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Shree Siddhivinayak Ganapati Mandir
No full textDistant view, including the vimana (tower over the central shrine) at center; A Hindu temple dedicated to Ganesha. Consecrated on 19 November 1801, the temple was built by the contractor Laxman Vithu Patil and funded by a rich Agri woman named Deubai Patil. The original structure of the Siddhivinayak Temple was a small 3.6 m x 3.6 m square brick structure with a dome-shaped brick sikhara. This expanded to a 2550 sq m temple complex; however in the 1950s and 60s, some of the land of the complex was sold. It is one of the richest temples in Mumbai, in annual donations. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/31/2015
Lembosia mahabaleshwarensis Bhise & Patil & Salunkhe 2014, sp. nov.
No full text2. Lembosia mahabaleshwarensis Bhise & Patil, sp. nov. Fig. 2 MycoBank MB 809994 Type: INDIA. Maharashtra: Mahabaleshwar, Par, on living leaves of Syzygium rubicundum, 17°55’22.30”N, 73°36’00.20”E, elev. 762m, 17 October 2013, Bhise M. R., HCIO 51673 (holotype). Colonies amphigenous, mostly epiphyllous, closely scattered, crustose, confluent, dark black, up to 4 mm in diameter. Hyphae dark brown, substraight to flexuous, branching alternate to unilateral at acute to wide angles, loosely reticulate, cells 20–39 × 5–7 μm. Appressoria opposite, rarely alternate, distantly formed in closed groups of 3 to 4 pairs, mostly just below the end of hyphae, antrorse to subantrorse, bicelled, 16–21 μm long; stalk cells cylindrical to cuneate, 5–7 × 6– 7 μm; head cells subglobose, ovate to oblong, straight to recurved, entire, 9–14 × 7–12 μm. Thyriothecia numerous, closely scattered, initially globose to orbicular, elliptic, elongate to irregular in shape, 314–838 × 240–329 μm, longitudinally fissured at center, sometimes forming Y shaped dehiscence at the center, margin crenate to fimbriate with fringed hyphae. Asci numerous, initially globose, obovate to oval, octosporous, 60–73 × 43–59 μm. Ascospores oblong, conglobate, golden yellow, uniseptate, slightly constricted at the septum, 38–43 × 16–18 μm, wall smooth. Habitat/Distribution: Inhabiting living leaves of Syzygium rubicundum, along the streams in Par, Pratapgad, Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra, India. Etymology: Specific epithet based on the name of the type location (Mahabaleshwar). Other material examined: INDIA. Maharashtra: Mahabaleshwar, Pratapgad, on living leaves of Syzygium rubicundum, 17°56’10.70”N, 73°35’07.50”E, elev. 829m, 13 December 2013, Bhise M. R., HCIO 51674. Notes: About 12 species of Lembosia have been described on host species of Syzygium and Eugenia (Song and Hosagoudar 2003, Far and Rossman 2014). The literature survey revealed that, the present species is close to Lembosia hosagoudarii Sivan. & R. G. Shivas (2002:163); L. syzygii Sivan. & R.G. Shivas (2002:160) and L. syzygiicola (Hansf. 1944:115) Deighton (1978:518), known on the host species of Syzygium from India, Australia and Uganda respectively (Song and Hosagoudar 2003, Hosagoudar 2012, Far and Rossman 2014). However, the new species differs from the related species in having larger appressoria mostly opposite and distantly arranged in groups of 3 to 4 pairs, larger ascospores which are slightly constricted at septum and smooth-walled (Table 2). Lembosia mahabaleshwarensis can be easily distinguished by arrangement of appressoria and larger, smooth walled ascospores. This species is associated with Asteridiella syzygii Hansf. (1957:50) and Asterina jambolanae Kar & Maity.Published as part of Bhise, M. R., Patil, C. R. & Salunkhe, C. B., 2014, Two new species of asterinaceous fungi from Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra, India, pp. 283-289 in Phytotaxa 184 (5) on page 286, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.184.5.4, http://zenodo.org/record/514684
Open Quantum Systems: Controlling System-Bath Interactions and Studying their Influence
No full textAll quantum systems are open to some extent, i.e. they interact with their environment. In this thesis, we develop novel techniques to control these system-bath interactions and then demonstrate through experiments their significant influence on system properties and dynamics. We develop a novel imaging technique in the context of ultracold lattice gases. This imaging technique allows us to tune the rate at which the atoms are measured (which can be thought of as an interaction with the electromagnetic radiation environment) over several orders of magnitude, without concomitant heating or loss of the atoms. Using this technical ability, we show that in the weak measurement limit, the atoms undergo unabated quantum evolution, i.e. they freely tunnel around the lattice, whereas as the measurement strength is increased, the tunnelling gets suppressed, the coherence is lost, and the atoms approach a classical limit of slower diffusion; demonstrating the influence of the degree of system-bath interactions on the system's dynamics. Moreover, the dissipation of open systems also allows for the realization of driven-dissipative phase transitions. We demonstrate and characterize such a phase transition