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APLIKASI M-HEALTH DALAM UPAYA MONITORING PERAWATAN PADA PASIEN DIABETES MELLITUS: STUDI LITERATUR
Authors: Wahyudi Chandra Tri , Rahman La Ode Abdul
Published: September 2023

Pendahuluan: Diabetes mellitus adalah penyakit metabolik, bersifat kronik ditandai dengan meningkatnya kadar gula dalam darah. Strategi menanggulangi diabetes mellitus adalah deteksi dini, diagnosis akurat, manajemen terapi dan perubahan pola hidup yang salah satunya dapat dimonitor melalui aplikasi mHealth untuk meningkatkan kualitas pelayanan kesehatan bagi pasien dan perawat komunitas. Tujuan: mengetahui pengaruh aplikasi mHealth dalam monitoring perawatan pada pasien diabetes mellitus. Metode: menggunakan metode studi literatur review non sistematic yang diangkat berdasarkan topik terkait. Sumber data dari jurnal yang dipilih dibatasi penerbitan dari tahun 2015 sampai 2019. Istilah yang digunakan dalam pencarian literatur: “diabetes mellitus”, “mHealth”, dan “mobile apps”. Hasil: Berdasarkan 10 Jurnal yang telah di review, integrasi teknologi mHealth dalam sistem informasi yang ada memiliki potensi untuk lebih memandirikan pasien diabetes mellitus, memperbaiki kualitas pelayanan keperawatan komunitas serta efisiensi waktu dan biaya, kekurangan mHealth dalam penerapannya masih terhalang pada pengguna dikalangan usia lanjut, masyarakat menengah kebawah dan ketidaklengkapannya fitur aplikasi.
PENGARUH ATTITUDE KARYAWAN DAN BEBAN KERJA KARYAWAN TERHADAP KUALITAS PELAYANAN DI RSUD BALARAJA KABUPATEN TANGERANG
Authors: Esha Dian , Hakim Fauzan , Rizkia Popy Sri Utami
Published: September 2023

Dalam Jasa pelayanan, attitude memegang peranan penting, begitu juga dengan beban kerja terutama segi kualitas pelayanan, penelitian ini berupaya mengukur pengaruh attitude dan beban kerja karyawan terhadap kualitas pelayanan di RSUD Balaraja Kabupaten Tangerang baik secara parsial maupun simultan. Penelitian ini bersipat deskriptif kuantitatif, sampel sebanyak 35 orang, Instrumen penelitian berupa angket, data dianalisis menggunakan bantuan program komputer excel dan spss versi 25.Hasil penelitian menunjukan peubah attitude dan beban kerja terbukti memengaruhi kualitas pelayanan dengan tingkat korellasi yang sedang. Attitude dan Beban Kerja mampu memproyeksikan Kualitas Pelayanan, dengan pengaruh yang positif dari attitude sedangkan beban kerja justeru sebaliknya. Hal tersebut terlihat dari persamaan Y=33,89+0.254X1-0.238X2, kondisi ini menunjukan semakin baik penerapan attitude kualitas layanan pun meningkat.Namun sebaliknya semakin berat beban kerja yang dibebankan maka kualitas pun menurun. Attitude dan Beban Kerja karyawan secara simultan memberikan pengaruh sebesar 26,70% dan 73.30% dipengaruhi faktor lainnya. Hasil ini membuktikan bahwa attitude dan beban kerja karyawan terbukti  berpengaruh terhadap kualitas pelayanan di RSUD Balaraja Kabupaten Tangerang baik secara simultan maupun parsial.
Studi Literature : Signifikansi Asupan Zat Besi dan Pola Menstruasi dengan Peristiwa Anemia Bagi Remaja Putri
Authors: Wahyudi Chandra Tri
Published: September 2023

Di seluruh dunia, dari negara maju hingga negara berkembang, anemia banyak terjadi, termasuk di Indonesia. The Worldwide Prevalence of Anemia menyebutkan bahwa pada tahun 2015 terjadi peningkatan kejadian anemia sebesar 40-88%. Menurut WHO Regional Office South East Asia Region Organization (ROSEARO) prevalensi anemia pada remaja putri adalah 25-40% dari anemia ringan sampai berat. Kajian literatur ini untuk menganalisis jurnal terkait hubungan kadar asupan zat besi (Fe) dan pola menstruasi dengan kasus anemia pada remaja putri. Studi pustaka menggunakan 30 jurnal internasional untuk menganalisis sesuai topik dengan menilai kualitas jurnal tersebut. Sebagian besar jurnal yang telah direview didapatkan hasil bahwa terdapat hubungan antara tingkat asupan zat besi dan pola menstruasi dengan kasus anemia dan dari hasil penilaian kualitas jurnal didapatkan nilai yang baik. Penelitian ini diharapkan agar Pemerintah Indonesia menetapkan kebijakan pemberian suplemen zat besi kepada remaja putri untuk mencegah dan mengatasi masalah anemia. Kata Kunci: Anemia, Zat Besi, Remaja Putri, Menstruasi
Nanoparticles Titanium Dioxide with Thymus vulgaris extract in preservation and prolong the shelf life of cheese
Authors: Ali Hanan Abdullah , Al-Hakeem Asmaa mansour , Kadhum Quraish Abbas
Published: September 2023

