russia is considered the core of the former empire of the ussr. many social and structural features of the soviet :union: could be observed in the development of russia’s political power and strategic attitude. geo-political competitions between russia and the west can be traced back to the 19th century. these competitions were shaped within the framework of the balance of power system in inter...

Plants do not grow in a strict linear manner, rather they circumnutate. That is, they exhibit an oscillatory or helical growth pattern around an axis. Circumnutation is readily apparent in vines such as morning glory or grape (Fig. 1), but in fact it is nearly ubiquitous in plants. Circumnutation occurs in almost all plant organs throughout all stages of development (Johnsson, 1997; Larson, 200...

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We show that strongly contracting geodesics in Outer space project to parameterized quasigeodesics in the free factor complex. This result provides a converse to a theorem of Bestvina– Feighn, and is used to give conditions for when a subgroup of Out(F) has a quasi-isometric orbit map into the free factor complex. It also allows one to construct many new examples of strongly contracting geodesi...

abstract the aim of the present research was to study the objective dimensions of security and the role of sport organizations in providing and developing security from the viewpoint of foreign sport tourists. the research was a descriptive survey. the statistical population (equal to the sample) consisted of foreign sport tourists participating in fajr international sport event (n=394). a rese...

The present contribution proposes to analyse the evolution of meaning ‘peaceful’ in space law as an example how international norms can be emptied their substance without putting legality into question. By highlighting different phases ‘peaceful purposes’ principle and linking it peculiar context security dilemmas time, motivations form which was contested are fleshed out. Drawing on this case ...