Reflection Component Research Articles

Cross-species characterization of joint otoacoustic emission profiles in sensorineural hearing loss

Current clinical assessment of otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) is typically limited to presence or absence of emissions to detect hearing loss, but recent work suggests advanced analyses and data collection methods have the potential to improve the diagnostic utility of OAEs. OAEs arise from two distinct mechanisms, nonlinear distortion and linear reflection, which are both sensitive to the health of outer hair cells but may reflect separate aspects of cochlear mechanical function. Joint distortion-reflection OAE profiles offer a non-invasive characterization of peripheral auditory physiology and dysfunction (Abdala and Kalluri, 2017). In this study, swept-tone distortion-product OAEs were separated into distortion and reflection components. Swept-tone stimulus-frequency OAEs, reflection-type emissions, were measured using a suppressor paradigm. Joint OAE profiles will be estimated for multiple pre-clinical chinchilla models of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) and in humans with either normal hearing or sensorineural hearing loss. In chinchillas, we expect SNHL models with distinct profiles of cochlear damage to yield separable joint OAE profiles. Findings in chinchillas will provide mechanistic insight into OAE profile clusters in humans. These data test the sensitivity of joint OAE profiles to specific cochlear dysfunctions and contribute to development of precision diagnostics for SNHL.

X-Ray Spectral Correlations in a Sample of Low-mass Black Hole X-Ray Binaries in the Hard State

The power-law emission and reflection component provide valuable insights into the accretion process around a black hole. In this work, thanks to the broadband spectra coverage of the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, we study the spectral properties for a sample of low-mass black hole X-ray binaries (BHXRBs). We find that there is a positive correlation between the photon index Γ and the reflection fraction R (the ratio of the coronal intensity that illuminates the disk to the coronal intensity that reaches the observer), consistent with previous studies, but except for MAXI J1820+070. It is quite interesting that this source also deviates from the well-known “V”-shaped correlation between the photon index Γ and the X-ray luminosity , when it is in the bright hard state. More specifically, the Λ-shaped correlation between Γ and logL X is observed, as the luminosity decreases by a factor of 3 in a narrow range from ∼1038 to 1037.5 erg s−1. Furthermore, we discover a strong positive correlation between R and the X-ray luminosity for BHXRBs in the hard state, which puts a constraint on the disk-corona coupling and the evolution.

DOCTORS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS THEIR PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPETENCES AS A COMPONENT OF PROFESSIONAL SELF-REFLECTION

The purpose of the research is to study doctors’ attitude towards the role of psychological competencies in their professional activities and its assessment as well as to investigate doctors’ self-assessment of their psychological knowledge, skills and abilities to demonstrate various forms of communication with certain groups of patients as an important component of professional reflection. Participating in the research doctors were different specialty experts of different age groups and experience, employed in multidisciplinary health care institutions.
 Materials and methods. A pilot sociological survey of department heads employed in a multidisciplinary health care institution with a focus group were followed with a sociological survey of a sample (40,9%) of the institution population of the doctors of various specialties, age and experience. Statistical analysis of the survey results was carried out with the use of Microsoft Excel software.
 The results. The assessment of the importance of doctors’ psychological competence in professional activity and doctors’ self-assessment of their psychological competence in various areas of professional work were obtained in the frame of the conducted research.
 Conclusions. The doctors’ self-reflective assessment of their psychological competencies proved the professional competencies and the corresponding motivational potential among health care workers need advancing. Relatively low scores of doctors’ self-assessment in certain types of professional psychological competence allow us to make a conclusion about the need to launch relevant training in the field of psychological competence. Among the topic issues the training should cover are the ability to prevent professional stress, professional deformation and professional burnout of a doctor; conflict management skills and interpersonal crisis situations at work; psychological knowledge, skills and communication skills with difficult patients in behavioral aspects. Analysis of the Pearson correlation coefficient of answers to various questions with data on age and professional work experience make it possible to conclude that both samples with a significant professional experience as well as elder respondents need taking an advanced training program in the field of psychological competence. Since psychological resilience and resistance to stress skills develop more efficient with life experience obtaining than through workplace experience, it makes possible to summarize that the need to conduct psychological training on stress resistance and resilience for doctors directly in the health care institution conditions, e.g. as a professional school.

