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Analysis of perceptions of primary school students towards science using the pictures they draw<p>İlkokul öğrencilerinin fen bilgisine yönelik algılarının çizdikleri resimlerle analizi

This study was conducted with the purpose of analyzing and interpreting the perceptions of 4th grade primary school students studying in the province of Muğla towards science, using the pictures they draw.The study was implemented in the school year of 2015-2016 with 41 4th grade students from the classes A-B at the Toki Ş. J. Yb. Alim Yılmaz Primary School in the province of Muğla. The pictures drawn by the participating students were analyzed semantically and the method of content analysis was used. The study analyzed and interpreted how the students perceived the concept of “Science”, the content they employed in the pictures they drew, whether they were able to establish a connection between Science and their lives, and whether there were differences between male and female students in terms of the content of the pictures they drew. Collaboration was made with three science and technology teachers and two image experts in the analysis. Separate coding lists were formed for each case for the analysis of the qualitative data and the data were coded.In the light of the findings obtained, it was found that 73.6% of male students drew an experiment environment within the theme of laboratory, while 90.9% of the female students did so. It was found that a large proportion of male and female students were influenced by the subjects “our sensory organs”, “technological developments”, “our body and systems”, “classifying matter” and “pollution”, which are included in the curricula.It was concluded that most male and female students perceive the concept of science only in terms of experiments, while this ratio is higher for female students who drew more detailed and colorful environments; they did not think of science outside school and laboratory environments; the connection they established between their lives and science did not exceed the public’s attitude towards this issue, visual stimulants in their surroundings, and what was taught and shown to them by educational institutions; the number of students who used themes other than the drawings and subjects in the textbook was very low; and their levels to relate science and technology class information to daily life were low. Extended English abstract is in the end of PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetBu araştırma, Muğla ilinde öğrenim gören ilkokul 4. Sınıf öğrencilerinin Fen Bilgisine yönelik algılarının çizdikleri resimlerle analiz edilerek yorumlanması amacı ile yapılmıştır.Araştırmanın uygulaması 2015-2016 eğitim-öğretim yılında Muğla ili Toki Ş.J. Yb. Âlim Yılmaz İlkokulunda 4. sınıf A-B şubelerinde öğrenim gören 41 öğrenci ile gerçekleştirilmiştir. Çalışmaya katılan öğrencilerin çizdikleri resimler anlamsal açıdan incelenmiş ve içerik analizi yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Öğrencilerin “Fen Bilgisi” kavramını nasıl algıladıkları, çizdikleri resimlerde hangi içeriklere yer verdikleri, Fen Bilgisi ve yaşadıkları hayat arasında bağlantı kurup kuramadıkları ve kız ve erkek öğrencilerin çizdikleri resim içeriklerinde farklılıklar olup olmadığı analiz edilmiş ve yorumlanmıştır. Değerlendirme yapılırken üç fen ve teknoloji öğretmeni ve iki resim uzmanı ile çalışılmıştır. Nitel verilerin analizinde her bir durum için ayrı ayrı kodlama listesi çıkarılmıştır ve kodlamalar yapılmıştır.Elde edilen bulgular doğrultusunda, erkek öğrencilerin %73,6’sı resimlerinde laboratuvar teması içerisinde deney ortamı resmederken, bu oranın kız öğrencilerde %90,9 olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Kız ve erkek öğrencilerin büyük bir bölümünün müfredat programlarında yer alan “duyu organlarımız”, “teknolojik gelişmeler”, “vücudumuz ve sistemler”, “maddenin sınıflandırılması” ve “çevre kirliliği” konularından etkilendikleri görülmüştür.Kız ve erkek öğrencilerin büyük bir bölümünün fen bilgisi kavramını sadece deney olarak algıladıkları, kız öğrencilerde bu oranın daha yüksek olduğu ve erkek öğrencilere göre daha detay ve renkli ortamlar çizdikleri, fen bilgisini okul ve laboratuvar ortamı dışında düşünmedikleri, yaşamları ve fen bilgisi arasında kurdukları bağın, bu konuda toplum tutumunun, çevrelerindeki görsel uyaranların ve eğitim kurumlarının onlara öğrettikleri ve gösterdiklerinden daha öteye geçemediği, ders kitabında bulunan çizim ve konuların dışında tema işleyen öğrenci sayısının çok az olduğu ve fen ve teknoloji dersi bilgilerini günlük hayatla ilişkilendirme düzeylerinin düşük olduğu tespit edilmiştir.

