The Universality of Initial Conditions for Globular Cluster Formation

We investigate a simple model for globular cluster (GC) formation. We simulate the violent relaxation of initially homogeneous isothermal stellar spheres and show that it leads to the formation of clusters with radial density profiles that match the observed profiles of GCs. The best match is achieved for dynamically unevolved clusters. In this model, all the observed correlations between global GC parameters are accurately reproduced if one assumes that all the clusters initially had the same value of the stellar density and the velocity dispersion. This suggests that the gas which formed GCs had the same values of density and temperature throughout the universe.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letter

Gish Jen: Loosening the Canyon of the Canon

The idea of the article is to analyse the complicated interweaving of Chinese and Euro- Atlantic literary tradition in Gish Jen’s writings. Asian wing of American literature is a phenomenon that has declared its existence comparatively not long ago. The voice of Asian American writers was initially not very loud. However, at the turn of 20th-21st centuries contours of American literature began to change due to the influence of a new concept of man and world arisen in the writings of Maxine Hong Kingston, Tamezo Mori, Amy Tan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Gish Jen. On the one hand, G. Jen’s texts are written by the canons of a postmodern narrative, which implies the poetics of decentration and fragmentation of the text, irony, double code, multi-layered intertextuality. Sternian satirical dispute with literary and scientific works of his time, inherited by postmodern writers, has become one of the brightest distinctive characteristic of G. Jen’s texts as well. Like other postmodern writers, she creates literary and intellectual fabric of the text into which responses to a variety of influential theories and concepts of the turn of 20th-21st centuries are interwoven. On the other hand, the writer develops the tradition of Asian literature with its emphasis on moral and spiritual existence of a man. This tradition sees a man not as a battlefield but an interplay of good and evil. This interplay may not make a man perfect, but it makes him human

Diagnostics and correction of vestibular, autonomic and vascular dysfunctions on the background of degenerative changes in the cervical spin

Studies in 82 patients were aimed at optimizing the diagnosis and treatment of vestibular dysfunctions with vegetative-vascular disorders during degenerative changes in the cervical spine.The main symptoms of vestibulopathy were dizziness as well as their provoking and related causes. Obtained objective state data of the vestibular analyzer using the integrative index of ataxia, the state of autonomic characteristics, data of the psychoemotional and cognitive sphere. The author's method of treating such conditions using a complex of vegetotropic, vascular, nootropic drugs, as well as intranasal electrophoresis, was used. Positive results were obtained for this type of therapy for vestibulopathy and autonomic vascular disorders

Кадрове забезпечення шкіл Рівненщини (друга половина 1940-х — перша половина 1950-х років)

In article considered qualitative-quantitative indicators of staffing in schools of Rivne region in the postwar decade. The problems and ways of overcoming the staff deficit in schools are analysed