Ovarian reserve alteration in premenopausal women with systemic sclerosis.

Anti-Muellerian hormone (AMH) is produced by the granulosa cells of ovarian follicles. It serves as a sensitive laboratory parameter for assessing ovarian reserve. A reduced ovarian reserve has been observed in patients with various autoimmune diseases.

Neutron pumping of active medium formed by gadolinium isotopes Gd and Gd pair: A feasibility study.

The possibility of creating technical means for controlling the processes of accumulation and conversion of the energies of thermal and epithermal neutrons into the energy of monoenergetic photons due to neutron pumping of an active medium consisting of nuclei with long-lived isomeric states was studied in this work. The system under study consisted of an external pulse-periodic source of deuterium-tritium neutrons (PSN) and a subcritical blanket, which included a variable neutron-collimation beam-shaping assembly (vBSA) and an active medium. The vBSA was composed of moderating blocks and selective plates designed to trap and shape a pulsed neutron flux with subsequent conversion of a millisecond signature into monoenergetic photon emission.

[Older age vitality and retirement (literature review).].

The article provides a review of research literature on the social and psychological peculiarities of working and non-working pensioners with additional new data on their life quality. Six psychographic profiles of pensioners based on their post-retirement activities and motivations for new life path choices were described and examined, enabling identification of the subjects' personality types. These data are essential for psychologists and social workers consulting people approaching retirement age and recent retirees on their retirement lifestyle, ways to organize their working life and effective (creative) pastime, including career development later in life, without sacrificing their physical and mental health.

Magnetic Nanocomposite Materials Based on FeO Nanoparticles with Iron and Silica Glycerolates Shell: Synthesis and Characterization.

Novel magnetic nanocomposite materials based on FeO nanoparticles coated with iron and silica glycerolates (MNP@Fe(III)Glyc and MNP@Fe(III)/SiGlyc) were obtained. The synthesized nanocomposites were characterized using TEM, XRD, TGA, VMS, Mössbauer and IR spectroscopy. The amount of iron and silica glycerolates in the nanocomposites was calculated from the Mössbauer spectroscopy, ICP AES and C,H-elemental analysis.