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Analysis Of Antibiotic Prescription Patterns At Community Pharmacy Outlets; A Multi-Centered Study, P. M. Bandara, O. Malhamiarachchige, P. Mendis, Y. D. Weerakondaarachchi, P. M., Weligalle Weligalle, H. H. V. K. N. De Silva

Journal of Innovation in Science, Engineering and Technology

This study aimed to analyse the types of prescribed antibiotics, frequency of usage, and age-based prescription patterns in a selected population. This study was granted ethical clearance and data were collected from Kottawa, Kalubowila, and Mawanella. Prescriptions were collected from patients after obtaining informed consent. Results showed that 41% antibiotic prescriptions prescribed with penicillin, 23% with macrolides, 20% with cephalosporin, 9% with quinolones, 4% with nitroimidazoles, and 3% with tetracycline. Clavamox, clarithromycin, and cefuroxime were the most prescribed drugs in the penicillin, macrolide, and cephalosporin categories respectively. We further found that the 21-40 age group was the highest receivers of …

Evaluation Of Practice On Self-Medication Among Allied Health Science Undergraduates Of Sri Lanka, Therapeutic And Toxicity Implications, K. L. C. Perera, B. A. D. E. Chamara, W. K. Amarasinghe, M. A. C. T. Ariyadasa, H. W., Masimbula Masimbula, H. H. V. K. N. De Silva, R. G. W. D. B. Rajapaksha

Journal of Innovation in Science, Engineering and Technology

The main purpose of the study was to assess the prevalence of self-medication, classes of drugs used as self-medication, identify the patterns of self-medication practices, and examine sociodemographic characteristics, factors that correlate with self-medication and adverse drug reactions caused due to self-medication. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among Allied Health Science undergraduates of Sri Lanka who have practiced self-medication during past 2 months prior to data collection. This study was conducted after obtaining the ethical approval from Ethics Review Committee, CINEC Campus, Malabe. The data were collected as a google form. According to the results, the percentage of the …

Assessment Of Opinion And Awareness Of The Construction Industry On Suitability Of M Sand As A Replacement To River Sand, M. S. Mohamed Shafi Raheem, S. C. Walpita

Journal of Innovation in Science, Engineering and Technology

Fine aggregates are an essential raw material required for concrete production. Majority of the fine aggregate demand is supplied through natural river sand. However, river sand mining is not sustainable in the long run and impacts the environment severely. A more sustainable and cost-effective replacement to river sand should be adopted quickly. Manufactured sand or M sand is a promising alternative to river sand. The suitability of M sand as a replacement to river sand and the opinions and perspective of the construction industry were assessed by doing a comprehensive literature review and collecting data from industry professionals through a …

Self-Supervised Learning For Invariant Representations From Multi-Spectral And Sar Images, Pallavi Jain, Bianca Schoen Phelan, Robert J. Ross

Articles

Self-Supervised learning (SSL) has become the new state of the art in several domain classification and segmentation tasks. One popular category of SSL are distillation networks such as Bootstrap Your Own Latent (BYOL). This work proposes RS-BYOL, which builds on BYOL in the remote sensing (RS) domain where data are non-trivially different from natural RGB images. Since multi-spectral (MS) and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors provide varied spectral and spatial resolution information, we utilise them as an implicit augmentation to learn invariant feature embeddings. In order to learn RS based invariant features with SSL, we trained RS-BYOL in two ways, …

Co-Transcriptomic Analysis Of The Maize–Western Corn Rootworm Interaction, Lise Pingault, Saumik Basu, Neetha N. Vellichirammal, William Paul Williams, Gautam Sarath, Joe Louis

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

The Western corn rootworm (WCR; Diabrotica virgifera virgifera) is an economically important belowground pest of maize. Belowground feeding by WCR is damaging because it weakens the roots system, diminishes nutrient uptake, and creates entry points for fungal and bacterial pathogens and increases lodging, all of which can significantly suppress maize yields. Previously, it was demonstrated that belowground herbivory can trigger plant defense responses in the roots and the shoots, thereby impacting intraplant communication. Although several aspects of maize-WCR interactions have been reported, co-transcriptomic remodeling in the plant and insect are yet to be explored. We used a maize genotype, …

