Frontal sinus approach in complicated chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps: Our experience.

Background: Hyperostosis is a common consequence of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) and other chronic rhinosinusitis, affecting mainly structures of the ethmoid labyrinth, frontal and maxillary sinuses. These neo-bones are found in advanced stages of rhinosinusitis causes exacerbation because of ostia outflow blockage. Frequent relapses of the disease due to hyperostosis restenosis, represent a problem in the treatment of chronic frontal sinusitis.

Measuring Spatial Ability for Talent Identification, Educational Assessment, and Support: Evidence from Adolescents with High Achievement in Science, Arts, and Sports.

Background: Spatial ability (SA) is a robust predictor of academic and occupational achievement. The present study investigated the psychometric properties of 10 tests for measuring of SA in a sample of talented schoolchildren.

Objective: Our purpose was to identify the most suitable measurements for SA for the purpose of talent identification, educational assessment, and support.

Wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence determination of major oxides in bottom and peat sediments for paleoclimatic studies.

The wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence method was applied to identify the distribution of major oxides within bottom and peat sediments containing organic matter of up to 70 wt.%. Samples were prepared as glass beads by fusing with lithium metaborate.

[Polytypic strains in the genofund of tick-borne encephalitis virus].

Eighteen polytypic tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) strains containing the fragments of E and NS1 protein genes of Siberian and Far Eastern, occasionally Siberian and European subtypes were isolated in the European and Asian parts of the tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) area. They were identified using real-time polymerase chain reaction, hybridization-fluorescence detection with genotype-specific probes, restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis, and E protein sequencing. The polytypic strains were isolated from individual Ixodes persulcatus ticks, their pools, from the blood of patients and the brain of dead patients.

[Current audiovisual technologies are a constituent of the continuing professional development concept].

The paper is devoted to the topical problems of using innovation, information and communication technologies (ICT) in the higher medical education system, including in postgraduate professional education. The paper shows the key principles for organizing an audiovisual technology-based educational process and gives numerous practical examples of the real use of ICT in the education of not only medical, but also other specialists and the results of studies of applying the current technical aids of innovation professional education. Since each area of manpower training has its specificity and unique goals, the authors propose the highly effective decisions to organize an educational process, which fully take into consideration of the specific features of professional education.