Scientific Reception Research Articles

The political aspect of the ‘freedom’ concept in Pavlo Vyshebaba’s work

The object of the research in this article is the poetic texts of the contemporary Ukrainian military poet Pavlo Vyshebaba. The purpose of the article is to interpret the manifestation of the concept of freedom in the work of this poet. The author focuses on the political aspect of the concept of freedom, so he primarily analyzes Pavlo Vyshebaba’s work from this perspective. In the course of the study, the author also analyzes the works of military poets Kateryna “Bird” Polishchuk and Borys Humeniuk. This is done to compare the manifestations of the concept of freedom by these authors and to better understand the works of Pavlo Vyshebaba. In order to scientifically substantiate the political aspect of freedom, this article draws on the philosophical work of Dmytro Dontsov, in particular the ideas of nationalism and its fundamental principles. In particular, to clarify the terminology, the article uses Dmytro Dontsov’s “vlasnovladnist”. To achieve the purpose of the article, contextual analysis and biographical methods were used. The relevance of the article is due to the social need to realize the value of freedom in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The novelty of the study is determined by the chosen aspect of the consideration of the lyrics of a contemporary poet, the scientific reception of whose work is generally limited. According to the results of the study, Pavlo Vyshebaba regards the concept of freedom in the political plane. It has been found that the concept of freedom in his work encompasses personal responsibility, a higher purpose, preservation and development of cultural and historical heritage. Freedom for Pavlo Vyshebaba is “freedom from” and “freedom for”. In political terms, the last is the establishment of statehood, and the first is freedom from invaders. Pavlo Vyshebaba also has a personal understanding of freedom as an opportunity for creativity. Further prospects for the study are related to the analysis of a representative sample of contemporary military poets and poets who write about war to draw more thorough conclusions about the ideas of political freedom in Ukrainian culture as a fundamental factor in the formation of the nation.

Claude Bernard's non reception of Darwinism.

The aim of this paper is to explain why, while Charles Darwin was well recognized as a scientific leader of his time, Claude Bernard never really regarded Darwinism as a scientific theory. The lukewarm reception of Darwin at the Académie des Sciences of Paris and his nomination to a chair only after 8years contrasts with his prominence, and Bernard's attitude towards Darwin's theory of species evolution belongs to this French context. Yet we argue that Bernard rejects the scientific value of Darwinian principles mainly for epistemological reasons. Like Darwin, Bernard was interested in hereditary processes, and planned to conduct experiments on these processes that could lead to species transformation. But the potential creation of new forms of life would not vindicate Darwinism since biologists can only explain the origin of morphotypes and morphological laws by the means of untestable analogies. Because it can be the object neither of experiments nor of any empirical observation, phylogeny remains out of science's scope. Around 1878 Bernard foresaw a new general physiology based on the study of protoplasm, which he saw as the agent of all basic living phenomena. We will analyze why Bernard regarded Darwinism as part of metaphysics, yet still referred to Darwinians in his latter works in 1878. Basically, the absence of a scientific reception of Darwinism in Bernard's work should not obscure its philosophical reception, which highlights the main principles of Bernard's epistemology.

ARTISTIC REPORT IN THE STRUCTURE OF «FICTION ON A SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND» BY DOKIA GUMENNA: FROM ORIGIN TO IMPLEMENTATION

The article examines the specifics of Dokia Humenna’s reporting integration of scientific material collected by archaeologists at different times in the lands of Ukraine into the artistic structure of her «fiction on a scientific background». Attention is drawn to the writer’s reading preferences, first literary attempts, work as a reporter, ethnographer, participation in archaeological expeditions, extensive preparatory work in libraries, which are the basis of her science fiction works on historical topics. The author’s definitions of genre belonging to the works and the analysis of their scientific reception are analyzed. It was concluded that the essayistic reporting component of the works on the historical past is significant due to the subjectivity of the interpretation of known phenomena of the past, the inconsistency of the presentation, the arbitrariness of the flow of speech, the open «non-linearity», and it was concluded that the author achieved her goal – to cause a resonance among scientists who began to check artistic works on scientific credibility, thereby attracting the interest of a wide range of readers. It is proposed to consider her essays, fairy tales, novels, novels, printed in the second half of the 20th century, as a kind of artistic reports from the «production sites» of archaeologists, historians’ offices, and historical museums. It is proven that the writer was able to integrate scientific works on archeology and history of Ukraine, in accordance with her creative plan, into the text to cover the events of the 1930s in Ukraine. For the first time, we brought up the question of the reportage of Dokia Gumenna’s prose and proposed to study her work from such a point of view, especially when studying the topic of «reportage».

