bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Selective Response of the South China Sea Circulation to Summer Monsoon
Authors: Yang Haiyuan , Wu Lixin , Sun Shantong , Chen Zhaohui
Published: April 2017

The response of the South China Sea (SCS) circulation to intraseasonal variability of the summer monsoon is studied with both observations and a 1.5-layer reduced-gravity model. Intraseasonal variability of the SCS summer monsoon is characterized by evolution of the wind jet intensity in the midbasin with typical amplitude of 6 m s−1 and several peaks on its power spectrum between 10 and 60 days. However, this study finds that intraseasonal variability of the sea surface height (SSH) in the SCS presents significant variability to the southeast of Vietnam with amplitude of 6 cm and a period only between 40 and 60 days. This implicates the frequency selectivity of oceanic response to wind forcing. Numerical experiments suggest that the intrinsic variability of the SCS circulation accounts for this phenomenon. Based on the Rossby basin mode theory, this is explained by the interaction between the long, westward-propagating Rossby waves and the short, eastward-propagating Rossby waves.
Detecting Beam Blockage in Radar-Based Precipitation Estimates
Authors: McRoberts D. Brent , Nielsen-Gammon John W.
Published: April 2017

Gridded radar-based quantitative precipitation estimates (QPEs) are potentially ideal inputs for hydrological modeling and monitoring because of their high spatiotemporal resolution. Beam blockage is a common type of bias in radar QPEs related to the blockage of the radar beam by an obstruction, such as topography or tall buildings. This leads to a diminishment in the power of the transmitted beam beyond the range of obstruction and a systematic underestimation of reflectivity return to the radar site. A new spatial analysis technique for objectively identifying regions in which precipitation estimates are contaminated by beam blockage was developed. The methodology requires only a long-term precipitation climatology with no prerequisite knowledge of topography or known obstructions needed. For each radar domain, the QPEs are normalized by climatology and a low-pass Fourier series fit captures the expected precipitation as a function of azimuth angle. Beam blockage signatures are identified as radially coherent regions with normalized values that are systematically lower than the Fourier fit. Precipitation estimates sufficiently affected by beam blockage can be replaced by values estimated using neighboring unblocked estimates. The methodology is applied to the correction of the National Weather Service radar-based QPE dataset, whose estimates originate from the NEXRAD network in the central and eastern United States. The methodology is flexible enough to be useful for most radar installations and geographical regions with at least a few years of data.
Systemic Gifted Education: A Theoretical Introduction
Authors: Ziegler Albert , Stoeger Heidrun
Published: April 2017

Over the past few decades, systemic thinking has gained in popularity in developmental and learning sciences. The trend has, however, shown up in gifted education research only occasionally. The aim of this article is to introduce systemic thinking to the field of giftedness and explore possibilities for its application. In the first part, a definition of a system is provided and basic concepts of systemic thinking are introduced. In the second part, a full-fledged systemic model is introduced, the actiotope model of giftedness. In the third part, implications for gifted education are elaborated. In the discussion, the authors explain (a) how systemic thinking can make a valuable contribution to gifted education, (b) why systemic thinking will complement rather than replace current approaches to gifted education, and (c) the necessity of combining systemic thinking with other empirically testable theories.
Understanding Latino Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Through a Bioecological Lens
Authors: Mendoza Angela Nancy , Fruhauf Christine A. , Bundy-Fazioli Kimberly , Weil Joyce
Published: April 2017

The purpose of this article is to provide a summary of the published research addressing the challenges and strengths of Latino grandparents raising grandchildren in the United States. Using the bioecological framework as a guide to organize and understand the published literature addressing Latino grandparent caregivers, we examined refereed articles published over the past 19 years. This framework provides a lens for understanding and situating research on Latino grandparents raising grandchildren to discover Latino grandparents’ strengths and challenges. The areas of foci include financial challenges, intergenerational relationships, reasons for caregiving, health status, language barriers, and culture. This article concludes with future research opportunities and a call to action for more research on Latino grandparents raising grandchildren.
Studying ‘Make in India’ from the Lens of Labour Reforms
Authors: Shukla Kinjal , Purohit Maitreyi , Gaur Shubhra P.
Published: April 2017

The contribution of the manufacturing sector in gross domestic product (GDP) has been a cause of concern, as India contributes only 16 per cent to the GDP in comparison to other rapidly developing economies, for example, the manufacturing sector of Thailand contributes 34 per cent to the GDP, China 32 per cent and South Korea 31 per cent. Currently, India stands at 134th position out of 189 economies under Doing Business Index. Its rank has also declined in the Global Manufacturing Index in comparison to the previous year.

