Artykuły w czasopismach na temat „Red Wing (Minn.)”

Abstract Granular insecticides are commonly regarded as better than liquid insecticides for control of first-generation ECB larvae. The purpose of this small-plot trial was to evaluate the efficacy of liquid insecticides and to compare granular and liquid formulations of selected insecticides. Plots of 2 40-ft-long rows (30-inch row spacing) were located in a commercial production field near Red Wing, Minn., planted on 2 May. Insecticide treatments were arranged in a randomized complete block design with 4 replicates. Liquid insecticides were applied in 17 gal water/acre with a CO2-powered backpack sprayer through 8002 nozzles operating at 40 psi. Granular formulations of selected insecticides were applied with a one-row, electrically driven Gandy applicator manually pushed through the plots. The treatments were applied on 23 Jun when temperatures ranged from 75 to 82°F and there little to no wind (<2 mph). Efficacy was evaluated on 5 Aug by dissecting 10 infested plants/plot and counting the number of tunnels.

Abstract Performance of granular insecticides against ECB larvae was evaluated in a small-plot trial near Red Wing, Minn. Plots of 1 row (30-inch row spacing) by 50 ft, were located within a commercial production field that was planted on 2 May. Larvae varied from first to fourth instars with the majority in the third instar. Insecticide treatments were arranged in a randomized complete block design with 4 replicates. Granular insecticides were applied with a one-row, electrically driven, Gandy applicator that was manually pushed through the plots. A liquid standard, Pounce 3.2 EC, was applied in 17 gal water/acre at 40 psi through 8002 nozzles on a CO2-powered backpack sprayer. The treatments were applied 22 Jun when temperatures ranged from 85 to 90°F and winds were 10-15 mph. Efficacy was evaluated on 10 Aug by dissecting 10 infested plants/plot and counting the tunnels.

Abstract We detect Lyα absorption from the escaping atmosphere of HD 63433c, a R = 2.67R ⊕, P = 20.5 day mini-Neptune orbiting a young (440 Myr) solar analog in the Ursa Major Moving Group. Using Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, we measure a transit depth of 11.1 ± 1.5% in the blue wing and 8 ± 3% in the red. This signal is unlikely to be due to stellar variability, but should be confirmed by an upcoming second transit observation with HST. We do not detect Lyα absorption from the inner planet, a smaller R = 2.15R ⊕ mini-Neptune on a 7.1 day orbit. We use Keck/NIRSPEC to place an upper limit of 0.5% on helium absorption for both planets. We measure the host star’s X-ray spectrum and mid-ultraviolet flux with XMM-Newton, and model the outflow from both planets using a 3D hydrodynamic code. This model provides a reasonable match to the light curve in the blue wing of the Lyα line and the helium nondetection for planet c, although it does not explain the tentative red wing absorption or reproduce the excess absorption spectrum in detail. Its predictions of strong Lyα and helium absorption from b are ruled out by the observations. This model predicts a much shorter mass-loss timescale for planet b, suggesting that b and c are fundamentally different: while the latter still retains its hydrogen/helium envelope, the former has likely lost its primordial atmosphere.

AbstractAlthough red supergiants (RSGs) are observed to be undergoing vigorous mass loss, explaining the mechanism launching their winds has been a long-standing problem. Given the importance of mass loss to stellar evolution in this phase, this is a key uncertainty. In this contribution we present a recently published model (Kee et al. 2021) showing that turbulent pressure alone can extend the stellar atmosphere of an RSG to the degree that a wind is launched. This provides a fully analytic mass-loss prescription for RSGs. Moreover, utilising observationally inferred turbulent velocities for these objects, we find that this wind can carry an appropriate amount of mass to overall match observations. Intriguingly, when coupled to stellar evolution models the predicted mass-loss rates show that stars with initial masses above Mini∼17M⊙ may naturally evolve back to the blue and as such not end their lives as RSGs; this is also in overall good agreement with observations, here of Type II-P/L supernova progenitors. Moreover, since the proposed wind launching mechanism is not necessarily sensitive to metallicity, this could have important implications for stellar evolution predictions in low-metallicity environments.

Studies on flavonoids from plant sources has gained a momentum due to their versatile health benefits. The main sources of flavonoids in humans are fruits, vegetables, red wine and tea. They are small molecular weight secondary metabolites produced in different parts of the plant such as seeds, bark, root, fruits and flowers. Galangin (3,5,7-trihydroxyflavone) a naturally occurring flavonoid is present in roots of Alpinia officinarum, honey and propolis. Its extraction and detection has been reported using various methods such as chromatography, spectrophotometric and electrochemical methods associated with other sophisticated techniques. Galangin showed various pharmacological activities such as anti-inflammatory, antioxidative, radical scavenging, anticancer activity and hypolipidimic activity. The present review discusses the pharmacological activities, pharmacokinetics and bioanalytical aspects of galangin, which can be beneficial for researchers working in the field of galangin

<p style="text-align: justify;">Potassium hydrogen tartrate (KHT) is a natural compound of wine which crystallizes spontaneously. Whereas crystal occurrence can be considered as a sign of goodness in old and famous vintage wines, it is usually thought of as a serious failure for most consumers, even though it does not alter wine quality. An efficient and cheap process of wine stabilization versus KHT crystallization has to be found yet. An alternate process to physical stabilization of wines may lie in the addition of an inhibitor of KHT crystallization. Bearing this in mind, we have investigated the effect of several polysaccharides and total polyphenols fractions on KHT crystallization through the measurement of crystal appearance time (induction time) with and without any macromolecule.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Red wines. white wines and KHT supersaturated hydroalcoholic solution exhibit different behaviours versus KHT crystallization, red wines crystallizing less easily than white wines and far less easily th an hydroalcoholic solution. Those differences can be explained by our results. The innate inhibition of red wines is the sum of the inhibiting effects of rhamnogalacturonans (RG-I and RG-II), yeasts mannoproteins present in wine and of total polyphenols. Arabinogalactans show no effect on KHT crystallization whereas rhamnogalacturonans display a peculiar concentration dependent behaviour : crystal appearance is accelerated at low concentration and slowed at high concentration. More strongly observed for RG-1I2 fractions, this feature is confirmed by a theory of crystallization in the presence of an additive. The theory predicts that RG-I has almost no effect on the nucleation phenomenon whereas RG-1I2 enhances this phenomenon. Both RG-l and RG-1I2 inhibit crystal growth by adsorption on crystal growth sites, as contirmed by single crystal growth experiments.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Red wine tendency to be more difficult to stabilize versus KHT crystallization by cooling than white wine is due to the concentration in RG-II and in total polyphenols : low RG-II content in white wine accelerates crystal appearance whereas high RG-Il content in red wine slows crystal appearance. Thus it intensifies the inhibition due to the high total polyphenol content in red wine.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Mannoproteins extracted from yeast cell walls inhibit KHT crystallization far more than yeast mannoproteins present in wine. However, their efficiency is reduced as temperature is lowered.</p>

In this study, a complete physical–chemical analysis was performed for Fetească neagră wine, aged with oak staves. Red wine samples were taken from grape varieties grown in Northeast Romania and produced during 2013 vintage. At the end of the fermentation process, four oak mini staves (1 cm width × 10 cm length × 1 cm thickness) from heavy toasted French oak were added to 5 L of red wine. Samples were aged using two time periods, respectively at 1.5 and 3 months, in a room at 14–16 °C. Results showed that the initial content of total phenolic decreased during ageing, from 931.1 mg catechin/L at 1.5 months to 775.4 mg catechin/L at 3 months. In contrast, the initial content of total antioxidant activity increased after the same period of ageing to 13.3 mM Trolox as compared to the aged wines for 1.5 months, at 12.8 mM Trolox. The corregram representing the relationship between the total phenols, total antioxidant activity (TAA) and their fractions and CieLab parameters was performed. Thirty-seven minor volatile compounds were quantified by stir bars sorptive extraction and gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (SBSE-GC-MS). An increase in odor activity value (OAV) with ageing time was observed, especially for fruity, fatty and woody series. The oak staves used in ageing processes can contribute positively to the aromatic profile of wines and could be considered a good choice for producing short-aged wines.

The alternative light source (ALS) is a helpful technique for the detection of biological traces at a crime scene, which allows preservation of the material without destroying it. The aim of this study was to differentiate the human blood from a group of simulated bloodstains, which included: red borscht, raspberry juice, cherry liqueur, cranberry juice, tomato bruschetta, tomato paste, raspberry jam, rust, red spray, red wine and tomato ketchup. Stains, made of different types of material, were illuminated with the ALS emitted by the Mini-CrimeScope 400 (SPEX Forensics) with yellow, dark yellow, orange and red filters. The results of the analysis were presented as a description and also documented in photographs. The usage of light sources without color cut-off filters does not allow us to differentiate unequivocally real bloodstains from the trace evidence imitating or resembling bloodstains. The usage of different color cut-off filters (especially red filter) allowed us to exclude simulated bloodstains made of food and alcohol by using CSS light and light with a wavelength of 535 nm, 515 nm, 455 nm, 415 nm and 300-400 nm. Due to the different optical properties of blood and substances containing vegetable ingredients, forensic experts can differentiate human blood from simulated bloodstains by using the ALS in a non-destructive and quick way already at the crime scene. The ALS may be an example of a method which can replace more commonly used chemical-based screening tests.

The best is to read these instructions and follow the outline of this text. The coal mine production safety is one of China's current problems to be solved, do a good job monitoring and control of underground gas and coal dust is a key link to achieve safety in production. In this paper, the programming model is used to find the best ventilation rate and then control the mine gas and coal dust concentration effectively. Based on “Coal Mine Safety Regulations” and characteristics of coal dust and gas explosion with the relationship of mutual influence, we come to the possibility of coal mine explosion hazard. Finally, with the linear regression knowledge, we figure out the relationship between the wind speed and concentration of gas and coal dust, then we express the gas density and dust concentration in different parts of the mine by air volume function, through the limit of safe production on the gas concentration and coal dust concentration, to find constraints on air volume, construct a linear programming model, finally get optimum ventilation rate and the optimal control method.

Abstract A benomyl polyclonal enzyme immunoassay (EIA) commercial kit was used to quantitate methyl 2- benzimidazolecarbamate (MBC), a degradation product of benomyl in wine. Total analysis time, including sample preparation, was 30 min. As many as 8 samples can be analyzed simultaneously with a limit of quantitation of 5 ppb. The assay logarithmic response was linear from 0.4 to 26 ppb MBC. Intra-assay percent coefficients of variation (%CVs) ranged from 2.4 to 13 for standards and from 7.4 to 21 for actual wine samples. Interassay %CVs varied from 2.6 to 15 for the standards and from 6.9 to 23 for the samples. Average recovery from samples spiked at 10–10 000 ppb was 93% for evaporated red and white wines. MBC was determined in 134 different wines by immunoassay and liquid chromatography (LC). Of these samples, 98 were positive for MBC by both methods with a correlation coefficient (r) of 0.986. The other 36 samples had MBC levels that either were not detectable by either procedure or were below the 10 ppb limit of quantitation for LC. Concentrations of MBC in wine ranged from 5 to 1329 ppb, with the majority ranging from 10 to 300 ppb. Also, a mini-study was conducted using the plate EIA format.

