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Warren, Christopher N. "When Self‐Preservation Bids: Approaching Milton, Hobbes, and Dissent." English Literary Renaissance 37, no. 1 (January 2007): 118–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6757.2007.00096.x.
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Valcheva, Penka. "PRESERVATION OF THE BULGARIAN SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH PATRIOTIC MESSAGES IN THE FIRST LITERATURE TEXTBOOK." Education and Technologies Journal 11, no. 1 (August 1, 2020): 221–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.26883/2010.201.2283.
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The state policy towards the Bulgarians abroad is related to the preservation of the Bulgarian ethnocultural space abroad and the national, cultural and spiritual identity of all Bulgarian citizens around the world, by preserving the ethnocultural identity of the Bulgarians and the Bulgarian communities abroad. To achieve this goal, it is necessary, children that living abroad systematically get acquainted with literary works that help preserve the national identity, way of life and culture. This report examines the reception of literary works with patriotic messages in the first grade on the example of „Svetulka“ – a literature textbooks for descendants of Bessarabian Bulgarians living in Moldova.
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Litričin Dunić, Dragana. "LITERATURE AND IDENTITY." Journal Human Research in Rehabilitation 5, no. 1 (April 2015): 35–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.21554/hrr.041501.
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Literature can represent, on the one hand, the establishment of cultural and national identity, and, on the other hand, a constant indicator of the differences. Self-image and the image of the Other in literature is very important not only for understanding national character and preservation of cultural identity, but also for the release from ideological reading and stereotyping. Analyzing the image of the Other, research into the representation of the Balkans symbolically represents in the popular literature of the West, study of the cultural context and the processes that formed the writer’s perceptions that determine the establishment of stereotypes about Homo Balcanicus and many others, are all important tasks of imagological research, as well as the key research tasks conducted nowadays. In this paper we shall discuss some of these issues in the field of comparative literature
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Chrulew, M., C. Danta, and D. J. Wadiwel. "The Will for Self-Preservation: Locke and Derrida on Dominion, Property and Animals." SubStance 43, no. 2 (January 1, 2014): 148–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sub.2014.0029.
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Tyumaseva, Z. I., and I. L. Orekhova. "Family environment as means of preservation, strengthenings of health of students and formation of self-preservation behavior." Vestnik of Minin University 7, no. 3 (August 10, 2019): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.26795/2307-1281-2019-7-3-5.
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Introduction: in the article the family environment as a basis of physical, moral and intellectual development of the child and also preservation, strengthening of physical and mental health is considered. Results of diagnostic testing regarding the relation of parents of school students to a healthy lifestyle as a factor of wellbeing of the children are presented; influence of family on formation at children of the sensual and esthetic, informative, rational and consumer relations to the nature and a responsible attitude to the health. The article purpose is to prove that the family environment plays a huge role in preservation and promotion of health and formation of a healthy lifestyle of the child.Materials and methods: in the course of research activity the analysis of scientific literature on the problem of family education, the family environment, educational potential of family and socialization of the child is carried out. The diagnostic techniques including testing, questioning, the questionnaire, mutually estimation and also pedagogical observation and use of results of educational potential of family in pedagogical activity are used. The mathematics and statistics analysis allowed to generalize the obtained data of diagnostic work. The research is conducted on the basis of boarding school №8 of the Kopeisk city district of Chelyabinsk region and the Southern Ural state humanitarian and pedagogical University.Results: The study gives evidence that the influence of family on raising the children with sensual and esthetical, informative and rational attitude to the nature is the key to their moral and mental health. Scientific ideas of the family environment are expanded, author's definition of the key concept "family environment" is given and its uniqueness at the initial stage of socialization of future citizen of the country is emphasized. The main components of educational potential of family among which parental installations possess a powerful incentive for promotion of influence of the family environment on preservation and promotion of health of children are characterized. Results of the conducted diagnostic testing are described.Discussion and Conclusions: it is emphasized that the family environment is capable of making the foundation of a responsible attitude to the health of the children and promotes preservation and promotion of health, formation of self-preservation behavior.The conclusion is drawn that cognitive, behavioral, moral, ethical components of the family environment are necessary for forming of the positive relations of parents and their children. The family environment is a basis for socialization of the child and formation of a healthy lifestyle, self-preservation behavior.Highlights:- the concept "family environment" is defined;- the main components of educational potential of family are characterized;- influence of family on formation the children’s sensual and esthetic, informative and rational attitude to the nature as bases of moral and mental health is proved;- results of diagnostic testing are presented.
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Rzadkiewicz and Nasiłowski. "Psychosocial Interventions for Patients with Severe COPD—An Up-to-Date Literature Review." Medicina 55, no. 9 (September 16, 2019): 597. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina55090597.
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Background and Objectives: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a life limiting condition with a long list of serious psychosocial consequences, aggravating with illness progression. In advanced stages, chronic respiratory failure often develops, which might undermine mental health and reduce activity. The study objective was to review the recent studies concerning psychosocial interventions dedicated to patients with severe COPD. Materials and Methods: The PubMed database was searched for terms, such as ‘COPD and long-term oxygen therapy, non-invasive ventilation, severe or respiratory failure’ and ‘psychological or psychosocial or mental health and intervention.’ Studies were included that described patients with stable, severe COPD and the outcomes of psychosocial interventions. Results and Conclusions: Thirty-four studies were identified and divided into four thematic groups: home medical support, exercise, self-management and mental health. The number of studies that focused on mental health preservation in severe COPD was very limited; i.e., none refer directly to those treated with respiratory failure. Improving patients’ self-efficacy gave promising effects to the acceptance of palliative care, pulmonary rehabilitation completion and mental health. Physical activity might be recommended to be included in interventions for mental health enhancement, although little is known about the role of the particular forms of exercise. An increasing beneficial use of new technologies for psychosocial interventions was noted. Psychosocial interventions applied in advanced COPD underline the roles of self-efficacy, telehealth and physical activity in physical and mental health preservation. However, all of the above elements need to be independently tested on more homogenous groups of patients and have the possible modes of their treatment analysed.
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Onuoha, Onyekachi Peter. "Diaspora digital literature: role reversal and the construction of self in selected Ikheloa’s autobiographies." International Journal of Pedagogy, Innovation and New Technologies 5, no. 2 (December 30, 2018): 33–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0012.8541.
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The digital space serves, for the diaspora Nigerians, as a creative platform for identity and cultural preservation: a way through which they maintain connection with their homeland. This notion is evidently articulated in their creative writings on the digital space through where they imaginatively explore diverse social realities and personal experiences. This paper sets out to examine diaspora digital literature: role reversal and the construction self in selected Ikheloa’s Autobiographies. It interrogates memories of the home concept and the lamentation of the self as a social construct. The mechanism adopted by Ikheloa in trying to manage the other (new personality) while struggling to reconcile the memory of gender roles in Nigeria. Memory is an anchor and a strategy for survival for most diaspora writers. Memory of home is emphasized in the narrator’s autobiographies and a desire of home as representation of freedom and authority. But the price for a better life for his children seems to hold him captive and as such, he practices ‘fatherhood’. However, this practice is with an endless wish of returning home as a means of preserving his mind while carrying out his new gender roles in America. Psychoanalytic is adopted as premise for the analyses of the texts.
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Zhang, Hanfeng, Guorong Wang, Bin Jiang, Maoqiu Cao, Qinghua Jiang, Li Yin, Bencui Fu, and Jian Zhang. "The Knowledge, Attitude, and Self-Reported Behaviors of Oncology Physicians Regarding Fertility Preservation in Adult Cancer Patients." Journal of Cancer Education 35, no. 6 (June 29, 2019): 1119–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13187-019-01567-6.