The Government of India in the year 2014 initiated a campaign titled Make in India to foster the growth of the manufacturing sector. In the initial phase of the campaign, the primary focus was on three key tactics namely reviving domestic investment, ensuring the ease of doing business and attracting foreign investors to invest in the manufacturing sector. The government later on realized that first there is a need to bring reforms in the decades old labour laws. This has urged the government to consider reforms in labour laws which will make Indian labour market more competitive in international market. The government has initiated these reforms by proposing certain amendments in the Factories Act 1948 and by including few provisions in the Labour Laws Amendment Act, 2011, and the Apprenticeship (Amendment) Act, 2014.

The article attempts to analyze the impact of these reforms on success of Make in India campaign by studying the overall impact of these labour law reforms from employees and employers’ perspective and contribution of labour reforms in Make in India campaign by using the theory of structural change, fundamentals and growth given by Rodrik (2013b, Harvard Business Review). It also analyzes the impact of these reforms on two key aspects of the campaign, that is, focusing on job creation and skill enhancement.
Empires, nations, peoples
Authors: Chatterjee Partha
Published: April 2017

The paper traces the continuities between empires and successor nation-states and examines how imperial prerogatives continue to operate in the global system. The author also looks at the failure of postcolonial states to deliver on their promises after achieving national sovereignty. In all this, the focus is on conceptualizing the category of ‘the people’, which is supposedly the source of legitimate power in the contemporary world. In particular the paper zooms in on the historical continuity that characterized traditional empires and is just as present in the context of contemporary world powers – the right to invoke imperial prerogatives to declare colonial exceptions.
The time of empire
Authors: Kumar Krishan
Published: April 2017

General and comparative studies of empire – like those of revolution – often suffer from insufficient attention to chronology. Time expresses itself both in the form that empires occur, often in succession to each other – the Roman, the Holy Roman, the Spanish, etc. – and, equally, in an awareness that this succession links empires in a genealogical sense, as part of a family of empires. This article explores the implications of taking time seriously, so that empires are not considered simply as like ‘cases’ of a general phenomenon of empire but are treated as both ‘the same and different’. Concentrating on the European empires since the time of Rome, the article shows the extent to which empires were conscious of each other, seeking both to imitate admired features as well as to escape from those thought less desirable. It also shows the difference between ancient and modern empires, considered not so much as different types as in the differences caused by their location in different points in historical time. Comparative studies of empire, the article concludes, must pay attention to both continuity and change, both similarity and difference.
Coordinated attitude control of hypersonic flight vehicles based on the coupling analysis
Authors: Zhen Wubin , Wang Yuhui , Wu Qingxian , Shao Peng
Published: April 2017

At hypersonic speed, strong nonlinear couplings will bring enormous challenges to the attitude control of a hypersonic flight vehicle. To reduce the negative impacts of the couplings, a hierarchical coordinated controller is proposed for a generic hypersonic vehicle in this paper. By using a statistical sampling method, a series of coupling analyses between any two different attitude variables groups are studied firstly, and the matrices that describe the coupling degrees are provided. Based on the coupling degree matrices, two coordinated controllers are designed for the attitude angles and angular rates, respectively. The simulation results indicate that the proposed controller can effectively coordinate the coupling impacts, and achieve smooth attitude tracking.
The motif of ‘crossings’ in selected works by Azouz Begag
Authors: Duffy Pat
Published: April 2017

The French writer of Algerian origin, Azouz Begag, has long been interested in the reception in France of those with immigrant origins. Their treatment often continues to be that reserved for the ‘visitor’, even several generations down the line. Yet these ‘outsiders’, who are not expected to ‘stay’, no longer identify with the country of their ancestors. Their life journeys become characterised by often delicate negotiations in order to be accepted. In the light of this situation, we examine three of Begag’s autofictional works. The first of these is Le Gone du Chaâba (1986), the text for which he gained celebrity. It explores the world of a young Algerian boy in France in the 1960s confronted with a Francocentric school system largely dismissive of the immigrant child. The second text, Le Marteau pique-cœur (2004) reveals an adult destabilised by the collapse of his marriage and the loss of his father, while the third, Salam Ouessant (2012), shows him on holiday with his two daughters and struggling with single status. All three texts share common concerns about reference points in life and all three are linked by numerous ‘crossings’ featuring various kinds of movement – physical, cultural, linguistic and transitional.
Fashion in interwar France: The urban vision of Elsa Schiaparelli
Authors: Papalas Marylaura
Published: April 2017

Elsa Schiaparelli’s avant-garde designs and her collaborative efforts with surrealist artists are the subject of most analyses of her work, which focus on themes of glamour, gender and the construction of a modern feminine beauty. Yet a number of lesser-known creations from the 1920s and 1930s, equally experimental in nature, reveal other progressive themes in the Italian-born designer’s oeuvre. References to the city in a number of her pieces, for example, provide a commentary on the important relationship between fashion, women and their urban environments. This article examines designs like the skyscraper silhouette, plastic accessories and new synthetic fabrics, echoing contemporary building materials, alongside the changing landscape of interwar Paris. Comparing the imagined city suggested in Schiaparelli’s sartorial creations with the real metropolis where these garments were worn, this study reveals fashion’s potential to express women’s desires for an improved urban reality.
A Taxonomy Approach to Studying How Gamers Review Games
Authors: Koehler Matthew J. , Arnold Brian , Greenhalgh Spencer P. , Boltz Liz Owens
Published: April 2017

Background. Player-generated reviews of video games represent a large, rich, and under-explored source of data for exploring what makes for an effective game.

