Segment Of Space Research Articles

ANALYTICAL TOOLS FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTIC EXPERTISE OF CONFLICTOGENIC TEXTS

The paper studies analytical tools and procedures which can supplement the psycholinguistic expertise of polycode and polymodal conflictogenic texts. The author introduces the procedure of “syncrisis”, new for this type of expertise (specialty: “investigation of speech products”), and describes its conduct algorithm in detail. The paper focuses on the problems of speech as a specific form of mental activity and “translation” of the psycho - state into discourse. Today, emotional computing and visual information processing constitute a fairly large segment of the academic space, and the systems of detecting and recognizing states are rapidly developing. And it becomes possible to analyze behavioral models, physiological indicators, as well as changes in person's mood. Programs used to identify the manifestations of the data from sphere can be divided into classes based on the type of response: facial, motor, and verbal. The mimic service interprets facial microexpressions, classifying them by basic emotions: joy, anger, sadness, surprise, fear, disgust, and neutral state. The ranking and classification of basic emotions occur through neural networks trained on a large experimental corpus of photos. The author also considers subconscious formal grammatical indicators that are not controlled by consciousness and the quantitative characteristics of which may have stable correlations with personal human behavior.

Digital Intervention in National Political Systems in the Conditions of Contemporary Information Society

The article analyzes the phenomenon of digital interference with national political systems in the conditions of the modern information society and the evolution of the Internet as a space of political communications. It is shown that digital intervention is relevant but at the same time a complex multidimensional phenomenon of contemporary politics. In many respects, the potential of the digital interference phenomenon is closely related to the substantive and functional features of the functioning and transformation of the contemporary Internet, which has been actively used when changing political regimes in many countries. The initiatives of countries to form the sovereign national segments of the Internet space are, on the one hand, an attempt to protect their political systems from external influence and invasion, to ensure their own political stability, and on the other hand, they pose risks to the democratic potential of the Internet. The article substantiates the thesis that the phenomenon of interference with elections in actual practice often becomes not so much an objective process as an instrument of information warfare, mass political propaganda and discredit of political opponents, a manipulative tool that can be actively used not only by authoritarian regimes with a low level of democratic development. It is noted that differences in understanding and defining the essence of the Internet by various countries give rise to a significant potential for political conflicts on a global scale. This leads the author to conclude that it is necessary to form institutions that are able to prevent and regu- late information conflicts in the Internet space, as well as reduce global political risks (including risks associated with potential interference in the electoral process of sovereign states), forming a collective responsibility in the functioning of the global Internet.

Rigid continuation paths I. Quasilinear average complexity for solving polynomial systems

How many operations do we need on average to compute an approximate root of a random Gaussian polynomial system? Beyond Smale’s 17th problem that asked whether a polynomial bound is possible, we prove a quasi-optimal bound (input size) 1 + o ( 1 ) \text {(input size)}^{1+o(1)} . This improves upon the previously known (input size) 3 2 + o ( 1 ) \text {(input size)}^{\frac 32 +o(1)} bound. The new algorithm relies on numerical continuation along rigid continuation paths. The central idea is to consider rigid motions of the equations rather than line segments in the linear space of all polynomial systems. This leads to a better average condition number and allows for bigger steps. We show that on average, we can compute one approximate root of a random Gaussian polynomial system of n n equations of degree at most D D in n + 1 n+1 homogeneous variables with O ( n 4 D 2 ) O(n^4 D^2) continuation steps. This is a decisive improvement over previous bounds that prove no better than 2 min ( n , D ) \sqrt {2}^{\min (n, D)} continuation steps on average.

Segments of the Scientific Space of Scientist and Librarian of the Late 19Th — the Early 20Th Century M. Ryazantsev

