Anomalies in the Coloration of Japanese Amphibians and Their Applications in Genetic Research

ForewordThe international conference “Structural and phase transformations in materials: theory, computer modelling and experiment” (SPTM 2017) was held on the Chusovaya base on March 23-27, 2017 (∼ 80 kilometers from the fourth-largest city in Russia, Ekaterinburg). The conference was organized by the Ural Federal University (Laboratory of Multi-Scale Mathematical Modeling).The conference was devoted to discussions of the current state and new scientific achievements on the subject of structural and phase transformations in materials, including the following topics:• Theory of the Processes• Experiments and Their Results• Software and Hardware for Modeling• Results of Computer Simulation.The present event paid its special attention to the phase transformation phenomena such as dendritic growth, nucleation and pattern formation including theory, experiment and software developments.The organizing Committee was pleased to welcome more than 40 participants from 8 countries attending the conference (Belarus, China, France, Germany, India, Morocco, Russian Federation, and Ukraine). The Organizers have selected 34 peer reviewed research papers in the present issue of IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. We hope that the present papers will be of interest for readers and represent a thorough research skeleton for inspiration and future developments.Yours sincerely,Dmitri V. Alexandrov, Peter K. Galenko, Ilya O. Starodumov and Victoria V. PolyakovaApril 7, 2017OrganizersUral Federal UniversityLaboratory of Multi-Scale Mathematical ModelingOrganizing CommitteeChairman: Professor, Doctor of Science, Dmitri Alexandrov (Ural Federal University, Russia)Vice-Chairman: Professor, Doctor of Science, Peter Galenko (University of Jena, Germany)Members (Ural Federal University): Ilya Starodumov and Victoria PolyakovaProgram CommitteeChairman: Dmitri Alexandrov (Prof. Dr., Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia)Vice-Chairman: Peter Galenko (Prof. Dr., University of Jena, Jena, Germany)Members:Jianrong Gao (PhD, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China)Phanikumar Gandham (PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India)Olga Gusakova (PhD, Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus)Oleg Kazak (PhD, Technische Universitat Ilmenau, Germany)Valery Golod (PhD, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, Russia)Leonid Klyuev (PhD, Immers Ltd., Moscow, Russia)Mikhail Krivilyov (Dr., Udmurt State University, Izhevsk, Russia)Evgeny Kharanzhevsky (Prof. Dr., Udmurt State University, Izhevsk, Russia)Irina Nizovtseva (PhD, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia)Alexander Ivanov (PhD, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia)Nikolai Kropotin (PhD, MKM Ltd., Izhevsk, Russia)Alexey Malygin (PhD, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia)Valentin Kropotin (MKM Ltd., Izhevsk, Russia)Vladimir Ankudinov (Udmurt State University, Izhevsk, Russia)Ilya Starodumov (Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia)Irina Alexandrova (Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia)Evgeny Pavlyuk (Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia)

The article emphasizes the importance of the skills of the future in the training of a modern specialist in the labor market. A list of relevant skills of the future is given. A research design is presented in the development of a program for the formation of the skills of the future in the environment of student teams. The article analyzes the scientific literature on the topic of this study, describes the portrait of a soldier of the student detachments of UrFU in the context of the skills of the future. Conclusions are made about the skills of the future that are in demand by the fighters of student teams. Technologies for the formation of the skills of the future in the environment of student teams are proposed. The article presents a program for the formation of the skills of the future among the student teams of the Ural Federal University. The program consists of 4 modules: an information module, which includes 4 lectures from the speakers of the UPI, Ural State University-Ural Federal University Alumni Association and the Ural Federal University's Center of Universal Competencies "4K", an interactive module consisting of four trainings, a project module including "Creative Laboratory". The practical module contains five activities aimed at building the skills of the future. The results of testing some of the elements of the program for the formation of skills in the environment of student teams are presented. The conclusion is made about the significant potential of the movement of student teams in the formation of the skills of the future.

