bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Concussion History and Knowledge Base in Competitive Equestrian Athletes
Authors: Kuhl Heather N. , Ritchie David , Taveira-Dick Angela C. , Hoefling Katie A. , Russo Stephen A.
Published: November 2013

Background:

Head injuries are responsible for the majority of serious equestrian sports injuries and deaths. Because of significant health risks to equestrians, education regarding the prevention of head and brain injuries is essential.

Hypothesis:

A significant number of riders have experienced a concussion, and few have knowledge of concussion.

Study Design:

Cross-sectional study.

Level of Evidence:

Level 2.

Methods:

Ninety-four riders competing, riding, or attending equestrian events at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center in Wellington, Florida, from January to April 2010 were surveyed. Measures of central tendency were utilized to evaluate response patterns.

Results:

Almost half of equestrian riders (44%) experienced concussions during their careers. Those riders who suffered a brain injury were likely to return to riding without seeking medical clearance. Almost 40% of riders were never educated regarding concussions, while 15% received education from their trainers.

Conclusion:

Education of riders, parents, and horse trainers is needed to raise awareness of concussions and reduce the likelihood of subsequent injuries.
Effect of lansoprazole on the epigastric symptoms of functional dyspepsia (ELF study): A multicentre, prospective, randomized, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled clinical trial
Authors: Suzuki Hidekazu , Kusunoki Hiroaki , Kamiya Takeshi , Futagami Seiji , Yamaguchi Yasuharu , Nishizawa Toshihiro , Iwasaki Eisuke , Matsuzaki Juntaro , Takahashi Shinichi , Sakamoto Choitsu , Haruma Ken , Joh Takashi , Asakura Keiko , Hibi Toshifumi
Published: November 2013

Background:

Since the publication of the Rome III criteria for functional dyspepsia (FD), the evidence about the efficacy of half‐dose of proton pump inhibitors for dyspepsia symptoms have been limited.

Objective:

To examine the efficacy of lansoprazole for functional dyspepsia (FD) diagnosed with the Rome III criteria by the multicentre, double‐blind, randomized, placebo‐controlled study in Japan.

Methods:

A total of 54 FD participants were randomized to lansoprazole 15 mg once daily or placebo for a 4‐week double‐blind treatment period. The primary efficacy endpoint was an overall dyspeptic symptom relief rate evaluated by 5‐point Likert scale scores. The alteration of dyspeptic symptom scores during the study period was also assessed.

Results:

At week 4, the overall dyspeptic symptom relief rates were higher in the lansoprazole group (30.4%) than in the placebo group (6.7%) (p  = 0.045). The scores for epigastric pain (p  = 0.045) and epigastric burning (p  = 0.03) were significantly improved in the lansoprazole group compared to the placebo group, whereas the improvement of the scores for postprandial fullness (p  = 0.81) and early satiation (p  = 0.33) was not different between lansoprazole and placebo groups.

Conclusions:

Lansoprazole 15 mg ameliorates dyspeptic symptoms, particularly the epigastric pain syndrome‐related symptoms of FD.
Ecological Approaches in Medieval Rural Archaeology
Authors: Schreg Rainer
Published: November 2013

In recent years, scientific methods of bio- and geoarchaeology have become increasingly important for archaeological research. Political changes since the 1990s have reshaped the archaeological community. At the same time environmental topics have gained importance in modern society, but the debate lacks an historical understanding. Regarding medieval rural archaeology, we need to ask how this influences our archaeological research on medieval settlements, and how ecological approaches fit into the self-concept of medieval archaeology as a primarily historical discipline. Based mainly on a background in German medieval archaeology, this article calls attention to more complex ecological research questions. Medieval village formation and the late medieval crisis are taken as examples to sketch some hypotheses and research questions. The perspective of a village ecosystem helps bring together economic aspects, human ecology and environmental history. There are several implications for archaeological theory as well as for archaeological practice. Traditional approaches from landscape archaeology are insufficient to understand the changes within village ecosystems. We need to consider social aspects and subjective recognition of the environment by past humans as a crucial part of human–nature interaction. Use of the perspective of village ecosystems as a theoretical background offers a way to examine individual historical case studies with close attention to human agency. Thinking in terms of human ecology and environmental history raises awareness of some interrelations that are crucial to understanding past societies and cultural change.
The Maritime Middle Ages—Past, Present, and Future. Some Ideas from a Scandinavian Horizon
Authors: Westerdahl Christer
Published: November 2013

This paper was conceived as a keynote lecture for the Medieval Europe Research Congress (MERC) 2012 in Helsinki. The author himself has gone a long way from the more or less exclusively ship-functionalist perspective he presented at the first conference of this kind, Medieval Europe in 1992 in York. The intention here is to inspire other maritime archaeologists who may be stuck in studying ship technologies to apply their knowledge in contextual and cross-disciplinary approaches to ships, landscapes, and the human mind of the Middle Ages. A few examples of possible ways are discussed, albeit admittedly incompletely. These include a number of examples from the author's own research, which were strongly under the influence of a functionalist and techno-practical perspective in the 1990s.
CRIMALDDI: platform technologies and novel anti-malarial drug targets
Authors: Vial Henri , Taramelli Donatella , Boulton Ian C , Ward Steve A , Doerig Christian , Chibale Kelly
Published: November 2013

The Coordination, Rationalization, and Integration of antiMALarial drug Discovery & Development Initiatives (CRIMALDDI) Consortium, funded by the EU Framework Seven Programme, has attempted, through a series of interactive and facilitated workshops, to develop priorities for research to expedite the discovery of new anti-malarials. This paper outlines the recommendations for the development of enabling technologies and the identification of novel targets.

