Gdzie rozgrywa się akcja Dzieci szatana Stanisława Przybyszewskiego? Destrukcja i rekonstrukcja świata przedstawionego

One of the characteristics that make Stanisław Przybyszewski’s novels stand out from other contemporary works is the deliberately limited description of the outside world up to the point of blurring the identity of the location where the plot of a given work takes place. In the case of Dzieci Szatana (Satan’s Children), (German Satans Kinder, 1897; Polish edition 1899), one may even talk about ‘a total destruction of the represented world’ (Gabriela Matuszek). At the same time, the author’s numerous comments apparently allow for translating this ‘destruction’ happening in the course of the creative process into a ‘reconstruction’ that corresponds to it in the process of reading. It is through reviewing in more detail and combining various pieces of information included in Dzieci Szatana that directly or indirectly refer to the place of action, as well as confronting them with the biographical, historical and geographic contexts that one may identify with surprising precision the exact place represented in the text and, as a result, to uncover an entirely new aspect of novel axiology.

Exergy analysis and performance study for sour water stripper units, amine regenerator units and a Sulphur recovery unit of a refining plant

A refining column in the middle east that started its official production in 2020 provides its sour wastewater from all refinery plants to two sour water units (SWS1 and SWS2) to strip H2S and NH3. Sour gas from the refinery uses a lean amine solution for gas sweetening to absorb H2S in different absorbers. Rich amine with H2S is then stripped in two amine regeneration units (ARU1 and ARU2). The overhead of SWS and ARU units provide the acid gas feed to the sulphur recovery unit (SRU) to produce sulphur and prevent any acidic emissions against environmental regulations. First, the SWS1 unit is simulated using Aspen HYSYS V.11. A complete exergy study is conducted in the unit. Exergy destruction, exergy efficiency and percentage share in the destruction are calculated for all equipment. The highest exergy destruction rate was in the stripper with 5028.58 kW and a percentage share of 81.94% of the total destruction. A comparison was conducted between the exergy results of this study with two other exergy studies performed in the same refinery plant. The columns in the three studies showed the highest destruction rates exceeding 78% of the total destruction of each unit. The air coolers showed the second-highest destruction rates in their units with a percentage share exceeding 7% of the total destruction. The pumps showed the lowest destruction rates with values of less than 1% of the total destruction of each unit. Then, an individual simulation is conducted for stripper1 of SWS1, stripper2 for SWS2, regenerator1 of ARU1 and regenerator2 of ARU2. The individual simulations are combined in one simulation named combined simulation to compute the composition of acid gas from SWS and ARU units feeding SRU. Then, the SRU unit is simulated via a special package in HYSYS V.11 named SULSIM. The computed composition from SWS and ARU is exported to excel where it is linked with SRU simulation to calculate sulphur production. For the first time in any article in the world, all data feeding SWS, ARU, and SRU units are connected to a live system named Process Historian Database (PHD) to gather live data from the plant and perform plant optimization.

Трагедия города Шуши 23–26 марта 1920 г.в отечественной и зарубежной историографии

On March 23, 1920, Turkish-Azerbaijani troops with the Moslem dwellers profited of the preemptive strike, undertook by the small detachment under plenipotentiary of the ARFD Bureau Arsen Mikayelian, and fulfilled a massacre of the Shushi Armenians with a burning the city down. This events are testified in the memoirs of the witnesses together with great amount of archival material. The total destruction of Shushi is elucidated by historians of the Republic of Armenia, as well as by Diaspora and foreign specialists. All the scholars in accord point out that the mass murder of the civil population at Shushi and complete destruction of its Armenian sector was a crime against humanity, which constitutes the Genocide.

Construction of Three-Dimensional Conductive Graphitic Architecture by Highly Efficient Electrochemical Exfoliation

Graphene has long been envisioned as a promising material in areas, such as energy storage, electromagnetic shielding, and electrochemical sensor. However, the fabrication of graphene is complicated, time-consuming, and hazardous to environment, and thus can hardly realize industrialization. Although the exfoliation of graphite through electrochemical method was believed as an efficient and green approach, the intense current and non-protective action usually lead to the total destruction of the integralgraphitic electrode. In this work, the graphite foil was well-exfoliated into few-layered graphene with proper electrolyte compositions and electrochemical technique. Moreover, the original three-dimensional (3D) integrity of graphite foil can be maintained with the assistance of space-confined exfoliation strategy. The exfoliation process was systematically investigated in terms of electrolyte, applied potential, cation, and anion. The optimized sample exhibited an almost 8.0-folds of increment of double-layer capacitance in comparison with the pristine graphite foil. Eventually, the chemical simulations were employed to elaborate the mechanisms of advanced exfoliation. The space-confined exfoliation reported here is promising for scalable fabrication of 3D graphene materials.

Spatial aspect of modern warfare: from traditional warfare to cyberwar

This author substantiates the thesis on the importance of spatial factors for conducting warfare. The article traces the evolution of warfare associated with the involvement of new territories and new types of spaces in the orbit of military activity. If the warfare of the past demonstrated a direct dependence on the geographical territory and the related “tensions” (C. von Clausewitz), the modern warfare are emancipated from the geographical shell of the Earth. The article explicates the factors that justify the need for arranging the new warfare spaces. Special attention is given to cyberspace, its structure, and conflicts unfolding therein. The scientific novelty of consists in the interpretation of cyberspace as an expected result of the spatial evolution of warfare. The conclusion is drawn that the emergence of cyberspace contributes to solution of the problem of information vagueness and creation of the stability zones for the military leaders, but at the same is a source of problems not less dangerous for the humanity. The cyberwar winner faces a tempting challenge of establishing global control over the territory of the plane using cyberweapon, or in most pessimistic scenario, its total destruction.

