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A Large Insertion in bHLH Transcription Factor BrTT8 Resulting in Yellow Seed Coat in Brassica rapa

Yellow seed is a desirable quality trait of the Brassica oilseed species. Previously, several seed coat color genes have been mapped in the Brassica species, but the molecular mechanism is still unknown. In the present investigation, map-based cloning method was used to identify a seed coat color gene, located on A9 in B. rapa. Blast analysis with the Arabidopsis genome showed that there were 22 Arabidopsis genes in this region including at4g09820 to at4g10620. Functional complementation test exhibited a phenotype reversion in the Arabidopsis thaliana tt8-1 mutant and yellow-seeded plant. These results suggested that the candidate gene was a homolog of TRANSPARENT TESTA8 (TT8) locus. BrTT8 regulated the accumulation of proanthocyanidins (PAs) in the seed coat. Sequence analysis of two alleles revealed a large insertion of a new class of transposable elements, Helitron in yellow sarson. In addition, no mRNA expression of BrTT8 was detected in the yellow-seeded line. It indicated that the natural transposon might have caused the loss in function of BrTT8. BrTT8 encodes a basic/helix-loop-helix (bHLH) protein that shares a high degree of similarity with other bHLH proteins in the Brassica. Further expression analysis also revealed that BrTT8 was involved in controlling the late biosynthetic genes (LBGs) of the flavonoid pathway. Our present findings provided with further studies could assist in understanding the molecular mechanism involved in seed coat color formation in Brassica species, which is an important oil yielding quality trait.
Combining image and text features: a hybrid approach to mobile book spine recognition

Despite the successful use of local image features for large-scale object recognition, they are not effective in recognizing book spines on bookshelves. This is because some book spines contain only text components that do not yield distinguishing image features. To overcome this issue, we develop a new approach that combines a text-based spine recognition pipeline with an image feature-based spine recognition pipeline. The text within the book spine image is recognized and used as keywords to search a book spine text database. The image features of the book spine image are searched through a book spine image database. The search results of the two approaches are then carefully combined to form the final result. We implement the proposed hybrid book recognition pipeline used in a book inventory management system, and conduct extensive experiments to evaluate its performance. The experimental results show that while text-based or image feature-based systems only achieve a recall of 72%, the proposed hybrid system achieves a recall of ~91%.
High Performance Workplaces and Family Friendly Practices: Promises Made and Promises Kept

High performance workplaces elicit greater involvement and productivity from employees but past theory and evidence remain divided on whether or not such workplaces are compatible with family friendly work practices. We present new evidence on the association using perceptions of a representative sample of workers and an innovative testing framework. The evidence reveals that high performance workplaces are no more likely to make commitments to provide family friendly workplaces than are other workplaces. It shows, however, that high performance workplaces are more likely to keep the family friendly commitments they make, thereby maintaining a "psychological contract" based on mutual obligation. As providing family friendly practices requires both making and keeping commitments, the evidence confirms that high performance workplaces are more likely to provide such practices.
Lithium abundances for 185 main-sequence stars - galactic evolution and stellar depletion of lithium

