Universal Form Research Articles

Quantum transport via dot devices with arbitrarily strong interactions

The paper develops a theory of tunneling electron transport through atomic-scale systems (or briefly quantum dots) with arbitrarily strong interaction. The theory is based on a diagram technique for nonequilibrium Green’s functions defined on Hubbard operators. The use of Hubbard operators, describing many-body states of an entire quantum dot, makes it possible to represent the Hamiltonian of the quantum dot in a universal diagonal form and consider its coupling with two leads within the perturbation theory. It is shown that in the case when all Hubbard operators are defined for the same site, some rules of the diagram technique for Hubbard operators, initially developed for lattice models, have to be modified. As an example of the application of the modified theory, the current-voltage characteristics of the single-impurity Anderson model with infinitely large Coulomb repulsion are calculated. It is shown that taking into account the multiple electron tunneling processes with spin flips results in the dip in the center of the Lorentz distribution peak, describing the density of states of the one level Anderson impurity coupled with two leads. The emergence of this dip in the density of states leads to a peculiar feature in the bias voltage dependence of the differential conductivity, which can be detected experimentally.

Predicting the global fundamental climate niche of lodgepole pine for climate change adaptation

The widely used species-occurrence-based models that predict the realized climate niche of plants can be too restrictive and do not reflect among-population variation in assessing climate change impact and guiding assisted migration for adaptation to future climates. To mitigate this deficiency, this study built a fundamental climate niche model for lodgepole pine (Pinus contortaDougl. ex Loud.) based on 20-year tree height from wide-ranging provenance trials as a case study. The model was built through comparisons and optimizations of two candidate models, universal response function (URF) and universal transfer function (UTF), with linear and linear mixed-effect forms, against varying sample sizes based on the comprehensive provenance trials. We found that URF and UTF models had similar performances, while URF models were more straightforward in identifying optimal provenances for planting sites. Linear mixed-effect models did not show clear advantages over linear models in our case but prevented including additional predictors, which are often critical. We selected the linear model of URF and predicted the fundamental climate niche of lodgepole pine on a global scale and revealed a great potential of using this species for climate change adaptation beyond its native distribution, representing a significant step in forest genecology. Our study presented a new approach for assisted migration at the species and the population levels to optimize adaptation and productivity under a changing climate.

Methodological Materials on the Conduct of Forensic Examination: Basic Concepts, Similarities and Differences

The article discusses methodological materials on the conduct of forensic examination: methodological recommendations, standard expert techniques, forensic methodologies, standard operating procedures (SOP). As their characteristics are presented: basic concepts, structure, form of presentation, the scope of tasks to be solved, approval procedure. During the research the author has applied a universal dialectical method, a system of general scientific methods: observation, description, comparison, analysis and synthesis, classification. Also, a comparison of methodological materials was carried out to identify the completeness of their description, especially concerning the quality control of the obtained results. The author proposed a hypothesis that the SOP is the most universal form of description of expert research process for solving a typical task and can be used when creating a standard methodology. The focus of the management system of an accredited forensic laboratory on the quality of the results and the relationship with the internal structure of the SOP of forensic methodology is shown. The form of the registration passport of a forensic expert methodology in accordance with the requirements of the management system is described.