Aim. We explore whether existing theory, in the form of a comprehensive gaming taxonomy, suitably captures the issues that players raise when they review games.

Method. User-submitted game reviews were coded along the dimensions of the comprehensive gaming taxonomy to test the frequency of usage of each dimension.

Results. We found some support for the use of the taxonomy, as four of nine taxonomy features were frequently present in game reviews. We also found support for other features of reviews not encapsulated by the Bedwell et al. (2012) taxonomy. Specifically, we found that players often reviewed video games: a) holistically; b) by comparing them to other games, game franchises, and other reviews; and c) by judging the value of games in terms of time, money, and effort. These results have implications for using game reviews for future research.
Awareness and Knowledge of Ovarian Cancer Symptoms and Risk Factors: A Survey of Jordanian Women
Authors: Freij Mazen , Al Qadire Mohammad , Khadra Maysa , ALBashtawy Mohammed , Tuqan Wael , Al Faqih Mohammad , Innabi Ayoub , Batiha Abdul-Monim , Alhalaiqa Fadwa , Abd El-Razek Aida
Published: April 2017

Ovarian cancer accounts for 3% of all female cancers and has a high mortality rate among gynecological malignancies. Early diagnosis carries a high survival rate of 93%. So, this study was carried out to assess the knowledge and awareness of Jordanian women about ovarian cancer symptoms and risk factors. A cross-sectional survey design was used; 896 women completed the survey. The mean of total symptoms recognized was low at level of 3.2 ( SD = 2.7) out of 10. The three highest known symptoms among women were as follows: extreme fatigue (43.2%), back pain (42.4%), and persistent pain in pelvic area (40.7%). The most commonly known risk factor was smoking (68.4%), followed by having ovarian cyst(s) (59.7%). Hence, with the absence of an effective screening program, a national awareness campaign is urgently needed to improve the public’s understanding of symptoms and risk factors and increasing women’s confidence in symptom recognition.
Treating Giant Congenital Nevus With Integra Dermal Regeneration Template in a 9-Year-Old Girl
Authors: Barcot Zoran , Inga Dakovic Bacalja , Zupancic Bozidar , Bacalja Vedran
Published: April 2017

Integra dermal regeneration template has been well established in treating deep extensive burns, but there are very few cases reported of treating large full-thickness skin defects such as giant nevi. Apart from psychological and cosmetic burdens, the giant congenital nevus carries increased risk of malignant alteration. We present the case of a 9-year-old girl with a giant congenital nevus on her left lower leg. A total excision was done and she was successfully treated with Integra (LifeSciences Corp, Plainsboro, NJ). Three weeks later, a thin split-skin graft was applied over the neodermal skin layer. The takeoff was 91%. Protected with the silver wound dressing, the rest of the wound healed. A donor site morbidity was minimal, and the final result was excellent both in aesthetic and functional aspects.
Development and Validation of the Masculine Attributes Questionnaire
Authors: Cho Junhan , Kogan Steven M.
Published: April 2017

The present study describes the development and validation of the Masculine Attributes Questionnaire (MAQ). The purpose of this study was to develop a theoretically and empirically grounded measure of masculine attributes for sexual health research with African American young men. Consistent with Whitehead’s theory, the MAQ items were hypothesized to comprise two components representing reputation-based and respect-based attributes. The sample included 505 African American men aged 19 to 22 years ( M = 20.29, SD = 1.10) living in resource-poor communities in the rural South. Convergent and discriminant validity of the MAQ were assessed by examining the associations of masculinity attributes with psychosocial factors. Criterion validity was assessed by examining the extent to which the MAQ subscales predicted sexual risk behavior outcomes. Consistent with study hypotheses, the MAQ was composed of (a) reputation-based attributes oriented toward sexual prowess, toughness, and authority-defying behavior and (b) respect-based attributes oriented toward economic independence, socially approved levels of hard work and education, and committed romantic relationships. Reputation-based attributes were associated positively with street code and negatively related to academic orientation, vocational engagement, and self-regulation, whereas respect-based attributes were associated positively with academic and vocational orientations and self-regulation. Finally, reputation-based attributes predicted sexual risk behaviors including concurrent sexual partnerships, multiple sexual partners, marijuana use, and incarceration, net of the influence of respect-based attributes. The development of the MAQ provides a new measure that permits systematic quantitative investigation of the associations between African American men’s masculinity ideology and sexual risk behavior.
Understanding and Adopting Plant-Based Nutrition: A Survey of Medical Providers
Authors: Krause Amanda J. , Williams Kim A.
Published: April 2017

