1. The Critical Position of Soviet Parliament Buildings Today : A Visual Analysis of the Crowds in the Built Environmentİlknur Erdoğan, Giuseppe Resta, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: Nationalist discourses build societal unity by shaping rituals, historical narratives, and collective memory to construct the myth of a nation. Post-Soviet countries offer a unique context for examining the production of nationalism as a transition from a multinational past to a national identity. This process of decommunisation unfolds through the Soviet traces in the built environment. As a physical representation of the state narrative, we focus on the architectural memory and architectonic transformations of Soviet parliament buildings, analysed via large-scale axonometric drawings. Architectural landmarks such as parliament areas have evolved into focal points for confronting the traumatic memory of the second half of the twentieth century. The text focuses on the White House in Moscow, the Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv, the Government House in Baku, the National Assembly Building of Armenia in Yerevan, and the Government House in Minsk. How have communities reacted to the parliament buildings as tangible reminders of their problematic past? Following the methodologies the forensic aesthetic paradigm opened up, we traced the protest’s morphology, its form, and the transformations made in the built environment. By analysing videos, photos, and newspaper articles, we mapped out the protests to discuss architecture’s role in conveying state narratives.
Keywords: parliament buildings, post-Soviet countries, nationalist architecture, spaces of protest, anatomy of crowds
Published in RUP: 21.01.2026; Views: 273; Downloads: 2
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2. New advances in jellyfish anatomy : the benefits of endocasts and X-ray microtomography in the investigation of the gastrovascular system of Cotylorhiza tuberculata (Scyphozoa; Rhizostomeae; Cepheidae)Gregorio Motta, Marco Voltolini, Lucia Mancini, Diego Dreossi, Francesco Brun, Valentina Tirelli, Lorenzo Peter Castelletto, Manja Rogelja, Antonio Terlizzi, Massimo Avian, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: Historically, research on jellyfish anatomy has been viewed as secondary in impor- tance and has not benefited from technical advances that could improve the quality of the results when compared to other disciplines. The most notable example is the anatomical research on jellyfish, which has been done using conventional methods for many years. Thus far, recent studies have shown that X-ray microtomography (μCT) and resin endocasts can yield outputs with remarkably high detail quality. The application of a similar protocol to Cotylorhiza tuberculata has allowed us to rede- scribe the anatomy of this species’ gastrovascular system, providing numerous addi- tional details, among them the double constricted canal structure present in the oral arms, which was absent in previous descriptions. Additionally, functional anatomy experiments have revealed a double circulation system within these canals, featur- ing specialized oral arms’ openings for intake and outflow, as previously observed in Rhizostoma pulmo. These findings challenge the theory of a simple digestive system in scyphozoans featuring openings that acts both as mouths and anuses. Given the genetic distance between Cotylorhiza tuberculata and Rhizostoma pulmo, which belong to different suborders (Kolpophorae and Dactyliophorae, respectively), we propose that this complex gastrovascular circulation pattern may be more wide- spread among the Rhizostomeae.
Keywords: jellyfish anatomy, Cotylorhiza tuberculata, gastrovascular system
Published in RUP: 24.11.2025; Views: 679; Downloads: 3
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3. The phylogeny of Mallotus s.str. (Euphorbiaceae) inferred from DNA sequence and morphological dataSoraya Elizabeth Catalina Sierra, K.K.M. Kulju, Živa Fišer, M. Aparicio, P. C. van Welzen, 2010, original scientific article Keywords: DNA sequence data, Euphorbiaceae, leaf anatomy, Mallotus, morphology, phylogenetics, quantitative characters, Rottlerinae
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