Dog Bite Health Burden in Alaska Communities, 2002-2012

Presented to the Faculty of the University of Alaska Anchorage In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Public HealthDog bite injuries and fatalities are major public health problems nationwide. Alaska dog bite hospitalization rates are consistently higher than national rates, indicating that a health disparity exists. In Alaska dog bite injuries are inconsistently recorded and are not centrally reported. The objective of this study was to characterize dog bite injuries and victims in Alaskan communities for 2002-2012. A cross sectional study design was used in this first attempt to consolidate and analyze scattered statewide data regarding dog bites. Results showed that the vast majority of dog bites in Alaska went unreported, and confirmed previous research that the Alaska Native population and children aged 0-9 were disproportionately affected. This study was intended to provide an update of this public health problem for the State of Alaska, Department of Health and Social Services, Section of Epidemiology and to improve public and stakeholder knowledge.Title Page / Abstract / Table of Contents / List of Figures / List of Tables / List of Appendices / Acknowledgements / Introduction / Literature Review / Research Methods / Results and Discussion / Conclusions and Recommendations / References / Appendice

Decrease Of Repeated Contamination Of Packed Deli-cious Meat Products

The study considers a problem of repeated contamination of delicious products, ready for consumption. The aim of the work is to study the repeated thermal processing of a ready vacuum-packed whole-muscular meat product for inhibiting a surface microbiota.Today it is urgent for the meat industry, because it influences safety and quality, and also limits a storage term of a product.After bringing a meat product to culinary readiness by thermal processing, it has an unessential amount of microbiota. Microorganisms, including pathogenic and conventionally pathogenic ones, fall on a product after its cooking at cutting, preparation to package and at the package stage itself. Microbiological contamination of a ready meat product results in fast spoilage and is a serious problem for producers, because the microbiota growth shortens its storage life. In its turn, it results in a refuse of a consumer to buy this product and great economic losses for producers.The study is directed on a possibility of solving a problem of contamination of a whole-muscular delicious meat product. The solution is in package of a ready product under vacuum and short-term heating at a high temperature.The work is devoted to the complex study of an influence of repeated pasteurization on safety and quality of a product. There was studied an influence of the repeated thermal processing (post-pasteurization) on microbiological, physical-chemical and also organoleptic parameters of a delicious meat product.The special attention is paid to an influence of post-pasteurization regimes on a microbiological condition of studied samples. Studies of a total amount of microbiota and also the presence of sanitary-representative microorganisms were conducted.It has been proven, that the use of post-pasteurization essentially inhibits a number of microorganisms, and also doesn't influence physical-chemical parameters outlook of a product and organoleptic characteristics.Based on studying an influence of post-pasteurization, it has been established, that inhibition of a microbiota essentially influences safety and prolongs the storage term of a product

PUBLICATION ACTIVITY OF UKRAINIAN HEI ACADEMIC STAFF: A CASE STUDY

In the Ukrainian education and science systems globalization and European integration processes have raised the issue of visibility for Ukrainian scientists. Having the articles in Scopus and Web of Science indexed journals is becoming of particular significance for scientists' authority rise and universities` prestige. Despite the appropriate state of the educational policy, the publishing activity of the majority of Ukrainian Higher Education Institutions’ academic staff still remains insufficient, and to date, a very few empirical research has been carried out to determine reasons for that. The aim of this study was therefore, to investigate how such factors as corporate culture of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, academic career, research and language skills, personal development, financial support etc. contribute to and prevent successful publication activity of University`s academic staff. Two groups of academicians were interviewed. The results showed that it is necessary to create the conditions for the research culture development, develop the research competence, provide systemic monitoring of publication activity, and improve the mechanisms of financial rewards.