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Abstract There is a growing concern about the fertility preservation for adult cancer patients of reproductive age. Very little literature exists about fertility preservation of cancer survivors in Chinese text. This study is first to describe the knowledge level, attitude, and practice behaviors among physicians concerning fertility preservation in adult cancer patients in China. A cross-sectional survey with 30-item was conducted to assess Chinese oncology physicians’ knowledge, attitude, and behaviors regarding fertility issues. Of 360 oncology physicians, 206 (57.2%) submitted valid questionnaires. With possible overall scores for knowledge and attitude of 9 and 15, respectively, physicians’ responses to the questionnaires were 3.91 ± 1.67 and 12.29 ± 1.23. Only 49.5% of physicians routinely informed their cancer patients of childbearing age about the risk of infertility with cancer treatment. The knowledge score of the men physicians was 2-fold that of the women. Physicians aged 20–29 years were significantly more likely than other age groups to prioritize cancer treatment over fertility concerns. Men physicians were significantly more comfortable than the women discussing fertility preservation issues and cooperating with fertility specialists. The oncology physicians in China had limited knowledge of fertility preservation and rarely discussed these issues with their patients, although their attitude was positive. Results suggest that oncology physicians would welcome an in-house fertility-related training program. Key Messages This is the first study to address the topic of fertility preservation as it relates to the care that oncologists provide to cancer patients in China. These results revealed the importance of providing fertility-related training program to oncology physicians. Moreover, this study should provide useful information for other Asian countries, and highlight both the similarities and differences between China and Western countries concerning the reproductive rights of patients. This study should encourage international cooperation with institutions of scientific research and education.
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Mastrogianakos, John. "Metaphors and Fictions of Self-Preservation in Il berretto a sonagli and Il giuoco delle parti." Quaderni d'italianistica 19, no. 1 (April 1, 1998): 41–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/q.i..v19i1.9611.
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He, Chu. "Physical Responses to Trauma." Critical Survey 31, no. 3 (September 1, 2019): 70–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/cs.2019.310307.
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This article compares Brian Friel’s play Give Me Your Answer, Do! with Eimear McBride’s novel A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing to inquire into why the characters react to their traumas with seemingly aberrant behaviours. These two modern Irish works seem to suggest that the characters find a devious, physical way of self-preservation when combatting their extremely powerless state of traumatisation, which exposes our conflicting drives in the face of trauma: although trauma is mostly associated with death drive towards self-destruction, we cannot overlook its connection to life drive. By analysing these traumatised characters’ bodies as the very platform on which the symbiosis of the two opposing instincts is staged, this article explores trauma’s indelible impacts on the body and the body’s troubled resilience.
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Chhabra, S. "Early Stage Cervical Cancer, Therapy for Reproductive Health and Quality Survival." Open Medicine Journal 3, no. 1 (April 4, 2016): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874220301603010001.
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Cervical cancer, one of the leading causes of cancer deaths, seventh in frequency amongst all the cancers, third most common cancer in women, after breast and colorectal cancers, accounts for 9% of all cancers in women and 4% of cancers in men and women put together. As cervical cancer is being reported in young women, so preservation of reproductive health and survival with quality has become more important during cervical cancer therapy. For quality survival, reproductive health preservation inspite of cancer, early diagnosis and appropriate therapy are essential. Purpose of this article is to share so that others also look into various issues and we try to do the best for prevention of cervical cancer and provide best therapy so that women have survival with quality and reproductive health is preserved, specially in young women. Review of literature was done and self experiences have been added.
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Adenan, Faezy, and Asmak Ab Rahman. "Menjaga Keamanan Negara Menurut Perspektif Maqāsid Syariah Serta Hubungannya Dengan Matlamat Pembangunan Lestari [Sustainable Development Goals]: Kajian Di Malaysia (National Peace Preservation According to the Maqāsid Syariah Perspective and its Relations to the Sustainable Development Goals [Sustainable Development Studies]: A Study In Malaysia)." UMRAN - International Journal of Islamic and Civilizational Studies 7, no. 1 (February 27, 2020): 33–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.11113/umran2020.7n1.375.
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Peace is an invaluable asset to ensure the prosperity and harmony of a nation. With the existence of peace, the people in a nation can carry out their respective responsibilities and roles perfectly, which consequently further enhance the nation prosperity. There are numbers of Western orientalists suggested that Islam is a religion that advocates violence. While in actuality, Islam uphold the preservation of peace and security at the utmost importance. This calls for a comprehensive argument to properly present the adherence of Islam towards maintaining harmony and prosperity. Therefore, the objective of this study is to highlight the existence of peace preservation in the Islamic concept of Maqāsid Syariah and draw the similarity on the definition of peace in Maqāsid Syariah with UN Guidelines for Sustainable Development Goals (Sustainable Development Goals). The research adopted library research methodology to accentuate the concept of peace preservation in the five elements of Maqāsid Syariah by using textual and contextual analysis on available literature pertaining the subject matter. The results show that the peace preservation of the nation is an integral piece in the concept of Maqāsid Syariah. National peace preservation is the key to maintain the five elements of Maqāsid Syariah which are religion, intellect, self, heritage and wealth. In addition, Maqāsid Syariah delineates peace keeping at the highest priority in maslaḥah requirement. Furthermore, Maqāsid Syariah demonstrates a compelling correlation in its definition of peace with the characteristic sustainable development goals (SDCs) outlined by the United Nations (UN). The importance of this study is to give a general guidance on preservation and maintenance of national peace according to the shariah objectives, which have a strong relationship among them.
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Droz, Laÿna. "Redefining Sustainability: From Self-Determination to Environmental Autonomy." Philosophies 4, no. 3 (July 26, 2019): 42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/philosophies4030042.
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“Sustainability” is widely used by diverse organizations as the normative direction to coordinate common actions. But what should we sustain or maintain? Through philosophical reasoning and a literature review in environmental ethics, this paper explores this question and develops a working definition of “sustainability” that intends to be compatible with the global diversity of worldviews. I argue that sustainability is the maintenance of the conditions of possibility of continuation of (1) self-determining flourishing human existences. It entails (2) maintaining the natural processes of the global environment autonomous to limit the possible harmful consequences of the conflicts of distribution and domination, and (3) cultivating meaningful, diverse, and adaptable nurturing milieus. This definition encompasses the three intricate ideas of self-determination, autonomy of the global environment, and diversity. Self-determination as well as the preservation of the autonomy of global environmental processes are crucial elements to prevent the unescapable domination of some powerful groups and worldviews over others. Diversity is also a key piece of the sustainability puzzle as it provides ranges of options that make self-determination possible. This paper proposes an inclusive and flexible working definition of sustainability that is mindful of the global diversity of worldviews.
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Gray, Richard T. "Accounting for Pleasure: Sigmund Freud, Carl Menger, and the Economically Minded Human Being." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 127, no. 1 (January 2012): 122–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2012.127.1.122.
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There is a surprising coherence between the human self-understanding and worldview that underpin the theoretical program of the Austrian marginalist economist Carl Menger (1840–1921), first articulated in his 1871 Grundsätze der Volkswirthschaftslehre (Principles of Economics), and Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic project. Both are grounded in a Hobbesian-Darwinian emphasis on monadic individuals guided by egoistic drives, self-interest, and a competitive struggle for individual advantage (Birken, Consuming Desire 1–39). Both, moreover, are steeped in a kind of Malthusian pessimism that invokes increasing scarcity of resources as the underlying cause of human existential anxiety and as the defining feature of human interactions with the “real” world of commodities (Riesman 3). For the Mengerian marginalist as for the Freudian psychoanalyst, the driving forces behind human life are existential need, the instinct for self-preservation and self-improvement, and the development of successful strategies for managing and satisfying needs.
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Yousaf, Salman, and Fahad Laber. "Does International Sporting Boycott Act as a Social Identity Threat? The Effects on the National Collective Self-Esteem of Pakistani Cricket Fans." SAGE Open 10, no. 2 (April 2020): 215824402093185. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244020931855.
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The present study theoretically advances the social identity threat construct, with the terrorist attacks of March 4, 2009, in the backdrop, by providing a compelling evidence on how international sporting isolation acts as a social identity threat due to emphatic consequences on spectator’s team identification and national collective self-esteem (CSE). Moreover, the study adheres to the rejection identification model, which accentuates profound identity by the socially devalued in-group members for preservation of self-esteem in instance of negative portrayal by an out-group. A total of 210 respondents were randomly assigned to one of the two experimental conditions. The results show that national team identification produced positive change in the CSE in threat condition making respondents assert significance to their group membership, self-concept, and private CSE. The two experimental conditions in this research delineate two diverse perspectives regarding identity level while adding useful contributions to the literature.
