318 research outputs found
Vaidya Kanda - A unique 18th century classical text of Ayurveda in Kannada
No full textVaidyakanda is a text in Kannada authored by Bommaiah probably belonging to the 18th Century AD which can be considered as a gist of Brihatrayis as declared by the author himself in the Pre colophon. The text presents in the order of Dinacharya, Ritucharya, Maana Paribhasha, Arishta Lakshanas, Nidanas of Vyadhis and it’s Chikitsa in a brief manner. The text consists of 923 Padyas (Stanzas) which are presented in the form of Kanda style of classical Kannada writing. The author of Vaidyakanda is Brahma or Bommaiah. The initial stanzas of the text indicate the author as Brahma. The end of Tritiyadala and post colophon refers Bommaiah as the author. Karnataka Kavicharite has attributed Brahma or Bommaiah to 1750 AD. It can be observed that the text seems to be a practical handbook for a local practitioner with commonly encountered diseases and conditions among folk. The author being a poet has presented the whole text in Kanda Padya form making the difficult and complex concepts easily understandable by the learners of Ayurveda. The simple translation of the verses given in Kannada language makes the reader more comfortable and the English translation will cater to the readers at large
Stručná vzpomínka na Bohumila Hrabala = A brief testimony about Bohumil Hrabal
No full textIn May, 1990, the reknowned Czech author Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) visited the Department of Slavonic Languages and Literatures at the University of Glasgow. Jan Čulík was present and later took Hrabal for a trip by car to Loch Katrine. On his return to Czechoslovakia, Bohumil Hrabal wrote an experimental text about this which was published in his volume Dopisy Dubence (Letters to April). In this contribution, Jan Čulík compares the image of Hrabal's visit to Glasgow and to Scotland as it is featured in his literary text to what happened in reality
The Association Between Two Sensory Processing Measures: The Sensory Over-Responsivity Inventory and the Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/31/2017
Concurrent validity between the Sensory Over-Responsivity Inventory and the Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile was examined among 556 typical adults. Results indicate a moderate correlation between measures that varies across individual sensory systems.
Primary Author and Speaker: Michelle Kanda
Additional Authors and Speakers: Laura Ruzzano, Emily Cohen, Sharon Cermak</jats:p
Toktokkus waclawae Kamiński & Gearner & Kanda & Swichtenberg & Purchart & Smith 2021
No full textTOKTOKKUS <i>WACLAWAE</i> KAMIŃSKI <p>lsid urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: CCA6EFFB-401D-40AF- 9341-AB40107E2698</p> <p> <i>Type material:</i> Holotype (MIZ PAS), male: ‘N Rhodesia / 8 I 1942 / Dr W. Eichler’, ‘42’, ‘ Psammodes / pierreti Amyot’. Paratypes (MIZ PAS): male and female: ‘N Rhodesia / 10 I 1942 / Dr W. Eichler’; male: ‘KafueR / Rhodesia / UnivFilmEx’, ‘HCRaven / Dec`19 col’; male: ‘ Victoria Falls / Zimbabwe /??? 11–89’; female: ‘ Psammodes Pierreti / Solier / Zamberer’, ‘ Sammlung / Schroeder’; female: ‘ ZIMBABWE Victoria / Falls, 17°56’S 25°50’E / 19–22 Dec 1995 / W.J. Pulawski collector’; male and five females (LuboŠ Purchart): ‘ AFRICA, S ZAMBIA / Victoria falls env. (Livingstone) / 26.–30.xii.1993 / leg. J. Moravec’.</p> <p> <i>Diagnosis:</i> Similar to <i>T. vialis</i> due to the lack of microtubercles between the lateral tubercles, and presence of longitudinal ridges on elytral sides and slope. Both species can be distinguished by different morphology (larger and often confluent in <i>T. waclawae</i>) and arrangement (rows extend over humeri to scutellum in <i>T. waclawae</i>) of tubercles; and elytral disc (almost flat in lateral view in <i>T. waclawae</i>) (Fig. 3F).</p> <p> <i>Description:</i> Length 29.0–30.0 mm, width of pronotum 9.0–10.0 mm and elytra 19.0–20.0 mm. <i>Head:</i> Hypognathous. Frons finely punctate (3–4 diameters apart); frontoclypeal suture course, with deep groove in middle; apical clypeal margin broadly shallowly emarginate; clypeus projected toward front of body; apical margin of labrum sharply emarginate medially, densely punctate (although punctures fine) in apical half, apical side of labrum densely covered with yellowish, acuminate setae. Eye comma-shaped, with reduced ventral part, strongly emarginate around epistomal base; with deep groove on temporal side. Mentum trapezoidal, with straight base, not fully filling buccal cavity; anterior margin not emarginate; covered with fine setae. Submentum semicircular, concave basally. Antenna slender, moderately covered in recumbent acuminate goldish setae; antennomere 2 short, equal to 0.2 of antennomere 3 length; antennomere 4 about half of antennomere 3 length; length of antenna equal to 0.85 of pronotal length. <i>Prothorax:</i> Pronotal lateral margin rounded, well visible. Pronotum widest above middle. Disc dull, impunctate; anterior and basal margins, anterior apices strongly produced. Hypomeron convex, without submarginal groove, impunctate. Prosternal process rounded in lateral view, longitudinally depressed in middle (ventral view). Anterior margin of prosternum labiate, strongly projecting ventrally (lateral view). <i>Pterothorax:</i> Scutellum densely covered with microtubercles. Elytra widest in basal third, rounded laterally; disc impunctate, not covered by tubercles; lateral part (below humerus) covered with tubercles (organized in more or less regular rows) and microtubercles (2–4 diameters apart); remaining lateral part of elytra visible only ventrally, impunctate, without tubercles and microtubercles. Elytral slope steep, densely covered with microtubercles (1–4 diameters apart), with sparsely distributed tubercles, elytral apex flattened. Epipleura, impunctate, not tuberculate, clearly distinguishable