The communicative nature of political identity as the basis for individual participation in public policy

The relevance of the research lies in the fact that the analysis of the essence of political communication makes it possible to determine effective ways of transmitting politically significant information, and to use the available symbolic resources of its participants, which increases the effectiveness of interaction between subjects in various spheres of public interaction. The analysis of the political identity and identification of a person makes it possible to determine whether the subject of interaction belongs to a specific socio-political group, which leads to an understanding of the person’s place in the structure of ties and relations in politics and the definition of the boundaries of «own» and «others». The identification of the communicative nature of a person’s political identity makes it possible to analyze her participation in public policy as an active and passive subject of political interaction. The purpose of the work is to determine the essence of the communicative nature of a person’s political identity and the possibility of taking into account its application in public policy. The paper uses the resources of the communication concept of P. Bourdieu, M. Castells, H. Innis and some other scientists. The methods and (or) methodological apparatus of the research includes a logical method that allows to form a holistic view of the communicative nature of a person’s political identity. A critical method is applied, which is expressed in the analysis of the possibility of applying the communicative nature of a person’s political identity in public policy. The main results of the work are that the communicative nature of a person’s political identity contains active and passive components. The first is that a person correlates himself with acceptable and desirable patterns and models of behavior and transmits information about them in the form of the implementation of his social practices in the political sphere. The normative consolidation of such practices in the system of legal norms makes it possible to interpret a person as an active participant in political interaction. The passive component consists in the person’s acceptance of the communication and regulatory influence of political and legal norms. The scientific novelty of the work consists in the statement that a person, forming his own political identity, becomes an active subject of public policy. The communicative nature of a person’s political identity is expressed in the ability of a political subject to adapt himself to normatively fixed, permissible and positively evaluated models of interaction and the ability to influence the formation of politically significant decisions

Composición y edad de fragmentos de monacita de sedimentos terrígenos jurásicos superiores en la base de formación de bazhenov (área multan, siberia occidental)

Bazhenov Formation is regarded as the main oil-bearing stratum mothering nearly all the fields of the Western Siberia Oil-Gas-bearing Megabasin. Presently, it is one of the most studied formations of Siberia and, probably, Eurasia as a whole. While there is an enormous amount of studies devoted to the Bazhenov Formation, there are no detailed mineralogical studies at the modern hardware level. The age and sources of the terrigenous materials of the formation have not been studied as well. We have explored the detrital monazite from the upper-Jurassic terrigenous sediments of the Multan Area at the foundation of the Bazhenov Formation in the central part of Western Siberia, Surgut District. All the detrital rare earth phosphate is of the cerium kind being a monazite-(Се). The mineral is rather dissimilar in respect of its chemical properties, especially, the content of thorium. Some fragments have been subjected to superposed secondary changes. The detrital monazite is rounded to various degrees which is indicative of the various distances from the rare earth phosphate orebody washout. As per the chemical data, most of the monazite has been washed out from the medium and basic rocks (probably subalkaline or alkaline) as well as the sialic rocks (granitoids and associated veins). According to the chemical dating, most of the monazite fragments have been washed out of the very ancient Proterozoic formations and lower-Proterozoic rocks. Terrigenous materials derives probably from the rock assemblages of the eastern and south-eastern fringes of the Western Siberian megabasin such as the Proterozoic Yenisei Ridge or Lower-Proterozoic blocks of the Altay and Sayan Faulting.La Formación Bazhenov es considerada como el principal estrato petrolero que es madre de casi todos los campos de la megacuenca petrolera de Siberia occidental. Por ahora es una de las formaciones más estudiadas de Siberia y, quizás, de Eurasia. Aúnque hay una cantidad enorme de estudios dedicados a la formación Bazhenov, no hay estudios mineralógicos detallados en el nivel moderno de hardware. Tampoco se han estudiado la edad y los fuentes de los materiales terrígenos de la formación. Hemos explorado la monacita detrítica de los sedimentos terrígenos jurásicos superiores del Área Multana en la base de la formación Bazhenov en el centro de Siberia Occidental, Distrito de Surgut. Todo el fosfato detrítico de la tierra rara pertenece al tipo cerio y se refiere como monacita-(Ce). El mineral es bastante disimilar en cuanto a sus propiedades químicas, especialmente a su contenido de torio. Unos fragmentos han estado sometidos a cambios superpuestos secundarios. Se redondea la monacita detrítica a grados diferentes lo cual es un indicador de varias distancias de la inundación del yacimiento de fosfato de la tierra rara. Según los datos químicos, la mayoría de la monacita ha sido lavado de las rocas mediana y básicas (probablemente, alcalinas y subalcalinas) así como de las rocas siálicas (granitoidas y capas asociadas). Según datación química, la mayoría de los pedazos monazíticos han sido lavado de las formaciones Proterozóicas muy viejas y rocas  Proterozóicas tempranas. Los materiales terrígenos se derivan probablemente de los conjuntos rocosos de los márgenes sudoriental y oriental de la megacuenca de Siberia Occidental, tales como la Cresta Proterozóica de Yenisei o los conjuntos de rocas Proterozóicas Tempranas de la Falla de Altay y Sayan

