The impact of lighting modes in urban environment on adaptation capabilities of young people: an ecological aspect
Modern urban environments are characterized by high levels of light pollution, which negatively affect the adaptive mechanisms of the human body and cause various disorders and impairments of vital functions. This study focuses on changes in adaptive processes in the bodies of young people exposed to different lighting conditions—natural illumination and complete absence of light. The research employed heart rate variability (HRV) analysis using ...
Neonicotinoids and their effects on honey bees: a comparative analysis of the acute oral toxicity of imidacloprid and thiacloprid
... their modes of action differ. Imidacloprid shows a more rapid onset of toxic effects, whereas thiacloprid develops toxicity more gradually. Analysis of behavioral activity demonstrated that both insecticides cause a sequential suppression of locomotor functions, followed by the development of hyperactivity typical of the neurotoxic effects of neonicotinoids. Assessment of repellent activity using the coefficient of protective action revealed a dose-dependent reduction in food consumption by bees under ...
Metatheatricality in “La Grotte” by Jean Anouilh
... “theater within theater,” where different levels of fiction overlap: there is no clear separation between the main play and the embedded play, and they intertwine throughout the action. At the center of the analysis is the figure of the Author, who functions simultaneously as a character and narrator, elevated above the other characters. However, his position is unstable, as, being the creator of the embedded play, he cannot fully control it and struggles to manage his characters. This duality highlights ...
Verbal charm as a special class of performative speech acts in Russian linguoculture
... linguoculture is examined through the lens of speech act theory, one of the key directions of contemporary pragmalinguistics. The relevance of the study is determined by the need for an in-depth investigation of culturally conditioned speech genres functioning within sacred discourse, as well as their role in shaping the linguistic worldview. The aim of the research is to identify the pragmatic characteristics of verbal charms as a distinct class of performative utterances in the context of speech ...
Linearity and compositionality in the semantics of binomial stable constructions
... to idiomatic units, in which the connection between the components and the global meaning is weak or entirely opaque. At the same time, even as compositionality decreases, a fixed linear order is often preserved. This stability of linear structure functions as a salient marker of idiomaticity and constructional fixity. In cases where phraseologization leads to a disruption of compositionality, the linear form remains invariant, thereby becoming a key cue for idiomatic recognition. A regular correlation ...
“Old hell transformed into a new purgatory”: the disturbing historical experience in the novel “The Haunted Hotel” by Wilkie Collins
... of Countess Narona, present in the story like a “dream within a dream”, that reveals the truth of this work with its puzzling ending. The story’s ending, which explicitly declares the impossibility of uncovering the “secret of the hotel,” functions as a trigger for the allegorical interpretation developed in this article.
catastrophic writing, gothic elements in sensation literature, gothic fantasy, image of the past, oneiric representation, representative possibilities of reminiscence,...
Political and digital technologies for forming macro-identity in the post-Soviet space (on the example of the Baltic states)
... networks, and the perception of the Western world as progressive. Based on the results of the study, macro-identification is conceptualized as a political instrument for transitioning states from one civilizational paradigm to another, performing the function of transforming large civilizational formations. Using the Baltic states as an example, the study demonstrates a transition from the Soviet to the Western civilizational paradigm, along with the transformation of symbolic practices, normative ...
"This man is a very respectable military man": on the establishment of a personal national retirement benefit to V.M. Lermontov
... retirement benefit from among relatives of Russian writers and poets underwent preliminary consideration at the level of members of the Soviet government, as well as the emergence of a curator of this process. During the period under study, these functions were assigned to the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR V. M. Molotov. The study emphasizes that Vladimir Mikhailovich was not a direct descendant of M. Yu. Lermontov; therefore, when pension rights were considered,...
Tactical and forensic support for investigations into crimes related to illegal drug trafficking committed using the Internet. Part one
... It describes a recommended procedure for the inspection of computers, including the examination of their components and additional devices, such as printers, Wi-Fi routers, etc. Recommendations for the inspection of mobile devices include identifying functional elements; establishing the IMEI identifier; determining the mobile phone model, serial number, operating system, version and firmware, the SIM card phone number, IP and MAC addresses; examining the list of contacts stored in the “phone book”; ...
