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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BUPIVACAINE WITH DEXMEDETOMIDINE AND BUPIVACAINE ALONE FOR CAUDAL ANAESTHESIA IN PAEDIATRIC INGUINAL HERNIA SURGERIES

Background: Elective inguinal herniorrhaphy is one of the most prevalent surgical procedures in the pediatric age group. This study aimed to compare the effect of dexmedetomidine with bupivacaine combination versus bupivacaine alone for caudal anaesthesia in children undergoing inguinal herniorrhaphy. Materials and Methods: In this prospective randomised study, we studied 60 ASA class I and II patients aged between 2 to 10 years scheduled for inguinal herniorrhaphy. All patients were assigned randomly to two groups of 30 patients. Group B received [0.25% bupivacaine + Normal saline1 ml), and Group BD received [0.25% bupivacaine + 1 µg/kg dexmedetomidine in 1 ml normal saline]. FLACC score and 4-point 18 sedation score were assessed. Heart Rate, Systolic blood pressure (SBP), Diastolic blood pressure (DBP), Mean arterial pressure (MAP), and SPO2 were serially monitored. Results: The mean FLACC postoperative score at all-time points from 1 hour to 12 hours was significantly higher in Group B. The mean 4 Point Sedation Score Immediate Postoperative among Group BD was 1.03 ± 0.18, statistically significant (p<0.05) compared to Group B 3±0. The mean sedation was statically significant among both groups at 1h and 2 hr time points. The mean heart rate postoperatively up to 9 hr was reported statistically significant (p<0.05). The mean postoperative SBP was found statistically significant (p<0.05) at an all-time point except for 12 hrs but mean DBP, MAP was reported statistically significant (p<0.05) at 2 and 3 hr time points. Conclusion: The present study concludes that the analgesic and sedative effects were superior when dexmedetomidine was added to bupivacaine than when administered alone owed high sensitivity to Meropenem followed by Amikacin and Piperacillin.
Etude des effets de quatre nématicides fumigants sur les nématodes et l'arachide au Sénégal

SUMMARY Study of the effects of four fulnigant nematicide on nematodes and on peanuts in Senegal Fields trials comparing fumigant nematicides in the Sahelian zone of Senegal show that DBCP at rates of 2.8 to 22.5 kg/ha a.i., EDB at rates of 9 to 25 kg/ha a.i. and metam sodium at the rate of 51 kg/ha a.i. reduce populations of Scutellonema cavenessi to low levels. Dichloropropene at the rate of 33.2 kg/ha a.i. had no significant efficacy against S. cavenessi. DBCP and EDB are not phytotoxic to peanut unlike dichloropropene and metam sodium. The phytotoxkeffect of metam sodium disappeared with the first rainfall to follow the injection of the nematicide in the soil. A positive linear relationship existed between rates of DBCP and EDB and yields of peanut pods and straws.
SERVICE-DOMINANT LOGIC (SDL): A ROAD MAP FOR A SUCCESSFUL MARKETING MANAGEMENT

Different schools and approaches have appeared in marketing management since the beginning of the twentieth century due to customers’ attitudes, needs, expectations, and market conditions. Emerging schools generally included some features of the previous theories. Following the emergence of services marketing as a sub-discipline, some scholars believe in the fragmentation of the marketing thought and the obsolescence of the traditional division between goods and services during the last quarter of the previous century. The service-dominant logic (SDL), which mainly focused on the customer value creation concept, was developed by Vargo and Lush in 2004. This conceptual study aims to broadly review the previous works on the service-dominant logic and related subjects, which are customer-centric view, value creation concept, relationship marketing, and promise management, for the last two decades. The service-dominant logic approach and its components being the critical components of the marketing’s future, were also strategically evaluated to guide organizations as a roadmap. This integrated compact study will contribute to the marketing management literature to catch permanent success.
Convergence of delay equations driven by a Holder continuous function of order 1/3

