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Anton Chekhov and the Catastrophes of Teaching
Abstract In this essay, Ross Collin offers ethics‐focused readings of Anton Chekhov's popular short stories “The Schoolmistress” and “The Teacher of Literature.” Chekhov shows in the two stories how teaching can inhibit teachers' flourishing. That is to say, teaching under bad conditions can draw teachers into moral “catastrophe,” to use Cornel West's ...
Ross Collin
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On correspondence between tensors and bispinors
It is known that in the four-dimensional Riemannian space the complex bispinor generates a number of tensors: scalar, pseudo-scalar, vector, pseudo-vector, antisymmetric tensor.
Gorbatenko, M. V., Pushkin, A. V.
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ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 travel restrictions were especially distressing for migrants, whose transnational lifestyles and networks often rely on travelling, even in older age. Drawing on 20 interviews, this study analyses the effect of COVID restrictions on the transnational lives of older Russian migrants in Finland.
Laura Kemppainen
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Neurodegenerative disorders are known to be commonly associated with neuroinflammation. Plants with antioxidant and anti‐inflammatory properties hold prospect in alleviating neuroinflammation. One such plant with documented anti‐inflammatory and antioxidant potential is Salvia officinalis L.
Bernard Sefah +4 more
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Scale‐Up of Tailor‐Made Onsite Enzyme Blend From Cassava Peels for Industrial Bioethanol Production
Bioethanol production is one of the key alternatives for fossil fuel use due to climate change. The study seeks to upscale tailor‐made onsite enzyme blends for the bioconversion of cassava peels to bioethanol in simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) process using cassava peels‐degrading fungi.
Martison Budu +3 more
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THE PROBLEM OF ADDRESSEE IN MARINA TSVETAEVA’S CYCLE “POEMS TO PUSHKIN”
The article reveals the specifics of the lyrical dialogue of Marina Tsvetaeva with Pushkin. It is hypothesized that addressee factor becomes the organizing factor of artistic consciousness in poetic communication of Tsvetaeva.
L G Kikhney, T S Kruglova
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Ruští spisovatelé o umění překladu
The paper elaborates on a selection of canonical texts by Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), and Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), reflecting on the art of literary translation.
Stanislav Rubáš
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Abstract This article uses campaign reports and memoir literature to explore tsarist officers’ views of masculinity—both their own and that of their opponents—during the conquest of the Caucasus, focusing particularly on the Nicolaevan era. It frames conquest as a form of cultural exchange and argues that tsarist officers’ understandings of the gender ...
Ian W. Campbell
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Instantons in non-Cartesian coordinates
The explicit multi-instanton solutions by 'tHooft and Jackiw, Nohl & Rebbi are generalized to curvilinear coordinates. The idea is that a gauge transformation can notably simplify the expressions obtained after the change of variables.
A. A. Abrikosov +6 more
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(Un)uttered mystery of existence in V. Nabokov’ short stories “The Word” and “The Thunderstorm”
The article is devoted to identifying the poetological and semantic features of V. Nabokov’ short stories “The Word” and “The Thunderstorm”. The analysis of the first of them is directly connected with the theme of verbal art, important to Nabokov, which
Eugene Makhankov
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