Successful Task Performance Research Articles

Leadership Qualities of the Future Officers as an Innovative Way of Developing Moral Resistance

In today's world, where the situation is constantly escalating and new geopolitical challenges are being created, some leaders-officers possess the quality of leadership and moral stability to perform various tasks and lead their units to victory. The author analyzes the main components of leadership that contribute to the military personnel’s effective training and determines the relationship between leadership qualities and the ability of officers to withstand moral and ethical challenges. It is especially important to pay attention to innovative methods of education that contribute to increasing the personal responsibility and moral stability of future military leaders in modern conditions. It is noted that future officers’ moral stability is a key aspect of the successful performance of tasks in conditions of danger and stress, officers must not only physical training but also a strong moral spirit that allows them to defend their principles and values, independent of complex requirements. Therefore, leadership qualities are one of the key components that contribute to the formation of moral stability of future officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and help create a strong foundation for professional development and success in a military career. A researched type of resilience that allows officers to remain strong and determined even in the most difficult situations without compromising their principles and duties. Leadership and moral stability, which are integral aspects of successful professional training of future officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, are characterized.

The affective response to positive performance feedback is associated with motor learning.

Motor skill learning and performance are improved when successful actions are paired with extrinsic rewards, such as money. Positive feedback indicating successful task performance is thought to induce intrinsic reward associated with goal attainment, evidenced by increases in positive affect that correlate with neural reward signaling. However, it is not clear whether the subjective, internal reward processes elicited by positive feedback promote motor learning and performance.Here, we tested the hypothesis that intrinsic reward elicited by positive feedback promotes motor learning and performance. Participants practiced a visuomotor interception task using a joystick, and received feedback during practice indicating success or failure depending on their accuracy. During practice, the accuracy demands were adapted to control and vary the frequency of positive feedback across randomly ordered blocks of practice at either 50%, 70%, or 90%. Performance was measured for each condition as the average accuracy during practice. Learning was estimated by measuring the accuracy pre and post practice in the absence of feedback. We queried participants periodically on their enjoyment of the task to index affective responses to performance feedback.The intrinsic reward elicited by positive feedback, operationalized by the increase in enjoyment immediately following positive versus negative feedback, was positively correlated with learning from pre to post practice. However, increasing the overall amount of positive feedback by lower accuracy demands did not improve performance. These results suggest that experiencing intrinsic reward due to positive feedback benefits motor learning only when it is contingent on good performance.

WEB Application for Control Oxygen Regimes of the Body

Introduction. The muscular fitness of servicemen plays a significant role in the successful performance of military and professional tasks. Currently, 60 days are allotted for the training of a serviceman, so the task of optimizing this training is urgent. Typically, strength endurance can be effectively improved by combining strength, aerobic, and specific weight training. Therefore, the task of objective control of the training process is urgent. A number of sources emphasize the connection between the injuries of military personnel in the conditions of professional activity and aerobic productivity. That is why a model of regulation of the body's oxygen regimes was chosen for the purpose of training control. The need to process large amounts of information justifies the need to develop convenient applications for this. The purpose of the paper is to develop a web application for monitoring the training process of military personnel based on the model of managing the body's oxygen regimes. Methods. Mathematical modeling methods, programming methods. Results. The developed web application for modeling the oxygen regimes of the body allows for objective control of speed and strength training of military personnel. The web application is developed on the OpenXava platform, which provides the user with a more convenient service, is suitable not only for the Windows operating system, but also for Linux, Mac, UNIX, Android and does not require the installation of additional software. Keywords: mathematical model of regulation of oxygen regimes of the body, professional military activity, speed-power training of the military.

