RESEARCH NOTE PREVALENCE OF BOVINE TRYPANOSOME INFECTIONS IN DAMBOA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA BORNO STATE

African animal trypanosomiasis is a disease complex caused by pathogenic trypanosomes which are cyclically transmitted by tsetse-fly or mechanically by other biting flies to domestic animals. The disease has for long been a limiting factor to livestock production in tsetse-fly infested regions of Africa (Anosa, 1983; Trail et al., 1985; Dwinger et al., 1986). It is now assuming significance in the tsetse-free vegetational zones (Nawathe et al., 1988) probably due to transhumance and ecological upset in favour of increasing insect population and activity in the area. The study was undertaken to ascertain the prevalence of bovine trypansome infection in the area and hoped that it will provide information on the epidemiology of the disease. A total of 151 blood samples were collected from 11 sedentary herds of cattle in Damboa Local Government Area between February to April, 1992. About 3ml of blood was collected from each animal inbijou bottle containing anticoagulant (Ethylene diamine tetra-acetic acid). The sex, age and breed of each animal were noted during blood collection. The blood samples were transported to the Laboratory on ice and examined using wet-film, stained thin smears, haematocrit centrifuge technique (Woo, 1969) and dark ground buffy coat. The packed cell volume was also recorded for each animal using Hawksley's haematocrit reader.

Schelling’s Romanticism

This paper is a contribution to recent scholarly interest in the intersections of post-Kantian idealism and Romanticism. It traces overlapping concerns in Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling’s and Novalis’ works. Both thinkers began their philosophical studies with critical engagements of the philosophy of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, developing similar arguments for the duplicity of relationships of identity and the problem of their mediation. Novalis and Schelling also explored the intersections of mind and nature through notions of potentiation and depotentiation, stimulated by their respective philosophical examinations of contemporary mathematics and natural sciences. Finally, both thinkers introduced figures of a dark ground or night—Novalis in Hymns to the Night and Schelling in works as diverse as On the World Soul and Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom—to present the unpresentability of the infinite. Although there is little historical documentation of direct borrowings of one thinker from the other, these overlapping concerns are richly suggestive.

Grounding Deleuze

The article discusses the significance of What Is Grounding?, a text based on a lecture course given by Deleuze at the Lycée Louis le Grand. This course is crucial for understanding Deleuze’s thought, as it presents his ideas in a focused manner and also establishes the differences between various approaches to the philosophical task of (self)grounding and the beginning of philosophy as a whole. Deleuze begins with mythology: mythological thinking accompanied by the endless task of ritual repetition forms the first step towards attaining reason as infinite. With Hume, Kant and post-Kantianism we arrive at the grounding of reason, and Deleuze’s text itself is also concerned with the capacity of finite creatures to “realize reason”. Knowledge after Hume, however, is grounded on subjective principles and in it the subject begins to assert its right to grounding through “questioning”. The structures of questioning are three: the existential, the logical-rational and the critical, and they are not opposed, but rather form a triple function of grounding. They could also have a relation either to knowledge or to expressing things as they are in themselves. Deleuze calls the first relation “method” and the second “system,” and takes a positive view of post-Kantian philosophers and even Hegel because they had moved towards system after Kant could not choose between it and method and yet had emphasized the constitutive character of human finitude. The deepest aspect of grounding, however, remains “groundlessness/ungrounding” — in these lectures Deleuze is already turning toward an encounter with the dark ground of the unconscious, an idea he borrowed from Schelling and related to individuation. Thus, grounding brings difference into ground, and this is what the immanent realization of reason consists of.

PENGEMBANGAN APLIKASI TRANSAKSI JUAL BELI KOPI DI PT GOLDEN MALABAR INDONESIA

PT Golden Malabar Indonesia adalah salah satu perusahaan pengolah biji kopi yang menghasilkan berbagai jenis kopi olahan (varian), yaitu: wet hull, dry hull, honey, natural dan luwak. Perusahaan ini juga menjual biji kopi olahan, yaitu: green bean, roasted bean medium, roasted bean dark, ground, dan lainnya. Perkembangan perusahaan menunjukkan permintaan konsumen yang semakin tinggi, baik dari sisi jumlah maupun varian, sehingga memunculkan masalah dalam pencampuran varian kopi, yaitu campuran tersebut belum bisa didata dalam sistem informasi penjualan di perusahaan, termasuk catatan transaksi, stok barang, dan pencetakan laporan. Untuk menyelesaikan permasalahan tersebut diperlukan suatu sistem yang memberikan informasi penjualan, dan sistem dibangun dengan menggunakan model Object Oriented untuk memperlihatkan seluruh proses bisnis yang terjadi. Pola yang telah digambarkan dan data dari hasil analisis ini kemudian disusun menjadi suatu aplikasi transaksi jual beli kopi. Hasil perancangan ini merupakan sebuah aplikasi yang dapat menyampaikan dan mengolah informasi penjualan di Perusahaan khususnya dalam proses penyimpanan data pencampuran, selain itu aplikasi ini juga mampu memperbaiki sistem transaksi, keadaan stok barang, dan pencetakan laporan.

Investigations and microscopy

This chapter covers investigations and tests commonly used in sexual health. Some investigations can be performed on-site as the patient waits, such as urinalysis, pregnancy tests, and increasingly available point of care tests for infections such as HIV and, less commonly, the other blood-borne viruses, syphilis, Trichomonas vaginalis. On-site microscopy helps with diagnosis of genital candidiasis, bacterial vaginosis, N. gonorrhoeae infection, and T. vaginalis. Other investigations require sending samples away for laboratory testing of genital or ulcer swab, urine, or blood samples for STI and blood-borne viruses. This chapter explains the use of light and dark ground microscopy, near patient rapid test technologies, molecular methods such as nucleic acid amplification, culture and serology. Sensitivities and specificities of commonly available test kits are included.