Rediscovering Identity: Autobiographical Memory and Media Discourses of Russian-Germans in Germany and Russia

Received 19 September 2022. Accepted 25 March 2023. Published online 3 July 2023.This paper compares the processes of rediscovering identity in autobiographical memory and media discourses of Russian-Germans living in Germany and in Russia. According to R. Brubaker, the Russian-Germans are viewed as a transnational group with a specific “hybrid identity”, whose identification varies depending on the cultural project, which they are involved in. In Germany and Russia, the boundaries of this identification are the politics of memory of the host society and the dominant narratives regarding this group as repatriates (Germany) and as a diaspora with its own culture (Russia). Our analysis, which was based on the methodology of the critical discourse analysis by S. Jäger, revealed that such a dominant narrative in Germany is the “narrative of return”. In Russia, however, there are two discursive threads: the image of Russian-Germans as a repressed group and the narrative about the outstanding role of Russian-Germans in the history of Russia. The curves of autobiographical and family narratives of the three generations of Russian-Germans in Russia and Germany were analyzed and compared according to the biographical method of F. Schütze. People aged 30–50 were the most open to the influence of collective “standardized” narratives both in Germany and in Russia. Despite the fact of living in Russia, those respondents who were preparing to repatriate to Germany actively reproduced the “return narrative” and used international mnemonic frameworks to structure their autobiographical and family story. Our study showed that the influence of the discursive media environment on the autobiographical and family memory of Russian-Germans living in Germany and Russia depends on the respondent’s individual life experience (the curve of their biography), age, and some peculiarities of their family history.This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, under grant No. 22-28-00503 “Transformation of the collective memory of migratory communities in modern Russia: intergenerational dynamics, family values and commemorative practices”

Modern trends in the health of adolescents and young men of military age pre-conscription and conscription age in Krasnodar territory

Results of study of the health status of adolescents and young men of pre-conscription and conscription age in the Krasnodar territory for the period from 2006 to 2012, the analysis of the completeness of their medical care in the preparation for military service. The negative changes of the indicators of the health of the conscripts. Discusses trends in health status, his connection with the quality of life of pre-conscripts and recruits, ways of optimization of medical and social prevention of health disorders

C→N migration of methoxycarbonyl and acetyl groups in reactions of functionally substituted carbanions with aryl isocyanates. Kinetics and mechanism of the reactions

The kinetics and mechanism of C→N migrations of methoxycarbonyl and acetyl groups in the reactions of the sodium derivative of methyl (2-cyano-2-phenyl)acetate and 1,1-diacetyl-2-phenyl-2-tributylphosphonioethanide with aryl isocyanates were studied by spectrophotometry. The reactions afford a prereaction complex via a concerted mechanism, according to which the nucleophilic attack of the carbanionic center to the carbon atom of the isocyanate group and the subsequent nucleophilic attack of the nitrogen atom to the carbonyl carbon atom, resulting in the C-C bond cleavage, occur almost simultaneously in the framework of the same transition state. © Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2006

On the trace of the antipode and higher indicators

We introduce two kinds of gauge invariants for any finite-dimensional Hopf algebra H. When H is semisimple over C, these invariants are respectively, the trace of the map induced by the antipode on the endomorphism ring of a self-dual simple module, and the higher Frobenius-Schur indicators of the regular representation. We further study the values of these higher indicators in the context of complex semisimple quasi-Hopf algebras H. We prove that these indicators are non-negative provided the module category over H is modular, and that for a prime p, the p-th indicator is equal to 1 if, and only if, p is a factor of dim H. As an application, we show the existence of a non-trivial self-dual simple H-module with bounded dimension which is determined by the value of the second indicator.Comment: additional references, fixed some typos, minor additions including a questions and some remark

Atropisomerism of phosphorus-containing N-aryl carbamates. Experimental and computational data

Studies by 1H NMR spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction analysis revealed hindered rotation of the aromatic substituent about the C Ar-N bond in ortho-substituted (except for o-fluorine-substituted) phosphorus-containing carbamates. The energy barriers to rotation (AG c ≠) and coalescence temperatures (Tc) determined by the coalescence method increase with increasing volume of the ortho substituent. Conformations resulting from rotation of the ortho-substituted aryl group about the CAr-N bond were analyzed by quantum-chemical methods, potential curves were constructed, and differences between the conformational energies and the heights of rotation barriers were estimated. The theoretical rotation barriers change in parallel with the experimental values of ΔGc ≠ however, the theoretical values are much smaller in magnitude

Hopf algebras and Markov chains: Two examples and a theory

The operation of squaring (coproduct followed by product) in a combinatorial Hopf algebra is shown to induce a Markov chain in natural bases. Chains constructed in this way include widely studied methods of card shuffling, a natural "rock-breaking" process, and Markov chains on simplicial complexes. Many of these chains can be explictly diagonalized using the primitive elements of the algebra and the combinatorics of the free Lie algebra. For card shuffling, this gives an explicit description of the eigenvectors. For rock-breaking, an explicit description of the quasi-stationary distribution and sharp rates to absorption follow.Comment: 51 pages, 17 figures. (Typographical errors corrected. Further fixes will only appear on the version on Amy Pang's website, the arXiv version will not be updated.

Treatment of compensative horizontal increased dental abrasion of the second degree

Preliminary orthodontic treatment with using of ondental plastic cup directed to the reconstruction of myostatic reflex permitted us to find prosthetic space for production of aesthetic crowns and bridge like prostheses in patients with generalized, horizontal, compensative, increased attriction of the second degree

Analysis of the effectiveness of medical support adolescents and youths of Krasnodar region to be called up for military service

In the Krasnodar region assessed the effectiveness of the current system of medical support youth of premilitaries age and conscripts to military service. Established therapeutic effectiveness of health measures. The effectiveness in the healthcare system supported by growth in the number of recognized fit for military service (on 4,6%), and fit with minor restrictions (on 5,3%), which contributed to an increase in the overall index of fitness for military service on 9,9%