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Serial Casting as a Method of Restoring Normal Ranges of Lower Limb Movement in Patient after Damage to the Central Nervous System: A Case Report

Objective: The process of casting contracted lower limbs and its effects in a patient after damage to the central nervous system is described. Case report: A 57-year-old patient, half a year after sudden cardiac arrest, suffered as a result of myocardial infarction. The consequence of this incident was damage in the central nervous system, which was the cause of spasticity and, as a consequence, contracture in the joints of the lower limbs. Before physiotherapy, a functional test was carried out, which included: measurement of the passive ranges of lower limb movement, assessment of spasticity with the Ashworth scale and determination of independence with the FIM scale. Every day for two months, the patient used three individual therapies and verticalization. Every three days he had the cast on his lower limbs changed. Results: As a result of the therapy, a significant improvement in the range of motion was achieved, a decrease in spasticity measured by the Ashworth scale was observed, as well as an improvement during everyday activities on the FIM scale. Conclusion: Casting is an effective method supporting the treatment of contractures of the lower limbs caused by increased muscle tension of neurological origin.
Conditional Facies Modeling Using an Improved Progressive Growing of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)

: 10 Conditional facies modeling combines geological spatial patterns with different types of observed data, to build earth models for predictions of subsurface resources. Recently, researchers have used generative adversarial networks (GANs) for conditional facies modeling, where an unconditional GAN is first trained to learn the geological patterns using the original GANs loss function, then appropriate latent vectors are searched to generate facies models that 15 are consistent with the observed conditioning data. A problem with this approach is that the time-consuming search process needs to be conducted for every new conditioning data. As an alternative, we improve GANs for conditional facies modeling by introducing an extra condition-based loss function and adjusting the architecture of the generator to take the conditioning data as inputs, based on progressive growing of GANs. The condition-based loss 20 function is defined as the inconsistency between the input conditioning value and the corresponding characteristics exhibited by the output facies model, and forces the generator to learn the ability of being consistent with the input conditioning data, together with the learning of geological patterns. Our input conditioning factors include global features (e.g. the mud facies proportion) alone, local features such as sparse well facies data alone, and joint combination of 25 global features and well facies data. After training, we evaluate both the quality of generated facies models and the conditioning ability of the generators, by manual inspection and quantitative assessment. The trained generators are quite robust in generating high-quality facies models conditioned to various types of input conditioning information.
Factors that influence academics’ intention to use mobile-based assessment in Higher Education in South Pacific

This Research Full paper presents finding of factors influencing the use of mobile-based assessments in higher education. With the growing popularity of mobile learning in higher education, there exists a potential of using mobile devices to deliver various types of assessments. The study aimed to find out factors influencing the adoption of mobile-based assessments, perspectives on types of assessments suitable to deliver such assessments and challenges faced by academics and students in South Pacific in using these assessments. An online survey was created using the case study approach with a blend of quantitative and qualitative questions assisted by Technology acceptance (TAM) and unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) models. The factors from TAM and UTAUT considered for this study were perceived usefulness, behavioral intension to use, perceived trust and attitude by introducing output quality and social influence as external variables. The participants (n = 35) comprised of science, business and economics, arts, law, education and technical and further education academics from a higher education institute in the South Pacific. The study revealed that focusing on mobile assessment quality design and trust are the important factors for academics to accept mobile-based assessments in higher education. Furthermore, game-based, self-and peer, classroom polling, formative, adaptive and personalized assessments were the types of assessment preferred by academics to be delivered through the mobile devices. The major challenges identified for academics were connectivity, lack of skills in designing effective mobile-based assessments, lack of e-teaching pedagogy and student cheating issues. For students’ the major challenges identified by academics were internet connectivity, device availability, distractions and device competency, readability and disability issues.
Simulation and design of collector array units within large systems

Solar radiation data is necessary for the design of solar heating systems and used to estimate the thermal performance of solar heating plants. Compared to global irradiance, the direct beam component shows much more variability in space and time. The global radiation split into beam and diffuse radiation on collector plane is important for the evaluation of the performance of different collector types and collector field designs.
Comparative anatomy and homology of jaw adductor muscles of some South Asian colubroid snakes (Serpentes: Colubroidea)

We studied jaw adductor muscles in eighteen species of South Asian colubroid snakes and presented a comparative account of their anatocaenophidians are characterized by an attenuation of the former muscle which may be correlated with the development of a derived type may be present in at least some colubroids with a bodenaponeurosis. Some hitherto unreported features pertaining to levator anguli oris and pterygomandibularis of some studied elapid, colubrine colubrid and ahaetuliine colubrid genera are also described.
Antibacterial activity of Capparis spinosa honey against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli

This study aimed to investigate the antibacterial effect of caper honey collected from Jabal Al Akhdar region in eastern Libya. Honey was diluted with sterile distilled water at various rates (15%, 25%, 50%, and 75%). The dilutions were tested in vitro against two types of bacteria, one of which was Gram-negative (Staphylococcus aureus) and the other Gram-positive (Escherichia coli), by conducting the sensitivity tablets test using the disk diffusion method and measuring the diameter of the inhibition zone due to the effect of honey. Additionally, honey effect on the numbers of bacterial cells was investigated using the decimal dilution procedure. Caper honey analysis showed that moisture content was 18.9, with a small amount of calcium and phosphorus, and a protein content of 0.830%. Caper honey showed an apparent inhibitory effect on the studied bacteria as there was a direct relationship between honey concentration and the diameter of the inhibition zone. Additionally, there was a significant negative correlation between honey concentration and the total number of bacterial cells with total inhibition under 75% concentration.
Review on productive and reproductive performance of indigenous dairy cattle breeds under farmer’s management practices in Ethiopia. Online J. Anim. Feed Res., 8(6): 169-174. www.ojafr.ir;

The aim of the review is to summarize the Productive and reproductive performance of different indigenous dairy cattle breeds under farmer’s management practices. Ethiopia is the home of large numbers of livestock due to having varied and extensive agro-ecological zones. From the total annual milk produced cattle milk, is the most prominent compared to other livestock species in Ethiopia. Numerous finding showed that calving interval, daily milk yield, lactation length and age at first calving are one of the major measures of productive and reproductive performance parameters for dairy cattle production. Different report indicated that productive and reproductive performances of cattle are very poor due to varied factors; the causes for low performances of dairy cattle were genetic and environmental factors like feeding, housing and health care. In Ethiopia most of (98.20%) cattle breeds are local breeds the remaining (1.8%) are hybrid and exotic breeds. Then, the genetic performances of these breeds are poor, even though they have good adaptation in harsh environmental conditions. So, training and awareness creation should be given particularly to the farmers on major management practices like feeding, housing and health care and genetic improvement strategies should planned and practiced.
On the Differences in Time That Students Take to Write Solutions to Programming Problems

Full research paper—In this work, we study productivity differences in an introductory programming course. Focusing on a set of students who completed all programming assignments in the course, we quantify differences in productivity, measured through the time spent on completing the assignments. We focus both on the overall time needed to complete all programming assignments in the course, as well as on time spent on individual programming assignments. In addition, the effect of previous programming experience and difficulty of the programming assignment is considered. Our results show significant productivity differences between students. In addition, while programming experience influences productivity, a proportion of students who have never programmed before are faster in completing the programming assignments than students with considerable amounts of previous programming experience. Our results suggest that the classic credit-based or lecture hour based workload estimates of a course fit poorly to the whole course population in programming, suggesting that programming courses and training should be adjusted based on the participant.
Estimation of Genetic Parameters for Reproductive Traits of Fogera and Holstein Friesian Crossbred Cattle at Metekel Ranch, Amhara Region, Ethiopia. Online J. Anim. Feed Res., 6 (4): 90-95

The study was carried out at Metekel ranch, Amhara region, Ethiopia, with the objective of estimating genetic parameters for reproductive traits of Fogera and Holstein Friesian crossbreed cattle. The data used in the study included pedigree records and reproductive performance records of animals born from 1990 to 2012.The parameters were estimated by using Variance Component Estimation (VCE 6.0) software. Four models were used Viz. Model1: Y= Xb+Z1a + e; Model2:Y=Xb+Z1a+Z3c + e; Model3: Y=Xb+Z1a+Z2m+ e; cov a,m=0 and Model4: Y= Xb + Z1a + Z2m+ Z3c + e; cov a, m=0.Traits like Gestation Length (GL), Calving Interval (CI) and Days Open(DO) were estimated using model2 and 4 which fit permanent environmental effect due to repeated records per cow. Whereas, age at first service (AFS) and age at first calving (AFC) were estimated using model 1, 3, and 4. Estimates of direct heritability of the studied traits ranged from 0.01±0.05 for DO to 0.26±0.21 for AFS, besides high error variance was observed. The phenotypic correlations between traits ranged: 0.33 to 0.99 between CI and DO and GL and DO respectively. And genetic correlations ranged from -1.0 to 1.0 between GL and CI between CI and DO respectively. The result in this study indicates there were low heritability estimates high environmental variances which imply selection based on phenotypic performance of animals was unlikely to bring genetic progress in the studied herd because of the low estimate of heritability of the trait. Besides, The result showed there was moderate to high correlation that indicated selection for one trait will affect the correlated traits. Thus, selection method, in addition to individual records, should incorporate pedigree and progeny information in the form of an index to get optimum genetic progress in the studied population. In addition, selection for any particular trait(s) must be carried out with caution as it could have an adverse effect due to correlated response on the correlated traits.
β-sitosterol Mediated Silver Nanoparticles Induce Cytotoxicity in Human Colon Cancer HT-29 Cells

