26 research outputs found
Nerve Compression in the Upper Limb
No full text10.1016/j.cps.2019.03.001Clinics in Plastic Surgery463285-29
Upper Extremity Axon Counts and Clinical Implications for Motor Nerve Transfer
No full text10.1097/PRS.0000000000006200Plastic and reconstructive surgery14461044e-1050
Upper Extremity Innervation Patterns and Clinical Implications for Nerve and Tendon Transfer
No full text10.1097/PRS.0000000000003873Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery14061209-1219complete
Creating Flashback: A Community Service Learning Project For Actor's Youth Theatre
No full textabstract: In this document I detail the inception of the community service learning program, Flashback, that I created for Actor's Youth Theatre of Mesa Arizona. I first provide the organization's history and then expound upon my beliefs and how the ASU theatre for youth program, along with the needs of AYT, led me to create the program. I then describe the goals and processes of implementing the community based project. I also define service learning and why the program was designed around its principles. Finally, I describe the program's curriculum, devising process and Flashback's first trial run, and then continue, evaluating the performance and reflecting upon the process. The appendix includes the devised script, photos of the performance and interaction with the community, some of the planned curriculum and portions of my journals written during the process.Dissertation/ThesisM.A. Theatre 201
Mannose-binding lectin 2 gene polymorphism in PANDAS patients
No full textIntroduction: Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS), a subgroup of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), has received much attention even though the specific underlying mechanisms remain unknown. Mannose-binding lectin (MBL) is a key factor in the innate immune response. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of MBL2 gene polymorphisms in pediatric OCD patients diagnosed as PANDAS, PANDAS-Variant and non-PANDAS. Methods: The study included 102 pediatric OCD patients (59 [57.8% ] PANDAS, 20 [19.6% ] non-PANDAS, and 23 [22.5% ] PANDAS-Variant) and 60 healthy controls. Polymorphisms at codon 52, 54 and 57 of the MBL2 gene were investigated. Results: Codon 54 polymorphism and any variant of MBL2 gene were significantly more frequent in the OCD group than in the control group (OR=2.97, 95% CI: 1.26–6.97; and OR=2.66, 95% CI: 1.32–5.38, respectively). According to regression analysis, the presence of any variant of MBL2 gene was found in 14.50-fold increased frequency in the PANDAS subgroup compared with the non-PANDAS subgroup (95% CI: 2.49–84.19). Conclusions: Our findings support an association between MBL2 genotypes and pediatric OCD, particularly PANDAS-OCD. © 2018 by Turkish Association of Neuropsychiatry.TF2011BAP36Acknowledgements: This study was presented as a poster at the 21st National Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Meeting, Antalya, Turkey, 2011. This study received the Best Research Project Award from the National Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 2010. Ethics Committee Approval: The project was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Çukurova University (B.10 OTHG. 0.79.00.07). Informed Consent: Informed consent was obtained from all of the patients and their parents. Peer-review: Externally peer-reviewed. Author Contributions: Concept - GGÇ, DAT; Design - GS, EE; Supervision - AA, PÇR; Resource - AYT; Materials - EE; Data Collection and/ or Processing - GGÇ; Analysis and/ or Interpretation - GS, GGÇ; Literature Search -PY, GGÇ; Writing - GGÇ, AYT; Critical Reviews - DAT, AA, GGÇ. Conflict of Interest: The authors do not have any conflict of interest to report regarding this study. Financial Disclosure: The authors disclose receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The work was supported by grants from the Çukurova University Scientific Research Department, Adana, Turkey (TF2011BAP36)
