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The COVID-19 pandemic has shown an impact on sexually transmitted infections. The research aims to understand an overview of CDC's STI surveillance data for 2020 that can provide a general understanding and a comprehensive review of patternsofChlamydia and Gonorrhea infections among men and women.The study conducted an in-depth qualitative research analysis of the CDC's STI surveillance data for 2020. The studyanalyzes particular research questions.What is the difference between reported cases of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea among men and women? How does sexual orientation affect reported cases of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea? What demographics are associated with Chlamydia and Gonorrhea cases? The research analyzes the number of cases of Chlamydi and Gonorrheain fections among men and women, includingsexualorientation, age, ethnicity, and reported cases in healthcare centers.The results of the CDC's STI surveillance data of 2020 have determined that men have a higher number of cases in both infections, and MSM have a higher number of cases in the sexual orientation category. The result differed based on ethnicity, in which females had a significant increase in chlamydia cases compared to men while men had an increased number of gonorrhea cases. African American men and women have shown the greatest number of cases. Non-Hispanic/Pacific Islanders men have a higher number of chlamydia cases compared to women. Overall, the transmission of gonorrhea is higher in men, while chlamydia is seen most in women.Sexually transmitted infections such as gonorrhea and chlamydia may present with unseen consequences. Gender, age, and ethnicity play a vital role in our society in improving health conditions. Limitations may occur within the study. The results may show biases based on the lack of data submission due to restrictions. The inconsistency of recording data could occur based on social distancing guidelines, quarantining, and lack of resources available during the pandemic and guidelines that significantly affect the public. Public health officials utilize the data to determine high prevalence areas to improve policies and guidelines that significantly affect the public.

The clinical manifestations of cardiac myxoma are often non-specific and may delay diagnosis. We report the case of a 53-year-old man who has been presenting for the past four years a recurrent skin rash on his back associated with muscle pain. He was admitted to the emergency room for sudden right-sided hemiparesis and aphasia due to a subacute ischemic stroke at the frontal- parietal and temporal lobes.Echocardiogram revealed a mass in the left atrium suggestive of myxoma. After surgery, the patient remained free of cutaneous symptoms. Atypical manifestations of cardiac myxoma should be considered in order to not delay adequate management.

Air pollutants, including SO₂, H₂S , NO_X and TSP, were measured in Al-Hashimeya town in Zarqa Governorate, where there are three main sources contributing in different degrees to the pollution of air. These are Jordan Petroleum Refinery, Al-Hussein Thermal Power Station, and Al-samra Waste Water Treatment Plant. Data relating to pollution in Al-Hashimeya have been collected from all sources that had measured the level of pollution in this areaduring the period from 2005 to 2009 are presented. The effects of local meteorological conditions were studied by statistical analysis.
The concentration variations in air pollutants are closely related to those in local meteorological conditions. Both temperature and relative humidity have significant negative correlations, whereas wind speed has a significant positive correlation with these pollutants.

Availability, pollution and treatment of water are of major concern of present time. Many micro-organisms are capable for wastewater treatment. In the present study, feasibility of decolorization of dye contaminated effluents collected from different textile industries was examined using Aspergillus tamarii and Aspergillus flavus in batch and continuous reactor. Aspergillus flavus was found to be more efficient than Aspergillus tamarii to decolorize the effluents. Maximum decolorization of 85.3% was observed at optimized pH with 50% diluted effluent sample (ES1) using Aspergillus flavus (pH 4.5) as compared to 82.2% obtained using Aspergillus tamarii (pH 5). Chemical oxygen demand (COD) reduction has been observed to be 75% after decolorization of ES1 using Aspergillus flavus. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analyses strongly supported biosorption as well as biodegradation of dye during decolorization.

A study of delineation of Iron (Fe) and Manganese (Mn) status in soils of Central Research station, Akola was conducted during the year 2006 and 2007. Detailed maps of micronutrient also prepared. Delineation of study area was completed with help of global positioning system and for predicting available cationic micronutrient status extraction with chelating agent such as di ethylene triamine penta acetic acid (DTPA) is used. The soils of Central Research Station were found 20 per cent deficient in iron and 7 per cent deficient in manganese. While the available micronutrient status of Central Research Station soils was found as iron 0.12 to 16.32 and manganese 0.32 to 16.78.

