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THE EFFECT OF BONE MEAL ON THE YIELD OF JICAMA, PACHYRHIZUS EROSUS, IN OAHU HAWAII

Jicama is increasing in popularity in the United States as a specialty crop used in salad bars or in ethnic dishes from Asia and Latin America. For environmental reasons an in creased demand also exists to grow crops using locally avail able nutrient resources instead of using imported fertilizers. With this in mind, two experiments were conducted in separate locations to evaluate the effect of bone meal (BM) applications on the yield of jicama in Waimanalo, Hawaii. In one experiment treatments included a control, synthetic fertilizer, bone meal at a 1x (1 ton/acre) application rate, bone meal at a 4x rate, and bone meal at a 1x rate in combination with chicken manure. Each treatment was established in a 40 ft long double-row bed, replicated four times, with the plots arranged in a RCB design. The second experiment was conducted as part of a long-term organic farming study. Treatments included controls, low and high rates of compost alone, BM plus low or high rates of com posts, and synthetic fertilizer alone. Data collected included soil nutrient levels, stand establishment, top growth fresh weight, and root length, width, and fresh weight. High BM ap plication rates, and high compost/BM treatments affected stand establishment and depressed yields by 35%. Chicken manure and BM combinations resulted in the greatest yields and in the largest root sizes. Yields from the low BM applica tions treatments were similar to those obtained with synthetic fertilizers, which were in turn, similar or numerically greater
Revealing the pulsational properties of the V777 Herculis star KUV 05134+2605 by its long-term monitoring

Context. KUV 05134+2605 is one of the 21 pulsating DB white dwarfs (V777 Her or DBV variables) known so far. The detailed investigation of the short-period and low-amplitude pulsations of these relatively faint targets requires considera ble observational efforts from the ground, long-term single-site or multisite ob servations. The observed amplitudes of excited modes undergo shortterm variations in many cases, which makes the determination of pulsation modes diffi cult. Aims. We aim to determine the pulsation frequencies of KUV 05134+2605, find regularities between the frequency and period com ponents, and perform its asteroseismic investigation for t he first time. Methods. We re-analysed the data already published, and collected new measurements. We compared the frequency content of the different datasets from the different epochs and performed various tests to check the reliability of the frequency determinations. The mean period spacings were investigated with linear fits t o the observed periods, Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Inverse Variance significance tests, and Fourier analysis of di fferent period sets, including a Monte Carlo test simulating t he effect of alias ambiguities. We employed fully evolutionary DB white dwarf models for the asteroseismic investigations. Results. We identified 22 frequencies between 1280 and 2530µHz. These form 12 groups, which suggests at least 12 possible frequencies for the asteroseismic investigations. Thanks to the extended observations, KUV 05134+2605 joined the group of rich white dwarf pulsators. We identified one triplet and at least one doublet with a≈ 9µHz frequency separation, from which we derived a stellar rotation period of 0.6 d. We determined the mean period spacings of≈ 31 and 18 s for the modes we propose as dipole and quadrupole, respectively. We found an excellent agreement between the stellar mass derived from thel = 1 period spacing and the period-to-period fits, all providing M∗ = 0.84− 0.85 M⊙ solutions. Our study suggests that KUV 05134+2605 is the most massive amongst the known V777 Her stars.
Depth distribution of nearshore temperate fish larval assemblages near rocky substrates

In this study, we compare the composition, abundance and structure of a temperate fish larval assemblage at different depth intervals (0-4, 4-8 and 8-12 m) in the extreme nearshore environment. We used a plankton net attached to an underwater scooter to sample in close proximity to the rocky substrate (<50 cm). A total of 868 larvae from 27 taxa in 13 families were caught. The majority of larvae belonged to benthic reef-associated species (Blenniidae, Gobiidae, Gobiesocidae and Tripterygiidae), the four most abundant comprising 76% of the total larvae caught. A non-metric multidimensional scaling analysis (MDS) showed that there was a single multispecific larval patch near the substrate in the extreme nearshore up to 12 m depth. Nonetheless, distinct larval abundances were found in this relatively small depth range, with the majority of species being more abundant at the deepest interval, particularly Pomatoschistus pictus and Gobius xanthocephalus. Tripterygion delaisi was an exception being more abundant at the shallowest depth as young larvae. The density of pre-flexion larvae was not significantly different across depth intervals, but post-flexion larval density increased with depth. The full size range (from hatching to settlement) of P. pictus was present at the extreme nearshore. The innovative sampling technique used here revealed high densities of larvae close to the bottom, and depth was found to be an important factor influencing the distribution of several taxa and ontogenetic stages. The nearshore component of coastal fish larval assemblages near rocky substrates has been poorly studied, and our results suggest that the high densities of larvae found to aggregate in these environments must be taken into account when studying distribution and functional aspects of these assemblages.
A Molecular Clock using Terahertz Spectral Sensing

