Perfectionism, the Impostor Phenomenon, Self-Esteem, and Personality Traits among Russian College Students.

Background: Perfectionism and the Impostor Phenomenon (IP) have mainly been studied in American samples, as have the associations of Perfectionism and the Impostor Phenomenon with Self-Esteem and the Big Five personality traits. However, previous studies showed that results might depend on cultural background. There is a critical lack of such research in the Russian context which might limit generalization of the previous findings to a narrow range of cultures.

Family Perfectionism among Russian College Students.

Background: Research documenting the consequences of perfectionism on psychopathology and academic achievement across diverse cultures proliferates. This paper situates the multidimensional model of perfectionism and the role of family perfectionism within a Russian context.

Objective: The main purposes are to investigate the psychometric properties of the Family Almost Perfect Scale (FAPS) among Russian college students and to explore whether the different types of perfectionistic families found in past studies are replicated in the sample.

Reducing Negative Attitudes Toward Immigrants in Russia and Taiwan: Possible Beneficial Effects of Naïve Dialecticism and an Incremental Worldview.

Greater mobility in human societies has resulted in more interactions and contact with immigrants. In the current research, we investigated how viewing the world as flexible, changing, and paradoxical (i.e.

[Determination of phthalates in juice product by high-performance liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry].

The paper presents the research results obtained after determination of the persistent organic pollutants of the environment - phthalates in domestic juice products with the use of high-performance liquid chromatography/ mass spectrometry (HPLC/MS/MS) with application of solid-phase extraction as a method of sample preparation. Selective determination of phthalates in fruit and vegetable juices by HPLC/MS/MS method has been provided through parent and child ions' monitoring that are formed during ionization of the molecules of the studied compounds in the electrostatic spray of isomers on a reversed-phase column. The analysis of the samples of juice product revealed the presence of 11 phthalates out of 13 studied in concentration range from 0.

Catch muscle of bivalve molluscs contains myosin- and twitchin-associated protein kinase phosphorylating myorod.

We have shown previously that myorod, a molluscan thick filament protein of unknown function, is phosphorylated by vertebrate smooth myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) in N-terminal unique region. The aim of the present study was to clarify whether such phosphorylation may occur in molluscan muscles. We detected three kinases endogenous to molluscan catch muscle, namely, to the complex of surface thick filament proteins that consists of twitchin, myosin, and myorod.

"Twitchin-actin linkage hypothesis" for the catch mechanism in molluscan muscles: evidence that twitchin interacts with myosin, myorod, and paramyosin core and affects properties of actomyosin.

"Twitchin-actin linkage hypothesis" for the catch mechanism in molluscan smooth muscles postulates in vivo existence of twitchin links between thin and thick filaments that arise in a phosphorylation-dependent manner [N.S. Shelud'ko, G.

Phosphorylation of myorod (catchin) by kinases tightly associated to molluscan and vertebrate smooth muscle myosins.

Myorod, also known as catchin, a newly discovered component of molluscan smooth muscle thick filaments, is an alternative product of the myosin heavy chain gene. It contains a C-terminal rod part that is identical to that part of myosin and a unique N-terminal domain that is very small relative to the myosin head domain. The role of myorod in contraction or relaxation of this muscle type is unknown.

Twitchin, a thick-filament protein from molluscan catch muscle, interacts with F-actin in a phosphorylation-dependent way.

Twitchin belongs to the titin-like giant proteins family, it is co-localized with thick filaments in molluscan catch muscles and regulates the catch state depending on its level of phosphorylation. The mechanism by which twitchin controls the catch state remains to be established. We report for the first time the ability of twitchin to interact with F-actin.

Proteolytic substructure of myorod, a thick filament protein of molluscan smooth muscles.

Myorod (MR), a new thick filament protein of molluscan smooth muscles, is an alternatively spliced product of the myosin (Mn) heavy chain gene. We studied digestion of MR and Mn from the posterior adductor of Crenomytilus grayanus and the outer portion of adductor of Mizuchopecten (Patinopecten) yessoensis by papain and constructed the proteolytic substructure of MR, that is an analogue to Mn substructure. There are a head domain (analogue of Mn S1) and a rod domain (analogue of Mn rod); the junction between them is split at low ionic strength.

[The dynamics of the health status of pregnant women and children in the framework of the gynecological-therapeutical-pediatric complex].

A system has been developed for the follow-up of the health status of pregnant women and babies, applying an individualized approach to every subject and based on the comprehensive sanitization at an obstetrical, therapeutic, and pediatric unit, implemented on the general medical practice principle. Such an approach helps stabilize the main parameters of the health status of pregnant women, newborns, and infants and involve the social centers and territorial social protection service in the solution of these tasks.