IID-MEF: A multi-exposure fusion network based on intrinsic image decomposition

This paper follows the idea of divide and conquer to propose a multi-exposure fusion network for the unsupervised generation of high dynamic range-like images. We develop a new intrinsic image decomposition (IID) network based on our modified IID model to produce the reflectance, shading, and color components from source images, which respectively represent the texture structure, lighting condition, and visible color distribution of the imaging scene. Three fusion sub-networks are then designed to process these different components, producing pleasing images with rich structures, reasonable lighting, and suitable color. Specifically, we first develop a reflectance fusion network to integrate the reflectance components, in which an adaptive pixel-scale selection strategy is adopted to dynamically guide the network to preserve rich scene textures. Then, a shading fusion network with the adaptive global image-scale weighting strategy is designed to fulfill lighting adjustment, which can generate suitable illumination by defining the lighting adjustment as a game between the illumination of source images. Finally, we propose a color fusion network that embeds both pixel-scale and image-scale strategies, which can guarantee a pleasing scene color distribution with a specifically designed color fidelity loss. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of our method over state-of-the-art methods in terms of texture integration, illumination adjustment, and color fidelity. Moreover, our method can be applied to fulfill tasks of the single low-light image enhancement and the single overexposed image correction with promising performance. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/HaoZhang1018/IID-MEF.

X-ray Single Exposure Imaging and Image Processing of Objects with High Absorption Ratio

The dynamic range of an X-ray digital imaging system is very important when detecting objects with a high absorption ratio. In this paper, a ray source filter is used to filter the low-energy ray components which have no penetrating power to the high absorptivity object to reduce the X-ray integral intensity. This enables the effective imaging of the high absorptivity objects and avoids the image saturation of low absorptivity objects, thus achieving single exposure imaging of high absorption ratio objects. However, this method will reduce the image contrast and weaken the image structure information. Therefore, this paper proposes a contrast enhancement method for X-ray images based on Retinex. Firstly, based on Retinex theory, the multi-scale residual decomposition network decomposes the image into an illumination component and a reflection component. Then, the contrast of the illumination component is enhanced through the U-Net model with the global-local attention mechanism, and the reflection component is enhanced in detail using the anisotropic diffused residual dense network. Finally, the enhanced illumination component and the reflected component are fused. The results show that the proposed method can effectively enhance the contrast in X-ray single exposure images of the high absorption ratio objects, and can fully display the structure information of images on devices with low dynamic range.

Physiotherapists’ attitudes and beliefs about self-management as part of their management for low back pain

BackgroundPerceptually, there is a discrepancy between research evidence and clinical physiotherapy practice for supporting self-management in people with low back pain (LBP). ObjectiveThis study aimed to explore physiotherapists’ understanding of LBP; ascertain their knowledge of self-management concepts; and explore their attitudes and beliefs about supporting self-management for LBP within present physiotherapy practice in private and hospital settings. DesignInterpretive Description qualitative methodology, involving in-depth data interpretation to clinical practice, was used. MethodsSemi-structured interviews with physiotherapists throughout New Zealand were conducted via video conferencing. Data was analysed and themes were defined. ResultsSeventeen physiotherapists (24–65 years old), with between one and 40+ years of experience, participated. Four main themes were defined: 1) Evolving understanding of LBP, 2) apportioning responsibility, 3) self-management is important, 4) understanding self-management. ConclusionNovel findings from this research demonstrate examples of attitudes and beliefs that determine when and how self-management for people with LBP is implemented. Due to these attitudes and beliefs, physiotherapists may not consistently provide supported self-management for people with LBP. Participants had good understanding of LBP but lacked a contemporary knowledge of the natural history and tended to apportion responsibility for persistent or recurrent episodes to the person with LBP. Physiotherapists should be encouraged to assimilate more contemporary research evidence into their expectations of recovery for LBP. Further education about the role of physiotherapists in supporting self-management, the core components of self-management, including engagement, and reflection upon individual unconscious bias should be encouraged.

