Reflections, notes and original anecdotes, illustrating the character of Peter the Great. To which is added a tragedy in five acts, entitled Alexis, the czarewitz.

Mode of access: Internet.

Monuments historiques relatifs aux règnes d'Alexis Michaélowitch, Féodor III, et Pierre le Grand, czars de Russie, extraits des Archives du Vatican et de Naples.

Mode of access: Internet.

Guide leaflet, geological science field trip, Monmouth area, Warren County : Monmouth and Alexis quadrangles /

"Revised January 1964"--P. 10.

Tocqueville in Miami: Political culture and political organizing in Miami's Cuban community

This study examines the effectiveness of civic organizations focusing on leadership and the role of culture in politics. The study is based on a quasi-experimental research design and relies primarily on qualitative data. The study focuses on Miami's Cuban community in order to examine the role of public initiative in grassroots civic and community organizations. ^ The Miami Cuban community is a large, institutionally complex and cohesive ethnic community with dense networks of community organizations. The political and economic success of the community makes it an opportune setting for a study of civic organizing. The sheer number of civic organizations to be found in Miami's Cuban community suggests that the community's civic organizations have something to do with the considerable vibrancy and civic capacity of the community. How have the organizations managed to be so successful over so many years and what can be learned about successful civic organizing from their experience?^ Civic organizations in Miami's Cuban community are overwhelmingly ethnic-based organizations. The organizations recreate collective symbols that come from community members' memories of and attachments to the place of origin they hold dear as ethnic Cubans. They recreate a collective Cuban past that community members remember and that is the very basis of the community to which they belong.^ Cuban Miami's ethnically based civic organizations have generally performed better than the literature on civic organizations says they should. They gained greater access to community ties and social capital, and they exhibited greater organizational longevity. The fit between the political culture of civic organizations and that of the broader political community helps to explain this success. Yet they do not perform in the same way or in support of the same social purposes. Some stress individual agency rather than community agency, and some pursue an externally-oriented social purpose, whereas others focus on building an internal community.^

Pironiana, ou recueil des aventures plaisantes, bons mots, saillies ingénieuses, etc. d'Alexis Piron

par Cousin d'Avallon

Wanha Saara Amerikassa

Imprimatur: J. M. af Tengström.

140 merkin demokratiaa. Kuinka demokratia voi Twitterissä.

Twitter on internetissä toimiva lyhytviestipalvelu, joka voidaan lukea osaksi sosiaalista mediaa. Sen käyttäjät voivat julkaista korkeintaan 140 merkin mittaisia viestejä, eli twiittejä, sekä lukea, jakaa ja kommentoida toisten käyttäjien lähettämiä twiittejä. Palvelun piirissä lähetetään tätä kirjoitettaessa kymmeniä tuhansia suomenkielisiä twiittejä päivittäin. Twiitit koskevat usein ajankohtaisia aiheita ja tapahtumia. Tässä tutkimuksessa haetaan vastausta siihen, toteutuuko Twitterissä käytävässä eduskuntavaaliaiheisessa keskustelussa aggregatiivisen, deliberatiivisen tai agonistisen demokratiakäsityksen piir teitä. Normatiivisten demokratiateor ioiden operationalisoinnnissa tutkielmassa on käytetty erityisesti Raphael Kiesin deliberatiivisen demokratian operationalisointikehikkoa sekä Lincoln Dahlbergin digitaalisen demokratian positiomallia. Aineistona on Twitterin tietokannasta vuoden 2015 eduskuntavaalien alla suodatettu ja kerätty kokoelma twiittejä (n=870), jotka muodostavat yhteensä 25 kokonaista keskustelua. Analyysimenetelminä on käytetty laadullista, teoriaohjaavaa sisällönanalyysiä sekä kuvailevia kvantitatiivisia menetelmiä. Analyysin johtopäätöksenä voidaan todeta, että kaikkien edellä mainittujen demokratiateorioiden mukaisia piirteitä oli havaittavissa tutkituista keskusteluketjuista. Kokonaisuutena aineistosta havaitut vuorovaikutuksen piirteet muodostavat kuvan keskustelukulttuurista, joka muistuttaa käsitellyistä demokratiaihanteista eniten aggregatiivista, liberaalia demokratiaa. Mainittua normatiivista demokratiakäsitystä tukevat myös Twitterin asettama 140 merkin yläraja viestien pituudelle sekä Twitterin tämän tutkielman kirjoitusvaiheessa julkaisema äänestystoiminto. Merkillepantava huomio on myös se, että osallistujien välistä näkyvää vuorovaikutusta esiintyy Twitterissä vähän suhteessa twiittien kokonaisvolyymiin.

