SETTLEMENT BY OLD BELIEVERS OF VYG’S SUZEMOK

Russian Old Believers: genetic consequences of their persecution and exile, as shown by mitochondrial DNA evidence.

In 1653, the Patriarch Nikon modified liturgical practices to bring the Russian Orthodox Church in line with those of the Eastern (Greek) Orthodox Church, from which it had split 200 years earlier. The Old Believers (staroveri) rejected these changes and continued to worship using the earlier practices. These actions resulted in their persecution by the Russian Orthodox Church, which forced the...

Diffraction for Non-believers *

Diffractive reactions involving a hard scale can be understood in terms of quarks and gluons. These reactions have become a valuable tool for investigating the low-x structure of the proton and the behavior of QCD in the high-density regime, and they may provide a clean environment to study or even discover the Higgs boson at the LHC. In this paper we give a brief introduction to the descriptio...

Making Believers out of Computers

To someone unfamiliar with Artificial Intelligence, all of the activity that is taking place at this IJCAI conference must be very puzzling. And the current fuss about what is called a "knowledge-based system" (KBS) must be a total mystery. For one thing, there is an amazing amount of talk about knowledge. There are even advertisements in The AI Magazine reminding us of the value of knowledge. ...

Inference by Believers in the Law of Small Numbers

Many people believe in the ‘‘Law of Small Numbers,’’ exaggerating the degree to which a small sample resembles the population from which it is drawn. To model this, I assume that a person exaggerates the likelihood that a short sequence of i.i.d. signals resembles the long-run rate at which those signals are generated. Such a person believes in the ‘‘gambler’s fallacy’’, thinking early draws of...

The Crisis of Religious Toleration in Imperial Russia: Bibikov's System for the Old Believers, 1841-1855