Recently, molecular clocks based on standard CMOS technology have been proposed as an alternative to chipscale atomic clocks for applications that demand lowcost, low-power, portable frequency references. In this paper, measurements of a prototype molecular clock based on terahertz (THz) probing of carbonyl sulfide (OCS) rotational absorption spectral lines are presented. Measurements of frequency stability and sensitivity to gas cell pressure were conducted for a variety of architectures in order to discover potential improvements. The measurements demonstrate a short-term stability of about 10−9 for a 1s integration time and a noise floor at about 100s. Pressure-induced line shift was measured to be < 9 kHz/Torr, consistent with theory. Possible explanations for poor measurement results are discussed and suggestions are made for achieving performance parity with current chip-scale atomic clocks. The results help to inform design decisions for a chip-scale implementation of the molecular clock.
In-vitro comparative evaluation of quality control parameters between paracetamol and paracetamol/caffeine tablets available in Bangladesh

Paracetamol is a widely used non-prescription analgesic and antipyretic medicine. The study was conducted to assess the comparative in-vitro quality control parameters through the evaluation of weight variation, hardness, friability, disintegration time and dissolution profile between the commercially available tablet brands of paraceta-mol and paracetamol/caffeine combination in Bangladesh. Tablets of five top level manufacturers those have both of the formulations were evaluated in two groups. Both similarities and dissimilarities were found between the groups. All tablets either paracetamol (1.07 to 2.14%) or paracetamol/caffeine (0.98 to 2.09%) showed acceptable weight variation and friability (below 1%). Formulations were somewhat different in their hardness, disintegration time and dissolution profile. All tablets of paracetamol/caffeine were found harder than paracetamol tablets of the same manufacturer. 1 out of 5 for paracetamol and 3 out of 5 for paracetamol/caffeine tablets exceeded the limit of tablet hardness or crushing strength. The disintegration time in 0.1N HCl of paracetamol tablet brands (24 seconds to 4 minutes 52 seconds) were less than the paracetamol/caffeine (6 minutes 33 seconds to 17 minutes 43 seconds) brands. On the other hand in phosphate buffer, pH 7.4, paracetamol/caffeine tablets dissolved quickly and showed better release profile than tablets containing only paracetamol. It can be concluded that standard quality control parameters always should be maintained not only for paracetamol or its combination but also for all kinds of medicine for getting better drug products. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.3329/icpj.v1i5. 10282 International Current Pharmaceutical Journal 2012, 1(5): 103-109
Nutritional and Phytochemical content of indigenous leafy vegetables consumed in Botswana