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Daponte, Alexandros, George Michail, Athina-Ioanna Daponte, Nikoletta Daponte, and George Valasoulis. "Urine HPV in the Context of Genital and Cervical Cancer Screening—An Update of Current Literature." Cancers 13, no. 7 (April 1, 2021): 1640. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers13071640.
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Within the previous decades, following the widespread implementation of HPV-related biomarkers and computerization in liquid-based cytology, screening for lower genital tract malignancies has been optimized in several parts of the world. Many organized anogenital cancer prevention systems have reached a point at which efficacy is more a matter of population coverage and less of available infrastructures. Meanwhile, self-sampling modalities in which biologic material (vaginal secretions, urine, etc.) is obtained by the individual and not the clinician and subsequently undergoes examination for HPV biomarkers enjoy appreciating acceptance. Bygone the initial skepticism that vaginal or urine HPV represents “passenger” transient infections, extensive scientific work has been conducted to optimize high-risk HPV (hrHPV) detection from this “novel” biologic material. Nowadays, several state-of-the-art meta-analyses have illustrated that self-sampling techniques involving urine self-sampling represent a feasible alternative strategy with potentially enhanced population coverage possessing excellent performance and sensitivity. Recently published scientific work focusing on urine HPV was reviewed, and after a critical appraisal, the following points should be considered in the clinical application of hrHPV urine measurements; (i) use of first-void urine (FVU) and purpose-designed collection devices; (ii) using a preservation medium to avoid human/HPV DNA degradation during extraction and storage; (iii) using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based assays, ideally with genotyping capabilities; (iv) processing of a sufficient volume of whole urine; and (v) the use of an analytically sensitive HPV test/recovery of cell-free HPV DNA in addition to cell-associated DNA.
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Esen’Kin, B. S. "Cultural Odyssey. Reflections on Culture in General and on the Book Industry in Particular." Bibliotekovedenie [Library and Information Science (Russia)], no. 5 (October 28, 2014): 21–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/0869-608x-2014-0-5-21-23.
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In the article there are presented the topical issues of development of book publishing industry in general and its branches - publishing companies and book trade - in the conditions of cultural and economic globalization: preservation of humanitarian environment, traditions, culture, literature, science and education; book publishing as the basis of social and economic welfare of state, cultural basis for accumulation and dissemination of knowledge; as well as there are described problems of formation of state policy in the field of culture and book industry, problems of self-regulation, ethical and legal relationships between members of book market.
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Harty, Siobhan. "The Nation as a Communal Good: A Nationalist Response to the Liberal Conception of Community." Canadian Journal of Political Science 32, no. 4 (December 1999): 665–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423900016942.
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AbstractRecent work in the field of liberal political philosophy has focused on the value of cultural communities for the individual. The claim that liberal theory can give explicit recognition to the fact that individuals are rooted in a social context has produced an important debate about the preservation of minority cultures and a liberal defence of nationalism. This literature should be of interest to scholars of nationalism because liberal theorists have used concepts related to the nation, such as self-determination, in ways that go against conventional usage, and liberal theorists have made claims about the relationship of the right and the good with which some students of nationalism would disagree. This article presents a nationalist response to the liberal conception of community by developing one possible nationalist argument for the priority of the good over the right by claiming that the nation is a communal good. The author illustrates this argument with examples of the political projects of nationalists-in-government in the developed West. Liberals need not be concerned with this reality since democratic institutions will set some limits on nationalist projects by ensuring that they are the outcome of democratic processes. On this view, the importance of self-determination is that it provides the context for the creation of institutions for a debate about the relationship of the right and the good. Self-determination does not, as some liberal nationalists argue, constitute an automatic right to cultural preservation.
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Cantor, Robert M. "On the embodied meaning of emotional responses to music: A semiotic perspective." Semiotica 2019, no. 231 (November 26, 2019): 225–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2018-0039.
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AbstractPrevious attempts to find meaning in emotional responses to music often begin with analysis of dynamic tonal patterns, with observation of the emotional behavior of listeners or with self-reports of emotional feelings. In this study, we begin with a somewhat detailed description of physical processes in the human auditory system that lead to the activation of processes in the autonomic nervous system, which produce embodied emotional responses to environmental challenges. We then propose an answer to the question: Why were some of the same embodied responses that were originally adapted to meet the challenges of self-preservation and self-perpetuation in the course of human evolution coopted to serve as responses to perceived dynamic patterns in music? We find that a likely answer to this question involves uncertainties in the possible outcomes of antecedent or consequent musical events.
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Schleicher, Marianne. "Fra bibelske til rabbinske opfattelser af askese: Jødedommens verdensbekræftende praksis." Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, no. 64 (March 11, 2016): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/rt.v0i64.23329.
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The purpose of this article is to supplement scholarly positions that define asceticism either as a matter of world renouncement and elitist self-exclusion from the world or as always oriented toward transcendent goals or practices of improvement because these positions run the risk of overlooking moderate kinds of asceticism. Israelite, early Jewish, and early Rabbinic Jewish religion are replete with examples of moderate asceticism where both men and women are encouraged to engage in abstinence and self-training in order – not to improve, but – to preserve a religious tradition. With Steven D. Fraade’s definition of asceticism as a departing point, the article examines abstinence and self-training in the Hebrew Bible, early Jewish and early Rabbinic literature. The author discerns three types of moderate asceticism: that of the priest, the layperson, and the hero/-ine. These three types complement each other in a shared effort to preserve divine blessings in this world and thereby the preservation of Israelite-Jewish tradition.
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Hinderliter, Beth. "Citizen Brus Examines His Body: Actionism and Activism in Vienna, 1968." October 147 (January 2014): 78–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/octo_a_00167.
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The question “Is nonviolence a possibility?” was a lightning rod of disorder in the 1960s as leftist groups became militarized, claiming counter-violence as the most effective vehicle of self-preservation. Numerous publications, whether advocating counter-violence as self-destruction or as self-preservation, from Konrad Lorenz's On Aggression (1963) to the collection The Dialectics of Liberation (which appeared in 1968 and featured essays by Herbert Marcuse, R.D. Laing, and Stokely Carmichael), spoke to the problem of venting human aggression and thereby ending our “mass suicide.” Artistic use of violence at the 1966 Destruction in Art Symposium in London, where Viennese Actionists as well as members of the Fluxus group gathered to stage performances of their works such as Ten Rounds for Cassius Clay, questioned the sublimation of violence or its aggravation via aesthetic strategies. In suggesting that nonviolence in an oppressive society was the equivalent of self-destruction, Actionists participated in a broader discussion of the character of violence being conducted by a number of activist groups at this time. It dismissed self-defense in favor of revolutionary violence. The Actionists politicized self-destruction as a means of routing bourgeois individualism and its internalization of repressive aspects of the state apparatus, forming group-subjects as in Wehrertüchtigung [Toughening Up the Army] from 1967, which had performers parodying the training exercises of army soldiers and reveling in corporal abjection. In this sense, the political capacities of Actionism can be seen not just in its partnering with student-activist groups to offer “teach-ins,” as at 1968's “Art and Revolution” (a manifestation of performance and actions co-organized by the Viennese Actionists and a student group at the University of Vienna); they are more widely manifest in the Direct Art performances of the mid-1960s and in Günter Brus's Body Analysis actions, which question the relationship between the materiality of the human body and the political identity of the citizen subject. Here, violence applied to the body as material seeks to overturn the originary violence that is the basis of state power and to render visible the internalization of repressive social forces.
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Abad-Coronel, Cristian, Belén Naranjo, and Pamela Valdiviezo. "Adhesive Systems Used in Indirect Restorations Cementation: Review of the Literature." Dentistry Journal 7, no. 3 (July 1, 2019): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/dj7030071.