Relevance. The iconic figure of the late 19 th — the early 20 th centuries is the talented scholar and librarian M. V. Ryazantsev. He contributed to the development of veterinary science and at the same time the development of librarianship. The purpose of the article is to summarize the segments of multifaceted creative activity of professor and librarian M. V. Ryazantsev Research methodology is based on general scientific principles of historical knowledge, application of methods of analysis and synthesis, generalization, using archival materials. Results. The segments of the scientific space of M. V. Ryazantsev are scientific, educational, scientific and organizational work and scientific-communication aspect, as well as library, editorial and translation activities. He personally conducted 16 studies. More than 48 studies were carried out under his guidance and assistance. In 1896 M. V. Ryazantsev was approved by the professor of the Department of Physiology. His lectures epitomized the illustrations of the results of his own research. He trained many eminent scientists. The peculiarity of his scientific and organizational activity was the problem solving of the construction and equipment of new educational and scientific classes, reconstruction of clinics, and organization of physiological laboratories. The significance of his scientific communications during foreign internships in Germany, Austria-Hungary, Switzerland and France in 1899, 1910, and 1912 is revealed. The scholar made a significant contribution to the development of library activities. On the basis of archival data, it was found out that Professor M. V. Ryazantsev had devoted twenty-six years to the library activities. He is to introduce a number of innovations to improve the quality of the library work and ensure library processes, enhance the information and methodological functions of libraries. Novelty. The paper is the first attempt for the description of the segments of the scientific space of Professor and Librarian M. Ryazantsev. The practical significance. The materials of the study can be used in preparing general works on the history of science and library information science. Conclusions. M. Ryazantsev’s scholarly communications contributed to the expansion of his scientific interests, the introduction and dissemination of advanced ideas, the development of the library.

Information economy as a factor of rural development

The paper substantiates the feasibility of introducing a binary system of agricultural advisory, which is represented by the structure of classical advisory services and leading agrarian universities and scientific institutions using the technological web platform of electronic advisory. An interactive information platform for rural information support has been proposed, with structure adaptation to effectively engage the existing advisory system. A similar system has already been established and is successfully operating in the United States. In order to demonstrate the capabilities of the system, the dependence of productivity on the scale of production was analyzed. The estimation of productivity growth is made for the enterprises which do not fully use innovative technologies. Based on the results of the analysis, estimates of the country's gross grain and leguminous crops growth are estimated, which is 29% of the 2018 gross harvest. The agrarian segment of information space of official information sources is analyzed. The directions of advancement development with the use of modern information technologies are offered. The advantages of implementing electronic advisory system for different categories of users are highlighted. The potential volume of binary system services for innovative development of small and medium-sized businesses is analyzed. As a client base are considered households, farms and agricultural enterprises with a land use volume not exceeding one thousand hectares. It is shown that large agricultural business uses information directly from the world innovation centers of agricultural orientation. Much attention was paid to the problem of providing information to rural residents.

Spiral, Slasher, and Sequel: Case of "Happy Death Day" (2017) and "Happy Death Day 2U" (2019)

This article focuses on the films Happy Death Day (2017) and Happy Death Day 2U (2019). Both handle the spiral narrative, which is recognised by the article as a specific storytelling pattern with a protagonist stuck in an iterative segment of space, time and causality – and this protagonist is not only fully aware of this situation but also tries to deal with it. What for other unaware characters is a closed loop is for the protagonist an open experience with an odd number of turns of time spiral. The spiral narrative is known mostly from high-budget films such as Groundhog Day (1993) or Edge Of Tomorrow (2014). Nevertheless, as the article explains, it occurs in dozens of other theatrical films, VOD films, television films or television shows. However, what are the reasons why, when there is an extensive set of works to choose from, does the article take just the doublet of Happy Death Day films? (1) On their example, the article discusses the author’s general hypothesis about spiral narrative works as a series of applications of the innovative narrative schema as an aesthetic tool. Such a hypothesis consists of three broader dimensions: (a) the aesthetic dimension, i.e. the spiral schema as a part of the art work; (b) the creative dimension, i.e. the spiral schema as part of the problem-solution process of filmmaking; (c) the production dimension, i.e. the spiral schema as a part of the competition of audiovisual production. (2) An even more important reason, though, for selecting just these two films has been the fact that Happy Death Day 2U is a sequel of Happy Death Day. In the „post-classical era” of global franchises, sequels, prequels, remakes, reboots and transmedia storytellings, this does not seem to be exceptional. However, in the context of the spiral narrative, this is an unprecedented step that raises several questions the article asks.

