Reaction of the Byelorussian Exarchate and the Roman Catholic Church to the August 2020 post-election protests in Byelorussia

In August 2020, the presidential elections took place in Byelorussia, which, according to official data, were won by A. G. Lukashenko by a wide margin. The announcement of the preliminary election results provoked a protest reaction of the opposition forces, who declared the results to be falsified and mobilized part of the Byelorussian population for mass street protests. The authorities deemed these actions illegal and used force to suppress them. This gave the opposition and protesters grounds to criticize the authorities with renewed vigor, accusing them of violence and infringement of political freedoms. The representatives of the Orthodox Church (the Byelorussian Exarchate of the Moscow Patriarchate) as well as of the Roman Catholic Church in Byelorussia reacted to the situation in the country, which caused a significant resonance in Byelorussia itself and abroad. The Byelorussian Exarchate did not support any of the conflicting sides, whereas Metropolitan Pavel, patriarchal exarch, unambiguously advocated the soonest cessation of the civil confrontation. At the same time, a few representatives of the clergy of the Byelorussian Exarchate publicly took the side of the protestors, including Archbishop Artemy of Grodno, but their statements were supported neither by the Synod of the Exarchate nor by the absolute majority of its bishops. The Roman Catholic Church, which has considerably smaller congregations in Byelorussia, also called for an end to the confrontation, but at the same time was much more immersed in the political agenda, poorly concealing its support for the opposition and protesters; the head of the Byelorussian Catholics at that time, Metropolitan T. Kondrusievicz, indirectly sympathized with the opposition as well. Despite the actual difference in the two churches' attitudes to the political situation, they both similarly appealed to spirituality and faith as a means of overcoming the conflict.

Non-Layered Gold-Silicon and All-Silicon Frequency-Selective Metasurfaces for Potential Mid-Infrared Sensing Applications

We report simulations on the spectral behavior of non-layered gold-silicon and all-silicon frequency-selective metasurfaces in an asymmetric element configuration in the mid-infrared spectral window of 5–5.8 μm. The non-layered layout is experimentally feasible due to recent technological advances such as nano-imprint and nano-stencil lithography, and the spectral window was chosen due to the multitude of applications in sensing and imaging. The architecture exhibits significant resonance in the window of interest as well as extended tunability by means of variation of cell element sizes and relative coordinates. The results indicate that the proposed metasurface architecture is a viable candidate for mid-infrared absorbers, sensors and imaging systems.

Measurements of the 33S (n, α)30Si cross-section at n_TOF and ILL: Implications in neutron capture therapy

Up to a couple of years ago, the 33S(n, α)30Si cross-section data had been limited and scarce. The origin in the solar system of 36S had been the only motivation to study that cross-section. However, a few years ago, the 33S(n, α)30Si reaction was proposed as a possible target in neutron capture therapy (NCT) due to the excellent bio-properties of 33S and the significant resonance at 13.45 keV of the cross-section for which a high-energy α is emitted. Prior to the experiments carried out at n_TOF-CERN and at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) facilities, the data situation was: no data from the thermal point up to 10 keV; from 10 keV to 300 keV, there was only one (n, α) measurement able to resolve the resonances with a questionable value of the 13.45-keV resonance; and the thermal point did not have a consistent value. Here we summarize three experiments that have been performed covering the whole energy range of interest in NCT and astrophysics. These experiments have solved the most important issues. The data of the present work and the evaluated data are used to calculate the dose rate in the tissue.

