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Distribution and Diversity of Coliform Bacteria in Estuary of Jiahe River, China
J. Li
M. Lin
X. Liu
X. Hu
Yantai Institute of Costal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, China
Waterborne outbreaks of pathogenic bacteria from contaminated water are serious threats for
public health. Coliform bacteria have been regarded as one of the most important indicators for monitoring
pathogenic bacteria. To address potential pathogenic bacterial outbreaks, the distribution and diversity of
coliform bacteria in Jiahe river, which flows through densely-populated urban area in China, were detected.
Escherichia Coli and other coliform bacteria were counted using the membrane filter technique to describe the distribution of the coliform bacteria. Phylogenetic analysis was applied to investigate the diversity of the
coliform bacteria. The results suggested that the quantities of coliform bacteria varied greatly between five
sampling sites with the highest value at site YT4 and the lowest value at site YT2. Highest concentrations of
E. coli and other coliform bacteria were also observed at YT4, while the lowest value was detected at sites YT3 and YT2, respectively. Various coliform bacteria were classified by phylogenetic analysis, including Citrobacter, Klebsiella, Enterobacter, and Raoultella. Components of coliform bacteria affiliated into these four genera were various in all sampling sites. The statistical analysis suggested that the distribution of coliform bacteria were remarkably influenced by total bacteria amount. Multiple environmental parameters were proved to affect the diversity of coliform bacteria. The results of this study revealed the correlation between coliform bacteria and the environmental parameters, which is important for predicting and preventing waterborne transmission of pathogenic bacteria.
Pathogenic indicator
Phylogenetic diversity
Li, J., Wang, H., Liu, Y., Lin, M., Liu, X., Hu, X. (2014). Distribution and Diversity of Coliform Bacteria in Estuary of Jiahe River, China. International Journal of Environmental Research, 8(2), 501-508. doi: 10.22059/ijer.2014.743
J. Li; H. Wang; Y. Liu; M. Lin; X. Liu; X. Hu. "Distribution and Diversity of Coliform Bacteria in Estuary of Jiahe River, China". International Journal of Environmental Research, 8, 2, 2014, 501-508. doi: 10.22059/ijer.2014.743
Li, J., Wang, H., Liu, Y., Lin, M., Liu, X., Hu, X. (2014). 'Distribution and Diversity of Coliform Bacteria in Estuary of Jiahe River, China', International Journal of Environmental Research, 8(2), pp. 501-508. doi: 10.22059/ijer.2014.743
Li, J., Wang, H., Liu, Y., Lin, M., Liu, X., Hu, X. Distribution and Diversity of Coliform Bacteria in Estuary of Jiahe River, China. International Journal of Environmental Research, 2014; 8(2): 501-508. doi: 10.22059/ijer.2014.743

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Q: Create and call method that involves multiple System.out.println() and variables I'm working on a little Java program that outputs a receipt to email students who registered for an AP exam at my school.  The code looks like this.
// Create email text body for student who registered for an AP exam.

import java.util.Scanner;

class EmailText {

    public static void main(String args[]) {

        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);

        String first_name;
        String email;
        int numTests;
        char ch;
        char choice;
        int cost;

        System.out.print("Enter student first name: ");
        first_name = input.next();

        System.out.print("Enter student email: ");
        email = input.next();

        System.out.print("Enter number of tests ordered (1-9): ");
        numTests = input.nextInt();
        if(numTests < 10) {

            System.out.print("Did student qualify for fee waiver (y/n)? ");
            ch = input.next().charAt(0);

            if(ch == 'y') {
                cost = 5;
                int total = numTests * cost;

                System.out.println("** COPY/PASTE THIS DRAFT **");
                System.out.println("To: " + email);
                System.out.println("Subject: 2014 AP Test Receipt for " + first_name);
                System.out.println();
                System.out.println("Hi " + first_name + ",\n");
                System.out.println("Thank you for registering for the 2014 AP Exams!");
                System.out.println("According to our records, you ordered " + numTests + " tests.\n");
                System.out.println("Because you stated that you qualified for a fee waiver, " +
                        "each test will cost you $" + cost + ".");
                System.out.println("Your total cost is $" + cost + " * " + numTests +
                       " = $" + total + ".\n");
                System.out.println("Please submit your payment to the College Counseling Office ASAP.\nThank you.\n");
            }

            else if(ch == 'n') {
                cost = 89;
                int total = numTests * cost;

                System.out.println("** Copy/Paste this Draft **");
                System.out.println("To: " + email);
                System.out.println("Subject: 2014 AP Test Receipt for " + first_name);
                System.out.println();
                System.out.println("Hi " + first_name + ",\n");
                System.out.println("Thank you for registering for the 2014 AP Exams!");
                System.out.println("According to our records, you ordered " + numTests + " tests.");
                System.out.println("Because you stated that you qualified for a fee waiver, " +
                        "each test will cost you $" + cost + ".");
                System.out.println("Your total cost is $" + cost + " * " + numTests +
                       " = $" + total + ".\n");
                System.out.println("Please submit your payment to the College Counseling Office ASAP.\nThank you.\n");
            }
            }
            else {
                System.out.println("Please start again.");
                return;
        }
    }
}

The problem I have with this is that I am repeating the same System.out.println() body in the else and if blocks.  Instead, what I would like to do is to perhaps create a method that could be called in each block.
If possible, how can I accomplish this?

A: If this is what you mean, then you need to read up on basic Java, I've added your method in the code sample, please read this link to understand more about methods: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/methods.html
See Peter's answer for more information too!
// Create email text body for student who registered for an AP exam.

import java.util.Scanner;

class EmailText {

    public static void main(String args[]) {

        int numTests, cost;
        String email, first_name;
        char ch;

        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);

        System.out.print("Enter student first name: ");
        first_name = input.next();

        System.out.print("Enter student email: ");
        email = input.next();

        System.out.print("Enter number of tests ordered (1-9): ");
        numTests = input.nextInt();
        if(numTests < 10) {

            System.out.print("Did student qualify for fee waiver (y/n)? ");
            ch = input.next().charAt(0);

            if(ch == 'y') {
                cost = 5;
                PrintStuff(numTests, cost, email, first_name, "qualified for a fee waiver, ");
            }
            else if(ch == 'n') {
                cost = 89;
                PrintStuff(numTests, cost, email, first_name, "did not qualify for a fee waiver, ");
            } else {
                System.out.println("Please start again.");
            }
        }
    }

    public static void PrintStuff(int numTests, int cost, String email, String first_name, String fw_status) {
        int total = numTests * cost;

        System.out.println("** COPY/PASTE THIS DRAFT **");
        System.out.println("To: " + email);
        System.out.println("Subject: 2014 AP Test Receipt for " + first_name);
        System.out.println();
        System.out.println("Hi " + first_name + ",\n");
        System.out.println("Thank you for registering for the 2014 AP Exams!");
        System.out.println("According to our records, you ordered " + numTests + " tests.\n");
        System.out.println("Because you stated that you " + fw_status +
                "each test will cost you $" + cost + ".");
        System.out.println("Your total cost is $" + cost + " * " + numTests +
               " = $" + total + ".\n");
        System.out.println("Please submit your payment to the Student Store ASAP.\nThank you.\n");
    }
}

