893 research outputs found
Newer Diagnostics for Dengue Disease
No full textBiosensor technology can circumvent the limitations while retaining almost all the advantages of laboratory-based diagnostics. Biosensors are analytical devices that involve integration between a molecular recognition platform with a physicochemical transducer to produce a single detection processing unit. The suitability of biosensors is evaluated by a set of parameters based on the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry guidelines, which include specificity, selectivity, limit of detection, and sensitivity. Electrochemical biosensors for dengue detection have become the overwhelming method of choice among researchers due to their ability to be highly quantitative and qualitative. Much attention is placed on the transducer surface selection, which immobilizes the biorecognition element. Antibodies, which are amongst the most exquisitely designed and engineered molecules in nature, play a vital role in a number of sensor devices, due to their exquisite target specificity and affinity. Antibodies are ideal biorecognition elements that provide sensors with high specificity and sensitivity
Ananda Devi – pisarka skrzyżowania kultur
No full textAnanda Devi is a francophone-Mauritian writer who lives (and creates) near Geneva. She is the author of numerous novels, short stories and volumes of poetry. Although the stories of her characters are fictitious, Devi’s texts are strongly inspired by her native island, its history and its ethnic, cultural and linguistic heterogeneity. In her novels, Devi employs numerous stylistic devices to empower individuals who are regarded as worse, excluded from the society due to their deficits.Ananda Devi is a francophone-Mauritian writer who lives (and creates) near Geneva. She is the author of numerous novels, short stories and volumes of poetry. Although the stories of her characters are fictitious, Devi’s texts are strongly inspired by her native island, its history and its ethnic, cultural and linguistic heterogeneity. In her novels, Devi employs numerous stylistic devices to empower individuals who are regarded as worse, excluded from the society due to their deficits
Quintuplex PCR to detect antibiotic resistance genes in Streptococcus pneumoniae / Navindra Kumari Palanisamy, Parasakthi Navaratnam and Shamala Devi Sekaran
No full textStreptococcus pneumoniae is an important bacterial pathogen, causing respiratory infection. Penicillin resistance in S. pneumoniae is associated with alterations in the penicillin binding proteins, while resistance to macrolides is conferred either by the modification of the ribosomal target site or efflux mechanism. This study aimed to characterize S. pneumoniae and its antibiotic resistance genes using 2 sets of multiplex PCRs
The epidemiology of pneumococcal carriage and infections in Malaysia
No full textIn Malaysia, various aspects of the epidemiology of pneumococcal carriage and disease remain largely unclear due to the lack of supporting data. Although a number of relevant studies have been documented, their individual discrete findings are not sufficient to inform experts on pneumococcal epidemiology at a national level. Therefore, in this review we aim to bring together and systematically evaluate the key information regarding pneumococcal disease epidemiology in Malaysia and provide a comprehensive overview of the data. Major aspects discussed include pneumococcal carriage, disease incidence and prevalence, age factors, invasiveness of pneumococci, serotypes, molecular epidemiology and antibiotic susceptibility. Penicillin resistance is increasingly prevalent and studies suggest that the majority of pneumococcal serotypes causing pneumococcal disease in Malaysia are covered by currently available conjugate vaccines. Continued surveillance is needed to provide a better understanding of pneumococcal epidemiology in Malaysia
Novel clones of Streptococcus pneumoniae causing invasive disease in Malaysia.
No full textAlthough Streptococcus pneumoniae is a leading cause of childhood disease in South East Asia, little has previously been reported regarding the epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease in Malaysia and very few studies have explored pneumococcal epidemiology using multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Here we describe serotype, multilocus sequence type (ST), and penicillin susceptibility of thirty pneumococcal invasive disease isolates received by the University of Malaya Medical Centre between February 2000 and January 2007 and relate this to the serotypes included in current pneumococcal conjugate vaccines. A high level of diversity was observed; fourteen serotypes and 26 sequence types (ST), (11 of which were not previously described) were detected from 30 isolates. Penicillin non-susceptible pneumococci accounted for 33% of isolates. The extent of molecular heterogeneity within carried and disease-causing Malaysian pneumococci remains unknown. Larger surveillance and epidemiological studies are now required in this region to provide robust evidence on which to base future vaccine policy
Une interview avec Ananda Devi
No full textAn interview with Ananda Devi, which was conducted by Associate Professor Anna Czarnowus and Dr Marta Mamet-Michalkiewicz in 2019. The author talks about her own multilingualism, the novels where she dicusses violence, including sexual violence, her literary inspirations, the symbolism of her texts, female anger and feminism, the cultural meaning of cooking, and her novel 'The Living Days'.Wywiad z Anandą Devi przeprowadzony przez dr. hab. Annę Czarnowus i dr. Martę Mamet-Michalkiewicz z Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w 2019 roku. W wywiadzie autorka opowiada o swojej wielojęzyczności, powieściach, w których opisuje przemoc, również seksualną, swoich inspiracjach pisarskich, symbolice w swoich tekstach, kobiecym gniewie i feminizmie, kulturowym znaczeniu gotowania oraz powieści 'Les jours vivants'
