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A Brief Review of Heat Sink, Heat Pipe, and Vapor Chamber as a Key Function of Thermal Solution for Electronic Devices
Authors: Elnaggar Mohamed , Hatab Mohammed Abu , Edwan Ezzaldeen
Published: November 2020

Electronics industry requires efficient design that can handle fast mathematical operations to compensate for the growing development and demand for processing power. These days, there are numerous equipment or parts inside machines called heating elements particularly with electrical or electronic devices and they should be cooled during the working process. However, with respect to their size, manufacturers are minifying day by day to satisfy requirements of users but the power should be maintained. Hence, elements withstand a high amount of heat and high heat flux (transition/mutability) is being generated during the working process. The main contribution of this study is to investigate thermal solutions using four cooling tools and to compare to each other and consider thermal design guidelines and factors as well. Furthermore, we review the appropriate thermal solutions for the produced heat from the electronic equipment and we present the effective and suitable tools which used to dissipate this heat. A heat sink, heat pipe, and vapor chamber are reviewed and compared depending on the previous studies that have implemented them.
Neurologic Manifestations of SARS-CoV-2, the Virus that Causes COVID-19
Authors: Naji Hassan
Published: November 2020

Coronaviruses have been associated with many outbreaks in the past and the recent pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has spread around the globe due to its high transmission rate. SARS-CoV-2 has reported to be associated with respiratory and cardiac complications, but recent case series and case reports of COVID-19 patients suggest that it is also associated with neurological manifestations. The most commonly observed neurological manifestation are headache, anomia, ageusia, dizziness, delirium and the complications include Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS), acute encephalitis, acute myelitis, and cerebrovascular disorders. The pathways leading to neuronal damage are the retrograde neuronal and hematogenous pathway. This paper is aimed to explain the neurological manifestations associated with COVID-19 patients and the possible pathophysiological mechanisms of neuronal invasion.
Axes of Tension: Navigating craft, institution and industry as an art-researcher in film and new media
Authors:   The Norwegian Film School, Centre for exclusive in film and interactive media arts (Norway), Lipsyc Nadja , Jaller Camilla ,   Aalborg University Copenhagen, Makropol (Denmark), Howard Frederick ,   The Norwegian Film School, Storm Films (Norway)
Published: November 2020

Artistic Research (AR) in collective, industrial arts can find itself to be an intense balancing act: film and new media are expensive forms that rely on commercial expectations and industrial integration, while artistic experimentation flourishes in independence and creative freedom. Transposing the model of the independent artist to large-scale collective productions challenges our vision of art, affiliation and integrity. AR researchers in film and new media can have radically different practices: from industrial creative producers to one-person camera documentarists, from VR designers to screenwriters and 3D artists. While our potential for creation and innovation is similar, our expectations and abilities are as diverse as the cost of our projects. Our contribution spans questions of affiliation, authorship, production and speculation, with the aim to bring clarification on what can be expected for and of diverse AR researchers in film and new media, and to promote the concrete establishment of appropriate support and supervision.
Video Essays: Curating and Transforming Film Education through Artistic Research
Authors:   Film and Screen Studies at SOAS - University of London, Sendra Estrella
Published: November 2020

This article is dedicated to all my SOAS undergraduate and postgraduate class members of the academic year 2019-2020, Marguerite Culot, Maximilian Frederik, Umloda Emad Ibrahim, Mostafa Khattab, Ewa Kataryna Kiszelka, Alix Lafosse, Peiwen Li, Yuan Liao, Leen M. Fouad, Donovan Mathews, Ying Sang, Clara Katharina Von Harling, Hsueh Liang Wong, Jianbin Zhang, Cameron McGrath, Greta Alexandra Bassett, Harriet Louis Bessant Marsh, Samantha Carrick, Kim Eckersley, Alexander Hall, Christopher Stump, Ha Linh To, Inhe Yang and Jemima Presland. They were part of my first-year experience of implementing video essays as a creative assessment method. I am very grateful for their enthusiastic response to my invitation to create audiovisual criticism, and impressed by the quality of the work they produced. In their uncertainty lies my learning experience, the one that encourages me to keep engaging with this creative assessment method, and to produce them for various purposes. They have been my main partners in this collaborative task of working together towards finding some academic room for audiovisual criticism. They have been active participants in the learning and teaching of the study of film through film. My deepest gratitude also to all those colleagues who have been great sources of inspiration and supportive of my creative initiatives, starting from Prof Lindiwe Dovey. Many thanks to her and the whole Screen Worlds Team. I am so grateful to fellow colleagues at the School of Arts in SOAS, such as Prof Shane McCausland, who enthusiastically embraced and shared my interest in recursion, Dr Caspar Melville, Prof Lucy Duran, and Dr Morgan Davies, who welcomed me to a sonic discussion to share my experience teaching (or rather, being taught) video essays. I further thank the SOAS Decolonising Working Group. I am also grateful to Bartolomeo Meletti, for his eagerness to join me in the challenging endeavour of creating a guide to make video essays. Finally, I would like to thank the anonymous peer reviewer of this article, for their thorough feedback and generous engagement with my work.
Asymmetries : Iterative Cinematic Cartographies
Authors:   Wits School of the Arts, Mntambo Nduka
Published: November 2020

