40 research outputs found
The end of the “time of the streets”: temporality in the life course of a Russian ex-gangster
No full textWe present the analysis of two biographical narratives by Tzigan, an ex-gangster from the Russian city of Kazan. Using the methodological approaches developed in qualitative longitudinal research, we explore his journey in and out of the gang as a part of the collective biography of a generation that came of age at a time of catastrophic collapse of the Soviet social order and a difficult transition to market economy, and who elected to join the alternative social order of street gangs. His decision to leave the gang was also conditioned by the macro-changes in the post-Soviet society, which reverberated through the world of the streets. We address the different times in Tsigan’s life – his childhood, youth and adulthood, his time on the streets, his decision to leave the gang and his reflexions and memories of his past as reconstructed through the narratives presented at two different points of his biography. We show how his memory of the time in the gang has dramatically changed between the first and the second interviews, as he looked retrospectively on his former self from the vantage point of his current law-abiding life. In our analysis, we use the theoretical and conceptual framework of sociology of time and processual sociology and Bakhtin’s concept of chronotope
Identification of the Model of the Dynamic System of a Milling Machine Based on the Study of Vibroacoustic Characteristics
No full textIn this paper, the authors propose a method for ensuring the reliability of the computational model intended for the study of dynamic processes in technological cutting systems. The advantage of using 3D models in CAD/CAM/CAE systems for solving such problems is shown. The method of conducting an experimental study to identify the calculated model by natural frequencies is justified. The method is proposed for adjusting the 3D model in order to ensure that the dynamic pattern occurring during cutting corresponds to experimental processes. The authors give a concrete example of solving the problem of identifying the computational model of the dynamic system of a milling machine. An example of solving the applied problem of optimizing cutting modes in terms of vibration resistance parameters using the identified computational model is also given
Capitalizing on Change: Gangs, Ideology, and the Transition to a Liberal Economy in the Russian Federation
No full textIn Memory of a Friend
No full textThe article is dedicated to the memory of Rustem Sultanovich Gabyashev (1941-2010), an outstanding Kazan archeologist. He was one of the renowned experts in the Mesolithic and the Neolithic of the Volga-Kama region. The author, the researcher’s colleague and friend, narrates about his scientific and, first of all, expedition activities, offers some biographical data and characterizes his personal qualitie
Co-aligning user-centered design and software engineering courses: A case study
No full textIntroducing students to different perspectives and roles in the development process allows them to engage in the work of cross-disciplinary diverse teams and even can enable them to change roles in designer-developer interactions. Industry work often places recent graduates in preexisting polarized relationship dynamics between different participants in the design and development process. This paper describes a two-stage attempt at co-alignment of software engineering and user-centered design courses: from full alignment with topic intersections and joint project to partial alignment through separate activities. We discuss challenges of both ways including time or technical constraints, increased effort from the program developers and instructors, students' and instructors' frustrations. We finalize by describing benefits of providing students with early experience identifying trade-offs between design requirements and architecture and opportunities for diverse group with different background in computer science.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Internet of Thing
Mehmed Senai: A Crimean Historian at Sarai of Khan Islam Giray »
No full textThe article is devoted to the creative work of Mehmed Senai – the Crimean chronicler at the serai of the khan Islam Geray III, as well as his chronicle “Tarih-i Islam Geray khan” (“History of the khan Islam Geray III”, 1651). The researcher gives biographical information about the author and a brief description of the source. The identity of the writer is defined and based on the text of the Preface to the Chronicle: background, education, position, religious status. The meaning of the pseudonym of Senai is under the study, the text of the chronogram in which it occurs is reproduced. Especially noted thing is the originality of the artistic structure of the Chronicle “Tarih-i Islam Geray khan”.The Chronicle “Tarih-i Islam Geray khan” is the panegyric to the Crimean khan Islam Geray whose reign represents the brilliant epoch in the history of the Crimean Khanate. The writing consists of the ceremonies of public appointments, episodes of military campaigns and making treaties, the text of khan Islam Geray’s pedigree (shejere), construction and repair of buildings.
There is the brief information about the Chronicle and about M. Senai in “Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum” (1888). The primary work on writing was conducted by Polish orientalists who prepared the edition of the original text, its translation and processing, backed with comments.