Screening systems must be robust, validated, reproducible, and represent human malaria. They also need to be cost-effective. While such systems exist to screen for activity against blood stagePlasmodium falciparum, they are lacking for otherPlasmodiumspp. and other stages of the parasite’s life cycle. Priority needs to be given to developing high-throughput screens that can identify activity against the liver and sexual stages. This in turn requires other enabling technologies to be developed to allow the study of these stages and to allow for the culture of liver cells and the parasite at all stages of its life cycle.

As these enabling technologies become available, they will allow novel drug targets to be studied. Currently anti-malarials are mostly targeting the asexual blood stage of the parasite’s life cycle. There are many other attractive targets that need to be investigated. The liver stages and the sexual stages will become more important as malaria control moves towards malaria elimination. Sexual development is a process offering multiple targets, even though the mechanisms of differentiation are still not fully understood. However, designing a drug whose effect is not curative but would be used in asymptomatic patients is difficult given current safety thresholds. Compounds active against the liver schizont would have a prophylactic effect andPlasmodium vivaxelimination requires effectors against the dormant liver hypnozoites. It may be that drugs to be used in elimination campaigns will also need to have utility in the control phase. Compounds with activity against blood stages need to be screened for activity against other stages.

Natural products should also be a valuable source of new compounds. They often occupy non-Lipinski chemical space and so may reveal valuable new chemotypes.
Prognostic significance of XIAP and NF-κB expression in esophageal carcinoma with postoperative radiotherapy
Authors: Zhou Suna , Ye Wenguang , Shao Qiuju , Qi Yuhong , Zhang Mingxin , Liang Jun
Published: November 2013

Background

X-chromosome-linked IAP (XIAP) and nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) are frequently overexpressed and correlate closely with chemoradiotherapy resistance and poor prognosis in many cancers. However, the significance of XIAP and NF-κB expression in radiotherapy sensitivity and its effect on the prognosis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) are still unknown. The aim of this study was to examine XIAP and NF-κB status in ESCC patients undergoing postoperative radiotherapy after radical surgery, and to evaluate their clinical significance.

Methods

A total of 78 ESCC patients treated with postoperative radiotherapy after radical surgery were enrolled in this study. We immunohistochemically investigated the expression of XIAP and NF-κB in tissues from enrolled patients with specific antibodies. Then, the correlations among XIAP, NF-κB expression, clinicopathological features and its prognostic relevance in ESCC were analyzed.

Results

The increased expression of XIAP and NF-κB in ESCC tissues were clearly correlated with the tumor differentiation and p-TNM stage. Significant positive correlations were found between the expression status of XIAP and NF-κB (r = 0.779, P = 0.000). Overexpression of XIAP and NF-κB and metastasis were significantly associated with shorter overall survival times in univariate analysis (P < 0.05). Multivariate analysis also confirmed that XIAP expression was an independent prognostic factor (P = 0.005).

Conclusions

XIAP and NF-κB are intensively expressed in ESCC. The level of XIAP is positively correlated to progression and prognosis of ESCC.
Hand posture recognition using jointly optical flow and dimensionality reduction
Authors: Boughnim Nabil , Marot Julien , Fossati Caroline , Bourennane Salah
Published: November 2013

Hand posture recognition is generally addressed by using either YC

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(luminance and chrominance components) or HSV (hue, saturation, value) mappings which assume that a hand can be distinguished from the background from some colorfulness and luminance properties. This can hardly be used when a dark hand, or a hand of any color, is under study. In addition, existing recognition processes rely on descriptors or geometric shapes which can be reliable; this comes at the expense of an increased computational complexity. To cope with these drawbacks, this paper proposes a four-step method recognition technique consisting of (i) a pyramidal optical flow for the detection of large movements and hence determine the region of interest containing the expected hand, (ii) a preprocessing step to compute the hand contour while ensuring geometric and illumination invariance, (iii) an image scanning method providing a signature which characterizes non-star-shaped contours with a one-pixel precision, and (iv) a posture classification method where a sphericity criterion preselects a set of candidate postures, principal component analysis reduces the dimensionality of the data, and Mahalanobis distance is used as a criterion to identify the hand posture in any test image. The proposed technique has been assessed in terms of its performances including the computational complexity using both visual and statistical results.
Transcranial sonothrombolysis using high-intensity focused ultrasound: impact of increasing output power on clot fragmentation
Authors: Ahadi Golnaz , Welch Christian S , Grimm Michele J , Fisher David J , Zadicario Eyal , Ernström Karin , Voie Arne H , Hölscher Thilo
Published: November 2013

Background

The primary goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between increasing output power levels and clot fragmentation during high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)-induced thrombolysis.

