A.F. Losev on F.M. Dostoevsky. About Losev's Activity in the Literary Section of the GAKhN

The researcher scrutinizes one peculiar historical and philosophical fact which has been generally overlooked when studying Dostoevsky. The analysis of the writer's works was carried out by the outstanding Russian philosopher Aleksei Losev at the Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences (GAKhN). The article also provides further information on Losev's work at the Academy in the 1920s. Special regard is paid to the Russian philosopher's activities in the Literary Section in 1927-1929 (in the group on Ancient Literature, in the Commission for the Study of Dostoevsky). The author provides ample evidence of the special treatment Losev paid to Dostoevsky, including numerous discussions of reports on the Russian writer's oeuvre. The article draws attention to the fact that the main focus of Losev's analysis of Dostoevsky was the writer's symbolism. It is noted that Losev turned to the study of such as early as in the 1920s. However, the philosopher managed to publish his findings much later. According to Losev, symbolic images pervade all of Dostoevsky's works. Based on the comprehensive evaluation of archival sources (recorded in the minutes of meetings, preserved at the Academy) and their comparison, the article unveils a picture of the Russian philosopher's activity and agenda. That helps us better grasp the range of his scholarly interests, significantly expands the opportunities for further research into this period of Losev's life and provides new data for the GAKhN history.

Download Full-text

Bears

10.5744/florida/9781683401384.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Native American ◽

North America ◽

Special Treatment ◽

Ample Evidence ◽

Native Peoples ◽

Atlantic Trade ◽

Economic Significance ◽

Northern Latitudes ◽

Comparative Ethnography ◽

Native North America

Thanks to Irving Hallowell’s classic 1926 comparative ethnography on the special mythic status of bears in Subarctic cultures, anthropologists are generally aware that peoples throughout the northern hemisphere have treated bears as far more than a subsistence resource, something more akin to another kind of human or, to use Hallowell’s famous phrase, “other-than-human persons.” While Hallowell provided ample evidence of bear ceremonialism in northern latitudes, he found little evidence for the special treatment of bears elsewhere in Native North America. Archaeological and historical research over the last nine decades, however, has produced vast unsynthesized information about the roles of bears in Native American beliefs, rituals, and subsistence. This book is the first collective effort since Hallowell’s formative publication to consider how Native peoples viewed, treated, and used black bears (Ursus americanus) through time across Eastern North America. Contributors draw on zooarchaeological, ethnohistorical, ethnographic, and other evidence of bear hunting, consumption, and use, while contemplating the range of relationships that existed between bears and humans. They have reviewed thousands of pages of ethnohistorical and ethnographic documents and summarized and interpreted data on bear remains from nearly 300 archaeological sites from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico. Native peoples perceived and related to bears in remarkably diverse ways. Our authors explore the religious and economic significance of bears and bear products (meat, fat, oil, pelts, etc.), bear imagery in Native art and artifacts, and bears in Native worldviews, kinship systems, and cosmologies, along with their role as exported commodities in trans-Atlantic trade.

Download Full-text

Discharge of a Compressible Fluid Through a Control Valve

Journal of Applied Mechanics ◽

10.1115/1.3173145 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 54 (4) ◽

pp. 955-960 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Z. M. Weng ◽

Alice A. L. Ting ◽

W. L. Chow

Keyword(s):

Compressible Fluid ◽

Control Valve ◽

Supercritical Pressure ◽

Special Treatment ◽

Ample Evidence ◽

Flow Discharge ◽

Free Jet ◽

Sonic Line ◽

Original Analysis ◽

Hodograph Transformation

The original analysis on incompressible flow discharge from a vessel through an axisymmetric control valve has been extended to the discharge of a compressible fluid. The inviscid anlaysis is based on the method of hodograph transformation. While it is simple to account for the effect of compressibility for conditions of subcritical pressure ratios, special treatment must be applied to establish the sonic line and the free jet boundaries under conditions of supercritical pressure ratios. Discharge characteristics have been established for different pressure ratios and positions of the control valve. This series of investigations provides ample evidence that the hodograph transformation coupled with numerical computations is effective in dealing with problems of this nature.

Download Full-text

The Arterial Vascularisation of the Abdominal Wall With Special Regard to the Umbilicus

Yearbook of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery ◽

10.1016/s1535-1513(08)70387-4 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 2006 ◽

pp. 147-148

Author(s):

P.W. Mckinnery

Keyword(s):

Abdominal Wall ◽

Special Regard

Download Full-text

219 Effectivity of telemonitoring in chronic heart insufficiency (CHF) with special regard to clinical and economical aspects

European Journal of Heart Failure Supplements ◽

10.1016/s1567-4215(05)80116-x ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 43-44

Keyword(s):

Special Regard ◽

Heart Insufficiency

Download Full-text

Design-Effects in Prospective and Retrospective Memory for Actions

Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) ◽

10.1027//1618-3169.50.1.4 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 4-15 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Petra Jahn ◽

Johannes Engelkamp

Keyword(s):

Prospective Memory ◽

Memory Task ◽

Prospective Memory Task ◽

Retrospective Memory ◽

Ample Evidence ◽

Relational Information ◽

Design Effects ◽

Verbal Tasks ◽

Within Subjects

There is ample evidence that memory for action phrases such as “open the bottle” is better in subject-performed tasks (SPTs), i.e., if the participants perform the actions, than in verbal tasks (VTs), if they only read the phrases or listen to them. It is less clear whether also the sole intention to perform the actions later, i.e., a prospective memory task (PT), improves memory compared with VTs. Inconsistent findings have been reported for within-subjects and between-subjects designs. The present study attempts to clarify the situation. In three experiments, better recall for SPTs than for PTs and for PTs than for VTs were observed if mixed lists were used. If pure lists were used, there was a PT effect but no SPT over PT advantage. The findings were discussed from the perspective of item-specific and relational information.

Download Full-text

Psychological Adjustment of Melanoma Survivors

Journal of Individual Differences ◽

10.1027/1614-0001.27.3.172 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 172-182 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Y. Hamama-Raz ◽

Z. Solomon

Keyword(s):

Malignant Melanoma ◽

Marital Status ◽

Psychological Adjustment ◽

Attachment Style ◽

Cognitive Appraisal ◽

Traumatic Events ◽

Well Being ◽

Personal Resources ◽

Secure Attachment ◽

Ample Evidence

The study examines the contributions of hardiness, attachment style, and cognitive appraisal to the psychological adjustment of 300 survivors of malignant melanoma: The findings show that the survivors' adjustment is by far better predicted by their personal resources and cognitive appraisal than by their sociodemographic features (with the exception of marital status) and features of their illness. Of all the variables, their adjustment was best predicted by their attachment style, with secure attachment making for greater well-being and less distress. These findings add to the ample evidence that personal resources help persons to cope with stressful or traumatic events.

Download Full-text