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Staging the Sochi Winter Olympics 2014 on Russia Today and BBC World News : From soft power to geopolitical crisis
No full textThis article compares how Russia Today (RT) and BBC World News (BBCWN) interacted with audiences on their social media platforms during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. From the outset, the sporting events were overshadowed by tensions between Russia and ‘western’ nations over human rights. By the time the Sochi Games closed, the world had plunged into one of the gravest geopolitical crises since the Cold War – the confrontation over Russia’s annexation of Crimea, following dramatic regime change in Ukraine. This confrontation led to a disruption of the carefully orchestrated strategies of RT and BBCWN for staging the Games. The collision of a soft power spectacle and geopolitical crisis was most acutely felt and apparent at the interface between international broadcasting and social media where dissonant and dissenting discursive regimes clashed. This geopolitical standoff brought prior international tensions to a head as BBCWN struggled to manage the transition from a celebratory global media event to a geopolitical crisis. Unimpeded by established media conventions, RT’s approach to the transition was to attack and repudiate ‘western’ media and political discourses. RT, while loathed and despised in western media circles as a crude propagandistic news channel, has proved to be particularly adept in its uses of social media at times of global political events. The article sheds light on RT’s appeal to international audiences interested in counter-hegemonic assaults on ‘western’ media and political debate, and suggests directions for future research. It argues that RT thrives in a 24-hour news environment in which global crises become subject to rumours, counter-rumours and unverified accounts superseding one another in a cauldron of conflicting information and unanswered questions - fertile territory for RT’s conspiratorial ethos.Peer reviewe
New program with new approach for spectral data analysis
No full textThis article presents a high-throughput computer program, called EasyDD, for batch processing, analyzing and visualizing of spectral data; particularly those related to the new generation of synchrotron detectors and X-ray powder diffraction applications. This computing tool is designed for the treatment of large volumes of data in reasonable time with affordable computational resources. A case study in which this program was used to process and analyze powder diffraction data obtained from the ESRF synchrotron on an alumina-based nickel nanoparticle catalysis system is also presented for demonstration. The development of this computing tool, with the associated protocols, is inspired by a novel approach in spectral data analysis
Life-Threatening Sochi Virus Infections, Russia
No full textSochi virus was recently identified as a new hantavirus genotype carried by the Black Sea field mouse, Apodemus ponticus. We evaluated 62 patients in Russia with Sochi virus infection. Most clinical cases were severe, and the case-fatality rate was as high as 14.5%
Les Jeux Politiques de Sochi
No full textLa présence de Ban Ki Moon à la cérémonie d'ouverture des Jeux Olympiques à Sochi a eu de quoi suprendre. Alors que plusieurs chefs d'Etats ont décliné l'invitation pour marquer leur désapprobation à l'égard de la politique discriminatoire menée par Moscou à l'égard des personnes homosexuelles, pourquoi le Secrétaire Général de l'ONU fait-il le déplacement ? L'organisation globale cède-t-elle une fois de plus sous le poids de la géopolitique ? Certains commentateurs ne manquent pas de rappele..
Les Jeux Politiques de Sochi
No full textLa présence de Ban Ki Moon à la cérémonie d'ouverture des Jeux Olympiques à Sochi a eu de quoi suprendre. Alors que plusieurs chefs d'Etats ont décliné l'invitation pour marquer leur désapprobation à l'égard de la politique discriminatoire menée par Moscou à l'égard des personnes homosexuelles, pourquoi le Secrétaire Général de l'ONU fait-il le déplacement ? L'organisation globale cède-t-elle une fois de plus sous le poids de la géopolitique ? Certains commentateurs ne manquent pas de rappele..
THE PAGES OF THE MODERN SOVIETOLOGY OF SOCHI
No full textВ обзоре показаны наиболее существенные результаты работы отечественных ученых в сфере исторического краеведения г. Сочи на советском этапе российской истории. Констатируется, что удачные попытки проанализировать макропроцессы советской истории в локусе микроистории свидетельствуют о начале нового этапа в сочинском краеведении.The most essential results of operation of domestic scientists are shown in the review in the sphere of historical study of local lore of Sochi at the Soviet stage of the Russian history. It is stated that successful attempts to analyze macroprocesses of Soviet history in a locus of microhistory testify to the beginning of a new stage in the Sochi study of local lore
Tensor Calculus
No full textThese notes are the second part of the tensor calculus
documents which started with the previous set of introductory notes (see T.
Sochi, Introduction to Tensor Calculus, arXiv:1603.01660, 2016). In the present
text, we continue the discussion of selected topics of the subject at a higher
level expanding, when necessary, some topics and developing further concepts
and techniques. Unlike the previous notes which are largely based on a
Cartesian approach, the present notes are essentially based on assuming an
underlying general curvilinear coordinate system
Production of fine particles with an infrared laser
No full text20.00; Translated from Japanese (Kagaku Sochi 1988 (Nov) p. 46-52)Available from British Library Document Supply Centre- DSC:9022.381(HSE-Trans--13783)T / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo
Letter, [Author unclear] to Paulina T. Merritt
No full textHandwritten letter to Paulina Merritt from an unknown author, October 1, 1876.
Questions of Immunization in Preparation for the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi
Get PDFThe data for the immunization of the population of Sochi resort and the staff during preparation for the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi are presented. The characteristics of the organization of the different vaccination groups of operating personnel and the public during major events are analyzed. The conclusion about the effectiveness of the work done to reduce the incidence of immunocorrelated infections in the region of Sochi
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