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Revisiting the Synthesis of Gibbsite, a Precursor for Li/Al LDH Synthesis and Its Use as a Support for Porphyrin Immobilization
Authors: Bosa Gabriela , Silva Caroline , Brito Bianca , Terzi Carolina , Wypych Fernando , Nakagaki Shirley
Published: June 2023

In this work, some of the synthesis methods already reported for aluminum(III) hydroxide polymorphs with layered structure like gibbsite are revisited. Gibbsite was synthesized with high purity and yield by a simple route developed from modifications of a heating method proposed in the literature, making it possible to prepare gibbsite in regular glassware, avoiding the use of hydrothermal reactor and oven, as described in the literature. The proposed synthesis was conducted with a heating system under reflux conditions in a glass heating flask, using an oil bath, without the need for more sophisticated equipment. This is an accessible alternative method for crystalline gibbsite synthesis, with yield (76 wt.%). The obtained gibbsite was used as a precursor for the synthesis of a lithium/aluminum layered double hydroxide (LDH) from the intercalation method of Al(OH)3 in aqueous solution of lithium chloride. Gibbsite and the obtained LDH Li/Al were used for the immobilization of an anionic porphyrin with a loading on the order of 10-5 mol g-1 of solid, thus being alternative solid supports for catalytic species such as porphyrins.
The Experience of Restructuring the Russian National Economy and Management during the First World War
Authors:   Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Shapkin Igor N.
Published: June 2023

The article analyzes the content and the main ideas of the monograph by I. V. Potkina “On the eve of a catastrophe. The state and the economy of Russia in 1914–1917”, which was brought out by the publishing house “Nestor-Istoriia” in 2022. The presented topic is not among those fully and comprehensively researched by the Russian historiography. Quite a large number of issues related to the transition of the Russian economic system from a peaceful to a military state and the formation of a mobilization model of the economy require additional research. Individual aspects of the formation and development of the military economy have been studied by Russian scholars quite well, but before the publication of this monograph, this problem had not been considered comprehensively. The author of the monograph set a goal to analyze the complex of legislative and administrative documents of the central executive authorities in the field of socio-economic policy and, on this basis, to determine the priority directions by year. The reviewed documents made it possible to show the changes taking place in the sectoral structure of the country’s economy and the management system. The author comes to the conclusion that, despite mistakes and miscalculations, the Imperial government, unlike the Provisional Government, generally managed to cope with the difficulties that arose. This is evidenced by the legislative acts of the government, statistical data of state institutions and public organizations provided by the author. The definition of the main features of the mobilization economic model is innovative.
Problems of Modernization in Russia in the Book by Irina Potkina
Authors:   HSE University, Davydov Mikhail A.
Published: June 2023

The author of the article highly appreciates the monograph by I. V. Potkina “On the eve of the catastrophe. The state and economy of Russia in 1914–1917”. The author of the book proposed a new approach to their study, which made it possible to identify features of the formation of the military-economic mobilization model and management of the national economy. I. V. Potkina classified eight main directions of the government’s economic policy. Comparing the ways of regulating the economy of the tsarist and the Provisional Government, the author showed that these were different periods of the formation of the mobilization model, and it was the policy of the Provisional Government that led to the collapse of the economy. As a result, the author of the monograph came to a reasonable conclusion that the economic policy of the tsarist government was in line with the challenges of the time and pan-European trends. The author of the article considers the thesis about the so-called systemic crisis of the autocracy far-fetched. He connects the problems of the country’s development in the late 19th — early 20th centuries with the fact that in 1861–1905 Russia tried to realize its first anti-capitalist utopia — that in the industrial age it is possible to be a “distinctive” great power, that is, to influence the destinies of the world, rejecting everything due to which competitors and opponents have achieved prosperity, primarily, the general civil legal system, the corresponding rights of all strata of the population and complete freedom of entrepreneurship. Only in 1906 did the transition to the rule of law begin.
Factors of the Fall of the Russian Empire and their Evaluation in Historical Science
Authors:   Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Voskresenskaya Nina O.
Published: June 2023

