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Aeroelastic testing of LCA wing models - Model fabrication - Ground testing - Wind tunnel testing and Data analysis
Aeroelastic Testing Programme of Scaled Aeroelastic model of LCA half wing with rigid fuselage
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The Psy-Security-Curriculum ensemble: British Values curriculum policy in English schools
Framed as being in response to terrorist attacks and concerns about religious bias in some English schools, ‘British Values’ (BV) curriculum policy forms part of the British Government’s Counter-Terrorism and Security Act, 2015. This includes a Duty on teachers in England to actively promote British Values to deter students from radicalisation. This paper, first, traces the history of Britishness in the curriculum to reveal a prevalence of nationalistic, colonial values. Next, an ensemble of recent policies and speeches focusing on British Values is analysed, using a psycho-political approach informed by anti-colonial scholarship. Finally, we interrogate two key critiques of the British Values curriculum discourse: the universality of British Values globally, and concerns over the securitisation of education. Findings indicate that the constitution of white British supremacist subjectivities operate through curriculum as a defence mechanism against perceived threats to white privilege, by normalising a racialised state-controlled social order. The focus is on ‘British’ values, but the analytic framework and findings have wider global significance
Racialized Architectural Space: A Critical Understanding of its Production, Perception and Evaluation
Academic inquiry into the concept of space as racialized can be traced back to at least as far as the turn of the twentieth century with sociologist W. E. B. Dubois’ promulgation of the “color-line” theory. More recently,
numerous postmodern scholars from a variety of fields have elucidated the various ways in which physical space (i.e., the built environment), as a social
product, embodies racialized ideologies exhibited and reproduced by segregation, economics and other social practices. The dialogue on race and space has
primarily been limited to the urban scales of city, neighborhood, community and street. Socio-spatial research that centers around race rarely addresses
this phenomenon at the scale of architecture – the individual building or a particular development. Such a failure to critically examine the role of the
architectural product in the creation and reproduction of socio-spatial and socio-racial inequality yields the field of architectural practice exempt and blameless in its tangible contribution to the psychosocial and geospatial marginalization of communities of color, as in, for example, the case of gentrification. This paper attempts to illustrate the fact that architecture, like all of the built physical environment, is not ahistorical, apolitical – and certainly not race neutral – but, as a social product, is also understood clearly within these contexts, and its psychological and social impacts and outcomes must be examined with a racially critical lens, particularly in heterogeneous urban communities
Original Article - Primary progressive aphasia: A comparative study of progressive nonfluent aphasia and semantic dementia
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a degenerative disorder, is often
misdiagnosed as Alzheimer′s disease. Its subtypes, semantic
dementia (SD), and progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA), are often
difficult to differentiate from each other. Our objective was to
highlight the differences in the language profiles of patients with SD
and PNFA. To bring out these differences, we report two patients with
PPA, one with SD and the other with PNFA. They were administered the
Western aphasia battery (WAB) and a semantic battery, which assesses
semantic memory. The profiles of language impairment on the WAB
indicated that the patient with PNFA had syntactic errors in expressive
speech but relatively preserved semantics and comprehension, whereas
the patient with SD had preserved syntax but made semantic errors in
expressive speech, and had impaired comprehension. There were
differences in their performance on the semantic battery too. The
patient with SD made relatively less errors on confrontation naming,
although on the pointing task he failed to point to those line
drawings, which he was unable to name on confrontation. In contrast,
the finding of the PNFA patient was the reverse of this. Supplementing
conventional neuropsychological tests with formal tests for assessment
of language functions is useful in the early diagnosis of PPA. The
performance of PPA patients on a detailed assessment of language that
includes use of formal tests such as the semantic battery helps to
differentiate PNFA from SD
Additions to the grasses (Poaceae) of Telangana from Kawal Tiger Reserve, Adilabad District, India
Three species of grasses viz., Dimeria orissae, Iseilema holei and Spodiopogon rhizophorus are being reported for the first time as new distributional records to Telangana from the Kawal Tiger Reserve. Detailed description and illustrations are provided here.</p
Additions to the grasses (Poaceae) of Telangana from Kawal Tiger Reserve, Adilabad District, India
Three species of grasses viz., Dimeria orissae, Iseilema holei and Spodiopogon rhizophorus are being reported for the first time as new distributional records to Telangana from the Kawal Tiger Reserve. Detailed description and illustrations are provided here.</p
Glutaraldehyde cross-linking of lectins to marker enzymes: Protection of binding site by specific sugars
77-80The role of bound specific sugars in protecting
the sugar binding activity of several galactose binding proteins during their covalent
conjugation to horse radish peroxidase by glutaraldehyde-mediated cross-linking
was examined by: a) affinity matrix binding of the conjugate, b) enzyme linked
lectin assay and c) hemagglutination assay. During conjugation using 1% glutaraldehyde,
protection of jack fruit (Artocarpus integrifolia) lectin
(jacalin) activity depended on concentration of specific sugar present during conjugation;
optimum protection was offered by 50 mM galactose. This indicated the
presence of one or more primary groups at the binding site or jacalin , which is
(are) essential for sugar binding. On the other hand, such essential amino group(s)
was not indicated at the sugar binding site of the peanut lectin, bovine heart
galectin or of the human serum anti α-galactoside antibody, since exclusion of sugar
during their conjugation to HRP did not diminish sugar
binding activity. The differential behavior
is discussed in the light of reported differences in sugar specificities. Results
indicated that sugar mediated blocking of active site may be used in characterization
of the latter in lectins
Women with epilepsy and infertility have different reproductive hormone profile than others
Purpose: One-third of women with epilepsy (WWE) may experience infertility (failure to conceive after 12 months of regular unprotected intercourse). We aimed to compare the hormone profile of WWE and infertility (WWE-I) with that of WWE who had conceived earlier (WWE-F). Materials and Methods: In the Kerala Registry of Epilepsy and Pregnancy, we compared the clinical and hormone profile of 50 WWE-I and 40 age-matched WWE-F. Subjects were examined and blood samples were drawn in follicular phase (1-14 days) for 21 WWE-I and 18 WWE-F, in luteal phase (15-30 days) for 23 WWE-I and 15 WWE-F and beyond 30 days for 6 WWE-I and WWE-F who had irregular cycles. Results: The two groups were comparable regarding physical, epilepsy syndrome, duration of epilepsy, body mass index, and serum cholesterol levels. Menstrual periods were irregular for 6 WWE-I and 5 WWE-F. The WWE-I group (compared to the WWE-F group) had significantly (P < 0.01) higher levels of dehydroepiandrostenedione (2.0 ± 1.7 ug/mL vs. 1.0 ± 0.7 ug/mL) and luteinizing hormone-LH (26.4 ± 37.3 mIU/mL vs. 9.9 ± 14.5 mIU/mL) and lower levels of progesterone (5.2 ± 9.2 ng/mL vs. 10.4 ± 13.4 ng/mL). There was no significant difference in the levels of FT3, FT4, thyroid stimulating hormone, prolactin, follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), progesterone, testosterone, or androstenedione levels. The WWE-I had 8.5 times higher risk (95% confidence interval 1.2-59.9) of abnormal LH/FSH ratio. WWE who were on antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) (compared to WWE who were not on AEDs) had higher risk of elevated LH/FSH ratio. Conclusion: The hormone profile of WWE-I is significantly different from that of WWE-F. These variations need to be interpreted with caution as a causal relationship to epilepsy or use of antiepileptic drugs need to be established through further studies
Classroom and behavior management: (re)conceptualization through disability critical race theory
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