Ananda Devi: a writer at the crossroads of cultures
No full textAnanda Devi is a francophone-Mauritian writer who lives (and creates) near Geneva. She is the author of numerous novels, short stories and volumes of poetry. Although the stories of her characters are fictitious, Devi’s texts are strongly inspired by her native island, its history and its ethnic, cultural and linguistic heterogeneity. In her novels, Devi employs numerous stylistic devices to empower individuals who are regarded as worse, excluded from the society due to their deficits
An Interview with Ananda Devi
No full textAn interview with Ananda Devi, which was conducted by Associate Professor Anna Czarnowus and Dr Marta Mamet-Michalkiewicz in 2019. The author talks about her own multilingualism, the novels where she dicusses violence, including sexual violence, her literary inspirations, the symbolism of her texts, female anger and feminism, the cultural meaning of cooking, and her novel \u27The Living Days\u27.Wywiad z Anandą Devi przeprowadzony przez dr. hab. Annę Czarnowus i dr. Martę Mamet-Michalkiewicz z Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w 2019 roku. W wywiadzie autorka opowiada o swojej wielojęzyczności, powieściach, w których opisuje przemoc, również seksualną, swoich inspiracjach pisarskich, symbolice w swoich tekstach, kobiecym gniewie i feminizmie, kulturowym znaczeniu gotowania oraz powieści \u27Les jours vivants\u27
Alpinist adaptive potential and the dynamics of adaptation in Janusz Klarner’s „Nanda Devi”
No full textWyprawa alpinistów na Nanda Devi była pierwszą polską pomyślnie zakończoną wędrówką w Himalajach. Nanda Devi była bardzo trudnym wyzwaniem dla polskiej ekipy, ale po wielu niebezpiecznych sytuacjach w końcu osiągnęli szczyt. W kolejnym kroku alpiniści chcieli zdobyć szczyt Tirsuli. Niestety, dwóch ekspedytorów zostało zasypanych lawiną na zboczach lodowca. Janusz Klarner (członek ekipy polskich alpinistów) po kilku latach napisał książkę Nanda Devi, opartą na jego prywatnym dzienniku ekspedycyjnym. Główną tezą artykułu jest to, że dotarcie do Nanda Devi było możliwe dzięki odpowiedniej szybkości adaptacji. Himalaje były zupełnie nieznanym miejscem dla polskich alpinistów. Okoliczności wymagały adaptacji do nowych, wymagających warunków. W artykule autor analizuje te adaptacje. Niektóre z nich miały wymiar symboliczny, inne: kulturowy, techniczny oraz aksjologiczny. Korzystając z ustaleń Deleuze'a z Bergsonizmu, autor uznaje, że zdolność do odpowiednio dynamicznej adaptacji jest wynikiem odpowiedniego uporządkowania występującego w danym momencie. Podsumowując, autor rozważa różne powiązania wzorców kulturowych, przyczynowości osobistej i względów środowiskowychAlpinist expedition to the Nanda Devi was the first Polish successfully ended hiking in the Himalaya. Nanda Devi was a very tough challenge for Polish team but after many dangerous situations they finally reached the peak. As a next step alpinists wanted to reach Tirsuli peak. Unluckily, two of the expeditors were buried in an avalanche on the slopes of a glacier. Janusz Klarner (the member of the Polish alpinists team) after few years wrote a book Nanda Devi which is based on his private expedition journal. The main thesis of the article is that reaching Nanda Devi was possible by the accurate speed of adaptation. The Himalaya was a completely different and unknown place for Polish alpinists. Alpinists were forced to various adaptations in many different situations. In the article author analyses emerging changes and adaptations. Among them are symbolic, cultural, technical and axiological adaptations. Using Deleuze's findings from Bergsonizm, the author recognizes that the capacity for appropriately dynamic adaptation is the result of an appropriate arrangement occurring at a point in time. To sum up, an author considers various connections between cultural patterns, personal causality and environmental considerations
Ananda Devi et certains de l’exil
No full textInspired by Devi’s Ceux du large (2017) and by authors connected to her, a performance has been created by the author, who was to conduct an oral creative workshop among whose participants were young immigrants. Trying to take into account both dimensions of such an artistic but also human experience, the text points out the links between Ananda Devi’s words and the young immigrants’ ones, and also the influence of having read them on the way to lead the workshop. But, above all, it shows how such a poetic writing is necessary not to reduce migration to a simple and measurable fact.Inspirée par des pages de Ceux du large (Ananda Devi, 2017) et des pages d’autres auteurs avec lesquels Ananda Devi est en lien, une performance été faite par un artiste-chercheur devant aussi animer un atelier de création sonore et à la même période. Parmi les participants se trouvaient de jeunes migrants. Essayant de prendre en compte toutes les dimensions d’une telle expérience aussi bien humaine qu’artistique, le texte fait apparaître les liens entre les mots d’Ananda Devi et ceux des jeunes migrants, et aussi l’influence de les avoir lus sur la façon de conduire l’atelier. Mais, par-dessus tout, il s’agit de montrer combien une telle écriture poétique est nécessaire pour ne pas réduire la migration à un simple fait mesurable
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