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    Freedom: Long Term Recording Agreements and the International Music Industry

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    Proposal to end the sale of energy drinks to children : Government consultation

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    Transforming Cities, Negotiating Centrality: Markets and Civic Buildings in Comparative Perspective (XVth c. - XXth c.); An Introduction

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    This HSR forum on central urban places in history discusses the spatial interactions between political and commercial centres. The narrative of western modernity we challenge here explains the increasing distance between prestigious political monuments and daily markets with the breakthroughs in hygiene of the last two centuries in western urbanism. On the one hand, the example of Venice shows that the hygiene politics of the 19th century were not that new and that they could also be used for a kind of social segregation. On the other hand, the model of the occidental city as political community and municipal institution must be questioned. For instance, Ottoman towns had developed institutions that represented local groups and which were linked with the markets and their actors. Western influence and colonisation destroyed those institutions, which also had consequences for the city centre. We propose the concept of vertical and horizontal centrality for use in discussions of the multiple dimensions of centrality

    The Phytotoxicity of Palm Oil Mill Effluent, its Degradation and Effect on Plant Growth

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    The presence of abundant agricultural residues in Malaysia prompted the need to utilize these wastes to overcome environmental pollution. A large portion of these wastes comes from the oil palm effluent. Palm oil meal (POMeal) has been used as an organic fertilizer to increase growth and yield of several crops. However, application of raw or undecomposed POMeal can also be detrimental to the growth of certain plants. In view of this, the project conducted aimed to study the following aspects: the inhibitory effect of different levels of raw POMeal on growth of vegetables, the effect of decomposition on POMeal phytotoxicity and the degradation of p-coumaric and vanillic acids by Pseudomonas sp. and Penicillium sp. In this study the water-soluble phytotoxic compounds present in raw POMeal will be identified. Results of the glasshouse experiment showed that growth of tomato and spinach was strongly affected by the type (raw or decomposed) and amount of POMeal applied. Growth of both plants was inhibited by application of > 1% raw POMeal. In contrast, application of 1% - 21% decomposed POMeal increased the plant's growth, with maximum dry matter production at 6% POMeal. Increase in shoot dry weight of tomato and spinach given decomposed POMeal was 7 and 178 times respectively. Increase in root dry weights was 1.6 and 62 times respectively, compared to plants given raw POMeal. Soil N, P and K contents, pH and electrical conductivity also increase with increase in PO Meal levels. The phytotoxicity of raw POMeal was reduced when POMeal was decomposed for > 4 weeks

    New Labyrinth

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    ¿Qué esconde el mito del laberinto? ¿Por qué continuamos asociando a esta figura la forma y el sentido de la ciudad contemporánea? ¿Qué esperamos aún de este mito que recorre toda la historia de la cultura occidental y que aproxima nuestra condición espacial contemporánea a la antigua del mundo arcaico y clásico? El presente ensayo pretende ofrecer algunas respuestas desde nuestro tiempo presente: el laberinto como resultado del caos, no como sinónimo de desorden sino de un orden superior. Pero ante todo se trata de un dispositivo, construido desde el arte para confundir, someter a prueba y finalmente acabar provocando el asombro y la reflexión desde aquellos proyectos que se aproximan a él.What hides behind the myth of the labyrinth? Why we continue associating this figure to the shape and direction of the contemporary city? What we expect from this myth that runs throughout the history of Western culture and throws our contemporary spatial condition to ancient archaic and classical world? This article seeks to provide some answers from our time: the labyrinth as a result of the chaos, not as a synonym of disorder but of a higher order. But above all, it is a device built from art to confuse, testing and finally end up causing surprise and reflection from projects that are close to him.Peer Reviewe

    Successful Treatment of Neonatal Pylorospasm with Intravenous Atropine

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    Pylorospasm is a cause of delayed gastric emptying in young infants. As in patients with hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, most pylorospasm patients present with projectile vomiting. However, unlike that in case of hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, no persistent pyloric stenotic lesions are present. As such, follow-up using serial gastrointestinal fluoroscopy or ultrasonography can be helpful in diagnosing patients with clinical signs of gastroparesis. Most cases can be treated conservatively, but some patients require pharmacologic treatment. Antispasmodics have been proposed as a treatment for pylorospasm, but their use in neonates and infants has rarely been reported. Herein, we present a case of pylorospasm diagnosed in the neonatal period and successfully treated with intravenous atropine.ope
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