Generative model of art

This work is a sort of set of notes I made while being both the experiment and the experimenter with the Master of Glass Art and Science. I’m not a scientist. At the beginning of my studying at Glass Art and Science program, my artistic voice longed to be made manifest, but I did not know how to find the right expression for it. Now I feel like I found the way, and it happened because here I had a possibility to be in art and science at once. I was lucky to find a lot of workable analogies in science that I could apply to my art making. I’ve looked at Biology, Morphogenesis and Fractal geometry and I learned about how objects take form in Nature. Thanks to the science I’ve got a rich soil of awareness, kind of strong base, from which I began to advance rapidly like an artist. Some of the facts from science I noticed, already exists in my art making, but the awareness of them still leads me somehow to the new levels of my work. The idea of “morphological fields” from evolutionary biologist Rupert Sheldrake’s is very much related to my art making. The heart of his idea is that if we look at how the cells multiply, how they reproduce themselves… if we look at Nature and try to break it down and to understand and read how things happen, if we try to explain why it looks like this or that, we fail to find enough information to explain the final forms. Sheldrake argues that there is not enough information available when we deconstruct cellular information to explain how larger scale forms occur. Something or some process appears to be happening outside of what we can see. We cannot see the force that makes thing take shape. As an artist, I understand that force very personally. I just open to it, I just give it to my hands, and there is no difference between me and the rest of natural processes

The skin

The skin is our body‘s envelope, acting both as a protection and as a means of interacting with the outside world. Its structure is complex and divided into three layers: the epidermis, the outermost layer, the dermis, and the deepest, the hypodermis, each of which fulfils precise functions

Alcohol Use, Drinking Motivations, and Depression Among College Students: The Roles of Sociotropy and Autonomy

Sociotropy and autonomy are two cognitive personality dimensions, or personality styles, that have been implicated in the way individuals may uniquely develop, experience, and respond to treatment for depression. The goal of the current study was to investigate whether these cognitive personality dimensions are differentially related to drinking motivations and alcohol-related behaviors among college students. Participants included 311 college students (Mage = 23.1, 63% male) recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk. Results partially supported hypothesized relationships showing that generally, those higher in sociotropy were more likely to endorse external motivations for drinking (i.e. social and conformity motives), while those higher in autonomy were more likely to endorse internal motivations for drinking (i.e., coping motives). Moreover, results showed that sociotropy moderated the relationship between social drinking motives and binge drinking, and that gender did not impact this result. In comparison, autonomy moderated the relationship between coping drinking motives and alcohol-related negative consequences, and this relationship varied as a function of gender. Findings provide initial evidence that sociotropy and autonomy are differentially related to student drinking motivations and alcohol-related behaviors. Research that is sensitive to the heterogeneous nature of the development, maintenance, and treatment for depression may yield important treatment implications when considering alcohol misuse among college students

Tobacco Cessation Treatments Among Young Adult Smokers

Summarizes a study of differences between younger and older adult smokers in their motivations and attempts to quit and their use of smoking cessation treatments. Compares data by demographics, education, health insurance status, and other factors

Laboratory practice. Physical fundamentals of mechanics

Робочий зошит з дисципліни «Фізика», який забезпечує проведення лабораторних занять та призначений для студентів іноземців, що вивчають розділ фізики «Механіка» і навчаються за напрямом підготовки бакалаврів всіх технічних спеціальностей «Національного технічного університету України «Київського політехнічного інституту імені Ігоря Сікорського». Робочий зошит розроблено для студентів-іноземців та викладено англійською мовою, він є доступними для сприйняття і в той же час за рівнем подання матеріалу відповідає вимогам навчальної програми дисципліни «Фізика» для всіх технічних факультетів «Національного технічного університету України «Київського політехнічного інституту імені Ігоря Сікорського». Дане видання забезпечує 4 лабораторні роботи з розділу «Механіка» згідно з робочою навчальною програмою кредитного модуля «Фізика 1» дисципліни «Фізика». Мета навчального видання – забезпечити студентів-іноземців матеріалами для виконання лабораторних робіт з фізики, які відповідають навчальній програмі модуля для всіх спеціальностей. Завдання роботи – зробити виконання лабораторних робіт доступнішими та зрозумілішими для студентів-іноземців. Текст супроводжується рисунками, формулами та таблицями для заповнення, а також блоком для обробки даних та відповідає лабораторній складовій робочих навчальних програм кредитного модуля. Текст видання подано у розгорнутій і зрозумілій формі, з посиланнями на фундаментальні закони фізики, необхідною кількістю пояснень та ілюстрацій.The workbook on discipline "Physics" provides the delivery of laboratory works and is intended for foreignstudents studying the physics section "Mechanics" under the Bachelor's degree of all technical specialities of the National Technical University of Ukraine «Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute». The workbook is designed for foreign students and written in English.It is presented in a clear and easy way, and at the same time it corresponds to the demands of «Physics» course curriculum for all faculties of the National Technical University of Ukraine «Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute». This edition provides 4 laboratory works from the section "Mechanics" in accordance with the syllabus of the credit module "Physics 1" of the discipline "Physics". The purpose of the educational edition is to provide foreign students with the materials for laboratory work in physics that correspond to the module's curriculum for all technical specialties. The tasks of the workbook are to make laboratory works more comprehensive and understandable to foreign students. The text is accompanied by drawings, formulas and filling tables, as well as a data processing unit and corresponds to the laboratory component of the work module curriculum of the credit module. The texts of the edition are presented in acomprehensive and understandable form with the reference to the fundamental laws of physicsand with the required number of explanations and illustrations