Considering the characteristics of narrow underground space and energy distribution, based on blade element momentum theory, Wilson optimization model and MATLAB programming calculation results, the torsion angle and chord length of wind turbine blade under the optimized conditions were obtained. Through coordinate transformation, the data were transformed into three-dimensional form. The three-dimensional model of the blade was constructed, and the horizontal axis wind turbine blade under the underground low wind speed environment was designed. The static structural analysis and modal analysis were carried out. Structural design, optimization calculation and aerodynamic analysis were carried out for three kinds of air ducts: external convex, internal concave and linear. The results show that the velocity distribution in the throat of linear air duct is relatively uniform and the growth rate is large, so it should be preferred. When the tunnel wind speed is 4.3 m/s and the rated speed is 224 rad/s, the maximum displacement of the blade is in the blade tip area and the maximum stress is at the blade root, which is not easy to resonate. The change rate of displacement, stress and strain of blade is positively correlated with speed. The energy of blade vibration is mainly concentrated in the swing vibration of the first and second modes. With the increase in vibration mode order, the amplitude and shape of the blade gradually transition to the coupling vibration of swing, swing and torsion. The stress and strain of the blade are lower than the allowable stress and strain of glass fiber reinforced plastics (FRP), and resonance is not easy to occur in the first two steps. The blade is generally safe and meets the design requirements.

Including incident light sensors (ILS) with multispectral sensors is an important development for agricultural remote sensing because spectral reflectances are necessary for accurate determination of plant biophysical variables such as leaf area index and leaf chlorophyll content. Effects of different aircraft flight conditions on accuracy of surface reflectances retrieved using an ILS are not known. The objectives of this study were to assess the effects of ILS orientation with respect to sun and aircraft altitude. A Tetracam Miniature Multiple Camera Array (Mini-MCA) was mounted on a fixed-wing unmanned aircraft system (UAS) with the ILS mounted on top of the aircraft’s fuselage. On two dates the aircraft flew over six 50-ha agricultural fields with center-pivot irrigation at three different altitudes (450, 650 and 1800 m above ground level (AGL)). Ground reflectances were estimated using atmospherically corrected Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager data acquired at or near the time of the aircraft overflights. Because the aircraft had a positive pitch during flight, the ILS pointed opposite to the flight direction. The first date had flight lines closely oriented towards and away from the sun. The second date had flight lines oriented perpendicularly to the solar azimuth. On the first date, red and near-infrared (NIR) reflectances were significantly higher when the ILS was oriented away from the sun, whereas ILS orientation had little effect on the second date. For both dates, red and near-infrared reflectances were significantly greater at 450 m compared to 1800 m. Both the effects of ILS orientation and flight altitude are correctable during image processing because the physical basis is well known.

This article begins by discussing the rhetorical turn of the first sentence in M. T. Anderson's Thirsty. That first sentence reads: 'In the spring, there are vampires in the wind' (1997 p. 11). Do not these words sound similar to the subtitle of Tolkien's The Hobbit: 'There and Back Again'? I mean, doesn't the shape of the sentence that begins Thirsty remind us of the meaning of Tolkien's subtitle? The sentence begins with a prepositional phrase and ends with a prepositional phrase; in other words, it begins, with a phrase blowing in the wind and ends with the return of that wind; it begins, goes there, and then comes back, so to speak. When winter passes, a spring wind is sure to follow. If we are of a psychoanalytic cast of mind, we might say that rhetorically, the sentence enacts a return - the return of the repressed - but it does so slyly; it disguises the return of the repressed because we always have to disguise repressed content when it insists on emerging from the unconscious. Those pesky vampires insist on returning time and again; this time they come in with the wind - a sort of undead Chinook. My argument, then, is that fantasy rhetorically enacts the journey of return. When we begin a fantasy, we anticipate a return; we read retrospectively. Fantasy can deliver a productive nostalgia, a looking backward in order to look forward, fantasy opens a space for invention, and what returns in fantasy is both the repressed itself and the mechanism of repression.

In 1981 a group of health workers and feminist researchers created a journal that aimed to discuss the agendas of women's movements and expose practices of prevention and prophylaxis of women's health. Many of its organizers came from left-wing parties andused their knowledge and repertoires to defend gender equity and the end of discrimination, bringing research and scientific work to the discussion. With that in mind, this article aims to analyze how the researchers who wrote the feminist journal Mulherio(1981–1988) used their sociocultural and scientific repertoires to address the female body and health. Methodologically, it operates with the analysis of discourse from Michel Foucault, which makes it possible to read the images and texts in their historicity, plurality and tensions that were constitutive of them, contributing to the constitution of subjects and practices of power-knowledge. Considering, therefore, the analysis of a periodical that had considerable circulation, it can be seen as a product of specific aspirations, reproducing or questioning certain scientific premises and socially constituted values articulated to the ongoing transformations in gender relations.

Abstract A motorbike manufacturer which struggles to market their products is Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred as Honda Motor). This article investigated origin of Honda Motor’s logos and tried to describe the logos as superimposed advertisement displayed in a television program. The study applied a qualitative descriptive method. Data were taken from a commedy situation Overa van Java relayed on Trans7 television channel. The data are the Honda Motor’s logos displayed as superimposed advertisement. The results showed that Honda has denotation and connotation meanings. The company name was originated from the family name of the founder Soichiro Honda. However, there is also another meaning ‘Japanese rice’ due to marketing strategy which delivers cultural values due to promote Japanese products. The Honda Motor’s logos are a red-colored wing on a white background and a white-colored wing on a red background. The logos are discovered as the signified while the products of Honda Motors become the signifier. The logos slid with approximately 11 seconds of duration which depicted brand awareness. This study concludes that the superimposed advertisement employed mini images on the left corner of a television screen. The advertisement strategy is valuable to cause intention of the television audiences through the signifier and signified. Keywords: Logo, meaning, sign, signifier, signified, superimposed advertisement Abstrak Pabrikan sepeda motor yang berjuang untuk tetap memasarkan produknya adalah Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (selanjutnya disebut Honda Motor). Artikel ini menginvestigasi logo Honda Motor dan mendeskripsikan logo tersebut sebagai iklan superimposed yang ditayangkan dalam program televisi. Penelitian ini disusun dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif. Data diperoleh dari situasi komedi Overa van Java yang ditayangkan pada saluran televisi Trans7. Data yang diperoleh berupa logo Honda Motor yang ditampilkan sebagai iklan superimposed. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Honda memiliki makna denotasi dan konotasi. Nama perusahaan berasal dari nama keluarga pendirinya, yaitu Soichiro Honda. Akan tetapi, terdapat makna lain 'beras Jepang' sebagai upaya strategi pemasaran yang memiliki nilai budaya untuk mempromosikan produk dari Jepang. Logo Honda Motor adalah sayap berwarna merah dengan latar belakang putih dan sayap berwarna putih dengan latar belakang merah. Logo-logo tersebut dinyatakan sebagai penanda sementara produk-produk Honda Motor menjadi petanda. Logo-logo ditampilkan saling berganti dengan durasi sekitar 11 detik untuk menyampaikan brand awareness. Penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa iklan superimposed menampilkan gambar berukuran kecil di sudut kiri layar televisi. Strategi iklan ini berupaya untuk meningkatkan pemahaman dari penonton televisi melalui penanda dan petanda. Kata Kunci: Logo, makna, tanda, penanda, petanda, iklan superimposed

The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between Goran Skrobonja and Dаn Simmons’ works, as well as the way Anglo-American speculative fiction influenced Skrobonja. In order to do that, I compared two fiction works by these authors: Simmons’ novella Flashback from his colection Lovedeath (translated to Serbian by Skrobonja) and Skrobonja’s Tihi gradovi / Quiet Cities, one of the most renowned works of contemporary speculative fiction in Serbian literature. Suvin’s theory of science fiction and his term novum were used in order to draw parallels between these stories. In my analysis I have concluded that not only Skrobonja and Simmons use the same novum, but their stories also share a number of similari- ties, which suggest an intertextual relationship. Then, I conducted an imagological comparative analysis. First of all, I analysed the right-wing discourse which heavily influenced Simmon’s novella and foreshadowed author’s subsequent engagement in politics, thus ending his amiable correspondence with Skrobonja. Bearing that in mind, Tihi gradovi can be read as a negation of Flashback and Simmons’ poetics, as well as his right-wing world view. As a results, Tihi gradovi differ from the rest of Skrobonja’s work, primarily by defying the poetics of Anglo-American specula- tive fiction, which have heavily influenced Skrobonja for the most of his career. In this story, he has showed that his relationship towards his literary forefathers is not epigonal, but much more nuanced and sceptical. Thus, the wide recognition Tihi gradovi attained in contemporary literary criticism is recognized as justified, as this story is truly one of Skrobonja’s finest achievements.

There is a Yorkshire expression, that many people are fond of quoting, to account for strange behaviour: “There's nowt so queer as folk”. Some folk, always other folk and never oneself, are more queer than others (and many Englishmen would claim that Yorkshire folk are stranger than most, but that's another story).The expression came to mind when I read a column in Icaro, the magazine of Varig, the Brazilian airline. I am not fond of flying at the st of times and finding a magazine called Icaro in the seat pocket of a fully-laden jet increased my anxiety. Icaro, presumably, is Portuguese for that legendary character Icarus who, in attempting to escape from Crete, flew so high that the sun melted the wax that held his wings on with the consequence that he fell in the sea. A stranger title for an airline magazine would be hard to find.

In May 1741, an anonymous Yorkshire Methodist sent George Whitefield a long letter in which he recorded the details of his nine-year-old daughter’s evangelical conversion. Within a fortnight the letter was printed in The Weekly History, the magazine which had become the official mouthpiece of the Calvinistic wing of the Evangelical Revival by this point. Here is how Whitefield began his account: We have a little daughter about nine years old; one Lord's Day in the last winter, when she staid at home, she read one of your journals, and afterwards some sermons of yours we had got from London. It pleased God by his Holy Spirit so to impress her mind as is very remarkable. She desires me to tell Mr Whitefield (that sweet minister of Jesus Christ) what she has met with in reading his book, she says, such a change of Heart, that she can now pray to God, and converse with his people in such a manner as she could never do before that day. She is of a sprightly brisk temper, yet if she be never so much engaged in work or play, if she hears any body talk of you, or things relating to religion, she will come and hear, and put in her word about it.

The potential of wind energy in a country varies depending on the region. For example, in Northern regions of Nigeria, cities like Minna, Sokoto, Kano and Jos are the most potential locations and experience not more than 5.24 m/s mean wind speed with Jos having the highest average wind speed. In most cases internationally wind turbines are design to operate at the rated wind speed much greater than mean wind speeds in Nigeria (in most cases above 8 m/s). Installation of these wind turbines in a similar location to Nigeria (in terms of wind speed condition) will significantly decrease their performance. Therefore, it become necessary to design and produce wind turbines that will function efficiently in low wind speed locations. One of the technologies to improve wind turbine rotor blade effectiveness in low wind regime is to boost the operating angle of the wind turbine, and hence the prospect for the improvement of wind turbine performance. An innovative way recognized previously by some researchers for increasing the working angle of the blade at low wind speed for improved performance is modification of wind turbine blade leading edge. This research studied three-bladed wind turbine rotor with modified blades leading edges (by incorporating sinusoidal bumps) at low wind speeds using CFD method. Two CAD models of wind turbine blades based on 0.8m three-bladed wind turbine rotor were modelled and simulated. One blade model is having straight leading edge (N-Blade) and the other having bumpy leading edge (M-Blade). Both models have NASA LS (1)-0413 cross-section profile. Simulations were run using ANSYS 20 from a velocity of 2 m/s to 10 m/s at the interval of 2m/s considering TSR of 6 and 8. At a TSR of 6, the coefficients of performance (Cp) values are not equal, with the straight blade having better performance than the bumpy blade at all velocities tested; the Cp values of blade with straight leading edge are 0.180, 0.267, 0.300, 0.313, 0.322 at respective velocities of 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10m/s, while Cp values of blade with bumpy leading edge at the same velocities are 0.165, 0.250, 0.281, 0.294, and 0.303 respectively. At a TSR of 8, the CP values closely match for both straight and bumpy blade at all velocities tested for. Simulations were further run at constant angular velocity of 120 rad/s for a TSR of 2, 4, and 10, where the peak performance occurs is around TSR of 6 and 8. For instance, the Cp values of M-Blade are 0.022, 0.173, 0.294, 0.313, and 0.116 respectively at the TSR of 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10. At TSR of 2, 4, 8 and 10, the performance of both airfoils closely matches except at a TSR of 6 where the N-Blade Cp value is 0.313 and is better than that of M-Blade Cp value (0.294). It shows that the blade leading edge modification could not have advantage at all flow conditions and size of the HAWT blades; it shows no advantage on the performance of the rotor blade tested in this research at the velocities at which the simulation was conducted.

