Sealed battery gas manifold construction Patent

Sealed electric storage battery with gas manifold interconnecting each cel

Genome sequence of enterovirus D68 from St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 2016

Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) was rarely observed prior to a widespread outbreak in 2014. We observed its reemergence in St. Louis in 2016 and sequenced the EV-D68 genomes from two patient samples. The 2016 viruses in St. Louis differed from those we had sequenced from the 2014 outbreak but were similar to other viruses circulating nationally in 2016

Whole-genome sequencing of Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates to track strain progression in a single patient with recurrent urinary tract infection

Klebsiella pneumoniae is an important uropathogen that increasingly harbors broad-spectrum antibiotic resistance determinants. Evidence suggests that some same-strain recurrences in women with frequent urinary tract infections (UTIs) may emanate from a persistent intravesicular reservoir. Our objective was to analyze K. pneumoniae isolates collected over weeks from multiple body sites of a single patient with recurrent UTI in order to track ordered strain progression across body sites, as has been employed across patients in outbreak settings. Whole-genome sequencing of 26 K. pneumoniae isolates was performed utilizing the Illumina platform. PacBio sequencing was used to create a refined reference genome of the original urinary isolate (TOP52). Sequence variation was evaluated by comparing the 26 isolate sequences to the reference genome sequence. Whole-genome sequencing of the K. pneumoniae isolates from six different body sites of this patient with recurrent UTI demonstrated 100% chromosomal sequence identity of the isolates, with only a small P2 plasmid deletion in a minority of isolates. No single nucleotide variants were detected. The complete absence of single-nucleotide variants from 26 K. pneumoniae isolates from multiple body sites collected over weeks from a patient with recurrent UTI suggests that, unlike in an outbreak situation with strains collected from numerous patients, other methods are necessary to discern strain progression within a single host over a relatively short time frame.</p

Cues To Stroke Rehabilitation Referral Among Family Physicians

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The Vitamin B Complex and Fasting Blood-Sugar Levels: An Investigation into the Changes in Fasting Blood-Sugar Levels of Diabetic and Non-diabetic Patients Following the Intravenous Injection of Aneurin, Riboflavin and Nicotinamide, with a Review of Relevant Literature, and a Note on Diabetic Neuritis

In the writer's own investigations, aneurin, riboflavin and nicotinamide were administered separately and together to diabetic and non-diabetic patients. No significant changes occurred in the blood-sugar levels during the three hours following administration. Many of the previous, more favourable reports were based on inadequately controlled experiments with too small numbers of cases. In some reports, the accuracy of the biochemical work was questionable. The main drawback of the present investigations is that the number of diabetics tested is still too small. Precautions were taken to verify any marked changes in the blood-sugar levels, to exclude the possibility that they were due to inaccuracies in the biochemical estimations. It is now becoming fairly clear that while various factors in the vitamin B complex play important parts in the metabolism of carbohydrates, it is not likely that any of them could take the place of, or increase the effect of insulin. There is also no definite evidence that an increased need of the vitamins exists in uncomplicated diabetes. Vitamin B therapy is therefore not necessary in the routine treatment of diabetes. But it is also now becoming more generally recognised that vitamin B supplements are useful in many complications of diabetes, such as infections, parenteral feeding and old age. Opinions are now more prevalent that very few, if any, cases of diabetic neuritis are due to aneurin deficiency. In the absence of any other definite cause, however, it seems that intensive and prolonged aneurin therapy is still worthy of trial in diabetic neuritis