Plant materials especially green leafy vegetables contain nutrients and phytochemicals whose consumption has been associated with protecting the human body from chronic diseases. With the aim to promote the utilisation of indigenous leafy vegetables commonly consumed in Botswana, nutrient and phytochemical composition of three leafy vegetables: Amaranth (Amarunthus spp.), Spider plant (Cleome gynandra), and Cowpea leaves (Vigna unguiculata) were evaluated. The moisture content of the vegetables was high ranging from (84.1 ± 0.05 (Amarunthus spp.) to 88.8 ± 0.10% wet basis (Cleome gynandra). The ash content ranged between 1.90 ± 0.06 % (Amarunthus spp.) and 3.0 ± 0.04 % (Cleome gynandra). All the leafy indigenous vegetables were found to be poor sources of protein, fat and fibre. The total phenolics ranged from 10.4 ± 0.5 to 40.4 ± 0.11 mg/g DW. Amarunthus spp. had the highest phenolic content (40.4 ± 0.11mg/g DW). 3,4-dihydroxbenzoic, chlorogenic and ferulic acids were found to be present in Amaranthus spp. , 3,4-dihydroxbenzoic, 4-hydroxbenzoic, p-coumaric and ferulic acids where found in Vigna unguiculata whilst vanillic, chlorogenic and ferulic acids were found in Cleome gynandra. Ferulic acid appeared in all the samples analysed, however, chlorogenic acid was the most abundant. The results from the study emphasize the role of these vegetables as a source of nutrients and polyphenols which could contribute to their health promoting properties and offer enormous opportunities for the functional food industry.
Comparison of Deep Transfer Learning Strategies for Digital Pathology

In this paper, we study deep transfer learning as a way of overcoming object recognition challenges encountered in the field of digital pathology. Through several experiments, we investigate various uses of pre-trained neural network architectures and different combination schemes with random forests for feature selection. Our experiments on eight classification datasets show that densely connected and residual networks consistently yield best performances across strategies. It also appears that network fine-tuning and using inner layers features are the best performing strategies, with the former yielding slightly superior results.
Effect of Apoyo con Cariño (Support With Caring) Trial of a Patient Navigator Intervention to Improve Palliative Care Outcomes for Latino Adults With Advanced Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Importance Strategies to increase access to palliative care, particularly for racial/ethnic minorities, must maximize primary palliative care and community-based models to meet the ever-growing need in a culturally sensitive and congruent manner. Objective To investigate if a culturally tailored patient navigator intervention can improve palliative care outcomes for Latino adults with advanced cancer. Design, Setting, and Participants The Apoyo con Cariño (Support With Caring) randomized clinical trial was conducted from July 2012 to March 2016. The setting was clinics across the state of Colorado, including an academic National Cancer Institute–designated cancer center, community cancer clinics (urban and rural), and a safety-net cancer center. Participants were adults who self-identified as Latino and were being treated for advanced cancer. Intervention Culturally tailored patient navigator intervention. Main Outcomes and Measures Primary outcome measures were advance care planning in the medical record, the Brief Pain Inventory, and hospice use. Secondary outcome measures included the McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire (MQOL), hospice length of stay, and aggressiveness of care at the end of life. This study used an intent-to-treat design. Results In total, 223 Latino adults enrolled (mean [SD] age, 58.1 [13.6] years; 55.6% female) and were randomized to control (n = 111) or intervention (n = 112) groups. Intervention group patients were more likely to have a documented advance directive compared with control group patients (73 of 112 [65.2%] vs 40 of 111 [36.0%], P < .001). Both groups reported mild pain intensity (mean pain rating of 3 on a scale of 0-10). Intervention group patients had a mean (SD) reported change from baseline in the Brief Pain Inventory pain severity subscale score (range, 0-10) of 0.1 (2.6) vs 0.2 (2.7) in control group patients (P = .88) and a mean (SD) reported change from baseline in the Brief Pain Inventory pain interference subscale score of 0.1 (3.2) vs −0.2 (3.0) in control group patients (P = .66). Hospice use was similar in both groups. Secondary outcomes of overall MQOL score and aggressiveness of care at the end of life showed no significant differences between groups. The MQOL physical subscale showed a mean (SD) significant change from baseline of 1.4 (3.1) in the intervention group vs 0.1 (3.0) in the control group (P = .004). Conclusions and Relevance The intervention had mixed results. The intervention increased advance care planning and improved physical symptoms; however, it had no effect on pain management and hospice use or overall quality of life. Further research is needed to determine the role and scope of lay navigators in palliative care. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01695382
Diel variations in bacterial heterotrophic activity and growth in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea

