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Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) is a rare disease caused by human papillomavirus. Aggressive forms of RRP require repeated cytoreductive surgery to restore airway patency. Tracheal disease is even less common and lung parenchyma is involved in less than 1% of patients. We present reports of three cases of RRP with progressive lung disease in adult patients. Keywords: Respiratory papillomatosis, Airways, Pulmonary parenchyma, Cavitation

The article highlights the specific features of the foreignlanguage instruction in the system of higher education in Russia. The principles of teaching French for future specialists in mining industry of Kuzbass in comparison with that of English in the institutions of higher education are analyzed. The focus is on the actual difference of approaches to teaching French and English at universities from the standpoint of the student/teacher ratio, basic principles of language education and its content. The variety of extracurricular activities at Kemerovo universities is described as a solution to the current problems in teaching French. The contribution of Language and Culture Centers at Kemerovo State University to training specialists for coal-mining enterprises of Kuzbass is revealed.

The culture of contemporaneity presents itself through various concepts and discourses that constitute the category of everyday life, which they reveal and portray. In linguistic terms, the category of everyday life is manifested in different forms of communication, and first of all in the system of norms and models of speech behavior, known as speech etiquette. The goal of the article is to analyze the use of some models of English speech etiquette, specifically the use of politeness forms typical of the English. Politeness strategy presents itself in various types, as absolute, relative, negative or positive politeness. The type of politeness presupposes a definite form of etiquette speech act. Politeness strategy is analyzed in speech acts of apologies and condolences, through their pragmatic structures.

The coal-mining industry ensures its sustainable development by forming the complex regional environment, embracing urban, social, cultural, linguistic, and academic components. The environment eventually exerts itself in a number of outcomes. It makes up a multiform regional cogniosphere (i.e. noosphere, ideosphere, logosphere, semiosphere, conceptosphere) responsible for increasing the regional population’s awareness of the coal mining specifics, as well as forms positive attitudes to the mining sector of economy and mining professions, and finally forges the regional identity. The environment is responsible for increasing the popularity of professional coal-mining education which enables the stability and survivability of the mining professions and efficient personnel change in due time. The environment affects adjacent economic spheres (tourism, service, recreation, production, etc.) so as they can make use of the regional specific features and diversify their products and services. Thus, the coal-mining industry and the above mentioned environment form a closed-cycle system whose constituents affect each other mutually and ensure efficient coexistence and development. The cultural, linguistic, and urban environment of the region can be viewed as additional means of supporting and promoting sustainable development of the regional economy and culture through its manipulative potential.

The current paper features the problem of teaching foreignlanguage mining vocabulary to would-be translators / interpreters and mining students. The one-industry city environment poses a challenge in front of those higher education institutions that offer a master degree in translation: as long as the best jobs in the region are offered by coal-mining enterprises, developing language and translation skills is not enough. A professional translator in a coal-mining region has to be familiar with mining vocabulary, which, like in any other high-tech production sphere, seems either too abstract or too specific for an outsider. Bachelors in coal mining, on the other hand, demonstrate a lack of communication skills if they wish to get a master degree in translation. The article states Content and Language Integrated Learning method (CLIL) as a possible solution for the problem. The method allows the instructor to employ various authentic media sources within the mining works to build up topic cases for communication skills development at the initial stage as well as to extract terminology to compile thematic glossaries at a later stage of translation skills acquisition. The paper includes some examples of CLIL application in teaching translation for coal-mining industry purposes.

Presented work is dedicated to the AgCl sensitization rate checking procedure by the reference cyanine dye absorption on the sensitized AgCl grains. The procedure under consideration allows to check a rate of the AgCl chemical sensitization down to the grain size of 0.15 micrometer.© (1998) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.

Photographic systems with a separate photographic change carriers capture in depth and on a surface of emulsion microcrystals (`core-shell') have a great importance for photographic technology (direct positive, infra-red films and etc.) and also for scientific investigation. We have precipitated AgBr(I) core microcrystals (with AgI content from 0 up to 6 mol.%), which then were subjected to chemical sensitization of various types (reduction, S, S+Au, Au). A sensitometric study of the covered by shell of various thickness and halide composition initial microcrystals has been carried out. An effect of the loss of internal sensitivity is found. A nature of this effect is proposed and ways of its elimination are offered.© (1998) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.