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New insights into the Manila clam – Perkinsus olseni interaction based on gene expression analysis of clam hemocytes and parasite trophozoites through in vitro challenges
No full textSupplementary Figure S1-5 and Tables S1-12 for manuscript entitled "New insights into the Manila clam – Perkinsus olseni interaction based on gene expression analysis of clam hemocytes and parasite trophozoites through in vitro challenges" by Hasanuzzaman A.F.M., Cao A., Ronza P., Fernández-Boo S., Rubiolo J.A., Robledo D., Gómez-Tato A., Álvarez-Dios J.A., Pardo B.G., Villalba A., Martínez P
Chapter 14: MD Anderson Publications and Publication Ethics
No full textDr. Goepfert has served on a number of editorial boards and is keenly interested in the educational dissemination of information critical to cancer research. In this section he talks about some of MD Anderson’s publications and also addresses some controversies with publication. He first raises the ethical issue of how authorship is assigned to a manuscript going out for publication. Today there are guidelines for assigning authorship, but twenty years ago, he explains, some department chairs at MD Anderson reviewed all manuscripts going for publication and insisted on being listed as first author of an article, whether they made any contribution to the research or not. Dr. Goepfert contrasts his own practice of putting his name on a paper only if he has contributed. Dr. Goepfert then shifts subjects and describes several MD Anderson educational publications, beginning with Cancer Bulletin, distributed free to all physicians across Texas.https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/2010/thumbnail.jp
Energy, exergy, and environmental analysis for energy intensive industrial equipment in Malaysia / Md. Hasanuzzaman
Get PDFWorldwide, industrial sector accounts for about 35% of the total energy used. In Malaysia, 48% of total energy is used in this sector. Boilers, furnaces and electric motors are the energy intensive equipment of almost every industry and consume a significant amount of energy. The aim of the thesis is analyze the utilization of energy and exergy, energy saving and emission reduction for the energy intensive industrial equipment. In this study, the useful concept of energy and exergy is analyzed to investigate the energy and exergy efficiencies, energy and exergy losses in boilers, furnaces, heat exchangers and economizer. Energy use, energy and bill savings, payback periods and emission reduction of different energy saving options (i.e. economizer, variable speed drive) for boilers, furnaces, and electric motors were analyzed and presented in this thesis.
From the comparative analysis, it is found that the average energy efficiency of the boilers is 68.7%. It is also found that average exergy efficiency of the boilers is 22%. The average energy efficiency of furnaces found to be 30%. The average exergy efficiency of the furnaces has been calculated and found to be 19%. The major exergy destruction was found in the combustion chamber (55%) of the boilers and annealing chamber (62%) of the furnaces. Energy effectiveness of counter flow heat exchangers has been investigated and found to be 65% where the exergy effectiveness found to be 59%. By applying a heat recovery system, about 10% of the boilers and 30% of the furnaces energy can be saved with payback periods less than 1 year in the most cases. The energy effectiveness of economizer varied from 66% to 73%. Exergy effectiveness also calculated and found to be varied from 47% to 65%. It has been estimated that annually 67,868 MWh energy and 4,343,531 US, 57,650,496 US, respectively. Emissions could be reduced by 836,831 tons of CO2, 6217 tons of SO2 and 2285 tons of NOx by motor speed reduction of 60%. By improving the power factor near unity, about 10% of energy can be saved in the Malaysian industrial sector.
