276 research outputs found
Famous Malaysian Indians web portal / Jasvinder Kaur Chima Sarandar Singh
Full text linkThe Famous Malaysian Indians web portal is a system created to serve as an informative repository of valuable information. This site would be able to be viewed by anyone who is interested to know about the famous Indian personalities who have achieved fame in fields like sports, law, arts, business, health and politics.
This web portal will be incorporated with features like the search engine, voting poll and feedback section. The search engine would prove to be useful for target users like teachers and students. The users would be able to view information about the famous personalities, their pictures, quotable quotes, interviews and articles. The
feedback section will enable users to submit their feedback via the feedback form. The voting poll will be useful for the administrators to know how the users judge
the web portal so that better service could be provided in future. The development of this site is divided into two main modules which is the user module and the administrator module. The administrator module consists of all the features in the user module but with extra capabilities. They have the authority to add or edit information since they have a username and password. This ensures that the information here is reliable. Research for the literature review was done through the Internet, past thesis documentations and discussions with group members and seniors. Six different existing web sites which are related to the web portal were reviewed
The representation of arranged marriage in the novel daughters of shame by jasvinder Sanghera
No full textThe analysis is aimed at finding out the experience of some characters in the novel about arranged marriage and why the author of the novel describes about arranged marriage so terrible by analyzing the evidences from the narration in the novel. To get the meaning of arranged marriage the writer uses descriptive qualitative analysis as the method to analyze representation of arranged marriage and the ideology within it. In this analysis, the writer finds out that a main character, named Jasvinder Sanghera, and she is also the author of this novel. When she was fifteen, she was matched with a man she did not know. She refused that arranged marriage. Finally she was disowned by her family. Then she began a new life and worked at Karma Nirvana- a community based project that supports South Asian women affected by domestic violence and honour-based crimes. There are some characters in the novel who ask for Jasvinder to help them out from escaping the arranged marriage. Through representation theory, the author represents arranged marriage as a burden, a horrible thing and an unhappy marriage. The author has own interest to represent arranged marriage as terrible. That self-interest is called the ideology of the author
Difficulty in diagnosing physical damage to the airway tube of the ProSeal laryngeal mask airway
No full textResource Allocation in Coordinated and Un-coordinated Wireless Systems with Greedy or Non-greedy Users
No full textIn this thesis, we investigate wireless resource optimization problems arising in the context of unlicensed bands. The first half of this thesis assumes a multiple access channel communica-tion model (many transmitters talking to a single receiver), while the second half assumes an interference channel (a collection of multiple interfering transmitter-receiver pairs). The prob-lems considered can further be classified based on the level of coordination available among the devices, and based on the optimization objectives of the devices. The devices are either greedy (they choose their actions to maximize their own utility), or are non-greedy (they choose their actions to maximize/satisfy a common social objective). We investigate four resource op-timization scenarios that encompass the possibilities of presence or absence of coordination infrastructure as well as the cases of greedy and non-greedy devices. As an example of the greedy uncoordinated scenario, we consider application of interfer-ence avoidance algorithms in generalized CDMA systems. We introduce variants of standard interference avoidance procedures which produce more easily tracked incremental codewords, and study the response of the system to abrupt changes in the background interference as might be encountered in a practical system
Regulation of neuraminidase expression in Streptococcus pneumoniae
Full text linkThe electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/12/200 Extent: 12p.BackgroundSialic acid (N-acetylneuraminic acid; NeuNAc) is one of the most important carbohydrates for Streptococcus pneumoniae due of its role as a carbon and energy source, receptor for adhesion and invasion and molecular signal for promotion of biofilm formation, nasopharyngeal carriage and invasion of the lung.ResultsIn this work, NeuNAc and its metabolic derivative N-acetyl mannosamine (ManNAc) were used to analyze regulatory mechanisms of the neuraminidase locus expression. Genomic and metabolic comparison to Streptococcus mitis, Streptococcus oralis, Streptococcus gordonii and Streptococcus sanguinis elucidates the metabolic association of the two amino sugars to different parts of the locus coding for the two main pneumococcal neuraminidases and confirms the substrate specificity of the respective ABC transporters. Quantitative gene expression analysis shows repression of the locus by glucose and induction of all predicted transcriptional units by ManNAc and NeuNAc, each inducing with higher efficiency the operon encoding for the transporter with higher specificity for the respective amino sugar. Cytofluorimetric analysis demonstrated enhanced surface exposure of NanA on pneumococci grown in NeuNAc and ManNAc and an activity assay allowed to quantify approximately twelve times as much neuraminidase activity on induced cells as opposed to glucose grown cells.ConclusionsThe present data increase the understanding of metabolic regulation of the nanAB locus and indicate that experiments aimed at the elucidation of the relevance of neuraminidases in pneumococcal virulence should possibly not be carried out on bacteria grown in glucose containing media.Luciana Gualdi, Jasvinder Kaur Hayre, Alice Gerlini, Alessandro Bidossi, Leonarda Colomba, Claudia Trappetti, Gianni Pozzi, Jean-Denis Docquier, Peter Andrew, Susanna Ricci and Marco R Oggion
A Comparative Study of Natural vs. Synthetic Vitamin C Supplementation to Prevent Anemia
No full textAim: To assess the nutritional status of anaemic girls through anthropometric, biochemical, dietary and clinical assessment; and to study the efficacy of weekly iron and vitamin C supplementation on the haematological profile of the anaemic subjects.