Composición y edad de fragmentos de monacita de sedimentos terrígenos jurásicos superiores en la base de formación de bazhenov (área multan, siberia occidental)

La Formación Bazhenov es considerada como el principal estrato petrolero que es madre de casi todos los campos de la megacuenca petrolera de Siberia occidental. Por ahora es una de las formaciones más estudiadas de Siberia y, quizás, de Eurasia. Aúnque hay una cantidad enorme de estudios dedicados a la formación Bazhenov, no hay estudios mineralógicos detallados en el nivel moderno de hardware. Tampoco se han estudiado la edad y los fuentes de los materiales terrígenos de la formación. Hemos explorado la monacita detrítica de los sedimentos terrígenos jurásicos superiores del Área Multana en la base de la formación Bazhenov en el centro de Siberia Occidental, Distrito de Surgut. Todo el fosfato detrítico de la tierra rara pertenece al tipo cerio y se refiere como monacita-(Ce). El mineral es bastante disimilar en cuanto a sus propiedades químicas, especialmente a su contenido de torio. Unos fragmentos han estado sometidos a cambios superpuestos secundarios. Se redondea la monacita detrítica a grados diferentes lo cual es un indicador de varias distancias de la inundación del yacimiento de fosfato de la tierra rara. Según los datos químicos, la mayoría de la monacita ha sido lavado de las rocas mediana y básicas (probablemente, alcalinas y subalcalinas) así como de las rocas siálicas (granitoidas y capas asociadas). Según datación química, la mayoría de los pedazos monazíticos han sido lavado de las formaciones Proterozóicas muy viejas y rocas Proterozóicas tempranas. Los materiales terrígenos se derivan probablemente de los conjuntos rocosos de los márgenes sudoriental y oriental de la megacuenca de Siberia Occidental, tales como la Cresta Proterozóica de Yenisei o los conjuntos de rocas Proterozóicas Tempranas de la Falla de Altay y Sayan

On the method of the fabrication of active channels of organic memristive devices: Langmuir-Blodgett vs layer-by-layer

© 2015 IEEE. The comparison of properties of organic memristive devices with active channels fabricated by Langmuir-Blodgett and Layer-by-Layer techniques is presented. Advantages and drawbacks of each method are discussed

On the Interpretation of Hysteresis Loop for Electronic and Ionic Currents in Organic Memristive Devices

