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Transfer of Maternal Immunity to Newborns of Diabetic Mothers

This study was carried out with hyperglycemic pregnant women to investigate the transfer of antibody classes to newborns across the placenta or by colostrum and the functional activity of phagocytes in maternal blood, cord blood, and colostrum from diabetes mothers. Samples from maternal blood, cord blood, and colostrum were collected from 20 normoglycemic and 20 hyperglycemic pregnant women. We determined antibodies levels, superoxide release, phagocytosis and bactericidal activity of phagocytes. We demonstrated that IgG levels in cord blood were higher in the hyperglycemic group. IgA and IgM levels were higher in maternal than in cord blood samples. Plasma antibody levels were lower in hyper- than in normoglycemic women. The colostrum of diabetic mothers had lower IgA and IgG levels. Colostrum and maternal blood phagocytes when exposed to EPEC increased the superoxide release. Cord blood phagocytes of hyperglycemic group, independently of bacteria, had higher superoxide release. Colostrum and blood phagocytes from diabetic group exhibited some phagocytic and microbicidal activity in response to EPEC. Mononuclear phagocytes from cord blood had the lowest phagocytosis, and bactericidal activity for EPEC, regardless of glycemic status. These data showed that hyperglycemia altered IgG transfer across the placenta and decreases immunoglobulin levels in maternal blood and colostrum.
Representation of knowledge on some management accounting techniques in textbooks

ABSTRACT This paper examines the coverage of management accounting techniques in several popular management accounting texts, assessing each technique’s claimed position within practice, its benefits and limitations, and the information sources substantiating these claims. Employing the notion of research genres, the study reveals that textbooks in their discussion of techniques are essentially representing the consulting genre, characterized by its technical interest of knowledge and a prescriptive style of argumentation. Textbooks are found to be unrepresentative of the critical genre, concerned with emancipatory interest of knowledge and an increased awareness of ideologies predominant in current accounting practices. This study suggests that popular management accounting texts lack the representation of the basic genre oriented towards practical and theoretical interests of knowledge and an argumentation that possesses scientific rigour. If accounting educators have the ambition to offer broader perspectives on accounting in their teachings, they should be more considerate in their selection of textbooks.
Journal of Enterprise Information Management Review on It Adoption: Insights from Recent Technologies for Authors Review on It Adoption: Insights from Recent Technologies

If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight. com/authors for more information. Emerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services. Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on information technology adoption in organizations to understand the need of integrated models for technology adoption. It further makes an attempt to identify key parameters to integrate technology acceptance model (TAM) and technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework for firm level technology adoption. This integration is intended to improve predictive power of resulting model. Design/methodology/approach – The research papers are accessed from the popular databases from 2000 to 2012. The selected papers have addressed technology adoption in context of recent technologies such as e-commerce, ERP, RFID, EDI and knowledge management, etc. The paper attempts to review the studies based on TAM model and TOE framework to identify relevant set of variables for the adoption of these technologies in organizations. Findings – TAM and its extended versions have high capability to explain the technology adoption while the significance of TOE framework is similarly recognized in explaining technology adoption. This review presents a holistic picture of a set of variables which can be used in the adoption of similar technologies in future. Further, the study has advocated the integration of TAM model and TOE framework to improve their explanatory power in technology adoption. The identified set of variables of TAM model and TOE framework can be used to integrate the two. Guidelines for integrating the two are also explained. Research limitations/implications – This study provides a platform for studying adoption of similar technologies using integration of TAM and TOE. Practical implications – The researchers and managers can use the set of variables identified for adoption of similar technologies in organizations. Originality/value – The review presents a set …
Weighting Coefficient Determination In A Displacement Estimation Functional Using The Dynamical Similarity Principle

