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The countries that experienced a 'coloured revolution' between 2000 and 2005 - Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan - were not distinguished by their levels of economic development, as political modernization theory suggested. Nor did they distribute incomes more unequally than other countries at the same level of development, as class analysis would have posited. By contrast, perceptions of the political system, and of its levels of corruption and responsiveness, were more closely associated with a series of irregular regime changes that had generally been precipitated by a 'stolen election'. Adapted from the source document.

In this article, we discuss the methodological prospects of using the term 'pattern' in the analysis of a literary text. We identify the semantic and categorial field of the term, propose a definition of 'pattern' as projected on language material, and correlate the terms 'pattern', 'repetition', 'recurrence', and others. The linguistic ontology of the pattern as a text-generating mechanism is determined by the fact that the pattern problematizes the relation­ship between repetition and variation, singular and plural, a norm and a deviation. A text has a pattern nature if its basic pattern does not coincide with its textual realizations, provided the latter are very similar at the prototype or model level. Therefore, the relationship between the pattern and a resultant text is isomorphic to the relationship between language and speech. Our analysis of poetic texts by Andrey Monastyrsky and Dmitri Prigov demonstrates the possibilities of studying a text as the realization of a pattern from the perspective of vari­ous literary strategies adopted by authors.

Abstract. This study investigated the relationship between the anxiety provoked by threatening events in society like the Covid-19 pandemic, and illusory pattern perception, with conspiracy beliefs. Using an experimental design, in Study 1 high vs. low anxiety was manipulated, while in Study 2 we manipulated intuitive pattern search, with the findings supporting the assumption that greater anxiety and higher intuitive pattern search lead to an increase in conspiracy beliefs. In order to prevent the detrimental effects of beliefs in conspiracy theories on the individual and societal levels, we recommend transparent information and pre-warning, as well as a focus on critical thinking in education. Keywords: societal events, anxiety, intuitive pattern search, illusory pattern perception, conspiracy beliefs, Covid-19 pandemic

The paper discusses the effect of audio sound pattern, intensity and frequency on human visual depth perception and visual discrimination ability. The depth perception ability of fifteen subjects that were used in these experiments was not significantly affected by the experimental variables. Visual discrimination ability was degraded by the experimental variable of 400 cps. sinusoidal sound between 80 and 110 decibels. The degradation was .205 seconds and may have an effect on human performance in situations where activity involving high speeds is present ; http://archive.org/details/effectsofsoundpa00pooc ; Sponsoring military activity: Naval Air Systems Command, Washington, D.C. ; NA