‘SOVEREIGNTY’ AND ‘OWNERSHIP’ AS THE ELEMENTS OF SOCIAL ONTOLOGY

The paper endeavors to offer a justification of social ontology as a true and universal form of philosophic thinking. As the two backbone notions of it I suggest ‘sovereignty’ and ‘ownership’ that are held in agreement by ‘activity’. In the introduction, an axiomatic assumption is introduced that asserts the essential identity of thinking (consciousness) and communication, which is a universal and integral handicap of activity that transforms the spontaneous uncertainty of being into the arranged certainty of the world. In the context of such an approach, thinking as communication is understood not so much functionally as substantially. At the same time, communication as thinking embodies the principle of a sovereign personality, which, in the horizon of social space, is carried out in the institution of property, covering both the totality of a person's inner content and the system of his relations with the surrounding world. Moreover, the ‘surrounding world’ is interpreted in the broadest sense as a set of indefinite objects translated into a system of broadcasting things. Herein I try to demonstrate the historical retrospective of social ontology through contemplation of these categories. A particular importance is given to the substance of ‘ownership’ and to modernity in the bourgeois civilization pointing to the fundamental contradictions in their respective actualization. In particular, the article emphasizes that in the era of modernity of postmodernity, in the conditions of bourgeois and post-bourgeois society, the mechanism of ‘mastering’ as a form of actualization of the institution of property and the assertion of a sovereign personality is consistently transformed into a mechanism of ‘appropriation’. This mutation becomes the cause of personality desuverenization. According to the authors, the desuverenization of personality is carried out in the mode of ‘alienation’ or exploitation, in the broad sense of the word, of the basic content of a person as a being who maintains the order of being through free implementing activity.

The “Rational Kernel” of Natural Teleology: Dialectical Interaction as the Concrete-Universal’s Form of Development

It is often believed that the only alternative to an idealist conception of natural phenomena excludes both the presence of objective universal forms and their progression towards higher forms as the finality of processes in the natural world. Realism regarding the universal and teleological approaches regarding processes are signs of idealism. Therefore, materialism, it would seem, must conform to a nominalist and mechanical view of nature. However, an intelligent materialist reading of idealism’s classics reveals a more complex scenario. A real fact is expressed in a mystical fashion in idealism’s conceptions of objective universals and teleology. This article attempts to show such a real fact in its authentic (materialist) form. With that goal in mind, the present article discusses the notion of nature’s alienation, the distinction between abstract and concrete universals, and the concept of dialectical interaction. The natural-historical emergence of a higher form of matter’s organization assimilates, as its organs, the conditions that preceded it in time, transforming itself into an active producer of such conditions. That is the secret glimpsed but not correctly understood by idealism that a consistent materialist should not ignore.

Actual questions of the philosophical understanding of tourism

The article is devoted to topical issues of philosophical understanding of tourism as a significant phenomenon in public life and an important component of economic development. With each new period of civilization development, the phenomenon of tourism is becoming more and more multifaceted. In a number of countries its development is a priority, taking into account the percentage of employment and high financial profitability. Tourism has long been the basis of the hospitality industry.The article describes the main components of the philosophy of tourism. The axiological meaning of philosophical tourism is revealed. The philosophical praxeology of tourism is explained. The antinomies of unlimited tourist activity are substantiated.There are many examples of completely unnecessary, and sometimes simply inappropriate use of the term “philosophy”. Leaving such arbitrariness on the conscience of their authors, let us emphasize that the “purpose” of philosophy in its classical and modern form is to determine for people by its means and capabilities the meaning-forming guidelines of life, thereby attracting them to the world of wisdom, the realm of sophistication. Developing the idea of a common, universal form of cultural wealth, philosophy reveals and formulates in theoretical concepts the invariable “eternal” principles of human worldview, worldview and worldview. The urgent task of philosophical culture is to substantiate the methodology of finding solutions to the increasingly complex problems of human existence in a rapidly changing world (“Heraclitian flow”), to equip the individual in his/her discovery of new meanings of his/her own existence.Let us state the range of philosophical definitions used to explain various realities of social life and human activity has recently expanded significantly. “If in the late nineteenth and in the first half of the twentieth century the sciences of man and society were considered completely separated from philosophy, today they are undergoing a kind of “refilosophy”, which leads to changes in the relationship between the sciences of man and society themselves”.

Lattice control of nonergodicity in a polar lattice gas

Inter-site interactions in polar lattice gases may result, due to Hilbert-space fragmentation, in a lack of ergodicity even in absence of disorder. We show that the inter-site interaction in a one-dimensional dipolar gas in an optical lattice departs from the usually considered $1/r^3$ dependence, acquiring a universal form that depends on the transversal confinement and the lattice depth. Due to the crucial role played by the nearest- and next-to-nearest neighbors, the Hilbert-space fragmentation and particle dynamics are very similar to that of a power-law model $1/r^{\beta_{\mathrm{eff}}<3}$, where $\beta_{\mathrm{eff}}$ is experimentally controllable by properly tailoring the transversal confinement. Our results are of direct experimental relevance for experiments on dipolar gases in optical lattices, and show that the particle dynamics may be remarkably different if the quasi-1D lattice model is realized in a strong 3D lattice, or by means of a strong transversal harmonic confinement.

