Flipped classroom in the higher education system: A pilot study in Finland and Russia

This article shows specifics of the transition from conventional educational practice to the Flipped classroom model in modern education system. It is focused on professors’ perception of the video-based teaching approach. Conducted sociological survey involves the teaching staff from one European and one Russian university, namely the Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) and Ural Federal University (URFU). The survey investigated professors’ awareness of the Inverted classroom, their readiness to employ it and prime barriers they face. Results reveal that teachers from Russia have less information about the model and practically do not embed it in the education arrangement comparing to professors from Finland. Lack of time, lack of support and assistance are shown to be the prime barriers preventing them from flipped classroom implementation. Drawn implications are of use for the integration of the flipped classroom. © 2017, Adam Marszalek Publishing House. All rights reserved

Right to the city: Youth's view to live in the city

The article represents possibilities and problems of realization of the right to the city of youth in Yekaterinburg. According to the H. Lefebvre' concept,the article states that the next generation is aimed at appropriation of surrounding environment through changing it. By using questionnaires,there were 750 students and working youth interrogated,as well as there were 25 standard interviews with young citizens. The research results showed that young people mostly prefer cultural or recreational usage of urban spaces during the stability period. Youth as an active and dynamic social community acts as a carrier of protest sentiments. These moods become actual in cases of realizations of any administrative decisions directed to privatization of public spaces or affecting the interests of young generation. Materials suggest that the period of transition from consumption to appropriation and changing of urban spaces is observed. The Do-It-Yourself movement is becoming the instrument of Transition. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.The reported study was funded by RFBR and Sverdlovsk region, project number 20-411-660012

Cerebral blood flow imaging. Relation to blood rheology

Abstract A number of techniques allow imaging of the cerebral blood flow (CBF). Flow-sensitive time-of -flight (TOF) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrates good representation of the flow but the extracranial hemodynamics could be assessed by color duplex ultrasound of the carotid arteries. Computerized tomography (CT), Xenon enhanced or CT perfusion with iodinated contrast, single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with HMPAO, positron emission tomography (PET) with radiolabeled water, contrast perfusion-weighted and non-invasive MRI technique using continuous arterial spin labeling (CALS) provide precise assessment of cerebral perfusion with measurement of blood flow velocities. The contrast agents used have hemorheological and vessel wall effects. Keywords: Cerebral blood flow, Doppler ultrasound, functional neuroimaging, blood rheology _____________________________________________________________________________ Cerebral blood flow (CBF), is the blood supply to the brain in a given time. In an adult, CBF is typically 750 milliliters per minute or 15% of the cardiac output. This equates to 50 to 54 milliliters of blood per 100 grams of brain tissue per minute. The CBF is determined by a number of factors, such as viscosity of blood, vascular tone and the net pressure of the flow of blood into the brain, known as cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP), which is determined by the body's blood pressure (BP). CBF is equal to CPP divided by the cerebrovascular resistance (CVR): The cerebral autoregulation is a process, which aims to maintain adequate and stable CBF regardless of the changes of systemic BP or CPP. The stability of CBF is accomplished by altering the blood vessels diameter through constriction or dilatation The conventional neuroimaging methods -computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are good enough to estimate the state of brain morphology. However the contemporary diagnosis and treatment options need: • To define the cerebral physiology by application of different stimuli (CO 2 inhalation, cognitive or movement tasks etc.), which lead to local CBF changes. • To identify areas of abnormal blood flow in cerebral pathology: stroke, vascular malformations, carotid stenoses or occlusions, traumatic brain injury, vascularized brain tumors, resistant epilepsy, psychiatric diseases. • To estimate the therapeutic choice and to do the CBF measurement as earlier as possible after the brain injury. • To monitor the effectiveness of contemporary thrombolytic therapy and surgical interventions. This important information for the therapeutic behavior is achieved by the so-called functional neuroimaging methods. The Doppler ultrasound is one of those methods. It provides information about the change of velocity and direction of moving erythrocytes in the major arteries of the neck and the proximal segments of intracranial arteries, and other parameters of blood flow in the examined vascular segment. It can thus identify and characterize stenosing arterial section or change in the direction of flow

Informal education in the system of public administration in the conditions of the COVID19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine

The growing public demands on the activities of persons serving the public interest are particularly acute at the level of local government. In the context of significant transformational changes in the functioning of public administration (the public administration reform and local self-government reform), and a number of sectoral reforms (medical, educational, land reforms) in Ukraine, there is a strengthening of democratic foundations for activities of local self-government bodies, which is largely reflected in the introduction of various forms of active citizen participation in local self-government. On the other hand, the reform of local self-government revealed certain contradictions between the declared intentions and the results of decentralization of power. This contradiction is at the heart of the issue of division of powers and provision of adequate resources. This is especially acute in the health sector. Such inconsistencies make it difficult to fulfill the tasks, health care issues among them, for local self-government bodies including deputies of local councils as representatives of the interests of the territorial communities, voters in their constituencies