Periods in the life of a country, when it radically changes its civilizational trajectory, cannot but attract the attention of researchers. For the Russian Empire, the First World War turned out to be the zone of such crucial revolutionary turbulence: the empire ceased to exist. What circumstances led to this turn of events? Was the wrong economic policy of the state authorities the main reason for the fall of the monarchy? The issues of state regulation of national economy of Russia during the First World War in the context of possible factors that caused the death of the empire are discussed in the monograph “On the Threshold of the Catastrophe. State and Economy of Russia in 1914–1917” by Irina V. Potkina, Dr. Sci. in History. The logic of the analysis led the scholar to the conclusion that the economic policy of the Provisional Government proved to be destructive for the country. The atmosphere of mutual distrust and suspicion in the Russian society also played an important role. This article continues this theme and shows that some mental and behavioral characteristics of Russian people contributed greatly to the country’s path to the disaster. Some people were involved in illegal activities under the influence of technologies for manipulating public consciousness practiced by opposition political parties. The Bolsheviks, whose activities, from the standpoint of modern Russian legislation, falls under the definition of “extremism”, enjoyed the greatest success. The author of the article concludes that it is necessary to correct the evaluation of historical events in the academic and educational literature.
Anglo-American Evaluations of Recent Russian Historiography
Authors:   University of Tulsa, Bradley Joseph
Published: June 2023

Irina Viktorovna Potkina’s new book “In anticipation of a disaster. State and Economy of Russia in 1914–1917” reflects her significant contribution to the Russian history. The purpose of the article is to present a brief survey of the Anglo-American appraisal of recent Russian histo-riography based on a sample of thematic issues of the journal of translations, “Russian Studies in History”. This journal sheds light on current questions, new topics, methods and sources in Russian historiography to the benefit of Anglo-American readers. A sample of topics of the journal will present the evaluation of Anglo-American historians of the work of their Russian colleagues. Among the topics of post-Soviet historiography are: liberal and conservative ideologies at the turn of the 20th century; pre-revolutionary politics and parties; World War I, the February Revolution; administration of the Russian empire; religion in Imperial and Soviet Russia; and local history. The work of recent Russian historians has been aided by new sources and methods. The purpose of this work has been to achieve a better understanding of daily life, the formation of identities, and the agency of Russians of all social groups, not just of the political elite. In the opinion of various American and British historians, the goal of these histories is very promising.
Cyclic Concepts of Russian History in Modern Historiography
Authors:   St. Petersburg State University, Mironov Boris N.
Published: June 2023

In post-Soviet historiography, the concept of the cyclic pendulum, or inversion, of Russia’s development has become widespread. According to it, Russia, unlike the West, is characterized not by progressive, but by spasmodic pendulum development: progress is replaced by reaction, movement goes in a vicious circle. The article verifies four variants of the concept and makes conclusions about its strengths and weaknesses. Three most significant shortcomings are noted. The first is anti-historicism: fundamental changes that took place in the Russian society are ignored, which contradicts the principle of historicism. The second is Eurocentrism: the West is idealized and regarded as the highest manifestation of civilization, as a model for imitation and comparison, and deviations from this model, reforms that do not lead to Westernization, are condemned. The third is apriorism, weak empirical validity: explanations in most cases are hypothetical, even guesswork. The main methodological strategies are comparison, analogy, good examples, deduction as a selective ordering of facts to substantiate a certain hypothesis. Historians, as a rule, consider such methods to be unreliable, opening up opportunities for many ill-founded hypotheses. The concept objectively reflects the characteristic features of the Russian historical process: the presence of cycles; the pulsating nature of the reform; widespread authoritarian management style; low general culture of the population; the great role of traditional institutions, popular political culture and specific cognitive practices; strong historical inertia — dependence on the past path, due to civilizational stereotypes. However, the shortcomings inherent in the Russian society are exaggerated, and achievements are minimized. The imbalance creates a bias, and the representation of the course of Russian history is inadequate.
The House of Bourbon and Сonstitutional Revolutions in Southern Europe
Authors:   St. Petersburg State University, Anisimov Oleg V.
Published: June 2023

The article examines the transfer of ideas and practices of constitutionalism from Spain to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1812–1820. On the basis of dispatches of the Russian envoy in Naples Gustav Stackelberg, the author analyses the features of the revolutionary events of the summer — autumn of 1820. The immediate objects of Count Stackelberg’s observation in Naples were the situation of the Bourbon monarchy and the new constitutional government; their relations with the Carbonari society; relations within the diplomatic corps and among representatives of the great powers. The article also examines texts of constitutional acts that formed the main milestones of the development of constitutionalism in Southern Europe: the Bayonne Statute of 1808, the Cadiz Constitution of 1812, the Sicilian Constitution of 1812, the French Charter of 1814, and the “constitution of Murat” of 1815. An attempt is made to compare the constitutional revolutions in Spain and Italy in 1820–1823: contradictions of domestic politics, the struggle of the Liberal Party and the opposition, support for the army, parliamentary activity, the fight against separatist movements, complications in foreign policy and opposition to the Holy Alliance, the role of Kings Ferdinand VII of Spain and Ferdinand I of Naples in the development of constitutional practice. This approach corresponds to modern trends in the history of the Restoration era, in which the concept of the “liberal international” is tested against Russian diplomatic sources. G. Stackelberg did not just observe the Neapolitan Revolution; he noted obvious parallels with the Spanish Revolution and reported on any attempts of covert contacts of revolutionaries from all over Europe. His political ideal was the French Charter of 1814, the application of which to the Neapolitan political situation he wanted to see in order to avoid the worst consequences of the intervention of the Austrian Empire. The author concludes that the borrowing of the Spanish constitution by the Neapolitans took place within the prepared framework, becoming a logical stage in the development of constitutionalism in countries close to each other not only in spirit, but being for a long time in the orbit of the French revolutionary and Napoleonic despotic influence. The article also shows that Stackelberg modernized the pattern of the era about the “pan-European conspiracy” and created its more moderate version based on his observations of the development of the constitutional revolution in Naples.
Revolutionary Military Railway Tribunals in Northwestern Russia
Authors:   Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Davydov Alexander Yu.
Published: June 2023