The effects of two methods of on-line planning on L2 task-based speaking performance and strategy use

Studies on on-line planning have been based upon the same definition in the past few decades, and they have operationalized on-line planning in similar ways. Drawing upon theories in cognitive psychology, the present study sets out to propose a revised definition of on-line planning that aims at capturing a greater variety of on-line planning behaviors. Two methods of eliciting on-line planning were implemented: providing students with listener’s feedback between two consecutive rounds of task performance, and providing them with criteria for successful task performance. Their effects on second language (L2) narrative task performance and the use of planning strategies were investigated with 90 Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) who were first-year English majors. To assess the quality of task performance, complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) measures and a measure of story completeness were employed. Post-task interviews were conducted to explore planning strategies. Results from the quantitative and the qualitative analyses suggest that utilizing listeners’ feedback successfully elicited an increased number of on-line planning activities. Participants under this on-line planning condition also produced significantly more complex and accurate output than the non-intervention group.

Cross-frequency coupling in cortico-hippocampal networks supports the maintenance of sequential auditory information in short-term memory.

It has been suggested that cross-frequency coupling in cortico-hippocampal networks enables the maintenance of multiple visuo-spatial items in working memory. However, whether this mechanism acts as a global neural code for memory retention across sensory modalities remains to be demonstrated. Intracranial EEG data were recorded while drug-resistant patients with epilepsy performed a delayed matched-to-sample task with tone sequences. We manipulated task difficulty by varying the memory load and the duration of the silent retention period between the to-be-compared sequences. We show that the strength of theta-gamma phase amplitude coupling in the superior temporal sulcus, the inferior frontal gyrus, the inferior temporal gyrus, and the hippocampus (i) supports the short-term retention of auditory sequences; (ii) decodes correct and incorrect memory trials as revealed by machine learning analysis; and (iii) is positively correlated with individual short-term memory performance. Specifically, we show that successful task performance is associated with consistent phase coupling in these regions across participants, with gamma bursts restricted to specific theta phase ranges corresponding to higher levels of neural excitability. These findings highlight the role of cortico-hippocampal activity in auditory short-term memory and expand our knowledge about the role of cross-frequency coupling as a global biological mechanism for information processing, integration, and memory in the human brain.

ОБГРУНТУВАННЯ ПОКАЗНИКА ЕФЕКТИВНОСТІ РОБОТИ ЗАГОНУ ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ РУХУ КОЛОН ПІД ЧАС МАРШУ

The article shows the necessity of improving the system of task performance by the detachment of ensuring the movement of columns during the march. The successful performance of combat tasks by units and units of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is not possible without comprehensive support, in particular, without such an important type of operational (combat) support as engineering, which is organized for the purpose of timely and covert deployment of troops (forces), conducting maneuvers by them, creating the necessary conditions for the successful performance of assigned tasks, increasing the level of protection of troops (forces) and objects from the enemy's means of destruction, assigning losses to the enemy and complicating his actions. The engineering support of combat operations of units is inextricably linked with the implementation of a certain management procedure, the development of options for working out the received tasks and the purposeful use of engineering units. One of the important tasks of combat engineering support is the preparation and maintenance of troop (force) movement routes. Preparation and maintenance of troop movement routes (forces) is carried out in all types of combat operations, on the march and in the deployment of troops in place. The existing indicators for evaluating the level of efficiency of the use of machines do not allow for a generalized assessment of the level of effectiveness of tasks performed by the detachment ensuring the movement of columns during the march. Therefore, there was a need to obtain a dependency for evaluating the effectiveness of tasks performed by the unit to ensure the movement of columns during the march. In order to determine the efficiency of the convoy movement support unit, it is proposed to use the coefficient of performance of tasks by the column movement support unit during the march. Dependencies for evaluating the effectiveness of tasks performed by the squad to ensure the movement of columns during the march allow you to determine the influence of various factors on the efficiency indicator and outline ways to meet the specified requirements for modern models of engineering machines. A practical calculation was carried out.