Australian Cleotychini Planthoppers: Review Of The Genus Cleotyche Emeljanov, 1997 With Three New Species (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Dictyopharidae), Jérôme Constant, Linda Semeraro, Melinda L. Moir

Biosecurity Research Articles

The genus Cleotyche in the monotypic Australian planthopper tribe Cleotychini (Fulgoroidea: Dictyopharidae) is reviewed. The subgenus Griseotyche subgen. nov. is described to accommodate one species Cleotyche blanda Emeljanov, 2011 while the second species, C. mariae Emeljanov, 1997, is retained in the subgenus Cleotyche (Cleotyche) Emeljanov, 1997. Three new species of Cleotyche (Cleotyche) from Queensland, C. (Cleotyche) christinae sp. nov. from Cania Gorge National Park, C. (Cleotyche) francescoi sp. nov. from Eurimbula National Park and C. (Cleotyche) montana sp. nov. from Blackdown Tableland National Park are described and compared to the …

Alterations In Cerebral Glucose Metabolism Measured By Fdg Pet In Subjects Performing A Meditation Practice Based On Clitoral Stimulation, Andrew B. Newberg, Nancy A. Wintering, Chloe Hriso, Faezeh Vedaei, Feroze B. Mohamed, Sara E. Gottfried, Reneita Ross

Institute of Emerging Health Professions Faculty Papers

Background: The relationship between sexuality, or the libido, and spirituality or religion has long been debated in psychiatry. Recent studies have explored the neurophysiology of both sexual experiences and spiritual practices such as meditation or prayer. In the present study, we report changes in cerebral glucose metabolism in a unique meditation practice augmented by clitoral stimulation called, Orgasmic Meditation, in which a spiritual state is described to be attained by both male and female participants engaged in the practice as a pair.

Methods: Male (N=20) and female (N=20) subjects had an intravenous catheter connected to a bag of normal saline …

Omss Newsletter, September 7 2022, Office Of Multicultural Student Success

OMSS Newsletter

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Urban Monitoring Of Antimicrobial Resistance During A Covid-19 Surge Through Wastewater Surveillance, Anthony Harrington, Van Vo, Katerina Papp, Richard L. Tillett, Ching-Lan Chang, Hayley Baker, Shirley Shen, Amei Amei, Cassius Lockett, Daniel Gerrity, Edwin C. Oh

Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine Faculty Research

During the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, infected patients presented with symptoms similar to bacterial pneumonias and were treated with antibiotics before confirmation of a bacterial or fungal co-infection. We reasoned that wastewater surveillance could reveal potential relationships between reduced antimicrobial stewardship, specifically misprescribing antibiotics to treat viral infections, and the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in an urban community. Here, we analyzed microbial communities and AMR profiles in sewage samples from a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) and a community shelter in Las Vegas, Nevada during a COVID-19 surge in December 2020. Using a respiratory pathogen and AMR enrichment …

Warming Of The Willamette River, 1850–Present: The Effects Of Climate Change And Direct Human Interventions, Stefan Talke, David Jay, Heida Diefenderfer

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Using archival research methods, we found and combined data from multiple sources to produce a unique, 140 year record of daily water temperature (Tw) in the lower Willamette River, Oregon (1881–1890, 1941–present). Additional daily weather and river flow records from the 1850s onwards are used to develop and validate a statistical regression model of Tw for 1850–2020. The model simulates the time-lagged response of Tw to air temperature and river flow, and is calibrated for three distinct time periods: the late 19th, mid 20th, and early 21st centuries. Results show that Tw has trended upwards at ~1.1 °C …

Nh Consumers Feel The Pinch, Perceptions Of Personal Finances At Record Lows 9/7/2022, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Despite a strong labor market in New Hampshire, residents remain pessimistic about their household finances. Half of Granite Staters say their household finances are worse than last year and expect them to be even worse a year from now. State residents also remain pessimistic about the state and national economies, with few anticipating good economic times in the next twelve months.