Challenge: Tertiary Care Hospitals to Management of High Alert Medicine for Reduce the Medication Error

Medication errors are one of the most common causes of avoidable harm to patients in health care organizations. Medications that have the highest risk of causing injury when used wrongly are known as high-alert medications in JCI accredited hospitals. Safe practices can reduce the potential for harm. Because of the significant nature of the potential adverse effects such as bleeding or hypoglycemia. Many of these medications are also more likely to be associated with dosing errors, due to issues such as the need to frequently calculate dosing based on weight. A separate list for community and ambulatory healthcare settings is also available from ISMP. In case of LASA medication regular updating of regular LASA medication list on the basis of current incidence need to be under observation of Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee. Prescription review by clinical pharmacist in relation with patient report, indication and instruction for the dilution was to be done before administration. This may lead to convert medication error into near miss error. All High alert medication has to be audited for every step in MMU (Medication Management and Use) like prescription, indenting, dispensing and administration. Double checking is compulsory follow in every step.

Comprehensiveness of Pediatric Antiepileptic Prescribing in Clinic Letters: Are We Communicating Well?

AbstractThis study aims to determine the comprehensiveness of pediatric epilepsy outpatient clinic letters in a tertiary pediatric neurology center with particular focus on the prescribing instructions. A retrospective study was conducted for all pediatric outpatient epilepsy clinic letters between August and October 2016. This study was undertaken in a tertiary pediatric neurology department at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, United Kingdom. A total of 160 patients were identified during the time period and included in the study. Letters were evaluated for the following information: patient demographics, inclusion of problem list, and medication details including the clarity of prescribing instructions. The comprehensiveness of letters was scored out of nine based on the nine categories; weight, diagnosis list, medication list, dose in milligrams, dose equivalence in milligrams/kilograms/day, formulation, strength or concentration of medication, if applicable is the volume of medication provided and is the trade name provided. A total of 94% of letters had a diagnosis or problem list provided which was clear. Only 68% letters had a separate medication list provided. The dose of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in milligrams was provided in 95% of letters. The formulation of the AED was provided in only 30% of letters. Only 24% of letters where a category 1 AED was prescribed had the trade name provided. This study has demonstrated significant omissions from outpatient pediatric epilepsy letters. The omissions presented in this study may culminate in inefficient communication and increased morbidity. We share practice improving learning points for writing comprehensive letters which we believe can be generalized to other pediatric specialties.

Bryophytes of Libya. I. Hepatophyta: an Annotated Checklist

THE list of Hepatophyta in Libya includes 29 taxa in 15 genera, 14 families, 7 orders and two classes. Anthocerotae is represented by one species while Hepaticae by 27 species. No species were reported after 1968; recent collections are therefore necessary. Riccia is dominant being represented by 12 species. Synonyms are given in a separate list.

Effect of personal variables on thinking skills of institutionalized adolescents: An exploratory investigation

The present study was conducted in Delhi and Haryana state. From Delhi, SOS (Save our Soul) village of Bawana and from Haryana, SOS village of Faridabad was selected purposively. The objective of the study was to assess the impact of personal variables on thinking skills of institutionalized adolescents. Separate lists of boys and girls in the age range of 13-19 years were prepared from both the SOS villages. Total of 200 adolescents (100 from SOS village Bawana and 100 from SOS village Faridabad) constituted the sample for the study to assess the existing thinking skills. From SOS village Bawana, 100 adolescents equally representing both the sexes i.e . 50 girls and 50 boys were selected on random basis. Same procedure was followed for SOS village Faridabad. The results revealed that age, gender and relationship with peers were significantly associated with thinking skills. Both boys and girls belonged to average category followed by below average category in thinking skills.

