Exercise Reduce Oxidative Damage in Pregnancy

Pregnancy is a vulnerable condition to all kinds of "stress", resulting in changes of physiological and metabolic functions. This research aims to determine effect of exercise during pregnancy in reducing oxidative demage marked by decrease of malondialdehyde and 8-hydroxy-diguanosine levels. Randomized pre and posttest control group design was employed in this study. A number of 66 pregnant women were recruited in this study and grouped to two groups, i.e 30 of them as control group and the rest as treatment group. Pregnancy exercise was performed to all 36 pregnant women from 20 weeks gestation on treatment group. The exercise was performed in the morning for about 30 minutes, twice a weeks. On the other hand, daily activities was sugested for control group. Student\u27s t-test was then applied to determine the mean different of treatment and control group with 5 % of significant value. This study reveals that there were significantly higher decrease of (MDA) and 8-OHdG about 0.15 nmol/ml and 0.08 ng/ml, respectively, amongs treatment and control groups (p < 0.05). Clinical outcomes, such as strengten of pelvic muscle and quality of life of treatment group were significantly better compared to control group (p < 0.05). This means that exercise during pregnancy ages of 20 weeks decrease MDA and 8-OHdG levels higher compare to control group without exercise

DEFENSE MECHANISM ON THE MAIN CHARACTER DEPICTED IN THE BABADOOK MOVIE

El presente trabajo de investigación lleva como título “DISEÑO DE CONCRETO PERMEABLE, PARA PAVIMENTOS RÍGIDOS, UTILIZANDO PIEDRA HUSO 67 Y ARENA GRUESA DE LA CANTERA LA PODEROSA, PARA LA CIUDAD DE AREQUIPA”, la investigación tiene como objetivo experimentar con diferentes diseños de mezcla para así comparar resultados y aplicarlos en pavimentos rígidos. Este documento presenta los resultados de una investigación realizada en el laboratorio de Ingeniería Civil de la Universidad Católica de Santa María, Facultad de Arquitectura e Ingenierías Civil y del Ambiente, Escuela Profesional de Ingeniería Civil. Se elaboraron 18 diseños de mezclas utilizando cemento portland tipo IP, agua potable, agregado de la cantera la Poderosa de la ciudad de Arequipa, aditivos de las marcas SIKA Viscocrete 1110 y EUCO Neoplast 8500 HP, en distintas combinaciones y dosificaciones. Seguidamente, para cada diseño de mezcla se prepararon cilindros y vigas de prueba, para posteriormente realizar ensayos de resistencia a compresión, flexión, tensión indirecta, desgaste y permeabilidad, para así determinar de esta manera el diseño de mezcla con el mejor comportamiento ante estos esfuerzos. Luego se analizaron los diferentes resultados obtenidos estadísticamente y se escogió el diseño de mezcla óptimo que cumpla con los requisitos requeridos para ser utilizado en el diseño de pavimento rígido permeable. Finalmente, se procedió a hacer el diseño de una losa demostrativa usando los parámetros necesarios del terreno y las condiciones de tráfico que soportará. En suma, la investigación expresa el diseño de mezcla del concreto permeable, las propiedades y características del mismo, las consideraciones que se deben de tomar en cuenta para su uso en pavimentos permeables en la ciudad de Arequip

