Travelling Scientist, Circulating Images and the Making of the Modern Scientific Journal

Nuncius ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 675-698
Author(s):  
Charlotte Bigg
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Scientific Theories ◽  
State Support ◽  
Image Reproduction ◽  
Support Of Research ◽  
Circulating Economy ◽  
Visual Materials ◽  
Astrophysical Observation

The early astrophysicist Norman Lockyer was both editor of the journal Nature from its creation in 1869 and for the following five decades, and an early practioner of the new astronomy. He frequently used the journal to expound his scientific theories, report on his work and send news home while on expeditions. I look into the particular visual culture of astrophysics developed by Lockyer in Nature, its evolution at a time of rapid development both of the techniques of astrophysical observation and visualization and of the techniques of image reproduction in print. A study of the use and reuse of visual materials in different settings also makes it possible to sketch the circulating economy of Lockyer’s images and the ways in which he put himself forward as a scientist, at a time when he was advocating the State support of research and scientists and helping create the modern scientific journal.

scholarly journals ОСНОВНІ ТЕНДЕНЦІЇ РИНКУ БАНКІВСЬКИХ ПОСЛУГ: КРЕДИТНИЙ ТА ДЕПОЗИТНИЙ АКЦЕНТ

2019 ◽  
pp. 412-425
Author(s):  
Maiia Fedyshyn ◽  
Artur Zhavoronok ◽  
Alla Abramova
Keyword(s):  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Stable State ◽  
The State ◽  
State Support ◽  
Investment Activity ◽  
Banking Services ◽  
Current State ◽  
Fixed Assets

The article analyzes the current state of the banking system of Ukraine, defines the peculiarities of its functioning. It is determined that in recent years, in the conditions of structural reformation of the economy in the banking services market, there have been such tendencies as: rapid development of information, including banking, technologies that allow banks to expand the range of services and products they provide; restructuring of the financial and banking sectors, characterized by the emergence of new segments; increase of financial literacy of clients. The complex of measures aimed at maintaining the stable state of domestic financial and credit institutions, timely neutralization and preventing the development of destabiliz-ing tendencies is considered: providing assistance to enterprises in the search for opportunities to obtain loans for the for-mation and modernization of fixed assets; giving the state its financial and tax policies more liberal in relation to low-profit and loss-making enterprises; expanding the scope of credit to provide businesses with fixed and current assets; creation of an actively functioning system of state support of investment activity.

The Visual Turn in Sport History

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike O’Mahony
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Art History ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Sport History ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Film And Media Studies ◽  
Visual Artifacts ◽  
Complex Forms ◽  
Visual Materials

The representation of sport in visual culture has generated a valuable research resource that, until recently, has been underutilized and undertheorized. Recent interventions, drawing on developments within other academic disciplines including art history, film, and media studies have, however, opened up opportunities for sport historians to engage with a wide range of sport-related visual artifacts. This chapter offers insights into how sport historians can effectively engage with this wide range of visual material. It deploys specific case studies to reveal potential opportunities and strategies to enable sport historians to treat visual materials as complex forms of documentation that can thus enhance an engagement with the complexities of sport’s past and present. It also reflects on how the recent expansion of the sport museum as a repository for, and means of displaying, this material provides a context for the future expansion of sport history studies into the field of visual culture.

scholarly journals On Creating a “Powerful Scientific and Technological Base” and the Necessity of Strengthening State Support of Scientists and Innovative Business in Russia

2019 ◽  
pp. 143-157
Author(s):  
Andrey Klypin
Keyword(s):  
Technology Policy ◽  
Tax Incentives ◽  
State Support ◽  
Mortgage Loans ◽  
Research Personnel ◽  
Technological Infrastructure ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Technological Base ◽  
Customer Model ◽  
Support Of Research

The article is a research response to the task of developing the scientific and technological base set by the President of Russia in his message to the Federal Assembly in 2019. The scientific and technological base is revealed as a more comprehensive concept than a concept that includes only material and technical objects, in particular, it accommodates human resources engaged in research and development. The author reveals insufficiency of current measures of state support for researchers and developers, which boil down mainly to competitive financing of scientists and little-demanded tax breaks for innovative business. The paper proves several measures to strengthen the basic support of research personnel and technological business. There is a need not only to implement large scientific and technological infrastructure projects, but also increase the volume of budget (basic) support for researchers and developers through the growth of actual wages at the rate of the full working rate, provide preferential mortgage loans, expand tax incentives for innovative business, as well as develop a “qualified customer” model. The analysis is performed on the basis of studying Russian regulatory legal acts defining the state scientific and technical policy, articles of Russian scientists as well as materials of Russian and international statistical databases. The results of the study may be used by representatives of the executive authorities, as well as a wide range of specialists interested in the problems of science and technology policy in Russia.

scholarly journals J. Arendt. Melatonin and the Mammalian Pineal Gland. — London: Chapman & Hall, 1995. — 331 p.