Investigating Tourism Impacts of Festivals: An Exploratory Case Study of a Big-Scale Comic-Con

In recent years, festivals have been increasing their prominence as a medium for endorsing local development, promoting tourism, and improving city image. Subsequently, festivalization of culture has become a growing phenomenon that not only serves for primary purposes, such as audience outreach, cultural creativity and exchange, but also brings along a significant resonance with extensive socioeconomic impacts both in and out of the local destination. On the other hand, cultural production has been evolving with increasing variety and availability of multimedia products and expanding its audience with new consumption patterns; thus, giving birth to emerging forms of alternative cultures. As an interesting example, the fantasy genre in popular culture became a large umbrella of declinations that includes literature, games, comics, cinema, and their transmedial convergences, as well as related forms of lifestyle narratives. On the intersection of these two phenomena, this article aims at investigating the tourism impacts of a unique festival, a comic-con, Lucca Comics & Games (LC&G), in light of the festival motivations, experience, and meanings. The history of LC&G dates back to 1966 and today it brings around 500,000 attendees to the historic city of Lucca as one of the biggest festivals dedicated to fantasy culture in the world. To investigate festival-related tourism impacts, we focused on the LC&G audience and conducted a comprehensive survey with 7,147 visitors during the event in 2015. The results indicate the uniqueness of the festival with a very loyal, big amount of audience, and widespread impacts, including a drastic rise in the demand for tourism facilities with a high short-term direct economic impact. Nevertheless, tourism impacts that are an indispensable component of the festival and of crucial importance mainly for the development of the territory, occur intrinsically as a consequence of the festival's success to address its core communities' expectations, rather than being a primary aim.

THE RECEPTION OF UKRAINIAN EMIGRATION LITERATURE ON THE PAGES OF THE JOURNAL „SUCHASNIST”

The article reviews the publications of literary journal “Suchasnist” devoted to emigration literature. The article by G. Grabovich “Great Literature”, in which the author analyzed the course of the famous discussion on the Art Ukrainian movement period, and the meaning of the idea of “Great literature” that had formed its antithesis – the New York group of poets. One of the most significant publications of “Suchasnist” was the report entitled “From the Chronicle of Literary Life in the Diaspora” by G. Kostiuk, the Head of the Ukrainian Writers Assosiation “Slovo”. The first part was about organizational activity of the association, and the second – about creative achievements of writers, paying attention to the “ideological and artistic essence” of the analyzed works. It is noted that the journal published a variety of materials devoted to the development of emigration poetry: interviews, reviews, articles on the works of the New York young poets group, as well as the recognized masters V. Barka, Yuri Klen, E. Malaniuk, and others. Besides the poetry, the constant focus of the journal was the prose. The reviews by A.G. Gorbach considered historical novels and the stories by M. Lazorsky, Y. Radzikevic, P. Fedenko, written from the standpoint of Ukrainian historical science, as an alternative to the Ukrainian Soviet-style literature based on Russian / Soviet historiography. Journal`s editorial team paid also much attention to the works interpreting the fate of the Ukrainians during the twentieth century. Numerous publications examined in particular the works of little-known prose writers (E. Zagachevsky), not yet properly appreciated ones (O. Izarsky), as well as internationally recognized ones (I. Bagryany, V. Barka). A number of review articles devoted to the work of different prose writers, such as L. Zaleska-Onyshkevich, O. Tarnavsky, Y. Stefanyk, belongs to the type of literary portraits or scientific critical essays the “mainland” reader got used to. The journal publications have often enjoyed a significant resonance. These include materials intended to remind emigration of the life and work of V. Vynnychenko: articles by M. Molnar and G. Kostyuk, Gusar-Struk and I. Lisyak-Rudnytsky.

On the Resonance Hypothesis of Tsunami and Storm Surge Runup

Resonance has recently been proposed as the fundamental underlying mechanism that shapes the amplification in coastal runup for both Tsunamis and storm surges. It is without doubt that the resonance plays a rôle in runup phenomena of various kinds, however we think that the extent at which it plays its role has not been completely understood. For incident waves, the best approach to investigate the rôle played by the resonance would be to calculate the normal modes by taking radiation damping into account and then test how those modes are excited by the incident waves. There are a small number of previous works that attempt to calculate the resonant frequencies but they do not relate the amplitudes of the normal modes to those of the incident wave. This is because, by not including radiation damping, they automatically induce a resonance that leads to infinite amplitudes, thus preventing them from predicting the exact contribution of the resonance to coastal runup. In this study we consider two different coastal geometries: an infinitely wide beach with a constant slope connecting to a flat-bottomed deep ocean and a bay with sloping bottom, again, connected to a deep ocean. For the fully 1-D problem we find significant resonance if the bathymetric discontinuity is large. For the 2-D ocean case the analysis shows that the wave confinement is very effective when the bay is narrow. The bay aspect-ratio is the determining factor for the radiation damping.