This article discusses aspects of activities and social functions of the revolutionary military railway tribunals, which operated in 1920–1923. The novelty of the research is ensured by the lack of attention to this theme in historiography and the involvement of a wide range of sources which have not been previously introduced into the scholarship. The author focuses on the activities of the railway tribunals in four railway networks: the United North-Western Roads (Warsaw and Baltic directions), the Petrograd part of the Moscow-Vindava-Rybinsk network, Nikolaevskaii railway network (the prospective October railway), and Murmansk network. Three revolutionary military railway tribunals operated there. The author, for the first time in historiography, describes the reasons and the process of organizing the latter, their staff composition, and the forms of their work that changed at different stages. The emphasis is placed on the emergency powers of employees of these departments and the tasks assigned to them which was manifested in almost unlimited freedom of the members of the tribunals in administering justice in the “interests of the revolution”. The article presents an original perspective on the process of the controversial activity of the transport tribunals. The study reveals a conflict between their urgent task to restore labor discipline, on the one hand, and practical activities aimed at indulging the avant-garde class, on the other hand. The author comes to the conclusion that the tribunals, first of all, sought to unite the proletarian collectives around the Communist Party. Managers’ enthusiasm for an ideological project led them away from reality. In the final part of the article, it is proved that during the period of new economic policy, the activities of the revolutionary tribunals lost their extraordinary character. They ceased tocorrespond to their purpose and, in fact, turned into people’s courts, being abolished in 1923.
Promoting Leningrad Cadres in the First Post-War Years
Authors:   Cheliabinsk State University, Fedorov Aleksei N.
Published: June 2023

The article examines the mechanism, scale and reasons for promoting Leningrad cadres to central and regional bodies in 1946–1949. The prevailing opinion in Russian historiography is that during the first post-war years, hundreds of executives from Leningrad received significant posts in Moscow and different regions of the country thanks to A. A. Kuznetsov. The study of personnel policies of the 1940s reveals that A. A. Kuznetsov, as the head of the Cadre Department of the Central Committee, was responsible for the preparation of issues concerning cadres, but the decisions were made by the Secretariat and Politburo. The country’s top leadership, and especially J. V. Stalin, carefully controlled all key personnel reshuffles, so A. A. Kuznetsov could not freely promote his people. An analysis of the archival documents shows that there was no large-scale expansion of Leningrad cadres in the first post-war years. In 1945–1948, only 20–30 people from Leningrad annually received high positions. In contrast to appointees from other regions, they more often headed obkoms and oblispolkoms, and yet their share in the regional leadership of the USSR was small. The active promotion of Leningrad leaders was primarily due to the fact that many of them had university degrees nd solid managerial experience. The Central Committee tried to overcome the shortage of qualified middle-ranking managers with the help of Leningraders, as well as employees of central and metropolitan departments. For the same reason, some regional leaders were also interested in Leningraders. The promotion of Leningrad cadres continued even when G. M. Malenkov became again responsible for their selection and was stopped only because of the “Leningrad affair”.
The Role of Mashtots and Ulfila in the Creation of a New Civilizational Identity
Authors:   Russian-Armenian University, Margaryan Yervand H. , Margaryan Lusine Ye. ,   University College Cork, University College
Published: June 2023

