Structural elements of construction of individual and group exercises’ competition compositions in calisthenics

Purpose: to analyze content of individual and group exercises’ competition compositions in calisthenics. Material: in the research HEEs’ girl students (n=20), junior sportswomen (n=10), experts (n=30), coaches with 10-40 years’ working experience participated. Results: it was found that temporary indicators permit to assess level of female gymnasts’ readiness for fulfillment of competition compositions’ elements; facilitated rational correlation of body and object’s elements of complexity. Quickness of preparation to elements and directly time of exercise’s fulfillment acquire great importance. In individual and group exercises the most important are distribution of sportswoman’s moving on all site with frequent change of directions. It was established that realization of structural elements facilitates full opening of female gymnast’s artistic image. Conclusions: for building of competition compositions coaches shall fully use indicators of space and time structural elements.

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A Semiotic Modern Synthesis: Conducting Quantitative Studies in Zoosemiotics and Interpreting Existing Ethological Studies through a Semiotic Framework

Biosemiotics ◽

10.1007/s12304-021-09435-x ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Amelia Lewis

Keyword(s):

Animal Behaviour ◽

Modern Synthesis ◽

Tripartite Model ◽

Structural Elements ◽

Darwinian Theory ◽

Space And Time ◽

Quantitative Studies ◽

Behavioural Analysis ◽

New Ideas ◽

Numerous Test

AbstractIn this paper, I present an argument that quantitative behavioural analysis can be used in zoosemiotic studies to advance the field of biosemiotics. The premise is that signs and signals form patterns in space and time, which can be measured and analysed mathematically. Whole organism sign processing is an important component of the semiosphere, with individual organisms in their Umwelten deriving signs from, and contributing to, the semiosphere, and vice versa. Moreover, there is a wealth of data available in the traditional ethology literature which can be reinterpreted semiotically and drawn together to make a cohesive biosemiotic whole. For example, isolated signals, such as structural elements of birdsong, are attributed meaning by an interpreter, thus generating new ideas and hypotheses in both biology and semiotics. Furthermore, animal behaviour science has developed numerous test paradigms that with careful adaptation, could be suitable for use within a Peircean tripartite model, and thus give valuable insights into Umwelten of other species. In my conclusion, I suggest that by bringing together traditional ethology and biosemiotics, it is possible to use the Modern Synthesis to provide context to biosemiosis, thus pragmatic meaning to animal signals. On this basis, I propose updating the Modern Synthesis to a Semiotic Modern Synthesis, which focuses on whole-organism signals and their contexts, the latter being derived from neo-Darwinian theory and the ‘Umwelt’. Thus, there need be no dichotomy; the Modern Synthesis can successfully be integrated with biosemiotics.

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ARTISTIC IMAGERY AS PHENOMENON CREATION ANALITICAL MEANS IN DIFFERENT KINDS OF ARTS

ASJ. ◽

10.31618/asj.2707-9864.2021.1.49.98 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (49) ◽

pp. 14-22

Author(s):

L. Chernitskaia

Keyword(s):

Analytical Methods ◽

Point Of View ◽

Structural Elements ◽

Artistic Creation ◽

Artistic Image

The article treats artistic imagery from the point of view of its ability to analyse phenomenon of creation. The author states that not only scientific categories can analyse it but artistic image also can do it none the worse, and discover such aspects in the essence of phenomenon of creation that science did not consider yet. It is proved by analyses of XIX-XX century works of worldwide authors in different spheres of artistic creation: literature in prose and poem forms (Pushkin, Joyce, Sarraute, Tsvetaeva); dramaturgy (Tchechov, Bekket, Ionesco); cinema ( Fellini, Tarkovsky); painting (Picasso).The author finds links between their images using such analytical methods as structural, semiotics and comparison ones, and author’s method of metatextual invariability. It makes possible to find fundamental structural elements as invariants of analysed artistic systems. Each of them develops in his own way invariants’ semantics concerning creation phenomenology notably that of artist’s seeking his individual language as expression of his reality subjective viewing. What kind of phenomena happen then in the artist’s soul can discover only artistic imagery means; scientific categories are powerless of doing it.. The author points out at the whole set of symbols which are used as phenomenon creation analytical means in artistic discourse.