Letter dated 21 March 1968 from Robert E. Wilson to Lorenzo A. Richards
No full textLetter dated 21 March 1968 from Robert E. Wilson, Assistant Vice President of the Marketing Division of John Wiley & Sons, Publishers, in New York City, to Lorenzo A. Richards at Riverside, California; a copy of a new edition of "Soil-Plant relationships by Prof. C. B. Black was on its way to him with the author\u27s complementsJ O H N WILEY& SONS, INC., PUBLISHERS 605 THIRD AVENUE, N E W YORK, N.Y. 10016 212TN7-9800 CABLE: JON WILE March 21, 1968 Dr. L. A. Richards 4455 Fifth Street Riverside, California 92501 Dear Dr. Richards: SOIL-PLANT RELATIONSHIPS 2nd Ed. by Professor C. B. Black, has just been published and a copy is on its way to you with the author\u27s compliments and ours. We are aware of your interest in this field and feel that our book will prove useful to you. Your personal appraisal of this publication will be appreciated. An enclosed postpaid envelope is provided for your mailing convenience. Sincerely yours, f ~ 7 i " j :\ i \ri7U\~y ^ KA ^^ Robert E. Wilson Assistant Vice-President Enc. Marketing Division -t_ 8^A> A^*~ALj~p yy^^^A^^- _ ^U^> 72- / > - ^ C ^ ^pt>pAL**~r9--^--^ Ayt>~t^yy^A J£+~ ^*}*-~^ - ~ AfU*^^*-^^^-7 eyL^g7 \u27fe/*- -^^ ^ eA^y/t^Ty _ u^^. yt*£^ Ty^t^^7 T-*y /? T&ttf\u277*>*rLj~~ yt^> ~j&yy^ts-r^^ - ~~-4 ^y~*^+-~*£~ -^A-y^7c^/^stptt^* ,u- + ^ j&^+yfyJ£p?**~-*- 4U*rr^. YJ4^i> fl4*7^4Jj^L*<€yi~j7^-*^^ -&y^.^^ \u27*\u27-\u27 Robert B. Campbell 1707 Stratford Circle Florence, S. C. 29501 ® J^<M*»yAL, XCL 12-
Deriving Green Plot Ratio (GnPR) from a Building Information Modelling (BIM) Vegetation Library
No full text10.14627/537724022Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture20227224-235German
The Linking of Microclimatic Simulations and Planting Design Using a Species-level Building Information Modelling (BIM) Vegetation Library
No full text10.14627/537724023Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture20227236-248German
Spatial and temporal analyses of Hong Kong coral communities as baseline information for resilience assessment
No full textM.Phil.Coral reefs are highly productive ecosystems that can support high biodiversity within a very small space and are often regarded as ‘the tropical rainforest in the ocean’. They are facing various threats such as global warming, eutrophication and overfishing. In view of all the threats, resilience assessment on coral communities has attracted much attention in tropical reefs. Resilience is defined as ‘the ability of a system to absorb change and disturbance and still maintain or return to the same ecological function. Researchers have proposed the indicators to be assessed and the corresponding methods to be used to assess the resilience of tropical reefs. Similar approach should be modified to fit into the unique situations in Hong Kong and applied in Hong Kong and other subtropical or marginal non-reef communities. For resilience assessment in Hong Kong, much information is needed. Coral cover and community structure, and the factors affecting them are among the top prioritized indicators that can be used.Therefore, in this study, benthic surveys by photoquadrat-transect method were conducted in 18 selected sites in Hong Kong water, eight of these sites are within marine parks (or marine protected areas (MPAs)), four in no-anchoring areas (NAAs) and six in non-protected areas (NPAs). A general trend of increasing hard coral (HC) cover and diversity from western to eastern and northeastern waters was revealed as expected. In general, coral communities in eastern and northeastern waters are similarly dominated by stress-tolerant corals. Water quality data (WQD) were also obtained from authorities of Hong Kong SAR Government and used for multivariate correlation analyses with the biotic data to see if the patterns (if any) in biotic data can be explained by the environmental parameters in a local and finer scale. Results showed that the coral communities were generally too similar in their composition and structure so only regional scale differences can be detected. The lower HC covers in the southern sites were correlated with higher nutrients and lower salinity. Coral communities in eastern and northeastern sites were dominated by stress-tolerant species. Exceptions were found in Ung Kong (UK) and Au Yue Tsui (AYT), where the two coral communities reacted very differently to eutrophied water. However, because the water quality data (WQD) in coastal areas are very different from those obtained from marine monitoring stations of EPD in more openwater areas, with the lack of coastal WQD in non-MPA sites, the correlation results with non-MPA sites may be misleading. This also limited the power of the correlation tests since MPA and non-MPA sites needed to be analyzed separately.Meanwhile, past data from 8 to 11 years ago are available from previous reports in 10 of the 18 sites, all of them are within northeastern water. These data were compared with data obtained in the present study by multivariate analyses. Results indicated that marine parks were reasonably effective in coral protections. Coral covers in the sites within Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park (HHWMP) were generally stable over time but with some fluctuations and exceptions. In Tung Ping Chau Marine Park (TPCMP), the coral covers increased over time albeit the increase was not statistically significant, and the benthic compositions remained fairly the same. The study sites in TPCMP were dominated by Porites and Platygyra spp., both massive corals which are considered to be stress-tolerant. In general, the multivariate analyses could not distinguish the differences and changes in biotic data and their correlation with the available environmental data because the biotic benthic and coral compositions were too similar among sites. However, the coincidental decrease of HC cover in AYT, Lai Chi Wo (LCW) and Cheung Shek Tsui (CST) was suspected to be influenced by port development in Shenzhen, Guangdong over the past decade, as the three sites were located closest to Shenzhen.The dominance of stress-tolerant corals in Hong Kong coral communities might imply that the marine environments are already too stressful for other types of corals to grow and compete. The highly similar coral communities in the eastern and northeastern water cannot be explained by the available WQD. More data from coastal areas should be obtained in the future for the study and monitoring of coral communities and other coastal habitats. The present study contributed to the development of resilience study by providing the major information about Hong Kong coral communities: their coral cover, coral species composition, temporal changes (up to 11 years in some locations), the influence of marine environment and the limitations of current biological and environmental monitoring. This could provide some baseline information and implications for the development of a more complete assessment on coral resilience in Hong Kong, as well as management strategies for the conservation of Hong Kong corals and marine environment.