Vol 21, No 4 (2014)

With the help of the neural network technologies, there has been developed a council forecasting information system allowing to forecast concentration of polluting substances in an industrial center’s air basin depending on meteorological conditions in studied territory. The forecast’s results have been compared with the results of the classical model - the regression analysis.

According to the results of the cross-sectional study of rural indigenous population of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), there has been studied the level of cholesterol and frequency of atherogenic changes of the lipid profile of the blood plasma. It has been found that in 35 % of the surveyed indigenous people, the level of cholesterol was 5.2 mmol/l or more, and in 10.8 % - 6.2 mmol/l or more. Among the persons with high cholesterol, atherogenic changes of the ratio of total cholesterol / HDL-C, LDL-C / HDL-C were observed in 19 % of the men and 8 % of the women (р = 0.014); logarithm (TRG / HDL-C ) - in 11 % of the men and women (p = 0.906). Thus, the high levels of the total cholesterol (5.2 mmol /l or more) in 80 % of the men and in 89% of the women was not accompanied by atherogenic changes in the lipid profile. This allows to consider the status of hypercholesterolemia in this population group in most of the cases as a manifestation of adaptive changes in lipid metabolism. The identified changes in atherogenic lipid profile were associated with presence of metabolic risk factors, what proves the need for determination of cholesterol in lipoprotein composition and a ratio of lipid fractions for choice of a right tactics for correction of the lipid risk factors.

With the use of the method of inverse voltammetry, we have analyzed some specific features of trace element status of children aged 1-3 years in Troitsko-Pechorsk of the Komi Republic taking into account the content of these elements in the environment (drinking water, snow cover). It has been found that the permissible content of zinc was observed in biosubstrates of 40 % of the examined children, copper - in 15 %, lead - in 20 %, and cadmium - in 65 %. The detected changes in the trace elements exchange in the examined children serve as a basis for formation of different diseases.

In the article on the basis of the synergetic bio-psycho-socio-spiritual methodology of mental ecology and mental medicine, there has been considered the design of virtual images and narrative meanings through the example of the modern English serial “Sherlock”. There have been described the phenomenology and mechanisms of realization of pathoplastic factors of mental ecology of the Anglo-Saxon world personified in the figure of the central character and accumulating urgent characteristics of social mind and mental health, social and personality identity. There has been grounded the necessity of adaptive development of social mind and introduction of mental health system monitoring allowing to assess effectiveness of mechanisms of morality interiorization and its translation to the level of individual morals.

In this paper we present theoretical principles of the use of non-parametric criteria for comparing two independent groups. Practical examples are presented with detailed explanations of the use of formulas as well as step-by-step algorithm on how to use STATA software for Mann-Whitney and two-sample Wilcoxon tests with subsequent interpretation of the outputs.