Technologies have advanced rapidly in the field of digital signal processing due to advances made in high speed, low cost digital integrated chips. These technologies have further stimulated ever increasing use of signal representation in digital form for purposes of transmission, measurement, control and storage. Design of digital filters especially adaptive or semi adaptive is the necessity of the hour for SAR applications. The aim of this research work is to design and performance evaluation of 380-400 KHz Bartlett, Blackman and Chebyshev digital semi adaptive filters. For this work XILINX and MATLAB softwares were used for the design. As pert of practical research work these designs were translated using FPGA hardware SPARTAN-3E kit. These were optimized, analyzed, compared and evaluated keeping the sampling frequency at 5 MHz for 64 order. Both these filters designed using software and hardware were tested by passing a sinusoidal test signal of 381 KHz along with noise and the filtered output signals are presented.

This paper reports the design, implementation and testing of an indirect solar potato dryer. Indirect solar drying is the new technique of product drying. It is very efficient method than the direct type of solar drying. In this method the atmospheric air is heated in flat plate collector. This hot air then flow in the drying cabinet or drying chamber where potatoes slides are stored. Therefore moisture from the potatoes slides may lost by convection and diffusion. This method of drying is used to avoid direct exposing to the solar radiation. This method mainly reduces the disadvantages of direct solar drying. The experimental set up used for testing the performance of an indirect solar food dryer and determining the influence of various drying methods on the drying behavior of fresh potatoes slides. Evaluation of the dryer was centered on the moisture content reduction and temperature variations. 2 kg of fresh potatoes slides was used for evaluation. Temperatures of the drying chamber (drying cabinet), solar collector and ambient air were taken daily using digital sensors on an hourly basis from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Moisture content was taken at the beginning and at the end of each drying day. The test results gave temperature above 65 oC in the flat plate collector (solar collector), 50 oC in the drying cabinet, and the moisture content of 2 kg of fresh potatoes slides reduced to about 66.1 % in five days of drying.

Using concentrations of 0.0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6 and 0.8mg diatomaceous earth (DE) 100 mL-1 larval food medium, a mean LC50 value of 0.6636mg was determined for the 3rd-instar larvae of the housefly Musca domestica. Time-course mortalities of the larvae at the determined LC50 level were assessed at 24h, 48h and 72h post-treatments. Finally, DE-induced changes in such vital reproductive attributes as egg-laying, egg-hatch, larval duration, number of dead larvae, pupal duration, number of dead pupae, number of adults emerged and female ratios from parental through F2 generations were recorded. Results indicated that DE could be used as an efficient larvicide against M. domestica and it was capable of inducing deleterious effects on all the reproductive parameters at the determined LC50. These findings have potential implications because the present DE concentration might be utilized for the control of this important vector species under household as well as field conditions.

In this paper, author attempts to establish relationship among output, employment, average productivity of labour and export of SSI sector in India and GDP in India during 1980-81-2014-15 through Simple regression analysis, causality test, cointegration and vector error correction models. The paper concludes that output of SSI sector has been increasing at the rate of 10.12% per year and exponentially at the rate of 0.554% per year during 1980-81-2014-15.The series is stationary, stable and divergent as indicated by ARIMA and AR models. Average productivity, employment and export of SSI sector have been rising at the rates of 1.68%, 8.43%,and 13.34% per year respectively during the same period. One per cent increase in export led to 0.48% increase in GDP per year during the specified period. Production, employment, average productivity and export of SSI showed two cointegrating vectors whose vector error correction model is stable, divergent and insignificant error correction process. India’s GDP,SSI sector’s output, employment, average productivity and export have two cointegrating vectors but its vector error correction model is stable, divergent and insignificant error correction having problem of autocorrelations. New policy recommendations of RBI and new government policy on MSME are likely to accelerate the performance of SSI and its contribution to the national economy.

The fish subsector is considered one of the most important sectors in many Arab countries and due to the challenges facing the sector, this research aimed at investigating the inter-trade and the economic indicators in the Arab countries. Data from the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development was computed to estimate the relative importance, coverage rate, trade exchange rate, exports share, commodity concentration coefficient, economic exposure and propensity to import and export. The comparative advantage is shown to be high only in Yemen and Mauritania based on the locations on coasts. Egypt has shown a good have high comparative advantages while Egypt has shown a higher production from aquacultures than all the rest of the countries. In general, Mauritania, Bahrain, Oman and Morocco have shown higher marginal propensity to export and other export-related indicators. Meanwhile, Bahrain, Kuwait and UAE have shown tendency to import. A great potential for economic integration between the Arab countries have been determined and it’s highly recommended that the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development develop and lead a strategy for fish value chain improvement and integration.