The article is devoted to two educational movements of the turn of the 4th–5th centuries — Gothic and Armenian. Outstanding enlighteners — Ulfila and Mashtots — were at the origin of these movements and laid the cornerstone in the construction of the national identity of their peoples. In either case, it was a civilizational project designed to put an end to paganism and “latent barbarism” in the periphery of the Roman world, which was rapidly declining. The invention of their own alphabets and the translation of the Holy Scriptures was aimed at organizing a national Church, which in its turn was the main tool for creating a national identity. The introduction of the Goths to the “peoples of the Scriptures” was an initiative, first of all, of Ulfila himself, but his project was actively supported by the Roman authorities. However, there is no indication in the sources that Ulfila’s project was backed by the Gothic elite. In contrast, Mashtots’ educational project from the very beginning met with the approval and active encouragement of all strata of Armenian society, primarily, the church and secular elites, as well as common people. In fact, it was a nationwide project, and the seeds of Armenian enlightenment fell on kindly soil. This explains the surge in Armenian culture in the fifth century.
Letters of William Rockwell Thrall and William Lynn McMillen as a Source for Studying the Participation of American Doctors in the Crimean War
Authors:   Sevastopol State University, Lobkov Aleksandr E.
Published: June 2023

The service of American doctors in the Russian army during the Crimean war is one of the most interesting pages in the history of Russian-American relations. In 1854–1855, about 40 American physicians joined the Russian army. In general, more is known about American doctors in the Crimean theatre of military operations. However, American doctors were also present on the northern front in the Baltic area, particularly, in the Russian army in Finland. Four Americans — Drs Thrall, McMillen, Leas, and Smyser — served in Tavastehus temporary military hospital. In Russian and foreign historiography, the question of foreign doctors’ service on the northern front of the Crimean war has not been addressed, and the organization of the medical part of the Russian troops guarding the Baltic coast is under-researched. The material for this study was the letters of two American doctors, William Rockwell Thrall and William Lynn McMillen, published in the Daily Ohio State Journal and the Ohio Medical and Surgical Journal. For the first time letters from American physicians are introduced into scholarship. They are interesting not only as a historical source describing the condition of the Russian army and society during the Crimean War, but also as an example of positive experience of cooperation between Russia and the United States. This little-known material, enables to reconstruct a partial picture of American doctors’ service in Finland, their circle of acquaintances and their views on Russia.
Finnish-Turkish Relations as Reported by Envoy Yrjö-Koskinen
Authors:   St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Rupasov Alexander I.
Published: June 2023

This article focuses on Finland’s relations with Turkey in 1940–1944. Although Turkey recognized Finland’s independence as early as 1918 and established diplomatic relations with Finland in 1926, Finland did not have a diplomatic mission in Ankara until 1940. The protracted nature of the relations was mainly determined by the lack of a basis (political or economic) for Finland’s interest in Turkey. A sharply changed situation following the Soviet-Finnish war (1939–1940) and the war in Europe inevitably required additional information for evaluation of the processes taking place. Neutral Turkey could provide such an opportunity even by virtue of the fact that the Finnish diplomatic representative was able to contact with diplomats of both Axis and Western powers (with the British Embassy before relations with Finland were severed by England in 1943). The content of the reports of the Finnish envoy A. A. Yrjö-Koskinen enable to imagine the extremely difficult situation of Turkey, which was under constant political pressure from the opposing sides. From the point of view of the Turkish state and military leadership, the victory of either side in the World War posed a risk to Turkey. In reality, Yrjö-Koskinen’s role as the head of Finland’s diplomatic mission was reduced to collecting somewhat chaotic information about world events, not always accompanied by his own analyses or comments. At the same time, the envoy’s reports to the Finnish Foreign Ministry showed the lack of any evident Turkish interest in the development of relations with Finland.
Historical Memory of Dmitry Donskoy in the Pre-Petrine Period
Authors:   Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Sokolov Roman A.
Published: June 2023

The historical memory of Dmitry Donskoy in the first centuries after his death was primarily of a secular nature. His victory in the Kulikovo field determined the public perception of his image. Even during the life of Dmitry, there was a convergence between his image and the memory of Alexander Nevsky, but the question of church glorification of a victor over Mamai was not raised. The reason lay in Dmitry’s policy of active interference in the affairs of ecclesiastical authorities. Even a large-scale canonization of Russian saints, initiated by Metropolitan Macarius, left Dmitry Donskoy out. It can again be attributed to his difficult relationship with the church authorities. However, this didn’t prevent an increasing tendency of inclusion of the image of the Grand Duke as a talented military leader and conqueror of the Horde in the historical memory of his contemporaries and in the coordinate system of the ideology of the newly created unified Russian state. Ivan Grozny considered him one of the “historical models” for his own rule and emphasized his own descent from this glorious ancestor. In the 17th century, the nobles, constructing their genealogical history, tried to connect their origins with the boyars who went to the court of Dmitry Donskoy. The emerging “connection” of the historical image of Dmitry with Alexander Nevsky, canonized at the all-Russian level in 1547, was also preserved.
The Russian Empire as a Regulator of the Hajj and Russian Orthodox Pilgrimage
Authors:   St. Petersburg State University, Anisimov Oleg V.
Published: June 2023