Methods

A HIFU headsystem, designed for brain applications in humans, was used for this project. A human calvarium was mounted inside the water-filled hemispheric transducer. Artificial thrombi were placed inside the skull and located at the natural focus point of the transducer. Clots were exposed to a range of acoustic output power levels from 0 to 400 W. The other HIFU operating parameters remained constant. To assess clot fragmentation, three filters of different mesh pore sizes were used. To assess sonothrombolysis efficacy, the clot weight loss was measured.

Results

No evidence of increasing clot fragmentation was found with increasing acoustic intensities in the majority of the study groups of less than 400 W. Increasing clot lysis could be observed with increasing acoustic output powers.

Conclusion

Transcranial sonothrombolysis could be achieved in vitro within seconds in the absence of tPA and without producing relevant clot fragmentation, using acoustic output powers of <400 W.
Somatostatin Receptors Type 2 and 5 Expression and Localization During Human Pituitary Development
Authors: Peineau Stéphane , Guimiot Fabien , Csaba Zsolt , Jacquier Sandrine , Fafouri Assia , Schwendimann Leslie , de Roux Nicolas , Schulz Stefan , Gressens Pierre , Auvin Stéphane , Dournaud Pascal
Published: November 2013

Somatostatin (SRIF), by acting mainly through sst2 and sst5 receptors, is a potent inhibitor of hormonal secretion by the human anterior pituitary gland. However, the pattern of protein expression of these SRIF receptors remains unknown during pituitary development. To get further insights into the physiological role of SRIF receptors in human development and pituitary function, the present study examined the developmental expression of the sst2 and sst5 receptors in the individual cell types of the anterior human pituitary. Thirteen fetal human pituitaries were investigated between 13 to 38 weeks of gestation (WG) by double-labeling immunofluorescence with antibodies raised against sst2 or sst5 receptors and GH, LH, FSH, TSH, or pro-opiomelanocortin proteins. SRIF immunoreactivity in the hypothalamus and median eminence was investigated at the same developmental ages. Immunoreactivity for the sst2 receptor was evident as early as 13 to 15 WG and onward mainly in TSH-, LH-, and FSH-expressing cells, whereas sst5 immunoreactivity was apparent at the late development stages (35–38 WG). GH-expressing cells mainly expressed sst5 immunoreactivity. SRIF-positive fibers and cells were detected as soon as 13 to 16 WG in the hypothalamus and median eminence and their densities increased with gestational age. The early appearance of hypothalamic SRIF cells and fibers suggests a physiological link between SRIF and its receptors during pituitary development. Whereas sst2 receptors might play a primary role in the differentiation and regulation of TSH, LH, and FSH cells, sst5 receptors appear to be mainly involved in GH regulation from birth onward.
On the Archive Iii: The Secret; Or, Borges at Yale
Authors: Nichanian Marc
Published: November 2013

“On the Archive III: The Secret” offers an extended commentary on Borges’s short story “The Ethnographer” and instigates a philosophical encounter between Borges and Derrida. As he carries on his fieldwork, Fred Murdock steals the “secret” of the Indian tribe he studies. He then comes back to the “civilized” world but refuses to write about the secret. He shall not be part of the Western community of knowledge, the community of university professors. Instead, he becomes an archivist at Yale. The commentary asks about the founding dichotomy between knowledge and the archive, and tries to radicalize (which also means to interrogate) Edward Said’s concept of Orientalism, on the heels of Michel de Certeau’s reflection on the modern distribution of knowledge, between the native and the savage, between writing and orality, between history and ethnography, between the philologist and the ethnographer, as an effect of our “transcendental” historicism, which determines once and for all the objects that circulate in our universities. The second part of the study shows the strange similitude of structure between the native’s testimony (the one that is expected from the native by the philologist, or put by the latter into the former’s mouth) and the survivor’s testimony, as circumscribed in our “era of the witness.” It also reflects on Derrida’s timidity in Archive Fever, with regard to explaining the intimate relationship between the “archive” and the “great holocaustic tragedies of our modern history and historiography.”
Why Lucretius Now? Beginning the Case against Atomism
Authors: Waters Lindsay
Published: November 2013

