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Gustav is Missing!: A Tale of Friendship and Bravery by Andrea Zuill

Reviewed by: Gustav is Missing!: A Tale of Friendship and Bravery by Andrea Zuill Natalie Berglind Zuill, Andrea Gustav is Missing!: A Tale of Friendship and Bravery; written and illus. by Andrea Zuill. Random House Studio, 2023 [40p] Library ed. ISBN 9780593487488 $21.99 Trade ed. ISBN 9780593487471 $18.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9780593487495 $10.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R 4-7 yrs Little Cap, a bespectacled, red-capped mushroom, is very comfortable within the confines of his home with his best friend, a slug named Gustav. The outside world is scary to Little Cap, which makes Gustav escaping from his gate even more terrifying as Little Cap has to set out on an adventure to find him. Little Cap braves asking neighbors if they’ve spotted his slug, but Little Cap’s worries get the worst of him as he pictures tragedies that could have befallen Gustav—until he finds Gustav chilling in the middle of a slug community. The two head back on a similar adventure and are relieved to return “to their safe, cozy lives,” but they now have stories to tell and a thirst for adventure. Charming, old-fashioned looking ink and digital illustrations bring Little Cap’s blade-of-grass-tall world to life, full of the different bugs, amphibians, and rodents; most creatures wear clothes, from Little Cap’s adorable mini-overalls to the cricket’s suburban dad outfit. Little Cap’s Bilbo Baggins personality will appeal to shy viewers, and with his overstimulation and anxiety, he could easily be read as a neurodivergent character. Additionally, anyone whose pet (Gustav is always referred to as a “best friend,” treating their friendship seriously) has ever run away will understand Gustav’s fear. Read this picture book to kids not ready to take on The Hobbit just yet. Copyright © 2023 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

A Craft Essay on Trauma

A Craft Essay on Trauma

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Identification of clinical and biochemical markers of various forms of eclampsia in pregnant ewes

The clinical picture of the manifestation of various forms of eclampsia in pregnant ewes has been established, signs of a mild form of eclampsia in pregnant ewes are depression of the central nervous system. During the movements, the sheep staggered, the gait was uncertain. Quite often, there was a frozen pose, the animals stood with their necks outstretched and their heads held high. Characteristic signs of severe form are fibrillary twitching of the muscles of the ears, neck, and around the mouth. During the whole time, the animal was in a state of catalepsy. The sheep was lying on its side 8... 10 hours before its death, its limbs and neck were stretched out; it tried to throw its head back. Nervous excitement turned into a comatose state. Laboratory blood tests have established an increase in the level of ketone bodies above physiological limits by 2.3 times and their fractions — AcAs and HH, respectively, by 5.9 times and 1.5 times, a decrease in buffer bases to 18.41 ± 1.53 mmol/l, glucose concentration to 2.25±0.16 mmol/l, as well as the HH/AcAs coefficient to 1.53. The conducted ELISA of blood serum allowed us to obtain information about the levels of FSH, LH, etch radial values in the group of sheep with eclampsia and the control group, which significantly differed from each other (p<0.05). The content of cortisol (21.4±3.47 ng/ml), as well as progesterone (11.2± 4.31 ng/ml) remains quite significant, which does not allow for metabolic processes. In the blood of ewes with eclampsia, an increase in the concentration of ketodiene intermediates and conjugated trines was found to be 1.75 times, and the content of manol dialdehyde was 1.125±0.34 mmol/l. An integrated approach to the examination of pregnant ewes in the framework of obstetric medical examination increases the diagnostic effectiveness of eclampsia detection by 24.3% compared to traditional research methods. The diagnostic sensitivity was 75.8%, the specificity of the test was 96.2%, the prognostic value of a positive result was 94.5%, and the prognostic value of a negative result was 83.9%.>˂0.05). The content of cortisol (21.4±3.47 ng/ml), as well as progesterone (11.2± 4.31 ng/ml) remains quite significant, which does not allow for metabolic processes. In the blood of ewes with eclampsia, an increase in the concentration of ketodiene intermediates and conjugated trines was found to be 1.75 times, and the content of manol dialdehyde was 1.125±0.34 mmol/l. An integrated approach to the examination of pregnant ewes in the framework of obstetric medical examination increases the diagnostic effectiveness of eclampsia detection by 24.3% compared to traditional research methods. The diagnostic sensitivity was 75.8%, the specificity of the test was 96.2%, the prognostic value of a positive result was 94.5%, and the prognostic value of a negative result was 83.9%.

