An Imperial Idyll: Finland in Russian Travelogues (1810–1860)

Russian Imperial Policy: Tsars -- Bolsheviks -- Primakov

Strategy of commercialization of Russian innovations in Finland

Russia inherited a large research and development (R&D) sector from Soviet times, and has retained a substantial R&D sector today, compared with other emerging economies. However, Russia is failing behind in all indicators measuring innovative output in comparison with most developed countries. According to Martti Vallila, Finland has what Russia needs and Russia has what Finland needs. There a...

From diyls to ylides to my idyll.

Chemical research and mountaineering have much in common. If the goal or the summit is to be reached, both initiative and determination as well as perseverance are required. But after the hard work it is a great joy to be at the goal or the peak with its splendid panorama. However, especially in chemical research as far as new territory is concerned the results may sometimes be quite different:...

Dr. Phillips: a Maida Vale idyll (1887)

FRANK DANBY, Dr Phillips: a Maida Vale idyll (1887), with an introduction by Stephen Lock, London, Keynes Press, British Medical Association, 1989, 8vo, pp. xii, 285, illus., £45.00, abroad £49.00, incl. (air) postage from BMJ (Keynes Press), PO Box 295, London WC1H 9TE. Few Victorian novels come as directly to the point as Frank Danby's story about Dr Benjamin Phillips, a Jewish doctor with a ...

Imperial College,

We review the properties of classical p-brane solutions to supergravity theories, i.e. solutions that may be interpreted as Poincaré-invariant hyperplanes in space-time. Topics covered include the distinction between elementary/electric and soli-tonic/magnetic solutions, examples of singularity and global structure, relations between mass densities, charge densities and the preservation of unbr...