Piece Of Cake Research Articles

American π: Piece of Cake?

Textbooks tell you that pricing an American option in the context of the binomial model is a lot easier than it sounds. Is it really simple and obvious? Yes… and no.

بررسی ویژگیهای فیزیکوشیمیایی کیک اسفنجی فاقد گلوتن

سلیاک رایج‌ترین بیماری است که در اثر مصرف گلوتن بروز می‌کند و تنها راه درمان آن استفاده از یک رژیم غذایی فاقد گلوتن در تمام طول عمر بیمار است. هدف از این پژوهش، تولید کیک اسفنجی بدون گلوتن به کمک صمغ گوار و آنزیم ترانس گلوتامیناز میکروبی (MTG) و بررسی تاثیر آن‌ها بر خصوصیات فیزیکوشیمیایی کیک تهیه شده از مخلوط آردی بدون گلوتن (0% ارزن- 100% برنج، 50% ارزن- 50% برنج و 100% ارزن- 0% برنج) بود. بدین منظور صمغ گوار در دو سطح 1و 2% و آنزیم MTG در سطوح 25/0 و 5/0% به فرمولاسیون اضافه شدند. به‌منظور افزایش میزان اسیدآمینه لایزین به‌عنوان سوبسترای آنزیم، ایزوله پروتئینی سویا (SPI) به میزان 2% به نمونه‌های حاوی MTG افزوده شد. نتایج نشان داد که افزودن گوار و MTG سبب کاهش حجم مخصوص کیک می‌شوند. اختلاط دو نوع آرد برنج و ارزن تأثیر معنی‌داری بر میزان رطوبت نمونه‌های تولیدی داشت. افزودن آنزیم و صمغ، افزایش معنی‌داری در میزان رطوبت کیک نشان داد. نتایج نشان داد که نمونه حاوی 100 درصد آرد برنج نسبت به دو نمونه دیگر دارای تخلخل کمتری می‌باشد. همچنین با افزایش سطح آنزیم در فرمولاسیون، افزایش معنی‌داری در میزان تخلخل مشاهده شد. در حالی که افزایش صمغ، اختلاف معنی‌داری در میزان تخلخل نمونه‌های تولیدی ایجاد ننمود. در مرحله دوم پژوهش، مقایسه‌ای بین بهترین نمونه تولیدی در مرحله اول با نمونه شاهد حاوی 100% آرد گندم و نمونه بدون گلوتن که فاقد آنزیم ترانس گلوتامیناز میکروبی و صمغ گوار بود، انجام گرفت. نتایج مرحله دوم به وضوح، برابری بهترین نمونه مرحله اول با نمونه حاوی 100 % آرد گندم را نشان داد و در میزان هر یک از پارامترهای ارزیابی شده (رطوبت، حجم مخصوص، تخلخل) این دو نمونه اختلاف معنی‌داری در سطح 5 درصد مشاهده نگردید.

Strategic Management Key to Success for Kosovo Companies - Expansion in International European Market

A recent signed Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA), an platform that promotes harmonious economic relations and gradually development of a free trading areas between EU and Kosovo, encouraged many companies from this country to start thinking big for international business expansion in Europe. Access in Europe via free trade, is a mine of gold opportunity since it allows reaching a large number of customers in a vast and broad market. Getting and even more competing with European and other international companies for a slight market share, obviously it is a hard "piece of cake". Path to be paved attaining business objectives could be more easily headed applying an appropriate management strategy. Strategic thinking, strategic planning, strategic marketing, and international managerial strategy are pillars that could support and craft any company have a proper approach and successive performance into European market environment.

Strategic Management Key to Success for Kosovo Companies - Expansion in International European Market

A recent signed Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA), an platform that promotes harmonious economic relations and gradually development of a free trading areas between EU and Kosovo, encouraged many companies from this country to start thinking big for international business expansion in Europe. Access in Europe via free trade, is a mine of gold opportunity since it allows reaching a large number of customers in a vast and broad market. Getting and even more competing with European and other international companies for a slight market share, obviously it is a hard "piece of cake". Path to be paved attaining business objectives could be more easily headed applying an appropriate management strategy. Strategic thinking, strategic planning, strategic marketing, and international managerial strategy are pillars that could support and craft any company have a proper approach and successive performance into European market environment.

Teachers's Toolkit: Science Can Be a Piece of Cake!

Teachers's Toolkit: Science Can Be a Piece of Cake!

