Chlorophyll «a» concentration in the South-Eastern Baltic Sea in summer 2018 (on satellite data)
The study focuses on chlorophyll "a"concentration variability in the South-Eastern part of the Baltic sea in summer 2018. The data of the MODIS radiometer installed on Aqua and Terra satellites were used for the analysis. The average concentration of chlorophyll "a" in the warm ...
Evangelical Lutheran church of Denmark: socio-economic and territorial-organisational aspects
... structures on the official websites.
The collected data was processed using a combination of cartographic methods, analysis and synthesis methods, including content analysis, as well as quantitative methods typically used in regional studies, such as concentration index.
These methods were employed within the framework of a territorial-institutional approach to studying denominational space, which involved selecting various units of the church administrative division as the basis for chronological ...
Simulating of non-stationary processes in the ionospheric plasma
A model of distribution of concentration, velocities and temperatures of ions along a geomagnetic flux tube is considered. The model also examines the main processes of chemical kinetics, ambipolar diffusion, influence of horizontal neutral wind and plasma heating by superthermal ...
An oscillatory excited molecular nitrogen in the ionospheric plasma
... to investigate dynamics of interaction charged and neutral components of ionospheric plasma, and also to reveal a contribution of various processes to formation of ionosphere. Results of computing experiment indicate strong dependence of electronic concentration on high-rise distribution of nitrogen. The accounting of oscillatory excitement of molecular nitrogen leads to noticeable variations of electronic concentration and temperature at ionosphere F2 layer heights and improves a consent of results ...
The accumulation of heavy metals by wild mushrooms in the Kaliningrad region
This article considers the heavy metal accumulation capacity of wild mushroomson on the basis of calculating the concentration and biological uptake coefficients. An analysis of these data shows that some mushroom species have a high selective capacity for cadmium (B. edulis) and zinc accumulation (R. decolorans) independent of the concentration of these elements ...
Models for countering the segregation of ethnoreligious immigrant areas in Denmark and Sweden
... composition of vulnerable areas and the strengthening of socio-economic segregation largely determined the change in government rhetoric. At the same time, the strategy notes the strengthening of the link between socio-economic and ethnic segregation, as the concentration of low-income people in vulnerable areas coincides with the concentration of people of non-European origin.<46> By analogy with the situation in Denmark, the unbalanced composition of residents in disadvantaged areas and increasing ...
Economic development of Russia’s north-western regions and migration to the St. Petersburg agglomeration
... remained at the core of NWFD regions’ economic success. St. Petersburg’s higher economic efficiency compared to Moscow and Helsinki was a result of greater investments in manufacturing.
Introduction
Russia’s population is not growing, yet its concentration in major cities, primarily Moscow, St. Petersburg, and regional hubs, is on the rise. This trend is prevalent in both developing and developed nations. Urban agglomerations offer a notable advantage in terms of heightened innovation activity....
Suspended Particulate Matter Distribution Along the Northern Coast of the Kaliningrad Peninsula
... of suspended particulate matter north of the Kaliningrad Peninsula — in the southeastern Baltic Sea — to gain a better understanding of sedimentation conditions in a semi-enclosed stratified water basin. The data on suspended particulate matter concentration were obtained by filtering seawater through nuclear filters with a 0.45 μm pore diameter, at a pressure of 0.4 mbar. The water samples were taken on a regular grid of stations at standard horizons. The fifteen years (2003‒2017) of regular ...
Comparative analysis of the groups of microorganisms in natural and anthropo-genically altered brown forest soils of the Kaliningrad Peninsula
This article focuses on the numerical concentration of certain groups of microorganisms in the brown forest soils of natural and urbanised ecosystems of the Kaliningrad Peninsula. An analysis of the microflora was performed in spring, summer, and autumn 2012. This paper presents the average ...