Spatial organisation of student campuses: Domestic and foreign experience
... structure of Russian and foreign universities is carried out. It is established that the autonomous campus development model is the most effective, as it ensures flexibility of development and a high level of integration of educational, research, and social functions.
spatial organization, student town, campus, university town, university campuses, city within a city, student infrastructure
57-71
10.5922/vestniknat-2025-4-4
Interim decisions in criminal proceedings of the court of first instance
... study is to formulate a definition of an interim decision, to determine its place among the decisions of the court of first instance, and to develop universal recommendations containing requirements that contribute to its effective and high-quality functioning. Within the framework of the research, axiological, synergistic, and dialectical methods were applied, as well as provisions of the theory of social action. Methods of synthesis and analysis, along with formal-legal and comparative-legal ...
Historical policy and memorial culture of modern Romanian society
The aim of the research is to analyze the contemporary politics of memory in Romania in the early 2020s. The author examines the role and place of intellectual communities as key spaces of memory genesis and the functioning of memorial culture and collective historical memory in the contemporary social and political thought of Romania. The novelty of the study lies in exploring the current stage in the development of the historical politics of Romanian society ...
Vladivostok commercial seaport in the first half of the 1920s: export competition and interdepartmental contradictions
... «Window to Asia». The key means of implementing these plans was the establishment of the so-called «Transit harbor» in the port, which became the logical result of generalization and application of the colossal pre-revolutionary experience in the functioning of «free economic zones».
Far East, transport system, Vladivostok port, transit export, free harbor, transit harbor
63-76
10.5922/sikbfu-2023-1-6
Functions of words-realities in S. Rushdie’s novel “midnight’s Children”
The article examines the features of the functioning of realia words in the text of Salman Rushdie's novel "Midnight’s Children." The delimitation of the term "realia words" is carried out in its comparison with the concept of "realia." The language specificity ...
Semantics of abionims in S. Snegov’s novel “People as Gods”
... the onomastic space of the work is connected with the writer’s picture of the world, who models the possible path of development of human civilization, based on the priority of the moral law. Literary abionyms perform an ideological and aesthetic function and at the same time endow the novel with additional deep meanings that contribute to a more holistic perception of artistic reality.
S. Snegov, science fiction, “People as Gods”, onomastics, artistic space, toponyms, abionyms
75-84
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Urban speech as an object of linguistic research: written and spoken varieties
... «regiolect» — a regional variety of the national language. The analysis of the scientific results of linguo-urbanistics reveals the dominance of the onomastic vector and obvious lack of research into urban speech. The authors specify discrepancies in the function of written and spoken language in linguistic, semiotic and psychological aspects. They also state destructive results of simple mechanical transfer of oral speech techniques to urban epigraphy, the differences between word-formation processes ...
Prospects for the development of the forest park protective belt of Moscow
... integrated index has been conducted, allowing for the identification of three most probable scenarios for the further development of different parts of the forest-park protective belt of Moscow.
Ecology of the city, Moscow agglomeration, ecological functions, forest park protective belt, integrated assessment, development scenarios
5-23
10.5922/gikbfu-2023-3-1
Emission levels and identification of NOx and SO2 sources in the South-eastern Baltic on the results of observations at the background monitoring station Diabla Góra (Poland)
... using hourly NOx and SO2 concentration data and meteorological variables (wind speed and direction), which were analyzed over a period of four years (2018—2021). Time series plots, wind and pollutant roses, application of a conditional probability function, and inverse trajectories were considered to analyze the data and identify emission sources. The average concentration of NOx and SO2 for the study period was 2.12 µg/m3 and 0.27 µg/m3, respectively. The results showed a definite pattern for ...
Geoecological aspects of various types of archaeological sites in the North-West of the Russian Plain
... Fe2O3 helps reveal distinct microrelief features. The examination of anthropogenic activity-related geo-chemical modules within the archaeological site, such as P2O5(anthrop), CaO(anthrop), K2O(anthrop), Rb(anthrop), facilitates the reconstruction of functional zones within the site and identifies the type of economic activities conducted there. This study has for the first time identified geo-ecological factors influencing various types of archaeological sites, including settlements, burial grounds,...
