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Population Genetic Structure And Demographic History Of Opsaridium Microcephulum Along Lake Nyasa, Alex Nehemia, Alinanuswe J. Mwakalesi

Tanzania Journal of Science

The Sanjika, Opsaridium microcephalum is among the fish species that serve as a major source of proteins and income to people along Lake Nyasa. However, the information on its genetic diversity and structure particularly in the Tanzania part of the Lake is limited. Therefore, the assessment of the genetic diversity and structure of O.microcephalum along the Lake Nyasa part of Tanzania was conducted in the current study using a fragment of the mitochondrial COI gene from 92 individuals of O. microcephalum. The findings showed that an average haplotype diversity and average nucleotide diversity were 0.8065 ± 0.0314 and 0.002380 ± …

Delays In Intervention: A Post-Mortem Of The Uk-Reboa And Cryostat-2 Trials, Bryan A Cotton

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

No abstract provided.

Turmeric Dyeing Of Cotton Fabrics Using Tie-Dyeing Techniques, Pendo Bigambo, Happiness Wellah, Hadija Ngaga, Safina Kimbokota, Mbonea Mrango

Tanzania Journal of Science

Tie-dyeing is a resist-dyeing technique which for years has been used by SMEs to produce attractive textile fabrics. However, the technique is challenged by the use of synthetic dyes which are not environmentally friendly and the growing consumers’ environmental awareness. Accordingly, researchers and industrialists are forced to explore the alternative natural dyes in response to the above challenges. Among the natural source of dyes available abundantly in Tanzania, but are yet to be fully exploited for applications via tie-dyeing technique are turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) roots commonly used for food coloring. In this study turmeric roots were investigated for their …

Links Between The Three-Dimensional Movements Of Whale Sharks (Rhincodon Typus) And The Bio-Physical Environment Off A Coral Reef, Ben D'Antonio, Luciana Ferreira, Mark Meekan, Paul Thompson, Lilian Lieber, Patti Virtue, Chloe Power, Charitha Pattiaratchi, Andrew Brierley, Ana Sequeira, Michele Thums

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

BackgroundMeasuring coastal-pelagic prey fields at scales relevant to the movements of marine predators is challenging due to the dynamic and ephemeral nature of these environments. Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are thought to aggregate in nearshore tropical waters due to seasonally enhanced foraging opportunities. This implies that the three-dimensional movements of these animals may be associated with bio-physical properties that enhance prey availability. To date, few studies have tested this hypothesis.MethodsHere, we conducted ship-based acoustic surveys, net tows and water column profiling (salinity, temperature, chlorophyll fluorescence) to determine the volumetric density, distribution and community composition of mesozooplankton (predominantly euphausiids and copepods) …

Reaction Hijacking Inhibition Of Plasmodium Falciparum Asparagine Trna Synthetase, Stanley C Xie, Eva S Istvan, Daniel E Goldberg, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Malaria poses an enormous threat to human health. With ever increasing resistance to currently deployed drugs, breakthrough compounds with novel mechanisms of action are urgently needed. Here, we explore pyrimidine-based sulfonamides as a new low molecular weight inhibitor class with drug-like physical parameters and a synthetically accessible scaffold. We show that the exemplar, OSM-S-106, has potent activity against parasite cultures, low mammalian cell toxicity and low propensity for resistance development. In vitro evolution of resistance using a slow ramp-up approach pointed to the Plasmodium falciparum cytoplasmic asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase (PfAsnRS) as the target, consistent with our finding that OSM-S-106 inhibits protein …

Potential Of Endophytic Fungal Isolates In Improving Productivity And Postharvest Marketable Fruit Qualities Of Tomato, Gabriel Michael, Emmanuel M. Sangu

Tanzania Journal of Science

In Tanzania, low tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) yield and postharvest marketable fruit qualities remain significant limitations for tomato grower’s profit. Seven endophytic fungal isolates from pyrethrum and Lemongrass leaf and or flowers were evaluated to promote tomato productivity and fruit qualities. The isolates were inoculated by priming the seeds in spore suspension, and the variations in the number of germinated seeds, seedling vigour, yield and fruit qualities were compared across the treatments. It was observed that only three isolates induced more than 50% seed germination. Epf1 and Epl1 isolates showed significant promotion of seed germination (F 0.05 (pdf, 23) = 8.121 …