The work by Eileen Kane on the Russian Empire’s experience of regulating the hajj — the Muslim pilgrimage from the Volga region, the Caucasus, and Central Asia to the Middle East — is of interest not only from the perspective of Asian and African studies or the history of religion. It is also, potentially, a comparative study as the author illustrates her observations and conclusions by referring to Russia’s policies towards the Christian populations of the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. E. Kane advances a debatable thesis that Russia provided unofficial support for the hajj undertaken by its subjects. Whereas the patronage of Russian Orthodox pilgrimage was fully in line with Russia’s geopolitical role in the Middle East as well as with the tsarist ideology, open declaration of its interest in an organized hajj was out of the question for the Russian government. The idea of regulating the hajj was consistent with Russia’s need to integrate its Muslim subjects into the empire in order to secure the imperial rule. In the Ottoman Empire, adherents of various religions united under one dynasty and entitled to its consular protection can be viewed from the perspective of comparative historical research and the authorities’ general idea of imperial unity. In this case, the modes of comparison can be the following: the appropriation by the authorities of the traditions of pilgrimage and the hajj; their modernization; controversies in implementing the policies; consular protection; the subjugation of the clergy to the imperial bureaucracy. The profound differences between the two religious cultures, Christianity and Islam, resulted in the differences between Russia’s Muslim and Orthodox presence in the Middle East. In the late 19th century, Orthodox subjects of the tsar upon arriving at the destination of their pilgrimage, were offered the services of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society: they could use the accommodation owned by the “Russian Palestine”, and were provided with spiritual guidance by the Russian Orthodox ecclesiastical mission in Jerusalem. Muslim subjects of the tsar did not enjoy the same level of official protection.
Linguocreativity in composing a telegram channel paratext
Authors:   St. Petersburg State University, Duskaeva Lilia R. , Ivanova Liubov Yu. ,   St. Petersburg State University
Published: June 2023

Linguistic creativity is analyzed as a feature of the microblog paratext in the Telegram messenger. For the media linguistics research, the most important paratext components of publications in Telegram channels were selected, namely: nickname and slogan, which, combining many posts into integrity, are aimed at establishing contact, identifying, informing, advertising and highlighting the channel among others. It was found out that due to the specifics of the technological conditions of speech interaction in Telegram, these paratext components become zones of speech creativity of telegramers and undergo polyparametric language transformations. Linguistic innovations in naming and sloganistics of three thematically diverse groups of Telegram channels — about politics, science and entertainment — are considered. As a result, linguocreative techniques were established in the channel’s paratext, the role of discourse createms in the process of participants’ communicative adaptation to new technological conditions was revealed. Linguocreative techniques in the channels naming consist in the use of specific word-formation, lexical and syntactic resources of the language, which are adapted to the needs of politically, scientifically or entertainment-oriented communication. Linguistic innovation in sloganistics is determined by the desire to draw attention to the channel as a whole and to its individual messages, which forces the participants of telegram communication to mobilize such means of linguistic creativity that update the repertoire of linguistic means for naming speech activity. The research of linguocreativity in the Telegram channel paratext opens up broad prospects for the study of linguistic innovations in the metatext and intratext components of the media text created in new technological conditions.
The paradigm of patterns with the verb of possession in Ibero-Romance languages based on the corpus data
Authors:   Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Zélikov Mikhail V. , Ivanova Anna V. ,   St. Petersburg State University
Published: June 2023

The article attempts to find out the paradigm of patterns with the verb of possession (tener/ tenir/têr) in Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese using the material of corpus data. It also shows, basing on the criterion of subject-object relations, the possibility of syntactic transformations with other basic verbs following two possible ways: existentiality — stativeness — locativity and activeness — possession. Depending on the semantic characteristics of the names that fill the positions of actants within the configuration of the sentence patterns with the verb of possession with real or fictitious subjects (agents) and objects (patients), four types are distinguished: 1) animate subject — animate object; 2) animate subject — inanimate object; 3) inanimate subject — animate object; 4) inanimate subject — inanimate object. The analysis of the empirical material presented in the article allows us to assert that the role of the verb of possession as the most important structural element in the expression of predicativity in the Ibero-Romance area is very significant. A separate section of the article presents data showing that the features of the functioning of the possession verbs in the Ibero-Romance languages can be explained as a result of interference with the ancient pre-Roman language of the Iberian Peninsula — Basque.
Context-dependent variation of a naming across the euphemism/dysphemism spectrum
Authors:   Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University), Fomina Tatiana A. , Druzhinin Andrey S. ,   Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University)
Published: June 2023