In this article we show that, when the delay approaches zero, the solution of multidimensional delay differential equations driven by a Holder continuous function of order 1/3<β<1/2 converges with the supremum norm to the solution for the equation without delay. Finally we discuss the applications to stochastic differential equations For more information see https://ejde.math.txstate.edu/Volumes/2020/65/abstr.html
strik-Increased papillae growth and enhanced short-chain fatty acid absorption in the rumen of goats are associated with transient increases in cyclin D1 expression after ruminal butyrate infusion

We tested the hypothesis that the proliferative effects of intraruminal butyrate infusions on the ruminal epithelium are linked to upregulation in cyclin D1 ( CCND1 ), the cyclin-dependent kinase 4 ( CDK4 ), and their possible association with enhanced absorption of short-chain fatty acids (SCFA). Goats (n = 23) in 2 experiments (Exp.) were fed 200 g/d concentrate and hay ad libitum. In Exp. 1, goats received an intraruminal infusion of sodium butyrate at 0.3 (group B, n = 8) or 0 (group C, n = 7) g/kg of body weight (BW) per day before morning feeding for 28 d and were slaughtered 8 h after the butyrate infusion. In Exp. 2, goats (n = 8) received butyrate infusion and feeding as in Exp. 1. On d 28, epithelial samples were biopsied from the antrium ruminis at 0, 3, and 7 h after the last butyrate infusion. In Exp. 1, the ruminal molar proportional concentration of butyrate increased in group B by about 110% after butyrate infusion and remained elevated for 1.5 h; thereafter, it gradually returned to the baseline (preinfusion) level. In group C, the molar proportional concentration of butyrate was unchanged over the time points. The length and width of papillae increased in B compared with C; this was associated with increased numbers of cells and cell layers in the epithelial strata and an increase in the surface area of 82%. The mRNA expression of CCND1 increased transiently at 3 h but returned to the preinfusion level at 7 h following butyrate infusion in Exp. 2. However, it did not differ between B and C in Exp. 1, in which the ruminal epithelium was sampled at 8 h after butyrate infusion. The mRNA expression of the monocarboxylate transporter MCT4 , but not MCT1 , was stably upregulated in B compared with C. The estimated absorption rate of total SCFA (%/h) increased in B compared with C. We conclude that transient increases in cyclin D1 transcription contribute to butyrate-induced papillae growth and subsequently to the increased absorption of SCFA in the ruminal epithelium of goats.
SERUM FERRITIN LEVELS AS A PROGNOSTIC INDICATOR IN ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE: A COMPREHENSIVE CLINICAL STUDY

Objective: This clinical study investigates the potential of serum ferritin levels as a prognostic indicator in acute ischemic stroke. Methods: This cross-section study included 75 patients enrolled in our outpatient clinic, General Medicine Department, and SMS Medical College. The study enrolled all patients who had a new onset focal neurological deficit due to a stroke. A total of 75 patients (25 in each group (mild/moderate/ severe) as per the National Institute of Health Stroke Scale scoring) of >14 years old, presenting in the general medicine wards were enrolled for the study. The study assesses the correlation between serum ferritin levels and various clinical parameters, including stroke severity, consciousness status, and disability outcomes. Results: Severe group had the highest average blood ferritin level (408.48 with a standard deviation (SD) of 68.63). A significant relationship was observed between ferritin levels and loss of consciousness. In addition, the mean ferritin residue ratio (MRS) also correlated with ferritin levels, with MRS correlating to ferritin levels. A significant association between elevated serum ferritin levels and severe stroke, as well as unfavorable outcomes. Conclusion: The findings suggest that serum ferritin could serve as a promising prognostic index in acute ischemic stroke, aiding in patient risk stratification and clinical decision-making.
SKILLS TO COPE WITH LEARNING STRESS OF STUDENTS IN CAN THO UNIVERSITY, VIETNAM