Background: Silver nanoparticles (AgNP) are commonly used metallic nanoparticles in health care systems. Colon cancer incidence is increasing worldwide. In this study, AgNP was synthesized using β-sitosterol and its cytotoxic potential was evaluated in human colon cancer (HT-29) cells. Methods: Characterization of AgNP was analyzed by TEM and spectrophotometry analysis. HT-29 cells were treated with different concentrations (2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 ng/ml) of AgNPs and cytotoxicity was evaluated by MTT assay. The apoptosis was analyzed by the flow cytometry. The expression of p53 protein was analyzed by western blotting. Results: β-sitosterol mediated AgNP are spherical in shape and induced concentration-dependent cytotoxicity in HT-29 cells. AgNP caused apoptosis related morphological changes as evidenced by annexin positive staining. AgNP treatments also induced the p53 expression in HT-29 cells. Conclusion: Our present result suggests that β-sitosterol mediated AgNP induce apoptosis in colon cancer cells and this finding may pave the way for further experimental analysis in vivo.
Pencak Silat Dance; Developing Local Genius Values in the Perspective of Tourism Business Opportunity

Pencak Silat is martial art from Indonesian, which has unique movements of stance based on local geography. Pencak silat can be performed in a series of motion that resembles dance with pencak silat technique. Appearance of a new creation that displays the moves and dance areas typical of the archipelago to date have not been found. This study aims to develop the creation of martial arts dance of the archipelago by combining the motion of martial arts and local dance movements. Borg and Gall’s research and development approach. The results showing that martial arts dance has been successfully stacked with a mix of motion martial arts moves with local dance Indonesia which consists of representatives of the movement of Sumatra, western Java, Yogyakarta, Bali, Kalimantan and Papua. The motion of Sumatra contains a unique motion element with floor motion, and adopt dance movement style typical of west sumatera. West Java motion is more emphasis on jaipong motion and dynamic music, while yogyakarta style moves more emphasis on cultural movements kraton ngayogyakarta with soldiers and spear games facing each other. Balinese martial arts movements are highlighted with typical kecak dance. The movement of kalimantan take inspiration from typical dance movement of kalimantan and the movement of Dayak tribe. While the typical motion of papua in combination with dance and regional songs are typical with the motion of dance while doing jumping, and a few running. The diversity adds to the uniqueness and cultural richness of the nation of Indonesia. If the dance is done in earnest then it will be able to improve fitness and health, and become an alternative to innovative sports and dance. Companion music is made special with attention to typical local music. In addition, the diversity of stance and dance enhances the sense of togetherness, unity, and a sense of Indonesian social culture. Ramayana ballet dance that was held in Prambanan temple became the reference for the development of service business and culture. It is concluded that Pencak Silat dance is the accumulation of local culture of dance and silat archipelago, becoming a show for cultural tourism treats and is a business opportunity in the field of services integrated with tour packages in various regions.
NUTRITIVE VALUE OF ASH LEAVES (Fraxinus angustifolia) FOR GROWING RABBITS

The digestibility and nutritive value of ash (Fraxinus angustifolia) leaves, harvested in autumn was determined (direct method), using ten rabbits (individually caged) weaned at 35d old (mean body weight: 911g) fed ad libitum only fresh ash leaves during 16 days. Ash leaves composition was: organic matter (OM) 89.3%, crude protein (CP) 14.6%, neutral detergent fibre (NDF) 39.4, acid detergent fibre (ADF) 28.3, acid detergent lignin (ADL) 16.1% on dry matter (DM) basis. The faecal digestibility of the ash leaves was measured between 48 and 52 day sold. The digestibility of OM, CP, NDF and ADF were 74, 67, 59 and 59%, respectively. The concentration in digestible energy and digestible protein of the ash leaves was estimated to 13.6±0.90 MJ/kg DM and 98±10.43 g/kg DM, respectively. In general, ash leaves harvested in autumn could be considered as a good source of fibre and energy for the growing rabbit. Therefore, Incorporating ash leaves moderately in a pelleted and balanced diet with a sufficient level of ingestion should be considered in ration formulation of growing rabbits.
Floquet stability analysis of two-phase flows

