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The stratigraphy and eruptive history of the Palaeogene Arran Volcanic Formation, western Scotland: a proximal record of caldera-forming eruptions

A Palaeogene caldera system in central Arran, western Scotland, contains a well-exposed proximal caldera-fill succession, the Arran Volcanic Formation. This caldera (formerly known as the Central Ring Complex of Arran) is part of the British Palaeogene Igneous Province and largely comprises highly heterogeneous ignimbrites and minor intra-caldera sedimentary rocks. Exposure across more than 400 m of elevation allows a complex stratigraphy to be determined, which can be linked to changing eruptive styles at a constantly-evolving volcano. Predominantly lava-like to welded tuffs deposited from high temperature, high mass-flux pyroclastic density currents generated from low fountaining columns that retained heat, are preserved. The first recorded phase was eruption of a homogeneous rhyolitic lavalike ignimbrite. A succeeding phase of highly explosive Plinian eruptions, marked by a thick blanket of massive lapilli tuffs, was then followed by caldera collapse and erosion of steep caldera walls. Volcanism then became generally less explosive, with non-homogenous lapilli tuffs interbedded with lava-like ignimbrites, glassy tuffs, and cognate-spatter-rich agglomerates. High topographic relief between distinct units indicate long periods of volcanic quiescence, during which erosive processes dominated. These periods are, in several places, marked by sedimentary horizons and evidence for surface water, which includes a localised basaltic-andesitic phreatomagmatic tuff. Proximal records of caldera-forming eruptions are relatively rare and the Arran Volcanic Formation provides evidence of these processes. The ignimbrites typically lack the thick autobreccias and lithic-rich lapilliand block-layers expected of proximal eruptions, indicating that subsidence was relatively gradual and incremental in this caldera, and not accompanied by catastrophic wall collapse during eruption.
Ionized gas in E/S0 galaxies with dust lanes (Finkelman+, 2010)

We report the results of multicolour observations of 30 E/S0 galaxies with dust lanes. For each galaxy we obtained broad-band images and narrow-band images using interference filters isolating the H�+[NII] emission lines to derive the amount and morphology of dust and ionized gas. To improve the wavelength coverage we retrieved data from the SDSS and 2MASS and combined these with our data. Ionized gas is detected in 25 galaxies and shows in most cases a smooth morphology, although knots and filamentary structure are also observed in some objects. The extended gas distribution closely follows the dust structure, with a clear correlation between the mass of both components. An extinction law by the extragalactic dust in the dark lanes is derived and is used to estimate the dust content of the galaxies. The derived extinction law is used to correct the measured colours for intrinsic dust extinction and the data are �
Stress Detection of the Students Studying in University using Smartphone Sensors

—Stress leaves a harmful impact on the health of people and puts their health at serious risk. To assess stress, this study presents an approach to measure the stress levels of graduate and undergraduate students by analyzing the activity behavior of their daily routine. Our approach monitors the activity behavior non-invasively using the smartphone sensors. The activity behavior is classiﬁed into three classes with an accuracy of 98.0% using a support vector machine. We build linear relationship between those recognized classes of activity (explanatory variables) and stress level experienced by the students. This approach is based on multiple linear regression that computes a stress score, and categorizes stress in three levels: low, mild, and acute. Such results illustrate that the graduate students experience high stress as compared to the undergraduate students.
THE EFFECTS OF CENTRALLY APPLIED OCTREOTIDE ON ACTH CELLS IN THE FEMALE RAT