In his recent book The Swerve, Stephen Greenblatt tells the story of how the recovery of “On the Nature of Things,” by Lucretius, sparked the Renaissance and ultimately changed the direction of human thought. The focus of Greenblatt’s study is Lucretius’s atomism, an idea he claims was radically subversive. But why should we need, or even be interested in, Lucretius now? Greenblatt’s narrative is not new, and in it he misinterprets the role atomism plays in our lives. Atomism is no longer a liberating idea; this essay argues that it is the very thing that incapacitates us today. The Right uses it as a cover to pursue an imperial agenda, and the Left uses it as an excuse for inaction and, worse, acquiescence in the development of American imperialism. Additionally, this essay highlights Greenblatt’s problematic tone of casual impiety and his book’s many distortions of the truth about human beliefs and about religions, which he claims are “invariably cruel.” At this point in history, to promote the kind of atomism Greenblatt glorifies is really to promote doxa; thinkers such as Charles Taylor are now casting doubt on such notions, and Taylor is not alone.
Trayvon, Postblackness, and the Postrace Dilemma
Authors: Purcell Richard
Published: November 2013

If President Barack Obama crystallizes the intersection of postrace and postblack idealism, nothing has exposed the fraught relationship between the two than the shooting death of seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012. What Trayvon Martin’s death has brought to the fore is what contemporary intellectuals are attempting to think when they think postblackness and, for that matter, postrace. What way of understanding race knowledge in our present does postblackness offer us, especially in a postrace era? The answer: both blindness and insight. Through a meditation on the relationship between Trayvon Martin, postrace, and postblackness, this essay aims to demonstrate this blindness and insight. On the one hand, postblackness has the potential to provide a bulwark against the persistent biologisms in contemporary race thinking. Yet, it is also used in our postrace era as a term to indulge in a weaker mode of criticism: debunking—a critical posture that has allowed critics to ignore and even circulate more insidious forms of race thinking.
Aristotle Economizes the Market
Authors: Leshem Dotan
Published: November 2013

This essay juxtaposes two senses given to the concept of “market economy”: economizing the market, as suggested by Aristotle, and marketing the economy, as suggested by modern economists. The essay argues that Aristotle identified the market as arousing excessive desires in people, and by doing so it poses a threat to the mere existence of the polis. As suggested, the solution offered by him was economizing the market by subjecting it to the mode of sound-minded conduct. By following the different definitions of prominent modern economists to the scope and method of economic science, I argue that what Aristotle did not foresee was that the economy may be marketed by prudently economizing bodily desires as self-aroused by the market. Juxtaposing Aristotelian and market economy sheds light on the fact that we are free to choose between vicious and virtuous economy. Whether practicing economic virtue or its corresponding vice, prudence is kept unharmed, and both the sound-minded and the licentious person are liable to slip into some sort of bondage.
The cell biology of mammalian fertilization
Authors: Okabe Masaru
Published: November 2013

Fertilization is the process by which eggs and spermatozoa interact, achieve mutual recognition, and fuse to create a zygote, which then develops to form a new individual, thus allowing for the continuity of a species. Despite numerous studies on mammalian fertilization, the molecular mechanisms underpinning the fertilization event remain largely unknown. However, as I summarize here, recent work using both gene-manipulated animals and in vitro studies has begun to elucidate essential sperm and egg molecules and to establish predictive models of successful fertilization.
PML isoforms in response to arsenic: high resolution analysis of PML body structure and degradation characteristics
Authors: Hands Katherine J , Cuchet-Lourenco Delphine , Everett Roger D , Hay Ronald T
Published: November 2013

Arsenic is a clinically effective treatment for acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL) in which the promyelocytic leukaemia (PML) protein is fused to retinoic receptor alpha (RARα). PML-RARα is degraded by the proteasome via a SUMO-dependent, ubiquitin-mediated pathway in response to arsenic treatment, curing the disease. Due to alternative splicing, six major PML isoforms are expressed, each of which encodes a unique C-terminal region. Using a system in which only a single EYFP-linked PML isoform is expressed, we demonstrate that PML I, II and VI accumulate in the cytoplasm following arsenic treatment, whereas PML III, IV and V do not. 3D structured illumination was employed to obtain super-resolution images of PML bodies, revealing spherical shells of PML along with associated SUMO. Arsenic treatment results in dramatic and isoform specific changes to PML body ultrastructure. After extended arsenic treatment most PML isoforms are degraded, leaving SUMO at the core of the nuclear bodies. A high content imaging assay identifies PML V as the isoform most readily degraded following arsenic treatment, and PML IV as relatively resistant to degradation. Immunoprecipitation analysis demonstrates that all PML isoforms are SUMO and ubiquitin modified after arsenic treatment and by using siRNA we demonstrate that arsenic induced degradation of all PML isoforms is dependent on the ubiquitin E3 ligase RNF4. Intriguingly, depletion of RNF4 results in marked accumulation of PML V, suggesting this isoform is an optimal substrate for RNF4. Thus the variable C-terminal domain influences the rate and location of degradation of PML isoforms following arsenic treatment.
Significant Influence of Distance between Amine Groups on Intrinsic Fluorescence Properties
Authors: Cao Lei , Jia Dandan , Wang Shaofei , Rong Yunlong , Liu Chun , Wang Dongjun
Published: November 2013

