Challenging the state educational system in Western Siberia: taiga school by the Tiuitiakha River

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Deployable truss structure advanced technology

The 5-meter technology antenna program demonstrated the overall feasibility of integrating a mesh reflector surface with a deployable truss structure to achieve a precision surface contour compatible with future, high-performance antenna requirements. Specifically, the program demonstrated: the feasibility of fabricating a precision, edge-mounted, deployable, tetrahedral truss structure; the feasibility of adjusting a truss-supported mesh reflector contour to a surface error less than 10 mils rms; and good RF test performance, which correlated well with analytical predictions. Further analysis and testing (including flight testing) programs are needed to fully verify all the technology issues, including structural dynamics, thermodynamics, control, and on-orbit RF performance, which are associated with large, deployable, truss antenna structures

Drinking and Driving Is So Much Fun

Overview of the Arctic Workshop at the University of Tartu in Estonia May 31 – June 1, 2013

Hybridity in a Western Siberian Bear Ceremony

Hybridity is often discussed in connection with the postcolonial condition. The cultural revival of the Khanty bear ceremony in Western Siberia could be a perfect example. It is on one hand a key representation of local Indigenous ontology and on the other has become a token in cultural heritage preservation by state actors and a cultural commodity for local tourism and media outlets. Indigenous activists struggle against the loss of authenticity with ideas of purism and scholars identifying the amalgamation of Indigenous ritual elements with Christian ideas and inventions of tradition on the other hand. I argue that the perception of original purity of elements that develop into hybrid forms in the colonial and postcolonial context is somewhat misleading. Instead, I propose that we look at hybridity and purity as intertwined dialectical aspects of cultural politics with a multiplicity of voices and perspectives and negotiated relations at several levels

Fear Of Predators Compromises Parental Care And Juvenile Survival In A Songbird

Predators kill, but the risk of being killed is also a powerful force affecting survival because scared prey eat less, thereby increasing the likelihood of starvation. Young of most animals are extremely vulnerable to predators and may alter their behaviour to limit detection. I investigated the previously unexplored effects that predation risk has on the behaviour of newly fledged offspring and their parents, and the impact this has on offspring survival. I manipulated predation risk using sound and found that parent song sparrows reduced their feedings, providing 60% less food overall. Critically, not only did this parental response estimate survival of individual offspring, it allowed me to project that the number of surviving fledglings decreased by ~24%, and fear overall reduced the number of offspring produced per year by ~54%. Counter to my expectation, song sparrow fledglings actually appear to be increasing their auditory detectability in response to reduced provisioning due to their parents’ response

PENAL INSTITUTIONS Jails: Allow Jails to Recover Medical Costs from Inmates\u27 Insurance Carriers, Provide for Deductions from Inmate Accounts to Defray Certain Costs

HB 1170 allows the officer in charge of a detention facility to recover medical costs from inmates\u27; insurance carriers. HB 1769 provides that certain medical and other costs may be deducted from an inmate\u27s jail account, and that repayment of the other costs may later be made a condition of probation

CRIMES AND OFFENSES Georgia Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act: Punish and Deter Street Gangs

The Act makes it a misdemeanor offense to actively participate in a criminal street gang and provides sentence enhancements for crimes committed in connection with membership in a street gang

PENAL INSTITUTIONS Jails: Allow Jails to Recover Medical Costs from Inmates\u27 Insurance Carriers, Provide for Deductions from Inmate Accounts to Defray Certain Costs

HB 1170 allows the officer in charge of a detention facility to recover medical costs from inmates\u27; insurance carriers. HB 1769 provides that certain medical and other costs may be deducted from an inmate\u27s jail account, and that repayment of the other costs may later be made a condition of probation