81 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.
Trapping of sediment in tidal estuaries
No full textAn estuary is an ideal habitat for various aquatic species. At the same time, estuaries and adjacent rivers are used as fast navigation routes between the coastal and inland territories. The fast industrial development and the subsequent growth of cities and trade have led to large-scale anthropogenic alterations of estuarine systems. Estuaries are streamlined and deepened to ensure a safe navigation for larger ships. Dams are constructed to protect the farmland, households and industrial buildings from floods. Moreover, land reclamation, deforestation and various agricultural activities result in higher sediment and freshwater input into estuaries. All these activities lead to fundamental alterations of the hydro- and sediment dynamics, mixing and circulation processes within estuarine systems. An estuarine system, taken out of its natural balance, is always trying to restore this equilibrium or reach a new balance. This can result in, for example, an increased siltation such that the estuarine depth has to be constantly maintained via annual dredging activities. Engineering interventions are expensive and they create a substantial load on the local ecosystem, because a biological system cannot readjust to new conditions within a short period of time. Hence, these activities pose many problems from both the ecological and economic point of view. A proper understanding of estuarine processes is essential to minimize the negative consequences of human influence and to develop a long-term restoration and development plan for many problematic estuaries. The main objective of the thesis is to investigate physical mechanisms in the along-estuary direction that result in the trapping of suspended sediment in partially and well mixed tidal estuaries and to analyze the influence of individual mechanisms on the trapping location.Mathematical PhysicsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Исследование уровня развития этнического самосознания учащихся Гомельской и Гродненской областей
No full textChernetsky, A. V. Study of the level of development of ethnic self-awareness of students in the Gomel and Grodno region
Between the Poetic and the Documentary: Ukrainian Cinema’s Responses to World War II
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript
Travels Through Heterotopia: The Textual Realms of Patrick Modiano's Rue des Boutiques Obscures and Mikhail Kuraev's Kapitan Dikshtein
No full textWithin contemporary prose, one distinct mode or paradigm that can be discerned is constituted by the texts that daringly tackle the dark, suppressed, erased parts of our history and mentality; however, they approach this task not by way of self-righteous denunciatory investigations, but by provocatively problematizing the most established everyday facts, by depriving the reader of the possibility of even conceiving any firm ground of the stable construct of an origin or a self-identification—historically and culturally. Their irreverent and playful deconstruction of the all-pervasive national cultural mythologies has mounted a powerful challenge to ideological constructs big and small. This article considers two representative examples of texts of this kind, which the author proposes to call heterotopic: Patrick Modiano's Rue des Boutiques Obscures and Mikhail Kuraev's Kapitan Dikshtein . It offers an attempt at defining this paradigm through a reading of these two novels, drawing upon Michel Foucault's usage of the term "heterotopia" for the purpose of designating the "other" cultural spaces of our civilization, as well as on Deleuze and Guattari's concept of "minor literature" and the work of several other theorists. The texts of the kind exemplified by these two novels are considered as an instance of successful partaking in the project of cognitive mapping, which has been proposed by Fredric Jameson and others as the positive political edge of postmodern culture
The effect of tidal asymmetry and temporal settling lag on sediment trapping in tidal estuaries
No full textOver decades and centuries, the mean depth of estuaries changes due to sea-level rise, land subsidence, infilling, and dredging projects. These processes produce changes in relative roughness (friction) and mixing, resulting in fundamental changes in the characteristics of the horizontal (velocity) and vertical tides (sea surface elevation) and the dynamics of sediment trapping. To investigate such changes, a 2DV model is developed. The model equations consist of the widthaveraged shallow water equations and a sediment balance equation. Together with the condition of morphodynamic equilibrium, these equations are solved analytically by making a regular expansion of the various physical variables in a small parameter. Using these analytic solutions, we are able to gain insight into the fundamental physical processes resulting in sediment trapping in an estuary by studying various forcings separately. As a case study, we consider the Ems estuary. Between 1980 and 2005, successive deepening of the Ems estuary has significantly altered the tidal and sediment dynamics. The tidal range and the surface sediment concentration has increased and the position of the turbidity zone has shifted into the freshwater zone. The model is used to determine the causes of these historical changes. It is found that the increase of the tidal amplitude toward the end of the embayment is the combined effect of the deepening of the estuary and a 37% and 50% reduction in the vertical eddy viscosity and stress parameter, respectively. The physical mechanism resulting in the trapping of sediment, the number of trapping regions, and their sensitivity to grain size are explained by careful analysis of the various contributions of the residual sediment transport. It is found that sediment is trapped in the estuary by a delicate balance between the M2 transport and the residual transport for fine sediment (ws = 0.2 mm s?1) and the residual, M2 and M4 transports for coarser sediment (ws = 2 mm s?1). The upstream movement of the estuarine turbidity maximum into the freshwater zone in 2005 is mainly the result of changes in tidal asymmetry.Moreover, the difference between the sediment distribution for different grain sizes in the same year can be attributed to changes in the temporal settling lag.Delft Institute of Applied MathematicsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
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
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 textSome features of logistics business management under wartime conditions (LLC “Western container terminal” as a case study)
No full textОб’єктом дослідження виступає господарська діяльність підприємства ТОВ «Західний контейнерний термінал», а предметом дослідження є взаємозв’язки між різноманітними суб’єктами господарювання в контексті здійснення управління логістичним бізнесом підприємства ТОВ «Західний контейнерний термінал» в умовах війни.
