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Shane Fitzgerald has used the photographic process to create the impressive vision of the landscape 'Tempest: After Streeton'. This view is a fictitious creation that has been created by the particular elements and aspects of the work; and it challenges the traditional role of photography as a document of the real world. In addition, Shane Fitzgerald works significant elements together to promote a specific theme that makes spectators feel free to read into the image and to distil from it –an 'awesomely' sublime environment and extreme weather. This is in addition to exploring the human perceptions of the environment and telling people what the real art is. This artwork functions like a large 'mirror' in which the viewers may identify with a creative expression of the landscape to which it belongs. The 'mirror' gives an illusion of sublime weather under the conditions of tempest, which captures the viewers' mind all the time—the vast realms and luminous coalescences of the grassland and dark clouds. The panoramic landscape at sunset has been manipulated, producing a paint-like effect across a vista of clouds at dusk, with extreme fears and depression sweeping over the horizon. This is the viewer's first impression regarding the artwork's composition in terms of evoking a breath-taking natural spectacle so intense it seems to pulse with life-force. In these intense stunning conditions, Fitzgerald seeks a sublime expression of the landscape by standout artwork techniques through composition, line, space, colour, medium and texture. The artwork represents the scene of tempest based on the composition, a focal point of clouds at dusk that balances the vista of the horizon. The line of interaction between reality and photography creates a harmonious landscape and the geographic horizon lines evoke the place where clouds meet the land's edge. Consequently, hovering between abstraction and representation makes a space that assists with evoking wonder. The colour is alive, intensive and creative to celebrate the abstract over the ordinary, such as the dark sombre sky, scorched grasses and light penetrability. The presentation of colour makes the spectators feel the quite fluid conditions of the tempest that are personally on the scene. Furthermore, the artwork has shown a climate in the fictitious landscape that is geophysical and metaphysical. It has been interpreted as what real art is—it is about seeing and being, with a value-added experience of the people's sentient world (Sally 2010). This artwork relies on the photographic medium; thus, this particular medium is a significant aspect of the spectator's responses, because the photography has made people have eyes for the eloquence of light, colour and for the insights embedded in exquisite detail. On the other hand, the medium as a metaphoric representation projects the theme that there are spectacles of lives and sublime details in the landscape—a passionate, lively and intense reflection of the conditions of life, a place where viewers appreciate the landscape as a state of mind. The artwork 'Tempest: After Streeton' has successfully represented the intensity and content through the emotion of the artwork. The texture of the imagery has been expressed realistically through the diminishing of the items' changes. The grasses and trees in the foreground are exquisite, it can be reflected that life is not thriving; the dark clouds are accumulated with various shapes and volumes, balancing the background's sunny sky. The title of the imagery, 'Tempest: After Streeton', obviously reveals the emotion of extreme fears and depression before the tempest's coming and it achieves this by an unusual effect of hyper-reality techniques (see Figure 1). Unconcerned with an ordinary view, Fitzgerald creates all the important elements together to make the viewers' emotional intelligence of the world around the people and demonstrates how a person's very psyche is deeply embedded in the spectacular and sublime appeal of the natural environment. Pulling the image together into a whole causes the spectator to feel a sense of time that is frozen and to dwell on that moment conveyed in the artwork. {draw:frame} Figure 1 Artist: Shane Fitzgerald Title: Tempest: After Streeton Date: 2008-2009 Medium: Colorado fire gloss print, Photographic Medium Size: 100.5×151.0cm (Source: University of Queensland Art Museum2010) Reference Butler, S 2006, _Capricornia-Between the Sublime and the Spectacular: the photographic art of Shane Fitzgerald_, Mackay, Queensland. _ _ Craig, G 2010, _The state we're in: contemporary Queensland photography_, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane.
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Admiral Sir Cyprian Arthur George Bridge GCB (13 March 1839 – 16 August 1924) was a British Royal Navy officer towards the end of the era of Pax Britannica. He was Commander-in-chief of both the Australian Squadron and the China Squadron.[1]
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Bridge's father was Thomas Hobday Bridge, later Archdeacon of St. John's.[2] His maternal grandfather was John Dunscombe, an aide-de-camp to the governor of Newfoundland. From 1851 Bridge attended school at Walthamstow House in England.[2]
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Bridge was nominated for the navy by Admiral Cochrane,[2] to whom his father had been chaplain. He passed the navy entrance examination in 1853, and was appointed to the paddle sloop HMS Medea and later to the third-rate ship of the line HMS Cumberland, flagship of the North American Station.[2]
During the Crimean War, he served as a naval cadet in the White Sea.[2] In Autumn 1854, a squadron of three warships led by the sloop HMS Miranda shelled and destroyed Kola. An attempt to storm Arkhangelsk proved abortive, as was the siege of Petropavlovsk in Kamchatka. While the Anglo-French naval squadron successfully shelled the town, a landing of 800 sailors and marines was repulsed.
After he passed for midshipman he was appointed to the corvette HMS Pelorus in the East Indies.[2] Prior to that ship's engagements in the First Taranaki War, he had been promoted in 1859, joining HMS Algiers in the Mediterranean as lieutenant.[2] He subsequently served on board HMS Hawke on the Irish station, and HMS Fawn in the West Indies from 1864 to 1867.[2]
Bridge transferred to HMS Excellent to qualify in gunnery. Admiral Sir Alfred Ryder then invited him to act as his flag lieutenant in the Channel Fleet. In 1869 he was promoted to commander, serving two years with the broadside ironclad HMS Caledonia in the Mediterranean. He served for one year each on the gunnery ship HMS Cambridge and then HMS Implacable, followed by Ryder's flagship in the China Station, the battleship HMS Audacious.[2]
In 1877 he was promoted to captain. He took half pay and spent time writing on the German Navy, publishing in the Journal of the Royal United Services Institution. During 1878 and 1879 he served on Admiralty and War Office committees on heavy guns, armour plate and projectiles.[2]