DIGITAL HUMANITIES IN SCIENTIFIC DIMENSIONS

The article is devoted to the outlining the features and prospects of scientific perception of the problems of digital humanities. The concept of digital humanities in diachronic and synchronous scientific reception is considered, the main functional advantages of digital humanities in the context of rethinking existing scientific achievements and in the context of forming new transdisciplinary scientific paradigms are determined. It is defiined that the digital humanities significantly expands the operational capabilities of research through the use of digital tools that create the preconditions for the formation of various automated classifications; to trace hierarchical connections, multilevel correlations, interactions between phenomena that are the objects of humanitarian research, etc. It was found that, depending on the specific goals and objectives, digital humanities projects can be implemented using a variety of digital tools, including the creation of space-time, visual projections, data processing in quantitative and qualitative parameters. The implementation of digital projects involves various forms of their presentation as individual sites, applications, online search resources, various databases, user-created content, data visualization, immersive objects and spaces, interactive documents. It is determined that the concept of transdisciplinarity forms the theoretical basis for the productive use of information and educational resources aimed at forming a single information and educational environment. Transdisciplinary ontologies of knowledge systems are considered as important means of creating network-centric cognitive services that provide analysis, structuring, selection of information according to certain criteria, which allows its further interpretation and application taking into account diverse structural relationships.

Media Culture as the Information Age Phenomenon

The article raises the issues of scientific reception of such a phenomenon as media culture. The authors offer their interpretation of media culture as a special type of culture of the information society in the broadest understanding of this phenomenon. The authors consider the concepts of media and culture and establishes their functional corresponddence. The contemporary stage of media development is characterized by a combination of communication and information intentions: classical media and mass communication media, including new media, blogs, social networks, as well as digital copies of non-network artifacts and their network modifications. The result of these media communications is a media text in the broadest interpretation of this concept. According to the authors concept, contemporary media culture realizes itself in two main aspects. In the applied sense, a media culture is a form of representation and digitalization of classical and network cultural units. In the global sense, media culture is understood as an aesthetic and axiological sphere of societys life, in which culture combines the value and artistic heritage, using the information and communication channels of the media for its representation in politics, education, and culture itself.

Thinking ET: A discussion of exopsychology

Despite lacking scientific proof, thinking about extraterrestrials and extraterrestrial intelligence is part of our psychological reality. It is often stated that cultural and scientific reception and representation of these strange entities suffer from anthropocentric bias. To profoundly investigate such bias and the minds of extraterrestrials, we propose a revised definition for the psychological discipline called “exopsychology.” We define exopsychology as a sub-discipline of psychology, which investigates the cognition, behavior, affects, and motives of extraterrestrial agents and their human-specific representation. It is argued that the concept of intelligence is not suited for application in SETI. Thus, inherent in exopsychology is the conception of extraterrestrials as higher-order cognitive agents and as strangest strangers. We discuss the possibilities and limitations of conclusions about extraterrestrials, which leads us to hypothesize that limited statements about them might be possible, even though still influenced by anthropocentrism. We argue that it is possible to utilize anthropocentric knowledge and distinguish between admissible and inadmissible anthropocentrism. Although the first contact between extraterrestrials and humanity might never occur, scientific thinking about extraterrestrials will improve our understanding of ourselves and our place in the universe.

The Study of Growth and Performance in Local Chicken Breeds and Varieties: A Review of Methods and Scientific Transference.