Requirements of the modern international labor market for specialists in electrical engineering specialties

The article reveals the essence, leading functions and models of the modern international labor market, which in the context of its demand made it possible to reveal the special significance of professional training of highly qualified specialists for the electrical industry. According to the reasoned statement that electrical engineers work in an area of high responsibility, the author motivates the need for the polytechnic education system to shift the emphasis from obtaining the appropriate qualification to the formation of professionalism, as this is critical to ensuring the quality and reliability of labor tasks in the electrical field. Based on the occupational program of an electrical engineer as a comprehensive tool for a comprehensive description of the requirements for professional and personal qualities of a specialist, the nomenclature of his/her interdisciplinary knowledge, skills and abilities is determined, which is the basis for the successful performance of tasks within a specific functional labor complex with its managerial, organizational and technical components. With an emphasis on the broad semantics of the category "technician", the author emphasizes the special significance of the technical dexterity of a modern electrical engineer, which in the context of socio-technological development and digitalization acquires a transfer context. It has been proved that it is precisely because of this circumstance that the demand of the modern international labor market is mainly focused on the transferable skills of an electrical technician, that is, his ability to perform a wide range of specialized activities that go beyond basic professional functions. In view of this, the paradigm of continuing education of electrical engineering specialists must necessarily operate with the latest requirements for mastering the set of necessary and sufficient multidisciplinary knowledge, forming flexible thinking and the ability to successfully solve complex problems based on creativity and readiness to cooperate with other people and artificial intelligence systems.

METHODOLOGY OF ORGANIZING INDEPENDENT WORK OF FUTURE QUALIFIED WORKERS IN BLENDED LEARNING CONDITIONS

Relevance. The research is driven by changes in the field of professional education, the implementation of blended learning in professional (vocational-technical) education, the necessity for distance and online learning, preparation of future qualified workers for independent learning and self-organization, which requires the search for new approaches by pedagogical staff in organizing their independent work, and the need to develop a methodology for organizing the independent work of future qualified workers in blended learning conditions. The aim is to highlight the results of the research and methodology of organizing the independent work of future qualified workers in blended learning conditions, to enhance the effectiveness of organizing and conducting independent educational work by pedagogical staff, and the quality of its execution by educational seekers. Methods: studying scientific literature, normative-legal documents, empirical data regarding the organization of independent work of future qualified workers in blended learning conditions, to identify the current state, analyze the methods of organizing independent work of educational seekers in the conditions of blended learning in institutions of professional (vocational-technical) education. Results: Based on the analysis of scientific literature, normative-legal documents, and empirical data, trends in organizing independent work in institutions of professional (vocational-technical) education have been identified and analyzed; a methodology for organizing the independent work of future qualified workers in blended learning conditions has been developed; its concepts and implementation stages have been defined. Conclusions: The implementation of the developed methodology contributes to the successful performance of educational tasks by learners, mastery of professional knowledge, formation of skills and abilities, development of self-organization skills, work and time planning, self-control, enhancement of the level of digital culture, which prospectively will manifest through increased levels of confidence and independence of the individual, ability to plan one's time, interact in a digital society, be competitive in the labor market, mobile, and professionally grow throughout life.

How visuomotor predictability and task demands affect tactile sensitivity on a moving limb during object interaction in a virtual environment.

Tactile sensitivity is decreased on a moving limb compared to the same static limb. This tactile suppression likely reflects an interplay between sensorimotor predictions and sensory feedback. Here, we examined how visuomotor predictability influences tactile suppression. Participants were instructed to hit an approaching virtual object, with the object either never rotating, or always rotating, or rotating unpredictably, prompting related movement adjustments. We probed tactile suppression by delivering a vibrotactile stimulus of varying intensities to the moving hand briefly after the object's rotation and asked participants to indicate if they had felt a vibration. We hypothesized that Unpredictable Rotations would require upweighting of somatosensory feedback from the hand and therefore decrease suppression. Instead, we found stronger suppression with unpredictable than Predictable Rotations. This finding persisted even when visual input from the moving hand was removed and participants had to rely solely on somatosensory feedback of their hand. Importantly, we found a correlation between task demand and tactile suppression in both experiments, indicating that task load can amplify tactile suppression, possibly by downweighting task-irrelevant somatosensory feedback signals to allow for successful task performance when visuomotor task demands are high.

