Некоторые международно-правовые аспекты режима Арктики

The aim of the study is to evaluate the selected international aspects of Arctic legal regime. The author presents the Arctic as a land of special feature because of its location. The author focus on the selected law acts, regulating its status

The Influence of the Russian Federation’s Historical Policy on the Identity of the Modern Russian Society (ВПЛИВ ІСТОРИЧНОЇ ПОЛІТИКИ РОСІЙСЬКОЇ ФЕДЕРАЦІЇ НА ІДЕНТИЧНІСТЬ СУЧАСНОГО РОСІЙСЬКОГО СУСПІЛЬСТВА)

The article examines the historical policy of the Russian Federation during the Vladimir Putin’s (7.V.2000 – 7.V.2008) and Dmitry Medvedev’s presidency (7.V.2008 – 7.V.2012). It investigates how the historical policy influences the modern Russian’s perception of the past, their national identity and functioning in a society. This paper explores period from 2000 to 2012, because of its great importance. Just then the authorities, centred around the Russian President, have changed their attitude to using of the past in achieving political and social goals (У статті проведено аналіз історичної політики Російської Федерації протягом президентства Володимира Путіна (7.05.2000 – 7.05.2008 рр.) та Дмитра Медведєва (7.05.2008 – 7.05.2012). Автор досліджує, як історична політика впливає на сприйняття сучасниими росіянами минулого, своєї національної ідентичності і функціонування в суспільстві. У цій статті розглядається період з 2000 по 2012 рік з огляду на його велике значення. Саме тоді влада, яка зосереджена навколо Президента Російської Федерації, змінила своє ставлення до використання минулого для досягнення політичних і соціальних цілей

How can International US Health and Indigenous Foundations build their capacity to fund health in remote and rural Australian Indigenous communities?

This study explores the capacity of the United States (US) Foundation's international health investment to remote and rural Australian Indigenous people. It does this primarily through the application of appreciative inquiry tools to the 'giving' culture within US Foundation's venture philanthropy. It examines the US and Australian philanthropic hegemonic history to provide a reference point for exploring what greater cross-cultural engagement could mean to US Foundation‘s international Indigenous health giving. There is much evidence of lower life expectancy by remote and rural Australian Indigenous people. Deserving Indigenous grantseeker's projects that seek holistic health including human rights are not resonating with US Foundations. Indigenous people's environmental stewardship and actions to progress reconciliation and restoration lacks true recognition. While the common practice of US grantmakers co-opting Indigenous grantseekers to become more culturally homogenous with the rest of society is disturbing. There is little research on the hegemonic ideology behind venture philanthropy's health funding agenda of public health disease intervention through social entrepreneurship models. This is concerning as it promotes the rhetoric that international intermediaries administration is more efficient than direct funding. In light of such systemic anomalies, a suggested way forward is for US Foundations to return to catalyst funding principles of change through health promotion projects. New Shared Indigenous Giving Principles and a Compact of Understanding were created as examples for peak Indigenous philanthropic organisations like Philanthropy Australia and International Funders of Indigenous People for possible inclusion in their health promotion strategy of building capacity through education and advocacy. The study's outcomes also suggest a First Nation's Entrepreneurship as a new type of entrepreneurship, a way forward that could bridge venture philanthropy's driver style to a return to partner and catalyst philanthropy. It could reside alongside social entrepreneurship, increasing Indigenous health funding that values Indigenous holistic aspects for health including human rights as Social Entrepreneurship does for social justice rights. This vision could warrant further research on social entrepreneurship synchronicity with the Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalised World and the Social Determinants of Health

Transboundary pipelines and the Arctic: legal issues

In the universal sources of modern international law, the regime of cross-border pipelines is set out only in general terms. It is true even regarding the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which provides the most developed regulations relating to laying such pipelines. National legal rules applicable to laying pipelines, however, in practice provide for additional requirements which go beyond conventional rules. Relevant national laws are often based on international environmental law, including multilateral environmental treaties. Existing regional treaties providing regulations on cross-border pipelines are most often also of a framework nature.In the universal sources of modern international law, the regime of cross-border pipelines is set out only in general terms. It is true even regarding the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which provides the most developed regulations relating to laying such pipelines. National legal rules applicable to laying pipelines, however, in practice provide for additional requirements which go beyond conventional rules. Relevant national laws are often based on international environmental law, including multilateral environmental treaties. Existing regional treaties providing regulations on cross-border pipelines are most often also of a framework nature

Unsupervised Instance and Subnetwork Selection for Network Data

Unlike tabular data, features in network data are interconnected within a domain-specific graph. Examples of this setting include gene expression overlaid on a protein interaction network (PPI) and user opinions in a social network. Network data is typically high-dimensional (large number of nodes) and often contains outlier snapshot instances and noise. In addition, it is often non-trivial and time-consuming to annotate instances with global labels (e.g., disease or normal). How can we jointly select discriminative subnetworks and representative instances for network data without supervision? We address these challenges within an unsupervised framework for joint subnetwork and instance selection in network data, called UISS, via a convex self-representation objective. Given an unlabeled network dataset, UISS identifies representative instances while ignoring outliers. It outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on both discriminative subnetwork selection and representative instance selection, achieving up to 10% accuracy improvement on all real-world data sets we use for evaluation. When employed for exploratory analysis in RNA-seq network samples from multiple studies it produces interpretable and informative summaries

Dorota Malczewska-Pawelec, Tomasz Pawelec, Rewolucja w pamięci historycznej. Porównawcze studia nad praktykami manipulacji zbiorową pamięcią Polaków w czasach stalinowskich, Wydawnictwo Universitas, Kraków 2011, ss. 304.

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