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Bioremediation of Carbendazim by Streptomyces albogriseolus

Carbendazim (methyl-1H-benzimidazol-2-ylcarbamate, or MBC) is a benzimidazole fungicide which is used to protect crops against the attack of fungi. MBC has a half-life of about 3-12 months and remain persistent in the environment which may lead to many harmful consequences. Besides chemical and photo-catalytic degradation of pesticides, microbial degradation has now been evolved as a much effective and safer way to eliminate these harmful compounds from the environment. However, in the literature very few reports are available where microbial community is involved in degrading MBC. Hence, the present study was planned to investigate the role of microbes isolated from the field soils for the bioremediation of MBC. Soil samples were collected from wheat fields of northern regions of India. Enrichment culture technique was employed to isolate the bacterium which was found to be growing at higher concentrations of MBC up to 500μg/ml. After biochemical and morphological analysis, the bacterium was identified as Streptomyces albogriseolus. Streptomyces albogriseolus was found to degrade MBC in a time-dependent manner from the initial concentration of 29 ppm to 285.67ppb and 62.73ppb in 24hrs and 48hrs respectively. LCMS-MS analysis was carried out to detect 2-aminobenzimidazole, a metabolite formed after degradation in 10 hrs of growth which eventually disappeared after 24hrs of growth. The strain Streptomyces albogriseolus holds a promising potential to be an efficient MBC bioremediation agent.
Inequality and Gender Inclusion: Minimum ICT Policy Thresholds for Promoting Female Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa

The study assesses how ICT modulates the effect of inequality on female economic participation in a panel of 42 countries in sub-Saharan Africa over the period 2004-2014. Three inequality indicators are used, namely: the Gini coefficient, the Atkinson index and the Palma ratio. The adopted ICT indicators are mobile phone penetration, internet penetration and fixed broadband subscriptions. Three gender economic inclusion indicators are also used for the analysis, namely: female labour force participation, female unemployment and female employment. The Generalised Method of Moments is employed as empirical strategy. The findings show that enhancing ICT beyond certain thresholds is necessary for ICT to mitigate inequality in order to enhance gender economic participation. First, for female labour force participation, a minimum threshold of 165.714 mobile phone penetration per 100 people is required for the Palma ratio. Second, minimum ICT thresholds for the reduction of female unemployment are: (i) 87.783, 107.486 and 152.500 mobile phone penetration per 100 people for respectively, the Gini coefficient, the Atkinson index and the Palma ratio; (ii) 39.618 internet penetration per 100 people for the Atkinson index and (iii) 4.500 fixed broadband subscriptions for the Palma ratio. Third, the corresponding ICT thresholds for the promotion of female employment are: (i) 120.369 and 85.533 mobile phone penetration per 100 people for respectively, the Gini coefficient and the Atkinson index and (ii) 30.005 internet penetration per 100 people for the Gini coefficient. The established thresholds make economic sense and can be feasibly implemented by policy makers in order to induce favourable effects on gender economic inclusion dynamics.
A COMPARISON OF VARIOUS QUASI-NEWTON SCHEMES FOR PARTITIONED FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION

During the last 5 years, quasi-Newton schemes have proven to be a robust and efficient way to couple partitioned fluid-structure interaction. We showed in previous work that they also allow to perform a parallel coupling. Bogaers et al. introduced a new variant based on a multi-vector update [14]. This variant renders a tuning of the reuse of old information unnecessary as all old iterations are implicitly covered in a Jacobian update. In this work, we compare this multi-vector variant in an inverse formulation to the classical IQN-ILS algorithm for serial as well as parallel coupling.
Assimilation of Satellite Infrared Radiances and Doppler Radar Observations during a Cool Season Observing System Simulation Experiment

