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Improvement of Cymbopogon flexuosus Biomass and Essential Oil Production With Organic Manures

Cymbopogon flexuosus is a medicinal species with relevant commercial value and widely used in flavors, fragrances, toiletries, cosmetics, soaps, detergents, and pharmaceutical products. The objective of this study was evaluate the effects of different doses and sources of two manures and one compost on plant growth, leaf nutrient accumulation, content, yield, and chemical composition of the essential oil. The sources were cattle manure, quail manure, and organic compost applied in four doses and control treatment. The species increased the growth and productions of secondary metabolites by use the manures and organic compost. The highest weight gain was obtained with fertilization between 300 and 450 g pot-1 of quail manure, but the yield of essential oil in the doses from 150 to 300 g pot-1. Overall, lemon grass plants fertilized with quail manure accumulated greater concentrations of nutrients in leaf tissue than cattle manure and compost. The neral content in the essential oil was increased with the use of quail manure compared to compost and cattle manure. The results from this study demonstrated that dose and source can alter dry weight, leaf nutrients accumulation, and essential oil content and yield.
Vascular Variant of Eagle Syndrome Masquerading asTransient Ischemic Attack: A Case Report

Eagle syndrome is characterized by the compression of adjacent anatomical neck blood vessels and nerves due to the elongation of the styloid process or calcified stylohyoid ligament. This compressive effect leads to nonspecific symptoms ranging from otalgia, dysphagia, hoarseness, Horner’s syndrome, cervicofacial neuralgia, syncope, and in extreme cases, transient ischemic attack or ischemic stroke. Here, we present the case of a patient with hypertension, morbid obesity, and hyperlipidemia who presented to the hospital with sudden onset weakness of the right side of the body with ipsilateral facial paresthesia consistent with transient ischemic attack versus ischemic stroke picture. Neurovascular imaging however established the diagnosis of vascular variant of Eagle syndrome. Although several cases of Eagle syndrome have been documented by other specialties, our documentation is the first reported in the family medicine literature. This case report offers insight about a rarely encountered condition among family medicine physicians and particularly underscores the effectiveness of conservative management.
Clinical Features and Epidemiological Patterns of Infections by Multidrug Resistance Staphylococcus Aureus and Pseudomonas Aeruginosa in Patients with Burns

Worldwide different plants were studied for their role in the treatment and correction of different types of anaemia’s. The Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research Institute (MAPRI) of the National Centre for Research (NCR) plays major role in medicinal and aromatic plants investigation, determination of therapeutic properties and documented in Sudan.
Prospective Study On Effectiveness and Usage Pattern of Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agents In Patients With Anaemia Of Chronic Kidney Disease

Prashant Kumar Sah٭, Arathi S Nair, Shoaib Ahmed, Umesh Yadav, Dharshini NM, Mahadevamma L 1.Department, East West College of Pharmacy Bengaluru, Karnataka-560091. ABSTRACT Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) characterized by progressive decline in Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR), is major public health issue associated with morbidity and mortality. Anaemia is one of the most common problems causing morbidity in patients with CKD while they are on dialysis. Erythropoietin is a major advance in the management of anaemia in CKD which stimulates erythropoiesis by increasing proliferation and maturation of erythroid progenitors and thereby treats anaemia. Prescribing pattern, effectiveness and cost of erythropoietin therapy in patients with chronic kidney disease. This was a Prospective and Observational study conducted for 06 months after obtaining IEC from Apollo Multi-Specialty Hospital, Bengaluru. Patients were enrolled based on enrolment criteria. Data were analysed using suitable statistical tool. Of 152 patients enrolled, 77 (50.65%) patients were in the age group ≥ 60 years, second generation ESAs was mostly prescribed 119(78.28%) than third 01(0.65%) and first 32(21.05%). Significant increase in Haemoglobin, RBC, PCV was observed. We have demonstrated that ESAs were prescribed majorly in Nephrology compared to medicine department. Second generation ESAs were prescribed mostly, darbepoetin alfa 40mcg were preferred over other doses. The changes in Hb, PCV and RBC were significant suggesting ESAs as effective. The side effects reported were less, common and mostly unrelated to ESAs. Based on these finding, we suggest that ESAs is prescribed majorly in Nephrology and is effective and safe in managing anaemia of CKD.
EFFECT OF ACETAMIPRID RESIDUES IN TOMATO FRUITS ON SOME BLOOD PROFILE PARAMETERS OF MALE MICE