from neighbouring portion of elytra, widely enfolding fifth ventrite. Mesoventrite with deep median groove and elevated sides. Metaventrite impunctate, densely setose. Lateral regions of metaventrite (between coxae) extremely short. Metaepisternal suture abbreviated posteriorly. <i>Legs:</i> Covered with dense, goldish setae. Procoxa exposed basally. Apex of protibia with prominent denticle on outer margin, lateral carina terminating in basal third; median spur reduced, reaching 0.5 of outer lateral spur length. Spurs on meso- and metatibiae of equal length. Tarsi narrowed laterally. <i>Abdomen:</i> Ventrites 1–4 medially densely covered with goldish setae moderately punctate and weakly rugulose; ventrite 5 densely punctate and setose; ventrite 5 without submarginal sulcus, densely punctured (~0.5 diameters apart), each puncture with single goldish setae. <i>Terminalia:</i> Aedeagus as in Figure 1E. Ovipositor as in Figure 6C–H.</p> <p> <i>Etymology:</i> This new species is dedicated to the memory of the first author’s grandmother, Wacława Kamińska (born on 5 November 1927 in Bartniki, Poland, died on 29 September 2010, in Warsaw, Poland).</p> <p>SYNONYMY NOTES:</p>Published as part of <i>Kamiński, Marcin J., Gearner, Olivia M., Kanda, Kojun, Swichtenberg, Kali, Purchart, Luboš & Smith, Aaron D., 2021, First insights into the phylogeny of tok-tokkie beetles (Tenebrionidae: Molurina, Phanerotomeina) and examination of the status of the Psammodes vialis species-group, pp. 883-901 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 191</i> on pages 898-899, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa052, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5724192">http://zenodo.org/record/5724192</a>
Development of an in vivo tissue-engineered, autologous heart valve (the biovalve) : preparation of a prototype model
No full textObjective: This study aimed to develop an autologous heart valve without using traditional in vitro tissue-engineering methods, which necessitate complicated cell management protocols under exceptionally clean laboratory facilities. Methods: An autologous heart valve construct composed of trileaflets was prepared using a specially designed mold. The mold was prepared by covering a silicone rod with a crown-shaped tubular polyurethane scaffold containing 3 horns. The mold was implanted in the dorsal subcutaneous space in Japan White rabbits for 4 weeks. After harvesting, the implanted trileaflet valve-shaped structure with an internal diameter of either 5 or 20 mm was obtained by trimming the membranous tissue formed between the horns located around the silicone rod. The valve substitute was examined both macroscopically and histologically. The tensile strength of the leaflets was measured to rupture. The degree of regurgitation in valve function was evaluated using a flow circuit by calculating the ratio of the regurgitation volume to the forward flow volume. Results: After implantation, the mold was completely covered with connective tissue consisting mostly of collagen and fibroblasts. Harvesting of the mold was straightforward, because there was little adhesion between the formed tissue and the native skin tissue. The trileaflet heart valve construct was obtained after withdrawing the inserted rods and trimming the membranous tissues formed between the horns of the scaffold. It was firmly attached to the scaffold, the interstices and surface of which revealed connective tissues composed of components similar to those of the leaflet tissue. Although the mechanical properties of the leaflet tissue were less efficient than those of the native porcine aortic valve leaflets, satisfactory valvular functions were demonstrated under pulsatile conditions using a flow circuit. No regurgitation was observed under retrograde hydrostatic pressures of up to 60 mm Hg, the physiologic pressure acting on the aortic valves during retrograde aortic flow. Conclusions: The biovalve, an autologous, in vivo tissue-engineered, trileaflet, valve-shaped construct, was developed using our novel in-body tissue architecture technology. The biovalve has the potential to be an ideal prosthetic heart valve, with excellent biocompatibility to the growth of the recipient’s heart
The Effects of a Juvenile Hormone Active Oxime Ether Compound on the Metamorphosis and Reproduction of an Anopheline Vector, Anopheles balabacensis (Diptera : Culicidae)
No full textBasic research of the acquisition of biological information towards the construction of agricultural support system
No full textStudies on the Effective Attractants of Anopheline Mosquitoes : I. Blood-Feeding, Mating and Flight Activity of Female Anopheles balabacensis (Diptera : Culcidae)
No full textIRES-mediated translation of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) in cultured cells derived from FMDV-susceptible and -insusceptible animals
No full textHow do we recognize Marxism?
No full textThe title of the study is a paraphrase of Gilles Deleuze’s inspiring work How Do We Recognize
Structuralism? (1974). The explanation proceeds in three steps. First, the author – following
Wolfgang Iser’s conception – defines the relevant differences between ‘discourse’ and ‘theory’
(W. Iser). Second, he presents Marxism as a discursive ideal type (Max Weber’s Idealtyp) that
characterizes several (seven) distinctive features: (i) totality, (ii) dialectics, (iii) base and superstructure, (iv) materialism and historization, (v) subjective and objective, (vi) true and inevitable, (vii) revolutionary practice. In the third chapter of his study, the author briefly formulates
a wider sociological context; inspired by the concepts of Shmuel Eisendtadt and Cornelius
Castoriadis, he defines Marxism as one of the discourses articulating the cultural project of
modernity and as part of a permanent process of ‘social self-production’
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