Primary producers must respond to the diel changes in light availability. Therefore, detection of diel cycles in bacterial activity would imply tight coupling between the production of photosynthetic dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and its consumption by bacteria. Absence of diel cycles, on the contrary, would indicate that bacteria depend largely upon allochthonous organic carbon and that bacteria are not tightly dependent on photosynthetically produced autochthonous carbon. In 1993 and 1994 we sampled 3 sites in the NW Mediterranean Sea several times a day, and measured several microbial parameters as well as the vertical profiles of DOC along the diel cycle. The sites were selected so that one was on the continental shelf and, thus, was more influenced by coastal runoff; a second one was over the shelf slope and a third, oceanic one was located further offshore over a depth of 2000 m. We found clear diel cycles in bacterial total and specific activity always in the oceanic stations and sometimes in the shelf slope stations. Diel changes were detected as changes in both DNA and protein synthesis rates. These diel cycles were accompanied by diel changes in the distribution of total DOG, and by diel changes in the proportion of bacteria containing visible nucleoids. Noon estimates of bacterial activity were more than twice the daily average in the oceanic site, but they were less different in the other 2 sites. DOC changed daily by 15 mu M (5 to 15 % of the total stock). For bacterial activity to explain the diel changes in DOC concentration, bacteria should have growth efficiencies lower than 10% in general, and lower than 2% in the oceanic station.
Correlation between Six Minute Walk Test and Physiological Cost Index in Healthy Indian Females

Objective: To analyze the correlation between Physiological Cost Index and the 6 Minute Walk Test Parameters and demographics. Participants: Convenience samples of 24 healthy females, age between 25 to 50 years. Intervention: PCI, was calculatedafter measuring the resting vitals, where subject walked at self-selected speed, wearing an ambulatory heart rate meter. For six minute walk test, the subject was asked to walk for six minutes so as to cover maximal distance possible, which was measured, along with posttest vitals to arrive at values of distance covered, VO2max, change in HR, and SBP. Result: Mean age was 33.9±8.248 years. Mean height of the subjects was 155.2 ± 5.414 cm. Mean weight was 58.3 ±12.855 kg, mean BMI was 23.86±4.996 kg/m, mean 6MWD was 444.4 ±53.05 meters, mean VO2 max was 35.53 ±3.225 ml.kg. min, mean rise in heart rate was 35.7±18.1 beats per minute, mean rise in SBP was 10.83 ±3.985 mm of Hg, and mean PCI was 0.42564 beats per meter.A Pearson correlation between the studied variables and PCI was found to be moderately positively correlated with weight, height, BMI, 6MWD, increase in heart rate post exercise. There was a mild negative correlation between PCI and age, as well as change in SBP. However,VO2 max did not correlate with PCI values. Conclusion: Physiological cost of walking in normal Indian females is directlyassociated with the weight, BMI, 6MWD, increase in heart rate post exercise of the individual. However, the inverse relation between SBP and PCI, and no correlation with VO2 max needs to be investigated further.
University ’ s repository of research publications and other research outputs Research methods on the Internet Book Section

This chapter considers how Internet technologies can be used to support primary research on the internet, or internet-mediated research (IMR). First, a brief history of IMR is offered, and then the key methods that have been implemented in IMR are outlined, including: surveys and questionnaires; interviews and focus groups; experiments; observation and document analysis. Illustrations of the key methodological approaches are provided, and the main tools and technologies which can support them are described. Advantages and disadvantages of IMR are highlighted, and caveats noted. The key issues and debates which have emerged in IMR are discussed, including issues of data quality, sampling and sample bias, and ethics. Finally, some reflections on future possibilities and promising directions in IMR are offered.
Association of CD4+ Radiation-Induced Lymphocyte Apoptosis with Fibrosis and Telangiectasia after Radiotherapy in 272 Breast Cancer Patients with >10-Year Follow-up