At Leg. 666b7, Burnet's emendation of the transmitted λήθην to λήθῃ has been widely accepted. Newly discovered support for this emendation comes from an Arabic version or adaptation of Plato's Laws, most likely Galen's Synopsis, quoted by the polymath Abū-Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī (a.d. 973–1048) as Kitāb al-Nawāmīs li-Aflāṭun in his ethnographic work on India. I transliterate and translate the passage below, proposing two incidental emendations to the Arabic:wa-qāla l-aṯīniyyu fī l-maqālati l-tāniyati mina l-kitābi: lammā raḥima [sic pro raḥimati] l-ālihatu ǧinsa l-bašari min aǧli annahū maṭbūʿun ʿalā l-taʿabi hayyaʾū lahum aʿyādan li-l-ālihati wa-li-l-sakīnāti wa-li-ʾf-w-l-l-n mudabbiri l-sakīnāti wa-li-d-y-w-n-w-s-y-s māniḥi l-bašari l-ḫamrata dawāʾan lahum min ʿufūṣati l-šayḫūḫati li-yaʿūdū fityānan bi-l-duhūli ʿani l-kābati wa-ntiqāli ḫulqi l-nafsi [wa-yantaqila ḫulqu l-nafsi perhaps to be read] mina l-šiddati ilā l-salāmati [al-salāsati probably to be read].The Athenian said in the second book of the work [sc. the Laws]: The gods, taking pity on the human race since it was born for toil, established for them feast-days (dedicated) to the gods and to the Muses and to Apollo, overseer of the Muses, and to Dionysus, who gave human beings wine as a remedy for them against the bitterness of old age, so that they might be rejuvenated by forgetting sorrow and (by) the character of the soul changing [and (so that) the character of the soul might change perhaps to be read] from severity into soundness [into tractability probably to be read].The source of the latter part of the passage, that is, the description of Dionysus’ gift and its effect (māniḥi l-bašari…l-salāmati), has until now remained unidentified. In the notes to his translation, Sachau, followed by Gabrieli, correctly identified part of Leg. 653c–d (θεοὶ … ἔδοσαν) as the origin of much of the passage (see n. 4). No previous scholarship, however, has noted that the latter part translates a passage in Leg. 666b–c (τοῖς ἀνθρώποις … τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς ἦθος), here joined to the earlier passage (presumably by Bīrūnī’s source, that is, most likely Galen) on the hinge of their shared mention of Dionysus.

Make sure your fax machine is turned on and full of paper when you leave your office Wednesday night, read an advisory to more than 125 major medical centers... ... Fax machines around the country whirred into action as U.S. News and World Report notified the winners of its annual rankings of the best hospitals. That same morning, about 100 reporters and editors received bulging press packets touting the winners. U.S. News's 6-year-old Consumer guide to hospitals has become the hottest marketing tool in the health-care industry, a public-relations gold mine for the winning medical centers. The magazine wins, too, because the "Best Hospitals" issue generally sells slightly better than the average U.S. News and leads to a booming business selling reprints to winning hospitals. But the rankings—which this year include 128 hospitals in 16 specialties—are also coming under fire. Officials at two major hospitals, University Hospitals of Cleveland and Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, say the list is little more than a popularity contest because the methodology is flawed.

In the world of work at large, domestic workplace constitutes an altogether different space for hitherto labour jurisprudence and more so in the given age of liberalization-privatization-globalization worldwide. The way workforce used to get together at workplace and thereby unionized to form trade union in factory, mine, plantation and other establishments cannot take place anyway in case of domestic workplace. No wonder that the same attracts attention of relevant stakeholders on several counts, for example, labour on the one side and management on the other side. The author explores peculiarity of such workplace, issues involved therein along with means and methods to address major hurdles for management and labour studies to grapple with one among the least explored workplaces of the world. The forthcoming paragraphs are meant to grapple with relative (read comparative) vulnerability for members of the workforce inside a space otherwise meant for private individual use, albeit with the potential for abuse to gross detriment of the workforce and, at times, of the management as well. With recent focus of the International Labour Organization (ILO), the labour wing of the UN administration and one among the oldest institutions meant for global governance since the League of Nations regime, a unique trajectory of labour jurisprudence is on its wise to save stakeholders of the workplace from drudgery, if not vagary, of injustice with impunity. The hitherto private space is thereby increasingly converted to public space during its working hours in technical sense of the term and thereby subjected to the rule of law genre available elsewhere outside.

BackgroundThousands of people living in close proximity to gold mine waste dumps (GMWDs), are exposed to wind-swept, silica-rich dust. The effects on respiratory heath consequent on this exposure are largely unknown.ObjectiveTo examine associations between environmental GMWD dust exposure and respiratory health effects in adults.MethodsThis was a cross-sectional study of 93, 133 and 84 people in high (home <500 m from GMWD), moderate (500 m-1km) and low (>20 km) exposure groups respectively. We calculated a cumulative exposure index (CEI) based on exposure groups and years of residence. Participants were interviewed for respiratory symptoms, had chest X-rays (read by three experienced readers for tuberculosis and silicosis) and spirometry. We used multivariate logistic regression to examine the effect of dust exposure on respiratory health, and multiple linear regression to determine if CEI was associated with% predicted FEV1 and FVC. We adjusted for socioeconomic status, smoking and occupational and biomass fuel exposure.ResultsBeing in the high exposure group versus the low was associated with elevated adjusted odds ratios (aORs) for upper respiratory (aOR: 2.76, 95% CI: 1.28–5.97) and ocular symptoms (aOR: 4.68; 95% CI: 1.87–11.68), chest wheezing (aOR: 3.78; 95% CI: 1.60–8.96) and spirometry-diagnosed COPD (aOR: 8.17; 95% CI: 1.01–65.85). We found similar associations for the high versus medium exposure groups, but no significant associations in the medium relative to the low group. Exposure had no significant effect on the risks of chronic bronchitis and tuberculosis. We found similar significant results for CEI as for the exposure groups analyses. On linear regression, CEI was not associated with% predicted FEV1, but, surprisingly, FVC was positively associated with CEI. No participant had radiological features of silicosis.ConclusionResidents residing <500 m from GMWDs had elevated aORs for respiratory health effects. Both exposure measures (exposure groups and CEI) yielded similar results.

В статье представлены результаты исследований по влиянию различных сахаросодержащих компонентов, используемых для приготовления игристых вин, на их качество, в том числе типичные свойства. Показано, что практически все исследуемые опытные игристые вина, приготовленные с использованием различных сахаросодержащих компонентов виноградного происхождения, имели более высокую дегустационную оценку по сравнению с контролем (приготовленным с использованием тиражного ликёра). Установлено, что игристые вина, выработанные на основе недобродов, имели более высокие показатели пенистых свойств, лучшую насыщенность диоксидом углерода, высокое содержание общего и связанного диоксида углерода, более высокую массовую концентрацию фенольных веществ и интенсивность окраски. Красные игристые вина, приготовленные на основе недобродов, содержали меньшее количество альдегидов, по сравнению с контрольными образцами, приготовленными с использованием тиражного ликёра. Образцы игристых вин, приготовленные с использованием сусла виноградного концентрированного, имели более высокую массовую концентрацию титруемых кислот, что обусловлено концентрированием в процессе вакуумирования сусла не только сахаров, но и органических кислот и ряда других веществ экстракта. Использование ликёрного виноматериала при приготовлении красных игристых вин практически не изменяло массовую концентрацию фенольных веществ, но внесло новую гамму в букет и вкус игристого вина. Следует отметить, что каждый из исследуемых сахаросодержащих компонентов виноградного происхождения имеет свои преимущества и недостатки. И в зависимости от поставленных задач может применяться для приготовления высококачественных игристых вин.The effects of various sugar-containing components used in production of sparkings on their quality were studied. Practically all study sparkings manufactured with the use of various sugar-containing components of grape origin had higher tasting scores compared to controls where tirage liqueur was used. Sparklings manufactured from materials in which fermentation was not allowed to complete were superior in foaming properties and saturation with carbon dioxide, in addition to high levels of total and bound carbon dioxide, increased levels or phenolic substances, and a more intense color. Red sparkings from materials with incomplete fermentation had lower aldehyde levels in comparison to controls. Sparklings manufactured with the use of vacuum must were higher in titratable acidity since, besides sugars, vacuumization involves concentration of organic acids and other extract components. The use of liqueur wine material for manufacturing of red sparklings practically did not change the levels of phenolic components but added new aromas and flavours. Each of the study sugar-containing components of grape origin has advantages and disadvantages and can be used to manufacture quality sparklings with different tasks in mind.

During the processing of precious and base metal ores from the Baia Mare mining area, which contained Au, Ag, Cu, Pb and Zn, large amounts of flotation tailings resulted, which were deposited in the Bozânta tailings management facility, located between Săsar and Bozânta Mare villages, 4 km west of Baia Mare. Due to the presence of minerals containing metal sulphides (mainly pyrite), the acid rock drainage (ARD) has become very active, catalysed by iron- and sulphur-oxidizing bacteria, which naturally occur at these sites. Decreasing the surface of the pond as a result of evaporation, combined with the increase of the beach surface and the absence of any protection at the embankment ridge, led to the entrainment of the tailings by wind at considerable distances. They often end up in neighbouring settlements, especially in the two mentioned villages, as a result of prevailing winds from the NE-SW direction. The purpose of the research was to test the resistance of some plant species (Sinapis alba L. – white mustard; Trifolium pratense L. – red clover and Lolium perenne L. – ray grass) to the conditions generated by the tailings on the surface of the depot, in order to create a vegetation cover with a role in diminishing tailings discharges in the adjacent areas. There were tested the effects of the industrial eluate (acid mine water, pH 4.3), obtained from the tailings pond, over seed germination parameters: germination capacity (GC); germinative energy (GE) and relative seed germination (RG). The results of the tests pointed out that the least affected was white mustard: GC – 95.3%; the differences in the values obtained in the control samples and the GE test – 5.3%; the results for RG – 99.3%, confirm that the white mustard seeds were the least influenced by the industrial eluate, followed by ray grass and red clover. In the tests for plant growth on the tailings pond, 5 experimental variants were used: a) soil (S); b) flotation tailings (T); c) mixture of flotation tailings and soil (T+S); d) mixture of flotation tailings and organo-zeolitic material (T+OZ); e) mixture of flotation tailings, organo-zeolitic material and soil (T+OZ+S). It is recommended to use the T+OZ+S mixture on the pond surface and sowing with Sinapis alba and Trifolium pratense. For both species, double seed sowing is recommended.