Метою даної кваліфікаційної роботи є дослідження особливостей управління логістичним бізнесом українських підприємств в умовах війни із рф, а також визначення можливостей зростання ефективності логістичної системи підприємств в сучасних умовах їх функціонування та розвитку.
У кваліфікаційній роботі представлено загальну характеристику управління логістичним бізнесом в умовах війни, здійсненого аналіз практики управління логістичним бізнесом в умовах війни на підприємстві ТОВ «Західний контейнерний термінал», запропоновано шляхи удосконалення управління логістичним бізнесом підприємства ТОВ «Західний контейнерний термінал» в умовах війни. В роботі представлено особливості організації охорони праці та безпеки життєдіяльності на підприємствіThe object of the research is the economic activity of the LLC «Western
Container Terminal» enterprise, and the subject of the research is the
interrelationships between various business entities in the context of managing the
logistics business of the LLC «Western Container Terminal» enterprise in wartime
conditions.
The purpose of this research is to study the peculiarities of Ukrainian logistics
enterprises’ management in the conditions of the war russian federation started
against Ukraine, as well as to determine the possibilities of increasing the efficiency
of enterprises’ logistics system in the modern conditions of their operation and
development.
The qualification paper presents the general characteristics of logistics
business management in wartime, conducted an analysis of the practice of logistics
business management in wartime at Western Container Terminal LLC, and
suggested ways to improve logistics business management of Western Container
Terminal LLC in wartime. The work presents the peculiarities of the organization of
labor protection and life safety at the enterprise.ВСТУП..5
РОЗДІЛ 1. ЗАГАЛЬНА ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКА УПРАВЛІННЯ ЛОГІСТИЧНИМ БІЗНЕСОМ В УМОВАХ ВІЙНИ..9
1.1. Логістика як ключовий чинник функціонування підприємства у воєнних умовах..9
1.2. Особливості формування логістичних ланцюгів підприємства в умовах війни..16
1.3. Управління ризиками реалізації логістичних операцій в умовах війни..23
Висновки до розділу 1..28
РОЗДІЛ 2. ПРАКТИКА УПРАВЛІННЯ ЛОГІСТИЧНИМ БІЗНЕСОМ В УМОВАХ ВІЙНИ (НА ПРИКЛАДІ ПІДПРИЄМСТВА ТОВ «ЗАХІДНИЙ КОНТЕЙНЕРНИЙ ТЕРМІНАЛ»)..29
2.1. Загальна організаційно-економічна характеристика діяльності підприємства ТОВ «Західний контейнерний термінал»..29
2.2. Особливості організації логістичної діяльності та специфіка побудови логістичної системи підприємства..38
2.3. Оцінка ефективності побудови логістичних ланцюгів на підприємстві..47
Висновки до розділу 2..55
РОЗДІЛ 3. ШЛЯХИ УДОСКОНАЛЕННЯ УПРАВЛІННЯ ЛОГІСТИЧНИМ БІЗНЕСОМ ПІДПРИЄМСТВА ТОВ «ЗАХІДНИЙ КОНТЕЙНЕРНИЙ ТЕРМІНАЛ» В УМОВАХ ВІЙНИ..58
3.1. Механізми управління логістичними ризиками на підприємстві ТОВ «Західний контейнерний термінал»..58
3.2. Розробка стратегії логістичного обслуговування на підприємстві ТОВ «Західний контейнерний термінал»..64
3.3. Оптимізація рівня обслуговування споживачів логістичних послуг на підприємстві ТОВ «Західний контейнерний термінал»..72
Висновки до розділу 3..79
РОЗДІЛ 4. ОХОРОНА ПРАЦІ ТА БЕЗПЕКА ЖИТТЄДІЯЛЬНОСТІ НА ПІДПРИЄМСТВІ ТОВ «ЗАХІДНИЙ КОНТЕЙНЕРНИЙ ТЕРМІНАЛ»..81
4.1. Охорона праці на підприємстві ТОВ «Західний контейнерний термінал»..81
4.2. Підвищення стійкості підприємств логістичного бізнесу під час надзвичайних ситуацій..84
Висновки до розділу 4..86
ВИСНОВКИ..87
СПИСОК ВИКОРИСТАНИХ ДЖЕРЕЛ..91
ДОДАТКИ..9
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
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