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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
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
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
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
Color and material for hotel interior / Syed Abdul Malek Syed Ziad Wapha
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[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.
The Role of Self-Efficacy and Identity in Mediating the Effects of STEM Support Experiences
No full textThis is the project page for: Syed, M., Zurbriggen, E., Chemers, M. M., Goza, B. K., Bearman, S., Crosby, F., Shaw, J. M., Hunter, L., & Morgan, E. M. (2018). The role of self-efficacy and identity in mediating the effects of science support programs. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy
Re-examining fundamental GIS implementation constructs through a grounded theory approach
No full textGeographical information systems (GIS) are becoming further widespread in both day-to-day and strategic decision-making by retailers. Given the array of databases they use and advance, and the human and organisational explanation needed, a most apposite incorporate of how a GIS may be established for retailing decision-making is ''system implementation.'' There is little published work on GIS implementation as applied to retailing. Retailers wishing to appreciate the critical success factors of implementation cannot presume that studies from other industries can offer straightforward generalisations. This article presents exploratory cross-case studies developed using a grounded theory approach, set in encapsulating GIS implementation in the UK retailing. It also presents the factors that justify a grounded theory approach in GIS implementation and the main challenges of applying such an approach, enabling the discovery of emerging categories and the inter-relationship of these categories to allow the building of theory. Two major retailers, who have already developed and utilised their GIS to varying degrees, are used. We saw a distinct advantage in this approach, in that it not only exposes the organisational context of GIS implementation activities but also an appreciation of the success of practical solutions
Factors influencing GIS project implementation failure in the UK retailing industry
No full textThis paper presents a parsimonious framework to evaluate factors of GIS project implementation. The High Performance Equation proposed by Schermerhorn (Management for Productivity, Wiley, New York, 1984) is used to encapsulate the nature of ‘ability’, ‘effort’ and ‘support’ in successful implementation. This model is explained and its components elaborated. The model is then illustrated through a case study of the UK retailer NOWAY. This company was evaluated using a case research design with pilot studies conducted in local authorities that at the time had more sophisticated GIS. NOWAY failed to effectively implement their GIS and the High Performance Equation helps to explain and illustrate why this occurred. Whilst not offering a total causal analysis of the failure of GIS implementation at NOWAY, this paper outlines the core factors that affected their GIS implementation process. <br/
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