Although the water deer, Hydropotes inermis is one of the most common large mammals in South Korea (Republic of Korea), it had limited distribution along southwestern part of the Korean Peninsula and currently inhabits most of the peninsula after several releases in 1950s and 1960s. Currently, water deer was documented from Primorskiy Krai, Russia in the vicinity of northeastern border of North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea). The first report was a camer trapped water deer in 2019 about 45 km from North Korean border and we found the older harvest record of water deer in 2014 about 210 km from North Korea. Although the North Korean government translocated water deer from the west coast to the northeast in the 1950s and 1960s, range expansion or dispersal of water deer was not reported until these records. Further research is needed to confirm if they represent whether it’s a persistent population or transient dispersers.
The article explores one of the most remarkable and dynamic phenomena of modern technoculture – video games. It reconstructs the genesis of the philosophical discourse on video games, exposing the main difficulties arising in making the definitions. Special importance is attached to the critical comparative analysis of the major strategies for the philosophical explication of video games. With the aid of the method of comparative-historical reconstruction and a structuralist approach, the essential correlations between the essential definition of a video game and the ontological systems of Plato, the Gnostics, G. Berkeley, E. Kant, as well as post-modern philosophy was established. The research results in formulating a model-integrative definition of a video game.
The paper reveals peculiarities of transition periods in cultural dynamics. These processes are analysed by using the example of the continuum of European (as of the 19th c. -Euro-Atlantic) culture. The end of transition periods which are defined by the concept of "sociocultural transformation" marks the beginning of progressive evolution of culture -the stage determined by the notion of "culture system". The study singles out four stages of socio-cultural transformations in the continuum of European culture (late Hellenism, the Renaissance, the avant-garde, and postmodernity) as well as four culture systems (ancient, mediaeval, neo-European, and modern). The paper concludes that characterising sociocultural transformations makes it possible to determine a concrete set of their features. These features are defined by the concept of "culturally dominant characteristics". Various stages of socio-cultural transformations generally display the same set of such characteristics, the latter manifesting themselves with varying degrees of intensity, whereas the set of culturally dominant characteristics reflecting the essence of culture systems is different. The research resulted in singling out the following culturally dominant characteristics of socio-cultural transformations: relativism, pluralism, eclecticism, skepticism, gamification, as well as a break with the preceding cultural tradition. The research raises the problem of extending the application of the aforementioned regularities to the cultural dynamics of other civilisations. Corresponding author: alexei1997@yandex.ru , 0 (2019) Web of Conferences
Опубликовано Российским государственным педагогическим университетом им. А. И. Герцена. Открытый доступ на условиях лицензии CC BY-NC 4.0. Аннотация. Осенью 2019 г. в городе Уссурийске Приморского края зафиксирована массовая гибель мигрирующих птиц от столкновений с оконными стеклами. Данной проблеме в нашей стране уделяется незаслуженно мало внимания, поскольку ее масштабы, несомненно, велики и недооцениваются при строительстве зданий, планировании и проведении природоохранных мероприятий. В нашей статье дается предварительная оценка размеров гибели птиц в Уссурийске в сентябре-октябре 2019 г. За время наблюдений было отмечено 188 случаев столкновения 12 видов птиц с оконными стеклами, 136 из которых закончились гибелью птицы. Около 80 % пострадавших птиц составляли поползни (Sitta europaea).
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