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Agricultural development in District Budaun

This dissertation applies the principles of Worldview apologetics to engage Advaita Vedanta Hinduism with the biblical responses of Christianity. Chapter 1 introduces the biblical mandate for apologetics, reviewing the contemporary apologetic scene. It highlights methodological principles in Worldview apologetics. Chapter 2 introduces Vedanta Hinduism through the teachings of Sankara, Ramanuja, and Madhva. Chapter 3 examines Christian rapprochement and antithesis with Vedanta Hinduism. The apologist applies Worldview apologetics in understanding the access points and biblical dividing lines. Chapter 4 commences the apologetic engagement with proof. The Advaitin presents the monistic worldview and the ultimate reality, otherwise known as Brahman. The foundational Christian worldview is represented with the scriptures, God, man, and his salvation in Jesus Christ. Chapter 5 addresses the offense part of apologetics. The adherents of each worldview contrast their viewpoints against the viewpoint of the other system. Vedanta's monism, impersonal reality, inclusivity, and rationality are contrasted with Christianity's historic self-revelation of God to man. Chapter 6 handles apologetic defense through the lens of experience, epistemology, and correspondence with reality. The Hindu worldview has transcending experience, supra-rational epistemology, and deep coherence. The Christian admits a transitory universe, which has no existence as a contingent creation, apart from God. Chapter 7 reviews Worldview apologetic practice under metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. These deal with the ontology of reality in its manifestations and our understanding of the truth. It concludes with how we live out this knowledge today. Chapter 8 addresses the personal, rather than technical tone of apologetics. Kierkegaard's engagement of the stubborn will helps us understand the radical nature of convictions. After presenting the Gospel worldview, the Vedanta position is shown to be impossible from those very paths that the Hindu trusts. Chapter 9 culminates the study of Gospel-centered apologetics. The Gospel forms the core of the apologetic encounter, in content and methodology. This dissertation opens the venue for more sound arguments to be built around the Gospel and to tear down false worldviews. Chapter 10 makes final recommendations on practical Christian apologetics to Hindus. A biblically self-aware approach is commended to honor God in the defense of the faith.

TPLSM is the approach used to address how asymmetric cell divisions might take place in the retina. Asymmetric cell division is a mechanism thought to be involved in generating neuronal diversity from a homogeneous progenitor population, and may be mediated by the orientation of progenitor cell divisions. 3D reconstructions of the developing zebrafish retina were analysed for orientation of cell division. Contrary to currently proposed models for vertebrate asymmetric divisions, apico-basally oriented cell divisions, perpendicular to the ventricular surface, are not found to occur in the zebrafish retina during the formation of postmitotic neurons. However, a shift in the orientation of cell division from central-peripheral to circumferential orientations occurs within the plane of the ventricular surface at a time when neuronal cells are differentiating. The shift from central-peripheral to circumferential divisions is absent or delayed in the <i>sonic you (syu)</i> mutant, which lacks retinal ganglion cell neurons. This delay correlates with a delay in neuronal differentiation, suggesting that the circumferential orientations of division may represent asymmetric, neuron-generating cell divisions. <i>In vivo</i> imaging also shows that mitotic cells, found in the apical side of the neuroephithelium, retain a process connected to the opposite basal surface, and that this process can be inherited asymmetrically by one daughter cell. Although this may also a play a role in asymmetric cell division, it does not correlate with a specific orientation of division. It may be important for the radial migration of newborn neurons to the appropriate layer of the retina. After neuronal differentiation, tangential migration of cells and cell death may be required to maintain regularity in newly-formed neuronal cell mosaics. The <i>in vivo</i> behaviour of amacrine cells in early development was studied using TPLSM. Amacrine cell death, correlated with short distances between cells, is shown to occur in early retinal development, although evidence for tangential cell migration is not found. It is plausible that apoptosis, thought to be a rare event in the zebrafish retina, is in fact required for the formation of regular cell mosaics by the removal of incompatible cells from a mosaic by short-range interactions with other cells in the mosaic.