This month the children’s environmental health (CEH) movement reaches the age of 21 years, an important milestone. The movement began in California in October 1989 with the launch of The Kids in the Environment Project, designed to train health professionals about environmental health and children. This project subsequently evolved into the Children’s Environmental Health Network (http://www.cehn.org/), a national organization headquartered in Washington, DC. Pediatricians’ interest in children’s unique susceptibility to environmental hazards probably dates further back, at least to 1954, when fallout from a nuclear weapons test on Bikini Island in the South Pacific caused acute radiation burns among people living on neighboring islands. Two boys exposed to fallout when they were infants developed severe hypothyroidism and short stature in mid-childhood. Young children were more severely affected than adults; among 35 children < 15 years of age, 3 developed carcinoma of the thyroid, compared with 2 among 46 persons who were ≥ 15 years of age at exposure (Merke and Miller 1992). These cases highlighted children’s special vulnerability to ionizing radiation. Because of concerns about fallout from weapons testing and fears of nuclear war, in 1957 the American Academy of Pediatrics established what is now known as the Committee on Environmental Health to address these issues. For 53 years this committee has been the world leader in advocacy and education about risks to children from environmental hazards, publishing the first book on pediatric environmental health in 1999 (Etzel 1999).

The subject of this article is the effective waste management at the Ural Federal University (UrFU). The topic of waste management has become increasingly relevant in recent years. At the moment, the Russian Federation is undergoing reforms in the field of municipal waste management, which also affects educational institutions. Wherein graduate school should reflect the advanced knowledge, experience and trends that exist in society. Purpose of the study was improving this system, taking into account the regulatory and legal requirements of the State involving modern challenges and best practices. Since in the new Russian conditions there is no uniform practice of forming this system, the article analyzes the treatment of MSW across the globe. This scheme of circulation in Russian universities can be exemplified by related work. The successful introduction of separate waste collection at the university, with the support of its administration, is largely due to economic interest. The rationale for implementing a separate waste collection system was based on economic efficiency. This efficiency was determined on the income ratio between costs for removal part of the generated municipal waste and the subsequent sale through utilisation companies combined with the cost of organizing Sustainable Waste Collection in UrFU. Calculations have shown that separate waste collection organized on the territory of a large institution (UrFU) can be economically efficient in collecting the most massive, demanded fractions. The proposed system of waste collection management can be used as a model for implementation in UrFU and other universities of the Russian Federation, as well as considered one of the major components of the environmental and economic activities of Russian universities. This system has of course taken into account international ratings of the «green» economy and sustainable development.

Prof. S. Shcheklein – One of the founders of the scientific and methodical school of energy saving, increasing energy efficiency and hydrogen energy in the Urals

Jenny Pronczuk de Garbino: A Global Champion for Children’s Health

This volume contains conference proceedings of the V International Conference on safety problems of civil engineering critical infrastructures «SAFETY2019» held on 21th – 22nd May 2019 at the Ural Federal University in Ekaterinburg, Russia.The main conference purpose is integration and coordination of efforts of scientists, experts and specialists in the field of integrated risk analysis related to building interdependent critical infrastructures throughout their life cycle at the international level. Design, fracture mechanics problems, diagnostics, monitoring, maintenance, survivability and optimal management of infrastructure systems issues is considered in the context of the creation and operation of safe, smart and durable infrastructure systems. Question of the creation of real conditions and a practical mechanism for an innovative scientific, educational and organizational breakthrough is one of the most important problems of the twenty-first century – safety and sustainable development of cities, regions and worldwide taking into account the human factor.The objectives of SAFETY2019 are to collect and disseminate state-of-the-art research and technology for design, fracture mechanics problems, diagnostics, monitoring, maintenance, survivability a ()nd optimal management of infrastructure systems issues is considered in the context of the creation and operation of safe, smart and durable infrastructure systems.The conference proceedings contain 83 papers, which are divided into 11 sections:safety technologies for building critical infrastructure and territories; modeling of loads and impacts on buildings and structures; steel and concrete structures; soil mechanics and foundations problems of viable and smart cities and sustainable development of territories; energy efficiency and resource saving in civil engineering; building information technology (BIM); building technologies and materials of innovative type; education in architecture and civil engineering; expertise and management in construction; building engineering systems.We thank all authors of submitted papers for their participation. They contributed a great deal of effort and creativity to produce this work. We appreciate that they have chosen the V International Conference on safety problems of civil engineering critical infrastructures to present their work. Many thanks also to all editors and reviewers, who donated substantial time to carefully read and evaluate the submitted papers.At last but not at least, we would like to appreciate all supporting organizations for their support and encouragement and making the event a success.In addition, we are pleased to express our thanks to Organizing Committee for its great preparing work.We look forward to the next VI International Conference on Safety Problems of Civil Engineering Critical Infrastructures «SAFETY2020» that will be held next year in November at the same location. We hope that it will be as interesting and enjoying as all five predecessors.Ekaterinburg, May 2019Professor Vladimir AlekhinProfessor Lawrence BoswellProfessor Svyatoslav Timashev