HETEROTOPIES OF HISTORY IN THE NOVEL OF L. ULITSKAYA "MEDEA AND HER CHILDREN"

Abstract. The study is devoted to one of the components of the feminine picture of the world – the "female" version of the chronotope. The purpose of the article is to consider the chronotopic originality of gender-marked women's literature on the example of L. Ulitskaya's novel "Medea and Her Children". In the course of the analysis the authors have found that the specificity of the "female" version of the chronotope in the novel "Medea and Her Children» is determined by its heterotopy, which in its turn correlates with the category of transgression. In "Medea and Her Children," the historical transgression takes place through the polarization of the "male" and "female" version of the signification of history, revealing itself in relation to the image of the "navel of the earth", centering the entire chronotopical system of the novel. In addition, the "female" version of the historical discourse defines its transformation into heterotopy of history, which fundamentally destroys the binary opposition of sacral and profane history. The unifying principle is the understanding of the traumatic nature of historical discourse in all its manifestations. The authors come to the conclusion that the novel "Medea and Her Children", which constructs a feminine picture of the world, demonstrates a consistent rethinking of the narrative of history in a completely different aspect to the patriarchal culture. L. Ulitskaya focuses not so much on fixing traumatic experience of history and revealing the causes of historical catastrophism, but also reveals the process of overcoming it, avoiding the existing oppositions and dichotomies, through the prism of which it was traditionally conceived.Key words: women's literature, feminine world view, chronotope, historical discourse, traumatic experience of history, heterotopy, transgression, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, "Medea and Her Children"

Investigation of the Role of Plasticizers in Film-forming Coats for Protecting Cooled Meat

As a result of theoretical studies on problems of protection and prolongation of storage terms of meat, it was revealed, that one of promising directions is to use protecting coats, based on natural biopolymers.The topicality of this study is in studying film-forming coats, based on natural polysaccharides, because they have high mechanical indices, absence of a smell, taste and are subjected to biological destruction. For regulating mechanical properties, the composition of film-creating coats is added with plasticizers of different origins.The aim of this work is in describing characteristics of food films, based on carrageenan, sodium alginate and plasticizers of different origins.There were mechanical, rheological properties of protecting coats. The comparative characteristic of these properties, depending on an added plasticizer, was realized. The type and mechanisms of interaction of components of the film-forming coat and plasticizers were completely described. The viscosity of the film-forming coat with a plasticizer has less values comparing with other solutions. Adding plasticizers resulted in increasing the film elasticity, but at the same time some increase of the firmness was observed.Film-forming coats with adding a plasticizer had a higher limit of fluidity, so they were firmer than complex film-forming coats without a plasticizer. From the other side, deformation values of film-forming coats without adding a plasticizer were higher than ones of complex film-forming coats with adding a plasticizer, because they were firmer.The study of physical properties of developed film-forming coats, based on hydrocolloids, demonstrated that coats with a plasticizer have more gas permeability.According to the results, obtained at experiments it was established, that the film-forming coat, based on sodium alginate, carrageenan and glycerin, has best mechanical, physical and rheological indices

ВИВЧЕННЯ ПРОФЕСІЙНО-СПРЯМОВАНОЇ ЛЕКСИКИ НА ЗАНЯТТЯХ ІЗ АНГЛІЙСЬКОЇ МОВИ СТУДЕНТАМИ СПЕЦІАЛЬНОСТІ «КОМП’ЮТЕРНІ ТЕХНОЛОГІЇ»

The contents of the teaching English to the students of Computer Technologies Department have been outlined. The requirements to teaching in respect of Bologna system have been considered. There is a theoretical and a practical unit of the credit and module system, which are aimed to help students to master their professionally oriented vocabulary. The main attention is paid to the communicative component when learning Grammar and to the components of teaching English as a foreign language. It is stressed that students should obtain their knowledge first of all through communication, with the help of the texts which enable students to build monologues, dialogues, discussions.У статті описано зміст навчання студентів спеціальності «Комп’ютерні технології» на заняттях з англійської мови. Розкриті вимоги до навчання згідно з Болонською системою. Відповідно до цієї модульно-кредитної системи створено теоретичний і практичний блоки, що спрямовані на засвоєння студентами професійно-орієнтованої лексики. Основну увагу приділено комунікативному компоненту при вивченні граматики й компонентам викладання англійської мови як іноземної в університеті, наголошується на тому, щоб студенти отримували знання перш за все через спілкування, за допомогою текстів, які надають студентам можливість побудови монологів, діалогів, дискусій