Potential Of Endophytic Fungal Isolates In Improving Productivity And Postharvest Marketable Fruit Qualities Of Tomato, Gabriel Michael, Emmanuel M. Sangu

Tanzania Journal of Science

In Tanzania, low tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) yield and postharvest marketable fruit qualities remain significant limitations for tomato grower’s profit. Seven endophytic fungal isolates from pyrethrum and Lemongrass leaf and or flowers were evaluated to promote tomato productivity and fruit qualities. The isolates were inoculated by priming the seeds in spore suspension, and the variations in the number of germinated seeds, seedling vigour, yield and fruit qualities were compared across the treatments. It was observed that only three isolates induced more than 50% seed germination. Epf1 and Epl1 isolates showed significant promotion of seed germination (F 0.05 (pdf, 23) = 8.121 …

Grafton County 4-H Presents - 2024 Information Packet, Extension

UNH Cooperative Extension

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Heavy Metals Analysis And Physicochemical Characterization Of Groundwater At A Battery Recycling Site In South-Western Nigeria, Adeniyi T. Adeleke, Rasaki K. Odunaike, Shamsideen K. Alausa, Idris O. Olayiwola, Adetoro T. Talabi, Qasim A. Adeniji, Adejumobi C. Adeniyi

Tanzania Journal of Science

Indiscriminate dumping of battery waste is a huge issue that endangers human health and the environment. This study aimed at analysing the health impacts of exposure to pollution from spent battery recycling in Ogun State, which houses a diverse range of battery recycling industries. At this study site, forty water samples were studied over the Wet and Dry seasons to assess the impact of battery recycling waste on groundwater. Except for the TSS, the physiochemical parameters of the groundwater vary with season and are within the permissible limits. The electrical conductivity (EC), turbidity, Phosphorus, Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), Dissolve oxygen …

Overcoming Communication Challenges: Training Family Medicine Interns Amidst Covid-19, Ny'nika T. Mcfadden, Connie C. Leeper, Catanya G. Stager, Amanda H. Wilkerson

Marshall Journal of Medicine

Introduction

Assessing and addressing possible deficiencies in medical school training is important for residency programs. Due to virtual rotations and low patient volumes, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted medical students’ opportunities to practice patient communication. Communication skills are essential for medical students and residents. Continuous participation in communication training can increase the self-efficacy of healthcare professionals. Due to the likely impact of COVID-19, we designed and implemented a tailored workshop that focused on increasing 16 incoming family medicine interns’ level of comfort communicating with patients and their families.

Methods

Sixteen incoming family medicine interns participated in the workshop during orientation in …

Professor Mali Romantic-Longhair And The Girl, Fatma Fulya Tepe, Per Bauhn

Journal of International Women's Studies

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Maria W. Stewart And The Roots Of Black Political Thought, Jennifer Rycenga

Journal of International Women's Studies

No abstract provided.

Film Review: No Straight Lines—The Rise Of Queer Comics, Peter Tshetu Jr., Brian Pindayi

Journal of International Women's Studies

No abstract provided.

The Emancipation Of A Harem Girl: Resisting The Gendered Division Of Space In Wafa Faith Hallam’S The Road From Morocco, Rachid Lamghari

Journal of International Women's Studies

This article examines the challenging of Orientalist and Western discourses and of patriarchal authority over Eastern women in Wafa Faith Hallam’s memoir The Road from Morocco. The conventional representation of these women is revisited as Saadia in the memoir debunks the passivity and docility with which they are associated by exercising her agency and trespassing the sacred cultural and physical frontiers. Regardless of being introduced to confinement in the private space of a harem since her infancy, Saadia manages to liberate herself first through leaving the allegedly sacred frontiers of the house and trespassing in public space which is discursively …

The Other Dimensions Of Dalit Oppression: Tracing Intersectionality Through Ants Among Elephants, Arundhati Sen

Journal of International Women's Studies

This paper demonstrates how gender abuse is not merely restricted to hierarchical gender oppression but also operates within an intersectional framework where gender is intertwined with hierarchical caste exploitation. While revisiting White bourgeois feminism, bell hooks emphasizes the incorporation of different marginal perspectives to make feminism an all-encompassing radical movement, accessible to everyone. Inspired by the lens that hooks uses to interpret Black feminism and the Indian scholars who approach Dalit feminism from an intersectional standpoint, I analyze Sujatha Gidla’s autobiography Ants among Elephants (2017), a family story of a lower-middle-class rural South Indian Dalit woman. I argue for the …

A World Of Difference: A Comparison Of The Worldview Differences Regarding Personhood And Human Rights, Isaac Kantola

NEXUS: The Liberty Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies

No abstract provided.

