TitleEpidemiology of injuries in the radiology department of a teaching hospital
Paper IDJP5w1
KeywordsInjury, Epidemiology,Radiology, Teaching, hospital
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Background: Injury has become a public health problem all over the world and it is associated with high morbidity and mortality.
Objective: The aim of the study was to determine the epidemiology of injuries in Radiology Department of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi.
Method: A retrospective research design was adopted for this study. Request forms of patients were collected from the register in the department . Five hundred and twenty (520) request forms were collected. From the five hundred and twenty request forms collected for this study, four hundred and ninenty nine were used. Twenty one (21) were excluded because they did not contain all the information required. The picture and archives communication system (PACS) was also utilized to ensure that information obtained form the register corresponded with the patients attended to within the period of study. Data was analzed descriptively using SPSS version 20. Results were presented in frequency tables and percentages.
Results: The injuries involved males (75.2%) more than the females (24.8%). Road traffic accident was the most occuring injury (67.5%) while injuries due to fighting (0.4%)was the least occuring. Most injuries occurred within the age range of 21-30years (18.8%) and closely followed by the age range of 31-40 years (18.2%). Majority of the injuries involved the whole spine (18.5%) followed by chest injuries (18.2%).
Conclusion: The injuries recorded involved almost all the body parts and males were more affected than females. Road traffic accident was the major cause of the injuries.

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TitleClinical Significance of serum survivin in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC)
Paper IDvSf9t
KeywordsPancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma; Prognosis;Survivin;Serum
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Objective: we investigate the clinical significance of survivin levels in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) patients. Methods: The serum level of survivin from patients with PDAC (n =80) and age-matched healthy volunteers (n = 80) were analyzed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) prior to surgical resection. Expression levels were correlated with clinicopathological parameters. Results :Serum survivin concentrations were significantly elevated in PDAC patients when compared to healthy sera. High serum survivin levels were significantly associated with perineural invasion , venous invasion, lymph node status (N stage) , histologic grade and T stage, but not with the tumor size , age , gender of the patients or tumor location. The median overall survival of the normal serum survivin group was longer than that of the elevated serum survivin group. The independent factors associated with over¬all survival were advanced pancreatic cancer and elevated serum survivin level. Conclusion: Patients with ele¬vated serum survivin level at diagnosis demonstrated poor overall survival. Pretreat¬ment survivin level may predict the prognosis of patients with PDAC.

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TitleThe study of philosophic minds of managers and its relationship with organizational culture (Case Study: staff of Saderat Bank, Central Branch in Mashhad City)
Paper IDxhPxB
Keywordsphilosophic minds, managers, organizational culture, staff
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The study aims at the relationship between the philosophical minds of managers with organizational culture of employees in Saderat Bank. The methodology is done in the area 4, Mashhad. Then, the purpose of the current study is to gather data on attitudes and features of Saderat Banks in area 4 of the city. The purpose of the study is correlational, as well. Statistical population is a total number of the bank’s employees of the orbit, which have amassed by the research and statistics center on Saderat Bank. The statistical population of the study is all the male/female employees, managers of the branch, and the chief of the central branch in Mashhad. The findings of the H1 show that there is a positive correlation between the flexibility feature of philosophic minds and adaptability. H2 show that there is a positive correlation among the features of flexibility, the totality of philosophic minds and attaining the goals. H3 shows that there is positive correlation among the features of flexibility, the totality of philosophizing, and adaptability of the working group. H4 shows that there is a positive correlation between the features of flexibility and customer-based. H5 shows that there is a positive correlation among the features of flexibility, philosophic minds in depth, and the power of organizational culture.

