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Some topical issues related to the activities of non-governmental forensic experts in the Russian Federation
Authors: Фурсов В.В. 
Published: May 2024

В статье указывается на необходимость постоянного повышения профессионального уровня и квалификации судебных экспертов. Отмечено несовершенство перечней родов и видов судебных экспертиз различных ведомств в России, обусловленное отсутствием единой классификации судебных экспертиз. Предложено совершенствование методического обеспечения для экспертов. С целью формирования нормативной правовой базы, с помощью которой будет регулироваться, деятельность негосударственных (частнопрактикующих) судебных экспертов и организаций в Российской Федерации предлагается изучить положительный опыт функционирования негосударственных судебных экспертов в различных странах.
The article points to the need for continuous improvement of the professional level and qualifications of forensic experts. The imperfection of the lists of genera and types of forensic examinations of various departments in Russia is noted, due to the lack of a unified classification of forensic examinations. The improvement of methodological support for experts is proposed. In order to form a regulatory legal framework with the help of which the activities of non-state (private practitioners) forensic experts and organizations in the Russian Federation will be regulated, it is proposed to study the positive experience of the functioning of non-state forensic experts in various countries.
Влияние природных полисахаридов и их производных на всхожесть семян растений
Authors: Мұсабаева Б.Х. , Сүлейменова М.С. , Силыбаева Б.М. 
Published: May 2024

Зертханалық жағдайда табиғи полисахаридтер мен олардың туындыларының шалғам мен үрмебұршақ тұқымдарының өсу энергиясы мен өнгіштігіне әсері зерттелді. Ол үшін тұқымдар Петри табақшаларында полисахаридтердің 1% ерітінділерімен өңделіп, 200С температурадағы термостатта қараңғыда өсірілді. Жүргізілген эксперименттер нәтижелері барлық зерттелген полисахаридтердің шалғам тұқымдарының өнуіне оң әсер ететінін көрсетті. Үрмебұршақ тұқымдарының өнуі барлық жағдайларда шалғам тұқымдарына қарағанда төмен болды, алайда полисахаридтермен өңделген үрмебұршақ тұқымдарының өсу энергиясы және өнгіштігі бақылаумен салыстырғанда жоғары болатыны көрсетілген. Айрықша қасиетті метолоза полисахариді көрсетті, метолозомен өңдеу үрмебұршақ тұқымдарының өнуін тежейтіні көрсетілген. Жалпы, табиғи полисахаридтерді өсімдіктердің өсуін реттеуші ретінде тұқымның өну кезеңінде де, өсімдіктердің одан әрі өсу фазаларында да пайдалануға болады деп санаймыз.
В лабораторных условиях изучено влияние природных полисахаридов и их производных на энергию прорастания и всхожесть семян редиса и фасоли. Для этого семена в чашках Петри были обработаны 1% растворами полисахаридов, затем помещены в термостат при температуре 200С. Результаты проведенных экспериментов показали, что все изученные полисахариды оказывают положительное влияние на всхожесть семян редиса. Всхожесть семян фасоли оказалась ниже, чем у семян редиса во всх случаях, однако, показано, что полисахариды повышают энергию прорастания и всхожесть семян фасоли по сравнению с контролем. Исключение составила метолоза, обнаружено, что обработка метолозой угнетает всхожесть семян фасоли. В целом, считаем, что природные полисахариды могут быть использованы в качестве регуляторов роста растений как в фазе прорастания семян, так и при дальнейшем росте растений.
The effect of natural polysaccharides and their derivatives on the germination energy and germination of radish and bean seeds was studied in the laboratory. To do this, the seeds in Petri dishes were treated with 1% polysaccharide solutions, then placed in a thermostat at 200C. The results of the experiments showed that all the studied polysaccharides have a positive effect on the germination of radish seeds. The germination rate of bean seeds was lower than that of radish seeds in all cases, however, polysaccharides were shown to increase the germination energy and germination rate of bean seeds compared to the control. The exception was metolose, it was found that treatment with metolose inhibits the germination of bean seeds. In general, we consider that natural polysaccharides can be used as plant growth regulators both during the seed germination phase and during further plant growth.
Blessed Victors
Authors: Sutcliffe Ruth 
Published: May 2024