Acetamiprid is one of the most wide used insecticides over the entire world. Three acetamiprid concentrations, the dependence one (200 ppm) and two other high concentrations (300 and 400 ppm) were used to treated tomato fruits at the final stage of ripening. A daily samples up to 15 days, were examined for their acetamiprid residues. The maximum migration of acetamiprid (systemic) into tomato fruit was observed after three days (1.7, 1.89 and 2.27ppm) of spraying by 200, 300, and 400 ppm. After 7 days of application, the acetamiprid residues are more than five-fold of the Maximum Residue Limit (acetamiprid MRL=0.2 mg/kg). Four groups of male mice (each of 10, control and three treatments) were used to study the effects of acetamiprid on some blood profile parameters. Three selected concentrations of acetamiprid 32, 64 and 128 ppm were used to orally administrate the male mice (0.0064, 0.0128 and 0.0256 mg/mouse daily respectively) under controlled conditions for 28 days. It was found that there was a direct relationship between acetamiprid concentrations and triglycerides, total cholesterol, LDL, VLDL, catalase, malondialdehyde, urea, creatinine, AST, ALT and superoxide dismutase level. While, reverse relationships were observed with HDL, LH, FSH, testosterone and acetyl cholinesterase
Overproduction and Purification of Soluble Recombinant Human Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor in Escherichia coli Using Thioredoxin as Fusion

Recombinant human Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor (G-CSF) has been produced in a soluble form in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) as a fusion protein. The open reading frame of G-CSF was synthetically constructed in previous work and was codon optimized for best expression in E. coli . In this research, the gene was fused to thioredoxin (Trx) at the N-terminal in pET32 vector. The purpose of this research was to optimize the overproduction and purification processes to obtain high yield recombinant protein in soluble form, and to characterize the Trx-G-CSF fusion protein. Overproduction was performed using IPTG induction method for 3 and 6 hours. The protein was purified by Ni-NTA affinity chromatography and separated using gradient concentration of imidazole. The purified protein was then characterized by SDS-PAGE and Western Blot analysis. Further, enterokinase was used to separate G-CSF from the fusion protein. The purified form of G-CSF was subsequently characterized using Western Blot and mass spectrometry using MALDI-TOF. The results showed that the fusion protein was successfully produced in soluble part as much as 48.25% were obtained after 3 hours of induction. The yield of fusion protein was 67.37% from total protein (229.65 mg protein/L culture). The Western Blot analysis showed the G-CSF band at around 18.6 kDa. Mass spectrometry with MALDI-TOF/ TOF revealed that 25.86% of amino acid residue was recognized as part of human G-CSF sequence.
Evaluation of the potential yield and primary symptoms of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris infection in Asian vegetables grown in the Czech Republic

Selected cultivars of Asian brassicacean vegetables were evaluated for their yield potential and susceptibility to bacterial infection. Chinese broccoli, two cultivars of Chinese cabbage (‘Dwarf milk cabbage’ and improved ‘Tahtsai’), and mizuna were grown in the conditions of the Czech Republic. Morphological and yield parameters for the field conditions (plant height, plant diameter, and marketable weight) were verified. In addition, genotypes were tested for resistance to black rot [Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris (Xcc)] at the planting stage. The results show that a very promising genotype of mizuna, which yielded best (1,478 g per plant). Chinese cabbage (cultivar ‘Dwarf milk cabbage’) also showed high yield values (2,839 g per plant), especially when compared to the reference value for Napa cabbage. Chinese Cabbage 1 (‘Dwarf milk cabbage’) and mizuna also showed a low susceptibility to infection by bacterial black rot at the planting stage. Both cultivars reached Level 2 (median) of infection, which corresponds to the extent of the symptoms on 25% of the leaf surface.
SNIPE score can capture prodromal Alzheimer’s in cognitively normal subjects

