Genome Sequence of Cluster W Mycobacteriophage Taptic.

The Taptic genome is the first to be annotated from the W cluster of mycobacteriophages infecting mc155. All 92 predicted open reading frames (ORFs) and a single tRNA specifying glycine (tRNA-gly) are transcribed rightward. Many functionally uncharacterized ORFs appear to be W cluster specific, as nucleotide similarity is shared only with other W cluster genomes.

[Guidelines for the assessment of regional factors of the urban populations' exposure].

The paper presents guidelines for assessing regional exposure factors (EFs) according to the results of a questionnaire survey of about two thousand persons, including urban workers and/or adult students of the Central Federal District (CFD) and Siberian Federal District (SFD) of Russia. It has been ascertained that in CFD, annual exposure (324 days/year) is less than the standard value defaulted in Guidelines P 2.1.

[Design of medical facilities for the saving of persons exposed to low temperatures].

The paper describes medical facilities for saving victims of general cooling. Physiological ways of recovery of the thermal status of individuals exposed to general cooling are substantiated. A physiological rationale is presented for the design of engineering aids to prevent overcooling in persons who do their work in cold.

Hypothermia during sports swimming in water below 11 degrees C.

Objectives: To assess precautions needed to avoid dangerous hypothermia in endurance sports swims in water below 11 degrees C, using rectal temperature, anthropometric measurements, and voluntary swim times during a six day marathon relay swim.

Methods: The time in the water and the decrease in rectal temperature were measured during the longest of three to five relay swims by each of eight experienced swimmers in 9.4-11.