A: No need for a method, just some DRY refactoring:
if(ch == 'y' || ch == 'n') {
    cost = ch == 'y' ? 5 : 89;
    int total = numTests * cost;

    System.out.println("** COPY/PASTE THIS DRAFT **");
    System.out.println("To: " + email);
    System.out.println("Subject: 2014 AP Test Receipt for " + first_name);
    System.out.println();
    System.out.println("Hi " + first_name + ",\n");
    System.out.println("Thank you for registering for the 2014 AP Exams!");
    System.out.println("According to our records, you ordered " + numTests + " tests.\n");
    System.out.println("Because you stated that you qualified for a fee waiver, " +
            "each test will cost you $" + cost + ".");
    System.out.println("Your total cost is $" + cost + " * " + numTests +
           " = $" + total + ".\n");
    System.out.println("Please submit your payment to the College Counseling Office ASAP.\nThank you.\n");
} else {
    System.out.println("Please start again.");
    return;
}

A: Create a method something like this:
private String createOutput(int cost, String email, String first_name...)
{
    StringBuffer outputBuffer = new StringBuffer();
    outputBuffer.append("** Copy/Paste this Draft **\n");
    outputBuffer.append("To: " + email + "\n");
    outputBuffer.append("Subject: 2014 AP Test Receipt for " + first_name + "\n");
    outputBuffer.append("\n");
    ...

    return outputBuffer.toString();
}

Then your IF statement will look like this:
if(ch == 'y') {
    cost = 5;
    int total = numTests * cost;
    System.out.println(createOutput(cost, email, first_name, ...);
}
else if (ch == 'n') {
    cost = 89;
    int total = numTests * cost;
    System.out.println(createOutput(cost, email, first_name, ...);
}

A: You accomplish this by adding parameters to this method. Everything
which is not to be printed exactly the same between one if/else if block
and another else if block, you make a parameter of the method. Then from
the different blocks you call the same method but you pass different values
for the parameters.

A: You can create another method outside the main that prints your repeated System.out.println
and this method may contain parameters like this
 public void print(total){
System.out.println("** Copy/Paste this Draft **");
                System.out.println("To: " + email);
                System.out.println("Subject: 2014 AP Test Receipt for " + first_name);
                System.out.println();
                System.out.println("Hi " + first_name + ",\n");
                System.out.println("Thank you for registering for the 2014 AP Exams!");
                System.out.println("According to our records, you ordered " + numTests + " tests.");
                System.out.println("Because you stated that you qualified for a fee waiver, " +
                        "each test will cost you $" + cost + ".");
                System.out.println("Your total cost is $" + cost + " * " + numTests +
                       " = $" + total + ".\n");
                System.out.println("Please submit your payment to the College Counseling Office ASAP.\nThank you.\n");

}

and in your main you can access this method or put it inside your conditions like
 if(ch == 'y') {
               cost = 5;
                int total = numTests * cost;
               print(total);

}

A: import static java.lang.System.out;

Will allow you to simply refer to that code, although is generally considered a bad practice and is only for one-off programs.
Simply saving a reference to System.out will save you that part
PrintStream out = System.out;
out.println( "hello" );

Alternatively write yourself a nice shorthand method
public static void print(String s){
     System.out.println(s);
     }

You'll have to write overloads for int, double, etc. or alternatively you can use string concatenation
int x = 10;
print(x + "");

Or did you mean just for your big block of code there? In that case...
public void printBlock(String email, String first_name, int numTests, int cost, int total){
                System.out.println("** COPY/PASTE THIS DRAFT **");
                System.out.println("To: " + email);
                System.out.println("Subject: 2014 AP Test Receipt for " + first_name);
                System.out.println();
                System.out.println("Hi " + first_name + ",\n");
                System.out.println("Thank you for registering for the 2014 AP Exams!");
                System.out.println("According to our records, you ordered " + numTests + " tests.\n");
                System.out.println("Because you stated that you qualified for a fee waiver, " +
                        "each test will cost you $" + cost + ".");
                System.out.println("Your total cost is $" + cost + " * " + numTests +
                       " = $" + total + ".\n");
                System.out.println("Please submit your payment to the College Counseling Office ASAP.\nThank you.\n");
    }

Now just call
if(thing){
printBlock("email","firstname",1,10,10);
}
else{
printBlock("email","othername",2,20,40);
}

Or whatever.