Being promising elements for neuromorphic computation, memristive devices have been often described as crucial elements for mimicking important synapse properties, such as memory and learning. Among them, organic memristive devices (OMDs) can claim low-cost fabrication processes and the easy tunability of their electrical properties. Up to now, the major bottleneck for their larger uses in neuromorphic computation is low rate of the resistance switching and stability. Herein, a new approach is reported, based on the use of a liquid electrolyte, leading to the manufacturing of OMD with higher stability and faster resistive switching

Skeleton-supported stochastic networks of organic memristive devices: Adaptations and learning

© 2015 Author(s). Stochastic networks of memristive devices were fabricated using a sponge as a skeleton material. Cyclic voltage-current characteristics, measured on the network, revealed properties, similar to the organic memristive device with deterministic architecture. Application of the external training resulted in the adaptation of the network electrical properties. The system revealed an improved stability with respect to the networks, composed from polymer fibers

Polyaniline-based organic memristive device fabricated by layer-by-layer deposition technique

© 2015, The Korean Institute of Metals and Materials and Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. Memristors and memristive devices represent a splendid area of research due to the unique possibilities for the realization of new types of computer hardware elements and mimicking several essential properties of the nervous system of living beings. The organic memristive device was developed as an electronic single-device analogue of the synapse, suitable for the realization of circuits allowing Hebbian type of learning. This work is dedicated to the realization of the active channel of organic memristive devices by polyelectrolyte self-assembling (layer-by-layer technique). Stable and reproducible electrical characteristics of the device were obtained when the thickness of the active channel was more than seven bilayers. The device revealed rectifying behaviour and the presence of hysteresis—important properties for the realization of neuromorphic systems with synapse-like properties of the individual elements. Compared to previously reported results on organic memristive devices fabricated using other methods, the present device does not require any additional doping that is usually performed through acid treatment. Such a behaviour is extremely important for the cases in which biological systems (nervous cells, slime mould, etc.) must be interfaced with the system of organic memristive devices, since acid treatment can kill living beings. [Figure not available: see fulltext.

Emulation with Organic Memristive Devices of Impairment of LTP Mechanism in Neurodegenerative Disease Pathology

© 2017 Silvia Battistoni et al. We explore and demonstrate the extension of the synapse-mimicking properties of memristive devices to a dysfunctional synapse as it occurs in the Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology. The ability of memristive devices to reproduce synapse properties such as LTP, LTD, and STDP has been already widely demonstrated, and moreover, they were used for developing artificial neuron networks (perceptrons) able to simulate the information transmission in a cell network. However, a major progress would be to extend the common sense of neuromorphic device even to the case of dysfunction of natural synapses. Can memristors efficiently simulate them? We provide here evidences of the ability of emulating the dysfunctional synaptic behavior typical of the AD pathology with organic memristive devices considering the effect of the disease not only on a single synapse but also in the case of a neural network, composed by numerous synapses

The Role of the Internal Capacitance in Organic Memristive Device for Neuromorphic and Sensing Applications

Organic electronics has recently emerged as a promising candidate for the emulation of brain-like functionalities, especially at the device level. Among the proposed technologies, memristive devices have gained an increasing attention due to their non-volatile behavior which makes them suitable for the implementation of artificial neuronal networks. However, most of them have an energy-costly switching mechanism which limits the approach of brain like energy efficiency. Different from them, organic memristive devices (OMDs) have a narrow switching window and implement neuromorphic characteristics at voltages <= 1 V. Despite OMDs potentialities in bioinspired electronics, guidelines for the design of devices and materials are still missing. Here it is shown that the device capacitance represents a significant degree of freedom for targeting devices applications. It is also shown that a single OMD emulates activity dependent synaptic functions and neuronal temporal and spatial summation, taking advantage of its three-terminals configuration. Interestingly, despite the neuromorphic applications, OMDs can also sense and amplify incoming signals on the basis of their capacitive and/or resistive values. This spectrum of applications, ranging from volatile to non-volatile characteristics and from neuromorphic computing to bio signals sensing, sets the stage for the realization of integrated circuits for adaptive sensing