Formation of Engineers' Professional Orientation at Technical Higher Educational Institutions
The orientation acts as the system forming quality of the personality defining its psychological features. The goals and motives of human activities, its subjective attitudes towards different aspects of reality are expressed in an orientation. The article is devoted to the formation analysis of engineers' professional orientation at technical higher educational institutions. Results of experimental data monitoring on professional orientation formation in the University Educational Complex are presented. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5s1p117
The Analysis of Educational Projects for Continuous Training of Engineers at Various Stages of the Profile Educational Environment
The continuity of vocational training of engineers is an effective way of professional development of future specialist. The analysis of educational projects for continuous training of engineers at various stages of the profile educational environment is presented in the article. It is cited the experience of the activity of Association «The University training complex» of Penza State University of Architecture and Construction, which realizes on the praxis the principals of the uninterrupted education.
Aging live Antarctic fur seals and southern elephant seals
This study describes a method for extracting post-canine or incisor teeth from live antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) and southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) respectively and their use to determine age in a field situation. Dental elevators were used to loosen the teeth from the alveolus and periodental ligament. Most teeth were removed within l-2 min and a total of 214 and 81 teeth were collected by this method from antarctic fur seals and southern elephant seals respectively. No seal recaptured at intervals up to a year after a tooth was extracted showed signs of infection or distress related to removal of the tooth. Teeth were thin-sectioned for the purpose of aging. In both species cementum growth layer groups were a more satisfactory indicator of age than dentinal growth layer groups. Estimates of age from cementum growth layers were confirmed for Antarctic fur seals using seals which had been tagged as pups up to 16 yr before sampling.