593 research outputs found
Оплакивание джиннов: суеверие или ритуальные практики выхода из трудных ситуаций?
No full textExamining Muslim descriptions of bright bolides after medieval chronicles, A.G. Yurchenko argues that rituals of jinn mourning related to them should be taken not for signs of popular superstitions but rather important religious rites whose function was to diminish psychological tension and restore balances of spiritual and corporal worlds in periods of social and natural catastrophes.Изучив по средневековым хроникам мусульманские описания ярких болидов, А.Г. Юрченко пришел к выводу, что связанные с ними ритуалы оплакивания джиннов должны считаться не простыми суевериями, но довольно важными религиозными ритуалами, призванными снять психическое напряжение и восстановить равновесие между миром духовного и телесного в периоды социальных и природных катастроф
ExoMol line lists - III. An improved hot rotation-vibration line list for HCN and HNC
No full textA revised rotation-vibration line list for the combined hydrogen cyanide (HCN)/hydrogen isocyanide (HNC) system is presented. The line list uses ab initio transition intensities calculated previously and extensive data sets of recently measured experimental energy levels. The resulting line list has significantly more accurate wavelengths than previous ones for these systems. An improved value for the separation between HCN and HNC is adopted, leading to an approximately 25 per cent lower predicted thermal population of HNC as a function of temperature in the key 2000 to 3000 K region. Temperature-dependent partition functions and equilibrium constants are presented. The line lists are validated by comparison with laboratory spectra and are presented in full as supplementary data to the article and at www.exomol.com
Mathematical model of pancreatic cancer cell dynamics considering the set of sequential mutations and interaction with the immune system
No full textPancreatic cancer represents one of the difficult problems of contemporary medicine. The development of the illness evolves very slowly, happens in a specific place (stroma), and manifests clinically close to a final stage. Another feature of this pathology is a coexistence (symbiotic) effect between cancer cells and normal cells inside stroma. All these aspects make it difficult to understand the pathogenesis of pancreatic cancer and develop a proper therapy. The emergence of pancreatic pre-cancer and cancer cells represents a branching stochastic process engaging populations of 64 cells differing in the number of acquired mutations. In this study, we formulate and calibrate the mathematical model of pancreatic cancer using the quasispecies framework. The mathematical model incorporates the mutation matrix, fineness landscape matrix, and the death rates. Each element of the mutation matrix presents the probability of appearing as a specific mutation in the branching sequence of cells representing the accumulation of mutations. The model incorporates the cancer cell elimination by effect CD8 T cells (CTL). The down-regulation of the effector function of CTLs and exhaustion are parameterized. The symbiotic effect of coexistence of normal and cancer cells is considered. The computational predictions obtained with the model are consistent with empirical data. The modeling approach can be used to investigate other types of cancers and examine various treatment procedures.</p
The Golden Horde between Governance and Religious Doctrine: Reflections on A.G. Yurchenko’s Duologue (Golden Horde: Between Yasa and Quran. Beginning of the Conflict. SPb: Evrazija, 2012; Khan Uzbek: Between Empire and Islam (structure of everyday life). Compendium Book. SPb.: Evrazija, 2013) »
No full textThis article contains a review of two monographs by A.G. Yurchenko. In both monographs Yurchenko explores religious situation in the ulus of Jochi in the 13th–15thcenturies. The author of duologue analyzes the structure of everyday life in the Horde State during the 13th–14th centuries, reflecting the ratio of its religious and administrative bases. Yurchenko comes to a conclusion about the existence of a more complex structure of the Horde society in terms of the confessional and political structure of the ulus of Jochi. According to the arguments presented by Yurchenko, one can conclude that the complex social structure preserved even after the Uzbek’s adoption of Islam. At the same time, the imperial “vertical of power” based on nomadic tradition and corresponding rituals changed slowly and reluctantly. However, at the highest administrative level, among the Horde elite, belonging to the Muslim faith became mandatory, and only this affiliation allowed to occupy senior posts in the State. This status of religious doctrine within the political system can justifiably be called a State ideology or religion of the State. At the same time, aspects highlighted by Yurchenko (a model of nomadic State, where religious institutions are separated from the State, and sacral-religious, philosophical discourses of sources on the history of the Horde) deserves attention and further development. To understand the current of social processes within the ulus of Jochi during the 13th–15th centuries, to get closer to scientific knowledge of the real history of the Horde, one should critically deal with the sources and consider the Horde’s reality through the prism of ideologico-religious and philosophical doctrines of the time, especially, in the Middle Ages. This article provides additional arguments both in favor of conceptual constructions of the author and in their rebuttal as well. Author of the review finds it necessary to carefully and critically deal with information of medieval sources on the history of the Horde, taking into account conclusions proposed by Yurchenko