Distances between amine groups were varied through three different approaches, which were found to play a crucial role in influencing the intrinsic fluorescence properties. Experimental data confirmed that the short distance between amine groups favored the intense emission and red shift of the maximum wavelength. It is probable that the fluorescence centers were perturbed by the interinfluence between the amine groups.
PRODUCTIVITY ASSESSMENT OF WORK WITH INTELLIGENTLY GIFTED PUPILS DURING EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING CAMPS
Authors: Валюженич  , Valyuzhenich M. , Абатурова  , Abaturova Valentina
Published: November 2013

The international academic competitions of pupils which are annually carried out in the leading university centers of the world are the action fi nishing the cyclic competitive process of the All-Russian Academic Competition of pupils. Russian teams’ performance stability on the international intellectual academic competitions confi rms the preservation of Russian academic competitions’ traditions in this country and in many respects depends on purposeful, consecutive and laborious process related to preparation of these competitions’ potential participants. In this paper have been presented the results of questioning related to educational and training camps’ participants as one of the most widespread forms of work with intelligently gifted pupils at federal and regional level. The analysis of this action productivity can be useful for adoption of administrative decisions at diff erent levels related to pupils’ training for participation in intellectual competitions.
MODEL OF PUPILS TRAINING TO TEST WRITING AND ITS RESULTS ANALYSIS
Authors: Пономарева  , Ponomareva E.
Published: November 2013

To Russian education’s numerous innovations a one more — global — is added since 2011. This is the Federal State Educational Standard (hereinafter referred to as FSES) of primary general education, main general education, secondary (complete) general education. To that block of administrative problems which were solved already by the teacher, will be added ensuring of development of universal educational actions, i.e. ability to study, personality’s capability to self-development and self-improvement by conscious and active assignment of new social experience. It is an actual and new task will reflect onto all elements of educational system, its subsystems, as well as in processes, which are proceeding in the educational system. The teacher should look for new techniques, technologies, models of educational activity organization. All this will be discussed in the paper.
Change of Constitutional Law Status of Constituent Entity of the Russian Federation
Authors: Чертков Александр , Chertkov Aleksandr
Published: November 2013

In article the constitutional bases of change of the status of the subject of the Russian Federation are analyzed. Prospects of adoption of the federal constitutional law on the matter, its basic provisions are predicted. Stages of change of constitutional legal status of the subject of the Russian Federation, the main directions of realization of this process and its restriction are offered.
Systematic Structural Analysis of the Categories "Intended Purpose" and "Permitted Use» in Natural Resources Branches of Law
Authors: Анисимов Алексей , Anisimov Aleksey , Мельников Николай , Melnikov Nikolay
Published: November 2013

Legal designs "purpose" and "allowed use" are present at all branches of the nature-resource right and reflect objectively existing requirement of establishment of the general and special legal regimes of natural resources. The general legal regime of lands is defined by means of division of land fund into categories. The special legal regime assumes establishment of features of use and protection of the land plots of this or that category of lands within additional legal regulation by means of institute of zoning of territories and institute of allowed use of the land plots. Definition of types of allowed use of the land plots can be considered as specifying in relation to a categorization and zoning a way of management and definition of a legal regime of lands and other natural resources. The similar principle takes place and in other nature-resource branches of the right where it is formulated legislatively.
Municipality as a Subject of Labor Legal Relations
Authors: Бондаренко Эльвира , Bondaryenko Elvira
Published: November 2013

Some problems of municipality as subject of the labor law, in particular its right subjectivity and a field of activity are investigated.
History of State and Law as an Independent Scientific Specialty
Authors: Демичев Алексей , Demichev Alexey
Published: November 2013

In the article it is proved that the history of state and law should be an independent scientific specialty. The author analyzes the subject of the history of state and law, the specifics of the scientific novelty in the historical and legal research, offers criteria of differentiation of history of state and law with branch legal disciplines. Also measures for improvement of quality of examination of historical and legal dissertation researches are offered.
Features of Compensation of Damage in Judicial Activity
Authors: Хромова Наталия , Khromova Nataliya
Published: November 2013

The questions of tort in the criminal process, the implementation of protection of subjective civil rights by declaring a civil claim in the criminal proceedings, as well as issues related to the application of civil action in a special manner the court decision with the consent of the accused with the accusation, and questions of its appeal.
DEVELOPMENT OF GRADES SYSTEM FOR A COMMERCIAL ORGANIZATION
Authors: Глушко  , Glushko S. , Богослов  , Bogoslov M. , Дружинин  , Druzhinin E.
Published: November 2013

Methodology for designing the grades system for a fast-growing business

organization is presented and the results of such system implementation

are analyzed. Such challenging task has been completed due to more

thorough and creative comprehension of the grading method. Basics and

approaches of grading, especially in its social aspect were applied on

order to ingrain and maintain the proper system of measurements within

the personnel and social policies of the organization. The authors argue

the necessity to develop and implement the grading system on the growth

stage so that this system could be expanded beyond the existing positions and embrace prospective positions to be set up and fi lled in the near

future.
ANALYSIS OF FACTORS AFFECTING THE LABOUR POTENTIAL OF AN EMPLOYEE
Authors: Якубова  , Yakubova N.
Published: November 2013