Counter-top search for macroscopic dark matter

A number of dark matter candidates have been discussed that are macroscopic, of approximately nuclear density, and scatter ordinary matter essentially elastically with approximately their geometric cross-section. A wide range of mass and geometric cross-section is still unprobed for these "macros." Macros passing through rock would melt the material in cylinders surrounding their long nearly straight trajectories. Once cooled, the resolidified rock would be easily distinguishable from its surroundings. We discuss how, by visually examining ordinary slabs of rock such as are widely available commercially for kitchen countertops, one could probe an interesting segment of the open macro parameter space.

Credit and banking Component of the Market Economy Phenomenon: Methdological Approach Transformation to the Development of Digitalization and Capital Fictivization

The article is based on the results of the 7th International Scientific and Practical Conference on Economics “The Market Economy Phenomenon: From the Origins into Our Days” held from March 27 to March 31, 2019 in the cities of Sochi and Sukhumi. The theoretical approaches of domestic and foreign researchers to understanding the market economy phenomenon, the specifics of its financial and credit sphere functioning in the context of the digital economy were generalized. The problems of the monetary economy in terms of the sanction confrontation were outlined. The authors analyzed and evaluated the processes and the phenomena observed in the post-Soviet economic space related to the transplantation of market economy mechanisms into the system of social reproductive relations, including its financial component based on their digitalization. The dialectic approach, system analysis, methods of economic and statistical and interdisciplinary analytical tools were used. The article revealed the key components of the market economy phenomenon appearing in the post-Soviet economic space and having a direct impact on the social reproduction results. The relationship was shown between the transformation of the evolutionary and methodological content of the money economy, its institutional and behavioral paradigm, the digitalization of the financial segment of the economic space with the scale of innovation, the penetration of cognitive psychology and neurophysiology into financial and credit relations, and their technological re-equipment. The results of the influence of instability factors on the budget and monetary sphere were presented. The authors described complex interdependencies of the processes and phenomena within the framework of the market economy phenomenon appearing in the post-Soviet economic space. The triune structure of the modern market doctrine was disclosed including psychological and behavioral, institutional and functional and reproduction and product aspects. The authors showed the transformational dynamics of the financial and credit sphere of modern society. Its specific features are: the increasingly important role of innovation, outsourcing, revising pricing methods, digitalization of business processes, penetration into managing neuromarketing technologies, and virtualization of the financial sector of the economy.

Understanding Body Language Does Not Require Matching the Body's Egocentric Map to Body Posture: A Brain Activation fMRI Study.

Body language (BL) is a type of nonverbal communication in which the body communicates the message. We contrasted participants' cognitive processing of body representations or meanings versus body positions. Participants (N = 20) were shown pictures depicting body postures and were instructed to focus on their meaning (BL) or on the position of a body part relative to the position of another part (body structural description [BSD]). We examined activation in brain areas related to the two types of body representation-body schema and BSD-as modulated by the two tasks. We presumed that if understanding BL triggers embodiment of body posture, a matching procedure between the egocentric map coding the position of one's body segments in space and time should occur. We found that BL (vs. BSD) differentially activated the angular gyrus bilaterally, the anterior middle temporal gyrus, the temporal pole, and the right superior temporal gyrus, the inferior frontal gyrus, the superior medial gyrus, and the left superior frontal gyrus. BSD (vs. BL) differentially activated the superior parietal lobule (Area 7A) bilaterally, the posterior inferior temporal gyrus, the middle frontal gyrus, and the left precentral gyrus. Sensorimotor areas were differentially activated by BSD when compared with BL. Inclusive masking showed significant voxels in the superior colliculus and pulvinar, fusiform gyrus, inferior temporal gyrus, superior temporal gyrus, the intraparietal sulcus bilaterally, inferior frontal gyrus bilaterally, and precentral gyrus. These results indicate common brain networks for processing BL and BSD, for which some areas show differentially stronger or weaker processing of one task or the other, with the precuneus and the superior parietal lobule, the intraparietal sulcus, and sensorimotor areas most related to the BSD as activated by the BSD task. In contrast, the parietal operculum, an area related to the body schema, a representation crucial during embodiment of body postures, was not activated for implicit masking or for the differential contrasts.