Засоби та прийоми пародіювання

A parody as a genre is characterized by only its inherent laws of construction and creation, the purpose of this article is to investigate the most popular parody implements and techniques that are used by Ukrainian authors very often. The object and purpose of parody, artistic tastes and writer’s skill determine parodist selection of specific tools and techniques.The parody text analysis is used in this article, the descriptive method is used in unfamiliar texts and the brightest parody examples are introduced in the scientific revolution. Also the functional approach is used the problem of understanding the text.The accent is on the fact that the parody applies the work facilities, which is parodied. Parodist mimics the style of prototext, altering it so that it is recognizable, but ridiculed. As a rule the most characteristic elements of the style are taken – a favorite method, propensity to a particular functional style, desirable usage of lexical items, syntactic structures etc. To achieve the goal parodist can use a lower object style of parody, to introduce new material into the text of the original works.The benefits of this study lies in the fact that for the first time the most popular methods and Ukrainian parodist are described. Consequently the most popular implements and techniques of Ukrainian authors are hyperbola, grotesque, metaphor, absurdity, alogizm, quotations, phonetic (alliteration, assonance, voice parallelism), syntactic (repetition, refrain, gradation), morphological facilities and receptions etc.Описываются наиболее употребляемые средства и приемы, которые используют украинские пародисты, создавая свои произведения. Среди самых популярных – гипербола, гротеск, метафора, абсурд, алогизм, цитаты, фонетические (аллитерация, ассонанс, звуковой параллелизм), морфологические, лексические, синтаксические (повтор, рефрен, градация) средства и приемы и т. д.Аналізуються найбільш вживані засоби та прийоми української пародії. З-поміж таких – гіпербола, гротеск, метафора, абсурд, алогізм, фонетичні (алітерація, асонанс, звуковий паралелізм), морфологічні, лексичні, синтаксичні (повтор, рефрен, градація) засоби та прийоми, цитати тощо

Long-lasting effects of red and blue light exposure on the growth of soil fungi

The experimental assessment of inter-species difference in long lasting effects produced in fungi by a brief exposure to the monochromatic light was performed. 24-h cultures grown from 1 mm mycelium fragments of Alternaria alternata, Aspergillus clavatus, Fusarium fujikuroi, Penicillium citrinum and Trichoderma viride were exposed for 30 min to blue light (BL, 450 nm) or red light (RL, 660 nm) and cultured for the next 10 days. Radial growth rate, conidial yield and germination, contents of proteins and phenolsand fungal antibacterial activity were estimated. BL- or RL-exposure did not essentially aff ect the final size of colonies of A. clavatus but delayed the growth of P. citrinum and stimulated it in A. alternata and F. fujikuroi; these changes were more profound after BL, than after RL. In T. viride the BL exposure led to a remarkable delay of growth, whereas the RL significantly increased the growth rate. Photo-induced changes in the conidial yield, conidial germination, contents of proteins and phenols also were dependent on the light wavelength and showed strong inter-species heterogeneity. Fungal antibacterial activity in exposed cultures was similar to the unexposed control. The observed effects are indicative targets for future research of possible molecular regulatory mechanisms underlying the photobiology in different fungal taxons

БІПОЛЯРНА ПРИРОДА ЛІТЕРАТУРНОЇ ПАРОДІЇ

У статті йдеться про одну з ключових особливостей жанру пародії – двоплановість її структури, що полягає в протиставленні пародійованого стилю і власного стилю автора пародії, обов’язково містить у собі «нев’язку» обох планів, їх зміщення. Зроблено висновок про те, що літературній пародії притаманні два плани – перший (буквальний) і другий (пародійований об’єкт). Наголошено на тому, що відсутність знання про об’єкт виключає можливість виникнення пародійного ефекту і призводить до абсурдності змісту пародії