Governing the anthropocene: agency, governance, knowledge

The growing body of literature on the idea of the Anthropocene has opened up serious questions that go to the heart of the social and human sciences. There has been as yet no satisfactory theoretical framework for the analysis of the Anthropocene debate in the social and human sciences. The notion of the Anthropocene is not only a condition in which humans have become geologic agents, thus signalling a temporal shift in Earth history: it can be seen as a new object of knowledge and an order of governance. A promising direction for theorizing in the social and human science is to approach the notion of the Anthropocene as exemplified in new knowledge practices that have implications for governance. It invokes new conceptions of time, agency, knowledge and governance. The Anthropocene has become a way in which the human world is re-imagined culturally and politically in terms of its relation with the Earth. It entails a cultural model, that is an interpretative category by which contemporary societies make sense of the world as embedded in the Earth, and articulate a new kind of historical self-understanding, by which an alternative order of governance is projected. This points in the direction of cosmopolitics – and thus of a ‘Cosmopolocene’ – rather than a geologization of the social or in the post-humanist philosophy, the end of the human condition as one marked by agency

Identification of the bulk pairing symmetry in high-temperature superconductors: Evidence for an extended s-wave with eight line nodes

we identify the intrinsic bulk pairing symmetry for both electron and hole-doped cuprates from the existing bulk- and nearly bulk-sensitive experimental results such as magnetic penetration depth, Raman scattering, single-particle tunneling, Andreev reflection, nonlinear Meissner effect, neutron scattering, thermal conductivity, specific heat, and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. These experiments consistently show that the dominant bulk pairing symmetry in hole-doped cuprates is of extended s-wave with eight line nodes, and of anisotropic s-wave in electron-doped cuprates. The proposed pairing symmetries do not contradict some surface- and phase-sensitive experiments which show a predominant d-wave pairing symmetry at the degraded surfaces. We also quantitatively explain the phase-sensitive experiments along the c-axis for both Bi_{2}Sr_{2}CaCu_{2}O_{8+y} and YBa_{2}Cu_{3}O_{7-y}.Comment: 11 pages, 9 figure

Forming frames for innovative development as a strategic target of high school

The problems of the skilled providing are considered for innovative development. His forming must be examined as one of major tasks of higher school. Directions of development and introduction of innovative paradigm of education are rotined. It foresees the flexible system of aims and maintenance of education. Innovative development is foreseen by the important change of going near nature management. The innovative way of development must become basis of national idea and its perception and acceptance public consciousness. Overcoming of deep system crisis is possible only on the way of development and realization of effective strategy of innovative development

New and rare spiders of family Gnaphosidae (Aranei) from a southeast of Europe

The illustrated descriptions of 12 new species of spiders of family Gnaphosidae are resulted: Berlandina nabozhenkoi sp. n., Berlandina nenilini sp. n., Coreodrassus semidesertus sp. n., Drassodes caspius sp. n., Haplodrassus isaevi sp. n., Micaria donensis sp. n., Trachyzelotes manytchensis sp. n., Zelotes arzanovi sp. n., Zelotes caspius sp. n., Zelotes inderensis sp. n., Zelotes kazachstanicus sp. n., Zelotes prishutovae sp. n., and as data on finds in a southeast of Europe of little-known and rare species. New synonym is established: Drassodes auritus Schenkel, 1963 = D. rostratus Esyunin et Tuneva, 2002, syn. n

Spin-vibrational interactions in geminate radical pairs: Effective spin hamiltonian including anharmonicity

An equation for the effective spin Hamiltonian including the interaction of radical pair spins with vibrations in both linear and higher approximations was obtained. Even in the linear approximation, the Hamiltonian was found to be non-Heisenberg. The influence of a sound field on the probability of geminate radical pair recombination is considered in the Appendix. The results obtained can be of use for solving certain nanochemistry problems. © 2008 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd

Spin-vibrational interactions in geminate radical pairs: Effective spin hamiltonian including anharmonicity

An equation for the effective spin Hamiltonian including the interaction of radical pair spins with vibrations in both linear and higher approximations was obtained. Even in the linear approximation, the Hamiltonian was found to be non-Heisenberg. The influence of a sound field on the probability of geminate radical pair recombination is considered in the Appendix. The results obtained can be of use for solving certain nanochemistry problems. © 2008 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd

Realization of narrow-band SC-filters with low power consumption

Synthesis of a narrow band switched-capacitor (SC) filter is discussed. Design is based on element simulation method when inductors of the filter prototype have been realized by 4-phase controlled single OpA SC-imitator that gives a possibility to decrease power consumption of the device. A six order Chebyshev type bandpass SC-filter with a middle frequency 1980 Hz and a frequency band 200 Hz has been synthesized and practically implemented in 0.35 um CMOS process. The input referred RMS noise is 140 uV while HD2 and HD3 are -45, -53 dB consequently when the input signal amplitude is equal to about 90 mV. The total current consumption of the filter is 420 uA with 3.3 V voltage supply. The active area of the filter is 800 um x 500 um

Mass spectrometric investigation of the elementary gas phase reactions in the H+O2+O3 system. The H+O3 => OH(v)+O2 and H+O3 => HO2+O reaction channels

First published in Khimicheskaya Fizika (1985), 4(10), 1335Sov. J Chem. Phys is a cover-to-cover translation of Khimicheskaya FizikaInternational audienc