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Selected Abstracts


From the discovery of sodiumoxyorganoalkoxysilanes to the organosilicon dendrimers and back

JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE (IN TWO SECTIONS), Issue 15 2008
Aziz M. Muzafarov
Abstract Upon being discovered 20 years ago, sodiumoxyorganoalkoxysilanes became the key to the world of organoelement dendrimers. Even considering the great variety of objects that had appeared in this area during the last 20 years, the organosilicon dendrimers are still one of the most actual objects in this class. Above all, this is fair concerning the carbosilane systems. The high reactivity of the functional groups, the well controlled chemistry of their transformations, and the inertness of the molecular skeleton are the reason for making these systems highly actual in two main regards: as model objects for the deep research of the dendrimers' properties and as polyfunctional matrixes for numerous derivatives. In this review, we were mainly focusing on the importance of the former part. In the conclusion, we showed the motivation for further development of this area both in regard of synthesis of new carbosilane systems and further development of siloxane dendrimers. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 46: 4935,4948, 2008 [source]


Evolutionism and Historical Particularism at the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography

MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 1 2008
Sergei Kan
Abstract In the 1900s,1920s, Lev Shternberg played a major role in transforming the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography into Russia's most comprehensive ethnology museum and a popular site for visitors. As an anthropologist, Shternberg was committed to both a Boasian investigation of individual cultures (and intercultural relations) and classical evolutionism. Hence he believed that his museum had to include displays depicting distinct cultures and culture areas and a separate department illustrating "the evolution and typology of culture." The article examines his work of putting the former part of this vision into practice and the reasons why the latter one failed. [source]


SCIENTIFIC CHARACTERIZATION OF THE POHORJE MARBLES, SLOVENIA

ARCHAEOMETRY, Issue 2 2010
S. JARC
As a former part of the great Roman Empire, Slovenia has many archaeological sites featuring buildings and objects entirely or partly constructed from marble whose provenance is doubtful. In Slovenia, the most probable source of such marble is the Pohorje Mountains. For the purpose of supporting further provenance studies, these marbles are fully scientifically characterized. The techniques used are petrographic and geochemical analysis, stable isotope ratio analysis and EPR spectroscopy. The results show that the Pohorje marbles are highly heterogeneous in both their isotopic and geochemical parameters as well as grain sizes. The parameters of the different Pohorje marble outcrops are compared between themselves and with the parameters of known ancient quarries in the Mediterranean and Austria. The use of a multi-technique approach with combined parameters allows the best possible discrimination. [source]


,The Suggested Basis for a Russian Federal Republic': Britain, Anti-Bolshevik Russia and the Border States at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919

HISTORY, Issue 301 2006
CHARLOTTE ALSTON
Allied policy towards Russia at the Paris Peace Conference was confused and uncoordinated. Throughout 1919 civil war continued to rage in Russia and its former borderlands. While piecemeal assistance was being given to the anti-Bolshevik forces led by Kolchak and Denikin, the Allies also made promises to support the independence of the newly established states on the borders of Russia. At the height of Kolchak's military success in May 1919, they were seriously considering recognition of his Omsk government. This article shows that the British government investigated the possibility of a reconstructed Russian federation based around the Kolchak government. James Simpson, a member of the Foreign Office's Political Intelligence Department, was sent to Paris to negotiate with the parties involved. While his efforts were a short and abortive episode in the history of the Peace Conference, his discussions and the reports he received shed interesting light on the attitudes and actions of the many unrecognized delegations from former parts of Russia at the conference and on their relations with Russia, the Allies, and each other. [source]