Cheminformatics-Based Anticoagulant Study of Traditionally Used Medicinal Plants

Background:Medicinal plants, as a complementary medicine, have been used to treat various diseases since ancient times. These plants have numerous beneficial applications and are the source of certain conventional drugs. In diseases such as stroke and ischemia, which are caused by several factors, abnormal coagulation is an important causative factor. Accordingly, novel and effective therapies such as herbal remedies should be practiced to prevent such lethal diseases.Methods:Using the available databases such as Google Scholar and PubMed, the previously reported anticoagulant compounds and plants possessing anticoagulant activity were identified and collected in two separate lists. Next, the fast and cost-effective cheminformatics methods incorporated in PubChem were applied to detect some compounds similar to reported anticoagulants. Subsequently, 15 native medical plants of Iran containing the potential anticoagulants were selected. The selected plants were purchased and chopped, and the potential compounds were extracted by ethanol. Then three concentrations of extracts (1, 10, and 100 µg per ml) were made. Finally, anticoagulant effect of the selected plants was evaluated by in vitro prothrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time coagulation tests.Results:Among the 15 selected medicinal plants, three plants, including Terminalia bellirica (P=0.0019), Astragalus arbusculinus (P=0.0021), and Origanum vulgare (P=0.0014) showed a more promising anticoagulant effect in comparison to the control.Conclusion:The anticoagulant activity was identified for the first time in these three plants. Further in vivo study and mechanism of action assay are required to be performed on these three plants, which could be suitable candidates for use as natural anticoagulant medicines.

PD09-06 CAN A SIMPLE COUNT OF SEVERAL COMMON COMORBIDITIES ACCURATELY PREDICT LONG-TERM, OTHER CAUSE MORTALITY IN MEN WITH PROSTATE CANCER?

You have accessJournal of UrologyGeneral & Epidemiological Trends & Socioeconomics: Practice Patterns, Quality of Life and Shared Decision Making II1 Apr 2017PD09-06 CAN A SIMPLE COUNT OF SEVERAL COMMON COMORBIDITIES ACCURATELY PREDICT LONG-TERM, OTHER CAUSE MORTALITY IN MEN WITH PROSTATE CANCER? Kian Asanad, Douglas Skarecky, Thomas Ahlering, Stephen Freedland, and Timothy Daskivich Kian AsanadKian Asanad More articles by this author , Douglas SkareckyDouglas Skarecky More articles by this author , Thomas AhleringThomas Ahlering More articles by this author , Stephen FreedlandStephen Freedland More articles by this author , and Timothy DaskivichTimothy Daskivich More articles by this author View All Author Informationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.juro.2017.02.556AboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints ShareFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Physicians need practical methods to accurately estimate life expectancy when counseling older men with comorbidities regarding treatment of prostate cancer. Although numerous nomograms exist for prediction of life expectancy (LE), few are used in practice due to the difficulty of integration into busy clinical workflows. We sought to determine if survival could be accurately predicted if reduced to a count of several common comorbidities that pose a high risk to mortality. In selecting these comorbidities, we aimed to balance frequency and risk in order to maximize identification of men at risk for overtreatment based on <10-year LE. METHODS We sampled 1,598 men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer at two Southern California Veterans Affairs Medical Centers from 1998 to 2004. We created rank-ordered lists of comorbidities organized by frequency and highest risk of mortality. Separate ranked lists were then created by differentially weighting comorbidities by frequency to risk ratios: 1:6, 1:4, 1:2, 1:1, 2:1, 4:1, and 6:1. By successively adding comorbidities from highest- to tenth highest-ranked, a set of 10 candidate comorbidity indices was constructed for each list. Using competing risks regression analysis, we determined c-index, the number of men with <10-year LE, and the number of men with <10-year LE treated with surgery or radiation for each index. RESULTS Candidate comorbidity indices heavily weighted by frequency were poor at identifying men with <10-year LE, while indices heavily weighted by risk of mortality failed to identify men who were overtreated. Six candidate indices each found more than 300 men with <10-year LE (range 303-392); all six were weighted either 2:1, 1:1, or 1:2 by frequency to risk ratio and included highly similar comorbidities. Two of the six indices identified more than 200 men with <10-year LE overtreated with surgery or radiation (range 173-203). The candidate index with the highest number overtreated was weighted 1:1 by frequency to risk and included six comorbidities: 1) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 2) congestive heart failure 3) peripheral vascular disease 4) stroke 5) myocardial infarction 6) exertional angina. C-index for this index was 0.66. CONCLUSIONS A simple count of six comorbidities predicts the risk of 10-year other-cause mortality and robustly identifies men who are overtreated for early stage prostate cancer. Simplifying estimation of life expectancy may be key to operationalizing this critical variable for prostate cancer decision-making. © 2017FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 197Issue 4SApril 2017Page: e196 Advertisement Copyright & Permissions© 2017MetricsAuthor Information Kian Asanad More articles by this author Douglas Skarecky More articles by this author Thomas Ahlering More articles by this author Stephen Freedland More articles by this author Timothy Daskivich More articles by this author Expand All Advertisement Advertisement PDF downloadLoading ...

