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Vermicomposting of different proportion of floral waste (FW)-cattle dung (CD) mixtures were carried out under aerobic condition in a plastic bins to find the rate of depletion of biomass. The initial substrate depth of five different compositions viz. 100% FW, 75% FW, 50% FW, 25% FW and 100% CD were 25cm, 16 cm, 13 cm, 11 cm and 8 cm respectively. The rate of biomass reduction was high in 100% FW which was decreased with increasing the quantity of cattle dung. The time for substrate stabilization during vermicomposting was also found to be lesser in summer as compared to rainy season. The substrate depth variation with respect to time followed a declined curve.

Q fever is an endemic zoonotic infection in Australia cause by Coxiella burnetii. It has been recognised in other parts of the world, especially among livestock rearing occupations, stock yard and abattoir workers. Majority (65%) of patients infected with C.burnetti are asymptomatic while symptoms similar to those of respiratory and hepatitis are the most common making diagnosis difficult in the early stages. We report a case of a young man who was exposed to and infected with Q fever as an occupational hazard. He presented in an unusual way with the predominant initial symptoms of abdominal pain, fever, hepatitis and sterile peritonitis necessitating an emergency surgical procedure to explore a suspected surgical abdomen. Respiratory involvement ensued only several days later. The diagnosis of Q fever was confirmed with positive convalescent serology phase II IgM and IgG antibodies to Coxiella burnetii. A marked clinical response to doxycycline pending serological confirmation was supportive of this highly suspected diagnosis in an at-risk patient.

The scientific literature shows that propolis has both anti-inflammatory and antibacterial activities and is widely used in phytotherapic therapy. In this context, its main objective is to evaluate the inflammation recovery process in physically active individuals, from two groups, with or without propolis intake. Volunteers had their food, blood and pain parameters evaluated with or without propolis intake. The trial used seven male volunteers undergoing specific training in two 30-day protocols, one using placebo and another using propolis which contains Artepelin-C (chemically 3,5-diprenyl-p-coumarin acid, which is one of the main phenolic acids present in the green propolis extract). Participants between 18 and 35 years old under no medication should have had at least a 6-month workout. Performance physical tests were applied, body composition measurements and blood collection were taken and a 24-hour food recall and food frequency questionnaire were carried out at São Judas Tadeu University. All volunteers were asked to register their food intake during the 30-day protocol and data were analyzed by using ANOVA and Students T-test for paired samples at

EIntroduction: Teeth that are more sensitive to pain stimuli are called hypersensitive. Dentin hypersensitivity is estimated to be suffered by one in six people and may involve one or more teeth. Various studies suggested that sex affects the experience of pain, but just a few of them focus on dental pain. Objective: this study aimed to determine sex based differences in dentin hypersensitivity. Methodology: this study is a descriptive study with consecutive sampling. The population of this study were all patients who came for treatment to Faculty of Dentistry, Padjadjaran University. A total amount 132 samples who had dentin hypersensitivity were collected. Result: the case of dentin hypersensitivity is more common in women and most frequently in patients aged 20-30 years. The mandibular teeth in women were more prone to dentin hypersensitivity (59.3%). The maxillary and mandibular premolar were the type of the tooth that most experienced dentin hypersensitivity in both women and men. Patients with positive test results on tactile stimuli were 81 people (94.19%) for women and 42 people (91.30%) for men. Patients with positive test result on hot stimuli were 74 people (86.05%) for women and 37 people (80.43%) for men. Patients with positive tests on cold stimuli were 85 (98.84%) for women and 44 ((95.65%) for men. The scale result of sensitivity response to electric pulp tester in women (1.62) was lower than men (2.09). Conclusion of this study is women experience more dentin hypersensitivity to tactile, thermal and electric stimuli than men.

Iron is an essential micronutrient for human health and inadequate intake may result in iron deficiency (ID) or iron deficiency anaemia (IDA). In western region of Cameroon, 39 % of children under 59 months suffering from IDA. To reduce the high prevalence of IDA, the evaluation of nutritional potential of complementary food is very necessary to improve the nutritional status of the young children. The objective of this study is to determine the influence of complementary food composition on prevalence of anemia among young children living in West Cameroon. A food interview survey was carried out among 50 families (25 families with children having Hb ≥ 11 g/dL and 25 families having children with Hb ≤ 11 g/d/L). Ten complementary foods frequently consumed by children were recruited near the families. The amount of food nutrient intake per day was also determined. The data were analyzed using ANOVA (p ≤ 0.05) and the principal component analysis (PCA). The PCA shows that corn meal with vegetables was a dish with high level in iron, fats, dietary fiber and calcium. The complementary food based on corn meal with okra and those based on Irish potatoes with beans and fishes were higher in protein, ash, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus and zinc. The other dishes based on irish potatoes, rice, peanuts and corn meal porridge had high levels of carbohydrates. There was no significant difference between the daily iron, protein, calcium, and potassium intakes between anemic and non anemic children. However, food intake of anemic children was low compared with non-anemic children. The daily iron intake of the children ranged between 23.73 % and 42.27 % of their iron requirement daily. Their daily iron was generally poor. Though, most of their foods were of plant source whose nutrients are poorly bioavailable. Therefore, application of improved food…