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TitleStudy technological factors effect on the loss of 10-HDA (Bioactive compound) inside Royal Jelly in the freeze drying process
Paper IDALS7z
KeywordsRoyal jelly, 10-HDA, 10-Hydroxy-2-Decenoic Acid, The loss of 10-HDA inside Royal Jelly, The technological factors of freeze drying process, The relationship between the loss of 10-HDA inside Royal Jelly with technological factors.
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The aim of this study is establishment relationship between the loss of 10-HDA (10-Hydroxy-2-Decenoic Acid) of Royal jelly and technological factors in the freeze drying process such as temperature and pressure of environmental freeze drying; time of freeze drying process. This relationship was used to determine the optimal technological parameters. The results were found out as follow: the optimal temperature of environmental freeze drying was 19.82oC, the optimal pressure of environmental freeze drying was 0.569mmHg and the optimal time of the freeze drying process was 18.403h. Corresponding to these parameters, the minimum value of the loss of 10-HDA was 0.72% and the residual water content of final product was 4.282% under 4.5%. These optimal parameters is really essential to set up the technological mode of the freeze drying process Royal jelly for preservation.

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TitleWHAT KIND OF COMMUNICATION IS PHILOSOPHY?
Paper ID7oJOf
Keywordscommunication, \ndiscourse, \ncommunicational philosophical discourse, philosopheme, \nphilosophematic message
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The research is a meta-analysis that circumscribes General Communication Science (Axis Communication Philosophy). The thinking platform has two principled pillars:
i) that discourse has three “main dimensions”: “language use”, “communication of beliefs (cognition)”, and “interaction in situations”; as a “standard principle” (Van Dijk, 1997a, 1997b).
ii) that, as a written language form of communication, the philosophy is a communicational cognition discourse.
The inquiry is ranged among what it is called the dynamics of the reshaping conceptual standard-matrix of Communication. It is an implicit answer to a double question: i) what makes a communicational discourse be „philosophy” and ii) what accurately individualizes the philosophical discourse, making from a text „a philosophical text”, a philosophical discourse, a philosophical message? Results that:
1. essential in the philosophical communication, as well as in any other type of communicational discourse, it is not the producer but the nuclear message which he succeeds in transmitting and co-constructing meanings together with his recipient;
2. the distinctive feature of the philosophical communication, of the philosophical discourse, of the philosophical text as a communication practice is the discursive approach of the philosophemes, the „philosophematic” message.

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TitleKnockdown of survivin by siRNA enhances radiosensitivity in OSCC cells in vitro and vivo
Paper IDras7U
KeywordsOral squamous cell carcinoma cells; Survivin; radiosensitivity
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ABSTRACT -AIMS: Survivin is a member of the inhibitor of apoptosis protein (IAP) family; it is overexpressed in most cancer tissues and induces resistance to radiation therapy. In this study, we investigated whether knockdown of survivin by siRNA can induce apoptosis and enhance radiosensitivity in oral squamous cell carcinoma cells (OSCC).
MATERIALS AND METHODS:Oral squamous cell carcinoma cell lines KB was subjected to radiotherapy. small interfering RNA (siRNA) targeting survivin was transfected into KB cells in vitro,then subjected to radiotherapy.After irradiation or/and siRNA transfection, viable and dead cells were counted to determine radiation sensitivity by MTT assay, proliferation by colony-forming ability and apoptosis was analyzed by flow cytometry. Tumor-bearing mice were irradiated with 6 Gy of 60Co-γ radiator.
RESULTS:The results showed knockdown of survivin in KB cells showed reduced cell proliferation, an increased number of radiation-induced apoptosis. Apoptosis was increased by knockdown alone and increased further in combination with irradiation. Colony formation was significantly reduced by survivin knockdown in combination with irradiation.
CONCLUSIONS: We then conclude survivin down-regulation sensitizes cells toward irradiation. Survivin knockdown in combination with radiation inhibits cell proliferation and colony formation significantly and increases apoptosis more than each single treatment alone. In addition, siRNA survivin significantly enhanced inhibition of tumor growth and potentiated cell apoptosis by irradiation in KB xenografts. In conclusion, down regulation of survivin could enhance sensitivity of human KB cells to radiotherapy in vitro and in vivo.

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