The article functions as an exegesis for the installation project on the city titled Asymmetries (2018/19/20). The installation and its various iterations is conceived as a making-thinking-spectatorial research project on the urban premised on strategies developed through modes of artistic research. The project explores various forms of contemporary film practices in order to explore and re-imagine city life beyond the confines of teleological conceptions. In particular, the writing and its iterative explorations relates to cinema aesthetics and its political confrontation with the mono-focal conception of cinema and its projection norms. The work invites the reader momentarily suspend the position of the passive spectator and assume the position of a collaborative explorer or experimenter in various acts of cinematic cartography. The suspension of the inactive spectator position might lead to the re-examination of equivalences between the reader’s learned gaze and of epistemic prompts offered in this artistic research project on the city.
Réflexions sur l’espace comique. L’exemple du Mariage de Figaro
Authors: Dandrey Patrick
Published: November 2020

"Reflections on Comic Space. The Example of The Marriage of Figaro. This study shows from the example of the Marriage of Figaro how the space defined by the dramatic text within fiction has a creative energy and a range of meaning which can be compared to that of the speech or the acting of the characters. Suzanne’s armchair is the centre of a long play of scenes in the 1st act: this inert object then constitutes the crux of the action and embodies the force of chance fighting against the Figaro industry, a bit like fate in the tragedy fights against the active will of the heroes. The corner of the park under the chestnut trees in the last act plays the same role by precipitating all the intrigue and all the characters, in favour of the night, in a game of masks, misunderstandings and deceptions which summarize the issues of the intrigue and untie it. Figaro’s monologue located at the entrance to this dramatic space gives the key to its functioning: human life is governed by Chance, which is the god of comedy. Consequently, the question of Being becomes that of being there. This awareness by Figaro opens at the heart of comic space a subjectivation by spatialization, the secret of which is that we are spatial beings, that is to say social beings, defined in everything and for everything by our relationships and by the successive situations in which we form, act and live: lucid and disillusioned awareness of our constitutive “spatiality”. Keywords: Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro, comic space, dramatic techniques, armchair, tragedy, spatial beings, social beings. "
Caligula, tyran dérisoire dans le Caligula d’Alexandre Dumas
Authors: Poignault Rémy
Published: November 2020

"Tyranny and Derision in Alexandre Dumas’ Caligula. This paper studies the character of Caligula in Alexandre Dumas’ Caligula (1837) in comparison with the image left by the Roman emperor in ancient literary sources. Dumas highlights a tyrannical regime based on denial and flattery, shows the emperor as a tyrannical lover and mocks aspirations to the divinity of the one who takes himself for Jupiter, but is afraid of thunder, who wants to be the master of the destiny of all, but doesn’t master his own, falling under Messalina’s machinations.

Keywords: Latin historiography, drama, destiny, machinations, tyranny."
Dynamique des rapports de places et des images identitaires dans Les parents terribles de Jean Cocteau
Authors: Florea Ligia Stela
Published: November 2020

"Dynamics of Place Relationships and Identity Images in Les parents terribles by Jean Cocteau. The article aims to study the dynamics of the place relationships between mother and son in scene IV of the first act of the above-mentioned play. This relationship, which represents the central theme of the play, is based on authority and domination and the son will try to ward off by resorting to a strategy. We will try to see first of all what this strategy consists of and what effect it will have on the evolution of the relationships between the two characters. Then, the study of the successive phases through which verbal interaction goes through (conversation, discussion, argument) will allow us to show how the plurality of interlocutive roles influences the dynamics of place relationships and identity images.

Keywords: verbal interaction, place relationships, identity images, interactive frame, interactive space, conversation, discussion, argument."
Le théâtre, image de l’esthétique proustienne
Authors: Goga Yvonne
Published: November 2020

"Theatre as an Image of Proust’s Aesthetic. In In Search of Lost Time, theatre holds an important place, especially in the first three volumes. Being part of the frequent activities of society, it gives many occasions to the narrator to express his thoughts about theatre shows. Our aim will be to demonstrate that those thoughts are one of the ways used by Proust to bring out his complex theory about novelistic creation – a theory which shows to what extent art’s aim is to access the essence of things through sensitive experience. Keywords: art, theatre show, sensitive experience, essence, artistic conception."
One Conscience or More: Is the Actor more than one at a Time?
Authors: Lucanu Tudor
Published: November 2020

"This paper approaches an important theme in the study of actors work: the multiplication of the consciousness, from the perspective of the actor’s training correlated to psychology and neuroscience. We will refer to some of the best known works used in the training of the actor or which have as object of study the art of the actor, namely K. Stanislavsky - An Actor Prepares; Michael Chekhov - To the Actor: On the technique of acting, Lee Strasberg - Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Jerzy Grotowski - Towards a Poor Theatre, Bertolt Brecht - Brecht on Theatre, Denis Diderot - Paradox of the Actor. Conversations on The Natural Son on one hand, and Antonio Damasio’s studies on the self, on the other hand, noting that theories about the cognitive functions of the human brain provide a valuable perspective on the art of the actor, especially by how it applies to the conscious and subconscious of the actor on stage. What happens to the actor while performing? How does the actor process different stimuli to build a character, and then an entire artistic act? What are the roles of the mind and body in the creative process? These are just a few questions that I will try to find answers to, while examining the actor’s multiplication of consciousness.

