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Penicillium chrysogenum Mediated Mycogenic Synthesis of Copper Oxide Nanoparticles Using Gamma Rays for In Vitro Antimicrobial Activity Against Some Plant Pathogens
Venue: Journal of Cluster Science
Year: 2019

The purpose of this study is to investigate the ability of specific fungus to biosynthesize copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) by the aid of gamma rays and evaluate its performance as a unique antimicrobial agent in the agricultural fields. CuO NPs were synthesized by Penicillium chrysogenum filtrate utilizing copper sulfate at various gamma rays doses. The identification was performed by UV Vis. FTIR, XRD, DLS, TEM, SEM, EDX and mapping images. Antimicrobial potential of CuO NPs against selected crop pathogenic microbes had been estimated. From the results, the preferred doses applied for CuO NPs synthesis was recorded at 50.0 kGy. The proposed reaction mechanism was studied. TEM image with DLS analysis confirmed the morphology of CuO NPs possesses a mean diameter at 9.70 nm. CuO NPs exhibited a maximum antifungal activity against Fusarium oxysporum (37.0 mm ZOI) followed by Alternaria solani (28.0 mm ZOI) and Aspergillus niger (26.5 mm ZOI) On the other hand, it was active as antibacterial agent against Ralstonia solanacearum (22.0 mm ZOI) and Erwinia amylovora (19.0 mm ZOI) Therefore, due to these outstanding properties, CuO NPs may be utilized as the significant antimicrobial agents in the agricultural area to restrain the plant pathogenic fungi and bacteria from proliferation.
Clinical features and outcomes of abdominal tuberculosis in southeastern Korea: 12 years of experience
Venue: BMC Infectious Diseases
Year: 2018

BackgroundAbdominal tuberculosis (TB) is an uncommon form of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Korea. In this study, we aimed to highlight the clinical features, diagnostic methods, and outcomes of abdominal TB over 12 years in Southeastern Korea. total of 139 patients diagnosed as having abdominal TB who received anti TB medication from January 2005 to June 2016 were reviewed. Among them, 69 patients (49.6% had luminal TB, 28 (20.1% had peritoneal TB, 7 (5.0% had nodal TB, 23 (16.5% had visceral TB, and 12 (8.6% had mixed TB.ResultsThe most frequent symptoms were abdominal pain (34.5% and abdominal distension (21.0% Diagnosis of abdominal TB was confirmed using microbiologic and/or histologic methods in 76 patients (confirmed diagnosis) while the remaining 63 patients were diagnosed based on clinical presentation and radiologic imaging (clinical diagnosis) According to diagnostic method, frequency of clinical diagnosis was highest in patients with luminal (50.7% or peritoneal (64.3% TB, while frequency of microscopic diagnosis was highest in patients with visceral TB (68.2% and frequency of histologic diagnosis was highest in patients with nodal TB (85.2% Interestingly, most patients, except those with nodal TB, showed a good response to anti TB agents, with 84.2% showing a complete response. The mortality rate was only 1.4% in the present study.ConclusionsMost patients responded very well to anti TB therapy, and surgery was required in only a minority of cases of suspected abdominal TB.
A model of unconventional monetary policy
Year: 2011

We develop a quantitative monetary DSGE model with financial intermediaries that face endogenously determined balance sheet constraints. We then use the model to evaluate the effects of the central bank using unconventional monetary policy to combat a simulated financial crisis. We interpret unconventional monetary policy as expanding central bank credit intermediation to offset a disruption of private financial intermediation. Within our framework the central bank is less efficient than private intermediaries at making loans but it has the advantage of being able to elastically obtain funds by issuing riskless government debt. Unlike private intermediaries, it is not balance sheet constrained. During a crisis, the balance sheet constraints on private intermediaries tighten, raising the net benefits from central bank intermediation. These benefits may be substantial even if the zero lower bound constraint on the nominal interest rate is not binding. In the event this constraint is binding, though, these net benefits may be significantly enhanced.
Coherent transfer of topological interface states.
Venue: Optics express
Year: 2020

We demonstrate the controlled coherent transfer of topological interface states in a one dimensional non Hermitian chain of interacting Bose Einstein condensates. The topological protection stems from a spatially patterned pump in an open dissipative system. As a test bed setup of the proposed phenomenon, we consider a chain of coupled micropillars with embedded quantum wells, possessing exciton polariton resonances. The transfer of an interface state is driven by spatially localised, adiabatic pump modulation in the vicinity of the interface state. The stochastic calculations prove the coherent nature of the interface state transfer. For appropriate system parameters the coherence degree is preserved after multiple transitions, paving the way towards long range transfer of a coherent quantum state.
The importance of affects, self regulation and relationships in the writing of a master's thesis
Year: 2018