Prejudice on discretion in law enforcement of financial legal provisions

The imperfection of the procedure for implementing prejudgment in court proceedings may lead to instability of practice, and this demonstrates the relevance of the research topic with regard to formulating clear criteria for the mechanism of discretionary prejudgment in the application of financial rules of law. With this in mind, the purpose of the article is to identify the peculiarities of bias of discretionary powers in the law enforcement of financial rules of law. The methodological tools are based on the general philosophical (dialectical, hermeneutical), general scientific formal (empirical in the form of observation, description and comparison; axiomatic; hypothetical-deductive; formalization; unity of historical and logical) and special scientific methods (formal-logical; comparative legal; systemic and structural), as well as the methodology of reversal and monitoring of a preliminary court decision, which allows to study theoretical and practical issues of discretionary powers in the law enforcement of financial and legal provisions in the unity of their substantive component and external form of reflection. The author proposes a classification of prejudice by: the level of law enforcement; legal force of prejudice; significance of the established factual circumstances which are the subject of proof; nature of the accusation; and subject. The author examines the psychological dimension of the use of prejudicial categories as a metacognitive activity of establishing and taking into account the meaning of prejudice, taking into account the accuracy of empirical generalizations, and formulating judgments to identify the future consequences of making decisions with prejudicial categories contained in the original decision. The author outlines the mechanism for implementing the legal policy on the use of financial prejudicial categories, which should be based primarily on the instrumental and procedural characteristics of this model of legal influence. It is established that in the organizational and legal aspect, the conditions for the national market segment to enter the cross-border space are formed by streamlining the procedures for interaction of legal entities through the appropriate forms of legal influence. The practical significance of the results obtained is that they can be used to determine the procedure for applying prejudgment at the supranational and national levels, in particular, in the context of applying the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union

Low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillation in MAXI J1820+070: Revealing distinct Compton and reflection contributions

ABSTRACT X-ray low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (LFQPOs) of black hole X-ray binaries, especially those type-C LFQPOs, are representative timing signal of black hole low/hard state and intermediate state, which has been suspected as to originate due to Lense-Thirring precession of the accretion flow. Here we report an analysis of one of the Insight-HXMT observations of the black hole transient MAXI J1820+070 taken near the flux peak of its hard spectral state during which strong type-C LFQPOs were detected in all three instruments up to photon energies above 150 keV. We obtained and analysed the short time-scale X-ray spectra corresponding to high- and low-intensity phases of the observed LFQPO waveform with a spectral model composed of Comptonization and disc reflection components. We found that the normalization of the spectral model is the primary parameter that varied between the low and high-intensity phases. The variation in the LFQPO flux at the hard X-ray band (≳100 keV) is from the Compton component alone, while the energy-dependent variation in the LFQPO flux at lower energies (≲30 keV) is mainly caused by the reflection component with a large reflection fraction in response to the incident Compton component. The observed X-ray LFQPOs thus should be understood as manifesting the original timing signals or beats in the hard Compton component, which gives rise to additional variability in softer energies due to disc reflection.

Retinex‐inspired contrast stretch and detail boosting for lowlight image enhancement

AbstractLowlight images with low brightness and contrast, blurry details usually bring us an uncomfortable visual experience. To promote the quality of these deviation images, this paper presents a new and efficient approach, named MFMR, for enhancing lowlight images in the hue‐saturation‐value (HSV) colour space. Concretely, the multi‐angle filter is first applied to estimate the artifact‐free illumination and reflection component of the V‐channel. Afterward, the adaptive bi‐interval histogram with human visual characteristics and morphological operations is employed to process the former, adaptive gamma correction to process the latter for generating various feature maps. In the end, these feature maps are united via adaptive multi‐scale fusion strategy to reconstruct high‐quality images, which are characterized by high contrast and brightness, vivid colour, and clearer details. Extensive experiments show that this method is a well‐proven low‐light image enhancement approach, which outperforms the state‐of‐the‐art comparison methods. Furthermore, the proposed method also can yield satisfying images in the heavy foggy, yellow sand, underwater, and other severe conditions.

A novel approach to detect line emission under high background in high-resolution X-ray spectra

ABSTRACT We develop a novel statistical approach to identify emission features or set upper limits in high-resolution spectra in the presence of high background. The method relies on detecting differences from the background using smooth tests and using classical likelihood ratio tests to characterize known shapes like emission lines. We perform signal detection or place upper limits on line fluxes while accounting for the problem of multiple comparisons. We illustrate the method by applying it to a Chandra LETGS + HRC-S observation of symbiotic star RT Cru, successfully detecting previously known features like the Fe line emission in the 6–7 keV range and the Iridium-edge due to the mirror coating on Chandra. We search for thermal emission lines from Ne x, Fe xvii, O viii, and O vii, but do not detect them, and place upper limits on their intensities consistent with a ≈1 keV plasma. We serendipitously detect a line at 16.93 Å (0.732 keV) that we attribute to photoionization or a reflection component.

An Analysis of Power Dynamics Affecting Handwashing Interventions in Sierra Leone: Findings From a Qualitative Participatory Study.

