11 research outputs found
Zeolite-based catalysts development for upgrading of bio-oils derived from fast pyrolysis of biomass
No full text弘前大学博士（理学）Catalytic upgrading of bio-oils derived from terrestrial and marine biomass over various types of zeolites
Author(s)：Virdi Chaerusani,Aghietyas Choirun Az Zahra,Aisikaer Anniwaer,Pan Zhang,Nichaboon Chaihad,Jenny Rizkiana,Katsuki Kusakabe,Yutaka Kasai,Abuliti Abudula,Guoqing Guan
Publication：Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis (Volume 168, November 2022, 105735)
Publisher：Elsevier
DOI：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaap.2022.105735
© 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Negotiating Normalcy: Deafness Cures in American History
No full textJaipreet Virdi, PhD, presented the 14th annual Richard B. Davis, MD, PhD, History of Medicine Lecture on April 14, 2023.
During the late 19th century, entrepreneurs began to glut the direct-to-consumer medical market with a plethora of remedies they professed could miraculously cure deafness. They claimed their medicines and machines fostered a world of unbridled optimism for providing hope to deaf ears. Even as medical specialists denounced these cure-all treatments as quackery in its finest form, the messages of restoring hearing would transfer over to the hearing aid industry.
Focusing on the marketing of cures for deafness — hearing trumpets, electrotherapy apparatuses and hearing aids — this presentation unravels the many ways deaf people sought to restore or gain hearing. This history provides a broad context for understanding the lived experiences of deaf people and how cultural pressures of normalcy significantly stigmatized deafness.
Dr. Virdi is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Delaware. A historian of medicine, technology and disability, she has focused her research on the ways medicine and technology impact people with disability. She is author of “Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History” (University of Chicago Press, 2020), is co-editor of “Disability and the Victorians: Attitudes, Legacies, Interventions” (Manchester University Press, 2020) and has published articles on diagnostic technologies, audiometry and the medicalization of deafness.https://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/davis/1002/thumbnail.jp
Feasibility study on a dedicated cacao terminal in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
No full textThis study investigates the possibilities of the development of a dedicated cacaoterminal in the port of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.The port of Abidjan is the most important port in West Africa. The port handles about 15 million tons of cargo a year. One of the main export products is cacao. The developments in the cacao industry are mainly dictated by the biggest importer of cacao, the Port of Amsterdam. As a supplier Abidjan has to follow the developments in order to deliver the cacao according to the client's requirements. The last ten years represented a shift in the cacao shipping. While in former days the cacao was transported as general cargo, in gunnysacks on pallets, nowadays it is also possible to transport the cacao as bulk good (bulk containers or megabulk). This study consists of two parts. The first part investigates how the Port of Abidjan can seize up on to these developments and which port facilities are necessary for a dedicated cacao terminal. As cacao is a seasonal good, the cacao throughput varies throughout the year. In order to create a sufficient return on investment this variation is an important factor. The quality preservation of the cacao beans during the whole transport chain is very important. Criteria as moisture, sweat (precipitation of moisture on beans during shipping) broken beans and heating, what can cause fire, are of importance. The second part investigates the accessibility through the "Canal de Virdi", which all entering in the port ships have to pass.In order to receive the larger vessels nautical adjustments to the present port entrance are necessary. Some rigorous alternatives to increase the accessibility of the channel were proposed. It concerned alternatives that provide unconditional entrance for the above mentioned vessels. For this purpose it is proposed to replace the entire eastern breakwater in order to broaden the entrance. This is a very rigorous and expensive solution. Besides the alternatives disregard the special design of the channel mouth. It was designed to avoid the formation of a sand bar near the entrance. The shape of the entrance was specially studied for at one hand to create a maximal flushing effect of the channel and on the other hand to maintain a prevailing ebb current over the flood current. HASKONING has studied the issue and has proposed a low cost solution, which keeps the channel mouth itself unimpaired but creates a manoeuvring space directly inside the channel. The navigability should be improved, as ships will have more space and time after the narrow entrance to adjust their course and get in line with the channel's axis.Hydraulic EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Isolation and characterization of bacteriophages from India, with lytic activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
No full textBacteriophages are being considered as a promising natural resource for the development of alternative strategies against mycobacterial diseases, especially in the context of the wide spread occurrence of drug-resistance amongst the clinical isolates of M. tuberculosis. However, there isnâ t much information documented on mycobacteriophages from India. Here, we report the isolation of 17 mycobacteriophages using M. smegmatis as the bacterial host where 9 phages also lyse M. tuberculosis H37Rv. We present detailed analysis of one of these mycobacteriophage (PDRPv). TEM and PCR analysis (of a conserved region within the TMP gene) shows PDRPv to belong to Siphoviridae family and B1 sub-cluster, respectively. The genome (69110 bp) of PDRPv is circularly permuted double-stranded DNA with ~66% GC content and has 106 open reading frames (ORFs). On the basis of sequence similarity and conserved domains, we have assigned function to 28 ORFs and have broadly categorized them into six groups that are related to replication genome maintenance, DNA packaging, virion release, structural proteins, lysogeny related genes and endolysins.
