IL-1β and IL-8 influence on cytoprotective mechanisms in liver tissue in morbid obesity patients with comorbidities
... stress and mitochondrial dysfunction, which underlie the pathogenesis of obesity-associated diseases, i. e., type 2 diabetes and NAFLD.
The study 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 ...
Kantian Philosophy and ‘Linguistic Kantianism’
The expression “linguistic Kantianism” is widely used to refer to ideas about thought and cognition being determined by language — a conception characteristic of 20th century analytic philosophy. In this article, I conduct a comparative analysis of ...
Representation of emotions in literary texts (based on ‘La carte et le territoire’ by M. Houellebecq)
The author explores the ways of expressing emotions in the literary text using the novel ‘La carte et le territoire’ by Michel Houellebecq as an example. The main problem of research is the identification of specific way of expressing emotions in the literary text. The author proceeds ...
The Accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO: Geopolitical implications for Russia’s position in the Baltic Sea region
... (including either simultaneous or separate accession to the Alliance with Sweden). The authors of the report, including prominent experts and diplomats from Finland and other European countries such as Mats Bergqvist, René Nyberg, and François Heisbourg, expressed their concern about a serious crisis in relations with Russia in the event of such a break with the post-war the tenets of Helsinki’s security policy and urged not to take such important decisions in a hurry. However, the strategic course ...
The ways of expressing subjective-modal meanings of certainty and uncertainty in the comedy “Woe from Wit” by A.S. Griboedov and its English translation
The article considers linguistic means of expressing certainty and uncertainty in the comedy, which contribute to revealing personality traits of its main characters, namely Famusov and Chatskii. Using a comparative functional-semantic analysis the authors determine the adequacy of Russian and ...
‘What can be described can happen too…’: describing text semantics as a model structure of transworld relationships
... possibility of using the apparatus of modal semantics to identify the relationship between sentential complexes. To those ends, I employ the concepts of model, model structure, and centred world. The latter is a system of functions that correlate language expressions, the language expressions of a text, states of affairs (possible worlds) described by language expressions, and the contexts in which a text occurs. Existence in the worlds of the text correlates with the possibility of description. Presumably,...
Lexical means to express an author’s opinion in popular science groups on the VKontakte social network
Based on the materials of ten most-visited popular science groups on the VKontakte social network, this article considers key lexical means to express an author’s opinion. A typology of such means is introduced in the context of analysis. It is concluded that the lexical means used to express an author’s opinion influence the process of deformation and mutual integration of the functional ...
Сonservative therapy of atypical endometrial hyperplasia and well-differentiated endometrial carcinoma: immunohystochemical aspects
... процессы эндометрия: этиопатогенез, клиника, диагностика, лечение // Акушерство и гинекология. 2011. № 4. С. 16—21.
11. Ahmed R. H. Ahmed, Eman M. S. Muhammad. E-cadherin and CD10 expression in atypical hyperplastic and malignant endometrial lesions // J. Egypt Nation. Can. Inst. 2014. Vol. 26, № 4. P. 211—217.
12. Carico E., Atlante M., Giarhieri E., Raffa S. E-Cadherin and Alpha-Catenin Expression in Normal, Hyperplastic ...
The role of notary system in establishing correspondence between the will and expression of will of citizens of the Russian Federation
This article considers the problems of analysing will and will expression of citizens when performing legally significant actions. The author stresses the importance of analysing citizens’ will in view of the changes to the provisions of the law on the limitation of legal capacity of natural persons. The article ...
A new role of cooperation under economic sanctions as seen by residents of the Kaliningrad region
... employed in the study is a survey of residents of the Kaliningrad region (N = 481), with its results strongly indicating that conditions for a renaissance of cooperative economic models have emerged in the Russian exclave. The region’s residents tend to express positive attitudes towards cooperation, drawing a link between economically challenging conditions and opportunities for cooperative development. Moreover, amongst respondents with personal or vicarious experience of cooperation, a substantially ...
Book-centric picture of the world in O. Tokarchuk’s novels “The Journey of the Book-People” and “The Books of Jacob”
... is the polocentric aspect of "The Books of Jacob," where the issues of Polish messianism are raised, and the archetype of the Virgin, acquiring national color through a uniquely interpreted myth of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa, finds expression. In connection with the cult of the Virgin, the issue of the influence on Tokarczuk's artistic imagination of Jung's idea of quaternity as an archetypal numerical expression of the absolute is also noted.