Plant-based nutrition can be protective against a number of chronic diseases. The objectives of this study were to determine the medical community’s knowledge of plant-based nutrition and assess whether participants would be willing to adopt or recommend this diet to patients. A questionnaire was emailed to more than 4000 students and faculty at Rush University Medical Center. A total of 64 physicians were analyzed. The majority (58%) were female and physician attendings (72%). Most (79%) believed that a plant-based diet is most similar to a vegetarian or vegan diet. When asked if they would recommend a plant-based diet to patients, 33% said yes and 51% said maybe. When asked if they would consider adopting a plant-based diet, 28% said yes, 34% said maybe, and 8% said for a short amount of time. In a convenience sample of physicians, most were aware of the definition and health effects of plant-based nutrition, but fewer were well versed in the details of this diet. More than half were open to potentially recommending or adopting a plant-based diet. Education about plant-based nutrition is essential to increase knowledge and understanding about this dietary pattern.
An Analysis of Adoniram Judson’s Translation of Zephaniah
Authors: de Jong John Hans
Published: April 2017

Adoniram Judson’s 1840 translation of the Bible into Burmese (Myanmar) remains the most used version amongst Protestants in Myanmar. This article examines in detail Judson’s translation of the book of Zephaniah, comparing it with the Hebrew text, in order to assess translation tendencies and identify specific areas that revision would need to address. The analysis reveals that Judson’s translation is of a high standard due to his thorough scholarship. Nevertheless, several areas emerge where improvement could be made. One is in passages where biblical scholarship has made advances in the understanding of texts since Judson’s time. The Judson Bible also has a restricted vocabulary in places where it could be expanded, and in other passages Judson gives a free translation which at times could be improved to translate the Hebrew text more clearly. Another area for improvement is consistency in translating some words and phrases.
The Textual History of the New Testament and the Bible Translator
Authors: King Daniel
Published: April 2017

The present paper highlights the importance of attending to the ancient textual tradition within the process of translation. It argues that many of the scribes of the NT manuscripts perceived their own work in a similar light to many Bible translators today, since they considered clarity of communication to be one of their goals. For this reason, they often made emendations of a sort similar to those that are recommended to contemporary translators. Translators are able to derive benefit from attending carefully to the NT textual tradition to learn how ancient scribes understood the text and sought to communicate its meaning clearly to their readers.
John 8.17—An Invitation to Perjury?
Authors: Förster Hans
Published: April 2017

The traditional translation of the Greek word ἀληθής as “true” or “accepted as fact” in John 8.17 appears to suggest a legal stipulation which would pose serious legal problems if used in judicial proceedings. This raises the question whether the translation is true to the mark. The paper suggests that ἀληθής might have a slightly different meaning in John 8.17 and should be translated as “trustworthy.”
Big Data is not only about data: The two cultures of modelling
Authors: Veltri Giuseppe Alessandro
Published: April 2017

The contribution of Big Data to social science is not limited to data availability but includes the introduction of analytical approaches that have been developed in computer science, and in particular in machine learning. This brings about a new ‘culture’ of statistical modelling that bears considerable potential for the social scientist. This argument is illustrated with a brief discussion of model-based recursive partitioning which can bridge the theory and data-driven approach. Such a method is an example of how this new approach can help revise models that work for the full dataset: it can be used for evaluating different models, a traditional weakness of the ‘traditional’ statistical approach used in social science.
Prevalence of Violence Toward Community Nurses: A Questionnaire Survey
Authors: Gabrovec Branko
Published: April 2017

Violence toward nursing staff occurs frequently, particularly in intensive care units and closed or intensive psychiatric facilities, which have been studied previously. However, violence toward community nurses has not been investigated. The purpose of this study was to explore the frequency of violence toward community nurses in Slovenia. More than 56% of study respondents were verbally abused by their patients during the past year. More than 42% of all cases of horizontal violence were directed at community nurses.
Biopolitical Masochism in Marina Abramović's The Artist Is Present
Authors: Brunton Jaime
Published: April 2017

This essay analyzes The Artist Is Present, Marina Abramović's heavily mediatized 2010 performance at New York's Museum of Modern Art, through the lenses of Freudian and Deleuzian concepts of masochism. It specifically focuses on how the masochistic tendencies of this performance may be read in the current context of biopolitics. The author contends that many critical analyses of Abramović's performance, which focus on details of the performer's personal history, have not adequately addressed such political questions regarding her work. Drawing on the documentary film Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present (dir. Matthew Akers and Jeff Dupre, US, 2012), which follows Abramović through the conceptualization and enactment of the performance, this essay demonstrates how The Artist Is Present restages the quotidian practices, bodily movements, and affects fostered by biopower and emphasizes the masochistic logic that structures biopolitics. Reading the masochistic behaviors of both Abramović and the performance's spectators through Gilles Deleuze's notion of the masochistic contract, this essay argues that the performance ultimately harnesses “living labor” in the service of the self-production of subjectivity, and does so through an intensification of the masochism on which biopolitics depends. In addition to engaging Freudian and Deleuzian theories of masochism, this paper also draws on Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's work on biopower and immaterial labor.
YOGA AND XENOPHILIA
Authors: Valdina Peter
Published: April 2017

