LEARNING ABOUT WORLD ART CULTURE AS A METHOD OF FORMING A UNIVERSAL CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION COMPETENCE

Purpose of the study: The purpose of the article is to solve one of the urgent problems of education: the methodology of the formation of universal competences, which in universities of culture and art is solved due to such a discipline as world art culture. In Russian Federal Educational Standards of the new generation, special attention is paid to the new block of professional qualities of university graduates – universal competences. One of the universal competences is readiness for intercultural communication, which manifests itself in the ability to analyze and consider the diversity of culture in the process of intercultural interaction. Methodology: To achieve the set goal, the authors based their work on the methodology synthesizing the experience of the Berlin School of Comparative Musicology (E. Hornbostel, K. Sachs), the traditions of world ethnomusicology (A. Lomax, A. Merriam, J. Blaking, M. Hood), culturological approach to education (V. Kanke), as well as a multicultural methodological approach. These pedagogical technologies ensure the efficiency of forming the universal competence of university graduates. Main Findings: The main conclusions of the study are as follows. The modern world is not conceivable outside the multicultural paradigm of development. Therefore, close attention is paid to the formation of the universal competence of intercultural communication. This quality of human personality is necessary for solving many world conflicts and problems. Experts in the field of culture and art are able to solve this problem due to their professional competence. Applications of this study: The research results can be useful in the field of scientific and methodological development of university disciplines, development of state policy in the field of education and culture, as well as scientific research on international relations in the field of culture, education, and art. Novelty/Originality of this study: The novelty of the research consists in the idea that expanding one’s understanding of the most important categories of worldview by overcoming Eurocentric restrictions to form universal competencies requires acquisition of the spiritual continuum and artistic conventions of other cultures, which is impossible without conscious effort, need for artistic and aesthetic self-improvement and desire to master practical activities in various fields of art. Any manifestation of culture is a reflection of the type of thinking. Therefore, the introduction to the multicultural traditions leads to the development of different types of thinking and identification of common and particular features, resulting in the development of universal thinking and cognitive techniques in the field of humanitarian knowledge

Evidence for weathering and volcanism during the PETM from Arctic Ocean and Peri-Tethys osmium isotope records

Sudden global warming during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM, 55.9 Ma) occurred because of the rapid release of several thousand gigatonnes of isotopically light carbon into the oceans and atmosphere; however, the cause of this release is not well understood. Some studies have linked carbon injection to volcanic activity associated with the North Atlantic Igneous Province (NAIP), while others have emphasised carbon cycle feedbacks associated with orbital forcing. This study presents the osmium isotope compositions of mudrocks that were deposited during the PETM at four locations (one from the Arctic Ocean, and three from the Peri-Tethys). The Os-isotope records all exhibit a shift of similar magnitude towards relatively radiogenic values across the PETM. This observation confirms that there was a transient, global increase in the flux of radiogenic Os from the weathering of continental rocks in response to elevated temperatures at that time. The tectonic effects of NAIP volcanic emplacement near the onset of the PETM is recorded by anomalously radiogenic Os-isotope compositions of PETM-age Arctic Ocean samples, which indicate an interval of hydrographic restriction that can be linked tectonic uplift due to hotspot volcanism in the North Atlantic seaway. The Peri-Tethys data also document a transient, higher flux of unradiogenic osmium into the ocean near the beginning of the PETM, most likely from the weathering of young mafic rocks associated with the NAIP. These observations support the hypothesis that volcanism played a major role in triggering the cascade of environmental changes during the PETM, and highlight the influence of paleogeography on the Os isotope characteristics of marine water masses

The spread of marine anoxia on the northern Tethys margin during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

