Echinacea compositum in the treatment of respiratory diseases

Background: Clinical protocols and standards of treatment of respiratory tract diseases include mainly antibacterial, mucolytic and anti-inflammatory therapy. This approach is effective at relieving acute symptoms, but there is a “flip side of the coin” – presence of side effects. So, antibiotics cause immunosuppression and dysbiosis, nephrotoxicity and hepatotoxicity. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicines have a negative effect on mucous membrane of stomach and kidneys. Mucolytics, beta-2-agonists increase blood pressure, cause heart rhythm disturbances. In case of a more long-term use of these medicines these problems become more relevant. Thus, there is a shortage of pathogenic anti-inflammatory therapy aimed at optimization of inflammation. In standards are absent also effective drainage and detoxification medicines and impossibility of their use in comorbidity, age-related limitations also complicates the treatment. Conclusions: Echinacea compositum has a complex effect: detoxification, immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, etc. Medication is used in treatment of inflammatory and purulent processes of soft tissues and mucous membranes; its prescription does not require prior immunological examination. It has a favorable safety profile and is recommended for children from 1 year old, is well combined with any medicine, increases nonspecific protection, effectiveness of antibiotic therapy and course of treatment, reduction of its duration; enhances antifungal therapy and is used in the schemes of influenza prevention in children, the elderly, patients with tendency to allergic reactions

Engystol – possibility of bioregulation approach in viral diseases

Ukrainian Academy of Biological Medicine, Kiev, Ukraine, Medical Center TerraMed, Chisinau, Moldova, Representation of Biologische Heilmittel Heel GmbH in the Republic of MoldovaBackground: Acute viral infections due to widespread, high contagiousness and rapid development of viruses resistance to used drugs (medicines) is one of the greatest challenges of modern medicine. Therefore, the search for new approaches and methods for treatment and prevention of viral etiology is very relevant. The aim of this article was to review one such approach called bio-regulatory, which allows us to solve the above problem. It is carried out through the use of complex bio-regulatory medications. In this article was reviewed complex bio-regulatory medications for viral diseases – Engystol, it is antiviral immunomodulator of German pharmaceutical company “Biologische Heilmittel Heel GmbH” which is widely used in a variety of viral diseases in case of children and adults thanks to its favorable safety profile and proven efficacy. Conclusions: National and foreign doctors in case of many viral diseases have experience of successful long-term use of complex bio-regulatory medications Engystol. Results of scientific and clinical studies show that Engystol is universal antiviral immune-modulator with proven efficacy in a wide range of viral diseases in children and adults. It has a high safety profile. It is used both independently and as part of complex treatment regimens. It goes well with any medicines, reducing their side effects on the body

Analysis of plasma instabilities and verification of the BOUT code for the Large Plasma Device

The properties of linear instabilities in the Large Plasma Device [W. Gekelman et al., Rev. Sci. Inst., 62, 2875 (1991)] are studied both through analytic calculations and solving numerically a system of linearized collisional plasma fluid equations using the 3D fluid code BOUT [M. Umansky et al., Contrib. Plasma Phys. 180, 887 (2009)], which has been successfully modified to treat cylindrical geometry. Instability drive from plasma pressure gradients and flows is considered, focusing on resistive drift waves, the Kelvin-Helmholtz and rotational interchange instabilities. A general linear dispersion relation for partially ionized collisional plasmas including these modes is derived and analyzed. For LAPD relevant profiles including strongly driven flows it is found that all three modes can have comparable growth rates and frequencies. Detailed comparison with solutions of the analytic dispersion relation demonstrates that BOUT accurately reproduces all characteristics of linear modes in this system.Comment: Published in Physics of Plasmas, 17, 102107 (2010

Importance of In-Plane Anisotropy in the Quasi Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnet BaNi2_{2}V2_{2}O8_{8}

The phase diagram of the quasi two-dimensional antiferromagnet BaNi$_{2}$V$_{2}$O$_{8}$ is studied by specific heat, thermal expansion, magnetostriction, and magnetization for magnetic fields applied perpendicular to $\mathbf{c}$. At $\mu_0H^{*}\simeq1.5$ T, a crossover to a high-field state, where $T_N(H)$ increases linearly, arises from a competition of intrinsic and field-induced in-plane anisotropies. The pressure dependences of $T_N$ and $H^{*}$ are interpreted using the picture of a pressure-induced in-plane anisotropy. Even at zero field and ambient pressure, in-plane anisotropy cannot be neglected, which implies deviations from pure Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless behavior.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure

Ferromagnetism and Lattice Distortions in the Perovskite YTiO3_3

The thermodynamic properties of the ferromagnetic perovskite YTiO$_3$ are investigated by thermal expansion, magnetostriction, specific heat, and magnetization measurements. The low-temperature spin-wave contribution to the specific heat, as well as an Arrott plot of the magnetization in the vicinity of the Curie temperature $T_C\simeq27$ K, are consistent with a three-dimensional Heisenberg model of ferromagnetism. However, a magnetic contribution to the thermal expansion persists well above $T_C$, which contrasts with typical three-dimensional Heisenberg ferromagnets, as shown by a comparison with the corresponding model system EuS. The pressure dependences of $T_C$ and of the spontaneous moment $M_s$ are extracted using thermodynamic relationships. They indicate that ferromagnetism is strengthened by uniaxial pressures $\mathbf{p}\parallel \mathbf{a}$ and is weakened by uniaxial pressures $\mathbf{p}\parallel \mathbf{b},\mathbf{c}$ and hydrostatic pressure. Our results show that the distortion along the $a$- and $b$-axes is further increased by the magnetic transition, confirming that ferromagnetism is favored by a large GdFeO$_3$-type distortion. The c-axis results however do not fit into this simple picture, which may be explained by an additional magnetoelastic effect, possibly related to a Jahn-Teller distortion.Comment: 12 pages, 13 figure

Smart City and Digital Humanities

This project presents an extension of a discussion of ideas related to the upcoming global digitization and the role and place of a person in the digital world. The digital environment of a human being and society was discussed in a number of papers and reports at scientific conferences, magazines and books. This work makes an attempt to determine possible forms of our future society based on an example of historical development of human society and taking into account growing digitization of all aspects of life. CRISALIDE project (City Replicable and Integrated Smart Actions Leading Innovation to Develop Urban Economies) started in October 2018 and was one of the very few projects co-funded by EU and Russian Federation through the Horizon2020 programme and the ERA-NET RUS PLUS (ENRP) program. Participants of the CRISALIDE project were the following companies: SUPC Ltd. (Russian Federation), URBASOFIA (Romania), EMaTTech (Greece), SPIIRAS-HTR&DO Ltd. (Russian Federation) and CORP (Austria). In the CRISALIDE project an Innovative Decision-Making Tool has been developed for Contributions on: • Urban Information Systems and Decision Making • Urban Decision Support Systems • Geo-Information-Infrastructures, Data availability (Basemap, INSPIRE, Open Governmental Data et al.) • Urban Planning context, participation From our point of view a Digital City (DC) is a special terrain or a limited digital world from the one hand but from the other is unlimited as a part of a global information system of the Earth (WWW). This world (DC) contains a number of humans and many of them (not everybody) have their own HDS. At the recent conference, CORP 2016, the idea about free space around a human has been discussed. In this paper we will provide some ideas to next generation of CRISALIDE with tide to humanity