Pot Pourri Research Articles

DRYING TECHNIQUES OF SOME SELECTED ORNAMENTAL FLOWERS-A REVIEWS

Drying of flowers is the method of maintenance of flowers or removing water and moisture. Dehydration is most important for getting dry flowers. There are Many different types of methods use for removing moisture contain from flowers are air drying, embedded (sand, borax, silica gel, and other materials) press drying, freeze drying, microwave oven drying, hot air oven drying, Glycerin drying, freeze drying. Chrysanthemum is one of the most widely cultivated garden flowers and ranks popularity. The Chrysanthemum flower has fully double flowers with flat petals and the central disc is generally absent. Many of the commonly grown marigolds are cultivars of African and French marigolds. Flower petals of African marigold are the best source of carotene for coloring foodstuffs. From the dried flowers varied manufacture are made and use like petal embedded handmade paper, press dried flower products, candle making, pot pourri, floral jewelry etc. This dried plants and flowers materials also used in industry. For chrysanthemum embedded drying is the best in which flower shape, size, structure, colour are maintained and for marigold microwave and air drying techniques are best in size, colour, shape, colour are maintained. KEYWORDS: Drying Techniques, Chrysanthemum, marigold, embedded, microwave

Highlights of this edition

This month's edition is a veritable pot pourri of content and contributors covering topics as diverse as nephrogenic diabetes insipidus to the management of obstetric complications on deployment and from Australia to Belgium. I would take this opportunity to highlight the newest type of submission

Licensed for Embracement: Insouciance and Exigency in John Betjeman's Love Poems

Much of John Betjeman's popular reputation as a writer derives from love poems, such as 'A Subaltern's Love Song' and 'Pot Pourri from a Surrey Garden', that appear to be characterised by an insouciant, sometimes facetious attitude towards matters of the heart. This essay argues that a poet who academia has often caricatured as a flippant purveyor of light verse is better seen as one who deliberately makes light of disruptive sexual urges and fears that consistently troubled him, seeking an aesthetic means to exert a degree of control over unsettling aspects of his character that threatened to overwhelm him.

1206 ABDOMINOPLASTY IN PRUNE BELLY SYNDROME, MODIFICATIONS IN TECHNIQUE TO ADDRESS THE VARIABLE PATTERNS OF ABDOMINAL WALL WEAKNESS

You have accessJournal of UrologyPediatrics: Reconstructive Surgery - Diversion, Endourology & Transplantation, Trauma1 Apr 20121206 ABDOMINOPLASTY IN PRUNE BELLY SYNDROME, MODIFICATIONS IN TECHNIQUE TO ADDRESS THE VARIABLE PATTERNS OF ABDOMINAL WALL WEAKNESS Edwin Smith, Arun Srinivasan, Andrew Kirsch, Hal Scherz, and Bruce Broecker Edwin SmithEdwin Smith Atlanta, GA More articles by this author , Arun SrinivasanArun Srinivasan Atlanta, GA More articles by this author , Andrew KirschAndrew Kirsch Atlanta, GA More articles by this author , Hal ScherzHal Scherz Atlanta, GA More articles by this author , and Bruce BroeckerBruce Broecker Atlanta, GA More articles by this author View All Author Informationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.juro.2012.02.1473AboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints ShareFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Abdominoplasty is an important component of the management of children with prune-belly syndrome. Surgical tailoring of the abdominal wall results not only in an improved cosmetic appearance, but may also yield benefits of improved pulmonary, bowel and bladder function. While some features of the abdominal defect that are common to all patients, each patient possesses unique features that require consideration in surgical planning. We propose to our present our experience with this rare surgery and lessons we have learned. METHODS Patient information of children with prune-belly syndrome who underwent abdominoplasty in our institution between years 2001 to 2011 were collected. Indications for intervention, procedural details including incisions, adjunct procedures done and technique for dealing with the umbilicus were documented. Length of operative time, blood loss, complications and length of hospital stay were also collected. RESULTS 11 patients with prune-belly syndrome, ages 3 to 7 years of age underwent abdominoplasty using either the Ehrlich/Monfort techniques. In 9 patients, modifications in these techniques were applied to precisely address the pattern of abdominal wall laxity and properly position the umbilicus. These modifications included creation of a neoumbilicus, repositioning of the umbilicus using infraumbilical fascial tuck and differential tightening of the supraumbilical and infraumbilical components. In 1 patient, laparoscopy was used to assist repair. Abdominoplasty was performed concommittantly with other genitourinary procedures in 8 patients. Mean operative time is 251 minutes and mean hospital stay is 8 days. Immediate post operative outcome was satisfactory in all but one patient who had skin flap necrosis which improved in weeks. 2 children redeveloped supraumbilical abdominal reprotuberance and in 1 of them we felt this was due to progressive urinary tract dilation. After a median follow up of 5 years, 9 patients had stable satisfactory long term outcomes. CONCLUSIONS Abdominoplasty in prune-belly syndrome patients is not a single defined surgical procedure but rather a pot pourri of techniques that are modified to individual patient needs. Initial accurate assessment of morphological abnormalities and designing the intervention based on this assessment is the key to success. Infraumbilical Heinecke-Mikulicz technique of reconstruction is our favored method for repositioning umbilicus. Recurrent protuberance is a recognized complication and can occur years after repair. © 2012 by American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc.FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 187Issue 4SApril 2012Page: e488 Advertisement Copyright & Permissions© 2012 by American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc.MetricsAuthor Information Edwin Smith Atlanta, GA More articles by this author Arun Srinivasan Atlanta, GA More articles by this author Andrew Kirsch Atlanta, GA More articles by this author Hal Scherz Atlanta, GA More articles by this author Bruce Broecker Atlanta, GA More articles by this author Expand All Advertisement Advertisement PDF DownloadLoading ...