Keywords: consciousness, actor, character, emotions, images, brain."
Development and Preliminary Evaluation of an Instrument to Measure Readiness for Problem-Based Learning
Authors: Lin Weiliang , Chapman Elaine
Published: November 2020

Purpose: This study was conducted to develop and provide a preliminary evaluation of an instrument to measure students’ readiness for Problem-Based Learning (PBL). The instrument assessed students’ readiness for four main aspects of the PBL environment: problem-solving, self-directed learning, collaborative learning, and critical thinking. Methods: The Readiness for PBL (RPBL) instrument was trialed in two polytechnics in Singapore. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, as well as internal consistencies, were used to explore the internal structure of the instrument. Results: The results of the study confirmed that the internal structure of the instrument was tenable within the cohorts that participated in the study. Conclusions: The results of this study suggest that the RPBL may provide a practical means by which students’ readiness for PBL may be assessed, with the goal of enhancing the benefits of PBL environments for these students.
Business processes in the insurance company: The method of operation through separating the key areas of activities
Authors: Turgaeva A.A.
Published: November 2020

Subject. This article analyzes the business processes in the insurance company, using the method of their operation with the selection of key areas of activity.
Objectives. The article aims to describe certain business processes in insurance, highlighting participants, lines of activity, and the sequence of procedures. It analyzes the business process Settlement of Losses, which is one of the significant business processes in the insurance company.
Methods. For the study, I used the methods of induction and deduction, analogy, and the systems approach.
Results. Based on the analysis and description of business processes in the insurance company and the identification of key elements and steps in terms of the effectiveness of decisions, the article identifies the checkpoints of Entry and Exit, activity direction, and resources of the Settlement of Losses process.
Conclusions. The application of the categories that split business processes makes it possible to develop step regulation for all processes and acceptable control procedures for different operations. The presented checkpoints at different steps of the business process will help identify weaknesses and eliminate them by re-checking the point.
Designing a differentiated strategy of innovation development of Russia's regions: Methodological issues
Authors: Golova I.M. , Sukhovei A.F.
Published: November 2020

Subject. This article discusses the development of a differentiated strategy of innovative development taking into account the distinguishing features of Russia's regions. Objectives. The article aims to improve the effectiveness of innovative development strategies for Russian regions, which vary in the level of science, technology, and innovation capacities. Methods. For the study, we used statistical, and economic and mathematical methods, normalization principle, the methods of comparative, and expert and sociological analyses, foresight techniques, and original region assessment techniques. Results. The article presents certain criteria for differentiation of Russia's regions, taking into account the level of development of scientific and technical activities, and it proposes three modifications of the regional innovation strategy, corresponding to the main types of Russian regions by scientific and technological development. Conclusions. A differentiated approach to a regional innovation strategy development can improve the efficiency and targeting of government innovation policies by making better use of available resources.
Prospects for the national projects implementation in the context of the coronavirus contagion
Authors: Prokof'ev M.N. , Legchaev R.A.
Published: November 2020

Subject. This article discusses the importance of national projects for the social and economic development of Russia.
Objectives. The article aims to analyze the results of the implementation of national projects in the most important areas.
Methods. For the study, we used the methods of logical and statistical analyses.
Results. The article substantiates the view that the coronavirus infection factor, which has predetermined major changes in many areas of public life, will have a significant impact on the implementation of national projects.
Conclusions. In the face of coronavirus disease spreading, the national project Healthcare has the best chance of being fully implemented and even additional funding, while the national project Education may not be fully implemented. A review of the project's targets is a prerequisite.
False Positive ANA Testing In The Setting Of Hypovitaminosis D
Authors:   University Of Otago, Peplow Philip V
Published: November 2020

Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with autoimmune diseases, which include systemic lupus erythematosus, and may affect the outcome and activity of these diseases that result from aberrant activation of the immune system. Patients with the systemic autoimmune diseases may have a positive blood test for Antinuclear Antibodies (ANA). The ANA test is very sensitive for the diagnosis of autoimmune diseases but results in many false positives. It has been reported that up to 15% of completely healthy individuals have a positive ANA test without an autoimmune disease and that ANAs are measurable in approximately 25% of the population. Only about 10-13% of persons with a positive ANA test are found to have lupus. Vitamin D insufficiency/deficiency is prevalent in patients with autoimmune disease and vitamin supplementation has a therapeutic effect on disease severity and progression. Though there are many studies supporting the clinical picture that lupus patients are more prone to vitamin D deficiency, there are only a few articles that have considered the possibility that hypovitaminosis D is associated with false positive ANA testing. A case of an anemic patient who was initially evaluated and managed as a case of lupus is presented.
Neonatus dari Ibu Tuberkulosis Aktif
Authors: Riliani Revi , Yani Finny Fitry
Published: November 2020