Purpose: Radiation-induced lymphocyte apoptosis (RILA) has been suggested as a predictive assay for adverse late reactions after radiotherapy. Thus, low RILA values of T-lymphocyte subpopulations have been associated with increased risk for various endpoints at 2 to 3 years of follow-up. The purpose was to test if such associations persist for specific endpoints (subcutaneous fibrosis, telangiectasia) in breast cancer patients with at least 10 years of follow-up. Experimental Design: Two hundred and seventy-two female patients who had received breast-conserving therapy within the German ISE study were included (median follow-up: 11.6 years). Radiotherapy-induced side effects were scored according to the Late Effects in Normal Tissues-Subjective, Objective, Management, and Analytic (LENT-SOMA) classification system. RILA in the CD4+, CD8+, and natural killer (NK) subpopulations from peripheral blood was analyzed by flow cytometry. Multivariate predictive modeling was performed including relevant clinical risk factors. Results: Low CD4+ RILA was associated with increased risk for both fibrosis (P = 0.011) and telangiectasia (P < 0.001). For fibrosis, the association was stronger outside the surgical area (Fibout; P = 0.004) than within (Fibin; P = 0.17). Predictive multivariate modeling including clinical risk factors yielded OR of 3.48 (95% confidence interval, 1.84–6.58) for any fibrosis and 8.60 (2.71–27.3) for telangiectasia. Addition of CD4+ RILA to the clinical variables improved discrimination (c statistics) from 0.62 to 0.68 for any fibrosis, 0.62 to 0.66 for Fibin, 0.61 to 0.69 for Fibout, and from 0.65 to 0.76 for telangiectasia. CD8+ and NK RILA were not significantly associated with radiotherapy-related late reactions. Conclusions: The results provide first evidence that low CD4+ RILA is associated with increased subcutaneous fibrosis and telangiectasia even after 10 years. This supports the potential usefulness for predicting individual clinical risk.
Highway Network Block with Gates Constraints for Training Very Deep Networks

In this paper, we propose to reformulate the learning of the highway network block to realize both early optimization and improved generalization of very deep networks while preserving the network depth. Gate constraints are duly employed to improve optimization, latent representations and parameterization usage in order to efficiently learn hierarchical feature transformations which are crucial for the success of any deep network. One of the earliest very deep models with over 30 layers that was successfully trained relied on highway network blocks. Although, highway blocks suffice for alleviating optimization problem via improved information flow, we show for the first time that further in training such highway blocks may result into learning mostly untransformed features and therefore a reduction in the effective depth of the model; this could negatively impact model generalization performance. Using the proposed approach, 15-layer and 20-layer models are successfully trained with one gate and a 32-layer model using three gates. This leads to a drastic reduction of model parameters as compared to the original highway network. Extensive experiments on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, Fashion-MNIST and USPS datasets are performed to validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Particularly, we outperform the original highway network and many state-of-the-art results. To the best our knowledge, on the Fashion-MNIST and USPS datasets, the achieved results are the best reported in literature.
Biosorption of some heavy metals from Textile Wastewater by Green Seaweed Biomass

The objective of this study was to evaluate the potential of green seaweed biomass to remove heavy metals such as iron (Fe), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), potassium (K), silver (Ag) and chromium (Cr) present in textile wastewater. The wastewater sample was treated with the biomass at different contact time ranging from 10 to 90 minutes. The result showed that there was 87.5%, 99.9 %, 59.7 %, 57.2 %, 100% and 86.8% corresponding maximum reduction in the concentration of Fe, Ca, Mg, K, Ag and Cr at 60 min contact time, respectively. The experimental biosorption data fitted very well to both pseudo first-order and pseudo second-order kinetic models, however, the biosorpton kinetics of Fe, Ca, Mg, K, Ag and Cr followed a pseudo first-order kinetic model and the biosorption mechanisms were controlled by boundary layer surface diffusion. Thus green seaweed biomass has the potential to be used as a low cost biosorbent for the treatment of industrial wastewater that contains the presence of heavy metals.
Superficial myxofibrosarcoma: Assessment of recurrence risk according to the surgical margin following resection. A series of 21 patients

a Department of Orthopaedic oncologic Surgery, Descartes Sorbonne Paris University, Cochin Hospital, Paris Public Assistance Hospital Group, Paris Cité, 27, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Jacques, 75014 Paris, France b Department of Pathology, Descartes Sorbonne Paris University, Cochin Hospital, Paris Public Assistance Hospital Group, Paris Cité, 27, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Jacques, 75014 Paris, France c Department of Radiology, Descartes Sorbonne Paris University, Cochin Hospital, Paris Public Assistance Hospital Group, Paris Cité, 27, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Jacques, 75014 Paris, France