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New technologies are changing the therapeutical options to do indirect restorations and new adhesive systems are continuously introduced to be used by clinicians. Different interactions between restorations, adhesive systems components, enamel and dentin require having criteria based on the selection of the adhesive system, ensuring the longevity of the restorations and the preservation of the biological remnant. The adhesion force to the dental tissue is one of the indicatives of the behavior of the adhesive systems and influences the behavior of the treatments with direct and indirect restorations. The objective of this search was to find the adhesive systems with the best results in terms of the adhesion strength of indirect restorations on the dental tissues. The search was conducted in two MEDLINE digital databases (PubMed), and the Cochrane Library with a search strategy based on the combination of MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) keywords. This systematic review used the PRISMA guide (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis). According to this review, the 3-step adhesive systems were the best performing and still are the gold standard for the cementing of indirect restorations. In addition, it can be concluded that self-etched adhesive systems reduce the time spent in clinical practice, however at the interface level they behave as permeable membranes more susceptible to degradation.
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Schnapauff, Dirk, Manon Russ, Thomas Kröncke, and Matthias David. "Analysis of presurgical uterine artery embolization (PUAE) for very large uterus myomatosus; patient’s desire to preserve the uterus; case series and literature review." RöFo - Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Röntgenstrahlen und der bildgebenden Verfahren 190, no. 07 (March 7, 2018): 616–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0044-101555.
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Purpose Purpose of this paper to present results of a group of 21 consecutive patients who underwent uterine artery embolization (UAE) immediately before myomectomy. Surgical myomectomy can lead to a substantial blood loss in case of large or multiple tumors due to the hypervascularization of the tumors. This may lead to multiple blood transfusion or hysterectomy. In cases were the preservation of the uterus is demanded, pre-operative embolization could reduce the risk of substantial bleeding. Materials and Methods Between January 2011 and March 2016, 21 patients underwent UAE 24 hours before myomectomy. All patients were asked by questionnaire about post-surgical follow-up, complications, the length of the scar, satisfaction and improvement of symptoms. Data of the operation and embolization were retrospectively assessed. Results UAE could be performed in all patients without complications. Mean diameter of the largest myoma was 12.7 ± 3.2 cm, primary preservation of the uterus succeeded in all cases. In none of the cases a perioperative blood transfusion was necessary. One patient underwent hysterectomy in another hospital after primary successful resection, one patient received transfusion of 2 bags of red blood cell concentrate during her stay in hospital.11 of 21 patients responded to the questionnaire. 10 of 11 had subjective symptom improvement. Mean inability to work was 31 days, the mean self-measured length was 12 cm. 9 of 11 patients would recommend the procedure, one patient was in the second trimester of pregnancy. Conclusion Preoperative uterine artery embolization facilitates a safe and uterus-preserving myomectomy in patients with very large or multiple fibroids. Key Points Citation Format
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Sukhodolskaya, Elena Sergeevna. "Role of culture in preservation of ethnic identity of Armenians in the V century." Человек и культура, no. 3 (March 2020): 117–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8744.2020.3.33576.
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The subject of this article is the cultural activity of Armenians in the V century aimed at preservation of national unity in the conditions of loss of statehood and exacerbated situation of population of the Eastern and Western Armenia. The object of this article is the Armenian leaders of the V century who impacted cultural development of the region of that time. Detailed analysis is conducted on such aspects of topic, as creation of national witting system, proliferation of education and emergence of national literature, development of architectural thought. Special attention is paid to the role of the Church in cultural development, as well as the appeared momocanons, which became the legal framework for the secular and ecclesiastical life. The scientific novelty of this research is defined by a new trend in historical science related to the study of ethnic identity. In medieval studies, this topic is of special importance, since peoples and states of that time often experienced the loss of sovereignty and statehood, which complicates the processes of ethnic self-identification of population. The work analyses the sources that describe cultural development of Eastern and Western Armenia, which allows speaking of the degree of preservation of national identity of the people, their unity against the threat of assimilation and loss of uniqueness. The made conclusions underline the significance of cultural development for the formation, preservation and development of ethnic identity of the people under a threat of assimilation or mandatory integration.
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Brooke, Christopher. "Grotius, Stoicism and 'Oikeiosis'." Grotiana 29, no. 1 (2008): 25–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187607508x384670.
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AbstractFor thirty years now there has been considerable debate concerning the foundations of modern natural law theory, with Richard Tuck emphasising the role self-preservation plays in anchoring Grotius's system and his critics pointing to the contribution of a principle of sociability. With reference to recent contributions in the literature on Stoicism from Julia Annas, A. A. Long and Tad Brennan, I argue that Grotius's use of the outline of Stoic ethics from Book III of Cicero's De finibus is crucial for understanding the nature of his argument. Drawing on Cicero's presentation of the Stoics' oikeiosis (Latin: appetitus societatis) helps Grotius to generate an argument which issues not in any demand for altruism, charity or mutual aid, but rather for organising justice around very strong protections for private property. The argument remains one about human sociability, however, and ought not to be mistaken for an account of self-interest, nor for a doctrine with substantially Epicurean roots.
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Garb, Jonathan. "From Fear to Awe in Luzzatto’s Mesillat Yesharim." European Journal of Jewish Studies 14, no. 2 (July 6, 2020): 285–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1872471x-bja10014.
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Abstract Perhaps the key term in musar writing is yir’ah. In early modern musar texts, usually incorporating kabbalistic discourse, this term is rendered as ‘fear.’ A striking exception is R. Moshe Ḥayyim Luzzatto’s Mesillat Yesharim, arguably one of the canonical texts of Jewish modernity. A close reading of the chapters devoted to yir’ah reveals that Luzzatto frames this term as ‘awe,’ moving away from the discourse on punishment and hell typical of early modern musar. An examination of the psychology behind this move shows that Luzzatto associates fear with the lower instinct of self-preservation, calling for its sublimation into self-abnegation in awe of divine presence. Mesillat Yesharim then became foundational for similar moves in later Jewish modernity. Without wishing to venture into claims as to inter-religious influence and response, it is instructive to compare Luzzatto’s approach to that of his Christian contemporaries, the ‘fire and brimstone’ preachers of the Great Awakening.
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Ashraf, Iqra, and Asmat Naz. "A conceptual and philosophical approach towards educational system from an Ancient Indian perspective." PERENNIAL JOURNAL OF HISTORY 1, no. 1 (June 30, 2020): 37–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.52700/pjh.v1i1.20.
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In this paper a discovery of the philosophy of educational systems from an Ancient Indian perspective. A limited number of articles have been written from a standpoint of philosophical, historical, and the Ancient perspective when resultantly, this article not only aims to fill in the gaps in literature, but also aspires to provide an insight on educational philosophy from the Ancient Indian perspective. In the Indian context, the origin of education can be traced from the Vedic literatures such as the Valmiki Ramayana, the Mahabharata (includes the Bhagavad-Gita) and the Puranas. The foundation of this paper revolves around hermeneutics, which are a qualitative research methodology involving the studying, understanding and interpretation of ancient text. With the help of the aforementioned methodology, authors disclose some ancient lessons on today’s educational system. The aim of this paper is to knowing the Educational System of Ancient India. In the ancient times, two education systems i.e. Vedic and Buddhist were developed by them and their sole purposeswere self-control, propagation of purity, development of character, personality development, social awareness and preservation of the culture for youth.
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Latha, S., Dhanalakshmi Samiappan, and R. Kumar. "Carotid artery ultrasound image analysis: A review of the literature." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine 234, no. 5 (January 21, 2020): 417–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0954411919900720.