In the unconstrained minimization techniques, the determination of weighting coeficients values is always a d$$culty. This is the reason while the majority of previous works about displacement estimations with functional, assume an experimental determination of the coefficients values with few transfer possibilities to other experiments. A method to reduce the difjculty is to define the functional from physical properties rather than geometrical considerations as ' I smoothness constraint ' I . The introduction of a physical model reduces the admissible solutions set and give a physical signijcation to the coeflcients and then a dimension. Starting from this consideration, we present a method based on the dynamical similarity to transfer the weighting coeflcients valuesfrom a sequence ofimages to an other one. A mathematical optimal solution to this problem is known [l] using the generalized inverse of Moore and Penrose. In fact, this method is seldom used since it is computational expensive and does not give always the better result in practice. This is the reason while the majority of previous works [2] [ 3 ] [6] using penalty functions assume an experimental determination of the coefficients values with few transfer possibilities to other experiments. A method to reduce the difficulty is to define the functional from physical properties rather than geometrical considerations as " smoothness constraint ". This assertion can be verified with the new functional we recently proposed [4] for displacement estimation with compressible or incompressible deformations. Starting from this consideration, we present a method based on the dynamical similarity to transfer the weighting coefficients values from a sequence of images to an other one. P Introduction. 2 Problem description. The problem of estimating motion from a sequence of images is often ill-posed. This ill-posed nature is generally overcome via Tikhonov regularization. A functional is defined. as a weighted sum of two or three terms. Minimization of this functional yields the desired displacement field for a good choice of weighting coefficients. But the determination of theses coefficients values and the transfer possibilities to other experiments are always difficulties. Barron and al. [6] in their quantitative evaluation of optical flow existing techniques use for instance a weighting coefficient value of 0.5 for the Horn and Schunck functional instead of 100 as suggested by Horn and Schunck [2] because it produce better results in most of their test cases. 0-8186-8183-7/97 $10.00
Security Comparison of Wired and Wireless Network with Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Computer networks are typically a shared resource used by many applications for many different purposes. Sometimes the data transmitted between application processes is confidential, and the application users would prefer that others not be able to read it. A firewall is a specially programmed router that sits between a site and the rest of the network. It is a router in the sense that it is connected to two or more physical networks and it forwards packets from one network to another, but it also filters the packets that flow through it. A VPN is an example of providing a controlled connectivity over a public network such as the Internet. VPNs utilize a concept called an IP tunnel-a virtual point-to-point link between a pair of nodes that are actually separated by an arbitrary number of networks. In this paper we set up a network where servers are accessed over the Internet by customers who have different privileges. We study how firewalls and VPNs can provide security to the information in the servers while maintaining access for customers with the appropriate privilege. We are implemented the Security compression of wired and wireless network by using well know tool OPNET 10.0.
Leveraging Technological Capabilities for Competitive Advantages: Giving Samsung Way a Glance

One of the serious problems confronting developing and developed economies is the management and preservation of energy sources. While modern technologies (systems, tools, and machines) are being developed, demands for computing and telecommunication systems grow to adapt people with new business environment. Current electricity users comprise new generation of heavy electricity users such as portable electronic systems which have been boosted rapidly over span of happening years, whereas their main energy sources such as batteries have been improved in energy density and capacity at a much slower pace.
Software Business in Industrial Companies: Identifying Capabilities for Three Types of Software Business

The development of organizational capabilities takes time and resources, and they are difficult to change once they have been created. Recently, also non-software companies – so-called industrial companies – have started to sell software and related services. So far it has been unclear which capabilities are needed in, and whether they differ for, different types of software business in industrial companies. The present research closes this gap and identifies 20 software business capabilities by studying the capabilities relevant in three types of software business in industrial companies. Of these capabilities, some proved to be relevant for all types of software business, some for software product and/or enterprise solution system business, and some for software service business. Based on our findings, industrial companies could improve their competitive position by directing their resources at the development or improvement of specifically those capabilities that proved to be relevant for a certain type of software business.
A Study on the Effects of Mobile-based LMS on Flipped Learning: Focused on the Affective Pathway in Pre-service Teacher Education