He was appointed deputy commissioner for the Western Pacific, with command of the Osprey class sloop HMS Espiegle in Australia.[2] Subsequently he was appointed to command the modern battleship HMS Colossus.[2] He was director of the newly established Naval Intelligence Department at the Admiralty (1889–1894) and helped found the Navy Records Society.[2]
In November 1894 Bridge was promoted rear-admiral and became Commander-in-Chief of the Australian squadron aboard the cruiser HMS Orlando.[2] In 1898 he was promoted vice-admiral. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the China Station in 1901, arriving in Yokohama in early June where he hoisted his flag in the battleship HMS Glory.[3] In 1903 he was promoted admiral. He retired from the Navy in March 1904.[2]
Post naval career
Bridge was an assessor on the North Sea Enquiry Commission investigation into the 1904 Dogger Bank incident. He was Admiralty Representative on the Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation from 1906 to 1912. In 1916 he was part of the Mesopotamia Commission of Inquiry.[2]
Bridge's grandfather and great uncles had all served in the Navy. His father did not due to poor eyesight. Bridge married but had no children. Cyprian Bridge Island is named after his uncle.
He built Coombe Pines in Kingston Hill, Surrey, where he died in 1924.
↑ "BRIDGE, Admiral Sir Cyprian Arthur George". 1907. pp. p. 212. http://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA212.
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Los Angeles, CA - Aug. 13, 2008 - Sony Pictures Imageworks' and Sony Pictures Animation's IPAX education program announced today the launch of its new online mentor program which will begin in the winter of 2009, and will leverage Animation Mentor's unique learning model and state-of-the-art online technology. The three-month program will pair top students from 18 IPAX member schools from around the world with top Sony Pictures Imageworks and Sony Pictures Animation artists who will provide individual online mentoring, training, and guidance. Animation Mentor's innovative mentor/apprentice teaching model and online learning platform will enable Sony mentors to work with students to help them develop their skills and grow their craft. Tools include live video conference question and answer sessions with mentors, video guest lectures with industry experts, and eCritiques® where mentors can provide video commentary while drawing directly on the student's work to illustrate their concepts.
IPAX, Sony Pictures Imageworks' and Sony Pictures Animation's professional education development program was created in 2004 to connect faculty from leading academic institutions with industry professionals.
"We continue to lead the way in working with top schools to bring new solutions to the industry," said Barry Weiss, senior vice president of animation and artist development and chair of the IPAX collaboration initiative. "We're very excited about this opportunity to showcase how IPAX schools can work together to develop cooperative and collaborative programs that will propel aspiring digital artists forward in their career. Animation Mentor's innovative technology and teaching methodology is the ideal medium for our new mentorship program."
"We are honored to extend our interactive student experience to the IPAX education program and be the first to support IPAX in creating this exciting new knowledge center for the digital arts industry", said Bobby Beck, chief executive officer and cofounder of Animation Mentor. "There is nothing more valuable than the guidance a professional can give a budding animator who is honing their craft. This partnership really validates the unique teaching model Animation Mentor embodies and the powerful technology we've created to support an incredible learning experience - no matter where you are on the planet."
This is an opportunity for IPAX member schools to engage future visual effects and animation professionals with the mentor/apprenticeship learning model perfected by Animation Mentor's online teaching program. Top students from the 18 IPAX member schools will be selected through an application process where student work is reviewed by Sony artists and matched with an appropriate Sony artist/mentor. The program is designed specifically for advanced students who are working on a range of special projects including short films, animation or visual effects. Sony mentors will give students individual input and feedback to help guide their work and perfect their skills over the course of the program.
The program is limited to students from IPAX member schools. Their respective faculty will initially recommend candidates who will ultimately be selected based on the quality of their work. For more information about IPAX and member schools, visit http://www.sonypictures.com/imageworks/ipax/.
Sony Pictures Digital Production is the digital production center of Sony Pictures and comprises Sony Pictures Imageworks and Sony Pictures Animation. Sony Pictures Imageworks is a leading, state-of-the-art digital animation and visual effects studio creating computer-generated imaging (CGI) for motion pictures through its live action, all cg animation, performance capture and 3D stereoscopic capabilities. Its work has been recognized with two Academy Awards® and numerous honors. Imageworks also houses Imageworks Interactive, a full service creative group that produces websites and supports digital marketing for the studio and outside clients. Sony Pictures Animation develops and produces CG animated feature films from storyboard to screens. Both its full-length features, OPEN SEASON, released in 2006, and 2007's SURF'S UP, were critically acclaimed and have together accumulated close to $350 million in worldwide box office revenue. SURF'S UP also received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Animated Feature in 2007. Sony Pictures Animation is currently producing CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS and THE SMURFS for Columbia Pictures and OPEN SEASON 2 for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
Animation Mentor is a state-of-the-art online education and mentorship program teaching students the skills needed to succeed as a professional animator in the studio environment. Focused 100% on character animation, the 18-month program is designed and taught by some of the industry's top professional animators from top studios. Animation Mentor's online campus environment provides students around the world with a convenient, flexible, and accessible learning environment 24 hours a day, seven days a week. By graduation, every student will have worked in a production-style environment with mentors who are working studio animators. Students learn how to accept guidance and criticism, to meet deadlines and to budget and schedule their time to succeed in the working world. The program leads students to a diploma in Advanced Studies in Character Animation and is built with a focus on production studio skills, allowing students to get comfortable with the many challenges and opportunities they will experience when working in a studio environment. Upon graduation, Animation Mentor coaches graduates and connects them to job opportunities with major recruiters, video game companies, and film studios. For more information, visit http://www.AnimationMentor.com.


