Using Geo-electric Techniques for Vulnerability and Groundwater Potential Analysis of Aquifers in Nnewi, South Eastern Nigeria

In Nnewi, Anambra State Nigeria, twenty vertical electrical sounding (VES) were performed to delineate vulnerability and transmissivity of identified aquifer within the study area. Hydraulic parameters (transverse resistance, longitudinal conductivity, hydraulic conductivity and transmissivity) were delineated from geoelectrical parameters (depth, thickness, and apparent resistance). The geo- parameters of the aquifer: apparent resistance from 1000.590 to 1914.480, thickness from 42.850 – 66.490 m and 65.530 to 100.400 m of depth. The estimated hydraulic parameters of the aquifers are transverse resistance 54264.383 - 104568.898 Ωm, longitudinal conductance 0.029 – 0.062 mho, hydraulic conductivity 0.664 – 2.015 m/day and transmis- sivity between 4.167 and 13.963 m2/day. All aquifers have poor protective capacity, 40 percent of the aquifers have low classification with smaller withdrawal potential for local groundwater supply, while 60 percent of the delineated aquifer has intermediate classification and withdrawal potential for local groundwater supply. Due to its groundwater supply potential and protective capacity, the eastern part of the study area has stronger groundwater potential.

The negation of babysitting: Deconstruction and care in early childhood

In April 2020, during the COVID-19 Pandemic, New Zealand media reports revealed competing discourses of care in education. Specifically, the media narrated an apparent resistance to care evident in a primary and secondary teacher resistance to a return to school. While the resistance was clearly and explicitly concerned with care for teachers and their communities, at the same time a negation of caring occurred in the positioning of babysitting and caregiving as unreasonable activities for teachers. In this paper these different discourses are explored through a deconstruction of care. The first section of this paper explores deconstruction through a range of texts that explain and explore Derrida’s thinking. The paper then presents a positioning of care through one news media article. An analysis of one text that speaks to the meaning and problem of care in early childhood provides not just a reading of care in and as education, but also a reading of deconstruction as care. Through a reading of deconstruction as care, this paper offers an understanding of the positioning of caring in relation to teaching. Taking deconstruction as more than an attempt to make a case for caring (the saving of caring so to speak), this paper also takes up the challenge of the relationship between caring and not-caring, or the uncaring. Caring in relation to uncaring provides a way past the prescription and exploitation of caring as teaching and recognises the limits of a professionalisation of caring for practices of care. In the sense that deconstruction is care, the paper concludes with a re-imagining of teacher education through deconstruction.

Ties that Bind

This chapter examines the relationship between local social structures and the popularity of religion through structured comparisons of three Scottish islands (Lewis, Orkney, and Shetland) and four Welsh villages. It also considers whether the apparent resistance of fishing and mining communities to secularization is best explained by the unpredictably dangerous nature of fishing and mining or by the relative isolation of those communities. It argues that, contra the view of some US sociologists, competition between churches, sects, and denominations weakens rather than strengthens religion. The enduringly religious parts of Britain remained so because they shared a common religion, and that consensus was possible because such communities were unusually socially homogenous and were relatively isolated (by geography and by language barriers) from the cultural mainstream.

Influence of installation parameters on the indications of the operation station Scala 48 by experimental data

The paper presents the results of an experiment to study the effect of grounding resistance on the apparent resistance of the medium. The question is solved, what minimum step between the electrodes can be used to study the medium. It was shown that it is possible to conduct electrotomographic measurements in the ratio of the grounding depth to the step between the electrodes as 1: 3. In this case, the error for such measurements is calculated, which is 5%.

The curious case of apparent resistance of Shaheen Bagh protesters to COVID-19 pandemic

The Shaheen Bagh protest, an ongoing continuous sit-in protest by several hundred people in Shaheen Bagh area of New Delhi since 15 December 2019, is a curious case where not a single person with COVID-19 infection has been found yet since the beginning of the pandemic engulfing the entire globe. Possible explanations for this resistance to the virus could be the innate immunity in the local population and Herd immunity generated by the resistant individuals could also protect the small numbers of other protesters who are not immune. This needs further investigation. The innate immunity and herd immunity in the indigenous population should be taken into consideration while devising global public health strategies for control of pandemics and epidemics.

Therapieresistente und ‑refraktäre Hypertonie

Hypertension is defined as resistant to treatment when treatment fails to lower office systolic and diastolic blood pressure values to < 140/90 mmHg. The treatment strategy should include lifestyle measures and appropriate doses of three or more drugs acting by different mechanisms including a diuretic. An updated definition of treatment resistance includes all patients with ≥ 4 antihypertensive agents of different classes irrespective of their on-treatment blood pressure. The term “refractory” hypertension has been suggested for patients with uncontrolled blood pressure on ≥ 5 antihypertensive drugs including the thiazide-like diuretic chlorthalidone and the mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist spironolactone. “Pseudo resistance” especially due to white coat hypertension and non-adherence with the prescribed medication has to be ruled out to be able to identify patients with “true” treatment resistance. Therefore, before distinguishing true from pseudo resistance, the term “apparent” resistance should be used. While the prevalence of apparent resistance may be in the range of 10–15 % of treated patients, the exact prevalence of true resistance remains unknown due to the lack of appropriate studies but is likely to be rather small including a high proportion of patients with secondary forms of hypertension. Once identified most patients with true treatment resistance should receive intensified drug treatment primarily by expanded diuretic usage. Thus, resistant hypertension is primarily a diagnostic challenge: identifying patients with true resistance and those with secondary hypertension.

The Merging Tracks of Anosognosia and Neglect

Anosognosia and hemineglect are among the most startling neurological phenomena identified during the 20th century. Though both are associated with right hemisphere cerebral dysfunction, notably stroke, each disorder had its own distinct literature. Anosognosia, as coined by Babinski in 1914, describes patients who seem to have no idea of their paralysis, despite general cognitive preservation. Certain patients seem more than unaware, with apparent resistance to awareness. More extreme, and qualitatively distinct, is denial of hemiplegia. Various interpretations of pathogenesis are still deliberated. As accounts of its captivating manifestations grew, anosognosia was established as a prominent symbol of neurological and psychic disturbance accompanying (right-hemisphere) stroke. Although reports of specific neglect-related symptomatology appeared earlier, not until nearly 2 decades after anosognosia’s inaugural definition was neglect formally defined by Brain, paving a path spanning some years, to depict a class of disorder with heterogeneous variants. Disordered awareness of body and extrapersonal space with right parietal lesions, and other symptom variations, were gathered under the canopy of neglect. Viewed as a disorder of corporeal awareness, explanatory interpretations involve mechanisms of extinction and perceptual processing, disturbance of spatial attention, and others. Odd alterations involving apparent concern, attitudes, or belief characterize many right hemisphere conditions. Anosognosia and neglect are re-examined, from the perspective of unawareness, the nature of belief, and its baffling distortions. Conceptual parallels between these 2 distinct disorders emerge, as the major role of the right hemisphere in mental representation of self is highlighted by its most fascinating syndromes of altered awareness.