The present study reports the occurrence of novel anti-mycobacterial phages in India and highlights their potential to contribute to our understanding of these phages and their gene products as potential antimicrobial agents.The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author
Professionalising the contribution of HE third space professionals – developing themselves to support others
No full text© 2025 The Author. Published by the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link: https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi33.1224This case study discusses the introduction of a new student support role, the Senior Academic Coach, at the University of Wolverhampton. Firmly located in the ‘third space’, Senior Academic Coaches reside in the liminal space between the traditional academic and administrative roles. Using skills and knowledge gained through the completion of the ILM Effective Coaching and Mentoring qualification, they lead faculty-based academic coaching teams. These teams provide the predominant support that levels 3 and 4 and international level 7 students receive as they transition into and through higher education. Students’ interactions with the Academic Coaches provide them with the knowledge and tools to be successful. Using a narrative approach, Senior Academic Coaches were interviewed about how the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) course supports them in developing and delivering their roles. The findings are delivered via a composite Senior Academic Coach, who relates the transformative impact of the ILM on a personal and professional level. It was found that the ILM provided the framework which not only underpins how coaches work with students, but also how they navigate supporting their teams as first-time line managers. The ILM encouraged them to reflect on their own development and helped them challenge feelings of imposterism, as well as providing them with the skills that they needed to challenge senior staff as they worked to develop, and advocate for, the role. We close by arguing that there is no better time to listen to the lived experiences of these marginalised HE workers in order to better understand the impact of providing more funding to support these types of third-space roles
Author Correction: scCircle-seq unveils the diversity and complexity of extrachromosomal circular DNAs in single cells
No full textFocal therapy compared to radical prostatectomy for non-metastatic prostate cancer: a propensity score-matched study
No full text\ua9 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited part of Springer Nature.Introduction: Focal therapy (FT) ablates areas of prostate cancer rather than treating the whole gland. We compared oncological outcomes of FT to radical prostatectomy (RP). Methods: Using prospective multicentre databases of 761 FT and 572 RP cases (November/2005-September/2018), patients with PSA < 20 ng/ml, Gleaso
Search for singly and pair-produced leptoquarks coupling to third-generation fermions in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV
No full text© 2021 The Author(s)A search for leptoquarks produced singly and in pairs in proton-proton collisions is presented. We consider the leptoquark (LQ) to be a scalar particle of charge −1/3e coupling to a top quark plus a tau lepton (tτ) or a bottom quark plus a neutrino (bν), or a vector particle of charge +2/3e, coupling to tν or bτ. These choices are motivated by models that can explain a series of anomalies observed in the measurement of B meson decays. In this analysis the signatures tτνb and tτν are probed, using data recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC at s=13 TeV and that correspond to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb−1. These signatures have not been previously explored in a dedicated search. The data are found to be in agreement with the standard model prediction. Lower limits at 95% confidence level are set on the LQ mass in the range 0.98–1.73 TeV, depending on the LQ spin and its coupling λ to a lepton and a quark, and assuming equal couplings for the two LQ decay modes considered. These are the most stringent constraints to date on the existence of leptoquarks in this scenario
The phenomenon of possession and exorcism in north India and amongst the Punjabi diaspora in Wolverhampton.
No full textA thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton for the degree of Master of PhilosophyBased upon two years fieldwork in Wolverhampton and Coventry, and several field trips to Punjab, this thesis focuses on the prevalence of possession and exorcism as a manifestation of Punjabi religion amongst the Punjabi diaspora in Wolverhampton. Euro-centric scholarship and reform movements in the 1900s, in India, suppressed religious traditions that did not conform to the textual and institutionalised forms of religion. This thesis proposes that the phenomenon of possession and exorcism observed amongst the Punjabi diaspora in Wolverhampton is in no way novel, rather it is a diasporic reconstruction of a vital tradition found within the religious traditions from the Punjab, and on a larger scale in the Indian sub-continent. Furthermore the Punjabi diaspora in Wolverhampton are in no way unique in the re-construction of this religious tradition in Britain. Various forms of supernatural malaise are prevalent amongst the Punjabi diaspora in Wolverhampton that are utilised by the community to explain the inexplicable diversities they face in daily life. These supernatural afflictions provide the Punjabi diaspora with a useful method of accepting adversity but also various methods to tackle it through the assistance of a baba or bhagat. This thesis explores the underlying cosmological discourses prevalent in the worldview of north Indian religious traditions in an attempt to analyse a relatively untouched phenomenon of religious beliefs and practices of the Punjabi diaspora in Wolverhampton