Perspectivele tratamentului complex al hepatitei cronice virale cu utilizarea imunomodulatorului polioxidoniu

Conferinţa naţională în medicina internă din Republica Moldova cu participare internaţională, 19-20 mai 2011, Chişinău, Republica MoldovaSummary. Clinical and immunological effectiveness of the immunomodulator Polioxidoniu in the complex treatment of chronic viral hepatitis was determined; it has been manifested by decreasing of clinical manifestations, optimization of laboratory indices of hepatic syndromes, by improving of functional activity of T and B lymphocytes and T-helper subpopulation.Actualitate. Reechilibrarea disfuncţiilor imune prin intermediul preparatelor imunotrope a devenit o preocupare în terapia complexă a maladiilor hepatobiliare, cu evaluarea eficacităţii remediului farmaceutic polioxidoniu cu un distins potenţial imunomodulator, cu acţiune detoxifiantă, antioxidantă şi membranostabilizantă. Scopul lucrării: evaluarea eficacităţii clinicoparaclinice a tratamentului complex cu polioxidoniu la bolnavii cu hepatită cronică virală. Material şi metode. Au fost evaluaţi 28 de bolnavi cu hepatită cronică virală prin examenele clinic şi de laborator, cu cercetarea statusului funcţional al ficatului, prin investigaţii imunologice, markerii hepatitei virale. 16 pacienţi (lotul de bază) au fost supuşi tratamentului standard cu asocierea polioxidoniului 6 mg 2 ml i/m peste o zi nr. 5; 12 bolnavi (lotul-martor) au urmat tratamentul de bază.Rezultate. În cazul tratamentului complex cu polioxidoniu au fost înregistrate diminuarea manifestărilor sindromului dispeptic, o tendinţă de descreştere a ALT, AST, LDH în raport cu lotulmartor (p>0,05), valori mai reduse ale bilirubinei totale (12,65±0,86 μmol/l), ale fracţiunii ei conjugate (3,21±0,41 μmol/l), ale colesterolului (4,15±0,25 mmol/l), ale activităţii fosfatazei alcaline (83,06±5,06 UI/l), GGTP (28,39±2,59 UI/l) şi ale nivelului de trigliceride (1,11±0,15/l). Eficacitatea răspunsului curativ al imunităţii umorale la bolnavii din cele două loturi clinice s-a manifestat prin scăderea concentraţiei limfocitelor, celulelor B, prin creşterea indicelui leuco- B-limfocitar (p>0,05). Concluzii. Eficacitatea clinico-paraclinică a imunomodulatorului polioxidoniu s-a vădit prin diminuarea manifestărilor clinice, a activităţii funcţionale a limfocitelor T şi B, a subpopulaţiei T-helper, prin optimizarea indicilor sindroamelor hepatice de laborator, graţie proprietăţilor lui antitoxice, membranostabilizante, antioxidante şi imunomodulatoare, fiind un remediu eficient în tratamentul complex al bolnavilor cu hepatită cronică virală

Institutional approach to managing business concentration at the industrial and regional level

© 2014, Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research. All right reserved. This article presents an analysis of business concentration processes and their connection with the evolutionary approach in modern economy, which implies a need for using various approaches to managing and measuring enlargement processes at all economic levels. It contains analyses of business concentration efficiency, especially at the industrial level; management of changes in interaction between economic entities of particular sectors caused by globalization processes in the economy. The article evaluates the need for a linkage between corporate structures, industries and regions, and its impact on economic phenomena

DIFFERENTIATION OF MUNICIPALITIES AND THE INFLUENCE OF FLAGSHIP ENTERPRISES ON THE LEVEL OF THEIR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

The article studies the impact of flagship enterprises on the level of socio-economic development of territories, the inflow of human capital and the intensification of entrepreneurial activity on the example of municipalities of three  subjects of the Siberian Federal district by constructing a regression model. The paper reveals the significant level  of differentiation of socio-economic development indicators for municipalities located within the same region. The  study determines the high influence of the growth of the population incomes in the absence of a significant increase in the population on the aggregate indicator of territorial development, the gross municipal product in  municipalities with flagship enterprises. The authors have identified the average impact of the flagship enterprises, in terms of stimulating the development of entrepreneurial activity, as well as revenue growth of companies  operating in these enterprises