Rotational Workspace Expansion of a Planar CDPR with a Circular End-Effector Mechanism Allowing Passive Reconfiguration

Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (CDPR) operate over a large positional workspace and a relatively large orientation workspace. In the present work, the expansion of the orientation Wrench Feasible Workspace (WFW) in a planar four-cable passive reconfigurable parallel robot with three degrees of freedom was determined. To this end, we proposed a circular-geometry effector mechanism, whose structure allows automatic mobility of the two anchor points of the cables supporting the End Effector (EE). The WFW of the proposed circular structure robot was compared with that of a traditional robot with a rectangular geometry and fixed anchor points. Considering the feasible geometric and tension forces on the cables, the generated workspace volume of the robot was demonstrated in an analysis-by-intervals. The results were validated by simulating the orientation movements of the robot in ADAMS software and a real experimental test was developed for a hypothetical case. The proposed design significantly expanded the orientation workspace of the robot. The remaining limitation is the segment of the travel space in which the mobile connection points can slide. Overcoming this limitation would enable the maximum rotation of the EE.

PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

The process of globalization, the development of information and communication technologies, networking are changing society dramatically and, as a result, its superstructure — law. International private law, by virtue of its own subject matter and special methodology, is at the forefront of the corresponding changes. The paper examines the problems of defining the concept of territorial sovereignty in the non-territorial information space that are of serious importance in relation to private international law. Its principles are the general principle of the sovereign equality of states, acting as a general principle for private international law, and a special principle of the sovereign equality of national law of states. The problem of the realization of the territorial nature of the conflict of attachment formulas and the grounds of international jurisdiction in relation to a certain segment of the extra-territorial information space is posed. The issue of conditionality of the adaptation of the principles and methodology of legal regulation of public relations in the conditions of digital technologies by the need to understand the conditions and boundaries of the implementation of sovereignty, the jurisdiction of the state in the information and communication space is investigated. The processes comprehended within the framework of the science of international private law are to some extent relevant for other branches of law. This paper analyzes such indicators of current changes in the legal paradigm as the impact of information and telecommunication technologies on the development of private international law, the place and increasing importance of non-state regulation in the process of streamlining cross-border private law relations, and the development of non-state systems for resolving cross-border disputes. The authors touch upon the problems of the use of blockchain technologies and the protection of intellectual property in cross-border private law relations; private adhocracy rulemaking, the formation of various social phenomena in the key lex mercatoria, the influence of international commercial arbitration, online platforms on the formation of current trends in the field of resolution of crossborder disputes, etc.

The mechanism(s) of action of antioxidants: From scavenging reactive oxygen/nitrogen species to redox signaling and the generation of bioactive secondary metabolites.

Small molecule, dietary antioxidants exert a remarkably broad range of bioactivities, and many of these can be explained by the influence of antioxidants on the redox homeostasis. Such compounds help to modulate the levels of harmful reactive oxygen/nitrogen species, and therefore participate in the regulation of various redox signaling pathways. However, upon ingestion, antioxidants usually undergo extensive metabolism that can generate a wide range of bioactive metabolites. This makes it difficult, but otherwise a need, to identify the ones responsible for the different activities of antioxidants. By better understanding their ways of action, the use of antioxidants in therapy can be improved. This review provides a summary on the role of the in vivo metabolic changes and the oxidized metabolites on the mechanisms behind the bioactivity of antioxidants. A special attention is given to metabolites described as products of biomimetic oxidative chemical reactions, which can be considered as models of free radical scavenging. During such reactions a wide variety of metabolites are formed, and they can exert completely different specific bioactivities as compared to their parent antioxidants. This implies that exploring the free radical scavenging-related metabolite fingerprint of each antioxidant molecule, collectively defined here as the scavengome, will lead to a deeper understanding of the bioactivity of these compounds. Furthermore, this paper aims to be a working tool for systematic studies on oxidized metabolic fingerprints of antioxidants, which will certainly reveal an often-neglected segment of chemical space that is a treasury of bioactive compounds.