The effects of intracerebroventricular (i. c. v.) application of a somatostatin analogue, Octreotide, on growth of pituitary adrenocorticotropes (ACTH cells) were examined in adult female Wistarrats. The animals were subjected to i.e. v. administration of three 1.0 ~lg doses of Octreotide dissolved in 10 pi saline every second day. Controls were treated in the same way with the same volume of saline. ACTH-producing cells were studied using the peroxidase -antiperoxidase (PAP) immunohistochemical procedure. Octreotide treatment of rat females, significantly decreased (p <0.05) all morphometric parameters measured, i.e. volume of ACTH cells and their nuclei by 52% and 11%, respectively, as compared to the controls. The volume densities were also significantly decreased (by 47%; p<0.05) in comparison with the corresponding controls. These findings suggest that centrally administered somatostatin analogue (Octreotide) is specifically involved in the control of growth and secretory activity of ACTH cells in female rats.
Comparative Anatomical Studies on Shoulder Girdle of Pigeon Hawk (Falco columbarius) and Kite (Millvus migrans)

The aim of the present study was to compare morphological features of shoulder girdle bones in pigeon, hawk and kite. Bones were collected by maceration technique. Shoulder girdle comprised of scapula, coracoid and the clavicular bones in both species. The proximal end of bones of shoulder girdle enclosed a foramen triosseum in both the species. Presence of sub-acromial foramen in scapula of kite was a noteworthy feature, whereas that of pigeon hawk was characterized by a pneumatic foramen just behind coracoid process. A piercing type of foramen was characteristic in the coracoid of kite. The coracoid of pigeon hawk was featured with an additional small pneumatic foramen just behind acro coracoid process. The clavicular bones of pigeon hawk and kite, except the design of foramina, were almost identical. The linear and clockwise arrangement of foramina in the clavicle of pigeon hawk, as compared to the randomly designed foramina of the clavicle of kite, was a characteristic feature.
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OBJECTIVES: Limited data are available for use of the HeartMate 3 (HM 3) left ventricular assist device in patients with a small body surface area (BSA). Because the HM 3 is currently the sole device available worldwide, we conducted a single-centre retrospective study of patients with a small BSA (<1.5 m) who underwent HM 3 implantation to better understand the operative and postoperative management. METHODS: This study enrolled 64 consecutive patients who had undergone HM 3 implantation from August 2018 to July 2021. The patients were divided into 2 groups based on their BSA before the operation: BSA of <1.5 m (small BSA group, n = 18) and BSA of >_1.5 m Presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Barcelona, Spain, 13–16 October 2021. M EC H A N IC A L C IR C U LA TO R Y SU P P O R T VC The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery (2022) 1–7 ORIGINAL ARTICLE https://doi.org/10.1093/icvts/ivac012 D ow naded rom http/academ ic.p.com /icvts/advance-art.1093/icvts/ivac012/6519735 by gest on 13 Feruary 2022 (regular BSA group, n = 46). The primary study endpoint was survival free of events such as disabling stroke and pump failure. The secondary endpoint was the frequency of adverse events. RESULTS: The average BSA was 1.38 m in the small BSA group. The overall event-free survival rate at 12 months was 100% and 86.7% in the small BSA group and regular BSA group, respectively, and no significant difference was found between the 2 groups (log-rank P = 0.2). The number of cumulative adverse events of death, stroke of any severity, driveline infection, pump infection, ventricular arrhythmia, gastrointestinal Haemorrhage and pump failure was similar between the 2 groups. CONCLUSIONS: The HM 3 was safely implanted in patients with a small BSA, and postoperative outcomes were acceptable regardless of BSA. However, further research is needed to confirm the indications for HM 3 implantation in even smaller patients.
Numerical simulation of flows with spheres using Immersed Boundary Methods

