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Barilius pakistanicus Mirza & Sadiq 1978
No full text<i>Barilius pakistanicus</i> Mirza & Sadiq, 1978 [N]—Baril <p> <b>Taxonomy.</b> Original description: <i>Barilius vagra pakistanicus</i> Mirza & Sadiq, 1978: 1, fig. [Reservoir in Fort Monro, elevation 1909 metres, Khan District, Pakistan; holotype: GCM F 9].— Afghanistan synonyms: None.— Revisions: None.—Illustration: Mirza & Sadiq (1978: 1, fig.) as <i>Barilius vagra pakistanicus</i>.</p> <p> <b>Status in Afghanistan.</b> First record from Afghanistan by Banarescu and Nalbant (1975) then subsequently Moravec and Amin (1978); confirmed by Coad (1981: 9; 2014: 129; 2015: 227).—Afghanistan materials: None.</p> <p> <b>Distribution and habitat.</b> Distribution in Afghanistan: Matun River, Chamkani River, Kabul River.—General distribution: South Asia: Afghanistan, Pakistan and Kashmir.—Habitat: This species occurs in both fast-running and standing streams in mainly shallow but also deep areas. It is an omnivore and is thought to have a moderate tolerance for habitat degradation. Freshwater.</p> <p> <b>Economic importance.</b> Has potential to be used as aquarium fish.</p> <p> <b>Conservation.</b> Conservation status in Afghanistan: Unknown.—IUCN: LC (Daniels 2021e).—Threats: CLI, CON, ABS, HAB, EUT.—Low sensitivity to human activities.—Keystone species.—Decline status: Stable.—Low priority for conservation action.</p>Published as part of <i>Çiçek, Erdoğan, Fricke, Ronald, Eagderi, Soheil, Sungur, Sevil, Coad, Brian W & Hamdard, Mohammad Hamid, 2023, Fishes of Afghanistan; a revised and updated annotated checklist, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 5305 (1)</i> on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5305.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/8048564">http://zenodo.org/record/8048564</a>
sj-pdf-1-sco-10.1177_2050313X221080642 – Supplemental material for A case of sudden mixed hearing loss in SARS-CoV-2
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-sco-10.1177_2050313X221080642 for A case of sudden mixed hearing loss in SARS-CoV-2 by Abid M Sadiq, Denis R Katundu and Huda F Akrabi in SAGE Open Medical Case Reports</p
Recent advances in biopolymeric antioxidant films and coatings for preservation of nutritional quality of minimally processed fruits and vegetables
No full textMinimally processed F&V while being as fresh as the intact product, are characterized by an accelerated produce decay which affects its nutritional value during shelf-life. In this sense, food processing needs to further evolve in terms of better preservation of nutritional properties. Active packaging technology has shown positive and promising results to maintain safety and sensory properties of minimally processed F&V. This review aims to present the recent research results regarding biopolymeric antioxidant film and coating for preservation of nutritional quality of minimally processed F&V. The mechanism by which nutritional losses (around 5–30 % loss of ascorbic acid and phenolic compounds) occur from oxidation reactions in F&V and natural antioxidant have been discussed. Furthermore, regulatory aspects related to antioxidant packaging have been also reported. Biopolymers based antioxidant film and coating have been vastly used to pack F&V product. Chitosan, gelatin, casein and alginate were found to be more effective as packaging materials (both as coating and as film) to preserve the nutritional and sensory quality of F&V product. Furthermore, plant extracts (green tea and Aloe vera), essential oils (lemon grass), plant oil compounds (eugenol and citral) and phenolics (thymol) as a component of active film or coating systems have shown promising results in preserving the quality of fresh produce. The collected findings will be useful to accurately design an innovative active film or coating for nutritional quality preservation of minimally processed fresh fruits and vegetables
The legal framework for private sector development in a transitional economy : the case of Poland
No full textThe economies of Central and Eastern Europe are in the midst of a historic transition from central planning and state ownership to development of a market-driven private sector. This transition requires comprehensive changes in"rules of the game"- including the legal framework for economic activity. A market economy presupposes a set of property rights and a system of laws or customs that allow the exchange of those rights. The legal framework in a market economy has at least three basic functions: defining the universe of property rights; setting the rules for entry into and exit from productive activities; and setting the rules of market exchange. These legal tasks are accomplished by areas of law such as: company, foreign investment, bankruptcy, contract and competition law. Poland has a rich legal tradition dating from pre-socialist times, which was suppressed but not eliminated during its forty years of socialism. This tradition is being revised as the country moves toward a private market economy. The current legal framework in Poland closely follows other continental jurisdictions and has a clear and reasonable internal logic. Many of the laws are old, but most are flexible enough to permit a wide range of modern, market-oriented activity. Property law, however, remains a"jungle". The wide discretion and general lack of precedent create tremendous legal uncertainty that is sure to hamper private sector development.Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Municipal Housing and Land,Legal Products,Land and Real Estate Development
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
[Newspaper Clipping: Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin #1]
No full textNewspaper article titled "Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin." The article states that author Richard J. Whalen concluded "that there is circumstantial evidence to support the theory of a second assassin in the shooting of President John F. Kennedy.