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Lavora alla Pixar dal 1997.

Biografia
È noto per aver diretto i cortometraggi BURN•E, Buzz a sorpresa e co-diretto il film Alla ricerca di Dory.
Nel 2020 è stato annunciato che MacLane dirigerà il film Lightyear - La vera storia di Buzz, che parlerà delle origini del personaggio Buzz Lightyear.

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Regista
Alla ricerca di Dory (Finding Dory), Co-regia con Andrew Stanton (2016)
Lightyear - La vera storia di Buzz (Lightyear) (2022)

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A Bug's Life - Megaminimondo (A Bug's Life), regia di John Lasseter (1998)
Toy Story 2 - Woody e Buzz alla riscossa (Toy Story 2), regia di John Lasseter (1999)
Monsters & Co. (Monsters, Inc.), regia di Pete Docter (2001)
Alla ricerca di Nemo (Finding Nemo), regia di Andrew Stanton (2003)
Gli Incredibili - Una "normale" famiglia di supereroi (The Incredibles), regia di Brad Bird (2004)
Cars - Motori ruggenti (Cars), regia di John Lasseter (2006)
Ratatouille, regia di Brad Bird (2007)
Up, regia di Pete Docter (2009)
Toy Story 3 - La grande fuga (Toy Story 3), regia di Lee Unkrich (2010)

Artista di StoryBoard
Toy Story 2 - Woody e Buzz alla riscossa (Toy Story 2), regia di John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich e Ash Brannon (1999)
Monsters & Co. (Monsters, Inc.), regia di Pete Docter, Lee Unkrich e David Silverman (2001)
Gli Incredibili - Una "normale" famiglia di supereroi (The Incredibles), regia di Brad Bird (2004)

Artista di produzione
WALL•E, regia di Andrew Stanton (2008)

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When I started working at the telephone company in the seventies, the only way to make a conference call through a telephone company is to schedule it in advance and pay it for $ 3.50 per minute. Towards the end of the eighties and nineties, conference bridging technology has developed the place to hold unattended conference calls without an operator, and the rate dropped to 50 cent per minute. Businesses were slowly accepting conferences, but once they did, their use increased drastically. Newer technologies, such as web conferencing, have resulted in more use of the Internet and lead to lower prices. Now that desktop video conferencing technology has become and has become economic, the conference has finally started migrating to the consumer market.
Consumers' markets have traditionally severely penetrated the conference scene. More effort was tried and most were not effective. Teenage chat lines, family lines, school lines and patient lines were introduced, but very few people used a significant amount of use.
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With desktop video conferencing, consumers can now use their webcams and the web to meet with their laptop or desktop computer. With loudspeakers and headphones, you can stream audio over the Internet. Due to the Internet-based technology, prices dropped dramatically and new flat-rate unlimited user charges arose. You can now have family video conferences with family members all over the world as much as you want in less than $ 99 a month.
The Truely Conference has been a long way since the seventies. Starting with the business markets, the conference is now starting to set footprint on consumer markets. Using the internet, webcams and personal computers will continue the conference all over the world.


