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\"After a horrific fire claims the life of her mother, seventeen year old Rowan Bliss finds herself in the miniscule town of Ipswich, Massachusetts. It's here that she meets Alex, a deliciously mysterious boy who holds the key to unlocking her family's dark secret. As Rowan falls helplessly over the edge for Alex, the secrets that he insists on keeping refuse to be contained. The truth that she uncovers challenges everything she has ever believed. Alex is a witch. And now he's awakened something within her she never even knew existed. But out of all of this, the one thing Rowan won't accept is the fact that Alex is destined to die. Rowan must unearth the buried power she harbors within to escape a deadly prophecy, defy the very laws of time, and prevent the hands of fate from taking yet another person she loves\"--Page 4 of cover.
Comparing the Ipswich Touch Test (IpTT) and 10gm-SMWF (10-gm Semmes–Weinstein mono-filament) in Indian population subset with type 2 diabetes mellitus to detect diabetes neuropathy
Background
Diabetic neuropathy diagnosis involves invasive procedures like nerve biopsy and nerve conduction studies which are seldom available at rural health centers. The Ipswich Touch Test (IpTT) is one test that can be performed by the caregiver and it’s simple to perform.
Aim
This study was aimed to compare the validity of the IpTT and 10gm-SMWF (10-gm Semmes–Weinstein mono-filament) test with the vibration perception threshold (VPT) using biothesiometer.
Methods
Two hundred patients with type 2 diabetes, between the age of 30 and 50 years, were included in the study. The neuropathy assessment was performed by biothesiometer, 10gm-SMWF test, and IpTT. Taking VPT(> 25 V) as the gold standard; the sensitivity and specificity of IpTT and 10gm-SMWF are calculated and compared to each other.
Results
On comparing with the VPT, the 10gm-SMWF test had a sensitivity of 94.7% and specificity of 85.7%, and the IpTT had a sensitivity of 91.9% and specificity of 85.7%. 10gm-SMWF test (Kappa value 0.733) had better agreement with VPT than IpTT (Kappa value 0.675). On Spearman’s correlation, the 10gm-SMWF test and the IpTT had
r
values of 0.738 and 0.686 respectively (
P
= 0.000).
Conclusion
10gm-SMWFis a better test to diagnose neuropathy than the IpTT; but in the absence of 10gm-SMWFs, the IpTT is an ideal alternative. IpTT can be performed in a bedside or chairside setting in the absence of a professional health care provider who can screen patients for neuropathy and alert the physician of an impending complication where amputation can be avoided.
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Middle Paleocene uplift of the Brabant Massif from central Belgium up to the southeast coast of England
During the middle Paleocene Laramide phase, several basins in Europe experienced subsidence, while others experienced uplift. Previous studies have shown that during the Laramide phase some basins surrounding the Brabant Massif experienced subsidence into shallow depocentres. This study discusses how the Brabant Massif simultaneously experienced uplift along its WNW–ESE Caledonian structural axis from central Belgium in the east up to the southeast coast of England (Ipswich) in the west. Uplift resulted in erosion of the formerly deposited Chalk Group on top of the axis of the Brabant Massif. The erosion products of the Chalk Group were reworked in the latest Danian to earliest Thanetian deposits that filled the surrounding depocentres. Early to middle Thanetian pulsed marine transgressions caused flooding and deposition across the entire region, including the previously uplifted axis of the Brabant Massif. The depositional thicknesses, however, indicate that the axis of the Brabant Massif remained a relative high up to the middle Thanetian. Both the geometry and timing of the middle Paleocene vertical surface movements of the Brabant Massif and surrounding areas are very similar to those described for other structural entities in central and northern Europe, despite their often strongly differing Mesozoic tectonic evolutions. We discuss several mechanisms that might have triggered these vertical surface movements, of which lithospheric folding seems the most likely.
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The painter's daughters
The daughters of one of England's most famous portrait artists of the 1700s, Peggy and Molly Gainsborough are inseparable due to Molly's bouts of mental confusion, and as Peggy goes to great lengths to protect her sister's secret, she falls in love with a charming composer, which sparks the bitterest of betrayals.
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THE INTEGRATION OF CELLULAR AUTOMATA AND WHAT IF? FOR SCENARIO PLANNING: FUTURE RESIDENTIAL EXPANSION IN THE CITY OF IPSWICH
The ever-increasing volumes of available data for urban planning and management have led to the development of a range of planning support systems (PSS) for the design of more flexible and people-oriented cities. In the time of rapid urbanization, there has also been a continued focus on land use change models to simulate its complex dynamics. However, the integration of land use change models with planning support systems has received comparatively little attention, despite its potential to provide a more comprehensive understanding of urban futures over spatial and temporal scales. Considering this, a Cellular Automata (CA) land use change model has been coupled with the What If? PSS in this research. Using the City of Ipswich as the study case, its land use regulations and interaction with surroundings are analysed with multi-source data such as population variation and infrastructure distribution. Land suitability evaluation and demand projections have been modelled using What If? with detailed processes of residential expansion under different scenarios. Two scenarios with different planning strategies are analysed for their future development. The results indicate that continued growth of current residential areas would be the most reasonable strategy for the study area in the following years. By using scenario planning approach, the proposed CA – What If model can be used as a practical tool to analyse the future development of cities. Such data-driven models and tools enable urban planners and policymakers to explore future growth scenarios in the era of big data and global urbanization.