Cheese is considered a perishable food that is affected by microorganisms, and due to the properties of nanomaterials that have antimicrobial activity, they have been used synergistically with plant extracts in inhibiting the action of microorganisms that cause cheese spoilage. In this study, TiO2 (Titanium dioxide) nanoparticles were synthesized using Thymus vulgaris leaves extract (TVLE) . Atomic Force Microscopywas used to investigate Titanium dioxide/ TVLE nanoparticles characterize, which improved the regular spherical shape and granular distribution of nanoparticles with a particle size of 13 nm . The results showed that the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of Titanium dioxide was at a concentration of 4 mg/ml and 80 mg/ml for TVLE, while it was 2 + 20 mg /ml for Titanium dioxide and TVLE .The inhibitory effect increased against Brucella melitensis recorded 12 mm when mixing Titanium dioxide and TVLE, compared with the inhibitory effect of Titanium dioxide, which recorded 10.5 mm and TVLE, with an inhibition diameter 8.1 mm. The effect of using titanium particles and thyme leaves’ extract was studied alone at a concentration of 4 mg/ml and  80 mg/ml and also when mixed in the microbial properties and pH of white soft cheese samples, which were prepared in the laboratory and contaminated with Brucella melitensis at refrigerated storage conditions (5Cº) for 21days. The effect of the synergism relationship between TiO2 / TVLE significantly reduced the total number of microorganisms in samples contaminated and uncontaminated with B. melitensis. Adding titanium dioxide and TVLE at concentrations of 4 and 80 mg/ml contributed significantly to maintaining the pH level during the storage period compared with the control group.
Light interception and radiation use efficiency (RUE) in maize (Zea mays. L) intercropping with greengram (Vigna radiata L.)
Authors: T Govindaraj , Maragatham N. , Ramanathan S P. , Geethalakshmi V. , Kalarani M. K.
Published: September 2023

Intercropping is growing two or more crop species simultaneously, different canopy architectures by row configuration, changing light interception, radiation utilisation, and increased yield. The present study aimed to evaluate different intercropping systems affected light interception per cent and radiation use efficiency in maize (Zea mays L.) intercropping with greengram (Vigna radiata L.) different ratios. Field experiments were conducted for Kharif 2022 and Rabi 2022-2023 seasons, which were laid out in a split-plot design and replicated three times. Three Nitrogen levels viz., N1 - 75 % RDN (Recommended dose of Nitrogen), N2 – 100% RDN, N3-125% RDN had taken as the main plot and three intercropping treatments were taken as subplot viz., M2G2- replacement series (two row of maize and two row of Greengram), M4G2- replacement series (four rows of maize and two row of Greengram), M2G3-paired row system (two rows of maize and three rows of Greengram), and sole maize. Both light interception and radiation use efficiency were significantly affected by intercropping systems. Light interception per cent of the main crop (maize) was significantly higher (69.0, 75.5 and 71.0 % during Kharif and 60.1, 78.1 and 76.6 during rabi) at vegetative, flowering and maturity phases, respectively. The Kharif 2022 and Rabi 2022-2023 maximum Radiation Use Efficiency (RUE) of Maize intercropping with green gram (maize + greengram) was higher in T12 (M2G3 paired row with 125 % Recommended Dose of Nitrogen) recorded as 2.46 (Kharif) and 1.43 (rabi). The outcome might be utilised to optimise the row configuration of intercropping design, explain the mechanism of intercropping on light utilisation, and improve radiation use efficiency.
Contemporary Parenting Behaviors and Attitude Toward Learning: Basis for Academic Enhancement Program
Authors: Ruga Gladysma Kate
Published: September 2023

To address the high percentage of low-performing Filipino learners, as the the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) revealed, the research investigated the relationship between the level of contemporary parenting behaviors and the level of attitude towards learning Grade 7 students and parents. Through this, the Filipino learners' poor academic performance outcomes in PISA 2018 may be addressed by proposing and implementing an effective academic enhancement program. A total of 284 adolescents and parents, selected at random, participated by answering the two adopted standardized questionnaires, and the model was analyzed and evaluated using Mean, Parenting Behaviors and Dimensions Questionnaire and Attitude toward Learning Scale, T-test for independence and Pearson-Product Moment Correlation. The results revealed that emotional warmth, anxious intrusiveness, and democratic discipline were practised more often than punitive, permissive, and autonomy support. Moreover, students showed a favourable attitude toward the nature of learning and expectations from learning. On the other hand, their attitudes toward openness to learning and anxiety about learning were observed to need improvement. In addition, the results showed a significant difference between the assessments of the Grade 7 students and their parents. It was also revealed that there is a significant relationship between contemporary parenting behaviors and attitudes toward learning. An Academic Enhancement Program was developed to address the problems and concerns observed and help the students with their academic endeavours.
bigIRT - R Software for Item Response Theory Models with Large and Sparse Data
Authors: Driver Charles C , Tomasik Martin J.
Published: September 2023