珊瑚礁是高生產力的生態系統，在很小的空間內支持很高的生物多樣性，常被稱之為「海洋中的熱帶雨林」。 珊瑚礁正面臨各式各樣的威脅： 例如全球暖化、海洋酸化及過度捕撈等。 有鑑於珊瑚礁正面臨的各種威脅，珊瑚群落的恢復力評估在熱帶珊瑚礁引起了極大的關注。 恢復力被定義為「生態系統在遇到變化和干擾之後，仍能保持於或回復到原本的生態功能之能力」。研究人員提出了需要評估的參考指標以及用於評估熱帶珊瑚礁恢復力的相應方法。 類似的方法也應該應用到香港和其他亞熱帶或邊緣地區的非礁石群落。但這些方法在應用前需要先進行修改，才能套用到香港的特殊情況。要評估香港珊瑚群落的恢復力，需要很多資料，而珊瑚覆蓋和群落結構，以及影響它們的因素，便是研究珊瑚群落恢復力的首要指標之一。因此，本研究在十八個香港水域內的選址，並以樣線樣方的方式，進行了底棲調查。 十八個研究地點之中，有八個位於海岸公園（或海洋保護區（MPA））內，四個在不宜碇泊區（NAA），六個在非保護區（NPA）。 結果顯示，從西部到東部及東北部水域，石珊瑚的覆蓋率和多樣性如預期一樣具有增加的趨勢。 一般來說，東部和東北部水域的珊瑚群落都被耐壓珊瑚所支配。 此外，香港特別行政區的政府部門亦提供水質數據（WQD）以便與生物數據進行多變量分析，對底棲生物、珊瑚物種和生命策略史的構成進行更仔細的多變量相關性測試，以解析生物數據中出現的模式（如有的話）。 結果顯示，珊瑚群落的結構一般都很相似，分析只能區分地域差異。 南部地區較低的石珊瑚覆蓋率與較高的營養和較低的鹽度有關。 東部和東北部地點的珊瑚群落都以耐壓珊瑚為主要品種。其中甕缸（UK）以及拗魚嘴（AYT）是個例外，而兩個珊瑚群落對富營養化的水都有不同的反應。 然而，由於沿岸地區的水質數據較環保署海洋監測站獲得的開放地區的水質數據截然不同，加上在缺少非MPA 地區的水質數據下，與非MPA 地點的相關性測試結果可能會有誤導。 而MPA 和非MPA 地點的數據亦因此需要分開分析，進而限制了相關性測試的功能 。同時，在以前的報告中，能夠獲取十八個地點裡其中十個研究地點的歷史數據，十個研究地點都在東北部水域內，這些數據有著八至十一年歷史。將這些歷史數據與本研究中獲得的數據作比較，進行多變量分析。 結果顯示，海岸公園在保護珊瑚方面相當有效。 海下灣海岸公園（HHWMP）內的石珊瑚覆蓋率除了一些波動和例外之外，整體可算穩定。 在東坪洲海岸公園（TPCMP），珊瑚覆蓋率隨著時間的推移而增加，可是增幅並不顯著，同時底棲成分亦保持不變。 在TPCMP 的兩個研究地點都以濱珊瑚屬（Porites）和扁腦珊瑚屬（Platygyra）為主要的珊瑚覆蓋，這兩個大型團塊形珊瑚都是耐壓品種。 一般而言，多變量分析無法區分生物數據的差異和變化及其與現有環境數據的相關性。這是因為生物基底和珊瑚組成成分在研究地點之間太相似。不過，過去十年來，拗魚嘴（AYT）、荔枝窩（LCW）及長石咀（CST）懷疑受到深圳港口的發展的影響，珊瑚覆蓋率都同時下降。香港珊瑚群落都以耐壓珊瑚為主，可能意味著海洋環境已經不利於其他類型的珊瑚生長或與之競爭。 東部和東北部水域高度相似的珊瑚群落都不能用現有的水質數據來解釋。 今後應收取更多來自沿海地區的資料，以用作研究和監測珊瑚群落及其他沿海生境。 本研究通過提供有關香港珊瑚群落的主要資料，包括珊瑚覆蓋率、珊瑚物種之構成及它們時間上的變化（某些地區多達十一年）、海洋環境的影響、以及目前對生物和環境監測的局限性。 這為更完整地評估香港珊瑚恢復力、以及保育香港珊瑚及海洋環境的管理策略，提供一些基礎數據及啟示。Leung, Yu Hin.Thesis M.Phil. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2017.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 228-239).Abstracts also in Chinese.Title from PDF title page (viewed on …)
A comparison of eutrophication impacts in two harbours in Hong Kong with different hydrodynamics
No full textAuthor Posting. © The Author(s), 2009. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Elsevier B.V. for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Marine Systems 83 (2010): 276-286, doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2010.04.002.Eutrophication impacts may vary spatially and temporally due to different
physical processes. Using a 22-year time series data set (1986-2007), a comparison of
eutrophication impacts between two eutrophic harbors, Victoria and Tolo Harbours, in
Hong Kong with very different hydrodynamic conditions was conducted. In the
highly-flushed Victoria Harbour (Victoria), the highest Chl a (13 μg L-1) occurred due
to stratification in summer as a result of the input of the eutrophic Pearl River
discharge, but the high flushing rate restricted nutrient utilization and the further
accumulation of algal biomass. In other seasons, vertical mixing induced light
limitation and horizontal dilution led to low Chl a (< 2 μg L-1) and no spring bloom.
Few hypoxic events (DO < 2 mg L-1) occurred due to strong tidal mixing. Therefore,
Victoria is resilient to nutrient enrichment. In contrast, in the weakly-flushed Tolo
Harbour (Tolo), year long stratification, the long residence times and weak tidal
currents favored algal growth, resulting in a spring diatom bloom and high Chl a (up
to 30 μg L-1) all year and frequent hypoxic events in summer. Hence, Tolo is
susceptible to nutrient enrichment and it responded to nutrient reduction since sewage
treatment resulted in a 32-38% decrease in algal biomass in Tolo, but not in Victoria.
A significant (11-22%) reduction in bottom DO in the both harbors after sewage
treatment was due to a decrease in the organic loading from sewage treatment or the
diversion.Financial support for this research was provided by the University Grants Council of Hong Kong AoE project (AoE/P-04/0401)