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Stock collapses and their recovery: mechanisms that establish and maintain life-cycle closure in space and time

ICES Journal of Marine Science ◽

10.1093/icesjms/fsq082 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 67 (9) ◽

pp. 1841-1848 ◽

Cited By ~ 84

Author(s):

Pierre Petitgas ◽

Dave H. Secor ◽

Ian McQuinn ◽

Geir Huse ◽

Nancy Lo

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Case Studies ◽

Structural Elements ◽

Migration Routes ◽

Fish Stocks ◽

Space And Time ◽

Short Period ◽

Biomass Loss ◽

Recovery Mechanisms ◽

Age Range

Abstract Petitgas, P., Secor, D. H., McQuinn, I., Huse, G., and Lo, N. 2010. Stock collapses and their recovery: mechanisms that establish and maintain life-cycle closure in space and time. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 67: 1841–1848. Experience has established that the recovery of many collapsed stocks takes much longer than predicted by traditional fishery population models. We put forward the hypothesis that stock collapse is associated with disruption of the biological mechanisms that sustain life-cycle closure of intrapopulation contingents. Based on a review of case studies of nine marine fish stocks, we argue that stock collapses not only involve biomass loss, but also the loss of structural elements related to life-cycle diversity (contingents), as well as the breakdown of socially transmitted traditions (through a curtailed age range). Behavioural mechanisms associated with these structural elements could facilitate recovery of depleted populations. Migratory behaviour is argued to relate to phenotypic plasticity and the persistence of migration routes to social interactions. The case studies represent collapsed or depleted populations that recovered after a relatively short period (striped bass, capelin), after more than a decade (herring and sardine), or not at all (anchovy, cod). Contrasting the population dynamics from these stocks leads us to make a distinction between a depleted and a collapsed population, where, in addition to biomass depletion, the latter includes damage to contingent structure or space-use pattern. We also propose a mechanism to explain how lost habitats are recolonized.

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The role of categories of space and time in creation of artistic worldview in the works of Buryat writers (on the example of tales by Baradiĭ Mungonov “Call of the Ancestors and Sounds of the Forthcoming” and Dorji Erdyneev “Toonto”

Филология научные исследования ◽

10.7256/2454-0749.2020.11.34241 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 56-64

Author(s):

Mariya Danilovna Danchinova

Keyword(s):

Literary Text ◽

Value Of Life ◽

The Other ◽

Space And Time ◽

The World ◽

Artistic Vision ◽

The Subject ◽

Artistic Images ◽

Artistic Image

This article explores the worldview in tales of the Buryat writers. The subject of this research is the role of categories of space and time in the architectonics of artistic image of the world in tales “Call of the Ancestors" by B. Mungonov and “Toonto” by D. Erdyneev. These works have not previously become the object of research in Buryat literary studies from perspective of significance of space-time interrelation. This defines the novelty of this article, and allows revealing other aspects of artistic vision in the works of Buryat writers. The key methods for studying the categories of space and time in a literary text include descriptive, comparative, and mythopoetic. It is demonstrated that the categories of space and time are localized in various artistic images, symbols and meanings, contain the concepts of endlessness, infinity, relativity and discreteness, as well as allow creating a vivid unique palette of artistic vision of the world in tales of the Buryat writers. Analysis is conducted on the artistic architectonics through the prism of correlation between the categories of space and time in tales of B. Mungonov “Call of the Ancestors and Sounds of the Forthcoming” and D. Erdyneev “Toonto”. Peculiarity of the categories of space and time in the artistic picture of Buryat writers is reflected in Eastern outlook upon the world, which is based on the models of cyclicity and substantiality. In the tale of B. Mungonov prevails the category of time. In the artistic worldview, one stems from the other. In the tale of D. Erdyneev “Toonto” dominates the by category of space. Toonto is translated from Buryat as a particular space, birthplace of a man, where him and his ancestors have roots. Tales of B. Mungonov and D. give thoughts on the value of life and chances to repair past mistakes.

