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Doors are mediums of architecture as an elementary cultural technique, as they process the key differences of architecture from within and without. The door is a machine, through which the symbolic was materialized in architecture. This contribution describes, by means of examples from cultural, literary and art history, the monologic, epistemic and social aspects and paradoxes of the door as an analog and binary medium. With the obsolescence of the door knob, engendered by the invention of the automated revolving door, the analog door has bid farewell to society and is now mutating to a bio-political instrument which no longer addresses mankind as 'persona', but as a major perturberence.

Government strategy is to reduce by 40% the number of serious deaths and injuries from road accidents before 2010. Police accident STATS 19 for Scotland show that most deaths and serious road injuries occur in rural areas on B and A class roads which have the highest accident rate / kilometre. Most accidents occur on bends at night and most involve younger male drivers.An SOS omnibus survey was conducted in mid 2007 to ascertain: who drives on rural roads in Scotland, how frequently they drive rural roads; risky behaviour patterns; driving speed; age and gender differences in relation to driving speed. Driver assessment of appropriate speed, based on perceived environmental and road conditions, was also reviewed.Conclusions are presented.

Peacekeeping operations throw the use of specialized military forces and the aim of accomplishing change in a civilian environment into contradiction. Organizations with cultures that facilitate warfighting have to reorient themselves towards achieving peace and consent rather than victory, making peacekeeping a process of constant intercultural encounters between 'military' and 'civilian' as well as between 'international' and 'local'. The force's local employees, civilians necessary in the force's military tasks, inhabited a particularly ambiguous position. Based on more than 30 oral history interviews with peacekeepers and local interpreters who worked in Bosnia-Herzegovina, this paper shows how four dimensions of cultural and bodily difference emerged from their narratives: uniforms, weapons, disruptiveness and training.

The transfer of editorial stewardship for a journal provides the occasion to rethink the journal's purposes and its place in the dense forest of texts claiming attention. If our view of these matters differed radically from those of our distinguished predecessors, it is very unlikely that we would have been called, much less chosen, to assume the journal's direction. Still, there are likely to be nuanced differences among editors. At a minimum, each set inevitably has its own way of expressing its view of the journal's purposes and place. This article describes where we seek to take the journal in the coming years, and why. Adapted from the source document.

An introduction that sketches a background for the essays included in the thematic section of the journal & notes the sudden rise of interest in studies devoted to electoral campaigns in Belgium & the Netherlands; an attempt is made to explain the rationale for this trend. Major publications in this field are mentioned, & three particular topics that are of special interest to scholars in political science & political communication are identified: (1) the campaigning activities & strategies of political parties & candidates, (2) the content of campaign news & debates in the media, & (3) the effects of (1) & (2) on voter's behavior & choices. The differences in the evolution of studies of election campaigns between in Belgium and the Netherlands are pointed out. Z. Dubiel

Рассматриваются проблемы формирования деловых объединений петербургского купечества второй половины XIX века. Показаны формы, их особенности и различия корпоративных объединений купечества. Отражена роль российского законодательства в этом процессе. На основе конкретных примеров показано развитие акционерного дела в Петербурге. В заключение приводится фактический материал по торговым фирмам Петербурга конца XIX века. ; The paper focuses on the issues of emerging merchant corporative culture in S. Petersburg in the late 19th century. Various forms of merchant societies, their features and differences are described. The role of Russian legislation in this process is highlighted. The development of St. Petersburg stock is shown through particular examples and facts about firms emerging in St. Petersburg in the late 19th century.

Статья посвящена проблеме презентации феномена славянства в политическом и научном дискурсах, а также культуре повседневности. Выделены предметный, процедурный и продуктный аспекты идентификации; различены психологический, хабитуальный и институциональный типы идентификации. Показано, что размывание этих различий приводит к утере ресурсов креативности субъекта идентификации в пространстве культуры. ; The article deals with the problem of introduction the phenomenon the Slavdom in the political and scientific discourses as well as in everyday life's culture. Subject, procedural and product aspects of identification are picked out, psychological, habitual and institutional types of identification are distinguished. It is shown that washing out of these differences leads the subject of identification to the loss of resources creativity in the cultural space.

Policy what government does, why it does it, and what difference it makes deserves a more central position in political science, especially in the study of American politics? This paper outlines the advantages of such a 'policy-focused' political science not just for the engagement of the discipline (and those within it) with pressing real-world problems, but also for the quality of research. My argument is not simply that a focus on policy will make political science more 'relevant,' although it will. It is that a political science without systematic attention to policy is a bad political science a political science that fails to capture extremely important aspects of politics. Adapted from the source document.

Статья посвящена определению и анализу требований к качеству личности и педагогического мастерства военных преподавателей, занимающихся подготовкой офицеров запаса для резерва Вооруженных Сил Российской Федерации. Проанализированы схожесть и отличия требований, предъявляемые к гражданскому и военному преподавателя, рассмотрены особенности выполнения служебных обязанностей офицера-преподавателя. ; The article is devoted to definition and analysis of requirements to the quality of personality and pedagogic mastership of a military teacher, dealing with training of reserve officers for the military reserve of the Russian Federation. There were analyzed similarity and differences of requirements that are made on the civilian and military teacher as well, considered peculiarities of discharge of duties by the instructor officer.

Consider the employee who is highly engaged and self-directed in her work, manages ambiguity well,genuinely engages in the journey of becoming an agent of change, seeks ways to understand herselfas a leader, and relishes the possibilities of ideas. On the other hand, there is the employee who looksto others for direction and answers, finds the lack of clarity and ambiguity unbearable, resists newideas, has difficulty making decisions, or jumps right into the decision-making process without carefulreflection. These disparate behaviors in employees seem to occur unrelated to age, gender, andsocioeconomic level. As teachers, managers, and consultants, we have engaged in our own leaderdevelopment practices and observed those of others in an attempt to explain these differences.