ОПТИМИЗАЦИЯ ПРОЦЕССА ЗАКАЧКИ ФИКСИРОВАННЫХ ОБЪЕМОВ ЖИДКОСТИ В ДВА НАПРАВЛЕНИЯ

Представлен новый подход к решению задачи оптимизации работы динамической системы «насос+трубопроводная сеть». В статье состоянием процесса закачки называются объёмы жидкости, поступившие через каждый трубопровод в данный момент времени. Эти объёмы взяты в качестве основных функций, зависящих от времени и описывающих процесс закачки. Система функций определяет воображаемую линию – траекторию закачки в пространстве, задаваемом плановыми объёмами закачки через каждый трубопровод. Регулирование потока в трубопроводах любыми устройствами, создающими местное гидродинамическое сопротивление (устройствами) даёт возможность получать различные траектории. Влияние регулирующих устройств оценивается коэффициентом открытости трубопровода или потока, определяемым как отношение потока (расхода) в частично перекрытом трубопроводе к потоку в полностью открытом трубопроводе. Рассмотрены два варианта закачки, в которых продемонстрировано, что разным траекториям может соответствовать своя потребляемая энергия. Проведён анализ используемой при количественных исследованиях и оценке работы насоса величины, равной отношению напора, создаваемого насосом, к КПД, соответствующему этому напору. Показано, что при повышении напора или снижении подачи данная величина возрастает. Поскольку затрачиваемая насосом энергия зависит от формы траектории, энергия становится функционалом, для поиска минимума которого привлекаются методы вариационного исчисления. Таким способом находится экстремаль – траектория, на которой затраты энергии и времени минимальны. Траекторией, описывающей оптимальный режим закачки, оказывается прямолинейный отрезок в пространстве закачки, концы которого соответствуют начальному и конечному состояниям процесса закачки. Для реализации данного процесса предложен алгоритм, позволяющий определить, какой трубопровод следует частично перекрыть, и рассчитать меру перекрытия, рассматривая регулирующее устройство как устройство, задающее коэффициент местного сопротивления. Цель работы: определить оптимальный способ закачивания в два трубопровода, в котором насос и трубопроводная сеть рассматриваются как единая взаимосвязанная система. Объекты исследования: насосы, используемые для поддержания пластового давления, два трубопровода, снабжённых устройствами для регулирования расхода жидкости. Методы исследования: метод для нахождения оптимального режима – вариационное исчисление. Результаты. Работа насоса требует наименьшего количества энергии и времени, если заполнение заданных объёмов происходит одновременно. Для процесса экономичного закачивания в два трубопровода дан алгоритм определения степени перекрытия трубопроводов.

Hate speech in Ukrainian internet space: religious context

Introduction. Recently in the Ukrainian media space, there are a lot of info texts on religious topics; however, special attention should be given to the problem of hate speech used in such texts, as a repetition of certain messages that employ negatively colored or offensive lexis in relation to denominations is an indicator of influence on public opinion which can provoke the aggressive public mood. The relevance of the study. The aim of this paper is to study the peculiarities of using hate speech in info texts on religious topics represented in the Ukrainian online space. It includes, in particular, monitoring of the Internet in order to detect those secular and denominational resources that employ expressive means of hate speech in headlines or info texts on religious topics, as well as the study of lexical, stylistic, structural, and other peculiarities of hate speech and discovery of reasons for using it. Research methods. The research is grounded on the information approach; the method of academic literature analysis was used for general exploration of the subject, for defining the level of the theoretical study of such aspect of religious journalism as the use of hate speech by secular and denominational mass-media in reports on religious topics; methods of analysis and generalization – to distinguish the expressive means of hate speech that are used in the religious segment of the Internet space, and to determine the causes of their application. Results. The following reasons for hate speech use have been defined: 1) with the aim of influencing public opinion, i.e. forming a negative image of a confession, and humiliating its status; 2) with the aim of making web headlines more ardent by means of expressive lexis use, which, in its turn, is capable of provoking readers’ interest and attracting new visitors to the website. There are such particularly the appeal to political stereotypes, as well as the use of politically-marked words and political slang, jargonisms, vulgarisms, dysphemisms, stylistic lowering that secure the desired expressive effect. The importance of a communicator’s status, which gives more value to a message, has been highlighted. Usually, the use of hate speech is grounded on binary opposition ‘friend-or-foe’. Conclusions. The academic novelty of this research is determined by singling out the peculiarities (lexical, stylistic, structural, etc.) of hate speech in the religious segment of the Ukrainian online space and by discovering the reasons for using it. A prospect for further research is the study of communication between church and state in the Ukrainian media. Keywords: mass media, religious topics, Internet resources, hate speech, information confrontation, stereotypes.

