Is it a sin to travel? Itinerant women in post−Soviet narrative

The cultural construction of the journey as a narrative of masculine identity poses problems for the conceptualization of the female traveller in general and of the female Russian migrant in particular. Three contemporary prose pieces dealing with women's migration reveal subtle and often sophisticated ways of playing with the stigmatization of Russian women as prostitutes and of destabilizing the patriotic discourse that outlaws women's movement

A VLES AND TWO-WAY DYNAMIC FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION STUDY OF WIND TURBINES

From year to year the energy demand is rising worldwide, which is leading to the development of renewable energy sources. One of them are the wind turbines that generate energy from the wind. However, in order to meet the energy demand and increase the efficiency, they are being made larger and larger, which is causing serious issues such as noise and vibration, as well as difficulties in studying their aerodynamics. Therefore, there is a need for Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) analysis of wind turbines, which can be useful in solving these problems and optimal design of the turbines. There are two methods of FSI analysis implemented in this work, high-fidelity and low-fidelity. The first method aimed to create a 2-way dynamic FSI of wind turbines with the application of the advanced VLES turbulence model. The FSI was tried to be performed by the coupling of the CFD and CSD solvers in preCICE software using the Arbitrary Eulerian Lagrangian (ALE) approach. The second method is done by coupling the Lifting Line Free Vortex Wake aerodynamic solver with the Chrono structural solver in QBlade software. The whole software setup was done, including the connection between solvers, dependencies as well as the test cases. However, the first method had some limitations, which were shown and explained. The findings and results are presented and discussed in the paper

Role of religious and cultural values in human capital

The study aims to investigate the role of religious and cultural values in human capital. The research is based on the sociological research method. As a result, the actual and perceived cohesion of the neighbors' matte

Comprehensive functional profiling of long non-coding RNAs through a novel pan-cancer integration approach and modular analysis of their protein-coding gene association networks

Background Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are emerging as crucial regulators of cellular processes in diseases such as cancer, although the functions of most remain poorly understood. To address this, here we apply a novel strategy to integrate gene expression profiles across 32 cancer types, and cluster human lncRNAs based on their pan-cancer protein-coding gene associations. By doing so, we derive 16 lncRNA modules whose unique properties allow simultaneous inference of function, disease specificity and regulation for over 800 lncRNAs. Results Remarkably, modules could be grouped into just four functional themes: transcription regulation, immunological, extracellular, and neurological, with module generation frequently driven by lncRNA tissue specificity. Notably, three modules associated with the extracellular matrix represented potential networks of lncRNAs regulating key events in tumour progression. These included a tumour-specific signature of 33 lncRNAs that may play a role in inducing epithelial-mesenchymal transition through modulation of TGFβ signalling, and two stromal-specific modules comprising 26 lncRNAs linked to a tumour suppressive microenvironment and 12 lncRNAs related to cancer-associated fibroblasts. One member of the 12-lncRNA signature was experimentally supported by siRNA knockdown, which resulted in attenuated differentiation of quiescent fibroblasts to a cancer-associated phenotype. Conclusions Overall, the study provides a unique pan-cancer perspective on the lncRNA functional landscape, acting as a global source of novel hypotheses on lncRNA contribution to tumour progression

Sadur and Madness: Problems of Representation

The article investigates the problem of reperesentating women's madness, based on analyses of works by Nina Sadur ("The Garden", "The South", "The Nose", "A Girl at Night")

The Constitution of a Reliable Self : Word for Word by Oleg Dorman and Lilianna Lungina

In July 2009, the TV-channel ‘Rossiia’ broadcasted on prime time Oleg Dorman’s eight hour documentary Podstrochnik in four sequels. Here, Lilianna Lungina (1920-1998), a witness of the purges of the Stalin period and the translator of Astrid Lindgren’s Karlsson-on-the-roof, tells her life story in front of the camera. The decision to air this plain, unobtrusive film, devoid of any glamour, humiliation or sensation, on the commercially dependent channel ‘Rossiia’ created a stir in other media. In December, a book based on the film was published and became a bestseller. The chapter discusses what the film and the book add to the already established, and from a media perspective, rather murky genre of memoirs from the Stalin period. I argue that the question of subjectivity and gender is crucial for an understanding of the work’s cultural signification. Specifically, I contend that the narrative contrasts its own intersubjective understanding of the constitution of the self to the monological, essentialist notion in the works by A. Solzhenitsyn. Lungina’s narrative reflects the prevalence of gossip, storytelling, and mythmaking in intelligentsia circles. It is permeated with episodes, referred to as truthful descriptions of actual events, but to which she obviously was not an eyewitness. The chapter investigates how the narrative, in spite of this, is able to construc a reliable subject position, taking recourse to normative conceptions of gendered identity

Thesis

Production of construction materials in Kazakhstan plays a significant role in the development of the country. Building materials of industry products takes up to more than 4% in the total volume of industrial production of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Moreover, Kazakhstan has sufficient reserves of various raw materials for release of building materials. However, today the domestic industry of building materials can meet only part of the needs of the building complex of the country. One of the main materials that are used for construction, reconstruction and road repair, is crushed stone. Production (sale) of crushed stone refers to the industry of non-mineral building materials. The crushed stone usually produced by mining a suitable rock deposit and breaking the removed rock down to the desired size using crushers. It is also obtained by crushing boulders and gravel sediments of sand and gravel deposits..

Europe in Post-Soviet Autobiographical Writing

In modern Russian history, the concept of Europe has served as a main reference point in the formation of Russian national identity. This has given rise to a series of dichotomies, such as European individualism versus Russian collectivism, materialism versus spirituality and rationality versus emotion. In Russia, the genre of autobiography, with its focus on personal experience and the individual’s entitlement to public space, has therefore been perceived as a quintessentially European genre. As a result, other terms, such as “memoir” and “reminiscences” are often preferred. Thanks to the strength of the Hegelian-Soviet legacy and its historicization of personality, autobiographical writing has become a vehicle to describe the individual’s relation to the nation, rendering this type of writing ideal for investigations of national identity. This article examines post-Soviet works whose authors have specifically identified them as “autobiography,” thereby signalling an engagement with the European cultural heritage upon which that genre is founded. Among these works, the poet Novella Matveeva’s autobiography is singled out for close reading. Drawing on Boris Uspensky’s notion of Russia as a metaphorical Europe, Matveeva’s text is interpreted as an attempt to subvert the dichotomical division between Europe and Russia