The document discusses flat back syndrome and its surgical treatment. Flat back syndrome occurs when there is a reduction in normal lumbar lordosis, resulting in a fixed sagittal imbalance and flat back deformity. Surgical treatment aims to restore sagittal and coronal balance through procedures like Smith-Petersen osteotomies, which involve cutting V-shaped wedges in the spine to allow correction. The risks and techniques of multiple osteotomies are discussed to harmoniously realign the deformed spine while minimizing complications.
The document discusses flat back syndrome and its surgical treatment. Flat back syndrome occurs when there is a reduction in normal lumbar lordosis, resulting in a fixed sagittal imbalance and flat back deformity. Surgical treatment aims to restore sagittal and coronal balance through procedures like Smith-Petersen osteotomies, which involve cutting V-shaped wedges in the spine to allow correction. The risks and techniques of multiple osteotomies are discussed to harmoniously realign the deformed spine while minimizing complications.
This lecture (Non-pharmacological treatment of hypertension) was delivered by me in the conference which was held in Palestine-Meridian Hotel in Baghdad under-care of Iraqi Hypertension Society on Friday 31ist, Oct.1914
Apoptosis is a
-pathway of cell death that is
-induced by an internally regulated program
-in which cells destined to die activate intrinsic enzymes that --degrade the cells’ own nuclear DNA and also nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins
-With minimal host reaction.
The document discusses the female reproductive system and hormones. It covers:
- How the hypothalamus and pituitary gland regulate the female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone.
- The roles and effects of estrogen and progesterone in the body, including breast development, bone health, and pregnancy.
- Different estrogen and progesterone formulations used in hormone replacement therapy, contraception, and treatment of conditions like cancer.
- Side effects and contraindications of various hormone therapies.
- Risk factors and treatments for conditions like osteoporosis, endometriosis, and ovarian cysts.
This lecture (Non-pharmacological treatment of hypertension) was delivered by me in the conference which was held in Palestine-Meridian Hotel in Baghdad under-care of Iraqi Hypertension Society on Friday 31ist, Oct.1914
Apoptosis is a
-pathway of cell death that is
-induced by an internally regulated program
-in which cells destined to die activate intrinsic enzymes that --degrade the cells’ own nuclear DNA and also nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins
-With minimal host reaction.
The document discusses the female reproductive system and hormones. It covers:
- How the hypothalamus and pituitary gland regulate the female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone.
- The roles and effects of estrogen and progesterone in the body, including breast development, bone health, and pregnancy.
- Different estrogen and progesterone formulations used in hormone replacement therapy, contraception, and treatment of conditions like cancer.
- Side effects and contraindications of various hormone therapies.
- Risk factors and treatments for conditions like osteoporosis, endometriosis, and ovarian cysts.
The PROMIS project aimed to improve the quality and vocational focus of master's degrees in computer science in Central Asia. It sought to extend the existing ERAMIS academic network to additional countries, adapt teaching to students who work in parallel to their studies through flipped and work-integrated learning, improve relationships between universities and companies, and enhance the network through shared courses and materials. The project involved universities and companies from Central Asia, Europe, and Finland working together to strengthen informatics education in the region.
Ab to shayad hi mujhse muhabbat kare koi
meri aankhon me tum saf nazar ate ho.
Tere Juda Hone ke Baad... Ab Kisi Se Mohabbat Nehi karte....Ae Jaan Choti si To Zindegi hai... Guzar Jayegi Tujhe Yaad Karte Karte.
The document discusses social apps on various social networking platforms. It provides details on the basic components needed for a social platform like an existing social graph and viral elements. Facebook is highlighted as the fastest growing social network and the first to create a social app platform. The anatomy of a Facebook app is explained including elements like the canvas page, left nav, and profile box. Examples of top Facebook apps are provided. Finally, the document outlines what is needed to build a social app including using a web container, API calls, and basic FBML tags.
- Manisha Garg has over 5 years of experience in market research and project management, working for companies like IMRB, Cegedim, Millward Brown, and Accenture.
- She has experience preparing questionnaires, planning research work, conducting qualitative analyses, and writing reports for clients like Best Buy, Unilever, L'Oreal, Cadbury, Nestle, Pepsi, and pharmaceutical companies.
- Currently working as a Senior Project Management Executive at Accenture, with responsibilities including project planning, resource management, and dashboard preparation.
Nagaraj is seeking an entry-level position in marketing and business development. He has 1 year and 9 months of experience in marketing, event management, sales, client services, and competitor analysis. He has a technical background in quality control and has worked as a Sales Officer for VST Tillers and Tractors Ltd. He has a B.E. in Automobile Engineering and is proficient in Tamil, English, Malayalam, and Telugu.