bigIRT is an R software package for the estimation of a range of item response theory models in contexts where there are large numbers of responses, students, and items, but the number of responses for individual students may still be low, resulting in high sparsity. The models are for binary data, using uni or multivariate, scales, 1 to 4 parameter logistic models, with covariate moderators of ability and item parameters. Estimation is joint maximum a posteriori, with optional empirical Bayesian approaches. We demonstrate the software's performance in terms of parameter recovery and computation time, showing that particularly as numbers of items rise, it can be both faster and more accurate than existing software, when sufficient information on abilities exists. We also discuss an empirical example of the software's use in the calibration of an item bank for an online learning platform. The software, source code, and examples are available on Github at https://github.com/cdriveraus/bigIRT .
Functional connectivity alterations of the somatomotor network in euthymic bipolar disorder
Authors: Klahn Anna Luisa , Thompson William Hedley , Abe Christoph , Liberg Benny , Sellgren Carl M , Klahn Philipp , Landén Mikael
Published: September 2023

While individuals with bipolar disorder are assumed to recover between mood episodes, some nevertheless experience lingering subsyndromal symptoms and suffer from cognitive and functional impairments. Here, we propose that these enduring impairments may be linked to aberrations in brain networks. To test this, we conducted a resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study and used network-based statistic to compare functional connectivity between euthymic individuals with bipolar disorder (N=96) and healthy control individuals (N=61) both within and between resting-state networks. We also investigated the association of functional connectivity with lingering psychomotor symptoms and illness severity in bipolar disorder. We found stronger functional connectivity between the somatomotor network and the frontoparietal network in individuals with bipolar disorder compared with healthy controls, but weaker functional connectivity within the somatomotor network as well as between the somatomotor and the visual network. Results remained after adjusting for antipsychotic medication. No significant association with psychomotor performance and illness severity was found. We conclude that stronger functional connectivity between the somatomotor and frontoparietal network might be associated with lingering symptoms in bipolar euthymia. Dysconnectivity within the somatomotor network might relate to psychomotor symptoms beyond the impact of medication. Our findings contribute to the sparse field of somatomotor network aberrancies in bipolar disorder and may present a potential target for brain stimulation treatment.
Crypto Quest: Unveiling the Gender Gap in Iceland's Cryptocurrency Ownership and Investment
Authors: Gasiorowska Agata , Folwarczny Michal , Sturluson Jón Þór , Demir Ender
Published: September 2023

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the variables that are usually considered predictors of participation in the stock market, such as gender, age, education, income, and financial risk attitude, are also useful for predicting participation in the cryptocurrency market. We conducted a unique survey of 1,036 adult participants from Iceland. The results reveal that 8% of the sample has invested in crypto-assets in the past, while the current ownership rate stands at 5%. Being young, male, risk-tolerant, open to new technologies, and perceiving savings in Icelandic banks as less secure was associated with a higher likelihood of crypto-assets investment. Furthermore, we found that higher individual subjective financial knowledge related to cryptocurrencies was is associated with a higher likelihood of owning cryptocurrencies and explains the association between gender and investment in cryptocurrencies.
‘I Was Only the Impresario – the Managing Director’: J.J.R. Macleod and the Pragmatics of the Discovery and Development of Insulin
Authors: Rutty Christopher James
Published: September 2023

Abstract.

On 7 November 1923, when J.J.R. Macleod announced that he would split his half of the Nobel Prize with J.B. Collip, following F.G. Banting splitting his half of the prize with C.H. Best, a reporter asked Macleod to assess his share in the discovery of insulin. “Oh, I was only the impresario – the managing director,” he replied. Whether Macleod deserved the recognition with Banting of the Nobel Committee for the discovery of insulin, it is certainly clear that the discovery, and especially its efficient development into a remarkably effective diabetes treatment, would not have happened without Macleod's knowledge and laboratory research experience. Nor would it have happened without his leadership and, especially, without his acumen as the managing director, or impresario, of the insulin enterprise.
ReconstructingGladue
Authors: Ewing Benjamin , Kerr Lisa
Published: September 2023

Section 718.2(e) of the Criminal Code directs sentencing judges to exercise restraint in the use of incarceration ‘with particular attention to the circumstances of Aboriginal offenders.’ In R v Gladue, the Supreme Court of Canada interpreted this as a remedial provision aiming to reduce the incarceration of Indigenous people. That has made it appear to be a failure by its own lights. Yet to write off section 718.2(e) and the Gladue principles would be to fail properly to understand their moral foundations and structure. Judges are called upon to reduce the incarceration of Indigenous people neither by working backwards from prison demographic targets nor merely by combating implicit bias. Rather, Gladue requires judges to open their minds to hitherto unappreciated reasons that many Indigenous offenders should be afforded mitigation, restorative justice, and community-based accountability. One reason, we argue, relates to the unfair criminogenic disadvantages disproportionately faced by Indigenous offenders. Another reason is that the Canadian state’s complicity in such disadvantages calls into question its legitimate authority and its standing to blame Indigenous offenders. In sum, Gladue calls upon our courts to widen the horizon of fairness in their treatment of Indigenous people. This matters for its own sake in each and every case, whether or not it brings about an appreciable reduction in Indigenous incarceration in the aggregate. Our reconstruction of Gladue not only rescues it from cynical dismissals but also helps to solve the central doctrinal puzzles surrounding it: how Indigenous offenders’ unique life circumstances must be connected to their offences to be mitigating; how Gladue principles should apply differently to more and less serious offences; how a variant of Gladue principles should be extended to members of other disadvantaged groups such as Black Canadians; and how judges should weigh the interests of Indigenous victims when sentencing Indigenous offenders.
Modeling using discriminant analysis of the possibility of occurrence and features of the course of various forms of urticaria in ukrainian women depending on the features of anthropo-somatotypological indicators
Authors: Aladwan A. M. A. , Chaika H. V. , Belik N. V. , Smolko D. G. , Obertynska O. G.
Published: September 2023

