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Schistocytosis in megaloblastic anemia masquerading peripheral blood picture as maha (microangiopathic hemolytic anemia) and decrease mean corpuscular volume

Introduction: Severe megaloblastic anemia presenting with hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia and schistocytosis resemble microangiopathic hemolytic anemia. Presence of scistocytes falsely decreases the Mean corpuscular volume. Aim: To estimate the degree of schistocytosis in megaloblastic anemia with hemolytic blood picture and its correlation with the lowering of MCV. Materials and Methods: 60 cases of megaloblastic anemia.30 patients of megaloblastic anemia with hemolysis(cases) and 30 patients without hemolysis(clinical control)were taken. Complete blood count, Peripheral smear examination, schistocyte count, serum bilirubin, LDH, Homocystine was done. Result: Mean age of clinical control group was 22 where as that of cases was 14.1 years. Mean serum homocysteine level was increased in both clinical control group and cases. In our study of 30 megaloblastic anemia patients with hemolysis (case), 29 had >1% of schistocytes in their peripheral blood picture. There is a positive correlation between percentage of schistocytes and homocysteine and a negative correlation between MCV and homocysteine. There is a statistically significant negative correlation existing between percentage of schistocytes and MCV. Conclusion: Presence of scistocytes in peripheral blood should not be always considered as MAHA, and lowering of MCV should not be confused as microcytic hypochromic anemia. Presence of macroovalocytes and hypersegmented neutrophils can be a clue for diagnosis of megaloblastic anemia with hemolysis in such type of cases. © 2020 Published by Innovative Publication. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
Propagation of shock waves in a non‐ideal gas under the action of magnetic field

In this paper, we use power series method to study the propagation of cylindrical shock waves produced on account of a strong explosion in a non‐ideal gas under the influence of azimuthal magnetic field. Here, the density is assumed to be uniform and magnetic pressure is assumed to vary according to power law with distance from the symmetry axis in the undisturbed medium. Using power series method, we obtain approximate analytic solutions in the form of a power series in (a0/V )2, where a0 and V are the velocities of sound in the undisturbed medium and shock front, respectively. The first‐order and second‐order approximate solutions to the considered problem are discussed with the help of the said method. We construct solutions for the first‐order approximation in closed form. Distributions of the flow variables such as fluid velocity, density, pressure, and magnetic pressure for the first‐order approximation are analyzed graphically behind the shock front. Also, the effects of non‐ideal parameter and shock Cowling number on the flow variables are discussed. It is observed that an increase in the value of non‐ideal parameter causes fluid velocity to increase, and density, pressure, and magnetic pressure to decrease. Increase in the shock Cowling number causes decrease in density and pressure, whereas increase in fluid velocity and magnetic pressure behind the shock. Also, it is found that numerical results obtained in the absence of magnetic field recover the existing results in the literature. Further, these results are found to be in good agreement with those obtained by the Runge‐Kutta method of fourth‐order.
Plasmid Carriage and Antibiotics Susceptibility of Cultivable Bacteria Isolated from Hospital Wastewater