“Kulturnyy resaykling” v XXI v. Kak ego teper ponimat?

The article deals with the history of the notion of “cultural recycling” in the 21st century. This is a continuation of my previous research focused on its early period which started in the 1960s. Although the expression discussed is widely known, there has been no systematic research into its evolving reception over the last half-century. The notion does not belong exclusively to any particular field of humanities; therefore, the proposed survey is inevitably interdisciplinary. Two basic trends will be at the centre of my attention. From the perspective of one, in line with the criticism of postmodern and modern society, cultural recycling was seen as a symptom of a crisis of history from the very beginning, a hallmark of the time thought to be the end of an epoch. Since political and ethical connotations were important for the theories which appropriated the term, it took, at least initially and partly, the meaning of an invective. As regards the discourse of the criticism of the “(post)modern” culture, two points are evident. On the one hand, at a certain moment, a positive attitude towards recycling began to gradually displace the negatively evaluated “eschatological” view. On the other, some scholars finally “deconstructed” it as self-contradictory. Another major trend of both the 20th and 21st century can be characterised as a form of universalism. It embraces the understandings based on the presumption that recycling is immanent, “natural” to culture. Thus, regardless of scholars’ personal intentions, one can qualify it as apologetic. In addition to various interpretations of the term, with respect to the first trend I will comment on its relationships with notions such as collective memory, nostalgia, trauma, new media, and “cultural trash”. With respect to the second, at the centre of my attention will be the issue of epigonism, interdiscursive and crosscultural forms of recycling, the usage of the term in folklore and myth studies, and in anthropology.

Annette, ein Heldinnenepos d’Anne Weber

L’article traite du livre d’Anne Weber Annette, ein Heldinnenepos (2020). Il étudie la manière dont il présente à un public allemand une « héroïne » très française, en l’inscrivant non seulement dans son contexte géographique, social et historique, mais aussi dans son contexte linguistique, par l’insertion dans le texte allemand de termes français particulièrement représentatifs et expressifs. Il montre également comment, en recourant à une forme comme l’épopée qui suppose une forme de communication particulière entre l’auteur et son public, Anne Weber crée une situation qui lui permet de jouer avec les deux versions du texte, la version allemande et la version française qui en est davantage une réécriture qu’une traduction au sens strict. La réflexion sur l’héroïsme et l’engagement qui parcourt le livre, quant à elle, confère au livre une dimension universelle.

Hardware Psychodiagnosis of Resilience Indicators Mental Health

The article reveals the psychohygienic significance of apparatus-psychological objectification of the main indicators of mental health for each person to acquire knowledge about his own individuality and self-regulation of his own mental states. It is noted that self-control of one’s own mental functioning is necessary in the process of treatment of mental disorders and the long-term rehabilitation of patients with chronic mental illnesses, as it allows activating the awareness of the main objective parameters of one’s own mental capabilities in relation to the desired capabilities necessary for a full-fledged life. The functions of the “Hyst” device, manufactured by the Kyiv Telekom-pneumatik plant under the patent of Dr. Sergii Boltivets, are presented as a separate device and a program installed on a computer that processes the received psychodiagnostic data. In accordance with the psychodiagnostic purpose of each of the components of the apparatus complex, its use allows to conduct reactometry, labiliometry and tremormetry of the psychomotor praxis of thinking of children and adults, starting, as a rule, from the age of 5. The device provides the possibility of choosing both a single signal and a series of 10 responses with separate calculation of the reaction of the right and left hand and leg. This provides a psychodiagnostic assessment of interhemispheric interaction and the presence of asymmetry of interhemispheric functioning and its severity. The obtained data are important for identifying the consequences of unconscious but existing craniocerebral injuries and other dysfunctions of psychophysical development. The results of psychological examinations of 2,548 people, including children and adults aged 5 to 82 years, regardless of mental health status, including both self-actualized individuals with high quality indicators of mental health and individuals with chronic mental disorders and various degrees of mental retardation. This made it possible to generalize the main indicators of the instrumental and psychological objectification of the main indicators of the stability of mental health. It was established that the functional indicators of reactometry, labiliometry and tremometry are the basic characteristics of individuality, activity and the ability to self-regulate, which are the main indicators of the stability of a person’s mental health. It was noted that such universal forms and patterns of mental self-organization of a person, which, being transformed during human life, are not lost, have the greatest value.