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Trustee to take over Fortress broker in wake of RCMP raid
Jeff GrayQueen's Park Reporter
Published April 20, 2018 Updated April 20, 2018
The Fortress Real Developments office is in Richmond Hill, Ont.
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A judge has ordered a trustee to take over the operations of the lead mortgage broker for beleaguered real estate developer Fortress Real Developments Inc., just a week after the RCMP raided Fortress's Toronto-area offices as part of a syndicated-mortgage-fraud investigation.
Lawyers for the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) appeared before Superior Court Justice Glenn Hainey on Friday to argue that the broker, Building & Development Mortgages Canada Inc. (BDMC), was in default of a February settlement with the Ontario regulator, which came after FSCO launched its own probe into risky syndicated-mortgage investments.
Syndicated mortgages are pools of money provided by private investors to finance real estate-development projects. More than $600-million has been invested in BDMC's syndicated-mortgage loans, by 11,000 investors, with most of the investments related to real estate development projects across the country involving Fortress.
In an affidavit filed with the court on Friday, Brendan Forbes, an Ontario government lawyer working with FSCO, said BDMC was in default of its settlement with the regulator, in which it had been ordered to pay $1.1-million in penalties and had its mortgage-brokerage licence revoked. BDMC had also agreed to an arrangement that would see another firm, FAAN Mortgage Administrators Inc., oversee its syndicated-mortgage loan-administration business.
However, Fortress and another related company, Canadian Development Capital & Mortgages Services Inc. (CDMC), have failed to provide FAAN with required records related to the relevant development projects, Mr. Forbes says in his affidavit, and BDMC has also failed to hand over access to its e-mail accounts. Meanwhile, BDMC is in "financial distress" and has failed to make payroll and rent payments, the documents say.
On April 13, Mounties searched Fortress's head office in Richmond Hill, Ont., which shares an address with BDMC. In the wake of the RCMP raid, questions from investors have "increased exponentially," Mr. Forbes says, and FAAN now says it needs full court authority as a trustee to manage BDMC's business.
FAAN has "lost all confidence" in BDMC's ability to comply with the previous management agreement, and is concerned about its own compliance with regulations for mortgage administrators, which requires them "not to take or omit to take any action that facilitates dishonesty, fraud, crime or illegal conduct," the affidavit reads.
Fortress was founded in 2002 by chief executive officer Jawad Rathore and chief operating officer Vince Petrozza, who was also authorized to deal in mortgages on behalf of BDMC. As part of its February settlement with BDMC and other related companies, FSCO revoked Mr. Petrozza's mortgage-broker licence.
David Ullmann, a Toronto restructuring lawyer with Blaney McMurtry LLP who is not involved in the case, called it unusual for the regulator step in this way: "This application was likely put together very quickly. ... As such, I would not expect that we have all the information yet."
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Cannabis Will Not Yield Quick Returns, But It Will Make a Big Impact, Says Former Prime Minister
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is an advisor and an investor in Tel Aviv-listed medical cannabis company Univo
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No cannabis company taps former public officials because they are cannabis experts, but because they can help move companies forward, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Calcalist in a recent interview.
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In April, Tel Aviv-listed medical cannabis company Univo Pharmaceuticals Ltd. announced Olmert will be joining its ranks as an advisor and an investor. Olmert is the second Israeli prime minister to join the industry after Ehud Barak, who has been chairing Israeli medical cannabis company InterCure Ltd. since September. Univo's stock jumped by 38% by trading close the day of the announcement. A week later, the stock was up 75%. The company currently has a market capitalization of NIS 115.18 million ($32.3 million).
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Photo: Amit Sha'al
Olmert is currently the co-owner of GEOC, an Israel-Chinese fund established in 2013 that invests in Israeli startups in the domains of life sciences, digital and 3D printing, cybersecurity, AR/VR, and IoT. For his role in Univo, he will receive an annual salary of $10,000 and options for a 3.7% stake in the company. Olmert is barred from taking a more substantial position, such as chairman, due to his criminal past.
There is great potential in medical cannabis, but it is an industry that requires patience, Olmert explained. "Anyone who thinks it will yield quick returns is wrong, but anyone who believes it is an industry that will have a big impact on the life quality of a large part of the world's population understands it will take time to come into fruition."
Regarding what many believe to be inflated valuations for public cannabis companies, Olmert gives an example from the tech world. There are companies with valuations in the billions of dollars who end each year at a loss, he said, because their long-term potential creates their value. "Mobileye's valuation, for example, jumped to the billions after its IPO, despite low revenues," he said. "Univo invests a lot in human talent and in infrastructure, and I believe that when the market grows, revenues will follow."
The Israeli medical cannabis industry has seen many setbacks with the continuous delay of the government's medical cannabis export reform, finally approved in January 2019. Cannabis export is due to start by the end of the year. If the deadline is met, Olmert said, the brand "made in Israel" will give the local industry a significant push.
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While it is taking time, Israel's regulation is more advanced than many other countries, Olmert said. "Regulation always responds to potential. My impression is that cannabis is worth the effort, and has the potential to offer solutions in medical areas that conventional medicine currently does not."
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Integrated PreSchool combines special education students with regularly developing typical peers. This combination allows all children experiences to work, play, learn and interact together.
The program provides high-quality preschool programming for Hamden residents between the ages of 3.5 and 5 years old. Integrated PreSchool is held four days per week for half-days, either morning or afternoon sessions. There is no cost for the program.
The program is located at Alice Peck Learning Center, 35 Hillfield Road (corner of Shepard Ave.) in Hamden.
The program is a half-day program, meeting four days per week (Monday through Thursday) either mornings or afternoons during the regular school year. The morning session meets 8:30-11:30 a.m. and the afternoon session meets 12:30-3:30 p.m.
Is there childcare before and after preschool?
Hamden Public Schools does not provide childcare before and after program hours .
What are the age requirements for the Integrated Program?
Students must be 3.5 years old by September 1st of the current school year. Typical peer candidates must be Hamden residents, potty trained, and exhibit age-appropriate English language, behavior, and social skills. In addition, they are required to take part in a screening in order to be accepted into the program.
No, transportation will not be provided. Parents of our typical peer students must provide their own transportation.
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All classes will be lead by a certified preschool teacher and the appropriate number of paraprofessionals based on classroom needs.
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About 8:00, it was beautiful again and a surge of folks came out and took pictures and cut sunflowers.
We will get cleaned up this morning and open as usual!


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Adding to the highlights of a stellar year for the GMHBA Ballarat Miners, Ken Horton has received the South East Australian Basketball League Player of the Month award for the month of July.
Horton stepped up for the Miners following the injury to teammate Roy Booker late in June, having a massive month of July to average 25.2 points, 14.4 rebounds and nearly three assists per game.
Horton's efforts were well-rounded being one of the leaders in blocks and steals for the month too, averaging 1.8 in each category. He also displayed his shooting range, making 3.4 shots per game from behind the arc.
Perhaps the highlight of Horton's month was an absurd stat line of 25 points, 16 rebounds, seven assists and four steals against Brisbane in round 15 at the MARS® MINERDOME.
The award comes after three Player of the Week awards for the first-year Miner, undoubtedly increasing Horton's chances of winning the league's MVP award.
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On Friday 7th of April, the World Health Organization (WHO) celebrated its 67th World Health Day. In 1948 it was incepted at the First Health Assembly and taking effect since 1950. The celebration of this day aims to raise awareness of a specific health theme and to highlight a priority area of concern and the anniversary of the founding of the WHO.
Moreover, this day that always stands for a specific health issue, brought light to a big number of health issues such as mental health, maternal and child care and climate change, over the years. The event is marked by activities which extend beyond the day itself and serves as an opportunity to focus on important global health issues.
This year's World Health Day campaign is about a disease that affects people from all ages, walks of life and in all countries. According to a Global Health Estimates Report by WHO, about 322 million people, 4,4% of the world's population suffers from this disease. It considerably affects the lives of the affected and can lead to suicide, which is the second leading death cause among 15-29 year olds. The disease is called depression.
But this year's World Health Day does not only raise awareness about depressive disorders but also on anxiety disorders and common mental health disorders. 264 million people, 3,6% of the world's population are impaired by anxiety disorders.
Depression presents a lot of symptoms: sadness, loss of interest and pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-worth, disturbed sleep or appetite, feelings of tiredness and poor concentration. Depression can either be a long lasting or a recurrent disease. It impairs a person's ability to function properly at work, at school or to cope with everyday life.
Feelings of anxiety and fear, including generalised anxiety, panic disorder, phobias, social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder are summarized under the term anxiety disorder. Nevertheless these symptoms, just mentioned are not to mix up with occasionaly occuring feelings of sadness, stress and fear that everyone experiences at some point in his or her life.
Common mental health disorders like this are often triggerd by unemployment, poverty, life events, physical illness, alcohol and drug abuse. The number of mental health disorders has risen in low income countries and is more common among women than men. In Luxembourg 5%, Belgium 4,8% and in Germany 5,1% of the population are depressive.
The World Health Organization focuses on this year's World Health Day on depression and wants to open up dialogues and tackle the stigma associated with this highly disabling condition. Even though it is a very common disease it is still under-recognized and undertreated. "Although depression can be treated and prevented, at least 75% of all people suffering from major depression do not receive adequate treatment," said WHO Regional Director for Europe Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab.
In Europe 40 million people live with a depressive disorder. The WHO campaign "Depression: Let's talk!" aims to inform the general public about the consequences and mangement of depression and how to provide support to people suffering from depression. Talking about depression is an important first step in the fight against it but often the affected avoid or delay treatment because they fear reactions of prejudice and discrimination. 3 out of 4 people do not receive the appropriate help they need. The overall goal of the WHO and the World Health Day campain is to motivate people with a mental healt disorder to seek and get help.