‘For the cake was so pretty’: Tactile Interventions in Taste; or, Having One’s Cake and Eating It in <i>The Mill on the Floss</i>

The feeling of hunger operates under a premise of sensory absence, creating a yearning for taste and for touch. Yet it becomes even more pronounced when a degree of touch is permitted, but taste is denied. In such moments, satiation is brought painfully near, intensifying the emptiness of the stomach. This understanding of physical hunger can be extended to aesthetic desire, reflecting social, intellectual, and sexual longing. Early in The Mill on the Floss (1860), George Eliot constructs a scene in which the three children descending from the Dodsons — Tom and Maggie Tulliver and Lucy Deane — are each given a piece of cake, but are expected to wait to eat it. While holding the cake in their hands, they are not permitted to touch it with their tongues until they are given plates, representing the need for hunger and desire to be ordered by moral respectability. This article examines the ways in which each child’s emotive response to this proximity and denial reveals their aesthetic response to their world. I argue that their capacity to hold onto their cake, as well as to eat it, foreshadows their capacity to negotiate their position within their family and the wider community. The act of eating brings to the fore the tactile quality of tasting, and singularly draws together taste and touch in satisfying hunger and desire. Lucy’s patience, predicated on the aesthetic beauty of the cake, suggests her acceptance of emptiness, while Tom’s impatience and covert consumption of his cake conveys his lack of aesthetic appreciation in favour of capitalist agendas. Maggie’s feelings, however, are the most complex. She drops her cake on the floor, having become ‘fascinated’ by her uncle’s printed image of Ulysses and Nausicaa. As Nausicaa is denied love in Homer’s Odyssey, Maggie will be denied the expression of sexual love. In a moment of aesthetic rapture, the fall of the cake represents Maggie’s own fall with Stephen. The pathos of Maggie’s fall — in that her ultimate self-denial ironically causes her to suffer even more profoundly the social pain of fallenness — is figured most powerfully in her childhood humiliation and unsatisfied hunger.

TEACHING MARITIME ENGLISH WITH DOODLES

When it comes to acquiring new, specialized vocabulary like the lexis of Maritime English, it is well-nigh impossible to assert that this is a piece of cake. As a general rule, students of Maritime English get easily bored when being taught new words belonging to the maritime environment. Thus, any method which is liable to get them more motivated and appealed to the act of learning useful words is more than appropriate. Consequently, doodling comes in very handy as a learning tool given the fact that anybody makes use of it as a gesture of visual thinking. The present paper aims at presenting some very useful internet-based tools which students of Maritime English may employ in order to bring the verbal classroom to the visual classroom enhancing thereby their chance of becoming proficient in Maritime English.

Psychosocial Boundaries Leading Towards Women Low Economic Participation

Females are less in numbers when it comes to professional life, females are far behind in economic independence; male gender is the one which is ruling in labour market. The ratio of working women is very low as compared to men; especially in developing nations like Pakistan, this ratio is very depressed due to many social constraints. Women are surrounded by religious, cultural and traditional pressures and gate ways which they need to pass through. All hindrances make it difficult for women to get their piece of cake without any snag. To confirm these facts, middle class women aged 20 to 50 years were interviewed. Sadaf Stress Scale (SSS) was utilized to evaluate the level of emotional and mental stress in both groups. Respondents were selected using purposive sampling. Majority women in both groups expressed marriage and children’s socialization as a main hurdle in their professionalism; majority believed that it was not women’s responsibility to earn. Majority unmarried working females were ready to quit their jobs if their financial problems are solved in future. The proportion of women with high level stress was found in women of non-working group, who were of opinion that careers would have been good for them but would disturb their family lives. Level of stress was low in women whose religious level was high and they were against the concept of women empowerment. Rigid and orthodox interpretation of religious and society’s cultural values were found one of the important factors that held back women from economic participation.

The Experience of Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Hysterectomy for Women Treated for Early-Stage Endometrial Cancer: A Qualitative Study.

An increasing number of women are offered robotic-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy as treatment for early-stage endometrial cancer in the developed world. The aim of this study was to explore how women diagnosed with early-stage endometrial cancer experienced robotic-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy. Semistructured interviews were carried out with 12 women, and interview data were analyzed by qualitative content analysis. Four overarching themes emerged: "surgery was a piece of cake," "recovering physically after surgery," "going from being off guard to being on guard," and "preparing oneself by seeking information." The women had confidence in the robotic technique and experienced fast recovery after robotic-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy; however, they had uncertainties and unanswered questions concerning the postoperative course. Shortly after discharge, the women did not consider themselves surviving cancer patients but as cured. The women searched for information from various sources, for example, the Internet and the online patient chart, to prepare for surgery and to come to terms with the diagnosis. Although the women had confidence in the robotic technique and recovered quickly physically, they lacked information about what went on in the operation theatre and about their new anatomy. Patient education about the normal postoperative course in regard to vaginal bleeding, bowel function, and level of physical activity is needed. Individualized information about anatomical changes after surgery is warranted, preferably using anatomical drawings. Potentially, the women could benefit from attending a nursing clinic during the first postoperative months.