Empty sella syndrome managed with homoeopathy: A case report

The empty sella Syndrome, is a condition resulting from herniation of the subarachnoid space through the diaphragma sella, displacing the normal pituitary gland. Empty sella can be of two types: partial or complete. Partial means, cerebrospinal fluid fills less than 50% of the sella. Total means cerebrospinal fluid fills more than 50% of sella, with the thickness of gland being < 2 mm. This is a case of a 40-year-old female, with recurrent attacks of sudden and excruciating pain in head with redness in right eye. She was admitted on 5/2/2020 having IP NO: 747, at Govt. Homoeopathic Medical College Kozhikode, for excruciating pain in right side of head radiating to right eye, ear, face and back of head, with redness in right eye. Clinical diagnosis was made after reviewing MRI brain. As in conventional medication, without the analgesic, managed successfully with Homoeopathic Medications. After individualising the case, homoeopathic medicine Apis mellifica 6 C and Onosmodium Q was prescribed, and within 1 week, her ailments got better.

Murder among the Mormons

Murder among the Mormons

The Tennis Bracelet

Would you return an accidentally stolen diamond bracelet? In this work of philosophical fiction, a couple on vacation in Israel realize, once they are back in their hotel room, that a diamond tennis bracelet caught on their bag and they walked out of the store with it. Now they are can’t decide if they should return the bracelet or keep it? If they return it, will they be accused of stealing it? They are set to fly back to America in a day, so why risk anything, why not just get on the plane and fly home? In the end, they decide to head back to the store to return the bracelet. The cashier than asks, “Would you like the refund in cash or check?”

Motor Carrier Regulation and Last Mile Delivery: Have we Come Full-Circle with Carrier Practices?

The focus of logistics has been to deliver products to customers as quickly and consistently as possible without a severe loss in profit. The growth of multichannel retailing in connection with the recent surge in on-line ordering, has forced the logistics industry to evaluate current transportation practices and make innovative adjustments. In our work, we reflect on the changes to motor carrier transportation over time through the lens of regulation. Concerns about rates, entry to markets, and the safety of carriers were common around the Great Depression. Policy makers took notice and imposed economic and social regulation. Motor carrier strategies changed to meet these new policies and the motor carrier industry settled into decades of stability. Midway through the 20th century many began to question the efficiency of the industry. Entry was difficult, rates were considered high, but safety issues were of little concern at the time. Deregulation became widely popular with policy makers, and the industry changed its strategies again to comply with deregulated policies. Today, technology has become a prominent tool for all. Together, e-Commerce, Omni-Channel Distribution, Last Mile Delivery and Gig Delivery are poised to change motor carrier practices again. So, where does the industry go from here? Some think that it is headed back to economic and social regulation policies of the past. We examine the impact of previous legislation on the transportation industry, specifically motor carriers, which led to deregulation of motor carriers in the 1990’s. Considering the growth of on-line sales, we attempt to look forward, using the past, to hypothesize how they may operate in the future.

