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and is now used as an ornamental plant or a companion plant in gardens. Several cultivars of nasturtium have been developed, including Nasturtium ‘Alaska’, recognizable by the distinct green and white variegated leaves (Klingaman 2006). Among gardeners, nasturtium is believed to be a “trap crop. ” It is planted to draw pests towards itself and away from vegetables and fruit in the garden (Chemung County 1999). However, there does not appear to be any empirical evidence regarding nasturtium’s efficacy as a trap crop. The general term “companion plant” itself is questionable (Chalker-Scott 2008). This paper describes an instance of adult N. nubilus and Plagiognathus sp. feeding on Nasturtium ‘Alaska’ in a north-eastern Illinois garden. Past literature has not described nasturtium as an adult host plant and a site for adult dispersal of these two plant bugs.
Spiritual Care in Palliative Care

Palliative care has always included spiritual care, but the provision and inclusion of spiritual care within and across palliative care services internationally is sub-optimal. In this summary overview, we address understandings and meanings of spirituality and related terms, both generally and in the context of healthcare, and outline the importance of spiritual well-being and spiritual care at the end of life. We summarise what spiritual care involves, its benefits for palliative care patients and their families, and consider how its provision might be helped or hindered. There is currently a limited evidence base for the efficacy of interventions including spiritual and/or religious care, and large-scale studies in particular are lacking. However, those mostly small-scale and/or qualitative studies which have been conducted to date show that addressing the spiritual needs of patients in palliative care is associated with many positive outcomes for both patients and their relatives. More research in this area is necessary to develop and enhance the evidence base, and optimal provision of spiritual care requires that providers explicitly recognise the need for such care, including through providing training and support for staff.
Influence of Sea Ice Crack Formation on the Spatial Distribution of Nutrients and Microalgae in Flooded Antarctic Multiyear Ice

Cracks are common and natural features of sea ice formed in the polar oceans. In this study, a sea ice crack in flooded, multiyear, land-fast Antarctic sea ice was examined to assess its influence on biological productivity and the transport of nutrients and microalgae into the upper layers of neighboring sea ice. The water inside the crack and the surrounding host ice were characterized by a strong discoloration (brown color), an indicator of a massive algal bloom. Salinity and oxygen isotopic ratio measurements indicated that 64–84% of the crack water consisted of snow meltwater supplied during the melt season. Measurements of nutrient and chlorophyll a concentrations within the slush layer pool (the flooded layer at the snow-ice interface) revealed the intrusion of water from the crack, likely forced by mixing with underlying seawater during the tidal cycle. Our results suggest that sea ice crack formation provides conditions favorable for algal blooms by directly exposing the crack water to sunlight and supplying nutrients from the under-ice water. Subsequently, constituents of the crack water modified by biological activity were transported into the upper layer of the flooded sea ice. They were then preserved in the multiyear ice column formed by upward growth of sea ice caused by snow ice formation in areas of significant snow accumulation. Plain Language Summary Formation of cracks in sea ice affects the environment associated with biological production and biogeochemical cycling in the surface ocean of sea ice systems. Because cracks are likely to form frequently within the sea ice during the season of ice melting and ice breaking, the contributions of cracks to biological production and biogeochemical cycling may be significant in ice-covered oceans. In the future, the melting of sea ice in polar oceans will strongly affect the output of biogeochemical parameters trapped within sea ice and their use in primary and secondary production within surface oceans. In the case of multiyear, land-fast ice, biogeochemical parameters that accumulate within the ice would be discharged abruptly to ocean surface waters when the multiyear ice breaks up.
Ameliorative effect of Hydroalcoholic Cinnamon zeylanicum extract against Oxidative stress in a rat model of Letrozole- induced polycystic ovary Syndrome