While the number of postgraduate students is increasing, the writing of a master's dissertation still poses numerous challenges to them. The outcome of this work depends just as much on technical and methodological skills as on affects, self regulation, and the relationship to the supervisor. In order to test a comprehensive model including all these dimensions for this specific task, we sent a questionnaire to students who had recently completed their master's thesis. The collected answers highlight the importance of the self regulation of both cognition and affects in such an endeavor. The quality of the relationship with the supervisor is also essential. In light of these results, changes regarding the training of students and the coaching methods of supervisors seem necessary.
Experiences of Resilience and Mapuche Community Based Tourism in the Pre Cordilleran Territories of Panguipulli, Southern Chile
Year: 2020

In Latin America, community resilience has emphasized the solidarity capacities and strengths of indigenous communities to face and proactively overcome adversities derived from political and social violence. This is the case of Mapuche communities linked to community based tourism in pre cordilleran areas of southern Chile. This article analyzes tourism experiences of these Mapuche communities, based on a qualitative exploratory and descriptive approach, in order to determine their relationship with community resilience processes. The conclusion is that community based tourism has contributed to absorbing external disturbances associated with the processes of territorial dispossession, colonization, and extractive and neoliberal policies that these communities face, resist, and overlap without losing their identity. This tourism also reinforces processes of cultural revitalization of communities, connected social capacities, and development of organizational strategies to achieve the collective desire for a favorable future associated with their life plans.
How Cooperative Game Theory can be utilised to enhance marketing analytics attribution
Year: 2016

Marketing analytics and attribution modelling enable businesses and organisations to measure the true performance of how all online channels work together to generate revenue, sales and increase market growth. The usage of marketing analytics and attribution however remains extremely low, which results in a marginalisation of the marketing industry. As businesses and organisations shift significant amounts of their marketing budget towards digital channel advertising, the necessity for marketing analytics and attribution is ever important. The marketing industry is currently using Last Click analysis to measure online channel performance which assigns the credit of a conversion and sale to the last marketing channel a customer has interacted with. Research shows Last Click analysis to be an insufficient method to measure campaign effectiveness and performance. Cooperative Game Theory attribution using Shapley Value is shown to be an optimum methodology and technique to employ in order to conduct attribution analysis. An enhanced method of Cooperative Game Theory attribution using a k order Markov chain can evaluate the online conversion path a user takes prior to purchasing, thus enabling a business to quantify the individual contribution each marketing channel brings in driving conversion and generating revenue. The author has conducted benchmark analyses that examine the performance of Last Click attribution against that of a Cooperative Game Theory attribution model. The evaluated results show that Cooperative Game Theory attribution out performs Last Click attribution and enhances marketing analytics by unequivocally showing the true added business value that each marketing channel brings in driving conversion and generating revenue.
Is Pneumonia a Risk Factor or a Risk Marker for Long Term Mortality?
Venue: American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine
Year: 2015

Pneumonia is a leading cause of morbidity and short term mortality (usually measured in the first 30 days after diagnosis) (1 4) However, the potential long term consequences of pneumonia remain an area of intense evaluation. Several studies have focused on the long term risk for mortality among patients with pneumonia. In most studies, patients with more severe pneumonia had a higher risk for long term mortality relative to patients with less severe pneumonia. As older patients with debilitating comorbidities, including diabetes and glucose homeostasis disturbances, are usually classified in the higher risk categories, this could explain, at least in part, the higher risk observed among patients with more severe pneumonia (3
Dilemas Eticos en la Interpretacion Sanitaria en Contextos de Violencia de Genero
Venue: FITISPos International Journal
Year: 2019