Maltsev L.A., Gilmanov V.C.,...
Some Remarks about the Difference between Überzeugung and Überredung
... period are considered. Furthermore, I will compare the treatment of the subject in these sources and in the textbooks used by Kant in his courses. In the conclusions, the link between this issue and Kantian arguments in defending freedom of thought and expression is also suggested. In order to do so, I first explain the notion of holding to be true and its difference from the notion of being true. Secondly, I examine what it means to be convinced and what it means to be persuaded. Finally, I analyse ...
The impact of the food embargo on consumer preferences and cross-border practices in the Kaliningrad region
... or very bad (42 % of respondents in this category); 61 % of respondents believe that good quality products at competitive prices disappeared after 2014; 34 % noticed goods produced in Russia under well-known foreign brands banned from import; 33.8 % expressed the opinion that the range of niche products (delicacies, dietary products, lactose-free milk) has significantly decreased or completely disappeared.
One of the questions asked the respondents to name brands or manufacturers in some product ...
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 ...
France’s strategy in the Baltic region: military and political aspects
... tension between Russia and the West. According to France’s key strategic documents, the government assesses the present-day situation mainly in a negative way, considering Russian actions as the main reason for the militarization of the region and expressing its readiness to show solidarity with NATO allies. On this basis, Paris is gradually increasing its military presence in the Baltic region, which now exceeds its contingents in the Middle East and the Sahel. For example, French forces still ...
Reputation core of Russian authorities: the case of the regional level of executive power
... reflects the general feeling or attitude towards the subject. They conducted an empirical study using three US federal agencies to test the Bureaucratic Reputation Scale (BRS).<8> To assess each of the reputation indicators, respondents were asked to express the degree of their (non)agreement with six statements (for example, the moral indicator was tested by the statement “This agency seems to be corrupt”). Thirty characteristics that constitute the concept of ‘reputation’ were identified ...
Small towns of Latvia: disparities in regional and urban development
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Net natural increase per 1,000 population
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Long-term net migration per 1,000 population
0.1
Post-working age population per 1,000 working age population
0.05
Income tax per capita, euros
0.2
Total
1.00
The indicators of a territory’s development, expressed in different units (people, euros, %) are grouped into the TDI are standardised using the formula
t =
x – x
,
S
where t is performance on the key indicators standardised for a specific territory;
х is the principal development indicator standardised ...
“They call the main entrance a porch”: social meaning in semantics and metapragmatics
... emerges in context. Social index (the index meaning of a sign) refers to typified social situations and social roles of participants of a communicative act. Social meaning is actualized when it can be interpreted in social interaction as being used to express certain connotations. This analytical review presents a contemporary conceptual apparatus and toolkit that enables linguists to describe the social perspective in constructing meaning and interpreting meaning formation in social contexts. The ...
On the less obvious manifestations of the poetic function: a translator’s view
The paper examines the interaction of the poetic function with the emotive and expressive functions in belles-lettres texts. The authors attempt to prove that the poetic function should not be equated with the aesthetic one. The former overlaps all the above-mentioned functions, but alone bears the responsibility for the form-content ...
State verbs in the progressive aspect in the contemporary Indian English
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The concept of WILL in the semantics of deontic modality
The article is a result of the theoretical interpretation of the conceptual component of Will in the semantics of deontic modality expressing the attitude to one's own or other people’s actions to achieve a certain state of things. Will determines the potential and voluntary nature of deontics. These semantic characteristics are to be taken into account for a systemic description ...
Lexemes with the stem –БОГ- (GOD) in hagiographic texts of the 15th—17th centuries
The article explores lexemes stemming from Rus. бог- (god), which were used in the texts of the XV—XVII centuries. This stem expressed the concept of God and was used as a means of characterization of objects, phenomena, etc. The material of the analysis was taken from the texts of the XV—XVII centuries, which are a valuable source of information for the study of the system ...
Modal particles, their function and meaning in the texts of the «St. Petersburg Vedomosti» newspaper (late 18th — mid19th centuries)
... author explores the function and role of modal particles in the texts of the St. Petersburg Vedomosti newspaper. Modal particles are describes as a means of representing the position of the author of newspaper texts, and speaking broadly, and a means of expressing subjective modality. Modal particles accentuate modal and textual meanings and bring socially significant information to the reader. The author analyses the role of modal particles in enriching news texts with modal and qualitative shades: ...
