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
Efficiency of Training of Engineers in the Conditions of Educational Environment Profiling of Technical Higher Education
Efficiency of training of engineers in the conditions of educational environment profiling of technical higher education is analyzed. Results of monitoring of experimental data according to criterion of readiness of future engineers for competitive professional activity are presented.
Genetic Effects of Acute and Chronic Ionizing Irradiation on Pinus sylvestrisL. Inhabiting the Chernobyl Meltdown Area
The main results of the 12-year radiation-genetic monitoring of radiobiological, cytogenetic, and genetic parameters in Pinus sylvestrisforest plantation from the Chernobyl meltdown area are presented. The acute ionizing irradiation at doses > 1 Gy was shown to induce formation of morphoses and depressed growth; at doses >2 Gy, the reproductive ability of the trees declined. The radiobiological parameters showed a linear or close to linear dose-dependence relationship. The acute irradiation at a dose of 0.5 Gy induced cytogenetic and genetic effects that were significantly higher than the corresponding control values. The relationship between the cytogenetic effects and the absorbed dose was exponential. The dependence of the mutation frequency at specific loci on the absorbed dose was described by a nonlinear curve. The results of cytogenetic analysis of seedlings obtained from seeds annually collected in zones of slight, moderate, and strong damage of Pinus sylvestrisL. are presented.