GUT: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ Enders Giulia GUT: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ 288pp £14.99 Scribe Publications 9781922247964 1922247960

THE AUTHOR begins with an unusual opening gambit that draws the reader in, and then continues with a light-hearted view of the journey of food, with a piece of cake and its adventures provided as an example.

The domain specificity of intertemporal choice in pinyon jays.

When choosing between a piece of cake now versus a slimmer waistline in the future, many of us have difficulty with self-control. Food-caching species, however, regularly hide food for later recovery, sometimes waiting months before retrieving their caches. It remains unclear whether these long-term choices generalize outside of the caching domain. We hypothesized that the ability to save for the future is a general tendency that cuts across different situations. To test this hypothesis, we measured and experimentally manipulated caching to evaluate its relationship with operant measures of self-control in pinyon jays (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus). We found no correlation between caching and self-control at the individual level, and experimentally increasing caching did not influence self-control. The self-control required for caching food, therefore, does not carry over to other foraging tasks, suggesting that it is domain specific in pinyon jays.

Peritoneal Tuberculosis: A Piece of Cake in the Immunocompetent Host

Peritoneal Tuberculosis: A Piece of Cake in the Immunocompetent Host

The gastrointestinal system: a piece of cake

physiology teaching often comprises of a large percentage of didactic lectures. A 1-h didactic lecture is often much longer than the average attention span of most students ([2][1]). It is preferable to use different methods to decrease the possible monotony of the didactic lecture ([1][2]). This is

Fatal oral heroin overdose. A case report

Overdose by heroin injection is well-known but overdose by swallowing is poorly described. A case of lethal overdose by heroin ingestion is presented. A 25-year-old man prisoner was found hanged in his retention unit, he occupied alone, with feet based on the floor. He was seen alive 90 minutes before death. An autopsy was performed four days later and initially, concluded by mechanical asphixya death, without fight or injection marks. Toxicology analysis were realized on peripheral blood, bile and gastrointestinal contents and results are described. Alcohol dosage was realized by GC-FID on all samples. Blood and gastric liquid screening was realized by GC-MS and LC-MS/MS, after liquid/liquid extraction in acidic and basic conditions. Specific methods by GC-MS or LC-MS/MS were done for cannabinoids, amphetamines, cocaine and opiates determination. Other identified substances were quantified by LC-MS/MS or immunoassay. Alcohol was not found in any sample. Concerning drugs of abuse, only opiates were detected in blood and liquid gastric. Morphine, 6-MAM and codeine were measured in concentration of 996 μg/L, 366 μg/L and 84 μg/L in peripheral blood and 45 μg/g, 152 μg/g and 25 μg/g in liquid gastric respectively. Heroin was also detected at 25 μg/g in liquid gastric in association with papaverine and noscapine (opium alkaloids). Some prescribed drugs as tramadol and paracetamol were also identified at 472 μg/L and 42 mg/L in blood. The presence of heroin intact in liquid gastric, without injection marks on the body, suggest oral absorption. After the present first toxicologic results, the food found in the unit was analyzed by the Forensic Police National Institute (INPS) and heroin was detected in a piece of cake, confirming the route of administration. The prisoner was not known to consume heroin. The presence of 6-MAM in blood after oral administration of heroin suggests a massive and recent absorption before the death, probably greater than 1 gram [1]. Indeed, several publications showed that after an ingested dose lower than 1 gram, neither heroin nor 6-MAM could be detected in blood due to a very high activity of deacetylation systems in either the gut or the liver or both [1]. Blood concentrations of morphine and 6-MAM measured were potentially lethal, in particular for a naive subject, by inducing a respiratory depression. However, it was not possible to conclude if the death was related to the heroin overdose or to the hanging, probably a mixed process.

Robotic Pyeloplasty and Synchronous Removal of Many Kidney Stones: A Piece of Cake with Robotic Surgery

Ureteropelvic junction obstruction is a common clinical entity in urological practice. The obstruction can result from intrinsic or extrinsic factors. The clinical course is variable due to degree of obstruction. Diagnose is usually made by contrast-enhanced excretory imaging modalities and nuclear scan. Open surgical, laparoscopic and robotic assisted laparoscopic approaches are the available surgical treatment options. In this case report, we present a congenital ureteropelvic junction obstruction treated with robotic assisted transperitoneal pyeloplasty with many intracalyceal stones surprisingly noticed during surgery and successfully treated in the same session.