Sons of Kemet, Gorilla, Manchester, United Kingdom—February 19, 2022

Sons of Kemet, Gorilla, Manchester, United Kingdom—February 19, 2022

Finnish Folk Poetry, Epic: An Anthology in Finnish and English ed. by Matt Kuusi, Keith Bosley, and Michael Branch

Reviewed by: Finnish Folk Poetry, Epic: An Anthology in Finnish and English ed. by Matt Kuusi, Keith Bosley, and Michael Branch Anthony Madrid (bio) finnish folk poetry, epic: an anthology in finnish and english Ed. and trans. Matt Kuusi, Keith Bosley, and Michael Branch Finnish Literature Society 607 pages This is a book I spent a hundred dollars on, back in the days when I did not have a hundred dollars. What happened was, I found it in a used bookstore in Chicago, one where you have to go down four steps, then four more—and watch your head. There, in a dusty corner, I found myself blowing cat fluff off the top of a handsome copy of Finnish Folk Poetry: Epic (1977)—which doesn't actually have a colon on the cover, so it looked like the title was Finnish Folk Poetry Epic. I opened to a random page, and read this complete poem: Elk and Snake An elk ran from Hiisi's landkicked a cowberry on the heathit gnawed a twig as it randrank a lake when it thirsted.It ran into a new houseinto a splendid chamber:it saw a snake drinking beera worm taking refreshment.It struck the snake on the ribsthe worm under the liver:the snake wept over its ribsthe poor worm for its liver. [End Page 90] Who would be the snake's milkerthe looser of the worm's flood?Margaret's mother was such:she would be the snake's milker. The snake gave brown milk the worm a white floodinto the striped milking-pail.The milk fell upon the ground: there brown trees sprang up brown trees and blue landsyellow boughs of juniper silver fir-tree tops. A#1 Martian poetry. Martian stuff, Martian rhythms. Gotta have. But then I checked the price, and said, "Well, obviously no." So I shut the thing, put it back, went home, came back next day, paid. On the train headed back to the apartment, I located and reread the above poem, plus exactly one more item. And there the matter rested for fifteen years. Reason: the book is six hundred pages. The introduction by itself looked like it would require a couple hours' work. The kind of thing you only read on two pots of coffee. Now, most people who come round to this book do so because they're ready to take their Kalevala game to the next level. Basically, the poems here are the raw materials from which the compiler of the Kalevala, Elias Lönnrot, worked. This means reading Finnish Folk Poetry: Epic straight through is like marching yourself through the five volumes of English and Scottish ballads that Francis James Child produced in the 1880s and 1890s. Lots of the poems are given in three or four versions. There are lines and passages that recur over and over. Pleasing!—if you're up for it. But work. My entrance ramp was different. I've been brooding over Finnish grammar, in particular its "exotic" case-inflection system, since the mid-1990s. I found an excellent book in the stacks of the University of Arizona library: Case and Other Functional Categories in Finnish Syntax. I must have read the ten-page introductory chapter twenty times, because it contains an ice-cold, luminescent exposition of the sixteen (or eighteen, depending on who's counting) grammatical cases into which every Finnish noun must be cast. [End Page 91] When I was taking Russian (with its six grammatical cases), I had hypothesized that something like the Finnish system might exist somewhere. I was thinking it would be found in Papua New Guinea. Maybe you don't know what I'm talking about. Never mind the fancy grammar language; the concept is easy. You know how there's "I" and there's "me." Those two words mean exactly the same thing: this guy. But you can't use them interchangeably. "I" is when it's the subject of the verb; "me" is when it's not. Piece of cake. But what if I own something. You don't say that laptop is I's. You say...

The relation of forward head posture with back muscle endurance in primary school children: a cross-sectional study

BackgroundThe goal of this study was to look at the correlation between forwarding head posture and back muscle endurance in 288 primary school healthy active children aged 7–10 years old in public schools in Sheblanga, Benha, Qalubyia governorate (170 boys and 118 girls).MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted on elementary school children to see whether there was a link between forwarding head posture and back muscle endurance. The photogrammetry technique of craniovertebral angle (CVA) was employed to quantify forward head position, and the Biering Sorensen test was utilized to evaluate isometric back muscle endurance.ResultsThe distribution of head posture in the study group revealed 132 (46%) children with advancing head posture and 156 (54%) children with normal posture. In the study group, the connection between CVA and trunk extensor endurance was moderately significant (r = 0.4, p = 0.0001). The trunk extensor endurance of children with advancing heads was significantly lower than that of children with normal postures (p = 0.0001).ConclusionsThere is a link between forwarding head posture (FHP) and back muscle endurance.

