St. Petersburg College

The historical aspects of the development of the system of personnel training for railways at the level of secondary vocational education are studied. The main stages of the formation, development and current state of the St. Petersburg College of Railway Transport are given. The results of the introduction of modern technologies for training transport technicians are shown.The relevance of the study is related to solving the problems of secondary vocational education in the preparation of students in working specialties with their further promotion in the system of continuous education to personnel of higher professional qualifications. The issues of prospects for the development of targeted training for the training of employees for transport structures according to a personal educational program are touched upon. As directions for optimizing secondary vocational education, methods are proposed for developing cognitive interest in mastering professional competencies, introducing mentoring at enterprises and strengthening the professional orientation of the educational process. In the laboratories of the technical school, students collectively solve specific production problems, analyze situations, participate in business games, production quests at railway transport enterprises, etc. The participation of students in the championships of professional skills, demonstration exams in the logic of strengthening the professional orientation of training for the preparation of a highly qualified transport technician with a diploma of secondary vocational education is considered.

New multiplayer video games have risen in popularity with many features increasing the accessibility of communication in its diverse community.However, the structure of these games creates a platform for the cycle of discrimination by providing an inconsequential space for the dominant player group: straight white men.We look at examples of minimally moderated communication, character design, game layout, and marketing campaigns in Call of Duty (CoD) to argue how discriminatory behavior is reinforced in a developed subculture.In this paper, we use the feminist and critical race theories, focusing on Johan Huizinga's theory of the magic circle: a social contract between players with rules in a subspace that is separate from reality.Within the game, an insult is not offensive and instead becomes normalized vocabulary.Through this, CoD problematically reinforces prejudice against people of color and women in the real world, revealing the underlying assumptions and biases of the developers and players towards certain notions of gender and race.We argue that online multiplayer game spaces blur the lines of the magic circle and the players' view of gender and race is shaped, not from a modern or open-minded perspective, but instead from the rules of a videogame's subculture.

Abstract This study contributes to the emerging literature on household food security resilience by harmonizing food security indicators which capture different dimensions of food security, to compute a household food security resilience index that simultaneously reflects different dimensions of food security status. The estimated Poisson model had characteristics of the household, household head, sources of income, asset asset-related variables and other intuitive variables that could affect household food security resilience. Noteworthy in the results are the positive effect of income diversification, household savings, employment of household heads in the non-agricultural sector, gender, job stability, and education on household food security resilience. On the other hand, household size, dependent ratio, household head living away from the family, and being a seasonal worker or a daily paid worker are some variables that negatively impact household food security resilience. Although the negative coefficient of the income-generating sources of household food security resilience seems counterintuitive, this result shows that increase in the number of household businesses could impose time and resource constraints that could ultimately affect the food and nutritional security of the household over time.

Conventional (T2) and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) on brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and lactate and N-acetyl-aspartate (NAA) on MR spectroscopy (MRS) can characterize brain hypoxic-ischemic injury. We hypothesized these neuroimaging biomarkers would be associated with 1 year outcome after pediatric cardiac arrest in a multicenter, observational study. Fourteen US centers enrolled children aged < 18 years with pediatric intensive care unit admission post-arrest if pre- arrest Pediatric Cerebral Performance Category score was 1-3. Brain MRI/MRS performed within 2 weeks post-arrest were analyzed independently by 2 pediatric neuroradiologists blinded to outcome. MRI lesions on T2 and DWI were scored by region and severity (0=none, 1=mild, 2=moderate, 3=severe). Total MRI score was a sum of T2 and DWI lesions in gray and white matter (max 34). Lactate and NAA were measured in the basal ganglia, thalamus, and occipital-parietal white/gray matter and quantified by LCModel. Multivariate regression was performed to determine the association with unfavorable outcome (Vineland Adaptive Behavioral Scale < 70 or dead at 1 year). Of 164 children, 66 and 32 had evaluable MRI and MRS data and 23 (35%) and 12 (38%) had unfavorable outcome, respectively. Children with unfavorable outcome had more unwitnessed and out-of-hospital events. DWI lesions in all 4 lobes predicted unfavorable outcome, whereas T2 temporal gray and parietal white matter lesions predicted unfavorable outcome, p<0.05. T2/DWI lesions in the basal ganglia, thalamus, and centrum semi-ovale predicted unfavorable outcome, p<0.05. Cerebellar/ brain stem white matter lesions predicted unfavorable outcome, p<.05. Total MRI scores were markedly higher in the unfavorable group (median [interquartile range]) (22 [7, 32] vs. 1 [0,8], p<0.001). Increased lactate and decreased NAA predicted unfavorable outcome in all 4 regions of interest, p<0.05. In a multivariate logistic regression, MRI total score (odds ratio 1.12 [95% confidence interval 1.05, 1.20]) and witnessed event status (0.07 [0.01, 0.34]) predicted outcome. Brain MRI and MRS biomarkers are useful to identify children with unfavorable outcome within 2 weeks post-cardiac arrest.