Immersed Bormdary Methods represent a class of techniques that can be used to numerically solve flows with arbitrarily shaped bormdaries that do not coincide with the computational grid. They eliminate the need for the geiieration of a body-conformal grid and ahow the use of fast solvers. In this work, the method proposed by Kim et al. (2001), which includes both momentum forcing and mass sources/sinks, was extended to handle spherical particles that move along arbitrary trajectories. The resulting method was vahdated using different laminar cases from the literature and a good agreement was obtained. Different teclnriques were used to compute the force exerted by the fluid on the spheres and significant deviations were found between them. Using volume integrations of the momentum forcing, taking into account both the acceleration inside the sphere and the convection through the sphere surface, the trajectory of a free-falhng sphere in a fluid-filled tank was successfully computed and an excellent agreement was obtamed with experimental data from the hterature. The computation of the torque also was vahdated using results from the literature, for a rotating sphere in a laminar shear flow. A local grid-refinement technique was implemented to enhairce the resolutioir near the rmmersed bormdary. This technique provided excelleirt results for laminar flows. In the turbulent flows, numerical oscillations were encountered. It was, therefore, decided not to use the local grid-refinemeirt for the turbulent simulations. Using the resultmg code, simulations were performed to hwestigate the interaction of spherical particles with a turbulent channel flow. We investigated the regime where the particle diameter and its relative velocity with respect to the surrounding fluid are of the order of magnitude of the large-eddy length and velocity scales, respectively. We considered: (i) single spheres, (h) two close-by positioned spheres for different geometrical configurations and (hi) rotathrg and non-rotating spheres. It was found that: (i) for the single-spheres coirsidered in this work, the drag force is poorly predicted by empirical drag correlations; (ii) the flow arormd the spheres, the drag force, the lif t force and the torque acting on the spheres are affected by differences in the geometrical configuration, mdicating that the relative positioning of the spheres is of significant importance, and (iii) the results for rotating spheres are significantly different than for spheres that are non-rotating.
Leadership Competencies Affecting Projects in Organization Leadership Competencies Affecting Projects in Organization

Leadership and organizational culture are linked to project performance. The culture of the organization exerts an influence on the leader and shapes the actions and competen cies of the leader with the passage of time. For last few decades, project management has extensively been involved in management of projects but still projects are not guaranteed to be successful in various organizational environments. There are certain factors affect - ing management of projects in different situations where the competence of project lead ership is one of the key factors. This chapter employed different keywords and methods for selection of articles synthesizing findings and research gaps of earlier studies. This chapter offers certain limitations and future directions for researchers. The outcomes of this chapter are expected to advance the body of knowledge and help the practitioners in the field of leadership and project management.
Lack of association of b 2-glycoprotein I polymorphisms Val247Leu and Trp316Ser with antiphospholipid antibodies in patients with thrombosis and pregnancy complications

Summary. Beta 2 -glycoprotein I ( b 2 GPI) is an important target antigen for antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) and thus b 2 GPI polymorphisms may inﬂuence aPL production and the development of antiphospholipid syndrome. We have studied the relationship between the Val247Leu and Trp316Ser b 2 GPI polymorphisms and the aPL status of 230 patients referred for aPL screening. Sixty-one (26 Æ 5%) had persistent aPL [anticardiolipin antibodies (IgG and/or IgM), lupus anticoagulants and/or IgG anti- b 2 GPI antibodies]. A comparison of the genotypic and allelic frequencies of these two polymorphisms between the Caucasian patient population and an ethnic-matched normal control group ( n ¼ 308) showed no signiﬁcant differences between aPL-positive patients, aPL-negative patients and the normal control group. This suggests that the Val or Leu allele at position 247 and the Trp or Ser allele at position 316 of b 2 GPI do not play a role in the production of aPL. There was a signiﬁcantly decreased prevalence of the Ser316 allele in aPL-negative women ( n ¼ 98) when compared with female normal control subjects ( n ¼ 249) {0 Æ 020 [95% conﬁdence interval (CI) 0 Æ 00–0 Æ 04] vs 0 Æ 060 (95% CI 0 Æ 04–0 Æ 08), P ¼ 0 Æ 0286}. Subgroup analysis showed no signiﬁcant difference between female patients with thrombosis and female normal control subjects. Thus, the Ser316 allele may protect women from developing pregnancy complications by inﬂuencing an anticoagulant function of b 2 GPI via a mechanism distinct from aPL production.
Imperative Transparency