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Impaired pulmonary function in patients with chronic neck pain
Mohamed Fawzi Awadallah, Eman Sobh, Mohamed Abdelhalim Shendy, Abdullah M Al-Shenqiti, Talal M Al-Jeraisi, Reda S Eweda
May-June 2021, 41(3):123-128
DOI:10.4103/jmedsci.jmedsci_31_20
Background: Neck pain is a common problem in the medical practice, and the limited movement of the neck muscles can result in impaired chest movement. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between neck pain and pulmonary function using spirometry. Methods: We included 75 patients with chronic neck pain and 75 age- and sex-matched healthy controls. We performed spirometry and recorded forced-vital capacity (FVC), forced expiratory volume in the first second of FVC (FEV1), forced expiratory flow at 25%–75% (FEF 25–75), and peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR). We also measured the neck active range of motion in all positions (flexion, extension, lateral flexion, and rotation) and administered the Neck Disability Index (NDI) and Visual Analog Scale (VAS) for pain. Results: Neck movements were significantly limited in all directions in patients with chronic neck pain. Pulmonary function (FVC, FEV1, FEF25–75, and PEFR) was significantly lower, and FEV1/ FVC was significantly higher in the neck pain group compared with the control group. In the neck pain group, restrictive pattern in spirometry was found in 39 participants (52%). The pulmonary function parameters (FVC, FEV1, FEF25–75, and PEFR) had a significant positive linear relationship with neck movement and a significant negative linear relationship with VAS and NDI scores. Conclusions: Patients with chronic neck pain had limited pulmonary function, which was related to a limited range of cervical movement.
Soft palatal pleomorphic adenoma with dystrophic calcifications and upper airway obstruction
Ayodele Moses Akinola, Oluwapelumi O Olusoga-Peters, Omotayo F Salami, Adekunle Moses Adetayo, Taiwo O Solaja
DOI:10.4103/jmedsci.jmedsci_216_20
Pleomorphic salivary adenoma (PSA) is a benign tumor composed of epithelial and mesenchymal elements. Approximately 10% of pleomorphic adenomas occur in the minor salivary glands, with the palate being the most common site. Mesenchymal elements in PSA are capable of giving rise to various components that are usually seen in the tumor. Still, the presence of calcifications either from degenerations or the mesenchymal elements is rare. We are reporting a case of giant pleomorphic adenoma of the soft palate with dystrophic calcification and significant upper aerodigestive obstruction in a 49-year-old Nigerian. Surgical excision was done under general anesthesia via oral route.
Relationship between severity of asthma attacks and Vitamin D levels in children
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Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and awake fiberoptic intubation for the anesthetic management in a patient with a large intrathoracic goiter-induced severe tracheal stenosis
Po-An Lin, Zhi-Fu Wu, Jih-Chin Lee, Tsai-Wang Huang, Bo-Feng Lin, Hou-Chuan Lai
Lycopene abrogates ifosfamide-induced fanconi syndrome in albino rats
Elias Adikwu, Bonsome Bokolo, Dorcas Okayo Okoroafor
Background: Treatment modalities for Fanconi syndrome caused by ifosfamide (IFO) are very limited. This study assessed the protective effect of lycopene (LYP) against IFO-induced Fanconi syndrome in albino rats. Methods: Forty adult male albino rats randomized into eight groups of n = 5 were used. Group A (Control) was treated intraperitoneally (IP) with normal saline (0.2 mL), whereas groups B–D were treated orally with LYP (10, 20, and 40 mg/kg) daily for 5 days, respectively. Group E was treated IP with IFO (80 mg/kg) daily for 5 days, whereas groups F–H were pretreated orally with LYP (10, 20, and 40 mg/kg) before IP treatment with IFO (80 mg/kg) daily for 5 days. After treatment, the rats were anesthetized; blood samples were collected and evaluated for serum biochemical biomarkers. Kidneys were excised, weighed and evaluated for oxidative stress markers and histology. Results: Significant (P < 0.001) increases in serum creatinine, urea, and uric acid levels with significant (P < 0.001) decreases in glucose, phosphate, magnesium, calcium, potassium, sodium, chloride, and bicarbonate levels were observed in IFO-treated rats when compared to control. Significant (P < 0.001) decreases occurred in kidney superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione (GSH), and GSH peroxidase levels with significant (P < 0.001) increases in malondialdehyde levels in IFO-treated rats in comparison to control. Glomerulus with sclerosis, lipid accumulation, and tubular necrosis were observed in the kidneys of IFO-treated rats. The aforementioned changes were significantly abrogated in rats pretreated with LYP 10 mg/kg (P < 0.05), 20 mg/kg (P < 0.01), and 40 mg/kg (P < 0.001) when compared to IFO-treated rats. Conclusions: LYP may be useful as treatment for Fanconi syndrome caused by IFO.
Vitamin D supplementation in the prevention of recurrent acute respiratory tract infections in children aged <5 years
Sujata Jadhav, Chitra Khanwelkar, Abhay Jadhav, S Seshla
Background: Children with Vitamin D deficiency are at an increased risk for acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs). Till now, few studies have been conducted on the use of Vitamin D against ARTIs, but the findings are conflicting and not conclusive. Aim: The aim was to study the effect of Vitamin D supplementation in the prevention of recurrent ARTIs in under-five children. Methods: In this prospective study, a total of 310 children aged between 1 and 5 years diagnosed with ARTI were included. They were randomized into two groups: Group A (oral Vitamin D 120,000 IU with standard treatment; n = 155) and Group B (placebo with standard treatment only; n = 155). Follow-up of the patient was done every month for a period of 6 months to document the recurrence of acute attacks of ARTI. R version 3.6.0 software was employed to analyze the data. Results: Twelve children (3.9%) in Group B were unable to follow-up, and hence, 143 were considered for statistical analyses in that group. Among the 298 children, 63.7% were males and majority (25.5%) of them were in the age group of 11–20 months. Cough (96%), fever (93%), and rhinitis (85.2%) were the commonly encountered symptoms. On day 4th (after Vitamin D supplementation), majority in Group A (40%) had recovered completely compared to Group B (5.6%). Within 5 days, Group A patients were 7 times (odds ratio: 6.97, Confidence interval: 3.5–13.8; P < 0.0001) more likely to have a high recovery rate compared to Group B patients. The proportion of patients with minimal attacks (three or four) of ARTI was significantly less in Group A (7.7%) compared to Group B (32.4%; P < 0.001). Conclusions: Children with Vitamin D supplementation had better and rapid recovery from ARTIs and reduced frequency of ARTI attacks.