African pear (Dacryodes edulis) pulp was extracted and pasteurized. The pasteurized pulp was homogenized with different levels of food grade additives to form table spreads of samples A to H while sample I was left without preservative. The spreads were packed in sealed glass containers and stored at room temperature (28±20C) for 4 weeks to evaluate the changes in microbiological quality of table spread during storage period. Samples were collected in a weekly interval to study the microbiological assay of the spread starting from week zero to the last week. High total bacteria count of 1.8x107CFU/ml was seen in sample I (spread without preservative) at week zero, this increased significantly to 8.1x108CFU/ml after 3 weeks of storage and TNTC (too numerous to count) after 4 weeks of storage at 28±20C. The least growth were observed in samples A and C with bacteria counts of 8.1x107CFU/ml and 3.5x107CFU/ml, respectively. The least fungi count of 2.0x106CFU/ml was noted in sample C after 4 weeks of storage while the highest fungi count of 4.5x107CFU/ml was seen in sample I after 4 weeks of storage at room temperature (28±20C). The suspected microorganisms based on their morphology were; E. coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella specie while fungi were Penicillium specie and Aspergillus specie. Deterioration sets in significantly after two weeks storage as total bacteria and fungi counts rose above 1.0×107 and 1.5×106, respectively. The microbiological quality of the samples was stable up to the second week of storage except sample I (without preservative).

There is currently a major cultural problem taking place across American society in regard to students dropping out of school. Millions of Americans drop out of high school and college each and every year. Millions never earn a high school diploma or college degree. This study looked at the reasons why students dropped out of school (N = 367). Some of the major reasons found were the need for money, disinterest in classes, family issues, poor grades, lack of support, pregnancy, and so forth. The study analyzed differences across various groups (e.g., gender, ethnicity, age, and social class) in relation to dropping out, returning to school after dropping out, highest level of schooling achieved, and regretting dropping out. The study results demonstrated numerous connections between a number of key variables (e.g., social class and its association to dropping out), gender (e.g., women were more likely to regret dropping out and were more likely to return to school), and disinterest in classes (e.g., poor grades, absenteeism, suspensions, etc.). It was also found that most of the respondents dropped out of school for more than one reason and that the highest percentage of students dropped out at the community college level. The study brings forth additional data that can help educators and school administrators to better understand this larger cultural problem and what can potentially be done to help reduce these overall dropout rates that are currently afflicting the nation.

AnIn knee arthritis with extra-articular deformity of the femur, total knee arthroplasty becomes more challenging. Simultaneous femoral deformity correction and TKA can be a complex procedure. We present a case in which TKA and femoral osteotomy for varus femoral deformity were performed simultaneously. Non-union in the osteotomy portion occurred after the operation. Teriparatide therapy and low intensity pulsed ultrasound therapy was administered after a diagnosis of non-union. Bony union was partially obtained at 29 months after surgery.

Agro-homeopathy, which allows to influence biological processes of plants by either accelerating or delaying growth. Moreover, it can contribute to the control of plagues and diseases, directly promoting an increase of the yield and an improvement of product qualitative traits

As Internet, can be considered as a Queue of packets, where transmitting nodes are constantly adding packets and some of them (receiving nodes) are removing packets from the queue. So, consider a situation where too many packets are present in this queue (or internet or a part of internet), such that constantly transmitting nodes are pouring packets at a higher rate than receiving nodes are removing them (Cardwell, Cheng, Gunn, Yeganeh, & Jacobson, 2016). This degrades the performance, and such a situation is termed as Congestion. Main reason for congestion in a network system is a greater number of packets into the network than it can handle. So, the objective of congestion control can be summarized as to maintain the number of packets in the network below the level at which performance falls off dramatically (Faisal Shahzad1, Ullah, Siddique, Khurram, & Saher, 2015). The nature of a Packet switching network can be summarized in following points: • A network of queues • At each node, there is a queue of packets for each outgoing channel • If packet arrival rate exceeds the packet transmission rate, the queue size grows without bound • When the line for which packets are, queuing becomes more than 80% utilized, the queue length grows alarmingly When the number of packets dumped into the network is within the carrying capacity, they all are delivered, expect a few that have to be rejected due to transmission errors). And then the number delivered is proportional to the number of packets sent (Evans & Filsfils, 2007). However, as traffic increases too far, the routers are no longer able to cope, and they begin to lose packets. This tends to make matter worse. At very high traffic, performance collapse completely, and almost no packet is delivered. Congestion is an important…