The late second through third centuries saw the remarkable confluence of the early church’s developing identity, theological understanding and praxis, with a period of opposition and intermittent persecution from the world around it. Theology necessarily engaged with the persecution experience, as the church considered the goodness and providence of God, the Name to be confessed and the purposeful outcome of the antagonism they faced. Ruth Sutcliffe argues that the early fathers’ theological understanding of the role of persecution in the Christian life informed their exhortations to individual and communal response, contributing to the church’s remarkable survival and growth through this period.
Four great thinkers of this era — Clement and Origen of Alexandria and Tertullian and Cyprian of Carthage — each have much to contribute to a theological understanding of Christian persecution, and Sutcliffe explores their widely different perspectives, intellectual milieu and experiences. She explains these differences and similarities in terms of their use of the Scriptures, in conversation with their own contexts and agendas; concluding that their differences in approach to persecution can be explained theologically, and that these differences offer a unique window into their respective thought. Despite such differences, Sutcliffe stresses that the early church did have a fundamentally coherent “theology of persecution” which speaks to the worldwide church today.
Sutcliffe analyses and compares the writings of Clement and Origen of Alexandria and Tertullian and Cyprian of Carthage to discover a theology of persecution and of martyrdom in the early church. This theology is explored through comparison of the fathers’ answers to five questions, concerning the origin, reason for and telos of persecution of Christians, and the appropriate individual and collective responses to persecution, as they perceived it. By attending to benchmark New Testament passages used by the four fathers, the role of patristic exegesis in formulating theology, and the effect of established theological ideas on scriptural interpretation is elucidated to account for the similarities and differences of their conclusions. Sutcliffe finds that, despite some significant differences in foundational theology, these four fathers had an overall common trajectory in their theologies of persecution, centred on confession of the name of Christ as a locus of victory in a cosmic battle, which renders the persecuted “blessed.” Nevertheless, important practical differences arise from their differing perspectives on the nature of Christian confession and its relationship to martyrdom, flight, apostasy and apologetics.
Doing Theology with Photographs
Authors: Dunlop Sarah 
Published: May 2024

This book is the first of its kind to fully explain how to use photographs for research within Practical Theology. An essential tool for anyone exploring how visual material can shed light on their research questions, the book functions as a guide to using the methods well. It includes a rationale for using photographs within the emerging field of empirical work within theology, which is useful for students or others within the academy who need to justify using a visual approach for their research projects and dissertations.
Drawing on the author’s own experience of using visual approaches, the book covers a variety of visual methods, including photojournalism, different types of photo elicitation, photo voice and studies of visual social media. Each chapter illustrates the method under discussion via a case study and photographs and contains a practical guide to using the method well and avoiding pitfalls. Additionally, the book explores how photographs can be used to resource theological reflection and spirituality, thus linking research and faithful practice within the rational for using visual material.
Designed for the classroom use, each chapter contains:
- Chapter summary (learning points)
- Background information
- ‘How to’ with examples of research projects
- Advantages and limitations of the method
- Conclusion
Female Art and Agency in Yugoslavia, 1971–2001
Authors: Foerschner Anja 
Published: May 2024

Despite having become marginalized on the map of contemporary art since the wars of the 1990s, the regions of former Yugoslavia continue to be a hub of creative activity. Especially noteworthy is the strong presence of women artists, scholars, and activists whose deeply personal, yet highly political artwork is rooted in a long legacy of female artistic agency. Building on existing scholarship as well as original research, this book highlights how female figures – through art and exhibition making, writing, mentorship, and activism – have shaped the alternative art scene in former Yugoslavia and placed the region firmly on the map of the international post-avantgarde.
Using the founding of the Student Cultural Center Belgrade in 1971 as a starting point, the book details the pioneering work of women in the realm of curation, where they developed radical exhibition concepts and programs that furthered the development of the New Art Practice and embedded Yugoslavia firmly on the map of the international postwar-avantgardes. It highlights the agency of female artists in the then-novel realms of performance art, video art, and new media art and shows how their work has helped these disciplines to gain the impact they retain until the present day. What is more, it shows how female cultural workers have courageously used their work to further the discourse on gender, sexuality, and the female body and, at a time when they saw themselves stripped of basic rights by the chauvinist-nationalist regimes emerging after Yugoslavia’s breakup, formed a strong artistic and activist opposition.
Highlighting the role of women in the diversification of the ex-Yugoslavia states and its highly unique cultural and political landscape, this book addresses the noticeable gap in art historical scholarship that exists not only around Yugoslavia and its successor states, but especially on its female representatives.
Exploring Ecolinguistics
Authors: Ponton Douglas Mark 
Published: May 2024