We present a survey of lithium abundances in 185 main-sequence field stars with $5600 \la T_{\rm eff} \la 6600$ K and $-1.4 \la {\rm [Fe/H]} \la +0.2$ based on new measurements of the equivalent width of the $\lambda 6708$ Lii line in high-resolution spectra of 130 stars and a reanalysis of data for 55 stars from Lambert et al. ([CITE]). The survey takes advantage of improved photometric and spectroscopic determinations of effective temperature and metallicity as well as mass and age derived from Hipparcos absolute magnitudes, offering an opportunity to investigate the behaviour of Li as a function of these parameters. An interesting result from this study is the presence of a large gap in the $\log \varepsilon ({\rm Li}) - T_{\rm eff}$ plane, which distinguishes "Li-dip"stars like those first identified in the Hyades cluster by Boesgaard & Tripicco ([CITE]) from other stars with a much higher Li abundance. The Li-dip stars concentrate on a certain mass, which decreases with metallicity from about 1.4 $M_{\odot}$ at solar metallicity to 1.1 $M_{\odot}$ at ${\rm [Fe/H]} \simeq -1.0$. Excluding the Li-dip stars and a small group of lower mass stars with $T_{\rm eff} < 5900$ K and $\log \varepsilon ({\rm Li}) < 1.5$, the remaining stars, when divided into four metallicity groups, may show a correlation between Li abundance and stellar mass. The dispersion around the $\log \varepsilon ({\rm Li})$-mass relation is about 0.2 dex below ${\rm [Fe/H]} \simeq -0.4$ and 0.3 dex above this metallicity, which cannot be explained by observational errors or differences in metallicity. Furthermore, there is no correlation between the residuals of the $\log \varepsilon ({\rm Li})$-mass relations and stellar age, which ranges from 1.5 Gyr to about 15 Gyr. This suggests that Li depletion occurs early in stellar life and that parameters other than stellar mass and metallicity affect the degree of depletion, e.g. initial rotation velocity and/or the rate of angular momentum loss. It cannot be excluded, however, that a cosmic scatter of the Li abundance in the Galaxy at a given metallicity contributes to the dispersion in Li abundance. These problems make it difficult to determine the Galactic evolution of Li from the data, but a comparison of the upper envelope of the distribution of stars in the $\log \varepsilon ({\rm Li}) - {\rm [Fe/H]}$ plane with recent Galactic evolutionary models by Romano et al. ([CITE]) suggests that novae are a major source for the Li production in the Galactic disk; their occurrence seems to be the explanation for the steep increase of Li abundance at ${\rm [Fe/H]} \simeq -0.4$.
Autism and psychoanalysis in the French context

As is the case in Western countries as a whole, the application of psychoanalysis in France to the treatment of autistic children has been subjected over the last few decades to more or less violent criticism, and even to obstacles of various kinds, which make it increasingly difficult. This takes on, of course, different colourings from one country to another, depending on each country’s history, culture, traditions, and the current organisation of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care. This article aims to describe these particular features in the French context. With this end in mind, it is necessary to take into account the evolution not only of the notion of infantile autism but also of psychoanalysis, as well as of their interface.
Cultural Influences on Students’ Perceptions of Written Feedback in L2 Writing

One of significant topics to discuss in studies about feedback in L2 writing is the influence of students’ culturally constructed view of the feedback process. Research has shown that the cultures of hierarchical relationship and face-saving strategy have significant influence on students’ perceptions of feedback process in L2 writing, particularly in Asian societies. Aiming to investigate whether these findings resonate in Indonesian EFL context, this study collected data through writing drafts, reflective journals, question­naires and interviews with seven students who took an after-class writing course. Findings suggested that students valued teacher feedback more than peer feedback, however they were not concerned about practicing face-saving strategies to maintain group harmony and cohesion.
Unpacking Protection Motivation Theory: evidence for a separate protective and non-protective route in private flood mitigation behavior

Abstract Flood preparedness of private households is regarded an essential building block of integrated flood risk management. In the past decade, numerous empirical studies have employed the protection motivation theory (PMT) to explain flood mitigation behavior at the household level. However, much of this research has produced mixed results and could not consistently confirm the strength and direction of the relationships between the PMT components. Based on a survey of 2,007 households in flood-prone areas, this study revisits the model structure of the PMT by means of structural equation modeling. Compared to the methods used in previous studies, this modeling technique allows us to capture the PMT components in greater detail and to comprehensively test their hypothesized interrelations. Our results point to two separate routes leading to two different response types: A protective route from coping appraisal to protective behavior, and a non-protective route from threat appraisal to non-protective responses. Risk perception is not found to be part of the protective route, neither are non-protective responses confirmed to undermine protection motivation. The two separate routes are observed consistently across all combinations of the six protective and four non-protective responses assessed in this study. In the light of encouraging private flood adaptation, risk communication measures should specifically target the protective route and avoid (accidentally) providing incentives that fall within the non-protective route. This cross-sectional study, however, cannot establish how the two routes interrelate over time. More experimental and longitudinal research is required to address potential feedback effects and the role of decision stages.
Gröbner bases, local cohomology and reduction number

