Resfriamento de sementes de Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1795) como subsídio ao manejo e à comercialização na região de Florianópolis, SC - Brasil

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Agrárias. Programa de Pós-Graduação em AquiculturaSementes de crassostrea gigas foram mantidas a 4-7oC por um, dois e sete dias e cultivadas por oito meses e os dados de sobrevivência, altura e peso seco da carne foram comparados com um controle, que não sofreu resfriamento. Foram realizados dois cultivos idênticos com a espécie: um iniciado em Junho/99 e denominado "Verão" e outro iniciado em Dezembro/00 e denominado "Inverno". Em cada cultivo foram comparadas duas unidades (andares) da lanterna de cultivo: "superfície" e "fundo", localizadas a 0,5m e 1,5m de profundidade na coluna d'água, respectivamente. Para um mesmo cultivo, não foram encontradas diferenças estatísticas entre os tratamentos que sofreram resfriamento e o controle em nenhum dos parâmetros analisados, tanto nas unidades "superfície", quanto "fundo" demonstrando o potencial da técnica. A altura e o peso seco da carne finais no cultivo "Inverno" foram estatisticamente maiores (p<0,05) do que no cultivo "Verão". Não foi registrada diferença significativa com relação a sobrevivência entre os cultivos, em nenhuma das unidades das lanternas testadas. A temperatura no cultivo "Verão" variou de 18,1oC à 27,2oC e no cultivo "Inverno" variou de 27,2oC à 14,3oC. A salinidade variou entre 30,2# e 35,0#

Rag-Tag Sports

The idea behind my capstone project is to determine how to make a podcast engaging and fulfill a thorough customer journey. The average podcast can lack engagement, integrative branding, and the overall sense of community. By building an interactive website with engaging content, we can build a community that forms a strong brand name and recurring customers. The current Boise community has a lack of strong branded podcasts which reduces the opportunity for entertainment in that field. By creating a newly innovative podcast it can bring an aspect to the community that has not been seen before. The project will directly impact the general public (fans), the podcast employees, and myself by providing additional entertainment and revenue

Leveraging Reusable HTML Objects to Manage Course Content

Need a way to make changes to course content in one place and have that change populate across multiple courses? The Create HTML Object function in the Content System offers an easy way to create and manage course content at scale. When a course uses Reusable HTML Objects for course content, every copied section of a given course points to the same, single instance of any given piece of content. This increases operational efficiency of instructional design/ technology departments and promotes the use of instructional design best practices and technology adoption in all courses. I will demonstrate how to create, implement, and edit HTML objects, illustrate some use cases, and point out a few “gotchas” and how to work around them. Bring a laptop so you can follow along and try this in a sandbox course shell on your own Blackboard system

Collaborate Ultra

Collaborate Ultra platform in online courses. This session will cover the basics of using Collaborate Ultra on both computers and mobile devices

The utilization of Faith Development Theory and Faith Styles perspective to shape a Christian education program

The purpose of this study was to investigate characteristics of the faith development of members of the congregation of Oak View Methodist Church. The research evaluated the relationship between a person’s faith level and his/her participation in Christian education. Contributing to the body of faith development research, this research served as an extension of Fowler’s (1981) Faith Development Theory (FDT), as well as the Faith Styles Model (Streib, 2001; 2005), which is an advancement of FDT. In this mixed-method study the researcher also investigated whether there is a significant relationship between the Faith Development Interview (FDI), a qualitative measure of faith development and the Religious Schema Scale (RSS), a quantitative measure of faith development. The quantitative instrument was a 15-questions likert-scale survey administered to 900 adult worship service attendees with a response rate of 666 surveys, or 74%. From this sample twenty-one interviewees were randomly selected. Through a series of twenty-five Faith Development Interview questions, respondents were encouraged to experientially address faith issues by sharing details and feelings about their lived experiences. The data from the RSS showed there is no significant relationship between a person’s faith level and his/her participation in Christian education programs. Thus, if the goal of Bible study classes is to develop a stronger faith in the participants, this study indicates that the goal is not being achieved. The Religious Schema Scale shows promise as a predictor of Faith Development Interview scores and could provide a much more time and cost effective method of measuring faith levels than the FDI. The FDI offers rich text about the attitudes and values in life that have shaped the faith of the interviewees and proves useful in providing data for Christian educators about faith levels of the congregation. The Religious Schema Scale results reveal an unanticipated yet important conclusion. The RSS score on one subscale does not predict the score on another subscale. Finally, Faith Development Interviews offer rich text about the attitudes and values in life that have shaped the faith of interviewees and proves useful in providing data for Christian educators about the faith levels of the congregation

Carotid endarterectomy in Durban - the first 10 years

This study was a prospective evaluation of the Durban experience with carotid endarterectomy over the past decade. Since 1981, 478 carotid endarterectomies have been performed in 411 patients. The majority of these patients were white men, with an average age of 60,6 years. The indication for surgery was a lateralising transient ischaemic attack or atnaurosis fugax in 65,50/0, lateralising stroke « 1 year before surgery) in 14,4%, non-lateralising global cerebral ischaemia in 9,4% and asymptomatic carotid stenosis in 10,7%. Carotid endarterectomy was performed under general anaesthesia and with invasive monitoring; 25% of patients underwent selective shunting. After open carotid bifurcation endarterectomy, all but 6 underwent primary closure (99,4%). The combined major stroke/mortality rate was 6%. This audit identified a group of patients who presented with a history of stroke within the year preceding surgery and who had a significantly higher postoperative stroke/mortality rate of 20,2%. Long-term follow-up, ranging from 1 month to 96 months, showed 80,7% to be strokefree after 8 years. This audit demonstrates a postoperative stroke/ mortality rate comparable to that of other series and additionally confirmed the durability of carotid endarterectomy in the long term