AbstractAn observing system simulation experiment is used to examine the impact of assimilating water vapor–sensitive satellite infrared brightness temperatures and Doppler radar reflectivity and radial velocity observations on the analysis accuracy of a cool season extratropical cyclone. Assimilation experiments are performed for four different combinations of satellite, radar, and conventional observations using an ensemble Kalman filter assimilation system. Comparison with the high-resolution “truth” simulation indicates that the joint assimilation of satellite and radar observations reduces errors in cloud properties compared to the case in which only conventional observations are assimilated. The satellite observations provide the most impact in the mid- to upper troposphere, whereas the radar data also improve the cloud analysis near the surface and aloft as a result of their greater vertical resolution and larger overall sample size. Errors in the wind field are also significantly reduced when rada.
Ulcerative Colitis

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic inflammatory disease that primarily affects the colonic mucosa; it is most commonly diagnosed in patients aged 15-35 years, although the condition can affect patients of any age and of either sex. It's exact etiologie remain uncertain. The annual incidence of ulcerative colitis in western countries is estimated to be 6-8 cases per 100,000 individuals, with the prevalence reaching 70-150 cases per 100,000 individuals. The disease course is generally relapsing-remitting, with patients experiencing few or no gastrointestinal symptoms between symptomatic relapses. As medical options increase, decisions about the sequence and timing of therapy and surgery in particular become more difficult. Consequently a therapeutic strategy is necessary, keeping an eye on the direction of travel to avoid going round in circles from one incompletely effective therapy to another. Patients live with a considerable symptom burden despite medical treatment in the hope that a cure for ulcerative colitis will emerge. This article reviews the new advances in ulcerative colitis, epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, new therapeutic goals, as well as therapy that occurred in the past year.
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Department of Wound Healing, Welsh Wound Innovation Centre, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, CF72 8UX, UK Abstract: Optimal exudate management plays an important role in wound healing. Choosing the right methods for this purpose is the key in achieving successful outcomes in the management of chronic wounds. Gelling fiber dressings are a class of dressing that forms a gel when they come into contact with wound exudate. This property allows them to effectively lock in excess fluid and at the same time provides enough moisture for healing to progress. Alginate and chitosan are naturally occurring gelling agents used in dressings, whereas carboxymethyl-cellulose, also called carmellose, is synthetically produced. This article reviews the use of these gelling fiber dressings in chronic wounds with a particular focus on their ability to manage wound exudate effectively.
MNCs’ HRM/IR Strategy and Country of Origin Effect: Do American, European and Japanese Firms Differ?

Based upon survey data in 1999 drawn from 419 MNCs’ subsidiaries in Korea, we examined the exent to which MNCs adapt to the local practices in their HRM/IR strategy, and the extent to which MNCs impose home countries’ HRM/IR practices to their subsidiaries. We identified three conceptual generic HRM/IR strategies: transplantation, localization and mixed strategy. Our study has principal purpose to find the factors determining the MNCs’ choice of HRM/IR strategies, and in particular examine the country of origin effect in that choice. Multi-nominal logit analysis showed that the countries of origin do not play a significant role in the choice for transplantation strategy in comparison with other strategies. On the other hand, other situational factors such as industry, investment motive and foreign management team are significantly related to that choice. The countries of origin are shown to influence the choice between localization and mixed strategies. The extent to choose for localization strategy is stronger in Japanese MNCs than in European or North American MNCS. Their implications and directions for future research are discussed.
LUMBaR LIpoMa aND oCCULT LUMBaR DYsRapHIsM

www.ukctuzla. ba Lipomas in the form of a human tail in the lumbar region with occult spinal dysraphism constitute a very rare dysraphic spi­ nal abnormality, which is seldom seen in daily practice. This clinical entity commonly presents with local changes alone, and usually lacks neurological manifestations, although life-long risk of neurological deterioration is not negligible. Surgical in­ tervention for asymptomatic lipoma of the conus medullaris has been an area of controversy, primarily due to the scarcity of detailed studies regarding the natural history of this disor­ der. Nevertheless, the presence of esthetic or functional disor­ ders warrants surgical removal of these superficial masses. We report the case of a 10-year-old boy seen initially as an infant because of a lumbar appendage that caused only esthetic con­ cern. At that time, the child’s parents refused surgical removal of the malformation. Ten years afterwards, the patient himself presented our outpatient clinic requesting the removal of his esthetic defect.
PRODUCTION OF ETHANOL FROM AGRO-INDUSTRIAL WASTES: II - OPTIMIZING VARIABLES FOR ETHANOL PRODUCTION FROM RICE STRAW AND BEET PULP HYDROLYZATES.