D. Bayer and M. Stillman showed that Grobner bases can be used to compute the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity, which is a measure for the vanishing of graded local cohomology modules. The aim of this paper is to show that the same method can be applied to study other cohomological invariants as well as the reduction number.
Controllability and observability of leader-based multi-agent systems

In this work we analyze the controllability and observability properties of several interconnection configurations such as the chain topology and cyclic topology as well as combinations of these two topologies. A leader/follower control strategy is proposed to control the center of mass of the multiple agent system. It is shown that the trajectory tracking for a multi-agent system converges to the constant input reference given only to the leader. Also, it is shown that choosing an appropriated gain, the agents achieve consensus for constant input reference.
Effect of Pegylated Interferon Add-On Therapy to Achieve Disease Remission in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B

Despite effective vaccination, chronic hepatitis B (CHB) poses a substantial hazard to public health with limited options for finite treatment. A pooled analysis was performed to investigate whether 24-48 weeks of peg-interferon (PEG-IFN) addition could increase response 48 weeks after end-of-therapy compared to continued nucleos(t)ide analogue (NUC)-monotherapy in 234 patients from two investigator-initiated trials. PEG-IFN addition hypothetically increases offtreatment response, particularly after prolonged NUC pre-treatment due to partial immune restoration. Response was observed in 38/118 (33%) patients assigned PEG-IFN addition and 23/116 (20%) assigned NUC-monotherapy (p=0.03). The duration of NUC-monotherapy was associated with HBsAg and HBV DNA, but not directly with response. Re-treating initial nonresponders with PEG-IFN add-on did not improve response. PEG-IFN naïve patients with low HBsAg and HBV-DNA levels at randomization achieved the highest response to addition therapy compared with NUC-monotherapy (70% vs. 34%; p=0.01), identifying these as the best candidates for PEG-IFN add-on therapy in clinical practice.
Nonstandard Employment and Health in South Korea: The Role of Gender and Family Status

Using nationally representative longitudinal data collected in South Korea from 2006 to 2013, this study evaluates the associations between nonstandard employment and various health outcomes with a focus on gender differences. We also examine to what extent family status, that is, marital status and parenthood, conditions these associations for men and women. Our results reveal an important role of selection in that many of the significantly negative associations between nonstandard/self-employment and health outcomes disappear in fixed-effects models when time-invariant unobserved individual heterogeneity is taken into account. Such negative selection appears to be more pronounced for men than for women. We also find a significant association between nonstandard/self-employment and health, which differs by gender and particular health outcomes examined. As for the moderating role of family status, our results show that mothers do benefit from self-employment in terms of lower depressive symptoms.
Genotyping hepatitis C virus isolates from Spain, Brazil, China, and Macau by a simplified PCR method