The article considers a set of factors which have an impact on an employee’s

labor potential. Issues concerned with the use of labor potential

of an employee are highlighted. Proposals on systematization of impact

factors and employment potential are presented with respect to historical

development conditions of this country.
ADVANTAGES AND DISTINCTIVE OPPORTUNITIES OF EDUCATION AT THE DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT
Authors: Мангаладзе  , Mangaladze N. , Лунев  , Lunev D. , Ходенкова  , Khodenkova Olga , Акмаева  , Akmaeva R.
Published: November 2013

The activities and achievements of the Department of Management are

briefl y reviewed, its core role in the educational profi le of the Astrakhan

state university is emphasized. Substantial advantages of Master’s degree

program, off ered at the Department of management, are listed with regard

to unique areas of professional training and education, provided to undergraduates.

This paper would be of special interest to students desiring

to master strongly needed competences and for specialists seeking to

continue higher professional education to get the Master’s Degree.
HUMAN RESOURCE M ANAGEMENT SERVICE AT THE PRODUCT COMPANY
Authors: Галяутдинов  , Galyautdinov D. , Брязгунова  , Bryazgunova Yu.
Published: November 2013

It is pointed out that human resources management (HRM) department

plays a signifi cant role in an organizational structure of any business

entity as a problem solver of all and any issues concerning eff ective use

of labor potential at the scale of the whole organization. Such HRM

functions, as recruiting, selection, hiring, adaptation, training, motivation

and development, help to avoid and/or resolve many personnel problems

and to reduce personnel costs. By means of professional training and

development HRM-department contributes substantially to fostering

highly eff ective work teams. By varying forms and methods the HRMdepartment

eff ectively adapts personnel training and development to

the specific characteristics of different groups of employees and to

personal touch of each employee as well.
LABOR ADAPTATION OF MIGRANTS IN A MEGALOPOLIS
Authors: Полякова  , Polyakova M.
Published: November 2013

In Russia the labor migration problem has a number of exceptionally

urgent aspects at which are constantly focused both government bodies

and public organizations. These include legal aspects (both in the legislative

and in the criminal fi elds), cultural aspects (tolerance and interpenetration

of cultures problems) and economic aspects.

The author argues that labor migration is considered as a necessary

precondition for normal functioning of society and helps to allocate

optimally the labor resources and provide for balanced development of

diff erent economic regions. The substantial infl ow of migrants began at

the dawn of the market economy and since then boosts the economic

growth of the capital, and maintains the labor resources supply. Immigration

is one of mechanisms to maintain labor potential at the proper level. The

major shortcomings of external immigration are the result of many gaps

in the legal framework of immigration, ignorance of the local laws, culture

and traditions and lack of legal opportunities to get decent work, lodging

and payment. As a result the growing army of illegal foreign workers

leads to the intercultural and social tension and increase in crime.

The most eff ective way to settle the mentioned problems and to suppress

the illegal immigration, the author argues, — is for the government to

make the legal labor immigration highly attractive for both its own citizens

and immigrants.
Features of the organization of production at the enterprises of the meat industry
Authors: Есина  , Yesina Alla
Published: November 2013

Production components at the meat industry enterprises are analyzed. The production organization principles are considered as follows: specialization, proportionality, parallelism, direct flow, continuity, rhythm, unification, reliability. Production organization features are noted at application of conveyor lines, at a stage of raw materials receipt, when loading capacities.
Rhetorized technologies — module-local technologies of school language education’s rhetorization
Authors: Нищета  , Nishcheta Vladimir
Published: November 2013

The article considers the content and concept fields of rhetoric-based technologies in scientific, formal-descriptive and process-activity aspects, as well as the process of rhetorization in the context of building rhetorical skills and rhetorical competence of comprehensive school students. Rhetoricbased technologies are presented as technologies of rhethorization.
STUDENTS’ GENERAL COMPETENCIES PASSPORT AS A BACKBONE ELEMENT OF LEARNING ACTIVITY IN THE ASPECT OF THIRD GENERATION FEDERAL STATE EDUCATIONAL STANDARD IMPLEMENTATION
Authors: Поддубная  , Poddubnaya Tatiana , Куракова  , Kurakova G.
Published: November 2013

The paper contains the author’s approach to the development of general competences passport as a result of mastering of secondary vocational education’s basic professional educational program in the aspect of new educational standards implementation. The role and functions of competencies passport have been revealed, the existing approaches to its design are analyzed, and also the author’s own experience related to the passport’s development has been presented. The competencies passport is understood as a reasonable set of requirements to the formation level of competencies which the higher education institution graduates should have after assimilation of main educational programs; it includes classifi cation of common competencies according to their goals, list of common competencies presented in

the Third Generation Federal State Educational Standards related to secondary vocational education, as well as indicators and disciplines, which correspond to these competencies and have been focused on their formation.
TECHNOLOGY RELATED TO EVELOPMENT OF REQUIREMENTS TO EDUCATION RESULTS IN THE CONTEXT OF FEDERAL STATE EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS OF HIGHER PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
Authors: Фомин  , Fomin Nikolay
Published: November 2013

The problems of development and use of requirements to education results at the level of subject matter, educational module and educational program are considered in this paper, and also the advantages of training results have been shown.

