An experimental study of three strains of Russian spring-summer encephalitis virus and one of louping ill virus has yielded the following results:- 1. The sera of mice hyperimmunized to the viruses of Russian encephalitis and louping ill respectively have produced complement fixation with both antigens in almost precisely the same titer. 2. In neutralization tests hyperimmune sera against the R...

Previous studies conducted within the framework of the Lipid Research Clinics Program showed a strong inverse correlation between high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) level and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk in American male populations, whereas in Russian populations such a correlation was less pronounced. It was assumed that HDL was less protective of CHD in Russian than in America...

Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 Kosigina Street, Moscow, 119334, Russian Federation, Siberian Federal UniVersity, 79 SVobodny AVenue, Krasnoyarsk, 660041 Russian Federation, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Material Science and Department of Chemistry, Rice UniVersity, Houston, Texas 77251, United States, Technological Institute of Superhard and No...

The domain-specific track evaluates retrieval models for structured scientific bibliographic collections in English, German and Russian. Documents contain textual elements (title, abstracts) as well as subject keywords from controlled vocabularies, which can be used in query expansion and bilingual translation. Mappings between the different controlled vocabularies are provided. This year, new ...

Appraisals of Russian military performance during the armed conflict with Georgia in August 2008 noted, among other deficiencies, poor performance in Information Warfare (IW). This led to calls in informed commentary for the creation of dedicated “Information Troops” within the Russian armed forces, whose duties would include what we would define as cyber operations. This stemmed from a percept...

Emotions are a sensitive theme in all languages, and researchers seek to understand describe them cross-linguistically according the national traditions. The ‘emotional turn’ human sciences has touched on educational sphere an interesting way, where traditional Soviet-Russian approach was replaced by westernized terms of emotional intelligence. While applying these international schemes Russian...

The results of a survey aimed at identifying common and special features in the career attitudes young men women studying university Ministry Internal Affairs Russian Federation preparing to become police officers are discussed. authors come number conclusions that value for organization educational process institutions train future officers.

Berkeley group 2 chose to perform some very straightforward experiments in retrieval of Russian documents using queries derived from topics in all three languages. Thus we performed two runs with monolingual Russian retrieval and one cross-lingual run each with German topics and English topics. Query translation was done using the online PROMT translator (www.translate.ru). Monolingual results ...

This article addresses the question of the relevant conceptualization of «altruism» in Russian from the perspective sociological research operationalization. It investigates the spheres of social application of the word «altruism», include Russian equivalent «vzaimopomoshh`» (mutual help). The data for the study comes from Russian National Corpus (Russian). The theoretical framework consists of...

How word duration and context speech rate affect lexical perception is unclear. We investigated the influence of these attributes on perception of casually-spoken Russian sentences. In Experiment 1, native Russian speakers performed a transcription task on sentences containing rate manipulations. Experiment 2 was a forced choice task using the same materials involving native Russian speakers an...