Annotation. Predicting the risk of occurrence and course of any disease is the most important and central topic of any branch of clinical medicine. This especially applies to chronic and recurrent diseases that lead to deterioration of the bone of life. One of these diseases is urticaria. The use of anthropometric indicators to achieve this goal is an economically, pathogenetically and logically justified choice. The purpose of the study is to build and analyze discriminative models of the possibility of occurrence and features of the course of urticaria in Ukrainian women depending on anthropometric and somatotypological indicators. On the basis of the Military Medical Clinical Center of the Central Region and the Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases with a postgraduate course at the National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya, a clinical-laboratory and anthropo-somatotypological examination of 40 young Ukrainian women with acute and chronic urticaria of the mild and severe course As a control group, the indicators of body structure and dimensions of 101 practically healthy Ukrainian women of a similar age group were used, which were taken from the data bank of the research center of the National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya. With the help of the license package “Statistica 6.0”, discriminant models of the possibility of occurrence and characteristics of the course of urticaria in Ukrainian women were built, depending on anthropometric and somatotypological indicators. In Ukrainian women, based on the characteristics of anthropo-somatotypological indicators, reliable discriminative models were built, which allow with a high probability to classify them as “typical” for practically healthy or patients with urticaria, as well as “typical” for mild or severe acute urticaria course (correspondingly correct in 89.4 % of cases, Wilks' Lambda statistic=0.080, p<0.001). When taking into account the structure and body size indicators among women with urticaria, a reliable interpretation of the obtained classification indicators is possible only between a mild and severe course of the disease (correspondingly, the correctness of 52.5 % of cases, Wilks' Lambda statistic=0.465, p<0.001).
Histologic changes in the liver and kidney tissues of rats with acute alcohol injury and metabolic correction
Authors: Romanenko I. V. , Melnyk A. V. , Piliponova V. V.
Published: September 2023

Annotation. The liver and kidneys are among the organs that often suffer from the toxic effects of ethanol. The issue of drug correction of alcoholic organ damage, and in particular the role of H2S, remains insufficiently studied. The aim of the study was to evaluate the role of quercetin, hydrogen sulphide donor NaHS and their combination in the correction of morphological changes in the liver and kidneys of rats with acute alcohol injury (AAI). The study was conducted on 25 white male rats weighing 120-130 g, divided into five groups (5 rats in each group). Animals of groups 2-5 were modelled with AAI by intragastric administration of 40% ethanol at a dose of 20 ml/kg for 7 days. In order to correct the AAI, animals of group 3 were administered quercetin (100 mg/kg, intraperitoneally, once/day, for 7 days), group 4 – the hydrogen sulphide donor NaHS-H2O (3 mg/kg, intraperitoneally, once/day, for 7 days), group 5 – both quercetin and NaHS-H2O in the above doses. Animals of group 1 (control) received an equivalent amount of solvents. Histological examinations were performed according to conventional methods. It has been established that in the liver of rats with AAI there are disturbances in the lobular structure, radial ordering of the hepatic beams, signs of inflammation, hypertrophy and fatty infiltration of hepatocytes. In the kidneys, signs of renal glomerular fragmentation, vascular glomerular compaction, tubular epithelial dystrophy, and inflammation are found. Some improvements in the histological structure of the liver and kidneys were observed with quercetin, but they were inferior to those observed with NaHS. Combined therapy with quercetin and NaHS was most effective in restoring the normal structure of the liver and kidneys of rats: the radial arrangement of hepatic beams was restored, the nuclear cytoplasmic index increased, signs of fatty degeneration of hepatocytes and renal epithelial dystrophy decreased, and the activity of the inflammatory response in the organs decreased. The obtained results histologically confirm the feasibility of using hydrogen sulphide donors to enhance the hepatoprotective and nephroprotective effects of quercetin in the setting of AAI.
Instructional environment for development of communicative competence in future clinical psychologists during their professional training
Authors: Shevchuk T. I. , Chorna V. V. , Khliestova S. S. , Vasenko T. B. , Horbatiuk S. M.
Published: September 2023