Kainos Anthropos: Existential Precarity And Human Universality in the Earth System Anthropocene

One of the most consistent critiques of the Anthropocene among humanities scholars has been that its putative Anthropos ignores difference to encompass all human beings universally in terms of their essential human nature. Trace the conceptual history of the term, however, and it quickly becomes clear that the Anthropos of the Anthropocene takes shape as not simply a sly return of Enlightenment Man to be dismantled once more by academic antihumanists, but something far stranger. What follows works backwards from Paul Crutzen's public introduction of the term in 2000, through the Earth System science of the 1980s and the systems ecology of the 1960s, to contend that the conceptual precursors of the Anthropocene arose in the crucible of the 1950s. It was there that the novel prospect of 'universal death' by thermonuclear weapons fused with the relational ontology of cybernetics to produce a paradigmatically distinct approach of conceiving human beings in their totality – the 'Kainos Anthropos'. Born under the shadow of its own extinction, the Kainos Anthropos does not seek to define what all human beings essentially are (as Enlightenment Man did), but to account for what it is that all human beings collectively do. Rather than claim that this is inherently better or worse, the point is that it is categorically different, introducing new kind of theoretical challenges and opportunities that warrant being treated on their own terms rather than reflexively dismissed as yet another form of spurious universalism.

Realism, Form, and Representation in the Edwardian Novel: Synthetic Realism by Charlotte Jones

Reviewed by: Realism, Form, and Representation in the Edwardian Novel: Synthetic Realism by Charlotte Jones Adam Grener Realism, Form, and Representation in the Edwardian Novel: Synthetic Realism. By Charlotte Jones. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. xxvi+ 303 pp. £75. ISBN 978-0-19-885792-1. Charlotte Jones's book makes a rich contribution to a revivified critical discourse around literary realism by examining the philosophical import and aesthetic ambitions of an undertheorized period of the British novel. Realism, Form, and Representation in the Edwardian Novel explores how key figures at the start of the twentieth century—Joseph Conrad, May Sinclair, Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, and Ford Madox Ford—negotiate the competing demands of particularity and totality [End Page 130] that define the poles of realist representation. The subtitle, 'Synthetic Realism', names these writers' attempts to probe the ineffable metaphysical underpinnings of reality through a patterning and organization of the empirical. This term—and the book's methodology—draws on the conflicting philosophical meanings of 'realism': whereas realism was long tied to Platonic notions of universal but non-substantial forms, during the eighteenth century it came to denote a material world independent of but known through perception. While theories of realism are often oriented by questions of empiricism, referentiality, or mimetic fidelity, 'synthetic realism' turns our attention to the metaphysical dimensions of realist practice. Jones does not wish to limit synthetic realism as a mode of knowing to a defined period or historical situation, but her Introduction does explain why Edwardian writers were particularly preoccupied with using language to grasp the unrepresentable. In addition to inheriting a realist tradition that had become characterized by naturalism's analytical dissection of material reality, these writers were also responding to an environment of renewed scientific and philosophical interest in the invisible that was generated by (among other things) the discovery of radioactivity, the birth of quantum physics, and the flourishing of mysticism and occultism. Some of these writers actively engaged with contemporary philosophical developments and responded to them in their reflections on narrative technique. Chapter 2, for example, reads Sinclair's Divine Fire (1904) and The Creators (1910) against the neo-Hegelian idealism of T. H. Green and F. H. Bradley to show how Sinclair's representation of empirical reality moves towards the linguistic realization of an unconscious unity that structures experience. Writing about the ineffable is not for the timid, and Jones is aware of sometimes straying into 'overwhelmingly abstract philosophical discussion' (p. 9). When these discussions do arise, however, they are usually conducted with an inviting clarity, and readers who might feel uneasy in this philosophical territory should still come to understand why it matters to realism. The most generative insights of the book are tied to its sustained attention to the dynamics of 'narrative movement' (p. 121) and 'internal textual processes' (p. 189). Realism is not simply about the relationship between the particulars of the world and the language that represents them, but about how representation organizes those particulars and—as these chapters show—the process of that organization. The first chapter, for example, illustrates how Conrad's language generates chains of metonymic association that move towards universal truths before interrupting the processes of allegorization and symbolization, while the third chapter argues that the dense accumulations of detail in Bennett's pre-war novels create patterns that cannot directly represent the order that subtends experience but can constitute that 'order occurring' in the temporality of narrative form (p. 154). Through readings of key novels such as Nostromo (1904) and The Good Soldier (1915), Jones addresses the philosophical significance of important aspects of realist representation, from metonymy and free indirect discourse to questions of genre and convention. The fourth chapter's account of the generic instability of Tono-Bungay (1909), for example, argues that Wells's realism aims to capture the [End Page 131] conditions of society but also to extend the temporal horizon of the present into an undetermined future where latent utopian possibilities might performatively emerge. As the final chapter unpacks the philosophical grounds of Ford's literary impressionism, it highlights the value of synthetic realism for both theorizing the realist aesthetics of the Edwardian novel and...

