Evolutionary methods for mobile robot collision avoidance

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Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy : political and legal views and protection of religious rights

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy is not only a well-known Russian writer, but a significant social leader who has made a great contribution to promoting unique political-legal views on law, government system, international relations, education and other important spheres of life. In the article the author provides an analysis of Tolstoy’s fundamental ideas considering major social fields. The reasons in personal life that affected his involvement in political and legal processes are studied. In the context of human rights protection Tolstoy actively acted on behalf of the Russian Doukhobors who had to emigrate at the end of XIXth-beginning of the XXth century from Russia to Canada. Many episodes in Tolstoy’s literary works are written on the real judicial cases, which demonstrated the legal system faults, unfairness of the existed social and political model. One of the major Tolstoy’s idea was pacifism, refusal of military actions in favor of diplomatic and peaceful conflict resolution that in years become more crucial in the modern society. Tostoy paid great attention to the analysis of the social structure of the Russian village, customary law of the peasants and their relations with state authorities. Tolstoy’s political and legal views present unique source of approaches and knowledge for minimization of the negative modern problems of Russian such as legal nihilism, law legal culture, corruption, bureaucracy. His literary heritage contains deep philosophical, methodological, fundamental ideas on the essence of life, mission of a human, role of the religion, civil and state institutions which could be considered as “eternal topics”, study of which for centuries showed constant interest and search by generations genuine values and constants of life.peer-reviewe

Boris Pilnyak’s americanisms in the novel "Ok"

В заглавии ошибочно "amarcanisms"В названии статьи ошибочно указано amarcanism

Theodore Dreiser's First Novel (to the 115th Anniversary of “Sister Carrie's” Publishing)

AbstractThe article is devoted to Theodore Dreiser's skill as a writer of a novel. His first book “Sister Carrie” characterized his writer's manner in which the author was unhurried deliberate and thorough master. In his first novel Th. Dreiser shows himself as a deep psychologist and stylist. “Sister Carrie” is a landmark in the history of American literature as well as in the history of world realistic literature of the XXth century

Russian Writers’ Impressions of America in the Mirror of American Literary Criticism

AbstractThis article analyzes the monographs of American theorists of literature devoted to the study of artistic responses of Russian writers who visited the USA in the 20th century. Some books appeared in critical field of American scientists: “The City of Yellow Devil” by M.Gorky, “Iron Mirgorod” by S.Yesenin, “My Discovery of America” by V.Mayakovsky, “O’key” by B.Pilniak, “The Little Gold America” by I.Ilf and Y.Petrov. In the paper the books by Gorky and Ilf and Petrov are analyzed. American approach to these works is shown in different ways: from critics to estimation of their positive influence on Russians’ attitude towards the USA

Carbon Offset Solutions for International Travel Emissions

Within a ten-year period (FY 2002-3 to FY 2012-2013), the University of Richmond study abroad program has experienced a 96% increase in student participation. In 2007, Newsweek magazine recognized the University as the Hottest School in America for international studies. In 2013, 710 University students studied abroad. While studying abroad has numerous academic benefits, international transportation contributes carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and thus increases the negative environmental consequences of anthropogenic climate change. In FY 2013, UR students traveled 6,154,032 miles, emitting ~6,892,515 pounds of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Given this negative impact and UR\u27s carbon neutral goals, we feel UR and UR students should be aware of options to mitigate carbon emissions. One way to compensate for emissions released by air travel is to invest in carbon capture offset programs. Although some assert carbon offset programs merely sustain environmentally unfriendly behaviors by reducing the guilt people feel, others have found carbon offsets a beneficial option for people who will be traveling by plane (Lovell et al. 2009). This project introduces several international carbon offeset programs that might help offset UR\u27s international travel carbon emissions. Specifically, we examine options for programs around the countries most popular with University of Richmond students. Poster prepared for the Environmental Studies Senior Seminar/Geography Capstone

Carbon Offset Solutions for International Travel Emissions

This paper explores possible carbon offset solutions for the University of Richmond’s (UR’s) study-abroad travel emissions in pursuit of the University’s goal to be carbon neutral by the year 2050. First, our group divided the world into five regions to which UR students travel: Oceania, Asia, Latin America, Europe, and Africa. For the most popular countries in each region, we suggest several carbon offset programs to address this portion of the University’s carbon emissions. Then, we created a methodology for evaluating and comparing carbon offset programs around the world including six scoring categories: experience, education, incentive, price, impact, and effectiveness. We evaluated each offset option using a report card grading system on a scale from letter grade A to F. This paper concludes with recommendations for how UR’s Office of International Education and Office of Sustainability should proceed with this project, and how our research should be included into the existing study abroad framework at UR. Paper prepared for the Environmental Studies Senior Seminar/Geography Capstone