Relevance of adaptive landscape reclamation of the lands of the Baraba Plain according to I.I. Zhilinsky

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-17
Author(s):  
Mihail Glistin ◽  
Mihail Ustinov
Keyword(s):  
Characteristic Feature ◽  
Water Content ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Water Area ◽  
Adaptive Landscape ◽  
The West ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range

Taking into account modern research methodologies and design of reclamation systems, the experience of the expedition of I.I. Zhilinsky «on the development of the Barabinsk lowland» is considered, which in its organization, efficiency of work, taking into account the natural reclamation features of the reclaimed territory, proved the relevance of adaptive landscape reclamation of the lands of the Barabinsk plain. The Barabinsk plain (Baraba), located in the South-Eastern part of the West Siberian lowland in the interfluve of the Ob and Irtysh, occupies a huge area of 114 thousand km2. In the past, this is a single water area, in the present-a scattering of lakes, swamps and manes. A characteristic feature of Baraba is the General flatness, very weak drainage of the area and its pulsating cyclical aridization and water content. By its nature, Baraba is a unique biosphere territory not only in Russia, but also on a global scale, with a wide range of ecosystems.

The Palestinian Debate

Worldview ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 7-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry W. Roeder ◽  
Franklin C. Marcus ◽  
Henry S. Sizer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The West ◽  
Independent State ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
West Bank And Gaza ◽  
Palestinian Question

People seeking a settlement of the Palestinian question have focused on several options during the past few years. These proposals cover a wide range of choices from annexation by Israel of the West Bank and Gaza, to a Palestinian semiautonomy in the same territories, to some kind of union with Jordan. However, the only viable proposal is an arrangement that satisfies the population most directly involved; i.e., the Palestinians. And they will be satisfied with nothing less than true independence from both Israel and Jordan for the territories occupied by Israel since 1967. Just as other “peoples” have done before them, the Palestinians today are struggling for one thing above all else: the powerful idea of “self-determination” or “sovereignty.” In the twentieth century that means an independent state.

scholarly journals The PERSIANN Family of Global Satellite Precipitation Data: A Review and Evaluation of Products

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phu Nguyen ◽  
Mohammed Ombadi ◽  
Soroosh Sorooshian ◽  
Kuolin Hsu ◽  
Amir AghaKouchak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
Precipitation Data ◽  
Temporal Scales ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Scales ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Retrieval Algorithms ◽  
Precipitation Estimation ◽  
Climate Prediction Center

Abstract. Over the past two decades, Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks (PERSIANN) products have been incorporated in a wide range of studies. Currently, PERSIANN offers several precipitation products based on different algorithms available at various spatial and temporal scales, namely, PERSIANN, PERSIANN-CCS and PERSIANN-CDR. The goal of this article is to first provide an overview of the available PERSIANN precipitation retrieval algorithms and their differences. Secondly, we offer an evaluation of the available operational products over the Contiguous United States at different spatial and temporal scales using Climate Prediction Center (CPC) Unified gauge-based analysis as a benchmark. Finally, the available products are intercompared at a quasi-global scale. Furthermore, we highlight strength and limitations of the PERSIANN products and briefly discuss the expected future developments.

scholarly journals Editorial

1996 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. v-vi
Author(s):  
Basheer Nafi
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
The West ◽  
Cultural Revival ◽  
The Past ◽  
Extensive Field ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of