Actualmente se observa un creciente numero de casos en los que la labor del interprete se ve condicionada por la presencia de conflictos eticos. Para este estudio se ha creido conveniente crear una situacion cuya contextualizacion se identifica con la violencia de genero en la interpretacion sanitaria. Los dilemas eticos que aparecen en la profesion del interprete de los servicios publicos poseen una dificultad anadida, Sin duda, el atractivo de este estudio reside en el planteamiento realizado, ya que conjuga los principios bioeticos de la medicina con el codigo etico del interprete. Para acometerlo, se han confeccionado tres cuestionarios diferentes, dirigidos a tres tipos de receptores, en primer lugar, al alumnado de interpretacion y traduccion, por otro lado, al alumnado de medicina, y, por ultimo, al publico general. El analisis de estas respuestas sirve como base para establecer un marco de actuacion en contextos sociosanitarios de violencia de genero. Nowadays, an increasing number of cases in which interpreting might be affected by ethical dilemmas has arisen. For the present study, it was necessary to compose a situation related to gender based violence during healthcare interpreting. Ethical dilemmas in public service interpreting are difficult to tackle. Undoubtedly, the appeal of this study relies on its approach since it allows to observe how bioethic principles and interpretation codes of ethics converge. In order to achieve this aim, three different surveys have been created and addressed to three target groups, first, to interpreting students, secondly medicine students and thirdly, general public. The analysis of the answers can help create some guidelines in gender based violence public health contexts
Assessment of Elementary School Teachers' Level of Knowledge and Attitude regarding Traumatic Dental Injuries in the United Arab Emirates
Venue: International journal of dentistry
Year: 2017

In this cross sectional study, the level of knowledge and attitude of elementary school teachers regarding traumatic dental injuries (TDI) were assessed.  A questionnaire was distributed to 330 elementary school teachers in 30 randomly selected schools in the Emirates of Sharjah and Dubai. The questionnaire collected information on participants' demographic characteristics, first aid training, and attitude about emergency management of TDI.  292 teachers (88% completed the questionnaires; of these, 95% were females, and 50% of the participants had first aid training. Knowledge about tooth avulsion was inadequate, and first aid training was not associated with correct responses to management of avulsed teeth (p 0.05) A significantly higher percentage of younger teachers (p 0.05) expressed the need for future education on TDI management. A significantly higher percentage of participants who had an educational position (95% indicated that they did not have enough knowledge regarding TDI compared to physical education teachers (79% and administrators (87% (p 0.05) Conclusions Elementary school teachers in the UAE have a low level of knowledge regarding the management of dental trauma. Educational programs that address TDI are needed and could improve the elementary school teachers' level of knowledge in emergency management of TDI.
Solder paste for highly dissipative power electronic assemblies
Venue: 2013 Symposium on Design, Test, Integration and Packaging of MEMS/MOEMS (DTIP)
Year: 2013

This work highlights the interest of silver oxalates precipitated in hydro alcoholic media as new soldering material. The silver oxalate based solder can be decomposed starting from temperatures as low as 90degC and leads to the formation of temporary nanometric grains of metallic silver having a high propensity for sintering. The final material is a porous silver network that can be used as high thermal conductivity electronic interface material with performance around 100 W/m.K for samples made at moderate temperature ;300degC) and low pressure ;0.5 MPa) The micrometric size of the oxalate powders reinforces this interest because safety procedures induced by nanoparticles handling are not required in our case, in contrast to existing soldering products made of silver nanoparticles.
Work more and indulge more: Exploring the self licensing effect of hard work on likelihood to purchase hedonic products
Year: 2017

There is a common belief that hard work is a critical virtue to be possessed. Although there is ample evidence on the benefits of hard work across different contexts, little research has been examined to explore the potential negative consequences of hard work (except for the case of burn out) This research aims to address this interesting void and explore how hard work can license consumers to indulge, increasing their likelihood to purchase hedonic products. Across two studies, it is found that consumers who perceive their hard work have a higher likelihood to purchase hedonic products (e.g. chocolate bar) even when they experience less desirable outcome. However, when consumers have outcome focused (vs. process focused) orientation, this self licensing effect will disappear. These findings can be beneficial for firms and marketers to effectively develop marketing strategies, especially in promoting hedonic products and services.
Spatial variability and temporal trends in water use efficiency of European forests.
Venue: Global change biology
Year: 2014

The increasing carbon dioxide (CO2 concentration in the atmosphere in combination with climatic changes throughout the last century are likely to have had a profound effect on the physiology of trees: altering the carbon and water fluxes passing through the stomatal pores. However, the magnitude and spatial patterns of such changes in natural forests remain highly uncertain. Here, stable carbon isotope ratios from a network of 35 tree ring sites located across Europe are investigated to determine the intrinsic water use efficiency (iWUE) the ratio of photosynthesis to stomatal conductance from 1901 to 2000. The results were compared with simulations of a dynamic vegetation model (LPX Bern 1.0) that integrates numerous ecosystem and land atmosphere exchange processes in a theoretical framework. The spatial pattern of tree ring derived iWUE of the investigated coniferous and deciduous species and the model results agreed significantly with a clear south to north gradient, as well as a general increase in iWUE over the 20th century. The magnitude of the iWUE increase was not spatially uniform, with the strongest increase observed and modelled for temperate forests in Central Europe, a region where summer soil water availability decreased over the last century. We were able to demonstrate that the combined effects of increasing CO2 and climate change leading to soil drying have resulted in an accelerated increase in iWUE. These findings will help to reduce uncertainties in the land surface schemes of global climate models, where vegetation climate feedbacks are currently still poorly constrained by observational data.
Storytelling and Visualization: A Survey
Venue: VISIGRAPP
Year: 2018

