“Regulatory Sandboxes” in Russia: New Horizons and Challenges

“Regulatory sandboxes” are regarded as a special mechanism for setting up experimental regulation in the area of digital innovation (especially in financial technologies), creating a special regime for a limited number of participants and for a limited time.Russiahas its own method of experimental regulation, which is not typical but may be helpful for other jurisdictions. There are three approaches to legal experiments (including digital innovations) inRussia. The first approach is accepting special regulation on different issues. There are recent examples of special laws (e.g. Federal Law on the experiment with artificial intelligence technologies inMoscow). An alternative to this option is establishing experimental regulation by an act of the Government if legislation does not prohibit it (e.g. labeling with means of identification). The second approach deals only with Fintech innovations and provides a special mechanism to pilot models of innovative financial technologies. The participants of such a “sandbox” may create a close-to-life model in order to estimate the effects and risks. If the model works fine, the regulation may be amended. The third approach works with creating a universal mechanism of real-life experiments in the sphere of digital innovations based on the special Federal Law and the specific decision of the Government of theRussian Federationor the Bank of Russia in the financial sphere. The author compares the three approaches and their implementation within the framework of Russian legislation and practice and concludes that this experience may be used by developing countries with inflexible regulation, in order to facilitate the development of digital innovations

Application of ESEEM to study the structure of free radicals

Manifestations of the hyperfine interaction of paramagnetic particles in their electron spin echo signal decay were comprehensively discussed. Mechanochemically activated calcium gluconate was studied using electron spin echo modulation phenomenon and electron-nuclear double resonance techniques and quantum-chemical calculations. Three possible structures are obtained for free radicals in calcium gluconate. To specify the structure of radicals, further investigations are needed. © 2008 Springer

Magnetic properties of carbon-coated permalloy films

This work is supported by the German-Russian Interdisciplinary Science Center (G-RISC) funded by the German Federal Foreign Office via the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Stochastic Dynamics of Magnetosomes in Cytoskeleton

Rotations of microscopic magnetic particles, magnetosomes, embedded into the cytoskeleton and subjected to the influence of an ac magnetic field and thermal noise are considered. Magnetosome dynamics is shown to comply with the conditions of the stochastic resonance under not-too-tight constraints on the character of the particle's fastening. The excursion of regular rotations attains the value of order of radian that facilitates explaining the biological effects of low-frequency weak magnetic fields and geomagnetic fluctuations. Such 1-rad rotations are effectively controlled by slow magnetic field variations of the order of 200 nT.Comment: LaTeX2e, 7 pages with 3 figure

Knight shift in superconducting vanadium

The Knight shift in metallic vanadium in the normal and superconducting states has been measured. In contrast to the previously obtained results, this shift appears to change after the transition to the superconducting state. The behavior of the Knight shift in the superconducting state in vanadium samples doped with iron impurities has been found to be different from that in the "pure" samples. As a possible explanation of the effect, the broadening of the peak of the density of states near the Fermi level due to the scattering of conduction electrons on the iron impurities and the earlier predicted impurity polarization shift of the NMR line are discussed. © 2008 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd

Long-chain alkyl esters of O,O-dialkyl dithiophosphoric and thionophosphoric acids prepared on the basis of red phosphorus, elemental sulfur, alcohols, and industrial fractions of higher monoolefins

Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Mixtures of long chain S-alkyl O,O-dialkyl dithiophosphates, and O-alkyl O,O-dialkyl thionophosphates were obtained by the reaction of red phosphorus with elemental sulfur, alcohols, and industrial fractions of C16-C18 and C20-C26 of higher olefins in the presence of Lewis acid catalysts. The products obtained possess high anticorrosion activities toward mild steel

Experimental observation of the spin screening effect in superconductor/ferromagnet thin film heterostructures

When studying the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) of 51V nuclei in superconductor/ferromagnet thin film heterostructures, anomalous behavior of the NMR signal was observed. This effect was manifested as a systematic distortion of the high-field wing of the resonance line. We consider this to be the first experimental evidence for penetration of ferromagnetism into a superconductor. © 2010 Allerton Press, Inc

New phosphorus dithioacids and their derivatives containing chiral centers and pharmacophoric groups

© 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.New phosphorus dithioacids, their ammonium salts and S-silyl and plumbyl derivatives containing asymmetric carbon atoms and pharmacophoric groupswere obtained by the reactions of tetraphosphorus decasulfide and 1,3,2,4-dithiadiphosphetane-2,4-disulfides with chiral natural terpenyl alcohols, diols, carboxylic acid esters, amino acids and monosaccharides as well as synthetic chiral amines and 1-phenylethanol. The biological activity of the ammonium salts and S-esters of phosphorus dithioacids were studied

Chiral Salts of Phosphorus Dithioacids Based on Quinine

© 2018, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd. Reactions of quinine with dithioacids based on (1R)-endo-(+)-fenchol, (1S)-endo-(–)-borneol, and (S)-(–)-menthol have afforded optically active quinine salts. Chiral diquinine salts have been obtained in the reactions of quinine with bisthiophosphonic acids based on triethylene glycol and resorcinol

Experimental Observation of the Inverse Proximity Effect in Superconductor/Ferromagnet Layered Structures

We have studied the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) of 51V nuclei in the superconductor/ferromagnet thin film heterostructures Ni/V/Ni and Pd{1-x}Fe{x}/V/Pd{1-x}Fe{x} in the normaland superconducting state. Whereas the position and shape of the NMR line in the normal state for the trilayers is identical to that observed in a single V-layer, in the superconducting state the line shape definitely changes, developing a systematic distortion of the high-field wing of the resonance line. We consider this as the first experimental evidence for the penetration of ferromagnetism into the superconducting layer, a phenomenon which has been theoretically predicted recently and dubbed the inverse proximity effect.Comment: about 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 tabl