Trypanosomatids are common and diverse parasites of Drosophila
No full textDrosophila melanogaster is an important model system of immunity and parasite resistance, yet most studies use parasites that do not naturally infect this organism. We have studied trypanosomatids in natural populations to assess the prevalence and diversity of these gut parasites. We collected several species of Drosophila from Europe and surveyed them for trypanosomatids using conserved primers for two genes. We have used the conserved GAPDH sequence to construct a phylogenetic tree and the highly variable spliced leader RNA to assay genetic diversity. All 5 of the species that we examined were infected, and the average prevalence ranged from 1 to 6%. There are several different groups of trypanosomatids, related to other monoxenous Trypanosomatidae. These may represent new trypanosomatid species and were found in different species of European Drosophila from different geographical locations. The detection of a little studied natural pathogen in D. melanogaster and related species provides new opportunities for research into both the Drosophila immune response and the evolution of hosts and parasites.</p
State of hydrogen sulfide system in the rats brain under combined hyperhomocysteinemia and its correction
No full textZaichko Natalia V., Yurchenko Peter A., Filchukov Denis A. State of hydrogen sulfide system in the rats brain under combined hyperhomocysteinemia and its correction. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2015;5(3):183-188. ISSN 2391-8306. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16349
http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/2015%3B5%283%29%3A183-188
https://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/works/549846
http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16349
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Received: 20.01.2014. Revised 27.02.2015. Accepted: 12.03.2015.
STATE OF hydrogen SULFIDE SYSTEM IN the rats brain UNDER COMBINED hyperhomocysteinemia and its CORRECTION
Natalia V. Zaichko, Peter A. Yurchenko, Denis A. Filchukov
Department of biological and general chemistry,
National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya, Ukraine
Abstract
The state of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) system was investigated in the brain of rat under combined hyperhomocysteinemia (HHC) and its correction by betaine, vitamins B6, B9, B12 and trace element complex Esmin. Animals hold 14-days on starch-casein diet with 1% methionine in the absence of vitamins B6, B9, B12 caused increase in homocysteine serum to 12.0 times. Combined HHC induced significant decrease in H2S content and inhibition of H2S-synthesizing enzymes in rat’s brain. Normalization of diet, administration of vitamins B6, B9, B12 and Esmin for 7 days caused a decrease in serum homocysteine and increasing H2S content in rat brain. Betaine administration also decreased HHC and but the effect on H2S system in rat brain was not significant.
Keywords: homocysteine, hydrogen sulfide, enzymes, metabolism, brain, betaine, vitamins, trace element complex
Biological properties and genetic characterization of novel low pathogenic h7n3 avian influenza viruses isolated from mallard ducks in the caspian region, Dagestan, Russia
No full textAvian influenza viruses (AIVs) are maintained in wild bird reservoirs, particularly in
mallard ducks and other waterfowl. Novel evolutionary lineages of AIV that arise through genetic
drift or reassortment can spread with wild bird migrations to new regions, infect a wide variety
of resident bird species, and spillover to domestic poultry. The vast continental reservoir of AIVs
in Eurasia harbors a wide diversity of influenza subtypes, including both highly pathogenic (HP)
and low pathogenic (LP) H7 AIV. The Caspian Sea region is positioned at the intersection of major
migratory flyways connecting Central Asia, Europe, the Black and Mediterranean Sea regions and
Africa and holds a rich wetland and avian ecology. To understand genetic reservoirs present in
the Caspian Sea region, we collected 559 cloacal swabs from Anseriformes and other species during
the annual autumn migration periods in 2017 and 2018. We isolated two novel H7N3 LPAIV from
mallard ducks whose H7 hemagglutinin (HA) gene was phylogenetically related to contemporaneous
strains from distant Mongolia, and more closely Georgia and Ukraine, and predated the spread of
this H7 LPAIV sublineage into East Asia in 2019. The N3 neuraminidase gene and internal genes
were prototypical of AIV widely dispersed in wild bird reservoirs sampled along flyways connected
to the Caspian region. The polymerase and nucleoprotein segments clustered with contemporaneous
H5 HPAI (clade 2.3.4.4b) isolates, suggesting the wide dispersal of H7 LPAIV and the potential of this
subtype for reassortment. These findings highlight the need for deeper surveillance of AIV in wild
birds to better understand the extent of infection spread and evolution along spatial and temporal
flyways in Eurasia
Restoration of endometrial receptivity and reproductive function in infertile women with excess body weightand complex non-atypical endometrial hyperplasia
No full textNosenko O. M., Yurchenko S. V. Restoration of endometrial receptivity and reproductive function in infertile women with excess body weightand complex non-atypical endometrial hyperplasia. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2022;12(1):523-538. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2022.12.01.044
https://apcz.umk.pl/JEHS/article/view/41807
https://zenodo.org/record/7521636
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The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.