Due to increasing commercial significance of ethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass, this study was conducted in an attempt to evaluate the process for ethanol production from the rice straw (RS) and sugar beet pulp (SBP) wastes as a cheap substitute of molasses using Saccharomyces cerevisiae thereby, reduce the cost of ethanol production, at the same time eliminates environmental impact of waste via open burning. This investigation has been carried out to study the influences of substrate concentration, pH, nitrogen source and incubation period on ethanol fermentation from (RS) and (SBP) hydrolzates. The results revealed that, the optimum conditions for ethanol production were attained at cultivation conditions being: 100g/l (w/v) sugar concentration; ammonium sulfate as nitrogen source, 5.0 pH and 48 hr incubation period at 30 ̊C. At previous fermentation conditions, ethanol yield was 44.42 g/l and 42.72 g/l with 88.24 and 88.09 (%) percentages of the theoretical yield for (RS-H) and (BP-H), respectively. And In this work, a good yield of ethanol was observed after 48 hr of fermentation using rice straw hydrolyzate medium, which shows a satisfactory performance and a potential for lowering ethanol production costs.
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Lucas Morin Amaia Calderon Larrañaga Anna-Karin Welmer Debora Rizzuto Jonas W Wastesson Kristina Johnell 1Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; 2Division of Physiotherapy, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; 3Allied Health Professionals, Function Area Occupational Therapy & Physiotherapy, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; 4Stockholm Gerontology Research Center, Stockholm, Sweden; 5Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Objective: To determine whether or not the exposure to multiple drugs (polypharmacy) increases the risk of fall-related injury among older adults, beyond the effect of fall-risk increasing drugs and chronic multimorbidity. Methods: Nested case-control study using linked register data with national coverage in Sweden. We defined cases as older adults (≥70 years) who had an incident non-elective admission due to a fall between 1 January and 31 December 2013. Cases were matched 1:1 on sex, age and index date to randomly selected controls from the general population. The number of prescription drugs during the 7 days preceding the index date was the main exposure. Results: A total of 49,609 cases were included and matched to an equal number of controls. The number of prescription drugs was higher among cases than among controls (mean difference 1.2, 95% CI 1.16–1.26). While adjusting for potential confounders, we found that the risk of injurious falls increased in a nearly linear fashion for each additional drug (OR, 1.02; 95% CI, 1.01–1.03). When using a cut-off value of ≥4 drugs to define polypharmacy, the population attributable fraction for injurious falls was 5.2% (95% CI 2.8–7.6). Conclusion: This study shows a monotonic dose-response relationship between the number of drugs and the risk of injurious falls. However, after comprehensive adjustment for known confounders (including fall-risk increasing drugs and chronic multimorbidity), this association is substantially weaker than previously reported. Moreover, even if the relationship between polypharmacy and injurious falls is really causal, the population attributable risk fraction is low.
Intelligibility of English in Thai Street Food Menus Perceived by East Asian Tourists.

This research aims to determine the intelligibility of Thai English used by local vendors on street food menus for East Asian tourists. To achieve the primary goal, the characteristics of Thai English used in dishes on street food menus, including Moo Nam Tok (Spicy sliced pork salad), Pad Thai (Thai-style stir-fried noodles), Khao Pad (Fried rice), Som Tam (Papaya salad), and Tom Yam Kung (Hot and sour lemongrass soup with shrimps), were collected from five famous street food areas, namely, Chinatown, Old Town, Sukhumvit, Silom and Sathorn, and Saphan Lueng. The research made use of Ngampramuan’s (2016) framework that divides Thai English features into two types: grammatical features and lexico-semantic features. Then, these characteristics were applied in the survey asking 100 Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean tourists to determine the extent of the intelligibility. The findings revealed that the grammatical features had higher intelligibility mean score, while lexico-semantic features had lower intelligibility mean score. This implies that Thai English with grammatical features on street food menus are easier to understand than lexicosemantic features.
The Effectiveness of a proposed training programme in formative assessment based on active learning, in the development of teaching performance of science teachers in the primary stage in Saudi Arabia