Exergy Analysis of 1 x 135 MW Jeneponto Steam Power Plant

Exergy analysis is application of the second law thermodynamics which provides information about large exergy, exergy efficiency, destruction, and destruction efficiency in each component of PLTU so can be reference for improvement and optimization in an effort to reduce losses and increase efficiency. The exergy value obtained from calculating mass flowrate, enthalpy, ambient temperature, and entropy. The destruction value is obtained from difference between input exergy value and exergy output. The destruction exergy value from comparison between output exergy value to input exergy value, and destruction efficiency value from comparison of destruction value to total destruction value of PLTU components. The results showed that the largest exergy occurred in boilers, namely 778.225 MW in 2018, 788.824 MW in 2019, and 796.824 MW in 2020, lowest exergy value in CP was 0.160 MW in 2018, 0.176 MW in 2019, and 0.160 MW in 2020. The largest destruction occurred in boilers, namely 163.970 MW with destruction efficiency 79.242% in 2018, 179.450 MW with destruction efficiency 82.111% in 2019, and 199.637 MW with destruction efficiency 83.448% in 2020, lowest exergy destruction value at CP, namely 0.056 MW with destruction efficiency 0.027% in 2018, 0.059 MW with destruction efficiency 0.027% in 2019, and 0.056 MW with destruction efficiency 0.023% in 2020. The exergy efficiency occurred in HPH 2, amounting to 94.750% in 2018, 95.187 % in 2019, and 94.728% in 2020, while lowest of exergy efficiency was in LPH 1, namely 43.637 MW in 2018, 33.512 MW in 2019, and 38.764 MW in 2020.

IMPLEMENTASI KEBIJAKAN PENGELOLAAN SAMPAH DI KABUPATEN KUDUS

Indonesia is estimated to produce as much as 64 million tons of waste every year. This figure is very high because only 7 percent of the total destruction has been managed. Kudus Regency has a policy on waste management, but most people in Kudus Regency do not yet know the policy. This study aims to determine the implementation of waste management policies in Kudus Regency. This type of research is qualitative research, with four informants. The research instrument used an interview guide, a recording device, and a camera. The analysis method uses a thematic content analysis. Based on the results of the research, it is known that the local government has not carried out mass socialization of waste management policies to the community so that many people from various groups do not know this regulation. The implementation of waste management in the Kudus Regency is also constrained by a limited budget and waste processing equipment. In also besides, monitoring and evaluation activities are also only a formality because there is no follow-up to the monitoring and evaluation activities every year.

Russia’s “Fascism” or “Illiberalism”?

This chapter explores the literature on generic fascism, on a supposed specific “Russian fascism,” and on the rise of illiberalism to posit the conceptual frames needed for the analysis of Russia. It also discusses the placement of fascism within the more general phenomenon of nationalism. The chapter views the primacy of a myth of regeneration as the driving engine that makes a vision of the world and society “fascist.” With such perspective, the chapter allows us to take into account the metapolitical dimension of fascism, which is critical for recognizing the phenomenon and dissociating it from other ideologies. It defines fascism as a metapolitical ideology that calls for the total destruction of modernity by creating an alternative world based on ancient values reconstructed with violent means. The chapter then shares the definition proposed by one of the main Russian scholars of fascism, Aleksandr A. Galkin, who characterized fascism as “rightist-conservative revolutionarism” (pravokonservativnyi revoliutsionarizm), emphasizing the revolutionary aspect more than the nationalist one. Ultimately, the chapter asserts that the terminological inflation of fascism that we currently observe obscures more than explains the structural transformations of our societies: the term illiberalism offers a significantly more heuristically helpful approach to capture the evolutions.

“THE ELEPHANTS IN THE REAR OF THE PHALANX”: THE BATTLE OF PANION AND COMBINED ARMS WARFARE

The Battle of Panion (or Panium; c. 200 B.C.), the decisive engagement of the 5th Syrian War, can be described as successful implementation of Combined Arms Warfare in Antiquity; different units of the Seleucid army (infantry, cavalry, war elephants) were used in concert, mutually assisting and protecting each other. Like Hannibal's famous victory at Cannae, this battle exemplifies complete encirclement and total destruction of an enemy army. Nevertheless, its reconstruction is hampered due to discrepancies in the texts of primary sources: the reports of Polybius and Zeno of Rhodes are in conflict, and there is no coherent and detailed description of the battle, including the location of the battlefield and the number of troops. Some historians even consider this reconstruction to be impossible at all. Most renowned (and virtually the only) scenario belongs to Professor Bezalel Bar-Kochva who actually splits this battle into two different «parts», or episodes, on the same battlefield divided by a river. However his scenario is based on a quite shaky foundation - the disputed topographic identification of the battlefield itself. The author of this article makes an attempt to offer a generic reconstruction of the Battle of Panion regardless of the local geographical peculiarities.