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Hydraulic simulations to evaluate and predict design and operation of the Chashma Right Bank Canal
No full textIrrigation systems / Irrigation canals / Flow control / Velocity / Canal regulation techniques / Hydraulics / Simulation models / Design / Operations / Crop-based irrigation / Distributary canals / Water delivery / Policy / Protective irrigation / Water allocation / Water requirements / Sedimentation / Water distribution / Equity / Water conveyance / Pakistan / Chashma Right Bank Canal
Hymenagaricus pakistanicus M. F. Syed, sp. nov.
No full textHymenagaricus pakistanicus M.F. Syed & M. Saba, sp. nov. Figs. 3–5 MycoBank:—MB846346 Etymology:—“pakistanicus” refers to Pakistan, the country where the type was collected. Diagnostic characters:— H. pakistanicus sp. nov. is distinguished from all other known taxa by a pileus with striate margin, and the absence of a membranous annulus. Holotype:— PAKISTAN. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, district Karak, Tehsil Takht-e-Nasrati, Ziarat Siraj Khel, 70.40°– 71.30°N 32.48°– 33.23°E, elevation 556 m, gregarious on sandy clay soil, near Phoenix dactylifera L., Zizyphus spp (L.) Meikle, 28 August 2020, leg. M. F. Syed, coll. FAK195 (ISL-F0010). GenBank ITS accession number OP082404. Description:— Basidiomata small to medium-sized. Pileus 2.4–3.0 cm in diameter, hemispherical to convex when young, plano-convex to applanate at maturity; white to pinkish white; central disk dark brown (7.5YR1/2#2B180E) with numerous small dark olive brown (2.5Y2/4#422D09) squamules on a light brown (5YR6/4#B78B78) background; margin striate, sometimes with floccose remnants (Fig. 3A–E). Lamellae free, dark reddish orange (7.5YR4/8#9E4540), regular, distant, with denticulate edge, intercalated with lamellulae, (Fig. 3D). Stipe 3–3.2 × 0.29–0.3 cm, central, cylindrical, with or without bulbous base, fistulose, equal, texture rough, reddish brown, sometimes covered with white fine squamules or fibrils. (Fig. 3C–E). Annulus absent. Context slightly reddening when cut or injured. Spore print dark brown. Smell indistinct. Taste unknown. Basidiospores [60/3/4] (4.6–)4.9–6.2(–6.5) × (3.1–)3.3–4.9(–5.2) µm, Q = 1.13–1.80, Qav = 1.44, avl × avw = 5.7 × 3.9 μm, subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, smooth, thick-walled, yellowish brown to dark brown, apiculate, with central guttule (Figs. 4A, 5A). Basidia 15.6–24.1 × 5.2–10.4 µm, tetra-sterigmate (Fig. 4C), clavate, smoothwalled; sterigmata 2.6–2.8 µm long (Fig. 5B). Cheilocystidia 15.6–33.8 × 5.2–10.4 µm, clavate to narrowly clavate, sometimes cylindrical to broadly cylindrical, smooth, thin-walled (Figs. 4D, 5C). Pleurocystidia absent. Hymenophoral trama composed of regular to subregular hyaline hyphae, 2.6–7.8 µm wide (Fig. 4C). Pileal squamules composed of epithelial, hymeniform cells, thin-walled subglobose to irregular cells, encrusted with brownish pigments, 5.2–10.4 × 2–4 µm (Figs. 4B, 5D). Pileipellis a cutis of parallel, interwoven, loosely arranged, thin-walled hyphae, 4.6–10.4 µm diam, septate, hyaline, branched (Fig. 5E). Stipitipellis composed of hyphae 5.2–11.7 µm diam, regular, parallel, septate, hyaline, branched. Clamp connections absent (Fig. 5F). Habit, habitat and distribution:—Caespitose, gregarious on sandy clay soil, saprotrophic, near Phoenix dactylifera and Zizyphus spp, collected from Tehsil Takht-e-Nasrati, Ziarat Siraj Khel, Karak, July and August. Currently only known from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. Additional specimens examined:— PAKISTAN. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, district Karak, Tehsil Takht-e-Nasrati, 70.40°– 71.30°N 32.48°– 33.23°E, elev. 556 m, on ground, 24 July 2021, leg. M. F. Syed, coll. FAK196 (ISL-F0011), GenBank accession number OP 082405; district Karak Tehsil Takht-e-Nasrati, 70.40°– 71.30°N 32.48°– 33.23°E, elev. 556 m, on ground 22 August 2021, leg. M. F. Syed, coll. FAK197 (ISL-F0012), GenBank accession number OP082406; District Karak, Tehsil Takht-e-Nasrati, 70.40°– 71.30°N 32.48°– 33.23°E, elev. 556 m, on ground 28 July 2022, leg. M. F. Syed, coll. FAK198 (ISL-F0013).Published as part of Syed, Mahrukh Farid, Saba, Malka, Chattha, Seratt Mukhtar & Hosen, Md. Iqbal, 2023, Hymenagaricus pakistanicus (Agaricaceae, Agaricales), a new species from Pakistan based on morphological and molecular evidence, pp. 292-300 in Phytotaxa 594 (4) on page 296, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.594.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/791709
Guideline fever: an overview of DRACMA, US NIAID and UK NICE guidelines
