Scoping the role of the nurse consultant

Project Summary Middlesex University is funded by HENCEL to undertake the following project: “Scoping the Role of the Nurse Consultant”. The project aims to provide HENCEL with a detailed review of progress of nursing research and development (R&D) being delivered through the Nurse and Midwife Consultant role across North Central and East London. This interim report covers the period from December 1st 2013 to 31st March 2014. The report considers progress of phase one and phase two

Research Notes : India : Genetic variability, interrelationships and path-coefficient analysis of seed technological traits in soybean under different cropping systems

Soybean is generally cultivated in India as a sole or monoculture crop. However, its intercropping with maize is a common practice in some hilly areas of northern India. The practice aims at (1) insuring against total crop fail-ures under abnormal weather conditions, (2) increasing total productivity for unit land area, and (3) equitable and judicious utilization of land resources and farming inputs

Multi-Channel Transport in Disordered Medium under Generic Scattering Conditions

Our study of the evolution of transmission eigenvalues, due to changes in various physical parameters in a disordered region of arbitrary dimensions, results in a generalization of the celebrated DMPK equation. The evolution is shown to be governed by a single complexity parameter which implies a deep level of universality of transport phenomena through a wide range of disordered regions. We also find that the interaction among eigenvalues is of many body type that has important consequences for the statistical behavior of transport properties.Comment: 19 Pages, No Figure

Potential Application of a Heterotrophic Microorganism for Bioleaching of Metals from Indian Ocean Nodules

Bacillus circulans, a heterotrophic microorgansim has been used for the recovery of copper, nickel and cobalt from sea nodules. The organism was revived in nutrient medium and adapted gradually on sea nodules prior to leaching. Bioleaching studies were carried out in shake flasks containing sea nodule powder with growth medium and adapted microbial culture under a range of conditions such as pH, pulp density, particle size of nodules and temperat-ure. Metal recovery was highest in 30 days but the rate of recovery was slow after 25 days of bioleaching. A 92% Cu, 73% Ni, 72% Co, 38% Mn and 17% Fe was recovered at pH 2 in 25 days at 35°C temperature. XRD identification of residue showed the presence of some lower and mixed oxidation phases of manganese and some unaltered iron phases. The biodissolution of metals was direct enzyme leading to reduction of Mn (IV) to Mn (II) and Fe (III) to Fe (II)

Small intestinal deficit in pellagra

Twenty-four persons with pellagra were the subjects of absorption testing. Fourteen (58.3%) showed evidence of defective absorption of two or three absorption tests and eight showed (33.3%) abnormality of only one of the tests of absorption. Only two cases (8.3%) were found to be having completely normal absorptive status of the small bowel. Six of these fourteen (42.8%) cases recovered completely or partially on treatment with nicotinic acid. The etiopathogenesis of malabsorption in pellagra is discussed. Patients of both primary as well as secondary pellagra showed similar derangement of small intestinal functions

Generalised Separable Solution of Double Phase Flow through Homogeneous Porous Medium in Vertical Downward Direction Due to Difference in Viscosity

In this paper the instability (fingering) phenomenon in a double phase immiscible (oil and water) flow through the homogeneous porous medium with mean capillary pressure in the vertical downward direction is discussed. The mathematical formulation of this problem yields a nonlinear partial differential equation and the generalised separable solution is given in the exponential form. The numerical solution and graphical presentation is given using MAT LAB coding