Caregivers injure their backs more than workers in any other industry. Efforts to reduce injuries have been on-going for decades with limited results. Mechanical lift devices have been incorporated into clinical practice over the past 30 years to reduce the risk of injury from patient lifting. Yet injury rates remain high. The use of mechanical lifts may be partly to blame. While these devices assist with lifting patients, they also introduce new activities that result in caregivers experiencing unsafe loading on the spine. We measured loads on the lower back during manoeuvres of the two most common lift types (overhead and floor) as well as during sling insertion. A new device called SlingSerterTM was evaluated for use in the clinical environment. We also investigated spine shrinkage as a measurement tool for estimating cumulative load. Caregivers worked alone and in pairs for both lift maneuvering and sling insertion activities. Overhead lift use resulted in much lower loads than floor lift use. We conclude caregivers can safely operate overhead lifts alone, while floor lift use remained unsafe even with two caregivers. Less-experienced caregivers had higher loads than more-experienced counterparts when using floor lifts. There was no corresponding effect of experience with overhead lift use and we found this to be a further benefit of overhead lifts over floor lifts. Most caregivers exceeded the safe limit for spine compression during sling insertion, though a single caregiver was at no higher risk of injury than two caregivers working together. Clinicians who tested SlingSerterTM agreed the device would be useful in clinical practice, particularly with bariatric patients and other special patient populations that are difficult to roll or turn. Finally, we investigated a novel method for estimating cumulative load based on spine shrinkage. There is growing recognition that excess cumulative load may be responsible for back injury. We found the variability in spine shrinkage was too large to estimate cumulative load directly. However, the technique may still be useful for determining the relative importance of the load from different activities to the cumulative total.

Caregivers injure their backs more than workers in any other industry. Efforts to reduce injuries have been on-going for decades with limited results. Mechanical lift devices have been incorporated into clinical practice over the past 30 years to reduce the risk of injury from patient lifting. Yet injury rates remain high. The use of mechanical lifts may be partly to blame. While these devices assist with lifting patients, they also introduce new activities that result in caregivers experiencing unsafe loading on the spine. We measured loads on the lower back during manoeuvres of the two most common lift types (overhead and floor) as well as during sling insertion. A new device called SlingSerterTM was evaluated for use in the clinical environment. We also investigated spine shrinkage as a measurement tool for estimating cumulative load. Caregivers worked alone and in pairs for both lift maneuvering and sling insertion activities. Overhead lift use resulted in much lower loads than floor lift use. We conclude caregivers can safely operate overhead lifts alone, while floor lift use remained unsafe even with two caregivers. Less-experienced caregivers had higher loads than more-experienced counterparts when using floor lifts. There was no corresponding effect of experience with overhead lift use and we found this to be a further benefit of overhead lifts over floor lifts. Most caregivers exceeded the safe limit for spine compression during sling insertion, though a single caregiver was at no higher risk of injury than two caregivers working together. Clinicians who tested SlingSerterTM agreed the device would be useful in clinical practice, particularly with bariatric patients and other special patient populations that are difficult to roll or turn. Finally, we investigated a novel method for estimating cumulative load based on spine shrinkage. There is growing recognition that excess cumulative load may be responsible for back injury. We found the variability in spine shrinkage was too large to estimate cumulative load directly. However, the technique may still be useful for determining the relative importance of the load from different activities to the cumulative total.

We consider the problem of finding a sparse multiple of a polynomial. Given a polynomial f ∈ F[x] of degree d over a field F, and a desired sparsity t = O(1), our goal is to determine if there exists a multiple h ∈ F[x] of f such that h has at most t non-zero terms, and if so, to find such an h. When F = Q, we give a polynomial-time algorithm in d and the size of coefficients in h. For finding binomial multiples we prove a polynomial bound on the degree of the least degree binomial multiple independent of coefficient size. When F is a finite field, we show that the problem is at least as hard as determining the multiplicative order of elements in an extension field of F (a problem thought to have complexity similar to that of factoring integers), and this lower bound is tight when t = 2.

No abstract available. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Durban-Westville, 1975.

We consider the problem of finding a sparse multiple of a polynomial. Given a polynomial f ∈ F[x] of degree d over a field F, and a desired sparsity t = O(1), our goal is to determine if there exists a multiple h ∈ F[x] of f such that h has at most t non-zero terms, and if so, to find such an h. When F = Q, we give a polynomial-time algorithm in d and the size of coefficients in h. For finding binomial multiples we prove a polynomial bound on the degree of the least degree binomial multiple independent of coefficient size. When F is a finite field, we show that the problem is at least as hard as determining the multiplicative order of elements in an extension field of F (a problem thought to have complexity similar to that of factoring integers), and this lower bound is tight when t = 2.