A journey as a strategy of gaining the knowledge of the Jewish world in fiction of the end of the 19th — first decades of the 20th century

The article analyzes imagological parameters of the Jewish ethnoimage presented through the dimension of travel in the fiction of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Due to the intensification of national imagology in the past decades, the study of the Others’s existence is an actual scholarly issue. The representation of Jewry is traced by the example of three texts of different aesthetics and genres with the commonality of travel discourse: Istoriia odniieii podorozhi [The Story of One Journey] (1890) by Ahatanhel Krymskyi, Modest Levytskyi’s Porozhnim hodom [In Vain] (1918) and Shchastia Peisakha Leidermana [The Happiness of Peisakh Leiderman] (1918), and Mike Yohansen’s essay Podorozh liudyny pid kepom (Ievreiski kolonii) [The Journey of a Man in a Cap (Jewish Colonies)] (1927). According to the paper, the geopoetic component, that is the movement in space, seems to be a way of cultural, identical transformation, a shift in the experience of the characters and the reader: moving “inside” of the Jewish culture and the Jewish world in real and symbolically, everyone cognizes better the other culture, and simulthaneously His own. In Krymskyi’s story, the journey of Itsko the Jew and Skalskis the Ukrainians is denoted by the imagological inversion of ethnostereotypes: the figures of Ukrainians are depicted in a negative mode, while a Jewish image is positive. This confirms the dynamics of gradual decline from the stereotypical interpretation of the Others by writers. In the end, we get the image of Jew built-in a realistic axiological paradigm, whose personal tragedy is tangled by social prejudices. The “Doctor's Stories” by Modest Levitskyi against the backdrop of heavy Jewish life appeal to the universal context of human suffering. Penetrating into the other culture, the protagonist gradually undergoes a personal transformation and recognizes the Others more deeply. Mike Yohansen’s alter ego’s observation of colonial Jews’ life in the Southern Ukrainian regions reveal the spiritual and social proximity of the Ukrainian and Jewish peoples, their comfortable coexistence in a common geographical, linguistic, and economic space. The research originality lies in the fact that valuable in the imagological light texts of Ahatanhel Krymskyi, Modest Levytskyi and Mike Yohansen are considered as representing the Jewish ethnoimage from the position of homo viator. The perspective of the development of the topic is multidimensional study of the Jewish ethno-form in the unexplored segments of the national literary space.

Research into the Influence of Process Parameters on the Efficiency of Zinc Electrolysis from Alkaline Solutions

The effect of the main zinc electrolysis parameters from an alkaline zincate solution on the current efficiency and power consumption is studied in laboratory conditions. The zinc concentration (initial and final), current density, and temperature are chosen as variable parameters. Both model (prepared from standard reagents) and actual electrolytes are used. The latter is prepared by leaching the calcined middling product of zinc-bearing dusts processing of ferrous metallurgy. It is shown that the current efficiency can be rather high (higher than 90%) even at the initial zinc concentration in the alkaline electrolyte of 10 g/dm3. However, low current loads (100–400 A/m2) are required in this case, the use of which is unreasonable for industrial electrolysis with the formation of powdered metal, because the actual current density decreases with the development of a cathode deposit surface even lower than the limiting diffusion current of complex ions. The growth of enlarged dendrites with the formation of short-circuited segments in the interelectrode space is expected in this case, which will decrease the current efficiency of zinc. Large-scale laboratory studies on zinc electrolysis from the actual zincate solution make it possible to determine the most power-efficient (with the highest current efficiency of zinc and lowest power consumption) process parameters; notably, the current density is 1000–2000 A/m2, the electrolyte temperature is 50–80°C, the initial zinc concentration is 20–50 g/dm3, and the residual zinc concentration is no lower than 15 g/dm3. A high current efficiency (85–95%) and applied power consumption (2.28–3.20 kW h/kgZn) will be provided under these conditions. The maximal current efficiency (higher than 90%) for the “depleted” zincate solution with a zinc content of 10 g/dm3 is implemented at current density j = 125 A/m2 close to the diffusion current density (of about 95.7 A/m2). The current efficiency considerably decreases at j > 500 A/m2, which is caused by intense hydrogen evolution. When performing studies for the enlarged electrolysis cell, the formed cathode deposit is evaluated qualitatively (by visible crystal sizes).