Flipped learning is a type of blended learning that has recently emerged as an innovative teaching and learning method. In this study, a mobile-based learning management system (LMS) is developed in order to support flipped learning for mobile-friendly learners. The purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of flipped learning focused on a problem-solving approach on the affective pathway. In addition, the study examines the ways in which mobile-based LMS facilitates flipped learning compared to the PC-based Web environment. A series of instructional design of flipped learning for a math class was developed and implemented for undergraduate students at C University in South Korea. The participating students were asked to write self-reflection journals for 6 weeks (12 periods). In-depth interviews were conducted with the students and the contents of the discussion board in the mobile-based LMS were analyzed using Nvivo, in order to track a series of changes of the affective pathway. The results obtained from the qualitative data revealed that students gained high self-esteem, motivation, and interest regarding academic activities, which eventually cultivated a positive local affect. Furthermore, there was convincing evidence of changes from the “flipped classroom” to “flipped learning”, where students were able to take advantage of the mobile-based LMS. Compared to the PC-based Web environment, students were able to overcome the limitation of time and space, using the new environment proactively and creatively.
Succession in the Gut Microbiome following Antibiotic and Antibody Therapies for Clostridium difficile

Antibiotic disruption of the intestinal microbiota may cause susceptibility to pathogens that is resolved by progressive bacterial outgrowth and colonization. Succession is central to ecological theory but not widely documented in studies of the vertebrate microbiome. Here, we study succession in the hamster gut after treatment with antibiotics and exposure to Clostridium difficile. C. difficile infection is typically lethal in hamsters, but protection can be conferred with neutralizing antibodies against the A and B toxins. We compare treatment with neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (mAb) to treatment with vancomycin, which prolongs the lives of animals but ultimately fails to protect them from death. We carried out longitudinal deep sequencing analysis and found distinctive waves of succession associated with each form of treatment. Clindamycin sensitization prior to infection was associated with the temporary suppression of the previously dominant Bacteroidales and the fungus Saccinobaculus in favor of Proteobacteria. In mAb-treated animals, C. difficile proliferated before joining Proteobacteria in giving way to re-expanding Bacteroidales and the fungus Wickerhamomyces. However, the Bacteroidales lineages returning by day 7 were different from those that were present initially, and they persisted for the duration of the experiment. Animals treated with vancomycin showed a different set of late-stage lineages that were dominated by Proteobacteria as well as increased disparity between the tissue-associated and luminal cecal communities. The control animals showed no change in their gut microbiota. These data thus suggest different patterns of ecological succession following antibiotic treatment and C. difficile infection.
Perceiving the Affordances: A Portrait of Two Psychologists

Contents: Preface. Growing up in the Heartland. Becoming Psychologists. Teaching and Life at Smith College. World War II. Back to Civilization (Academic Style). High Above Cayuga's Waters. Visiting in Academe. Midlife Without Crises. The Decade of the Books. The Seer of Ithaca. Going It Alone. Life After the Lab.
Cohesion, Insurance and Redistribution

Governments use redistributive policies to favor relatively unproductive economic sectors. Traditional economic wisdom teaches that the government should instead buy out the agents in these sectors, and let them relocate to more productive sectors. We showthat redistribution to a sector whose agents have highly correlated incomes generates an insurance value. Taking this insurance value into account, a buy-out is not sufficient to compensate the agents in the sector for relocating. In fact, it may be efficient for the government to sustain agents in an activity that, while less productive, is subject to correlated income shocks. US data suggests that indeed, sectors that receive transfers are subject to more correlated income shocks than others.
The role of monocytes in serum sickness nephritis

We have investigated the pathogenesis of glomerular hypercellularity seen in acute serum sickness nephritis induced in rabbits with bovine serum albumin (BSA). The increase in cellularity began with the first stages of immune clearance of BSA, with a peak cellularity occuring at the time of onset of proteinuria. Although there was a significant increase in the fraction of glomerular cells incorporating [3H]thymidine, first seen at the onset of proteinuria, this increase occurred too late and was too small to explain the observed rate of increase in glomerular cellularity. On the other hand, a striking monocytic infiltration of the glomeruli was documented by electron microscopy and by staining for nonspecific esterase. This monocytic infiltration paralleled the observed course of glomerular hypercellularity and was quantitatively sufficient to explain the total increase seen. It appears, therefore, that glomerular hypercellularity seen in this model is principally a result of monocyte infiltration.
Emerging and Recurring Data-Driven Storytelling Techniques: Analysis of a Curated Collection of Recent Stories