Received: 05.01.2022. Revised: 21.01.2022. Accepted: 31.01.2022.
RESTORATION OF ENDOMETRIAL RECEPTIVITY AND REPRODUCTIVE FUNCTION IN INFERTILE WOMEN WITH excess body weightAND COMPLEX NON-ATYPICAL ENDOMETRIAL HYPERPLASIA
O. M. Nosenko, S. V. Yurchenko
Odessa National Medical University
Abstract
To date, there are several approaches to the treatment of endometrial hyperplasia, but it is quite unclear which approach provides a higher clinical response with a lower recurrence rate, in addition to preservation and restoration of fertility in infertile women with complex non-atypical endometrial hyperplasia (NEH) and excess body weight. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the restoration of reproductive function in patients with infertility, complex NEH and with excess body weight according to the proposed method. Material and methods. 74 women of reproductive age with complex NEH, infertility and excess body weight were under observation, of which 34 patients of the main group after hysteroscopic resection of the lesion at the first stage of treatment, at the second stage of treatment received gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists (aGnRH) and adjuvant therapy with drugs indole-3-carbinol, metformin, fenofibrate for three months, and then at the third stage of treatment dydrogesterone, metformin, a vitamin-mineral complex that included myo-inositol, banaba leaves, extract of 1% corosolic acid, vitamin D3, methylfolate-quatrafolic, chromium for 6 months. 40 patients of the control group after hysteroscopic resection of the lesion at the first stage of treatment were prescribed aGnRH for 3 months in the second stage of treatment, then methylfolate-mvatrafolic for 6 months. Anthropometric data, echometric and morphofunctional characteristics of the endometrium during the expected window of implantation, hormonal profile and levels of peripheral blood lipokines in the dynamics of treatment were studied. Reproductive results were evaluated within a year after the end of treatment. The results. Treatment of complex NEH in the main group led, compared to the control group, to a decrease in body mass index, improvement in echometric and morphofunctional characteristics of the endometrium, its receptivity during the expected window of implantation, hormonal profile and lipokines level in peripheral blood, a decrease in insulin resistance, and an increase in the frequency of pregnancy. Conclusion. The proposed scheme for the treatment of complex NEH in infertile women with excess body weight allowed to improve their reproductive results, is effective and can be recommended for implementation in wide clinical practice.
Key words: infertility; complex non-atypical endometrial hyperplasia; excess body weight; body mass index; endometrium; implantation window; endometrial receptivity; pinopodia; implantation molecules; hormones; steroid hormone receptors; lipokines; insulin resistance; hysteroscopy; gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists; metformin; fenofibrate; indole-3-carbinol; myo-inositol; corosolic acid; pregnancy
Vibroacoustic sensing of the mechanical properties of skin
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ASSIGNMENT OF INFRARED AMMONIA SPECTRA
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK; Technische Universitat Dresden, Physikalische Chemie, D--01062 Dresden, GermanyGlobal ammonia emissions have more than doubled during the period of industrialisation, largely due to widespread use of intensive agricultural techniques and in particular the use of fertilisers and are are set to double again by 2050. However the ammonia data in the present version of HITRAN is not only missing at key wavelengths, but also have significant problems. HITRAN contains 28~057 NH lines of which some 10~\%\ lack full quantum number assignments. Furthermore 1190 of the assigned lines have demonstrably incorrect assignments (for example are parity forbidden); others have incorrect lower state energies or symmetries leading to incorrect predictions of temperature-dependent spectra. We have undertaken a systematic (re-)analysis of the data in HITRAN. This has been done using both lower state and upper state combination differences starting from a consistent set of lower state energy levels [P. Chen {\it et al}, \textit{J. Mol. Spectrosc.}, {\bf 236}. 116 (2006)] and by using the newly computed variational line list BYTe [S.~N. Yurchenko, R.~J. Barber , and J.~Tennyson, \textit{Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., in press}, (2011)]. Previous errors and misassignments have been corrected and significant progress is being making new assignments. Comparisons with the BYTe line list suggest that HITRAN is also missing a significant number of important transtions, particular at frequencies above 5000 cm
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