In the article, the authors reviewed the main functions of the university planetariums and observatories in higher education. When considering higher education in Plato's tradition, the authors found that in addition to the three generally recognized functions, there is a fourth, perhaps the main function of the university planetariums and observatories. They form the planetary and cosmic thinking, i.e. person's spatial awareness on a scale of Earth and the cosmos. In fact, the university planetariums and observatories lay the foundation for the arête of a modern man: the inextricable link between the inner essence of a person and the space. They expand a person's world view from a regional and even planetary scale to the perception of the self as a product of cosmic processes, thus laying the foundation for the ontological orientation of individual self-realization to future studies. 1 The study sample included seventh-grade (12-13 years old) students. 2 Planetariums range in size from the 37 meter dome in St. Petersburg, Russia to three-meter inflatable portable domes where attendees sit on the floor. Section Three. Intelligent Matter Philosophy and Cosmology. Volume 23, 2019 132
Upcoming professional sports authorities seek rapid noninvasive biosensing tools for regular monitoring of athletes' physiological states. The analysis of saliva through luminescence‐based biosensors has been perceived as a suitable candidate for such purposes. The present study reports a qualitative bioluminescence assay based on a coupled enzyme system that consists of bacterial luciferase (BLuc) and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH):flavin mononucleotide (FMN) oxidoreductase (Red), BLuc‐Red, for the express diagnostics of athletes' stress levels before and after physical exertion. The volunteers who participated in the study were grouped as freestyle wrestlers and students who adapted to different levels of physical activities. Under physical exertion modelling conditions, the influence of participant saliva on BLuc‐Red catalyzed light emission was investigated. Results showed a significant increase in residual luminescence (Iexp, mean maximum bioluminescence intensity of the experimental measurement (Iexp); Ic, luminescence intensity in control; Iexp/Ic, %) values for participants in the wrestler group while a decrease in the student group (P < 0.05). Such contrasting residual luminescence values in both groups were found to be dependent on the catalase activity of saliva. The proposed bioluminescence assay can be utilized as a potential nonspecific biosensing tool for determining the physical state of athletes under high loads.
The severity of pain and changes in the adaptational status were studied in patients with brain metastases or cervical cancer receiving xenon therapy after whole brain radiotherapy or after radical hysterectomy. Hematological indicators of the nature and tensiton of general nonspecific adaptional reactions of the body (ARs) by Garkavi-Kvakina-Ukolova, the QLQ-C15 questionnaire and a 10-point graphic visual analogue scale for the assessment of the intensity of pain were used. Xenon caused concurrent reduce in the intensity of pain and improvement of characteristics of ARs in all studied patients. The results suggested an association between the analgesic effect of xenon and the normalization of neuroimmune processes and reduced damaging effects of special antitumor treatment on the body under the influence of xenon.
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