Impact of goal-tracking on engagement in language use in an online TBLT module for thai university students

This study investigates the impact of using a criterion-referenced goal-tracking system on task engagement. The study was conducted during a fully-online TBLT program that consisted of 24 task performances of an interactive task type, Giving Directions, sequenced from less to more complex. Seventy-eight first-year English for International Communication majors at a university in Thailand completed the 6-h TBLT module in either one of two groups: 1) Goal-tracking, which required learners to reflect on whether they had met pre-determined criteria for successful task performance, and 2) non-goal-tracking, which required learners to reflect on their performance without the provision of any performance criteria. To determine the impact of goal-tracking on task engagement, task performances before and after the module were analyzed for indicators of Engagement in Language use (ELU) and included words and turns produced (behavioral engagement), backchannels (social engagement), and negotiation of meaning sequences (cognitive engagement). A multivariate analysis revealed that learners significantly improved in ELU after completion of the TBLT module regardless of group. However, while goal-tracking resulted in significantly more negotiation of meaning sequences (cognitive engagement), non-goal-tracking did not. Results are discussed in terms of how goal-tracking within a TBLT course might be implemented to improve task engagement.

12 AppReminders - A pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial of a memory aid app for people with acquired brain injury

Objective:Mobile phone reminding apps can be used by people with acquired brain injury (ABI) to compensate for their memory impairments. However off-the-shelf apps may be difficult to use. ApplTree has been developed to be accessible to this group, compared to off-the-shelf reminding apps such as Google Calendar. This pilot feasibility trial aimed to establish the feasibility of running (and issues that should be addressed to complete) a randomised controlled trial comparing ApplTree to Google Calendar in an ABI community treatment setting.Participants and Methods:Adults with self or other reported memory difficulty after an ABI were enrolled (n=39). Those who completed the baseline phase were randomised (n=29) and randomly allocated to the Google Calendar or ApplTree intervention. They were shown a 30 minute video tutorial of the app and an assessment on their ability to use it. Timely completion of everyday memory tasks were measured for a 3 week pre-intervention baseline and 3 week post-intervention follow-up phase. Participants also completed neuropsychological tests assessing memory, attention and executive function and gave qualitative feedback on the app and their experience in the trial.Results:Recruitment rate was 58% of the target (29 were randomised, n=50 was the target in 2 years). Retention rate was 65.5% and adherence rate was 57.9%. While the feasibility trial was not powered to calculate efficacy, there was a 13% increase in everyday memory tasks completed on time for those in the ApplTree group (n=10) compared to baseline and no change for the Google Calendar group (n=9). Feasibility results indicate 72 participants would need to fully complete a trial to detect the minimum clinically important difference (12.5% increase in successful performance of everyday memory tasks) in the efficacy of ApplTree compared to Google Calendar, should such a difference exist.Conclusions:The challenges with recruitment of people receiving community care for ABI are highlighted in this trial and discussed along with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Methodological considerations for researchers or clinicians looking to measure everyday memory ability are discussed. The majority (19 of 21) of participants who were given an app were capable of learning to use it during an hour-long session. This indicates it is a feasible intervention that community ABI services could offer. Participant feedback highlighted the merits of design features implemented in ApplTree that can improve the uptake and utility of reminding apps.

Feeling and deciding: Subjective experiences rather than objective factors drive the decision to invest cognitive control

When presented with the choice to invest cognitive control in a task, several signals are monitored to reach a decision. Leading theoretical frameworks argued that the investment of cognitive control is determined by a cost-benefit computation. However, previous accounts remained silent on the potential role of subjective experience in this computation. We experience confidence when giving an answer, feel the excitement of an anticipated reward, and reflect on how much effort is required for successful task performance. Two questions are investigated in the present work: how objective task parameters give rise to subjective experience and whether these drive the decision to allocate cognitive control. To this end, we designed a task in which we manipulated three objective parameters in the same sequence of events (stimulus uncertainty, physical effort, and reward prediction error). We asked participants to report their subjective experiences associated with these manipulations: confidence, subjective physical effort, and reward satisfaction. At the end of each trial, participants indicated whether they wanted to repeat that trial on the next day. In response to the first question, we demonstrate that subjective ratings are reliable and selective. Subjective experiences closely mirrored their objective manipulations. In response to the second question, we demonstrate that subjective experiences provide a better fit for the decisions on future control investments. While objective task parameters are considered when deciding, they do not always produce the expected changes in subjective experience, and when dissociations occur, it is the subjective experience that better explains the decision to allocate cognitive control.