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Home / Your Visit / During Your Visit or Hospital Stay / St. Paul Campus Amenities and Activities
Spaces for Rest and Recreation
The St. Paul Campus at Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare offers a variety of amenities to accommodate your daily needs.
Ronald McDonald Family Room®
The Ronald McDonald Family Room offers a beautiful common space that's open to the families of any patients staying overnight at the hospital.
It includes a lounge space, kitchen, laundry facilities, TV, computers and video games.
Kids under age 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
Find it on the fourth floor, near the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
It's open daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Playrooms and Family Areas
Visit and relax in a variety of playrooms and child- and family-friendly common spaces throughout the hospital. Ask your nurse to find a playroom or family lounge.
Ginkgo Coffee Bar and Deli
Choose from gourmet coffee, tea, smoothies, salads, fruit, sandwiches, bakery items and more.
Find it on the fourth floor, near the skyway.
It's open Monday through Friday from 6:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Coffee and Vending Machines
Free coffee and tea are available in many areas on or near your unit. Vending machines can be found:
On the fourth floor near Ginkgo Coffee Bar and Deli.
Regions hospital, first floor, central section, in the atrium.
Regions hospital, second floor, central section, near Café 640.
Regions Hospital Dining
Regions Hospital offers:
Café 640, a full-service cafeteria on the second floor that's open for breakfast, lunch and dinner service Monday through Friday, plus breakfast and lunch service on the weekend.
Overlook Coffee and Deli, a place to get meals and snacks on the second floor. It's open daily from 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Entertainment and Activities
If you're staying at the hospital, ask your nurse for a schedule of upcoming events and activities for patients, siblings and families.
Camp Gillette
Camp Gillette creates a camp experience for children right inside the hospital during the summer.
Cooks for Kids
For families of patients staying overnight in the hospital, our Ronald McDonald Family Room offers meals cooked by volunteers. You can participate in the meals—ask your care team for more information.
Evening and Weekend Activities
Our child life specialists and hospital volunteers frequently offer activities like movie nights, arts and crafts sessions, dog shows and game nights that you're welcome to participate in.
Special Visitors
Gillette often welcomes special guests—from Miss Minnesota to members of the Minnesota Wild—who visit with our patients. Your care team will let you know if any special visitors will be stopping by while you're staying at the hospital.
Toys, Books, Games and Movies
Each hospital unit has a collection of movies, books and games you may use at any time. Video game systems are also available. Ask your nurse for more information.
Gifts, Newspapers and ATMs
Regions Hospital's Bright Corner Gift Shop offers an extensive selection of gifts, flowers, balloons, jewelry, candy, newspapers and cards.
Find it on the second floor of Regions Hospital, in the south section.
It's open Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and on the weekend from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Pick up a copy of the St. Paul Pioneer Press or the Minneapolis Star Tribune at newspaper stands near hospital entrances and elevators.
An ATM is available on the fourth floor, across from the Ginkgo Coffee Bar and Deli. Regions Hospital also has an ATM near the cafeteria on the second floor of its central section.
Gillette offers chaplaincy services for families and shares the chapel space at Regions Hospital. The chapel welcomes people of all religious faiths and spiritual traditions.
Our Guest Services desk is on the fourth floor, near the main Gillette entrance. Visit if you'd like help finding your way around the hospital or St. Paul, if you'd like to buy reduced-rate parking vouchers, or if you have any other questions about Gillette.
Regions Hospital Security always has security officers on-site to monitor the safety of patients, visitors and staff. A security officer is always available to escort people to parking areas, jump-start vehicles, or retrieve keys from locked vehicles—just call 651-254-3979.
Nonsmoking Policy
Gillette is a smoke-free hospital. No smoking is allowed inside the hospital, on hospital grounds, or in the parking ramp. To smoke on public sidewalks along Jackson Street and University Avenue, exit through level B of the parking ramp until 8 p.m. After 8 p.m., use the Regions Hospital Emergency department entrance.
No Latex Balloons
Because our patients might be allergic to latex, we don't allow latex balloons inside Gillette. Mylar balloons are a good alternative.


Following the four hour walk-out on Wednesday, 25 September, members of the Fire Brigade Union have announced they have voted to strike for 5 hours on Saturday 19th October from 6:30pm-11:30pm. This affects England and Wales only.
Heatwave – as high temperatures are expected to continue across much of England over the next few days, they are expected to reach or come very close to Level 3 Heat Health Watch criteria in London and Southeast England.
On the 5th of May, our own Louise Hosking will be participating in the 100km cycle ride around the Isle of Wight (www.cycleisland.co.uk), along with her husband Nigel.


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China's Assault on Corruption Enters the C-Suite
Updated Oct. 26, 2014 11:48 pm ET
The next big step in China's anticorruption drive will hit executive suites hard. As the WSJ's Lingling Wei and Bob Davis report:
Communist Party leaders plan to slash the compensation of the top executives at China's largest state-owned companies over the next few months to make sure only those truly committed to the party run them, officials familiar with the plans say.
The move is bound to be popular with a Chinese public increasingly fed up with the perks enjoyed by elites, but it conflicts with another government goal: making these big companies more market-driven.
"First you cut their salary," says Xuan Xiaowei, a senior researcher at the Development Research Center, the Chinese cabinet's think tank. "Then the executive decides: Do they want to be on the political side or on the commercial side? That's the strategy."
With a pay cut looming, executives at some state firms publicly have voiced support for the plan while dismissing concerns about employee morale. Privately, some of them are attempting to come up with ways to prevent an exodus of management talent concerned about compensation.
China's state companies, which dominate banking, energy, telecommunications and other key sectors, are hybrid institutions, and the pay plan reflects the party's schizophrenic approach to the companies, say Chinese officials and economists.
On the one hand, the state companies are political institutions. Their top executives are appointed by the party and have party ranks, with some equal to a vice minister. They also are expected to closely hew to party and government orders.
But the state companies also have commercial goals and are widely criticized within China for being more wasteful and less profitable than private Chinese companies. The pay-cut plan comes as the government is experimenting with ways to boost profitability.China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. is selling a minority stake in its retail fuel business to about two dozen private investors. Six other big state companies, including pharmaceutical and construction businesses, are starting pilot projects to attract more private capital and improve management.
The new pay plan will damage the companies' competitiveness, many Chinese officials and analysts say. "State-owned firms already have a challenge of attracting, retaining and motivating talent," says Fred Hu, a Chinese financier who helped state-owned lenders go public in the early 2000s when he worked at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. "With this, morale will be hurt even more."
Read the full story on WSJ.com