No full textThe guidelines summarized not only our current evidence base but also gaps in our knowledge. Use of these guidelines would facilitate high quality standardized care and indicate the direction of future research
Safety of medical device users: A study of physiotherapists’ practices, procedures and risk perception
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Aims: To study practices and procedures with respect to electrotherapy in physiotherapy departments and to study physiotherapists’ perception of health risk, health consequences and protection of health from different risks including electromagnetic field emissions from electrotherapy devices.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in three phases from June 2002 to December 2003. The first phase was an audit of the practices and procedures regarding electrotherapy in National Health Service physiotherapy departments (N = 46 including 7 departments in pilot study) located in 12 counties in the southeast and southwest of England including Greater London. The second phase comprised one observational visit to each of the same physiotherapy departments to characterise their occupational environment. The third phase was a questionnaire survey of 584 physiotherapists working in these departments. Variables concerned perception of health risk, health consequences and protection of health associated with different risk factors.
Results: In the first two phases, the recruitment rate of the departments was 80.7% (46 out of 57) and response rate of those recruited was 100% (n=46). The response rate for the last phase of the study was 66.8% (390 out of 584). Results of the practices and procedures audit show that ultrasound was the most common form of electrotherapy while microwave diathermy was neither available nor used in these departments. Pulsed shortwave diathermy was used 4-5 days per week while continuous shortwave diathermy was used rarely. Electrotherapy was provided to up to 50% of patients per week in the departments. The observational visits to the departments revealed that there were metallic objects within close proximity of diathermy equipment and wooden treatment couches for treatment with PSWD and CSWD were rare. The risk perception survey showed that physiotherapists generally perceived a moderate health risk and health consequences (harm) from exposure to EMF emissions from electrotherapy devices. Protection from EMFs in physiotherapy departments was generally perceived as ‘usually’ possible.
Conclusions: Physiotherapy departments report safe electrotherapy practices. Use of diathermy devices that use RF EMFs is declining. The key predictors of physiotherapists’ perception of health risk were perception of health consequences and vice versa. Gender was a significant predictor of the perception of health risks and health consequences. The main predictor of perception of protection against risk was the knowledge of environmental and health issues. Latent dimensions of perceptions of health risk, health consequences and protection from risk were identified and confirmed and their predictors were determined.Brunel Universit
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Color and material for hotel interior / Syed Abdul Malek Syed Ziad Wapha
No full textThe - F i r s t t h i n g most p e o p l e n o t i c e upon e n t e r i n g a s p a c e i s t he c o l o u r scheme,because the c o l o u r c r e a t e s impact and a t m o s p h e r e . T h e r e are t h e warm c o l o u r s l i k e r e d , o r a n g e , t a n , g o l d,p i n k and y e l l o w which can be used t o make even .the c o l d e s t space seems, warm and c o s y , and a t t h e o t h e r end of t h e s c a l e t h e r e are the cool or p o s i t i v e l y c o l d c o l o u r s such as b l u e s , g r e e n s,
1 i l a c s , p u r p l e s , s o m e greys and t u r q u o i s e . T h e s e can h e l p t o c r e a te a s p a c i o u s , e l e g a n t l o o k < i f t h e y a r e n o t t o o d a r k ) i n a r e l a t i v e lys m a l l area. A t h i r d group o-f c o l o u r s a r e o-ften c a l l e d " n e u t r a l".and i n c l u d e g r e y s (those w i t h same c o l o u r c o n t e n t ) , b e i g e s , c r e a ms
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A. H. Syed, Pakistan, Islam, Politics, and National Solidarity K. B. Sayeed, Politics in Pakistan, The Nature and Direction of Change
No full textÉtienne Gilbert. A. H. Syed, Pakistan, Islam, Politics, and National Solidarity K. B. Sayeed, Politics in Pakistan, The Nature and Direction of Change. In: Tiers-Monde, tome 25, n°98, 1984. p. 471
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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