the XII All-Russian Conference “Thermophysics and Power Engineering in Academic Centers” (TPEAC 2021) October 25-27, 2021, Sochi, RussiaThe All-Russian scientific conference “Thermophysics and Power Engineering in Academic Centers“ (TPEAC-2021) continues series of conferences (workshops) on thermophysics and heat power engineering. Since the first conference until now, the principal organizer of the conference is the Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics, SB RAS. The 1st Workshop of the University Departments and Research Teams in Siberia and the far East specializing in thermophysics was held in Novosibirsk in 1978. Since then, the geographical spread of the Conference expanded every year involving various research centers: Tomsk, 1980; Krasnoyarsk, 1982; Vladivostok, 1984; Kemerovo, 1986; Ulan-Ude, 1988. The 7th Workshop was held in Novosibirsk, September 9-12, 1990, at the Institute of Thermophysics SB RAS. Workshop of Universities in Siberia and Far East on Thermophysics and Heat Power Engineering, dedicated to the 85th Birthday of the Workshop founder, academician S.S. Kutateladze, was held in Novosibirsk, October 6-8, 1999, at the Institute of Thermophysics SB RAS, and the Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU). Since 1999 new series of workshops started. The 2nd Workshop was held in Tomsk, 2001, at the Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU); 3rd - in Barnaul, 2003, at the Altai State Technical University; 4th - in Vladivostok, 2005, at the Far-East State Technical University; 5th - in Irkutsk, 2007, at the Irkutsk State Technical University. Since 2009, when the 6th Workshop was held in Krasnoyarsk at the Siberian Federal University, it acquired the status of an All-Russian conference. The 7th All-Russian Workshop of Universities on Thermophysics and Power Engineering was held in Kemerovo, 2011, at the Kuzbas State Technical University; 8th - in Yekaterinburg, 2013, at the Ural Federal University. Since 2015, when the 9th Workshop was held in Kazan, at the Kazan State Engineering University, it acquired the status of an international conference. International Conference “The 10th Workshop of Universities on Thermophysics and Power Engineering“, was held in Moscow, 2017, at the Moscow Engineering University. The 11th All-Russian scientific conference with international participation “Thermophysics and Power Engineering in Academic Centers“ (TPEAC-2019) held based on the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Saint Petersburg.List of “Thermophysics and Power Engineering in Academic Centers” (TPEAC 2021) October 25-27, 2021, Sochi, Russia, Editorial Committee, Organizing Committee, Scientific Committee, Members of the Scientific and Advisory Committee and this titles are available in this pdf.

A conference titled "Human Genetics, Environment, and Communities of Color: Ethical and Social Implications" and a workshop symposium titled "Human Genetics and Environmental Justice" were held by West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc., with cosponsorship by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the Community Outreach and Education Program of the NIEHS P30 Center for Environmental Health at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, New York, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The conference and symposium took place at Columbia University in New York City on 4-5 February 2002. Expert panels composed of public health practitioners, genetic researchers, ethicists, lawyers, social scientists, and community organizations were assembled to explore how genetic research will affect communities of color, specifically in environmental health research. The goal of the conference was to educate participants on the science and ethics of genetic research and to explore the potential benefits and pitfalls of genetic research vis-à-vis new trends in environmental health research, specifically with reference to communities of color. The goal of the symposium was to discuss the major perceptions and concerns for community-based environmental justice advocates and other communities of color regarding environmental health genetic research. The conference and symposium drew more than 300 participants and articulated important perspectives on the opportunities and challenges for environmental justice advocates and other communities of color posed by rapid advances in environmental health genetic research and toxicogenomics.