Tocqueville in Miami : political culture and political organizing in Miami's Cuban community

This study examines the effectiveness of civic organizations focusing on leadership and the role of culture in politics. The study is based on a quasi-experimental research design and relies primarily on qualitative data. The study focuses on Miami's Cuban community in order to examine the role of public initiative in grassroots civic and community organizations. The Miami Cuban community is a large, institutionally complex and cohesive ethnic community with dense networks of community organizations. The political and economic success of the community makes it an opportune setting for a study of civic organizing. The sheer number of civic organizations to be found in Miami's Cuban community suggests that the community's civic organizations have something to do with the considerable vibrancy and civic capacity of the community. How have the organizations managed to be so successful over so many years and what can be learned about successful civic organizing from their experience? Civic organizations in Miami's Cuban community are overwhelmingly ethnic-based organizations. The organizations recreate collective symbols that come from community members' memories of and attachments to the place of origin they hold dear as ethnic Cubans. They recreate a collective Cuban past that community members remember and that is the very basis of the community to which they belong. Cuban Miami's ethnically based civic organizations have generally performed better than the literature on civic organizations says they should. They gained greater access to community ties and social capital, and they exhibited greater organizational longevity. The fit between the political culture of civic organizations and that of the broader political community helps to explain this success. Yet they do not perform in the same way or in support of the same social purposes. Some stress individual agency rather than community agency, and some pursue an externally-oriented social purpose, whereas others focus on building an internal community.

Free Phenolic Acids from the Seaweed Halimeda monile with Antioxidant Effect Protecting against Liver Injury

Phenolic compounds are found in seaweed species together with other Substances presenting antioxidant activity. The objective of this work was to evaluate the antioxidant activity of the free phenolic acids (FPA) fraction from the seaweed Halimeda monile, and its activity to protect the expression of hepatic enzymes in rats, under experimental CCI(4) injury. The antioxidant activity was measured by the DPPH method. The FPA fraction (80 mg/kg, p.o.) was administered during 20 consecutive days to rats. The peroxidation was performed by thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS). The SOD and CAT enzymatic expressions were measured by RT/PCR. The histology technique was used to evaluate liver injuries. The expression of both, CAT and SOD genes, was more preserved by FPA. Only partial injury could be observed by histology in the liver of rats receiving FPA as compared with the control group; and CCI(4) administration induced 60% more peroxidation as compared with the rats receiving FPA. These data suggest that FPA could modulate the antioxidant enzymes and oxidative status in the liver through protection against adverse effects induced by chemical agents.

Mesoporous dye-doped titanium dioxide for micro-optoelectronic applications

Optically transparent, mesostructured titanium dioxide thin films were fabricated using an amphiphilic poly(alkylene oxide) block copolymer template in combination with retarded hydrolysis of a titanium isopropoxide precursor. Prior to calcination, the films displayed a stable hexagonal mesophase and high refractive indices (1.5 to 1.6) relative to mesostructured silica (1.43). After calcination, the hexagonal mesophase was retained with surface areas >300 m2 g-1. The dye Rhodamine 6G (commonly used as a laser dye) was incorporated into the copolymer micelle during the templating process. In this way, novel dye-doped mesostructured titanium dioxide films were synthesised. The copolymer not only directs the film structure, but also provides a solubilizing environment suitable for sustaining a high monomer-to-aggregate ratio at elevated dye concentrations. The dye-doped films displayed optical thresholdlike behaviour characteristic of amplified spontaneous emission. Soft lithography was successfully applied to micropattern the dye-doped films. These results pave the way for the fabrication and demonstration of novel microlaser structures and other active optical structures. This new, high-refractive index, mesostructured, dye-doped material could also find applications in areas such as optical coatings, displays and integrated photonic devices.

Comparison of experimental and numerical studies of ionizing flow over a cylinder

Comparisons are made between experimental measurements and numerical simulations of ionizing flows generated in a superorbital facility. Nitrogen, with a freestream velocity of around 10 km/s, was passed over a cylindrical model, and images were recorded using two-wavelength holographic interferometry. The resulting density, electron concentration, and temperature maps were compared with numerical simulations from the Langley Research Center aerothermodynamic upwind relaxation algorithm. The results showed generally good agreement in shock location and density distributions. Some discrepancies were observed for the electron concentration, possibly, because simulations were of a two-dimensional flow, whereas the experiments were likely to have small three-dimensional effects.

Enhanced flow visualisation using near-resonant holographic interferometry

Holographic interferometry measurements have been performed on high-speed, high-temperature gas flows with a laser output tuned near a resonant sodium transition. The technique allows the detection and quantification of the sodium concentration in the flow. By controlling the laser detuning and seeded sodium concentration, we performed flow visualization in low-density flows that are not normally detectable with standard interferometry. The technique was also successfully used to estimate the temperature in the boundary layer of the flow over a flat plate.

A note on the multiple partners assignment game

In the assignment game of Shapley and Shubik [Shapley, L.S., Shubik, M., 1972. The assignment game. I. The core, International journal of Game Theory 1, 11-130] agents are allowed to form one partnership at most. That paper proves that, in the context of firms and workers, given two stable payoffs for the firms there is a stable payoff which gives each firm the larger of the two amounts and also one which gives each of them the smaller amount. Analogous result applies to the workers. Sotomayor [Sotomayor, M., 1992. The multiple partners game. In: Majumdar, M. (Ed.), Dynamics and Equilibrium: Essays in Honor to D. Gale. Mcmillian, pp. 322-336] extends this analysis to the case where both types of agents may form more than one partnership and an agent`s payoff is multi-dimensional. Instead, this note concentrates in the total payoff of the agents. It is then proved the rather unexpected result that again the maximum of any pair of stable payoffs for the firms is stable but the minimum need not be, even if we restrict the multiplicity of partnerships to one of the sides. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.