Astrakhan State University

About: Astrakhan State University is a education organization based out in Astrakhan, Russia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Percolation & Carbamate. The organization has 547 authors who have published 565 publications receiving 2367 citations.

Personality Profiles and the “Russian Soul”: Literary and Scholarly Views Evaluated

Abstract: Many domestic and foreign observers have claimed that Russians have a unique constellation of personality traits that mirrors their distinctive historical and cultural experience. To examine the hypothesized uniqueness of Russian personality, members of the Russian Character and Personality Survey collected data from 39 samples in 33 administrative areas of the Russian Federation. Respondents (N = 7,065) identified an ethnically Russian adult or college-aged man or woman whom they knew well and rated the target using the Russian observer-rating version of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory. The mean personality profile of Russians was very similar to the international average based on 50 different countries, debunking the myth of a unique Russian soul.The small variations from world norms did not converge with depictions of Russian national character in fiction and the scholarly literature. New items intended to capture distinctive, emic aspects of Russian personality provided no new information beyond...

Evaluation of growth, yield, relative performance and heat susceptibility of eight wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotypes grown under heat stress

Abstract: Eight spring wheat cultivars were evaluated under three heat stress conditions (early, late and very late) in order to identify suitable cultivars to develop heattolerant genotypes resistant to future global warming. Results from the study indicate that stress did not negatively affect flag leaf area in ‘Prodip’ and ‘Sufi’, flag leaf dry matter partitioning in ‘Prodip’, ‘BARI Gom-26’ and ‘Shatabdi’, above-ground dry matter partitioning in ‘Shatabdi’ and ‘BARI Gom-26’, seedling emergence in ‘Sufi’ and ‘BARI Gom-26’, or tiller production in ‘Sufi’ and ‘BARI Gom-26’. With respect to lower yield reduction, relative performance and heat susceptibility index (HSI), ‘Sufi’ was highly heat stress-tolerant, followed by ‘BARI Gom-26’ and ‘Shatabdi’. On the basis of HSI values in early heat stress and extremely late heat stress (corresponding to early and extremely late sowing), ‘BARI Gom-26’ (HSI=0.10, 0.65) and ‘Shatabdi’ (0.22, 0.62) were highly tolerant to early heat stress and moderately tolerant to extremely late heat stress while ‘Sufi’ was highly tolerant (0.35) to extremely late heat stress and moderately tolerant (0.51) to early heat stress. All other genotypes were susceptible to heat stress, among which ‘Gourab’ (2.19, 1.46) was the most susceptible followed by ‘Sourav’ (1.19, 1.42), ‘Prodip’ (1.03, 1.23), ‘BARI Gom-25’ (1.61, 0.89) and ‘Bijoy’ (1.04, 1.28). Thus, ‘BARI Gom-26’, ‘Shatabdi’ and ‘Sufi’ have the greatest potential to be used as high-yielding wheat genotypes under warm to hot environments and could be used in a breeding programme to develop heat-tolerant wheat.

Segregation in desiccated sessile drops of biological fluids

Abstract: It is shown here that concurrence between advection and diffusion in a drying sessile drop of a biological fluid can produce spatial redistribution of albumen and salt. The result gives an explanation for the patterns observed in the dried drops of the biological fluids.