The research on the topic has systematized the theoretical basis of students' skills to cope with stress in learning. Currently, students face a lot of pressure and stress in their studies, so coping skills are an extremely important issue and need attention. The study presents the manifestations of skills to cope with stress in the learning of students of School of Education at Can Tho University (CTU), Vietnam. The research mainly uses a questionnaire survey method with 400 students from various fields of study, SoE, CTU. According to survey results, there were many manifestations of stress that students encountered. The survey results are the basis for finding the causes so students can plan and manage their time, set specific goals to find effective remedies, adapt and manage better emotions. From the current situation of the problem, the study has proposed measures to support students' skills to cope with stress in their studies. This study provides recommendations to deploy and apply the research results to Can Tho University lecturers and students as well. Article visualizations:
Study Stigma toward Depression between Chinese International Students and Chinese Local Students

Depression is one of the most diagnosed mental illnesses in the world, and China, the country with the largest population in the world, has more than 173 million people suffering from mental illnesses. A major factor when addressing mental illness is the stigma behind it – a derogatory view of mental illness, and in China stigma for depression is particularly high. This may be due to cultural ideas that affect Chinese people’s view of mental health. This study attempted to understand how stigma may be culturally driven, and thus what the effect of moving to a different country, with different notions of mental health, might have on Chinese students. Thus, this study collected data via an online survey from 133 Chinese international students and 273 Chinese local students. Participants were recruited for students via social media posts and through a Chinese questionnaire platform (WenJuanXing). Stigma was measured using the Depression Stigma Scale [DSS] and depression was measured using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9. The results show that Chinese international students had a lower level of stigma than Chinese local students. Also, within the years of study abroad increase and stigma toward depression decreases. The reason could be experiencing western culture provided different views and knowledge approaches.
A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN LIGHT WAND AND AIRTRAQ AIDED TRACHEAL INTUBATION FOR ADULT PATIENTS WITH DIFFICULT AIRWAY UNDERGOING ELECTIVE SURGERY UNDER GENERAL ANESTHESIA

Objective: The objective of the study was to compare airtraq (AT) intubations and lightwand (LW) intubations in terms of safety, efficacy, ease of intubation, hemodynamic variabilities, and post-operative outcomes. Methods: A cross-sectional and randomized comparative study was conducted on sixty adult patients with a predicted difficult airway, scheduled to undergo elective surgery under general anesthesia using AT and LW intubation. Results: All the cases in both the AT group and LW group were successfully intubated, with an overall success rate of 100% in both groups. The success at the first attempt in AT group was 96.66% and that of LW group was 73.33%. Conclusion: AT had superior successful intubation conditions than LW. However, both LW and AT were proved to be safe and successful techniques of intubation in difficult airway patients.
Serum Bile Acids Concentrations and Liver Enzyme Activities after Low-Dose Trilostane in Dogs with Hyperadrenocorticism

Simple Summary Steroid-induced hepatopathy is the most important liver abnormality in dogs with hyperadrenocorticism (HAC). Serum activities of several liver enzymes increase in dogs with HAC. However, serum bile acids concentrations in dogs with HAC are poorly described. This study evaluated serum total bile acids concentrations and serum liver enzyme activities after trilostane treatment in dogs with HAC. Abstract Hyperadrenocorticism (HAC) often leads to vacuolar hepatopathy. The impact of trilostane treatment on serum total bile acids (SBAs) concentrations in dogs with HAC remains unknown. This study investigated SBAs concentrations in healthy dogs and those with HAC following trilostane therapy. Ten healthy dogs and fifteen dogs with HAC were prospectively enrolled. A biochemistry profile and pre- and post-prandial SBAs concentrations were determined in each dog. Dogs with HAC were reassessed at 1 and 3 months after the initiation of trilostane treatment. Dogs with HAC had significantly higher serum ALT, ALP, and GGT activities, and cholesterol, triglyceride, and pre-prandial SBAs concentrations compared to healthy dogs. After 3 months of trilostane treatment, polyuria/polydipsia and polyphagia were completely resolved in 42.8% and 35.7%, respectively. Significant improvements in serum ALT and ALP activities and cholesterol concentrations were observed within 1–3 months of trilostane treatment. However, pre- and post-prandial SBAs concentrations did not significantly decrease. These findings suggest that treatment with low-dose trilostane for 3 months appears to reduce serum liver enzyme activities, but not SBAs concentrations. Further investigation is warranted to explore the effects of low-dose trilostane treatment on SBAs concentrations for a longer duration or after achieving appropriate post-ACTH cortisol levels.
Carbonate-Mound Reservoirs in the Paradox Formation: an Outcrop Analogue along the San Juan River, Southeastern Utah