in a system of ultrahigh-Q optomechanical Silicon Nitride membrane resonators, and then employ it to study the influence of system-bath interactions on criticality and phase transitions. In particular, we develop an active feedback protocol that allows us to change not only the strength of the resonators' interactions with the bath but also the very nature of their interactions (non-Markovian vs Markovian). We experimentally demonstrate that these can markedly influence the criticality of the driven-dissipative phase transition through measurements of critical and scaling exponents, which significantly change with changing system-bath interactions. Furthermore, we also demonstrate that the very phases that the system supports can be influenced by the interactions – a class of non-Markovian interactions is shown to effect a phase, a nonequilibrium steady state, that has no analog in the Markovian case. Lastly, we consider a couple of applications of these resonator systems to enhance force-sensing capabilities. We also discuss the future prospects of such control techniques and other extensions of the works presented in this thesis for gaining further insights into the influence of system-bath interactions on system properties and behavior. [1] Nondestructive imaging of an ultracold lattice gas, Y. S. Patil, S. Chakram, L. M. Aycock, and M. Vengalattore, Physical Review A, 90, 033422 (2014) [2] Measurement-induced localization of an ultracold lattice gas, Y. S. Patil, S. Chakram, and M. Vengalattore, Physical Review Letters 115, 140402 (2015) [3] Thermomechanical Two-Mode Squeezing in an Ultrahigh-Q Membrane Resonator, Y. S. Patil, S. Chakram, L. Chang, and M. Vengalattore, Physical Review Letters 115, 017202 (2015) [4] Critical behavior of a driven dissipative system: Universality beyond the Markovian regime, Y. S. Patil, H. F. H. Cheung, T. Villazon, A. G. Date, A. Polkovnikov, A. Chandran, and M. Vengalattore [5] Emergent dynamical order and time translation symmetry breaking due to non-Markovian system-bath interactions, Y. S. Patil, H. F. H. Cheung, and M. Vengalattore [6] Back-action evading measurements of two quadratures using a parametric coupling, Y. S. Patil, S. Chakram, and M. Vengalattore [7] Multimode phononic correlations in a nondegenerate parametric amplifier, S. Chakram, Y. S. Patil, and M. Vengalattore, New Journal of Physics 17, 063018 (2015) [8] Emergent phases and novel critical behavior in a non-Markovian open quantum system, H. F. H. Cheung, Y. S. Patil, and M. Vengalattore, Physical Review A (2018) [9] Demonstration of enhanced force sensitivity using a transient squeezing protocol, H. F. H. Cheung, Y. S. Patil, L. Chang, S. Chakram, and M. Vengalattore [10] Dissipation in ultrahigh quality factor SiN membrane resonators, S. Chakram, Y. S. Patil, L. Chang, and M. Vengalattore, Physical Review Letters 112, 127201 (2014
A Clinical Study of Newly Diagnosed HIV Patients at ICTC Center in Shri B M Patil Medical College, Bijapur with Correlation to CD4 + at Presentation
No full textBackground: WHO estimates that with continued escalation of HIV transmission, nearly 9 million HIV-infected people will reside in South-East Asia by the turn of the century. In India, two new infections occur every minute. National Aids Control Organization (NACO) estimates that by year 2025 the majority of new HIV infections in the world will occur in Asia and India will probably have the largest number of infected persons of any single country. The objectives is to study the baseline values of CD+ count in newly diagnosed to be infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). SubjectsandMethods: The present cross sectional study was conducted at Shri B M Patil Medical College and Hospital, Bijapur form March 2017 to April 2018. A total of 100 newly Diagnosed HIV Patients of all Age Group either asymptomatic or presenting with one or other opportunity infections are included in the study. Results: 39% of them were in the age group of 35-45 years. Cough fever and weight loss were the most common clinical presentation on admission. The most common opportunistic infection at presentation was Pulmonary Tuberculosis (74%). followed by Candidiasis (62%). Among the population studied, majority were in the 35-45 yr. age group (39) out of which 25 individuals had a CD 4 count of< 200 cells/3. In the patients with CD 4 Count less than 200 cell extra pulmonary tuberculosis was most common. Candidiasis was also seen in the patients with CD4 count less than 200 cell/l. Conclusion: The most common route of transmission was the sexual route, predominantly heterosexual route.. The patients being diagnosed with HIV infection present with one or more of the opportunistic infections and frequently have a CD 4+ count < 200 cells/l. This calls for increasing awareness about HIV in the general population so as to identify the disease at the earliest. 
Typification of some names in Indian Barleria L. (Acanthaceae)
No full textPatil, Suraj S., Deshmukh, Pradip V., Lekhak, Manoj M. (2022): Typification of some names in Indian Barleria L. (Acanthaceae). Phytotaxa 547 (3): 285-294, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.547.3.