TB merupakan salah satu penyakit menular terbanyak di dunia dan mengalami perubahan dalam epidemiologi dimana terjadi peningkatan proporsi wanita usia subur yang tertular TB dan selanjutnya berkemungkinan akan berdampak pada kejadian TB perinatal. Diperkirakan insiden transmisi vertikal TB dari ibu ke bayi sebesar 16%, dengan angka kematian yang tinggi yaitu 50-60%. Kesulitan dalam diagnosis berkontribusi pada tingginya angka kematian ini. Indeks kecurigaan yang tinggi disertai penelusuran infeksi dapat menurunkan angka kematian akibat TB kongenital, serta pemberian pengobatan profilaksis yang optimal dapat mencegah kejadian TB perinatal pada bayi yang terpapar dengan penderita. Penulisan kasus ini bertujuan untuk melihat luaran pada bayi yang terpapar tuberkulosis dan mendapatkan pengobatan profilaksis. Penelusuran literatur dilakukan oleh dua orang melalui PubMed dan DOAJ untuk mencari penelitian yang relevan. Kata teks digunakan dalam pencarian studi. Dari penelusuran didapatkan empat studi memenuhi kriteria eligibilitas. Dari keempat studi, pada dua studi ditemukan hanya satu subjek yang mendapat pengobatan profilaksis yang berkembang menjadi infeksi tuberkulosis. Dengan demikian dapat disimpulkan bahwa pemberian profilaksis pada bayi yang terpapar tuberkulosis berpengaruh pada luaran dan efektif menjegah progresivitas penyakit.
Gambaran Stres Akademik Mahasiswa Asal Papua di Provinsi Sumatera Barat
Authors: Hasbi Muhammad , Anggreiny Nila , Maputra Yantri
Published: November 2020

Latar Belakang. Mahasiswa asal Papua yang berkuliah di Provinsi Sumatera Barat dituntut untuk mampu beradaptasi, bukan hanya beradaptasi dengan lingkungan sosialnya, tetapi juga beradaptasi dengan kehidupan akademiknya. Mahasiswa Papua merasa bahwa beban dan tuntutan akademik yang diterima membebani dan menimbulkan masalah bagi kehidupan akademiknya. Stres akademik adalah keadaan tertekan yang dialami oleh individu karena tuntutan dan beban akademik yang melebihi kemampuan individu yang tidak dapat diatasi oleh individu tersebut.
Objektif. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat sumber utama stres akademik dan tingkat stres akademik mahasiswa asal Papua di Provinsi Sumatera Barat.
Metode. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kuantitatif deskriptif. Variabel yang diukur dalam penelitian ini adalah stres akademik. Teknik pengambilan sampel yang digunakan adalah teknik accidental sampling, dimana semua sampel yang ditemui dan bersedia dijadikan sebagai sampel penelitian yaitu sebanyak 53 orang mahasiswa. Pada penelitian ini, stres akademik diukur dengan menggunakan Academic Stress Inventory of Students dari Lin dan Chen (2009) yang terdiri dari tujuh sumber stres yang tersebar menjadi 34 item dengan koefisien reliabilitas sebesar 0,944.
Hasil. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa tingkat stres akademik mahasiswa asal Papua berada pada kategori tinggi dan yang menjadi sumber utama stres akademik mahasiswa asal Papua di Provinsi Sumatera Barat adalah pengajar.
Kesimpulan. Mahasiswa asal papua yang dominan memiliki stress adalah jenis kelamin laki-laki dan berada di semester satu. Sumber utama mereka stress dari pengajar.
Kata kunci: mahasiswa papua, stres, stres akademik
Gambaran Perilaku Ibu Rumah Tangga Mengenai Upaya Pencegahan DBD
Authors: Putri Khoirunnisa , Hardisman Hardisman , Nofita Eka
Published: November 2020

Latar Belakang. Jumlah kasus DBD di kota Padang berfluktuasi dari tahun ke tahun. Pengendalian DBD yang tepat adalah dengan pengendalian vektornya melalui 4M Plus yang tidak dapat berhasil dengan baik jika tidak melibatkan peran serta masyarakat.
Objektif. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui tingkat pengetahuan, sikap, dan tindakan masyarakat mengenai pencegahan DBD yang diwakilkan oleh ibu rumah tangga di wilayah kerja Puskesmas Kuranji.
Metode. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif dengan desain penelitian cross-sectional. Pengambilan sampel menggunakan teknik random sampling. Responden penelitian adalah ibu rumah tangga. Instrumen penelitian ini adalah kuesioner yang berisi 8 item pertanyaan pengetahuan, 10 item pertanyaan sikap dan 10 item pertanyaan tindakan.
Hasil. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa dari total 91 responden sebagian besar memiliki tingkat pengetahuan rendah (40,7%), sikap negatif (54,9%) dan tindakan kurang (38,4%) mengenai pencegahan DBD. Kebanyakan responden memiliki rentang usia 51-60 tahun (29,7%), tingkat pendidikan SMA (38,5%) dan pernah mendapat informasi mengenai DBD (94,5%) yang paling banyak melalui TV (31,9%). Hasil penelitian juga menunjukkan bahwa responden dengan sikap negatif cenderung memiliki tindakan pencegahan yang kurang baik.
Kesimpulan. Responden di wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Kuranji masih memiliki tingkat pengetahuan yang rendah, sebagian besar bersikap negatif dan lebih dari sepertiga melakukan tindakan yang kurang mengenai upaya pencegahan DBD menyebabkan masih tingginya kasus DBD.  
Kata Kunci: DBD, Pengetahuan, Sikap, Tindakan
Women Empowerment in Pakistan: Assessing the Socio-Economic Determinants
Authors: Muhammad Faqeer , Bano Kosar , Muhammad Khair , Baig Tasawar
Published: November 2020

