Monitoring of ground subsidence movements over territory of mines being flooded in Budyonnovsky and Proletarsky districts in Donetsk city with help of GPS-technology

This paper considers the processes of activation in ground subsidence movements in flooding mine workings of mines being liquidated in two districts in Donetsk city on the area of more than 60km^2. A concept is given to build up control network of geomechanical monitoring in conditions of existing old mining operations at shallow depths (down to 100m), strong damages of objects of urban building. Given are GPS network structure, layouts for location of basic and local profile lines, special control stations for monitoring ground subsidence movements over the territory of mines being flooded. Results of the series of observations made are discussed and their accuracy is analyzed.

Contribution of pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy to survival and quality of life in patients with pancreatic exocrine insufficiency

The objective of this study was to analyze the current evidence for the use of pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT) in affecting survival and quality of life in patients with pancreatic exocrine insufficiency (PEI). Systematic searches of the literature were performed using the PubMed database. Articles were selected for inclusion if they reported findings from trials assessing the effects of PERT on quality of life, survival, malabsorption, growth parameters (such as height, body weight and body mass index), or gastrointestinal symptoms (such as abdominal pain, stool consistency and flatulence). PERT improved PEI-related malabsorption and weight maintenance in patients with cystic fibrosis, chronic pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer, and post-surgical states. In patients with chronic pancreatitis, PERT improved PEI-related symptoms and quality of life measures. Several small retrospective studies have also suggested that PERT may have a positive impact on survival, but long-term studies assessing this effect were not identified. PERT is effective for treating malnutrition and supporting weight maintenance, and it is associated with improved quality of life and possibly with enhanced survival in patients with PEI. However, there is evidence that not all patients with PEI receive adequate PERT. Future work should aim to assess the long-term effects of PERT on the survival of patients with PEI.

Hydrogen Civilization Doctrine: Whether the Humankind Can Prevent Global Ecological Catastrophe?

Hydrogen Civilization (HyCi) doctrine is a novel world outlook, all-embracing vision of the sustainability of the human future: humanity can preclude world climate catastrophe and conserve the biosphere's ability to maintain the life of humanity by the only way, just by the sustainable movement along the vector "Hydrogen Energy → Hydrogen Economy → Hydrogen Civilization". HyCi doctrine is overcoming boundaries between different sciences, between peoples and nations. Hydrogen civilization is a public ideal ('superattractor') putting in the forefront Shakespeare's Hamlet question on a global scale: "To be or not to be the humankind: that is the question".

Fundamental Laws of Structure and Form Changing of Palladium Loading with Hydrogen

There are reviewed some experimental results on metal-hydrogen and PdH x -hydrogen interaction. There is experimentally shown that penetration of hydrogen in palladium is accompanied with strong and micro structural effects, as well as grain shifts, etc. Moreover, the hydrogen saturation of palladium causes form-changing (bending) of palladium plate. These effects, undoubtedly, must be taken in account in technologies of low-temperature diffusion membrane apparatus exploitation.

Optimality Conditions and Algorithms for Direct Optimizing the Partial Differential Equations

New form of necessary conditions for optimality (NCO) is considered. They can be useful for design the direct infinite- dimensional optimization algorithms for systems described by partial differential equations (PDE). Appropriate algo-rithms for unconstrained minimizing a functional are considered and tested. To construct the algorithms, new form of NCO is used. Such approach demonstrates fast uniform convergence at optimal solution in infinite-dimensional space.