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Hempstead Town Receiver Donald X. Clavin has been dutifully serving the residents of America's largest township since 2001, making the process of paying property taxes more convenient. Additionally, the Receiver has helped thousands of homeowners to lower their taxes by hosting seminars on challenging property tax assessments and filing for property tax exemptions. At the same time, Don Clavin has helped neighbors to understand the property tax process through informative brochures and the most transparent tax bills anywhere.
As Receiver of Taxes, Don Clavin is committed to enhancing service while being fiscally responsible. Under his leadership, two satellite tax offices were created in Lawrence and Hicksville, in addition to extending office hours from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. during the tax payment seasons for the convenience of taxpayers. Clavin utilizes Hempstead Town's Mobile Town Hall to collect taxes at various senior citizen centers and other convenient locations. Don has implemented e-mail and text message reminder programs to help taxpayers make timely tax payments. For more than a decade, taxpayers have enjoyed the convenience of paying their tax bills by credit card or e-check, online or by telephone. Additionally, Clavin created the first taxpayer drive-thru payment window in New York State. All of these initiatives and projects have been completed and continue to operate at no additional cost to taxpayers. These initiatives are just a few of the many ways Don Clavin works to make the tax office more accessible to the Town's residents. For his accomplishments, Don Clavin was named one of "Long Island's 40 rising stars" by Long Island Business News.
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Don Clavin successfully urged former Gov. George Pataki to sign an executive order that extended time for tax payments for the affected families. In 2002, Clavin proposed and obtained state legislation known as "The Clavin Law," that requires banks to be financially responsible for residents' tax penalties if they do not notify their mortgage customers of their legal rights and responsibilities upon approval of their mortgage, proving that the taxpayer always comes first for Don Clavin.
Among Don Clavin's accomplishments is the redesign of tax bills. The bills are now printed "in-house" on a laser printer in a more cost-effective manner. The bills are printed in a clearer fashion that is easier to understand and provides residents with a breakdown of how their tax dollars are being spent. Never before have residents been provided with such a clear and concise tax bill.
Most noteworthy, Clavin was the driving force behind making e-bills an option, successfully pressing for state legislation to permit local receivers of taxes to offer an electronic bill option. The legislation allows residents to go paperless and receive electronic tax bills and tax receipts. Clavin oversaw the development of an e-billing system that was launched in January 2018. Don is proud to be the first tax office in the state to offer property tax e-Bills. The e-billing initiative will help modernize government operations, protect the environment and save on the printing and mailing costs associated with traditional tax bills.
Leading the way in governmental efficiency and accessibility, Clavin was the first Tax Receiver on Long Island to offer an AutoPay option to taxpayers, allowing them to have their tax bills paid automatically through a stored payment method. Property owners can "set it and forget it," and have peace of mind that their property tax bills will be made on time.
Long a champion of the taxpayer, Don recently crafted legislation to eliminate the 10-year "sunset" clause for Hempstead Town's veterans receiving the Cold War Veterans Property Tax Exemption. Approved by the Hempstead Town Board in March 2018, Hempstead Town's qualifying veterans will now be granted the exemption permanently as long as the veteran or unremarried surviving spouse remains a homeowner.
Clavin has partnered with NYS Assemblywoman Missy Miller, to put forth a proposal to amend to the Home Improvement Tax Reduction for the Physically Disabled Exemption. His proposal, which calls for the expansion of the exemption to special district taxes, would minimally impact the local tax base while shielding specialized home improvements for people with physical challenges from property tax increases.
Clavin is currently collaborating with local village administrators to research the benefits of consolidating tax collection operations in an effort to improve governmental efficiencies and reduce costs to taxpayers.
Most recently, the Receiver lobbied for state and county support to increase income eligibility levels for the Senior Citizen Property Tax Exemption and the Persons with Disabilities and Limited Incomes Exemption. The increased income eligibility levels would bring Nassau in line with New York City eligibility limits. The proposed legislation would provide Nassau homeowners with the same level of property tax relief that our neighbors in New York City currently enjoy.
Earning his Bachelor of Arts from Canisius College in Buffalo, Don received his Doctorate of Jurisprudence from Hofstra University School of Law right here in Hempstead Town. He gained experience working as a trial attorney that practiced in all New York courts as well as United States Federal District Courts.
Don Clavin earned valuable experience in local government while working in the Office of the Nassau County Attorney as Deputy County Attorney. There, he was responsible for defending various agencies of government ranging from the Department of General Services to the Nassau County Police Department. After leaving the County Attorney's office, Clavin entered the private sector and went on to defend various corporations including Home Depot and General Motors.
Don Clavin is a lifelong resident of the Town of Hempstead, where he and his wife are proud to be raising their two daughters and son. His mother was the first woman to ever serve as Valley Stream Village Trustee and his father served as District Court Judge. Clavin is a member of the Kiwanis Club of Garden City, Irish Americans in Government, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, the Nassau County Bar Association and the Knights of Columbus. Clavin also served as a volunteer on the Valley Stream Mayor's Blue Ribbon Committee in the Village of Valley Stream.
Responsibilities of Office
The Receiver of Taxes is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the Office of Receiver of Taxes. This office collects taxes for 99 special districts and 33 school districts, and disburses the monies to school district treasures without charge. Its other functions include billing and collection processes, encompassing complete banking, record maintenance, mail and accounting functions. The department also collects, free of charge, Nassau County taxes on properties within the town borders.


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Збудована за проектом інституту «Дніпродіпрошахт» у 1961 році як індивідуальна фабрика для збагачення газового коксівного, а затим енергетичного довгополум'яно-газового вугілля, яке видобувається шахтою «Піонер». Виробнича потужність — 770 тис. тон на рік. Технологія збагачення передбачає відсадку у некласифікованому стані вугілля, що надходить на фабрику у вигляді пульпи. Розділення ведеться на концентрат та відходи. Особливість вихідного живлення фабрики зумовлює ряд специфічних рис у побудові технологічної схеми: наявність операції гідравлічної класифікації пульпи для часткового видалення шламу, розвиненість водно-шламового господарства, роздільне складування крупнозернистих та кускових відходів у відвалі і тонкозернистих мулів — у мулонакопичувачі.

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Смт Новодонецьке, Донецька область, залізнична станція Легендарна; телефон (відомчий) 590-53-18-4-71.

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A break from monotony, this is what Monday Jan 14th, 2019 is likely to produce, but your attitude has to change accordingly for it to have a full impact.
These feelings will likely be prominent in your health state as the changes should lead to a relief in stress.
Better things are about to spring up at the horizon, this day may prove to be a day of change for natives of Cancer.
Your budget status should take a turn for the better is we analyze today's Cancer horoscope in detail.


The invention consists of a heat sink with an array of fins which are parallel-oriented to the flow direction at low temperature but, as the temperature locally increases, deform to perturb the flow. The main applications of the device are computers, telecommunications, medical devices, industrial electronics, aerospace/military, concentrated photovoltaics, consumer electronics and automotive.
The invention consists of a heat sink with an array of fins which are parallel-oriented to the flow direction at low temperature but, as the temperature locally increases, deform to perturb the flow. The flow perturbation reduces the local thermal resistance, allowing high heat flux extraction without increasing the wall temperature. The device has the ability to provide good temperature uniformity to the cooled object under variable and non-uniform heat flux.
Current heat sink devices are mainly oriented to reduce the average temperature of a cooled device. In some applications, such as electronic systems or dense array photovoltaic receivers, the temperature uniformity is also required for good performance, for improving their reliability and/or their efficiency.
The thermal management market was valued at USD 8.99 Billion in 2016 and is estimated to reach USD 14.24 Billion by 2022, at a CAGR of 7.91% during the period 2017 and 2022. The industry is primarily driven by the growth in the emerging trend of miniaturization of electronic devices and components.
Capacity to provide uniform or also other kinds of temperature distributions of a cooled object, as required by the application, by using several materials and/or shapes for the fins.
Combined use of fixed and self-regulated fins is possible.
Use of different materials with different ranges of temperature for actuation, avoiding the design step as a nearly "universal" cooling device becomes useful for a large number of applications.
The fins functionality is independent of external electrical power or other energy sources.
The solution is reliable and can be easily integrated into large arrays.
The main applications of the device are computers, telecommunications, medical devices, industrial electronics, aerospace/military, concentrated photovoltaics, consumer electronics and automotive.
Among the current methods for measuring vibrations, accelerometers are traditionally preferred. Nevertheless, these methods are contact devices, which may be difficult to use when the specimens not accessible due to the object itself or the surrounding conditions (inaccessibility, damage risk, etc.). Alternatively to the accelerometers, Doppler vibrometers are often used as non-contact devices. Although they provide very accurate result, they result expensive and non-cost effective for many applications. Additionally, both of them only provide a single point measurement while our method permits, not only monitoring the process but, with the vibration map, obtaining the vibration frequencies of all vibrating objects in the scene at a glance.
The conventional method of press followed by furnace sintering is now substituted by an electrical consolidation method. This allows joining in a single step the previous pressing/sintering processes, and, due to the promptness of the process, the use of controlled atmospheres is not necessary. The steps of magnetization, and eventual thermal treatments, can be carried out in the same container, without being necessary to manipulate the product.
Researchers from the Spanish National Research Council at the Barcelona Microelectronics Institute (IMB-CNM) have recently developed a mechanical energy harvesting device by using a low-cost microelectronic fabrication process. The device acts as an electrical generator and is driven by environmentally-available mechanical energy such as ambient vibrations. Due to its flexibility and small size, it is of easy integration as power generator permitting the provision of full power autonomy to any wireless sensor node during its lifecycle into a network infrastructure following the philosophy "install and forget". Industrial partners are being sought to exploit the existing know-how through a patent license agreement.
Currently, magnetic random access memories (MRAMs) use a magnetic field to control corresponding magnetic states. Such systems are comparatively bulkier and are associated with high-power consumption. With ever changing life-style; the demand for faster, smaller and ultra-low power memory systems is significantly increasing. This approach allows for the development and use of a novel electric field (E-Field) controllable MRAMs based on multi-ferroics.