Capturing early changes in the brain related to Alzheimer’s disease may lead to models that successfully predict cognitive decline and the eventual onset of dementia, well ahead of onset of clinical symptoms. In this study we used both hippocampal volume and our hippocampal driven SNIPE score to show which marker better captures Alzheimer’s related changes in a large dataset of normal controls (N=515) from the ADNI study, comparing controls that remain cognitively stable and controls that progress to either MCI or Alzheimer’s dementia during 10 years of follow-up (median follow-up: 30 months). We measured hippocampal volume and SNIPE score and found that the effect size to differentiate between stable and progressor groups was significantly larger for SNIPE score than for volume. Our results also show that there is a significant age-related difference between groups for both markers, and the difference is greater with the SNIPE score. Our experiments show that considering high sensitivity of our SNIPE score regarding to early AD-related brain changes, this marker is a better candidate in comparison to hippocampal volume for predicting the future onset of dementia.
The Growth Performance of Triplochiton scleroxylon, Terminalia superba and Ceiba pentandra in Pure and Mixed Stands.

Plantation developers mostly prefer exotic to indigenous tree species in restoration of degraded forests due, perhaps to, inadequate information on indigenous tree plantations to enable them change in that direction. The study was conducted at the Jimira Forest Reserve in the Nkawie Forest District to compare the growth performance of Ceiba pentandra, Terminalia superba and Triplochiton scleroxylon in their pure and mixed stands. Four plots, each divided into four subplots measuring 50m x 50m, of one hectare demarcated represented three pure stands of Ceiba pentandra, Terminalia superba and Triplochiton scleroxylon and one mixed stand of the three species. Simple random sampling was used to a subplot from each plotand diameter and height measurements were taken. The mean growth rates in diameter of Ceiba pentandra, Terminalia superba, and Triplochiton scleroxylon in the pure stands and the mixed stand were 1.73 and 1.61cm/year; 1.77 and 2.02 cm/year; and 2.70 and 2.57 cm/year respectively and those in height were 1.06 and 0.80 m/year; 1.16 and 1.25 m/year; and 1.98 and 1.59 m/year respectively. The statistical analysis carried out to determine the variations in tree diameter and height in the pure and mixed stands indicated no significant differences. Keywords: Growth Performance, Triplochiton scleroxylon, Terminalia superba, Ceiba pentandra, Pure and Mixed Stands. DOI : 10.7176/JNSR/9-4-07
KOMPRES KUBIS DAN SIRIH MERAH EFEKTIF MENURUNKAN DERAJAT PEMBENGKAKAN PAYUDARA IBU POSTPARTUM

As a mother will certainly give all the best, including exclusive breastfeeding for her beloved baby. One of the failures in breastfeeding is due to breast swelling. Cabbage leaves contain sinigrin (allylisothiocyanate) rapine, mustardoil, magnesium, oxylate, sulfur. A red betel leaf contains flavonoids, polevenolad, tannins, and essential oils. Empirically these substances have the effect of disappearing pain and swelling. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of cabbage and red betel leaf compresses on the degree of postpartum breast swelling.The research method is quasy experimental study with pretest-posttest with control group design. The study population was mothers who gave birth in March to April 2019 in the working area of Mungkid Magelang Public Health Center with a total of 45 respondents. Respondents were divided into 3 groups: 15 postpartum mothers with cabbage compress intervention group, 15 postpartum mothers with red betel leaf compress intervention group and 15 postpartum mothers with control group. The sampling technique is total sampling. Analyze using the Wilcoxon statistical test.Theresults showed that there were any differences in the scale of swelling before and after the intervention in the experiment and control groups. Cabbage compress with <p = 0.001, Red Betel Leaf Compress with p = 0.014 and Control Group with p = 0.025. Cabbage compress is the most effective in reducing the degree of postpartum breast swelling. It is recommended that postpartum mothers with breast swelling can apply cabbage compress as one of the technique to reduce the degree of breast swelling. For health workers, especially midwives are expected to teach cabbage compress techniques to postpartum mothers as one of the non-pharmacological therapies to reduce the degree of postpartum breast swelling.
An explorable public transcriptomics compendium for eukaryotic microalgae