The Association Between Upper Disorders and Psychological Well-Being and its Implication in Text Neck Syndrome: A Systematic Review.

Non-specific/chronic musculoskeletal disorder in neck, head or low back (that we called Upper Disorders; UD) are widely common health problem in high-income, urban, and industrialized countries, especially for sedentary people who use electronic devices. This systematic review aims to analyse the association between UD and psychological disease. The database searches were conducted in 8 different databases, using relevant keywords. According to PRISMA Statements, full-text peer-reviewed articles in English which analysed the association between UD and indicators of psychological disease (i.e., mood disturbance, anxiety, depression, stress, social support, and alexithymia) in non-clinical sample were included. Of 8798 abstracts and titles, 10 full-text papers were included. The overall results showed a strong association between UD and mood disturbance, anxiety, depression, stress, alexithymia, and low social support. Thus, high levels of UD were associated with high levels of psychological disease. The results supported the assessment of physical and psychological symptoms in a holistic perspective. Their implications in terms of holistic care and text neck syndrome were discussed.

The Back of Her Head: The Fashionable Wartime Ruins of Cecil Beaton

Cecil Beaton's 1941 photograph Fashion is indestructible, published by British Vogue, depicts a model in a couture suit looking at Blitz ruins. The image claims fashion as timeless, contrasting it with ruins, which in their destruction hold out a promise for future rebuilding, time manifesting itself in the rubble of bombsites and the fabric of clothing. By reading the photograph as a historical document, we confront photography's complex relationship with time and the ambiguous boundaries between past, present, and future which defined the experience of the Home Front.

Collaboration Key to Meeting Demand for Mental Health Services

Collaboration Key to Meeting Demand for Mental Health Services

Robot guides reveal A+ tutor-ant technique

A good teacher can make all the difference: inspiring, educating and changing lives. For tiny rock ants (Temnothorax albipennis) that live in colonies of about 100 workers, good teachers can be essential for the survival of the community. When a homeless colony relocates, scouts scurry about in search of the next residence. However, instead of laying down a pheromone trail for other members of the colony to follow to their new home, the scouts indulge in a spot of one-on-one tuition, known as a tandem run, guiding individual novices and pausing repeatedly to allow their acolytes to gain their bearings and learn the route. ‘[It] probably reduces the risk that individuals become lost’, says Nigel Franks from the University of Bristol, UK. But he was curious to understand what makes a good ant tutor; ‘what elements are necessary and sufficient for successful teaching’, he says. However, as they couldn't ask the tiny ant instructors to reveal their secrets, Franks and colleagues from the University of Bristol decided to find out how well novice ants learned when guided by a robot instructor. Alan Worley programmed a gantry above an ant arena to move back and forth with a small sliding robot attached to it, so that Jacob Podesta and Edward Jarvis could direct the robot to move at different speeds along either straight or wavy routes. Next, the researchers placed a rock ant nest in the arena and removed the scent glands from a worker ant, attaching them to the robot to make it smell like an ant teacher as it trained novices. Then the team waited for an intrepid pioneer to emerge from the nest before setting the robot off to guide the novice to a new home 35 cm away, allowing the robot to slow and pause when its apprentice stopped to survey its surroundings. But the true test came when the researchers tracked the student's return trip as it headed back to recruit other members of the nest to follow. How well had the naïve ant explorers learned from their wise robot instructor?Using statistics, Ana Sendova-Franks revealed that the ants that had been directed by the roboguide were more than twice as likely to make it back to their original nest as novices that the researchers had carried to the new location. And when the team compared the success of novice ants that had followed a straight path and those whose robot had meandered, both sets of ants were equally successful at relocating their original nest; the shape of the route made little difference. In fact, the returning ants that had been trained by a wandering teacher tended to take more direct return routes. ‘The sinusoidal paths may constitute longer lessons and thus may give followers more time to learn their surroundings', says Franks, adding ‘It is likely that tandem followers learn both local and more distant landmarks, which could be anything from the walls of the arena to windows in the laboratory’.And when the team released additional ants into the arena after the apprentice and its robot teacher had embarked, the trailing ants followed the wavy trainees’ more circuitous outbound routes. The apprentice ants were leaving behind pheromone trails for the trailer ants to follow. Franks explains that teacher ants usually deposit a pheromone trail when guiding novices, but it appears that apprentices can also leave such trails; ‘They may serve as safety lines to help ensure that individuals do not become lost’. And he is keen to find out whether trainee ants can, in turn, influence their robot tutor.