Generating Picard modular forms by means of invariant theory

We use the description of the Picard modular surface for discriminant $-3$ as a moduli space of curves of genus $3$ to generate all vector-valued Picard modular forms from bi-covariants for the action of ${GL}_2$ on the space of pairs of binary forms of bidegree $(4,1)$. The universal binary forms of degree $4$ and $1$ correspond to a meromorphic modular form of weight $(4,-2)$ and a holomorphic Eisenstein series of weight $(1,1)$.

Formation of City-like Structures while Ilya Golosov’s Creative Process

It’s commonly recognized that Avant-garde creativity begins with almost complete negation and deconstruction of previous cultural background. But examination of architects’ creative work shows that such an act is preceded by their deep study of architectural history and form creation and derivation of their own sets of universal architectural forms and assemblage methods. The purpose of essay is to reconstruct the creative process of Avant-garde architect and to reveal the inclusion of forms, taken from architectural history and regarded as a cultural resource while city-like structures and architectural organisms becoming. The research uses a process approach to study architectural phenomena, interpreted as a further development of structuralism and post-structuralism methods, including analysis of an array of design data, modelling of dynamic structures and accounting the intrusions from alien contexts. Comparative analysis is also used to jointly consider borrowings from different historical contexts and avant-garde neologisms. As a result, it turns out that Golosov doesn’t break or deny, but mentally unscrews aggregate of historical forms to reintegrate the selected forms, in altered order, into the structure of new city-like complex. Hence, to harmonize his work he returns to composition and tectonics and refers to the historical contexts from where forms originated, and they evoke reminiscences.

Family Memory and Historical Identity: can they be Considered Good Ways to Define Identity

The article discusses the problem of defining modern forms of identity. As conditions for its formation, the potential of family memory and the past as a whole is analyzed. The prospects of historical identity as a way of forming modern identity are determined. It is argued that in a situation of dominance and justification of intergenerational gaps, family memory cannot be considered a necessary condition for the formation of an identity that claims to be public and universal. It is argued that historical identity in the context of the preservation and spread of national identity also cannot become a necessary and universal form of modern identity. In conclusion, the thesis is put forward that moral identity should be considered the preferred way of identity formation.