The question of modernity in its societal, historical, and literary unfoldingsis the underlying theme of several articles presented in this issue ofAJISS. Following in the hadition of Marshall G. S. Hodgson, John ObertVoll ventures into the history of Islam as an integral part of world history.In his numerous studies, Voll has always viewed the Muslim world from aglobal perspective, a trait that is even more evident ih his “The MistakenIdenMication of ‘The West’ with ‘Modernity.”’ Voll’s article is based on aprofound understanding of the West in t m s of the fundamental changesthat have swept human life and society during the past two or three centuries.Modemity cannot be identified with the West, Voll argues, for theWest, as a repertoire of traditions, was a concept related to the existence ofcivilizations. But “civilization,” as conceived in most of the studies andanalyses of world history, is now a societal lifestyle of the past. It thereforefollows that the transfomtion of societies and lifestyles has transcendedthe classical West and created a new world situation in which relationsbetween Islam and the West are predicated on different bases. While it istrue that Islam’s repertoire of concepts and principles is more clearlyfocused than that of the West, it is also true that, in the context of the globalcosmopolitanism of our times, Islam and the West share a similar cultural,political, and social experience:Islam and the West are no longer simply two rival and clashingcivilizations or even two different modes of modernity. They arenow interactive partners, sometimes fighting and sometimes cooperating,involved in the co-constructed reality of the contemprary world.Volls’ view of a modem shared experience is supported by SurmshIrfani’s “New Discourses and Modernity in Postrevolutionary Iran.” For asociety that has been portrayed in the most denigrating t m s by the westernmedia, Irfani presents a powerfd human and creative image of contemporaryIran that touches upon a wide range of cultural revival: printmedia, film industry, literatute, and music. A common denominator of theworks cited in his article, which is based on extensive field research, is the“aftempt to go beyond the fite!rary level ofkfeqrem‘ on and extant meaning ...

“Un-Civil Society” and the Sources of Russian Influence in West Asia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Mankoff
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Regime Change ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
The West ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range

Despite the extensive levels of control that Russia has available to it in its neighbourhood, many officials believe that the West has outmanoeuvred Russia in the employment of soft power, particularly through the proliferation of civil society and NGOs in the former Soviet Union over the past two decades. As corrupt regimes in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan have fallen under rising pressure from civil society, Russia has grown increasingly alarmed. The Kremlin has come to see “color revolutions,” and the activities of anti-government protesters in Russia itself, as the consequences of a deliberate Western campaign to promote regime change and curtail Russian influence. Moscow has focused a wide range of civil society groups: anti-corruption campaigners, pro-democracy activists, journalists, and human rights defenders, as part of a Western-backed fifth column whose raison d'être is less the promotion of good governance and more the advancement of Western strategic interests at Russian expense.

Growing environmental crime fuels global instability

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Crime ◽  
Global Instability ◽  
The West ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Global Impact ◽  
Substantial Growth ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Environmental Programme

Subject Environmental crime and its global impact. Significance A joint Interpol-UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) assessment in June revised dramatically upward the official cost of global environmental crime. The report estimates this cost to have increased 26% to 91-258 billion dollars as of June 2016 from 70-213 billion dollars in 2014. In part this is a correction from previous underestimates, but it also reflects a genuine and substantial growth. Over the past ten years, the turnover of environmental crime has risen by at least 5-7% per year, two to three times faster than global GDP. Impacts Environmental crime will continue to degrade the biosphere, exacerbating climate change and species' extinctions. Such crimes will facilitate the operations of a wide range of dangerous organisations, from terrorists and insurgents to gangsters. The issue will cause increasing tension between the West and those failing to address the problem, such as China.

scholarly journals The PERSIANN family of global satellite precipitation data: a review and evaluation of products

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 5801-5816 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phu Nguyen ◽  
Mohammed Ombadi ◽  
Soroosh Sorooshian ◽  
Kuolin Hsu ◽  
Amir AghaKouchak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
Temporal Scales ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Scales ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Retrieval Algorithms ◽  
Precipitation Estimation ◽  
Daily Scale ◽  
Climate Prediction Center

Abstract. Over the past 2 decades, a wide range of studies have incorporated Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks (PERSIANN) products. Currently, PERSIANN offers several precipitation products based on different algorithms available at various spatial and temporal scales, namely PERSIANN, PERSIANN-CCS, and PERSIANN-CDR. The goal of this article is to first provide an overview of the available PERSIANN precipitation retrieval algorithms and their differences. Secondly, we offer an evaluation of the available operational products over the contiguous US (CONUS) at different spatial and temporal scales using Climate Prediction Center (CPC) unified gauge-based analysis as a benchmark. Due to limitations of the baseline dataset (CPC), daily scale is the finest temporal scale used for the evaluation over CONUS. Additionally, we provide a comparison of the available products at a quasi-global scale. Finally, we highlight the strengths and limitations of the PERSIANN products and briefly discuss expected future developments.