The present study is an effort to explore the important factors that contributes to the women empowerment in Pakistan, with an obtained the objective this study classifies the women empowerment into economic and social empowerment. For this purpose, the data is collected from the Pakistan Demographic Health Survey (PDHS) for the year 2017-18. The sample of the study is 10,935 married women and the current research utilizes multiple regression analysis for empirical analysis. The results of the regression analysis show that women education, women occupation, wealth index and men occupation have a positive and statistically significant effect on women empowerment, whereas women age and residence have a positive and insignificant effect on women social and economic empowerment. From the result, we found that educated and self-reliant working women are more empowered, and she can play important role in decision making process vis-à-vis to support household level. In sum, women participation in a decision at household is important, as women can smoothly manage domestic chores more confidently.
The Oldest Ceramics of East Asia: Current Research Questions (Materials for the Educational Course “Ceramics as an Archaeological Source”)
Authors: Zhushchikhovskaya Irina S. , Mylnikova Lyudmila N.
Published: November 2020

Purpose. The article presents a historiographical review of the problems of research of ancient ceramics from archaeological sites of East Asia in the chronological interval from 20,000–18,000 to 9,000 years ago.
Results. The subject of discussion is the periodization of monuments with early ceramics, the problems of socio-economic conditions of the emergence of pottery technology, its functional role in ancient societies, reconstruction of technological skills and technical levels of pottery, morphology and decor. There are a lot of controversial issues and “blind spots” in this direction. However, the opening of sites with ancient ceramics in East Asia showed that here, on the Pacific (eastern) outskirts of the Eurasian continent, pottery making technology first appeared about 10,000 years earlier than in the Middle East. The invention of ceramics in this region of the world at the turn of the Pleistocene and Holocene should be considered as a result of a combination of natural and social factors. The example of East Asia shows that the relationship between the appearance of ceramic vessels and the development of agriculture, as a technology for food production, is universally, not a mandatory factor.
Conclusion. The article discusses certain regional differences in the formation of skills in making the most ancient ceramic vessels of East Asia. It is assumed that the development of ceramic technology in the Japanese archipelago and in the mainland areas of East Asia took place independently. For the Amur region, there are two local cultural traditions – Osipovskaya and Gromatukhinskaya. According to materials from Northern China, there is a version of the existence of a common line in the development of ancient ceramics in the Valley of the Nonny River. There are similarities between the early ceramics of Northeast China, and the Gromatukhinskaya and Osipovskaya cultures of Amur. For the ceramics of South Korea also note similarities with the materials of the Russian Far East, Japanese and Chinese dishes.
Complexes with Flat-Bottomed Ceramics in the Neolithic from the Don to the Irtysh: A Chronological Aspect
Authors: Mosin Vadim S.
Published: November 2020

Purpose. The aim of the work is to analyze the chronology of Neolithic complexes containing flat-bottomed ceramics in the European part of Russia and the Ural-Siberian region, as well as an attempt to highlight patterns in the development of Neolithic Ural-Siberian cultural traditions amidst complexes with flat-bottomed ceramics of the Volga region.
Results. Researches of Baraba culture of the early Neolithic of Western Siberia: Tartas-1, Ust-Tartas-1, Vengerovo-2, with radiocarbon dates 8th – 7th thousand BC made it possible to re-address the problem of complexes with flat-bottomed ceramics, especially in the Trans-Ural region and Western Siberia and, perhaps, to reconsider some established points of view. One of the first centers of the autochthonous origin of the Neolithic at the end of VIII – beginning of VII millennium BC is the Baraba cultural tradition of the West Siberian forest-steppe. Also, the autochthonous center for the origin of the Neolithic was the territory of the Northern Caspian region and the Lower Volga region in the first half of the 7th millennium BC. In the middle of the 7th millennium BC in the Volga-Urals region, due to direct migration of the population from the territory of the Aral-Caspian, an Elshan cultural tradition appears. In the second half of the 7th millennium BC the Neolithic of the Trans-Urals is being formed. Technology of Koshkino and Kozlovo cultural pottery traditions was most likely borrowed from the population of the Aral-Caspian, relations with which have been established since the Mesolithic.
Conclusion. The obtained results give grounds to identify several centers of origin of the Neolithic in the territories of European Russia, the Urals and Western Siberia with flat-bottomed ceramics at the end of 8th – first half of 7th millennium BC and round-bottom ceramics in the middle of the 7th millennium BC. The oldest among them are sites of the Baraba forest-steppe.
Stratification of Neolithic Ceramic Complexes in the Konda River Basin
Authors: Klementieva Tatiana Yu. , Pogodin Andrey A.
Published: November 2020