The growth of ocean waves due to the action of wind, where large waves are excited by the interaction between the wind and a corrugated liquid-air interface, is reminiscent of the growth of secondary instabilities in response to a primary disturbance in a locally parallel flow [e. g. , see, for example, Buckley & Veron (2016) for a systematic experimental study of this configuration with laminar starting conditions]. Over the past few decades, several theories (Miles 1957; Phillips 1957; Belcher & Hunt 1993) have been proposed to explain the physical mechanism for the excitation of these waves in various physical regimes, including those where the boundary layer above the interface is assumed to be turbulent. Motivated by these studies, and by the experimental observation of the growth of these waves even when the starting conditions are laminar, a secondary instability analysis of two-phase (liquid-gas) flows was sought. Secondary stability analysis of periodic water waves was previously performed by Longuet-Higgins in a pair of companion papers (Longuet-Higgins 1978a,b). The underlying concept of expanding both the periodic base state and the superimposed disturbance field in truncated Fourier series bears resemblance to the Floquet analysis later introduced by Herbert (1983, 1984, 1988) in the study of the secondary instability of Tollmien-Schlichting waves in laminar boundary layers. The wave analyses by Longuet-Higgins (1978a,b) were based on the surmise that the flow in the water could be treated inviscidly with potential flow theory and that the flow in the air is dynamically insignificant. These assumptions are not valid at large times when the initially thin vortex sheet localized at the interface has diffused into the two phases, and for large differences in the free-stream velocities of the air and the water where deviations of the air velocity from the free-stream velocity at locations near the interface are significant. Thus, in this work, the Floquet ansatz is extended to accommodate flows in two phases coupled at their interface without making any physical simplifications while explicitly considering the effects of surface tension. Direct application of the instability analysis to wind-driven periodic water waves is ongoing and will be deferred to future work. In Section 2, the relevant equations required for the secondary instability analysis are developed. Some preliminary test cases are presented in Section 3 and the findings are concluded in Section 4.
Dynamic Capabilities: Closing the Competence Gap in Order to Assure Exploitation of New Opportunities

Current dynamics of business environment and challenges that businesses are facing force firms to reorganize resources for becoming more effective at opportunity identification and exploitation. However, exploitation of new opportunities is often challenged by competency gap at the firm level. Often current level of competence of the firm does not meet the requirements coming with the new opportunities. In the literature on management science, learning is perceived as one of the greatest contributors in smooth and directed resource reconfiguration process. The outcome of learning is often linked to new knowledge and competencies that allow successful exploitation of identified opportunities within an external and internal business environment. Therefore, this paper aims to propose hypothetical model on how the successful implementation of new business opportunities is linked to multiple-loop organizational learning and closing of the competence gap of the firm. The aim is achieved by synergizing extant literature in the fields of dynamic capabilities, entrepreneurship and organizational learning. Critical analysis of relevant research leads to the development of a conceptual model explaining the process of how the firm is able to close the competence gap and assure successful opportunity exploitation within the firm. This results in the formation of the research questions for future empirical research. The study adds value to the existing literature by identifying the learning process that stimulates successful opportunity exploitation, drawing on the multiple-loop learning perspective, and applying dynamic capabilities framework.
The Distribution with Respect to Smoke Particle Size of Dotriacontane, Hexadecane and Decachlorobiphenyl Added to Cigarettes

Abstract When studying the distribution of smoke deposited in the lung, it is necessary to use a tracer which indicates the levels of particulate matter deposited at various sites. Because the site of deposition can be dependent on the particle size of the aerosol, it is important that the tracer should be uniformly distributed with respect to particle size, otherwise the levels of particulate matter may be wrongly estimated. The distributions in the smoke from a cigarette containing flue-cured tobacco of three possible tracers (dotriacontane, hexadecane and decachlorobiphenyl) have been measured; alI three show a slight dependence but probably not sufficient to exclude them from possible use in inhalation studies. However, because of the different environment which exists in the lung, and the possible dependence of the results on the type of tobacco, it should not be assumed that there are no selective effects
Effectiveness of selected medicinal plants used for management of ticks in cattle in Western Uganda

Tick management among cattle farmers in Western Uganda has become an outstanding problem based on the fact that there is increasing resistance to most of the synthetic acaricides. Several herbs have been mentioned for management of ticks in different parts of the world, and they have been tested for acaricidal properties. This (experimental) study evaluated the in vitro investigation of the efficacy of Phytolaca dodecandra L’Her, Azardirachta indica A. Juss. , Vernonia amygdalina Del. and Tephrosia vogelii Hook. f. in the management of ticks in Western Uganda. Cold and hot extracts of these herbs were used in comparison with Duodip a synthetic acaricide commonly used by farmers in the management of ticks within the region. Results indicated that there was a significant difference in the effectiveness of the different herbal extracts with cold extracts showing better efficacy (p < 0.0001) than the hot extracts (p = 0.12) at highest concentration used of 75 mg/ml. The mortality rate of ticks when Duodip was used was 20% which was much lower than that of the medicinal extracts used which gave a mortality rate of 30% and above for the different medicinal plants. The use of medicinal plants therefore could be a better option in the management of ticks if well concentrated. There is need for more in vivo studies to establish the possible dermatological effects on the animals if these herbs were to be used effectively as acaricides.