Linguistic Means Expressing Argumentation in Judicial Discourse late 19th: The Prosecutor’s Speech in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov
This article analyses linguistic means of expressing argumentation in judicial discourse as used in the prosecutor’s speech in F. M. Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. The author identifies logical and psychological types of argumentation characteristic of the 19th-century courtroom speeches....
Repetition as a means to convey irony in a literary text (based on Gogol’s works and their translation into German)
Irony is considered as a means to express an author's implicit judgement in a literary text. The article describes the use of repetition as a syntactic and textual means to express irony in N. V. Gogol's works and their translations into German. A comparative analysis is carried out to ...
Means to express appeal in the public service announcement discourse in the Russian, German, and English languages
This article considers the means to express appeal in public service announcements in the Russian, German, and English languages. Attention is paid to the characteristic features of appeal as a directive speech act. The comparative aspect of research makes it possible to identify both similarities ...
Means to express implicit judgements about characters in N. V. Gogol’s poem Dead Souls and its translation into German
Irony is considered as a means to express implicit judgements in N.V. Gogol's poem Dead Souls. The author analyses lexical units comprising the ironic semantics of judgements about characters. Special attention is paid to comparing irony explicators used in the original text and the poem’s ...
The filtration radio pulse maximum likelihood method
This article presents a solution to the problem of resolution of two radio impulses through the maximum likelihood method. The authors have obtained expressions for the optimum processing of a set of two radio impulses in the domains of their orthogonality and non-orthogonality, as well as expressions for the dispersion of radio impulse parameters (Rao-Cramér dispersion). The article presents the ...
The maximum likelihood method as applied to chirp signals
This article presents signal processing through linear frequency modula-tion (chirp signals) using the maximum likelihood method. The authors have obtained main expressions describing the optimal algorithm for processing these signals, as well as expressions for chirp signal dispersion (Rao-Cramér dispersion). The article presents key findings of model calculations during the reception of chirp signals.
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Evaluative lexis as a component of subjective modality in the Russian handwritten newspaper Vesti-kuranty
Based on the materials of the handwritten Vesti-Kuranty newspaper, this article analyses the functional significance of evaluative lexis — adjective, adverbs, and nouns with subjective modal meanings conveying expressive emotional reactions of the author of a newspaper text to the described histori-cal events, as well as the temper and actions of its participants.
1. Арутюнова Н. Д. Типы языковых значений: Оценка. Событие....
Some aspects of time verbalisation in the English and Russian languages
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29. Devos F., Van Gyseghem N., Vandenberghe R. et al. Modelling vague lexical time expressions by means of fuzzy set theory // Journal of Quantitative Linguistics.1994. Vol. 1, № 3. P. 189—194.
30. Evans V. The meaning of time: polysemy, the lexicon and conceptual structure// Journal of Linguistics. 2005. Vol. 41, № 1. P. 33—75....
Core explicators of the modal meaning expressing certainty/uncertainty in the poem "Dead Souls" by N. Gogol and their equivalents in translation versions
The article deals with parentheses and particles as one of the ways of expressing certainty and uncertainty in Russian and their equivalents in English. The research is based on the poem by N. Gogol "Dead Souls" and its two translation versions.
1. Беляева Е. И. Достоверность // Теория ...
Intonational means of expressing the "new" and the "given" categories in English, Russian and Spanish
The article explores the intonation means of expressing the "given" and the "new" in English, Russian and Spanish. It represents the results of phonetic research proving the difference in the nucleus’s role when signaling the new information in three languages.
1. Николаева ...
Military and political cooperation between Germany and Lithuania in the late 2010s to early 2020s
... with the weakening of the influence of the central Soviet authorities after the activities of the State Emergency Committee, created the conditions for Germany’s activation. This led to the declaration of the European Communities on August 27, 1991, expressing support for the independence of the Baltic republics and inviting their representatives to the next meeting of the foreign ministers of the European Communities.<2> Already August 28, 1991 Germany established diplomatic relations with ...
Confiscation Estonian style: legal and political aspects of potential seizure of Russian assets in EU countries
... assets, confiscation is aimed at compensating for the damage caused by Russia’s actions in the armed conflict in Ukraine. In this case, this means reparations [20, p. 64]. Yet, to execute reparations, the state’s consent is necessary. It may be expressed in a document, such as an international treaty, or executed through a decision made by a body whose jurisdiction is accepted by the parties involved in the reparations. Although the UN Security Council serves as such a body, there is neither ...