Keywords Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most frequent conditions, which affects both metabolic and reproductive systems causing irregular menstrual cycles, chronic anovulation, and hyper-androgenism. The beneficial effects of Cinnamon zeylanicum (CZ) Hydroalcoholic extract on oxidative injury and hormonal alterations in adult rats with PCOS were evaluated. PCOS was induced by administration of letrozole (1mg/kg b. wt. /day, orally) for 4 weeks. Four weeks after PCOS induction, treatment with Metformin (150mg/kg b. wt./day) and Cinnamon zeylanicum (CZ) Hydroalcoholic extract (200mg/kg b. wt./day), orally were started and continued for 30 days. Fifty female rats were equally divided into 5 groups. Group I (Normal control):Rats received no drugs, Group II (letrozole-induced PCOS): Rats were orally administrated 1mg/kg b. wt. /day of letrozole for 4 weeks, Group III (Metformin treated): After 4 weeks of letrozole administration, rats were orally treated with 150mg/kg b. wt. /day of metformin for 30 days, Group IV (CZ treated): Rats were administrated letrozole as group II and orally treated with 200mg/kg b. wt. /day of Hydroalcoholic extract of CZ for 30 days, Group V (metformin + CZ treated): Rats were administrated letrozole and treated daily with metformin and CZ for 30 days as group III+IV. The results revealed a significant decrease in serum estrogen, progesterone and antioxidant markers with marked elevations in serum MDA, total cholesterol and triacylglycerol concentrations in PCOS as compared with normal control group. However, treatment with Hydroalcoholic extract of CZ or/and Metformin to PCOS rats caused remarkable ameliorations in all previous parameters. Conclusively, the Hydroalcoholic extract of CZ treatment ameliorates oxidative injury caused by letrozole enhances the antioxidant defense system, and prevents lipid peroxidation.
Evaluation of the forecast reliability of site effect for regional mining tremors

It is obligatory for Polish underground mines of hard coal and copper to prepare long-term exploitation projects for 2 - 5 years. All the natural hazards, including seismic ones, that may occur have to be taken into account in such projects. In the case of mining seismicity the forecast of site effect plays an important role. To recognize the reliability of this forecast for strong regional mining tremors special methodology was used. The peak ground velocity and peak ground acceleration, recorded after the occurrence of a regional tremor by surface seismometric network stations, were compared with the distribution of the forecast values of these parameters determined for similar seismic energy. Differences between these values are the basis for the evaluation of the reliability of the forecast site effect. The practical implementation was presented with the tremor of seismic energy E = 5.10 8 J (M L = 3.63) which occurred on 18 th January 2018. The small value ΔPGV Hmax (4%) of the difference between the recorded PGV Hmax rec and the forecast values PGV Hmax pr confirms that the measurement values correlate well with the forecast values. The difference value ΔPGA H10 for the peak ground acceleration equals 31% showing a worse correlation with the forecast data.
Investigating gaseous pollutants emitted from Saipa automotive group and surrounding roads into the atmosphere using the combination of the AERMOD dispersion model and the MOVES model

Due to the different types of pollution they put out, putting automotive factories in cities can hurt the air quality in those cities. The aim of this study is to investigate the simultaneous effects of the Saipa automobile industry and two surrounding highways on air quality. This study used Mehrabad meteorological station data for 2019 along with emission rates and topographical data to model the gaseous pollutants released from automobile factories and linear sources using AERMOD software. Field measurements of NO 2 pollution by passive adsorbents con�rmed the accuracy of the results with a 0.99 correlation, and the same average of two communities of modele and observed concentration. The Lashkari highway has the maximum yearly NO 2 concentration of 1209 parts per billion at 515326.80 and 3953279.17 meters, 23 times the NAAQS, The Lashkari freeway had the greatest CO concentration, 12.6 parts per million, at 515326.80 and 3953279.17 meters, 1.4 times the NAAQS. Highway passengers are exposed to NO 2 and CO levels above the NAAQS, demonstrating the need for highway and tra�c law reform.
Radiofrequency Sensing System for Fruit Quality Evaluation during Forced Ripening Processes