Introduction. Currently, the leadership of the People’s Republic of China pays special attention to the issues of technical vocational education. The learners from the PRC studying in Russia have specific cognitive orientations in mastering technical disciplines. The aim of the article is studying the specifics of academic resilience in mastering technical sciences by PRC students of Ural Federal University. Materials and methods. The academic resilience of PRC students from Ural Federal University in terms of mastering technical sciences was measured using the ‘Technics Resilience Scale for University Students’ (TRSUS). TRSUS aims to build Feedback literacy and Self-assessment with a view to help a student to pursue technical studies productively. The survey involved 659 students who had a technical science learning experience in one of the educational programmes: “Civil Engineering”, “Architecture”, “Geodesy and Remote Sensing”, “Steam Power Industry and Heat Engineering”, “Water Supply and Drainage”. The students assessed their resilience in technical sciences under a 5-score Likert response scale, with the use of Tencent Questionnaire in English. The statistical processing of measurement results was carried out using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) methodology with the use of SPSS 23.0 and Amos 18.0 software packages. Results. The statistical analysis of results of PRC students from Ural Federal University in terms of measuring resilience in technical sciences under the TRSUS scale showed that the wording of the questions was adequate to the measurement context. The primacy of students’ incremental beliefs/goals towards improving the efficiency of learning activities was revealed. A strong correlation between students’ answers with the TRSUS questions was found. Cronbachs alpha was equal to 0.977, which is evident of high internal consistency of students’ answers. The structural model of confirmatory factor analysis of TRSUS data including four indicators (factors) – “Persistence”, “Perceived Value”, “Cognitive Complexity” and “Incremental Beliefs” – has the best source data fitting criteria. The method of exploratory factor analysis of TRSUS data revealed the specificity of cognitive orientations of PRC students from Ural Federal University: the choice of educational programme influences most prominently the indicator “Perceived Value”, which is explained by the peculiarities of Chinese technological culture. Conclusion. An original methodology for measuring university students’ academic resilience in technical sciences – ‘Technics Resilience Scale for University Students’ (TRSUS) – is presented. The use of TRSUS makes it possible to determine the specifics of students’ cognitive orientations in mastering technical disciplines and to form their competent feedback and self-assessment for efficient continuation of education.

column Share on Report on the 11th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval (RuSSIR 2017) Authors: Pavel Braslavski Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russian Fed. Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russian Fed.View Profile , Jaap Kamps University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NetherlandsView Profile , Julia Kiseleva University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NetherlandsView Profile , Alexander Halperin Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russian Fed. Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russian Fed.View Profile Authors Info & Claims ACM SIGIR ForumVolume 51Issue 3December 2017 pp 94–98https://doi.org/10.1145/3190580.3190594Published:22 February 2018Publication History 1citation26DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations1Total Downloads26Last 12 Months1Last 6 weeks1 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access

At the New Mexico Center for Environmental Health Sciences (NMCEHS), community concerns and relationships are as much at the center’s foundation as the latest research techniques. According to center director Scott Burchiel, the unique populations of New Mexico—including a high number of Hispanics and Native American tribes, pueblos, and sovereign nations—steer the center’s course. “One of the things we have tried to do is to determine what these populations’ concerns are for environmental health, because we want our center to be focused on environmental public health, and we want to work on basic research projects that address issues that people in this region are particularly interested in,” he says. Based in Albuquerque as a partnership of The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute (LRRI), the NIEHS-funded center comprises major research cores in environmental cancer and oxidative stress, cardiovascular toxicology, environmental lung disease, and population health and epidemiology. The center also includes world-class facility cores (particularly for inhalation toxicology), a pilot project program to provide funding for small innovative research studies, and an unusually strong community outreach and education program (COEP). Community input is essential, as is trust. “We have investigators who may have certain interests for certain kinds of projects and want to work with communities,” says Burchiel. “But when we go to the community, we find out that [the community has] a different agenda, different interests. We’ve been learning how to work with communities since we’ve had this environmental health center.” It’s a process that involves a lot of development of community relationships and trust relationships. Burchiel says that investigating environmental health problems such as asthma requires a broad definition of environment. He says, “In our center, we define the environment quite broadly. It includes nutritional, social, behavioral, economic, and built environment components. . . . We have not only environmental epidemiologists [but] also social epidemiologists who help us look at social factors in assessing economic and poverty factors.”