Central images and motifs of Gennady Shpalikov’s late poems (article one)
... human — civilization/society.” The movement of the “plot” in most late poems is determined by the internal catastrophic change in the psychological state of the lyrical subject, seeking voluntary departure from life, which is reflected in the expressive, emotionally evaluative, and reduced lexicon, the tightness of poetic lines, and tense syntax.
Malashchenko V.V.
Gennady Shpalikov, poetry, poetics, image, motive, motivic structure, lyrical subject
89-99
10.5922/pikbfu-2024-1-8
The Relationship Between the Individual and the Collective in the Social Philosophy of Georges Gurvitch
... at the final stage of his career, Gurvitch studied the individual person and collective units as interacting sides of the collective social subject. He sought to overcome the struggle between individualism and collectivism which found its ideological expression in the rivalry of the French (Emile Durkheim) and German (Max Weber) schools of sociology. Gurvitch formulated the concept of society as dynamic interaction and mutual determination of the individual and collective unit. In his Russian-language ...
Vladimir Bibikhin: the connoisseur of poetry and the poet
... without arrogance or violation of the rights of others. Bibikhin reflected on the relationship between poetry and prose during the formation of national literatures. He insists on the non-conditionality of the distribution of forms of poetry and poetic expression, political construction as a source of the national language, and the role of bodily movements, such as walking, running, and swimming. The exploration of these movements, discovered during the implementation of a cultural and missionary national ...
The January uprising in the worldview of the Warsaw positivists
... representatives of the conservative Polish aristocracy who continued to live in the past, romanticizing Polish uprisings and their participants while ignoring the needs, aspirations, and desires of the lower strata of Polish society. Warsaw positivists also expressed their views on violent methods of fighting for the independence of Polish lands in memoirs, letters, and literary works.
Kosko D.A.
Warsaw positivism, Kingdom of Poland, romanticism, January Uprising, fiction, Polish liberation movement,...
Polynominativity of geographical objects in the linguocultural context
... factors that give rise to polyonyms: 1) linguosociocultural factors: these factors play a pivotal role in shaping subsystems of names, encompassing both official and unofficial, widely used and niche terms, as well as neutral and connotatively charged expressions. 2) linguogeocultural factors: they contribute to the differentiation of objects based on culturally significant oppositions such as ‘near-far’, ‘left-right’, and subsequently transmit binary characteristics like ‘own-alien’,’ ...
‘People in Black’: Semantization of the concepts ‘sectant’ and ‘baptist’ in the anti-religious campaign of 1958—1964
...
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https://doi.org/
10.24412/1991-5497-2021-287-574-577 ...
Soil resources and soil cover structure Kemerovo region — Kuzbass
... soil cover is at an initial stage, where only young soil-like bodies, embryosols, are found. The soils of the Kemerovo Region, Kuzbass, are identified on the following morphological features: the thickness of the humus horizon is up to 30 cm, a clearly expressed crumbly-granular structure, heavy loamy; the transitional horizon is unevenly colored, with signs of gleying, heavy loamy; the presence of a small amount of sandy fractions throughout the profile; soil-forming rock; stratified sandy loam or ...
The adaptation of Russian regions’ economies to the rupture of relations with Europe: the case of Baltic Sea ports
... exchanges [20].
This development of events quite seriously affected the state of affairs in the Russian regions adjacent to the Baltic — St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Kaliningrad, Pskov and Novgorod regions, and the Republic of Karelia. This was primarily expressed in a decrease in the workload of a large number of local enterprises in the transport complex and related industries serving it.
Furthermore, a decline in output occurred at Russian enterprises reliant on raw materials and components from unfriendly ...
Three Russian Baltic regions in the context of confrontation between Russia and the West
... adopted in the spring of 2023, Russia is viewed as an inevitable threat [33]. Connections across almost all fronts have experienced a rupture, although it is noteworthy that German businesses maintain a substantial presence in Russia.
Finland has also expressed the impossibility of continuing relations with Russia in the same way. Finnish companies, including those from St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, are withdrawing from the Russian market, with the process starting as early as 2014. Russia ...
The specifics of psychological atmosphere within inclusive groups of university students
... perspectives on the positive and negative effects of collaborative learning with students with health limitations are discussed. The idea of the necessity for a comprehensive socio-psychological study to enhance inclusive practices in university education is expressed.
Starovoit N.V.
inclusive higher education, students with disability, nosology, student group, psychological atmosphere
104-118
10.5922/pikbfu-2023-4-11