Simple SummaryThe present review evaluates twenty years (2001 to 2021) of the study of growth and performance in local chicken breeds worldwide. The assessment of methodological approaches and their constraints when intending to fit for data derived from often endangered autochthonous populations was performed. The evaluation of conditioning factors on the impact that publications reporting on research progresses in the field have on the scientific community and how such advances are valued suggests the need to seek new methodological alternatives or statistical strategies. Such strategies must meet the requirements of local populations which are characterized by reduced censuses, a lack of data structure, highly skewed sex ratios, and a large interbreed and variety variability. The sustainable conservation of these populations cannot be approached if scientific knowledge on their productive behaviour is not reinforced in a manner that allows distinctive products to be put on the market and be competitive.A review of the scientific advances in the study of the growth and performance in native chicken breeds and varieties over the past 20 years was performed. Understanding the growth patterns of native breeds can only be achieved if the constraints characterizing these populations are considered and treated accordingly. Contextually, the determination of researchers to use the same research methods and study designs applied in international commercial poultry populations conditions the accuracy of the model, variability capturing ability, and the observational or predictive performance when the data of the local population are fitted. Highly skewed sex ratios favouring females, an inappropriate census imbalance compensation and a lack of population structure render models that are regularly deemed effective as invalid to issue solid and sound conclusions. The wider the breed diversity is in a country, the higher the scientific attention paid to these populations. A detailed discussion of the most appropriate models and underlying reasons for their suitability and the reasons preventing the use of others in these populations is provided. Furthermore, the factors conditioning the scientific reception and impact of related publications used to transfer these results to the broad scientific public were evaluated to serve as guidance for the maximization of the success and dissemination of local breed information.

LITERARY FEATURES OF THE COMIC GENRE IN ARKADY AVERCHENKO’S WORKS DURING HIS EMIGRATION TO EUROPE

The article analyzes some aspects of life and features of the work of the worldfamous satirist writer of the beginning of the last century Arkady Averchenko at the last stage of his emigration – during his staying in Europe, in particular, in the Czech Republic. The themes and motives of the writer’s works of this period of emigration, the characteristics of the characters, the main means of creating comic, changing the ideological direction and content of his writing in accordance with changes in worldview and understanding of events in the world such as the socio-political situation in the Bolshevik Russia and drastic changes in the lives of emigrants, who were forced to start a new, rather difficult, life, arriving in Europe after the October coup of 1917. The genre peculiarities of the European period of Arkady Averchenko’s work of 1922 – 1925 are determined. Despite the general satirical orientation of the writer, his previous humorous aesthetics remains relevant in the creative work of the writer. Thus, the collection «Children» published in 1922 is marked by sensitivity in the depiction of child psychology. However, the leading style remains tragicomic, which best realizes the motive of troubles of emigrants abroad. It takes place in a general atmosphere of nostalgia and longing for the lost homeland, a reappraisal of values caused by social upheavals, and an understanding of Russia’s destruction. The article considers the scientific reception of worldview changes in the emigration period of A. Averchenko in the studies of foreign and native scholars, as well as the phenomena of his work as the main dominants of the continuation of literary and artistic traditions. The creative phenomenon of Averchenko’s prediction of the future was noted, in particular, predicting the foreign policy strategy of the Soviet state, which was set out to consist of the capture of other countries or uncivilized interference in their lives.

A. Averchenko’s works of the emigration period: development of the comic genre

The article examines the elements of the comic and their development in the writer’s works in accordance with changes of mood and life circumstances, clarifies the basic terms in this field of literature, means and methods of creating the comic, the relationship of dichotomous elements of the comic and tragic in his stories, analyses some of the author’s favourite literary images and features of his story. Based on a wide range of subjects of study of A. Averchenko’s works, covering the evolution of his views, mood swings, motives and themes of works – stories and feuilletons, as well as certain periods of creativity, including exile and emigration, the purpose of the article is analysis of scientific reception development of the comic genre in A. Averchenko’s works of the emigration period. It is determined that researchers divide the writer’s work into mainly humorous (pre-revolutionary period) and mainly satirical (postrevolutionary period), by genre varieties – everyday stories and humoresques devoted to the surrounding reality; stories, the plot of which is often created by the author’s imagination (with grotesque, hyperbole, caricature); to create a comic writer skilfully uses appropriate tools and techniques – irony, sarcasm, compositional, descriptive and narrative features; works of this period the context of tragedy is formed, in which the comic acquires other forms – black humour and tragicomic; the genre of satire is developing in his works, which characterizes the new literature. It is concluded that the peculiarities of the scientific reception of A. Averchenko’s works should reveal not only the significance of his works in the general development of literature, not only his place among famous satirists, but also their features within the general problem of small narrative genre, in particular comic poetics stories and feuilletons.