Specialized late cingulo-opercular network activation elucidates the mechanisms underlying decisions about ambiguity

Cortical task control networks, including the cingulo-opercular (CO) network play a key role in decision-making across a variety of functional domains. In particular, the CO network functions in a performance reporting capacity that supports successful task performance, especially in response to errors and ambiguity. In two studies testing the contribution of the CO network to ambiguity processing, we presented a valence bias task in which masked clearly and ambiguously valenced emotional expressions were slowly revealed over several seconds. This slow reveal task design provides a window into the decision-making mechanisms as they unfold over the course of a trial. In the main study, the slow reveal task was administered to 32 young adults in the fMRI environment and BOLD time courses were extracted from regions of interest in three control networks. In a follow-up study, the task was administered to a larger, online sample (n = 81) using a more extended slow reveal design with additional unmasking frames. Positive judgments of surprised faces were uniquely accompanied by slower response times and strong, late activation in the CO network. These results support the initial negativity hypothesis, which posits that the default response to ambiguity is negative and positive judgments are associated with a more effortful controlled process, and additionally suggest that this controlled process is mediated by the CO network. Moreover, ambiguous trials were characterized by a second CO response at the end of the trial, firmly placing CO function late in the decision-making process.

Bilateral arm movements are coordinated via task-dependent negotiations between independent and codependent control, but not by a "coupling" control policy.

Prior research has shown that coordination of bilateral arm movements might be attributed to either control policies that minimize performance and control costs regardless of bilateral symmetry or by control coupling, which activates bilaterally homologous muscles as a single unit to achieve symmetric performance. We hypothesize that independent bimanual control (movements of one arm are performed without influence on the other) and codependent bimanual control (two arms are constrained to move together with high spatiotemporal symmetry) are two extremes on a coordination spectrum that can be negotiated to meet infinite variations in task demands. To better understand and distinguish between these views, we designed a task where minimization of either control costs or asymmetry would yield different patterns of coordination. Participants made bilateral reaches with a shared visual cursor to a midline target. We then covertly varied the gain contribution of either hand to the shared cursor's horizontal position. Across two experiments, we show that bilateral coordination retains high task-dependent sensitivity to subtle visual feedback gain asymmetries applied to the shared cursor. Specifically, we found a change from strong spatial covariation between hands during equal gains to more independent control during asymmetric gains, which occurred rapidly and with high specificity to the dimension of gain manipulation. Furthermore, the extent of spatial covariation was graded to the magnitude of perpendicular gain asymmetry between hands. These findings suggest coordination of bilateral arm movements flexibly maneuvers along a continuous coordination spectrum in a task-dependent manner that cannot be explained by bilateral control coupling.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Minimization of performance and control costs and efferent coupling between bilaterally homologous muscle groups have been separately hypothesized to describe patterns of bimanual coordination. Here, we address whether the mechanisms mediating independent and codependent control between limbs can be weighted for successful task performance. Using bilaterally asymmetric visuomotor gain perturbations, we show bimanual coordination can be characterized as a negotiation along a spectrum between extremes of independent and codependent control, but not efferent control coupling.