Nowadays the learning outcomes play the key role in European higher education strategy, as well as in strengthening of European dimension in higher education. Learning outcomes have become the basis of Dublin Descriptors forming Qualifi cations Framework in European transfer of credits and their accumulations, in reform of educational courses, introduction of innovations, elaboration of learning modules and educational programs. They improve the practice of international recognition and job placement, stimulate mobility. Learning outcomes promote the achievement of students-centered learning and inculcation of competence-based approach.

Application of learning outcomes as dynamic method of educational programs projecting facilitates joint work with employers, and the forward experience of foreign higher education institutions is evidence of it.
METHODOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF LESSON PLANNING IN THE CONTEXT OF FSES IMPLEMENTATION
Authors: Седов  , Sedov Sergey
Published: November 2013

The methodological properties related to planning of modern lesson meeting the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standards (FSES) are considered in this paper. On the example of a mathematics lesson in the secondary school the expected educational results of pupils are described, and requirements to lesson structure are formulated. Some particular variants of fi lling the lesson’s stages with educational activities which parameters meet the FSES requirements are proposed. The author puts forward approaches and methodical solutions, which allow focus a lesson to achievement of subject, metasubject, and personal educational results. At the same time, according to FSES’ objective on forming of pupils’ individual educational paths, the pedagogical situations requiring educational activity correction are simulated and analyzed. In such a case for the category of less successful pupils it is proposed an extension of educational activity related to external motivation for learning, and therefore more oriented towards the achievement of a meta-subject and personal results. For more successful in this subject’s area pupils the focus is made on intrasubject motivation, and more intensive advancement in the subject area.
SCHOOL REFORMING IN MODERN SWITZERLAND
Authors: Данилова  , Danilova Larisa
Published: November 2013

The Swiss education system is hardly represented by Russian comparative education, but some of its elements deserve real attention. Today this country’s school education is being reformed. Education management decentralization makes this process unequal in regions, where local governments determine themselves the need for reforms, their goals, objectives, directions and measures. In such a case the content of re-organizations took the most important place in educational debates. Almost in every region re-organizations contains the questions of educational monitoring system, introduction of educational standards, developing pupils’ language competencies, school restructuring, educational inequality elimination and teachers’ training optimization. The paper also deals with background, conditions and other features of the reform process in the most of regions, with predictions about its success.
COMMUNICATIVE GOAL-SETTING AS TIPOLOGIZATION’S BASIS OF TASKS RELATED TO FORMATION OF COMMUNICATIVE UNIVERSAL LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Authors: Батырева  , Batyreva Svetlana
Published: November 2013

The didactic conditions related to formation of communicative universal learning activities (ULA) during Literary Reading classes in the lower forms, and the typologization’s basis of tasks for these ULA formation are considered in this paper.

Along with the knowledge, value relations and positive experience of communication the ULA are a structural component of communicative competence. Communication ULA are the planned result of main secondary program assimilation in the fi rst stage of learning. One of their formation means is common tasks. Diff erent foundations may be used as basis for typologization of tasks related to ULA formation. The tasks whose typologization is based on communication subjects’ cooperation goal are considered in this paper.

In accordance with this base the following groups of tasks are relieved: on information request, on information exchange, on emotional self-expression, on presentation (knowledge, action, results), on conviction, on reasoned refusal. The proposed paper has been dedicated to communicative ULA formation.
MODERN TRENDS RELATED TO FORMATION OF ECONOMIC COMPETENCY OF MAIN PARTICIPANTS IN PEDAGOGICAL PROCESS
Authors: Кощанова  , Koshchanova Gulash
Published: November 2013

Paper is devoted to a problem related to development of economic competence of main participants in educational institutions and organizations’ pedagogical process. The concept of economic competency, its components is considered. Economic competence, being one of the fi rst instruments related to creation of means of personality’s adaptation to social and economic changes, serves as a way of personality’s development, distribution of economic knowledge, mean of human capital formation.

In this paper the role of modern educational organizations and establishments in providing the educational services adequate to modern problems’ level is defi ned. According to the author, they are urged to provide a sufficient level of economic knowledge, abilities that the modern person in his/her professional activity could make decisions taking into account an interrelation of organizational, fi nancial, marketing tasks and act economically

reasonable.

