The Creation of a BW Prison Laboratory

2018 ◽  
pp. 39-52
Author(s):  
Anthony Rimmington
Keyword(s):  
Special Section ◽  
Defense Industry ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Biological Weapons ◽  
United State ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
The Creation

In 1932, the United State Political Organization (OGPU), an early forerunner of the KGB, created a facility known as the Bureau of Special Purpose (Byuro osobogo naznacheniya) of the Special Section of the United State Political Organization – abbreviated simply to BON-OO-OGPU. BON was in fact a special prison laboratory, or sharashka, where approximately nineteen leading plague and tularaemia specialists were arrested and imprisoned by OGPU, and forced to work on the development of offensive and defensive biological weapons. The creation of the Suzdal’ BW sharashka was part of a much wider process whereby the Soviet security organs tightened their grip over the defense industry and the development of new weapons and military-related production processes.

The Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense

1944 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-241
Author(s):  
Carl B. Spaeth ◽  
William Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
American Experience ◽  
American States ◽  
Testing Ground ◽  
Pan American ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Right ◽  
American Union

The war and the present preoccupation with post-war plans have brought about a general awareness of the fact that the Americas have been a testing ground for the orderly organization of relations among sovereign states, especially in the development of cooperative principles and techniques. The construction of a political organization within which these principles and techniques could be consolidated has not, however, characterized the American experience. The Pan American Union, for example, is expressly denied the right to consider political or controversial questions, and proposals for the creation of a “league” or “association” of American states has met with courteous but definite coolness.

A Failure of Modernization: Police Reform, The “Common Good,” and Serfdom In Eighteenth-Century Russia

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-271
Author(s):  
Hugh D. Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Creation

For Russian subjects not locked away in their villages and thereby subject almost exclusively to landlord control, administration in the eighteenth century increasingly took the form of the police. And as part of the bureaucracy of governance, the police existed within the constructions of the social order—as part of social relations and their manifestations through political control. This article investigates the social and mental structures—the habitus—in which the actions of policing took place to provide a better appreciation of the difficulties of reform and modernization. Eighteenth-century Russia shared in the European discourse on the common good, the police, and social order. But whereas Michel Foucault and Michael Ignatieff see police development in Europe with its concern to surveil and discipline emerging from incipient capitalism and thus a product of new, post-Enlightenment social forces, the Russian example demonstrates the power of the past, of a habitus rooted in Muscovy. Despite Peter’s and especially Catherine’s well-intended efforts, Russia could not succeed in modernization, for police reforms left the enserfed part of the population subject to the whims of landlord violence, a reflection, in part, of Russia having yet to make the transition from the feudal manorial economy based on extra-economic compulsion to the capitalist hired-labor estate economy. The creation of true centralized political organization—the creation of the modern state as defined by Max Weber—would require the state’s domination over patrimonial jurisdiction and landlord control over the police. That necessitated the reforms of Alexander II.

scholarly journals Development of a corporate information system for companies

2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 07007
Author(s):  
Olesya Golubeva ◽  
Alina Pogorelova
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Open Architecture ◽  
Corporate Information System ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Corporate Information Systems ◽  
Corporate Information

Modern trends in the creation and development of corporate information systems (CIS) are largely determined by their consumer quality. A model of building a corporate information system (CIS) of a universal open architecture is presented. The possibility of using CIS for managing the production processes of a shoe organization is demonstrated.

scholarly journals Use of Augmented Reality in Assembly Process

2021 ◽  
pp. 114-118
Author(s):  
Monika Töröková
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Assembly Process ◽  
Delivery Time ◽  
Intensive Research ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
The Creation

Intensive research is currently underway into the concept of intelligent assembly, which integrates production processes, people, hardware and information using both real and virtual methods to achieve significant improvements in productivity, delivery time and combined market turnover. This paper describes the use of augmented reality in the assembly process at the workplace, which by integrating hardware and software equipment will enable an innovative assembly workplace for a manufacturing and development company. The assembly workplace will speed up and facilitate assembly and prevent the creation of failures and restrictions during assembly.

scholarly journals Design processes in Cultural and Creative Industries’ oriented development: a regional case.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Creative Industries ◽  
Ecosystem Models ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Smart Specialization ◽  
Cultural And Creative Industries

"The paper investigates the role of design as mediator in between culture, creativity, industry and top down policies. In that respect, it is responsible for enabling the creation of CCI ecosystems, overcoming the traditional antagonism between culture and economy, creativity and industry. After defining the CCI phenomenon on a European scale, the contribution tries to describe how design is part of the CCI phenomenon but its nature does not belong neither to culture or creative nor industry, but at the intersection of the two, thanks to its ability of integrating different knowledge and interests within the production processes, multiplying values. Through the description of various creative ecosystem models, the paper aims to establish the interactive role of design processes, practices and design cultures in the creation of these CCI systems within the Smart Specialization Strategy (S3), to enhance the cultural and creative vibrancy and metabolism in cities. "

scholarly journals BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS AS A THREAT TO RUSSIA'S NATIONAL SECURITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-122
Author(s):  
Елена Холопова ◽  
Виталия Масальская
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
National Security ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽  
Biological Weapons ◽  
Technical Program ◽  
Urgent Task ◽  
Genetic Technologies ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Creation