At the time of writing the Chronicle, Mehmed Senai was in his old age, he served as the kadi (religious judge). In his youth he worked as munshi (decorator of papers) in the khan’s office. He got education in the Ottoman Empire, and was engaged in the implementation of diplomatic correspondence. The prospect of identification of the author on the basis of other sources is important to clarify the hypothesis of identifying M. Senai with such Crimean Tatar author as Dzhanmuhammed.
The Chronıcle’s plot consists of the diary notes on the military expeditions, eyewitness accounts (including those of the author). The author of the work focuses the historical events of 1648–1651 covering the Crimean Tatar-Ukrainian-Polish relations. The bulk of the official documents used by Senai was narrow. Details and brevity in the coverage of events indicates that certain materials were available to the author, while others were unavailable.
The aesthetic peculiarities of the Chronicle are also notable as well as historical. The author created the vivid images of the central characters in the writing – Islam Geray, Sefer Gazi aga and Tugay bey. The work is characterized by the use of various expressive means for the purpose of idealization of the images and emotional perception of characters and events
PRE-ISLAMIC WORLD VIEWS OF THE KAZAKH PEOPLE: FROM THE END OF THE 19TH TO THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY
No full textThis article analyses the problems of the traditional world views and beliefs of the Kazakh people. The main purpose of the article is to show the features of such cultural phenomena as âreligious syncretismâ and âhybrid worldviewâ. The author pays attention to the cosmogonic and cosmological beliefs, the perception and feeling of place and time, religious consciousness and national identity, folk customs and traditions, cultural branding. The farming and cattle-breeding practices in the harsh climatic conditions of wide steppe spaces influenced the formation of a special type of culture and unique worldview. In the long history of the nomadic peoples who inhabited the Eurasian steppes, the history of the development of the religious worldview occupies a special place. Being in the crossroad of civilization, Central Asia has been a region of interaction between different world religious traditions, such as Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Christianity (in their earliest forms as Nestorianism), ManiÑhaiesm, and Islam. However, the Kazakh people did not break ties with nature due to their way of life, so peopleâs beliefs and superstitions were based on the animistic, totemistic beliefs and magic. The author concludes that the cornerstone of the entire system of worldview was the faith in the opportunity to transform the world for the good of peopleâs traditions and it was reflected in the special rites, traditions, and practices
Transport Properties of Mixed-Matrix Membranes: A Kinetic Monte Carlo Study
No full textKinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations are used to study transport of guest molecules in a two-phase medium in which the minority phase forms closed regions. This type of model system resembles compositions of mixed-matrix membranes (MMMs) made of a matrix and imbedded filler particles with different permeabilities. Based on an ideal filler-matrix composite morphology as defined in [H. Vinh-Thang, S. Kaliaguine, Chem. Rev. 113, 4980, 2013], the effects of the filler-particle volume fraction, particle size, shape (aspect ratio), and the spatial particle distribution on gas transport through MMMs are addressed. The results obtained for nonoverlapping and randomly placed spherical filler particles are found to be in good agreement with the analytical models available in the literature and have proven their good accuracy also for thin membranes where finite-size effects are expected to play an appreciable role. Furthermore, the prominent influence of the aspect ratio for nonspherical particles on the effective permeability is shown and scenarios are discussed where the alignment of the asymmetric filler particles give rise to anisotropic transport properties potentially favorable for the performance of MMMs. The KMC approach developed guides the optimal spatial arrangement and orientation of the filler particles for the different strategies to increase the membrane permeability and separation selectivity by transport enhancement or inhibition.ChemE/Catalysis Engineerin
Liberation of classes and liberation of nations
No full textThe urgency of an issue is caused by modern scientific and public interest in a role of ethno-confessional question in the first parliament of Russia – the State Duma of 1906-1917.
The article aims to show that the Duma of the first two convocations in 1906-1907 played a noticeable role not only in the class struggle, as it was widely covered in the literature, but also was clear in ethno-political process of multi-ethnic Russia. Based on the systematic, statutory and regulatory and statistical methods the author traces as special Election Rules from outlying regions (1905-1906) with the low level of representation, especially from non-Russian population group, and territorial and ethnic districts that created as a result new ethno-political geography of the Russian Empire.
The author concludes that despite these restrictions, the non-Russian peoples’ representation in the First and Second Duma was very noticeable that allowed to organize the Duma ethno-confessional factions. These factions and groups legally demonstrated ethnical, confessional and regional interests and tried to join in legislative process with requirements of ethnic and confessional groups equality, restoration of an autonomy of Poland and development of local governance, the court and the school in national languages.peer-reviewe
