a character does not seem to be essential for D. Kldiashvili. However, the study of the writer’s manuscripts has proved the opposite: in the process of creating his works the author often changed character names, he seemed to be in constant search of suitable names for them. In this reference, Sergo Kldiashvili’s (David Kldiashvili’s son) memoirs on one of the stories -“Solomon Morbeladze”, are of particular interest: David Kldiashvili told his son: “I had the plot of the story, but I couldn’t decide on a name for the main character; that troubled me and hindered me from finishing the story.” At that time, it happened so, that he heard the family name Morbedadze, that according to D. Kldiashvili struck him “as a surprise, I modified Morbedadze to Morbeladze, the family name ‘dragged’ the Christian name Solomon, and the story was written with ease. It was not just work but a true pleasure!’ It is difficult to say why the family name Morbeladze ‘dragged’ the Christian name – Solomon, or why the writer considered this pair to be a perfect match for his character.
Obviously, David Kldiashvili tries to fit names to his characters on the basis of their personal qualities; as the writer suggests: every character should have “a name of their own and not a borrowed one”. The given phenomenon triggers a number of questions; is it plausible to answer them or find any explanation to the above-said? Presumably, the answers are known to the author…or, more convincingly, to the one “who grants us inspiration” (Anna Kalandadze)
Optical characterization of multilayer coating samples
No full textThis paper aims to describe a measurement process studied and applied by the author at CNR IFN - LUXOR laboratories in Padova. The main purpose was to establish the reflectivity performance of some optical mirrors realized with different multilayer technologies. For such devices applications are foreseen in the Metis coronagraph for the ESA Solar Orbiter mission, and in the Free Electron Laser facility in Trieste.
After having studied the bands in which precise reflectance values were needed for the application, measures were took for each sample in the EUV, VIS and NIR range using the facilities available at LUXOR laboratories. The principle of operation of these devices, the structure of the facilities used and the measurement process are going to be described in this paper, then the results will be presented and discussed.
This work was inserted in a more wide sample characterization project which was developed by the LUXOR team. It included reflectance measurements in different spectra, such as Soft-X, and AFM surface analysis, whose data will be presented for completeness.
The aim of these measurements was not only to establish whether some of the samples satisfy the specifications imposed by their application or not, but also to understand which of the multilayer technologies used should possibly be improved and tested for the application. The results, finally, state a performance baseline for the samples, which are going to be exposed to the conditions of their applications (e.g. solar wind in space) in order to establish their performance loose with aging.
\\Questo scritto intende descrivere un processo di misura studiato ed applicato dall'autore ai laboratori LUXOR del CNR IFN. Lo scopo principale era di stabilire le prestazioni in riflettività di specchi ottici realizzati in differenti tecnologie multilayer, e progettati per l'utilizzo nel coronografo Metis, della missione ESA Solar Orbiter, e nella facility Laser ad Elettroni Liberi a Trieste.
Dopo aver studiato le bande nelle quali erano richiesti dall'applicazione precisi valori di riflettività, sono state effettuate misure per ogni campione nelle bande EUV, VIS e NIR utilizzando le facility a disposizione nei laboratori LUXOR. Saranno quindi presentati i principio di funzionamento dei dispositivi, quello delle facility utilizzate nonché il processo di misura, del quale saranno infine presentati e discussi i risultati.
Il lavoro era inserito in un più ampio progetto di caratterizzazione dei campioni, sviluppato dal team LUXOR. Includeva misure di riflettività in differenti bande spettrali, come i Soft-X, e analisi di superficie AFM, i cui dati saranno presentati per completezza.
Il fine di queste misure non era solo di stabilire se alcuni dei campioni soddisfacessero o meno le specifiche imposte dall'applicazione, ma anche di capire quale delle tecnologie usate dovesse eventualmente essere migliorata e testata per l'applicazione. I risultati, infine, stabiliscono una linea di base delle prestazioni dei campioni, che saranno esposti alle condizioni della loro applicazione (per.es. vento solare nello spazio) allo scopo di stabilire la loro perdita in prestazioni dovuta all'invecchiament
Author Correction: Time-to-event analysis mitigates the impact of symptomatic therapy on therapeutic benefit in Parkinson’s disease trials (npj Parkinson\u27s Disease, (2025), 11, 1, (193), 10.1038/s41531-025-01041-9)
No full text\ua9 The Author(s) 2025.Correction to: npj Parkinson’s Disease (2025) 11:193; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41531-025-01041-9; published online 01 July 2025 In this article the PASADENA Investigators member Jan Kassubek was incorrectly written as R. Jan Kassubek. The original article has been corrected