Awolf in wolf's clothing the abdominal compartment syndrome

Four patients are described in whom massive abdominal distension after laparotomy led to increased airway and central venous pressure and severely reduced urine output. All cases were associated with massive fluid resuscitation and operative findings were a grossly oedematous bowel with free fluid under pressure in the abdomen. These findings are consistent with the diagnosis of intra-abdominal compartment syndrome. In 1 case trauma was remote from the abdomen indicating that abdominal surgery or trauma may not be a prerequisite for the development of the condition. Recognition of the features of the condition is essential as it can only be treated by decompression of the abdominal contents

Phyllosticta citricarpa and sister species of global importance to Citrus.

Several Phyllosticta species are known as pathogens of Citrus spp., and are responsible for various disease symptoms including leaf and fruit spots. One of the most important species is P. citricarpa, which causes a foliar and fruit disease called citrus black spot. The Phyllosticta species occurring on citrus can most effectively be distinguished from P. citricarpa by means of multilocus DNA sequence data. Recent studies also demonstrated P. citricarpa to be heterothallic, and reported successful mating in the laboratory. Since the domestication of citrus, different clones of P. citricarpa have escaped Asia to other continents via trade routes, with obvious disease management consequences. This pathogen profile represents a comprehensive literature review of this pathogen and allied taxa associated with citrus, focusing on identification, distribution, genomics, epidemiology and disease management. This review also considers the knowledge emerging from seven genomes of Phyllosticta spp., demonstrating unknown aspects of these species, including their mating behaviour.TaxonomyPhyllosticta citricarpa (McAlpine) Aa, 1973. Kingdom Fungi, Phylum Ascomycota, Class Dothideomycetes, Order Botryosphaeriales, Family Phyllostictaceae, Genus Phyllosticta, Species citricarpa.Host rangeConfirmed on more than 12 Citrus species, Phyllosticta citricarpa has only been found on plant species in the Rutaceae.Disease symptomsP. citricarpa causes diverse symptoms such as hard spot, virulent spot, false melanose and freckle spot on fruit, and necrotic lesions on leaves and twigs.Useful websitesDOE Joint Genome Institute MycoCosm portals for the Phyllosticta capitalensis (https://genome.jgi.doe.gov/Phycap1), P. citriasiana (https://genome.jgi.doe.gov/Phycit1), P. citribraziliensis (https://genome.jgi.doe.gov/Phcit1), P. citrichinaensis (https://genome.jgi.doe.gov/Phcitr1), P. citricarpa (https://genome.jgi.doe.gov/Phycitr1, https://genome.jgi.doe.gov/Phycpc1), P. paracitricarpa (https://genome.jgi.doe.gov/Phy27169) genomes. All available Phyllosticta genomes on MycoCosm can be viewed at https://genome.jgi.doe.gov/Phyllosticta

Sustainability Through Adaptation: Reimagining Existing Spaces with Mass Timber Construction

In a period when it is becoming more and more apparent how we, as humans, have been negatively impacting our planet, it is important for us, as designers, to take a step back and evaluate how new methods of sustainable design can be incorporated into the existing built environment to leave a positive impression on our climate. We have discussed sustainability through design, building typologies, construction materials, and building systems but we can also explore the sustainable method of reusing the existing built environment. This thesis explores how adaptively reusing existing buildings can be a sustainable source of architecture. Buildings that have fallen into neglect and/or ruin can be revitalized through the construction method of mass timber to produce less greenhouse gas emissions during the structure’s life cycle while leaving a larger, healthier impact on our climate. This thesis explores the benefits of mass timber as a sustainable construction method and demonstrates how mass timber can be used as an alternative to steel frame construction on the site of a 1919 US Navy industrial building. The existing masonry and steel-framed structure stands as a neglected building that can be adapted through sustainable methods. By respecting the structure’s heritage and original purpose, this thesis proposes a secondary building and revitalization of the existing structure through reusing existing structures with recycled material, like mass timber. The thesis looks at opening the site to the evolving community of the Washington D.C. Navy Yard. Maintaining the site as a community gathering space, this thesis proposes a food hall program, building off the weekly farmers' markets that take place in the structure’s adjacent plaza, and aims to fill the community's need for a public civic space in the adjoining community library program. The program of this thesis aims to draw people in to explore the built environment of alternative and sustainable construction methods

Prevention of wound sepsis in amputations by peri-operative antibiotic cover with an amoxycillin-clavulanic acid combination

In a series of 44 patients with lower limb ischaemia requiring amputation for major limb sepsis, the performance of a new antibiotic combination with Blactamase- inhibiting properties, amoxycillin plus . clavulanic acid (A-CA) (Augmentin; Beecham), was compared with that of penicillin in the prevention of wound infection. The sepsis rate of ·12,9% in the group of patients receiving peri-operative A-CA was significantly lower than the 76,9% in the penicillin control group (x2 = 14,48; P&lt;O,OO1).lt is concluded that there is a need for peri-operative antibiotic cover in this situation and that A-CA appears to be highly effective. No statistical difference was found as regards development of sepsis in wounds closed primarily or left open while under A-CA cover