Revisiting the Role of Place in Geographic Information Science

Although place-based investigations into human phenomena have been widely conducted in the social sciences over the last decades, this notion has only recently transgressed into Geographic Information Science (GIScience). Such a place-based GIS comprises research from computational place modeling on one end of the spectrum, to purely theoretical discussions on the other end. Central to all research that is concerned with place-based GIS is the notion of placing the individual at the center of the investigation, in order to assess human-environment relationships. This requires the formalization of place, which poses a number of challenges. The first challenge is unambiguously defining place, to subsequently be able to translate it into binary code, which computers and geographic information systems can handle. This formalization poses the next challenge, due to the inherent vagueness and subjectivity of human data. The last challenge is ensuring the transferability of results, requiring large samples of subjective data. In this paper, we re-examine the meaning of place in GIScience from a 2018 perspective, determine what is special about place, and how place is handled both in GIScience and in neighboring disciplines. We, therefore, adopt the view that space is a purely geographic notion, reflecting the dimensions of height, depth, and width in which all things occur and move, while place reflects the subjective human perception of segments of space based on context and experience. Our main research questions are whether place is or should be a significant (sub)topic in GIScience, whether it can be adequately addressed and handled with established GIScience methods, and, if not, which other disciplines must be considered to sufficiently account for place-based analyses. Our aim is to conflate findings from a vast and dynamic field in an attempt to position place-based GIS within the broader framework of GIScience.

«ЯБЛУЧНИЙ ПИРІГ» (НА ПРИКЛАДІ ІСТОРІЇ «ВЛАСНИК НАЙКРАЩОГО КЛУБУ ДЛЯ ГЕЇВ» КНИГА ІСТОРІЙ «ГІМН ДЕМОКРАТИЧНОЇ МОЛОДІ» С. ЖАДАН)


 
 
 The article describes the features of author's interpretation of the author's interpretation of the figurative system of the story "Owner of the best club for gays" from the book by S. Zhadan "Anthem of Democratic Youth" are considered; the phenomena of human life; apple symbol The study of this segment of the national literary space is extremely relevant, given the rather one-sided and non-systematic approach to the analysis of Serhiy Zhadan's work in general.
 
 

Využití gymnastiky v suché přípravě hokejistů

Ice hockey and gymnastics are two different sports with the specific content and specific motor abilitiesclaims. In spite of these differences can be gymnastic preparation a good complement to the drypreparation carried out-off ice rink. Gymnastic exercises are based on joint stimulation of fitness functionsand coordination functions with a positive impact on the performance and control folder. Theydevelop the capacity to coordinate the movement of body segments in space, kinestetic sensitivityand differentiation. In addition, the gymnastic preparations brings a compensatory effect againstunilateral load with a positive impact in the area of health prevention. The results of a questionnairesurvey among the coaches ice hockey of youth category (11–17 years) reported strong support of theinclusion gymnastic activities in dry preparation. From the polled coaches 74 % said that gymnasticpreparations are a regular part of sports training their teams and 25 % indicated posibility “irregularly”.When asked if they consider this kind of dry preparation for efficient and support of them (regardless ifthey do it) 81 % responded definitely Yes, 19 % rather Yes, and noone of the polled respondents reportedNo, or rather No.

A novel approach for characterizing broad-band radio spectral energy distributions

We present a new broadband radio frequency catalogue across 0.12 GHz $\le \nu \le$ 20 GHz created by combining data from the Murchison Widefield Array Commissioning Survey, the Australia Telescope 20 Gigahertz survey, and the literature. Our catalogue consists of 1285 sources limited by $S_{20\,\rm{GHz}} >$ 40 mJy at $5\sigma$, and contains flux density measurements (or estimates) and uncertainties at 0.074, 0.080, 0.119, 0.150, 0.180, 0.408, 0.843, 1.4, 4.8, 8.6, and 20 GHz. We fit a second-order polynomial in log-log space to the spectral energy distributions of all these sources in order to characterise their broadband emission. For the 994 sources which are well-described by a linear or quadratic model we present a new diagnostic plot arranging sources by the linear and curvature terms. We demonstrate the advantages of such a plot over the traditional radio colour-colour diagram. We also present astrophysical descriptions of the sources found in each segment of this new parameter space and discuss the utility of these plots in the upcoming era of large area, deep, broadband radio surveys.