Eukaryotic microalgae dominate primary photosynthetic productivity in fluctuating nutrient-rich environments, including coastal, estuarine and polar regions, where competition and complexity are presumably adaptive and dynamic traits. Numerous genomes and transcriptomes of these species have been carefully sequenced, providing an unprecedented view into the vast genetic repertoires and the diverse transcriptional programs operating inside these organisms. Here we collected, re-mapped, quantified and clustered publicly available transcriptome data for ten different eukaryotic microalgae in order to develop new insights into their molecular systems biology, as well as to provide a large new resource of integrated information to facilitate the efforts of others to further compare and contextualize the results of individual and new experiments within and between species. This is summarized herein and provided for public use by the eukaryotic microalgae research community.
Natural Cycles, Gases

The major gaseous components of the exhaust of stratospheric aircraft are expected to be the products of combustion (CO2 and H2O), odd nitrogen (NO, NO2 HNO3), and products indicating combustion inefficiencies (CO and total unburned hydrocarbons). The species distributions are produced by a balance of photochemical and transport processes. A necessary element in evaluating the impact of aircraft exhaust on the lower stratospheric composition is to place the aircraft emissions in perspective within the natural cycles of stratospheric species. Following are a description of mass transport in the lower stratosphere and a discussion of the natural behavior of the major gaseous components of the stratospheric aircraft exhaust.
Influence of Isolated PGPR Rhizobacteria in Central and Northern Benin on Maize Germination and Greenhouse Growth

The objective of the study was to evaluate the effects of nine plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) alone or in combination on maize seed germination and seedling growth under laboratory and greenhouse conditions. The germination and growth tests were carried out in square petri dishes and pots. Maize seeds were inoculated with suspension of 108 CFU/ml of rhizobacteria. The experimental device was a random block of 16 treatments with four repetitions. Germination test results showed that seeds inoculated with PGPR including the control induced good germination in the range of 93.75% to 100%. The vigor index and root length of the seeds treated with Bacillus panthothenicus were significantly improved by 76.64% and 58.86%, respectively, while the maximal lengths of the seedlings were obtained with Pseudomonas cichorii with an increase of 118.95%. In greenhouse experience, data demonstrated that Serratia marcescens better improved the leaf area, height and underground biomass, respectively by 58.83%, 108.43%, and 59.16% as compared to the control. The highest fresh aerial biomass and air dry matter was obtained with plants treated only with Pseudomonas putida. These results show the potential to use such rhizobacteria as biofertilizers to improve maize productivity in Benin.
CAX1 Vacuolar Antiporter Overexpression in Potato Results in Calcium Deficiency in Leaves and Tubers by Sequestering Calcium as Calcium Oxalate

Recent studies show that overexpression of a short version of the cation exchanger 1 gene (sCAX1) can cause Ca2+ deficiency symptoms in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.). However, the Ca2+ deficiency in relation to the overexpression of this gene has not been investigated in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). The objective of our study was to investigate the production of known Ca2+ deficiency symptoms in potato in relation to the overexpression of sCAX1. Plantlets of S. tuberosum cultivar ‘Atlantic’ overexpressing the sCAX1 gene were produced using Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Transgenic plants grown with normal amounts of Ca2+ under in vitro or greenhouse conditions showed known Ca2+ deficiency symptoms in potato plants such as shoot tips damage and leaf margin necrosis, as well as tuber internal defects (hollow heart). Growing the transgenic plants with higher amounts of Ca2+ in the media or soil nutrient solution mitigated these symptoms. These results support the notion that both shoot tip necrosis and hollow heart are associated with Ca2+ deficiency. There was abundance of calcium oxalate (CaC2O4) crystals present only in the transgenic plants suggesting that these plants sequester Ca2+ in the form of CaC2O4 in the vacuoles of transgenic plants, reducing Ca2+ in the other pools. Since both shoot tip necrosis and hollow heart are known to be associated with poor cell wall health, our results suggest that CAX1 is a regulator of Ca2+ in the cell wall. In support of this concept, we found reduced cell wall biomass in the transgenic plants compared with the wild type. C. Zorrilla, J.E. Schabow, and J.P. Palta, Dep. of Horticulture, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, 1575 Linden Dr., Madison, WI 53706; V. Chernov, N. I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry (VIR), 42-44, B. Morskaya St., 190000, St. Petersburg, Russia. Received 1 June 2018. Accepted 22 Aug. 2018. *Corresponding author ( jppalta@wisc.edu). Assigned to Associate Editor Rongda Qu. Abbreviations: cDNA, complementary DNA; Ct, threshold cycle; MS, Murashige–Skoog; PCR, polymerase chain reaction. Published in Crop Sci. 59:176–189 (2019). doi: 10.2135/cropsci2018.06. 0355 © Crop Science Society of America | 5585 Guilford Rd., Madison, WI 53711 USA This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Published December 6, 2018
Factors Affecting Employee Turnover at Architecture Engineering Construction Operations and Management (AECOM) Afghanistan