An improved and simplified method of genotyping was developed for classifying hepatitis C virus (HCV) isolates into the five common genotypes, i.e., I/1a, II/1b, III/2a, IV/2b, and V/3a, by PCR with genotype-specific primers deduced from the core gene. Sense and antisense primers, specific for each of the five common genotypes, were designed by comparison of 319 core gene sequences from HCV isolates of various genotypes from genetic groups 1 to 9. In the first round of PCR, a sequence of 433 bp representing nucleotides 319 to 751 was amplified with universal primers. The second round of PCR was performed with respective sense and antisense primers in two separate reactions, one for the amplification of genotypes I/1a and II/1b and the other for the amplification of genotypes III/2a, IV/2b, and V/3a. The specificity of genotyping was confirmed with a panel of 191 serum samples containing HCV isolates whose core gene sequences were known: 110 serum samples infected with HCV of the five common genotypes and 81 serum samples infected with HCV of other genotypes. The use of sense and antisense primers for genotype II/1b (primers 389 and 492) abolished the cross-reaction of the antisense primer for genotype II/1b (primer 133) with some HCV isolates of genotype I/1a found by our original method. The new method was used for genotyping 130 HCV isolates from Spain, 53 from Brazil, 106 from China, and 30 from Macau. A total of 329 bp of the NS5b region (nucleotides 8279 to 8607) of five isolates from Spain and five isolates from Macau which could not be classified as any of the five common HCV genotypes or genotype 2c were sequenced, and the sequences were compared with those of HCV isolates of known genotypes; two isolates from Spain were deduced to be of genotype 4d and one was deduced to be of genotype 1d, while the remaining two isolates from Spain had novel genotypes in genetic group 2; however, all five isolates from Macau were of genotype 6a.
in a Swiss Youth Sample The ‘ Drug – Crime Link ’ from a Self-Control Perspective : An Empirical Test

The present paper explores to what extent low self-control can account for the ‘drug–crime link’, i.e. the correlation between substance use and delinquency. Based on a large representative sample of Swiss 9th grade students, we reassess the dimensionality of Grasmick et al.’s self-control scale and propose a fivedimensional second-order factor model. This model is then used as a predictor of two correlated behavioural continua, one measuring overall delinquency and the other overall substance use. Results indicate that self-control is a strong and stable predictor of both types of behaviour. However, although self-control substantially accounts for the correlation between delinquency and substance use, a considerable residual correlation remains. It is argued that dynamic or ‘state-dependent’ factors are most likely to account for this residual correlation. Analyses of the predictive power of individual sub-dimensions of self-control further indicate that self-control might be reduced to the sub-dimensions of ‘risk-seeking’ and ‘impulsivity’. Results are discussed in the broader context of past research and of the ongoing theoretical debate.
Impact of parental migration on the psychosocial wellbeing of left-behind children in two Chinese provinces: individual experiences, family characteristics, and community contexts

Background: In many countries, large numbers of left-behind children (LBC) grow up experiencing prolonged separation from their migrant worker parents. In China, the wellbeing of 60 million LBC has become a significant challenge for families, communities, and the society. This thesis aimed to investigate the impact mechanisms of parental migration on the psychosocial wellbeing of LBC. Methods: Children were recruited from migrant-sending rural areas in Zhejiang and Guizhou provinces. A qualitative study investigated the experiences of children and perceptions of family members in relation to child psychosocial wellbeing under the impact of parental migration, as well as the interrelated factors in the family and social environments and the mechanisms through which they affect LBC. A quantitative study measured children’s psychosocial strengths and difficulties and the family and social factors, with a self-administered questionnaire, and examined the effects of both current and previous parental migration, and potential causal mechanisms involving different covariates in multiple linear regression models. Findings: Qualitative findings showed that lengthy separation poses considerable difficulties on many children’s psychosocial welling, especially emotional distress, primarily through disrupted attachment relationships. These effects may not be easily restored even if migrant parents permanently returned home. The psychosocial support (and lack of) from the co-resident family, as well as factors regarding school performance and community cohesion, also modify or intensify the child wellbeing outcomes under the impact of parents’ absence. Quantitative results indicated that both current and previous parental migration was independently associated with adverse outcomes, especially the emotional and social dimensions of child psychosocial wellbeing. Relationship between nuclear family members, care arrangements, and availability of support in family and social environments seem to be important covariates in the causal mechanisms. Parental divorce and lack of support may particularly exacerbate children’s psychosocial difficulties. Discussion: Parental migration has a long-lasting adverse effect on children’s psychosocial wellbeing, especially emotional functioning. Positive parent-child relationship bonds and supportive family and social environments are crucial determinants of the wellbeing of LBC, rather than socioeconomic status. Community based programs may be developed to provide additional care and support.
Constraints on the Size Evolution of Brightest Cluster Galaxies