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Differential fall migratory routes of adult and juvenile Ipswich Sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis princeps)
Background
Island breeding birds present an ideal system for studying migratory movements in passerines because their populations are clearly demarcated, and individuals must depart on migration from a single location. The Ipswich Sparrow (
Paserculus sandwichensis princeps
) is a subspecies of the Savannah Sparrow that breeds exclusively on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada and winters along the Atlantic coast of North America. We used a network of 34 automated VHF telemetry receivers to track radio-tagged adult and juvenile Ipswich Sparrows from their breeding island southward through the first half of their fall migratory journey.
Results
We compared adult to juvenile timing and routes. We show that juveniles leave the island approximately 24 days prior to adults and remain temporally separated from them during migration through Nova Scotia. Juveniles have different overwater orientations that result in migratory routes with shorter ocean crossings and a longer overall distance travelled compared to adults. Juveniles also have more frequent and longer stopovers, and displayed some reverse migration.
Conclusion
We demonstrate that migratory routes differ between adults and juveniles, suggesting that routes change as individuals age, possibly through learning or social interactions. These differential routes also suggest that sparrows experience risk in different ways with juveniles selecting shorter overwater flights with less navigational risk at the cost of increased time spent in migration.
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A review of the current evidence on the sensitivity and specificity of the Ipswich touch test for the screening of loss of protective sensation in patients with diabetes mellitus
AimsTo evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of the Ipswich touch test for the screening of loss of protective sensation in patients with diabetes mellitus based on the current literature.MethodsThree electronic databases were searched for eligible studies that investigated the sensitivity and specificity of the Ipswich touch test. Methodological quality was assessed using the QUADAS-2 tool.ResultsFive studies that reported the sensitivity and specificity of the Ipswich touch test were included. When compared to the 10 g monofilament, the sensitivity ranges from 51 to 83.3% and the specificity ranges from 96.4 to 98%. When compared to the vibration perception test ≥25 V, Ipswich touch test sensitivity ranges from 76 to 100% and specificity ranges from 90 to 96.6%.ConclusionsThe Ipswich touch test has a high specificity in screening for loss of protective sensation in the feet of patients with diabetes mellitus. It is a useful test to be included in diabetic foot screenings, especially when other sensory tools are not available. However, more rigorous studies need to be conducted as there is currently only a limited pool of research evidence to substantiate it as a screening tool for loss of protective sensation in the diabetic foot.
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The Palynology of the Triassic—Jurassic Transition in Southeastern Queensland, Australia, and Correlation with New Zealand
New evidence is presented on the Triassic–Jurassic boundary in eastern Australia, based on miospore assemblages from three continuously cored drillholes which penetrated the Raceview Formation to Ripley Road succession in the eastern Clarence-Moreton Basin of southeastern Queensland. Evidence for the age of this continental succession is provided by correlation based on the first appearances of five distinctive species. These taxa first appear at or close to the Rhaetian–Hettangian boundary in the marine, ammonite-dated succession of New Zealand and in the lower Ripley Road Sandstone of Queensland. The more gradual introduction of these species in the Queensland succession, as opposed to their near-synchronous appearance in New Zealand, is probably due to their gradual migration into an inland environment in contrast to their origin from a nearshore region in New Zealand. At higher levels the first appearance of intrastriate Classopollis, closely followed by its marked increase in abundance, is regarded as evidence for correlating assemblages from the upper Ripley Road Sandstone in the eastern Clarence-Moreton Basin with the earliest Sinemurian of New Zealand. The views of some previous workers that the Hettangian of eastern Australia is characterised by the appearance of abundant Classopollis must now be modified. From the aspect of biotic change, associated with climate change at the Triassic–Jurassic boundary, this study indicates a rapid local change in New Zealand. A new type of biozone, the Association Zone, is proposed as a type of interval zone. The need for a distinctive biozone to characterise palynofloral assemblages is indicated to allow for the frequent recycling of palynomorphs and also to better define the body of an interval zone. New Early Jurassic miospore zones are proposed for southeastern Queensland. Granamegamonocolpites campbellii sp. nov. is described and one new combination, Anapiculatisporities helidonensis (de Jersey) comb. nov., is proposed. Morphological and stratigraphical evidence is provided for gradualism in the lineage development of intrastructure in Classopollis, from massive (unstructured), to intrapunctate, to intrastriate specimens.
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