Experimental models with specific approaches to augment human fetal liver cell engraftment
No full textExperimental models with specific approaches to augment human fetal liver cell engraftment
Pradeep Patil
Department of Surgery, Institute of Clinical Sciences,
Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg
Background: Liver disease is a common cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Orthotopic liver transplantation has so far been the only available therapy for patients with end-stage liver failure. Unfortunately, the availability of donor organs is limited and more than 40% of patients become too sick to survive each year while waiting for liver transplants. Cellular therapy with stem cells and their progeny is a promising new approach to this largely unmet medical need, but is yet to be integrated into the current clinical system. Impediments in cell transplantation are well characterized, but there is lack of reliable solutions, which has limited the use of this technique to act as a bridge (temporary support) to transplantation.
Aims: Studies covered under the current thesis are focused on validation and evaluation of reliable cell sources and feasible protocols for enhancing their engraftment and proliferation in animal models.
Materials and methods: The mammalian fetal liver contains colony-forming cells with high proliferative potential. The use of human fetal liver cells (hFLCs) is a suitable candidate for the purpose of cell therapy and diagnostics. We have evaluated hFLCs lines as a potential source of stem cells and tested their in vivo functions in a model of liver injury using nude mouse.
Results and discussion: This thesis has shown that the regimens of preconditioning (using chemokines) or the co-transplantation (liver cells with mesenchymal stem cells) have the possibility to augment engraftment. Also, manipulating liver cells ex vivo to increase longevity helps in growing cell colonies much faster for many passages to produce a limitless population. It also demonstrates a novel marker to isolate adult or fetal liver stellate cells, which has an important role in immunoregulation and liver fibrosis.
Summary: This thesis describes and highlights novel and feasible approaches in liver cell transplantation, with the possibility to improve current clinical protocols.
Keywords: cell transplantation, chemokines, SV40, stellate cell, MSC
The influence of genotype, ring specificity, gamma irradiation, location, soil type, and growth stage on the contents of the anticarcinogenic flavonol, quercetin, in onion (Allium cepa L.)
No full textVita.The variation in quercetin content due to genotypes was investigated using reverse phase high perform ance liquid chrom atography (HPLC). D ifferent quercetin glucosides were hydrolyzed into aglycones. On a fresh weight basis, total quercetin content in yellow and red onions varied from 56.16 to 286.40 m g/kg in different genotypes. White onions contained only a trace amount of total quercetin. One o f the TAES genotypes'20272-G 'had the highest aglycone content 12.50 mg/kg. A decrease in total quercetin content was observed from the dry skin to the inner rings, and both m iddle rings (5-6) and inner rings (7-10) contained less total quercetin in all genotypes. The highest total quercetin content was observed in the dry skins o f'R ed Bone', while the white 'Contessa', contained the least amount. Among the edible parts, total quercetin content in outer scales of'K adavan' was the highest. Outer rings o f all genotypes except 'TG1015Y' and 'Contessa' contained moderate amounts o f the aglycone. The highest concentration o f aglycone was observed in 'Kadavan' skin. Total quercetin content in 'Dorado' (diced) and 'Cardinal' (whole bulb) increased significantly (P=0.05) both at 0.8 and 1.2 kGy. Aglycone content increased significantly (P=0.05) in diced onions treated both at 0.8 and 1.2 kGy in 'Cardinal', 'Dorado', and '20352G ' genotypes. A glycone content in whole bulbs did not show a significant increase. W ounding alone did not influence total quercetin content during seven days stored at -20C. Four genotypes showed significant differences in total quercetin content due to tw o locations. Total quercetin content in 'T G 10I5Y ' due to different growth stages indicated differences but they were not significant. At second growth stage (23 Mar.) onions grown in the sandy loam soil, exhibited a significant (P=0.05) increase in total quercetin content over those harvested at the first growth stage (9 Mar.). However, total quercetin content o f onions in both fields were found be m ore or less sim ilar on both first and the last growth stages (21 Apr.). Thus, quercetin content was influenced by both the location and growth stage
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
On the Cohen–Macaulayness of some graded rings
No full textLet (R,m) be a 1-dimensional Cohen-Macaulay local ring of multiplicity e and embedding dimension v ≥2 . Let B denote the blowing-up of R along m and let I be the conductor of R in B. Let x be a superficial element in m of degree 1 and I' = (I +xR)/xR . We assume that the length l(I') = 1 . This class of local rings contains the class of 1-dimensional Gorenstein local rings . In section 1, we prove that if the associated graded ring G = gr(R) is Cohen-Macaulay, then I is contained in m^s + xR , where s is the degree of the h-polynomial h(R) of R. In section 2, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the Cohen-Macaulayness of G.
These conditions are numerical conditions on the h-polynomial h(R) , particularly on its coefficients and the degree in comparison with the difference e − v . In section 3, we give some conditions for the Gorensteinness of G. In section 4, we give a characterisation (see 4.3) of numerical semigroup rings which satisfy the condition l(I') =
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