History and Ambiguity: Graham Greene\u27s \u3cem\u3eThe Third Man\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eThe Quiet American\u3c/em\u3e in Print and on Screen.

In this master’s thesis, I shall examine Graham Greene’s place in criticism of the British novel by focusing on The Third Man and The Quiet American. In terms of theoretical approach, I shall focus on a close, critical reading of the texts employing elements of cultural, historical, psychological, and genre criticism. With the films, I shall focus on lighting and shot formation along with the abilities of the directors and actors. These works have not been studied jointly before as literature or as film or as a combination thereof. Nevertheless, such study proves worthwhile. My thesis is also the first lengthy comparison of the two film versions of The Quiet American. Given that Phillip Noyce’s 2002 film is so new, little lengthy criticism exists. Even though Joseph Mankiewicz’s 1957 film has been available for over forty years, no serious scholarship exists on it. My thesis will fill this critical lacuna

Quantum Algorithm for Researching the Nearest (QARN)

Processing large amounts of data to this day causes difficulties due to the lack of power resources. Classical algorithms implement a chain of actions, requiring a certain time to execute, as well as space in the form of RAM. Parallelization, if it can be used, allows to gain time, but also needs buffering of all parallel actions. Quantum computing acts as an attractive alternative to parallel computing with qubits, qudits and their distinctive properties. The quantum algorithm proposed in this paper allows to search for the best (closest to a given) element in a random data array by storing all its initial elements in a superposition. This allows to perform the search operations on all elements at the same time and due to the same to save the amount of RAM

Read my teeth: the history of dentistry in Moscow Theological Academy (Russia)

In 2014, the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences conducted a comprehensive archaeological survey of the extraordinary necropolis of the Moscow Theological Academy. Before the First World War in this cemetery were buried teachers, professors and eminent students of this prestigious educational institution. Multiple pathological conditions, as well as special cases of the treatment have been observed in the assessment of the state of dentition. A clear sign of a medical intervention has a rather rare phenomenon for archaeological artifacts. As a therapeutic method of treatment of caries dentists have used a variety of filling materials. There were cases of use of dental phosphate cement and amalgam. On the materials presented as the newest (at the time) technique of treatment is amputation of the pulp with the imposition of antiseptic dressings, and the cases of prosthetics. Various dentoalveolar anomalies, methods and techniques of dental treatment and prosthetics that have been discovered, lead us into the area of the history of medicine. Thus paleodontology source is seen as a chronological marker. Objects dated to the late 19th century (up to 1892) have no trace of the intervention of a dentist. So the burials of individuals with traces of treatment (fillings, dentures, etc.) probably date to the early 20th century. Among them are the operations that can be applied only after the 20-ies of the 20th century

Mathematical modeling of seismic and acousto-gravitational waves in a heterogeneous earth–atmosphere model

AbstractA numerical–analytical solution to problems of seismic and acoustic-gravitational wave propagation is applied to a heterogeneous Earth–Atmosphere model. The seismic wave propagation in an elastic half-space is described by a system of first order dynamic equations of the elasticity theory. The propagation of acoustic-gravitational waves in the atmosphere is described by the linearized Navier–Stokes equations. The algorithm proposed is based on the integral Laguerre transform with respect to time, the finite integral Bessel transform along the radial coordinate with a finite difference solution of the reduced problem along the vertical coordinate. The algorithm is numerically tested for the heterogeneous Earth–Atmosphere model for different source locations