The objective of this study is to find out those factors that affect employee turnover and to also to find out the effect of those factors on employee turnover at AECOM, throughout our literature review we were able to find out four important factors pay, promotion, supervision and career growth that affects employee turnover the most. We used regression analysis, descriptive statistics, and quantitative approach through which we distributed a questionnaire among 73 employees of AECOM randomly which is our sample size to identify the effect of our independent variable on the dependent variable, using statistical analysis we find out that promotion and career growth both have a negative relationship with turnover and 2 other factors pay and supervision based on beta value are considered significant but has a positive relationship with employee turnover.
Energetic Crosstalk Between Organelles

Cells with high and fluctuating energy demands such as cardiomyocytes need efficient systems to link energy production to energy utilization. This is achieved in part by compartmentalized energy transfer enzymes such as creatine kinase (CK). However, hearts from CK-deficient mice develop normal cardiac function under conditions of moderate workload. We have therefore investigated whether a direct functional interplay exists between mitochondria and sarcoplasmic reticulum or between mitochondria and myofilaments in cardiac cells that catalyzes direct energy and signal channeling between organelles. We used the selective permeabilization of sarcolemmal membranes with saponin to study the functional interactions between organelles within the cellular architecture. We measured contractile kinetics, oxygen consumption, and caffeine-induced tension transients. The results show that in hearts of normal mice, ATP produced by mitochondria (supplied with substrates, oxygen, and adenine nucleotides) was able to sust.
Effect of Light Combination and Timing of Supplemental Lighting on Growth Characteristics and Flowering of Pansy (Viola × wittrockiana Rose)

The goal of this study was to examine how different light combinations and timing of supplemental lighting affect the vegetative and reproductive responses of pansy (Viola × wittrockiana Rose). The present study was designed as a factorial experiment based on a completely randomized block design with three replications and two factors of timing of supplemental lighting (night-interruption and day-extension) and light combination treatments consisting of different proportion of blue (B, 467 nm) and red (R, 625 nm) light with high pressure sodium lamp (HPS) serving as control. The light combination treatments (65 mmol m-2 s-1) included 100% R, 85% R: 15% B, 70% R: 30% B, and HPS. Our results showed that the plants exposed to 85% R: 15% B had the highest foliage fresh and dry weights (2.06 g and 0.23 g), stem diameter (1.42 mm), leaf area (44.72 cm2), and leaf number (16.5), and plants exposed to 100% R had the highest root fresh and dry weights (1.63 g and 0.39 g) and height (6.17 cm), respectively. The results showed a significant interaction between light combination and the timing of supplemental lighting on Chl a, Chl b, Chl total, and carotenoids contents and flowering time. Night-interruption supplemental lighting in exposure to 85% R: 15% B led to the highest Chl a (0.86 mg g-1 FW), Chl b (0.52 mg g-1 FW) and Chl total (1.51 mg g-1 FW) contents. The highest carotenoids content (0.69 mg FW) was obtained from night-interruption supplemental lighting under 70% R: 30% B. Night-interruption supplemental lighting was related to the shortest time to flowering (56 days after seed sowing), but it did not differ significantly from day-extension supplemental lighting under 70% R: 30% B.