Ground Improvement for Oil Tank Farm in Indonesia

This case study describes the use of ground improvement to treat a highly variable site, where new oil storage tanks were constructed. Varied techniques were used comprising a combination of dynamic compaction, preload, vertical drains and replacement. Settlement data from the storage tanks during water test shows the treatment to have been successful

Best Practice Guidelines on molecular diagnostics in Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophies

Meeting participants: Rosário dos Santos, Porto, PortugalIntroduction: A meeting of 29 senior scientists from Europe, the USA, India and Australia, was held in Naarden, The Netherlands on November 14–16, 2008, to establish consensus Best Practice Guidelines for molecular diagnosis of Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DMD/BMD). New therapeutic trials for DMD demand accurate diagnosis of the disorder, especially where the therapy is targeted towards specific mutations. These guidelines aim to help diagnostic laboratories attain that accuracy by describing the minimum standards for acceptable molecular diagnostic testing of DMD. For the different types of clinical referral received by a molecular diagnostic laboratory, the guidelines recommend the appropriate tests to be carried out, interpretation of the results and how those results should be reported.The workshop was jointly organised and sponsored by The European Molecular Genetics Quality Network (www.emqn.org); Euro- Gentest (www.eurogentest.org); EU Contract no. FP6-512148); TREAT-NMD (www.treat-nmd.org); EU Contract no. FP6-036825), and hosted by the European Neuro-Muscular Centre (www.enmc.org)

The sound of violets: the ethnographic potency of poetry?

This paper takes the form of a dialogue between the two authors, and is in two halves, the first half discursive and propositional, and the second half exemplifying the rhetorical, epistemological and metaphysical affordances of poetry in critically scrutinising the rhetoric, epistemology and metaphysics of educational management discourse. Phipps and Saunders explore, through ideas and poems, how poetry can interrupt and/or illuminate dominant values in education and in educational research methods, such as: • alternatives to the military metaphors – targets, strategies and the like – that dominate the soundscape of education; • the kinds and qualities of the cognitive and feeling spaces that might be opened up by the shifting of methodological boundaries; • the considerable work done in ethnography on the use of the poetic: anthropologists have long used poetry as a medium for expressing their sense of empathic connection to their field and their subjects, particularly in considering the creativity and meaning-making that characterise all human societies in different ways; • the particular rhetorical affordances of poetry, as a discipline, as a practice, as an art, as patterned breath; its capacity to shift phonemic, and therewith methodological, authority; its offering of redress to linear and reductive attempts at scripting social life, as always already given and without alternative

Learning from the children : exploring preschool children's encounters with ICT at home

This paper is an account of our attempts to understand preschool children's experiences with information and communication technologies (ICT) at home. Using case study data, we focus on what we can learn from talking directly to the children that might otherwise have been overlooked and on describing and evaluating the methods we adopted to ensure that we maximised the children's contributions to the research. By paying attention to the children's perspectives we have learned that they are discriminating users of ICT who evaluate their own performances, know what gives them pleasure and who differentiate between operational competence and the substantive activities made possible by ICT

Computational calculations and molecular docking studies on 2-(2-ethylaminothiazol-5-oyl)benzothiazole

2-(2-Ethylaminothiazol-5-oyl)benzothiazole has been synthesized and its bond length, bond angle, dihedral angle, HOMO-LUMO and Mulliken charges on the atoms have been calculated by density functional theory (DFT/B3LYP) method with 6-311++G(d,p) basis sets. Biological properties like the target receptor identification and identification of interacting residues, of this compound is identified and analyzed by using Openbabel GUI (C) software.

Computational calculations and molecular docking studies on 2-(2-ethylaminothiazol-5-oyl)benzothiazole

273-2762-(2-Ethylaminothiazol-5-oyl)benzothiazole has been synthesized and its bond length, bond angle, dihedral angle, HOMO-LUMO and Mulliken charges on the atoms have been calculated by density functional theory (DFT/B3LYP) method with 6-311++G(d,p) basis sets. Biological properties like the target receptor identification and identification of interacting residues, of this compound is identified and analyzed by using Openbabel GUI (C) software

Design, synthesis, characterization, bio-molecular docking studies, and biological activity of (4-amino-2-(aryl/alkylamino)thiazol-5-yl)(6-methylbenzo[d] thiazol-2-yl)methanone derivatives