The stakeholders in the atypical rangeland area of Uluyu-Kata Tjufa National Park in the Northern Territory are the Aboriginal owners, hundreds of thousands of tourists, and vulnerable desert wildlife species. Sustainable water resources and maintenance of the integrity of the unique geological, ecological and cultural environment at Uluyu are major issues being addressed by the trustees of the Park. The Dune Plains area between Uluyu (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjula (the Olgas) is the setting for a deep palaeovalley. The flat, dune-covered landscape of the present-day Dune Plains area provides no indication of the existence of the underlying palaeovalley. Integrated datasets including aeromagnetic and airborne gamma-ray spectrometric imagery, processed Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery, a digital elevation model, and water-bore logs, have enabled reconstruction of the Dune Plains palaeoriver valley. The datasets reveal a heterogeneous basement topography of domes and basins with 100 m of vertical relief (a buried 'mini-Kata Tjuia') at depth beneath the Dune Plains area, between the rock monoliths. The ancient valley became completely infilled with lake, river and wind-borne sediments during the Tertiary and Quaternary. Major faults traversing the basement beneath the area influenced early erosion and valley initiation. The palaeovalley was originally a closed valley which later evolved to a through-flowing river that fed Lake Amadeus to the north. The Dune Plains palaeovalley is now the setting for a compound bedrock- Cainozoic-sediment aquifer system which is the major source of water supply for the inhabitants and tourists of Uluyu-Kata Tjufa National Park. Major landscape units making up the Uluyu area include groundwater calcrete, sheetwash slopes of red earth, sandplains and dunefields, and modern ephemeral alluvial braidplains that are constrained to corridors afforded by swale networks. The sheetwash unit forms gently sloping aprons around outcrops and supports banded mulga shrubland. During rainfall, surface run-off acts as a 'sheetflow recharge mechanism'. This mechanism maximises water conservation allowing survival of the mulga groves and associated ecosystems. During major rainfall events, the sheetflow processes augment replenishment of the aquifer system at the base of the slopes. The palaeodrainage configuration and hydrodynamics of both the surface environment and the subsurface aquifer system are complex. The methodology used to reconstruct the Dune Plains palaeodrainage and associated aquifer system, and the hydrodynamic processes described for the Uluru area are applicable to widespread rangeland areas elsewhere across the continent. Keywords: Uluyu, Kata Tjula, Dune Plains, palaeovalley, palaeodrainage, hydrology, groundwater, aquifer, sheetwash, red earths, calcrete, hydrodynamics, mulga (Acacia aneura), run-off, run-on, recharge.

The flavonoids present in red wine were responsible this low cardiovascular mortality rate. Epidemiologic studies further suggest that dietary flavonoids are useful to control and protect the CHD. The flavonoids are yellow color substance (pigments) and the name given on the basis of Latin term Flavus which means yellow color. Flavonoids are derivatives of benzo-pyrone. Banzopyrone is a group of heterocyclic aromatic oxygen containing compounds. Finely powdered zinc chloride (8.25) was dissolved in glacial acetic acid (18ml) by heating on sand bath then dry resorcinol (appx.5.5 gm) was added with continuous stirring to the mixture at 1400C. Antioxidant Screening by hydrogen peroxide scavenging assays. Hydrogen peroxide solution (40 mini moles) was prepared with standard phosphate buffer of pH 7.4. Different concentration of the compound stock solution and 4ml distilled water was added to 0.6 ml of hydrogen peroxide solution. UV absorbance was determined at the wavelength of 230 nm after 10 min with a blank solution containing phosphate buffer without H2O2. Take 4 ml different concentration of sample solution and 1ml sodium nitroprusside solution, added and incubated for 2.5 hrs at 370C. After incubation baseline was taken with methanol and 1ml sodium nitroprusside solution as blank solution. Griess reagent and methanol was added immediately before recording of readings. The readings were recorded at 546nm wavelenth. In the series of synthesized and evaluated compounds of Flavanoid electron withdrawing group at position four shows good activity. 2,3-dihydroflavan-3-ol derivatives showed lower activity than that of 3- hydroxyflavone derivatives. The 4-oxo (keto double bond at position 4 of the C ring), especially in association with the J2-J3 double bond, increases scavenger activity by delocalizing electrons, 3-hydroxy group on the C ring generates an extremely active scavenger; the combination of J2-J3 double bond,3-hydroxy group and 4-oxo group appears to be the best combination for potent antioxidant activity. Keywords: Flavonoids, Antioxidant activity, Hydrogen peroxide scavenging, free radicals

First appearing in unofficial records during the Later Han period in China, Women’s Chivalry became a frequent topic of literature in the Tang Dynasty and fictions such as Hongsun and Sugeunrang garnered popularity. Later in the Ming Dynasty, illustrations were inspired by literature with women as protagonists based on the success of a variety of plays and novels, also resulting in artists producing paintings on Women’s Chivalry. Meanwhile in Joseon, as a result of two wars, chivalry was an emerging interest in literature, drawing attention to novels and paintings on Women’s Chivalry as well. Introduced in the Goryeo Dynasty, Chinese novels on Women’s Chivalry became widely popular and read and in the 17th century, and paintings on Women’s Chivalry such as Guyoung’s Yuhyupdo and Maeng Youngkwang’s Paegummiindo were circulated and appreciated among writers. In Korea, Women's Chivalry became a frequent topic of painting during the Late Joseon Dynasty with the main character of the Tang Dynasty’s novel Hongsun as a prominent inspiration. The reason for this prominence of Hongsun appears to be a combination of factors, including the impact of Chinese literature, the impact of artists such as Guyoung and Maeng Youngkwang and their paintings of Women’s Chivalry, and the association with naksindo paintings. Iconically, images reminiscent of sword dance were drawn with a beautiful woman holding a sword with her robe fluttering in the wind. Paintings of Women’s Chivalry in the Late Joseon Dynasty can be represented by eight paintings; iconically, the paintings can be classified into Maeng Youngkwang’s (孟永光, 1590-1648) style and Yunduseo’s (尹斗緖, 1668-1715) style. In Mangyunggwang’s paintings, the women produce a static atmosphere as she stands or sits gazing at somewhere, while in Yunduseo’s paintings, the paintings have a strong dynamic image as women are shown flying in the air motivated by a scene from a novel.

Peter Handke is one of the most widely read and interpreted German-language authors in the world, and his literary influence, alongside that of Thomas Bernhard, has spread to Quebec, leaving its mark on an entire generation of writers. The writer’s debut novel The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty Kick and the play The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez inspired the works of Wim Wenders, an important representative of the New German Cinema movement – with whom he cosigned the scenarios of The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty Kick and Wings of Desire. This is not a surprise given the influence that the (French) New Novel, to which the New Wave of French cinema also owes a lot, had on Handke. This article contains a comparative study of the play Till Day You Do Part, or A Question of Light, considered as a “sequel” that Handke gives to Beckett’s play Krapp’s Last Tape; these two plays were performed together, under the direction of Christophe Perton at the Théâtre de la Ville de Valence in 2008, and by Jossi Wieler at the Salzburg Festival in 2009. Forming a “diptych” of monologues with its hypotext, Handke’s hypertext gives the voice to one of his female characters, a love of youth that Krapp abandoned in the name of a work to come, while his opus magnum turned into a failure. The play Till Day You Do Part is also permeated with intertextual echoes, in which a deep knowledge of Beck- ett’s work can be discerned, as well as the finesse of mind necessary to perceive his most subtle qualities. By focusing on examining the meaning of the Handkean literary experience, our comparative analysis will take into account the French and English versions of the two plays.

The object once known as the Burney Relief, and now renamed The Queen of the Night (hereinafter referred to as the Queen) is a mould-made plaque of straw-tempered clay (Fig. 1). Integral with the rectangular background (49.5 × 37 cm) is a nude figure who wears the horned headdress of a Mesopotamian goddess, has lowered wings, dewclaws and bird's talons, holds the divine rod-and-ring symbol in each hand, stands on the backs of two addorsed lions, and is flanked by large owls. Traces of black, red and white paint survive. Since it was first published in the Illustrated London News on 13 June 1936, the plaque has been hailed as a masterpiece of ancient Mesopotamian art generally dated to the Old Babylonian period and, more specifically, to the age of Hammurabi (reigned 1792–1750 BC according to the Middle Chronology). After more than seven decades in private ownership, the plaque finally came into the public domain when, in 2003, the British Museum celebrated its 250th anniversary with the acquisition of this iconic work.One would expect such a unique piece to have its detractors, and in 1936–7 Dietrich Opitz published an article in which he raised doubts about its authenticity, although Van Buren, in her article appended to his (1936–7), came out in favour of the plaque. Then “a seminal article by Henri Frankfort (1937–9)… caused Opitz (1937–9) to change his mind” (Curtis and Collon 1996: 91–2), and other major scholars have agreed with Frankfort, including Thorkild Jacobsen (1987).In 1970, Pauline Albenda published a short article that focused on two features of the plaque's iconography, namely the “ring and rod” (normally referred to as rod-and-ring) symbols held by the goddess, and the overlapping lions on which she stood. These led her to “conclude that the Burney relief is not genuine”. In 2005, she revived the debate in an article in the Journal of the American Oriental Society. I shall consider in turn the various points she raises (giving the relevant page numbers in brackets) and seek to demonstrate why I think her arguments to be flawed and why I am convinced that the Queen of the Night is a genuine work of the age of Hammurabi of Babylon.

In literature, magic realism presents real-world occurrences that combine elements of fantasy, magic, and dreams. Magic realism makes it difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction and infuses regular events and ordinary life with a dreamlike quality. Most frequently, the term “magic realism” refers to the literary subgenre made popular by Latin American authors like Ruben Dario and Jose Marti in the 1950s. Japanese author Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949, during Japan’s post-World War II era. His writings are influenced by many different cultures and traditions and frequently contain magic and fantasy. In his paintings, allusions to both Western society and Japanese tradition collide. Hear the Wind Sing was the title of his debut manuscript. In Kafka on the Shore, a fifteen-year-old boy named Kafka narrates his journey in the first person as he flees his family’s curse and his father, believing that his life is condemned, but memories and dreams follow him. The book also narrates the tale of an elderly man named Satoru Nakata, who becomes able to communicate with cats despite losing his ability to read and write. Their lives are lived in parallel, and their worlds collide with one another. Portals to different worlds open up, and mysterious events start to take place. Through the use of a mystical stone known as the “entrance stone,” the lives of these two individuals merge at the end of the narrative. Time, space, and reality are all blurred in Kafka on the Shore, a literary maze full of magic, fantasies, unsettling coincidences, and mind-bending images. The main objective of the article is to present Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore as a work of magic realism by analysing the features of magic realism that are employed in the book and how the plot develops with dream-like instances that blur the boundaries between reality and the world of dreams.

In May of 2006, approximately 10,000 cuttings of bottlebrushes (Callistemon cvs. Laevis, Hannah Ray, Kings Park Special, Masotti Mini Red, and Rose Opal with either C. viminalis (Soland. ex Gaertn.) Cheel. [excluded] or C. citrinus (Curtis) Skeels as one parent) grown in a nursery in eastern Sicily (Italy) exhibited severe disease symptoms including damping-off, leaf spots, and collar and root rot. Initially, the infections were detected on approximately 30% of the cuttings, but by late September 2006, 70% of the plants had symptoms. A Cylindrocladium sp. was consistently isolated from the diseased portions of plants onto potato dextrose agar. To determine the species, single-conidial isolates of the fungus were cultured on carnation leaf agar (CLA) for 7 days at 25°C with 12 h of light/dark conditions. Only the mycelia and spores growing on the carnation leaves were examined with a light microscope, and the isolates were identified as Cylindrocladium scoparium Morgan (teleomorph Calonectria morganii Crous, Alfenas & M.J. Wingf.) on the basis of their pyriform to broadly ellipsoidal terminal vesicles, conidiophore branching pattern, and conidia (1). In addition, the ability of the colonies to mate with South African tester strains of C. scoparium (2,3) confirmed the identification. Koch's postulates were fulfilled by inoculating 10 cuttings for each bottlebrush accession with a spore suspension (105 conidia per ml) of one isolate of the pathogen (DISTEF-GCs7) obtained from 14-day-old single-spore colonies grown on CLA at 24°C under fluorescent cool white lights with 12 h of light/dark. Following inoculation, all plants were maintained in plastic bags in a growth chamber at 25 ± 1°C and 90 to 95% relative humidity. The same number of cuttings was used as a control. Damping-off, crown root rot, and leaf spots symptoms identical to those observed in the nursery appeared within 5 to 20 days. No symptoms were detected on the control plants. C. scoparium was reisolated from the artificially infected tissues. The isolate, used in the pathogenicity proof, was deposited at the Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (Accession No. CBS 120930). The presence of C. scoparium was detected for the first time in Italy on mastic tree in 2005 (3). To our knowledge, this is the first report of C. scoparium on bottlebrush in Italy and it represents the first information about the susceptibility of these Callistemon cultivar accessions to the fungus and confirms the spread of the pathogen in Sicilian ornamental nurseries. References: (1) P. W. Crous. Taxonomy and Pathology of Cylindrocladium (Calonectria) and Allied Genera. The American Phytopathological Society, St. Paul MN, 2002. (2) P. W. Crous and M. J. Wingfield. Mycotaxon 51:341, 1994. (3) G. Polizzi et al. Plant Dis. 90:1110, 2006.