Teoretical nonstationary two-dimensional modal with altitude-longitudinal variations of ionosphere parameters
... field geometry. Model calculations of dependence of longitudinal effects in middle-latitude F-area from levels of geomagnetic and solar activity are carried out. It is shown that with increase in a geomagnetic disturbance the behavior of electronic concentration as a whole corresponds to the negative phase of a substorm. However, in some longitudinal sectors increase of electronic concentration that is explained by hobby of ionospheric plasma for a termosphere wind is watched. Thus DYE amplitude ...
Concentration camp prose as primary source
This article considers the possibility of the use of Polish concentration camp prose as a primary source. Its features are analysed on the basis of its genre and subject characteristics. The works of a prominent representative of this literary trend help demonstrate the potential of concentration camp short stories ...
Distribution of heavy metals in the soils and vegetation in urban ecosystems of Kaliningrad region
Some peculiarities of heavy metals concentrations in the accumulating layer of the urban soils and leafs of Acer platanoides and Populus alba are presented. Dependence between physical and chemical features, geochemical structure of landscapes, concentration and distribution of heavy metals ...
The influence of latitudinal gradient on sugar concentration in the nectar of Taraxacum officinale Wigg.
This article analyses the dynamics of sugar concentration in the nectar of Taraxacum officinale Wigg. in the arctic, boreal and temperate zones of Russia. The author arrives at the conclusion that the sugar productivity of flowers analysed changes throughout the day. The average sugar production ...
The geopolitical effect of the maritime factor on the spatial development of post-Soviet Russia: the Baltic case
... Eurocentric mindset of a part of Russian society, which added to the effect of the already existing core-periphery gradient. Subsequent geopolitical events, coupled with economic and natural factors, prompted the population of Russia’s Far East to concentrate in the Vladivostok agglomeration, this process becoming evident as early as the 2010s. A notable example is the population growth by 11 % in the town of Bolshoy Kamen, home to a major shipbuilding company, Zvezda, which was observed between ...
Artificial Intelligence: a catalyst for entrepreneurship education in the Baltics
... Kaunas University of Technology, and Vilnius University (Fig. 4).
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Research on AI in higher education institutions in the Baltic States, number of publications
Source: elaborated by the authors based on the data of ORCD.AI.<13>
Regarding the concentration of AI talent, which refers to the percentage of LinkedIn members possessing AI skills or being engaged in AI-related activities, it is noteworthy that in 2022, this percentage closely aligns between Lithuania and Estonia, both standing at ...
International heritage in the memorial landscape of the Kaliningrad region
... here’.
In the 1990s, the construction of an international memorial cemetery commenced in Baltiysk; it was completed in 2000. Over 13,000 people were interred there, most of them Germans, civilians and soldiers who died at the beginning of 1945, and concentration camp prisoners, predominantly Soviet citizens. In 2001, the German War Graves Commission initiated the reconstruction of the former communal cemetery in Kaliningrad. Opened in 2003, it was granted memorial status. It became the last resting ...
The spread of the COVID-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region: internal differences
... June (July) 2020. The second wave triggered a new surge of amendments to the principal statutory instruments (October—December 2020). The third wave did not cause a peak in the amendments and new versions of the law: the legislative efforts were not concentrated in time as it happened earlier. Yet, a cluster of amendments made between October and November 2021 can be seen in the Kaliningrad, Pskov and Novgorod regions and the Republic of Karelia.
Our conclusions about the waves of the pandemic being ...
Kant oder Heidegger – Metaphysik, Anthropologie oder Existenzial-Ontologie? Kritische Bemerkungen zu einer Alternative Heideggers im Jahr 1929
... against a micro-hermeneutical and micro-analytical test. Such an examination, to be fair and appropriate to the leading aspects of the two philosophers, has to bear in mind from the very beginning the deep differences of these leading aspects: Kant concentrates on the formal structure and the strictly subjective status of time as a form of intuition, Heidegger concentrates on the roles time plays in the daily human world orientation. Under these methodical and conceptional pre-suppositions a close ...