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Stroke is one of the prominent causes of death in the recent days. The existence of susceptible plaque in the carotid artery can be used in ascertaining the possibilities of cardiovascular diseases and long-term disabilities. The imaging modality used for early screening of the disease is B-mode ultrasound image of the person in the artery area. The objective of this article is to give a widespread review of the imaging modes and methods used for studying the carotid artery for identifying stroke, atherosclerosis and related cardiovascular diseases. We encompass the review in methods used for artery wall tracking, intima–media, and lumen segmentation which will help in finding the extent of the disease. Due to the characteristics of the imaging modality used, the images have speckle noise which worsens the image quality. Adaptive homomorphic filtering with wavelet and contourlet transforms, Levy Shrink, gamma distribution were used for image denoising. Learning-based neural network approaches for denoising give better edge preservation. Domain knowledge-based segmentation approaches have proved to provide more accurate intima–media thickness measurements. There is a requirement of useful fully automatic segmentation approaches, 3D, 4D systems, and plaque motion analysis. Taking into consideration the image priors like geometry, imaging physics, intensity and temporal data, image analysis has to be performed. Encouragingly more research has focused on content-specific segmentation and classification techniques. With the evaluation of machine learning algorithms, classifying the image as with or without a fat deposit has gained better accuracy and sensitivity. Machine learning–based approaches like self-organizing map, k-nearest neighborhood and support vector machine achieve promising accuracy and sensitivity in classification. The literature reveals that there is more scope in identifying a patient-specific model in a fully automatic manner.
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Pedersen, Anne Bettina. "Mourning My Mother: An Exploration of the Complex Emotions Elicited by the Terminal Illness of an Estranged Parent." Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, no. 3-4 (September 30, 2019): 107–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v28i2-3.116312.
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In 2017, I learned that my estranged mother had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. This article explores the conflicting emotional responses I have had following the decision not to reconnect with my mother, not to provide care for her during her illness, and not to attend her funeral (when the time comes). This study combines my own creative explorations of child neglect, through autophenomenography, with examinations of autobiographical accounts of mother-daughter relationships and literature on family estrangement and the loss of a parent. I suggest that I already ‘read’ myself as a motherless daughter, and that caring, (re)mourning, and (re)grieving for my mother would entail reentering a dysfunctional dyad and opening up past wounds. There appear to be few resources to draw on regarding how to navigate this particular emotional terrain. This article does not intend to provide a prescriptive model for this type of loss, but rather aims at opening up for queer modes of grieving and mourning and suggests that, in some cases, the denial of care for an estranged parent translates into self-care and self-preservation.
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Nkealah, Naomi. "Reconciling Arabo-Islamic culture and feminist consciousness in North African women’s writing: Silence and voice in the short stories of Alifa Rifaat and Assia Djebar." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 45, no. 1 (February 15, 2018): 19–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.45i1.4459.
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This article sets out to explore the theme of silence and voice in selected short stories by two North African women writers, Alifa Rifaat and Assia Djebar. In their representations of women’s lives in Egypt and Algeria, respectively, both Rifaat and Djebar present different strategies employed by women to counter gender oppression. Although the female characters portrayed by both writers encounter diverse, and sometimes opposing, circumstances, they tend to share a common plight – the need to break free from the constricting fetters of patriarchy. A comparative reading of selected stories reveals that Rifaat’s characters resort to silence as a means of self-preservation, while Djebar’s characters, on the other hand, use techniques ranging from writing to outright protest to show their rejection of gender-based segregation. In spite of this difference in approach, it can be said that both Rifaat and Djebar have made a great contribution to feminist literary creativity in North Africa.
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Hudson, Amy, and Kelly Vodden. "Decolonizing Pathways to Sustainability: Lessons Learned from Three Inuit Communities in NunatuKavut, Canada." Sustainability 12, no. 11 (May 28, 2020): 4419. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12114419.
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Community led planning is necessary for Inuit to self-determine on their lands and to ensure the preservation of cultural landscapes and the sustainability of social-ecological systems that they are a part of. The sustainability efforts of three Inuit communities in Labrador during a Community Governance and Sustainability Initiative were guided by a decolonized and strength-based planning framework, including the values of Inuit in this study. This paper demonstrates that Inuit led planning efforts can strengthen community sustainability planning interests and potential. We situate the experiences of NunatuKavut Inuit within, and contribute to, the existing body of scholarly decolonization and sustainability literature. For many Indigenous people, including Inuit, decolonization is connected to inherent rights to self-determination. The findings suggest that decolonizing efforts must be understood and actualized within an Indigenous led research and sustainability planning paradigm that facilitates autonomous decision making and that is place based. Further, this study illustrates five predominant results regarding Inuit in planning for community sustainability that support sustainable self-determination. These include: inter and cross community sharing; identification of community strengths; strengthened community capacity; re-connection to community and culture; and the possibility for identification of sustainability goals to begin implementation through community led governance and planning processes.
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Ruban, Larissa S., and Мaksim А. Ananjin. "The Spread of Orthodoxy in Southeast Asia and the Role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Region." South East Asia: Actual problems of Development 1, no. 1(50) (2021): 232–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.31696/2072-8271-2021-1-1-50-232-242.
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The authors analyze the spread of Orthodoxy and Orthodox parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in some the countries of Southeast Asia, and their impact on Russian and Russian-speaking immigrants and expats. The article shows the growth of the publication activity of the ROC in Southeast Asia and translation activities (translation of prayers and spiritual literature into the languages of the indigenous peoples of the region). The article reveals the influence of Orthodox parishes on the implementation of social communication, identification and self-identification of Russian compatriots in Southeast Asia, the formation and preservation of the cultural Orthodox basis of semantic and value orientations of parishioners. A proposal was made to use the potential of the ROC MP in Southeast Asia to strengthen the influence of the Russian Federation in the region.
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Moon, Jihie. "Hybride zelf(re)presentatie in de dagboeken van Hennie Aucamp." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 54, no. 1 (March 24, 2017): 44–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/tvl.v.54i1.3.
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This article on Hennie Aucamp approaches his journals as ego-documents. The positional dilemma and identity crisis of Afrikaners in the new South Africa are portrayed in the triptych: Gekaapte tyd (Captured time, 1996), Allersiele (All Souls, 1997) and Skuinslig (Light at Dusk, 2003). Aucamp's journals constitute a hybrid composite that bridges the space between a personal reflection on daily life and that of a historical, social and cultural document. Through the complex process of disguise and revelation of the "I", Aucamp's diaries create a space that allows free contemplation and reflection both on the socio-cultural developments in the new South Africa and on the fate of Afrikaners and Afrikaans itself. It is from his feeling of displacement and expatriation as a white Afrikaner under the new system and his fear of the disappearance of Afrikaners and Afrikaans that Aucamp positions himself as a defender of Afrikaner culture. Moreover, Aucamp claims that this cultural legacy could be used as future-oriented survival strategy: the preservation of culture being simultaneously self-preservation. It is within this framework that he makes a subtle comparison between Afrikaans and Afrikaner culture and the culture of the San; his affinity for the lost culture of the San runs parallel with his defence of the world of Afrikaners. This has resulted in the writer's socio-cultural criticisms and commentaries in a certain sense becoming a personal performance in favour of the recreation of a lost Afrikaner language and culture. At the same time, they il- lustrate the writer's attempt to position himself strategically with regard to the future-oriented formation of identity not only of himself, but also of the reader. It is within this context that the increase in ego-documents written in modern-day South African and Afrikaner literature can also be seen as a struggle against loss and forgetting.
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DAVIS, ROCÍO G. "‘‘I wish you a land'': Hawai'i Short Story Cycles and aloha ′aina." Journal of American Studies 35, no. 1 (April 2001): 47–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875801006521.
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The artistic appropriation of place ranks among the central concerns of Asian American writing. Place in literature, a simultaneous geography of space and imagination, has the potential to represent communal formation and preservation as it highlights the identity that binds its members in a shared sense of purpose and a common sense of belonging. For first-generation writers, the portrayal of the land of the past often blends with that of the present, offering a vivid depiction of how immigrants perceive the physical and emotional journey from the geographic and temporal past to the present, as they struggle to establish themselves in the new surroundings. For second-generation Asian Americans, place often acquires another meaning, that of a definition of self in the place of birth, as they shift between visions of their parents' past location and their own cultural differences. Third-generation writers engage a wide spectrum of negotiations with the land that was a protagonists of their growing up, and that of their increasingly complex personal and community history. Consequently, a sense of place becomes one of the most significant elements the Asian American writer can manipulate to condition self-representation and the portrayal of community.