734 A User-Centered Design Approach for a Burn Recovery Mobile Platform

Abstract Introduction People with burn injuries experience challenges in multiple domains including wound and scar management, pain/pruritus, psychosocial recovery, return-to-work, and community re-integration. Mobile software platforms can provide clear, concise, and consumable information across different stakeholder groups. These platforms require a user experience (UX) that values users’ expressed needs to maximize engagement with critical information. This study seeks to inform the UX for an outpatient mobile software platform to optimize recovery. Methods We performed semi-structured, in-depth interviews at a regional burn center with patients, clinicians, and carers to understand participant background, personal values, and requirements of a recovery platform. Interviews were transcribed and analyzed using grounded theory analysis and affinity mapping to surface major themes. Results Fourteen in-depth interviews (over 13.5 hours) were conducted with six patients, six clinicians, and two carers. Thematic analysis identified four principal themes and corresponding UX requirements: (1) Provide a clear path to recovery: need for easily understood temporal visualizations of recovery experiences in multiple domains. This includes outlining paths that list relatively individualized tasks critical for recovery. (2) Facilitate task habituation: UX to ease successful task performance such as daily schedules, reminders and integration of recovery tasks with activities of daily living. (3) Maintain motivation: recovery progress tracking, motivational messages and visualization of long-term recovery trends to maximize task adherence. Patients and clinicians identified goal-authoring and recovery progress as key motivators in performing recovery tasks. (4) Create a burn community: access to other people with burn injuries through integrated forums. Neither patients nor clinicians desired to directly communicate with each other through the platform, instead preferring existing electronic health record methods. Conclusions This study identified initial UX requirements for a person with burn injury-centered platform. There is strong support for temporal representations of recovery paths across multiple domains, UX design to facilitate and motivate users to stay engaged in performing critical recovery tasks, and access to the burn community. Applicability of Research to Practice Interviews of prospective users outlined four important features to include in the UX design of an online burn recovery platform.

Current Understanding of Verbal Fluency in Alzheimer's Disease: Evidence to Date.

Since their development, verbal fluency tests (VFTs) have been used extensively throughout research and in clinical settings to assess a variety of cognitive functions in diverse populations. In Alzheimer's disease (AD), these tasks have proven particularly valuable in identifying the earliest forms of cognitive decline in semantic processing and have been shown to relate specifically to brain regions associated with the initial stages of pathological change. In recent years, researchers have developed more nuanced techniques to evaluate verbal fluency performance, extracting a wide range of cognitive metrics from these simple neuropsychological tests. Such novel techniques allow for a more detailed exploration of the cognitive processes underlying successful task performance beyond the raw test score. The versatility of VFTs and the richness of data they may provide, in light of their low cost and speed of administration, therefore, highlight their potential value both in future research as outcome measures for clinical trials and in a clinical setting as a screening measure for early detection of neurodegenerative diseases.

Особенности внутриличностных конфликтов сотрудников полиции в процессе адаптации к службе в органах внутренних дел Российской Федерации

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the intrapersonal conflict of an employee of the internal affairs bodies, which can unfold not only with oneself, but also be extrapolated to the social environment. Thanks to the generalization of concepts created by domestic scientists, it was revealed that the intrapersonal conflict state of an employee of the internal affairs bodies is characterized by the presence of mutually exclusive and incompatible motivational and value bases and goal aspirations, the contradictory force of which a person cannot overcome in his activity. The conclusion is made about the difficulties in adaptation, which provoke intrapersonal conflicts, negatively affect motivation and reduce the effectiveness of the performance of official duties by police officers. Successful performance of official tasks by a police officer accelerates positive change and promotes personal and professional development. Useful life experience is a source of self-knowledge and strengthening of mental integrity. From a certain point in time, a person himself begins to purposefully plan his own life and manage it.

Pausing and reorienting behaviors enhance the performance of a spatial working memory task

During spatial working memory tasks, animals need to retain information about a previous trial in order to successfully select their next trajectory. Specifically, the delayed non-match to position task requires rats to follow a cued sample trajectory, then select the opposite route after a delay period. When faced with this choice, rats will occasionally exhibit complex behaviors, such as pausing and sweeping their head back and forth. These behaviors, called vicarious trial and error (VTE), are thought to be a behavioral manifestation of deliberation. However, we identified similarly complex behaviors during sample-phase traversals, despite the fact that these laps do not require a decision. First, we identified that these behaviors occurred more often after incorrect trials than before them, indicating that rats are retaining information between trials. Next, we determined that these pause-and-reorient (PAR) behaviors increased the likelihood of the next choice being selected correctly, suggesting that these behaviors assist the rat in successful task performance. Finally, we identified similarities between PARs and choice-phase VTEs, suggesting that VTEs may not only be reflective of deliberation, but may also contribute to a strategy for successful performance of spatial working memory tasks.