Careless discharge of wastewater is another source of which the environmental health is continuously being threatened. Hospital wastewater contains clinically relevant strains. Study was undertaken on the prevalence of antibiotics resistant bacteria (ARB) in hospital wastewater and to determine the presence of plasmid and its association with antibiotic resistance expression among the bacteria using standard microbiological techniques and alkaline lysis method, respectively. Antibiotic susceptibility was determined by use of the disk diffusion method. Total heterotrophic count of 1.36 x 10 7 and 2.0 x 10 6 CFU/mL were obtained, Escherichia coli count gave 2.1 x 10 5 and 1.6 x 10 CFU/mL and Staphylococcal count gave 1.4 x 10 and 1.2 x 10 CFU/mL. Species of Staphylococcus, Pseudomonas, Klebsiella, Bacillus, Escherichia, Acinetobacter and Salmonella, were identified. Based on a differential staining process, the bacteria were tested against some commonly used antibiotics. A high profile of multi-antibiotics resistance was displayed among the bacteria. The percentage of resistance to the antibiotics were COT 15%, AUG 15%, GEN 11%, Original Research Article Uko et al.; MRJI, 21(5): 1-9, 2017; Article no.MRJI. 36417 2 TET 10%, OFL 3%, AMX 10%, NIT 5%, NAL 6%, CXC 10%, CHL 6%, ERY 3% and STR 6%. Approximately 58% of the bacteria carried plasmids. Plasmid band size of 23.1 kbp was common among the bacteria. Resistance was observed in bacteria with plasmids as well as in those without plasmids. On curing, the organisms showed reduced resistance to the antibiotics while Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Bacillus sp. maintained their resistant pattern. Hospital wastewater contains loads of antibiotic resistant bacteria whose resistance in part are carried in plasmid. It contributes to environmental contamination with clinically important strains of microorganisms. The practice of releasing hospital wastewater into the environments should be strongly monitored and prohibited as the environment has a lot to do in our functioning and metabolic efficiency and therefore should be kept clean.
Application of NDVI in Environmental Justice, Health and Inequality Studies – Potential and Limitations in Urban Environments

This paper discusses the potential and limitations of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in environmental justice, health and inequality studies in urban areas. Very often the NDVI is correlated with socioeconomic and/or sociodemographic data to demonstrate the inequality in environmental settings that themselves influence individual health and questions of environmental justice. This paper addresses the limits of the NDVI for such applications and as well its potential, if applied properly. The overall goal is to make people of disciplines other than those that are geo-related aware of the characteristics, limits and potentials of satellite image-based information layers such as NDVI.
Analysis of the Impact of Different Forecasting Techniques on the Inventory Bullwhip Effect in Two Parallel Supply Chains with a Competition Effect

This paper studies the impact of different forecasting techniques on the inventory bullwhip effect in two parallel supply chains with the competition effect, which is in contrast to the situation of a single product in a serial supply chain. In particular, this paper constructs two parallel supply chains, each of which includes one manufacturer and one retailer. Moreover, the market demand is impacted by the self-price sensitivity coefficient, the cross-price sensitivity coefficient, the market share, and the demand shock. We then assumed that the retailer can forecast market demand by using different forecasting techniques (i.e., the moving average technique (MA), the exponential smoothing technique (ES), and the minimum mean square error technique (MMSE)). We constructed the quantity model of the bullwhip effect and the inventory bullwhip effect. Finally, we analyzed the impact of different forecasting techniques and market share on the inventory bullwhip effect. We analyzed the conditions under which the retailers should choose different types of forecasting techniques on the basis of the inventory bullwhip effect. The results show that the MMSE forecasting technique can reduce the lead-time demand forecast error to the largest extent, and the inventory bullwhip effect can obtain the lowest level using the MMSE method: retailer-1 can reduce the inventory bullwhip effect by using the MA technique, when the self-price sensitivity coefficient, the price autoregressive coefficient, and the probabilities associated with customers choosing retailer-1’s product are very low.
Hypoglycemic effect of Berberis microphylla G Forst root extract

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of the root extract of Berberis microphylla on glucose uptake and AMPK-activated protein kinase (AMPK) activity in non-resistant and insulin-resistant HepG2 cells. Methods: B. microphylla root was extracted with absolute ethanol, filtered, concentrated and lyophilized. Subsequently, liver cells, HepG2 (resistant and non-insulin resistant), were exposed for 24 h to different concentrations of the extract (10, 5, 2.5 and 1.25 x 10 -3 μg/μL) to determine the stimulation of glucose uptake and phosphorylation of AMPK. Results: In HepG2 cells without resistance exposed to B. microphylla root extract, glucose uptake varied from 34 to 59 % of the available glucose while AMPK phosphorylation was 1.9 to 3.6 times the phosphorylation of the control. In insulin-resistant HepG2 cells, glucose uptake varied from 68 to 95 % of available glucose while AMPK phosphorylation was 1.8 to 3.3 times the phosphorylation of the control. Conclusion: The root extract o f B. microphylla possesses hypoglycemic effects and stimulates glucose uptake in HepG2 cells with and without resistance by activating AMPK protein. Keywords: Calafate, Diabetes, Antihyperglycemic effect, Phytomedicine, Berberis, Insulin resistance
Nondetection of Radio Emissions From Titan Lightning by Cassini RPWS