Annotation. The paper looks at the issue of quality training of doctors and development of their professional competencies, including the communicative competence. The aim of the research was to substantiate the instructional environment for the development of the communicative competence in future clinical psychologists. In the course of the research, methods of analysis and synthesis of sources in medicine and teaching were used, as well as a questionnaire method using Google forms to determine the level of development of the communicative competence in medical students. It has been determined that the development of the communicative competence is an integral aspect of the professional training of doctors and is provided for by the Educational and Professional Program in Healthcare. The main definitions used in the research have been clarified: “competence”, “competency”, “communicative competence”. Rationales have been provided for the following structural components of the communicative competence: motivational and axiological component, emotional and volitional component, perceptual component. The analysis of the questionnaire results showed that a significant number of students have certain difficulties with interpersonal interaction and establishing communication with others, but consider it necessary to develop their communicative competence and wish to improve their communicative ability during their training and professional career. The instructional environment for the development of the communicative competence in future doctors has been defined: generation of positive motivation to increase the level of development of the communicative competence; partnership between teachers and students; use of modern interactive teaching methods in the educational process. Thus, the proposed recommendations for the development of the communicative competence can be used in the professional training of clinical psychologists. We consider designing of a model for the development of the communicative competence in future doctors in the course of their professional training as a direction for further research.
Hygiene of planning and building of settlements: significant achievements and prospects
Authors: Makhniuk V. M. , Petrychenko O. O. , Mohylnyi S. M. , Chorna V. V. , Makhniuk V. V. , Pavlenko N. P. , Melnychenko S. O. , Peleh L. V. , Skochko V. P.
Published: September 2023

Annotation. The National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine over its thirty-year history has made, without exaggeration, a tremendous contribution to the field of theoretical, clinical and preventive medicine both in Ukraine and abroad, which fundamentally changed the quality of human life in all spheres. The NAMS of Ukraine today has a powerful creative potential, a high reputation in Ukraine and abroad. The Laboratory of Hygiene of Planning and Development of Settlements of the SI “IPH NAMSU” has been developing preventive medicine and standing guard over public health for 90 years and strengthening the prestige of the NAMS of Ukraine in this field. This is the only laboratory of this profile both in the system of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine and in the healthcare system of Ukraine. The purpose of the study is to reveal the formation and development of scientific research of the Laboratory of Hygiene Planning and Development of Settlements and to highlight scientific achievements to mark the 90th anniversary of the laboratory of the same name and the 30th anniversary of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine. Research methods: the analytical method is used in the work (studying the results of the laboratory of hygiene planning and development of settlements); the method of hygienic substantiation of the reconstruction of settlements. Results: the article highlights the activities of the hygiene laboratory of planning and construction of settlements of the State University “IHZ NAMNU”, which is aimed at solving the most urgent sanitary and hygienic problems of urban and rural construction, regional planning and development of territories and industrial development, environmental protection of settlements, as well as issues ensuring favorable living conditions for the population to preserve and strengthen their health. So, the activities of the Laboratory of Hygiene of planning and construction of settlements of the State University “IGZ NAMNU” on its glorious 90th anniversary, its scientific achievements, which were reflected in sanitary and urban planning legislation and implemented in the public health system of Ukraine, bodies of the State Production and Consumer Service, divisions of the Ministry of Regions, have of particular importance for the further stable development of domestic production of independent Ukraine and the preservation of public health, and strengthens the prestige of the NAMS of Ukraine on its 30th anniversary from the day of its establishment.
Market analysis and quality assessment of applications on Android-devices for patients with bronchial asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Ukraine
Authors: Demchuk A. , Poberezhets V. , Tsyben M. , Shkondin S.
Published: September 2023

Annotation. A modern and effective tool for managing patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and bronchial asthma (BA) are software applications for smartphones. In order to analyze and evaluate the quality of applications for ANDROID devices available in Ukraine, which can be used by patients with BA and COPD, relevant apps were searched in the Google Play app store. We analyzed their scope, including age restrictions, number of downloads, interface language, user rating. The quality of the apps was assessed according to the guidelines of the Health and Care Mobile App Assessment Organization (ORCHA), and the reliability checklist of an untested mobile health app. We found that Ukrainians have access to 47 mobile apps for ANDROID devices to help them adapt to living with the disease. Of these, only five applications are free and in Ukrainian, but only two are software applications in terms of quality and meet the requirements of ORCHA, so may be recommended for use in patients with AD and COPD, that is insufficient to meet the needs of Ukrainian patients.
Stress and the cardiovascular system performance: current state of the problem (literature overview)
Authors: Shushkovska Y. Y. , Afanasiuk O. І. , Shmaliy V. I.
Published: September 2023

Annotation. Today, the adaptation of people during the warin Ukraine is an important medical and social problem, and for many it serves as an extreme factor affecting changes in the dynamics of physiological processes. Stress is a universal adaptive reaction that causes changes in the functioning of all body systems. One of the adverse consequences of chronic psychological stress is the development of cardiovascular diseases. The purpose of the work is to systematize and analyze the existing problematic aspects of the influence of stress on the activity of the cardiovascular system and to separate the most substantiated approaches to assessing the effects of stress. From the GoogleScholar, PubMed data bases, 45 recent publications on this issue were selected and reviewed. The analysis of literary sources determines the growing interest in the problem of reactivity of the cardiovascular system to psycho-emotional stress. The impact of stress on the human body can be both positive and negative. When stress is short-lived and very strong, it has a beneficial effect, and, on the contrary, if it is intense, acute and long-lasting, it has an adverse effect. One of the tools for objective assessment of stress is heart rate variability, which is recognized as an indicator of autonomic nervous activity. The work examines the invariance of heart rate variability indicators as indicators of the body's stress resistance in the modern distressed anthropogenic environment. Thus, the determination of changes in the regulation of the activity of the cardiovascular system caused by stress at the initial stages has an important prognostic value regarding the development and prevention of possible cardiovascular complications. Observation of stress-related changes in heart rate variability can be used to objectively assess stress. It is worth emphasizing the predictive value of the heart rate variability assessment method, rather than its physiological interpretation.
Modern ideas about the mechanisms of development of valvular insufficiency in chronic venous insufficiency
Authors: Pavuk F. M. , Borsenko M. I. , Popovych N. M. , Rusyn V. V.
Published: September 2023

