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Journal articles on the topic "Akinfe, Ayo"
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Liu, Xiao, Hui-Ming Fan, Dong-He Liu, et al. "Transcriptome and Metabolome Analyses Provide Insights into the Watercore Disorder on “Akibae” Pear Fruit." International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22, no. 9 (2021): 4911. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22094911.
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Watercore is a physiological disorder that commonly occurs in sand pear cultivars. The typical symptom of watercore tissue is transparency, and it is often accompanied by browning, breakdown and a bitter taste during fruit ripening. To better understand the molecular mechanisms of watercore affecting fruit quality, this study performed transcriptome and metabolome analyses on watercore pulp from “Akibae” fruit 125 days after flowering. The present study found that the “Akibae” pear watercore pulp contained higher sorbitol and sucrose than healthy fruit. Moreover, the structure of the cell wall was destroyed, and the content of pectin, cellulose and hemicellulose was significantly decreased. In addition, the content of ethanol and acetaldehyde was significantly increased, and the content of polyphenol was significantly decreased. Watercore induced up-regulated expression levels of sorbitol synthesis-related (sorbitol-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, S6PDH) and sucrose synthesis-related genes (sucrose synthesis, SS), whereas it inhibited the expression of sorbitol decomposition-related genes (sorbitol dehydrogenase, SDH) and sorbitol transport genes (sorbitol transporter, SOT). Watercore also strongly induced increased expression levels of cell wall-degrading enzymes (polygalactosidase, PG; ellulase, CX; pectin methylesterase, PME), as well as ethanol synthesis-related (alcohol dehydrogenase, ADH), acetaldehyde synthesis-related (pyruvate decarboxylase, PDC) and polyphenol decomposition-related genes (polyphenol oxidase, PPO). Moreover, the genes that are involved in ethylene (1-aminocyclopropane- 1-carboxylate oxidase, ACO; 1-aminocyclopropane- 1-carboxylate synthase, ACS) and abscisic acid (short-chain alcohol dehydrogenase, SDR; aldehyde oxidase, AAO) synthesis were significantly up-regulated. In addition, the bitter tasting amino acids, alkaloids and polyphenols were significantly increased in watercore tissue. Above all, these findings suggested that the metabolic disorder of sorbitol and sucrose can lead to an increase in plant hormones (abscisic acid and ethylene) and anaerobic respiration, resulting in aggravated fruit rot and the formation of bitter substances.
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Akinade, Gemma. "Sepsis: a personal story." Dental Nursing 15, no. 10 (2019): 482–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/denn.2019.15.10.482.
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Robie, David. "REVIEW: Noted: Refreshed digital journalism education mission needed." Pacific Journalism Review 23, no. 1 (2017): 276. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v23i1.322.
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Br(e)aking the News: Journalism, Politics and New Media, edited by Janey Gordon, Paul Rowinski and Gavin Stewart. Berne, Switzerland: Peter Lang AC. 2013. 308 pages. ISBN 978-3-034-3090-4-2TWO DECADES ago, United States media ecologist Neil Postman posed critical questions about the ‘mission of education’ in his book The End of Education. Detailing the failings of American education faced with encroaching corporate and managerial strategies that did not tackle the real problem—an ‘identity crisis’—he ironically heralded the coming challenges over journalism education. It has outgrown the rationales of the past.
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Marijuschkin, Igor, Matheus Levy Souza, José Luiz Garcia Diaz, and Paulo Carvalho. "Hálux valgo percutâneo: Um algoritmo de tratamento cirúrgico." Revista Brasileira de Ortopedia 56, no. 04 (2021): 504–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1721367.
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Resumo Objetivo Apresentar os resultados clínicos e radiográficos da correção cirúrgica de hálux valgo utilizando quatro técnicas percutâneas escolhidas de acordo com uma classificação radiográfica predefinida. Métodos Avaliamos prospectivamente 112 pés em 72 pacientes com hálux valgo operado em um período de um ano. A liberação de tecido mole distal (LTMD) percutâneo e o procedimento de Akin (LTMD-Akin) foram realizados em casos leves. Em hálux valgo de leve a moderado com ângulo distal da articulação do metatarso acima de 10°, adicionamos a osteotomia de Reverdin-Isham (RI). Em casos moderados com incongruência articular, realizamos o chevron percutâneo (CHP). Finalmente, uma osteotomia proximal percutânea fixada (OPPF) com um parafuso, semelhante à de Ludloff , foi proposta em casos graves com ângulo intermetatarsal (AIM) acima de 17°. De acordo com esses critérios, foram realizados 26 LTMDs-Akin, 36 CHPs, 35 RIs e 15 OPPFs. O seguimento médio foi de 17,2 meses (12 a 36 meses). A média de idade em operação foi de 58,8 anos (17 a 83 anos), e 89% dos pacientes eram do sexo feminino. Resultados A média do ângulo de hálux valgo (AHV) pré-operatório e o AIM diminuíram de 21° para 10,2°, e de 11,2° para 10,3°, respectivamente, em casos de LTMD-Akin. Em casos de RI, a média do AHV diminuiu de 26,6° para 13,7°, e o AIM, de 11,2° para 10,3°; em casos de CHP, o AHV médio diminuiu de 31° para 14,5°, o AIM diminuiu de 14,9° para 10,7°, e a OPPF, de 39,2° para 17,7°, e o AIM 11,8° para 6,8°. A média do escore de tornozelo e retropé da American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) aumentou de 49,2 para 88,6. A taxa de complicação foi de 11%. Conclusão Nosso protocolo de tratamento não difere muito dos clássicos, com resultados semelhantes. Temos como vantagem menos agressividade aos tecidos moles e melhores resultados cosméticos. Nível de evidência: nível IV, série de casos prospectivos.