A series of novel (4-amino-2-(aryl/alkylamino)thiazol-5-yl)(6-methylbenzo[d]thiazol-2-yl)methanone compounds have been synthesized. They have been characterized by elemental analysis, IR, 1H and 13C NMR and mass spectral techniques. All the synthesized compounds have been screened for their antibacterial potential and show significant antibacterial activity. Among these (4-amino-2-(4-chlorophenyl)amino)thiazol-5-yl)(6-methylbenzo[d]thiazol-2-yl)methanone is more active. Moreover, the compound 3d shows promising antioxidant activity activity. The compounds have been further evaluated for their potential for DNA cleavage and two compounds completely cleaved DNA. Two of the compounds have been evaluated for their anti-proliferative activity against breast cancer cell lines. The IC50 value of the compound (4-amino-2-(4-chlorophenyl)amino)thiazol-5-yl)(6-methylbenzo[d]thiazol-2-yl)methanone against the cell line MCF-7 is found to be 10 µg/mL. Four compounds have been docked towards 5077 receptor protein. Molecular docking shows very good interaction with protein. In this (4-amino-2-(4-methoxyphenyl)amino)thiazol-5-yl)(6-methylbenzo[d]thiazol-2-yl)methanone has the highest binding interaction with the protein.

Design, synthesis, characterization, bio-molecular docking studies, and biological activity of (4-amino-2-(aryl/alkylamino)thiazol-5-yl)(6-methylbenzo[d] thiazol-2-yl)methanone derivatives

1621-1628A series of novel (4-amino-2-(aryl/alkylamino)thiazol-5-yl)(6-methylbenzo[d]thiazol-2-yl)methanone compounds have been synthesized. They have been characterized by elemental analysis, IR, 1H and 13C NMR and mass spectral techniques. All the synthesized compounds have been screened for their antibacterial potential and show significant antibacterial activity. Among these (4-amino-2-(4-chlorophenyl)amino)thiazol-5-yl)(6-methylbenzo[d]thiazol-2-yl)methanone is more active. Moreover, the compound 3d shows promising antioxidant activity activity. The compounds have been further evaluated for their potential for DNA cleavage and two compounds completely cleaved DNA. Two of the compounds have been evaluated for their anti-proliferative activity against breast cancer cell lines. The IC50 value of the compound (4-amino2-(4-chlorophenyl)amino)thiazol-5-yl)(6-methylbenzo[d]thiazol-2-yl)methanone against the cell line MCF-7 is found to be 10 µg/mL. Four compounds have been docked towards 5077 receptor protein. Molecular docking shows very good interaction with protein. In this (4-amino-2-(4-methoxyphenyl)amino)thiazol-5-yl)(6-methylbenzo[d]thiazol-2-yl)methanone has the highest binding interaction with the protein

Modeling the effect of temperature and relative humidity on exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in a mechanically ventilated room

Computational fluid dynamics models have been developed to predict airborne exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus from a coughing person in a mechanically ventilated room. The models were run with three typical indoor air temperatures and relative humidities (RH). Quantile regression was used to indicate whether these have a statistically significant effect on the airborne exposure. Results suggest that evaporation is an important effect. Evaporation leads to respiratory particles, particularly those with initial diameters between 20 and 100 μm, remaining airborne for longer, traveling extended distances and carrying more viruses than expected from their final diameter. In a mechanically ventilated room, with all of the associated complex air movement and turbulence, increasing the RH may result in reduced airborne exposure. However, this effect may be so small that other factors, such as a small change in proximity to the infected person, could rapidly counter the effect. The effect of temperature on the exposure was more complex, with both positive and negative correlations. Therefore, within the range of conditions studied here, there is no clear guidance on how the temperature should be controlled to reduce exposure. The results highlight the importance of ventilation, face coverings and maintaining social distancing for reducing exposure

Evaluation of Three Primary Teachers’ Approaches to Teaching Scientific Concepts in Persuasive Ways

The research set out in this paper seeks to develop pedagogical knowledge regarding how persuasive teaching approaches can be developed in primary science classrooms. To achieve this, the paper examines three case studies in which the teachers have been charged to develop and implement teaching strategies designed to persuade their children of the usefulness and validity of target scientific concepts. The analysis probes the teachers’ choice of contexts and patterns of discourse using criteria drawn from the sociocultural literature. Outcomes of the study exemplify how the teachers’ choices of learning contexts fail to emphasise the functionality of the target concepts and as a consequence scant rewards are provided for the children to participate actively in conceptually rich discourse. The final part of the paper explores how the development of what the author calls theme-specific plots, could be used to help teachers to stage teaching and learning performances which emphasise the functionality of specific explanatory models