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Byly popsány poslední objevy z oblasti nitrooční refrakční chirurgie I have described the recent discoveries of refractive exe surgery

Social memory refers to the fundamental ability of social species to recognize their conspecifics in quite different contexts. Sleep has been shown to benefit consolidation, especially of hippocampus-dependent episodic memory whereas effects of sleep on social memory are less well studied. Here, we examined the effect of sleep on memory for conspecifics in rats. To discriminate interactions between the consolidation of social memory and of spatial context during sleep, adult Long Evans rats performed on a social discrimination task in a radial arm maze. The Learning phase comprised three 10-min sampling sessions in which the rats explored a juvenile rat presented at a different arm of the maze in each session. Then the rats were allowed to sleep (n = 18) or stayed awake (n = 18) for 120 min. During the following 10-min Test phase, the familiar juvenile rat (of the Learning phase) was presented along with a novel juvenile rat, each rat at an opposite arm of the maze. Significant social recognition memory, as indicated by preferential exploration of the novel over the familiar conspecific, occurred only after post-learning sleep, but not after wakefulness. Sleep, compared with wakefulness, significantly enhanced social recognition during the first minute of the Test phase. However, memory expression depended on the spatial configuration: Significant social recognition memory emerged only after sleep when the rat encountered the novel conspecific at a place different from that of the familiar juvenile in the last sampling session before sleep. Though unspecific retrieval-related effects cannot entirely be excluded, our findings suggest that sleep, rather than independently enhancing social and spatial aspects of memory, consolidates social memory by acting on an episodic representation that binds the memory of the conspecific together with the spatial context in which it was recently encountered.

The WA97 experiment has measured the transverse mass \(({m_{\mathrm T}})\) spectra for negative hadrons (\(\mathrm{h}^-\)) and strange particles produced at mid–rapidity in Pb–Pb collisions. The increased statistics of analysed data samples allowed us to perform a study of the spectra of \({\rm K_S^0}\), \(\mathrm{\Lambda}\), \(\mathrm{\Xi}\), \(\mathrm{\Omega}\) and \(\mathrm{h}^-\) as a function of the collision centrality. The data, which correspond to the most central 40% of the total inelastic cross section, have been divided into four centrality classes according to the estimated number of nucleons taking part in the collision. The \(m_{\mathrm T}\) spectra, analysed separately for each centrality bin, exhibit only weak (\(\leq\) 15%) centrality dependence. The deviation of the \(\mathrm{\Omega}\) inverse slope from the linear dependence on the particle mass is confirmed even for the most central Pb–Pb collisions.

Ticks and tick-borne diseases (TBDs) have a major economic impact on animal production worldwide. In the present study, 2410 ticks were collected from January to August 2017 from livestock and other domestic animals in North Kordofan and Kassala, Sudan, for species identification and investigation of Rickettsia spp. and piroplasms, either individually or as pools containing up to 10 ticks by molecular methods. In total, 13 tick species were identified by morphology and 16S rDNA sequencing. The most frequent tick species were Hyalomma impeltatum (24.90%), Rhipicephalus evertsi evertsi (18.84%), Amblyomma lepidum (16.06%), and Rhipicephalus camicasi (12.49%). A pan-Rickettsia real-time PCR revealed an overall minimum infection rate (MIR) with Rickettsia spp. of 5.64% (136 positive tick pools/2410 total ticks). Rickettsia africae and Rickettsia aeschlimannii were the most frequently identified species by sequencing. Furthermore, the following highly pathogenic livestock parasites were detected: Theileria annulata, Theileria lestoquardi, Theileria equi, and Babesia caballi. The present study documented Rhipicephalus afranicus as well as Rickettsia conorii israelensis, Rickettsia massiliae, and Babesia pecorum for the first time in Sudan. These findings are significant for the animal production sector as well as in terms of One Health, as the detected Rickettsia spp. can cause serious illness in humans.

To have more detailed information about rock massif behaviour, distributed control and measurement network for evaluation of hydrologic, geomechanical and other parameters has been built up in the medieval Jeroným Mine from the first half of 2006. Instrumentation is generally based on commercial control kit and sensors. This network is integrated to the seismic recording apparatus equipped by data transmission via GSM network to registration centre in Ostrava. Completely monitoring system is performed as modular to have possibility to change configuration of this system.

The aim of the paper is to present results of a survey study on classroom management strategies of student teachers on their long term teaching practice in lower secondary classes from the point of view of their cognitive openness, i.e. openness to experience which is one of the key personal characteristics influencing classroom management. Another aim is to discuss experience using the Czech version of Behavioral and Instructional Management Scale – BIMS (Martin & Sass, 2010) and Need for (Cognitive) Closure Scale – NFCS (Roets & Van Hiel, 2011, Czech version by Širůček, 2014). Cílem příspěvku je představit výsledky dotazníkového šetření strategií řízení třídy u studentů učitelství na praxích na druhém stupni základních škol, a to ve vztahu k jejich otevřenosti vůči zkušenosti, resp. kognitivní otevřenosti, jakožto jednou z klíčových osobnostních charakteristik ovlivňujících řízení třídy. Dílčím cílem je také diskutovat o zkušenostech s použitím české verze dotazníku Behavioral and Instructional Management Scale – BIMS (Martin & Sass, 2010) a Need for (Cognitive) Closure Scale – NFCS (Roets & Van Hiel, 2011, česká verze Širůček, 2014).

A search is performed for Higgs-boson-mediated flavor-changing neutral currents in the decays of top quarks. The search is based on proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb$^{-1}$ at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. Events in which a top quark pair is produced with one top quark decaying into a charm or up quark and a Higgs boson (H), and the other top quark decaying into a bottom quark and a W boson are selected. The Higgs boson in these events is assumed to subsequently decay into either dibosons or difermions. No significant excess is observed above the expected standard model background, and an upper limit at the 95% confidence level is set on the branching fraction B(t $\to$ Hc) of 0.40% and B(t $\to$ Hu) of 0.55%, where the expected upper limits are 0.43% and 0.40%, respectively. These results correspond to upper limits on the square of the flavor-changing Higgs boson Yukawa couplings $|\lambda^{H}_{tc}|^2$ < 6.9 $\times$ 10$^{-3}$ and $|\lambda^{H}_{tu}|^2$ < 9.8 $\times$ 10$^{-3}$. Journal of high energy physics 1702(02), 079(2017). doi:10.1007/JHEP02(2017)079 Published by Springer, Berlin