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Kochhar, Gaurav, Yatin Mehta, and Naresh Trehan. "Heart–Lung Interaction." Journal of Cardiac Critical Care TSS 02, no. 02 (2018): 061–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1685130.
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AbstractMechanical interplay between respiratory and cardiac systems was first recognized about 300 years ago when an English physiologist Stephen Hales observed that the level of the blood column in a glass tube inserted into the carotid artery of a horse varied cyclically with respiration.Heart and lung share the same intrathoracic space, and mechanically this configuration is akin to pump within a pump. As a result, intrathoracic pressure (ITP) and volume changes during respiratory cycle affect the performance of heart. Besides direct mechanical effects, lung and heart interplay also involves certain neurally and humorally mediated phenomena. Taken together, these dynamics constitute heart–lung interaction. Knowledge of heart–lung interaction is especially useful while dealing with critically sick patients on ventilator, because not only are such patients more vulnerable to hemodynamic instability induced by ventilator, but it also forms the basis of functional hemodynamic monitoring.
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McGuire, Michael C. "Library Technology Buying Strategies. Ed. Marshall Breeding. Chicago: ALA editions, 2016. 136p. Paper, $55.00 (ISBN 978-0-8389-1467-0)." College & Research Libraries 78, no. 4 (2017): 556. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crl.78.4.556.
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Writing about technology, especially writing guides for technology, has often been compared to hitting a moving target or trying to nail gelatin to a wall. In fact, the process is more akin to trying to nail smoke to a wall; at least one can hold gelatin in place. Changes in the technology landscape happen at such a pace that a guide composed a year ago is nearly obsolete, while anything greater than five years old often has little more than historical value. So, when writing a guide for technology, it is important to focus on concepts that will hold true over time rather than dwelling on particular providers or specific systems. With a few exceptions, Library Technology Buying Strategies falls neatly into this category. Of equal importance, the book meets its stated objective: “My aim is to provide substance beyond the buzzwords and hype” (viii).
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Mikhalsky, E. V., J. W. Sheraton, A. A. Laiba, and B. V. Beliatsky. "Geochemistry and origin of Mesoproterozoic metavolcanic rocks from Fisher Massif, Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica." Antarctic Science 8, no. 1 (1996): 85–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102096000120.
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Fisher Massif consists of Mesoproterozoic (c. 1300 Ma) lower amphibolite-facies metavolcanic rocks and associated metasediments, intruded by a variety of subvolcanic and plutonic bodies (gabbro to granite). It differs in both composition and metamorphic grade from the rest of the northern Prince Charles Mountains, which were metamorphosed to granulite facies about 1000 m.y. ago. The metavolcanic rocks consist mainly of basalt, but basaltic andesite, andesite, and more felsic rocks (dacite, rhyodacite, and rhyolite) are also common. Most of the basaltic rocks have compositions similar to low-K island arc tholeiites, but some are relatively Nb-rich and more akin to P-MORB. Intermediate to felsic medium to high-K volcanic rocks, which appear to postdate the basaltic succession, have calc-alkaline affinities and probably include a significant crustal component. On the present data, an active continental margin with associated island arc was the most likely tectonic setting for generation of the Fisher Massif volcanic rocks.
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Parra, Gerby C. "The Day Our School Went Pitch Black and the Nights We Reclaimed the Light." International Journal for Innovation Education and Research 9, no. 5 (2021): 174–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol9.iss5.3083.
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I will never forget that a year ago, last March 2020, we had to close our school suddenly. It feels like someone just turned off the light without warning, and everything went pitch black. Confused and scared, we tried to make sense of and confront the endless challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic brought upon our school organization. The virus caused significant interruptions to our processes, policies, people, technostructure, and financial resources. However, with each tiresome blow, the school leaders and teachers navigated through and around those challenges. The only comforting thought was we were not alone in our quest to survive, for every organization around the world was thrown into this catastrophic state and was fighting hard to persist and endure.