Handwashing is an effective and cost-efficient health behavior for preventing infectious diseases; however, its practice is shaped by multiple contextual factors and inequalities between different social groups in Sierra Leone. To address these inequalities, participatory approaches that allow a more equitable distribution of resources and the development of locally tailored interventions are increasingly used. However, social power dynamics have not been well integrated into the concept of participation, despite their known impact. We sought to investigate the role of power dynamics in participatory approaches to handwashing in Sierra Leone. From a socio-ecological perspective, this qualitative, formative interview study aimed to identify relevant actors and their power relationships before designing a participatory handwashing project in rural Sierra Leone. A field experiment with focus groups and a research diary compared the development of power dynamics in a participatory, community-driven approach with that in a nonparticipatory top-down approach. According to our formative study, in community-based projects, multiple groups and actors interact directly or indirectly with each other, located within a macro level (eg, political institutions), meso level (eg, community leaders and groups), and micro level (eg, families) of a socio-ecological model. Although distinct leadership structures were noticeable and affected intervention attendance and processes of change in nonparticipatory approaches, community-led activities and handwashing increased in the participatory approach, irrespective of the leadership structure. Despite their ambivalence, the strategic inclusion of different community leaders appeared essential to enhance the value of the project, mobilize creative action, and empower lower-ranking individuals to practice handwashing. A similar ambivalent role could be observed in relation to external researchers, especially if they come from a different cultural background than the research participants, for example, from a Western country in a non-Western project setting. Although external researchers can initiate a project or provide certain resources, distinct expectations regarding their roles and resources can impact participatory efforts and power relations. The results highlight the advantages of participatory approaches for health promotion. Power dynamics should be a core component of continuous reflection and analysis in participatory projects.

Intuition and meaning in life in persons with varying level of depressive symptoms and impairments in personality functioning.

The current research explored the interplay between intuition, meaning in life, and psychopathology. Specifically, we investigated whether experiential and reflective components of meaning in life are associated with depressive symptoms and personality pathology, whether intuition is related to the experience of meaning, and whether psychopathology has disruptive effects on intuition as well as on the link between intuition and the experience of meaning. We tested our preregistered hypotheses in two independent studies. In Study 1, N = 448 participants completed self-report instruments assessing the experiential and the reflective dimensions of meaning in life, depressive symptoms, and impairments in personality functioning. Intuition was operationalized as the ability to intuitively detect semantic coherence in an experimental task. Additionally, self-reported confidence in intuition was assessed. In Study 2, we aimed to replicate our findings and hypotheses that emerged from Study 1 with a new sample of N = 1189 participants. In both studies, participants with more depressive symptoms or higher levels of personality pathology experienced life as less meaningful but reflected significantly more about meaning in life. The intuitive ability to discriminate between coherence and incoherence in the experimental task was neither related to the experience of meaning in life nor to psychopathology, but more confidence in intuition was associated with experiencing life as more meaningful and with less psychopathological symptoms. It was tentatively supported that the association between meaning in life and intuition was moderated by psychopathology. The findings are discussed in terms of their clinical implications and regarding the cognitive-affective processes potentially underlying people's experience of life being meaningful.

Dissection of Hyperspectral Reflectance to Estimate Photosynthetic Characteristics in Upland Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) under Different Nitrogen Fertilizer Application Based on Machine Learning Algorithms.

Hyperspectral technology has enabled rapid and efficient nitrogen monitoring in crops. However, most approaches involve direct monitoring of nitrogen content or physiological and biochemical indicators directly related to nitrogen, which cannot reflect the overall plant nutritional status. Two important photosynthetic traits, the fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (FAPAR) and the net photosynthetic rate (Pn), were previously shown to respond positively to nitrogen changes. Here, Pn and FAPAR were used for correlation analysis with hyperspectral data to establish a relationship between nitrogen status and hyperspectral characteristics through photosynthetic traits. Using principal component and band autocorrelation analyses of the original spectral reflectance, two band positions (350-450 and 600-750 nm) sensitive to nitrogen changes were obtained. The performances of four machine learning algorithm models based on six forms of hyperspectral transformations showed that the light gradient boosting machine (LightGBM) model based on the hyperspectral first derivative could better invert the Pn of function-leaves in cotton, and the random forest (RF) model based on hyperspectral first derivative could better invert the FAPAR of the cotton canopy. These results provide advanced metrics for non-destructive tracking of cotton nitrogen status, which can be used to diagnose nitrogen nutrition and cotton growth status in large farms.