Tsui Hark's Peking Opera Blues

Tsui Hark’s Hong Kong New Wave film Peking Opera Blues (1986) is set in a China marked by contestations between Republican democrats and monarchist revivalists (circa 1913). Through various acts of reading film in different (though intertextually connected) ways along a formalist-historical-postmodernist continuum this book offers various reading strategies which reveal the film’s richness in terms of textual contours, textual affects, and ideological influences. Five acts of reading are explored which variously and collectively deconstruct the film’s playful intertextual and hypertextual configurations. Tsui Hark’s filmmaking career is summarized, and a polysemous analysis of the film’s story and form; its historical background; a companion film Shanghai Blues; Peking opera; Canto-pop and Mandarin songs; mandarin ducks and butterfly fiction; and the “three-women” film in Chinese-language cinema, are all explored within the general context of Hong Kong New Wave filmmaking and the issues of Chinese identity, culture, power in the contemporary politics of Hong Kong as they pertain to the Sinophone realms of articulations. Overall, the book asks a central question for film studies: does the film as a cultural and social artifact merely tell stories about the past or does it seek to reclaim lost territory in metafictional ways, with significant resonance for reading contemporary situations?

The substituent effects on the 13c chemical shifts of the azomethine carbon atom of n-(phenyl substituted) salycilaldimines

The Hammett correlations between 13C-NMR chemical shifts of the azomethine carbon atom and the corresponding substituent constants for thirtheen Schiff bases were established. Successful correlation of the chemical shifts with electrophilic substituent constants ?+ indicate significant resonance interaction of the substituents on the aniline ring with the azomethine carbon atom in the examined series of imines. The demand for electrons in the investigated compounds was compared to that of the N-benzylidenanilines and N-(phenyl substituted) pyridinealdimines. The way of transmission of the substituent effects was discussed and they are separated into resonance and inductive effects. Inductive effects prevail over resonance effects.

PERAN PERGURUAN TINGGI AGAMA ISLAM NEGERI (PTAIN) DALAM MEMASUKI ERA KOMPETISI GLOBAL

<p>Along the time, it seems the mission of this da'wah is no longer can be maintained, because it is not in accordance with the development and current demands. Besides, the mission of dakwah does not has a significant meaning to the surrounding community. That is, with the existence of IAIN (with its branch faculty) circumstances on the surrounding community does not necessarily become more qualified, either social, moral and spiritual. Even in some areas, existence of IAIN does not provide significant resonance to the community. The presence and absence of IAIN, has no impact directly or indirectly to the public. On the contrary, some areas where there is no IAIN might have a better condition morally and spiritually.</p><p> </p><p>Seiring dengan perjalanan waktu, nampaknya misi dakwah ini tidak lagi bisa dipertahankan, karena tidak sesuai dengan perkembangan dan tuntutan jaman. Disamping juga, misi dakwah ini temyata tidak mempunyai makna yang signifikan kepada masyarakat sekitar. Artinya, dengan keberadaan IAIN (dengan fakultas cabangnya) keadaan secara masyarakat sekitar tidak serta merta menjadi lebih berkualitas, baik sosial, moral dan spiritual. Bahkan di beberapa daerah, keberadaan IAIN tidak memberikan resonansi yang signifikan terhadap masyarakat sek:itamya. Ada dan tidak adanya IAIN, tidak memberikan dampak langsung maupun tidak langsung terbadap masyarakat Demikian juga sebaliknya, beberapa daerah yang kebetulan tidak ditempati IAIN (fakultas cabangnya) bukan berarti secara moral dan spiritual lebih jelek dari yang ditempati IAIN.</p>