Regulation of state publishing

Thepurposeofthearticleistoanalyzethenationallegislationontheregulation of state policy in the publishing industry of Ukraine and to form conclusions on the improvement of legislation on the regulation of relations in the field of publishing. To characterize the main sections of the study, the authors set themselves the goal to substantiate the current areas of restructuring of state regulation of relations in the field of publishing and analyze the features of the scientific reception of the problem of interaction between the state and the publishing industry. Methodology. The methodology of work consists in the use of the dialectical method of cognition of state and legal phenomena, the formal-dogmatic method, the structural-functional method, the method of comparative-legal research, the comparative-historical method. These research methods made it possible to analyze the peculiarities of the publishing system in the country and to investigate the state of legal regulation of publishing for the period of independence of Ukraine. The scientific novelty of the obtained results is that the main legal acts on the regulation of publishing are characterized, the main legislative, economic and cultural problems of national book publishing at the present stage are identified, the statistics of publishing production in Ukrainianand Russian are studied. The basic principles of regulating the activity of publishing houses are also highlighted, the main ones being the freedom and abolition of censorship, independence from central and local political and state bodies. Conclusions. In order to unquestionably provide constitutional guarantees for freedom of speech in Ukraine, free expression of views and beliefs, as well as to continue the process of improving the legislative support of the publishing sphere, conducting a policy of book publishing support, promoting a positive image of the state, legislation, international legal standards, the European Convention on Human Rights.

First-Hand and Second-Hand Scientific Reception of the European Mathematic in the Edo Period (1603–1867) Japan through Chinese Translations

First-Hand and Second-Hand Scientific Reception of the European Mathematic in the Edo Period (1603–1867) Japan through Chinese Translations

Partimento as a research object in the 21st century musicology

In the 18th century, the Italian clavier tradition of partimento was widespread in Europe. It is being considered as a research object only from the end of the 20th century, and nowadays it is being explored by scholars from the various countries. Despite the ongoing increase in the number of publications on the partimento, its general idea is still ambiguous because of the complexity of the practice. Today the existence of its different interpretations (from the hyperbolization of its significance in the music of the eighteenth century to its denial) calls for the need to turn to the features of the scientific reception of partimento. In the works of the researchers, the practice is shown from the various aspects. The main discrepancies are related to the comprehension of the problem of the phenomenon of partimento. They extend from the discussion of the etymology to the comprehension of the peculiarities of the practice: the correlation of its instructive and artistic nature; features of improvised and composed music; its connection with basso continuo. The article highlights the most controversial issues connected with the understanding of the partimento.

The scientific reception of R. Ivanychuk’s historical novels

The scientific reception of R. Ivanychuk’s historical novels

Poetry Writing of Ukrainians in the Early 21th Century Italy in Olena Hinda’s Scientific Reception

Poetry Writing of Ukrainians in the Early 21th Century Italy in Olena Hinda’s Scientific Reception

Climate science, Russian politics, and the framing of climate change

Historical studies have shown how Soviet scientists figured in politics in unexpected ways. However, little research has been done on the interplay between scientific expert knowledge and contemporary Russian policymaking. This article reviews existing research on a question central to understanding Russia's positions on climate change: What is the relationship between expert knowledge and politics in Russia today? We first address the narratives and practices that have emerged around environmental problems and the science–policy interface in Russia and the Soviet Union more generally and then provide a brief overview of Russia's international and domestic climate politics. How climate change has been framed in the Russian media and the role that scientists have played in these framings and in the Russian policymaking process more generally is then examined. Conceptually, this review draws upon scholarly work in Science and Technology Studies and international relations on the politics of scientific reception. WIREs Clim Change 2013, 4:457–465. doi: 10.1002/wcc.235This article is categorized under: Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Climate Science and Decision Making

The evolutionists: American thinkers confront Charles Darwin, 1860-1920

Chapter 1: Along the Way to Darwin Chapter 2: Darwin's Dangerous Idea Chapter 3: The Scientific Reception: Louis Agassiz and Asa Gray Chapter 4: Protestant Orthodoxy: Charles Hodge and James McCosh Chapter 5: Protestant Liberalism: Henry Ward Beecher and John Bascom Chapter 6: Sociology: William Graham Summer and Lester Frank Ward Chapter 7: Feminism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Eliza Burt Gamble Chapter 8: Methodologies: Thorstein Veblen and Oliver Wendell Homes, Jr. Chapter 9: Philosophy: William James and John Dewey