Seeking the golden mean:

Babel ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 360-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Wong
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Target Language ◽  
The West ◽  
Golden Mean ◽  
Source Language ◽  
The Past ◽  
Usage Frequency ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World

If one is to draw up, in order of usage frequency, a list of words whose authority has most often been invoked in translation studies during the past decades, <i>domestication</i> and <i>foreignizing</i> will most likely appear at the top. When they were first coined or given their new <i>signifiā</i>, these words may well have been applicable to the approaches or strategies used by certain translators in certain periods, certain cultures, or certain parts of the world. One should not, however, be misled into thinking that they are applicable to all translators or all translations, for, apart from the “domesticating” and “foreignizing” approaches or strategies, there is a wide range of other possibilities into which the vast majority of translations can fall, and to which the concepts of “domestication” and “foreignizing” do not apply.<p>This paper looks at <i>Monkey</i>, Arthur Waley’s English translation of the classical Chinese novel Xi you ji (Journey to the West), and shows how the above-mentioned concepts are not universally relevant, and how the translator, as an empathic and creative mediator, moves freely between the source language / culture and the target language / culture to seek the golden mean with respect to the effectiveness of the translation in artistic and communicative terms, neither “domesticating” nor “foreignizing.”<p>

Optical Properties of HVEM Accelerators

1975 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 180-181
Author(s):  
A. Strojnik ◽  
J.W. Scholl ◽  
V. Bevc
Keyword(s):  
Optical Properties ◽  
Electron Accelerator ◽  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
Electron Source ◽  
High Brightness ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Optical Behavior

The electron accelerator, as inserted between the electron source (injector) and the imaging column of the HVEM, is usually a strong lens and should be optimized in order to ensure high brightness over a wide range of accelerating voltages and illuminating conditions. This is especially true in the case of the STEM where the brightness directly determines the highest resolution attainable. In the past, the optical behavior of accelerators was usually determined for a particular configuration. During the development of the accelerator for the Arizona 1 MEV STEM, systematic investigation was made of the major optical properties for a variety of electrode configurations, number of stages N, accelerating voltages, 1 and 10 MEV, and a range of injection voltages ϕ0 = 1, 3, 10, 30, 100, 300 kV).

Pursuit of the Abscopal Effect

2020 ◽  
Vol 04 (04) ◽  
pp. 369-372
Author(s):  
Paul B. Romesser ◽  
Christopher H. Crane
Keyword(s):  
Tumor Immunology ◽  
Antitumor Immunity ◽  
Clinical Success ◽  
Immune Recognition ◽  
Immune Modulators ◽  
Cancer Subtypes ◽  
The Past ◽  
Tumor Irradiation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Tumor Recognition

AbstractEvasion of immune recognition is a hallmark of cancer that facilitates tumorigenesis, maintenance, and progression. Systemic immune activation can incite tumor recognition and stimulate potent antitumor responses. While the concept of antitumor immunity is not new, there is renewed interest in tumor immunology given the clinical success of immune modulators in a wide range of cancer subtypes over the past decade. One particularly interesting, yet exceedingly rare phenomenon, is the abscopal response, characterized by a potent systemic antitumor response following localized tumor irradiation presumably attributed to reactivation of antitumor immunity.

The Many Pasts of Detective Fiction

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-172
Author(s):  
Thomas Leitch
Keyword(s):  
Detective Fiction ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Public History ◽  
Detective Novel ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Detective Story ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Detective Novels ◽  
The Many

Building on Tzvetan Todorov's observation that the detective novel ‘contains not one but two stories: the story of the crime and the story of the investigation’, this essay argues that detective novels display a remarkably wide range of attitudes toward the several pasts they represent: the pasts of the crime, the community, the criminal, the detective, and public history. It traces a series of defining shifts in these attitudes through the evolution of five distinct subgenres of detective fiction: exploits of a Great Detective like Sherlock Holmes, Golden Age whodunits that pose as intellectual puzzles to be solved, hardboiled stories that invoke a distant past that the present both breaks with and echoes, police procedurals that unfold in an indefinitely extended present, and historical mysteries that nostalgically fetishize the past. It concludes with a brief consideration of genre readers’ own ambivalent phenomenological investment in the past, present, and future each detective story projects.

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