Raising standards in clinical research - The impact of the ECRIN data centre certification programme, 2011-2016.

The nature and the purpose of the ECRIN Data Centre Certification Programme are summarised, and a very brief description is given of the underlying standards (129 in total, divided into 19 separate lists). The certification activity performed so far is described. In a pilot phase 2 centres were certified in 2012. Calls in 2014 and 2015 resulted in a further 8 certified centres, with 2 certifications still in progress, and the 2016 call has generated several additional applications. The impact and benefits of the programme are listed, divided into a) the effects of the introduction of the standards, b) the effects of the certification programme in general, and c) the effects of the certification programme on individual units. The discussion emphasises the generally positive impact of the programme so far but stresses the need to better clarify the perspective and role of the programme.

Putting the Pieces Together: Clinically Relevant Genetic and Genomic Resources for Hospitalists and Neonatologists.

Genetic conditions are individually rare but are common in aggregate, and they often present in the neonatal and early pediatric periods. These conditions are often severe, can be difficult to diagnose and manage, and may heavily affect patients, families, health care systems, and society. Because of recent technological advances, the availability and uptake of genetic and genomic testing are increasing rapidly. However, there is a dearth of trained geneticists and genetic counselors to help guide and explain these conditions and relevant tests. To help hospitalists, neonatologists, and related practitioners navigate this complex and evolving field, we have compiled a list of free (mostly Web-based) resources relevant to the diagnosis and management of genetic conditions and related disorders. These resources, which we describe individually, can be useful for nongeneticist clinicians, and some also include material that can be used to explain concepts and conditions to patients or families. The resources presented are divided into the following categories (which overlap): general information, databases of genetic conditions, resources that can help generate differential diagnoses, databases of genetic testing laboratories (to help with logistics of ordering tests), information on newborn screening, and other resources. We also include a separate list of helpful textbooks and manuals. We conclude with 2 examples describing how some of these resources would be used by a pediatric hospitalist or neonatologist during the inpatient management of a child with a suspected genetic condition.