The object of the investigation are X-phemisms (euphemisms or/and dysphemisms), i. e. units of affective semantics and polite communication. Euphemisms and dysphemisms that make evaluative judgements and stance taking possible are treated dialectically, as variants of a naming in/through its contextual ambivalence and the relativity of its affective semantics (relationality). The evidential base of the research builds on the findings of theoretical analysis and empirical investigation of context, in which direct and indirect naming identifies with a positive or negative stance taken by the ‘namer’ (i. e. speaker). Theoretical interpretation of the context-dependent variation of a naming is based on the textological analysis of dictionary, functional and occasion-specific euphemism and dysphemism on the level of structural semantics with the use of lexicographical and culturological data as well as the pragmatical parameters of the discourse. Empirical analysis implies putting together observational data from the investigation of the experiential context of communicative actions upon the semantic units in question. The research material is based on the dialogical discourse of the TV show Desperate Housewives. A conclusion is made that X-phemism is a dynamic semantic unit characterized by affective valence and blurred lines between its positive and negative value. On a textuallevel, X-phemism is a contextually ambivalent naming.
Towards the linguistic approach to ideasthesia (case study of the multilingual parallel corpus)
Authors:   Lomonosov Moscow State University, Iaroshenko Polina V.
Published: June 2023

The article considers the possibility of applying the term ideasthesia to linguistic material. This term refers to word combinations usually classified as synesthetic metaphors, despite the fact that they do not imply multimodality, because only one of the words contains a sensory semantic component (e. g. bitter love, sweet desire). The research is based on a parallel multilingual corpus including the original text of V.Nabokov’s Lolita in English (1955) and its Russian (1967) and French (1959, 2001) translations. The work’s objective is to determine the place of ideasthesia in the context of the study of linguistic synaesthesia and to examine the semantic structure of ideasthetic word combinations. Ideasthetic word combinations are being considered in comparison with synaesthetic (both words contain sensory semantic component related to different modalities) and monosthetic ones (both words contain sensory semantic components related to the same modality). In total, 637 word combinations have been identi-fied, 73% of which are ideastetic, 20% are synaesthetic, and 7% are monostetic. 465 phrases with ideasthesia have been analysed. The classification of lexical groups interacting with sensory vocabulary in ideasthetic word combinations have been proposed. 11 semantic classes have been identified: anthroponyms (19% of the total number of ideasthetic contexts), emotions and feelings (17%), time periods (12%), qualities of a person (10%), discourse (10%), physical actions (9%), mental actions and states (7%), physical characteristics (7%), physical sensations (5%), body parts (2%), and toponyms (2%).
Autoimmune markers in prognosis of Assisted Reproductive Technology efficiency
Authors:   St. Petersburg State University, Safarian Galina , Dzhemlikhanova Lyailya ,   D. O. Ott Research Institute for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproduction,   St. Petersburg State University, Kogan Igor ,   D. O. Ott Research Institute for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproduction,   St. Petersburg State University, Niauri Darico ,   D. O. Ott Research Institute for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproduction,   St. Petersburg State University, Bespalova Olesya ,   D. O. Ott Research Institute for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproduction,   St. Petersburg State University, Gzgzyan Alexander ,   D. O. Ott Research Institute for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproduction,   St. Petersburg State University
Published: June 2023

According to reports, the efficiency of IVF/ICSI protocols is decreased in antithyroid antibodypositive patients as opposed to antibody negatives. However, there are opposite data indicating the absence of the antibody’s impact on the outcome of infertility treatment with assisted reproductive technologies. The prospective study enrolled 90 patients with infertility undergoing treatment with assisted reproductive technologies. The follicular fluid obtained on the day of oocyte retrieval was evaluated for antithyroid peroxidase and antithyroglobulin antibodies using commercial ELISA kits. The main group (n = 45) included women with verified autoimmune thyroiditis and measurable serum and follicular fluid levels of antithyroid antibodies. The comparison group was represented by 45 women without autoimmune thyroiditis. A reliably lower ovarian reserve parameters was noted in the study group relatively to the comparison group. It has been established that follicular fluid AT-TPO levels are negatively associated with the number of two-pronuclear zygotes. Moreover, the serum levels of AT-TPO ≥ 305,0 IU/ml are reliably associated with a higher frequency of suboptimal response to COS and lower clinical pregnancy rate in IVF (IVF/ICSI) cycles.
Coping behavior for social phobia
Authors:   St. Petersburg State University, Luneva Polina , Ababkov Valentin ,   St. Petersburg State University
Published: June 2023