1996 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 40-41
Author(s):  
V. N. Anisimov
Keyword(s):  
Pineal Gland ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Scientific Journal ◽  
The Body ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Age Related ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mammalian Pineal Gland

Despite the rapid progress of endocrinology in the last quarter of the 20th century, it should be noted that no other gland of internal secretion, to the extent that the pineal gland, is honored to be "titular" in the scientific community or scientific journal. Indeed, the European Society for the Study of the Pituitary Gland has been actively working for many years, the Melatonin Club was founded, the Journal of Pineal Research, Advances in Pineal Research, and the European Pineal Society News are published, and international conferences and symposiums are held annually in the last decade. dedicated to the pineal gland and melatonin. The rapid development of chronobiology led to the establishment of the leading role of the pineal gland and its main hormone melatonin in the implementation of the circadian, seasonal and annual rhythms of many functional systems of the body. The monograph under review, written by the famous English researcher of the pineal gland, Josephine Arendt, is a unique publication in which one author has systematized and critically analyzed the vast amount of factual material accumulated to date on the physiological effects and mechanisms of action of melatonin. The book consists of 9 chapters, unequal both in volume and in terms of circle and the importance of the issues addressed in them. The very brief chapter 1 summarizes the history of the study of the pineal gland and the discovery of melatonin and its functions in the body. Unfortunately, there was no place in it to mention such important events as the first description of the morphological picture of the hypofunction of the pineal gland (B.P. Kucherenko, 1941), the pioneering study of A.M. Khelimsky, who in 1953 first came to conclusion about age-related involution of the pineal gland.

scholarly journals Problems of financial and lending support for the agricultural sector of the economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (98) ◽  
pp. 123-134
Author(s):  
S. N. Kolotukha ◽  
◽  
E. N. Melnyk ◽  
O. V. Ponomarenko
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The State ◽  
Production Cycle ◽  
State Support ◽  
Agricultural Insurance ◽  
Agricultural Enterprises

The article is devoted to the relevant issues of determining factors and ways to intensify financial and lending support for the agricultural sector of the economy. In the wider sense, financial and lending support for agricultural enterprises is necessary for financing, growth and development of the state economy. National and foreign experiences demonstrate that the finances of agricultural enterprises have certain specific nature and require permanent crediting. Due to the length of production cycle, seasonality, nature of cost formation and supplies of agricultural enterprises, its own permanent funding source is impossible. Consequently, the attraction and usage of borrowed financial resources is the key aspect of the financial activity of the agricultural sector of the economy aimed at the achieving successful final results. The research shows that in all developed countries the agricultural sector of the economy enjoys the benefits of state support as it directly affects the country’s food safety. It is revealed that the introduced system of funding state support of the agricultural complex does not provide legally determined promotion of agricultural enterprises, their competitiveness, food safety, improvement of the level of social protection for rural population mainly due to imperfect financial system. The issues that impede development for lending to agricultural enterprises and the development of agricultural insurance have been determined which make obstacles to improve their financial security and effective risk management in the agricultural sector in order to enhance the potential of their rapid development. It has been proved that the efficiency of financial and credit arrangement of ensuring the development of the agricultural sector depends on the effective financial policy of the industry and the state as a whole which can help to combine economic interests of agricultural enterprises and the state.

Technologies of visualisation in the modern school (an example of natural sciences and mathematics)

2019 ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
N.V. Zhytieniova
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Visual Aids ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Modern School ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Visual Materials ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Methodological Aspects

The article discusses the methodological aspects of the modernization to the subjects of nature-mathematical cycle of pre-service teachers to the use of visualization technologies. The specificity of the implementation of classical didactic principles (visibility, science, systemacy and consistency, the connection of theory with practice, mindfulness and strength of learning) in the professional training of specialists in terms of the use of visualization technologies is considered. The specific didactic principles of preparing the future teacher for the use of visualization technologies are highlighted. The principle of innovation, which provides for training students to use the newest capabilities of visualization technologies in their future professional activities; the principle of aesthetics, which consists in teaching students to create didactic visual aids with a pedagogically effective use of color and typographic solutions, the laws of composition in accordance with the psycho-physiological characteristics of the child for the effective assimilation of educational material and its most attractive perception; The principle of orientation to cloud services, due to the rapid development of hardware and software, which is based on teaching students to create digital didactic visual materials using modern online tools.

Visual Culture in Imperial China

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia K. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Imperial Authority ◽  
Imperial Court ◽  
Imperial China ◽  
The Many ◽  
Visual Materials ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

The study of visual culture in imperial China is a young and heterogeneous field that encompasses a large and shifting array of visual materials and viewing practices. Because of the many political and social changes over the course of roughly two millennia, scholars have generally focused on specific forms and shorter periods, often defined by dynasty, instead of proposing comprehensive theories or all-inclusive overviews. The most recent dynasties, Ming and Qing, have received the majority of the scholarly attention to visual culture as such, but much research on earlier periods also sheds light on the roles of the visual and visual experience. In contrast to scholarship on modern and contemporary Chinese visual culture, which typically draws upon European and American theoretical models, studies concerned with the imperial era more often use methodologies and interpretive frameworks from art history and anthropology. Major foci of interest, whose relative importance varies by period, are the imperial court and its projects to perpetuate and project imperial authority, concerns with and techniques for creating auspicious environments in earthly life and in tomb contexts, structures and practices associated with Buddhism and Daoism within religious institutions and in lay communities, uses of writing and representational images to embody the values of the Confucian-educated elite, woodblock illustration and consumerism in urban culture, rural forms of visual culture, vernacular images and erotica, and the assimilation of elements of foreign visual culture.

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