CONVERSATIONS WITH GALILEO: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts by William R. Shea. London, UK: Watkins Media, 2019. xi + 115 pages, including notes and further reading. Hardcover; $14.95. ISBN: 9781786782496. *Have you ever wanted to engage in an extended conversation with a famous person whose work and historical milieu you have studied carefully for many years? William R. Shea, one of the world's leading Galileo scholars, invites you to sit down, relax with a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, to engage in a conversation with Galileo. Conversations with Galileo: A Fictional Dialogue incorporates many of Galileo's own words taken from his works or letters. This slim book will allow you to experience how such a dialogue may have transpired. *Shea, a Canadian historian, was Galileo Professor of the History of Science at the University of Padua, Italy from 2003-2012, the very university where Galileo once taught. He has authored many books about Galileo and the Scientific Revolution. The latest, co-authored with Mariano Artigas, are Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius (2003) and Galileo Observed: Science and the Politics of Belief (2006). Conversations with Galileo is part of a series of books published by Watkins Media Ltd., offering conversations with luminaries such as JFK, Oscar Wilde, Casanova, Buddha, Charles Dickens and Isaac Newton. *First, a word about the format of Conversations with Galileo: A three-page introduction by Dava Sobel, author of Longitude (1995) and Galileo's Daughter (1999), is followed by a short (21-page) biography by Shea entitled "Galileo (1564-1642): His Life in Short." Then we are offered 13 chapters dealing with a vast range of topics. Each chapter then begins with Shea posing a leading personal question. These questions cover what, I suspect, most people would want to ask Galileo: questions about censorship, the earth as a planet, scientific failures, what do you take the Bible to say, relations with the Roman Catholic Church Congregation of the Holy Office, also known as the Roman Inquisition, and the Congregation of the Index, other church officials, and, perhaps a final question: what is your claim to fame? The Galileo I remember: the rebel, the seat-of-the-pants philosopher, the "heretic," the defender of the Copernican world-picture, and the creator of a "science of motion" (appearing in the last chapter, "His Claim to Fame") are all present. *So, what more would you want to ask? To me it was surprising to see what else Shea does in fact ask. There are conversations/chapters dealing with "Family Burdens," "Wine, Women and Song," "The Burdens of Teaching," "Moonlighting," "Mind your Horoscope," "The Plague," and "On Art and Literature." This is a Galileo with a human face, with human foibles, jealousies, amorous interests, financial pressures and responsibilities, work-load issues, social conventions, concerns about the plague and social distancing, and literary interests. These are subjects which are usually hidden or absent in many accounts of Galileo's exploits. For instance, we learn of Galileo the lutenist and of his musical family: his father Vincenzo, his brother Michelangelo (a court musician to the grand duke of Bavaria in Munich). We meet his children: his two daughters, Virginia and Livia, who both entered a convent, and his son Vincenzo who had no scientific interests. We also learn about Galileo's life as a student. At seventeen, Galileo attended the University of Pisa to study medicine and "natural philosophy" (science in our parlance). He attended lectures for four and one-half years without acquiring a degree (which was quite common at the time) but did develop his mathematical interests. These are only a few of the personal details in Galileo's life which Shea explores in this book. *All in all, this is a delightful and inviting book, carefully constructed, written in an engaging style, and easy to read. Don't let the poorly designed cover keep you from picking it up. This is a good read for anyone wanting to get a look behind the scenes and meet an illustrious natural philosopher as he lived his rich and complex life. *Reviewed by Arie Leegwater, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Calvin University, Grand Rapids, MI 49456.

<p>In this work, we designed and built a wearable device with battery-saving and alcohol-sensing functions. The motivation for this device was to deliver a proof-of-concept wearable and functional device which alerts the user of possible alcohol breath level above a threshold limit and can be worn for an extended time due to battery saving features. It was built using a combination of Arduino electronics and sensors, and encased in 3D-printed ABS bracelet. A 4-digit 7-segment LED display on board is used to display time which is tracked using a real-time clock module. A 3-axis accelerometer determines the orientation of the device and activates the display only when it is held in a specific orientation by the user. An example is when two axes are normal to the gravitational pull while a single axis is in line with gravity to simulate users raising their arm parallel to the ground. A slight tolerance in the setting ensures that the threshold for activation is not overly strict. This will ensure that the LED display is activated over a narrow range of orientations. The alcohol sensor is sensitive to alcohol content in the air. The threshold for detection can be changed and calibrated to the user specific needs. The alcohol sensor is slightly sensitive to humidity and very sensitive to alcohol. It has been tested with ethanol, wine and beer with 95%, 12.5% and 4.55% alcohol content, respectively. Because the alcohol sensor works by using a resistor that continuously pulls current and detects changes in resistivity due to adsorption of alcohol molecules, it consumes a lot of power when turned on continuously. In order to conserve power, the sensor can be activated only when the device is oriented in a specific position or when the user pushes a button. An Arduino Nano board is used to reduce the overall size of the device. It is powered using an external 5V battery via a mini-USB connector. In order to reduce the number of IO pins used, the RTC, LED and accelerometer were configured to use I2C interface connections. A default SCL clock speed of 100 kHz is used and the component IOs are connected to a common SDA line which terminates at one analog pin. In normal operation, the RTC is configured to read time continuously at one second interval. It is preprogramed with the correct date and time prior to operation of the device.</p>

Cylindrocladium scoparium Morg. (teleomorph Calonectria morganii Crous, Alfenas & M.J. Wingf.) was detected for the first time in Sicilian ornamental nurseries in 2005 and was responsible for damping-off and leaf spot of mastic tree seedlings (4). In Sicily, C. scoparium has caused extensive losses, and chemical control measures for the disease were necessary, especially in young plants. The benzimidazoles, including the thiophanates, which are transformed to benzimidazoles, are effective at relatively low doses for the inhibition of different species of Cylindrocladium (2). However, in a fungicide trial conducted in a Sicilian nursery on Callistemon cuttings infected by C. scoparium, thiophanate methyl was ineffective. Fourteen isolates of Cylindrocladium sp. were recovered on potato dextrose agar (PDA) from rotted crown and roots of Pistacia lentiscus L. and Callistemon cvs. Laevis, Hanna Ray, Masotti Mini Red, and Rose Opal and cultured on carnation leaf agar. Isolates were identified as C. scoparium based on pyriform-to-broadly ellipsoidal terminal vesicles, conidiophore branching pattern, morphology of conidia and perithecia, as well as their ability to mate with opposite mating types of South African C. scoparium and Italian C. pauciramosum isolates. Perithecia containing viable ascospores developed after approximately 2 months. Three representative isolates were deposited at Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (CBS120892, CBS119669, and CBS119670). Sensitivity to benzimidazole was determined by plating mycelial plugs on PDA amended with benomyl or carbendazim at 1, 10, 100, and 500 μg a.i./ml. Four plates were used for each fungicide concentration. Sensitivity was expressed as the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) (the lowest fungicide concentration that completely prevented fungal growth). Isolates that did not grow on benzimidazole-amended PDA were classed as sensitive. The experiment was repeated two times. Isolates were considered resistant to benzimidazole if MIC values were greater than 1 μg a.i./ml for benomyl and carbendazim. Of the 14 isolates tested, 13 were resistant to benzimidazole. The benomyl-resistant isolates were also resistant to carbendazim. Among the resistant isolates, five grew in the presence of 10 μg a.i./ml and one isolate grew at 100 μg a.i./ml. Widespread incidence of benzimidazole-resistant isolates in a population of C. pauciramosum was detected in Italy (3). Benzimidazole-resistant isolates of C. scoparium were previously detected in Brazil (1) where the constant use of benomyl in nurseries led to the selection of strains resistant to fungicide at nearly 1,000 μg a.i./ml. To our knowledge, this is the first report of benzimidazole-resistant isolates of C. scoparium in Europe. Because of the high incidence of benzimidazole-resistant isolates detected in our study, good fungicide resistance management practices should be followed. Appropriate cultural, biological, and chemical disease control methods should be combined and implemented to delay further changes in sensitivity of the pathogen. The exclusive use of benzimidazole fungicides in nursery for the control of Cylindrocladium spp. should be avoided. References: (1) A. Alfenas et al. ISPP. Chem. Contr. Newsl. 10:23, 1988. (2) P. W. Crous. Taxonomy and Pathology of Cylindrocladium (Calonectria) and Allied Genera. The American Phytopathological Society, St. Paul MN, 2002. (3) G. Polizzi and A. Vitale. Plant Dis. 85:1210, 2001. (4) G. Polizzi et al. Plant Dis. 90:1110, 2006.

The visit of Soliman Aga(1669) is the starting-point of the development of coffee culture in Paris. As the ambassador of Ottoman Empire, he was granted an audience with Louis XIV in Versailles. His task was to read the king’s thoughts : If my empire attacks Vienna, Louis will intervene in the war? But Soliman Aga did not accomplish his mission. He went and stayed in Paris for 10 months with more than two dozen attendants. During that time, in a Turkish room he served Turkish coffees very carefully to the ladies of Paris high society. Soliman Aga could infer information about Louis’s mind from their ongoing conversation in the room. Not long after that he left the city, Parisians fell deep into coffee drinking. One of the attendants of Soliman Aga, a person named Pascal, remained in Paris. With a large amount of coffee beans that his superior left, he started up coffee peddling in the Saint-Germain market and at the Quai de l’École. Pascal is a historical figure because of the relationship between Soliman Aga and the owner of Café Procope (Procopio), but innumerable and unidentified coffee peddlers of Levantine origins worked in the streets of European cities like London, Oxford, Paris etc. Pascal did not succeed in coffee business. He thought he could benefit from conducting his business in a market as people gathered there. But the temporary function of Saint-Germain market, like every market throughout France, was Pascal’s Achilles heel. His other business at Quai de l’École finally ended up getting no attention from Parisians. Nonetheless, Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli, an ex-employee of Pascal, returned to the Saint-Germain Market in order to sell coffee. He made money in that place and also obtained several licenses from the French government relevant to sale of coffee, tea, lemonade and alcoholic beverages. And he was planning new-concept coffeehouse that would far surpass Pascal’s peddling. Wide spaces, tapestried walls, chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, marble tables... he tried to make his Café Procope a center of brilliant social life. This coffeehouse was well located on the rue des Fossés-Saint-Germain, very close to the Théâtre-Français. The effect of people flocking to the theater was wonderful. Wealthy theater-goers, many famous actors, play writers became regular frequenters of that coffeehouse. It was critical factor directly connected to the success of Café Procope. If I may add one more thing, there is an extensive menu including tea, hot chocolate, wine, l’eau de cédrat, ices, sorbets, barvaroise etc. So, Café Procope was to be the first modern coffeehouse in Paris and would serve as a model to the Parisian coffeehouses that would follow in the years to come.(Daejin University)