Lexical Activation in Jargon Reading and Repetition

Lexical Activation in Jargon Reading and Repetition

Comprehensive dataset of mangrove tree weights in Southeast Asia

AbstractWe assembled a dataset tabulating the weights of Thai and Indonesian mangrove trees that we measured between 1982 and 2001. We selected four Thai study sites in Phang Nga, Ranong, Satun, and Trat Provinces and one site in eastern Indonesia on Halmahera Island in Maluku Province. The stands in Ranong Province and on Halmahera Island were in primary forests with data collected in the 1980s and the remaining stands were in secondary forests with data collected later. We collected 124 tree samples from ten species (Avicennia alba, Bruguiera cylindrica, B. gymnorrhiza, Ceriops tagal, Rhizophora apiculata, R. mucronata, Sonneratia alba, S. caseolaris, Xylocarpus granatum, and X. moluccensis) and measured the root weights of 32 individuals of nine species (A. alba, B. cylindrica, B. gymnorrhiza, C. tagal, R. apiculata, R. mucronata, S. alba, S. caseolaris, and X. granatum). All sampled trees were subjected to a standardized protocol to obtain aboveground weights. The trunks were divided into horizontal segments from which the leaves and branches were collected separately. Roots were collected by winching them out of the ground, by trench digging, or by complete excavation. Thus, we were able to compile the weights of the trunk, branches, leaves, and roots of each tree sampled. Aerial roots were included in root weight measurements, although they were collected above ground. We compiled separate lists of trunk diameters, trunk heights, heights of the lowest living branches, and the heights of aerial roots on the trunks of trees in different size categories. Our dataset includes a wide range of tree sizes (maximum trunk diameter 48.9 cm), geographical locations (1°10′N–12°24′N, 98°32′E–123°49′E) and organ weights (trunks, branches, leaves, and roots), and therefore should prove useful in future biomass studies of mangrove forests.

Sleep and Mood: Chicken or Egg?

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Developing an inventory of core lexical bundles in English research articles: a cross-disciplinary corpus-based study

Abstract Corpus linguistics has revealed that formulaic language forms an important part of written academic discourse. Recently, much research has focused on lexical bundles as a new category of formulaic language. The primary goal of the present study was to identify core lexical bundles in English research articles across different disciplines and to explore the functions they fulfil. The secondary goal was to determine the coverage of core bundles over lexical bundles from a corpus of research articles in applied linguistics. Using AntConc programme, the analysis started with the creation of three separate lists of lexical bundles from three corpora. Then, the common lexical bundles from these three lists were identified. In total, 661 core lexical bundles common across the three disciplines were identified. Functional analysis revealed the predominance of text-oriented bundles. In addition, core bundles covered 30.19% of the list of bundle types in the research articles. The functional utility of core bundles and their coverage in a domain-specific discipline reinforces the idea that lexical bundles can be transformed into useful learning and testing materials.

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Родина селерових (Аpiaceae) у флорі Орільського національного природного парку

The article contains the results of a comprehensive study of distribution and coenotical affinity for species of Apiaceae family (Magnoliophyta) in the valley r. Oril as well, as national park “Orilsky” is designed on this area. A complete list of flora for one of leading plant family Apiaceae for designing national park is done and processed in the first time for Oril valley as im- portant natural area of Steppe Podniprov’ya nature region. Specified chorological analysis of geographical elements and their relationship to various environmental and cenotic groups represented in Oril basin (boreal-meadow, halophilic-meadow, forest, forest-ruderal, freshwater, marsh, steppe and sand-steppe species) Apiaceae is done. It is discovered new sites for regionally rare species such as Bupleurum tenuissimum L., Angelica palustris (Besser) Hoffm., Berula erecta (Huds.) Coville, Selinum carvi- folia (L.) L. On the basis of analysis of role of Apiaceae in natural vegetable groupments it is suggested to add to the Red list of Dnipropetrovsk region the row of new species from the family of Apiaceae, and also to develop the separate list of construction- species of main natural cenoses which need the special nature protection measures without regard to their wide distribution.Keywords: national nature park, flora, river Oril valley, area, coenopopulation

