Intra-night Optical Variability of BL Lacs, Radio-Quiet Quasars and Radio-Loud Quasars [PDF]
, 2004 We report optical monitoring observations of 20 high-luminosity AGN, 12 of which are radio-quiet quasars (RQQs). Intra-night optical variability (INOV) was detected for 13 of the 20 objects, including 5 RQQs.
Alok C. Gupta +44 more
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Japanese Women's Attitudes Toward Learning Languages Other Than English in the Era of Global English
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study on female Japanese learners of the Korean language is situated in the centuries‐long anti‐Korean sentiments in Japan, the global popularity of the Korean Wave, particularly among women, and the essentialized image of socially marginalized young Japanese women who study English with romantic desires for Western men.
Yoko Kobayashi
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RĂZBOIUL DIN COREEA, DIN PERSPECTIVA RELAȚIILOR SINO-SOVIETICE [PDF]
Revista de Știinţe Politice şi Relaţii Internaţionale, 2022 As several Soviet secret documents declassified in the 1990s show, the Korean War revealed the existence of tensions and discontent within the seemingly monolithic communist camp. The relationship between Moscow and the new Chinese communist power in the
ANA-MARIA IANCU
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Quasi-Simultaneous Two Band Optical Micro-Variability of Luminous Radio-Quiet QSOs [PDF]
, 2008 We report the first results of quasi-simultaneous two passband optical monitoring of six quasi-stellar objects to search for micro-variability. We carried out photometric monitoring of these sources in an alternating sequence of R and V passbands, for ...
Alok C. Gupta +50 more
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A Theory of Leadership Meta‐Talk and the Talking‐Doing Gap
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract We identify managers' meta‐level talk about the positive purpose, meaning, and significance of their actions as an overlooked type of leadership behaviour and call it leadership meta‐talk. We outline why leadership meta‐talk is not necessarily truthful or deceptive, but selective and loosely coupled with leadership practice.
Thomas Fischer, Mats Alvesson
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Further evidence for intra-night optical variability of radio-quiet quasars [PDF]
, 2007 Although well established for BL Lac objects and radio-loud quasars, the occurrence of intra-night optical variability (INOV) in radio-quiet quasars is still debated, primarily since only a handful of INOV events with good statistical significance ...
Anupama, G. C. +4 more
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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«The Big Three» (J. Stalin, F. Roosevelt, W. Churchill): Allies for the Peace
Vestnik RUDN. International Relations, 2015 The article is dedicated to the asset of the Big Three - J. Stalin, F.D. Roosevelt and W. Churchill - to victory over Nazi Germany and safeguarding of comprehensive peace.
L V Ponomarenko, O S Chikrizova
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The Evolution of Talysh Ethnic Identity: From Soviet Manipulation to Contemporary Reality
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article delves into the historical and contemporary aspects of the Talysh people's ethnic identity, tracing its evolution from the Russian Empire, through the Soviet Union's nationality policies, to the current situation in independent Azerbaijan.
Petr Kokaisl
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«Back to the Future»: Images of Modernization Reforms in the Collective Memory of Russian People
Управленческое консультирование, 2018 The article deals extensively replicated images of major structural reforms in the history of Russia (The government reforms of Peter I, the Great Reforms of Alexander II, the October Revolution, industrialization, Perestroika and market reforms of the ...
Vladimir Olegovich Beklyamishev
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