The document analyzes key growth factors for the Indian real estate sector in 2014. It notes that real estate in India has been underperforming but is relying on foreign direct investment for growth. Rising household income, urbanization, economic growth, policy support, and other factors are driving increased demand for residential and commercial real estate. Foreign investment in Indian real estate totaled $22.67 billion from 2010 to 2013. The growing health, education, hospitality, and tourism sectors also provide opportunities for real estate development. Policy reforms around funding and regulations support further growth of the Indian real estate market.
The document outlines the work packages and timeline for a Tempus project to develop a network of ISC Master's degrees in Central Asia. Key aspects include:
- WP1 focuses on creating new ISC Master's degrees in each country from 2014-2016, including needs analysis, developing educational teams and syllabi, and obtaining accreditation.
- WP2 aims to develop a high quality network from 2014-2016 through activities like training sessions, developing shared course materials, implementing reverse teaching, and establishing a quality assurance process.
- WP3 seeks to professionalize the degrees from 2014-2016 by creating apprenticeship departments, developing courses with company employees, organizing internships, and implementing a
Prashant Kumar is seeking a job in a progressive firm as a team player to achieve corporate goals and become a successful technical lead. He has strong communication and leadership skills as well as the ability to adapt quickly to new situations. His academic qualifications include a 79.3% in 10th grade from New Delhi Public School and a 64.8% in 12th grade from R.B.S College. He is currently pursuing a B.Tech degree from UCER Gr. Noida UP with a 60% score until the 5th semester. He was awarded Fresher Student of the year in 2012-13 and Best Attendance in 2013-14. His extracurricular activities include coordinating Electromania
The Digital Lounge provides Annenberg students resources and training to develop professional skills using industry-standard tools. It offers workshops on software for creative media, data analytics, and personal branding. This semester, workshops are being scheduled at more convenient times and aligned with coursework. Additional tools like Excel, Google Analytics, and Tableau are being covered. The Digital Lounge aims to better communicate its services through emails and ensure students know how to develop portfolios and visualizations to tell their stories.
comScore is an internet analytics company that processes over 1.5 trillion digital interactions per month. They were tasked with calculating campaign metrics for over 130 billion records spanning 92 days. Their initial MapReduce approach did not scale due to large data shuffles. To improve performance, they partitioned and sorted the data by cookie daily before using a custom input format to merge partitions and do map-side aggregations, reducing shuffle sizes and allowing combiners to be used. This improved processing time from 35 hours to 3 hours without hardware changes.
Dion Hinchcliffe gave a presentation on global SOA with Web 2.0. He discussed how the web is evolving with new best practices that exploit user-generated content by harnessing collective intelligence and treating data as the new functionality. This approach, sometimes called Web 2.0, emphasizes reuse of content through syndication, two-way participation for enrichment, and lightweight models. Web 2.0 can be applied as a lightweight SOA approach using RSS for integration, open syndication for exploitation, and folksonomies to organize continuously-generated content in order to maximize value.
Tempus PROMIS Work Plan (September 2014)PROMISproject
This document outlines the work packages (WPs) for a project called PROMIS. There are 8 WPs covering areas like creating new master's degrees, improving quality, professionalization, internationalization, sustainability, dissemination, quality assurance, and project management. Each WP is broken down into outcomes and activities with timelines. For example, WP1 focuses on creating new degrees and has activities like needs assessments, developing curricula, obtaining accreditation, and student enrollment between 2013-2015. WP2 aims to improve quality through activities such as training sessions, developing shared courses, and student evaluations between 2014-2016.
This document discusses middleware and application integration. It begins with the author's background and defines middleware as software that connects applications. The main challenges driving integration are growing use of packaged applications, legacy systems, open B2B collaboration, and changing business processes. Middleware addresses these challenges by preserving existing systems and allowing best of breed applications to integrate. The document then categorizes middleware into data access, messaging, object transactional, and integration broker types. It explains each type and how they provide integration. The document concludes with guidance on evaluating middleware based on integration requirements and criteria like performance, scalability, and vendor viability.
Most states in the US require separation distances between livestock production/ manure storage facilities and water resources
Iowa, for example, for liquid manure from animal buildings and manure storages requires 150 -300 meters separation
Osteoarthritis lecture from Rheumatology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt.
Disclaimer : not my slide. Just uploading for my personal use..
1. Juvenile dermatomyositis differs from adult DM in that it lacks calcinosis cutis, malignancy, and has less sex predominance and vasculitis. Adults can develop malignancy and positive anti-synthetase antibodies.
2. Two medications that can induce dermatomyositis are statins and hydroxyurea. Two features that differ DM lesions from LE are their violaceous hue and pruritus.
