Studi Arus Pada Perairan Laut Di Sekitar Pltu Sumuradem Kabupaten Indramayu, Provinsi Jawa Barat

Arus merupakan salah satu parameter oseanografi yang memiliki peranan penting dalam menentukan kondisi suatu perairan. Arus merupakan perpindahan massa air yang diakibatkan beberapa faktor, diantaranya perbedaan massa jenis air, perbedaan tekanan, gaya-gaya pembangkit lain seperti gelombang panjang dan angin. Pola dan karateristik arus yang meliputi jenis arus dominan, kecepatan dan arah serta pola pergerakan arus laut menyebabkan kondisi suatu perairan menjadi dinamis.Wilayah perairan desa Sumuradem di daerah Indramayu provinsi Jawa Barat merupakan suatu wilayah perairan yang terdapat di pantai Utara Jawa yang terletak pada daerah Teluk Ciasem. Terdapat sebuah Pembangkit Listrik Tenaga Uap (PLTU) Sumuradem Indramayu. Pentingnya informasi mengenai arus laut akan membantu dalam menunjang aktivitas PLTU Sumuradem, Indramayu. Penelitian dilaksanakan pada 25 Juni – 26 Juni 2014 di Perairan sekitar PLTU Sumuradem, Indramayu. Data yang digunakan dalam penelitian merupakan data pengamatan kecepatan dan arah arus sebagai data primer dan peta batimetri sebagai data sekunder. Metode penelitian yang digunakan merupakan metode deskriptif dengan hasil penelitian yang dianalisa dan dimodelkan menggunakan software DHI Mike 21 dan ArcGis 10.1.Hasil penelitian menunjukkan arus pada perairan di sekitar PLTU Sumuradem, Indramayu merupakan arus pasut yang dominan bergerak ke arah Timur Laut (menjauhi pantai) pada saat surut dengan kecepatan antara 0,017 – 0,11 m/s dan bergerak ke arah Selatan (meuju pantai) pada saat pasang dengan kecepatan antara 0,02 – 0,116 m/s

Engaging Undergraduate Nutrition Students in Research: A Graduate Student Mentorship Approach

Poster from the 2016 Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo. Poster Session: Innovations in Dietetics Practice and Education

Non-invasive Brain Stimulation for Essential Tremor

Background: There is increasing interest in the use of non-invasive brain stimulation to characterize and potentially treat essential tremor (ET). Studies have used a variety of stimulation coils, paradigms, and target locations to make these observations. We reviewed the literature to compare prior studies and to evaluate the rationale and the methods used in these studies. Methods: We performed a systematic literature search of the PubMed database using the terms “transcranial,” “noninvasive,” “brain stimulation,” “transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS),” “transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS),” “transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS),” and “essential tremor.” Results: Single pulses of TMS to the primary motor cortex have long been known to reset tremor. Although there are relatively few studies showing alterations in motor cortical physiology, such as motor threshold, short and long intracortical inhibition, and cortical silent period, there may be some evidence of altered intracortical facilitation and cerebello-brain inhibition in ET. Repetitive TMS, theta burst stimulation, tDCS, and tACS have been applied to human subjects with tremor with some preliminary signs of tremor reduction, particularly in those studies that employed consecutive daily sessions. Discussion: A variety of stimulation paradigms and targets have been explored, with the increasing rationale an interest in targeting the cerebellum. Rigorous assessment of coil geometry, stimulation paradigm, rationale for selection of the specific anatomic target, and careful phenotypic and physiologic characterization of the subjects with ET undergoing these interventions may be critical in extending these preliminary findings into effective stimulation therapies

Task Organization and Time Management: Handling Email, Scheduling Time, and Prioritizing To-Do Lists

Faculty must juggle competing demands of scholarship, teaching, and service. Maintaining work-­‐life balance requires effective use of limited time. A BGSU faculty learning community formed to identify and explore efficiency practices, while developing accountability for implementing them. During this interactive roundtable, we will share experiences and tips: batching email and removing notifications, developing hyper-­‐ detailed calendars, protecting writing time, capturing “useless” downtime, assessing tasks based on importance and urgency, creating a social support system, and learning when and how to say no. An important lesson is that time management tools are not “one-­‐size-­‐fits-­‐all,” and particular techniques resonate more with individual faculty

