[On Choice of Profession of Pharmacist by Students of Moscow Universities].

The development of personality strongly depends on correspondence of chosen profession to capacities and interests of specialist, labor market demand and possibility of career making. The particular dynamics is observed in alteration of conception of professions and professional activities because information revolution resulted in shifting from mono-professionalism to mastering of several professions at once. The profession of pharmacist also passed through several alterations following development of pharmaceutical industry. The results of survey of opinions of students of pharmaceutical faculties concerning choice of profession of pharmacist demonstrate an actual situation at industry market and give an opportunity of forecasting its development in Moscow for nearest years.

Precision measurement of the neutral pion lifetime.

The explicit breaking of the axial symmetry by quantum fluctuations gives rise to the so-called axial anomaly. This phenomenon is solely responsible for the decay of the neutral pion π0 into two photons (γγ), leading to its unusually short lifetime. We precisely measured the decay width Γ of the [Formula: see text] process. The differential cross sections for π0 photoproduction at forward angles were measured on two targets, carbon-12 and silicon-28, yielding [Formula: see text], where stat. denotes the statistical uncertainty and syst. the systematic uncertainty. We combined the results of this and an earlier experiment to generate a weighted average of [Formula: see text] Our final result has a total uncertainty of 1.50% and confirms the prediction based on the chiral anomaly in quantum chromodynamics.

[Use of automation potential in intensive care units of a multi-profile hospital]. / Ispol'zovanie vozmozhnostei avtomatizatsii v otdeleniiakh intensivnogo lecheniia mnogoprofil'nogo statsionara.

An example of an automated information system of a large general hospital has shown that using a sufficiently informative clinical data base (with a minimal set of parameters) on patients in intensive care departments, it is possible to provide information inquiries of diagnostic units and hospital administration without distracting staff-members on duty to report on the patients' state. The use of an automated bed turnover management system made it possible to reduce the time of patients' admission to hospital, to improve the planning of hospitalization and hospital transfers, to raise the efficacy of bed turnover, and to reduce unproductive labor of the hospital staff.

[Effect of furan compounds on lipid peroxidation in rat liver]. / Vliianie furanovykh soedinenii na perekisnoe okislenie lipidov pecheni krys.

Effect of some furan compounds--monofurfurilidene acetone (MFA), difurfurilidene acetone (DIFA), furyl alcohol (Fal) and furfurol (Fl)--on peroxidation of unsaturated fatty acids in lipids was studied in subcellular organelles of rat liver cells in vitro. By the rate of inhibition of lipid peroxidation the substances studied were arranged as follows: DIFA--100%, Fal--65%, Fl--27% and MFA--1-2%. The furan derivatives at the concentration 10(-2) M effectively inhibited the lipid peroxidation in subcellular organelles, especially in mitochondrial and microsomal fractions.

[Ecological approaches to the study of natural-focus diseases]. / Ekologicheskie podkhody k izucheniiu prirodno-ochagovykh boleznei.

Changes in the epidemiology and epizootiology of diseases with natural foci due to anthropogenic influence on biosphere necessitate thorough studies of ecological specific features of agents, carriers and vertebral hosts reflecting their adaptation to various natural geographical and social conditions. The attention should be focussed on geographical variability of agents, changes in populations of arthropod carriers and their feeders, monitoring of natural territorial complexes and scientifically grounded prognosis for diseases with natural foci.