A review of exact results for fluctuation formulas in random matrix theory

Covariances and variances of linear statistics of a point process can be written as integrals over the truncated two-point correlation function. When the point process consists of the eigenvalues of a random matrix ensemble, there are often large N universal forms for this correlation after smoothing, which results in particularly simple limiting formulas for the fluctuation of the linear statistics. We review these limiting formulas, derived in the simplest cases as corollaries of explicit knowledge of the truncated two-point correlation. One of the large N limits is to scale the eigenvalues so that limiting support is compact, and the linear statistics vary on the scale of the support. This is a global scaling. The other, where a thermodynamic limit is first taken so that the spacing between eigenvalues is of order unity, and then a scale imposed on the test functions so they are slowly varying, is the bulk scaling. The latter was already identified as a probe of random matrix characteristics for quantum spectra in the pioneering work of Dyson and Mehta.

Competence approach in professional training of landscape students

Landscape design has increasingly become a universal form of environment exploration in terms of spiritual, aesthetic, environmental and functional expediency. The training of a professionally competent landscape specialist with the knowledge gained during the training period and adaptable to difficult modern socio-cultural conditions is among the main objectives of modernizing the system of higher professional education in Uzbekistan. In this regard, there is a need of a renewed vision for training a highly qualified specialist in the field of landscape design.

Search for a universal form of systematization of departmental normative acts

Search for a universal form of systematization of departmental normative acts

Vaspitno-obrazovna uloga učeničke zadruge

Student cooperatives were introduced into the educational system in 2018. However, they are not new. They functioned in the second half of the 20th century, mostly in vocational high schools, and then they gradually lost importance until they were completely shut down. Rapid technical and technological development and market laws, which make entrepreneurship imperative in the economic aspect of life, once again led to the need for student cooperatives. The student cooperative imposes itself as a unique, one could even say a universal form of student organization and work that contributes to the overall development of students. In accordance with the modern circumstances and challenges of the modern age, student cooperatives have become somewhat modernized. They encounter difficulties, but they successfully adapt to social trends. In all these complex circumstances, student cooperatives have achieved their main goal, which is the educational impact on students, which is its priority role. The aim of this paper is to corroborate and, relying on theoretical foundations and legal provisions, to point out the great training and educational importance of student cooperatives, which again has the effect of increasing the quality of education.

Law as a universal form of embodiment of the idea of justice.

The article examines the issue of the primary formulation of the idea of justice in philosophy. It is substantiated that justice is not just the central idea of law but a universal form of embodiment of the idea of justice. In other words, the law is a product of the idea of justice, since injustice could not be embodied in law. Modern geopolitical events, in particular, such as climate change, a pandemic, a war in Ukraine will lead in the future to a change in the regulation of public relations. According to this law, as the most effective regulator, will be subjected to serious pressure. The deformation of the existing legal matter occurs both in its formal expression at the level of legislation (in the broadest sense of this definition), and in a more subtle one - ideological and theoretical. These changes should be considered in view of the increasing practical issues raised by identity politics, as well as in issue of revising the meaning and role of the state for society and the individual in the whole. The events authors observe are comparable in scale to the time when the era of classical Greece ended, when the great philosopher Plato lived and worked, whose philosophical views continue to have a great influence on the intellectual search for European civilization after many centuries. It is not surprising that Plato's most important political dialogue "The State" was devoted specifically to the problem of searching and justice substantiation. In this first article the authors strive for drawing the attention of the scientific community to the issue of justice as a benefit. In legal science, the postulate that justice is the goal, the idea of law is consolidated. In the article the first embodiment of justice idea in the mythical representations of ancient civilizations and the relationship between justice and legislation as a mechanism of determining the desired level of justice in the former society are demonstrated. Аn attention on the content of the legal system with philosophical views of a justice idea in Roman times is focused. This formed a unique legal system known today as Roman law. A special class of lawyers, that was a specific phenomenon of the development of ancient Roman society, had an important influence on this process. Firstly, the presence of a class of lawyers is the cornerstone that distinguishes ancient Roman society from ancient Greek one. Secondly, the ideological and philosophical content of the law of Roman society and its going beyond the clear positive limits of the laws of Twelve tables enable. However, the authors offer the other point of view, owing to the fact that law in its form and purpose is a function of justice, a universal form of its implementation; according to which justice acquires the possibility of its practical implementation in society. null