Features of training specialists, bachelors, and masters in the field of atomic emission spectral analysis at the Department of Physical and Chemical Methods of Analysis [Ural Federal University (UrFU)] are considered. When training bachelors, coverage of the specialty course «Methods of atomic spectral analysis» is reduced almost by half compared to the same course for specialist. Length of practicals and research trainings is also significantly reduced. Therefore, students graduated with a bachelor degree can be incorporated into the actual practical activities of the laboratories at the enterprises and research companies only in laboratory positions. Master’s program is deeper in theoretical knowledge and research training and practicals become of particular importance. Thus, only a full cycle of two-level education can be comparable with the previous engineering training of specialists. The structure of the curriculum and features of setting up advanced training courses (additional professional education) for specialists in analytical laboratories focused in particular on a detailed study of the features of recording atomic emission spectra by the MAÉS analyzer using the ATOM program is presented. The experience of advanced training of the personnel of industrial laboratories conducted at the training centers of UrFU is described. This form of additional professional education is recommended for advanced and refresher’s training of the laboratory personnel at large enterprises.

The First International Conference on the Environmental Health and Safety of Jet Fuel

PREFACEThis volume contains conference proceedings of the IV International Conference on safety problems of civil engineering critical infrastructures «Safety2018» held on 4th – 5th October 2018 at Ural Federal University in Ekaterinburg, RussiaThe main conference purpose is integration and coordination of efforts of scientists, experts and specialists in the field of integrated risk analysis related to building interdependent critical infrastructures throughout their life cycle at the international level. Design, fracture mechanics problems, diagnostics, monitoring, maintenance, survivability and optimal management of infrastructure systems issues is considered in the context of the creation and operation of safe, smart and durable infrastructure systems. Question of the creation of real conditions and a practical mechanism for an innovative scientific, educational and organizational breakthrough is one of the most important problems of the twenty-first century – safety and sustainable development of cities, regions and worldwide taking into account the human factor.The objectives of Safety2018 are to collect and disseminate state-of-the-art research and technology for design, fracture mechanics problems, diagnostics, monitoring, maintenance, survivability and optimal management of infrastructure systems issues is considered in the context of the creation and operation of safe, smart and durable infrastructure systems.The conference proceedings contain 60 papers, which are divided into 9 sections:Safety technologies for building critical infrastructure and territories; Vitality of interdependent critical infrastructures; Statistical modeling of loads and impacts on building structures and buildings; Problems of viable and smart cities and sustainable development of territories; Energy efficiency and resource saving in the civil engineering; Information modeling technology in the construction industry; Building technology and materials of innovative type; Education in architecture and civil engineering; Expertise and management in construction.We thank all authors of submitted papers for their participation. They contributed a great deal of effort and creativity to produce this work. We appreciate that they have chosen the IV International Conference on safety problems of civil engineering critical infrastructures to present their work. Many thanks also to all editors and reviewers, who donated substantial time to carefully read and evaluate the submitted papers.At last but not at least, we would like to appreciate to all supporting organizations for their support and encouragement and making the event a success.In addition, we would like to thank also to Organizing Committee for their great preparing work.We look forward to the next 5th International Conference on Safety Problems of Civil Engineering Critical Infrastructures «Safety2019» that will be held next year on May at the same location. We hope that it will as be interesting and enjoying as all four predecessors.Ekaterinburg, October 2018ProfessorVladimir AlekhinProfessorLawrence BoswellProfessorSvyatoslav Timashev