Based on the results, it is found that a sizable amount of energy can be saved by applying different energy savings measures and sizable amount of emissions can be reduced with reasonable payback periods
Drought and heat stress in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.): Consequences and their possible mitigation strategies
No full textDrought and heat are the most important abiotic stresses that adversely affectphenology, growth, fiber yield, as well as the quality of cotton across the world. The problem will become more severe in future climate change scenarios because of the frequent occurrence of high temperatures and water shortage. Development of high yielding cotton genotypes, resistant to drought and heat stress, is one of the most important priorities of cotton breeders. Therefore, it is important to evaluate the genotypic performance for heat and drought stress and also important to understand the physiological, biochemical responses to stresses as well as the agronomic performance of the genotypes under stress conditions. The correlation between yield and physiological as well as biochemical (nonenzymatic antioxidants and enzymatic antioxidants) responses of cotton under heat and drought stress conditions is also the most important factor to develop the efficient genotypes that are possible to grow. Whereas, screening of cotton genotypes under heat and drought stress is one of the essential protocols that can be used to select a large number of population within the shortest period. This approach can be used to differentiate the agronomical, physiological, and biochemical attributes of cotton genotypes contrasting for drought and heat stress tolerance. The present review tried to highlight the management strategies that could be useful to mitigate the drought and heat stress by using antioxidant, phytohormone, nutrient management, and other appropriate management strategies for maximizing cotton yield. While, among the compatible antioxidants, exogenous application of proline or glycine betaine is a good option to improve drought and heat tolerance in cotton. Therefore, foliar application of antioxidants in combination with soil-applied organic fertilizers is very effective for reducing the negative effect of drought and heat stress and to increase productivity.Fil: EL Sabagh, Ayman. Kafrelshe University. Faculty of Agriculture; EgiptoFil: Hossain, Akbar. Bangladesh Wheat And Maize Research; BangladeshFil: Islam, Md. Sohidul. Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute; BangladeshFil: Barutcular, Celaleddin. Cukuro University. Faculty Of Agriculture; TurquíaFil: Ratnasekera, Disna. University Of Ruhuna Matara; Sri LankaFil: Amanet, Khizer. Comsats Institute Of Information Technology Vehari; PakistánFil: Fahad, Shah. University Of Swabikhyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan; PakistánFil: Tariq, Muhammad. Central Cotton Research Institute Multan; PakistánFil: Llanes, Analia Susana. Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto. Facultad de Cs.exactas Fisicoquimicas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Agrobiotecnologicas. - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Centro Cientifico Tecnologico Conicet - Cordoba. Instituto de Investigaciones Agrobiotecnologicas.; ArgentinaFil: Saneoka, Hirofumi. University Kagawa; JapónFil: Erman, Murat. University Of Agriculture; PakistánFil: Hasanuzzaman, Mirza. Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University; Banglades
Energy economics
No full textEnergy economics is a branch of applied economics, and this chapter introduces the basics of energy economics and its principles. It provides a general understanding of the different costs and business models being used in the implementation of energy sector projects. Moreover, energy economics deals with the time value of money—i.e., the potential earning capacity of money after adjusting for interest over time. Different methods to calculate the rate of interest are discussed here in detail. This chapter focuses on the general aspects of energy economics, and its intended impact is not country-specific. Rather, it focuses on the specific design, implementation, project management, financing, and monitoring features of business models and investments. Readers also learn about distributed energy resources in detail. This chapter addresses the barriers to implementing renewable energy to meet the energy needs of the vast population in developing nations. A framework and key barriers are defined here for identifying these barriers
Promise - Spring 2020
Get PDFRogers Award honors MD Anderson nursing assistant MD Anderson awards highest nursing honor Low-grade serous ovarian cancer survivor establishes research nonprofit Celebrity Chef Cooking Demo makes young cancer patients sous-chefs for a day Bob’s Encore: hope in the fight against pancreatic cancer Board of Visitors welcomes seven new members Board of Visitors awards highest distinction to longtime member A Conversation with a Living Legend raises 2 million for cancer research, education and prevention Get to know Advance Team’s Laura Nelson Cookbook author leaves her mark on gastric cancer researchhttps://openworks.mdanderson.org/promise/1001/thumbnail.jp
Chapter 09: Creating a New Way of Conducting Research and Caring for Patients in a Changing Environment
