ENVIRONMENTAL GAMMA MONITORING ĖNIRAQ deviations of measurements for unirradiated dosemeters was ... more ENVIRONMENTAL GAMMA MONITORING ĖNIRAQ deviations of measurements for unirradiated dosemeters was 0.66 uGy(S\ RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The monthly results and the annual values for the background radiation levels in the Tuwaitha environs during 1988 were ...
Bakgrunn: Hypericum maculatum (firkantperikum) er en flerårig urt med utbredelse over store deler... more Bakgrunn: Hypericum maculatum (firkantperikum) er en flerårig urt med utbredelse over store deler av Europa. Planten har lang tradisjon som medisinplante, og sammenlignes ofte med Hypericum perforatum (prikkperikum) som ligner både i utseende og kjemisk sammensetning. Hensikten med oppgaven var å isolere og karakterisere polyfenoler i H. maculatum, og undersøke antiinflammatorisk aktivitet og effekter på tarmmikrobiota in vitro. Metoder: Tørket overjordisk del av H. maculatum ble pulverisert på en slipemølle og ekstrahert med 70 % etanol (EtOH). EtOH-kstraktet ble suspendert i vann og væske-væske ekstrahert med diklormetan (DCM), etylacetat (EtOAc) og butanol (BuOH). BuOH- og EtOAc-fasene ble videre renset opp og fraksjonert med ulike kolonnekromatografiske metoder for isolering av substanser i planten. Innholdsstoffene ble strukturelt karakterisert og identifisert ved NMR-spektroskopiske metoder som 1H, 13C, 13C APT, COSY, HSQC, HMBC og NOESY. Antiinflammatorisk aktivitet ble beste...
A Dissertation submitted to the School of BusinessAdministration in partial fulfillment of the re... more A Dissertation submitted to the School of BusinessAdministration in partial fulfillment of the requirementsfor the award of the degree of Master of Business Administration (Marketing) of Nkumba University.
Utafiti huu ulihusu kutathmini usawiri wa muhusika mwanamke katika hadithi simulizi za Wapemba. M... more Utafiti huu ulihusu kutathmini usawiri wa muhusika mwanamke katika hadithi simulizi za Wapemba. Mtafiti alichagua mada hii ili kuchambua usawir huo kupitia hadithi simulizi. Utafiti huu una lengo kuu moja na madhumuni mahsusi matatu. Pia mtafi alitumia nadharia tatu katika utafiti wake. Nadharia ya Ufeministi wa Kiislamu, nadharia ya kijamii (ukhalisia) na nadharia ya mwitiko wa msomaji. Mtafiti alitumia njia kuu mbili katika utafiti wake, njia ya maktabani na njia ya maskanini. Katika njia hizo mtafiti alitumia mbinu mbalimbali kuzipata data zake. Mbinu hizo ni pamoja na hojaji na ushiriki darasani kwa upande wa njia ya maskanini na usomaji vitabu na tasnifu (kazi tangulizi) kwa njia ya maktabani. Data zilifanyiwa uchambuzi kwa njia ya maelezo na tarakimu, majadweli yalitumika kuonesha data hizo. Pia mtafiti ameweza kuonesha watafitiwa wake alivyowapata na jumla ya watafitiwa hao walikuwa arubaini na tano.Uchambuzi wa data ulifanyika kulingana na madhumuni mahsusi yaliyotajwa katik...
Over the past few years, social networking sites, especially Facebook and Twitter, have emerged a... more Over the past few years, social networking sites, especially Facebook and Twitter, have emerged as a vital medium to bridge between the suppliers and customers of different products. Ride-sharing service is one of such products greatly influenced by the reactions shared by its users on the social networking platforms. ‘Pathao’ and ‘Uber’ are two widely used and popular ride-sharing services in our country. In this work, we have analyzed the public sentiment about these services. First, for training purpose, we have collected both the positive and negative tweets and Facebook posts, comments, and reviews of the customers from the Facebook and Twitter pages of those riding services. Afterward, a dictionary is created containing positive and negative words to determine whether a review is good or bad. Using those words, we trained three classifiers such as Naive Bayes, Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Decision Tree for classifying the tweets, reviews, and comments into four quality cla...
