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    Постать Тараса Шевченка в рецепції Ліни Костенко

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    У статті розглядається поетика творення Ліною Костенко образу Кобзаря крізь призму власного "я", через пережиті відчуття поета-шістдесятника, що своєю проекцією нагадують душевні терзання великого поета.В статье рассмотрена поэтика создания Линой Костенко образа Тараса Шевченко сквозь призму собственного "я", через пережитые ощущения поэта-шестидесятника, своей проекцией напоминающие душевные терзания великого поэта.The article deals with the problem of the poetics creation by Lina Kostenko Taras Shevchenko’ image through a prism her own mind, through sensations of the poet-sixtier, by the projection reminding sincere torments the great poet is considered

    Production of dust by massive stars at high redshift

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    The large amounts of dust detected in sub-millimeter galaxies and quasars at high redshift pose a challenge to galaxy formation models and theories of cosmic dust formation. At z > 6 only stars of relatively high mass (> 3 Msun) are sufficiently short-lived to be potential stellar sources of dust. This review is devoted to identifying and quantifying the most important stellar channels of rapid dust formation. We ascertain the dust production efficiency of stars in the mass range 3-40 Msun using both observed and theoretical dust yields of evolved massive stars and supernovae (SNe) and provide analytical expressions for the dust production efficiencies in various scenarios. We also address the strong sensitivity of the total dust productivity to the initial mass function. From simple considerations, we find that, in the early Universe, high-mass (> 3 Msun) asymptotic giant branch stars can only be dominant dust producers if SNe generate <~ 3 x 10^-3 Msun of dust whereas SNe prevail if they are more efficient. We address the challenges in inferring dust masses and star-formation rates from observations of high-redshift galaxies. We conclude that significant SN dust production at high redshift is likely required to reproduce current dust mass estimates, possibly coupled with rapid dust grain growth in the interstellar medium.Comment: 72 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables; to be published in The Astronomy and Astrophysics Revie

    The genetic and environmental aetiology of spatial, mathematics and general anxiety

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    Individuals differ in their level of general anxiety as well as in their level of anxiety towards specific activities, such as mathematics and spatial tasks. Both specific anxieties correlate moderately with general anxiety, but the aetiology of their association remains unexplored. Moreover, the factor structure of spatial anxiety is to date unknown. The present study investigated the factor structure of spatial anxiety, its aetiology, and the origins of its association with general and mathematics anxiety in a sample of 1,464 19-21-year-old twin pairs from the UK representative Twins Early Development Study. Participants reported their general, mathematics and spatial anxiety as part of an online battery of tests. We found that spatial anxiety is a multifactorial construct, including two components: navigation anxiety and rotation/visualization anxiety. All anxiety measures were moderately heritable (30% to 41%), and non-shared environmental factors explained the remaining variance. Multivariate genetic analysis showed that, although some genetic and environmental factors contributed to all anxiety measures, a substantial portion of genetic and non-shared environmental influences were specific to each anxiety construct. This suggests that anxiety is a multifactorial construct phenotypically and aetiologically, highlighting the importance of studying anxiety within specific contexts

    The Kinetics of Lid Motion and its Effects on the Tear Film

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    Mixing of the Tear Film Under the Eyelids

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    Dynamics of the Human Blink

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    Blinking kinematics description through non-invasive measurement

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    Spontaneous eye blinking is a complex process, which implies the joint actions of the eyelid muscles and the eye globe. These actions provoke the eyelid closure and simultaneous eye retraction into the orbit. Recently, the authors presented a non-invasive technique for measuring both movements that permits calculating several parameters. Following the work from Malbouisson and co-workers, we have fitted the displacement curves of the eyelid to an analytical function and, additionally, we have extended the kinematic model to the eye retraction movements. As a result of the fitting, some dynamic parameters have been presented for the first time in the literature. This study can be easily extended to obtain relevant information about ocular biomechanical properties in physiological optics and provides results that may be of interest in neurophysiology, in order to understand the blinking mechanism.This work was supported by the Generalitat Valenciana project no. GV/2009/002 and by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación through the project no. FIS2009-05639-E/FIS. J. Espinosa acknowledges the support of the Generalitat Valenciana through the project BEST/2010/209. D. Mas acknowledges the support of the Ministerio de Educacion through the project PR2009-0377
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