New Spaces: Safeguarding Students from Violence and Hate

Full report of the HEFCE Catalyst funded projectSexual assault, harassment, violence and hate crime on university campuses is a prevalent and pressing concern. A recent Universities UK taskforce report recommended that urgent action in this area is needed. Universities are significant sites for implementing a joined-up approach and tackling these issues. As a campus of Changemakers, students, inter-disciplinary researchers, professional and support staff at The University of Northampton decided to take action to address these significant and important issues, in particular within the context of a major campus move to a town centre location. As one of only 60 institutions across the country to be awarded funding from HEFCE’s Catalyst fund, this ‘New Spaces: Safeguarding Students from Violence and Hate’ cross collaborative project aimed to create vital partnerships in tackling sexual violence and hate crime on campus. The aims of the project were to evaluate existing policies and develop a student-led collaborative approach to identify what currently happens when disclosures are made; staff and student perceptions, knowledge and experiences within the campus transition; as well as providing recommendations for new institutional policies, strategies and recommendations to support students in reporting harassment, sexual abuse, sexual violence and hate crime. This project also contributes to HEFCE’s wider work in creating guidelines and recommendations for HEIs for addressing these issues. A survey of the published literature, as well as an evaluation of existing processes and policies at The University of Northampton were carried out within this project. Data collection involved 2 Staff and 2 student focus groups, as well as 11 interviews with members of the university management team. These were conducted to discuss staff and student experiences, what support was in place for disclosures and recommendations for future practice within the transition to the new campus. One of the student focus groups utilised photo-elicitation methods to allow students to visually conceptualise and create a new, safe campus space. Recommendations are provided for understanding the prevalence of these issues within a campus context; tackle normative beliefs which may influence how they are perceived; increasing knowledge and awareness of sexual violence and hate crime; implementing mechanisms for disclosure and reporting; addressing issues related to security measures and procedures; enhancing partnership working within the local community. These recommendations have local impact and are being used to inform institutional policies and procedures at The University. Project findings are also being implemented into HEFCE’s wider work and national action around these issues. Internationally, the dissemination of these findings is contributing to the limited research in this area

Cocaine + Surfing: Reviewed by Jack Ryan, Gettysburg College

If you seek a conclusive answer to the question that seems to anchor Chas Smith\u27s Cocaine + Surfing: A Sordid History of Surfing\u27s Greatest Love Affair, Did surfing and cocaine start together in Peru and never leave each other\u27s embrace?, you will be disappointed. In his preface, Smith discusses the death of Andy Irons, the three-time world surfing champion from Hawaii who died November 2, 2010, alone in a Dallas hotel room of cardiac arrest brought on by cocaine abuse. Irons was thirty-two years old. According to Smith, no one in the cosseted surfing world was surprised: Drugs and surfing, especially cocaine, felt synonymous with professional surfing those eight-odd years ago (15). Chapter 1, ironically titled The Call to Adventure!, places Smith, our first-person narrator, on a hero\u27s journey. [excerpt

Weather and Climate Information for Tourism

The tourism sector is one of the largest and fastest growing global industries and is a significant contributor to national and local economies around the world. The interface between climate and tourism is multifaceted and complex, as climate represents both a vital resource to be exploited and an important limiting factor that poses risks to be managed by the tourism industry and tourists alike. All tourism destinations and operators are climate-sensitive to a degree and climate is a key influence on travel planning and the travel experience. This chapter provides a synopsis of the capacities and needs for climate services in the tourism sector, including current and emerging applications of climate services by diverse tourism end-users, and a discussion of key knowledge gaps, research and capacity-building needs and partnerships that are required to accelerate the application of climate information to manage risks to climate variability and facilitate successful adaptation to climate change

Learning backward induction: a neural network agent approach

This paper addresses the question of whether neural networks (NNs), a realistic cognitive model of human information processing, can learn to backward induce in a two-stage game with a unique subgame-perfect Nash equilibrium. The NNs were found to predict the Nash equilibrium approximately 70% of the time in new games. Similarly to humans, the neural network agents are also found to suffer from subgame and truncation inconsistency, supporting the contention that they are appropriate models of general learning in humans. The agents were found to behave in a bounded rational manner as a result of the endogenous emergence of decision heuristics. In particular a very simple heuristic socialmax, that chooses the cell with the highest social payoff explains their behavior approximately 60% of the time, whereas the ownmax heuristic that simply chooses the cell with the maximum payoff for that agent fares worse explaining behavior roughly 38%, albeit still significantly better than chance. These two heuristics were found to be ecologically valid for the backward induction problem as they predicted the Nash equilibrium in 67% and 50% of the games respectively. Compared to various standard classification algorithms, the NNs were found to be only slightly more accurate than standard discriminant analyses. However, the latter do not model the dynamic learning process and have an ad hoc postulated functional form. In contrast, a NN agent’s behavior evolves with experience and is capable of taking on any functional form according to the universal approximation theorem.