Abstract Carbonate-mound reservoirs within the Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian) Paradox Formation are major producers of oil and gas in the Paradox Basin of Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. Outcrops of the Paradox Formation along the San Juan River of southeastern Utah provide small-scale analogues of reservoir heterogeneity, flow barriers and baffles, depositional facies, and geometry. These characteristics can be used in reservoir-simulation models for secondary/tertiary recovery of oil from small fields in the basin. Morphologically, algal buildups within the Ismay zone of the Paradox Formation consist of large, northwest-trending algal banks separated by interbank troughs or channels. Smaller secondary algal mounds and intermounds define the upper surfaces of the algal banks. Cyclic sedimentation is recorded by four dominant facies recognized in a single, shoaling-upward sequence: (1) substrate carbonate, (2) phylloid algal, (3) intermound, and (4) skeletal capping. An outcrop locality in the Wild Horse Canyon area displaying these and additional facies was selected for detailed study. Along the walls of Wild Horse Canyon, depositional facies characteristic of a typical algal bank transition laterally from a shallow shelf phylloid-algal mound, to bank-margin reef wall, to an off-mound detrital wedge and fan bounded at the top by a flooding surface. The phylloid-algal facies generally exhibits a textural succession composed, from base to top, of rudstone and cementstone, packstone, bafflestone, and skeletal grainstone. Algal plates, brachiopods, bryozoans, and rugose corals are commonly found in the mound complex. The reef wall, deposited in a higher-energy setting, is composed of rudstone, lumpstone, and cementstone textures. The detrital wedge/fan consists of transported algal-plate material and skeletal debris in interbedded grainstone, wackestone, and mudstone textures with open-marine fossils. Within the mound complex is an intermound trough, interpreted to be a tidal channel, through which material was transported to the detrital fan. Similar algal buildups constitute the primary reservoir facies in most small oil and gas fields in the basin to the east. Understanding facies relationships observed at outcrop enhances prediction capabilities when these same facies and relationships are observed in the subsurface. For example, the presence of reef-wall facies in subsurface core might serve as a proximity indicator for a prospective drilling target. Similarly, extent of porosity and permeability development and distribution in buildup-associated facies (intermound and interbank troughs, reef wall, detrital wedges, and fans) would control flow paths and flow barriers, thereby impacting sweep efficiency in secondary/tertiary recovery programs. The nature of stratigraphic boundaries, vertical facies successions, lateral facies relationships, and facies characteristics within the outcropping buildup complex provide the keys to understanding distribution and behavior of algal-buildup reservoirs in the subsurface.
Regional analysis of MODIS satellite greenness trends for ecosystems of interior Alaska

Trends in the growing season Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) time-series were analyzed for the time period from 2000 to 2010 to understand landscape-level patterns of vegetation change in ecosystems of interior Alaska. The analysis compared data-sets for Alaska vegetation cover types, wetland cover classes, wildfire boundaries since the 1940s, permafrost type, and elevation to identify the most likely combination of factors driving regional changes in habitat quality and ecosystem productivity. Approximately 48% of all ecosystem areas in interior Alaska were detected with significant (p < 0.05) positive or negative MODIS growing season EVI trends from 2000 to 2010. Three-quarters of these ecosystem areas (nearly 110,000 km2) were detected with significant positive growing season EVI trends. The vast majority of interior Alaska area detected with significant positive growing season EVI trends was classified as upland shrub cover, although non-forested wetlands (marshes, bogs, fens, and floodplains) were colocated on 13% of that total area. Evidence supports the hypothesis that temperature (warming) has markedly enhanced the rates of shrubland and tundra vegetation growth across interior Alaska over recent years.
ProbioMinServer: an integrated platform for assessing the safety and functional properties of potential probiotic strains