Metal-free radiative cooling polymer films containing high bandgap materials employing a tandem approach

Achieving sustainable and clean energy in a completely passive manner is conceivable through radiative cooling process that pumps heat from the terrestrial objects deep into the cold outer space. Various designs of radiative coolers, multilayer, and photonic radiators, have been explored in the past, but most of them require optimization for up-scaling and cost-reduction. Herein, we report a facile method of preparing a radiative cooling film using a one-step solution processing technique. The concept relies on the choice of materials that emit in the atmospheric window (8 µm -13 µm) using the tandem approach to maximize the thermal radiation without incorporating any metallic reflective components. The film prepared by dispersing silicon dioxide and silicon nitride microparticles in a polymer matrix shows excellent emission spanning the entire atmospheric window, resulting in efficient light management and thus daytime radiative cooling. The cooling efficiency of the system is studied by varying the ratio of the particles and comparing it with those prepared using individual particles dispersed in the matrix. The film, thus optimized with an equal ratio of particles in the matrix, devoid of any reflective layer, exhibits a maximum cooling of 7.8 °C below ambient temperatures with an average cooling of 6.2 °C, on par with the cooling efficiencies obtained from conventional architectures. The observed effect is attributed to forward scattering, high bandgap, and phonon-polariton resonances associated with the microparticles dispersed in the polymer. As a prototype, an umbrella fabric laminated with the film exhibits a sub-ambient cooling of 7.6 °C and 5.4 °C in controlled and field conditions, respectively, during daytime. Thus, radiative cooling metal-free films that employ a tandem approach via a facile solution processing technique are highly scalable and effective for daytime cooling applications.

The Effect of Stimuli Level on Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emission in Normal Hearing Adults.

The goal of this study is to compare three of the most commonly used primary-level relation paradigms (i.e., Scissors, Boys Town 'Optimal', and Equal-Level) in generation of distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) in normal hearing adults. The generator and reflection components were extracted from DPOAEs in each paradigm. The generator and reflection component levels and input/output (I/O) functions were compared across paradigms and primary-tone levels. The results showed a different I/O function growth behavior across frequency and levels among paradigms. The Optimal paradigm showed a systematic change in the generator and reflection component levels and I/O slopes across primary levels among subjects. Moreover, the levels and slopes in the Optimal paradigm were more distinct across levels with less variations across frequency leading to a systematic change in the DPOAE fine structure across levels. The I/O functions were found to be more sensitive to the selected paradigm; especially the I/O function for the reflection component. The I/O functions of the reflection components showed large variability across frequencies due to different frequency shifts in their microstructure depending on the paradigm. The findings of this study suggested the Optimal paradigm as the proper primary-level relation to study cochlear amplification/compression. The findings of this study shows that care needs to be taken in comparing the findings of different studies that generated DPOAEs with a different level-relation paradigm.

Development of nanocomposite materials for road construction

The level of economic development of any state can be determined today by the quality of roads. Consequently, a wide variety of projects and concepts have appeared in almost many countries recently, which radically change the idea of roads. Reliability and safety of delivery of various cargoes largely depends on the quality of construction and repair of modern road surfaces. Road works related to their various types (replacement of the canvas, marking) cannot be carried out without additional signs and fencing devices. This article discusses the possibility of replacing the polymer matrix that forms the basis of fencing devices (plastic cones, road barriers) with polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) using a reflective component. As a reflective component, it is proposed to use a photoluminophore, which is capable of converting absorbed energy into light radiation, providing continuous light emission for 10 hours. The main criterion of this material is its light output in the dark.

The capacity of Kazakhstan university teachers forinnovativeactivities: scientific and practical aspects

This article discusses issues of university teachers’ readiness to innovative activities in Kazakhstan. The relevance of studying the problem of university teachers’ capacity for innovative activities is necessitated by modern requirements concerning the personality of a teacherin the area of higher education. The purpose of the study is to determine the degree of the capacity of university teachers in Kazakhstan for innovative activities.The article presents an overview of the scientific works of foreign and domestic scholars written about the innovative activities of university teachers. To obtain the results the theoretical (analysis and synthesis of scholarly works of domestic and foreign authors on the research problem) and empirical (questionnaires, pedagogical observation) methods have been used in the study. A survey was conducted with instructors of 10 different universities inKazakhstanin order to identify the degree of readiness of university teachersfor innovation.As a basis of the university teacher’s capacity structure,the approach created bySlastenin V.A. and PodymovaL.S.which includesmotivational, creative, technological, and reflective components is accepted consideringthe main characteristics of the innovative activity of a university teacher.