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Sargiacomo, Massimo, Stefania Servalli, and Garry D. Carnegie. "Accounting for killing: Accountability for death." Accounting History 17, no. 3-4 (August 2012): 393–413. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1032373212443536.
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Accounting and the conscious secretive killing of humans are rarely concurrently examined in the contemporary and historical literature. Based on examinations of a rare and formerly highly secretive surviving written record found in the Venice State Archive, and other surviving primary records, as well as secondary sources, this novel study outlines evidence of “accounting for killing” of the enemies of the Venetian State during the sixteenth century as a means of rendering the individuals who made those decisions “accountable for death”. The rationale for this governmental approach to self-preservation, described as “Reason of State”, was widely adopted in Europe during this period. The available evidence illustrates the use of the police apparatus in the Venetian State, namely the Council of Ten, in order to reinforce, protect and defend the State, and illuminates the role of accounting information in this highly secretive and sinister process. The notion of “secretive collective internal horizontal accountability” is applied in explaining the accountability for death regime found to have been adopted, thus broadening the dimensions of accountability that are typically recognized within the accounting literature. Rarely has accounting and accountability within government been shown to be so secretive.
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Khatiwada, Prashidha, and Rabindra Adhikari. "Beautification of Pokhara City with a Special Focus on Phewa Lake and Lakeside Area." Himalayan Journal of Applied Science and Engineering 2, no. 1 (June 18, 2021): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/hijase.v2i1.37802.
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Pokhara is one of the rapidly growing cities of Nepal. It is the second-largest metropolitan city after Kathmandu. Because of the renowned temples, monasteries, lakes, adventure sports, and being close to the well-known Annapurna Range, it is considered as the tourism capital of Nepal. Millions of tourist visit this naturally gifted city every year contributing to considerable economic development. This economic prospect has attracted thousands of migrants every year leading to 67% growth in population in the last decade. The rapid population growth and urbanization without long-term planning and firm regulation have severely affected the development of sustainable infrastructure, preservation of the public space and natural resources. This has further impacted the tourism, economy, health and wellbeing, environment, and social aspect of the city. This article aims to generate strategies for retaining and improving the natural beauty of the city (focusing on the Phewa Lake area) by enhancing the economy and environment, rejuvenating social and cultural values, elevating the health and wellbeing of the people, and strengthening and promoting sustainable development. In this article, literature reviews, interviews, and field surveys were undertaken and four major improvements/developments are recommended for the beautification of Pokhara City. The recommendations are: preservation and development of open space into self-sustaining cohesive community parks, citizen-centred urban development, improvement of current transport infrastructure, and conservation of natural resources such as water, vegetation, and landscape.
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Tanasijević, Ivana. "U TRAGANjU ZA IZGUBLjENIM SMISLOM: „RAZBRAJALICA, OKTOPOD-PRIČA“ LASLA BLAŠKOVIĆA." Lipar XXI, no. 73 (2020): 133–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/lipar73.133t.
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The paper aims to explore the genre specifics of the novel Counting-out Rhyme, Octopus-Story written by Laslo Blašković, as well as the semantic layers that were activated in this manner. By accepting the traditional genre of the novel, which was transformed in the direction of a counting-out rhyme and octopus-story, the novel is constructed as a formally unique, subjective literary expression. Building its narrative flow upon the destinies of different personalities, who built seemingly independent stories, the novel Counting-out Rhyme develops the idea of a single story. With each new destiny, the story gets its variant, so the figure of the octopus will become a metaphor of literature in the most general sense. The story, having lost its meaning due to countless repetitions, like a counting-out rhyme, will become a structure of sound and scream, while the need for narration will become a principle of self-preservation.
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Tavana, Madjid, Timothy E. Busch, and Eleanor L. Davis. "Modeling Operational Robustness and Resiliency with High-Level Petri Nets." International Journal of Knowledge-Based Organizations 1, no. 2 (April 2011): 17–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijkbo.2011040102.
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Military operations are highly complex workflow systems that require careful planning and execution. The interactive complexity and tight coupling between people and technological systems has been increasing in military operations, which leads to both improved efficiency and a greater vulnerability to mission accomplishment due to attack or system failure. Although the ability to resist and recover from failure is important to many systems and processes, the robustness and resiliency of workflow management systems has received little attention in literature. The authors propose a novel workflow modeling framework using high-level Petri nets (PNs). The proposed framework is capable of both modeling structure and providing a wide range of qualitative and quantitative analysis. The concepts of self-protecting and self-healing systems are captured by the robustness and resiliency measures proposed in this study. The proposed measures are plotted in a Cartesian coordinate system; a classification scheme with four quadrants (i.e., possession, preservation, restoration, and devastation) is proposed to show the state of the system in terms of robustness and resiliency. The authors introduce an overall sustainability index for the system based on the theory of displaced ideals. The application of the methodology in the evaluation of an air tasking order generation system at the United States Air Force is demonstrated.
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Emel’kina, Irina V. "Development of Ethnic Consciousness of Mordovia People in the Conditions of Globalization." Humanitarian: actual problems of the humanities and education 20, no. 3 (November 30, 2020): 325–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.15507/2078-9823.51.020.202003.325-333.
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Introduction. The aim of this article is to conduct a theoretical analysis of the ethnic self-awareness of the Mordovians, the dynamics of interaction between the Russian and Mordovian mentalities in a multi-ethnic environment. To determine the general outline of ethnic processes in the global information space on the example of their intercultural communication competence. To identify the most significant trends in the transformation of ethnic identity and their globalization processes impact. To justify the need to address the study of the national identity of the Mordvins. Materials and Methods. The solution to research problems was provided by a set of complementary theoretical (scientific literature analysis of the problem under investigation, comparative analysis, comparison, generalization, systematization) and empirical (expert evaluation method) methods. Results. A number of preliminary observations were made, indicating the peculiarities of the problem under investigation (some experts perceive issues of ethnic identity very acutely. There are works in which attention is paid not so much to understanding the essence of the phenomenon as to its politicized interpretation). Positive (preservation of cultural identity) and negative (assimilation, depopulation, growth in the number of inter-ethnic contacts, contradictory nature of ethnic identity) trends in the development of ethnic consciousness of the Mordovian people are noted. Changes in ethnic self-awareness in the conditions of transformation of Russian society, as well as their consequences, are revealed. The issues of modern ethno-cultural vectors of development of Mordovian self-awareness are discussed. It is concluded that the development of the ethnic self-awaress of the Mordovian ethnic group in the context of globalization is quite successful, but requires serious intervention. Discussion and Conclusion. Ethnic self-awareness is associated with the development and construction of one’s own identity. Over the past two decades, under the influence of a number of factors, ethnic identity has been transformed. Despite the positive dynamics in the development of ethnic consciousness, the population of the Republic of Mordovia began to experience the renewal of culture, which is hindering the preservation of ethnic identity (gradual loss of ethnic identity, language). The catalyst for these trends is globalization, the influence of mass media, which replicate patterns of new behavior. Accordingly, it is necessary to have a competent and theoretically thought-out external and systematic activity of all structures of society that covers all spheres of life and responds to changes in society. A systematic, critically generalized analysis of socio-cultural processes, understanding and preserving elements of Mordovian culture, embedded in the process of social development is essential.
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Aydin, Filiz Tutku, and Fethi Kurtiy Sahin. "The politics of recognition of Crimean Tatar collective rights in the post-Soviet period: With special attention to the Russian annexation of Crimea." Communist and Post-Communist Studies 52, no. 1 (February 19, 2019): 39–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2019.02.003.
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This paper examines the process of how Crimean Tatars strived to attain group-differentiated rights since they have returned to their homeland in the early 1990s. Whereas the politics of minority rights were viewed through security lens in earlier literature, we emphasize the significance of cultural constructs in influencing the minority policies, based on qualitative content analysis of “speech acts” of elites, and movement and policy documents. Focusing on the interaction of the framing processes of Crimean Tatars with the Crimean regional government, Ukraine, and Russia, we argue that the “neo-Stalinist frame” has played a major role in denying the rights of Crimean Tatars for self-determination and preservation of their ethnic identity in both pre and post annexation Crimea. The Crimean Tatars counter-framed against neo-Stalinist frame both in the pre and post-annexation period by demanding their rights as “indigenous people”. Ukraine experienced a frame transformation after the Euromaidan protests, by shifting from a neo-Stalinist frame into a “multiculturalist frame”, which became evident in recognition of the Crimean Tatar status as indigenous people of Crimea.
