Alexey Navalny: A hero of the new time

Russian leaders first tried to poison him, then unlawfully imprisoned him, and now are publicly torturing him. His enemies see him as an illegitimate pretender to the Russian throne. His fans are captivated by his ability to survive assassinations and withstand torture. I was among those who nominated Alexey Navalny for the Nobel Peace Prize. Though he has not received it, this failure exposes meaningful though underappreciated truths about Russia and about the world. My story will leap back and forward between Navalny’s individual actions, the peculiarities of Putinism, and global issues of neoliberal governance.

SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL SEMINAR «WOMEN'S TRADI-TIONAL CULTURE AND COSTUME IN THE ERA OF THE MEDIE-VAL AND NEW TIME» AT THE HISTORICAL FACULTY OF TVGU

В сообщении характеризуется серия научно-образовательных семинаров «Женская традиционная культура и костюм в эпоху Средневековья и Новое время», проходивших на историческом факультете ТвГУ с 2010 по 2021 гг. Семинары объединили опытных и молодых исследователей - археологов, историков, искусствоведов, музеологов, реконструкторов России, Беларуси, Украины, Молдовы в изучении и обсуждении проблем формирования, эволюции, реконструкции исторического костюма различных территорий и эпох. Семинар получал поддержку Российского гуманитарного научного фонда. Материалы семинара опубликованы в трех выпусках одноименного сборника статей, индексируемого РИНЦ. В 2021 г. семинар объединил участников из учреждений науки, образования и культуры Москвы, Твери, Санкт-Петербурга, Ельца. The report describes a series of scientific and educational seminars «Women's traditional culture and costume in the Middle Ages and the New Time». They were held at the Faculty of History of Tver State University from 2010 to 2021. The seminars brought together experienced and young researchers - archaeologists, historians, art historians, museologists, reenactors from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova in the study and discussion of the problems of formation, evolution, reconstruction of the historical costume of different territories and eras. The seminar was supported by the Russian Foundation for the Humanities. The materials of the seminar were published in three issues of the collection of articles of the same name, indexed by the RSCI. In 2021, the seminar brought together participants from institutions of science, education and culture of Moscow, Tver, St. Petersburg, Yelets.

Applying a Random Time Mapping to Mann modelled turbulence for the generation of intermittent wind fields

A new approach to derive a synthetic wind field model which combines spatial correlations from the Mann model and intermittency is introduced. The term intermittency describes the transition from Gaussian to non-Gaussian velocity increment statistics at small scales, where non-Gaussian velocity increment statistics imply a higher probability for extreme values than a Gaussian distribution. The presented new model is named the Time-mapped Mann model. The intermittency is introduced by applying a special random time-mapping procedure to the regular Mann model. The Time-mapping procedure is based on the so-called Continuous-time random walk model. As will be shown, the new Time-mapped Mann field reflects spatial correlations from the Mann model in the plane perpendicular to flow direction and temporal intermittency. In a first wind turbine study, the new Time-mapped Mann field and a regular Mann field are used as inflow to a wind turbine in a Blade Element Momentum simulation. It is shown that the wind field intermittency carries over to the loads of the wind turbine, and, thus, shows the importance of carefully modeling synthetic wind fields.

The concept of “utility” in early utilitarianism XVII–XVIII centuries

The relevance of the research topic is determined by the variety of interpretations of the concept of utility, according to which the problems of pleasure, good and happiness are solved. The English utilitarians of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were the first to conduct an in-depth analysis of utility and try to find common grounds that constitute this concept. The purpose of the article is to clarify the ways of using the concept of utility in the works of J. Berkeley, D. Hume and I. Bentham. The systematization of the views of the New Time, carried out by these thinkers, allowed us to approach the identification of the essence of utility. Proportionality and symmetry, the conditions of appointment and adaptation to the needs of man contributed to the removal of the beautiful and moral principles from the useful. The fact that the perfection of a thing is defined as an acceptable purpose for which it was created gave reason to conclude that the concept of ulitity in early utilitarianism is revealed through the rationality of goals and means, and the principle of utility through the dependence of individual interests from the level of social welfare.

New Time-Related Insights into an Old Laboratory Parameter: Early CRP Discovered by IBM Watson Trauma Pathway Explorer© as a Predictor for Sepsis in Polytrauma Patients

The University Hospital Zurich together with IBM® invented an outcome prediction tool based on the IBM Watson technology, the Watson Trauma Pathway Explorer®. This tool is an artificial intelligence to predict three outcome scenarios in polytrauma patients: the Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) and sepsis within 21 days as well as death within 72 h. The knowledge of a patient’s future under standardized trauma treatment might be of utmost importance. Here, new time-related insights on the C-reactive protein (CRP) and sepsis are presented. Meanwhile, the validated IBM Watson Trauma Pathway Explorer® offers a time-related insight into the most frequent laboratory parameters. In total, 3653 patients were included in the databank used by the application, and ongoing admissions are constantly implemented. The patients were grouped according to sepsis, and the CRP was analyzed according to the point of time at which the value was acquired (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24, and 48 h and 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 14, and 21 days). The differences were analyzed using the Mann–Whitney U-Test; binary logistic regression was used to determine the dependency of prediction, and the Closest Top-left Threshold Method presented time-specific thresholds at which CRP is predictive for sepsis. The data were considered as significant at p < 0.05, all analyses were performed in R. The differences in the CRP value of the non-sepsis and sepsis groups are starting to be significant between 6 and 8 h (p < 0.05) after admission inclusive of post hoc analysis, and the binary logistic regression depicts a similar picture. The level of significance is reached between 6 and 8 h (p < 0.05) after admission. The knowledge of the outcome reflected by the CRP in polytrauma patients improves the surgeon’s tactical position to indicate operations to reduce antigenic load and avoid an infectious adverse outcome.

Analysis of High-precision TESS Photometry of the Black Hole X-Ray Binary Cygnus X-1: Evidence of Intrinsic Variability of the Luminous Blue Supergiant Component

We report on Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) high-precision photometry of the iconic non-eclipsing 5.60 days (O9.7Iab+black hole) binary Cygnus X-1. Previous ground-based photometry reveals low-amplitude (∼0.04 mag) ellipsoidal light-variations that arise from the tidal (and rotational) distortion of the O9.7Iab companion. Additional small light-variations have also been reported by many observers. Short-cadence TESS photometry was conducted over ∼27 days during 2019 July–August. The photometry shows the expected ∼5.60 days binary ellipsoidal variations, but in addition ∼0.01–0.03 mag complex quasi-periodic brightness variations. The observations were analyzed to investigate the underlying extra-binary variability. We also determined a new time of minimum light and calculated an updated period and light elements. The quasi-periodic, (non-binary) light-variations likely arise from the complex pulsations of the blue supergiant.

RUSSIAN ANIMAL ART OF THE XIX-XX CENTURIES IN THE VIEWS ON THE WORLD OF FLORA AND FAUNA

The article dwells on views of artists-animalists of the XIX-XX centuries on the wildlife world. The worldview questions are considered as a factor of the value of the interconnection of human and wildlife world which is predetermined by the historical situation. The author underlines the indispensable role of the animal in the development of human civilization. So, this implies an ethical attitude towards nature as a unique value. It was also noted that the moral and ethical basis of this relationship, that became actual in the era of global change and the crisis of the ecological situation, was contributing to the formation of ecological way of thinking as the reality of the New time. According to the artist-animalist’s worldview, an animal looks beautiful, its behavior is expedient, that has a beneficial impact on human. The interconnection of artists’ points of view and the way how they see the animalistic image from the position of humans of the New time are also considered in this article.