Los museos de frontera de la provincia de Buenos Aires: entre el gliptodonte y el indio poblador

During the 19th century the Argentinian province of Buenos Aires was a frontier ambit where the main society spread southward in waves, pushing out the indigenous populations and founding new cities. A part of the Indian groups remained on the «white» side of the porous frontier, in which many interactions and metissages took place. In the 20th century the old frontier cities established museums aimed at guarding the memory of the community. These museums are the American counterpart of European «colonial» museums. This article studies the relationship of those museums with the groups that populated the land, especially the «friendly Indians» who were integrated within the frontier as population advanced. The museums studied, most of which are community museums, have been classified in four categories: pot pourri museums, «culturalist» museums, «aestheticizing» museums, and «historicizing» museums.

Social Pot Pourri: Sharing Life with Others

Innovation is a major driving force in all earthly bio-entities, from the macro to the micro. That influence is transmitted by an immense variety of communicational modes, and may present an unlimited range of results. One expectable result is that the phenomenon conventionally indentified as SOCIETY must be redefined in recognition of its composition as an infinite assortment of networks involving an infinite range of participant entities.

Pot pourri ingestion in dogs

Veterinary RecordVolume 165, Issue 9 p. 271-271 Letter Pot pourri ingestion in dogs Nicola Bates VPIS, Nicola Bates VPIS Medical Toxicology Unit, London, SE14 5ERSearch for more papers by this author Nicola Bates VPIS, Nicola Bates VPIS Medical Toxicology Unit, London, SE14 5ERSearch for more papers by this author First published: 29 August 2009 https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.165.9.271Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume165, Issue9August 2009Pages 271-271 RelatedInformation

A potpourri of pediatric urology

Unfortunately I have been on the wrong end of the scalpel recently, so this pot pourri will have to be a little shorter than normal. Although being a patient is not to be recommended it does have some perks. After 15 years of marriage and 4 children I have finally managed to witness one of my children achieving a developmental milestone. I have also managed to learn the ages at which the rest of my children achieved their milestones so I can bluff my way out of any direct questioning from them in the future.

FOWLER, C. M. R., EBINGER, C. J. & HAWKESWORTH, C. J. (eds) 2002. The Early Earth: Physical, Chemical and Biological Development. Geological Society Special Publication no. 199. viii + 360 pp. London, Bath: Geological Society of London. Price £85.00, US $142.00; members' price £42.50, US $71.00; AAPG members' price £51.00, US $85.00 (hard covers). ISBN 1 86239 109 2

This book contains a collection of papers that consider various aspects of the Hadean, Archaean and Proterozoic Earth. The book arose from a discussion meeting in February 2000, sponsored by the Royal Astronomical Society and the Geological Society of London. It is the newest addition to a collection of periodically appearing books that attempt to present the latest views on the early history of the Earth. As stated in the preface to the book, ‘much of the character of the Archaean is still unknown’, and this book is a valuable contribution for two reasons: it’s the most recent book on the subject, and it includes papers which address the Earth’s biological and atmospheric development as well as its geological development. Having said that, the book also has two downsides: firstly, it necessarily consists of a pot pourri of papers, and secondly it is affected by the same affliction that affects all …

The Alcohol Report.: Edited by Martin Plant and Douglas Cameron. Free Association Books, London. 2000, 267pp., pound16.95. ISBN: 1-853435244.

