HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF TECHNOGENIC LANDSCAPE FORMATION IN MINING REGIONS

The paper deals with the trends in the world and Russian economies towards development of a new post-crisis system, including technological and structural transformation. Three main scenarios of Russian economic development (conservative, innovation and acceleration) are discussed basing on historical analysis of Russian economic performance since 1970-s when oil boom started. On this basis key challenges of economic policy in 2013 are discussed.

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REFORMS IN SECONDARY MATHEMATICS EDUCATION IN RUSSIA IN THE EIGHTEENTH THROUGH EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES: A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS

Economics and Management ◽

10.33051/1998-1627-2018-8-43-55 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 43-55

Author(s):

Valeriy A. Tsvetkov ◽

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Mikhail N. Dudin ◽

Nikolay V. Lyasnikov ◽

Kobilzhon Kh. Zoidov ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mathematics Education ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

Secondary Mathematics ◽

Secondary Mathematics Education

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The Reconstruction Project of Illumination Devices at the Krasnoselskaya Station of the Moscow Metro

Light & Engineering ◽

10.33383/2018-060 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 59-66

Author(s):

Ksenia I. Nechaeva

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

Metro Station ◽

Heritage Sites ◽

Passenger Transportation ◽

Fluorescent Lamps ◽

Current State ◽

Heritage Site ◽

Lighting Environment ◽

Incandescent Lamps

The current state of the Moscow Metro station of the first priority that became operational in 1935 does not allow it to be called a cultural heritage site. This is due to the fact that lighting modernisation carried out by the Moscow Metro was based on fluorescent lamps. Such lamps are more energy efficient compared to incandescent lamps, which were used in original lighting devices specified in the Station Lighting Project developed by architects and designers. However, they significantly changed the station appearance, transforming the originally designed station with entire well visible architectural tectonics?1 from the standpoint of lighting into a simple, flat, unremarkable, and little loaded station of the Moscow Metro./br> This paper describes a method of lighting reconstruction at Krasnoselskaya station by means of original lighting devices that meet modern standards and requirements for cultural heritage sites. The historical analysis on the development of the station lighting environment was conducted during its operation in order to understand what kind of station was conceived by its architects, what changes occurred with its lighting over time, and how it influenced the station appearance and safety of passenger transportation.

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An historical analysis of species references in American English

Corpora ◽

10.3366/cor.2019.0177 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 327-349

Author(s):

Craig Frayne

Keyword(s):

Environmental Change ◽

Sentiment Analysis ◽

Quantitative Methods ◽

English Language ◽

Language Use ◽

American English ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

The Past ◽

Corpus Studies ◽

Google Books

This study uses the two largest available American English language corpora, Google Books and the Corpus of Historical American English (coha), to investigate relations between ecology and language. The paper introduces ecolinguistics as a promising theme for corpus research. While some previous ecolinguistic research has used corpus approaches, there is a case to be made for quantitative methods that draw on larger datasets. Building on other corpus studies that have made connections between language use and environmental change, this paper investigates whether linguistic references to other species have changed in the past two centuries and, if so, how. The methodology consists of two main parts: an examination of the frequency of common names of species followed by aspect-level sentiment analysis of concordance lines. Results point to both opportunities and challenges associated with applying corpus methods to ecolinguistc research.

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The Politics of Repressed Guilt

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474413244.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Claudia Leeb

Keyword(s):

Historical Analysis ◽

Political Life ◽

Right Wing ◽

National Socialist ◽

Theoretical Concepts ◽

Political Consequences ◽

Critical Scholarship ◽

Important Addition ◽

Defensive Mechanisms ◽

The Right

Through a critical appropriation of Hannah Arendt, and a more sympathetic engagement with Theodor W. Adorno and psychoanalysis, this book develops a new theoretical approach to understanding Austrians’ repression of their collaboration with National Socialist Germany. Drawing on original, extensive archival research, from court documents on Nazi perpetrators to public controversies on theater plays and museums, the book exposes the defensive mechanisms Austrians have used to repress individual and collective political guilt, which led to their failure to work through their past. It exposes the damaging psychological and political consequences such failure has had and continues to have for Austrian democracy today—such as the continuing electoral growth of the right-wing populist Freedom Party in Austria, which highlights the timeliness of the book. However, the theoretical concepts and practical suggestions the book introduces to counteract the repression of individual and collective political guilt are relevant beyond the Austrian context. It shows us that only when individuals and nations live up to guilt are they in a position to take responsibility for past crimes, show solidarity with the victims of crimes, and prevent the emergence of new crimes. Combining theoretical insights with historical analysis, The Politics of Repressed Guilt is an important addition to critical scholarship that explores the pathological implications of guilt repression for democratic political life.

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Presidential Privilege and the Freedom of Information Act

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474442442.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Kevin M. Baron

Keyword(s):

Social Learning ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

Public Information ◽

Executive Branch ◽

Executive Power ◽

Power Dynamics ◽

Freedom Of Information ◽

Freedom Of Information Act ◽

Contemporary Politics ◽

Government Secrecy

Executive privilege (EP) as a political tool has created a grey area of constitutional power between the legislative and executive branches. By focusing on the post-WWII political usage of executive privilege, this research utilizes a social learning perspective to examine the power dynamics between Congress and the president when it comes to government secrecy and public information. Social learning provides the framework to understand how the Cold War's creation of the modern American security state led to a paradigm shift in the executive branch. This shift altered the politics of the presidency and impacted relations with Congress through extensive use of EP and denial of congressional requests for information. When viewed through a social learning lens, the institutional politics surrounding the development of the Freedom of Information Act is intricately entwined with EP as a political power struggle of action-reaction between the executive and legislative branches. Using extensive archival research, this historical analysis examines the politics surrounding the modern use of executive privilege from Truman through Nixon as an action-reaction of checks on power from the president and Congress, where each learns and responds based on the others previous actions. The use of executive privilege led to the Freedom of Information Act showing how policy can serve as a congressional check on executive power, and how the politics surrounding this issue influence contemporary politics.

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