Production of mosquito cell-derived Zika virus-like particles using BacMos system
Hui-Tsu Lin, Der-Jiang Chiao, Szu-Cheng Kuo
Background: Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus which has been conclusively linked to Guillain-Barré syndrome and microcephaly. The worldwide emergence of ZIKV has greatly increased the demand for vaccines that reduce or prevent disease transmission. Neutralizing human antibodies which target ZIKV E proteins have been shown to prevent ZIKV replication. Virus-like particles (VLPs) lacking viral genetic material comprise self-assembled multi-subunit protein structures that are capable of strongly activating humoral and cellular immunity. Flavivirus prM and E proteins are both necessary and sufficient for the production of VLPs. Thus, it appears that ZIKV VLPs are an ideal target for vaccine design and serological detection. Methods: In this study, the BacMos (baculovirus/mosquito) method was used to introduce the ZIKV prME gene into mosquito cells. Immunofluorescence assays (IFAs), dot blot (DB) analysis, and Western blot (WB) analysis were used to evaluate the expression and secretion of ZIKV glycoproteins. VLP formation was confirmed using transmission electron microscopic (TEM) and dynamic light scattering (DLS) analysis. Results: IFA presented intense signals from ZIKV E-positive cells in BacMos-ZIKV prME-transduced cells. DB and WB detected abundant ZIKV glycoproteins in the culture medium of BacMos-ZIKV prME-transduced cells. TEM observation and DLS analysis revealed that ZIKV VLPs comprised spherical particles, with an average diameter of 30 nm. Conclusions: Mosquito cell-derived ZIKV VLPs are promising candidates for the development of safe, efficacious vaccines and diagnostic antigens in the future.
Association between serum homocysteine levels and methylene-tetrahydrofolate-reductase gene polymorphism in patients with stroke: A study from a tertiary care teaching hospital from Central India
Dinesh Chouksey, Hashash Singh Ishar, Rahul Jain, Sunil Athale, Ajoy Sodani
Background: Hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy) is a well-established risk factor for vascular thrombosis leading to stroke. Homocysteine (Hcy) is mainly synthesized in the methionine cycle, and it is an intermediate during the conversion of methionine to cysteine. HHcy can develop by polymorphism of several enzymes like methylene-tetrahydrofolate-reductase (MTHFR) mutation and due to deficiency of co-factor Vitamins such as B12, B6, and folic acid. This study was planned to see the association between HHcy and MTHFR gene polymorphism in patients with stroke in populations from central India. Methods: Seventy-two patients diagnosed with stroke aged 18 years and above who met the inclusion criteria were selected. Hcy level and MTHFR mutation were identified among patients of stroke. Results: Forty-two patients (58.33%) were diagnosed with acute ischemic stroke as compared to cerebral venous thrombosis (30, 41.66%) from a total of 72 patients. The statistical analysis projected that the HHcy diagnosed among more (45, 62.5.0%) cases with stroke who had aged ≤45 years as compared to cases who had aged >45 years (17, 23.6%). None of our patients tested positive for either CT (Heterozygous) or TT(Homozygous) genotypes. Conclusions: HHcy is not associated with MTHFR gene mutation in our study group, and this possibly is related to the deficiency of co-factors in Hcy metabolism. Young age group stroke patients have higher Hcy levels.
Estrogen deficiency accompanied by oxidative stress sustains heme oxygenase 1 expression in cardiomyocytes of ovariectomized rats
Zheng-Zong Lai, Hsiang-Yu Yang, Ping-Nan Chen, Wei-Jou Shih, Hsin-Hsueh Shen, Yen-Mei Lee
Background: Estrogen deficiency is one of the main causes of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) after menopause, accompanied with the upregulation of oxidative stress. Two isoforms of heme oxygenase (HO), HO-1 and HO-2, have been implicated in the cytoprotective effects via the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory capacities. Aims: This study aimed to investigate the time-course of HO-1 and HO-2 expression in the cardiac tissue of ovariectomized rats and whether oxidative stress is involved in the regulation of HO alteration. Methods: Adult female rats were ovariectomized bilaterally to induce estrogen deficiency and randomly divided into (1) Sham, (2) ovariectomy (Ovx), (3) Ovx + E2 (17β estradiol, 50 μg/kg/day, intramuscular), and (4) Ovx + tempol (1 mM in drinking water, a superoxide dismutase [SOD] mimetic). Rats were sacrificed 12 weeks after Ovx; blood and myocardium samples were collected. Results: Showed that plasma E2 levels of Ovx and Ovx + tempol groups were significantly reduced as compared to Sham group after 4 weeks of Ovx. Superoxide anion in the cardiac tissue was significantly elevated 2 weeks after Ovx, and the increase was drastically reversed by the treatment with E2 and tempol. In addition, Ovx rats showed significantly higher levels of oxidized glutathione (GSSG) than those of Sham group, which were also significantly reduced by E2 and tempol administration. Western blot analysis indicated that HO-1 expression was significantly induced 1 week after Ovx and sustained at high levels until 12 weeks. E2 replacement did not immediately reverse HO-1 until treatment for 4 weeks as well as tempol administration for 5 weeks. Expression of the constitutive enzymes HO-2 did not show significant differences between Sham and Ovx groups, and E2 or tempol administration had no effect on cardiac HO-2 protein expression. Conclusion: E2 deficiency induced upregulation of superoxide anion in the myocardium, which might be the major contributor to the sustained HO-1 expression as adaptive responses to oxidative stress. This study provides new insight into the pathogenesis of CVDs after menopause.
Burden of Coronavirus Disease-19 on cardiovascular system
Amit Goel, Amit Madaan, Satbir Singh, Subhash Chandra
The rapid emergence and spread of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) into a worldwide pandemic has caused unprecedented crisis on already overwhelmed healthcare system and global economy leading to healthcare and social emergency. Since its outbreak, the disease prognosis has largely been influenced by multisystem involvement. Comorbid conditions such as cardiovascular diseases have been the most common risk factor for its severity and outcome. Although the exact mechanism of myocardial involvement in patients with COVID-19 is unknown, several plausible mechanisms have been proposed, of which uncontrolled and dysregulated immune response is most implicated in its causation. In the present article, an attempt has been made to summarize the literature available on COVID-19 and its impact on the cardiovascular system.