This work seeks to investigate the effects associated with training initiatives in line with formative assessment, as based on active learning, in an effort to enhance teaching amongst science teachers in Saudi primary schools. The programme comprised training sessions, all of which were ongoing for a period of two months. The researcher adopted an experimental approach centred on the design of the control and experimental groups so as to establish the overall efficiency of the suggested training programme. In the work, a sample made up of 33 primary school science teachers, based in Sakaka in Al-Jouf region, was used; the sample was randomly divided, with some assigned to an experimental group (16 teachers), with the remainder (17) assigned to a control group that had not received any professional development. The findings garnered indicate that the success of the proposed programme, in the case of the experimental group, was more a function of the control group in the telemetric higher. The proposed training programme was found to have a positive impact on the development of teaching performance in relation to different skills, such as think in pairs, group work and questions. Hence, formative assessment, as based on active learning, could fundamentally change the quality of teacher–student interactions.
Analyzing Psychological Goals in Gamified Applications Using i

This paper presents a model-based approach to guide the design of gamified applications. The models enable a structured representation and analysis of the social and intentional dimensions of the actors involved in the organizational context of the gamified system. The proposed notation (called GStar) makes use of the agentand goaloriented features of the i* modeling framework. The main contribution of this work is to bring the social and intentional aspects, which are usually treated in an ad hoc manner in the design of gamified systems, to the core of a modeling approach. This approach supports the analysis of the consequences of the inclusion of each gamification element and facilitates the evaluation by the designer of different alternatives, contributing to a project more suitable to the organizational context and more capable of fulfilling the established goals.
Integrated Diabetes Oncology Care

Integrated Diabetes Oncology Care Janelle M. Sharma DNP, CRNP Lehigh Valley Health Network, Janelle_M. Sharma@lvhn.org Gregory R. Harper MD, PhD Lehigh Valley Health Network, Gregory.Harper@lvhn.org Cara Habeck RN, CDE Lehigh Valley Health Network, Cara.Habeck@lvhn.org Cathy A. Coyne PhD, MPH Lehigh Valley Health Network, Cathy_A. Coyne@lvhn.org Roya Hamadani MPH Lehigh Valley Health Network, Roya.Hamadani@lvhn.org
Visualizing Carnatic music as projectile motion in a uniform gravitational field

There are several examples of visualization of Western clas-sical music, many of which use the score as a reference. By contrast, a standard descriptive notation that serves the same purpose for Indian music is not available. In this paper, we draw upon recent transcription approaches for Carnatic music (CM) and propose an automated visualization procedure. It is formalized by an analogy between the pitch movement and projectile motion in a uniform gravitational ﬁeld. During constant-pitch notes (CPNs), the projectile moves horizontally on ledges at constant speed. Outside CPNs, reﬂectors are placed at the points where the pitch curve changes its direction. The positions of reﬂectors and ledges are quantized, and the motion between them is under the inﬂuence of gravity. We then suggest that the non-uniform scaling of CPNs, silence, and transients (i.e. music outside CPNs) in CM matches the analogy. Finally, the projectile motion equations are used to interpolate pitch curves for CM synthesis. Perceptual tests rate it on par with existing interpolation schemes. In addition, experts felt that visualization is needed to correct errors in descriptive notation.
5.6 ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTHERN COLORADO LOW-LEVEL JET BY HIGH RESOLUTION DOPPLER LIDAR DATA. COMPARISON TO THE GREAT PLAINS LLJ CLIMATOLOGIES