Living in Place: A Study of Vitality through Sense of Place

The built environment can respond to human needs and influence behaviors. An approach to design that grows from essential human conditions arguably is a preferable means of structuring the built world in a responsible and sustainable manner. Although new and innovative building technologies can achieve great strides in sustainability, underlying and fundamental human needs and behaviors may be an equally important source of inspiration and creativity in the built environment. This thesis addresses social and psychological needs of the aging population in three communities in the vicinity of Rochester, New York. Through understandings of sense of place, the inquiry is the extent to which attributes of these communities respond to such needs in a way that creates an enriching quality of life. The intent is to demonstrate that, by cultivating a sense of place through the attributes of a community, the aging population might experience enrichment and vitality in their day-to-day lives. The genesis for this study is the fact that, in the United States and throughout the world, the aging population is growing at a rate that is far greater than that of the general population as a whole. This trend is predicted to continue. Absent solutions in the structure of communities that stem from important social and psychological needs of the aging population, the elderly face risk of isolation, lack of meaningful purpose, and detachment. This thesis proposes a model for Living in Place, which is defined as the engagement and integration of residents in the community structure to experience a meaningful quality of life, where the community as a whole benefits from the richness of demographic diversity. Rather than a model in which the aging are viewed in a state of decline, without an opportunity to contribute to the social capital of a community, Living in Place embraces a view toward continued enrichment and participation of the elderly. The proposal is that, by linking the social and psychological needs of the aging, to sociological and architectural principles of sense of place, to physical manifestations of sense of place, a model for Living in Place is achieved, and the elderly experience vitality rather than decline. As a final outcome, essential principles relating to the composition of a community emerge, through which a society-wide model for Living in Place might be obtained

Factors affecting poor breast feathering in modern turkeys

Sternal Bursitis (breast blisters) and Focal Ulcerative Dermatitis (breast buttons) cause depressed welfare and are an important source of economic loss in market turkeys. Such lesions are common in modem turkeys and feathers may offer some protection to the breast from environmental challenges. Feather growth is poor in modem compared with traditional turkeys and feathers may be absent over the breast region. This study quantified and compared feather growth in a modem commercial turkey with that in an unrelated traditional turkey and investigated the lack of breast feathers in the large modem bird.A comparative study found that feather growth had not increased with selection for body weight in the modem turkey and that the growth of breast feathers from the cranial region o f the breast tract appeared to be impaired. Modern birds spent more time resting than traditional turkeys.Three possible causes of poor breast feathering were examined. First, the reduction in feather growth was an adaptive response to increased heat production resulting from fast growth rates. Second, there was competition between muscle and feathers for essential nutrients such as amino acids. Third, selection for increased breast muscle mass has not resulted in an increase in feather number and was associated with stretching of the skin and poor breast feathering.Modem turkeys reared at high (26°C) and low (15°C) ambient temperatures showed no differences in feather growth. These turkeys were also fed ad libitum or restricted quantities of feed. Turkeys on restricted feeding showed a general decrease in feather growth apart from the cranial breast feathers that were increased in length.Nutrition experiments suggested that, in the modem turkey, protein was preferentially partitioned to feather growth and that the amino acids arginine and methionine were used for feather growth in preference to muscle growth. When crude protein concentrations in the diet o f the modem turkey were deficient, feather growth was maintained at the expense of body and particularly breast muscle growth. The impaired development of cranial breast feathers was associated with rapid growth o f the breast muscle in the modern turkey and was not related to a deficiency of specific amino acids.No increase in feather follicle number and a reduction of the collagen content of breast skin in the modem turkey support the hypothesis that development of the integument has not increased in proportion to body weightIt was concluded that the impaired growth of cranial breast feathers was caused by the rapid growth and sedentary behaviour of the modem turkey resulting in prolonged pressure on the feather tracts of the breast

Alien Registration- Spidell, Wylie M. (Byron, Oxford County)

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"Muscled Presence": Douglas Livingstone's poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Snake"

Douglas Livingstone's poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Snake" is an artwork which addresses precisely these questions, seeking a manner of portraying the snake which is neither grossly appropriative nor wholly detached, neither ethically empty nor preachy. In its multi-angled structure, Livingstone attempts aesthetically "to establish and embellish ... a contact zone with the nonhuman animals who share our world with us, but accepting also that there exist considerable venues on either side of this contact zone that are, on the one hand, only human, and on the other hand, only nonhuman". Even in his more formally scientific work, Livingstone argues for the inevitability of such limits to knowledge, and for the value of the imagination in addressing them