In the Russian Doll model, sheets of graphite are arranged in concentric cylinders, e. g., a ( 0, 8 ) single-walled nanotube ( SWNT ) within a larger ( 0, 17 ) single-walled nanotube.

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The exposition also was the showcasing of another Russian entry, the widely famous Matryoshka doll ( Russian Nesting Doll ).

Gippius ’ two early 1910s novels, Devil ’ s Doll and Roman Tzarevich, aiming to " lay bare the very roots of Russian reactionary ideas ", weren ’ t successful: critics found them artistically helpless and totally tendentious.

Propp discovered a uniform structure in Russian fairy tales.

Some key elements of the German Empire's authoritarian political structure were also the basis for conservative modernization in Imperial Japan under Meiji and the preservation of an authoritarian political structure under the Tsars in the Russian Empire.

Russian and Kyrgyz cultures differ in respect to family, religious identity, and social structure.

While this structuralist approach to Marxism and filmmaking was used, the more vociferous complaint that the Russian filmmakers had was with the narrative structure of Hollywood filmmaking.

It was to be the first purely Russian power structure.

The community's Russian Orthodox church, Protection of the Theotokos Chapel, was built around 1900 at the site of an earlier structure.

The Russian Federation has inherited its structure from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( RSFSR ) that was one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union and itself was considered a federation of national territories.

The law adopted in 1922 at Westminster had the structure of a Russian doll, containing within it the entire text of the Irish Act, which in turn contained within it the whole text of the new constitution.

This structure was later replaced with clans, where each clan leader ( knyazets ) negotiated with the Russian realm.

His reason for WWI is termed " atavism ", in which he claims the vestigial governments in Europe ( the German Empire, Russian Empire, Ottoman Empire, and Austro-Hungarian Empire ) pulled the liberal Europe into war, and that the liberal structure of the continent did not cause it.

This loose structure became especially important for Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, a work that may have done more than any other to define the Russian style.

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He mastered Carnap's abstract logic, then met with and was intrigued by the work of the Russian mathematical physicist Nicolas Rashevsky, who was also at Chicago and was the founder of mathematical biophysics, remodeling biology on the structure of the physical sciences and mathematical logic.

Chew had considerable success at defining the underlying structure of the coded Russian texts.

After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the political structure of the Soviet Union ( 1917 – 1989 ) tried to emphasize equality of outcome as a primary goal.

His work on the internal structure of volcanoes also takes him to many active volcanoes around the world, including those of Iceland, Italy, Greece, and the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East.

In Palestine, land reforms, especially the change in land ownership structure via the Ottoman Land Law of 1858, allowed Russian Jews to buy land in Palestine, thus enabling them to immigrate there under the first Aliya.

On 7 March 1837, in the aftermath of the November Uprising earlier that decade, the administrative division was reformed once again, bringing Congress Poland closer to the structure of the Russian Empire, with the introduction of guberniyas ( governorate, Polish spelling gubernia ).

The 1867 reform, initiated after the failure of the January Uprising, was designed to tie the Congress Kingdom ( now de facto the Vistulan Country ) more tightly to the administration structure of the Russian Empire.

Until the Russian Revolution, it was the tallest structure in the city, as construction of buildings taller than that was forbidden.

Other scholars argue that the conflict has to do with the demands of running a State structure and argue that if the Bolsheviks had come to power in Poland ( for example ) instead of Russia they would have had to become Polish nationalists and would have bitterly opposed Russian attempts to dominate Poland.

This ancient Russian state was governed by a double structure of civil and military authorities and the hordes were actually professional armies with a tradition of lifelong conscription ( the recruitment being the so-called " blood tax ").

This favorable image of America in the minds of Russian men and women is still there despite years of energetic anti-American propaganda ''

His visit to Warsaw, Poland, after the Russian journey in the summer of 1959 was expected to win the Polish vote which, in several cities, is substantial.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

Pauling's estimate of 200 megatons yield from the present series of Russian tests will probably turn out to be too high, but a total of 100 megatons is a distinct possibility.

With detectors sensitive to three mass intervals and based on a few counts, the second and third Russian space probes indicate that the flux of the smallest particles detected is less than that of larger ones.

The Russian experimenters claim that only a small fraction of the impulse from the sensors is caused by the incident momentum with the remainder being momentum of ejected material from the sensor.

There is a difference in the experimental arrangement, in that the U.S. microphones are attached directly to the vehicle skin while the Russian instruments are isolated from the skin.

A significant reduction in the voume of store information is thus realized, especially for a highly inflected language such as Russian.

Speaking with `` great earnestness '', he said: `` For the Russian people, the question of Poland is not only a question of honor but also a question of security.

the conflict is not Boris versus Grigori or Shuiski or even the ghost of the murdered child, but Boris versus the Russian people.

The Soviet Embassy is popularly regarded as Russian espionage headquarters.

`` This is Russian money '', said Mervin Griffith-Jones for the attorney general's office.

Oh-the-pain-of-it, that convention of Russian ballet whereby the girls convey the idea that they are all the daughters of impoverished Grand Dukes driven to the stage out of filial piety, is totally absent from the Kirov.

It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.

Since Russian was being spoken instead of Spanish, there is no violation of artistry or logic here.

He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and several foreign academies and societies, including the Danish Academy of Sciences, Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, and US National Academy of Sciences.

The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".

) The Russian abacus is often used vertically, with wires from left to right in the manner of a book.

Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (; born 7 June 1981 ) is a Russian retired professional tennis player.

A variation of a White Russian made with skim milk is known as an Anna Kournikova.

A notable exception is the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose symphonies use the theme of angst in post-World War II compositions depicting Russian strife during the war.