The basic argument of this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium on xenophilia is that colonial attitudes toward South Asian religion and Hindus' attitudes toward Western intellectual discourse reveal an ambiguous mix of xenophilia and xenophobia. This articles focuses on yoga, whose macrohistory comprises a global case of xenophilia, beginning with Vivekananda's address at the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago and still ongoing today. Before that watershed speech in 1893, however, indigenous scholars were translating Sanskrit texts into Bengali as part of an effort to articulate a unified vision of Hindu traditions that could be used to engage with the science, medicine, and other attractive aspects of British and Western culture. Comparing Bengali renderings of Patañjali's Yoga Sūtra, this essay concludes that one of them, the translation of paṇḍit Kālīvar Vedāntavāglīś, exposed elements of ambiguity in the original work that expanded the possibilities for the engagement of yoga with Western discourses, while at the same time legitimating the Sanskritic past as a resource for addressing new realities. In the process, Kālīvar's translation helped enable the globalization of yoga as we know it today. This article concludes by suggesting that microhistorical work on the activities of translators may aid in understanding the part that local knowledge can play in our global future.
CONTRIBUTION OF PSYCHOEMOTIONAL STRESS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADAPTATIONAL FAILURE IN THE COMPETITIVE PERIOD OF QUALIFIED ATHLETES
Authors: �������  , Bazarin Kirill , ��������  , Savchenko Andrey
Published: April 2017

The electroencephalography can be used to obtain objective data on the level of situational anxiety in athletes. The dynamics of the psychoemotional state of the athletes during the annual training-competitive macrocycle is characterized by the following features: in the preparatory and transition periods of the athletes the levels of anxiety and psycho-emotional stress are lower than in the control group. Competitive period is usually characterized by a significant increase in anxiety. Competitive loads experienced by athletes on the background of low anxiety lead to a less pronounced decrease in functional activity of neutrophils and activity of the antioxidant defense system.
ACUTE MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA (CLINICAL CASES)
Authors: ���������  , Sobotovich Vladimir , �����������  , Kalinichenko Aleksandr , ��������  , Mikhaylov Aleksandr , ��������  , Privalov Yuriy , �������  , Kulikov Leonid , �������  , Smirnov Aleksey
Published: April 2017

Acute mesenteric ischemia is one of the most severe pathological conditions in terms of its course and prognosis. In

the case of bowel infarction it is accompanied by an extremely high fatality rate. At the present day, despite there are

ways to determine the patency of the vascular bed of the intestine accurately, developed principles and methods for the

treatment of surgical interventions in different variants of acute occlusion of mesenteric vessels, it is not always possible

to save the lives of patients with this disease. However, knowledge of the clinical picture of the disease, the consistent

implementation of objective methods of diagnosis, timely decision on the need for surgical treatment can restore blood

flow in the basin of the superior mesenteric artery and provide recovery and rehabilitation of these patients.
OPTIMIZATION OF PREOPERATIVE PLANNING AND INTRAOPERATIVE NAVIGATION AT THE SHOULDER REPLACEMENT
Authors: Воронин  , Voronin Ivan , Бадак  , Badak Igor , Прохоренко  , Prokhorenko Valeriy , Слободской  , Slobodskoy Aleksandr , Дунаев  , Dunaev Aleksey
Published: April 2017

There were 105 patients with shoulder replacement under our supervision (terms of supervision were up to 10 years).

There were 43 men and 62 women. Age of patients was from 29 to 80 years. Two ways of optimization of shoulder

replacement are offered: “Method of preoperative determination of the sizes of a head of shoulder joint endoprosthesis”

(Patent of the Russian Federation N 2469670 d.d. 12.20.2012) and “Method for intraoperative navigation of a shoulder

stem of joint” (Patent of the Russian Federation N 2467725 d.d. 11.27.2012). We reached the improvement of quality

of the operation due to the fact of an installation of the implants which are as much as possible close to the anatomy

of a normal shoulder joint by size and position.
FEATURES OF EMOTIONAL AND PERSONALITY STATUS OF PATIENTS WITH CENTRAL SEROUS CHORIORETINOPATHY
Authors: Юрьева  , Yureva Tatyana , Щуко  , Shchuko Aleksey , Ярославцева  , Yaroslavtseva Irina
Published: April 2017

