“SOFT POWER”, COMMUNICATION AND THE PROBLEM OF HUMANITARIAN CRISIS

The article is devoted to the philosophical inquiry of the worldview connection between soft power, information and humanitarian crisis of modernity. The purpose of the work is the integrative philosophical analysis of the expression of the “soft power” and informational technologies in the modern social context. It has been concluded that the main negative aspect of “soft power” influence is depreciation of human personality as the last value of the informational society. The way out can be found in transformation of the systems and sub-systems of social communication. Key words: Knowledge, Soft Power, Influence, Information, Society.    

Selection for high [beta]-glucan content and good agronomic performance in oat grain

[Beta]-glucan in oat (Avena Sativa L.) grain is responsible for lowering blood serum cholesterol levels in humans. Those beneficial effects are attributed to the ability of oat to generate viscosity. The objectives of this study were to estimate the genetic components of variance in [Beta]-glucan content and viscosity in high [Beta]-glucan lines, elite agronomic lines, and in their population crosses; to evaluate the differences between elite agronomic lines and high [Beta]-glucan lines for [Beta]-glucan, viscosity and viscosity deviation. The third objective was to use a powerful population design to detect epistatic interaction among parents. The fourth objective was to determine the effectiveness of near-infrared (NIR) technology for analyzing the [Beta]-glucan quantity and quality in oat. A positive correlation (r²=0.38) was found between [Beta]-glucan content and Log transformed viscosity. One can select for [Beta]-glucan content based on the viscosity deviation variance among crosses. Partial least squares (PLS) regression using PROC PLS in SAS was used for cross-validation. Results indicate that NIR analysis of oat grain can be used as an analytical tool to estimate [Beta]-glucan quantity and quality

Petrostructural typification of the kanskiy greenstone belt ultramafites

Two types of ultramafites have been distinguished in the Kanskiy greenstone belt (NW of the Eastern Sayan): magmatic of the dunite-wehrlite-picrite composition and restitic of the dunite-harzburgite composition. They are united into Kingashskiy and Idarskiy complexes, correspondingl

Gamma-Ray Emission from Molecular Clouds Generated by Penetrating Cosmic Rays

We analyze the processes governing cosmic-ray (CR) penetration into molecular clouds and the resulting generation of gamma-ray emission. The density of CRs inside a cloud is depleted at lower energies due to the self-excited MHD turbulence. The depletion depends on the effective gas column density ("size") of the cloud. We consider two different environments where the depletion effect is expected to be observed. For the Central Molecular Zone, the expected range of CR energy depletion is $E\lesssim 10$ GeV, leading to the depletion of gamma-ray flux below $E_\gamma\approx 2$ GeV. This effect can be important for the interpretation of the GeV gamma-ray excess in the Galactic Center, which has been revealed from the standard model of CR propagation (assuming the CR spectrum inside a cloud to be equal to the interstellar spectrum). Furthermore, recent observations of some local molecular clouds suggest the depletion of the gamma-ray emission, indicating possible self-modulation of the penetrating low-energy CRs.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Ap