Study Design: An interventional school-based study.
Methodology: The study was conducted on the total sample of sixty adolescent girls aged 16-17 years. The research participants were divided into two groups of thirty each according to the supplementation provided i.e. Iron Folic Acid supplementation along with Lemon water (ILW group) and Iron Folic Acid supplementation with synthetic Vitamin C (IVC group). Both the groups were provided supplementation for three months at weekly intervals.
Results: There was no change in the anthropometric parameter of the research participants after the study. Consumption of cereals, pulses, green leafy vegetables and milk and milk products was significantly (p ≤ 0.01) increased in both the groups after the study. Consequently, a significant increase (p ≤ 0.01) in the intake of energy, protein, riboflavin, niacin, calcium, iron and vitamin C was observed in both the groups. After the study, reduction in the percentage of the research participants with signs and symptoms of anemia was observed in all the research participants. Hematological profile of the research participants indicated that increase in the hemoglobin level was higher in the group ILW (9.95 ± 0.11 to 11.02 ± 0.09 g/dl) as compared to the group IVC (9.88 ± 0.10 to 10.80 ± 0.08g/dl).
Conclusion: Weekly iron supplementation along with natural source of vitamin C is more beneficial than synthetic vitamin C, to restore normal levels of red blood cells, hemoglobin, and iron; thus preventing iron deficiency anemia in young adolescent girls. Future research may benefit from attempting to develop, analyzed supplement vitamin C rich food products to the anemic individuals
A study on sustainability practices in the Malaysian Hospitality Industry
Full text linkThe hospitality industry encompasses an extensive variety of services that include food service, tourism and hotels. It can be considered a major service sector in the world economy today and described as an industry that has a great impact on the environment, discharging a huge amount of raw and solid waste, constituting a threat to the environment. While much as been done to promote tourism in Malaysia through activities such as Visit Malaysia Year (VMY), very little is done to ensure a sustainable development of the hospitality industry in Malaysia and the preservation of the natural environment for future generations. Of late, there is a growing concern on hotel organisations, as a sector of the tourism industry whose activities afflict the environment to start looking into its environmental impact. Therefore it is important that the hospitality sector in Malaysia consider more proactive measures in implementing sustainability practices in order to remain competitive globally or fail to compete with those designed as such.
Some of the findings in this study have further clarified drivers and barriers that effect sustainable practices in the hospitality industry in Malaysia.
It is hoped that findings from this research will add value to the existing body of knowledge and inspire policy makers and industry regulators to take the appropriate measures to ensure a sustainable growth of the hospitality industry and for the generations by supporting increased investment on implementing sustainable practices to conserve, preserve and protect the natural environment
The Mitospecific Region of Mrp20 and its Importance for the Assembly of Mitochondrial Ribosomes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Full text linkYeast mitochondrial ribosomes are composed of an rRNA scaffold, encoded by the mitochondrial genome and many different proteins, which, with the exception of one, are encoded by nuclear genes. These ribosomal proteins are imported into the mitochondrial matrix following their synthesis in the cytosol, however, little is known about the subsequent events which result in an assembled, translationally-competent ribosome. Many of the mitochondrial ribosomal proteins bear homology to bacterial ancestors. In addition to the acquisition of mitochondrial targeting signals, a number of these nuclearly-encoded ribosomal proteins have acquired additional domains, often at their C-termini, which are termed mitochondrial-specific domains . The function(s) of these domains is currently unknown and it is postulated that they may be involved in the process of ribosomal assembly or for ensuring the targeting of the ribosome to the mitochondrial inner membrane where they are translationally-active.
Mrp20 protein is a nuclearly-encoded component of the mitochondrial large ribosomal subunit and shares homology with bacterial ribosomal protein L23, a protein located at the exit site of the ribosomal polypeptide tunnel. Mrp20 contains a C-terminal mitochondrial-specific domain of unknown function. In this study, we demonstrate that the C-terminal mitochondrial-specific region of Mrp20 is important to support the assembly of active mitochondrial ribosomes. It is proposed that the proteins at the exit site such as Mrp20 and MrpL40 are important for the assembly of mitochondrial ribosomes. Furthermore, the data presented here indicates that in the absence of the C-terminal region of the Mrp20 protein, the process of assembly of the ribosome becomes stalled, and the accumulation of a novel ribosome intermediate complex is observed. The characterization of this novel intermediate, which furthers our understanding of the assembly process of ribosomes in mitochondria, is presented
Analysis of carbohydrates in juices by gas liquid chromatography
No full textThe purpose of this thesis was to investigate the use of gas liquid chromatography (GLC) for the analysis of carbohydrates in juices. A second purpose was to compare the results obtained from the GLC method with those from three other analytical methods (HPLC, Lane-Eynon, and °Brix). The four juice concentrate samples used for comparison were a red juice blend, Rubired, Royalty, and a high-acid white juice. The experimental design used was a randomized complete block (RCB). Data obtained were treated statistically. From the statistical treatment it was found that all four analytical methods produced comparable values for total sugars in the samples. Additionally, among the methods compared, only the HPLC and GLC methods were capable of producing analytical values for individual sugars (glucose and fructose). In conclusion, GLC and HPLC appear to produce equivalent and good results. However, the methodology for GLC is more difficult than that for HPLC
A mixed method case study : Bar-On EQ-i framework of emotional intelligence and the school leadership experiences of principals who completed an urban leadership program in Northern California
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