Purpose. Over the past 40 years, dozens of pit-houses, semi-dugouts, above-ground huts, hearth-like structures, and burial grounds have been investigated on the territory of the Konda River basin. Classification of cultural artifacts is based on stylistic attributes and distinctions of ceramics, while chronology rests on conventional 14C dating. At the present stage, one of the most important tasks is to develop the chronology and periodization of the Neolithic sites located in the Konda River basin. The starting point in the solution of this problem should be the multilayer stratified habitation sites. This paper presents the results of the investigation of Mulymya-3 settlement, which is one of such sites.
Results. In 2019, early Neolithic stratified complexes were studied in Mulymya-3 settlement. The excavations of the early buildings revealed that among the predominant artifacts of flat-bottomed dishes, there also were layers of Shoushma and Sumpanya type pottery. The stroke-ornamented ware, i. e. flat-bottomed ceramic dishes with collars and rims, were classified as “Mulymya type pottery”. 14C dating of the soot from a flat-bottomed vessel suggested that the site was more or less continuously occupied between 6 690–6 500 cal. BC.
Conclusion. The artifacts from Mulymya-3 settlement made it possible to shift the lower boundary of the Neolithic age in the Konda River basin to earlier dates. A typical feature of the earliest period (6 600 / 6 500 – 3 600 / 3 400 cal. BC) is Mulymya, Shoushma, and Umytinsky type pottery characterized by original traditions of ceramic production. The appearance of pottery in the second third of the 7th millennium BC did not affect the traditional economy of taiga societies. The stone-working technique was based on fracturing technologies (percussion flaking, pressure flaking, chipping, splintering), abrasive processing, and battering. In the 6th millennium BC, the people belonging to Shoushma and Umytinsky cultures started contacting with each other, which can be proved by dishes of both types found in the excavated pit-dwelling in similar stratigraphic conditions. Another proof is the appearance of mixed-looking pottery, in particular dishes of the Sumpanya type. From the end of the 6th millennium, the Shoushma pottery traditions were gradually degrading. From that time and until the turn of the 5th–4th millennia BC the Konda River basin was inhabited by the Umytinsky population. It is probable that those were the people who continued the tradition of making flat-bottomed dishes (Satyginsky / Boborykinsky type pottery).
Archaeology of Semirechye at the End of the 19th Century (Based on the Materials of the Expedition Led by Ch.-E. Ujfalvy)
Authors: Borisenko Alisa Yu.
Published: November 2020

Purpose. This article analyzes the archaeological materials gathered by French explorer of Hungarian descent Charles-Eugène Ujfalvy in the course of his expedition into Semirechye (Jetysu). In 1879 his work “French scientific expedition to Russia, Siberia and Turkestan” (“Expédition scientifique française en Russe, en Sibérie et dans le Turkestan”) was published in Paris, where the author expounded extensive and diverse materials on the history, demography, natural economic and cultural specificities of Central Asia.
Results. Activities of the European explorers, French in particular, in the territory of Central Asia not once have been the subject of attention and research by specialists. However, only a few mentions in scientific literature can be found about the work of Ch.-E. Ujfalvy in the territory of Jetysu. They are particularly small in number and contain either mentions about the fact of that journey or general descriptions of the expedition. Analysis of archaeological materials gathered by scientists has not been carried out before. The expeditionary route passed through territories that the French author called the Russian Turkestan, by limiting it to Semey in the north, Zarafshan in the south, Fergana Valley in the east and Aral Sea in the west. Ch.-E. Ujfalvy was one of those whose work was distinguished by a great variety and volume of collected material on the history, geography, and traditional culture of the peoples living in the studied territories.
Conclusion. Ch.-E. Ujfalvy’s monograph includes not only texts, but also illustrative material. He also outlined the archaeological sites and findings among the landscaping and natural attractions described by the explorer. He has covered some of them in text and some are simply sketched and attached as illustrations to the monograph. The scientist highlights several types of archaeological objects. The article provides a data review about archaeological antiquities of the Jetysu region, gathered by Ch.-E. Ujfalvy in the course of his expedition.
Baraba Culture of Early Neolithic Period
Authors: Molodin Vyacheslav I. , Mylnikova Lyudmila N. , Nesterova Marina S. , Kobeleva Liliya S. , Nenakhov Dmitrii A.
Published: November 2020