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Vittorio previously worked for two years as policy analyst for the Italian website The Fielder. He worked at ISFIN as the Head of Research where he contributed to a who's who guide to Islamic finance professionals. Vittorio also brings in an experience as event organiser as he worked for three years with two cultural organizations (Trepuntozero and Ora Liberale) organising all their internal and external events.
Vittorio has a BA in History from the University of Turin, where he developed an interest for ethical banking, his dissertation was on the "objections to the prohibition of interest in Islam". He subsequently obtained an MA in Islamic Law from the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London, with a dissertation on the compatibility between Artificial Intelligence and Islamic Law. His academic interests lie in linguistics, ethical banking and Artificial Intelligence.
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Unit Title: Healthy Relationships (Adams Five Star School District, Boulder Valley School District, and Denver School District)
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Unit Description: This unit provides an opportunity for students to develop communication skills for establishing and maintaining healthy relationships. They will learn how to identify trusted adults, recognize personal space and boundaries, and begin to self-advocate in unsafe situations. Students will explore aspects of nonverbal and verbal communication, respect for self and others and levels of danger and emergency contacts. The unit concludes with students taking on the role of a puppet master to create a puppet show for their peers depicting teacher prompted scenarios to include an unsafe situation, identifying the trusted adults, and how to communicate verbally and/or nonverbally for help.
Unit Title: Making Friends Through Sharing and Exploring Movement (Colorado Ballet, Douglas County School District, St. Mary's Academy, and Littleton School District)
Unit Description: This unit uses the body to communicate ideas through movement. Across the unit students will share ideas with each other as they create simple movement phrases, while learning to safely move in personal and general space. Students will learn to express themselves to others through movement patterns and shapes. This unit culminates in a basic dance performance of student partners sharing movements learned with the class.
Unit Title: The People You See - Creating Character
Unit Description: This unit explores the ways in which non-verbal and verbal communication can convey characters' emotions. Students will consider characters within popular stories/picture books, utilizing the stories' conflicts and relationships to work as actors might, bringing these characters to life by using facial expressions, body language/movements, and vocal variations. The unit also asks students to use real-life observations (of family members and practices) to explore further the ways in which actors use verbal and non-verbal communication in creating characters. The unit builds to a performance assessment that asks students to use the knowledge gained to "instantly" create characters and scenes from a picture book using combinations of forms of expression.
Unit Title: Put it Together and Take it Apart (Archuleta School District)
Unit Description: This unit focuses on the concepts of addition and subtraction. Across the six-week unit students begin by decomposing and composing numbers to five. Students explore a variety of visual representations including finger patterns, five-frames, and linking cubes. Students then connect these representations to symbolic addition and subtraction equations. Throughout the unit students are solving word-problems by using these representations. By the end of the unit, students progress to working with numbers to ten using the same visual and symbolic representations.
Unit Title: Show Me the Way to... (Boulder Valley School District and Metro State University of Denver)
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Unit Title: Reading Our World (Weld County School District)
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Ways to protect log-in information for bank accounts and other financial accounts, including the use of "strong" user IDs and passwords that will be hard for a hacker to guess, basic security measures such as security software updates, and the need to be careful where and how to connect to the Internet.
Security measures when using a smartphone or tablet (including "auto lock" features and the ability to remotely remove data if a mobile device is lost or stolen), how to protect computers from malicious software ("malware") that can steal valuable personal financial information, and ideas to help small businesses protect against losses from cyberattacks.
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Guidance to help parents and caregivers protect young people from cyber-related identity theft and financial fraud, including the need to secure all electronics connected to the Web, even video games, because the equipment may link to information such as credit or debit card numbers.
Federal law and regulations require financial institutions to have programs to ensure the security and confidentiality of customer information. Banking regulators expect the institutions they supervise to have a framework for learning about emerging threats and provide guidance about the steps institutions can take to be prepared.
How federal consumer laws and financial industry practices protect cybertheft victims from losses under certain circumstances.
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Execute [`create-next-app`](https://github.com/zeit/next.js/tree/canary/packages/create-next-app) with [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/cli/create/) or [npx](https://github.com/zkat/npx#readme) to bootstrap the example:

```bash
npx create-next-app --example with-linaria with-linaria-app
# or
yarn create next-app --example with-linaria with-linaria-app
```

