Subjective factors of travel activity for the purpose of cultural support of biological diversity for individuals with different success levels

It is shown that the activity of a person’s travels is associated with his psychological characteristics, ideological attitudes, needs for new connections and knowledge. Travel is endowed with a psychological resource that allows you to actualize the motivation for positive personality transformations. A system of internal factors for personal travel activity is identified and described: direction, tolerance for uncertainty, interests, tendency to accept novelty and test one’s capabilities. The factors that determine the specificity of travel trajectory choice and tourist programs’ types in the conditions of modern realities are described. The content of external and internal factors that can enhance the psychological resource of travel as a platform for self-development and personal improvement is shown. The role of travel in cognitive, communicative and personal transformations, in the development of the subject’s ability to productively solve complex situations and effective activity in conditions of uncertainty is shown. The novelty of the study lies in the identification and subjective factors’ description of travel activity for individuals with different success levels. Empirically, studies have identified severity indicators of tolerance and intolerance to uncertainty among participants in tourism programs with different statuses of success and self-efficacy

Garnet granulites of Sutam River middle current sutam river (Aldan Shield) as possible indicators of metamorhosed and tectonically displaced Post-Hadean weathering crust

The article discusses the problem of the nature of high-alumina garnet granulites from Sutam River (Aldan Shield). The studies revealed that the majority of detrital grains have U-Pb age of up to 1.92 Ga; however the zircon grain of 3.94 Ga has been for the first time discovered in Russia. This age is estimated as the upper limit of the Hadean eon. The goals of the present studies were to reveal the petrogenesis of garnet granulites and to find out the origin of the Hadean zircon in these garnet granulites and the mechanisms of injection diapirism of garnet granulite body to the upper horizons of the crust. The comparison of garnet granulites and middle crust showed that the granulites are enriched in the whole spectrum of rare earth elements (except of Eu) as well as Al2O3, U, Th and are depleted in Na, Ca и Sr (the most mobile elements). This in combination with other geochemical indicators suggested the granulite protolith as an upper part of the allite zone of middle crust weathering, formed in arid climate. The Hadean zircon grain is regarded as having been captured from the granites of middle crust. The diapirism of garnet granulites (with the captured Hadean zircon) proceeded during the Paleoproterozoic thermotectogenesis of the Aldan shield which were accompanied by the horizontal propagation of deep-seated granite-anorthosite tectonic flows from the plume’s center to its periphery. During the movement of these flows the fragments of the lower and middle crust were shifted both laterally and vertically. When they moved vertically they were discretely intruded in the upper granite-gneiss crust (1.83-1.82 Ga) under high pressure. The 3.94 Ga zircon is comparable with the Hadean zircons from Acasta orthogneiss (Canadian shield, 4.03-3.94 Ga, SHRIMP and ID-TIMS)

Defensin-like peptides in wheat analyzed by whole-transcriptome sequencing: a focus on structural diversity and role in induced resistance

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are the main components of the plant innate immune system. Defensins represent the most important AMP family involved in defense and non-defense functions. In this work, global RNA sequencing and de novo transcriptome assembly were performed to explore the diversity of defensin-like (DEFL) genes in the wheat Triticum kiharae and to study their role in induced resistance (IR) mediated by the elicitor metabolites of a non-pathogenic strain FS-94 of Fusarium sambucinum. Using a combination of two pipelines for DEFL mining in transcriptome data sets, as many as 143 DEFL genes were identified in T. kiharae, the vast majority of them represent novel genes. According to the number of cysteine residues and the cysteine motif, wheat DEFLs were classified into ten groups. Classical defensins with a characteristic 8-Cys motif assigned to group 1 DEFLs represent the most abundant group comprising 52 family members. DEFLs with a characteristic 4-Cys motif CX{3,5}CX{8,17}CX{4,6}C named group 4 DEFLs previously found only in legumes were discovered in wheat. Within DEFL groups, subgroups of similar sequences originated by duplication events were isolated. Variation among DEFLs within subgroups is due to amino acid substitutions and insertions/deletions of amino acid sequences. To identify IR-related DEFL genes, transcriptional changes in DEFL gene expression during elicitor-mediated IR were monitored. Transcriptional diversity of DEFL genes in wheat seedlings in response to the fungus Fusarium oxysporum, FS-94 elicitors, and the combination of both (elicitors + fungus) was demonstrated, with specific sets of up- and down-regulated DEFL genes. DEFL expression profiling allowed us to gain insight into the mode of action of the elicitors from F. sambucinum. We discovered that the elicitors up-regulated a set of 24 DEFL genes. After challenge inoculation with F. oxysporum, another set of 22 DEFLs showed enhanced expression in IR-displaying seedlings. These DEFLs, in concert with other defense molecules, are suggested to determine enhanced resistance of elicitor-pretreated wheat seedlings. In addition to providing a better understanding of the mode of action of the elicitors from FS-94 in controlling diseases, up-regulated IR-specific DEFL genes represent novel candidates for genetic transformation of plants and development of pathogen-resistant crops

Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements

Semantic Features of Students’ Attitude to Interaction in the Digital Educational Environment

The characteristics of the main content of the resources and risks of the digital educational environment are considered. The features of understanding the nature and determinants of the success of the interaction of future specialists in the digital educational environment are shown. The article deals with the use of information resources and interaction in the network as a factor of professional and personal growth of students. An idea is given about the features of the semanticization of relations in the digital educational environment. The role of an adequate understanding of the semantic core of the problem in the productivity of students ‘ project activities is shown. The conditions and ways of achieving success in interaction in the information space within the framework of educational and professional activities are described. The relationship of success with information competence and semantic features of the attitude to interaction in the information space, the motivation of achievement and the expression of the desire for self-development is shown. The results of an empirical study of the peculiarities of students ‘ attitudes to interaction in the digital environment are described, and their ideas about the limitations and risks of this format of activity are shown. The article presents the material describing the main content of students ‘ ideas about the characteristics of a successful teacher and a successful student as subjects of interaction in the digital educational environment

Psychological determinants of professional and personal medical students’ growth: resources and development risks

The paper shows the main vectors of development of professional success of medical specialists in the context of modernization of modern medical practice. Based on the results of the analysis of modern requirements in the doctor as a subject of professional activity, psychological markers of its success are allocated. The article analyzes professionally significant personal qualities that act as internal determinants of successful professional activity of a modern doctor: moral, socio-psychological, emotional-volitional, as well as characteristics that act as markers of subjectivity formation: moral qualities, socio-psychological qualities, emotional-volitional qualities that allow to form and develop a competent style of professional behavior. The role of self - knowledge, reflection and professional self-consciousness of medical students in the effectiveness of their professional and personal growth and development of competence is shown. Based on the analysis of the results of empirical research, the article describes the content features of the views of modern medical students regarding the determinants of professional success, resources and risks of their development, shows the features of the severity of a number of psychological characteristics of modern medical students. The conceptual scheme of formation of psychological determinants of professional and personal growth of medical students is presented