The purpose of the article is to evaluate management activities Empress Catherine II during reign from 1762 1796. Objective: analyze organizational Great, aimed at reforming entire system state and local government Russia. Conclusion: experience, an active life position results building indicate that women can be not only guardians family hearth, but also successful leaders, as evidenced by num...

The image of trans monstrosity has been firmly anchored in mainstream North American popular culture, most notably through films such as Psycho, Dressed to Kill, and Silence the Lambs. This cultural vilification had catastrophic effects on communities, stoking violence especially against trans-feminine people, promoting discrimination, severely affecting people’s self-images. By analysing two c...

Abstract This article uses the previously unjustly discarded early thirteenth-century hagiographical text Vitae s. Heinrici additamentum to show how different ideals of female sainthood could be combined within one figure. In two its chapters, Additamentum presents distinct but not contradictory images protagonist, Cunigunde (d. 1033), wife German emperor Henry II 1024). The first chapter portr...

Abstract We discuss cosmology based on the cuscuton gravity theory to resolve anomaly of observational 4He abundance reported by EMPRESS collaboration. find that gravitational constant Gcos in Friedmann equation should be smaller than Newton’s GN such ${\Delta G_{\rm N}}/{G_{\rm N}} \equiv (G_{\rm cos}-G_{\rm N})/{G_{\rm = -0.085_{-0.028}^{+0.026} \ (68 \% \text{ C.L.})$ terms big-bang nucleosy...

The ability of staining slurries containing silver and/or potassium compounds to enhance the mechanical properties of a leucite-reinforced glass ceramic (IPS Empress CAD) was investigated by measuring the Vickers hardness, median crack length, toughness, and compressive residual stress of specimens. A staining slurry containing potassium ions was found to increase the toughness of IPS specimens...