Maps for developing information competency of sportsman students in conditions of digital transformation

The progress to "cloud-based learning" and transition to "personalized learning" occur within digital transformation of education. Within this context, the authors analyse regulatory documents and recommendations outlined by the professional, teaching, and psychological communities and making the research relevant. The research question put up in the paper is: how to plot maps for developing the information competency of students in conditions of digital transformation. Theoretical substantiation is presented for the following phenomena under study: digital transformation, mapping, individual educational path, the information competency of students. It is pointed out that mapping is the process of creating maps for reducing the unpredictability effect and solving the problem of choice, a way of visualization of the future, and a strategy of one's self-development. It is highlighted that the individual educational route is the authors' approach to self-fulfilment in the real and virtual world. They describe the approach to understanding the student information competency as the key meta-subject educational one. This competency consists of the cognitive, motivational, and activity-based components which are provided with details by students via "understanding", generating their own meanings, and enriching their subject experience. In the paper, the stages of pedagogical support and fulfilment of maps for developing the said competency are described, too: the ascertaining one, transforming, and analytical ones. The pedagogical experience of mapping is summed up which is associated with the students' plotting and fulfilling various types of maps outlined by the authors: subject maps, meta-subject (mental) maps, portfolio maps as the digital footprint, start-up maps. The total of various maps represents the databases and analytical methods of their research. For studying the former, the authors used the expert appraisal method and applied some psychological techniques. The principal research results can be summarized by the statement: in the period of digital transformation and the pandemic, maps have to be plotted for settling emotions in conditions of lockdown and uncertainty, for supporting the relevant student initiatives, and for shaping their profound unmistakable "digital footprint", which characterizes the students' high information competency development level

Standard definition of a clinical case of mumps and diagnostic effectiveness of the test systems used in the modern period

Introduction. Registration of regular epidemic outbreaks of mumps infection among young people, difficulties in the clinical diagnosis of the disease, the presence of specific clinical manifestations in adults with a severe course of infection make it necessary the improvement of the quality of diagnosis of the disease. The aim of the work is to develop a standard definition of a clinical case of mumps and to conduct a comparative assessment of the effectiveness of the diagnostic test systems used for mumps diagnostics based on the determination of their sensitivity and specificity. Materials and methods. To develop a standard definition of a clinical case of mumps based on ten combined clinical and laboratory parameters, a mathematical model was built using the logistic regression method. The study included 84 patients with mumps infection (main group) and 66 patients with non-epidemic sialoadenitis (comparison group). For a comparative evaluation of the diagnostic systems VectoParotitis-IgM, VectoParotitis-IgG, ELISA-Mumps-IgM, ELISA-Mumps-IgG, Anti-Mumps Virus ELISA-IgM, and Anti-Mumps Virus ELISA-IgG, a blood serum samples from patients (n = 41) with a diagnosis mumps? were tested in dynamics to assess their sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic effectiveness. Results. The clinical symptom dry mouth increased the chance of diagnosing mumps by 13.7 times, the presence of bilateral lesions of the salivary glands by 6.5 times, the increase in the level of diastase in the urine by 3.2 times. The coefficient of determination R2 was 61.1; the sensitivity was 93% and the specificity 67%; p 0.001. Diagnostic effectiveness of Anti-Mumps Virus ELISA-IgG test system was 84.4%, ELISA-Mumps-IgG 87.2%, and "VectoParotitis-IgG" 88.5%. Conclusions. Based on the combination of following clinical symptoms observed simultaneously in patient, of the general weakness, dry mouth, bilateral lesions of the salivary glands, an increase in the level of diastase in the urine, it is possible to establish a clinical diagnosis of mumps with a probability of 81%. The highest diagnostic effectiveness of domestically manufactured test systems for quantitation of IgG antibodies to mumps virus in sick people has been demonstrted

The Composition and the Content of ∆-5 Sterols, Fatty Acids, and the Activity of Acyl-Lipid Desaturases in the Shoots of <i>Ephedra monosperma</i>, Introduced in the Botanical Garden of the Cryolithozone of Yakutia