One of the most assessed methodologies in the food sector is the accelerated ripening of climacteric fruits within chambers with controlled environmental and gases conditions. However, nowadays, the management of the process is mainly based on qualitative estimations only, frequently resulting in poor fruits quality and scarce optimization of time and wastes. Following the modern paradigms of Industry 4.0, this contribution proposes a non-destructive RFID-based system for the automatic evaluation of the live ripening of avocados. The system, coupled with a properly trained automatic classification algorithm based on Support Vector Machines (SVMs), can discriminate the early stage of ripening with an accuracy greater than 85%.
Temporal variation in the magnitude‐frequency distribution during the Guy‐Greenbrier earthquake sequence

The recent increase in earthquake activity in the central U.S. has led to concerns about the hazard posed by induced earthquakes. Understanding earthquake phenomena and monitoring in all settings can be improved by the detection of small events; however, the catalog of induced earthquakes is incomplete for small events due to the sparse instrumentation. This is particularly true in settings of low background seismicity, like the central U.S. We apply single‐station template matching to detect small earthquakes during the Guy‐Greenbrier sequence in central Arkansas and find over 100 times more earthquakes than are registered in the Advanced National Seismic System catalog between July 2010 and October 2011. A complete catalog over nearly 4 units of magnitude enables us to analyze the magnitude‐frequency distribution of induced earthquakes. We find that earthquakes deviated from the Gutenberg‐Richter statistics during the operation of nearby injection wells but returned to Gutenberg‐Richter statistics after the wells were shut in.
The Generating Function Technique Ameliorates Effective and String Field Theories and Foreshadows Their Linkage to Quantum Information Theory

Many scientists are trying to develop a theory of everything or a supposition to explain all aspects of the physical universe. This paper explores a set of theories called effective and string field theory or EFT and SFT , respectively. These suppositions can be utilized in both old and possibly new physics. Typically, EFT and SFT have a mathematical method for solving problems called the perturbation theory ( PT ); the generating function technique or GFT can substitute this means of problem-solving. The latter method is used to solve a few examples of physical problems, such as determining the cause of muon g-2 experimental deviations, the means for the calculation of glueballs via meson decay, the ascertainment of tetraquark mass from their decay products, and the analysis of binary black hole mergers. Ultimately, GFT , instead of traditional PT methods, is a potent tool for improving our understanding of concepts in contemporary physics, such as in EFT and SFT . Also, GFT shows the existence of a triality between EFT , SFT , and Quantum Information theory ( QIT ).
User Guide for LDL, a concise sparse Cholesky package

The LDL software package is a set of short, concise routines for factorizing symmetric positive-deﬁnite sparse matrices, with some applicability to symmetric indeﬁ-nite matrices. Its primary purpose is to illustrate much of the basic theory of sparse matrix algorithms in as concise a code as possible, including an elegant method of sparse symmetric factorization that computes the factorization row-by-row but stores it column-by-column. The entire symbolic and numeric factorization consists of less than 50 lines of code. The package is written in C, and includes a MATLAB interface.
Evaluation of the Eﬃcacy and Safety of Oral N-acetylcysteine in Patients With COVID-19 Receiving the Routine Antiviral and Hydroxychloroquine Protocol: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

ABSTRACT The current absence of gold-standard or all-aspect favorable therapies for COVID-19 renders a focus on multipo-tential drugs proposed to prevent or treat this infection or ameliorate its signs and symptoms vitally important. The present well-designed randomized controlled trial sought to evaluate the eﬃcacy and safety of N-acetylcysteine as adjuvant therapy in hospitalized Iranian patients with COVID-19. Four diﬀerent diets in 60 patients include; Kaletra (lopinavir/ritonavir) + hydroxychloroquine with/without N-acetylcysteine (600 mg TDS) and atazanavir/ritonavir + hydroxychloroquine with/without N-acetylcysteine (600 mg TDS), were administered in the study. At the end of the study, a further decrease in C-reactive protein was observed in groups with N-acetylcysteine (P =0.008), and no death occurred in the atazanavir/ritonavir + hydrox-ychloroquine + N-acetylcysteine group, showing that the combination of these drugs may reduce mortality. A signiﬁcant rise in O2 saturation was observed in atazanavir/ritonavir+hydroxychloroquine+N-acetylcysteine group (P <0.05). Accordingly, oral or intravenous N-acetylcysteine, may enhance O2 saturation, blunt the inﬂammation trend (by reducing C-reactive protein), and reduce mortality in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. The N-acetylcysteine could be more eﬀective as prophylactic or adjuvant therapy in stable and non-severe cases of COVID-19 with a particularly positive role in the augmentation of O2 saturation and faster reduction of the CRP level and inﬂammation.
Solving the Plane-Sphere Ambiguity in Top-Down Structure-from-Motion

