Rational use of forest as a renewable natural resource

This article is devoted to the formation of a mechanism for the rational use of forests as a renewable natural resource, including transfer of forest areas in rent taking into account market indicators, advantages and disadvantages in the process of timber sales. The total income received in the form of fees for the use of forest fund and for the use of forests in 2016 in the Russian Federation is amounted to 24.4 billion rubles, which is 0.9 billion rubles (by 3.8%) more compared with the previous year. According to the state report of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology, in the reporting 2016 year this payment was received in the amount of 27.8 billion rubles, which is 3.4 billion rubles (almost 14%) more than in 2015. Thus, due to the fact that Russia's natural forest resources constitute powerful strategic competitive advantage in the world economic system, the article, on the basis of the system approach, reveals correlation between the level of rent payments and profitability from the sale of round wood, taking into account harvested and considered assortments, which allows forming forest payments on the basis of domestic and export market prices and as a result increasing financial contribution from the use of forests to the national budget.peer-reviewe

Mortality of malignant tumors of the workers occupied in railway shops of metallurgical works of copper industry

We conducted a retrospective cohort mortality study of railway shops workers, with follow-up for >30 years (1976-2005), among workers in the railway shops of large metallurgical plants, which produces blister copper. It’s shown that the common multiple of exceeding the data over the ‘expecting” ones presented among men and women in majority cancer localization. Thus, the investigation results argue about carcinogenic danger for workers involved in railway shops of copper melting plants.Проведено за 30-летний период (1976-2005 гг.) изучение ретроспективным методом смертности от злокачественных новообразований (ЗН) рабочих, занятых в железнодорожных цехах крупных металлургических заводов, где производится черновая медь. Отмечено превышение наблюдаемой смертности от ЗН над "ожидаемой" как среди мужчин, так и у женщин по большинству локализаций. Полученные эпидемиологические данные свидетельствуют о канцерогенной опасности для работающих, занятых в железнодорожных цехах предприятий медной промышленности

Constructing and Medical Trials of a Monoclonal Dot-Immuno-Enzyme Test-System “DIATul-M” for Tularemia Microbe Detection

mc/ml. Additionally, this test-system has been proving for acquisition of sustainable results after 6 months of storing (the observation period). Medical trials of the panel of reagents “Monoclonal dot-immuno-enzyme test-system for tularemia microbe detection” have shown it to be a prospective preparation for implementation into the national healthcare practices both under stationary and field conditions

Сниженная экспрессия генов нейрогенеза как биомаркер болезни Паркинсона у носителей мутаций в гене GBA: валидация анализа данных транскриптомного исследования

The objective of the study was to validate our previous results obtained during the transcriptome analysis of the primary culture of peripheral blood macrophages in patients with Parkinson's disease associated with mutations in the GBA gene (GBA-PD) in that reduced expression of the neurogenesis genes EGR1 (early growth response protein 1), NR4A2 (nuclear receptor 4A2), JUNB (transcription factor jun-B) in patients with GBA-PD.Methods and materials. The study included 14 patients with GBA-PD, 15 GBA-carriers, 30 patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and 44 persons of the control group. The assessment of relative mRNA level of neurogenesis genes EGR1, NR4A2, JUNB in peripheral blood mononuclear cells were carried out by real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using TaqMan fluorescent probes or EvaGreen fluorescent DNA dye.Results. Relative mRNA level of the JUNB gene in peripheral blood mononuclears was decreased in the group of patients with GBA-PD compared to controls (p=0.034). We found out that the relative mRNA level of the NR4A2 gene in peripheral blood mononuclears was increased in the group of patients with GBA-carriers compared to GBA-PD, patients with PD and controls (p=0.0029, p=0.00045, p=0.0024 respectively). There were no statistically significant differences in the mRNA level of the EGR1 gene between all the study groups (p>0.05).Conclusion. GBA-PD is characterized by reduced expression of the JUNB gene compared to control and of the NR4A2 gene compared to GBA-carriers.Цель исследования — проведение валидации результатов, полученных нами ранее в ходе анализа транскриптома первичной культуры макрофагов периферической крови пациентов с болезнью Паркинсона, ассоциированной с мутациями в гене лизосомного фермента глюкоцереброзидазы GBA (GBA-БП), в котором была выявлена сниженная экспрессия генов нейрогенеза EGR1 (early growth response protein 1), NR4A2 (nuclear receptor 4A2), JUNB (transcription factor jun-B) у пациентов с GBA-БП.Методы и материалы. В исследование включены 14 пациентов с GBA-БП, 15 GBA-носителей, 30 пациентов с болезнью Паркинсона (БП) и 44 индивидуума контрольной группы. Оценка относительного уровня мРНК генов нейрогенеза EGR1, NR4A2, JUNB в мононуклеарах периферической крови проводилась методом количественной полимеразной цепной реакции (ПЦР) в режиме реального времени с использованием флюоресцентных зондов TaqMan или флуоресцентного ДНК-красителя EvaGreen.Результаты. Относительный уровень мРНК гена JUNB в мононуклеарах периферической крови был понижен в группе пациентов с GBA-БП по сравнению с контрольной группой (p = 0,034). Также было выявлено, что относительный уровень мРНК гена NR4A2 в мононуклеарах периферической крови был повышен среди GBA-носителей, по сравнению с пациентами с GBA-БП, пациентами с БП и контролем (p = 0,0029, p = 0,00045, p = 0,0024 соответственно). Статистически значимых различий в уровне мРНК гена EGR1 между всеми исследуемых группами выявлено не было (p>0,05).Заключение. GBA-БП характеризуется пониженной экспрессией гена JUNB по сравнению с контролем и гена NR4A2 относительно GBA-носителей