Purpose. Based on the results of the study of materials of the Tartas-1 and Ust-Tartas-1 sites and radiocarbon dating, the article explores the Baraba culture of the early Neolithic era (VII thousand BC, entering the VIII and VI thousand BC).
Results. The Neolithic parking lot, studied at Tartas-1, is represented by two structures, a smokehouse and a series of pits for storing fish. A significant number of finds from bone and stone have been found. The ceramic complex is of particular importance. These are flat-bottomed containers, made in the technique of orderly patchwork, using a molding cord on the top of the vessel, and roller-flow around the perimeter of the bottom. The ornament is represented by a complex plot of an asymmetrical composition. The stone industry is characterized as plate-like with a high value of linear technology. The absence of stone arrowheads is characteristic of this. Fish was harvested in pits. At different stages of operation, corpses of different animals were placed inside. The bones of Late Pleistocene fauna have been revealed. The original ritual complex was discovered on the monument of Ust-Tartas-1.
Conclusion. In Baraba, the ceramics of Tartas-1 and Ust-Tartas-1 are similar to the ceramics of Autodrome-2/2, which is related to Boborykinskaya culture, direct dating of ceramics attributed to the last quarter 6th – mid 5th thousand BC. The early Neolithic sites of the North with complexes with flat-bottomed utensils date from the end of the 7th – first half of 6th thousand BC. Neolithic flat-bottomed utensils of Western Siberia should be assessed as a phenomenon of general historical and stage nature. The classification of Tartas complexes with flat-bottomed utensils to Boborykinskaya culture is inaccurate and incorrect. The latter appears to be much younger in time. The discoveries of sites with flat-bottomed ceramics allow a completely new idea of the dynamics of historical and cultural processes in the forest and steppe of the Irtysh area.
Settlements of the Amnya Cultural Type in the Context of the Early Neolithic of North-Western Siberia
Authors: Dubovtseva Ekaterina N. , Kosinskaya Lyubov L. , Piezonka Henny , Chairkina Nataliia M.
Published: November 2020

Purpose. The Stone Age settlement of Amnya I in North-Western Siberia represents the northernmost hunter-gatherer-fisher fort in Eurasia. Dating back to the beginning of the 6th millennium BC, this unique site enables the study of key innovations of the Neolithization process in the taiga zone, such as defensive structures, early pottery, and an increase in polished tools including arrowheads.
Results. The Amnya cultural type also includes the nearby Kirip-Vis-Yugan-2 settlement, which shows close similarities with Amnya I in material culture however lacks fortifications. To follow up open questions, work on Amnya type sites was resumed in 2019. Plans of the sites, their layout and stratigraphy were clarified, and first palaeo-environmental data was received. Radiocarbon dating of stratified contexts at Amnya I confirmed its Early Neolithic age. The settlement of Amnya II located just 50 m east of the fortifications was also dated. Originally attributed to later, Eneolithic times, the two new AMS dates date back to the beginning of the 6th millennium BC, indicating that Amnya I and II existed broadly contemporaneously. Palaeoenvironmental studies based on drillings in the adjacent peat bog show that at the time of settlement at Amnya I and II open water existed on the south of the hill fort, and the Amnya River was flowing on the north side. Thus, this place was comfortable for living and provided good conditions for fishing. Botanical macro-remains from cultural layers at Amnya I show that during the existence of the settlement, along with pine, deciduous trees – birch and alder, have grown in the area of the site, indicating a warmer climate, compared to current conditions.
Conclusion. The studied archaeological settlements show the case of Neolithic innovations which testify to formation of special social structures and, most likely, appearance of the new population in the taiga zone of Western Siberia at the turn of 7th – 6th millennium BC.
The Pharaoh’s Dream or the Collapse of Kirill Naryshkin, the Fourth Moscow Governor
Authors: Redin Dmitry A.
Published: November 2020

For the first time in historiographe the article reconstructs the personal history of Kirill Alekseevich Naryshkin. This research is based on the personal and private letters of Naryshkin to the Tsar and Prince Alexander Menshikov. The former are extracted from various documentary collections, first of all, “Letters and Papers of Peter the Great”, the latter are found by the author in the Russian Archive of Ancient Acts and have not been studied before. The reconstruction is focused on the history of the career that was built by K. A. Naryshkin during the first one and a half decades of the 18th century. He successfully and efficiently ruled over the northwestern counties of Russia, solving the difficult tasks of endowing the Russian army, reorganizing garrison regiments, mapping and supervising fortifications on the adjoining lands of Ingria and eastern Estonia as a chief commandant (ober-komendant). However, after being appointed to the post of Moscow governor in 1716, the career of Naryshkin collapsed. Problems at work, tensions with the Senate, harassment by investigative and administrative authorities coincided with a personal drama – the death of his wife and serious property losses. The author both in the context of the general administrative situation of the era, and in line with the then established system of informal ties surrounded by Tsar Peter analyzes the reasons for the collapse of a capable and energetic manager.
“…Into the fighting ranks of the Revolutionary Communist Party”: Admission of Former Socialists to the RSDLP(b) – RCP(b) (1917-1924)
Authors: Morozova Tatyana I. , Shishkin Vladimir I.
Published: November 2020