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1.1 This test method covers the determination of the foaming characteristics of lubricating oils at 24°C and 93.5°C. Means of empirically rating the foaming tendency and the stability of the foam are described.
1.2 WARNING—Mercury has been designated by many regulatory agencies as a hazardous material that can cause central nervous system, kidney and liver damage. Mercury, or its vapor, may be hazardous to health and corrosive to materials. Caution should be taken when handling mercury and mercury containing products. See the applicable product Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for details and EPA's website—http://www.epa.gov/mercury/faq.htm—for additional information. Users should be aware that selling mercury and/or mercury containing products into your state or country may be prohibited by law.
1.3 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as the standard. The values given in parentheses are for information only.
1.4 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use. For specific warning statements, see Sections 7, 8, and 9.1.1.
D445 Test Method for Kinematic Viscosity of Transparent and Opaque Liquids (and Calculation of Dynamic Viscosity)
D6082 Test Method for High Temperature Foaming Characteristics of Lubricating Oils
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E128 Test Method for Maximum Pore Diameter and Permeability of Rigid Porous Filters for Laboratory Use
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Why Blackface? A Scholar Weighs In On Why Blackface Is Part of American Culture's DNA
February 14, 2019 / Anne Enke
Billy Van, the monologue comedian, 1900. This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID var.1831
By Michael Millner, Associate Professor of English and American Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell . First published on The Conversation
Blackface is part of American culture's DNA.
But America has forgotten that.
For almost two weeks, conflict has raged over the use of blackface by two current Virginia politicians when they were younger. The revelations have threatened the men's jobs and their standing in the community.
The use of blackface is now politically and culturally radioactive. Yet there was a time when it wasn't.
I teach the history of blackface in the United States. Like much of America, my undergraduate students suffer from a kind of historical amnesia about its role in American culture. They know little about its long history, and they haven't considered its prevalence and significance in everyday American life.
Most of all, they've never asked themselves, "Why blackface?"
Cultural persistence
The blackface minstrel show was a form of burlesque theater that emerged in the 19th-century U.S. in which white men painted their faces black in order to mock people of African descent.
It held sway as one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the 19th century. In the early 20th century, Hollywood studios used the popularity of blackface to draw a mass audience to the new medium of film.
After World War II, even as the civil rights movement emerged, blackface remained a staple of cartoons, community theater, toys, household decorations and corporate branding.
American music — from the Great American Songbook of 1930s and '40sto rock 'n' roll in the 1950s and '60s — finds its roots in the minstrel shows of the 19th century.
With the recent blackface scandals in Virginia, we've also come to reckon with blackface's importance to what it meant to be a young white man in the South in the 1980s.
Postcard depicting a caricatured boy eating a slice of watermelon.
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Collection of James M. Caselli and Jonathan Mark Scharer
Prejudice and profit
Blackface has always been flat-out racist.
Since its emergence in the 1830s in the taverns and on the theater stages of New York and other northern cities – it originated in the North, not the slave South – blackface has involved the vicious ridiculing of people of African descent.
White men blacked up by smearing burnt cork on their faces. They exaggerated their red lips and wore outlandish costumes, portraying character types like the raggedly slave, dubbed Jim Crow, or the ostentatious but simpleminded dandy, Zip Coon.
Minstrel shows consisted of jokes and clowning skits. The blackface characters mispronounced words and acted like bumpkins. They sang songs, sometimes sentimental and sometimes randy. In the minstrel show, white men from behind the black mask forged some of America's most racist stereotypes.
And, it's worth emphasizing, they made a good living at it. Blackface turned prejudice into profit.
Perhaps blackface's profitable prejudice answers the question about why America so often returned to it in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Blackface offered the perfect entertainment for a slave nation and then, after the Civil War, a society built on racial segregation.
Cauldron of contradictions
But a number of scholars over the last few decades have proposed that there's a great deal more to blackface than racist caricature.
For instance, historians have examined the ways immigrants put on the black mask as part of a process of becoming American.
Irish immigrants in the 1830s and 1840s and then Jewish immigrants in the early 20th century dominated blackface performance. In part it allowed them entry into the entertainment industry and American popular consciousness. In "The Jazz Singer" (1927), Al Jolson's character, the son of a Jewish cantor, blacks up to become a star.
But new immigrants also attempted to established their social position in American society by distinguishing themselves from the lowest rung on the social latter through a blackface burlesquing of African-Americans.
Ralph Ellison, the author of the mid-century novel of African-American experience, "Invisible Man," wrote brilliantly about blackface.
Ellison saw America as a cauldron of contradictions. It preached equality but practiced slavery and discrimination. It valued liberty and the recognition of all people's humanity, while treating many of its citizens like things and animals.
For Ellison, blackface was America's way of living with such contradictions. In a 1958 essay, Ellison asserted that blackface "constituted a ritual of exorcism." In blackface, the black figure represented the negative aspects of American society - slavery, inequality, immorality, exploitation. These negative aspects were exorcised and disavowed by turning them into a big joke in the blackface show.
This "exorcism" meant that white Americans could consider themselves and their nation as good and decent while still engaging in racist behavior.
Ellison presented blackface not as outside of America's core values, but as telling "us something of the operations of American values," as he put it.
Yearning for blackface
Like Ellison, many of the recent historians of blackface suggest more is at stake than racial animus. The cultural historian Eric Lott goes a step further and argues that blackface is infused with something like love.
In his influential book "Love and Theft," Lott sees the donning of the mask as a fetishistic fascination with blackness.
Blackface fascinates white men because it allows them sexual license and access to a purportedly virile, disobedient, yet authentic form of masculinity that rebels against middle-class American life, Lott argues.
But inhabiting blackness, Lott explains, produces great anxiety in those who take up the black mask. The masked men distance themselves from blackness – it's all a joke in good fun – almost as quickly as they inhabit it because blackness, while deeply desired, is also dangerous to their white privilege.
Lott sees this dynamic as exploitation – the "theft" of his title – but it's exploitation built on fascination and desire.
Lott's history focuses on working-class men during the decades before the Civil War, but it's not a big step from the "love and theft" of antebellum blackface to Mick Jagger cakewalking across the stage like Zip Coon or suburban white kids spittin' rhymes.
'Masking jokers'