Preserve vs dismantle: major trends in the Baltics’ politics of memory regarding Soviet monuments at sites of mass violence
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On Tendencies of the Politics of Remembrance in Contemporary Lithuania
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IL-1β and IL-8 influence on cytoprotective mechanisms in liver tissue in morbid obesity patients with comorbidities
... included 130 patients with morbid obesity and comorbid diseases (NAFLD and type 2 diabetes). The gene expression level (NRF2, TFAM, AMPK, HSF1, HSP70) was determined by real-time PCR and the detection of protein products was confirmed by Western blot. The concentration of cytokines (IL-1β, IL-8) was measured in plasma by multiplex analysis in flow fluorometry format. It was demonstrated that an increase in the concentration of pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-1β, IL-8 in blood plasma was associated with ...
The spatial structure of Baltic Sea ferry services
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A witness for the prosecution. Stanislav Dubel's testimony at the trial of Rudolf Hess
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The danish parliament as an actor of Denmark’s foreign policy towards the EU and Russia: a comparative analysis, 2005—2019
... The question is, however, whether these powers are exercised in the same manner towards different states and regions. This article aims to find out how the Danish Parliament contributes to the country’s foreign policy towards the EU and Russia. The concentric circles model is employed to assess the level of the Danish Parliament’s participation in the foreign policy of the Kingdom of Denmark in different regions of the world. The study conducts a comparative analysis of the evidence of the Parliament’s ...
The dynamics of agricultural land use in the North-West of Russia and the Baltic countries
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Geography of knowledge: clustering national competence centres of Russia
While transiting to an innovation economy, cities are the most important centres of concentration of intellectual capital. However, their distribution around the territory of the country is not even. Various Russian cities also demonstrate significant differences between the systems of new scientific knowledge reproduction. The article ...
Numerical study of distribution of an impurity on watercourse with diffuse pollution
... section of the watercourse, and the intensity of the diffuse discharge along the shoreline is set. The results of solving the boundary value problem by numerical method in Mathcad are presented. The results of the study of the profiles of dimensionless concentration of the precipitating admixture are shown. Graphs are presented in dimensionless variables.
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Structural Changes in the Economy of the Russian Northwest: Spatial Dimension
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The features of heavy metal accumulation in forest mushrooms in the Kaliningrad region
This articles examines the ability of wild mushrooms to accumulate heavy metals. The concentration of Ag, Cd, Co, Cu, Cr, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb in the fruit-ing bodies of forest mushrooms was determined using AAS techniques. It is established that certain mushroom species accumulate cadmium and silver, whereas the most pronounced ability is ...
2D modeling of ion shadow behind a charged satellite by the method of molecular dynamics
It was considered a two-dimensional model of the interaction of a charged micro satellite and thermal plasma. The method of molecular dynamics used as a modeling method. Ion concentration distributions near SC were calculated for 10 and 102 protons in cm2 and the two values of relative satellite velocity and plasma were considered — 8 and 20 km s-1, respectively. It is shown that an increase in velocity and concentration ...
The impact of changes in dissolved organic carbon concentration in a solution on the sorption of platinum compounds
This article considers the impact of changing dissolved organic carbon concentration in a solution on the sorption of platinum (II), (IV) compounds (K2PtCl4, H2PtCl6) at different soil horizons. The authors prove that even small concentrations of dissolved organic carbon play an important role in platinum sorption in soil ...
The use of a gas discharge visualization technique at estimation the antioxidant status of plants in the conditions of cadmium toxic effect
This article presents an evaluation of the antioxidant status of plants with the use of the GDV-method under the toxic effect of cadmium. A high concentration of Сd in the soil is proven to stimulate the accumulation of anthocyans, carotenoids, and acorbic acid and to contribute to a reduction in the concentration of water-soluble antioxidants in the leaves of the plants under consideration. ...
