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Evaluation of Functional Condition of Respiratory Muscles of Patients with a Complicated Bronchial Asthma Pathology and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases
The aim of the research was to study the functional state of respiratory muscles and neuro-respiratory drive in patients with a combined pathology of bronchial asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.The functional condition of the respiratory muscles and the tone of the respiratory centre were determined with the help of a device for occlusion spirometry. Also, the patient was observed with a spirometry, a general plethysmography of the body.Materials and methods.140 patients with combined broncho-obstructive pathology, 34 patients with asthma and 17 patients with COPD were examined. Spirometry, general plethysmography of the body and occlusion spirometry were provided for all patients.Results show a decrease in muscle strength of breath in all categories of patients with broncho-obstructive diseases, especially expressed in patients with bronchial asthma and asthma-COPD intersection. The muscle strength of breath was maintained with a significant increase in COPD patients compared with those with bronchial asthma. With increasing broncho-obstruction in patients with asthma-COPD intersection, there was a progressive and reliable decrease in muscle strength for breath and expiration, as well as a tendency to increase neuron respiratory drive. In patients with asthma-COPD intersection with more expressed symptoms revealed a significant and reliable weakening of muscle strength for breath and increased neuro-respiratory drive. During the work were obtained reliable links of the parameters of respiratory muscle strength not only with the parameters of pulmonary volume and bronchial patency, but also with the degree of neutrophilic inflammation in this category of patients.Conclusions The obtained data on failure of the functional state of the respiratory muscles and the neuro-respiratory drive can be used in the development of rehabilitation programs for the management of patients with combined broncho-obstructive pathology
Turbulent thermalization of weakly coupled non-abelian plasmas
We study the dynamics of weakly coupled non-abelian plasmas within the
frameworks of classical-statistical lattice gauge-theory and kinetic theory. We
focus on a class of systems which are highly occupied, isotropic at all times
and initially characterized by a single momentum scale. These represent an
idealized version of the situation in relativistic heavy ion-collisions in the
color-glass condensate picture, where on a time scale after the
collision of heavy nuclei a longitudinally expanding plasma characterized by
the saturation scale is formed. Our results indicate that the system
evolves according to a turbulent Kolmogorov cascade in the classical regime.
Taking this into account, the kinetic description is able to reproduce
characteristic features of the evolution correctly.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figure
Problems of theory of translation in the light of intercultural cooperation
Nowadays there are a lot of theoretical and aesthetic problems of theory of translation in the light of contemporary processes of globalization of social and communicative links. The problems of Ukrainian cultural space, narrowing of lexical layers and the interrelation of theory and practice of literary translation are of considerable importance
Research of Influence of Potassium-rich Diets on the Physical Performance of Students
The aim of the work is the scientific substantiation and experimental support of the expedience and use of potassium-cationic water for improving the bread quality and the study of the influence of potassium-rich diets on the physical performance of students. There was studied the influence of potassium cations on the activity of proteolytic enzymes of wheat flour. It was established, that at using potassium-cationic water, the output of wet gluten (35,1 %) essentially increases, at that the output of dry one (8,4 %) decreases to the same extent that is a positive factor in the bakery technology. It was proved that enriching the vital medium of bakery yeast by potassium cations essentially activates their ability to hydrolysis of maltose that favors activation of the process of gassing (Maltase activity – 35,1 min). The process of gassing influences the speed of dough-conduction and ready bread quality, especially volume (357,7, 100 g/ml), porosity (79,1 %) and crumb ability to compression (33,5 c.u.). It was established, that consumption of bread, produced on potassium-cationic water, favors the strengthening of the heart muscle tone, improvement of the general condition of the organism, especially, physical endurance and performance
The Study of Influence of Aronia Additives on Functional-technological Properties of Wheat Flour
The expedience of the use of aronia in technology of short dough products as a source of vitamins, mineral, pectin substances, phenol compounds, easily assimilated sugars, organic acids and so on was substantiated. To study the influence of aronia additives on the main receipt component of short dough (wheat flour) there was elaborated an algorithm of the study that includes theoretical analysis and physical-chemical experiment. The expedience of introduction of aronia as a powder directly into wheat flour was theoretically grounded. The methods of estimation of the content of polyphenol compounds, influence of aronia additives on amylolytic and proteolytic activity of wheat flour, its sugar-creating ability, were selected. The methods of experiment planning and mathematical processing of experimental data were realized using computer program MS Excel 97 2003.In was established, that the aronia additive weakens the gluten of wheat flour and prevents the swelling of gluten proteins. It positively influences the process of short dough formation and provides a possibility of its storage during the long time until baking. The use of aronia additives in technology of short dough products allows not only raise their food value but also improve the quality of short dough