Abstract Motivation ProbioMinServer is a platform designed to help researchers access information on probiotics regarding a wide variety of characteristics, such as safety (e.g. antimicrobial resistance, virulence, pathogenic, plasmid, and prophage genes) and functionality (e.g. functional classes, carbohydrate-active enzyme, and metabolite gene cluster profile). Because probiotics are functional foods, their safety and functionality are a crucial part of health care. Genomics has become a crucial methodology for investigating the safety and functionality of probiotics in food and feed. This shift is primarily attributed to the growing affordability of next-generation sequencing technologies. However, no integrated platform is available for simultaneously evaluating probiotic strain safety, investigating probiotic functionality, and identifying known phylogenetically related strains. Results Thus, we constructed a new platform, ProbioMinServer, which incorporates these functions. ProbioMinServer accepts whole-genome sequence files in the FASTA format. If the query genome belongs to the 25 common probiotic species collected in our database, the server performs a database search and analyzes the core-genome multilocus sequence typing. Front-end applications were implemented in JavaScript with a bootstrap framework, and back-end programs were implemented using PHP, Perl, and Python. ProbioMinServer can help researchers quickly and easily retrieve information on the safety and functionality of various probiotics. Availability and implementation The platform is available at https://probiomindb.imst. nsysu.edu. tw.
Monitoring water quality on farms: the Herbert water quality monitoring project.

THE HERBERT River District is located adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon and growers in the Herbert sugar industry wished to obtain a better understanding of surface water quality on their farms. However little water quality data were available from catchments consisting entirely of sugarcane. The Herbert Water Quality Monitoring project was established with the aim of establishing a network of water quality monitoring sites in small catchments within the Herbert cane area and where growers were given the responsibility for water sampling and measurement of water quality attributes. The paper reviews previous water quality research in the area, provides details of the sampling sites and measurement procedures and presents an example of data collected at one monitoring site. The project has been effective in developing simple, low cost methods of measuring on-farm water quality and the challenge is to increase growers’ knowledge and understanding of runoff water quality so that it eventually becomes a routine tool for nutrient management in a sustainable farming system.
Comprehensive Experience for Indoor Air Quality Assessment: A Review on the Determination of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are toxic chemicals harmful for the environmental sustainability and human health. Due to the several types of VOCs and the diversity in their physico-chemical properties, it is difficult to develop standard methods for sampling and analysis. The majority of methods depend on the compounds of interest and the required duration of sampling. Each method is associated with a certain value of specificity and sensitivity. To date, however, no specific method qualifies as being the most accurate. This review reports the most common methods employed in determination of VOCs, based on the international literature.
Welding defects on new energy batteries based on 2D pre-processing and improved-region-growth method in the small field of view

The assessment of welding quality in battery shell production is a crucial aspect of battery production. Battery surface reconstruction can inspect the quality of the weld instead of relying on human inspection. This paper proposes a defect detection method in the small field of view based on 2D pre-processing and an improved-region-growth method. A novel approximation-based, high-precision, and simple operation method for line structure optical plane calibration under small field of view is presented, with a measurement error within 0.01 mm. By pre-processing the line scan 2D images, the defect location distribution is obtained, and then the images near the abnormal points are reconstructed in third dimensional (3D). The proposed method enables the extraction of the morphology, size, and other information of the defects with high accuracy. The results of various defect detection experiments demonstrate the stable and reliable performance of the system. The experimental results of defect recognition rate are over 95.3% for defects above 0.5 mm in diameter, and the inspection time is less than 1/2 of the direct 3D defect inspection. Overall, this method has proven to be highly effective in the assessment of welding quality in new energy battery production.