Comparing Self-Report vs. Performance Measures of Attentional Control and Efficiency.

The Attention Control Scale (ATTC) is a widely used self-report measure of attentional control capacities. However, research questions whether it accurately substitutes for objective attention control tasks. This study investigated ATTC's correlation with the Attention Network Test (ANT) across alerting, orienting, and executive control networks.

Instrumentation for investigation of the depth-dose distribution by the Liulin-5 instrument of a human phantom on the Russian segment of ISS for estimation of the radiation risk during long term space flights.

Described is the Liulin-5 experiment and instrumentation, developed for investigation of the space radiation doses depth distribution in a human phantom on the Russian Segment of the International Space Station (ISS). Liulin-5 experiment is a part of the international project MATROSHKA-R on ISS. The experiment MATROSHKA-R is aimed to study the depth dose distribution at the sites of critical organs of the human body, using models of human body-anthropomorphic and spherical tissue-equivalent phantoms.

[Scientific substantiation of experimental determination of the radiation effective dose in an interplanetary flight].

The present-day method of effective dose determination with a simplified human body model (spherical phantom) lacks the parameter of vehicle shielding. Introduction of the parameter will increase only the effective depth of various critical organs in the spherical phantom which can be easily accounted for during preliminary calculations. In future these facts, as well as data about impacts of the angular distribution of galactic cosmic rays (GCR), will be integrated into the calculation procedure.

[Reactive eosinophilic pleuritis].

Reactive changes in human pleura were studied 6 hrs, 1, 3 and 7 days after artificial pneumothorax. Thoracoscopically, grey-white deposits were seen which consisted of disorderly accumulation of monocytes, neutrophils, eosinophils and fibrin during the first hours. Later (the 3rd and the 7th days), the layer was observed formed of histiocyte-like cells and few multinuclear cells.