### Download manually

Download the example:

```bash
curl https://codeload.github.com/zeit/next.js/tar.gz/canary | tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-canary/examples/with-linaria
cd with-linaria
```

Install it and run:

```bash
npm install
npm run dev
# or
yarn
yarn dev
```

Deploy it to the cloud with [now](https://zeit.co/now) ([download](https://zeit.co/download))

```bash
now
```

## The idea behind the example

This example features how to use [linaria](https://linaria.now.sh/) as the styling solution instead of [styled-jsx](https://github.com/zeit/styled-jsx).

We are creating three `div` elements with custom styles being shared across the elements. The styles includes the use of pseudo-selector and CSS animations.

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JoypadInput::JoypadInput() noexcept :
    m_port(Page::userCountMax())
{
}

bool JoypadInput::up() const noexcept
{
    if(Input::stateCallback && m_port < Page::userCountMax())
        return Input::stateCallback(m_port, RETRO_DEVICE_JOYPAD, 0, RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_UP) != 0;

    return false;
}

bool JoypadInput::down() const noexcept
{
    if(Input::stateCallback && m_port < Page::userCountMax())
        return Input::stateCallback(m_port, RETRO_DEVICE_JOYPAD, 0, RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_DOWN) != 0;

    return false;
}

bool JoypadInput::left() const noexcept
{
    if(Input::stateCallback && m_port < Page::userCountMax())
        return Input::stateCallback(m_port, RETRO_DEVICE_JOYPAD, 0, RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_LEFT) != 0;

    return false;
}

bool JoypadInput::right() const noexcept
{
    if(Input::stateCallback && m_port < Page::userCountMax())
        return Input::stateCallback(m_port, RETRO_DEVICE_JOYPAD, 0, RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_RIGHT) != 0;

    return false;
}

bool JoypadInput::select() const noexcept
{
    if(Input::stateCallback && m_port < Page::userCountMax())
        return Input::stateCallback(m_port, RETRO_DEVICE_JOYPAD, 0, RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_SELECT) != 0;

    return false;
}

bool JoypadInput::start() const noexcept
{
    if(Input::stateCallback && m_port < Page::userCountMax())
        return Input::stateCallback(m_port, RETRO_DEVICE_JOYPAD, 0, RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_START) != 0;

    return false;
}

bool JoypadInput::a() const noexcept
{
    if(Input::stateCallback && m_port < Page::userCountMax())
        return Input::stateCallback(m_port, RETRO_DEVICE_JOYPAD, 0, RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_A) != 0;

    return false;
}

bool JoypadInput::b() const noexcept
{
    if(Input::stateCallback && m_port < Page::userCountMax())
        return Input::stateCallback(m_port, RETRO_DEVICE_JOYPAD, 0, RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_B) != 0;

    return false;
}

bool JoypadInput::x() const noexcept
{
    if(Input::stateCallback && m_port < Page::userCountMax())
        return Input::stateCallback(m_port, RETRO_DEVICE_JOYPAD, 0, RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_X) != 0;

    return false;
}

bool JoypadInput::y() const noexcept
{
    if(Input::stateCallback && m_port < Page::userCountMax())
        return Input::stateCallback(m_port, RETRO_DEVICE_JOYPAD, 0, RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_Y) != 0;

    return false;
}

bool JoypadInput::l() const noexcept
{
    if(Input::stateCallback && m_port < Page::userCountMax())
        return Input::stateCallback(m_port, RETRO_DEVICE_JOYPAD, 0, RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_L) != 0;

    return false;
}

bool JoypadInput::r() const noexcept
{
    if(Input::stateCallback && m_port < Page::userCountMax())
        return Input::stateCallback(m_port, RETRO_DEVICE_JOYPAD, 0, RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_R) != 0;

    return false;
}

bool JoypadInput::l2() const noexcept
{
    if(Input::stateCallback && m_port < Page::userCountMax())
        return Input::stateCallback(m_port, RETRO_DEVICE_JOYPAD, 0, RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_L2) != 0;

    return false;
}

bool JoypadInput::r2() const noexcept
{
    if(Input::stateCallback && m_port < Page::userCountMax())
        return Input::stateCallback(m_port, RETRO_DEVICE_JOYPAD, 0, RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_R2) != 0;

    return false;
}

bool JoypadInput::l3() const noexcept
{
    if(Input::stateCallback && m_port < Page::userCountMax())
        return Input::stateCallback(m_port, RETRO_DEVICE_JOYPAD, 0, RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_L3) != 0;

    return false;
}

bool JoypadInput::r3() const noexcept
{
    if(Input::stateCallback && m_port < Page::userCountMax())
        return Input::stateCallback(m_port, RETRO_DEVICE_JOYPAD, 0, RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_R3) != 0;