Aim . To estimate the infl uence of contemporary climatic changes to the forming of the cereal crops productivity ( winter wheat and corn ) depending on the adaptive measures system ( fertilizer , cultivating , crop rotation type) in the agrocenoses of the Central Left - Bank Ukraine ’s Forest- Steppe. Methods . On the basis of long - term ( 35 -40 years ) investigations in the multifactor stationary fi eld experience, the dynamics of the cereal crops productiv- ity depending on cultivation , crop rotation type and fertilizer has been analyzed. The infl uence of meteorologica l indices on the nature of a trends’ temporal movement in the cereal crops productivity has been modeled . Results . The effective use of an excess heat resource is connected to the introduction of mineral and organic fertilizers sub- ject to different cultivation methods in various crop rotation type s. For the crop rotation with the perennial grass at treatment with 6 t / ha of manure and average dose of fertilizers, the productivity of winter wheat, independent of the cultivation method, was 4.69 t / ha , barley – 4. 54 t/ h a ; whereas du ring 20 01−201 0 due to rep lacement of man ure wit h sid e-li n e pro ducts – 4.21 and 3 .37 t/ha r e sp ectively, i.e. , less by 0. 48 and 1 .17 t/ha. T he p rodu ctivity of sp rin g barle y, as co mpa red to th e m anur e treatment period, has reduced in av erage by 0. 66 t/ha, o r by 23 .8 per cent; along side, it re mained highe st at th e d eep subsu rface loose ning of so il. Ret ur n from the a ppli ed ferti lizers prove d to be highe r by 12 3 p er c ent independent of the m etho d of tr eat ing the s oil. In fi ve- plot pea-i ncluding crop rotation the a vera ge produ ctivity of wi nte r wheat in 2 001− 2010 d ecre a sed by 1.0 9 t /ha, o r by 20 per c ent. The mo st c onsiderable reduct ion in the grain productivity has b een fi xed at bot h the su bsur face and su rfac e loosen ing of soi l. As f or the cr op r otation with t he pe renn ial grass, on t he contrary, a mo re c onsiderable drop i n the produc tiv- ity was at plo ugh ing (-0.59 t/ha). T he co rn p roductivity in the cr op r otation with t he pe renn ial grass grew a t var i- ous cultivation methods by 1.7 1 t /ha a v e ra ge, and in the pe a-in cluding crop rotation – by 1 .9 5 t /ha. C o nc lu sions. Exce ss heat r esource during 2001−2 013 in cond iti ons of the Left-Ba nk U k raine ’s Forest- S teppe z one ant icipa tes in raisi ng tempos the forecast scenario s of the c limatic change until 20 25 and need s t he intr oduc tion of the a daptive agricult ure system: the ap pl icat ion of diffe rin g-depth c u ltivat ing for the cher nozems with the prec ise following of the p ostharv est cultivat ion technological operatio ns in the s umm er-a utumn p eriod t ogether with the simu ltan eous basic au tumn t reatmen t with both organic and mine ral fertilizers, however, without the basi c d o se tre atmen t with the mineral fertilizers for spri ng c ultivat ion, and al so app lying of green -ma nured fallows in the s tru ctur e of plant ed areas. U nder th e cont empo rary conditio ns, the clim atic change, in par ti cular, an inc re ase in the t emperat ure in the c ent er p art of the L eft-Ban k Uk r aine’ s Forest-Steppe favorabl y affects an incre ase in the p roducti vity of the e xist- ing hybrids of corn, wh erea s the desc endi ng general trend ha s been observed during entire e xplorat ion period for the wint er w heat an d barl ey p roductivity because of an incre ase in the t emperat ure of air t o t he c rit ical values i n the p eri od o f earin g a nd grai n po uring. The ex c e ss h eat res ource is effectively used by the cont emp o rary middle- and of l ate- ri p enin g corn hybrids, for wh ic h th e cond itio ns of optim um soil and atmo sphe ric moist ure supply in the “win dbu r n” are created period of arden t a nd wint er e ar crop s. That contrib u tes to the g rowth o f thei r pr oducti vity.

Climate change induced sea-level rise (SLR) is on its increase globally. Regionally the lowlands of China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and islands of the Malaysian, Indonesian and Philippine archipelagos are among the world’s most threatened regions. Sea-level rise has major impacts on the ecosystems and society. It threatens coastal populations, economic activities, and fragile ecosystems as mangroves, coastal salt-marches and wetlands. This paper provides a summary of the current state of knowledge of sea level-rise and its effects on both human and natural ecosystems. The focus is on coastal urban areas and low lying deltas in South-East Asia and Vietnam, as one of the most threatened areas in the world. About 3 mm per year reflects the growing consensus on the average SLR worldwide. The trend speeds up during recent decades. The figures are subject to local, temporal and methodological variation. In Vietnam the average values of 3.3 mm per year during the 1993-2014 period are above the worldwide average. Although a basic conceptual understanding exists that the increasing global frequency of the strongest tropical cyclones is related with the increasing temperature and SLR, this relationship is insufficiently understood. Moreover the precise, complex environmental, economic, social, and health impacts are currently unclear. SLR, storms and changing precipitation patterns increase flood risks, in particular in urban areas. Part of the current scientific debate is on how urban agglomeration can be made more resilient to flood risks. Where originally mainly technical interventions dominated this discussion, it becomes increasingly clear that proactive special planning, flood defense, flood risk mitigation, flood preparation, and flood recovery are important, but costly instruments. 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This interview was conducted at the famous Lotus Clinic at Mumbai. Interview of Dr DD Tanna (DDT) was personally conducted by our Editor Dr Ashok Shyam (AK). It was an interesting two hours talk in late evening and we are presenting here the salient features of the interview. AK: First let me thank you for this interview. Let’s begin by asking about your family and where you grew up? DDT: I grew up in Kalbadevi area in Bombay in a typical Gujrati locality. I had four brothers so we were five of us together with my father and mother. At that time education was not something very popular in our family and when I graduated I was among the handful in 2 mile radius and when I completed post-graduation there were none in the entire area. The trend was that people used to go to college just for the stamp of collage and then join the father business. But I was a good student and so I did complete my studies AK: Tell us something more about your childhood? DDT: I had a very eventful childhood, we used to play many sports. I was very good at cricket and even at medical college I was captain of the cricket team. But along with cricket I played many local sports kho-kho, langadi, hoo-to-too, football, volleyball, swimming etc. Didn’t get chance to play hockey but I did play everything I came across. AK: I understand you have seen Mahatma Gandhi and heard him speak. Please share your remembrance of that? DDT: Once Gandhiji was holding a meeting in Bombay and my father said to me ”let’s go see Gandhiji”. I went with him and there was a huge crowd and I felt quite uncomfortable. I wanted to leave when my father said to me ‘why are you afraid of the crowd, these are all your fellow human beings, not cattle herd”. That statement touched me very much and till today, I am not afraid of any crowd. Understanding that all are my fellow human beings, took away my stage fright forever. I can speak my thoughts clearly and without fear and I can dance with the crowd with equal ease. I have seen Mahatma Gandhi at close distance and he appeared to be a very frail man. At first I wasn’t impressed, but then I realised that this frail man can have the huge crowd following him just because of his thought process. That understanding has helped me a lot in my life. AK: So why did you become a doctor, what was your inspiration? DDT: I was good in studies and in those days there were only two choices either to be an engineer or to be a doctor. I had decided that I would be an engineer with no doubt in my mind. One day one of my uncles, who happened to be an engineer, visited us. When asked I told him my intention to become an engineer, to which he replied ”In that case you have to take up a government job all your life”. In those days the only scope for an engineer was to be in government job, but the idea of being a enslaved for life by an organisation was something I couldn’t accept. My freedom was very dear to me and overnight I changed my decision and pledged to become a doctor. AK: How was your MBBS term? Why did you choose orthopaedic surgery? DDT: I was quite casual in MBBS and was more involved in sports. I got serious in last year to get good grades. Frankly speaking there were none who influenced me in the undergraduate college. After joining medicine developed a natural liking to surgery and always wanted to become a surgeon. Doing general surgery and then super specialisation for another two years seemed to be a long time. Orthopaedic surgery was a new branch at that time and offered direct super specialisation. And so I joined orthopaedic surgery. AK: What were your early influences in medical college? DDT: I wasn’t a very serious student in medical college. Possibly I became a bit serious in my last year of MBBS to score marks to get the branch of my choice. After MBBS and before joining post-graduation I had some spare time at hand which I utilise in reading. That period was a period of change I my life. I read authors like Bertrand Russel who had a major influence in my life. I read ‘Altas shrugged’, ‘We the Living’, and ‘Fountainhead’ and these three books had deep impact on me. I also read The Manusmrti’s specifically for their philosophical treatise and not the religious aspect. I still like to ponder on these philosophical aspects from time to time. By the time I joined as an orthopaedic registrar, I was a pretty serious person. In first 6 months of my orthopaedic residence I was fascinated with basics specially the histopathological aspect of orthopaedics. I read all about the histiocytes, the fibroblasts etc and even today I still think in these terms when I think about orthopaedics. AK: You joined the B Y L Nair Hospital, Mumbai in 1965. Tell us something about your life at Nair Hospital? DDT: Well in fact I passed my MS in 1965. I joined possibly in 1954 as a medical student. I was a student, house surgeon, lecturer, honorary surgeon all at Nair hospital. I was one of the youngest consultant as I became consultant at Nair hospital at age of 28, merely 8 months after passing MS exams. Possibly God was kind to me. Nair hospital was a decent place, but it became a force once Dr KV Chaubal joined Nair. Earlier KEM hospital had big name because of Dr Talwalkar and Dr Dholakia. I was lecturer when Dr Chaubal joined. He changed Nair hospital with his modern and dynamic approach. He gave me an individual unit within 3 years. Our rounds would be more than 4 hours in Nair hospital and had great academic discussions. AK: We have heard about a very famous incident when you operated Dr Chaubal? Do tell us something about that DDT: Well Dr Chaubal was suffering from a prolapsed disc and he had taken conservative management for some time with recurrent episodes. At one point we went ahead and got a myelogram done (no MRI in those days), and a huge disc was diagnosed. He called me the next day and asked to operate on him. I was 10 years his junior and moreover he was my boss and there were many more senior surgeons who were available. It came as a shock to me that he would chose me to operate on him [and of course it was an honor to be chosen]. Dr Laud and Dr Pradhan assisted me in operating him and it was big news at that time AK: You were pioneer in bringing C-arm to India? Tell us something about the C-arm Story? DDT: We used to do all surgeries under X ray guidance in those days, at the most we had 2 x-rays set together by Dr Talwalkar to get orthogonal views. I used to go to USA and they would do all surgeries under C-arm. I came back and contacted Mr Kantilal Gada who used to manufacture X ray machines. He agreed to try to make a C arm if I pay him one lakh rupees [in those days]. The condition was if he succeeded, he would give the c arm to me at no profit rate and if he failed my money would be lost. He did succeed and we had India’s first C-arm at my place. It helped me at many times in clinical practice. One specific incidence about an Arab patient who had a failed implant removal surgery previously and Icould remove the implant within 30 mins because I could clearly see the distal end of the nail entrapped. This patient was a friend of The Consulate General of UAE and since then I started getting lot of patients from there. So that was a wise investment I think. AK: You were specifically instrumental in developing trauma surgery in India. Why focus of Trauma Surgery? DDT: Dr Chaubal the first person to start trends in everything. At first we were spine surgeons as Dr Chaubal was very interested in spine surgery. Dr Bhojraj and Dr VT Ingalhalikar were our students. I was one of the first people to do total hip and total knee surgeries very soon after Dr Dholakia did it for the first time in India. But somehow I felt these surgeries did not hold much challenge. Trauma surgeries were challenging and each case was unique and different. So I decided to stick to trauma surgery for the sake of sheer joy of intellectual and technical challenges it offers. AK: A lot has happened in the field of Orthopaedic Trauma in and you are witness to these growth and development. What according to you are the important landmarks in History of trauma Surgery? DDT: Interlocking is the major change. I used to go to AAOS meeting every year where people were talking about interlocking when we were doing only plates. I decided to make an interlock nail by drilling holes in standard K nail. There was no C-arm in those days and surgeries were done on X rays. We got a compound fracture tibia and I made a set of drilled K nails for this patient as per his measurements. We successfully did the static locking using K nail in this patient. We slowly developed the instrumentation and jigs for it and developed commercially available instrument nail. Interlocking spread like wild fire and I was called as the Father of Interlocking Nail in India. AK: Your specific focus was on Intramedullary nailing and you have also designed the ‘Tanna Nail’ How did you think of designing the nail? Tell us about the process of designing the nail, the story behind it? DDT: Like said above, I developed the nail and instrument set with one Mr Daftari in Bombay. This was sold as ‘Tanna nail’ in Bombay. Slowly implant companies from other states also copied the design and started selling it as ‘Tanna NAIL’. I had no objections to it and I didn’t have a copyright anyway. Slowly I phased away the name as the design progressed and asked them to call it simply interlocking nails. AK: You are known for Innovation. Tell us something more about it? DDT: I specifically remember C-arm guided biopsy which I used successfully for tumor lesions. The same principle I used for drilling osteoid osteoma under CT guidance, which avoided an open surgery. There are many more technical tips and surgical techniques that I have been doing and some of them are listed in my book named ‘Orthopaedic Tit Bits’ AK: The last two decades have seen a tremendous increase in the choices of implants available in the market. Many of these implants were sold as the next “new thing”. Do you feel these new implants offer justifiable and definite advantage over the older ones? How should a trauma surgeon go about this maze of implants and choose the best for his patients? DDT: There is no easy way to do that, because most implants comes with a huge propaganda and body of relevant research. Many senior faculties will start talking about it and using it. For example, distal femur plates have now reported to have 30% non-union rate. Earlier I had myself been a strong supporter of distal femur plate but through my own experience I saw the complications. Now I feel the intramedullary nail is better than the distal femur plat in indicated fractures. Same with trochanteric plates or helical screws in proximal femur fracture. So we learn the hard facts over a period of time and by burning our own hands. But then you have to be progressive and balance your scepticism and enthusiasm. In my case the enthusiasm wins most of the time. AK: Share your views on role of Industry in dictating terms to trauma surgeons? DDT: I feel it’s very difficult to bypass the industry. Also because the industry is supported by orthopods. But again like I said we learn from our own errors and something that does not have substance will not last for long. For example clavicle plating, I supported clavicle plating for some time [and it felt correct at that time], but now I do not find wisdom in plating clavicle and so I have stopped. So I believe it’s a process of constant learning and also realising and accepting mistakes. Once I was a great proponent of posterolateral interbody fusion (PLIF) in spine but after few years of using it I realised the fallacy and I presented a paper in WIROC (Western India regional orthopaedic conference) titled ‘I am retracting PLIF’ and it was highly appreciated by the audience. AK: Tell us about your move toward joint replacement surgeries? DDT: I was one of the first one after Dr Dholakia to start joint replacement surgeries in India and I continue to do many joint surgeries. And of course ‘cream’ comes from joint replacement surgeries (laughs heartily) AK: You have been active in teaching and training for over 4 decades, how has the scene changes in terms of teaching methods and quality of surgeons undergoing training? DDT: Teaching is now become more and more spoon feeding and I think it is not real teaching. Even in meetings I enjoy the format where there is small number of faculty and case based discussion on practical tips and surgical technique. The 8 minute talk pattern is something I think is not very effective. Real teaching of orthopaedics cannot be done in classroom or in clinics. In clinics we can teach students to pass exams but not orthopaedics. Dr Chaubal always used to say that real orthopaedics is taught in practical patient management and in operation theatres. I tell my fellows that I wont teach much, but they have to observe and learn. In medical colleges there is no teaching at all, its almost died off. AK: What you feel is the ‘Way of Working’ of Dr Tanna that makes him a successful Orthopaedic Surgeon? Your Mantra? DDT: Always do academically correct things. Like I have been practicing 3 doses of antibiotics since last 20 years. I read a lot and then distil the academic points and follow them in practice. I get up at 4 am and read everyday. AK: What technical tips would you give for someone who has just embarked on his career as an Orthopaedic surgeon? DDT : I have given one oration which is also on you tube, you should listen to that. Anybody who becomes an orthopaedic surgeon is actually cream of humanity and are capable of doing anything. The only thing required is a strong will to excel and passion to succeed AK: I understand that you are a very positive person, but do you have any regrets, specifically related to orthopaedics. Something that you wished to do but couldn’t? DDT: Honestly nothing. Today when people ask me ‘How are you’ I say ‘can’t be better’. I couldn’t have asked for a better life AK: Any message you will like to share? DDT: I think passion to be best is essential. Even if one patient does not do well or if we do a mistake in a surgery, it causes huge distress and misery to us. We as doctor should be truthful to your patients. Between you and your patient there can’t be any malpractice. You should treat every patient as if you are doing it on your son or daughter. Always keep patient first AK: What degree or accolades would you like me to mention in your introduction? DDT: Nothing just plain MS Orth, I have no other degrees. In fact after my MS I attempted to give D orth exam. My boss at that time Dr Sant, said ‘are you crazy, after passing MS you want to give KG exam?’ He actually did not allow me to appear (laughs). Never felt like having any more degrees, degrees won’t take me ahead, its only my orthopaedic skill that will be take me ahead in life.