Quantification of the Effects of Electrical and CO2 Stunning on Selected Quality Attributes of Fresh Pork: A Meta-Analysis.

Simple SummaryStunning is an important and statutory pre-slaughter process that aims to induce a state of unconsciousness and insensibility to pain just before sticking and bleeding out. In Europe, two main stunning methods that are applied at pig slaughter are electrical (ES) and gas stunning with high-concentration carbon dioxide (CO2). Stunning is not only crucial in terms of the welfare of pigs at slaughter, but it may also have effects on meat quality. Various studies have compared these two methods with respect to meat-quality traits. In several studies, stunning with CO2 has been shown to improve meat quality in comparison with ES; however, other research indicated that ES enhanced the meat quality as opposed to CO2 or had no significant effect. The current study analysed the combined results of independent research and experiments to achieve quantitative evidence of the effects of two stunning methods, electrical and gas with a high concentration of carbon dioxide, on selected quality attributes of fresh pork. The results of the meta-analysis revealed that relative to CO2 stunning, overall, ES pigs had a lower pH1, higher drip loss (DL) and lightness (L*). However, the greater alterations in these traits were achieved with the application of the head-to-back (HB) electrical-stunning method and conventional chilling (Conv.) of the carcasses. The results of the meta-analysis provide evidence that differences between these two stunning methods in DL and L* may be diminished by the application of the head-only (HO) or head-to-body (HBO) method, followed by the fast chilling of the carcasses.Stunning is a statutory pre-slaughter process that may affect the quality of pork. The objective of this study was quantification of the effects of stunning (ES vs. CO2 stunning) on selected quality attributes of pork, using a meta-analytical approach. Data from 18 publications with 46 individual experiments were combined using a random-effect model to estimate the effect size of stunning on the initial and ultimate pH (pH1, pHu); drip loss (DL); colour (lightness—L*, redness—a*, yellowness—b*); and tenderness (expressed as Warner–Bratzler shear force, WBSF) of pork. In overall, loins from ES showed significantly lower pH1 (by 0.08 units); greater DL (by 0.68 p.p.); higher L* (by 1.29 units); and a* (by 0.80 units) as they compared to those from CO2 stunning. In subgroups, a greater-than-overall negative change in pH1, pHu, DL, L* and a* was detected with the application of the head-to-back (HB) stunning method. Additionally, alterations in DL and L* may be magnified with the application of conventional chilling (Conv.) to ES pigs. There was no effect of stunning on WBSF but, due to a low number of research in the database, the reliability of these results may be misleading. These results provide evidence that the differences between these two stunning methods in DL and L* may be diminished by the application of the head-only (HO) or head-to-body (HBO) method, followed by the fast chilling of carcasses.