Population and settlement of the Kaliningrad region at the beginning of 2023
... cities and rural areas of the North and South-East of the region, respectively, developing rural-urban ties between the centers of municipalities with their rural settlements, and within municipal districts, which testifies to the strengthening support functions of the centers of the first level municipalities.
Kaliningrad region, demographic processes, natural human movement, migration, settlement system
18-30
10.5922/gikbfu-2023-2-2
Socio-geographic approach to substantiating economic security boundaries of a border region
... geo-economic changes occurring since 2022 have created a new development context for Russian border regions redrawing their economic security boundaries. The latter are also changing, which is understood as the required level of security in the current mode of functioning of the territorial system in terms of its openness or closeness. These regions, especially ones located along the northwestern borders, geo-strategically gain more military and political importance for Russia’s national security. Thus, changing ...
Strategies for optimising intraregional space as a practical implementation of domestic state policy
... methodological and applied aspects affecting the processes and mechanisms of development of new territories by the state is certainly relevant. The author of the article presented a classification of development types according to the criterion of the functional purpose of the development of new territories, as well as a typology based on the chronological criterion. Resource, institutional and network approaches to the development of territories are considered.
region, regional autonomy, intraregional ...
The concept and typologisation of defects in the criminal procedure law
... formulated to identify the presence of a defect in the criminal procedure law. After studying the various views of scientists on the prospects for the development of the theory of legislative defects, taking into account the specifics and independence of the functioning of the conceptual apparatus of the criminal procedure law, the author’s concept of defects of the criminal procedure law is formulated. The existing views on the classification of defects of the law are presented, the possibility of dividing ...
The history of the development and formation of notaries in Russia: topical issues
... development of notaries, associated with the adoption of the Fundamentals of the legislation of the Russian Federation on notaries, as well as with the emergence of private notaries, is highlighted. The development of the notary office in the digital era, the functioning of the electronic (digital) notary office are outlined, and the expansion of the powers of notaries in the digital environment (certification of an electronic document; remote transactions, etc.) is analyzed. These measures are aimed at increasing ...
Intangible Factors of U. S. Influence in Latin American and Caribbean Countries in the Entertainment Industry Context
... Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World. N. Y., 2007.
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19. Schulzke M. B. Military videogames ...
Military rule in Sudan: historical preconditions and the current situation
... examine the historical prerequisites and conditions that led Sudan into civil war and a humanitarian crisis, ultimately resulting in the degradation and collapse of the state. The article concludes that the armed forces are no longer the only successfully functioning institution in the country, as previously believed. As demonstrated in the research, the army has transformed from a guarantor of stability into a source of threats to national security. Furthermore, a ‘deep state’ has emerged in Sudan ...
Prospects of the digital storytelling method in foreign language education for young generations
... the advantages and prospects of this method, the concept of storytelling in an educational context is defined, along with its theoretical foundation. The article highlights the key characteristics of a story within educational storytelling, its role, functions, and elements. A classification of storytelling method varieties is provided, and the advantages and potential of various forms of this method, particularly digital storytelling, are explored. The relevance of this method for educating modern ...
Category of space in the system of intertextual connections Miciński’s essay Portrait of Kant
... engages in a polemic with Lessing, the author of Laocoön, by examining painting and poetry in their identity. The role of portrait and object details in the structure of the text is defined. The essay highlights the special illustrative and expressive function of litotes, which serves the idea of the spatial ordering of the world, a concept that, according to Miсiński, governed both the life and philosophy of Kant. The principle of continuity plays a key role in the artistic space of the essay, bringing ...
Neologisms with the meaning of “fake” goods in modern Russian
The article describes neological units that have been functioning in the Russian language since the 1990s to characterize artisanal products or various types of counterfeit goods. The cognitive mechanisms underlying their formation are identified, based on the metonymic or metaphorical use of the image of ...
Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language by D.N. Ushakov as an ethnolinguistic source
... social order and recorded emerging linguistic norms. The aim of this article is to present this dictionary as a potential source for the study of ethnolinguistic vocabulary. It is demonstrated that Ushakov’s work not only fulfills all the normative functions of an explanatory dictionary but also objectively contains a significant amount of dialectal vocabulary, as it was still in demand among speakers of that time and naturally of interest to ethnolinguists. The extensive system of stylistic and ...
Investigating the causes of speech disorders in children (perinatal aspects)
Speech disorders in children are a current issue of modern times, primarily because speech is a central cognitive function, without which the development of other mental processes, including thinking, is impossible. Speech development disorders in children can lead to difficulties in various areas in the future. This underscores the relevance of studying the causes ...
Implementation of the principle of learning though speech patterns in profile-oriented foreign language training
... purposes of professionally-oriented foreign language teaching for students in the field of information technology is proposed. The study concludes that the quality of such foreign language training indicators as visibility, authenticity, time efficiency, functionality, and complexity (multi-aspect nature) is improved in the process of forming professionally-oriented speech skills and developing students’ speech abilities.
speech pattern, speech cliché, speech skill, principles of profession-oriented ...
Cultural and leisure activities as an element of ethnocultural education for younger students in a supplementary educational institution
... and leisure activities, their tasks, stages, and forms of implementation. The research focuses on the main aspects of organizing cultural and leisure activities within the framework of ethnocultural education in an additional education institution (functions, forms, means, content). As a result, factors determining the achievement of the goals of ethnocultural education for 6—11-year-old students (formation of ethnic identity and intercultural tolerance) through the participation of children in ...
Transdisciplinarity as a mechanism of educational innovations: synthesizing pedagogical experience
... studied. The aim of this article is to present a systematic experience in which transdisciplinarity serves as a mechanism for educational innovations and contributes to achieving new quality educational outcomes or obtaining more reliable, convenient, and functional pedagogical developments. The results include the development of a training technology for future educators to create transdisciplinary educational products. The main techniques for developing transdisciplinary educational products are identified ...
The story Coward by V.M. Garshin and the novella The Yoke of War by L.N. Andreev: linguistic and stylistic analysis
... of Garshin’s story Coward and Andreev’s novella The Yoke of War. The aim of the study is to identify similar features in the idiolects of the “forerunner of expressionism” and the “singer of horrors and nightmares”, while considering the functioning of means expressing the category of intensity. This approach allows for an expanded understanding of the evolution and transformation of such a unique direction in Russian literature as expressionism. Drawing on the texts of the works, the ...
List of lexical combinations in the macrostructure of a frequency author dictionary: on forwarding the problem
The article examines the informational and functional potential of lexical combinations in the macrostructure of Boris Ryzhy’s Digital Frequency Dictionary, which is currently in the active development stage. To identify lexical combinations in the material of Boris Ryzhy’s poetry, the computer ...
Orel forest parks as the basis of the ecological framework and their recreational assessmen
... species. Monitoring studies of the forest parks forming Oryol’s green belt were conducted between 2016 and 2024. These studies analyzed vegetation and identified the floristic composition within these areas. Forest parks fulfill diverse ecological functions, including recreational purposes, which necessitated an assessment of their recreational load. The studied forest parks are in the second to third stages of recreational degradation, yet they possess high recreational potential. Scientifically ...
Spatial features of automobile online classifieds using in Russia
... examines the factors shaping spatial differences in consumer preferences when using online automotive classifieds in Russia. The study employs content analysis of major automotive online platforms—Avito.ru, Auto.ru, and Drom.ru—highlighting the functional comparability of these services. To identify the causes of regional differences, a series of in-depth interviews were conducted with residents from various Russian regions. Additionally, comprehensive and cartographic analysis methods were ...
Development and prediction of toxicity of a new antiplatelet food peptide
... of 0.81968 units, with a maximum of 1. The peptide does not cause acute toxicity when administered orally, is non-toxic to the heart, liver, eye mucosa, and respiratory tract, is non-mutagenic, and non-cytotoxic. This allows it to be recommended as a functional ingredient for specialized food products, provided its effectiveness is confirmed in in vitro experiments.
cyclic peptides, antithrombotic properties, biological activity, toxicity, cytotoxicity
81-88
10.5922/vestniknat-2024-3-6
Mapping of noise pollution in urbanized areas as a tool for creating a comfortable human environment
The article considers the issues of balanced functioning of urbanized territories (including urban environments) as objects of social ecology. The aim of this work is to analyze the current state of the urban environment in terms of noise pollution and the creation of thematic environmental maps ...