2022 September 7 - From My Notepads Newsletter, Office Of The President, East Tennessee State University, Brian Noland

From My Notepads: A Newsletter from President Brian Noland

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Do Autistic People’S Support Needs And Non‑Autistic People’S Support For The Neurodiversity Movement Contribute To Heightened Autism Stigma In South Korea Vs. The Us?, So Yoon Kim, Kristen Gillespie‑Lynch

Publications and Research

We examined stigma towards vignette characters representing diverse autistic characteristics (social, non-speaking, or repetitive interests or restricted behaviors; RIRB) among 259 South Korean and 240 American participants (age range=18~74).Within each domain, participants were randomized to read a vignette depicting low or high support needs. Koreans reported greater stigma towards autistic characteristics and less awareness of and support for the neurodiversity movement thanAmericans. Autistic characters’ support needs and rater characteristics (autism knowledge, neurodiversity endorsement, and contact quantity) predicted stigma in at least one domain, and after accounting for these variables, participants’ nationality was suggestively associated only with stigma towards social characteristics …

Cabrini Realty Llc V. New York State Div. Of Hous. & Community Renewal

All Decisions

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Unh Manchester Celebrates Students In 25th Anniversary Of Esol Programs, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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Welcome, New Wildcats, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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Meeting Great Bay History, Beth Potier

UNH Today Archive

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Baking And Quaking, Robbin Ray

UNH Today Archive

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New York Law School Magazine, Vol. 39, No. 1, Office Of Marketing And Communications

New York Law School Magazine

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Sustaining Planetary Health: Putting A Stop To Ecosystem Decline, Unsustainable Practices And Associated Human Suffering, George Atisa, Parita Shah

Public Affairs and Security Studies Faculty Publications

The natural environment is considered a free resource for humans to utilize, but doing so comes with costs associated with how it is used, e.g., degraded ecosystems, fragmented landscapes, pollution and climate change. These negative effects make humans’ place on Earth inhospitable. The inherent challenge is the inability to connect or simply deny the association of the poor health currently experienced by people to the cumulative degradation of various ecosystems. A degraded ecosystem is not just a loss to a diverse planetary system or a waste in its own right, but because of the complex relationships involved, it becomes a …

The Bg News September 07, 2022, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. September 07, 2022. Volume 102-Issue 3.

Targeting Glycans For Car Therapy: The Advent Of Sweet Cars, Zoe Raglow, Mary Kathryn Mckenna, Challice L Bonifant, Wenjing Wang, Marina Pasca Di Magliano, Johannes Stadlmann, Josef M Penninger, Richard D Cummings, Malcolm K Brenner, David M Markovitz

Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Staff Publications

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has created a paradigm shift in the treatment of hematologic malignancies but has not been as effective toward solid tumors. For such tumors, the primary obstacles facing CAR T cells are scarcity of tumor-specific antigens and the hostile and complex tumor microenvironment. Glycosylation, the process by which sugars are post-translationally added to proteins or lipids, is profoundly dysregulated in cancer. Abnormally glycosylated glycoproteins expressed on cancer cells offer unique targets for CAR T therapy as they are specific to tumor cells. Tumor stromal cells also express abnormal glycoproteins and thus also have the …

Ay 2022/2023 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2022-09-07, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Archives

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Myanmar Paintings, Stage Design Showcased In Iwu Galleries, Julia Perez

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

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Federal Court Ruling Endangers Prep Coverage Under Aca, Arthur S. Leonard

Other Publications

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Analysis Of Dispensing Pattern Of Otc Drugs In Community Pharmacy Outlets, Sri Lankan Perspectives; A Pilot Study, K. M. T. D. B. Kangara, S. D. Senanayake, A. K. Siriwardhana, N. W. A. N. Maanisha, G. A. J., Rathnasekara Rathnasekara, H. H. V. K. N. De Silva