Covington Catholic High School young men wear blackface at basketball game. 2012. Note that the Covington young men, wearing Trump's MAGA hats, were in the news recently, involved in a confrontation in Washington, DC after attenting an anti-abortion rally. Both the Covington students and adults felt that they were unfairly presented in the press. This photo from a YouTube video was pulled down this week but not before an enterprising journalist made a copy of the video. It shows Covington students in blackface. Other videos and images of the Covington students are also surfacing showing other forms of disrespect to people of color and young women. Note that this is the same school — Kentucky's Covington Catholic High School — but probably not the same young men, as the image is from a 2012 basketball game.
VA. Governor Ralph Northam's medical school yearbook photos.
I suspect something like this "love and theft" dynamic was happening in 1980s Virginia.
In addition to the blackface image on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's medical school yearbook page from 1983, we also find him in two additional photos.
In one he poses next to a muscle car, and in the other he is pictured in a rancher's 10-gallon hat. In these two images, Northam tries to present a masculine virility. Was that sense of virility quickly slipping away for the soon-to-be pediatrician and future politician?
These are images, too, of a South that was likewise quickly disappearing in the 1980s. This South was as much a New South of suburbs, international corporations and newly established immigrant communities as it was the old Dixie of 10-gallon-hat ranchers and of moonshiners who used souped-up stock cars to deliver their goods.
Blackface in the 1980s was perhaps a way for white Southerners to get back some of the old Southern spunk, its sense of virility and masculinity. The KKK figure, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the blackface figure on Northam's yearbook page, is present to make sure that all know that everyone is really buddies here and this is a joke – which of course it is and it isn't.
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P.D. Esker1, A.H. Sparks1, L. Campbell2, Z. Guo1, M. Rouse1, S.D. Silwal3, S. Tolos4, B. Van Allen1, and K.A. Garrett1
1Dept. of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
2Dept. of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
3Dept. of Mathematics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
4Dept. of Statistics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Current address of P. D. Esker: Dept. of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Esker, P.D., A.H. Sparks, L. Campbell, Z. Guo, M. Rouse, S.D. Silwal, S. Tolos, B. Van Allen, and K.A. Garrett, 2008. Ecology and Epidemiology in R: Disease Forecasting. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI:10.1094/PHI-A-2008-0129-05.
Student Learning Goals
After completion of this module:
Students will understand:
the importance of disease forecasting systems for plant pathology,
the current methods being applied to plant disease forecasting systems,
the practical limitations of plant disease forecasting systems.
Students will acquire these skills:
apply R-code that illustrates different disease forecasting methods,
modify R-code to run examples,
interpret disease forecasting output.
We would appreciate feedback for improving this paper and information about how it has been used for study and teaching. Please send your feedback to kgarrett@ksu.edu. Please include the following text in the e-mail subject line, "Feedback on R Modules", to make sure your comments are received.
Plant disease forecasting systems (synonym: plant disease warning systems) have been developed to help growers make economic decisions about disease management (Agrios 2004). Plant disease forecasting systems may support a producer's decision-making process with regard to the costs and benefits of pesticide applications,
which propagation material or seed stock to purchase, and
whether to plant a specific crop in an area (Agrios 2004).
The principle behind plant disease forecasting systems is to determine the risk that a disease will occur, or that the intensity of the disease will increase (Campbell and Madden 1990).
What defines a successful plant disease forecasting system? Campbell and Madden (1990) outlined several attributes, including:
reliability (use of sound biological and environmental data),
simplicity (the simpler the system, the more likely it will be applied and used by producers),
importance (the disease is of economic importance to the crop, but sporadic enough that the need for treatment is not a given),
usefulness (the forecasting model should be applied when the disease and/or pathogen can be detected reliably),
availability (necessary information about the components of the disease triangle should be available),
multipurpose applicability (monitoring and decision-making tools for several diseases and pests should be available), and
cost effectiveness (forecasting system should be cost affordable relative to available disease management tactics).
For an excellent introduction to the epidemiological concepts behind plant disease management, including reducing initial inoculum and/or controlling apparent infection rate, see Arneson's simulation exercise in the Plant Health Instructor. Plant disease forecasting systems often provide information about how a grower's management decisions can help to avoid initial inoculum or to slow down the rate of an epidemic. These two concepts are important because they often differentiate the risk for a monocyclic disease (having only one cycle of infection) versus polycyclic disease, where there are multiple infection cycles, and a forecasting system can be used to time appropriate management tactics, such as a foliar fungicide application (Madden et al. 2007). It should be noted that some plant disease forecasts focus both on avoiding initial inoculum and also on reducing the rate of the epidemic during the season (see below). Many plant disease forecasting systems have emphasized forecasts based on the following principles (with examples) (Agrios 2004; Campbell and Madden 1990):
Forecasts based on measures of initial inoculum or disease, example: Stewart's disease of corn
Forecasts based on favorable weather conditions for development of secondary inoculum, example: Late blight of potato (description and simulation)
Forecasts based on both initial and secondary inoculum, example: Apple scab (description and simulation)
An example of a multiple disease/pest forecasting system is the EPIdemiology, PREdiction, and PREvention (EPIPRE) system developed in the Netherlands for winter wheat that focused on multiple pathogens (Reinink 1986).
Current examples of plant disease forecasting providing daily information on-line are available for two important plant diseases: Fusarium head blight of wheat (www.wheatscab.psu.edu) and Asian soybean rust (www.sbrusa.net). Both systems provide background information on the disease, current management recommendations, as well as disease forecast information based on host, pathogen, and environmental factors important for making an accurate forecast.
The successful development of a plant disease forecasting system also requires the proper validation of a developed model. There is increased interest among plant disease modelers and researchers to improve producer profitability through validation based on quantifying the cost of a model making false predictions (positive and/or negative). Yuen discusses this issue in his article, ' Deriving Decision Rules '. As pointed out by Yuen, this methodology is not necessarily a new concept, as historical systems, such as the Mills rules for apple scab, or those used for potato late blight and Alternaria leaf blight of carrots, were developed using prediction rules for plant disease management. An economic validation of a plant disease forecasting system requires the examination of two false predictions:
false positive predictions, in which a forecast was made for a disease when in fact no disease was found in a location, and
false negative predictions, in which a forecast was made for a disease not to occur when in fact the disease was found (see Table 2 of Yuen 2006).
These two types of false predictions may have different economic effects for producers (Madden 2006).
