77 research outputs found
Principles of radiation therapy in low-resource and well-developed settings, with particular reference to cervical cancer
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Adapting to COVID-19 disruptions: Student engagement in online learning of accounting
No full textPurpose: This paper aims to provide insights on student engagement in the learning of accounting during the COVID-19 disruptions and the pivot to online learning. Design/methodology/approach: This paper is based on reflections of academic staff members teaching accounting papers at two large New Zealand universities. Further supporting information was derived from student feedback collected via paper appraisals. Findings: The findings of this paper suggest that there were some successes and numerous challenges in engaging students in online learning of accounting. Strategies that seem to have worked well include the use of synchronous and asynchronous channels to proactively facilitate and provide learning support to students in online learning. The challenges include frustrations with online technologies and the difficulties of making personal connections with students; therefore, engaging some of the cohort in the learning proved to be difficult. Research limitations/implications: The findings of this paper suggest that there were some successes and numerous challenges in engaging students in online learning of accounting. Strategies that seem to have worked well include the use of synchronous and asynchronous channels to proactively facilitate and provide learning support to students in online learning. The challenges include frustrations with online technologies and the difficulties of making personal connections with students; therefore, engaging some of the cohort in the learning proved to be difficult. At risk, students were less likely to participate in online live sessions due to issues such as the lack of proper computer equipment, connectivity issues, family responsibilities or the home environment. Practical implications: This paper has the potential to inform and enhance practices of higher education institutions, accounting educators and other stakeholders such as support staff on strategies that could be implemented to achieve effective student engagement in online accounting education. Originality/value: This paper is original and contributes towards sharing ideas with the academic community on effective teaching practices used during the COVID-19 pivot to online delivery, which can enhance student engagement in business education
Principles of radiation therapy in low‐resource and well‐developed settings, with particular reference to cervical cancer
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Optimizing Guava Crop Yield and Quality through Various Regulation Methods
No full textGuava is an important fruit crop grown in subtropical region of India. It belongs to family Myrtaceae. The demand for this fruit is increasing day by day due to its good nutritional value and its different processed products. It is also known as poor man’s apple. An on-farm trial was conducted in guava orchards of different farmers field in different villages of Nalanda district during 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 consecutively. The main objective of this trail is to force the tree for rest during undesirable season crop and shift that crop to desirable season with quality fruit by regulating the crop. The main theme of this is to enhance yield and quality of fruit by suppressing rainy season crop and promoting winter season crop by pruning or spray of 10 percent urea as compared to farmer’s practice. The practice of farmers is usually taking major crop in rainy season fruit with poor quality, insipid taste with poor shelf life in most part of the Bihar. For crop regulation different methods such as withholding irrigation, pruning of current season shoots in different ways, spraying of different chemicals is used according to different agro climatic regions. In our trial we have done 50 percent pruning of current season shoots in the month of April in ten trees and spray of 10 percent urea solution on ten trees at the time of blossoming at different locations. We got the best result in pruning of 50 percent current season shoot with 27.69 kg/plant yield with 11.40 Brix T.S.S during 2020-2021 and 28.06 kg/plant with 11.60 Brix T.S.S during 2021-2022.The best treatment is pruning of 50 percent current season shoots in the month of April is best for getting higher yield and getting maximum quality fruit for guava grower . Although the T.S.S. of fruits harvested in case of urea spray during winter season is at par with pruning of current season shoot
COMMIPHORA MUKUL EXTRACT AND GUGGULSTERONE EXHIBIT ANTITUMOUR ACTIVITY THROUGH INHIBITION OF CYCLIN D1, NF-Κβ AND INDUCTION OF APOPTOSIS IN ORAL CANCER CELLS
No full textComiphora mukul, a promising medicinal plant and its constituent Guggulsterone (GS) is used in Ayurveda since decades. This study was aimed to investigate the anticancer potential of C. mukul and GS on oral cancer cell lines (SCC-4, KB). MTT assay was used to determine tumour cell proliferation, propidium iodide labeling and annexin V- binding, followed by flow cytometry was used to determine cell cycle and apoptosis of tumor cells after treatment. Expression of regulatory proteins such as NF-κß, cyclin D1, p53 and vascular endothelial growth factor was determined by western blot. C. mukul and GS significantly inhibited tumor cell growth, caused cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in both tumor cells. Such activities appeared to be due to inhibition of NF-κß, cyclin D1and restoration of p53. Overall our data suggests that C. mukul and GS may be developed as chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic drug for oral cancer
Evaluation of geochemical data of Yamuna River using WQI and multivariate statistical analyses: a case study
No full textData from SILAC-based quantitative analysis of lysates from mouse microglial cells treated with Withaferin A (WA)
No full textMass spectrometry data collected in a study analyzing the effect of withaferin A (WA) on a mouse microglial (N9) cell line is presented in this article. Data was collected from SILAC-based quantitative analysis of lysates from mouse microglial cells treated with either WA or DMSO vehicle control. This article reports all the proteins that were identified in this analysis. The data presented here is related to the published research article on the effect of WA on the differential regulation of proteins in mouse microglial cells [1]. Mass spectrometry data has also been deposited in the ProteomeXchange with the identifier http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/archive/projects/PXD003032. Keywords: Withaferin A, Microglial cell line, SILAC, Proteomics, Mass spectrometr
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