Background: Three-dimensional (3-D) modelling can be a useful technical aid and we used it to reconstruct a homicide scene to corroborate the statement of an eyewitness. 3-D modelling of the bloodstain was conducted by Micro Smith Poser 11 and Autodesk 3-Ds Max software. The technique was found to be easily understandable by the police and judiciary in the interpretation of the sequence of the events of the crime.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe purpose of the work is to study the current state of the performance of situational examinations in district and interdistrict departments of forensic medical examination (FME of the 1st level) with the formation of a unified methodological basis and the introduction of the developed integrated methodology for conducting forensic medical situational examinations in practice work of FME of the 1st level. In this study, the assessment of the current state of performance of situational examinations in FME of the 1st level was carried out on the example of the Tula Regional Bureau of Forensic Medical Examination. At the initial stage, the actual (both absolute and relative) volumes of the performance of situational examinations in the FME of the 1st level were established, with the identification of features of their annual dynamics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Numerous studies have been conducted by using sophisticated methodologies for the deduction of range in cases of firearm injuries. However, the stark dearth of literature for similar purpose by just simple analysis of blood traces on items of clothing is astonishing.
Purpose: This study was done to determine the relationship between range of a rifled firearm and blood traces on the clothing of victims in firearm injuries.
The aim of the present work was to investigate the effect of the ultrasonic treatment on the optical and cathodoluminescent properties of translucent ZrO-8 mol.% YO (YSZ) ceramics obtained by conventional sintering of the pressed compacts. Treatment by intense ultrasound during dry pressing of the YSZ nanopowder leads to an increase in the relative density, a decrease in the pore size and an increase in the grain size of the sintered ceramics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe requirements for selecting the initial scheme for a compact plastic zoom lens are formulated. The main stages of the initial scheme of the transformation, incorporating the diffractive lens and replacement of the lenses' glasses by optical plastics, are presented. The efficiency of the suggested techniques of the optical layout process are demonstrated by using the example of the design and analysis of a zoom lens intended for use in security cameras for day or night vision.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA method of designing a plastic zoom lens with a diffractive-refractive hybrid corrector, comprising one diffractive lens and one refractive lens, is described. The efficiency of this method is demonstrated by designing a compact zoom lens for a mobile phone. This zoom design, incorporating lenses made only of two commercial optical plastics (polymethylmethacrylate and polycarbonate), provides high optical performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe possibility for achieving optical performance of objectives, including a minimum amount of diffractive lenses, comparable to optical performance of multiple-lens conventional objectives for nanolithography, is considered. The problem of chromatism connected with using excimer lasers is solved by applying aspheric substrates that help to reduce both axial color and spherochromatic aberration.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe influence of three chemical chaperones: glycerol, 4-hexylresorcinol, and 5-methylresorcinol on the structure, equilibrium fluctuations, and the functional activity of the hydrophilic enzyme lysozyme and the transmembrane reaction center (RC) protein from Rb. sphaeroides in a broad range of concentrations has been studied. Selected chemical chaperones are strongly different by the structure and action on hydrophilic and membrane proteins.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe possibility and the efficiency of using a single diffractive lens to achromatize and apochromatize micro-objectives with plastic lenses are shown. In addition, recommendations are given on assembling the starting configurations of the objectives and calculating the design parameters required for subsequent optimization. It is also shown that achievable optical performance of achromatic and apochromatic micro-objectives with plastic lenses satisfy the qualifying standards for cell-phone objectives and closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe present what we believe is a new hybrid objective consisting of a gradient-index optical element that has external flat refracting surfaces and is made of two different inhomogeneous materials separated by a cemented spherical surface. Microstructures of diffractive lenses are placed on the flat external surfaces of the objective. The most surprising property of this objective is that even calculation in the area of the third- and the fifth-order aberrations yields an efficient design for imaging with a Rayleigh resolution of 1 microm.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe show the possibility of simultaneously eliminating all third-and fifth-order monochromatic aberrations by using an objectiveconsisting of three cemented lenses with radial distribution ofrefractive indices. We present design procedures for removal ofthese aberrations and reduction of residual higher-orderaberrations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe possibility is shown of achro- and apochromatic correction of an optical system with any residual chromatism by completing the system with a diffractive-refractive hybrid corrector comprising one diffractive lens and one or two refractive lenses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe possibility of multiple reductions of the distortion of high-resolution monochromats that consist of diffractive and radial gradient-index lenses is shown. The desirable effect is achieved by mutual compensation of various order members. Design parameters and the field performances of objectives that confirm the effectiveness of a method, are presented.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDuring microscopic histological studies of ichthyosaur bones the authors found that the bones of young ichthyosauri are well preserved without signs of inflammation. In the bones of old animals reproductive reactions were present. Thus, the severity of pathological alterations most likely depends on the age of the animals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe article presents results and promising priority lines of activity in health care for workers in Russia facing new economic situation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe time course of changes in current epidemiological indices and epidemically significant features of the pathomorphism of infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis in those living in the Perm Region are mainly characterized by negative trends. They lie in the increase or stable maintenance of high rates of morbidity, mortality, and destructive pattern of a lesion accompanied by bacterial isolation. The reason for the established situation is incomplete realization of potentialities of improving actions to detect the disease early, to optimize diagnosis and medical therapy, and to considerably expand an phthisiosurgical aid.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBased on the data available in the literature and their own findings, the authors have established that the pathomorphism of infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis in the preantibiotic age was characterized by negative features, then underwent phases of positive changes and relative stabilization, thereafter it again acquired obviously marked negative peculiarities. At present, the clinical features of new cases of infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis in Perm residents are the predominance of acute onset (67.3%), disseminated (55.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMorphologic changes in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus, in hypophyseal frontal lobe and adrenal cortex are adaptive and reactive changes. In status asthmaticus, there is a high hormonal activity manifesting morphologically with hypertrophic neurosecretory granules.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe experiment on white Wistar rats provided morphometric and morphofunctional evidence on correlations between the thyroid and thymus in health and thyroid transformation in iodine deficiency. In chronic iodine deficiency the rate and volume of thymic physiological involution increase. Total shrinkage of the parenchyma of cortical and core substances of thymic lobules from juvenile animals reaches 25% in the experimental group vs 11% in the reference group.
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Thirty eight patients underwent surgery. The most significant causes of ineffective therapeutical measures in patients were their treatment incompetences (100%), multidrug resistance of Mycobacteria tuberculosis (47.3%), lung tissue destruction (68.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSurgical material of thyroid with goitre from 79 females aged 25-55 years was investigated. Basing on histological, histochemical and histostereometric evidence as well as correlation analysis it was established that each morphological variant of the thyroid pathology has its own specific pattern of unbalance of the cellular and tissue components.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe immediate outcomes of treatment were studied in 119 patients with caseous pneumonia whose age was 20 to 64 years. In most cases, caseous pneumonia was found to preserve its classic traits by characterizing by acute onset (85.8%), prompt progression, high proportion of fatal outcomes in the early postoperative period (54.
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