Usage of Cox-Regression Model for Forecasting of Survival Rate in Patients with the Early Stage of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

In the past decades a lot of investigations were focused on searching for more accurate markers of lung cancer progression. Researchers indicate that molecular markers may be useful in forecasting of treatment outcome and overall survival rate in patients with non-small cell lung cancer. The aim of our research was to create a forecasting model in order to identify patients with stage I-II of non-small cell lung cancer and dismal prognosis. Our research covered 254 patients with the early stage of non-small cell lung cancer who underwent a cure from June 2008 till December2012 inthe Department of Thoracic Surgery of Zaporizhzhia Regional Clinical Oncologic Dispensary. Surgery was performed for all patients. Adjuvant chemotherapy was performed for 101 patients. In order to carry out multivariate Cox-regression analysis, STATISTICA 6.0 (StatSoft Inc.) program was used. The most significant from 39 variables were selected (tumor size, histological form of tumor, volume of surgical intervention, volume of conducted lymph node dissection, Ki-67 expression, EGFR expression, E-cadherin expression). We propose the computer system which can forecast survival rate in patients with the early stage of non-small cell lung cancer.

Forecasting of Survival Rate in Patients with the Early Stage of Non Small Cell Lung Cancer

Lung cancer is the most common cause of death from oncological diseases all over the world. Primary treatment of patients with the early stage of non-small cell lung cancer is a surgery. However, after surgery 30% - 85% of patients undergo disease progression. In order to improve the results of treatment of patients with non-small cell lung cancer it is necessary to separate a group of patients with dismal prognosis for whom adjuvant chemotherapy will permit improving the survival rate. The aim of our research was to create a forecasting model with a view to detect the patients with the early stage of non-small cell lung cancer and dismal prognosis. Our research covered 254 patients with the early stage of non-small cell lung cancer who underwent a cure from June 2008 till December 2012 in the department of thoracic surgery of Zaporizhzhia Regional Clinical Oncologic Dispensary. In order to identify the factors connected with the risks of low survival rate of patients with the early stage of non-small cell lung cancer after curative treatment (surgical treatment, adjuvant chemotherapy), a method of design of neural network models of classification was used. 39 factors were taken for input characteristics. During investigation two forecasting models were built. As follows from the analysis of first forecasting model with the increase of the patient’s BMI, the risk of low patient survival rate statistically and significantly (p = 0.03) decreases, OR = 0.89 (95% CI 0.80 - 0.99) for each kg/m2 index value. The risk of low patient survival rate also decreases (p = 0.02) if he has a squamous cell carcinoma, OR = 0.36 (95% CI 0.15 - 0.88) compared with other histological forms of tumor. The connection between the risk of low patient survival rate and the volume of surgical intervention was discovered (p = 0.01), OR = 3.19 (95% CI 1.29 - 7.86) for patients who underwent a pulmonectomy compared with patients who underwent an upper bilobectomy. As follows from the analysis of second forecasting model with the increase of the patient’s BMI the risk of low patient survival rate statistically and significantly (p = 0.01) decreases;OR = 0.84 (95% CI 0.74 - 0.96) for each kg/m2 index value. It is found that with the increasing level of EGFR expression in the primary tumor, the risk of low patient survival rate statistically and significantly increases (p = 0.04), OR = 1.39 (95% CI 1.01 - 1.90) for each graduation rate. The risk of low patient survival rate also increases when conducting the lymph dissection in the volume D0 - D1.

Influence of Oxygen Addition on Structure and Properties of Titanium Produced by Electroslag Remelting

The current work is devoted to the investigation of oxygen impact on the structure and properties of titanium. For this purpose, oxygen was introduced into titanium during chamber electro-slag remelting by three different methods: alloying by oxygen-rich residues from the Kroll process to final values between 0.053 wt.-% and 0.40 wt.-%, by reaction with the gas phase to 0.27 wt.-% and by introduction of TiO2 nanoparticles to 0.73 wt.-%. The influence of oxygen on microstructure of titanium during crystallization, heat treatment and deformation is determined as well as the effect of oxygen on the hardness and the mechanical properties of the material in different structural states. Furthermore, control methods of the structure formation process by thermal effects are proposed. Results show that the chamber electroslag remelting allows obtaining a homogeneous structure of the ingot in the investigated range of oxygen content in titanium. The hardness does not vary by more than 10 percent in longitudinal or radial direction in any of the remelted ingots.