The Great Plains of the western United States (U.S.) has been identified as a region of regular occurrences of the nocturnal low-level jet (LLJ), arising from early-evening accelerations of the late-afternoon mixed-layer flow (Banta et al. 2002). The enhancement of wind speeds over daytime values means that LLJs have a role in transport of water vapor or atmospheric pollutants, for example. Another role of the LLJ is in generating turbulent fluxes, which are produced by the strong shear produced below the jet maximum or ‘nose. ’ In this paper we describe these various roles of the LLJ as they have been studied in other papers, we discuss the published climatologies and the dependence of those climatologies on instrumentation and sampling issues, and then present data taken with Doppler lidar during two field campaigns, over Kansas and Colorado, and describe how these results differ from those previously reported. Intercomparisons between lidarmeasured wind speeds and profiles and those measured by tower and sodar will also be presented. Transport by the LLJ can have important implications to weather, for example, many studies have pointed out the importance of the nocturnal transport of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Plains, which can feed summertime precipitation in the region. (Higgins et al., 1997). In previous LLJ climatological studies, variations of LLJ strength and frequency of occurrence were associated with severe weather events such as extreme precipitation (Mitchell et al., 1997), flooding (or drought) years (Song et al., 2005), and thunderstorm activity (Means 1952). Flooding that occurred during July 1951 in Kansas City (Means, 1954), and summer of 1993 (Mo et al., 1995), was connected to anomalously strong southerly LLJs.
Thyroid and Heart: Severe Three Vessel Coronary Artery Disease in a Middle-Aged Female with Hypothyroidism

Hypothyroidism is a common medical condition. The low metabolic state in hypothyroidism leads to significant cardiovascular and hemodynamic changes. Hypothyroidism is associated with heart failure, diastolic hypertension, atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease (CAD), and decreased insulin sensitivity. Similarly, the administration of levothyroxine worsens the cardiovascular disease by establishing a supply-demand mismatch. Here, we present a case of a 45-year-old woman with hypothyroidism who presented to us with exertional chest pain and later got diagnosed with severe three-vessel disease. Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery was planned after the establishment of euthyroid state.
Activator-Inhibitor Model September 17 , 2019 1 Introduction

Our experimental results show that paracrine Wnt and Nodal signals move through spatially confined human embryonic stem cell colonies treated with BMP4 (gastruloids) to initiate self-organized fate patterning. The movement of these signals can be recapitulated by a simple reaction-diffusion based activator-inhibitor model defined below, where the activator(A)-inhibitor(I) pair corresponds to a composite of Wnt/Nodal and their secreted, diffusible feedback inhibitors.
Amorphous metallic films for magneto-optic applications

It has been demonstrated that perpendicular uniaxial anisotropy and compensation points in the vicinity of room temperature can be obtained in amorphous thin films of rare‐earth—transition‐metal alloys. The magneto‐optic properties of these films are reported, and it is shown that a remarkably good signal‐to‐noise ratio can be obtained in a thermomagnetically written film.
Forensic Medical Study of Road Traffic Accident Cases Admitted to Minia University Hospital

Road traffic accident, Egypt, Injuries, Deaths. Road traffic accidents (RTAs) constitute a significant public health problem, they are rising in an alarming rate and causing increased morbidity and mortality among people. The objective of this study is to retrospectively analyze the data of road traffic accidents cases in Minia University Hospital from January to December 2016. The data was obtained from sheets of road traffic accident cases enrolled to the hospital within the year 2016 and statistically analyzed as regard the age groups and sex distribution, the causal vehicle, the pattern of injuries occurred, seasonal variation, and the number of deaths due to RTA, the leading causes of death and the survival period following the accident. The total number of studied cases was 370; most of the injuries were observed in adults (74.3%), with marked increase in males (79.5 %). Four wheels were the most causal vehicles (58.9%) for RTAs with higher incidence in spring. Bone fractures were the most common injury pattern (60.5 %) followed by head injuries (37.6 %), then abdominal injuries (9.7%), and finally chest injuries (8.4%). Skin injuries were observed only in (27.8%) of cases. The total number of deaths was 126 (34.1%) cases. Range of survival period was 0-11 days; the most frequent injury presented in dead cases was head injuries (69.8%). The present study concluded that bone fractures were the most common injury pattern in RTAs while head injuries were the main contributing factor for death. The skin injury is not indicative of severity of internal injury.