The features of emotional and personality status of patients with central serous chorioretinopathy are analyzed in this article. The study of emotional and personality features of 27 people from 27 to 62 years (average age – 47,7 ± 8,5 years) which were in treatment with a sharp decrease in visual acuity from 0,8 to 0,05 as a result of developed central serous chorioretinopathy. It was found that patients with central serous chorioretinopathy in 50 % of cases are characterized by: 1) the severity of psychopathologic symptomatology; 2) super-strong and sometimes obsessive attitude to work, as well as an understatement of “significance” of the disease in favor of maintaining the working status; 3) the desire to overcome difficulties due to targeted analysis of stressful situations; 4) stable tendency to perceive a large range of situations as threatening the well-being; 5) the deterioration of the quality of life, which is characterized by dissatisfaction with the state of health (especially in visual acuity). Thus, these results show that patients with central serous chorioretinopathy have emotional and personality features aggravating the overall condition of the patient.
EFFECT OF SINGLE INTAKE OF EXOGENOUS HEPATOCYTES GROWTH INDUCER ON THE INDICES OF NON-SPECIFIC RESISTANCE UNDER CONDITIONS OF POSTRESECTION LIVER INJURY
Authors: Прокопьев  , Prokopev Maksim , Коваль  , Koval Elena , Курганский  , Kurganskiy Ilya , Постовая  , Postovaya Olga , Апарцин  , Apartsin Konstantin , Батунова  , Batunova Elena , Зарицкая  , Zaritskaya Larisa , Лепехова  , Lepekhova Svetlana , Макошина  , Makoshina Polina
Published: April 2017

HGF is one of the factors taking part in regeneration and recovery of liver after injury. The article is dedicated to the study of influence of single HGF intake on the indices of non-specific immune response in rats after 70% liver resection in the early postoperative period. Research was conducted on 42 six-months white male Wistar rats of 250–300 g. It was revealed that level of segmentonuclear neutrophils and lymphocytes in the group with HGF intake stand at normal level on the 2nd day and normalizes to the 11th day that testifies to the decrease of inflammatory response. Increased level of leukocytes and monocytes is registered in the group with HGF intake. Also integrity of non-specific resistance in the early postoperative period on the 2nd day is registered. Suppression of phagocytosis indices with preservation of functional activity of phagocytes was registered to the 11th day.
BABESIA INFECTION OF SMALL MAMMALS FROM SOUTHERN TAIGA OF OMSK REGION
Authors: Боброва  , Bobrova Oksana , Танцев  , Tantsev Aleksey , Епихина  , Epikhina Tamara , Тикунов  , Tikunov Artem , Макенов  , Makenov Marat , Якименко  , Yakimenko Valeriy , Рар  , Rar Vera , Тикунова  , Tikunova Nina
Published: April 2017

Blood samples were taken from 541 small mammal captured in 2013–2015 in Znamensky district of Omsk region from

Ixodes persulcatus and Ixodes trianguliceps sympatric area and examined for the Babesia spp. presence by nested PCR

with subsequent sequencing of positive samples. Babesia microti DNA was found in 31,1 % of positive samples; a proportion

of infected mammals varied from 5,3 % to 61,6 % in different sampling periods. B. microti DNA was found in

samples from three prevailing Myodes species as well as from a root vole (Microtus oeconomus), field voles (Microtus

argestis) and Siberian chipmunks (Tamias sibiricus). It was shown that identified B. microti samples belong to two

genetic groups: B. microti ‘US’-type and B. microti ‘Munich’-type; notably that > 90 % infected mammals contained

DNA of nonpathogenic for human B. microti ‘Munich’-type. We suppose that I. trianguliceps tick is the most probable

vector of B. microti ‘Munich’-type.
IntensIty of free radical processes in rats’ blood while deep hypothermIa and self-warmIng
Authors: Исмаилова  , Ismailova Zhamilya , Кличханов  , Klichkhanov Nisred , Астаева  , Astaeva Mariya
Published: April 2017

Hypothermic conditions of homoisothermic organisms are characterized by the activation of free-radical processes in tissues. The intensity of these processes occurring at hypothermia is less well understood. The essential increase in heart rate, breathing, blood flow velocity, and metabolic processes during warming must stimulate the generation of reactive oxygen species and oxidative modification of biomolecules. We study the levels of peroxidation markers of lipids (by malondialdehyde) and proteins (by carbonyl groups) in blood plasma and erythrocytes as well as the activity of erythrocyte antioxidant enzymes of rats after deep hypothermia (the temperature in the rectum was 20°C) and self-warming dynamics. A maximum warming rate (0.016°С/min) was revealed over the body temperature range of 22–33°С, below and above these temperatures a warming rate was essentially lower. The warming of rats resulted in a total protein content reduction which negatively correlates (r = –0.967; р<0.05) with a middle molecular peptide level. The deep hypothermia decreased the intensity of oxidative modification of lipid and proteins in blood plasma and red blood cell membranes, and the activity of red blood cell superoxide dismutase (SOD). Maximum amount of products of oxidative modification of lipids and proteins in plasma and erythrocytes membranes caused by rats’ self-warming was observed at body temperature of 30–35°С. After a complete rats’ warming the intensity of oxidative modification of lipids and proteins in plasma and erythrocyte membranes decreased. The activity of SOD and catalase of erythrocyte substantially increased when body temperature reached 35°С. The obtained data indicate that during self-warming at the body temperature of 30–35°С the oxidative stress appears in blood which requires the use of antioxidant defense.
Prospects of phytopreparations based on Calendula officinalisin complex treatment of chemical burn of the esophagus
Authors: Доржиев  , Dorzhiev Bair , Воскресенская  , Voskresenskaya Marina , Плеханов  , Plekhanov Aleksandr , Цыремпилов  , Tsyrempilov Sergey
Published: April 2017