Mapping holmes tremor circuit using the human brain connectome

ObjectiveHolmes tremor is a debilitating movement disorder with limited treatment options. Lesions causing Holmes tremor can occur in multiple different brain locations, leaving the neuroanatomical substrate unclear. Here, we test whether lesion locations that cause Holmes tremor map to a connected brain circuit and whether this circuit might serve as a useful therapeutic target.MethodsCase reports of Holmes tremor caused by focal brain lesions were identified through a systematic literature search. Connectivity between each lesion location and the rest of the brain was computed using resting state functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging data from 1,000 healthy volunteers. Commonalities across lesion locations were identified. This Holmes tremor circuit was then compared to neurosurgical treatment targets and clinical efficacy.ResultsWe identified 36 lesions causing Holmes tremor, which were scattered across multiple different brain regions. However, all lesion locations were connected to a common brain circuit with nodes in the red nucleus, thalamus, globus pallidus, and cerebellum. In cases with effective neurosurgical treatment, the treatment target was connected with the lesion location, indicating that a second hit to the same circuit might be beneficial. Commonly used deep brain stimulation targets such as the ventral intermediate nucleus and subthalamic nucleus fell outside our Holmes tremor circuit, whereas the globus pallidus target was close, consistent with published clinical response rates for these targets.InterpretationLesions causing Holmes tremor are part of a single connected brain circuit that may serve as an improved therapeutic target.</p

Plant Extracts as Antioxidant Additives for Food Industry

Plants have phenolic compounds with antioxidant activity. These compounds are distributed in tissues and cells of plants and their abundance depends on the species, the part of the plant used, maturity stage, light hours, among others. On the other hand, the profile and quantity of phenolic compounds extracted from plant matrices changes depending on the species, cultivar, climate, and other factors. Plant extracts do not present a unique phenolic component, they correspond a mixture and its antioxidant activity will be affected by the concentration of each one and their action depends on this composition. In this chapter, some generalities about the phenolic compounds with antioxidant activity present in plant matrices will be exposed, also the principal methods for their extraction and quantification will be described and this information will be complemented with a review on applications of these compounds in food industry. In that sense, the reader can infer the importance of continue to studying and developing techniques to obtain, extract, and characterize this kind of compounds, also they can identify possible application of them, the most important, they can recognize them as an alternative to replace chemical synthetized antioxidants used in food industry improving the market of natural products

Patients' and clinicians' preferences in adjuvant treatment for high-risk endometrial cancer:Implications for shared decision making

Background. Decision making regarding adjuvant therapy for high-risk endometrial cancer is complex. The aim of this study was to determine patients' and clinicians' minimally desired survival benefit to choose chemoradiotherapy over radiotherapy alone. Moreover, influencing factors and importance of positive and negative treatment effects (i.e. attribute) were investigated. Methods. Patients with high-risk endometrial cancer treated with adjuvant pelvic radiotherapy with or without chemotherapy and multidisciplinary gynaecologic oncology clinicians completed a trade-off questionnaire based on PORTEC-3 trial data. Results. In total, 171 patients and 63 clinicians completed the questionnaire. Median minimally desired benefit to make chemoradiotherapy worthwhile was significantly higher for patients versus clinicians (10% vs 5%, p = 0.02). Both patients and clinicians rated survival benefit most important during decision making, followed by long-term symptoms. Older patients (OR 0.92 [95%CI 0.87 & ndash;0.97]; p = 0.003) with comorbidity (OR 0.34 [95% CI 0.12 & ndash;0.89]; p = 0.035) had lower preference for chemoradiotherapy, while patients with better numeracy skills (OR 1.2 [95%CI 1.05 & ndash;1.36], p = 0.011) and chemoradiotherapy history (OR 25.0 [95%CI 8.8 & ndash;91.7]; p < 0.001) had higher preference for chemoradiotherapy. & nbsp;Conclusions. There is a considerable difference in minimally desired survival benefit of chemoradiotherapy in high-risk endometrial cancer among and between patients and clinicians. Overall, endometrial cancer patients needed higher benefits than clinicians before preferring chemoradiotherapy. (c) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)