Journal of Innovation in Science, Engineering and Technology

The usage of over-the-counter (OTC) drugs all over the world is high, despite many regulatory guidelines. Therefore, this study was conducted to quantitative and qualitative analysis of the dispensing pattern of OTC drugs. A cross-sectional study was carried out for seven days at selected pharmacies and data was recorded using data sheets available at outlets. During the study period, 75 registered medicines were dispensed as OTC drugs. Of them, 40% were dispensed in age below 25, 35% in age category 25-45, 16% in the age category 45- 65, and 9% over 65 years. Analgesics (15%), and multivitamins (15%), and others …

Optimizing Cement Quarry Dust Ratio In Concrete Asphalt Using For Industrial Purposes, D. H. J. M. V. R. De Silva, G. Udayakumara

Journal of Innovation in Science, Engineering and Technology

Scarcity and the high cost of natural river sand due to government restrictions are the major problems for the construction industry. It was observed that cement quarry dust ratio is higher in quarry dust concrete mixes compared to conventional concrete mixes used for highway projects due to the effects influenced by shape, surface & content of micro fines of quarry dust. In this study, the cement quarry dust ratios were optimized to obtain the optimum strength, workability & to use quarry dust concrete using for industrial purposes. Workability, compressive strength tests were conducted on basic three quarry dust concrete grade …

Analysis Of Knowledge, Usage And The Practice Of Total Body Care Cosmetic Products In Western Province; Sri Lanka, L. M. Hettihewa, K. G. I. M. Yasendri

Journal of Innovation in Science, Engineering and Technology

Cosmetic care product are used for skin, hair and nail caring practices. The cosmetic product regulations in Sri Lankan regulatory authorities is not properly implemented for importing and marketing thus it is needed to prevent the misuse and related adverse events. As an initiative, our team investigated data on knowledge of cosmetic care, and the practicing methods of the participants in western province in Sri Lanka as a phase 1 study. It was a descriptive cross-sectional survey and participants aged from 18 to 70+ years were openly invited. Informed consent was included in the self-administered questionnaire, validated before proper research. …

Sociological And Psychological Perspective On Spread Of Covid 19 Virus: A Study On Philosophical Paradigms, V. K. Kurukulaarachchi, H. A. Siriwardhana, J. P. Wesley

Journal of Innovation in Science, Engineering and Technology

Sociological and psychological perspectives shape and tune the behaviors of individuals. The Philosophical assumptions integrated in these perspectives are highlighted to be key underlying bases to which determine the reality social sciences. Therefore, having a close concentration on Sociological and psychological perspectives on the spread of the COVID-19 Virus through a philosophical standpoint would allow a deeper notion to realize core of the virus spread. However, these philosophical assumptions are underrated within the research fields limiting it to academics. Further, analyzing into this world pandemic is required to realize the entangled outcomes. This paper discusses results of an archival study …

Phytochemical Analysis And Evaluation Of In-Vitro Antioxidant Activity Of Bark Extracts From Madhuca Longifolia (Madhu) And Ficus Racemosa (Attikka) Grown In Sri Lanla., S. K. Hettihewa, C. M. Ruwanpathirana, P. Panangalage

Journal of Innovation in Science, Engineering and Technology

Madhuca longifolia (Maddhu) and Ficus racemose (Attikka) are well known medicinal plants which have been valued for decades in Sri Lankan Ayurvedic medicine. This research was aimed to study the phytochemical analysis and evaluate invitro antioxidant activity of two solvent extracts (70% aqueous acetone and 80% aqueous methanol) obtained from each bark of selected plants. The crude extracts were prepared by steeping the dried powder in each solvent overnight in the dark conditions. Phytochemical screening of crude extracts was performed. In-vitro radical scavenging activity and antioxidant activity were evaluated by using 2, 2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) assay and ferric reducing antioxidant power …