Predicting Mortality by Causes in the Republic of Bashkortostan Using the Lee-Carter Model.

This paper analyzes and predicts age-sex mortality rates by causes in the Republic of Bashkortostan. The following methods of analysis were used: the Lee-Carter model, singular value decomposition, and ARIMA-modeling. The forecast results suggest that by 2025 the Republic of Bashkortostan will have lower mortality due to malignant neoplasms in all age groups, except for the 70+ group for women and 50+ age groups for men; lower mortality due to diseases of the circulatory system in all age groups for men and higher mortality in 45+ age groups for women; lower mortality due to injuries in all age groups for both sexes; no significant changes in mortality due to respiratory diseases; increased mortality from gastrointestinal diseases for both sexes at all ages, except for children; higher mortality due to infections at 20-54 for men and 20-64 for women; and almost half lower mortality from infections in the age group of 0-4 years for both sexes.

Phase transitions, magnetotransport and magnetocaloric effects in a new family of quaternary Ni-Mn-In-Z Heusler alloys.

The magnetic, magnetotransport, and magnetocaloric properties near compound phase transitions in Ni50Mn35In14Z (Z = In, Ge, Al), and Ni48Co2Mn35In15 Heusler alloys have been studied using VSM and SQUID magnetometers (at magnetic fields (H) up to 5 T), four-probe method (at H = 0.005-1.5 T), and an adiabatic magnetocalorimeter (for H changes up to deltaH = 1.

Short-time dynamics and critical behavior of the three-dimensional site-diluted Ising model.

Monte Carlo simulations of the short-time dynamic behavior are reported for three-dimensional weakly site-diluted Ising model with spin concentrations p=0.95 and 0.8 at criticality.

[Characteristics of EEG signs of anxiety in human].

Influence of anxiety (tested by Luscher) on the spatial organization of brain electrical activity was studied using multichannel EEG recording. In subjects with a high-level of anxiety, the level of coherence and spectral power of some high-frequency EEG components was higher in the parieto-temporal regions of both hemispheres than that in the opposite group. Solving the inverse problem (classification of individuals with one of the groups) made it possible to work out the criteria of automated evaluation of the anxiety level at the preclinic state of neuropsychic disorders.

[The importance of the thermometric method for assessing the function of mucoperiosteal flaps in uranostaphyloplasty with/without transection of the neurovascular bundles in the rehabilitation of patients with congenital cleft palate].

The nature and degree of reflow to the mucoperiosteal flaps was evaluated using a distant thermometry of the cleft palate in 67 children under uranostaphyloplasty and in early postsurgical period. In extracting the neurovascular bundles from their channels heat reflow to the palate was more fast and pronounced than with the bundles sectioned.

[Microcalorimetric and myographic analysis of the causes of changes in the ratio of heat loss to work accomplished during muscular activity].

In the frog non-fatigued sartorius muscle, raise of the ratio of muscle-emanated heat to the performed mechanical work is due to the aerobic delayed heat production. The heat emanation reflects the respiratory resynthesis of macroergs used for subsequent contractile muscle activity. Contrary to that, raise of the ratio in fatigued muscle reflects the excitation-contraction coupling disturbance and a specific increase of the energy supply for excitable link.

[Effect of corticotropin and hydrocortisone on the contractility and heat production of skeletal muscles].

The ACTH was shown to increase whereas hydrocortisone entailed no changes of the muscle contraction amplitude, the duration of the muscle work to fatigue in the regimen of solitary rhythmic contractions being, however, shortened in both bases. The heat production for a unit of the muscle work remained the same after ACTH and decreased after hydrocortisone. The corticotropin increases whereas hydrocortisone decreases the efficiency of the energy substances usage by the working muscles.