No full textIn this chapter, Dr. Dmitrovsky provides an overview of how MD Anderson must operate in the new environment of research and healthcare economics. He begins by explaining that scientific endeavors traditionally rely on decisive discoveries by individual investigators that also reveal opportunities to development treatments. Today, he says, this process moves ahead via team- and interdisciplinary science, and the institution must educate the next generations of researchers in this way of conducting research. At the same time, MD Anderson must operate in a context of a flat NIH budget while responding to the new economics of the Affordable Care Act. Next, he notes that MD Anderson is supporting the education of the next generation by making investments in junior faculty with the R. Lee Clark Fellowship Program. He explains the award (juried by experts outside of MD Anderson). Next Dr. Dmitrovsky notes that reductions are being made to the length and complexity of informed consent forms so faculty can spend less time on paperwork and more time for their primary activities. He then speaks briefly about faculty recruitment and retention efforts. Then Dr. Dmitrovsky talks about strategies used to encourage interdisciplinary investigation. He speaks in detail about finding ways to provide team members with proper recognition for their contributions (when contribution is traditionally measured by first or last author status) and linking credit to faculty promotion. He also talks about empowering team members to initiate investigations and provides some examples.https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/1641/thumbnail.jp
Chapter 09: Strengthening Biomedical Editing Nationwide and Within MD Anderson
No full textIn this Chapter, first briefly notes his involvement with the Southwest Chapter of the American Medical Writer’s Association and the Council of Biology Editors (with a 22-year membership). He then explains that he had his biggest impact while he served on the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences and in the late 80s worked on the Editorial Certification Examination Development Committee. He describes the examination he helped create to certify competence for editors of biomedical articles and explains the significance of certification. He notes that the Department of Scientific Publications at MD Anderson uses its own battery of tests to evaluate editors’ abilities for abstract reasoning, grammar, and other skills and talents.
Next, Mr. Pagel talks about his Department’s blog, “The Write Stuff,” and two significant projects: his role on the Historical Resources Center Steering Committee, and the development of panel discussions for the Department of Scientific Publications. To begin the discussion of the Steering Committee, he notes that Scientific Publications wrote The First Twenty Years, the first history of MD Anderson. Because of this association with the institution’s history, Mr. Pagel was asked to be part of the Steering Committee when the Historical Resources Center was formed and set as its first goal the publication of an updated institutional history. Mr. Pagel wanted the perspective to be broader than the first book, situating MD Anderson and cancer research in a larger context of other cancer institutions and the history of cancer research. Though not alone in holding this view, he says he had something to do with articulating it for the benefit of the Steering Committee. He describes how James Olsen was selected to be the author and notes other Steering Committee activities.https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/2275/thumbnail.jp
E. Harold Shryock, MD
No full textA teacher of the ages, administrator, author, lecturer, ambidextrous artist, trick cyclist, Chair of the Department of Anatomy, and Dean of the School of Medicine of Loma Linda University.All descriptions are taken verbatim from: Portraits of Honored Faculty by S. Wesley Kime, MD. Editor Raymond Herber, MD. (Loma Linda, Calif.: Alumni Association of School of Medicine of Loma Linda University, 2005) and are thus not up-to-date as to positions held or contributions made to Loma Linda University Health
Chapter 09: Reflections on Dr. Clifton Mountain and Data Collection Roles at MD Anderson
No full textMrs. Hermes begins this chapter with memories of how much she enjoyed working for Dr. Mountain over the course of 25 years. He taught her how to think about data, she explains, and she was listed as an author on a number of publications on lung cancer [see examples below]. She explains that Dr. Mountain left MD Anderson in 1993, but she continued to work freelance for him. She recalls that he set up the first conference on mathematics at MD Anderson, early in his career sometime in the sixties.
Next she comments on how the unique openness of Houston culture fit well with the bold visions that both R. Lee Clark and Eleanor MacDonald held for oncology. She says that her most important work was on Dr. Mountain’s staging system for lung cancer and she explains why staging the disease presented challenges.
She confirms that she was always interested in the implications of basic research for clinical findings. She credits Eleanor MacDonald for helping her to develop her curiosity and questioning style.https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/2036/thumbnail.jp
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