On 28 January 1783, Joseph Black, professor of medicine and chemistry at Edinburgh Univeristy, and William Robertson, its principal, were elected honorary foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In May of that year, John Grieve, a Scottish doctor returning to Britain from service with the Russian army, wrote from Riga, as "a scholar to his old master", to inform Black of arrangement...

Imagine having such poor vision that you have to rely on your toddler to ‘tell mummy when the big red bus comes’. This patient had had diabetes for most of her life and it had damaged most of her body. I felt sad but I also felt angry. How could this have happened? Of course, diabetes care cannot prevent complications in every patient, but surely we could prevent much of the tissue damage that ...

Comamonas testosteroni T-2 degrades p-toluenesulfonate (TSA) via p-sulfobenzoate (PSB) and protocatechuate and degrades toluenecarboxylate via terephthalate (TER) and protocatechuate. The appropriate genes are expressed in at least five regulatory units, some of which are also found in C. testosteroni PSB-4 (F. Junker, R. Kiewitz, and A. M. Cook, J. Bacteriol. 179:919-927, 1997). C. testosteron...

The anti-arthritic activity of cathepsin S enzyme has been acknowledged and regarded as an emerging target for the development novel therapeutic agents treatment various autoimmune disorders other inflammatory diseases. Two dimensional-quantitative structure-activity relationships have performed on a series tetrahydropyrido-pyrazole nucleus using TSAR 3.3. Attempts made to derive comprehend cor...

This article analyses the reasons for Hetman D. Ignatowich (Mnogogreshniy)’s dismissal and arrest on night of 13 March 1672 election I. Samoylowich as new hetman. The author provides a detailed description all reports regarding Ignatowich’s communications with Doroshenko his plans to launch mutiny against tsar become subject Turkish sultan, which made start mobilising troops transport property ...

The work is aimed to specify composition and significance of the collections on traditional Sami culture in first Russian state public museum - Kunstkamera Imperial Academy Sciences (1714-1836) St. Petersburg. A European cabinet curiosities was part a scientific system for disseminating reliable knowledge about phenomena surrounding world. cultural artefacts peoples polar suburbs Europe were co...

Рассматривается комплекс мифотеологических представлений о предстоящем восстановлении в России православного царства. Согласно популярным профетическим текстам, атрибутируемым с различной степенью надежности, грядущий царь ожидается как фигура эсхатологическая, поэтому к нему не применяются традиционные монархические нормы и критерии. Несмотря на значительный авторитет последнего российского им...