Germline MSH2 and MLH1 mutational spectrum in HNPCC families from Poland and the Baltic States.

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Ground-penetrating radar and electrical resistivity tomography for mapping bedrock topography and fracture zones: a case study in Viru-Nigula, NE Estonia; pp. 142–151

The Geological Base Map (GBM), presenting an elongated buried valley running beneath the Varudi bog, triggered the geophysical studies near Viru-Nigula borough in northeastern Estonia. After the Geological Survey of Estonia had compiled the GBM map set, the course and extent of the valley still remained indistinct. Principally the morphology of the Varudi valley had been determined just by one borehole characterizing the 30 m thick Quaternary succession within the valley. The thickness of Quaternary sediments is, however, just a few metres in adjacent boreholes. We used ground-penetrating radar and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) for acquiring extra knowledge about the extent and morphology of the Varudi structure. Ground-penetrating radar enabled us to specify the thickness and composition of Quaternary deposits, and to recognize dislocations of the bedrock blocks. As the radar images provided information on the topmost ~4 m only, ERT (Wenner and Wenner–Schlumberger arrays) was applied to define deeper, down to 40 m, electrical resistivity anomalies. The ERT studies revealed two fracture zones where regular Ordovician carbonate beds have been crushed and replaced by Quaternary sediments. The Varudi valley coincides with the southern zone. Both fracture zones probably acted as groundwater flow channels and sediment pathways in the Late Pleistocene, and hence supported the creation of the Varudi bog

DEVELOPMENT OF ICT COMPETENCY AMONG STUDENTS STUDYING TRANSLATION FOR PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES

The article is devoted to issues of ICT-competency and development of such competency among students of economic specialties doing a course of translation for professional communication. To become competitive on a labor market any prospective specialist in translation needs to obtain skills of working with flood of information that nowadays changes too fast, ability to solve professional issues with the help of modern informative-communicative technologies. It results in necessity for teachers to develop competency in informative-communicative technologies among students specializing in translation. In the article we share our experience of developing and realizing a course of "IT technologies in specialized translation"

DEVELOPMENT OF ICT COMPETENCY AMONG STUDENTS STUDYING TRANSLATION FOR PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES

The article is devoted to issues of ICT-competency and development of such competency among students of economic specialties doing a course of translation for professional communication. To become competitive on a labor market any prospective specialist in translation needs to obtain skills of working with flood of information that nowadays changes too fast, ability to solve professional issues with the help of modern informative-communicative technologies. It results in necessity for teachers to develop competency in informative-communicative technologies among students specializing in translation. In the article we share our experience of developing and realizing a course of "IT technologies in specialized translation"

Responses of the antennal bimodal hygroreceptor neurons to innocuous and noxious high temperatures in the carabid beetle, Pterostichus oblongopunctatus

Electrophysiological responses of thermo- and hygroreceptor neurons from antennal dome-shaped sen- 32 silla of the carabid beetle Pterostichus oblongopunctatus to different levels of steady temperature ranging 33 from 20 to 35 C and rapid step-changes in it were measured and analysed at both constant relative and 34 absolute ambient air humidity conditions. It appeared that both hygroreceptor neurons respond to tem- 35 perature which means that they are bimodal. For the first time in arthropods, the ability of antennal dry 36 and moist neurons to produce high temperature induced spike bursts is documented. Burstiness of the 37 spike trains is temperature dependent and increases with temperature increase. Threshold temperatures 38 at which the two neurons switch from regular spiking to spike bursting are lower compared to that of the 39 cold neuron, differ and approximately coincide with the upper limit of preferred temperatures of the spe- 40 cies. We emphasise that, in contrast to various sensory systems studied, the hygroreceptor neurons of P. 41 oblongopunctatus have stable and continuous burst trains, no temporal information is encoded in the tim- 42 ing of the bursts. We hypothesise that temperature dependent spike bursts produced by the antennal 43 thermo- and hygroreceptor neurons may be responsible for detection of noxious high temperatures 44 important in behavioural thermoregulation of carabid beetles