Contributing to the rapidly emerging field of Ecolinguistics, this book explores the role of language in mediating and determining our relationship with nature and in shaping attitudes and social practices in environmental areas. In doing so, it maps out research pathways for informed ecological debate that concerns both the planet and the discipline.
The book centres on two case studies. The first is a nature reserve near Siracusa in Sicily run by Fabio Cilea, where flamingos have begun to breed despite the devastation of the nearby coastline by one of the largest petro-chemical plants in Europe. The second is High Ash farm, a small farm near Norwich. Farmer, Chris Skinner, is a passionate naturalist who for thirty years has presented a programme on BBC Radio Norfolk. Through analysing the discourse of both Skinner and Cilea, the book explores what it can reveal about the underlying environmental visions that sustain them. Together with the discourse of other engaged ecological figures, a picture emerges of the connections that exist between our beliefs/attitudes, language and the natural world.
Presenting a framework for analysing environmental discourse from a primarily positivist standpoint, the book draws attention to the discourses that underline social practices felt to be useful, necessary and beneficial in these moments of environmental crisis. Although these contexts are European, the methodologies applied, as well as the ecological and linguistic issues dealt with, are universal, clarifying the relationship between social practices and language itself, viewed in the book as an ecosystem that is also in need of loving attention.
The Reconstruction of Economics
Authors: Gruchy Allan G. 
Published: May 2024

Allan Gruchy, the elder statesman of the institutionalist school of economic thought, has written a book which is important because it is both insightful and profound. Gruchy seeks to identify and to describe the essential unity of institutionalist economic thought. He finds the essence of institutionalism in the paradigmatic shift away from the old scientific paradigm of orthodox economics, which emphsizes static equilibrium, to the new scientific paradigm of institutionalist economics, which emphasizes dynamic process. . . . Gruchy calls for a reconstruction of economics which is long overdue.Review of Social Economy
The interpretations and solutions generated by orthodox economics, with its emphasis on efficiency and personal market forces, have failed to satisfy many economists. An alternative framework has been developed in the past eight decades by institutional economists, who view the economic system not as a competitive equilibrium to be kept in balance but as an ongoing economic process through which the material needs of its human participants are to be met. Although insitutional economics represents a major and growing body of work, it has not always been clear how it differs from other approaches. In his new book, Allan Gruchy, considered the dean of institutional economics, addresses this problem. Pointing up the underlying unity of work done in this field, he provides a clear, basic statement of what it is all about and what intellectual and social currents have shaped it.
Repression, Resistance, and Women in Afghanistan
Authors: Emadi Hafizullah 
Published: May 2024

Afghan women have faced an exhaustive struggle in the battle to change their status and improve their situation. Emadi takes a long look at the role of development and modernization policies implemented by the state in the pre- and post-Soviet eras, under the Taliban, and beyond. He finds that such policies have failed to bring about much- needed change and improvement for women. Modernization strategies benefited only a small segment of urban women and left the plight of rural women unchanged. Although a small segment of middle- and upper-class women organized themselves and fought to bring about changes in their status and to end gender inequality, their efforts alone did not meet with much success.
Islamic orthodoxy and orthopraxy in the Taliban era restricted women's freedom of movement, access to education, and medical care. Using personal accounts not readily available to researchers or scholars, Emadi explores the diverse factors that contributed to women's oppression both at home and in society. This study provides a detailed analysis of state policies toward women's emancipation within the context of a traditional Islamic society. It chronicles the course of the women's movement and women's organizations still active in the political arena and puts forth an alternative plan to involve women in the reconstruction process in both urban and rural areas.
Research Methods for Public Administrators
Authors: Johnson Gail 
Published: May 2024