The changes of priorities in purposes of education management sphere experts training have been revealed. Professional activity of educational institution head has been considered as a necessary component of his training, formation and vigorous activity within economic context: formation of educational services’ market, status change, educational institutions’ economic independence expansion that involves a strengthening of heads’ responsibility and a need of their professional competence level increase.
Considering the economical nature of investment agreement when deciding practical issues (on example of the lease agreement)
Authors: Сергеев Александр , Sergeev Alexander , Терещенко Татьяна , Tereshchenko Tatiana
Published: November 2013

In this article the authors analyze the concept of an investment agreement under Russian law and judicial practice for the purposes of the proper legal classification of emerging civil relatios, and demonstrate the practical application of the conclusions made by the example of the lease agreement.
Comment on Gordon L. Clark and Ashby Monk, “Modernity, Imitation, and Performance: Sovereign Funds in the Gulf,”Business and Politics14 (1, 2012): 1–22
Authors: Moore Pete W.
Published: November 2013

Professors Gordon Clark and Ashby Monk's “Modernity, Imitation, and Performance: Sovereign Funds in the Gulf” represent a welcome departure from previous studies of Gulf Sovereign Wealth Funds by beginning to explore the origins and the changes in Gulf SWFs. However by way of critical commentary on their article, I sketch out a political economy approach to understanding Gulf SWFs and place these institutions within an historical and political setting.
Magnetic nanoparticle-supported organocatalysis
Authors: Huang Yibo , Zhang Wei
Published: November 2013

Magnetic nanoparticle (MNP)-supported catalysis is a new method to facilitate catalyst separation and reuse. This technique has recently been introduced for organocatalysis. MNP-supported organocatalysts have been evaluated for their activity, selectivity, and recyclability in a range of chemical transformations, especially for asymmetric synthesis. The synthesis and application of Fe3O4 MNP-supported organocatalysis are highlighted in this short review article.
Effect of High Pressure Heat Treatment on Microstructures and Micro-mechanical Properties of CuZn Alloy
Authors: Wang Yuhui , Zhao Jun , Liu Jianhua , Zhang Ruijun
Published: November 2013

The hardness, elastic modulus, and friction coefficient of the CuZn alloy before and after treatment at 700 °C and 3 GPa for 10 mins were measured by nanoindenter. Effects of high pressure heat treatment on its microstructure and micro-mechanical properties were discussed. The results show that high pressure heat treatment can refine the microstructures of the CuZn alloy, and its hardness, elastic modulus, ratio of hardness, and elastic recovery rate after the 3 GPa treatment increased by 15.44 %, 4.89 %, 8.82 % and 35.90 %, respectively. And the friction coefficient is also decreased.
Fatigue Behaviour and Mechanical Properties of ECAP'ed and Thixoformed AA7075
Authors: Kaya Hasan , Uçar Mehmet
Published: November 2013

In this study, the effects of thixoforming, both equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) and thixoforming on high cycle fatigue and fatigue surface morphology of AA7075 have been examined. Experiments are carried out with the same sample materials (AA7075) at a constant temperature (483 K) and the ``C'' route for 4 passes at ECAP process. In the process of thixoforming is 20 min at 888 K for waiting and 1 min at 673 K for pressing implemented. 140 MPa, 120 MPa and 100 MPa strength values were used at fatigue tests. The microstructural characterizations of the samples were carried out by using optical microscope (OM), scanning electron microscope (SEM) and transmission electron microscope (TEM). This study is an attempt in detail to transformation fine and spherical grain structure with thixoforming process of minimized grain structure by ECAP. As a result of this study, it was seen that ECAP (1 pass) + semi-solid processing (SSP) applied samples have the highest hardness value (171 HV). When the values that are obtained after fatigue strength analyzed, SSP applied materials' property gave the best results and ECAP (1 pass) + SSP applied samples' results were second. When the both process applied materials' optimum values are investigated, it was observed that ECAP 1 pass + SSP applied material is more appropriate in terms of high hardness and fatigue life.
The fate and behavior of persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic (PBT) chemicals: examining lead (Pb) as a PBT metal
Authors: Check Larissa , Marteel-Parrish Anne
Published: November 2013

Persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic (PBT) chemicals are a class of chemicals that resist degradation and persist in the environment for extensive periods. As a result of their persistence, when these chemicals are consumed, they bioaccumulate in the fat tissues, bones, and brain of organisms. Lead (Pb) is a PBT metal with the ability to bind irreversibly to neurons and to mimic natural minerals like calcium and zinc. The aim of this review is to examine the unique properties of a PBT, like Pb, as well as the analytic methods of detecting and characterizing PBTs. This review offers sections that explore Pb’s persistence in the environment, bioaccumulation in fish and birds, and toxic characteristics in the human body. It further examines how Pb’s effects on transcription factors could explain the observed Pb lines in Pb-poisoned individuals. This review also evaluates the relationship between the properties of persistence and bioaccumulation as a means to determine whether or not they are interconnected, interdependent, or independent of one another.