Entwicklung und Perspektiven der gerontologischen Forschung: Das Beispiel Wohnforschung

The present work addresses the historical development of environmental gerontology and housing research. Emphasis is placed on the development of ecological perspectives in gerontology as a research program, its scientific reception and acknowledgment in gerontology, the unfolding of housing-related theories and housing studies. Furthermore, the situation in Germany is juxtaposed against the situation in the US. As is found, between the 1930s and 1960 housing research gained substantial importance predominantly in the US as a consequence of the emergence of the field of social gerontology. There was however not much theoretical impetus from housing research on social and behavioral gerontology at large. In the time period between the 1960s and the mid 1980s many large-scale studies focused on housing in old age. At the same time, grand theories related to housing were introduced with the Ecological Theory of Aging (Lawton) as its flagship conception, able to have an impact on gerontology and its research guiding fundamental ideas (person-environment view of aging). Germany's social and behavioral gerontology saw during this time period the profound discussion of, as was frequently said, social-ecological approaches, while empirical studies tended to concentrate on institutions for the aged. Since the beginning of the 1990s dementia-related themes have largely been taken over as a driving force of North American housing research. In some contrast, gerontological housing research in Germany has strongly addressed the diversity of aging in the private household situation. In conclusion, housing research was important for gerontology in terms of the promotion of a person-environment perspective of aging on the conceptual and empirical level. This function should continue into the future.

The Popular and Scientific Reception of the Foucault Pendulum in the United States

In 1851 J. B. L. Foucault provided the first mechanical demonstration of the earth's diurnal rotation with a vibrating pendulum. He performed the experiment in the Pantheon in Paris, sparking a pendulum mania that raged across Europe and the United States. The interest in the Foucault pendulum provides an opportunity to examine the popularization of physical science in the antebellum United States. Laypersons attended public demonstrations, performed their own demonstrations, and disputed the principles of the Foucault pendulum. Their participation in physical science made them part of the American scientific community. These lay scientists performed most of the public demonstrations of the experiment. Some researchers performed public demonstrations, but others avoided this opportunity to popularize, deeming it unseemly to participate in pendulum mania. The geographical distribution of interest in the experiment challenges assertions made by historians about the relative level of scientific activity in the New England, mid-Atlantic, southern, and western regions of the United States.

Sticking a Needle into Science: The Case of Polio Vaccines and the Origin of AIDS

The author became involved with the theory that AIDS originated from contaminated polio vaccines by arranging for publication of a key paper, by interacting with prominent partisans and by writing articles himself. These experiences suggest some of the advantages and disadvantages of partisan intervention in the scientific reception system by a social analyst. Open partisanship should be added to the repertoire of social analysts of science.

Jeffries Wyman, philosophical anatomy, and the scientific reception of Darwin in America.

In historical discussions of the scientific reaction to Darwin in America, two figures have stood out. They are Louis Agassiz and Asa Gray, both professors at Harvard College, who publicly took opposing sides on the issue. Gray was depicted by his biographer, A. Hunter Dupree, as an empiricist who eschewed all forms of idealism. Prepared by his empiricism to follow the implications of the new data brought forth by Darwin and others, he quickly accepted evolution and natural selection and became Darwin's chief scientific advocate in America. Agassiz has been generally viewed as an idealist, whose transcendental notion of natural history as a reflection of God's creative plan of the universe made it impossible for him to accept the transformation of species. For the remainder of his career, long after most other scientists had been converted, Agassiz kept up the battle against evolution. The two colleagues at Harvard became so passionately committed to their respective positions, that for a time in the 1 860s they were not on speaking terms.' Usually omitted from accounts of biological theorizing in nineteenth-century America is a third naturalist at Harvard whose career paralleled those of Gray and Agassiz: the compartive anatomist Jeffries Wyman (18141874). Agassiz taught geology and zoology from 1847 to his death in 1873, Gray taught botany from 1842 until his retirement in 1873, and Wyman taught comparative anatomy and physiology from 1847 to his death in