Между «сказанием» и «episodes en swift»: о неизвестной рукописи Ильи Тимковского «Записки для истории Малороссии» (1849 г.)

The archive discovery, manuscript «Notes for the history of Malorossia» («Zapiski dla istorii Malorossii») composed by Ilia Fedorovich Timkovskii (Илья Федорович Тимковский, 1773–1853), was initiated by its author in 1849, yet it was never finished. Like the majority of Timkovskii’s compelling written heritage, the «Notes» were overpassed by the researchers, even though such prominent figures in social science as Ilia Fedovorich’s own nephew Mikhail Maksimovich, Nikolai Shugurov, and Vladimir Naumenko wrote about Timkovskii. Unlike his impressive intellectual and social activity that surpassed the boundaries of his professional mandate (as lawyer, educator, literary scholar, etc.), his historiographical image remains fragmented and partial. Specifically, historiography is scarce as to the role Timkovskii played in facilitating the emergence of Ukrainian historical-cultural space, historical consciousness and knowledge, as well as in creating conditions for development of Ukrainian historic writing. Meanwhile, persisting documentary sources from Tikovskii’s archive, along with his egodocuments that were published in the 19th century, allow to fill this void. The structure of this publication is determined by aforementioned historiographical factors and the intent to introduce new historical sources into scholarly practice. This article includes only the first part of the publication. As such, it provides the introduction into the biographic context of the author of the «Notes», and focuses on his vision of the meaning of history and heritage. It follows the evolution of his idea to write a historical composition through the documents, as well as «external» reasons that caused him to stop working on the «Notes». The second part of the publication (in the next issue of Kyivan Academy), along with the original text of «The Notes for the history of Malorossia», will include the analysis of the sociocultural and source study context within which the «Notes» were created, as well as historical views of the author, and the relationship between his memoirs and historical writing

NEW CLASSIFICATION CRITERIA FOR SCLERODERMA SYSTEMATICA (a lecture)

In 1980, the American College of Rheumatology proposed the first criteria as tentative for the diagnosis of scleroderma systematica (SDS). These criteria were aimed at revealing the comprehensive picture of mainly the diffuse form of the disease. They could not timely make a diagnosis in the low manifestive forms of the disease or virtually reveal its early stages that were most therapeutically promising. The review traces the evolution of approaches to diagnosing SDS and considers the novel classification criteria elaborated to select patients for epidemiological surveys and clinical trials. They include 8 parameters, each having scores. Skin thickening on both hands above the metacarpophalangeal articulations was highest (9 scores). The clinical variants of skin thickening on the fingers as its swelling (2 scores) or sclerodactyly (4 scores) are estimated from the maximum scores, as digital ischemia (sores, 2 scores; cicatricles, 3 scores). Teleangiectasias and characteristic capillaroscopic changes, as well as leading lung injury (pulmonary hypertension and/or interstitial lung disease) are rated as 2 scores each. Three scores are added to the total amount when Raynaud's syndrome is present and SDS-specific (anti-Scl-70, anti-centromere, and anti- RNA polymerase III) autoantibodies are detected. The patients gaining a total of 9 scores or more are classified as having definite SDS. Testing the novel criteria on a validation sample of 405 people showed that their sensitivity and specificity were 91 and 92%, respectively

Conscious AI: exists or not?

This article is dedicated to AI and the possibility of the existence of conscious artificial intelligence in our time. The author examines the structure of consciousness and emotional intelligence and analyzes various tests that allow to determine their presence in conscious AI

Балльно-рейтинговая система контроля на кафедре высшей математики и ее эффективность

Some problems of independent mastering some parts of mathematics by students and quality control of acquired knowledge have appeared in connection with change on two level education system. Experience of checking and educating testing programs, electronic teaching materials, electronic teaching aids and electronic curriculum usage in educational process is presented in this work. The analysis of the material usage while independent work has been carried out and recommendations on introduction into educational process of universities have been given.В связи с переходом на двухуровневую систему образования возникли проблемы самостоятельного усвоения студентами некоторых разделов математики и контроля качества полученных ими знаний. В данной работе представлен опыт использования в учебном процессе контрольно-обучающих программ тестирования, электронных учебно-методических комплексов, электронных учебно-методических пособий и электронных учебных курсов. Проведен анализ использования студентами этого материала при самостоятельной подготовке и даны рекомендации по внедрению в учебный процесс вузов

Central and Eastern Europe and the Decline of Russia in the United Nations Administrative Bodies

In international organizations, states seek representation not only in decision-making and political fora but also in the administrative bodies, or secretariats. This article maps the representation of Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries in the secretariats of 36 bodies of the United Nations (UN) system in the years 1996-2015. The CEE region is interesting due to the deep political divide between Russia and the Western-oriented new EU member states. Using new empirical evidence regarding the participation of CEE countries’ citizens on the professional staff of the UN bodies, we show that Russia has dramatically lost much of its representation in the UN administration over the last twenty years. In contrast, a number of other CEE countries have considerably improved their position in it. In spite of that, the countries of the entire CEE region belong to those with an overall weak representation in the administrative bodies of the UN

A method for the experimental measurement of bulk and shear loss angles in amorphous thin films

Brownian thermal noise is a limiting factor for the sensitivity of many high precision metrology applications, among other gravitational-wave detectors. The origin of Brownian noise can be traced down to internal friction in the amorphous materials that are used for the high reflection coatings. To properly characterize the internal friction in an amorphous material, one needs to consider separately the bulk and shear losses. In most of previous works the two loss angles were considered equal, although without any first principle motivation. In this work we present a method that can be used to extract the material bulk and shear loss angles, based on current state-of-the-art coating ring-down measurement systems. We also show that for titania-doped tantala, a material commonly used in gravitational-wave detector coatings, the experimental data strongly favor a model with two different and distinct loss angles, over the simpler case of one single loss angle