Bioethics Of Human Cloning: Are We Playing God?, Caleb Smith, Mary Katherine Flage

NEXUS: The Liberty Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies

No abstract provided.

Caring, 1978, V2 N1, Winter, Advocate Aurora Health

Historical Documents - Combined

Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL: Issue of "Caring", a quarterly patient education publication. This issue has articles on the patient education programs at IMMC and new development in cataract surgery, as well as news about staffing, publications, events, and other updates.

Numeracy Tasks: Inspiring Transfer Between Concrete And Abstract Thinking Spaces, Taras Gula, Miroslav Lovric

Numeracy

In our paper we build a case for conceptualizing numeracy tasks as distinct from mathematical tasks (or at least as a special type of mathematical task), and for abstraction and interpretation as a set of key activities necessary for designating a numeracy task as being high-quality. We start with an attempt to tame the fuzziness of numeracy and its family members (including quantitative reasoning, quantitative literacy, mathematical literacy, and the word problem cousins) by outlining six areas of consensus gleaned from literature. These provide the foundation for a core mandate of numeracy. We then build our case for the distinctness …

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Parallels Of Quantum Superposition In Ecological Models: From Counterintuitive Patterns To Eco-Evolutionary Interpretations Of Cryptic Species, David G. Angeler, Hannah B. Fried-Petersen

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Background Superposition, i.e. the ability of a particle (electron, photon) to occur in different states or positions simultaneously, is a hallmark in the subatomic world of quantum mechanics. Although counterintuitive at first sight, the quantum world has potential to inform macro-systems of people and nature. Using time series and spatial analysis of bird, phytoplankton and benthic invertebrate communities, this paper shows that superposition can occur analogously in redundancy analysis (RDA) frequently used by ecologists.

Results We show that within individual ecosystems single species can be associated simultaneously with different orthogonal axes in RDA models, which suggests that they operate in …

U.S. Food & Drug Administration V. Alliance For Hippocratic Medicine: Brief For Food And Drug Law Scholars And Professors As Amici Curiae Supporting Petitioners And Reversal, Rebecca S. Eisenberg

Appellate Briefs

Amici curiae are U.S. food and drug law scholars and professors from academic institutions across the United States. A full list of amici is included as an Appendix to this brief. Amici have expertise in food and drug law, including the drug approval process and regulation of pharmaceuticals under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA), 21 U.S.C. § 301 et seq. Amici submit this brief to address important issues raised by this case concerning the authority of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) to regulate prescription drugs.

The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act …

Human Rights Without Borders, Christian Gonzalez Chacon

Northwestern Journal of Human Rights

In the current global context, millions of people are forced to migrate

yearly for reasons ranging from persecution and violence, internal armed

conflicts, and forced displacement, to lack of employment and climate

change. In the Americas, we recently witnessed the phenomenon of the

“migrant caravans,” where thousands of people, mostly from the Northern

Triangle of Central America—El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala—

were willing to walk hundreds of miles to enter the U.S.-Mexico border to

escape poverty and violence in their countries. Another caravan of close to

10,000 migrants from the Northern Triangle of Central America including

Guatemala, El Salvador and …

Ontological Complexity Of Interpolity Orders: The Encounter Between Chosŏn And Tibet In Qing, Inho Choi, Minju Kwon

Political Science Faculty Articles and Research

This article examines the ontological complexity of interpolity orders with a focus on peripheral polities in the Qing order. Existing multiculturalist studies of the Qing order emphasized diverse cultural representations of a single imperial reality, lacking an understanding of multiple realities experienced by peripheral participants. Our analysis reveals the ontological complexity—rather than cultural diversity—of the Qing order, in which multiple ontological agents experienced different lived worlds, from the encounter between Chosŏn Korean envoys and the Tibetan Panchen Lama at Emperor Qianlong’s birthday ceremony. By analyzing the Chosŏn envoy member Pak Chiwŏn’s travelog and Tibetan records, we argue that the Chosŏn …