A Piece of Cake by LeUyen Pham (review)

Reviewed by: A Piece of Cake by LeUyen Pham Hope Morrison Pham, LeUyen A Piece of Cake; written and illus. by LeUyen Pham. Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins, 2014 40p ISBN 978-0-06-199264-3 $16.99 R 5-8 yrs It’s Little Bird’s birthday, and Mouse has baked her a cake. En route to deliver the tasty treat, he runs into an assortment of friends, each of whom offer items in trade for a slice, until Mouse arrives on Little Bird’s doorstep without any cake at all. Wise Little Bird, however, knows the traded items—a cork, a wire, a net, and a flyswatter—will be useful, and in fact the pair trades the items back to the same series of friends for the necessary ingredients to make a brand-new birthday cake. Pham’s tale engages in delightful absurdity, with creativity and subverted expectations in the animal’s barters (when the Bear complains, “These bees won’t leave me alone! If only I had something to swat them away,” Mouse and Little Bird bypass the flyswatter and instead suggest a cork “to close up the hole of the hive”). The narrative alternates between blocks of text and speech bubbles, and the many characters make the story well suited for a readers theater adaptation as well as a readaloud. Pham’s digitally colored pencil illustrations are retro flavored in style and layout; Mouse and Little Bird, in particular, with their pupils nearly as large as their eyeballs, are reminiscent of 1950s illustrative work, while the palette and gently curved spot art will be familiar to Golden Book fans. This will work remarkably well in a storytime setting, and there are plenty of opportunities for curricular tie-ins (particularly prediction and inference) for a school setting. Copyright © 2014 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

VE26: Robotic pyeloplasty and synchronous removal of many kidney stones: A piece of cake with robotic surgery

Ureteropelvic junction obstruction is a common clinical entity in urological practice. The obstruction can result from intrinsic or extrinsic factors. The clinical course is variable due to degree of obstruction. Diagnose is usually made by contrast-enhanced excretory imaging modalities and nuclear scan. Open surgical, laparoscopic and robotic assisted laparoscopic approaches are the available surgical treatment options. In this case report, we present a congenital ureteropelvic junction obstruction treated with robotic assisted transperitoneal pyeloplasty with many intracalyceal stones surprisingly noticed during surgery and successfully treated in the same session.

A piece of cake: the ground-state energies in γ i -deformed N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 SYM theory at leading wrapping order

In the non-supersymmetric gamma_i-deformed N=4 SYM theory, the scaling dimensions of the operators tr[Z^L] composed of L scalar fields Z receive finite-size wrapping and prewrapping corrections in the 't Hooft limit. In this paper, we calculate these scaling dimensions to leading wrapping order directly from Feynman diagrams. For L>=3, the result is proportional to the maximally transcendental `cake' integral. It matches with an earlier result obtained from the integrability-based Luescher corrections, TBA and Y-system equations. At L=2, where the integrability-based equations yield infinity, we find a finite rational result. This result is renormalization-scheme dependent due to the non-vanishing beta-function of an induced quartic scalar double-trace coupling, on which we have reported earlier. This explicitly shows that conformal invariance is broken - even in the 't Hooft limit.

To use a recipe – not a piece of cake. Students with mild intellectual disabilities’ use of recipes in home economics

AbstractRecipes are not only part of today's cooking culture, they are also part of the Swedish syllabus of home economics. The aim of this study was to investigate what kinds of difficulties students with mild intellectual disabilities have using recipes during cooking lessons in home economics. We conducted an ethnographically inspired approach, with a total of 44 h of accompanying observations. Three compulsory schools for students with intellectual disabilities were enrolled in the study, and 37 students and three teachers were included. The socio‐cultural theory of learning has been used as a theoretical framework. The findings reveal both that recipes are central artefacts during the cooking lessons and that the students have various difficulties using the recipes. The difficulties vary, and they concern both how the recipes are designed and the purport of the recipes. Difficulties in relation to the design included, for example, the separation of ingredients and instructions in the text and the large amount of information given in both the whole and the parts of the recipes. The difficulties in relation to the purport – that is, the meaning or sense of the recipe – were the ingredients, the kitchen utensils and the knowledge of how to perform a specific task. These difficulties can be considered special in relation to the use of the recipes. We suggest the concept of ‘recipe literacy’ to capture the complex knowledge of using recipes.

An interview with: Jorge J. Rodriguez, MD, PhD; Unit Chief, Mental Health and Substance Use; Pan American Health Organization.

An interview with: Jorge J. Rodriguez, MD, PhD; Unit Chief, Mental Health and Substance Use; Pan American Health Organization.