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Structural phenomena in the growth of carbon nanotubes

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100149581 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 51 ◽

pp. 750-751

Author(s):

Jun Jiao

Keyword(s):

Carbon Nanotubes ◽

Growth Mechanism ◽

Carbonaceous Material ◽

Cluster Growth ◽

Structural Elements ◽

Rich Variety ◽

Different Shapes ◽

Point To Point

HREM studies of the carbonaceous material deposited on the cathode of a Huffman-Krätschmer arc reactor have shown a rich variety of multiple-walled nano-clusters of different shapes and forms. The preparation of the samples, as well as the variety of cluster shapes, including triangular, rhombohedral and pentagonal projections, are described elsewhere.The close registry imposed on the nanotubes, focuses attention on the cluster growth mechanism. The strict parallelism in the graphitic separation of the tube walls is maintained through changes of form and size, often leading to 180° turns, and accommodating neighboring clusters and defects. Iijima et. al. have proposed a growth scheme in terms of pentagonal and heptagonal defects and their combinations in a hexagonal graphitic matrix, the first bending the surface inward, and the second outward. We report here HREM observations that support Iijima’s suggestions, and add some new features that refine the interpretation of the growth mechanism. The structural elements of our observations are briefly summarized in the following four micrographs, taken in a Hitachi H-8100 TEM operating at an accelerating voltage of 200 kV and with a point-to-point resolution of 0.20 nm.

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Designing TIMP (tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases) variants that are selective metalloproteinase inhibitors

Biochemical Society Symposium ◽

10.1042/bss0700201 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 70 ◽

pp. 201-212 ◽

Cited By ~ 51

Author(s):

Hideaki Nagase ◽

Keith Brew

Keyword(s):

Three Dimensional ◽

Therapeutic Interventions ◽

Tissue Inhibitors Of Metalloproteinases ◽

Structural Basis ◽

Structural Elements ◽

Ridge Structure ◽

Extracellular Matrix Components ◽

Metalloproteinase Inhibitors ◽

The Matrix ◽

A Disintegrin And Metalloproteinase

The tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs) are endogenous inhibitors of the matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), enzymes that play central roles in the degradation of extracellular matrix components. The balance between MMPs and TIMPs is important in the maintenance of tissues, and its disruption affects tissue homoeostasis. Four related TIMPs (TIMP-1 to TIMP-4) can each form a complex with MMPs in a 1:1 stoichiometry with high affinity, but their inhibitory activities towards different MMPs are not particularly selective. The three-dimensional structures of TIMP-MMP complexes reveal that TIMPs have an extended ridge structure that slots into the active site of MMPs. Mutation of three separate residues in the ridge, at positions 2, 4 and 68 in the amino acid sequence of the N-terminal inhibitory domain of TIMP-1 (N-TIMP-1), separately and in combination has produced N-TIMP-1 variants with higher binding affinity and specificity for individual MMPs. TIMP-3 is unique in that it inhibits not only MMPs, but also several ADAM (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase) and ADAMTS (ADAM with thrombospondin motifs) metalloproteinases. Inhibition of the latter groups of metalloproteinases, as exemplified with ADAMTS-4 (aggrecanase 1), requires additional structural elements in TIMP-3 that have not yet been identified. Knowledge of the structural basis of the inhibitory action of TIMPs will facilitate the design of selective TIMP variants for investigating the biological roles of specific MMPs and for developing therapeutic interventions for MMP-associated diseases.

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