Annotation. Despite the improvement of methods of diagnosis and treatment of chronic venous insufficiency of the lower extremities, this problem remains relevant and not fully resolved. The confirmation is a large percentage of patients with trophic changes, as a result of deep disorganization of the venous wall and valves in the system of deep and superficial veins. The purpose of this article is to conduct a literature analysis of the various mechanisms of the development of valvular insufficiency in order to improve the treatment of patients with chronic venous insufficiency. A scientific search was carried out for the period from 2000 to 2022 according to the primary search strategy “valvular failure of the veins of the lower extremities”, and the AND/OR combination in the scientific databases MEDLINE (PubMed), Scopus, Web of Science. Among practicing doctors, there are two views on the initial levels of the formation of valvular insufficiency in varicose disease: the beginning of varicose transformation is associated with the expansion of individual venous branches, and the failure of the main trunks of the subcutaneous veins joins much later. Another factor in the pathogenesis of trophic changes in chronic venous diseases is changes in the viscoelastic properties of the walls of deep veins, which lead to valvular insufficiency and impaired venous outflow. The main cause of trophic ulcers in patients with chronic venous insufficiency is the formation of persistent pathological vertical reflux in the system of deep and superficial veins and the presence of horizontal reflux at the level of communicating and penetrating veins of the lower third of the thigh. Orthostatic venous stasis causes a progressive violation of venous hemodynamics and leads to deterioration of microcirculation and disruption of tissue nutrition.
Comparative review of the preclinical safety of topical decongestants xylometazoline and oxymetazoline
Authors: Hrytsun Y. P. , Grebeniuk D. I. , Nikulchenko O. V. , Ivanitsa A. O.
Published: September 2023

Annotation. Xylometazoline and oxymetazoline are two commonly used nasal decongestants that provide temporary relief from nasal congestion caused by colds, allergies, and sinusitis. The mechanism of action of both drugs consists in the narrowing of blood vessels in the nasal passages, reducing oedema, rhinorrhoea and congestion. The aim of the study was to analyse literature data and assess the preclinical safety of xylometazoline and oxymetazoline. 32 scientific sources were selected and reviewed from the Scopus, Web of science, PubMed, and ScienceDirect databases. In the process of processing the search results, either the most recent publications (for the last 10 years) or the latest publications on this issue (regardless of the age) were selected. Our analysis of scientific literature data allows us to state that neither xylometazoline nor oxymetazoline show any effects in animals that would have possible toxicological significance for patients. Since the doses used in experimental studies on animals were quite high and administered over a long period of time to determine possible adverse events, it can be concluded that there are no preclinical reasons to consider these drugs dangerous for human use at the recommended doses and indications.
The Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases of the Vinnytsia State Medical Institute: the first steps of activity
Authors: Kokus V. V.
Published: September 2023

Annotation. The article, based on the analysis of scientific and archival sources, examines the scientific, educational and medical work of the Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases of the Vinnytsia Medical Institute at the initial stage of its activity (1934-1941). The scientific achievements of the department's employees: S. A. Glauberzon, M. Z. Yukhnevich, Sh. Yu. Trachtenberg, O. D. Yavorovska, V. Ya. Kenis, and others are highlighted.
Pyropolitics and the Production of Territory
Authors: Cary Michael M.
Published: September 2023

This review article puts recent social science research on the politics of landscape fire into conversation with scholarship on territory. It argues that contemporary efforts to regulate and suppress fire are fundamentally territorial in that they represent strategies to shape production and accumulation within politically bounded spaces. Reading literature on fire governance through the lens of territory demonstrates the role that a particular disposition toward fire played in the emergence of modern, territorial states. It also helps to illuminate the relationship between state policies to regulate burning and efforts to control labor and resource access. Recent work on the uses of remote sensing technology in the detection and depiction of fire activity shows how territory is reproduced as a modality of rule that justifies hierarchical models of environmental governance. The article concludes with a brief discussion of efforts to implement pluralistic forms of fire management and the obstacles they face.
Davranışsal Bağımlılıklara Yönelik Müdahalelere İlişkin Bir Derleme
Authors: SAYAN KARAHAN Ayşegül
Published: September 2023