We measure the luminosity profiles of 16 brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) at 0.4 < z < 0.8 using high-resolution F160W NICMOS and F814W WFPC2 Hubble Space Telescope imaging. The heterogeneous sample is drawn from a variety of surveys: seven from clusters in the Einstein Medium Sensitivity Survey, five from the Las Campanas Distant Cluster Survey and its Northern Hemisphere precursor, and the remaining four from traditional optical surveys. We find that the surface brightness profiles of all but three of these BCGs are well described by a standard de Vaucouleurs (r1/4) profile out to at least ~2re and that the biweight-estimated NICMOS effective radius of our high-redshift BCGs (re = 8.3 ± 1.4 kpc for H0 = 80 km s-1 Mpc-1, Ωm = 0.2, ΩΛ = 0.0) is ~2 times smaller than that measured for a local BCG sample. If high-redshift BCGs are in dynamical equilibrium and satisfy the same scaling relations as low-redshift ones, this change in size would correspond to a mass growth of a factor of 2 since z ~ 0.5. However, the biweight-estimated WFPC2 effective radius of our sample is 18 ± 5.1 kpc, which is fully consistent with the local sample. While we can rule out mass accretion rates higher than a factor of 2 in our sample, the discrepancy between our NICMOS and WFPC2 results, which after various tests we describe appears to be physical, does not yet allow us to place strong constraints on accretion rates below that level.
Conservative numerical schemes for the Vlasov equation

Abstract A new scheme for solving the Vlasov equation using a phase space grid is proposed. The algorithm is based on the conservation of the flux of particles, and the distribution function is reconstructed using various techniques that allow control of spurious oscillations or preservation of the positivity. Several numerical results are presented in two- and four-dimensional phase space and the scheme is compared with the semiLagrangian method. This method is almost as accurate as the semiLagrangian one, and the local reconstruction technique is well suited for parallel computation.
Generic Self-Adaptation to Reduce Design Effort for System-on-Chip

We investigate a generic self-adaptation method to reduce the design effort for System-on-Chip (SoC). Previous self-adaptation solutions at chip-level use circuitries which have been specially designed for the current problem by hand, leading to an elaborate and inflexible design process, requiring specially trained engineers, and making design reuse difficult. On the other hand, a generic self-adaptation method that can be used for various self-adaptation problems promises to reduce the necessary design effort, but may come with reduced performance and other costs. In this paper, we analyze the performance, self-adaptation capabilities and costs of a generic self-adaptation method. The proposed method allows chip-level self-adaptation of a SoC, can tolerate unforeseen events, and can generalize from previous self-adaptation tasks. Furthermore, the method helps to improve the design process by allowing design reuse, providing generic applicability, and offering a uniform design process for various self-adaptation tasks. Simulation results show that the performance of our method lies only 10% below the performance of a perfect, non-adaptive system in the average case, and only 32% in the worst case. In case of unforeseen events, where the performance of a non-adaptive system decreases significantly, the method can keep its performance level by self-adaptation. We also compare other costs involved.
“GrowCut” - Interactive Multi-Label N-D Image Segmentation By Cellular Automata

In this paper we describe a novel algorithm for interactive multi-label segmentation of N-dimensional images. Given a small number of user-labelled pixels, the rest of the image is segmented automatically by a Cellular Automaton. The process is iterative, as the automaton labels the image, user can observe the segmentation evolution and guide the algorithm with human input where the segmentation is difﬁcult to compute. In the areas, where the segmentation is reliably computed automatically no additional user effort is required. Results of segmenting generic photos and medical images are presented. Our experiments show that modest user effort is required for segmentation of moderately hard images.