Records of the paleoenvironmental changes that occurred during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) are preserved in sedimentary rocks along the margins of the former Tethys Ocean and Peri-Tethys. This paper presents new geochemical data that constrain paleoproductivity, sediment delivery, and seawater redox conditions, from three sites that were located in the Peri-Tethys region. Trace and major element, iron speciation, and biomarker data indicate that water column anoxia was established during episodes when inputs of land-derived higher plant organic carbon and highly weathered detrital clays and silts became relatively higher. Anoxic conditions are likely to have been initially caused by two primary processes: (i) oxygen consumption by high rates of marine productivity, initially stimulated by the rapid delivery of terrestrially derived organic matter and nutrients, and (ii) phosphorus regeneration from seafloor sediments. The role of the latter process requires further investigation before its influence on the spread of deoxygenated seawater during the PETM can be properly discerned. Other oxygen-forcing processes, such as temperature/salinity-driven water column stratification and/or methane oxidation, are considered to have been relatively less important in the study region. Organic carbon enrichments occur only during the initial stages of the PETM as defined by the negative carbon isotope excursions at each site. The lack of observed terminal stage organic carbon enrichment does not support a link between PETM climate recovery and the sequestration of excess atmospheric CO2 as organic carbon in this region; such a feedback may, however, have been important in the early stages of the PETM

Stratigraphie des coupes clés de l'Éocène dans la depression du Dniepr-Donets fondée sur le microplancton calcaire et siliceux

Les assemblages de radiolaires, diatomées, nannoplancton et foraminifères ont été étudiés en détail dans quatre séries clés (les coupes de Kantemirovka et Sergeevka et les forages 9540 Rudaevka et 5-93 Boguchar) des parties méridionale et centrale de la région de l\u27anticlinal de Voronezh. Les sédiments, largement répandus, de l\u27Éocène moyen reposent en discontinuité sur des marnes et calcaires du Crétacé supérieur. Ils sont principalement composés d\u27une succession transgression-régression de sables phosphatés, de marnes et d\u27argiles siliceuses de la formation de Kiev en Ukraine (ou les formations de Sergeevka et Tishki en Russie) et par des argiles sableuses et des argiles siliceuses dans la partie inférieure de la formation de Khar\u27kov en Ukraine (ou de Kas\u27anovka en Russie). Lithologiquement, les formations équivalentes vont des carbonates terrigènes aux carbonates siliceux. L\u27âge des formations est resté longtemps très discuté. Les études récentes, fondées sur le microplancton calcaire et surtout siliceux permettent des corrélations directes avec les zones des échelles standart.Radiolarian, diatom, nannoplankton, and foraminifer assemblages were studied in detail in four key sections (Kantemirovka, Sergeevka, and 9540 Rudaevka, 5-93 Boguchar boreholes) of the south and central parts of the Voronezh anticline area. The widespread middle Eocene sediments lie uncorformably on marls and limestones of Upper Cretaceous age. They are mainly composed by a transgressive-regressive succession of phosphoritic sands, marls, and siliceous clays of the Kiev Formation in the Ukraine (or Sergeevka and Tishki formations in Russia) and by sandy clays and siliceous clays of the lower part of the Khar\u27kov Formation in the Ukraine (or Kas\u27anovka Formation in Russia). Lithologically, the coeval formations range from terrigenous-carbonate to siliceous-carbonate. The age of the formations has long remained a point of discussion. Recent studies based on calcareous and, especially, siliceous microplankton allowed a direct correlation of these sections with standard zonal scales.</p

Integrated stratigraphy of the Upper Barremian–Aptian sediments from the south-eastern Crimea

Previous studies made in different parts of the world have shown that Barremian–Aptian times imply many difficulties in deciphering the biostratigraphy, microfossil evolution and correlation of bioevents. In an attempt to improve our knowledge of this period in a particular area of the Tethyan realm, we present the first integrated study of microbiota (including planktonic foraminifera, calcareous nannofossils, ostracods and palynomorphs) and magnetostratigraphy of the upper Barremian–Aptian sediments from south-eastern Crimea. The nannofossils display the classical Tethyan chain of bioevents in this interval, while the planktonic foraminifera demonstrate an incomplete succession of stratigraphically important taxa. Our study enabled the recognition of a series of biostratigraphic units by means of four groups of microfossils correlated to polarity chrons. The detailed analysis of the microfossil distribution led to a biostratigraphic characterization of the Barremian/Aptian transition and brought to light an interval, which may correspond to the OAE1a

Eocene stratigraphy of key sections of the Dnieper-Donets Depression based on calcareous and siliceous microplankton

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Institute of the Lithosphere of Marginal Seas, Russian Academy of Sciences, Staromonetny per