A spectroscopic database for water vapor between 5850 and 8340 cm−1

An accurate and complete empirical spectroscopic database is constructed for natural water in the 5850–8340cm−1 near infrared region (1.71–1.20µm). The global list includes more than 46,500 transitions of the six most abundant isotopologues (H216O, H218O, H217O, HD16O, HD17O, HD18O) in natural isotopic abundance with intensity greater than 1×10−29cm/molecule. All line positions were obtained by difference of empirically determined energy values. These empirical determinations are mostly based on extensive investigations of water vapor spectra by high-sensitivity CRDS complemented with literature data. In particular, the sets of energy levels of the minor isotopologues have been significantly enlarged from very recent analysis of CRDS spectra of D, 18O and 17O enriched water samples. The empirical line positions were associated to experimental intensity values from the literature obtained by FTS for the strong lines and CRDS for weaker lines. The list is made mostly complete by including a large number of weak transitions not yet detected, with empirical positions calculated from empirical levels associated with variational intensities. Air- and self-broadening coefficients and air-induced line shifts have been added to each transition using the most recent version of the algorithm used for the HITRAN and GEISA databases. Examples of comparison of CRDS spectra to simulations based on the HITRAN2012 list illustrate the advantages of our database.The relative merit of experimental and variational line intensities is discussed. A separate line list combining empirical line positions and variational intensities is provided. Future improvements from combination of experimental and variational intensities are suggested.

Pura Vida: Beginning Spanish by Norma López-Burton and Laura Marqués Pascual

Reviewed by: Pura Vida: Beginning Spanish by Norma López-Burton and Laura Marqués Pascual Carol Wallace López-Burton, Norma, Laura Marqués Pascual, and Cristina Pardo Ballester. Pura Vida: Beginning Spanish. Hoboken: Wiley, 2014. Pp. 490. ISBN 978-1-118-08710-7 [paperback] / ISBN 978-1-118-51476-4 [looseleaf] / ISBN 978-1-118-51474-0 [activities manual] / ISBN 978-1-118-38170-0 [instructor’s edition]. In her author statement for the Pura Vida: Beginng Spanish textbook, Norma López Burton says that her goal has been to build “a curriculum in which all activities would be truly communicative, and all instructors would present culture in a sensitive and consistent manner” (vii). Her stated desire to break down cultural stereotypes that lump all “Hispanics” into a single group is evident in the structuring of the textbook around individual countries and regions, including the seldom mentioned Equatorial Guinea. Short readings explain cultural practices within those specific countries and the cultural context is often integrated into vocabulary and grammar activities. This emphasis on culture is one of the strengths of the book, but also proves to be one of its weaknesses. According to ACTFL’s proficiency guidelines, students at the novice and intermediate levels communicate primarily on familiar personal topics, but this understanding is often compromised in the interests of presenting culturally relevant material. For example, the vocabulary list for the clothing chapter includes items in a Guatemalan market, but fails to include many of the things actually worn by students. In chapter 6, the preterit forms of all verbs, regular, stem-changing and irregular, are presented in the context of Spanish history and art. New verbs include atacar, conquistar, derrotar, invadir, gobernar, and so on—few of which are useful to students in their daily lives—and the ordinal numbers are presented by using the series of kings named Alfonso in Spanish history. Activities that require students to identify historical people or place historical events in order do not spark the interest of the majority of students and are not highly useful for novice level communication tasks. The book contains a preliminary chapter and 12 complete chapters, each of which is really two chapters with separate vocabulary lists and grammar sections. The chapters are well laid out with a list of learning objectives at the beginning of each section and a checklist for students [End Page 697] at the end of each section. Pura vida contains a comprehensive array of traditional grammar topics, up to and including the past subjunctive and hypothetical situations in the last chapter. The last two chapters of the text may be eliminated to better fit a two-semester sequence, but this leaves out some important topics such as the present perfect, which could logically be presented much earlier. The graphics in the book are generally attractive, although some of the pictures used to present vocabulary can be difficult to identify and the authors’ decision to place cognates in a separate list at the bottom without using them in the graphics may lead students to ignore these important words. There are some errors, such as a picture in the chapter on professions that is labeled a dentist but actually shows an eye doctor, which will presumably be corrected in future editions. Each section has two illustrated narrative sequences called “La pura verdad,” which can be presented with audio via the multimedia Power Point presentations supplied on the website. These sequences often have a humorous element, which sometimes works and sometimes falls flat. Each chapter also provides a video involving a conversation between a native speaker and a non-native speaker. The purpose seems to be to encourage students to see that their Spanish doesn’t need to be perfect in order to communicate, but in at least one case the non-native speaker’s accent is so poor that it consistently elicits laughter from students who have been studying the language for only a few weeks. This same chapter 3 video also contains a scene where the female student, who is being given a tour of a home by a male friend, flops down on the bed and comments on how comfortable it...