The increasing world population has raised concerns over food security. In order to feed the worl... more The increasing world population has raised concerns over food security. In order to feed the world, the projected target is to double food production by 2050. However, this objective has been interrupted by many global challenges, including climatic change and a reduced ozone layer. The Earth is protected by layers of atmosphere. The stratospheric ozone protects living organisms from harmful radiation. Plants use sunlight for photosynthesis and as a consequence face harmful radiation. Depletion of stratospheric ozone has increased radiation entering the surface of the Earth. Radiation is divided into two types: ionizing radiation, where gamma rays are most prominent; and nonionizing radiation, including UV rays. UV rays (high energetic radiation) cause heritable mutations in the genome of plants that exacerbate plant physiology, environmental factors, plant growth, and affect photosystem and soil properties which ultimately affect crop productivity, leading to the incidence and prog...
German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research, 2020
Cricket is a team sport that dates back to the 13th Century. Its many traditions and terminologie... more Cricket is a team sport that dates back to the 13th Century. Its many traditions and terminologies are not the easiest to explain to someone who has never seen it before, or indeed to someone watching it live for the very first time. In 2018, over a thousand Test Match Cricket spectators were approached at two 5‑day Test Matches between New Zealand’s Black Caps and England, the first of which was the first ever Day–Night Test Match fixture scheduled between the two teams. A post-trip survey was sent out to 860 valid email addresses collected within the grandstands at Auckland’s Eden Park Stadium and, a week later, on the grass embankments at Christchurch’s Hagley Oval. The aim of the study was to capture spectator satisfaction, expectations and experiences of Test Match Cricket. This study profiles the expectations and experiences of 86 English sport tourists who completed the online questionnaire, all of whom had travelled over 18,000 km specifically to follow their national cricket team. The findings both support and strengthen those published within some existing cricket-related studies, suggesting that the format and frequency of the fixture significantly influences the mindset and movements of the target market. The recommendations focus on the importance placed upon the social interaction encountered during the fixtures and the need to ensure that the local hospitality generates a positive sport tourist experience.
2016 International Workshop on Computational Intelligence (IWCI), 2016
Traditional fingerprint matching algorithms primarily focus on minutiae points on fingertip surfa... more Traditional fingerprint matching algorithms primarily focus on minutiae points on fingertip surface. In this paper, a novel approach is proposed for fingerprint matching that is based on ridge and valley characteristics of fingerprints. At first, the input fingerprint image is normalized and the registration point of that particular fingerprint is detected. Then a line profile is generated centering on that reference point. The distances between the reference point and ridges and the count of intersection points of line profile and ridges are stored in database. This process is repeated after every 15-degree angle to 345-degree in clock-wise direction and for orientation angle, the distances are stored sequentially. For matching intersection point count number along with the sequence of distance values are compared with the stored values. This new method can detect fingerprint from any orientation angle. Experimental result shows 90.87% accuracy of the proposed method.
A 39-5/7 weeks’ gestation infant boy weighing 3.670 kg is born by emergency caesarian section for... more A 39-5/7 weeks’ gestation infant boy weighing 3.670 kg is born by emergency caesarian section for significant fetal distress. The mother is a 37-year-old primigravida whose pregnancy is uneventful except for oligohydramnios due to “leaky” membranes. Liquor is scanty, meconium stained and has an offensive smell. The infant is born in poor condition, needs resuscitation, and moves to the neonatal unit ventilated and passively cooled. Apgar scores are 1, 4, and 6 at 1, 5, and 10 minutes, respectively. Cord blood pH is 6.8, and base excess is −18 mmol/L. On admission, temperature is 38.3°C, and the infant, covered with thick meconium, is hypertonic, tachycardiac, breathing with difficulty, not synchronizing with ventilator, and having a bilaterally distended chest, diminished air entry to both lung fields, muffled heart sounds, and a pre- and postductal O2 saturation difference of 10% to 15%. After two boluses of normal saline, and initiating active whole-body cooling, sedation, muscle relaxation, intravenous antibiotics, maintenance fluids, inhaled nitric oxide, and cerebral function monitoring, umbilical lines are placed. Blood tests confirm both sepsis and severe hypoxic-ischemic injury. Chest radiograph reveals abnormal bell-shaped chest, small lung volume, and bilateral pneumothoraces, more on the right hemithorax, necessitating chest drain insertion. A urinary catheter is placed. Urine output (UOP), noticed to be low during the first 36 hours, starts to recover. He is rewarmed after 72 hours of cooling, the urinary catheter is pulled out, and antibiotics are stopped by day 5. Ventilation remains difficult to wean, and pneumothoraces keep reaccumulating. Ultimately, he is extubated to air, and chest drains are removed, by day 14. Once the urinary catheter is removed, the infant’s UOP significantly drops, which is thought to be related to urinary bladder atony complicating the hypoxic-ischemic injury. Another urinary catheter is placed, and UOP starts to normalize between …
ENVIRONMENTAL GAMMA MONITORING ĖNIRAQ deviations of measurements for unirradiated dosemeters was ... more ENVIRONMENTAL GAMMA MONITORING ĖNIRAQ deviations of measurements for unirradiated dosemeters was 0.66 uGy(S\ RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The monthly results and the annual values for the background radiation levels in the Tuwaitha environs during 1988 were ...