Throughout history, storytelling has been an effective way of conveying information and knowledge. In the field of visualization, storytelling is rapidly gaining momentum and evolving cutting edge techniques that enhance understanding. Many communities have commented on the importance of storytelling in data visualization. Storytellers tend to be integrating complex visualizations into their narratives in growing numbers. In this paper, we present a survey of storytelling literature in visualization and present an overview of the common and important elements in storytelling visualization. We also describe the challenges in this field as well as a novel classification of the literature on storytelling in visualization. Our classification scheme highlights the open and unsolved problems in this field as well as the more mature storytelling sub fields. The benefits offer a concise overview and a starting point into this rapidly evolving research trend and provide a deeper understanding of this topic.
CAPER: A Cross Application Permissioned Blockchain
Venue: Proc. VLDB Endow.
Year: 2019

Despite recent intensive research, existing blockchain systems do not adequately address all the characteristics of distributed applications. In particular, distributed applications collaborate with each other following service level agreements (SLAs) to provide different services. While collaboration between applications, e.g. cross application transactions, should be visible to all applications, the internal data of each application, e.g, internal transactions, might be confidential. In this paper, we introduce CAPER, a permissioned blockchain system to support both internal and cross application transactions of collaborating distributed applications. In CAPER, the blockchain ledger is formed as a directed acyclic graph where each application accesses and maintains only its own view of the ledger including its internal and all cross application transactions. CAPER also introduces three consensus protocols to globally order crossapplication transactions between applications with different internal consensus protocols. The experimental results reveal the efficiency of CAPER in terms of performance and scalability.  Mohammad Javad Amiri, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi.  2019.
The potential of anime for destination marketing: fantasies, otaku, and the kidult segment
Year: 2019

While a substantial body of literature exists on film tourism, there is a lack of research attention bridging the potential of Japanese anime on real world destination marketing. The implications of anime tourism can extend far beyond geographic boundary as the worldwide anime market is diversifying, providing novel opportunities for destination marketing organizations in other countries. To address this research gap, this paper first defines anime versus animated films to clarify the definition of anime for the tourism literature, and then draws out theoretical differences between the two types of entertainment within a cinematic perspective to highlight their conceptual boundaries across place, protagonist, and production. This paper suggests that the ways in which these three aspects are manifested in anime versus films are very different: anime settings are more fantasy orientated than most films; viewers develop their self identity (i.e. as an 'otaku' during childhood and adolescence; and anime productions can be extended with new series to create more enduring engagement to develop the kidult segment. This paper contributes to the literature by connecting the aforementioned cinematic aspects as a basis for elaboration of how differences among the three dimensions could be directly related to potential destination marketing activities.
Long term outcome of therapist guided internet based cognitive behavioural therapy for body dysmorphic disorder (BDD NET) a naturalistic 2 year follow up after a randomised controlled trial
Venue: BMJ Open
Year: 2019

Most patients with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) do not receive evidence based treatment. A randomised controlled trial (RCT) has found that a therapist guided internet based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) programme for BDD (BDD NET) can be delivered safely via the internet with significant improvements in BDD symptom severity in the short term. The purpose of this study was to evaluate if the therapeutic gains of BDD NET are maintained 2 years after treatment.  Academic medical centre.  A naturalistic 2 year follow up study of the 88 self referred adult outpatients with a diagnosis of BDD that had received BDD NET within the context of the RCT. Primary and secondary outcomes The primary outcome was the BDD Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (YBOCS) Responder status was defined as a =30% reduction in symptoms. Remission was defined as no longer meeting Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th edition criteria for BDD. Secondary outcomes included measures of depression, global functioning and quality of life.  The efficacy of BDD NET was sustained long term, with further improvements observed on the BDD YBOCS during the follow up period. At follow up, 69% (95% CI 57% to 80% were classified as responders and 56% (95% CI 43% to 69% were in remission. Gains on depressive symptoms and global functioning were also sustained but not quality of life. A majority of participants reported that the main reason for seeking help for their BDD was the possibility to access the treatment from home.  BDD NET is an effective treatment for BDD, and the patients' gains are maintained in the long term. BDD NET has the potential to increase access to CBT and may lower the threshold for BDD sufferers to seek help in the first place.