Social phobias remain widespread disorders, with only a small proportion of people seeking qualified help. In addition, at the moment there is a lack of comprehensive studies of coping behavior in social phobias. In this regard, a comprehensive study of this phenomenon becomes relevant. This work includes issues of social frustration and social support, as well as the level of perceived stress, which allows a more holistic view of the process of coping with stress. The article describes the results of a study of coping behavior in individuals with different levels of social anxiety. The study was conducted online. The sample consisted of 197 respondents: 56 of them had a low level of social anxiety, 79 had an average level, 41 respondents had an extremely high level of social anxiety, which allows us to speak about the presence of certain manifestations of social phobia. The following methods were used in the study: Social Anxiety and Social Phobia Questionnaire; Ways of coping behavior; personal questionnaire Big 5 adapted by D.P.Yanichev; Multidimensional scale of perception of social support in the adaptation of V.M.Yaltonsky and N.A. Sirota; The level of social frustration and the Scale of perceived stress — 10. The results of the study indicate an increased level of perceived stress and a lack of coping resources in a group of people with social phobia. In turn, the coping strategies of this group are not balanced: there is a predominance of avoidance with a rare use of problem solving planning, the search for social support and positive reassessment. In addition, the level of social frustration for the group of people with social phobias is higher than for the average and low levels of social anxiety. In general terms, we can talk about maladaptive coping behavior in individuals with social phobia.
Russian adaptation of the ProQOL (Professional Quality of Life) scale by B. Stamm
Authors:   Lomonosov Moscow State University, Pankratova Аlina , Nikolaeva Maria ,   Lomonosov Moscow State University
Published: June 2023

This paper presents a Russian adaptation of the ProQOL (Professional Quality of Life) scale by Stamm. This questionnaire assesses the positive and negative aspects of professional quality of life in people who work as helpers (compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue). The Russian version of ProQOL was tested on the sample of counseling psychologists (N=304, 84% female) aged from 22 to 66 years (M=39, SD=8) with counselling experience from 1 to 29 years (M=6.9, SD=6.5). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis showed that the Russian version of ProQOL has a four-factor structure: job satisfaction, occupational satisfaction, secondary trauma, and burnout. Based on the correlations between the primary scales, it is proposed to calculate also the scores on the second-order scales, compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue. Internal consistency of the primary scales ranges from 0.71 to 0.80, and internal consistency of the second-order scales is equal to 0.85 and 0.80 respectively. Oc- cupational satisfaction correlates negatively with burnout (r=–0.51, p<0.001) and secondary trauma (r=–0.31, p<0.001). Job satisfaction correlates negatively with burnout (r=–0.26, p<0.01) but does not correlate with secondary trauma (r=–0.04). The association between professional effectiveness and professional quality of life in novice counselors (N=54) was also analyzed. It was found that counsellors’ self-efficacy while working with a client’s request correlates positively with their compassion satisfaction (r=0.37, p<0.01) and negatively with their burnout (r=–0.46, p<0.001).
Strategy or local control? Interaction of Gratton effect and proportion’s effect in the Stroop test
Authors:   St. Petersburg State University, Starodubtsev Alexei , Sladkoshtieva Anastasia ,   St. Petersburg State University, Zemlyanov Aleksandr ,   Herzen State Pedagogical University
Published: June 2023

Models of cognitive control contain the mechanism of the general strategy of solving a task and control of specific stimuli special mechanisms. There is an ongoing discussion as to which control is responsible for the Gratton effect and the Stroop test’s proportion effect. The Gratton effect consists in decreasing the Stroop effect after an incongruent stimulus, the proportion effect is to increase interference when incongruent stimuli predominate among other types of stimuli. In this study, we set out to test whether there would be an interaction between these effects. If it is detected, we can say that both effects of study are produced by a general cognitive mechanism. Similar studies of general strategy using the Stroop task include congruent and incongruent stimuli. Congruent stimuli produce a response facilitation effect that is mixed with an interference effect, making final interpretation difficult. To avoid this, we used different proportions of incongruent and neutral stimuli. We conducted three experiments using different proportions of incongruent versus neutral stimuli (66:33/33:66 and 80:20/20:80), as well as the type of design (intragroup and intergroup plans). Only the Gratton effect was detected in the experiments performed — no proportion effect or significant interaction between the Gratton and proportion effects was found. In three experiments (N=70), only indirect evidence was found for the effect of proportion on the Gratton effect. These results are difficult to explain in terms of “strategic” interference model who explain both effects by a change in the global strategy for solving the task. Given the systematic lack of interaction between the Gratton effect and other effects in the literature, we can say that the Gratton effect is caused by a local control system, which the proportion effect influences, if at all, only slightly. The connection between the proportion effect and strategic control and the factors that mediate it are discussed.
Variation characteristics of Poyang Lake water area and its response to meteorological factors in the past 35 years
Authors: Jiang Feiyan , Kuang Runyuan , Xia Aoxin , Feng Qianyun , Zhou Meng
Published: June 2023