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Ivanovic, Zoran. "Oxygenation level as a factor in stem cell maintenance." Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo 134, Suppl. 1 (2006): 57–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/sarh06s1057i.
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This article will describe the decade-long genesis of a research project and review its main results. These results point to oxygenation level being a physiological regulator of haematopoietic stem cell maintenance because: (1) very low oxygen concentrations (~0.1%) enable the preservation of the quiescent (G0) stem cell pool; (2) low oxygen concentrations (~1%) are compatible with the proliferation of primitive stem cells but inhibit their differentiation, i.e. enable their self-renewal; (3) moderately low oxygen concentrations (~3%) allow a balance between differentiation and self-renewal, permitting the simultaneous amplification of progenitors and the maintenance of stem cell activity; and (4) very high oxygen concentrations, like those in the air (20-21%), enhance the differentiation of primitive stem cells, abrogating their self-renewal capacity. In spite of the fact that these oxygen concentrations do not exist in tissues in vivo, they are usually used for in vitro cell growth. These results represent a new insight into the regulatory mechanisms of haematopoiesis. In that light they are cited in top biomedical literature and accepted as being relevant to the development of tissue and cell engineering. In that respect, we are working on the adaptation of culture oxygenation to improve existent ex vivo expansion techniques. We are also trying to improve the techniques of ex vivo production of red blood cells in the same manner. Our other ongoing research projects are directed at improving the conservation of stem cells at low temperatures (but above freezing point) within a liquid medium, by decreasing oxygen and increasing CO2 concentrations.
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Polishchuk, Oleksandr, and Olena Polishchuk. "Аxiological features of formation of leadership qualities in the process of obtaining higher education." International Scientific Journal of Universities and Leadership, no. 11 (June 14, 2021): 201–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.31874/2520-6702-2021-11-1-201-210.
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Based on the analyzed literature, it is established that leaders play an important role in the society. The sources have shown that each period of development of the society has its own leaders. This correspondence is due to the fact that leaders have the qualities that the society, social group or team wants to see. The use of methods of analysis of philosophical, psychological and relevant literature, phenomenological, dialectical method, systematization, generalization, hypothetical-deductive modeling made it possible to establish that only some qualities are instinctive and focus on self-preservation, self-realization, etc., but there are qualities that are acquired during the study in a higher education institution, in their combination they form a leader not only in the public, professional, political sphere, but also in life. Taking into account the information period of society development, its openness and uncertainty requires a person to be a leader. Having formed own «I», having mastered universal and professional values, developing leadership qualities, a person enters the whirlpool of professional life, enters a social professional group, with which the person began to identify himself or herself during the period of mastering the profession. Particular attention is paid to student self-government, which, in accordance with current legislation, creates all the conditions for the development of leadership qualities that are provoked by such values as life, people, justice, freedom, responsibility. Focusing on these and other values promotes the development of the following qualities: initiative, creativity, sociability, comradeship, sensitivity, professionalism, erudition, responsibility, ability to predict actions and predict their consequences. Having developed these qualities, the student becomes ready for life’s challenges, able to lead a social group, take responsibility for decisions, and so on. That is, the leader who is being formed today in educational institutions is ready to organize collective action to achieve the goal and master the values that are needed for a social group, team, society.
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Batyanova, E. P. "The Teleuts: from non-Russians to Indigenous Minority of the North’." VESTNIK ARHEOLOGII, ANTROPOLOGII I ETNOGRAFII, no. 3 (50) (August 28, 2020): 170–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.20874/2071-0437-2020-50-3-14.
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This paper concerns the study of the specifics of self-consciousness and self-identity of one of the indige-nous minorities of Siberia — the Teleuts, in different periods of their ethnic history from the mid. 18th century until the present time. Main forms of Teleuts’ identity are considered: national; class; ethnic; ancestral and local. The instances of using various ethnonyms, genonymums and class attributes by Teleuts are analyzed. Identity multi-variance is considered as a mechanism of minority self-preservation and adaptation to the continuous assimilative influence of the nonethnic majority. The paper is based on the archival sources and field materials of the author collected during the expeditions to Teleuts in 1978–2014. The field materials include samples of the folklore, writ-ten folk literature, records of biographies, family chronicles and narratives about other societies recorded by the author. It has been shown how Teleuts ideas about other societies adjusted in the course of their adaptation to the new social and cultural environment within the Russian state. The attention has been drawn to how the ethnic consolidation of the Teleuts in the 19th–20th cc. transformed the local self-consciousness and self-identity. The names associated with small territorial communities often acquired derogatory sense and transferred from endo- to exo-type. It has been deduced how the legal status of the ethnic group within the state influences development of their ethnic culture. Notably, the non-Russians status of the Teleuts brought to them some rights and privileges in terms of the land tenure, taxes and exemption from the compulsory military service. On one hand, this has been helping to strengthen the national identity of the Teleuts, but on the other hand, it facilitates their ethnic self-affirmation. Teleuts have always been proud with their non-Russians status within the Russian state. The ethnic status of the Teleuts in the post-Soviet period is protected by their official recognition in 1989 as a separate ethnic group and subsequent affiliation with the indigenous minorities of the North.
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Kelsall, Frank. "Not as Ugly as Stonehenge: Architecture and History in the First Lists of Historic Buildings." Architectural History 52 (2009): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0066622x00004135.
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Four years ago Peter Draper, as your recently retired president, described his lecture as valedictory and therefore self-indulgent in its choice of topic. What a useful precedent. I hope I am not over self-indulgent to the extent of being too autobiographical, but the subject does relate to my personal experience of the practice of architectural history in the conservation of historic buildings. The history of building conservation is now developing its own quite substantial literature to which this is a small contribution. To some extent this lecture is as much about bureaucracy as about architecture, for much of my life has been spent as an official in the public service. But, so that the lecture is properly historical, most of what I will talk about happened before I was involved.One major difference between the British and American Societies of Architectural Historians is that the American Society has always involved itself in building preservation issues, whereas the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain does not. This recognizes the different circumstances in each country. In Great Britain we have many amenity societies directed to conservation matters; most of us will belong to one or more of them and they are centres of quite extraordinary expertise. But in view of what I will say later, it is notable that in an account of a meeting in March 1941 in Washington, reported in the first volume of the American Society’s journal, Henry-Russell Hitchcock commented on the merits of the Historic American Buildings Survey, but added that selections by local groups often lacked historical perspective and ignored anything later than the Greek Revival; that there was excessive preservation of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century houses in New England without regard to architectural merit; and that primary monuments of modern architectural history were wantonly destroyed. As concerns the latter, he cited, among others, Richardson’s Marshall Field Warehouse, and a threat to Wright’s Robie House. The representative of the National Parks Service said that 1870 was about the date limit for a building to be regarded as of interest, though the Vanderbilt House of 1895 had recently been acquired, and that attention was also being paid to groups of buildings.
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Sutherland, Ian E. "Learning and growing: trust, leadership, and response to crisis." Journal of Educational Administration 55, no. 1 (February 6, 2017): 2–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jea-10-2015-0097.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of trust in a school community related to the leadership response to crisis. Design/methodology/approach This study was a multiple-source qualitative study of a single case of a PreK-12 international school called The Learning School. Findings The findings revealed the nature of how leadership influences and is influenced by context and community. These led to a discussion about two shifts, the focus on self to focus on others and the collective community, and a shift from a focus on self-preservation and protection to learning and growing together as a community. Communication, decision making, and collaboration in the community played a significant role in the community learning and growing from the crisis. Research limitations/implications The study was limited by the nature of the topic, crisis in schools. The nature of crisis limits the ability to engage in inquiry before the crisis, and the inquiry was limited to the specific case that occurred in a unique context. The author proposes future cross-case research to develop an understanding of school and leader responses to crisis varies across individuals and contexts, and culture. Originality/value While there is a growing literature about trust, it is difficult to study schools in crisis due to the limitations of the topic and sensitivity of issues of crisis in schools. This study gives insight into the dynamics of leadership and trust in a school in crisis.