Studies of cracking behavior in melt-processed YBCO bulk superconductors

An important phenomenon in bulk superconductors fabricated by top-seeded-melt growth (TSMG) is the formation of cracks due to the inherent brittleness of the YBa2Cu3O7-δ (Y-123) phase matrix. These form during the fabrication of the superconducting monolith and play an important role in the limitation of current flow. However, cracks may also form during cooling cycles of the sample to liquid nitrogen temperatures. In this investigation, macrocracks along the c-direction, in particular were analyzed microscopically before and after cooling. In addition we attempt to resolve the c-axis macrocrack formation pattern using the magnetoscan technique

Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter Spring 2019

From the Dean (Robin Wagner) Library News Don\u27t Judge a book by its Cover: The Human Library You Can Come Home Again! Exhibits Recalling WWII at Home (Devin McKinney and Micheal Birkner) Library Works to Alleviate Textbook Misery (Janelle Wertzberger) Books Sent to African Library (Piper O\u27Keefe \u2717) Musselman Makeover Paying it Forward (Sierra Green \u2711 and Olivia Simmet \u2718) Student Paper Tops 1800 Downloads (Dayna Seeger \u2715) Buy the Book What\u27s so Funny (Sunni DeNicola) Book Displays Offer Outreach Opportunities (Sunni DeNicola) Honor With Books Data Drives Collecting Decisions Rare Discovery: Signed 1st Edition by Adam Smith Pressed Within - Discovering Unusual Bookmarks Unusual Book Formats Alumna Funds Novels with Diversity Themes (Sarah Blumig \u2710) I Couldn\u27t Let Them Go (Robin Wagner) Aldus Printing Device (Mary Wootton) $25,000 Book Conservation Gift (Rev. Vic Myers) Focus on Philanthropy: Elizabeth Headley Paul Special Additions (John Kuhs, Jr.) The Artistry of Endpapers (Michael Hobor \u2769

CADENCE’S DEFENSE MECHANISM IN RECOVERING HER LOST MEMORY IN WE WERE LIARS BY E. LOCKHART

LA PREECLAMPSIA DIFERENCIAS EPIDEMIOLÓGICAS ENTRE PREECLAMPSIA DE INICIO TEMPRANO (PRECOZ) CON PREECLAMPSIA DE INICIO TARDÍO DIFERENCIAS CLÍNICAS ENTRE PIP Y PIT INVASIÓN TROFOBLÁSTICA DEFICIENTE, LA HIPOPERFUSIÓN PLACENTARIA ANÁLISIS DE ANTECEDENTES INVESTIGATIVOS PLANTEAMIENTO OPERACIONAL CRONOGRAMA DEL TRABAJ

Bank stems the loss of employees returning from abroad:Talent-management system helps to keep people loyal

TesisObjetivo: Establecer la relación entre el recuento de Linfocitos T CD4, carga viral y Candida sp en cavidad oral de pacientes con VIH/SIDA atendidos en el Laboratorio de Referencia Regional de Cajamarca, octubre 2017 – marzo 2018. Método: Se obtuvieron muestras de sangre e hisopado de cavidad oral de pacientes atendidos en el Laboratorio de Referencia Regional de Cajamarca durante el periodo de octubre 2017 a marzo 2018, que cumplieron los criterios de inclusión y exclusión, con resultado positivo para VIH mediante Western Blot y PCR. Las muestras de sangre fueron procesadas para el recuento de Linfocitos T CD4 y carga viral mediante Citometría de flujo y PCR en tiempo real respectivamente; se realizó el cultivo de las muestras de hisopado de cavidad oral para determinar la presencia de Candida sp. Para el análisis de correlación del recuento de Linfocitos T CD4, carga viral y Candida sp se utilizó la prueba de Chi Cuadrado a un nivel de significancia p˂0.05, Prueba de Kruskal-Wallis y Spearman para la validación del análisis de varianza. Resultados: En el presente estudio se observó una correlación significativa (p˂0.05), entre el recuento de Linfocitos T CD4 y cultivo; al relacionar las variables recuento de Linfocitos T CD4 y carga viral se demuestra que existe diferencias estadísticamente significativas (p˂0.05), por el contrario, no se observó diferencias significativas entre carga viral y Candida sp (p˃0.05). Conclusión: Existe relación entre recuento de Linfocitos T CD4 y Candida sp manifestado en una asociación inversa, asimismo, se demuestra la relación existente entre el recuento de Linfocitos T CD4 y carga viral, presentado en la distribución porcentual de carga viral según la condición inmunológica. No se ha encontrado relación entre carga viral y cultivo de Candida sp en pacientes con VIH/SIDA atendidos en el Laboratorio de Referencia Regional durante octubre 2017 – marzo 2018