 Looking back, I reflect on the extraordinary challenges our organization experienced akin with most organizations using Kurt Lewin's Three-Step Change Model and the three ways we responded to COVID-19.
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Moors, Pieter, Johan Wagemans, and Lee de-Wit. "Causal events enter awareness faster than non-causal events." PeerJ 5 (January 26, 2017): e2932. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2932.
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Philosophers have long argued that causality cannot be directly observed but requires a conscious inference (Hume, 1967). Albert Michotte however developed numerous visual phenomena in which people seemed to perceive causality akin to primary visual properties like colour or motion (Michotte, 1946). Michotte claimed that the perception of causality did not require a conscious, deliberate inference but, working over 70 years ago, he did not have access to the experimental methods to test this claim. Here we employ Continuous Flash Suppression (CFS)—an interocular suppression technique to render stimuli invisible (Tsuchiya & Koch, 2005)—to test whether causal events enter awareness faster than non-causal events. We presented observers with ‘causal’ and ‘non-causal’ events, and found consistent evidence that participants become aware of causal events more rapidly than non-causal events. Our results suggest that, whilst causality must be inferred from sensory evidence, this inference might be computed at low levels of perceptual processing, and does not depend on a deliberative conscious evaluation of the stimulus. This work therefore supports Michotte’s contention that, like colour or motion, causality is an immediate property of our perception of the world.
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Elliott, T. R., and A. L. Guildford. "An In Vitro Model of Gastric Inflammation and Treatment with Cobalamin." International Journal of Inflammation 2017 (2017): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5968618.
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Pernicious anaemia (PA) is an autoimmune condition where antibodies target intrinsic factor and parietal cells, reducing the patient’s ability to absorb cobalamin promoting atrophic gastritis. Treatment guidelines are based on excretion data of hydroxocobalamin from healthy individuals obtained 50 years ago. This manuscript describes the use of phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) to stimulate low grade inflammation in an epithelial colorectal cell line to assess the efficacy of methylcobalamin and hydroxocobalamin. Nitric oxide increased significantly in cells exposed to higher doses of PMA (100 ng/ml, 150 ng/ml, and 200 ng/ml) accompanied by a loss of the characteristic cobblestone morphology with no negative effect on cell activity or viability. A significant reduction in nitric oxide production was associated with the addition of 200 pg/ml hydroxocobalamin, alongside a return to the characteristic cobblestone morphology. This study highlights the use of PMA to promote low grade inflammation in human cell lines to model gastric inflammation associated with autoimmunity; furthermore it raises questions regarding the concentration of cobalamin administered clinically to restore cell functionality, feasibly allowing the patient to receive reduced quantity of the vitamin more regularly, providing the patient with levels which are akin to dietary intake.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Akinfe, Ayo"
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Opuamah, Abiye. "Narrating social decay: satire and ecology in Ayo Akinfe's Fuelling the Delta Fires." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/25727.
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A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University
of the Witwatersrand in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the
degree of Master of Arts, 2017<br>This research report conducts a critical examination of Ayo Akinfe’s Fuelling the Delta Fires
by paying attention to the writer’s use of satire to highlight social problems such as
corruption, deception and exploitation in Nigeria. The focus is on how Akinfe’s novel
represents exploitation, waste, and excess that have become normative in a country on the
brink of collapse. The work also seeks to identify and critique how Akinfe employs satire to
interrogate the syndrome of the ‘big-man’ in Nigeria, showing how their actions contribute to
social decay and violence.
The research will also examine issues of ecology in the Niger Delta. Ecology has often been
construed as a Western ideology that has little resonance within the framework of the African
novel. However, this work, tries to show that as the scholarship on ecological humanities has
evolved over the years, African alternatives which take account of the unique challenges of
the continent have also being developed. Akinfe draws from these proposed models of
ecology to focus attention on the ecological issues that are a direct outcome of the exploration
of oil in the Niger Delta and by so doing, brings attention to the transgressions of government
and multinational corporations who go to great lengths to extract oil in the region. Applying
ecocritical examples suggested by scholars like Anthony Vital, Byron Caminero-Santangelo
and others, the research report demonstrates how literature has been used as a medium to
expose greed that facilitates ecological degradations and how the culture of consumerism
affect the daily lives of the inhabitants of the Niger Delta.<br>XL2018
Books on the topic "Akinfe, Ayo"
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1934-, Akif Selçuk, ed. Echoes from the past: The Turkish Cypriot community of Limassol and its heritage = Geçmişten yankılar : Leymosun Kıbrıs Türk cemaati ve mirası = Echō apo ta palia : hē Tourkokypriakē koinotēta tēs Lemesou kai hē klēronomia tēs / Özay & Selçuk Akif. Terra Cypria, 2008.