The Private Investigator

The Private Investigator

An Exact Algorithm for the Linear Tape Scheduling Problem

Magnetic tapes are often considered as an outdated storage technology, yet they are still used to store huge amounts of data. Their main interests are a large capacity and a low price per gigabyte, which come at the cost of a much larger file access time than on disks. With tapes, finding the right ordering of multiple file accesses is thus key to performance. Moving the reading head back and forth along a kilometer long tape has a non-negligible cost and unnecessary movements thus have to be avoided. However, the optimization of tape request ordering has rarely been studied in the scheduling literature, much less than I/O scheduling on disks. For instance, minimizing the average service time for several read requests on a linear tape remains an open question. Therefore, in this paper, we aim at improving the quality of service experienced by users of tape storage systems, and not only the peak performance of such systems. To this end, we propose a reasonable polynomial-time exact algorithm while this problem and simpler variants have been conjectured NP-hard. We also refine the proposed model by considering U-turn penalty costs accounting for inherent mechanical accelerations. Then, we propose a low-cost variant of our optimal algorithm by restricting the solution space, yet still yielding an accurate suboptimal solution. Finally, we compare our algorithms to existing solutions from the literature on logs of the mass storage management system of a major datacenter. This allows us to assess the quality of previous solutions and the improvement achieved by our low-cost algorithm. Aiming for reproducibility, we make available the complete implementation of the algorithms used in our evaluation, alongside the dataset of tape requests that is, to the best of our knowledge, the first of its kind to be publicly released.

The role of toothbrush in the transmission of corona- and influenza viruses — results of an in vitro study

ObjectivesThe aim of this in vitro study was to investigate viruses’ stabilities on manual toothbrushes using feline coronavirus (FeCoV) as representative of coronaviruses and an Avian influenza A virus H1N1 for influenza viruses.Material and methodsTwo viruses, FeCoV (Strain Munich; titer 107.5 TCID50/ml) and H1N1 (RE 230/90; titer 106.5 TCID50/ml), were used in this study. Manual toothbrushes were disassembled into bristles, bristle fixation, and back of the toothbrush head, contaminated with the viruses and air-dried for 24 h. In a second experiment, whole toothbrush heads were contaminated, rinsed with water (5 ml for 15 s) and then air-dried.ResultsFor FeCoV, immediately after contamination, the following average titers were recovered: fixation: 106.41, back of head: 106.81 and bristles: 106.63 TCID50/ml. Following air-drying of 12 (fixation) and 24 h, titers of ≤ 102.5, 103.75, and 102.72 TCID50/ml were found in the respective groups, with a detection limit of 102.5 TCID50/ml. For H1N1, immediately after contamination, the following average titers could be recovered: fixation: 105.53, back of head: 105.97 and bristles: 105.75 TCID50/ml. Following air-drying of 8 (fixation) and 24 h, titers were ≤ 102.5, 103.63, and 103.53 TCID50/ml in the respective group, again with 102.5 TCID50/ml being the detection limit. In case of water rinse, no infectious virus could be recovered after 12 h.ConclusionViral load of both viruses is reduced by air-drying, especially following water rinsing.Clinical relevanceThe toothbrush itself plays an insignificant role in the self-transmission of coronavirus and influenza virus.

Inclusion of a latissimus dorsi segment in an extended lower trapezius musculocutaneous flap facilitates complex defect reconstruction

The pedicled lower trapezius musculocutaneous flap (LTMF) can extend far beyond the lateral border of the trapezius muscle, with a reliable blood supply. However, the distal part of the extended LTMF lacks a muscular component, limiting its usage in complex defect reconstruction, which often requires obliteration of dead space and coverage of vital structures. To overcome this limitation, we modified the LTMF by adding a segment of latissimus dorsi muscle (LDM). Between 2014 and 2021, the modified extended LTMF was used to reconstruct complex defects in the head, neck, shoulder, and contralateral chest wall and back in 19 patients. By preserving the interconnections between the branches of the posterior intercostal arteries, we were able to include various amounts of LDM within the extended LTMF. The LDM component was used to obliterate dead space and repair wounds involving cerebrospinal fluid leakage, infection, radioactive osteomyelitis, exposed carotid artery, lung, and implant materials. The average flap size was 30.7cm × 10.9cm (range: 25 × 8 cm-40 × 14cm). The average size of the LDM was 113.9 cm2 (range: 27.7-216.6 cm2). Partial flap necrosis occurred in two patients and the secondary defects were reconstructed using a local flap. The remaining 17 flaps survived completely. The LTMF carrying a segment of the LDM could be considered for patients undergoing reconstruction of complex defects in the head, neck, shoulder, and contralateral chest wall and back and for patients who are ineligible for free flap reconstruction.