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Review: Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences [PDF]

, 2023
Book review of Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences by Alla Vronskaya. University of Minnesota Press, August 2022. 336 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-4529-6714-1 (h/c), $140.00.
Jordan Gorzalski, Terrie Wilson, Megan Macken   +2 more
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The Evolution of Autonomous Systems for Planetary Cave Exploration: A Review

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The exploration of Subsurface Access Points (SAPs), such as lava tubes on the Moon and Mars, has gained significant interest due to their potential as stable environments shielded from surface radiation and temperature extremes. These sites are considered high‐value targets for detecting water and signs of ancient life, and assessing their ...
Sarah Swinton, Daniel Mitchell, Jamie Blanche, Euan McGookin, David Flynn   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The 1934-1935 Competition for the Preliminary Design for the Academy of Sciences: The Circumstances of Commissioning the Design to A.V. Shchusev [PDF]

Художественная культура
The article is devoted to the analysis of the closed competition for the preliminary design of the building complex for the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, which was held from October 1934 to January 1935.
Antipin Konstantin
doaj   +1 more source

Kind Regards in These Difficult Times: Anglo–Soviet Architectural Relations during the Second World War

Arts, 2023
The present article examines Anglo–Soviet architectural relations during the Second World War, the peculiarities of the perception of foreign experience, and the mutual professional interests.
Ksenia Malich
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From Flybys to Sample Return: A Review of Space Probes and Robotic Sampling Technologies for Small Bodies

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As a crucial puzzle piece of deep space exploration, exploring small bodies can provide significant scientific insights and valuable mineral resources. Unlike missions to the Moon and Mars, small‐body missions pose distinct technical challenges, including communication delays, weak gravity, and uncertain environments. This paper reviews a full
Xin Zhang, Hao Zhou, Dalin Zhou, Zhaojie Ju   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sampling, Mobility, and Anchoring in Small‐Body Sampling Robots: A Comprehensive Review

SmartBot, EarlyView.
Small‐body sampling robots are exploration systems that perform contact, sampling, and stable operations on microgravity bodies such as asteroids and comets. The authors review representative robot architectures and key technologies, focusing on the mechanisms, evolution, and coupling of sampling, mobility, and anchoring.
Yurui Shen, Yixin Zhu, Mingxia Bao, Ting Zhang, Jun Wu, Jingbin Hao, Dezheng Hua, Xinhua Liu   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The clashing of in situ and pre‐cast technologies—Western trends and local traditions in concrete engineering shaping shell construction in 20th‐century Hungary

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract After a blossoming pre‐World War II (WWII) period, the concrete construction industry in then‐socialist Hungary existed in a relative isolation from the Western World during the mid‐20th century. In this paper, we focus on the body of work of one of the then newly established state‐owned design offices, IPARTERV, to show how the isolation ...
Orsolya Gáspár, Péter Haba
wiley   +1 more source

Success and failure in foreign policy: Comparing Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd's regional order‐building initiatives

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Remarkably little is known about what factors drive success or failure in foreign policy. In part, this is because there is little fundamental agreement on what constitutes success or failure in this domain in the first place. This article engages with these shortcomings by comparing two similar regional order‐building initiatives overseen by ...
Benjamin Day
wiley   +1 more source

Glimpse of Security Architecture of Post-Soviet Space: The Soviet Legacy

Journal of Social Sciences, 2016
Although nearly two decades have passed since the USSR crumbled, its legacy is still helping to shape security within, and relations between, former member states, as well as their relations with other states in the world.Already back in the 90’s of the past century, it seemed like peace and security should have been within the interests of not just ...
openaire   +1 more source

Socialist Postmodernism. The Case of the Late Soviet Lithuanian Architecture [PDF]

Architecture and Urban Planning, 2017
AbstractThe aesthetical and cultural features of Lithuanian architecture related to Postmodernism are closely connected to socio-political, socioeconomic and sociocultural transformations at the end of the 20th century. The article presents an interpretation of modernisation-related processes, which affected and shaped the Lithuanian architecture of ...
openaire   +1 more source