Hyperspectral Intrinsic Image Decomposition Based on Physical Prior-Driven Unsupervised Learning

Deep learning-based intrinsic image decomposition (IID) has gained significant attention in computer vision due to the high efficiency and accuracy of learning-based methods. However, the development of deep learning-based IID methods in the remote sensing field has been limited by the lack of experimental datasets. This article proposes a two-stream encoder-decoder network for the single hyperspectral (HS) image IID task. The proposed network comprises one reflectance estimation subnetwork and one shading estimation subnetwork, which predict intrinsic properties separately. The proposed model introduces three physical losses to enhance performance: 1) In the reflectance estimation subnetwork, the self-similarity loss on the reflectance component is added to satisfy the basic assumption that pixels with similar intensity tend to have a similar reflectance property. 2) In the shading estimation subnetwork, the shading structure loss is added to ensure that the structure of the shading component conforms to physical observation. 3) Reconstruction loss connecting two subnetworks is required to ensure the estimated intrinsic components are physically correct. Finally, to avoid an unreasonable composition, the entire network is initialized by reflectance estimated by the physical model. The quantitative experimental results of intraclass consistency and classification metrics demonstrate that the proposed physical prior-driven unsupervised learning-based IID network outperforms the current available learning or optimization-based approaches.

РЕФЛЕКСИВТІ САНАНЫҢ МЕКТЕП ЖАСЫНА ДЕЙІНГІ БАЛАЛАРДЫҢ АДАМГЕРШІЛІК МӘДЕНИЕТІНІҢ ДАМУЫНА ЫҚПАЛЫ

This article aims at analyzing the concept of "reflection", "reflexive consciousness", "self-awareness", "morality", and "moral culture". The analysis of scientific and pedagogical works devoted to the problems of the formation of this term is carried out. Information is given on the construction and development of reflection in preschool children. The authors, relying on the opinions of scientists, describe the place that reflection occupies in the personal development of a child as the most crucial psychological renewal. The development of a special ability to self-knowledge begins at an early age, that is, it is said that it is associated with the mechanism of formation of this reflection in preschool children. The moral culture of a child can be formed depending based on moral education and serve as the basis of its existence. Reflection as a process aimed at the internal structure of a person helps to understand, evaluate, re-evaluate, and change his actions. Reflexive consciousness is also awareness of one's inner world and awareness of one's state. Also, the components of moral reflection are revealed as one of the ways of forming signs of child's moral culture.The relevance of the topic lies in analyzing the influence of reflexive consciousness on the development of the moral culture of preschoolers from a practical and theoretical point of view.

Концепт Lifecomp: ресурс управлінської діяльності в системі дошкільної освіти

The article outlines the relevance of the research of the manager’s competencies in the preschool education system in view of his individual experience in solving tasks of activity and abilities that provide a socio-contextual level of interaction with colleagues, parents of children, and the public. It is argued that the manager’s competencies ontologically correspond to professional functions and at the same time should be complemented by the requirements of interaction in the «person-person» system. The significance of the combination, complementarity in the activity of the head of the ability to ensure the functioning of the preschool education institution and his socio-emotional and metacognitive competences has been proven. It is about the manager’s development of his potential, self-regulation of his own emotions, thoughts and behavior, overcoming the challenges of activity and interaction, manifestation of his professional and personality agency, which corresponds to the LifeComp in European Framework of Key Competencies. It is recognized that life competences can increase resilience and become a resource in the implementation of professional functions by the manager. This conclusion is based into account the partial concordance of LifeComp with aspects of the manifestation of the management style. The closeness of the content elements of the personal/social sphere of life competences and the personal/situational aspect of the management style indicates the similarity of epistemological attitudes, in the semantics of which the ability of the manager to organize cooperation with others, taking into account the meaning and value context of joint activity, appears. Similar results apply to the comparison of LifeComp and the competencies of the Professional Standard «Head (director) of a preschool education institution». Emphasis is placed on the need to increase the productivity of the manager’s self-realization through the cognitive, reflective, emotional, regulatory, communicative, interactive, and valuable components of experience. Keywords: management, preschool education, manager, life competencies (LifeComp), professional competencies, personal and professional growth.