The Saturn‐orbiting Cassini spacecraft completed 126 close Titan flybys from 2004 until 2017. During almost all of them the Cassini Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) instrument was turned on to search for radio emissions attributed to Titan lightning. Here we report about their nondetection after close inspection of all Titan flybys throughout the Cassini mission. We also infer new and strong constraints on the permissible flash energy and flash rate of potential Titan lightning. The nondetection of lightning flashes by Cassini observations implies that any lightning on Titan must be either very weak, very rare, or does not exist at all, and the latter could be due to cloud electric fields being too low to initiate a discharge. This finding holds important implications for the prebiotic chemistry of Titan and also implies that lightning will not be a significant hazard to the upcoming Dragonfly mission.
Comparative analysis of four medicinal floras: Phylogenetic methods to identify cross‐cultural patterns

Summary Four medicinal floras were compared using phylogenetic methods, to test whether there are shared patterns in medical plant use at the level of the whole medicinal floras, or for specific therapeutic applications. Checklists of the native plants and medicinal plants of Oman were compiled, and analyzed alongside existing checklists for Nepal, the Cape of South Africa and New Zealand. We reconstructed a plant phylogeny at generic level for Oman, and a new, more inclusive phylogeny to represent the genera found in all four local floras. Methods from community phylogenetics were used to identify clustering and overdispersion of the plants used. The impacts of using local or more inclusive phylogenies and different null model selections were explored. We found that Omani medicinal plant use emphasizes the same deep lineages of flowering plants as the other three medicinal floras, most strongly when comparing Omani and Nepalese medicinal plants. Drivers of this similarity might be floristic composition, opportunity for exchange of knowledge and shared beliefs in the causation of illness. Phylogenetic patterns among therapeutic applications are cross‐predictive within and between cultures, and must be interpreted with care since inappropriate use of null models can result in spurious similarity. High levels of cross‐predictivity suggest that targeting plants used for specific therapeutic applications to identify specific bioactives may have limited value. We outline the questions that might be addressed using a global phylogeny and medicinal plant checklists, suggest the best methods for future studies and propose how findings might be interpreted.
AS CRIANÇAS PEQUENAS DA MANGUEIRA (RJ): CORPOREIDADE, TERRITÓRIO E A EDUCAÇÃO PARA AS RELAÇÕES RACIAIS DESDE A EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL

This article is interested in demonstrating how the legal documents dealing with education for ethnic-racial relations, produced both from the political struggles of the black movement and through academic debates, reach young black children and collaborate in the fabrication of new practices in the daily life of an early childhood 1 Professora da Universidade da Integração da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira, UNILAB – Malês (BA), doutora em Educação (FEUSP). E-mail: mighiandanae@unilab.edu. br . ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-00034799-3110 2 Professora de Educação Infantil do Município do Rio de Janeiro, Graduada em Pedagogia pela PUC-Rio, Especialista em Docência na Educação Infantil e mestranda pela UFRJ. E-mail: patriciasodre_@hotmail.com . ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7472-9433
V2G Strategy for Improvement of Distribution Network Reliability Considering Time Space Network of EVs