Structuring reality through the faultlines lens: the effects of structure, fairness, and status conflict on the activated faultlines-performance relationship

We investigate how activated team faultlines represent an informal sensemaking structure through which teammates interpret their social reality. Constructed from inter-subgroup comparisons, activated faultlines likely result in status perceptions that are ambiguous or illegitimate. Thus, activated faultlines threaten the justice climate within the team, which drives status conflict, impairing team performance. We explore the effects of team structure clarity in providing certainty or legitimacy around status and structure, ameliorating the negative effect of activated faultlines on team justice climate. We tested our model using a multi-source (three sources), multi-wave cross-lagged design (four waves) on a sample of 271 employees and 41 leaders in 41 teams. We found that the negative relationship between activated faultlines and team performance was mediated by the team justice climate—status conflict causal chain. We also found that team structure clarity reduced activated faultlines negative effect on team justice climate. The results highlight the value of using team faultlines, the social identity approach, and justice theories to understand how diverse teams interpret their social reality that influences their performance. Furthermore, our research provides practical guidance to managers in building clear team structures that minimize the harmful effects of activated faultlines on justice perceptions and team performance.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

Biome changes and their inferred climatic drivers in northern and eastern continental Asia at selected times since 40 cal ka bp

Recent global warming is pronounced in high-latitude regions (e.g. northern Asia), and will cause the vegetation to change. Future vegetation trends (e.g. the “arctic greening”) will feed back into atmospheric circulation and the global climate system. Understanding the nature and causes of past vegetation changes is important for predicting the composition and distribution of future vegetation communities. Fossil pollen records from 468 sites in northern and eastern Asia were biomised at selected times between 40 cal ka bp and today. Biomes were also simulated using a climate-driven biome model and results from the two approaches compared in order to help understand the mechanisms behind the observed vegetation changes. The consistent biome results inferred by both approaches reveal that long-term and broad-scale vegetation patterns reflect global to hemispheric-scale climate changes. Forest biomes increase around the beginning of the late deglaciation, become more widespread during the early and middle Holocene, and decrease in the late Holocene in fringe areas of the Asian Summer Monsoon. At the southern and southwestern margins of the taiga, forest increases in the early Holocene and shows notable species succession, which may have been caused by winter warming at ca. 7 cal ka bp. At the northeastern taiga margin (central Yakutia and northeastern Siberia), shrub expansion during the last deglaciation appears to prevent the permafrost from thawing and hinders the northward expansion of evergreen needle-leaved species until ca. 7 cal ka bp. The vegetation climate disequilibrium during the early Holocene in the taiga-tundra transition zone suggests that projected climate warming will not cause a northward expansion of evergreen needle-leaved species

New Data on Vegetation and Climate Reconstruction in the Baikal-Patom Highland (Eastern Siberia) in the Last Glacial Maximum and Early Holocene

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Новые данные к реконструкции растительности и климата в Байкало-патомском нагорье (Восточная Сибирь) в максимум последнего оледенения – раннем Голоцене

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Environmental and Economic Problems of Using the Biofuel Market

Purpose The purpose of this article is to identify environmental and economic problems of using the biofuel market based on the analysis of the domestic and international experience of developed countries, to show a steady trend in the development of industrial production of pellets as one of the most progressive and consumed types of biofuels. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use analyt-ical, index and comparative analysis methods to determine the nature of changes in the development trend of industrial pellet production in 2020 as compared to 2016. The objects of the study are the states of the Asia-Pacific region (APR). Conclusions: It has been established that all countries of the Asia-Pacific region, following the requirements of the signed and ratified Paris Climate Agreement, are forced to work to reduce their carbon footprint in the Earth’s atmosphere. As the energy strategies of Japan and China show, an important part of the struggle for “climate neutrality” within the framework of the national economic complexes of the countries of the region will be to reduce the role of coal in the supply of thermal power plants, due to an increase in the share of solid wood biofuels. Originality/value: Based on the analysis of the dynamics of statistic indicators, global trends in the production of wood pellets in some countries in the Asia-Pacific region and their exports are reflected. The Asia-Pacific biofuel market is very promising for Russia, primarily for timber companies located in the Far Eastern Federal District. The ecological and economic problems of biofuel production and use are reflected. A system of evaluation indicators is proposed, attention is focused on reducing environmental and economic problems in this area due to the innovative development of the timber industry, effective marketing and financial activities, as well as the readiness of Russian biofuels to enter the world market. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022