FAITH AND EVOLUTION: A Grace Filled Naturalism by Roger Haight. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2019. 241 pages. Paperback; $30.00. ISBN: 9781626983410. *Roger Haight is a Jesuit priest, theologian, and former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. He is the author of numerous books and has taught at Jesuit graduate schools of theology in several locations around the world. In 2004, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) barred Haight from teaching at the Jesuit Weston School of Theology in response to concerns about his book Jesus Symbol of God (1999). In 2009, the CDF barred him from writing on theology and forbade him to teach anywhere, including at non-Catholic institutions. In 2015, Haight was somewhat reinstated and when Faith and Evolution was published, he was Scholar in Residence at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He is regarded as a pioneering theologian who insists that theology must be done in dialogue with the postmodern world. His experiences with censorship have led to widespread debate over how to handle controversial ideas within the Roman Catholic church. *The main presupposition of this book is that Christian theology must be developed from the findings of contemporary science in general and from the process of evolution in particular. In chapter one, Haight briefly summarizes five principles about our world that can be drawn from science. These principles include the following: (1) our universe is unimaginably large; (2) everything exists as constantly dynamic motion and change; (3) everything in motion is governed by layers of law and systems conditioned by randomness; (4) life is marked by conflict, predatory violence, suffering, and death; and (5) science is constantly revealing new dimensions of the universe. *Haight seeks to explain how the disciplines of science and theology relate to each other in chapter two. He begins by summarizing the four positions proposed by Ian Barbour which include conflict, independence, intersection (dialogue), and integration. After presenting several differences between scientific knowledge and faith knowledge, he concludes by suggesting that the independence model is the one that best describes the practices of most scientists and theologians. Any integration between the two disciplines can occur only within the mind of a person who is able to see things from different points of view, and entertain them together. *The next two chapters deal with creation theology: chapter three focuses on what we can "know" about God, and chapter four describes how God acts in an evolutionary world. Several theological conceptions of God are summarized in chapter four. These include the following: God is pure act of being (Thomas Aquinas), God is ground of being (Paul Tillich), God is serendipitous creativity (Gordon Kaufman), God is incomprehensible mystery (Karl Rahner), and God is transcendent presence (Thomas O'Meara). This last definition of God is the one that Haight latches on to, and he mainly refers to God as "creative Presence" throughout the rest of the book. While acknowledging that God is personal, he emphasizes that God is not a "big person in the sky," but a mysterious and loving presence within all material reality. He insists that all anthropomorphic language about God needs to be discarded as it not only misrepresents scientific knowledge but also offends religious sensibility. God is the "within" of all that exists which emphasizes God's immanence, but God is also "totally other than" created reality, which allows for God's transcendence. Haight's understanding of God is basically a form of panentheism, a term that he introduces in chapter three and then revisits in later chapters of the book. *Chapter four, entitled "Creation as Grace," attempts to answer the question of how God acts in an evolutionary world. Haight states that "one can preserve all the assertions of tradition without the mystifying notions of a supernatural order or interventions into the natural order by following the path laid out by creation theology" (p. xi). His answer to the question of how God acts in history is to be found in the classic notion of creatio continua, God's ongoing dynamic presence within all finite reality. God does not act as a secondary cause but works as the primary agent present to and sustaining the created world. This concept of God as creative Presence is then compared to the scriptural understanding of God as "Spirit," which Haight concedes is the most applicable way of talking about how God works in history. A third way that God acts in the world is then developed from a brief history of the theology of grace. These three sets of theological languages that include God's ongoing creation, the working of the Holy Spirit, and the operation of God's grace in people's lives are, according to Haight, different ways of referring to the same entity. *Chapter five examines the doctrine of original sin in light of evolution. Haight argues that this doctrine in its classic form contains serious problems and therefore needs to be discarded. The Genesis account of Adam and Eve is nothing more than an etiological myth which has no historical basis. Consequently, "when original sin becomes unsteady, the whole doctrine of salvation in terms of redemption begins to wobble" (p. 121). Human beings have not "fallen" and, even though they retain the influences of past stages of evolution, they cannot be born sinful. While Haight admits that humans are sinners, the sins that we commit are nothing more than social sins derived from our participation in sinful institutions that are a part of our evolutionary heritage. It is these sinful social structures that are primarily responsible for corrupting our moral sensibility, rather than some innate propensity to sin. *The person of Jesus Christ and the doctrine of Christology are the subjects of chapters six and seven respectively. Haight introduces chapter six by contrasting the different ways of interpreting Jesus of Nazareth that are presented by Marcus Borg and N. T. Wright. He obviously sides with Borg's perspective as he suggests that one should think about Jesus as simply a "parable of God." Jesus was not an intervention of God in history, but a human representative of God who was "sustained from within by the Presence of the creator God in a way analogous to all creatures and especially human beings" (p. 202). While Haight admits that God was present within Jesus in a unique and more intense way, this same God can also be more powerfully present in others, making them in some measure true revelations of the divine Presence. Jesus provides salvation by "revealing God" and, although this particular revelation of God is meant for all humankind, it does not exclude the likelihood of similar kinds of revelation within other religious traditions. *The last chapter of the book, chapter eight, is a response to the question of what we can hope for in an evolutionary worldview. Haight discusses the following possibilities: faith in a creator-finisher God who injects purpose into the process of the universe, hope for a cosmic preservation of the value and integrity of being, hope for a restoration of meaning relative to innocent suffering, and hope for the preservation of the human person and personal resurrection. He describes resurrection as a passing out of materiality into the sphere of God that transcends the finite world, or in other words, eternal union with God. The resurrection of Jesus was not a historical event, but a spiritual conviction developed by his followers after his death. It was this "Easter experience" which became the basis for the written witness to the resurrection of Jesus that is recorded in the New Testament. In death, Jesus was "received into God's power of life; he did not cease to exist as a person, but lives within the sphere of God" (p. 179). Our hope for an analogous form of personal resurrection ultimately comes down to faith in a creator God who is the "lover and finisher of finite existence." *For whom then is this book written? As stated in the preface to the book, it is not written for scientists, as one will learn very little actual science from its pages. Haight writes that he is mainly addressing Christians who are affected by our present scientific culture and who do not know how to either process their Christian faith in this context or call it into question. However, most of those who fall into this category will likely have difficulty understanding the ideas that are presented in the book without some type of graduate-level training in theology. The book appears to be written primarily for like-minded theologians who are associated with the more liberal wing of the Roman Catholic church. (Many of the footnotes in the book cite publications written by fellow Catholic priests such as Teilhard de Chardin, John Haught, Hans Jung, Karl Rahner, Edward Schillebeeckx, and William Stoeger.) *While Haight's main purpose for writing this book is admirable, it is doubtful that many outside of academia will take the time and put in the effort that is needed to read it and actually understand it. Christians with more conservative, biblically based faith commitments should probably bypass it altogether, as there is very little, if any, orthodox Christianity that is upheld within its pages. *Reviewed by J. David Holland, Clinical Instructor, Department of Biology, University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, IL 62703.