Beta-Boosted Ensemble for Big Credit Scoring Data

In this work we present a novel ensemble model for a credit scoring problem. The main idea of the approach is to incorporate separate beta binomial distributions for each of the classes to generate balanced datasets that are further used to construct base learners that constitute the final ensemble model. The sampling procedure is performed on two separate ranking lists, each for one class, where the ranking is based on prepotency of observing positive class. Two strategies are considered: one assumes mining easy examples and the second one forces good classification of hard cases. The proposed solutions are tested on two big datasets on credit scoring.

АННОТИРОВАННЫЕ СПИСКИ УЧАСТНИКОВ ВЕЛИКОЙ ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННОЙ ВОЙНЫ, ПРИЗВАННЫХ ИЗ КАЛМЫКИИ: ИСТОРИОГРАФИЧЕСКИЙ ОБЗОР

The article provides a historiographic review of Memorial Books and other published annotated lists of participants of the 1941–1945 Great Patriotic War that were conscripted from Kalmykia. The mentioned editions serve as the most important and key element in the system of memorialization of our fellow countrymen’s deeds of valour in the defense of Motherland since those personalize each of them. At the same time, the fi gures they cover are considerable enough and sometimes amount to 100 %. The review allows to conclude that huge work on compiling and publishing the diverse annotated lists of our fellow countrymen has been conducted in the past decades but the post-Soviet editions are not that comprehensive and, as a rule, specialize in some certain aspect. E.g., there are separate annotated lists of our country fellowmen who were killed in action, died from wounds, missed in action, who were captured, deported to the Shirokovsky forced labor camp or awarded, who survived to a certain date or came from a certain district (including those related to the neighboring regions nowadays) or settlement; warriors of ethnic military units. According to population coverage, the editions can be roughly divided into three groups as follows: regional (those covering the whole population of the region), district (those covering the population of a separate district) and village (those covering residents of a certain settlement) ones. So, a complete and comprehensive annotated (or unannotated) list of Kalmykia’s residents — participants of the 1941–1945 Great Patriotic War has never been compiled and published. Unfortunately, the lists are incomplete, contain duplicated data and signifi cant mistakes in the spelling of personal names. In view of the restricted access to archival materials it was not always possible to introduce corresponding corrections. A number of published lists had been compiled without due account of the actual documents and contain lots of essential mistakes. Ever since ODB Memorial and Podvig Naroda (‘People’s Deeds of Valor’) integrated online databases (search engines) started working, it is possible to correct the mistakes and create a new Memorial Book that would contain consolidated, verifi ed and correct data about all the previously described individuals. To achieve the goal it is necessary to perform tremendous work on developing a consolidated database including information on all our fellow countrymen — participants of the Great Patriotic War, i.e. to compare and analyze data, eliminate repetitions, search for previously undiscovered archival materials and introduce them into scientific discourse (to be later processed using computer technologies). In view of the aforementioned, it can be concluded that the task of memorialization of our fellow countrymen’s deeds of valour in the battlefi elds of the Great Patriotic War has not been fully completed yet.

An annotated checklist of Egyptian mosses

The presented list of Egyptian mosses includes 181 taxa in 56 genera, 17 families and 10 orders. Synonyms reported only from Egypt are given in a separate list. The distribution of the 181 mosses in the 11, hitherto, surveyed phytogeographic territories of Egypt shows that S, Mm, Cai and Di are the richest territories regarding the number of recorded taxa. Pottiaceae, Bryaceae and Funariaceae dominate the flora. Pohlia lescuriana (Sull.) Ochi is a new record to Egypt. Other relevant annotations are also given.