Computer simulation of synthesis processes in NiO—Al system
Features of physical and chemical conversions in the reacting powder system NiO-Al were investigated by computer simulation methods.. Multivariability of the synthesis of nickel aluminides in powder systems with varying degrees of concentration inhomogeneity is taken into account. The estimates of the state parameters of reacting system at all stages of physical and chemical transformations was obtained.
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The antioxidant status of plants in the conditions of urban cadmium pollution
This article analyses the level of antioxidants (water-soluble antioxidants, carotenoids, and anthocyanins) in plants under the conditions of environmental cadmium pollution. The authors emphasise excessive background concentration of cadmium in plant samples collected in Kaliningrad and note a positive correlation between cadmium concentration and traffic intensity. A negative
correlation between the Cd content and the antioxidatic status of plants and a positive ...
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A new role of cooperation under economic sanctions as seen by residents of the Kaliningrad region
... and sustainable regional economic growth [6]. Similar conclusions have been drawn by Russian researchers who have compared statistical data on the development of cooperatives in Russia in the 1990s with the location of modern industrial clusters. The concentration of industrial zones in areas with a high percentage of cooperative enterprises provides implicit evidence of a connection between cooperative development and industrial production growth [7]. These trends acquire special significance amidst ...
Settlement system of the Kaliningrad region: dasymetric analysis
... population density cartograms. Several dasymetric analysis approaches (buffer zone delineation and grid methods) of the settlement system and mapping of the territory in the Kaliningrad Oblast are demonstrated using GIS tools. Areas of the highest population concentration within the region, coinciding with the agglomeration's influence territory, have been identified. A decrease in population density to the east of Kaliningrad is also shown. For the municipal entities of the Kaliningrad region, the area and ...
Professor Friedrich Münzer in Königsberg
... Basel, Königsberg, and Münster, demonstrating high creative activity and publishing numerous works on ancient history. His fate was tragic. Münzer became one of the victims of the National Socialist regime in Germany and died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. The “Königsberg period” (1912—1921) in his career is characterized, this period involved teaching at Albertina University and the writing of several important scholarly works, including a fundamental monograph on the history ...
The ecological state of the Vistula lagoon using indicators of water quality and eutrophication
... been observed in the eastern region, where the main river runoff (from the Pregolya River) enters and where the new discharge of Kaliningrad's treatment facilities is located. The level of eutrophication and phytoplankton abundance (chlorophyll concentration) influences the calculated water pollution indices (SCWPI and CCME WQI). The highest values were observed during the period of "water bloom" in the lagoon. The introduction of filter-feeding mollusks and the resulting changes in ...
The modern economy of Russia’s Baltic regions in the municipal context
... developing specific sectors of the economy. Currently, the most detailed data is found in demographic statistics, with the population being the only indicator available for cities and towns, irrespective of their municipal structure. Numerous studies concentrate on the settlement systems of the two regions and the geodemographic characteristics of their municipalities [7], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20]. With the heightened state interest in ensuring food security, there are relatively detailed ...
The Accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO: Geopolitical implications for Russia’s position in the Baltic Sea region
... countries, especially Sweden (primarily its submarine fleet);
— ever more unfavourable situation for Russia in the Baltic region, due to the fact, that the principal NATO and EU member countries, hostile to Russia (Poland and the Baltic states) are concentrated there, and due to potential joining of their efforts with new members of the Alliance for the sake of “containing” Moscow;
— the emergence of a springboard for the deployment of military contingents of NATO member countries to deter ...
Three Russian Baltic regions in the context of confrontation between Russia and the West
... Germany (– 51 %), and in Norway (– 43 %). The Baltic States were not surveyed, but it can be assumed that their indicators would be close to those of Poland. Finland was also not included in the study. As a result, the Baltic region emerges as a concentration point for European countries with arguably significantly negative inclinations toward Russia. It is noteworthy that, outside the surveyed Baltic states, similar indicators show variations for other European nations, with differing degrees ...