I respond to an objection recently formulated by Barlassina and Hayward against ﬁrst-order imperativism about pain, according to which it cannot account for the self-directed motivational force of pain. I am going to agree with them: it cannot. This is because pain does not have self-directed motivational force. I will argue that the alternative view—that pain is about dealing with extramental, bodily threats, not about dealing with itself—makes better sense of introspection, and of empirical research on pain avoidance. Also, a naturalistic theory of body-involving com- mands falls straightforwardly out of our most prominent naturalistic metasemantic accounts, while the token-reﬂexive contents that would underlie self-directed mo- tivation are more problematic.
et al. A LAT-Based Signaling Complex in the Immunological Synapse as Determined with Live Cell Imaging Is Less Stable in T Cells with Regulatory Capability. Cells, 10(2),

: Peripheral immune regulation is critical for the maintenance of self-tolerance. Here we have investigated signaling processes that distinguish T cells with regulatory capability from effector T cells. The murine Tg4 T cell receptor recognizes a peptide derived from the self-antigen myelin basic protein. T cells from Tg4 T cell receptor transgenic mice can be used to generate effector T cells and three types of T cells with regulatory capability, inducible regulatory T cells, T cells tolerized by repeated in vivo antigenic peptide exposure or T cells treated with the tolerogenic drug UCB9608 (a phosphatidylinositol 4 kinase III β inhibitor). We comparatively studied signaling in all of these T cells by activating them with the same antigen presenting cells presenting the same myelin basic protein peptide. Supramolecular signaling structures, as efﬁciently detected by large-scale live cell imaging, are critical mediators of T cell activation. The formation of a supramolecular signaling complex anchored by the adaptor protein linker for activation of T cells (LAT) was consistently terminated more rapidly in Tg4 T cells with regulatory capability. Such termination could be partially reversed by blocking the inhibitory receptors CTLA-4 and PD-1. Our work suggests that attenuation of proximal signaling may favor regulatory over effector function in T cells.
EVALUATION OF THE POSSIBLE PROTECTIVE EFFECTS OF CAPTOPRIL AND VALSARTAN ON METHOTREXATE-INDUCED HEPATOTOXICITY IN ALBINO RATS

The aim of this study was to evaluate the ameliorating effect of both captopril and valsartan on methotrexate (MTX)-induced hepatotoxicity in rats. Forty two adult male albino rats weighing 180-250 g were divided into 6 groups; n= 7. Groups 1, 2, and 3 were orally received saline (control), captopril (20 mg/kg/day) and valsartan (30 mg/kg/day) respectively for 3 weeks. Groups 4, 5, and 6 were orally pretreated with saline (toxicity control), captopril and valsartan respectively in the same doses and duration as three previous groups. At the end of treatment, groups 4, 5, and 6 were subjected to single dose of MTX 5 mg/kg I.P. The impacts of MTX on the hepatic injury and its prevention by captopril and valsartan were assessed by estimation of serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), total bilirubin (T.Bil), total protein and albumin. In addition, superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity, nitric oxide (NO), malondialdehyde (MDA) levels were measured in serum and liver homogenates. MTX resulted in significant increases (P < 0.01) in AST, ALT T.Bil, NO and MDA levels and decrease in serum albumin and protein levels and SOD activity; as well as severe congestion and inflammation in liver tissues compared to control group. On the other hand, pre-treatment with captopril or valsartan decreased MTX-induced alterations in liver function, NO, and MDA levels and SOD activity; also, ameliorated the induced changes in liver tissues. The oxidative stress plays an essential role in MTX-induced hepatotoxicity in rats. Captopril and valsartan have a protective effect on MTX-induced hepatotoxicity; which may be created by their antioxidant effect.
A Study on the Factors of Inflation