Pain, Love, and Voice: The Role of Domestic Violence Victims in Sentencing

Criminal law systems throughout the world have evolved to a stage where they no longer ask, What is the appropriate role of the victim in a criminal trial? The questions now relate to the scope of the victim\u27s rights, in which procedures she has independent standing, and at what stage she should be heard. The process of the prosecution stepping into the victim\u27s shoes, whereby the state controls the entire criminal process, seemingly on behalf of the victim, has been replaced by the recognition that the interests of the prosecution (the State) are not always consistent with those of the victim. The view that will be developed here as the main thesis of this Article, that victims should be heard at the sentencing stage, irrespective of their views, is far from common. This Article will first establish the theoretical basis for this view by drawing on an expressive theory, discussed in Part I, and will take this theory a step further, into the sphere of the particular victim who asks for leniency

Pain, Love, and Voice: The Role of Domestic Violence Victims in Sentencing

Criminal law systems throughout the world have evolved to a stage where they no longer ask, What is the appropriate role of the victim in a criminal trial? The questions now relate to the scope of the victim\u27s rights, in which procedures she has independent standing, and at what stage she should be heard. The process of the prosecution stepping into the victim\u27s shoes, whereby the state controls the entire criminal process, seemingly on behalf of the victim, has been replaced by the recognition that the interests of the prosecution (the State) are not always consistent with those of the victim. The view that will be developed here as the main thesis of this Article, that victims should be heard at the sentencing stage, irrespective of their views, is far from common. This Article will first establish the theoretical basis for this view by drawing on an expressive theory, discussed in Part I, and will take this theory a step further, into the sphere of the particular victim who asks for leniency

Laboratory practice. Physical fundamentals of fluid mechanics

Approval stamp is provided by the Methodical Council of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (protocol № 9 from 30.05.2019 y.) on the submission of the Academic Council of Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (protocol № 5 from 29.05.2019 y.)Робочий зошит з дисципліни «Фізика», який забезпечує проведення лабораторних занять та призначений для студентів іноземців, що вивчають розділ фізики «Молекулярна фізика та термодинаміка» і навчаються за напрямом підготовки бакалаврів всіх технічних спеціальностей «Національного технічного університету України «Київського політехнічного інституту імені Ігоря Сікорського». Робочий зошит розроблено для студентів-іноземців та викладено англійською мовою, він є доступними для сприйняття і в той же час за рівнем подання матеріалу відповідає вимогам навчальної програми дисципліни «Фізика» для всіх технічних факультетів «Національного технічного університету України «Київського політехнічного інституту імені Ігоря Сікорського». Дане видання забезпечує 4 лабораторні роботи з розділу «Молекулярна фізика та термодинаміка» згідно з робочою навчальною програмою кредитного модуля «Фізика 1» дисципліни «Фізика». Мета навчального видання – забезпечити студентів-іноземців матеріалами для виконання лабораторних робіт з фізики, які відповідають навчальній програмі модуля для всіх спеціальностей. Завдання роботи – зробити виконання лабораторних робіт доступнішими та зрозумілішими для студентів-іноземців. Текст супроводжується рисунками, формулами та таблицями для заповнення, а також блоком для обробки даних та відповідає лабораторній складовій робочих навчальних програм кредитного модуля. Текст видання подано у розгорнутій і зрозумілій формі, з посиланнями на фундаментальні закони фізики, необхідною кількістю пояснень та ілюстрацій.This workbook on discipline "Physics" provides delivering of laboratory works and is intended for foreign students mastering the physics section "Mechanics" and studying under the Bachelor's degree study program of all technical specialties of the National Technical University of Ukraine «Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute». The workbook is designed for foreign students and written in the English language, it is intelligible and at the same time it meets the demands of the "Physics" course curriculum for all technical faculties of the National Technical University of Ukraine «Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute» due to the level of the material presentation. This publication covers 4 laboratory works from section "Molecular Physics and Thermodynamics" in accordance with the working curriculum of the credit module "Physics 1" of the discipline "Physics". The purpose of the educational publication is to provide foreign students with the materials for laboratory works in physics that correspond to the module's curriculum for all technical specialties. The tasks of the work are to make laboratory works more accessible and understandable to foreign students. The text is accompanied by drawings, formulas and tables to be filled, as well as units for data to be processed. Each text corresponds to the laboratory component of the work module curriculum of the credit module. The text of the publication is presented in a comprehensible and easy to understand form, with the reference to the fundamental laws of physics, with the required number of explanations and illustrations