Find full textBook chapters on the topic "Akinfe, Ayo"
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Pluckhahn, Thomas J., Neill J. Wallis, and Victor D. Thompson. "From Small Histories to Big History on the Woodland Period Gulf Coast." In The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology. University Press of Florida, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683401629.003.0003.
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The “historical turn” in the archaeology of the Woodland period Gulf Coast of the Southeastern United States began several decades ago, as archaeologists began to move beyond relatively static regional cultural histories to develop detailed chronologies of several of the region’s most prominent sites, demonstrating in fine detail the manner in which communities were dynamically transformed over short intervals. However, these local chronologies have remained largely disconnected from each other—more akin to biography than history. We draw these accumulated biographies together to illustrate how they are beginning to reveal a series of concordant changes across the region, including a sudden restructuring of communities in the sixth and seventh centuries. Although some details remain unclear, we are beginning to understand this “Weeden Islandization” as “big history” that involved the migration of people, materials, ideas, and practices across large areas.
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Palca, Joe. "Broadcast Science Journalism." In A Field Guide for Science Writers. Oxford University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195174991.003.0016.
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When I first made the jump from print to broadcast, people kept asking me if I missed writing. The question was funny, but also vexing. I hadn't stopped writing, I was just writing in a different way. And not really all that different, just shorter. But after a time my vexation went away, and I decided the question was a form of flattery. Good radio stories are intimate and personal, where the listener gets a sense of being talked with, not talked at. It's not supposed to sound scripted, or like someone reading from a book. It's supposed to sound like a dinner conversation. Susan Stamberg once described good radio as akin to the guilty pleasure of listening in on a really interesting conversation at the next table in a restaurant. Radio also gives people a chance to use their imaginations. Take the interview I did with Harold Varmus when he took over as director of the National Institutes of Health in 1993.1 wanted to present Varmus as the academic scientist who didn't give a damn about the norms of Washington bureaucracy. So I interviewed him on his way to work, not in the government car that most agency heads used, but the way he always commuted: on his bicycle. You didn't have to see Varmus pedaling through traffic; all you needed for the mental picture was the up-close sound of traffic and a bicycle chain gliding through a derailleur. Writing for broadcast comes in various flavors. I've written stories as short as 30 seconds, and as long as 30 minutes. Although it's rarer these days, the one-hour radio documentary is not unheard of. But in all broadcast formats, long or short, there's one crucial rule: Keep it moving forward. Your viewers or listeners can't flip back to the start to remind themselves what happened five minutes ago. If too much time has passed since you last introduced a character, introduce him again. The best writing for broadcast, both radio and television, involves telling a story. Stories are engaging. They give you a structure. They have a beginning, a middle, and an end. They have characters. They set up a conflict, which helps you see a scientific issue in a more exciting way.
Conference papers on the topic "Akinfe, Ayo"
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Mourad, Abdel-Hamid I. "Assessment of the Effect of the Notch Radius on Ductile Stable Crack Growth." In ASME 2008 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2008-61303.
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Mode I stable crack growth SCG behaviour emanating from notches of different radii was investigated. Fracture tests were carried out on compact tension (CT) specimen of 8 mm thickness. The specimen was fabricated from EN 34NiCrMo6 low alloy steel (akin to AISI 4330/4340) with various notch radii, r, ranging from 0.08 mm to 3.0 mm (0.08, 0.16, 0.25, 0.50, 1.00, 2.00, 3.00 mm). The notch was introduced in the specimen by using the EDM wire-cutting technique. Three different ratios of initial crack length ao to width W were used (namely a0/W = 0.45, 0.50 and 0.55). Experimental results include the load-load line displacement (L-LLD) diagrams and initiation (Pi and PQ) and maximum fracture loads, Pmax. Pi was taken as the linear limit of the P-ΔLL curve while PQ was identified as the point where a line with a slope of 95% of the initial slope of the P-ΔLL curve intersects the P-ΔLL curve. Tests show that despite more than 37 folds increase in notch radius, the average maximum load percentage increase (for the three ao/W ratios) recorded was no more than 21%. The crack initiation and crack front tunnelling, employing the dye penetrant technique, was observed to diminish with r. Minimal extension around Pmax, at the specimen mid thickness was observed, only under magnification of the fracture surface, in a few number of specimens of a0/W = 0.55 and r = 3 mm. The initiation load for specimen of r ≥ 2 can be predicted satisfactorily by the stress concentration approach also the maximum load may be predicted with a degree of conservatism employing the yield limit load PL for sharp notches. In general, the results suggest that the fracture mechanics approach is likely applicable up to r ≤ 2 mm in predicting crack initiation and instability load.