Drone-based land surveys and tracking applications with a moving camera require three-dimensional reconstructions from videos recorded using a downward facing camera and are usually generated by Structure-from-Motion (SfM) algorithms. Unfortunately, monocular SfM pipelines can fail in the presence of lens distortion due to a critical configuration resulting in a plane-sphere ambiguity which is characterized by severe curvatures of the reconstructions and erroneous relative camera pose estimations. We propose a 4-point minimal solver for the relative pose estimation for two views sharing the same radial distortion parameters (i.e. from the same camera) with a viewing direction perpendicular to the ground plane. To extract 3D reconstructions from continuous videos, the relative pose of pairwise frames is estimated by using the solver with RANSAC and the Sampson error where globally consistent distortion parameters are determined by taking the medial of all values. Moreover, we propose an additional regular-izer for the final bundle adjustment to remove any remaining curvature of the reconstruction if necessary. We tested our methods on synthetic and real-world data and our results demonstrate a significant reduction of curvature and more accurate relative pose estimations. Our algorithm can be easily integrated into existing pipelines and is therefore a practical solution to resolve the plane-sphere ambiguity in a variety of top-down SfM applications.
EFFECTIVE APPLICATION OF THE EQUILIBRATED RESIDUAL METHOD IN ERROR ESTIMATION OF THE 3D-BASED hp -APPROXIMATED MODELS OF COMPLEX STRUCTURES

This paper recalls our previous research on adaptive modeling and analysis of structures of complex mechanical description. Such complex description results from the application of at least two diﬀerent models for the structure mechanical characterization. The geometry of the structures can be either complex, i.e. composed of solid, shell and transition parts, or simple – with one geometrical part employed. The numerical models applied in such structures’ adaptive modelling and analysis is based on 3D-based hierarchical modelling and hierarchical hp -approximations. The corresponding control of the model and discretization adaptivities takes advantage of the a posteriori error estimation, which is based on the equilibrated residual method (ERM). The method is generalized for the special needs of 3D-based hierarchical models, and is applied to the assessment of the total and approximation error estimators/indicators. The modelling error indicators are obtained as the diﬀerences between their total and approximation counterparts. The necessary modiﬁcations of the original ERM are the ﬁrst subject of this paper. These modiﬁcations concern both theoretical and implementation aspects. The second subject presented in this paper concerns the parametric studies of the global estimators or indicators of the total, modeling, and approximation error components. Various factors aﬀecting eﬀectivity of the estimation are taken into account.
Natural Diet of Aegla platensis Schmitt and Aegla ligulata

: Natural diet of Aegla platensis Schmitt and Aegla ligulata Bond-Buckup & Buckup (Crustacea, Decapoda, Aeglidae) from Brazil. This work aimed to characterise the trophic ecology of Aegla platensis and A. ligulata, especially regarding the food habits and circadian and seasonal variations occurring in the diet of juveniles and adults. Samplings were done from August 1999 to August 2000 from Mineiro Creek, Taquara, and from another Creek forming the Tainhas River, São Francisco de Paula, RS, respectively. Monthly, on each place, five juveniles, five males and five females were collected, at four times of the day. Stomach contents were analysed using: an estimate of the Degree of Fullness (DF), the Frequency of Occurrence (FO) and the Point Method (PM). Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to detect statistical differences in the DF of males and females, adults and juveniles, for different seasons and times of the day sampled. Cluster Analyses and Principal Coordinate Analyses were used to compare the diet of juveniles and adults. A total 760 stomachs of A. platensis and 703 of A. ligulata were analysed. Aegla platensis had 650 stomachs with content and 110 had empty ones, while in A. ligulata 643 stomachs showed some content and 60 were empty. The most representative items found in the stomachs were plant debris, algae, sand, immature insects of the orders Diptera, Ephemeroptera, Trichoptera and microcrustaceans like Ostracoda and Cladocera, along with Amphipoda. There were no significant differences between the feeding habits of males and females on either species. However, values of DF were higher at 24h in A. platensis and at 18h in A. ligulata. The multivariate analyses detected differences in the diets of juveniles and adults of both species. Based on these information it can be concluded that these aeglids are, regarding their natural diet, omnivorous generalists, and opportunistic.
MIT Open Access Articles Force Tracking With Feed-Forward Motion Estimation for Beating Heart Surgery