Bağımlılıklar, kontrol kaybına ve çoklu olumsuz sonuçlara yol açmaktadır. Madde kullanımı içermeyen bağımlılıklar ilgi görmeye başlamış ve bu tür bağımlılıkların iyileştirilmesi için sunulan müdahaleler yaygınlaşmıştır. Bu derleme, davranışsal bağımlılıklar için uygulanan müdahalelerin etkilerini ele alarak konuya dikkat çekmek amacıyla yapılmıştır. Davranışsal bağımlılıklara yönelik müdahaleleri ele alan çalışmaları belirlemek için 2021 yılı Eylül ve Aralık ayları arasında Pubmed, ScienceDirect, Türk Psikiyatri Dizini, TR Dizin veri tabanlarında 2010 yılı sonrası yayımlanmış Türkçe ve İngilizce çalışmalar “davranışsal bağımlılık”, “müdahale”, “etkililik” anahtar kelimeleri girilerek taranmıştır. Davranışsal bağımlılıklara ilişkin makalelerin kaynakçaları taranmış, derleme ve betimsel çalışmalar dışta bırakılmıştır. Tarama sonucunda 26 çalışma araştırma kapsamına alınmıştır. Ele alınan çalışmalar incelendiğinde; farmakolojik çalışmaların yaygın olmadığı, yaygınlıkla bilişsel-davranışçı yaklaşımlar temelinde psikoterapötik müdahalelerin çalışıldığı, bireysel müdahalelerdense katılımcıların grup olarak alınması yaklaşımının benimsendiği, ayrıca danışanların yaşamlarında yapılacak düzenlemelerin kullanılabildiği, uygulanan müdahalelerin bağımlılık puanlarında anlamlı bir azalma ile sonuçlandığı ve uzun süreli izlemenin önemli olduğu görülmektedir. Davranışsal bağımlılık kapsamında daha fazla araştırma yapılması daha etkili uygulamaların sunulmasına katkı sağlayabilir. Davranışsal bağımlılıklara eşlik eden çeşitli psikiyatrik durumlar ve eş zamanlı bağımlılıkların varlığının, müdahalelere olumlu ve olumsuz etkileri göz önünde tutulmalıdır. Yurt içinde davranışsal bağımlılıklara yönelik müdahalelerin etkilerini inceleyen araştırmalara gereksinim olduğu görülmektedir.
Psikolojik Stresle Baş Etmede Olumlu Duygulara Odaklanma: Dışavurumcu Yazma Müdahalesi
Authors: TURAN Numan , TEKİN Işıl
Published: September 2023

Dışavurumcu yazmanın (DY) psikolojik işlev üzerindeki etkisini inceleyen çalışmalar, duyguların yazı ile açılmasının zihinsel ve fiziksel sağlığa fayda sağlayabileceğini göstermiştir. Araştırmada, dışavurumcu yazma uygulamasında katılımcılara herhangi bir yönlendirme yapılmamasının ya da katılımcıların olumlu duygulara yönlendirilmesinin edindikleri fayda ile ilişkili olup olmadığı incelenmiştir. Araştırmaya gönüllü olan katılımcılar, seçkisiz atama yöntemi ile yönlendirilmemiş (duygu odağı belirtilmeyen) ve yönlendirilmiş (olumlu duygu odaklı) iki müdahale grubuna atanmıştır. Katılımcılar, birer hafta aralıklarla üç dışavurumcu yazma uygulamasını tamamlamış, aynı zamanda her bir uygulama seansında yazma deneyimlerini ve psikolojik streslerini ölçen araçları cevaplamıştır. Çalışmaya 86 lisans öğrencisi gönüllü olsa da çoğunluğu kadınlardan oluşan (kadın = 60, erkek = 6) 68 katılımcı (Ortyaş = 20.38; SS = 1.67) çalışmayı tamamlamıştır. Çalışma hipotezlerinin test edilmesinde büyüme eğrisi modeli (growth curve modelling) kullanılmıştır. Çalışmanın sonuçları, yönlendirilmiş ve yönlendirilmemiş gruplar arasında başlangıçta bir fark olmadığını gösterirken uygulama sonucunda yönlendirilmiş grup katılımcılarının psikolojik stres puanlarında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı derecede azalma olduğu görülmüştür. Ek olarak yazma deneyiminin her iki grupta da psikolojik stres ile ters orantılı olduğu gözlenmiştir: Yazma deneyimi puanlarındaki artışın psikolojik stres puanlarındaki düşüş ile ilişkili olduğu gözlenmiştir. Özellikle, yönlendirilmiş olumlu duygu odaklı dışavurumcu yazma uygulamalarının psikolojik stres ile baş etmede erişilebilir bir müdahale aracı olabileceği gözlenmektedir.
E. A. Satel: Scientist, Engineer, Organizer of Industry
Authors: Fedorov Konstantin
Published: September 2023

The article is devoted to E. A. Satel, an outstanding organizer of industry and scientist. Based on the memoirs of Satel’s colleagues and associates and on the analysis of his scientific works, the authors reconstruct the stages of the talented engineerʼs life journey: studying at the Imperial Technical School; working on the reconstruction of machine-building plants in and around Moscow in the 1920s; a key role in the launch of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant; selfless labor at the People’s Commissariat of Armaments on the eve of and during The Great Patriotic War; and scientific and pedagogical work in the post-war period.
The History of Calling and Holding the First Congress on the Studies of the Southern Ussuri Region Regarding Its Natural History
Authors: Kolyada Alexander
Published: September 2023

