Some Distinctive Features of Russian Christianity

Some Meg Correlates for Distinctive Features

This presentation reviews the use of distinctive features for the mental representation of speech sounds, briefly considering three bases for feature definition: articulatory, auditory and translational. We then review several recent neuroimaging studies examining distinctive features using magnetoencephalography (MEG). Although this area of research is still relatively new, we already have int...

Orthodox Christianity, Civil Society, and Russian Democracy

Scholars have identified numerous obstacles that appear to stand in the way of democracy taking root in Russia, including the country’s religious heritage. In an attempt to understand the role of Orthodoxy in Russian society more accurately, this article explores the civic, political, and democratic values of devout Orthodox Christians and more secular-leaning “cultural Orthodox.” The findings ...

Language Features of Russian Texts of Engineering Discourse

The Article is devoted to the applied problem of identifying the linguistic features of engineering texts. The study of Russian-language texts of engineering discourse is usually of an applied nature, in our case, this applied research is caused by the need to teach foreigners who receive professional engineering education in Russia and in Russian language. The object of the research is the Rus...

Distinctive and compact features

We consider the problem of extracting features for multi-class recognition problems. The features are required to make fine distinctions between similar classes, combined with tolerance for distortions and missing information. We define and compare two general approaches, both based on maximizing the delivered information for recognition: one divides the problem into multiple binary classificat...

The nature of distinctive features