Macrocharcoal Signals in Histosols Reveal Wildfire History of Vast Western Siberian Forest-Peatland Complexes.

Fires are a naturally cyclical factor regulating ecosystems’ function and forming new postfire ecosystems. Peat soils are unique archives that store information about ecological and climatic changes and the history of past fires during the Holocene. The paper presents a reconstruction of the dynamics of fires in the subzone of the middle taiga of Western Siberia in the Holocene.

Prediction Criteria for the Formation of Refracture after Union of a Long Bone Fracture on the Basis of Hemodynamic Changes in the Tissues of the Area of Damage.

We studied hemodynamic changes in the area of leg bone fracture and determined the prognostic criteria for refracture formation after achieved union. In Wistar rats (n=18), shin bone fracture with external fixation of the fragments was modeled. The union was formed 35 days after osteosynthesis, the device was removed at this term.

[The Development of Specialized Medical Care of Patients With Maxillofacial Trauma].

The purpose of study is to substantiate activities concerning development of specialized medical care of victims with injuries of maxillofacial area. The study was organized on the base of the Krasnoyarsk kraii clinical hospital, a leading institution providing medical care of victims with injuries of maxillofacial area in the Krasnoyarsk kraii. The study used analytical, sociological (survey), statistical methods and expert evaluation technique.

Pipeline validation for connectivity-based cortex parcellation.

Structural connectivity plays a dominant role in brain function and arguably lies at the core of understanding the structure-function relationship in the cerebral cortex. Connectivity-based cortex parcellation (CCP), a framework to process structural connectivity information gained from diffusion MRI and diffusion tractography, identifies cortical subunits that furnish functional inference. The underlying pipeline of algorithms interprets similarity in structural connectivity as a segregation criterion.

Hierarchical information-based clustering for connectivity-based cortex parcellation.

One of the most promising avenues for compiling connectivity data originates from the notion that individual brain regions maintain individual connectivity profiles; the functional repertoire of a cortical area ("the functional fingerprint") is closely related to its anatomical connections ("the connectional fingerprint") and, hence, a segregated cortical area may be characterized by a highly coherent connectivity pattern. Diffusion tractography can be used to identify borders between such cortical areas. Each cortical area is defined based upon a unique probabilistic tractogram and such a tractogram is representative of a group of tractograms, thereby forming the cortical area.