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Brattin, Rick L., Joshua M. Davis, and Sheryl Brahnam. "Influencing the Relationship between Job Clarity and Turnover Intention through User Training During Enterprise System Implementation." Information Management and Business Review 10, no. 4 (January 14, 2019): 22–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.22610/imbr.v10i4.2644.
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Enterprise system (ES) implementations introduce pervasive and disruptive change to organizations. End-users struggling to cope with such change often develop an internal self-preservation narrative that, if not managed, can lead to employee turnover. Turnover is a visibly-assertive response to ES implementations that has lasting negative effects on organizations. The job role literature suggests that an individual’s intention to leave an organization is greater when they lack clarity concerning their own work tasks and their role in achieving broader organizational goals. These clarity perceptions evolve during ES implementations as individuals become aware that their existing job context is no longer relevant to the post-implementation organization. It seems likely that the strength of relationship between job clarity and turnover intention will also evolve during this time. Accordingly, this study uses PLS-SEM multi-group analysis to examine changes in this relationship during an ES implementation at a Fortune 100 manufacturer and finds a significant increase in the influence of job clarity deficiencies on turnover intention following end-user training. These results suggest that ES implementation teams should focus their efforts on building job clarity of the post-implementation work context.
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Ponomareva, M. A. "Images of Relations between Nobility and Peasantry in Russian Liberal Literature in Late 19th — Early 20th Centuries." Nauchnyi dialog, no. 4 (April 21, 2021): 391–409. http://dx.doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2021-4-391-409.
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The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the representation of relations between the nobility and the peasantry in Russian liberal thought at the cusp of XIX—XX centuries. A review of the existing historiography on the problem is carried out, the main attention is paid to the emerging from the middle 1980s the traditions of studying the liberal intelligentsia in Russia and the peculiarities of the relationship between the “educated minority and the peasant world”, an analysis of the latest scientific literature is presented. Special attention is paid to the main research approaches to the study of the topic, microhistorical, positional and other approaches, the concept of “new local history” is highlighted and the need for their complex use is declared. The results of a comparative analysis of various groups of sources are presented: reminiscence and memoirs, periodicals, statistical materials, correspondence. The question is raised about the differences in the self-identification of the Russian nobility, as well as in the mutual representations of the two most important estates of post-reform Russia. The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that, on the basis of new methodological approaches, several images of relations between the nobility and the peasantry have been identified at the cusp of XIX—XX centuries: the image of the “new entrepreneurial type”, “guardianship” and “preservation of traditions”, conventionally “lordly”, as well as the image of “free action”; their distinctive characteristics are given. The proposed classification is due to the main ideas of the Russian nobility about the peasants in the context of the institutionalization of liberal ideology.
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Krylova, Natalia. "On Self and the Era: Literary Exploits of Russian Émigrées in Africa." Uchenie zapiski Instituta Afriki RAN, no. 2 (June 30, 2021): 90–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.31132/2412-5717-2021-55-2-90-103.
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Within the general array of the studies on the issues of immigration during the era of intensive migration processes induced by the Russian revolution of 1917, the approach of researching into cultural self-preservation and cultural identity of the immigrants is used to a considerably lesser extent. At the same time, such an approach, especially if supplied with evidence in the form of fictional and journalistic works, is extremely important for understanding the socio-cultural adaptation of an individual to the new environment and determining the specifics of cultural integration associated with the inevitable and dramatic clash of different cultural stereotypes. The emigrant generation of Russians of the “first wave”, who found themselves in Africa, had the ability to create literature. There were many women among them, for whom literary testimony, poetry, and journalism were important. Epistolary became one of the ways of cultural expression, recreating the history of communities whose existence for a long time remained little known. The use of these sources opens up new areas of life and history of Russian emigration. Life at the crossroads of different cultural traditions, tragic awareness of their isolation from the native culture, challenging experience of learning a foreign culture, as well as the existence within the space of different traditions of life – all these marks of the cultural composure of a Russian emigré of the first half of the 20th century can be found in their journalistic and fictional works. In the works of Russian emigrants, there is a special subtlety of psychological mood, a special insight into their own lives, their “I”, and a special piercing compassion for the world around them. Hence the special lyricism of the women’s prose and poetry, despite the dramas of life reflected in them, and the specialness of their position in this world. Their literary samples are a vivid evidence of a bygone era and represent fresh inclusions in the general literary process. Combining with the poetic and prose streams of Russian emigrant literature, they join together in the general world literary process that was experienced by the 20th century.
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Sinclair, Shane, Kate Beamer, Thomas F. Hack, Susan McClement, Shelley Raffin Bouchal, Harvey M. Chochinov, and Neil A. Hagen. "Sympathy, empathy, and compassion: A grounded theory study of palliative care patients’ understandings, experiences, and preferences." Palliative Medicine 31, no. 5 (August 17, 2016): 437–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269216316663499.
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Background: Compassion is considered an essential element in quality patient care. One of the conceptual challenges in healthcare literature is that compassion is often confused with sympathy and empathy. Studies comparing and contrasting patients’ perspectives of sympathy, empathy, and compassion are largely absent. Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate advanced cancer patients’ understandings, experiences, and preferences of “sympathy,” “empathy,” and “compassion” in order to develop conceptual clarity for future research and to inform clinical practice. Design: Data were collected via semi-structured interviews and then independently analyzed by the research team using the three stages and principles of Straussian grounded theory. Setting/participants: Data were collected from 53 advanced cancer inpatients in a large urban hospital. Results: Constructs of sympathy, empathy, and compassion contain distinct themes and sub-themes. Sympathy was described as an unwanted, pity-based response to a distressing situation, characterized by a lack of understanding and self-preservation of the observer. Empathy was experienced as an affective response that acknowledges and attempts to understand individual’s suffering through emotional resonance. Compassion enhanced the key facets of empathy while adding distinct features of being motivated by love, the altruistic role of the responder, action, and small, supererogatory acts of kindness. Patients reported that unlike sympathy, empathy and compassion were beneficial, with compassion being the most preferred and impactful. Conclusion: Although sympathy, empathy, and compassion are used interchangeably and frequently conflated in healthcare literature, patients distinguish and experience them uniquely. Understanding patients’ perspectives is important and can guide practice, policy reform, and future research.
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Sushchy, Sergey. "Russians of the neighboring countries in the post-Soviet period: geodemographic, ethno-social, sociocultural aspects." Population 24, no. 1 (March 30, 2021): 103–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.19181/population.2021.24.1.10.
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The following review article analyzes an array of scientific studies dedicated to the Russian population of the neighboring countries. This article considers the works dealing with quantitative, spatial, and settlement dynamics of Russian communities; scale and direction of migration; shifts in indicators of natural reproduction and sex-age structure. Analysis of the scientific literature shows a widespread trend of depopulation, reduction in geography, a noticeable gender imbalance and increase in the average age among Russians across the entire near abroad. But there are also significant cross-country differences in these trends. This article also identifies main directions of research on the ethno-social dynamics of the Russian population, including analysis of the problems of its ethnic self-identification and interethnic marriage, the related assimilation processes, which, depending on the country and region, could contribute to both replenishment of Russian communities, or growth of their demographic losses. The studies dedicated to sociocultural processes, to position of the Russian language and Russian culture in the post-Soviet space, show multidirectional nature of the changes. A significant reduction in the scale of Russian-language education and other spheres of sociocultural infrastructure was combined in the post-Soviet space with dominance of the Russian-speaking Internet and keeping Russian as the language of interethnic communication. The scientific literature also reveal significant differences in the strategies of the Russian people themselves, in some regions of the neighboring countries they are predominantly focused on complex socio-cultural integration, in the others — on preservation of their cultural and linguistic specifics.