Evergreen plants in permafrost ecosystems survive unfavorable autumn cooling and extremely low winter temperatures by maintaining optimal physiological activity of tissue cell membranes. To some extent, these features are due to the properties of shoot lipids performing a number of functions during adaptation. Sterols (STs) play a key role in regulating the fluidity and permeability of plant membranes (phytosterols) with a wide structural diversity. The composition of neutral lipids, STs, and fatty acids (FAs) in shoots of the evergreen shrub Ephedra monosperma growing in the Botanical Garden cryolithozone was first studied with HPTLC-UV/Vis/FLD and GC-MS. Twenty FAs were found, from C14:0 to C23:0; they included mono-, di-, tri-, and tetraene FAs. The high content of β-sitosterol among other ∆-5 sterols and an increased amount of C18:2(∆9,12) linoleic acid in lipids composition during the autumn–winter period was found to play an important role in the adaptation of ephedra shoots to the autumn–winter period, providing the cell membrane with greater plasticity, fluidity, and flexibility. The important role of diene linoleic fatty acid C18:2(∆9,12) in ephedra shoot lipids in the processes of low-temperature adaptation was shown

Plant-Programmed Cell Death-Associated Genes Participation in Pinus sylvestris L. Trunk Tissue Formation

Molecular genetic markers of various PCD (programmed cell death) variants during xylo- and phloemogenesis have been identified for the first time in Scots pine under lingonberry pine forest conditions in Northwest Russia (middle taiga subzone). PCD is a genetically determined process. Gene profiles of serine and cysteine proteases (endopeptidases), endonucleases, and metacaspases families are often considered markers of the final xylogenesis stage. In the present study, we examined the gene expression profiles of the BFN (bifunctional endonuclease) family&mdash;BFN, BFN1, BFN2, BFN3, and peptidase (cysteine endopeptidase, CEP and metacaspase, MC5) in the radial row, in addition to the vascular phloem and cambium (F1), differentiating xylem (F2), sapwood (SW), and transition zone during the active cambial growth period of uneven-aged pine trees (25-, 63- and 164-cambial age (c.a.) years old). We have shown that the expression patterns of the PCD-related genes did not depend on the cambial age but were largely determined by plant tissue type. In the radial row F1-F2-SW, we studied the activities of enzymes, including sucrose in metabolism (sucrose synthase, three forms of invertase); antioxidant system (AOS) enzymes (superoxide dismutase, catalase); and peroxidase andpolyphenol oxidase, which belonged to AOS enzymes and were involved in the synthesis of phenolic components of cell walls. The activity of the enzymes indicated that the trunk tissues of pine trees had varying metabolic status. Molecular genetic PCD regulation mechanisms during xylem vascular and mechanical element formation and parenchyma cells&rsquo; PCD during the formation of Scots pine heartwood were discussed

Changes in the Differentiation Program of Birch Cambial Derivatives following Trunk Girdling

The mechanisms regulating the tree trunk radial growth can be studied in original experiments. One technique for studying cambium activity (the meristem involved in radial growth) under conditions of an increased photoassimilate level is trunk girdling. We girdled the trunks of 17- to 22-year-old silver birch plants (Betula pendula Roth var. pendula) during the active growth period and collected xylem and phloem samples at two height levels (1 cm and 35 cm) above girdle, 10, 20, and 30 days after girdling. We investigated the changes that occurred at the anatomical level, as well as the activities of sucrose-metabolizing enzymes and antioxidant-system enzymes and the expression of genes that encode proteins involved in sucrose and auxin transport and metabolism. A moderate increase in photoassimilates (35 cm above the girdle) resulted in a change in the ratio of phloem to xylem increments and an increase in the proportion of parenchyma in the conducting tissues. The increase of photoassimilates above the level at which they can be used in the processes of normal tissue growth and development (1 cm above the girdle) led to xylogenesis suppression and the stimulation of phloem formation, a significant increase in the parenchyma proportion in the conducting tissues, and formation of large sclereid complexes. The differentiation of parenchyma and sclereid cells coincided with biochemical and molecular markers of abnormal conducting tissue formation in Karelian birch, which are also characterized by high proportions of parenchyma and sclereid near the cambium. The results obtained are important in understanding the cambium responses to the photoassimilate distribution changes and estimating tree productivity and survival under changing environmental conditions