DRIVER OPTIMIZED MEDIA AND DIALING CONTROLS

This publication describes techniques for creating driver-safe interfaces of media-enabled applications for vehicular computing devices (e.g., automotive head unit, infotainment system, etc.). The vehicle computing system may also monitor the state of the vehicle to determine when the vehicle transitions from a non-active state (e.g., the vehicle is parked, not in motion, etc.) to an active driving state (e.g., the vehicle is moving, in active use, in a non-parked state, etc.). When the vehicle transitions between driving states, the computing system may determine if the driver is actively using any application providing audio playback (e.g., calls, video players, audio players, applications with background sounds, etc.). If the driver is using an application with sound, the computing system may alter the user interface (UI) to create a driver-optimized UI. The driver-optimized UI may display key features about the current audio source (e.g., the source application, titles and/or descriptions associated with the audio, images, etc.). The UI may feature interactive buttons that enable the driver to control the audio (e.g., toggle the playback state, adjust volume, fast forward or rewind, etc.). In some examples, the driver-optimized UI may include control features the user may use to launch, end, or otherwise control a call. The computing system may overlay call information over the application display. In this way, the computing device may enable the driver to control audio playback using a driver-optimized display, enhancing driver safety and providing simpler means for drivers to control apps

APPLICATION EMULATOR FOR VEHICLES

The infotainment system (e.g., infotainment system) of a vehicle (e.g., an automobile, a motorcycle, a bus, a recreational vehicle (RV), a semi-trailer truck, a tractor or other type of farm equipment, train, a plane, a boat, a helicopter, a personal transport vehicle, etc.) may execute an application (e.g., a media application, a messaging application, a navigation application, etc.) originally developed for a different type of computing device, such as a smartphone, a tablet, a smartwatch, etc. To run the application, the infotainment system may load the files of the application into an emulator module (e.g., a virtual environment simulating the computing device for which the application was originally designed). The infotainment system may modify display values and other parameters within the emulator module to match the form factor and specifications of a display in the vehicle. In this way, the techniques may offer seamless integration as well as an expanded application ecosystem, significantly improving the user experience

Glucagon Secreting Cells Responds to Insulin Secretion In vitro Using Immunocytochemistry

In the present study, pancreas of rats were dissected and transferred to HEPES buffer (25 mM, pH 7.4). The control tissue pieces were kept in culture medium for one hour and the treated tissues were kept in same medium for 30 minutes and incubated with Insulin (10 nm and 100 nm) for another half hour, then tissues were transferred to Bouin‘s fixative (overnight at 40 ° Cc), cryosectioned (15 µm at -16 0 c) and subjected to immunocytochemical labeling with antibodies against Glucagon

Rectus sheath haematoma or leaking aortic aneurysm - a diagnostic challenge: a case report

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Childhood Obstructive Sleep Apnea Associates with Neuropsychological Deficits and Neuronal Brain Injury

BACKGROUND: Childhood obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with neuropsychological deficits of memory, learning, and executive function. There is no evidence of neuronal brain injury in children with OSA. We hypothesized that childhood OSA is associated with neuropsychological performance dysfunction, and with neuronal metabolite alterations in the brain, indicative of neuronal injury in areas corresponding to neuropsychological function. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We conducted a cross-sectional study of 31 children (19 with OSA and 12 healthy controls, aged 6–16 y) group-matched by age, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status. Participants underwent polysomnography and neuropsychological assessments. Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging was performed on a subset of children with OSA and on matched controls. Neuropsychological test scores and mean neuronal metabolite ratios of target brain areas were compared. Relative to controls, children with severe OSA had significant deficits in IQ and executive functions (verbal working memory and verbal fluency). Children with OSA demonstrated decreases of the mean neuronal metabolite ratio N-acetyl aspartate/choline in the left hippocampus (controls: 1.29, standard deviation [SD] 0.21; OSA: 0.91, SD 0.05; p = 0.001) and right frontal cortex (controls: 2.2, SD 0.4; OSA: 1.6, SD 0.4; p = 0.03). CONCLUSIONS: Childhood OSA is associated with deficits of IQ and executive function and also with possible neuronal injury in the hippocampus and frontal cortex. We speculate that untreated childhood OSA could permanently alter a developing child's cognitive potential

The paradox of helping in human service treatment agencies.

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Being Latvian: Discourse and Identity Among Individuals of Black African Descent

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2012This dissertation examines the dynamics of skin color and identity among individuals of black African descent in Latvia. I contend that the politics of blackness is constituted differently in Latvia by individuals of black African descent, than in the dominant literature on blackness, which is primarily derived from an Anglo-American context. I explore how the concept of blackness (and its sometimes corollary Africanness), based in `Western' formulations of `black' (as in `African -;`) and `African' identity, can or cannot be applied to the perspectives and experiences of individuals of black African descent in Latvia. My research points to the emergence of three themes connected to this topic: (1) the concept of race or `race' and how it is adopted into everyday and political life in Latvia, (2) the relationship between phenotype (for example skin color and hair) and sense of self, and (3) the relationship between geographic location and place of birth with sense of self. In connection to the first theme, I argue that a discourse of `race' is still emerging in Latvia, a discourse that is shaped by their membership in the European Union, and that Anglo- American discourses and modes of analysis of `race' are based upon a history of slavery and colonialism and therefore does not map neatly onto the Latvian context. In correlation to the second and third themes, my dissertation reveals that there is not a shared sense of identity among individuals of black African descent in Latvia - that skin color, and even connections to the African diaspora, do not define one's identity. This is particularly evident in the formation of a "flexible identity" (Vasquez, 2010) among individuals of black African descent, especially those of mixed black African and (white) Latvian backgrounds born and raised in Latvia, in that they navigate (or adapt) their identities within different social, geographic, and political locations. Ultimately, "flexible identity" also plays a role in the discourse of difference in Latvia - which engages with the portrayals and perceptions of blackness (and Africanness) among and of individuals of black African descen