Halfway into White Noise, Don DeLillo's novel from 1985, Jack Gladney packs his family in the car and leaves town running from a black chemical cloud. The “airborne toxic event” had triggered an emergency evacuation plan: floodlights from helicopters, sirens, unmarked cars from obscure agencies, clogged roads, makeshift shelters at a Boy Scout camp where the Red Cross would dispense juice and coffee. People are confused, they seek information wherever they can, “[s]mall crowds collected around certain men.” Among generalized bewilderment, Gladney observes a few individuals moving faster and more assertively than the rest, then getting into a Land Rover. In the chaotic scene of crisis, their confidence gets his attention. “Their bumper stickers read GUN CONTROL IS MIND CONTROL” Gladney reads. And his mind wanders: “In situations like this, you want to stick close to people in right-wing fringe groups. They've practiced staying alive.”

Wine is defined as the undistilled fermented beverages product made with different variety of fruits. About 10-15% of alcohol content is found in the wine with numerous bioactive compounds such as phenols, catechin, quercetin and gallic acid, flavonoids, and resveratrol. The presence of these antioxidants is associated with the lower risk of cardiovascular diseases, free radical formation, and hyperglycemia in human body. Resveratrol present in red wine has potential chemo preventive activity. Generally, wine is prepared with the help of yeast mediated fermentation of grapes. However, various other tropical fruits such as plum, jackfruit, palm and pineapple can also be used for the wine production. Various herbs such as basil, ginger, amla and aloe-vera can also be infused into the wine, to enhance its therapeutic value. Herb-induced wines, commonly called as restorative wines can be of great importance to human health. This review provides a overview of different types of wines, the medicinal potential of wine for human health, as well as the diverse fruits utilized in wine production.

AbstractRecent and future climate diagrams (surface air temperature, surface relative humidity, surface wind, and mean sea level pressure) for the Saudi Arabian Red Sea Coast are analysed based on hourly observations (2016–2020) and hourly ERA5 data (1979–2020) with daily GFDL mini-ensemble means (2006–2100). Moreover, GFDL mini-ensemble means are calculated based on the results of three GFDL simulations (GFDL-CM3, GFDL-ESM2M, and GFDL-ESM2G). Observation data are employed to describe the short-term current weather variability. However, ERA5 data are considered to study the long-term current weather variability after bias removal via a comparison to observations. Finally, a bias correction statistical model was developed by matching the cumulative distribution functions (CDFs) of corrected ERA5 and mini-ensemble mean data over 15 years (2006–2020). The obtained local statistic were used to statically downscale GFDL mini-ensemble means to study the future uncertainty in the atmospheric parameters studied. There occurred significant spatial variability across the study area, especially regarding the surface air temperature and relative humidity, based on monthly analysis of both observation and ERA5 data. Moreover, the results indicated that the ERA5 data suitably describe Tabuk, Jeddah and Jizan weather conditions with a marked spatial variability. The best performance of ERA5 surface air temperature and relative humidity (surface wind speed and sea level pressure) data was detected in Tabuk (Jeddah). These data for the Saudi Arabian Red Sea coast, 1979–2020, exhibit significant positive trends of the surface air temperature and surface wind speed and significant negative trends of the relative humidity and sea level pressure. The GFDL mini-ensemble mean projection result, up to 2100, contains a significant bias in the studied weather parameters. This is partly attributed to the coarse GFDL resolution (2° × 2°). After bias removal, the statistically downscaled simulations based on the GFDL mini-ensemble mean indicate that the climate in the study area will experience significant changes with a large range of uncertainty according to the considered scenario and regional variations.

AbstractNon‐enzymatic oxidation is a primary factor affecting wine quality during bottling or aging. Although red and white wines exhibit distinct responses to oxidation over time, the fundamental mechanisms driving this transformation remain remarkably uniform. Non‐enzymatic oxidation of wine commences with the intricate interplay between polyphenols and oxygen, orchestrating a delicate redox dance with iron and copper. Notably, copper emerges as an accelerant in this process. To safeguard wine integrity, sulfur dioxide (SO2) is routinely introduced to counteract the pernicious effects of oxidation by neutralizing hydrogen peroxide and quinone. In this comprehensive review, the initial stages of non‐enzymatic wine oxidation are examined. The pivotal roles played by polyphenols, oxygen, iron, copper, and SO2 in this complex oxidative process are systematically explored. Additionally, the effect of quinone formation on wine characteristics and the intricate dynamics governing oxygen availability are elucidated. The potential synergistic or additive effects of iron and copper are probed, and the precise balance between SO2 and oxygen is scrutinized. This review summarizes the mechanisms involved in the initial stages of non‐enzymatic oxidation of wine and anticipates the potential for further research.

Background and objectives Port-wine stains are defined as congenital benign vascular lesions. The treatment of port-wine stains remains a challenge, worldwide. This study aimed to analyze the histological characteristics in different types of port-wine stains and provide guidance for clinical decision-making. Methods and materials Biopsies were from the hospital from 2015 to 2021. H&E staining, Immunofluorescence staining, Masson’s trichrome staining and Weigert staining were performed on the tissues. Results A total of 35 port-wine stains patients were included in the study of four distinct types, namely red port-wine stains (11 cases), purple port-wine stains (seven cases), hypertrophic port-wine stains (nine cases) and nodular port-wine stains (eight cases). The mean vessel diameter of the different types was 38.7 ± 5.9 μm, 93.5 ± 9.7 μm, 155.6 ± 21.8 μm and 155.6 ± 29.54 μm, respectively. Mean vessel depth was 396.4 ± 31 μm, 944.2 ± 105.4 μm, 2,971 ± 161.3 μm and 3,594 ± 364.6 μm, respectively. The vessels in red port-wine stains, purple port-wine stains and hypertrophic port-wine stains were mainly composed of capillary and venous malformations, whereas those in nodular port-wine stains were venous or arteriovenous malformations. Limitation The main limitation of the current study was the small number of patients. Conclusion As the disease progresses, vessel diameters become larger, the vessel wall becomes thicker and vessels were found in a greater depth. A treatment plan should be scientifically formulated keeping in mind the histological characteristics of port-wine stains.

Thou Art Found Wanting 1. I have body slammed this living looking for its weak spot and I have found the ground; on the whole, it has been ungiving. Like Shakyamuni’s lotus sermon. How many selves have fallen as I come to know him? 2. He is sitting by a wall He cannot see the apple trees Or my skirt as it billows in the wind Or that my thighs are real His molecules are senseless And full of integrity Like the wife who won’t Palm a twenty 3. Desire or craving he says (he means to say thirst) is the cause of all suffering. (He is the one who wouldn’t remember me more: the one who let my face fall without shock like vapour from his mind.) 4. Some of us have bodies so spungious thin and delicate that we are fed only by sucking into some fine spirit liqueur that pierces like pure air and pine oil. 5. The man I love Is sitting by a wall. The wall is white. mine-mine He walked up to me like some kind of god’s dog yellow eyed and bald bellied he turned three full circles before he made his bed with me Always appeared after the hoarse call of the raven he could smell predator so he knew he’d met his match cras-cras And there he was his breast in my mouth I called him mine-mine my loose toothed coyote kissing mouth to mouth feeding swallowing his breath and the ghost he put in it He called me blood-swan drank from the river of my thighs weeping lunar red my moon madness streaked across his hide But he was the first to flee the burning stubble when the final sheaf was cut at harvest mine-mine I cried but he was gone his yellow eyes remembering some other rabid moment On Longing Will it ever end -- only From underneath I think Your hand reaching through The backyard cedar Scooping up koi Orange in the blackened pond The wind in your hair I could live as the tillandsia On air I think On the breath of a word No it will never -- Not even underneath Citation reference for this article MLA style: Bronwyn Lea. "Three Poems Touching on Desire." M/C Journal 2.5 (1999). [your date of access] <http://www.media-culture.org.au/9907/poems.php>. Chicago style: Bronwyn Lea, "Three Poems Touching on Desire," M/C Journal 2 no. 5 (1999), <http://www.media-culture.org.au/9907/poems.php> ([your date of access]). APA style: Bronwyn Lea. (1999) Three poems touching on desire. M/C Journal 2(5). <http://www.media-culture.org.au/9907/poems.html> ([your date of access]).

We demonstrate the knowledge-development power of the emerging science of Mind Genomics, doing so by a study of appeals to fund a wind-power project in Texas. The paper focuses on the method, analyses, results, and application of the findings, showing what can be learned and implemented with the easy-to-do and affordable, iterated studies offered by Mind Genomics. Two groups of respondents evaluated 24 vignettes, comprising different combinations of 16 messages about wind power opportunities and benefits for the State of Texas. The first group of 51 respondents evaluated vignettes about wind-power, rating the vignettes on regarding whether they understood the messages and would recommend what they read. The second group of 50 respondents estimated the unit price of a share of stock based upon the messages in the vignette. The analysis linked the ratings to the presence/absence of each message. Two new-to-the-world mind-sets emerged, those focusing on the benefits to Texas, and those focusing on what specific actions must be taken. The mind-sets suggest different ways that people have of dealing with information in which appeals are embedded. Study 2 reaffirmed these two mind-sets when economic judgments were substituted for opinions. The paper incorporates the PVI, the personal viewpoint identifier, a technology to assign a new person to one of these two mind-sets, thus expanding the scope of the research from a study of a single population to the possible identification of the mind-sets in the general population around the United States or even around the world.

Abstract Map graphics are often used for hazard risk communication, layered with numerical, verbal, and visual information to describe an uncertain threat. In the hurricane context, graphics are used to communicate the probability of different threats over a forecasting period. While hurricane graphics have been studied in the past, they have not been designed with colorblind-friendly accessibility and localization in mind. This study presents the results of a mixed methods study, testing the perceptions of different color schemes and map overlays on a wind exceedance map graphic with samples of experts (emergency managers and meteorologists) and the public. Nineteen experts from Florida and Louisiana were interviewed about their preferences for and risk perceptions of the design elements of the new wind exceedance graphic. The graphic prototypes were also tested using a public sample (n = 624) from Florida and Louisiana to study participants’ design preferences and risk perceptions. Both expert and public samples preferred a yellow-to-red scheme, though experts thought the yellow-to-red scheme presented the hazard as riskier and the public thought the reds-only scheme was riskier. Experts and the public preferred a map graphic with overlays; they scored a map graphic with overlays as riskier than a version without overlays. Understanding the connection between color scheme preference and risk perception for both experts and the public has important implications on risk communication as new graphics are designed. The conclusion of this study provides avenues for future research for experts who want to apply universal design aspects into hurricane graphics.