Bakgrunn: Hypericum maculatum (firkantperikum) er en flerårig urt med utbredelse over store deler... more Bakgrunn: Hypericum maculatum (firkantperikum) er en flerårig urt med utbredelse over store deler av Europa. Planten har lang tradisjon som medisinplante, og sammenlignes ofte med Hypericum perforatum (prikkperikum) som ligner både i utseende og kjemisk sammensetning. Hensikten med oppgaven var å isolere og karakterisere polyfenoler i H. maculatum, og undersøke antiinflammatorisk aktivitet og effekter på tarmmikrobiota in vitro. Metoder: Tørket overjordisk del av H. maculatum ble pulverisert på en slipemølle og ekstrahert med 70 % etanol (EtOH). EtOH-kstraktet ble suspendert i vann og væske-væske ekstrahert med diklormetan (DCM), etylacetat (EtOAc) og butanol (BuOH). BuOH- og EtOAc-fasene ble videre renset opp og fraksjonert med ulike kolonnekromatografiske metoder for isolering av substanser i planten. Innholdsstoffene ble strukturelt karakterisert og identifisert ved NMR-spektroskopiske metoder som 1H, 13C, 13C APT, COSY, HSQC, HMBC og NOESY. Antiinflammatorisk aktivitet ble beste...
A Dissertation submitted to the School of BusinessAdministration in partial fulfillment of the re... more A Dissertation submitted to the School of BusinessAdministration in partial fulfillment of the requirementsfor the award of the degree of Master of Business Administration (Marketing) of Nkumba University.
Utafiti huu ulihusu kutathmini usawiri wa muhusika mwanamke katika hadithi simulizi za Wapemba. M... more Utafiti huu ulihusu kutathmini usawiri wa muhusika mwanamke katika hadithi simulizi za Wapemba. Mtafiti alichagua mada hii ili kuchambua usawir huo kupitia hadithi simulizi. Utafiti huu una lengo kuu moja na madhumuni mahsusi matatu. Pia mtafi alitumia nadharia tatu katika utafiti wake. Nadharia ya Ufeministi wa Kiislamu, nadharia ya kijamii (ukhalisia) na nadharia ya mwitiko wa msomaji. Mtafiti alitumia njia kuu mbili katika utafiti wake, njia ya maktabani na njia ya maskanini. Katika njia hizo mtafiti alitumia mbinu mbalimbali kuzipata data zake. Mbinu hizo ni pamoja na hojaji na ushiriki darasani kwa upande wa njia ya maskanini na usomaji vitabu na tasnifu (kazi tangulizi) kwa njia ya maktabani. Data zilifanyiwa uchambuzi kwa njia ya maelezo na tarakimu, majadweli yalitumika kuonesha data hizo. Pia mtafiti ameweza kuonesha watafitiwa wake alivyowapata na jumla ya watafitiwa hao walikuwa arubaini na tano.Uchambuzi wa data ulifanyika kulingana na madhumuni mahsusi yaliyotajwa katik...
Over the past few years, social networking sites, especially Facebook and Twitter, have emerged a... more Over the past few years, social networking sites, especially Facebook and Twitter, have emerged as a vital medium to bridge between the suppliers and customers of different products. Ride-sharing service is one of such products greatly influenced by the reactions shared by its users on the social networking platforms. ‘Pathao’ and ‘Uber’ are two widely used and popular ride-sharing services in our country. In this work, we have analyzed the public sentiment about these services. First, for training purpose, we have collected both the positive and negative tweets and Facebook posts, comments, and reviews of the customers from the Facebook and Twitter pages of those riding services. Afterward, a dictionary is created containing positive and negative words to determine whether a review is good or bad. Using those words, we trained three classifiers such as Naive Bayes, Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Decision Tree for classifying the tweets, reviews, and comments into four quality cla...