The urgent task of the Russian Federation at the present stage is to counter the growing threats of using weapons of mass destruction, including biological weapons, in accordance with the “The Fundamentals of the State Policy of the Russian Federation in the Field of Chemical and Biological Security for the Period up to 2025 and beyond”. The adopted “Federal Scientific and Technical Program for the Development of Genetic Technologies for 2019-2027” defines the need to develop an appropriate regulatory framework for ensuring the safe use of genetic engineering methods that allow the creation of a new generation of biological weapons that can be used for various purposes, which is a hidden threat to Russia's national security. Aim: to prove that biological weapons pose a threat to Russia's national security, so it is necessary to develop special areas of protection against their use. Methods: the authors use the analysis of international documents, legislation of the Russian Federation, theoretical provisions on the problems of biological weapons, biotechnologies, including their generalization, comparison, critical assessments of experts. Results: the possibilities of using various types of biological weapons against the Russian Federation created abroad on the basis of the latest achievements in the field of genomics, proteomics, genetic engineering of pathogens, ecopathogens, as well as organic and inorganic chemistry, indicate the need to develop a national targeted program to counter biological weapons in the main priority areas. Strengthening the national security of the Russian Federation is determined by the creation of the latest biotechnologies for countering biological weapons.

scholarly journals Multi-Product Lactic Acid Bacteria Fermentations: A Review

Fermentation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Aníbal Mora-Villalobos ◽  
Jéssica Montero-Zamora ◽  
Natalia Barboza ◽  
Carolina Rojas-Garbanzo ◽  
Jessie Usaga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lactic Acid ◽  
Lactic Acid Bacteria ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Lipoteichoic Acid ◽  
Industrial Biotechnology ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Microbial Strain

Industrial biotechnology is a continuously expanding field focused on the application of microorganisms to produce chemicals using renewable sources as substrates. Currently, an increasing interest in new versatile processes, able to utilize a variety of substrates to obtain diverse products, can be observed. A robust microbial strain is critical in the creation of such processes. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are used to produce a wide variety of chemicals with high commercial interest. Lactic acid (LA) is the most predominant industrial product obtained from LAB fermentations, and its production is forecasted to rise as the result of the increasing demand of polylactic acid. Hence, the creation of new ways to revalorize LA production processes is of high interest and could further enhance its economic value. Therefore, this review explores some co-products of LA fermentations, derived from LAB, with special focus on bacteriocins, lipoteichoic acid, and probiotics. Finally, a multi-product process involving LA and the other compounds of interest is proposed.

Fake accounts, real activism: Political faking and user-generated satire as activist intervention

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 2208-2223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabetta Ferrari
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Political Satire ◽  
Italian Politics ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews

In this article, I explore user-generated political satire in Italy by focusing on fake political accounts. By fake accounts, I refer to humorous social media accounts that satirize a politician or a political organization through impersonation. I investigate political faking and user-generated satire as an activist intervention. Through in-depth interviews, I explore the motivations and the relationship with Italian politics of a sample of fake account creators. The results show that most of the satirists interviewed here consider satire as a form of activism and even those who do not, still recognize the subversive nature of satire. Furthermore, a majority of the interviewees have complex biographies of activism that predate the creation of the fake accounts. For a smaller number of them, the fake accounts have also provided new possibilities to engage in activism away-from-keyboard (AFK).

The liberatory potentials of multimodality: Collaborative Reggaeton music video production in Habana, Cuba

2021 ◽  
pp. 016344372098774
Author(s):  
Eliza D Butler ◽  
Tori K Flint ◽  
Ana Christina da Silva Iddings
Keyword(s):  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
New Literacies ◽  
Video Production ◽  
Music Video ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Literacy Pedagogy

This study took place in Habana, Cuba over approximately 1 year, wherein the researcher collaborated with Reggaeton artists. While scholarship in multimodality has explored its potentials for literacy pedagogy, developing new literacies, and expanding identity possibilities, less research has focused on the creation of the spaces, tools, and resources required for composing multimodal products and on the liberatory dimensions of multimodality. This study highlights the backstories of these production processes, including the innovative use(s) of spaces and tools, the resources leveraged in order to construct and distribute multimodal media, and the ways artists made meaning together. The findings elucidate the ways the artists leveraged their ingenuity, collaboratively developed digital literacy practices, and produced multimodal texts to create new possibilities.

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