Lastly, the range of disease forecasting models has expanded to include a Bayesian statistical approach. This information is beyond the scope of this exercise and the interested reader is referred to the discussions of Bayesian approaches found in Mila et al. (2003), Yuen (2006), and Madden (2006).
Throughout the rest of this document, an introduction to plant disease forecasting is presented through examples, many of which use the R programming environment (Garrett et al. 2007; R Development Core Team). A brief introduction to some of the mathematical/statistical approaches that have been used for developing plant disease forecasting systems is presented, followed by an introduction to how using rainfall and temperature may be applicable for developing a forecast model, and finally, four case studies are presented that highlight the following:
modeling the generic risk of infection due to a plant pathogen,
use of differential equations to model the population dynamics of sugar beet cyst nematodes in order to understand long-term changes in nematode density, and
developing a model that increases the accuracy of an existing forecast model through new information on the percentage of mature pseudothecia.
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Any cell organelle can be the starting point for toxicant and pathogen-induced cell death
Toxicants and pathogens often induce death of their target and host cells. In order to investigate the different ways they can achieve this I have used the hepatopancreatocytes of decapod crustaceans as an example, Specifically, I tried to identify the cell organelles in which the pathological transformations started. The hepatopancreas is the central metabolic organ of decapods and is involved in digestion of the food, detoxification of xenobiotics, and immune response. It is composed of hundreds of tubules each consisting of stem cells (E-cells), three structurally and functionally diverse adult cell types (B-, F-.and R-cells), and regulatory M-cells.
Fig. 1. Variety of early cytopathological transformations caused by toxicants in the hepatopancreatocytes of shrimp Penaeus monodon. A Deposition of electron-dense flocculent material (arrows) in mitochondria of R-cell after 2 h exposure to 1 mg L–1 KCN. Arrowhead, rough endoplasmic reticulum; n, nucleus; m, normal mitochondrion. B Specific fading of fibrillar component (fc) of the nucleolus in F-cell after 10 d exposure to 1 mg L–1 CdCl2. The fibrillar component is normally as electron dense as the heterochromatin along the nuclear envelope (arrow). gc, granular component of nucleolus. C Dissolution of chromatin in nucleus and nucleolar fibrillar component of R-cell after 3 weeks feeding of a diet containing Leucaena leucocephala leaf meal. The granular component of the nucleolus, nuclear envelope (ne), rough endoplasmic reticulum (arrowhead), and Golgi bodies (arrow) are structurally still intact.
The hepatopancreas responds to environmental toxicants by detoxification mechanisms, e.g., storage excretion of heavy metals in lysosomal granules and catabolism of organic xenobiotics by the cytochrome P450 system. If these detoxification pathways are overwhelmed the toxicants cause structural damages in the hepatopancreatocytes. Viral, bacterial, and protist pathogens can be captured and killed by fixed phagocytes that are attached along the arterioles of the hepatopancreas or by the enclosure of infected tissue areas in rigid melanised capsules. Melanisation and encapsulation is the most powerful immune response of decapods. However,o many pathogens can outsmart these defence mechanisms, invade the hepatopancreatocytes and multiply therein.
In the hepatopancreas of cultured shrimp Penaeus monodon, several environmental pollutants and toxic food ingredients induced specific early cytopathological changes, which mostly led to cell death and sometimes to mortalities. For example, KCN and an unknown ingredient of coconut flesh caused depositions of flocculent material in the mitochondria (Fig. 1A). Exposure to water-borne cadmium resulted in the specific disruption of the fibrillar component of the nucleolus (Fig. 1B), which includes the DNA for the production of ribosomes, and subsequent depletion of the ribosomes in the cytoplasm. The cytopathology recorded after feeding of a diet containing leaf meal of the leguminous shrub Leucaena leucocephala started with dissolution of the chromatin in the nucleus (Fig. 1C). The cytoplasmic compartments were only later affected. This remarkable cytopathology was caused by the non-proteinogenic amino acid mimosine that occurs in high amounts in the Leucaena leaves. Exposure to the organophosphorous insecticide dimethoate resulted in complete catabolism of the lipid globules and detachment of larger groups of hepatopancreatocytes from their basement membrane, leading to death of the shrimps.
All viral, bacterial and protist pathogens discussed in my paper induced cytopathologies that ultimately led to lysis of the infected cells and sometimes to mortalities. The cellular transformations after infection with DNA-viruses generally started in the nucleus in which the viruses replicate. An example is Penaeus monodon nudivirus (Fig. 2A and B), which induced hypertrophy of the nucleus and the formation of prominent occlusion bodies. The crystalline occlusion bodies enclose a part of the newly produced virions and persist after lysis of the infected cells. They leave the host's body via the intestine and serve for spreading of the virus to other shrimps. The RNA-virus Palaemon B-cell reo-like virus caused very specific inhibition of the release of Golgi vesicles from the Golgi bodies (Fig. 2C). Infection of shrimp Palaemon elegans with rickettsia-like organisms primarily affected the rough endoplasmic reticulum because the pathogens multiplied in vacuoles derived from rER cisternae (Fig. 2F). Hepatopancreatic brush border lysis bacteria induced cell lysis in Palaemon elegans by establishing direct end-to-end contact with individual microvilli (Fig. 2E). In contrast, granulomatous hepatopancreatitis bacteria in crayfish Astacus astacus lysed the host cells by sequestrating a toxin into the lumen of the hepatopancreas tubules.
Fig. 2. Variety of early cytopathological transformations caused by pathogens in hepatopancreatocytes of shrimp Penaeus monodon (A, B), shrimp Palaemon elegans (C, E, F), and crayfish Astacus astacus (D). A Oblique section of virions of Penaeus monodon nudivirus (PmNV). B Early PmNV infection of F-cell showing virions (arrow) free in hypertrophic nucleus (n) and enclosed (arrowhead) in crystalline occlusion body (ob). g, Golgi body; no, nucleolus. C Specific transformation of Golgi body in B-cell infected with Palaemon B cell reo-like virus. The Golgi body (gb) shows a long `tail´ composed of numerous Golgi vesicles (between arrows) at trans-side. Below the Golgi body is a cytoplasmic virus aggregation (va) with virions (arrow) in different developmental stages. D Simultaneous lysis of cell organelles in R-cell by granulomatous hepatopancreatitis bacteria (arrow). Only lipid globules (lg) and autophagosomes (a) are still recognizable. E Attack of apical plasma membrane of R-cell by hepatopancreatic brush border lysis bacterium. The bacterium (B) `dives´ into the microvillous border and establishes end-to-end contact (arrow) with a microvillus (m) to induce rupture of the cell membrane. F Rickettsia-like organisms (ri) in vacuole lined by rough endoplasmic reticulum (arrow). Arrowhead, normal rER cisterna.
The analysis of dozens of cytopathologies in the hepatopancreas of decapod crustaceans demonstrated that the inducing toxicants and pathogens can either target all cell types equally, one or more cell types preferably, or one cell type specifically. An example of the former is the Leucaena leucocephala ingredient mimosine that acted on E-, B-, F- and R-cells, and an example of the latter is Palaemon B-cell reo-like virus that affected only B-cells. The analysis also showed that cytopathology mostly started with the transformation of a particular cell organelle. Practically all cell compartments can serve as a starting point for the induction of cell death.
Günter Vogt
Faculty of Biosciences, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Cytopathology and immune response in the hepatopancreas of decapod crustaceans.
Dis Aquat Organ. 2020 Feb 27
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