ХРИСТИЯНСЬКА ПСИХОЛОГІЯ - ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ВИРІШЕННЯ ПРОБЛЕМИ АНТИНОМІЙ ПІД ЧАС РЕАБІЛІТАЦІЇ ЛЮДЕЙ ІЗ АДИКТИВНОЮ ПОВЕДІНКОЮ. (Christian Psychology - peculiarities of the solving issue of the antinomies during the rehabilitation f people with addictive behavior)

У статті розглянуто питання формування парадигми християнської психології, як одне із складових загальної психології; її практичне застосування в процесі реабілітації людей з адиктив-ною поведінкою. (The article deals with the issues of formation of a paradigm of Christian psychology, as a component of general psychology. Its practical application in the rehabilitation of people with addictive behavior is analysed.

Gas turbine engines diagnosing using the methods of pattern recognition

The paper is dedicated to the relevant problem that pertains to gas turbine engines diagnosing. The issue con- sidered in the paper is how to diagnose gas turbine engines using the methods of pattern recognition: in par- ticular the method of “binary tree” and the “nearest neighbor” method. In computer science, a binary tree is a tree data structure in which each node has at most two children, which are referred to as the left child and the right child. A recursive definition using just set theory notions is that a (non-empty) binary tree is a triple (L, S, R), where L and R are binary trees or the empty set and S is a singleton set. Some authors allow the binary tree to be the empty set as well. I n computing, binary trees are seldom used solely for their struc- ture. Much more typical is to define a labeling function on the nodes, which associates some value to each node. Nearest neighbor search (NNS), as a form of proximity search, is the optimization problem of finding the point in a given set that is closest (or most similar) to a given point. Closeness is typically expressed in terms of a dissimilarity function: the less similar t

Information support of aftersale support of aircraft gas turbine engines in real operation

The questions of information systems for assessing the technical condition of aircraft engines in the system of maintaining the flight worthiness of aircraft are considered. The main tasks of monitoring the technical condition of engines during their maintenance and the overall structure of control and diagnosis of engines during operation stage have been propose

Association of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the IL-18 Gene with Production of IL-18 Protein by Mononuclear Cells from Healthy Donors

IL-18 has proinflammatory effects and participates in both innate and adaptive cellular and humoral immunity. A number of SNPs that influence IL-18 production are found in the gene promoter region. We investigated the association of SNPs in the IL-18 promoter at −607 and −137 with the level of IL-18 protein production by PBMC from healthy donors from Southwestern Siberia. The genetic distribution of these SNPs in the promoter site was established by PCR. IL-18 protein production was determined by ELISA. Our results showed that PBMC from donors carrying allele 137C have lower levels of both spontaneous and LPS-stimulated IL-18 production. In contrast, PBMC from donors carrying allele 607A showed significant increases in spontaneous and stimulated IL-18 production compared to wild type. Our study suggests that the SNPs −607 and −137 in the promoter region of the IL-18 gene influence the level of IL-18 protein production by PBMC from healthy donors in Southwestern Siberia

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IL–18 AND IMMUNITY

Abstract. Interleukin–18 is one of the main cytokines, inducing production of IFNg. It is the important factor of anti–infectious and anti–tumor immunity. The review represent molecular–genetic and biochemical characteristics of IL–18. The data about producers, the structure of the receptor and of IL–18 binding protein, as well as signal transduction in the cell are considered. Besides that, the main immune effects of IL–18 are discussed. (Med. Immunol., 2005, vol.7, № 4, pp 355–364

Self-Reducing Copper Precursor Inks and Photonic Additive Yield Conductive Patterns under Intense Pulsed Light

Printing conducting copper interconnections on plastic substrates is of growing interest in the field of printed electronics. Photonic curing of copper inks with intense pulsed light (IPL) is a promising process as it is very fast and thus can be incorporated in roll-to-roll production. We report on using IPL for obtaining conductive patterns from inks composed of submicron particles of copper formate, a copper precursor that has a self-reduction property. Decomposition of copper formate can be performed by IPL and is affected both by the mode of energy application and the properties of the printed precursor layer. The energy application mode was controlled by altering three pulse parameters: duration, intensity, and repetitions at 1 Hz. As the decomposition results from energy transfer via light absorption, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were added to the ink to increase the absorbance. We show that there is a strict set of IPL parameters necessary to obtain conductive copper patterns. Finally, we show that by adding as little as 0.5 wt % single-wall CNTs to the ink the absorptance was enhanced by about 50% and the threshold energy required to obtain a conductive pattern decreased by ∼25%. These results have major implications for tailoring inks intended for IPL processing