Currently worldwide chemical burns of the esophagus rank first among all diseases of the esophagus in children and second in adults. Because of commonly accepted algorithms of rendering of medical aid in case of chemical burns of the esophagus in the prehospital and hospital stages (washing of the esophagus and the stomach, adequate anesthesia, corticosteroid, antibiotic therapy, the group of antacids and symptomatic treatment), the choice of drug and method of local impact on the surface of chemical burn of the esophagus remain an urgent problem. The lack of standardized approach in treatment of local changes in chemical burns of the esophagus, severe and unsatisfactory results of using medication algorithms inspire a search for alternative methods of treatment and drug development. Herbal remedies are comparable in effectiveness, but also have the combined multivalent effect on the entire body, causing minimum of side effects. Basing on the literature review, we have come to a conclusion that the most balanced composition of biologically active substances and a positive influence on the basic pathogenesis of esophageal chemical burns has Calendula officinalis. Features and scope of Calendula officinalis are not fully understood. The creation of a multidrug for the local treatment chemical burns of the esophagus based on this herb proves to be very promising.
Hepatolenticular degeneration: diagnostic difficulties (practical experience)
Authors: Овчинников  , Ovchinnikov Aleksey , Шпрах  , Shprakh Vladimir
Published: April 2017

The article deals with severe hereditary disease – hepatolenticular degeneration (Wilson–Konovalov disease). Hepato-lenticular degeneration is a monogenic autosomal recessive genetic disorder. Pathogenetically, it is a genetic disorder of copper metabolism when copper accumulates in excessive amounts in target organs, primarily in the liver. More commonly it manifests at young age and, when untreated, progresses rapidly to death. At the same time, hepatolenticular degeneration is one of a few of hereditary disease for which an effective pathogenetic therapy with copper-eliminating medications has been developed to reduce the amount of dietary copper and to remove its excess from the body. The risk factors of unfavourable type of decease development are: the severity of clinical aspects at the time of diag-nostics in neurological stage, period of the delay of the copper-eliminate therapy prescription and the degree of mind disorder. The prognostication on hepatolenticular degeneration depends on the duration of the decease, time of the therapy beginning and the compliance to it.We report about two clinical observations of hepatolenticular degeneration, demonstrating the necessity to use the full complex of clinical-laboratorial and instrumental analysis in all cases of developing motor extrapyramidal defects, combined with psychiatric disorders and pathology of internal organs. This work proved that it is necessary to evaluate all symptoms in the dynamics of disease course and that symptoms signaling about pathology of copper metabolism should not be ignored, and paying attention only to some of the indicants is not advised.
The Use of Project Method in Teaching Mathematical Disciplines for Economic Specialties
Authors: купцов  , kuptsov michail , Маскина  , Maskina Mariya
Published: April 2017

The experience of usage of project method in teaching such disciplines as “Mathematics”, “Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics” for economic courses of higher education (specialist`s degree and bachelor degree) has been described the article. There is a brief analysis of the origin and development of project method, its modern classifications. Since these subjects are studied during the first and second year, the main difficulties in the implementation of project method are low research skills and teamwork of learners. Nevertheless, the authors suggest it is a group project, which has a number of advantages over the individual work. For example, the topic "Statistical estimation of the distribution parameters" presents the author´s approach to the implementation of the project activities. The structure of the project, the main stages of its formation and implementation are considered. The conclusion about the effectiveness of project method is done by comparing the control and experimental groups.
Planning of Independent Work of Students on Discipline «Philosophy» on the Basis of Competency-Based Approach
Authors: Дрянных  , Куклина  , Kuklina L.
Published: April 2017

The article deals with the planning of independent work

of students in higher education, taking into account the competencebased

approach. Independent work occupies a significant portion

of time provided by the Federal state educational standards of

higher education in the development of educational programs, but

its organization and methods of assessment are not regulated. The

article reflects the authors´ experience in designing tasks of independent

work on the discipline of philosophy. The method of tasks

development of independent work in accordance with evolving

competencies, methods of their implementation within the classroom

and extracurricular self-study, forms of assessment of their contribution

to the formation of competencies are offered.