    return false;
}


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The iPad Hits The UK (and some other places too)
May 29, 2010 May 29, 2010 ~ Eoin Purcell	~ 2 Comments
It's on sale now!
The company's website is warning that iPad orders made now will not be sent out until 7 June. It sold more than 1m iPads in the US in the first 100 days after the April launch, making it a faster seller than the iPhone.
Welcome to Agency Town
After weeks of no-comment the three publishers finally released statements on their move to the Apple agency model at 10am today at Apple's request, though The Bookseller broke the news an hour earlier.
Consumers will do what consumers will do
But John Herbert, 42, city analyst, said: "It does books? I might in the end read e-books on it, but it's not my main reason for getting one. I'm thinking about movies, music, the web; something for the commute, really
Available on the island, just not the southern end of it
APPLE ENTHUSIASTS in Ireland will be able to get their hands on the iPad from today as it goes on sale in the United Kingdom, including Northern Ireland.
Tom Tivnan love iBooks
my first thought on iBooks: yeah, this is the real deal. Miles ahead of the Sony Reader, Kindle or any other e-reader on the market. I have been reading e-books on the iPhone, but the far bigger size of the screen adds a new dimension. The 'flip' page technology is smooth and comes as close to a real book experience as you are likely to get digitally. After having a look at this, I can't really see anyone ever wanting a monochrome e-reader.
The FT injects some reality, which is nice!
In other words, analysts trying to calculate the iPad's prospects in Europe would do well to remember that the continent's patchwork of publishers and local laws make simple pan-European deals unlikely. Apple's relatively small European team has been advertising for publisher account managers. On the evidence so far, they will be busy.
And so does Charlie Brooker
I doubt many readers will persevere to the final page of a novel, unless it's a book in which the lead character squints a lot, in which case you'll have a certain empathy.
Mediabistro & publishing perspective's Edward Nawotka throw out interesting thoughts
Nawotka concluded: "The Europeans tend to be more conservative. It's taken them somewhat longer to get into eBooks. You can see that reflected in the way they dealt with the iPad launch. It's no secret that this is going to be a trendsetting device. I'm getting pictures in from Australia, the UK, and Germany–the Apple Stores are just thronged. A lot of the publishers just waited until the last minute to sign up and get their stuff ready."
And we have an early bestseller!
Chris Evans' memoir, It's Not What You Think (HarperCollins), is the early ebook bestseller at Apple's iBookstore. The book, recently released in a mass-market format with an r.r.p. of £7.99 has been selling at around £5.20 at UK bookshops on average in recent weeks. But at a bargain £3.99, the ebook has shot to the top of the UK iBooks chart.
Amazon Creates Translation Publishing Imprint: AmazonCrossing
May 18, 2010 ~ Eoin Purcell	~ Leave a comment
In many ways this is a fairly sensible move from Amazon:
Similar to AmazonEncore, Amazon's first publishing imprint, AmazonCrossing uses customer feedback and other data from Amazon sites around the world to identify exceptional books deserving of a wider, global audience. AmazonCrossing will acquire the rights and translate the books and then introduce them to the English-speaking market through multiple channels and formats, such as the Amazon Books Store, Amazon Kindle Store, and national and independent booksellers via third-party wholesalers.
It does go to show though how much power Amazon has gained for itself through hard work and enterprise. Owning the relationship with readers is enabling them to leverage their other capabilities and to relatively rapidly create imprints. Right now they seem small enterprises and mant dismiss them, but as I have pointed out before (and been shown to be correct) small things can grow!
Some questions arise here:
1) Will agents see the value of this outfit?
2) Will authors prefer more established houses?
3) Will their sales data and reader feedback advantage give Amazon a clear advantage over traditional houses in the rights acquisition field?
4) How will publishers react?
That last question is by far the biggest and strategically important. 2010 has really seen a ramping up of Amazon's publishing enterprises. Beside this new imprint and a fairly large increase in the numbers of titles published under the Encore brand, they also announced this week that they had acquired a pretty mainstream writer. Publishers surely must see the danger that Amazon presents when it pursues actions like these!
Intrigued by all this!
Amazon Encore Signs JA Konrath
May 17, 2010 January 17, 2014 ~ Eoin Purcell	~ 3 Comments
Amazon Encore the publishing imprint of the internet retailer has signed a deal with JA Konrath to publish his next 'Jack' Daniel title, Shaken.
This is pretty big news, as Mike Shatzkin points out:
this is a significant jolt to conventional publishing economics. Sales of Konrath's $2.99 ebook will deliver him about $2.10 a copy (Konrath says $2.04; not sure where the other six cents is going…), as much or more as he would make on a $14.95 paperback from a trade publisher, and significantly more than he'd make on a $9.99 ebook distributed under "Agency" terms and current major publisher royalty conventions.
I noted here and elsewhere how Authors will drive change and pointed specifically to Konrath. It is very interesting that this deal is with Encore whose efforts I have also been watching warily for some time.
Publishers who didn't see this coming, having been warned that such moves were on the horizon and in the aftermath of a series of similar deals really only have themselves to blame. I wonder what the reaction will be.
Print may wither much sooner than we expect!
Osprey Publishing Acquires Angry Robot
I like Osprey. I think they are very smart operators and they know what they are doing and why. They have also built two very nice niche brands (Osprey and Shire) that are almost instantly recognizable in their markets, certainly by the kind of people who buy books and information in those spaces. So the news that they have bought the HarperCollins science-fiction and fantasy imprint Angry Robot is pretty exciting.
Here's how Angry Robot put it:
Following an acclaimed first year of publishing, the revolutionary science fiction imprint Angry Robot Books has parted company with HarperCollins UK. It will now run as an independent publishing imprint, with the full backing of niche publishing experts, Osprey Publishing.
And here is what Osprey told us:
We at Osprey/Shire/Angry Robot (we are going to need a group name) are all about publishing for specialists, whether your specialism is Panzer variants, timber-framed buildings or zombie novels. We want to publish books (and not just books these days) for people who are enthusiastic, knowledgable and passionate about their interest whatever it is.
What this might mean?
Tor.com has made it clear since its foundation that emphasizing niche can be a successful strategy for reader engagement and Angry Robot is doing a good job of replicating that in the UK with their Robot Army. I'd love to see even more accessible content that just their great and active blog but what they do now is good.
In terms of strategy, Angry Robot is a strong and build-able brand. I'd expect to see more community features over time and perhaps even some kind of membership much as Osprey has created on their home site.
The bigger questions are for HarperCollins. The sale of Angry Robot leaves them with Voyager as their main Science-Fiction and Fantasy imprint. That's a fine imprint but their engagement strategy is a little up in the air right now. They moved from a community site which I always felt was far too sales pitchy toward a more blog orientated site.
The new site is much better, both visually and in terms of reaching out to readers but it lacks the openness of Tor.com's site. Unless they address that soon, I fear they may fall behind. When you consider their authors and the passion these superstars generate, this seems a shame. I think they could learn quite a bit from the imprint that have just sold off or simply by copying some of what Tor.com is doing.