Information culture as a component of the formation of state policy in the field of vocational pre-higher education

The current stage of development of social relations is characterized by rapid activation of digital (information) technologies. The intensive progress of science and technological progress have become the main features of modern society. The use of digital technologies gave impetus to the processes of transformation in society - the informational transformation of social relations, which is expressed in the application of modern digital technologies in various spheres of human activity. Education acquires new features and a new meaning in the information society.
 It was noted that the prospects of future use by specialists of the possibilities of informatization, the possibility of online communication, the use of automated search and reference legal systems and electronic databases of legal information call for the need to study information culture as a component of state policy in the field of vocational pre-university education.
 The article is devoted to highlighting those changes that form new relations in society, and shows the importance of the formation of information culture and its influence on the implementation of state policy in the field of vocational pre-higher education.
 It is emphasized that the successful performance of tasks in any field of production also depends on the information culture of specialists, which consists in the knowledge and ability to use the entire set of legal means of working with information during the performance of official duties within the limits of competence established by law and other legal acts . It was established that today a manager, a high-level specialist, is obliged to work with a computer, use the capabilities of information systems and work with large amounts of information.
 It is suggested that, in the implementation of state policy in the field of vocational pre-higher education, serious attention should be paid to the formation of information culture. In addition, during the training of specialists in vocational higher education institutions, one of the mandatory disciplines should be "Information culture".

Джиу-джитсу як засіб підвищення рівня фізичної підготовленості курсантів закладів вищої освіти МВС України

Purpose: is efficiency research of the use of jiu-jitsu means to increase the level of physical fitness of cadets of higher education institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. Material and methods. For comprehensive knowledge of the subject of research, implementation of the goal and objectives of the research, a set of methods has been used that mutually complemented each other: the study and analysis of methodical and special literature, curricula, educational programs; synthesis and generalization; comparison; comparison and analogy; pedagogical observation (using instrumental techniques); testing of physical fitness of cadets of higher education institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (100 m run; 1000 m run; complex strength exercise; shuttle run 10x10; long jump), pedagogical experiment; mathematical and statistical data processing. 125 cadets of Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine aged 18-20 years were involved in the research, from which experimental (65 people) and control groups (60 people) have been formed. The control group included wrestlers, who practiced according to the standard program. In the educational and training process of the experimental group, jiu-jitsu means have been implemented to increase the level of physical fitness of the cadets. Results: based on the results of the assessment at the ascertainment stage, it has been determined that most indicators of the physical fitness (100 m run, s – 14,40±0,12; 1000 m run, min/s – 3,92±0,05; complex strength exercise, times per minute – 51,50±1,25; shuttle running 10x10 m, s – 29,20±0,87; long jump, cm – 233,32±2,63) of the cadets were satisfactory, in accordance with the exercises and standards approved by the Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, and needed further improvement. After the implementation of the developed program with the use of jiu-jitsu means, during the formative stage of the pedagogical experiment, the cadets of the experimental group experienced a probable improvement in all indicators of general physical fitness, which confirms the positive impact of the developed program on improving the speed 100 m run, s – 13,52±0,11, р<0,001strength (complex strength exercise, times per minute – 59,74±1,04, p<0,001), speed-strength ( long jump, cm – 253,4±2,42, p<0,001), coordination abilities (shuttle run 10x10 m, s –27,05±0,47, p<0,001) of cadets and endurance (1000 m run, min s – 3,33±0,09, p<0,001). However, in the control group of the cadets, no significant changes have been noted in most indicators, with the exception of complex strength training (55,69±1,01 times per minute, р<0,01) and long jump (241,33±2,31 cm, р<0,05), which underwent significant changes. The comparison of the results of the physical fitness test between the experimental group and the control group at the end of the pedagogical experiment have revealed the presence of probable differences between the groups in all studied indicators. Conclusions. The author's program with the use of jiu-jitsu means to increase the level of physical fitness of the cadets of higher education institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine plays a positive role in training the fighting skills and adaptation of police officers, increases the effectiveness of teaching. The pedagogical experiment, which has been conducted to study changes in the physical fitness of the cadets under the influence of classes according to the developed program with the use of jiu-jitsu tools, ensures high work capacity, successful performance of functional duties and operational-administrative tasks.