Scrapbooking as a tool for transdisciplinary professional learning about HIV and AIDS curriculum integration in higher education

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Clinico-pathological profile of sinonasal masses: an experience in national ear care center Kaduna, Nigeria

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The presence of a mass in the nose and paranasal sinuses may seem to be a simple problem; however it raises many questions about the differential diagnosis. The aim of this study is to evaluate the clinico-pathological profile of sinonasal masses in our environment</p> <p>This is a retrospective analytical review of all the patients with sinonasal masses that presented to the national ear care center, Kaduna over a six year (2003-2008) period. Their biodata, clinical profile and histological diagnoses were analyzed.</p> <p>Findings</p> <p>A total of 76 patients were analyzed, age range 5 to 64 yrs with a mean age of 33.3 yr median and modal age of 35.00 (SD = 13.1 ± 1.5). Majority of the patients were in the age groups 21-50 yrs. There were 34 male and 42 female with M: F ratio of 1:1.2. The main presenting symptoms are nasal blockage 97.4% and rhinorrhea 94.7%. It was bilateral in 34 (44.7%), left side in 24(31.6%) and right side in 18(23.7%) patients. The commonest clinical diagnoses were simple nasal polyp 47(61.8%) and antrochoanal polyp 10(13.2%). About 59 (77.6%) were benign, 2 (2.6%) were malignant and 15 (19.7%) were lost to follow up. The commonest histological diagnosis is simple inflammatory nasal polyp in 28 (36.8%) patients and the least was nasal capillary hemangioma 2 (2.6%). About 55(72.4%) patients had surgical treatment.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Nasal obstruction and rhinorrhea are the commonest symptoms of presentation, simple inflammatory nasal polyp is still the commonest histological pattern seen in our environment, and surgery is still the best modality of treatment for benign tumor thus the need for advocacy for early recognition and referral to the ENT surgeon.</p

The addition of halogens and interhalogens on palladacyclopentadienyl complexes bearing quinolyl-thioether as spectator ligands. A kinetic and computational study

We have studied the oxidative addition of halogens (I2 and Br2) and interhalogens (ICl and IBr) on complexes of the type [Pd(thioquinoline)C4(COOMe)4], (thioquinoline = 8-(methylthio)quinoline, 8-(t-butylthioquinoline, 2-methyl-8 (methylthio)quinoline, 2-methyl-8-(t-butylthio)quinoline). The expected palladium(thioquinoline)-r-butadienyl derivatives have been obtained by the stoichiometric addition of I2 and Br2 to a solution of the starting palladacyclopentadienyl complexes. The bromine in excess induces the extrusion of the di-bromo-(E, E)-r-butadiene and the formation of the thioquinoline palladium(II) di-bromide species. The kinetics and mechanism of these reactions have been determined. Except for one case which was analyzed in detail by a computational study, the oxidative addition of the interhalogens ICl and IBr yields the species that is less predictable from the thermodynamic point of view. In general the computational approach justifies the reaction progress and allows an interpretative clue suggesting a kinetically governed path to the reaction products. Finally, the solid state structures of two reaction products were resolved and reporte

Addition of halogens and interhalogens on palladacyclopentadienyl complexes stabilized by pyridyl-thioether N-S spectator ligands

We have studied from the experimental and theoretical point of view the oxidative addition of halogens (I-2 and Br-2) and interhalogens (ICl and IBr) on palladiumcyclopentadienyl complexes bearing heteroditopic pyridyl-thioether spectator ligands.Addition of I-2 or of a stoichiometric amount of Br-2 to a CDCl3 solution of the starting palladacyclo-pentadienyl complexes yields the expected palladium-sigma-butadienyl derivatives. The bromide derivative in the presence of a further excess of Br-2 gives the wanted dibromo-(E, E)-sigma-butadienyl and the pyridylthioether palladium(II) dibromide species. The rates of these reactions have been determined.When the interhalogens are used as oxidizing agents the thermodynamically hampered species is formed at first. Only in the case of the reaction of IBr is the formation of the energetically hampered derivative followed by partial isomerization to the most stable complex. The rate of isomerization and the related equilibrium constant between isomers have been measured. On the basis of the experimental evidence and the computational approach we have proposed a plausible energetic path yielding the first formed unexpected species.Finally, the solid state structures of two reaction products were resolved and reported. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Change your mindset, change your practice: Making RTI work

Many educators associate RTI with paperwork, checking off boxes and pushing students along. Over the past three years, the Bibb County School District has worked to reimagine the RTI process to help teachers change their mindsets and practices to provide targeted remediation while ensuring a guaranteed viable curriculum

Turbo decoding as iterative constrained maximum-likelihood sequence detection

International audienceThe turbo decoder was not originally introduced as a solution to an optimization problem, which has impeded attempts to explain its excellent performance. Here it is shown, that the turbo decoder is an iterative method seeking a solution to an intuitively pleasing constrained optimization problem. In particular, the turbo decoder seeks the maximum-likelihood sequence (MLS) under the false assumption that the input to the encoders are chosen independently of each other in the parallel case, or that the output of the outer encoder is chosen independently of the input to the inner encoder in the serial case. To control the error introduced by the false assumption, the optimizations are performed subject to a constraint on the probability that the independent messages happen to coincide. When the constraining probability equals one, the global maximum of the constrained optimization problem is the maximum-likelihood sequence detection (MLSD), allowing for a theoretical connection between turbo decoding and MLSD. It is then shown that the turbo decoder is a nonlinear block Gauss-Seidel iteration that aims to solve the optimization problem by zeroing the gradient of the Lagrangian with a Lagrange multiplier of -1. Some conditions for the convergence for the turbo decoder are then given by adapting the existing literature for Gauss-Seidel iteration

Venting it out: The effect of online expressive writing on emotional self-efficacy mediated by perceived social support

The aim of this study is to see whether online expressive writing can increase one\u27s emotional self-efficacy as mediated by perceived social support. Using the expressive writing paradigm, an experiment was conducted on 210 college students. The participants were divided into three groups as they were instructed to do expressive writing in a public feed, do expressive writing in an online private diary, or be a part of a control group. The effects were measured with emotional self-efficacy and perceived social support scales. The studies findings were that there is no significant difference in emotional self-efficacy scores between the three groups. This could imply that while microblogging is often used to release emotional distress, it is not effective in improving one\u27s emotional self-efficacy