Regional Investment Policy Under the Impact of Budget Limitations and Economic Sanctions

The article is devoted to the assessment of influence of budgetary restrictions and economic sanctions on investment policy of a region. The paper studies the bilateral negative effect on socio-economic development of regions from both the external sanctions and braking mechanism of economic development within the country. On the basis of the comparative and statistical analysis, the need to change focus of investment policy from the growth in volumes to qualitative perfecting is proved. The new direction of investment policy connected with the import substitution process realization, its combination with acceleration of innovative development on the certain example of Sverdlovsk region is analyzed. The conclusions and offers stated in the article are applicable to the public authorities of subjects of the Russian Federation, experts in the sphere of regional investment policy and improvement of investment climate, and also the specialized organizations specialized in attracting investment and work with investors in regions of Russia

Numerical Simulation of Heat-and-Mass Transfer Processes in the Cooling Passages of a Cylinder Head in a Diesel Locomotive Engine

Results are given for the comparative numerical simulation of heat-and-mass transfer processes in the cooling passages of a cylinder head in diesel locomotive engine 16 FN 26/27 running under rated power conditions at different engine boost levels. The advanced numerical methods used are shown to ensure a high degree of accuracy and information content when simulating heat-and-mass transfer processes, and enable evaluating the local values of flow parameters with account of the complex configuration of the flow parts in the cooling passages and the impact of operating parameters. The results show that an increasing boost level of a diesel engine and, respectively, a growing thermal load degrade drastically the conditions of heat rejection from the most thermally stressed zones of the cylinder head – the central part of the bottom face in the area of the injector bore and of the bridge between the bores of exhaust valve seats. The paper assesses the impact of the boost level on the effectiveness of heat rejection from the most thermally stressed areas of the cylinder head of a diesel locomotive engine. Conclusions and recommendations for improving the operating conditions of the cylinder head are given

Features of the emotional portrait of teen-age girls in the context of their color-sensory attitude to modern communication technologies and state of anxiety.

This work is a continuation of previous studies on the relationship of high anxiety and the use of modern electronic communication tools. The purpose of this study was to determine the characteristics of the emotional portrait of adolescent girls in the – context of their color-sensory attitude to modern communication technologies and state of anxiety. The study involved 136 girls aged 17 years (at the time of the survey). All respondents were evaluated according to standardized valid psychological methods (WAM - well-being, activity and mood), color relationship test (TCR), the method of "Multidimensional assessment of child anxiety" (MACAQ), the personal Taylor anxiety manifestation scale in the modification of Norakidze) and contained an author's questionnaire regarding the time spent in a sitting position; time spent in front of the screen of a mobile phone, tablet, laptop, PC; problems in relationships with parents. The study was conducted in accordance with the bioethical principles and provisions of the Helsinki Declaration and Good Clinical Practice (GCP). In the course of the work, it was proved that the time spent near the screens of electronic devices (phone, tablet, laptop, PC) for more than 6 hours a day is a significant factor, which is a predictive of emotional disorders in adolescent girls due to disruption of compensation mechanisms and the formation of a high level of personal anxiety, the appearance of achromatic sensory-color associations in interpersonal interactions, exacerbation of family conflicts with parents, which together indicates maladaptation and requires disruption work corrective programs

Features of the emotional portrait of teen-age girls in the context of their color-sensory attitude to modern communication technologies and state of anxiety.

This work is a continuation of previous studies on the relationship of high anxiety and the use of modern electronic communication tools. The purpose of this study was to determine the characteristics of the emotional portrait of adolescent girls in the – context of their color-sensory attitude to modern communication technologies and state of anxiety. The study involved 136 girls aged 17 years (at the time of the survey). All respondents were evaluated according to standardized valid psychological methods (WAM - well-being, activity and mood), color relationship test (TCR), the method of "Multidimensional assessment of child anxiety" (MACAQ), the personal Taylor anxiety manifestation scale in the modification of Norakidze) and contained an author's questionnaire regarding the time spent in a sitting position; time spent in front of the screen of a mobile phone, tablet, laptop, PC; problems in relationships with parents. The study was conducted in accordance with the bioethical principles and provisions of the Helsinki Declaration and Good Clinical Practice (GCP). In the course of the work, it was proved that the time spent near the screens of electronic devices (phone, tablet, laptop, PC) for more than 6 hours a day is a significant factor, which is a predictive of emotional disorders in adolescent girls due to disruption of compensation mechanisms and the formation of a high level of personal anxiety, the appearance of achromatic sensory-color associations in interpersonal interactions, exacerbation of family conflicts with parents, which together indicates maladaptation and requires disruption work corrective programs

Features of laboratory indicators of severe community-acquired pneumonia.