3. Indications for treatment of hemangiomas include obscuring vision, compromising airway, ulceration and pain, and being in a cosmetically sensitive area. The approach for starting propranolol includes testing for contraindications and slowly
Changes in newborn, pregnancy and old ageAhmed Amer
The document discusses skin changes in newborns and aging. In newborns, the key skin functions are the barrier function, eccrine sweating, and sebaceous gland secretion. Common physiological reactions in newborns include Vernix caseosa, scalp hair shedding, body hair lanugo, and superficial desquamation in the epidermis. In the dermis, peripheral cyanosis, erythema neonatorum, marbling, and harlequin color changes can occur. Skin changes in pregnancy include pigmentation, hair and nail changes, increased gland activity, connective tissue changes like striae, and vascular changes like spider angiomas. Skin aging is caused by intrinsic and extrinsic
This document summarizes different blood components that can be transfused, including whole blood, fresh frozen plasma, cryoprecipitate, packed red blood cells, platelet preparations, and immunoglobulins. It provides details on what each component contains, how it is prepared, storage times, indications for transfusion, and contraindications. The document also reviews blood type compatibility and lists several indications for plasma pharesis procedures.
Basic immunology from the dermatologic point of viewAhmed Amer
The document discusses the immune system, focusing on innate immunity and the skin's role in protection. It describes how the skin provides a mechanical barrier and uses the immune system for protection through skin-associated lymphoid tissues. The innate immune system includes physical barriers and pattern recognition receptors that recognize pathogens. Toll-like receptors are a type of pattern recognition receptor that recognize pathogen-associated molecular patterns and trigger cytokine production and adaptive immunity.
Basic immunology from the dermatologic point of view (2)Ahmed Amer
The document discusses the immune system, with a focus on the skin and its role in immunity. It describes how the skin acts as a physical barrier and uses the immune system for protection through skin-associated lymphoid tissues. Both innate and adaptive immunity operate in the skin. Innate immunity provides an immediate response and involves pattern recognition receptors on cells that recognize pathogen-associated molecular patterns. Adaptive immunity develops over days and provides pathogen-specific protection.
Barrier function & biomechanical properties of the skin Ahmed Amer
This document summarizes the structure and function of the skin barrier. It describes the epidermis, stratum corneum, dermis, and basement membrane zone. The stratum corneum consists of corneocytes bound by lipid mortar, forming the skin's barrier against water loss and insults. Defects in corneocytes or lipids cause skin diseases. The dermis contains collagen, elastin, and glycosaminoglycans that provide mechanical strength, elasticity, and resistance to compression. Inherited disorders impact these structures, altering the skin's biomechanical properties.
This document discusses antibiotics, how they work selectively against bacteria, and mechanisms of bacterial resistance. It covers several classes of antibiotics including beta-lactams, aminoglycosides, macrolides, chloramphenicol, vancomycin, sulfonamides, quinolones and more. It also discusses factors that promote antibiotic resistance, appropriate use of antibiotics and optimizing treatment based on culture and sensitivity testing.
Anatomy & physiology of sweat glands, sebaceousAhmed Amer
1. The document describes the anatomy and physiology of sweat glands, sebaceous glands, hair, and nails. It discusses the structure, development, innervation, function, and disorders of eccrine and apocrine sweat glands.
2. Sebaceous glands are described in relation to their sites of occurrence, development linked to androgen levels, and role in secreting sebum.
3. The stages of the hair follicle from infundibulum to bulb and the cycle of hair growth and shedding are outlined. The structure and pigmentation of the hair shaft is also covered.
4. Nail anatomy includes the nail plate, proximal nail fold, nail bed, nail
All about genes oncogenes mutations-cloning-gene therapyAhmed Amer
1) DNA contains the genetic code and is located in chromosomes within the nucleus. DNA is transcribed into RNA and translated into proteins, which allows genes to be expressed.
2) Mutations in genes can be caused by errors in DNA replication or exposure to mutagens and can have neutral, harmful, or beneficial effects depending on where they occur. Mutations in proto-oncogenes can transform them into oncogenes and promote cancer development.
3) Cloning techniques allow for the duplication of DNA, whole organisms, or embryonic stem cells for research and potential therapies. Gene cloning is used to study and modify genes, while reproductive and therapeutic cloning are more controversial due to ethical concerns.
This document discusses biologic agents used to treat psoriasis. It defines biologics as proteins extracted from tissues or synthesized through recombinant DNA techniques that mimic or block naturally occurring proteins. Early biologics included insulin, hematopoietic growth factors, and monoclonal antibodies used to prevent transplant rejection. Current biologics for psoriasis include TNF-α inhibitors (etanercept, adalimumab, infliximab), which bind and neutralize tumor necrosis factor; and ustekinumab, which targets the p40 subunit of interleukin-12 and -23. The document provides details on the mechanisms, dosing, and side effects of these biologic therapies.
4. Lines of defense against the induction and persistence
of DNA damage:
Preventing DNA damage: by detoxifying peptides,
proteins, and oxy-radical scavengers, e.g. vitamin E
and C.
DNA repair pathways: minimal DNA damage already
present in the genome may be sensed by DNA damage
response pathways, and the damage may be removed
to reduce the possibility for inducing mutations.
Apoptosis: the damaged cell may be eliminated by
spontaneous death.