Inflation is one of the most complex macroeconomic phenomena in industrialized economies. This study mainly focuses on examining inflation-related factors in Malaysia. Stepwise linear Regression analysis was applied via SPSS to investigate the significance of the inflation rate, exchange rate, money supply, interest rate and unemployment rate relationship by using time series from 1995 to 2019. The study aimed at determinants of factors that influence Malaysia's inflation. The analytical results found that the money supply and exchange rate have positive impact on the inflation, whereas the unemployment rate and interest rate have negative impact on the inflation. Moreover, The hypothetical results are supported to the exchange rate and interest rate. The remaining other two independent variables do not support the hypotheses. The study suggests that Inflation, pushed up by money growth rate as well as Ringgit depreciation and higher interest rates, has adversely impacted production growth rate. The central bank of Malaysia must seek to control the quality and quantity of credit in Malaysia is through a credit management system. Throughout this purpose, it increases interest rates, sells bonds in the primary and open market through the financial institutions like banks and financial agents, increases the reserve ratio and controls consumer credit. might decide to print new money during the pre-election time to build the impression of an economic boom. Increasing the money supply could initially lead to increased economic activity. Research by Cheng and Tan (2002), found that money supply has a positive relationship between and inflation rate. If important means are considered to be the effect of money supply on the inflation rate, then the government should effort to implement the proper monetary policy to control the inflation rate in Malaysia due to the effect of money supply. A study by Menji (2009) conducted a research in Ethiopia has a negative correlation between exchange rates and inflation. The exchange rate and inflation also had an insignificant effect, she stated. Third factor is the rate of unemployment, it has a negative relation with the rate of inflation. That is because, according to the Philips curve, as the unemployment rate increases, the inflation rate will decline, and vice versa. Philips curve may be clarified by the trade-off relationship (Islam et al., 2017). Fourth factor is the interest rate, it is likely to the demand and supply of money from the market while fluctuating interest rate increases influence the market investors to tend to hold financial investments, e.g. in shares, where share prices will go up or down depending on the bank interest rate (when interest rates rise, shares fall and vice versa), and the likelihood that securities investors would experience capital loss or benefit (Maiga, 2017). This study evaluates the 4 main inflation-causing factors including unemployment rate, supply of money, exchange rate and interest rate.
Design and Experiment of a Broken Corn Kernel Detection Device Based on the Yolov4-Tiny Algorithm

At present, the wide application of the CNN (convolutional neural network) algorithm has greatly improved the intelligence level of agricultural machinery. Accurate and real-time detection for outdoor conditions is necessary for realizing intelligence and automation of corn harvesting. In view of the problems with existing detection methods for judging the integrity of corn kernels, such as low accuracy, poor reliability, and difficulty in adapting to the complicated and changeable harvesting environment, this paper investigates a broken corn kernel detection device for combine harvesters by using the yolov4-tiny model. Hardware construction is first designed to acquire continuous images and processing of corn kernels without overlap. Based on the images collected, the yolov4-tiny model is then utilized for training recognition of the intact and broken corn kernels samples. Next, a broken corn kernel detection algorithm is developed. Finally, the experiments are carried out to verify the effectiveness of the broken corn kernel detection device. The laboratory results show that the accuracy of the yolov4-tiny model is 93.5% for intact kernels and 93.0% for broken kernels, and the value of precision, recall, and F1 score are 92.8%, 93.5%, and 93.11%, respectively. The field experiment results show that the broken kernel rate obtained by the designed detection device are in good agreement with that obtained by the manually calculated statistic, with differentials at only 0.8%. This study provides a technical reference of a real-time method for detecting a broken corn kernel rate.
Self-presentation of males and females in an online dating application: A profile analysis from north India

This study was aimed to explore how males and females self-present themselves in an online dating mobile application. We selected consecutive 50 males and 50 female heterosexual profiles from an online dating application in west Delhi (India). A descriptive data analysis was done for socio-demographic details, profile picture and self-description. Males present themselves with details about their work, and they tend to show costly items/body muscles/outing/sports pictures in their profile. Notably taller males mentioned about their height. Males also mentioned about the alcohol/smoking status and favourite music. Females usually kept a selfie in a western outfit with fewer details in self-description. Both the sexes were equally descriptive and used similar words in their self-description. The purpose mentioned by both the sexes was to look for a lover in the dating application. These findings of this study can help in understanding the differences between males and females in their self-presentation on an online dating platform.