Determination Of Cholic Acid And Derivative Residues In Eggs By Uplc-Ms/Ms, Zhou Yanhua, Ti Tao, Xu Wenyang, Wang Xiali, Xiang Jun, Yang Junwei

Food and Machinery

Objective: The pretreatment method of through-type solid-phase extraction was improved to be coupled with ultra performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry for detection of cholic acid，deoxycholic acid and dehydrochloric in eggs. Methods: The samples were extracted by methanol and purified by PRiME HLB，then separated on C₁₈（100 mm×2.1 mm，3.0 μm） column with methanol-0.1% ammonia as the mobile phase for gradient elution. Meanwhile，the samples were quantified by external standard with negative ion select reaction monitoring （SRM） mode. Results: The results showed that the linear relationships of cholic acid （CA），deoxycholic acid （DCA） and dehydrochloric acid（DHCA） were good in the range from …

Determination Of 11 Kinds Of Pesticide Residues In Liquid Milk By Dispersive Solid Phase Extraction Coupled With Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Huang Mangu, Luo Yonghao, Yan Wanying, Xu Lizhu

Food and Machinery

Objective： This study aimed to evaluate the safety of pesticide residues in liquid milk. Methods： A method for simultaneous determination of 11 kinds of pesticide residues by ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry was established. The samples were extracted by acetonitrile, purified by C₁₈ and PSA solid phase extractants, separated on a column Xbridge BEH C₁₈ (100 mm×2.1 mm, 1.7 μm), determined in multi-reaction monitoring mode, and optimized for pre-treatment parameters using response surface method. Results： The optimal conditions for pretreatment were 10 mL acetonitrile, 50 mg C₁₈ and 30 mg PSA. The linear relationships of 11 kinds …

Food Safety Management In Online Live Broadcast Marketing, Hu Shuiying

Food and Machinery

Literature research and case analysis were used to summarize the development status of online live streaming marketing market, analyze the cases of food safety accidents in live streaming e-commerce, and summarize the food safety problems in current live streaming e-commerce. Governance strategies were proposed, such as strengthening the review of live content, strengthening supervision, unblocking consumer complaint channels and accelerating relevant legislative processes. For the problem of homemade food in network marketing, it can be counseled, supported and invested in the form of an incubator to promote its transformation to formal production.

Effect Of Selenium-Enriched Yeast On The Quality Of Coix Seed Jiulao, Lei Juanjuan, Liang Ling, Huang Qingeng

Food and Machinery

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the effects of selenium-enriched yeast on the quality of coix seed jiulao. Methods: The coix seed was used as raw material, which was inoculated with selenium-rich saccharomyces cerevisiae to prepare coix seed jiulao. The changes of physicochemical properties, plant active components and in vitro antioxidant activity were measured during the fermentation of jiulao. Results: Compared with the S. cerevisiae group, the selenium-enriched S. cerevisiae group enhanced the improvement rate of alcohol content. It also accelerated the decrease rate of pH and total sugar content in the middle stage (12~30 h) of coix seed jiulao …

Research Progress On Extraction Technology, Nutritional Ingredient And Health Benefit Of Grape Seed Oil, Meng Yuzhu, Lei Changgui, Chen Jinping, Zhang Xiaodong, Zhang Zhiqian

Food and Machinery

Grape pomace is a major by-product produced during grape processing, including grape skin, pulp and seed. Grape seed oil (GSO) obtained from grape seeds is one of the vegetable oil with high nutritional value. It is rich in nutrients such as polyunsaturated fatty acids, tocopherols, phytosterols and phenols. It has many physiological effects such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, hypolipidemic, weight loss and antibacterial. Based on the relevant research reports at home and abroad in recent years, this review systematically summarized the extraction technologies, nutritional compositions and health effects of GSO. The research and development direction of GSO in the future was …

Status Of Clinical Research On Arginine And Its Application In Food For Special Medical Purpose, Chen Yao, Cao Ping, Chen Juan, Yuan Songmei, Li Wei

Food and Machinery

In recent years, arginine has received extensive attention from researchers and scholars in the field of food and nutrition because of its important role in patients' postoperative recovery and cardiovascular health. This article describes the metabolic pathways, physiological functions, absorption and intake of arginine, summarizes the application of arginine in clinical research and food for special medical purpose, and the future direction of development and research of the food for special medical purpose is also prospected.