Southern Ussuri Branch of the Russian Geographical Society’s Amur (Priamurye) Regional Division (Nikolsk-Ussuriуsky) was a research organization that operated in the Primorsky region of Russia in the early 20th century. It was there that an idea to call the First Congress on the Studies of the Southern Ussuri Region Regarding Its Natural History, where local specialists in regional studies – both professional and amateur – could report the results of their studies, arose in November 1921. The steering committee chaired by I. P. Tolmachev, created together with the Society for the Studies of the Amur Region (Vladivostok), developed the framework for the Congress and sent out the invitations. The first forum of regional studies researchers was held in Nikolsk-Ussuriуsky on April 18–23, 1922. Its scope included introducing the research conducted by local organizations involved in regional studies and formulating the main tasks for these studies in the region. Among the Congress participants were the representatives of educational institutions, governmental and non-governmental organizations. The sessions were held at the women’s teachers’ training college and the exhibition of the items provided by the Congress participants was organized at the women’s gymnasium. There were six sections: physical geography, geology and mining; botany; zoology; ethnography and history; teaching, and general issues. A total of 90 presentations were delivered many of which were devoted to teaching. Among the participants were the researchers who later became the renowned naturalists and scientists: V. K. Arseniev, A. A. Yemelyanov, B. A. Ivashkevich, I. P. Tolmachev, I. K. Shishkin and others.
 
This congress was the first attempt at uniting and coordinating regional research in the Primorye region. The implementation of this idea, however, only became possible after the Far-East Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences was created.
Formation of the Scientific Community at the Naval Department of the Russian Empire (1805–1827)
Authors: Merkulova Alina
Published: September 2023

The article explores the composition of the learned assembly of the State Admiralty Department (SAD). The learned assembly was a special organization within SAD, which was established in 1805 to provide scientific support to the Russian Navy and existed till 1827. The author identifies the persons who comprised the learned assembly, their professions and institutional affiliation, and analyzes the variations in the SAD staff composition. The complete list of the learned assembly members is reconstructed based on the administrative records deposited in the Russian State Naval Archive and the published sources. The available historiographic works allowed elucidating the details of the learned assembly members’ biographies as well as the areas of their scientific interests. It is shown that, rather than a closed community of naval officers, the SAD learned assembly included the members of different professional groups, associated with the Academy of Sciences and other scientific institutions of the Russian Empire. The number of naval officers and the naval department officials in the learned assembly increased over time, suggesting a gradual formation of the corporate scientific community in the naval sphere who, however, maintained their ties with the representatives of the academic science.
OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEM FOR A 2B-PARABOLIC EQUATION WITH AN INTEGRAL NON-LOCAL CONDITION
Authors: Pukalskyy I. , Luste I.
Published: September 2023

The problem of choosing the optimal control of the system, which is described by a parabolic problem with an integral condition over the time and limited internal and starting control, is investigated. The quality criterion will be given by the sum of volume integrals. Using the fundamental solution of the Cauchy problem for the 2b-parabolic equation, the existence, unity and integral representation of the solutions of the problem for the 2b-parabolic equation with the integral condition on the time variable were established. Estimates of the solution of the nonlocal problem for the 2b-parabolic equation with integral condition in time and its derivatives in Hölder spaces are found. The obtained result was used in the study of the problem of optimal control. With the help of the Taylor formula and the integral representation of the solutions of the nonlocal problem, the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of the optimal control of the system described by the problem for the 2b-parabolic equation with the integral condition for the time variable were found.
Experimental and numerical investigations of masonry ‎ beams performance under bending loads
Authors: Hamed Samarsamy , Husain Mohamed , Zaghlal Mahmoud , El-Sisi Alaa
Published: September 2023

An experimental and numerical study was achieved to investigate the behavior of masonry beams internally reinforced using carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) and hybrid steel/CFRP reinforcements. In addition, the use of masonry equivalent material characteristics in the numerical modeling instead of modeling the blocks and mortar was evaluated. Three beams were built using cement bricks and tested in three-point bending with an effective simply supported span of 840 mm. The bricks were designed with a hole that was filled with grout before placing the rebar inside. Material characterization tests were performed to evaluate the mechanical properties of the brick, mortar, and masonry blocks. The beam samples were tested under static loads and the load deformation and failure load were monitored. Finite element methods were built for the beams and validated using the experimental results. The model was used to study more parameters such as the distance between the stirrups and the hybrid reinforcement configuration. Results showed that hybrid reinforcement is the best reinforcement configuration. It can be concluded that the reinforced masonry systems were able to achieve flexural resistance with maximum resistance when using the hybrid reinforcement.
Estimating degradation of strength of neat PEEK and PEEK-CF laminates under cyclic loading by mechanical hysteresis loops
Authors: Bogdanov Alexey , Eremin Alexander , Burkov Mikhail , Panin Sergey , Lyubutin Pavel
Published: September 2023

A method for assessing the degradation of mechanical properties of neat polyetheretherketone and its laminated composite reinforced with unidirectional carbon fibers is proposed. It is based on the calculation of the maximum and minimum strains in a cycle, as well as both dynamic and secant moduli estimated from mechanical hysteresis loops. These parameters reflect the material damage degree, enabling to predict its current mechanical state.