Based on data from the prospective analysis of patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia over the year of observation, the article presents data on the features of laboratory indicators of the course of severe community-acquired pneumonia. Patients included in the study were hospitalized in the pulmonology department (or therapy), and in the intensive care unit of three clinical hospitals in the city of Dnipro, namely, the Dnipropetrovsk City Clinical Hospital N 6, the Dnipropetrovsk City Clinical Hospital N 2, the Dnipropetrovsk City Clinical Hospital N 16, which are the clinical bases of the SE “Dnipropetrovsk medical academy of Health Ministry of Ukraine”. In the course of studies, the dependence of the severity of patients' state on the severity of inflammatory markers and fibrosis markers was shown. The effect of the prognostic significance of the level of the enzyme TGFβ and C-reactive protein (CRP) for the evaluation of possibility of formation of long-term pathological changes after a severe community-acquired pneumonia has been examined. It was established that a high level of CRP (38.3 [11.3, 150.9] mg / L) and TGFβ (20149.1±424.0 pg/ml) in the blood plasma of patients can be considered as an additional marker of the severity of the course of community-acquired pneumonia. The results can be the basis for a more individual approach to the development of diagnostic and therapeutic programs for patients with severe community-acquired pneumoni

Features of the distribution of the concentration on the mucous stomach of active and inactive forms of helicobacterial infection in patients with chronic non-atrophic gastritis, suffering and not suffering from chronic constipation

The frequency of detection and the degree of colonization of the gastric mucosa by the active and inactive form of Helicobacter pylori infection was analyzed in 50 patients with chronic non-atrophic gastritis, suffering from chronic constipation, and in 50 patients with chronic non-atrophic gastritis, who did not suffer from constipation. In the group of patients suffering from chronic constipation, the frequency of occurrence of the active form of Helicobacter pylori infection in different topographic zones of the stomach ranged from 46% to 56% with an average degree of mucosal seeding from 1.12 ± 0.13 (+) to 1.48 ± 0.13 (+), the frequency of occurrence of an inactive form of Helicobacter pylori infection in different topographic zones of the stomach ranged from 0% to 48% with an average degree of mucosal colonization from 0 ± 0.0 (+) to 1.30 ± 0.13 (+), while while in the group of patients who did not suffer from chronic constipation, the frequency of occurrence of an act distinct Helicobacter pylori infection in different topographic zones of the stomach ranged from 36% to 52% with an average degree of mucosal seeding from 1.02 ± 0.13 (+) to 1.34 ± 0.13 (+), and the frequency of occurrence of the inactive Helicobacter pylori infections in different topographic zones of the stomach ranged from 0% to 58% with an average degree of mucosal seeding from 0 ± 0.0 (+) to 1.56 ± 0.13 (+). In patients of the first group, the frequency of detection of intracellular "depots" of HP infection was 2.3 times higher than in patients of the second group

Features of the emotional portrait of teen-age girls in the context of their color-sensory attitude to modern communication technologies and state of anxiety.

This work is a continuation of previous studies on the relationship of high anxiety and the use of modern electronic communication tools. The purpose of this study was to determine the characteristics of the emotional portrait of adolescent girls in the – context of their color-sensory attitude to modern communication technologies and state of anxiety. The study involved 136 girls aged 17 years (at the time of the survey). All respondents were evaluated according to standardized valid psychological methods (WAM - well-being, activity and mood), color relationship test (TCR), the method of "Multidimensional assessment of child anxiety" (MACAQ), the personal Taylor anxiety manifestation scale in the modification of Norakidze) and contained an author's questionnaire regarding the time spent in a sitting position; time spent in front of the screen of a mobile phone, tablet, laptop, PC; problems in relationships with parents. The study was conducted in accordance with the bioethical principles and provisions of the Helsinki Declaration and Good Clinical Practice (GCP). In the course of the work, it was proved that the time spent near the screens of electronic devices (phone, tablet, laptop, PC) for more than 6 hours a day is a significant factor, which is a predictive of emotional disorders in adolescent girls due to disruption of compensation mechanisms and the formation of a high level of personal anxiety, the appearance of achromatic sensory-color associations in interpersonal interactions, exacerbation of family conflicts with parents, which together indicates maladaptation and requires disruption work corrective programs

Prospects of Using Steel Pistons in Transport Diesel Engines

The results of comparative design research in the thermal stress and strain state of the piston in transport diesel engine 2 F 10.5/12 are given for its rated power operation. The standard piston is made of an aluminium alloy, and the modernized one, of steel. Piston thermal profiling and indicator test results were used for identifying the mathematical models and refining the boundary conditions for mechanics and heat conduction problems. To ensure reliable heat rejection from the piston, the paper considered the case of oil jet cooling. This was taken into account when describing the boundary conditions of the heat conduction problem. The thin-wall steel piston with oil jet cooling was shown to function reliably under the study conditions. The temperature in the first compression ring groove does not exceed 200 °С, and the radial deformation of the piston crown is less than half of that of an aluminium alloy standard piston