The increasing world population has raised concerns over food security. In order to feed the worl... more The increasing world population has raised concerns over food security. In order to feed the world, the projected target is to double food production by 2050. However, this objective has been interrupted by many global challenges, including climatic change and a reduced ozone layer. The Earth is protected by layers of atmosphere. The stratospheric ozone protects living organisms from harmful radiation. Plants use sunlight for photosynthesis and as a consequence face harmful radiation. Depletion of stratospheric ozone has increased radiation entering the surface of the Earth. Radiation is divided into two types: ionizing radiation, where gamma rays are most prominent; and nonionizing radiation, including UV rays. UV rays (high energetic radiation) cause heritable mutations in the genome of plants that exacerbate plant physiology, environmental factors, plant growth, and affect photosystem and soil properties which ultimately affect crop productivity, leading to the incidence and prog...
German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research, 2020
Cricket is a team sport that dates back to the 13th Century. Its many traditions and terminologie... more Cricket is a team sport that dates back to the 13th Century. Its many traditions and terminologies are not the easiest to explain to someone who has never seen it before, or indeed to someone watching it live for the very first time. In 2018, over a thousand Test Match Cricket spectators were approached at two 5‑day Test Matches between New Zealand’s Black Caps and England, the first of which was the first ever Day–Night Test Match fixture scheduled between the two teams. A post-trip survey was sent out to 860 valid email addresses collected within the grandstands at Auckland’s Eden Park Stadium and, a week later, on the grass embankments at Christchurch’s Hagley Oval. The aim of the study was to capture spectator satisfaction, expectations and experiences of Test Match Cricket. This study profiles the expectations and experiences of 86 English sport tourists who completed the online questionnaire, all of whom had travelled over 18,000 km specifically to follow their national cricket team. The findings both support and strengthen those published within some existing cricket-related studies, suggesting that the format and frequency of the fixture significantly influences the mindset and movements of the target market. The recommendations focus on the importance placed upon the social interaction encountered during the fixtures and the need to ensure that the local hospitality generates a positive sport tourist experience.
2016 International Workshop on Computational Intelligence (IWCI), 2016
Traditional fingerprint matching algorithms primarily focus on minutiae points on fingertip surfa... more Traditional fingerprint matching algorithms primarily focus on minutiae points on fingertip surface. In this paper, a novel approach is proposed for fingerprint matching that is based on ridge and valley characteristics of fingerprints. At first, the input fingerprint image is normalized and the registration point of that particular fingerprint is detected. Then a line profile is generated centering on that reference point. The distances between the reference point and ridges and the count of intersection points of line profile and ridges are stored in database. This process is repeated after every 15-degree angle to 345-degree in clock-wise direction and for orientation angle, the distances are stored sequentially. For matching intersection point count number along with the sequence of distance values are compared with the stored values. This new method can detect fingerprint from any orientation angle. Experimental result shows 90.87% accuracy of the proposed method.
A 39-5/7 weeks’ gestation infant boy weighing 3.670 kg is born by emergency caesarian section for... more A 39-5/7 weeks’ gestation infant boy weighing 3.670 kg is born by emergency caesarian section for significant fetal distress. The mother is a 37-year-old primigravida whose pregnancy is uneventful except for oligohydramnios due to “leaky” membranes. Liquor is scanty, meconium stained and has an offensive smell. The infant is born in poor condition, needs resuscitation, and moves to the neonatal unit ventilated and passively cooled. Apgar scores are 1, 4, and 6 at 1, 5, and 10 minutes, respectively. Cord blood pH is 6.8, and base excess is −18 mmol/L. On admission, temperature is 38.3°C, and the infant, covered with thick meconium, is hypertonic, tachycardiac, breathing with difficulty, not synchronizing with ventilator, and having a bilaterally distended chest, diminished air entry to both lung fields, muffled heart sounds, and a pre- and postductal O2 saturation difference of 10% to 15%. After two boluses of normal saline, and initiating active whole-body cooling, sedation, muscle relaxation, intravenous antibiotics, maintenance fluids, inhaled nitric oxide, and cerebral function monitoring, umbilical lines are placed. Blood tests confirm both sepsis and severe hypoxic-ischemic injury. Chest radiograph reveals abnormal bell-shaped chest, small lung volume, and bilateral pneumothoraces, more on the right hemithorax, necessitating chest drain insertion. A urinary catheter is placed. Urine output (UOP), noticed to be low during the first 36 hours, starts to recover. He is rewarmed after 72 hours of cooling, the urinary catheter is pulled out, and antibiotics are stopped by day 5. Ventilation remains difficult to wean, and pneumothoraces keep reaccumulating. Ultimately, he is extubated to air, and chest drains are removed, by day 14. Once the urinary catheter is removed, the infant’s UOP significantly drops, which is thought to be related to urinary bladder atony complicating the hypoxic-ischemic injury. Another urinary catheter is placed, and UOP starts to normalize between …
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