Open Source Dataset and Machine Learning Techniques for Automatic Recognition of Historical Graffiti
Machine learning techniques are presented for automatic recognition of the
historical letters (XI-XVIII centuries) carved on the stoned walls of St.Sophia
cathedral in Kyiv (Ukraine). A new image dataset of these carved Glagolitic and
Cyrillic letters (CGCL) was assembled and pre-processed for recognition and
prediction by machine learning methods. The dataset consists of more than 4000
images for 34 types of letters. The explanatory data analysis of CGCL and
notMNIST datasets shown that the carved letters can hardly be differentiated by
dimensionality reduction methods, for example, by t-distributed stochastic
neighbor embedding (tSNE) due to the worse letter representation by stone
carving in comparison to hand writing. The multinomial logistic regression
(MLR) and a 2D convolutional neural network (CNN) models were applied. The MLR
model demonstrated the area under curve (AUC) values for receiver operating
characteristic (ROC) are not lower than 0.92 and 0.60 for notMNIST and CGCL,
respectively. The CNN model gave AUC values close to 0.99 for both notMNIST and
CGCL (despite the much smaller size and quality of CGCL in comparison to
notMNIST) under condition of the high lossy data augmentation. CGCL dataset was
published to be available for the data science community as an open source
resource.Comment: 11 pages, 9 figures, accepted for 25th International Conference on
Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2018), 14-16 December, 2018 (Siem Reap,
Cambodia
Critical Dynamics of a Two-dimensional Superfluid near a Non-Thermal Fixed Point
Critical dynamics of an ultracold Bose gas far from equilibrium is studied in
two spatial dimensions. Superfluid turbulence is created by quenching the
equilibrium state close to zero temperature. Instead of immediately
re-thermalizing, the system approaches a meta-stable transient state,
characterized as a non-thermal fixed point. A focus is set on the vortex
density and vortex-antivortex correlations which characterize the evolution
towards the non-thermal fixed point and the departure to final
(quasi-)condensation. Two distinct power-law regimes in the vortex-density
decay are found and discussed in terms of a vortex binding-unbinding transition
and a kinetic description of vortex scattering. A possible relation to decaying
turbulence in classical fluids is pointed out. By comparing the results to
equilibrium studies of a two-dimensional Bose gas, an intuitive understanding
of the location of the non-thermal fixed point in a reduced phase space is
developed.Comment: 11 pages, 13 figures; PRA versio
Resonant X-ray diffraction studies on the charge ordering in magnetite
Here we show that the low temperature phase of magnetite is associated with
an effective, although fractional, ordering of the charge. Evidence and a
quantitative evaluation of the atomic charges are achieved by using resonant
x-ray diffraction (RXD) experiments whose results are further analyzed with the
help of ab initio calculations of the scattering factors involved. By
confirming the results obtained from X-ray crystallography we have shown that
RXD is able to probe quantitatively the electronic structure in very complex
oxides, whose importance covers a wide domain of applications.Comment: 4 pages 4 figures, accepted for publication in PR
Dimethyl hydrazine-1,2-dicarboxylate–triphenylphosphine oxide (1/1)
In the crystal structure of the title compound, C4H8N2O4·C18H15OP, two triphenylphosphine oxide molecules and two dimethyl hydrazine-1,2-dicarboxylate molecules are connected via N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds of moderate strength and are related via a twofold rotational axis. Weak Car—H⋯ O contacts strengthen the crystal structure
Specific features of state regulation of operations with cryptocurrencies in the conditions of digitalization
Purpose: The article investigates specific features of state regulation of operations with cryptocurrencies in the conditions of the world economy digitalization. Design/Methodology/Approach: In order to form the state regulation of operations with cryptocurrencies, which create additional risks for the national currencies functioning in international financial and credit relations, it is necessary to consider this phenomenon first, from the position of a complete ban on the use of cryptocurrencies as a means of payment, second, in combination of a ban on the use of cryptocurrencies as means of payment, third, from the possibility of expanding the range of cryptocurrency users by including legal entities into it and fourth, the full legalization of the cryptocurrency. Findings: The authors developed and proposed a set of measures aimed at the formation of common standards and norms of state regulation of operations with cryptocurrencies in international financial relations. Practical Implications: The results of the study can be applied in the development of legal regulation of virtual currencies not only at the national level, but also at the international level. Originality/Value: The main contribution of the study is to identify possible risks in the sphere of state regulation of cryptocurrencies based on the experience of some countries: from formal permission (including recommendations on possible risks) or the application of general principles of regulation in the field of payments to the complete ban of such activities.peer-reviewe
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