Extension of the Genomic Conceptual Model to Integrate Genome-Wide Association Studies
No full textThe first human genome has been sequenced at the turn of the year 2000. Since then, modern biology has made great progresses, also thanks to the introduction of Next-generation sequencing in the mid-2000s. The growing availability of genomic data led to the birth of tertiary analysis, concerning sense-making and extraction of useful biological information. To deal with data heterogeneity, in the last decade many tools have been introduced to achieve genomic data integration: among them, the Genomic Conceptual Model (GCM) and the META-BASE architecture. The latter one allows to map data from many projects into the GCM through an integration pipeline. In this work, we proposed an extension of the GCM to integrate two additional sources into the META-BASE architecture, namely: GWAS Catalog (curated by the NHGRI and EBI institutes) and FinnGen (curated by the University of Helsinki). These two sources host Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS), useful for explaining the connection between genome variations of single nucleotides and particular traits. They are organized according to different data models but share the same data semantics. As a result of our integration efforts, we enable the interoperable use and querying of GWAS datasets with several other genomic datasets (including TCGA, ENCODE, Roadmap Epigenomics, 1000 Genomes Project, and GENCODE)
Also By The Same Author: AKTiveAuthor, a Citation Graph Approach to Name Disambiguation
No full textThe desire for definitive data and the semantic web drive for inference over heterogeneous data sources requires co-reference resolution to be performed on those data. In particular, name disambiguation is required to allow accurate publication lists, citation counts and impact measures to be determined. This paper describes a graph-based approach to author disambiguation on large-scale citation networks. Using self-citation, co-authorship and document source analyses, AKTiveAuthor clusters papers, achieving precision of 0.997 and recall of 0.818 over a test group of eight surname clusters
John F. Kennedy telegram to Roosevelt
No full textJersey Homesteads (later the Borough of Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban Jewish garment workers, many of whom had emigrated from Europe. President John F. Kennedy sent a telegram to the citizens of Roosevelt, New Jersey, apologizing for not being able to attend the memorial dedication in honor of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (Jersey Homesteads became Roosevelt in 1945 in honor of the president.) President Kennedy expressed his gratitude to the people of Roosevelt for constructing the memorial, and commented that it will serve as a constant reminder of Roosevelt's good works
Logarithmic variance profiles and the corresponding f-1 spectra of temperature fluctuations in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection
No full textWe report experimental results for the temperature variance 2(z) and the corresponding frequency spectra P(f) in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection (RBC) in a cylindrical sample of aspect ratioT= D/L = 1:00 (D = 1:12 m is the diameter and L = 1:12 m the height). The measurements were conducted in the Rayleigh-number range 1011 < Ra < 1:35 1014 and Pr ' 0:8. For Ra = 1:35x1014, 2(z) could be described well by a logarithmic dependence on the vertical position z in a range of z 1 < z < z 2 with z 1 ' 70 and z 2 = 0:1L. Here L=(2Nu) is the thickness of a thin thermal sublayer adjacent to the horizontal plate where the heat flux (denoted by the Nusselt number Nu) is carried mostly by thermal diffusion. In the log layer, we found that the temperature spectra had a significant frequency range over which P(f) f with close to 1. As Ra decreased, increased so that the log layer became thinner. At Ra = 2:05 1011, z 2 < z 1 and therefore there was no range for a log layer. Correspondingly, the temperature spectrum near the horizontal plate did not have the f1 scaling form either
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