From the editor
... factors in its socio-economic development. This scope of interdisciplinary problems is the focus of this themed issue of the journal, which showcases articles by experts in geography, economics and political science.
The contributors to the issue concentrate intently on the state of affairs observed in 2022 and 2023 in Russia’s Baltic regions. At the same time, many elements of the situation seen in the macro-region are determined by long-term development factors and global trends, which are ...
Geography of the mobile internet in the border and interior regions of Russia
... trade turnover (in exports and imports) of these regions. The results show a strong correlation between the share of international migrants in the region and the number of mobile subscriber devices (0.708). High-speed internet accessibility and the concentration of mobile subscriber devices are significant factors for the volume of information transmitted from/to mobile network subscribers.
The regions from the other groups show weaker correlations. For instance, in the regions bordering unfriendly ...
Spatial differentiation of rural territories in the Kaliningrad region: implications for socio-economic policies
... municipality, Svetly, Ladushkin and Mamonovo districts. In the immediate suburban zone, the Polessk municipality, unlike the Gvardeysk and Pravdinsk municipalities, has seen an increase in the number of residents. Overall, the tendency of population concentration within the immediate suburban zone of Kaliningrad remains despite the noted differences in population change in 2023 compared to 2010—2023.
The municipalities have different age and gender structures in terms of both natural and migration ...
The Swedish institute’s scholarship policy as a soft power instrument
... strategies of the Nordic countries, with Sweden being a notable example [6, p. 156—159], [7, p. 90—99], [7, p. 54—57], [9, p. 18—28, [10, p. 127—136], [11, p. 289—308], [12, p. 97—103].
Russian researchers, such as Anatoly Torkunov, have concentrated on factors influencing competitiveness in BRICS educational exports [13, p. 85—93]. Anatoly Smirnov and Irina Kokhtiulina have analysed soft power as a global security determinant [14]. Yuri Sayamov has studied it as a catalyst for sustainable ...
Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
... uncertainty and codify them into a unified conceptual document. Notably, ‘super-Atlanticism’ is a purely analytical concept and never appears in official government rhetoric [12]. This circumstance suggests that, when conducting content analysis, authors concentrate on the hidden, implied meanings of the strategies’ provisions, effectively engaging in ‘latent analysis’ [32].
Danish academic literature frequently employs the notion of ‘compartmentalisation’ (Danish: kompartmentalisering) when ...
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)
The aim of this study was to investigate the levels of emissions and identify the sources of NOx and SO2 pollution in a rural station in the south-eastern Baltic (Diabla Gora). This analysis was conducted 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 ...
Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
... acts of discrimination, which people face in the BSR.
• Creating sustainable and resilient cities and communities. Populations, economic activities, social and cultural interactions, as well as environmental and humanitarian impacts, are increasingly concentrated in cities, and this poses massive sustainability challenges in terms of housing, infrastructure, basic services, food security, health, education, decent jobs, safety and natural resources, among others. At the same time, supporting positive ...
Callus cultures of Spergularia marina (L.) Griseb.: obtaining and phytochemical analysis
... not been studied sufficiently. The purpose of this study was to obtain callus cultures, to study the content of some groups of phenolic compounds and the antioxidant activity of extracts. The study carried out the selection of growth regulators and concentrations that induce callus formation. 19 nutrient media were selected for the induction of S. marina callus cultures. The conducted phytochemical analysis showed a significant content of phenolic compounds and hydroxycinnamic acids, as well as ...
Application of spatial analysis of morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 (the case of the Pskov region)
... The regional level is seen as a suitable choice for spatial analysis of COVID-19 morbidity and mortality due to the availability of statistics, as well as data on geographical patterns, characteristics of the distribution space (population density, concentration in one city, density of the transport network, distance to the focus of the disease, etc.). The case of the Pskov region shows that the regional healthcare system experiences a significant shortage of personnel and a noticeable lack of resources....