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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
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
Syed Amanuddin his mind and art
No full textOn the works of Syed Amanuddin, b. 1934, Indic English writer
A Multi-Language Comparison of Influences on Author Verification using Character N-Grams
No full textWe create a new multi-language corpus for author verification based on Wikipedia talkpages, and evaluate the influence that differences in topic and time have on character n-gram author profiles. Topic alignment between two texts is found to increase author verification precision, and an authors writing style is found to change over time, but not more significantly after 3 years than after 1 year.Information ArchitectureWISElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Muscle oxygen uptake differs from consumption dynamics during transients in exercise
No full textRelating external to internal respiration during exercise requires quantitative modeling analysis for reliable inferences with respect to metabolic rate. Often, oxygen transport and metabolism based on steady-state mass balances (Fick principle) and passive diffusion between blood and tissue are applied to link pulmonary to cellular respiration. Indeed, when the work rate does not change rapidly, a quasi-steady-state analysis based on the Fick principle is sufficient to estimate the rate of O2 consumption in working muscle. During exercise when the work rate changes quickly, however, non-invasive in vivo measurements to estimate muscle O2 consumption are not sufficient to characterize cellular respiration of working muscle. To interpret transient changes of venous O2 concentration, blood flow, and O2 consumption in working muscle, a mathematical model of O 2 transport and consumption based on dynamic mass balances is required. In this study, a comparison is made of the differences between simulations of O2 uptake and O2 consumption within working skeletal muscle based on a dynamic model and quasi-steady-state approximations. The conditions are specified under which the quasi-steadystate approximation becomes invalid
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
Color and material for hotel interior / Syed Abdul Malek Syed Ziad Wapha
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Remote symptom monitoring integrated into electronic health records: A systematic review
No full textObjectivePeople with long-term conditions (LTCs) require serial clinical assessments. Digital patient-reported symptoms collected between visits can inform these, especially if integrated into electronic health records (EHRs) and clinical workflows. This systematic review identified and summarized EHR-integrated systems to remotely collect patient-reported symptoms and examined their anticipated and realized benefits in LTCs.Materials and MethodsWe searched Medline, Web of Science, and Embase. Inclusion criteria were symptom reporting systems in adults with LTCs; data integrated into the EHR; data collection outside of clinic; data used in clinical care. We synthesized data thematically. Benefits were assessed against a list of outcome indicators. We critically appraised studies using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool.ResultsWe included 12 studies representing 10 systems. Seven were in oncology. Systems were technically and functionally heterogeneous, with the majority being fully integrated (data viewable in the EHR). Half of the systems enabled regular symptom tracking between visits. We identified three symptom report-guided clinical workflows: Consultation-only (data used during consultation, n=5), alert-based (real-time alerts for providers, n=4) and patient-initiated visits (n=1). Few author-described anticipated benefits, primarily to improve communication and resultant health outcomes, were realized based on the study results, and only supported by evidence from early stage qualitative studies. Studies were primarily feasibility and pilot studies of acceptable quality.Discussion and ConclusionsEHR-integrated remote symptom monitoring is possible, but there are few published efforts to inform development of these systems. Currently there is limited evidence that this improves care and outcomes, warranting future robust, quantitative studies of efficacy and effectiveness
The vanishing author in computer-generated works: a critical analysis of recent Australian case law
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The use of software is ubiquitous in the creation of many copyright works, yet the requirement in copyright law that every work have a human author who engages in independent intellectual effort means that its use may prevent copyright subsistence. Several recent Australian cases have refocused attention on authorship as an essential criterion of copyright subsistence, and these cases suggest that much computer-produced output may be authorless and thus lack copyright protection. This article, the first in a two-part series, analyses how each case deals with the question of authorship of computer-produced works and why the use of software diminishes copyright protection for a significant number of computer-generated works. The article critiques the application of conventional notions of human authorship developed in the pre-computer age to modern productions and suggests alternative approaches to authorship that satisfy both the major objectives of copyright policy and the need to adapt to the computer age. The article argues that, without a broader judicial approach to authorship of computer-generated works, Parliament must remedy the lacuna in protection for these ‘authorless’ works. Possible solutions for reform are suggested. In a forthcoming article, the author comprehensively examines those reform proposals
The Weber Thesis and South East Asia
No full textAlatas Syed Farid. The Weber Thesis and South East Asia. In: Archives de sociologie des religions, n°15, 1963. pp. 21-34
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