Reliability is an important index which determines the power service and quality provided to customers. As the demand increases continuously and the system changes in accordance with the environmental regulation, the reliability assessment in the distribution system becomes crucial. In this paper, we propose methods for improving the reliability of the distribution system using electric vehicles (EVs) in the system. In this paper, EVs are used as power supplying devices, such as a transportable energy storage system (ESS) which supplies power when fault occurs in the system, and by using a time–space network (TSN) in particular, EV capacity in accordance with the load arrival time was calculated. Unlike other existing reliability assessments, we did not use the average load of customers. Instead, by taking into account the load pattern by times, we considered the priority for load supply in accordance with the failure scenarios and failure times. Based on the priority calculated for each time of failure and failure scenario, plans for EV operation to minimize expected customer interruption cost (ECOST), the reliability index in the distribution system, were established. Finally, a case study was performed using the IEEE RBTS (Roy Billinton Test System) 2 Bus and the performance of the model proposed in this paper was verified based on the result.
Impact of soil stockpiling on ericoid mycorrhizal colonization and growth of velvetleaf blueberry (Vaccinium myrtilloides) and Labrador tea (Ledum groenlandicum)

Soil stockpiling is a common practice prior to the reclamation of surface mines. In this study, velvetleaf blueberry and Labrador tea plants were grown from seed in fresh soil, stockpiled soil (1 year), and autoclaved stockpiled soil (1 year) obtained from the Canadian boreal forest. After 7 months of growth, the root colonization intensity with ericoid mycorrhizal (ERM) fungi in both plants growing in stockpiled soil was lower compared to plants growing in the fresh soil. The diversity of ERM fungal species in roots also decreased due to soil stockpiling and Pezoloma ericae was absent from the plants growing in stockpiled soil. Changes in the ERM root colonization in plants growing in stockpiled soil were accompanied by decreases in root and shoot dry weights. Leaf chlorophyll, nitrogen, and phosphorus concentrations of velvetleaf blueberry were higher in fresh soil compared to 1‐year stockpiled soil. Plants grown in the autoclaved stockpiled soil became colonized by the thermotolerant ERM fungus Leohumicola verrucosa and showed higher root and shoot biomass compared to the nonautoclaved stockpiled soil. The results point to the importance of ERM fungi for growth of ericaceous plants, even under favorable environmental conditions and adequate fertilization, and suggest that reduced ERM colonization intensity and ERM fungal diversity in roots likely contributed to the negative effects of soil stockpiling on growth of velvetleaf blueberry and Labrador tea.
A Method for Differentiating Fetal Bovine Serum from Newborn Calf Serum

The continued use of animal serum as an important component in biotechnology manufacturing processes has raised questions regarding both the reliability of geographic origin and possible adulteration of product. The International Serum Industry Association (ISIA) has implemented a traceability certification program designed to demonstrate traceability from slaughterhouse or abattoir to the end-user. This is based on an audit performed by an independent, approved third-party auditor according to an approved audit plan, using a detailed audit checklist. Recent advances have led to the development of a complementary testing program to determine geographic origin of material. The methodology described in this paper differentiates fetal bovine serum from newborn calf serum on the basis of biochemical composition. A Method for Differentiating Fetal Bovine Serum from Newborn Calf Serum
Ecology and behaviour of holoplanktonic scyphomedusae and their interactions with larval and juvenile fishes in the northern Gulf of Mexico

Adam T. Greer*, Luciano M. Chiaverano, Jessica Y. Luo, Robert K. Cowen, and William M. Graham Division of Marine Science, University of Southern Mississippi, 1020 Balch Blvd., Stennis Space Center, MS 39529, USA Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University, 2030 SE Marine Science Dr., Newport, OR 97365, USA Climate and Global Dynamics, National Center for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307, USA *Corresponding author: tel: þ228 688 2325; fax: þ228 688 1121; e-mail: adam.t. greer@gmail.com
Spillover effects of organizational politics on family satisfaction: the role of work-to-family conflict and family support