Abstract The Lesnaya Group is part of a thick, poorly dated turbidite assemblage that sits in the footwall of a regionally extensive collision zone in which the Cretaceous-Paleocene Olutorsky island arc terrane was obducted onto continental margin basin strata. Nannoplankton from 18 samples from the upper part of the Lesnaya Group yield Paleocene through Middle Eocene assemblages. Detrital zircons from nine sandstone samples have a young population of fission-track ages that range from 43.7 ± 3.4 to 55.5 ± 3.5 Ma (uppermost Paleocene to Middle Eocene). The deformed footwall rocks of the Lesnaya Group and the overlying thrusts of the Olutorsky arc terrane, are unconformably overlain by neoautochthonous deposits which are Lutetian (lower Middle Eocene) and younger. Together, these new data indicate that thrusting, which is inferred to have been driven by collision of the Cretaceous-Paleocene island arc with north-eastern Asia, took place in the mid-Lutetian, at about 45 Ma

Murine Falcor/LL35 lncRNA Contributes to Glucose and Lipid Metabolism In Vitro and In Vivo

Glucose and lipid metabolism are crucial functional systems in eukaryotes. A large number of experimental studies both in animal models and humans have shown that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play an important role in glucose and lipid metabolism. Previously, human lncRNA DEANR1/linc00261 was described as a tumor suppressor that regulates a variety of biological processes such as cell proliferation, apoptosis, glucose metabolism and tumorigenesis. Here we report that murine lncRNA Falcor/LL35, a proposed functional analog of human DEANR1/linc00261, is predominantly expressed in murine normal hepatocytes and downregulated in HCC and after partial hepatectomy. The application of high-throughput approaches such as RNA-seq, LC-MS proteomics, lipidomics and metabolomics analysis allowed changes to be found in the transcriptome, proteome, lipidome and metabolome of hepatocytes after LL35 depletion. We revealed that LL35 is involved in the regulation of glycolysis and lipid biosynthesis in vitro and in vivo. Moreover, LL35 affects Notch and NF-&kappa;B signaling pathways in normal hepatocytes. All observed changes result in the decrease in the proliferation and migration of hepatocytes. We demonstrated similar phenotype changes between murine LL35 and human linc00261 depletion in vitro and in vivo that opens the opportunity to translate results for LL35 from a liver murine model to possible functions of human lncRNA linc00261

Integrated stratigraphy of the Priabonian (upper Eocene) Urtsadzor section, Armenia

The transition from the Bartonian to the Priabonian, as traditionally understood, has long been associated with a series of extinctions and originations in several microfossil groups. The planktonic forami- nifer genus Morozovelloides and large species of Acarinina suffered a rapid global extinction, as did many radiolarians. Calcareous nannofossils show several assemblage changes including the acme beginning of Cri- brocentrum erbae and the lowest and highest occurrences of Chiasmolithus oamaruensis and C. grandis re- spectively. In shallow water environments, larger foraminifera also show an extinction among large species of Nummulites, as well as the first occurrences of the stratigraphically important genus Spiroclypeus. Howe- ver, the correlation between shallow and deep water records remains uncertain, as do the mechanisms driving these biotic events. Here we present the results of a new integrated stratigraphical study (calcareous nanno- fossils, planktonic foraminifera, larger benthic foraminifera, and low-resolution magnetostratigraphy) of the Urtsadzor section in south-western Armenia which appears to be continuous through this interval. The Urt- sadzor section consists of calcareous siltstones rich in micro- and nannofossils, with interbedded limestones containing abundant larger benthic foraminifera. Our new data enable us to correlate larger foraminiferal events with global plankton biostratigraphy, in a section outside of southwest Europe where most previous correlations have been based. At Urtsadzor, the large Nummulites species of N. millecaput-group are present throughout the whole section but decrease in abundance toward the top. The first occurrence of Spiroclypeus, also occurs in the upper part of the section, marking the SBZ 18/19 boundary. These events are associated with the phylogenetic development of the Nummulites fabianii and Heterostegina reticulata lineages. Howe- ver, the calcareous plankton biostratigraphy indicates the section is well within the Priabonian; within plank-tonic foraminiferal Zones E14 and E15 and calcareous nannoplankton Zones CNE 18 and CNE 19. These re- sults indicate larger foraminiferal events occur well above the planktonic foraminiferal extinction level and nannofossil assemblage changes indicating the events are not synchronous across groups, with implications for biostratigraphy and recognition of the basal Priabonian in different depositional settings and regions