The above volume attempts to provide balanced and informative reviews of some of the key topics likely to interest those with a serious concern about drinking patterns and levels of alcohol-related problems. As would be expected, such a book is bound to be a ‘pot pourri’. Firstly, however, its range of topics is indeed very wide and the quality of reviews of these topics very high. It is interesting that the vast majority of authors are not medically qualified, and running through at least some parts of the book is an ambivalence to the concept of the Alcohol Dependence Syndrome. For example, in the initial chapter, whereas Alcohol Dependence Syndrome is recognized as a diagnostic entity, this model is not really accepted. It is also stated that many individuals with alcohol problems deal with their drinking difficulties themselves. Presumably the thousands of individuals who flood to treatment agencies, as individual practitioners have experienced, are those who cannot do this. This dichotomy is …

Economics of Education à la Euro

This article provides a pot pourri of issues and themes related to education in Europe and examines how the 'economics of education' may contribute to understand and, it is to be hoped, solve a particular social problem that prima facia may appear to be in the education domain. The level of exposition is such as to be accessible to educationists, while remaining at the forefront of research mainly carried out by economists. In order to facilitate the exposition, a contrast is made between the strawperson called an educationist and someone else who also wears the economist's hat. The ultimate aim of the article is to underline the need for a multidisciplinary approach to the understanding of education problems in which the education economist is an indispensable member of the team. The article then goes on to try to define 'economics of education' as an enlargement of the issues that concern the educationist. This is followed by a brief history of the economics of education in Europe. Then, a series of issues in Europe, ranging from basic to tertiary education, is presented and attempts to insert an economic dimension to their consideration are made. This is followed by a list of themes on which, in my opinion, research is lagging behind in Europe in comparison to the US, thus providing a guide for future research. The last section draws the conclusions.

The Management of Quality and Its Control

Part One: The management of quality. The concept and the definition of quality. Total quality management. Part Two: The control of quality tools. The tools of quality management. Decision making under uncertainty. Inspection and acceptance sampling. Control charts. Robust design and experiments. Part Three: Application areas. Quality management, control and services. Quality management, suppliers and contractual agreements. Strategic issues and the economics of quality. The control of quality in a temporal setting. Technology and quality management. Pot pourri.

The Oxford dictionary of foreign words and phrases

This dictionary uncovers the origins of over 8000 foreign words and phrases which are in general circulation in late 20-century English, including words from a wide variety of different languages, e.g. Aboriginal, Afrikaans, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindustani, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish. Entries are browsable, but also comprehensive, with detailed information on each word or phrase, including any alternative spellings, the date of the word's introduction into English, its language of origin and original spelling (if different), its definition, cross-references to other relevant entries, and notes on usage and other points of interest. Quotations throughout illustrate the way in which words are used in today's English. Words discussed include: aborigine, a capella, bagel, bar mitzvah, batik, Beaujolais nouveau, bongo bonsai, brahman, fandango, fatwa, faux pas, fracas, futon, intifada, jojoba, nouvelle cuisine, and pot pourri.

Black Stockings and Pot Pourri: Gender Issues in Design and Technology

Product designers are an integral part of bringing technology to life and it is predominantly males as designers who ‘clothe’ technology in the designs which utilise it. Consequently products used by and identified with women are in fact designed by men. One of the guiding precepts of design as it is taught and practised, is that people buy particular artefacts in order to express and/or confirm their identity. It has been argued that the success of gendered designs in the late nineteenth century reflected the social construct of gender difference. I argue that this has remained unchallenged to date and that the gender stereotyping of products further stereotypes technology. The theoretical debates about gender and technology are rarely introduced to product design students because the predominantly male lecturers are reluctant to deal with the issues themselves.

