African Muslim Slaves: Literacy and Arabic Narratives

This thesis examines African Muslim slaves and their Arabic writings that influenced their enslavement. The first part of my research considers the historical context that weaves two American presidents together with their distant interaction with Muslim slaves. It also discusses three prominent Muslim slaves in American history: Ayyub bin Suleiman, Abdul Rahman Ibrahima, and Omar ibn Said. Throughout the discussion of the lives of these three men, I analyze their Arabic writing and their use of mimicry throughout, and the ways in which this influenced their patrons’ views of them. The second part explores their differing levels of Arabic literacy and how they were subject to varying degrees of Arabization and exoticization. The last part discusses the absence of their writing in the field of American literature and the American slave narrative genre while arguing for their inclusion in these areas.

Legal framework for artificial intelligence technologies in telemedicine

Regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in healthcare are rapidly developing. Currently, medical organizations faced with the use of AI in conditions of insufficient legislation. There is an analysis of the AI’s legal aspects in the frame of distant interaction of doctors each other and with patients via telemedicine. Special recommendations for introducing and applying AI technologies in different modes given for medical organizations managers. The issue of civil liability for harm caused during the provision of medical care using AI technologies analyzed in detail.

The 2002–2005 Changbaishan Volcanic Unrest Triggered by the 2002 M 7.2 Wangqing Deep Focus Earthquake

One of the most active intraplate volcanoes in East Asia, Changbaishan volcano experienced unrest from July 2002 to July 2005. On 2002/06/28, the M 7.2 Wangqing deep-focus earthquake occurred ∼290 km northeast of Changbaishan volcano. While some studies have suggested a possible triggering relationship, the physical mechanism of such distant interaction is still not well understood. Using a template matching technique, which cross-correlates waveform of known events with continuous data, we perform systematic detection of microseismic events recorded by station CBS near Changbaishan volcano from July 1999 to July 2007. The detected earthquakes can be further categorized into three different types: volcano-tectonic (VT) events, long-period (LP) events and harmonic-spectra (HS) events. We detect 3763 VT events between July 2002 and July 2007. The intense VT earthquake swarm during the period from July 2002 to July 2005, along with recurring LPs and HSs and other geodetic/geochemical evidence, suggest magma movement during unrest. Compared with the hand-picked catalogue, the catalogue obtained by template matching technique reveals a delayed-triggering relationship between Wangqing deep-focus earthquake and unrest. The small magnitudes of the VT events and the limited numbers of LP and HS events suggest that the Wangqing mainshock likely triggered bubble excitation in the mid-crust magma system, resulting in overpressure and a small magma injection into the shallow magma chamber at a depth of ∼5 km, leading to the 3-years unrest.

Расcпросные речи и челобитные «полоняников» как источник о рабстве в Османской империи в XVII в

The article is based on Archival Documents connected to the former Ottoman Captives. The Russians who returned to the Muscovite State either prepared CaptivesPetitions to get certain benefits (particularly monetary support an Exit benefit) or dictated vast Questioning Words. These were personal autobiographies given in those Petitions and Questioning Words from this Social Groups Collective Biography. Though the reliability of the information is mostly doubtful often a character ready to sacrifice foreign land Home, Status and wealth for homecoming described through a Discourse from Oral Tales of Legends. Analyses of sources show that both social institutions slavery in the Ottoman Empire and serfhood in the Muscovite State were at a constant distant interaction, often acting simultaneously. Slavery in the Ottoman Empire is addressed as a transnational and open institution, wh ere slaves could have utterly different social and political practices. Former captives are considered to be cultural transferees. They are regarded to show the social status and role of the enslaved population. Captives, slaves, freemen, and returnees being integrated to a Foreign Society imported their own practices and beliefs.Аннотация Статья построена на основе анализа сохранившихся в архивах документов, относящихся к русским, побывавшим в османском плену. Полоняники, вернувшиеся в Московское государство, либо подавали челобитные, в которых просили о тех или иных милостях (чаще всего о денежном пожаловании за выход ) или надиктовывали обширные распросные речи (показания или допросы). Автобиографические данные, сообщаемые в челобитных и в распросных речах, составляют, своего рода, коллективную биографию этой социальной группы. Достоверность многих сообщений сомнительна. Полоняники словно используют топосы из рассказа сказочного героя, приобретшего на чужбине семью, дом, благосостояние и некоторое положение в обществе, но готового все это отдать за возвращение домой. Анализ источников показывает, что оба института рабство в Османской империи и холопство в Московском государстве, находясь в своего рода дистанционном взаимодействии, часто действовали параллельно. Османское рабовладение рассматривается, прежде всего, в качестве транснационального, открытого института, где в качестве рабов выступали носители совершенно иного социального и политического опыта, а сами полоняники как агенты культурных трансфертов, основной сущностью которых было положение и роль зависимого населения. Оказываясь интегрированным в чужое для них общество, военнопленные, рабы, вольноотпущенники и репатрианты привносили в него свои практики и свои представления.

IMMUNOGENESIS IN THE DESTRUCTION OF CELLS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE RABIES VIRUS

The nature of rabies immunity is not well understood, the zones of deployment of protective mechanisms are unknown, and the place where antibodies meet with the virus is unclear. The issue of the mechanism of protection of the central nervous system against rabies virus is relevant. It has been hypothesized that protection (immunity) of the central nervous system to the rabies virus is induced by the distant interaction of antibodies on the nerve сells and is mediated by the energy-information field of specific antibodies circulating in the blood vessels of the central nervous system. To confirm this hypothesis, the non-contact effect of rabies antibodies on the rabies virus (strain “Shchelkovo-51”) in the culture cell (BHK-21/13) and the decrease in antigen accumulation from 1.7 to 2.9 times were experimentally shown. The obtained data confirm the main point of the hypothesis on the protection of the central nervous system against the rabies virus using an energy-information biofield.