The hydrological situation of Poyang Lake has undergone changes due to the influence of climate change and human activities. Its typical throughput and seasonal variation characteristics have attracted much attention. Research on the long-term hydrological variation of Poyang Lake needs to be enriched. Using remote sensing images from 1986 to 2020 and combining them with the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), this study extracts the water area of Poyang Lake and analyzes its variation characteristics. The results show that the water area of Poyang Lake has a consistent periodic variation with meteorological factors. Both the water area and meteorological factors have a main period of 18 m (months). Water area change points occurred in 2003, 2010, and 2016. In different research periods, there is a significant correlation between the water area and meteorological factor changes. Furthermore, the correlation between water vapor pressure and precipitation with the water area change is the strongest.
Perfil de pacientes com transtorno do espectro autista assistidos em um centro de referência odontológica
Authors: Tássia Reimer  , Gabriela Ibing Sberse  , José Ricardo Sousa Costa  , Letícia Kirst Post  , Lisandrea Rocha Schardosim  , Marina Sousa Azevedo
Published: June 2023

O transtorno do espectro autista (TEA) é uma condição presente desde a infância que interfere no comportamento sociocomunicativo e na linguagem, fazendo com que o indivíduo apresente comportamentos repetitivos e estereotipados. Objetivo: Obter um perfil de pacientes com TEA atendidos em um centro de especialidades odontológicas (CEO) do sul do Brasil, verificar a necessidade de atendimento odontológico sob anestesia geral (AG) e analisar fatores sociodemográficos, comportamentais, médicos e odontológicos associados. Material e métodos: Este estudo observacional transversal utilizou dados secundários de prontuários de pacientes com TEA atendidos no CEO Jequitibá da Faculdade de Odontologia da Universidade Federal de Pelotas, localizado na cidade de Pelotas/RS. Características socioeconômicas, demográficas, comportamentais e de comunicação e informações médicas e odontológicas, como a necessidade de atendimento sob AG, foram coletadas. Realizou-se uma análise estatística descritiva com a distribuição das frequências absoluta e relativa e o Teste Exato de Fisher foi utilizado para testar associação. Um valor de  P <0,05 foi considerado como estatisticamente significante. Resultados: Do total de 502 prontuários, 58 (11,5%) apresentavam o diagnóstico de TEA. A maioria era do sexo masculino (82,8%), possuía comportamento agitado e/ou agressivo (66,0%), tinha dificuldades de comunicação (54,7%), não obteve solução do problema na última consulta com dentista (71,0%) e buscou o CEO tardiamente, com idade acima dos 10 anos. Dentre os pacientes com TEA atendidos, 50% necessitaram de atendimento odontológico sob AG. O tipo de comportamento prévio no dentista teve associação com a indicação de encaminhamento para bloco sob AG (P=0,046); grande parte dos pacientes encaminhados teve relato prévio de comportamento ruim (62,1%). Conclusão: Os pacientes com TEA que chegaram ao serviço tinham comportamento mais difícil e apresentaram dificuldades comportamentais em atendimentos odontológicos anteriores, levando a uma alta demanda de atendimento odontológico sob AG.
Contribution of cone beam computed tomography to suggest a hypothesis of odontogenic keratocyst in the diagnosis of a bone lesion: a case report
Authors: Anna Karla da Silva Lourenço  , Luciano Sandoval Carneiro  , Júlio Cesar Pedro
Published: June 2023

In the literature, several studies have investigated cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) findings of microscopically confirmed odontogenic keratocysts (OK). Such data can be useful on clinical routine in the diagnosis of bone lesions to define a hypothesis of OK before surgical resection. Objective: To report a clinical case of an extensive bone lesion in the mandible, which tomographic and clinical findings suggested OK as the first hypothesis. Case report: A 14-year-old male underwent a CBCT scan of the mandible for investigating an asymptomatic radiolucent bone lesion detected in a panoramic radiography. Clinically no swelling was evident and the adjacent teeth presented positive response to pulpal sensitivity test. CBCT images revealed a hypodense and unilocular lesion extending from mandibular left central incisor region to mandibular left first molar site; from jaw base to periapical region of the adjacent teeth; from buccal to lingual bone cortical. At the site of the lesion, there was erosion of the buccal and lingual bone cortical, which presented a mild expansion. Additionally, sectional images showed scalloped edges of the lesion, slight external root resorption at the apex of mandibular left second premolar, subtle incomplete septa and mandibular canal involvement by the lesion. Conclusion: The relevant CBCT findings contributed to suggest a probable hypothesis of OK in the diagnosis of a mandibular bone lesion. However, final diagnosis depends on microscopic examination.