Go ahead, make my reputation

BBC2 Heretic “Jacques Benveniste” 15 July; “Linus Pauling” 12 July; “Hans Eysenck” 26 July Heresy, for the BBC at least, comes with whispered medieval voices, burning books, and frequent allusions to the Pope and Galileo. Thereafter each programme descends into a pot pourri of various bright ideas - the triumph of style over content. This in itself may be significant - for each of these three “heretics” rejects scientific discourse when it suits him and courts publicity to his own ultimate detriment. Which is more important: the work or personal glory? We are in Faustian territory. In 30 minutes (it seems longer) there is only so much that can be examined; either an exposition of the ideas or a biopic. Unfortunately we got the posturing of each but the detail of neither. …

Book reviews

This book is essentially the proceedings of a conference held in June 1989 on the progress in quantitative coronary arteriography and related techniques. It consists of a pot pourri of topics. Part I, some 132 pages long, considers the problems and solutions in directly measuring coronary arteries and their stenoses. Part 4 considers the methods of measuring coronary flow reserve and their potential pitfalls.

COMPETITIVENESS IN NEW TECHNOLOGY SECTORS

The spectre of declining international competitiveness has haunted Britain since the latter half of the nineteenth century; but the need to improve the market performance of Britain's manufacturing industry in the light of the chronic decline in world market share, the rising penetration of manufactured imports in the domestic market, and a growing increase in the deficit on the balance of UK trade in manufactures, has been particularly stridently stated throughout the post‐war period. Numerous reports and academic studies have been generated that have tended to concentrate for the most part on the reasons for the poor economic performance. A pot pourri of explanations have been offered, ranging from an emphasis on traditional “empire” and hence captive markets, an inadequate educational system, and an over concentration of scarce R&D resources on defence sectors, through to a lack of a sufficiently inspired marketing orientation, a failure to invest in the longer term (because of inter alia the myopia of the UK financial community) and insufficient effort directed towards being technologically innovative. Within these it might be discerned lie the seeds of a range of policy prescriptions and strategies. The problem is that many of these tend to reside in the province of Government or are too general to have any effective relevance for management. What is needed is a more “on the ground” approach founded on a deeper understanding of how individual businesses establish a competitive position in their particular market, and the means that their managers employ to preserve competitiveness. It is also clear that one needs to explore the notion of competitiveness, which has received a glib notoriety, and possibly a variety of confused and probably in some cases meaningless interpretations. We have therefore established a research programme at UMIST aimed at exploring the nature of new technology sectors, the implications for, in particular, strategic management of businesses operating in them, and the competitive strategies such businesses employ. In this way we aimed to draw out some lessons on competitiveness.

Michael Herzfeld and Greece

Michael Herzfeld and Greece

The Ocean Floor

Over a relatively short period of time Bruce Heezen made significant, imaginative and timely contributions to our understanding of the processes that govern the origin and evolution of oceanic crust in space and time. It is certainly fitting that someone of Heezen's stature be honored by a memorial volume and the collection of papers in The Ocean Floor were gathered together for this purpose. Bruce was a gifted scientist with a wide‐ranging appetite for all facets of earth science, and in this respect he would have appreciated the pot pourri of marine geological topics covered in the book (e.g., continental margin investigations, sedimentological processes, plate tectonic models). Unfortunately, the book does not have an overall impact that measures up to the man that it commemorates. Too many of the papers read as if the authors, after having agreed to contribute to the volume, reached deep into their files to dredge up a neglected manuscript on one subject or another. As a consequence, many of the papers lack zest and fail to stimulate interest beyond their narrowly focused themes.

AVRO Arrow pot pourri. The Arrow. James Dow. Toronto, Ontario, James Lorimer & Company, 1979 There Never Was an Arrow. E. Kay Shaw. Toronto, Ontario, Steel Rail Educational Publishing, 1979 Fall of an Arrow. Murray Peden, Stittsville, Ontario, Canada's Wings, 1978 Scrap Arrow: A Novel. Robert R. Robinson. Don Mills, Ontario, R.R.R. Communications Inc. General Publishing Company Ltd., 1975

AVRO Arrow pot pourri. The Arrow. James Dow. Toronto, Ontario, James Lorimer & Company, 1979 There Never Was an Arrow. E. Kay Shaw. Toronto, Ontario, Steel Rail Educational Publishing, 1979 Fall of an Arrow. Murray Peden, Stittsville, Ontario, Canada's Wings, 1978 Scrap Arrow: A Novel. Robert R. Robinson. Don Mills, Ontario, R.R.R. Communications Inc. General Publishing Company Ltd., 1975