PurposeThis study considered organizational politics as a source of stress and examined its spillover effects on the family domain. By integrating the work–home resource theory and transactional theory of stress, the authors developed a moderated mediation model that examined the moderating role of family support in the relationship between employee's perceptions of organizational politics and their family satisfaction through work-to-family conflict.Design/methodology/approachThe authors examined the moderated mediation model using a sample of 223 full-time employees in Bangladesh. Data were collected using a three-wave survey research design.FindingsThe results indicate that organizational politics is negatively related to family satisfaction; work-to-family conflict medicates this relationship. Besides, family support attenuates the mediating effect of work-to-family conflict on the relationship between organizational politics and family satisfaction.Practical implicationsManagers should reduce the extent of organizational politics to avoid its impact on the nonwork domain. Moreover, social support from family members might play a crucial role in reducing the negative consequence of organizational politics in the family domain. By taking human resource practices such as training, increased communication, family-friendly policies, organizations may improve the ability of workers to cope with the negative consequences of organizational politics.Originality/valueThe current study uncovered the spillover effect of organizational politics on the nonwork domain. This research contributed to the burgeoning stream of organizational politics and work–family interface literature by investigating the influence of organizational politics in undermining family satisfaction and exploring the mediating mechanism linking organizational politics and family satisfaction as well as the boundary conditions of family social support.
Study of electrolyte disturbances and renal parameters in acute gastroenteritis under 5 years of age in a tertiary care hospital of Bengaluru, India

Acute Gastroenteritis (AGE) is a leading cause of illness and death amongst children in developing countries. Diarrhoea as defined by WHO is the “passage of loose or watery stools at least three times in a 24 hour period” but emphasizes the importance of change in stool consistency rather than frequency, and the usefulness of parental insight in deciding whether children have diarrhea or not. ABSTRACT
Neurological Deficits among Beta-Thalassemia Patients and its Possible Therapeutic Intervention : A Comprehensive Review

Beta-thalassemia is a genetico-haematological disorder that affects the integrity, structure, and survival of red blood cells due to deleterious mutation in the β-globulin chain of hemoglobin. Other than blood disorder, this condition gives rise to numerous neurological and haematophysiological conditions which have not been fully discussed yet. These conditions include extramedullary hematopoiesis, evoked potential (Sensory, Auditory and Visual), neuropathy and myopathy and predisposition to the hypercoagulable state leading to stroke. Moreover, most opted therapy to alleviate this condition intrigue neurotoxicity that requires clinician's round the clock attention. Beta thalassemia remains an incurable disease, and various therapies have been introduced to fulfill the body's blood requirement. But this condition implicitly gives rise to a damaging range of symptoms that cannot be overlooked. Therefore, our review encompasses all those anomalies associated with beta-thalassemia and its probable curative therapy. Keywords: Beta thalassemia, Neurological deficits, Cognitive impairment, Extramedullary hematopoiesis, Evoked potential, Neuropathy.
Investigation Into Roseburia Intesinalis For Optimal Growth And Survivability Conditions For Potential Probiotic Use

INVESTIGATION INTO ROSEBURIA INTESINALIS FOR OPTIMAL GROWTH AND SURVIVABILTY CONDITIONS FOR POTENTIAL PROBIOTIC USE by LISA FELCZAK May 2017 Advisor: Dr. Kequan Zhou Major: Nutrition and Food Science Degree: Master of Science Obesity and diabetes is an epidemic of increasing concern. Certain novel bacteria have been found to be an aid in reversing some of the mechanisms associated. This study focused on investigating the optimal stability conditions for R.intestinalis that can associate with an increase in growth. First, environmental conditions were tested to find the optimal conditions associated with each. Once growth conditions were found, generation time was calculated and various prebiotics were used to investigate a potential for additional growth. Next, common antibiotics were tested to see if the R.intestinalis could still show growth when exposed. Large batches of R.intestinalis were grown and freeze dried for storage and further experimental purposes. The freeze-dried R.intestinalis was encapsulated and reconstituted to check for viability. Finding the optimal conditions for growing R.intestinalis and using the encapsulation technique to protect the R.intestinalis from unfavorable environmental conditions could lead to the potential for R.intestinalis to become a probiotic that could help people suffering from adverse GI diseases and symptoms as well as decrease GSIS due to excess acetate.