Dare to Know, or the Gospel According to Kant
... within the social organism implied by Kant, and that is the requirement to obey those who are not above us in thinking and the right to speak out in public, which ultimately means not only personal maturity, but implies also the maturity of society’s functioning in accordance with the said maxim.
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Where does the method come from? On the self-sufficiency of semiotic objects
... semiosis, affirming that sign generation is an inherent property of information systems and need not always involve a conscious subject. Simultaneously, linguistic descriptions can take various directions, focusing either on describing significative functions external to the system or on internal relationships within the system.
Barbieri, M., 2008. The Code Model of Semiosis: The First Steps Toward a Scientific Biosemiotics.
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On multiple semiotics integrally, aspectively and concretely
... are based on three basic cognitive abilities — (1) to perceive signals, to rank and to process them; (2) to recognize patterns (signal configurations) and shape them into more complex formations; (3) assessing and utilizing the meaning (initially functional significance, relevance) of the forms and modes of actuality. The latter ability is precisely the basis of semiotics and semiosis. The first two are metretics or organon for computational mathematics and statistics, as well as morphetics or ...
Signs and senses as an epistemological problem
... – meaning – sense” is discussed as a methodological problem caused by philosophy of external realism and the representational theory of cognition based on it. Reification of linguistic signs, along with the erroneous view of the nature and function of language as a communication tool rather than the mode of existence of humans as living (cognitive) systems, impedes scientific explanation of both language and linguistic signs. As an alternative, the core problem of semiotics is approached ...
The Mobius strip of the pragmasemantics of sense: from culture through subjectivity to nothingness and back
... drifting surplus that connects the unconnected. In this context, the article places particular emphasis on the apophatic nature of sense formation. Pauses, intervals, breaks, and gaps give rise to signs within the backdrop of non-existence. Subjectivity functions as a ‘user of voids’, serving as a metacontext, a source, means, and outcome of sense formation. It exists as a gap within being, an inherent incompleteness ready for completion and replenishment. In this regard, personal agency manifests ...
Non-translation as palimpsest in hermetic poetry
... marginalia, structuring the perception of interweaving images both through donor text and through the transformation of its motives. And the discommunicative palimpsest of Ekaterina Zakharkiv’s poem “Hiroo Onoda” is based on the unrepresentative function of the non-translation, when the collision of different languages, quotes and references creates both difficulty in perception and communicative faults in the narrative fabric of the work. Thus, the article is an attempt to derive points on ...
Simultaneous interpreter in multimodal dimension: the role of gestures in moments of non-interpretation
... simultaneous interpreters are analyzed with the help of quantitative and qualitative methods. The distribution of gestures with the moments of ‘non-interpretation’ indicates that referential (representational and deictic) gestures serve the compensatory function of strengthening the mappings between three frames of reference in which a simultaneous interpreter acts at the same time: i. e., the frame of reference of the events described in the lecture, the communicative situation of the source text, and ...
Conceptualizing emotions through discourse: a pragmatic view on the reader's interest
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Distributive interpretants in the crossword metalanguage
... of complex words with hyphenated spelling as terms of descriptions, as well as a variety of precedent names and utterances.
Abdrashitova, M. O., 2012. Miromodeliruyushchaya funktsiya zhanra zagadki v fol'klornom diskurse [The world-modeling function of the riddle genre in folklore discourse]. PhD thesis. Tomsk (in Russ.).
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Expressiveness in the theatre as a meaning-making technology and the role of gestures in its realization
The paper examines the concept of multimodal expressiveness contributing to the general study of the expressive and emotive functions in belles-lettres texts. The author attempts to prove that in heterogeneous discourse expressiveness manifests itself as a meaning-making resource responsible for the form-content fusion. The analysis is carried out on the basis of two different ...