O sposobach wyrażania realiów mongolskich w języku polskim

Udostępnienie publikacji Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego finansowane w ramach projektu „Doskonałość naukowa kluczem do doskonałości kształcenia”. Projekt realizowany jest ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego w ramach Programu Operacyjnego Wiedza Edukacja Rozwój; nr umowy: POWER.03.05.00-00-Z092/17-00

Reviewing the Quality of Master’s Dissertations

This article reviews the quality of research done at the master's level at the National Academy of Governance, Mongolia. It explains the concepts of theories regarding the evaluation of research, and analyses master’s dissertations with the 16 criteria in seven categories. The overall analytical framework was based on the general criteria of credibility to define the quality of research, which was presented by Mårtensson et.al. (2016:597), as well as the questions to establish criteria that were used by Coughlan, Cronin, Ryan (2007:658) and CASP. The research result introduces subjects that research quality should focus upon to make better content, first and foremost being the internal accuracy of the research

The influence of the market on curricular provision by higher education institutions in Mongolia

This thesis examines the changes in Mongolian higher education in the context of the market and to assess their influence on institutions of higher education, in particular on curricular provision at undergraduate level. There is a sufficient number of theoretical as well as empirical research studies and publications on market-oriented or marketised higher education systems, but the literature reveals that there has been little research specifically addressing the effect of the market on undergraduate curricular provision. In the context of post-communist countries, there is also scant research that addressed the issues that arose in undergraduate provision during the transition period. Employing a multiple case study as a methodological approach, this thesis engages with Clark’s (1983:142) concept of ‘the triangle of coordination’ with, the three elements of coordination - state, market and academe -, and Jongbloed’s (2003) model of ‘the eight conditions for a market’ for higher education institutions. It shows what the nature of changes in Mongolian HE is since the first new democratic Education Law that set the foundation of market practices in higher education, how they came about and what the causes were, in order to understand the influence of this context on the provision. Through the thematic analysis of interviews and document review, the study shows how the higher education reform policy has been interpreted and implemented at the institutional level, and how this context has influenced undergraduate curricular provision. The study finds that, for Mongolian universities, academic programmes were the core factor in the increase of financial resources, consumer attraction and an institution’s reputation. There were two distinctive phenomena in terms of curricular responsiveness. One was the emergence of a wide range of new courses and new fields. The other was conceptual changes in delivering knowledge. The findings of causes for opening new fields were important as these illustrated the strength of the influence over undergraduate provision by either state or market

The thematic analysis of interview data: an approach used to examine the influence of the market on curricular provision in Mongolian higher education institutions

This article describes how thematic analysis was used in the analysis of the qualitative interviews in a doctoral study that was designed to examine the changes taking place in the higher education market in Mongolia in terms of undergraduate curricular provision. The paper presents a rationale for using thematic analysis demonstrating analytical rigour in the stages of coding and the identification of emergent themes through the use of NVivo

The Use of Double Test Biomarkers to Predict Fetal Nuchal Translucency Thickness in the Diagnosis of Trisomy 21: A Compromise between Sensitivity and Specificity

Objectives: The aim of study is to determine the sensitivity and specificity of screening for fetal trisomy 21 in the first trimester of pregnancy using a combination of maternal serum biomarkers and ultrasonography. The objectives of this study were to first duplicate and confirm within the Mongolian population, the results of other similar studies. Our results corroborated closely with those of other studies and further allowed us to draw conclusions and recommendations unique to Mongolia. A second objective was to apply these results to everyday obstetric practices within Mongolia and advance the state of prenatal care for all Mongolian women. Methods: Obstetric History: The obstetric history was recorded, and serum biomarkers were measured in 415 pregnancies.The degree of risk for trisomy 21 and other fetal aneuploidy were calculated using maternal age, the results of maternal serum pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A, free beta human chorionic gonadotropin, and fetal nuchal translucency thickness. Grouping of Test Subjects: Using a cut-off risk estimate of 1 in 300, the women were grouped into positive and negative screening groups. Sensitivity and specificity of the screening method were calculated from the available data. Results: Sensitivity of the screening test for fetal trisomy 21 was 66.6% and for all fetal aneuploidy was 83%. Specificity of the screening test for fetal trisomy 21 was 87.5% and for all fetal aneuploidy was 97.8% and the false positive rate was 2.2%. Our results are consistent with the results obtained in other international studies. Conclusions: Our study is unique in that it is the first such scientific examination of mothers at risk for congenital abnormalities in Mongolia. This study provides empirical evidence that the combination of the double test, maternal age, and fetal nuchal translucency thickness is an effective prenatal screening method for fetal aneuploidy pregnancy outcomes in Mongolia

A bacterial chloroform reductive dehalogenase: purification and biochemical characterization

© 2017 The Authors. Microbial Biotechnology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd and Society for Applied Microbiology. We report herein the purification of a chloroform (CF)-reducing enzyme, TmrA, from the membrane fraction of a strict anaerobe Dehalobacter sp. strain UNSWDHB to apparent homogeneity with an approximate 23-fold increase in relative purity compared to crude lysate. The membrane fraction obtained by ultracentrifugation was solubilized in Triton X-100 in the presence of glycerol, followed by purification by anion exchange chromatography. The molecular mass of the purified TmrA was determined to be 44.5 kDa by SDS-PAGE and MALDI-TOF/TOF. The purified dehalogenase reductively dechlorinated CF to dichloromethane in vitro with reduced methyl viologen as the electron donor at a specific activity of (1.27 ± 0.04) × 103units mg protein−1. The optimum temperature and pH for the activity were 45°C and 7.2, respectively. The UV-visible spectrometric analysis indicated the presence of a corrinoid and two [4Fe-4S] clusters, predicted from the amino acid sequence. This is the first report of the production, purification and biochemical characterization of a CF reductive dehalogenase

Variations in the structure of airborne bacterial communities in Tsogt-Ovoo of Gobi desert area during dust events

Asian dust events transport the airborne bacteria in Chinese desert regions as well as mineral particles and influence downwind area varying biological ecosystems and climate changes. However, the airborne bacterial dynamics were rarely investigated in the Gobi desert area, where dust events are highly frequent. In this study, air samplings were sequentially performed at a 2-m high above the ground at the sampling site located in desert area (Tsogt-Ovoo of Gobi desert; Mongolia 44.2304°N, 105.1700°E). During the dust event days, the bacterial cells and mineral particles increased to more than tenfold of concentrations. MiSeq sequencing targeting 16S ribosomal DNA revealed that the airborne bacteria in desert area mainly belonged to the classes Acidobacteria, Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Chloroflexi, Bacilli, Alpha-proteobacteria, Beta-proteobacteria, and Gamma-proteobacteria. The bacterial community structures were different between dust events and non-dust events. The air samples collected at the dust events indicated high abundance rates of Alpha-proteobacteria, which were reported to dominate on the leaf surfaces of plants or in the saline lake environments. After the dust events, the members of Firmicutes (Bacilli) and Bacteroidetes, which are known to form endospore and attach with coarse particles, respectively, increased their relative abundances in the air samples. Presumably, the bacterial compositions and diversities in atmosphere significantly vary during dust events, which carry some particles from grassland (phyllo-sphere), dry lake, and sand surfaces, as well as some bacterial populations such as Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes maintain in the atmosphere for longer time. © 2016 The Author(s)Embargo Period 12 month