Without jargon or mathematical theory to hinder a quick understanding and use, here are the research tools and techniques you can grasp and immediately apply to obtain research services from others or do research yourself. Johnson makes clear that to succeed in any public agency management position, you have to be able to think analytically and know how to assess the quality of research results. By providing the underlying concepts and just enough methodology to operationalize them, she gives you exactly what you need—in a clear, straightforward way that takes the fear out of learning. You will find here an especially wide range of practical guidelines and examples, all from the author's own and others' experiences in a variety of settings within the public sector. Throughout her book she emphasizes the how of research—how to do it, how to make sense of its findings—and covers all the basic statistical tools, concetrating steadily on interpreting research results. An important, reader-friendly text for students of public administration, and for their often perplexed colleagues already on the job.
Johnson explains that public administrators do not do research themselves all that often. But with the rising demand for results measurement, balancing scorecards, benchmarking and assessing customer satisfaction, they do need to understand the basics of what research is and at least have more than just a glimmer of how it is done. Her book offers both—a simple, easily grasped presentation of research concepts and principles, plus all of the essentials of doing program evaluation, policy analysis, and applied social science. It is especially useful as a text in such courses as research methods, program evaluation and introduction to applied statistics, usually found in public administration programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. And for people already in jobs outside the academic community, people who are now asked to do tasks that they seldom did before—and never expected they would be asked to do—it is essential.
Rifles
Authors: Westwood David 
Published: May 2024

From the musket to the M-16, rifles have played a major role in battle—sometimes tilting the scales in a pivotal moment of war. Yet all too often, poor decisions and ill-conceived "innovations" resulted in putting inappropriate weapons into ill-trained hands, with disastrous consequences.
Ranging primarily from the late 18th century to the present, this richly illustrated volume tells the fascinating, sometimes problematic, history of rifled weapons and ammunition for military use. Battle to battle, readers will see how faster-loading, more accurate rifles changed the battlefield. Readers will also encounter many instances where decisionmakers chose to issue rifles ill-suited for the task at hand when better options were available.
Author David Westwood has handled every weapon he describes, from muskets to breechloaders, from repeaters and bolt-action rifles to semiautomatics and self-loaders. His exhaustive research reveals new insights into both the successes and failures of rifled weapons. The result is a fresh look at a common weapon's most uncommon story.
Right Brain/Left Brain Leadership
Authors: Décosterd Mary Lou 
Published: May 2024

Leaders of all kinds, in all fields, need to be methodical and logical, but also strategic, innovative, and intuitive. Yet the two different styles require different modes of thinking, or what author Mary Lou Décosterd describes as shifts to right brain, or left brain, thinking. Those who operate in what she explains as the left brain mode develop strong logical, rational, and analytical abilities, but they may downplay the value of right brain thinking, which spurs intuition, subjectivity, and creativity. And those who operate primarily in the latter mode lose the value of the former. A leader who is habitually a right-brainer sees only the big picture, rather than its parts, is creative but not usually analytical, is an emotional far more than logical. So who is more effective? Veteran consultant Décosterd shows how those with maximum success are leaders who understand both styles and have the ability to switch between the two at certain key moments to broaden their overall effectiveness.
In the language of leadership, this pragmatic guide provides an all-encompassing view of how to maximize brain power and get to next-level leadership impact. Through case examples, simple assessment and unique learning tools, this book takes the reader through a new process for examining his or her current leadership style and skill sets, and framing a plan for greater success. Décosterd explains how, through use of popular leader exemplars, leadership examples and concise steps and summaries, every person can, at virtually any stage of personal and professional accomplishment, become a more consummate leader.
Robin Hood
Authors: Forgeng Jeffrey L. 
Published: May 2024

Among the narrative traditions of the Middle Ages, the Robin Hood legend holds a unique, important, and often overlooked position. Robin Hood's uniqueness and importance begins with his status as the only English contribution to world mythology. His is also the only lasting myth to arise from the High Middle Ages and the last Western legend to achieve a sustained international appeal. Several Robin Hood ballads survive from the Middle Ages, and from the 15th to the 17th centuries he figured prominently in folk drama. Since then, he has appeared in numerous proverbs, placenames, operas, novels, children's stories, films, and television series. A tale told so often must be profoundly significant to the society that retells it. Yet in spite of its importance and popularity, the legend of Robin Hood has received surprisingly little study. This book overviews the genesis and development of the Robin Hood legend from the Middle Ages to 1700.
As is appropriate for a work that bridges the divide between the worlds of fiction and history, this volume incorporates the strengths of both historical and literary approaches, respecting both the circumstances of the historic setting and the legend's status as a fictive creation. The principal focus of the book is the interaction between the text and the social context in which the legend arose and developed. The first two chapters examine the early Robin Hood tradition, including the initial nondramatic manifestations of the legend and the later dramatic representations. The volume then looks at the transformation of the legend in the 16th and 17th centuries and considers how the various elements of the legend interacted with each other and with society as a whole.