—The manipulation of fast-moving, delicate tissues in beating heart procedures presents a considerable challenge to the surgeon. A robotic force tracking system can assist the surgeon by applying precise contact forces to the beating heart during surgical manipulation. Standard force control approaches cannot safely attain the required bandwidth for this application due to vibratory modes within the robot structure. These vibrations are a limitation even for single degree-of-freedom systems that drive long surgical instruments. These bandwidth limitations can be overcome by the incorporation of feed-forward motion terms in the control law. For intracardiac procedures, the required motion estimates can be derived from 3-D ultrasound imaging. Dynamic analysis shows that a force controller with feed-forward motion terms can provide safe and accurate force tracking for contact with structures within the beating heart. In vivo validation conﬁrms that this approach confers a 50% reduction in force ﬂuctuations when compared with a standard force controller and a 75% reduction in ﬂuctuations when compared with manual attempts to maintain the same force.
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The clinical diagnosis of most cancers is based on evaluation of histology microscopic slides to view the size and shape of cellular nuclei and morphological structure of tissue. To achieve this goal for in vivo and in-deep tissues, near infrared dyes-bovine serum albumin and immunoglobulin G conjugates were synthesized. The spectral study shows that the absorption and fluorescence of the dye conjugates are in the “ tissue optical window ” spectral ranges between 650 and 900 nm. The internalization and pinocytosis of the synthesized compounds were investigated at cell level using fluorescence microscopy to obtain the optimal concentration and staining time. © 2014 Optical Society of America
The sensitivity of regional sea level changes to the depth of Antarctic meltwater ﬂuxes

Regional patterns of sea level rise are aﬀected by a range of factors including glacial melting, which has occurred in recent decades and is projected to increase in the future, perhaps dramatically. Previous modeling studies have typically included ﬂuxes from melting glacial ice only as a surface forcing of the ocean or as an oﬄine addition to the sea surface height ﬁelds produced by climate models. However, observational estimates suggest that the majority of the meltwater from the Antarctic Ice Sheet actually enters the ocean at depth through ice shelf basal melt. Here we use simulations with an ocean general circulation model in an idealized conﬁguration. The results show that the simulated global sea level rise pattern is sensitive to the depth at which Antarctic meltwater enters the ocean. Further analysis suggests that the response is dictated primarily by the steric response to the depth of the meltwater ﬂux
Chironomidae (Diptera) Larvae in streams of Parque Estadual de Campos

: Chironomidae (Diptera) larvae in streams of Parque Estadual de Campos do Jordão, São Paulo State, Brazil. The distribution of the Chironomidae larvae was analyzed in streams of Parque Estadual de Campos do Jordão, in Campos do Jordão-Brazil. The samples were collected with a Surber sampler in six stations. Forty-three taxa were identified belonging to the subfamilies Chironominae, Orthocladiinae and Tanypodinae. Analyses indicated aff. Pseudochironomus sp 1 as the most abundant genus, followed by Corynoneura, aff. Omisus and Thienemanniella. The highest taxa richness was found in Campo do Meio stream whereas the highest diversity, similarity and evenness indexes values were found in the Galharada stream and its tributary. Multivariate Correspondence Analyses revealed that the dominant entomofauna was associated with the sampling sites, and their ordination was correlated with possible anthropic influences.