The article analyzes one of the problems of inter-party interaction in Russia in 1917–1924, which was not studies either intentionally or occasionally by Russian or foreign scholars. The subject of the research is the admission of socialists, who quit other parties, to the RSDLP(b) - RCP(b): more specifically who resigned the membership of Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (of Internationalists), Mensheviks, Right and Left wings of Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries, Socialist-Revolutionaries-autonomists, Union of Socialists-Revolutionaries Maximalists, Party of Revolutionary Communism, anarchists and so on. Based on the wide range of published materials, including data from the central and local periodicals, as well as unique archival sources that were added to the ever-growing aggregate of scientific knowledge for the first time, the article investigate, when, how and on what conditions former members of socialist parties (so-called “vykhodets”) were accepted for the RSDLP(b) – RCP(b) membership. The authors conclude that during 1917-1924 the conditions of admitting to Bolshevik Party changed crucially. At different moments, the Communist leadership solved different problems allowing former socialists to join the Bolshevik ranks. In 1917-1919 the admission of former socialists was initiated in order to rise the number of members of the RSDLP(b) - RCP(b), and the target audience mainly consisted of revolutionaries who had extensive experience in party and social work. After the October Revolution in 1917, the entering former members of the other parties to the Bolshevik party was considered as a tool of splitting and fragmentation of socialist parties and groups that were opponents and / or competitor for the Bolsheviks. Since the end of 1919, the admission of socialists to the RCP(b) had been gradually lost its significance as a source of recruiting and transformed mainly into an instrument for the destruction of the Mensheviks and Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries, as well as a mechanism for the adoption and incorporation of small groups with socialist and communist orientation. Since 1921, the admission of former socialists to the RCP(b) actually ceased to play the role into the process of increasing membership, but became one of the most important implement of degrading and defeating the Mensheviks and Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries. From the beginning of 1924, it was used exclusively as a factor of discrediting the socialists.
The influence of atoms of second coordination sphere on phonon dispersion of diamond
Authors:   Omsk Scientific Center of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Sachkov V. A.
Published: November 2020

Within the framework of the phenomenological model of twoparticle interaction, the effect of the interaction energy of atoms from the second coordination sphere on the phonon dispersion is considered. This approach makes it possible to vary the growth of the phonon frequency relative to the optical phonon in the center of the Brillun zone. The effects of the contribution to the Raman spectra from longitudinal optical phonons with frequencies higher than their frequency at the center of the Brillouin zone are discussed. The contribution to the frequency of interaction of atoms from the second coordination sphere for some phonons is obtained in an explicit form. The formulas obtained will be useful for calculating the spectra of Raman scattering of light by optical phonons localized in diamond nanocrystals
Object of defects of vacancy type in graphene plane into clusters and the influence of vacancy clusters on morphology and electronic properties of structure
Authors:   Omsk Scientific Center of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Sachkov V. A.
Published: November 2020

This work is devoted to the study of the effect on the morphology and on the electronic properties of the graphene plane of defects of the vacancy type in the form of a vacancy cluster, depending on the size of the cluster. The optimal configurations of the arrangement of carbon atoms for the graphene plane from vacancy clusters are found. The electronic band structure is calculated for them. The calculations are performed by the ab initio method. The analysis of the dependence of the morphology of the structure and some parameters of the electronic structure on the size of the vacancy cluster is carried out. The results obtained are applicable to the analysis of the band structure of single-walled carbon tubes containing vacancy-type defects
Analysis of singularity planar multi-linkage mechanism of fourth order
Authors:   Omsk State Technical University, Gebel E. S.
Published: November 2020

The planar multi-linkage mechanism of the fourth order, the output rocker of which implements an approximate stopping in one critical position is described in the article. The mechanism consists of three dyads passing through their limit positions in a single duty cycle. That is why the singularity problem is relevant for such mechanisms and should be studied to avoid jamming of links or the appearance of uncontrolled movements. The mathematical model is based on the theory of screws and contains the closed-loop equilibrium equations obtained for the investigated mechanism. Based on the obtained results of the geometry and singularity analyses, it is shown that there are eight different positions in which some joints stop momentarily and then their angular velocity direction changes
The features of kinematic calculation for Wankel’s rotary piston engine
Authors:   Siberian State Automobile and Highway University, Makushev Yu. P. , Polyakova T. A ,   Siberian State Automobile and Highway University, Volkova L. Yu. ,   Kaliningrad State Technical University, Ryndin V. V. ,   Pavlodar State University named after S. Toraigyrov
Published: November 2020

It is presented the design features and the principle of operation for Wankel’s rotary piston engine (RPD). It is given the analysis of scientific research aimed at improving the design of RPD. It is proposed the design study technique that allows in a graphical way to realize the construction of an RPD cylinder with a circular shape, the surface of which is made according to the epitrochoid. The derivation of equations is justified that allows to determine the coordinates of the position of the points of the epitrochoid depending on the eccentricity, the values of the radii of the initial generatrix of the epitrochoid, gear and fixed gear. It is given the calculation definition of the required value of the compression ratio. Using the Mathcad system as an example, it is shown the possibility of application mathematical software packages for calculations related to the study of the features of the Wankel’s RPD epitrochoid, its calculation, its research and its construction
Device for studying uneven rotation of crankshaft
Authors:   Omsk Tank-Automotive Engineering Institute, Korneev A. E.
Published: November 2020

The main topic of the article is the choice of the direction and implementation of the use of electronic measuring instruments and monitoring of the working process occurring in the diesel internal combustion engine. For this purpose, an analysis is performed and a device is created that allows controlling the uneven rotation of the engine crankshaft containing photoelectron sensors, one of which allows reading the moment of passing the upper dead point, the other is designed to control the angular speed of the flywheel. The device converts the signals of these sensors into the form necessary for visualization of the working periodic process on the oscilloscope screen. The article presents a block diagram of the device and its amplitude-frequency characteristic. This device can be used for research and development work to improve fuel supply systems in internal combustion engines