Essential feature of the developed tasks of independent work, according

to the authors, should be their production, which involves

a subjective position of students in their implementation. Attention

is drawn to the special role of various forms of self-evaluation in

the development of ways to assess the tasks of independent work,

allowing to determine not only the knowledge-but also communicative,

and value components.
Dialogue About Dialogue
Authors: Романова  , Romanova V.
Published: April 2017

The article considers the problem of dialogical communication of younger schoolchildren. The features of educational dialogue and ways of its formation in primary school are discussed. The terms and means of teaching children dialoging in configurations are described: “teacher – pupil”, “pupil – pupil(s)”, “child – adult”. The examples of tests are given, which are helpful in development of dialogical communication skills in case study and others.
Orthographical Correctness Formation by Younger Schoolchildren
Authors: Кузнецова  , Kuznetsova Marina
Published: April 2017

The article considers different approaches to the formation of orthographical correctness of younger schoolchildren. The conditions of effective development of correct writing by younger schoolchildren and its transformation into orthographical correctness are analyzed. In terms of realization of the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard of Primary Education the author proposed the working practices that

allow the educator to achieve the high level of orthographical correctness of the primary school students in the process of systematic studying of Russian language.
Professional Training Tasks As an Instrument Monitoring of the Methodical Competence of Future Teachers
Authors: ��������  , ���������  , Berseneva Olesya
Published: April 2017

In the modern conditions, due to the change of educational paradigm, monitoring studies in education practice became spread. It is important that these processes become objects of diff erent educational phenomena. In particular, for the higher pedagogical school, as an important object of study are the methodical competence of future teachers who perform an essential condition to achieve a new quality of education. The relevance of the article due to the demand for the development of eff ective monitoring and description of the tool level of formation of methodical competence of future teachers. The authors off ered professional training tasks. The main attention is paid to the description of their role in the process of monitoring competencies, the requirements for their content. The authors presented an understanding of the content and structure the concept of �methodical competence of the future teacher�. Examples of professional training tasks are given. The authors also presented the evaluation sheets. They allow you to record the level of formation of methodical competence, to monitor the dynamics of the level of formation.
Teacher�s Professional Standard: the Competences Evaluation Mechanism at Post-Graduate Training Courses (In-Depth Training Form)
Authors: ���������  , Solyankina N.
Published: April 2017

The article refl ects some experience on evaluation of teachers� competences at post-graduate training courses that are held as in-depth training form. The evaluation of teachers� competences is considered under the summative and formative assessment of their labour actions as expected results of their development at the training programme. The competences evaluation mechanism is gradually described with some examples of formative and summative assessment tools which allow to evaluate certain labour actions.
Evaluation of the Quality Conditions of the Organization and Implementation of Additional Education for Children
Authors: �����  , Ruchko L. , ��������  , Kozyavina I. , ��������  , Strugova G.
Published: April 2017

This article presents an author�s methodology for assessing the quality of the conditions of an additional education of children: material, technical, human, fi nancial, economic, psychological, informational and methodical. Using this method will allow for a comprehensive analysis of the educational environment and to identify ways to improve the educational process. Evaluation is carried out with the participation of the administration, teachers, children and their parents. Diagnostic methodology used successfully in the framework of existing regional quality assessment model of additional education of children of the Kostroma region, focused on achieving the objectives of the federal and the regional concepts of development additional education of children. It is distinguished by such features as ease of use, accessibility for all groups the participants of monitoring, the possibility of mathematical processing methods and automated analysis of the study results.
Life-Cycle Model of Production and Logistics Systems Enterprises
Authors: Некрасов  , Nekrasov A.
Published: April 2017

The article examines prospect development of production and logistic system of the enterprise. The mechanism of integration is aimed at the functioning process adaptation base on life-cycle model. The concept of life cycle stages is described by the hierarchy of the structure and behavior of the production system. The criteria of risk is considered as an essential tool for proactive management.
Legal Provision of State Guarantees in the Investment Sphere
Authors: Целовальникова  , Celoval'nikova I.
Published: April 2017

The article deals with the provisions of the current legislation containing measures of state stimulation of investment activity for the purpose of industrial development and production of competitive products. Among the array of legislation, the author identifies the position of the industrial policy under which conditions are created for legal, economic and organizational stimulation of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs to establish or maintain (modernizing) industrial projects in the Russian Federation. The author points out that the legislation provides for financial assistance in terms of grants from the federal budget of the Russian Federation, the budgets of the Russian Federation, local budgets; the possibility of concluding a special investment contract; provision of information and consulting services; support scientific and technological activity and innovation activity of investors in the industry. The article details the procedure for granting state guarantees of the Russian Federation on loans or bond loans, attracted for implementation of investment projects related to the creation of new or renovation of existing social, agroindustrial, industrial, utility and transportation facilities, and the possibility of their further exploitation. The authors point to the desirability of introducing legislation on investment activities, the provisions on the criteria for the recognition of investment objects as socially important facilities in the Russian Federation.