Storytelling with data is becoming an important component of many fields such as graphic design, the advocacy of causes, and journalism. New techniques for integrating data visualization into narrative stories have now become commonplace. Authors are enabling new reader experiences, such as linking textual narrative and data visualizations through dynamic queries embedded in the text. Novel means of communicating position and navigating within the narrative also have emerged, such as utilizing scrolling to advance narration and initiate animations. We advance the study of narrative visualization through an analysis of a curated collection of recent data-driven stories shared on the web. Drawing from the results of this analysis, we present a set of techniques being employed in these examples, organized under four high-level categories that help authors to tell stories in creative ways: communicating narrative and explaining data, linking separated story elements, enhancing structure and navigation, and providing controlled exploration. We describe the benefits of each storytelling technique along with a number of example applications of the ideas through recent data-driven stories. Additionally, we discuss the trends we observed as well as how the field has evolved and grown. Finally, we conclude with a discussion of areas for future research.
PENGEMBANGAN LEMBAR KERJA SISWA MENGGUNAKAN PENDEKATAN SAINTIFIK UNTUK MELIHAT BERPIKIR KRITIS SISWA MATERI PERBANDINGAN

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menghasilkan lembar kerja siswa menggunakan pendekatan saintifik yang valid dan praktis dan memiliki efek potensial terhadap kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah pengembangan atau development research dengan type formative evaluation yang terdiri dari dua tahapan yaitu preliminary dan formative evaluation. Subjek dalam penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas VII.7 SMP Negeri 33 Palembang yang berjumlah 27 orang. Pengumpulan data kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa dilakukan melalui tes. Hasil penelitian ini telah menghasilkan lembar kerja siswa yang valid dan praktis yang sesuai dengan langkah-langkah pendekatan saintifik dan indikator berpikir kritis pada materi perbandingan dan juga mempunyai efek potensial terhadap kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa dalam kategori cukup baik dengan skor rata-rata kelas 60. Â DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.22342/jpm.10. 2.3629. 23-38
Kynurenine 3-monooxygenase polymorphisms: relevance for kynurenic acid synthesis in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls.

BACKGROUND Patients with schizophrenia show increased brain and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) concentrations of the endogenous N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist kynurenic acid (KYNA). This compound is an end-metabolite of the kynurenine pathway, and its formation indirectly depends on the activity of kynurenine 3-monooxygenase (KMO), the enzyme converting kynurenine to 3-hydroxykynurenine. METHODS We analyzed the association between KMO gene polymorphisms and CSF concentrations of KYNA in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls. Fifteen single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were selected covering KMO and were analyzed in UNPHASED. RESULTS We included 17 patients with schizophrenia and 33 controls in our study. We found an association between a KMO SNP (rs1053230), encoding an amino acid change of potential importance for substrate interaction, and CSF concentrations of KYNA. LIMITATIONS Given the limited sample size, the results are tentative until replication. CONCLUSION Our results suggest that the nonsynonymous KMO SNP rs1053230 influences CSF concentrations of KYNA.
The motivations to study of undergraduate students in management: The impact of degree programme and level of study

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether there are differences in the type and level of motivation to study between students on specialist and generalist undergraduate degree programmes and between students at different stages of their degree programmes. An adapted scale was used from Pintrich et al‟s (1991) Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire to measure the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Goal Orientation of undergraduate students in the School of Management at the University of Surrey. 346 completed responses were gathered from students at all levels of study and on different degree programmes. The study suggests that there are significant differences in intrinsic motivation between students on generalist and specialist degree programmes but that there are no significant differences in extrinsic motivation. In terms of level of study, the results suggest that as students progress from first to final year, there are changes to both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. The findings also suggest that work experience can have a significant effect on motivations to study.
A Study of Teachers’ Discourse Moves That Support Text-Based Discussions

In theory, engaging students in discussion helps them learn how to understand and think critically about texts. Researchers have sought to identify effective features of teacher-led text-based discussions by designing specific discussion-group programs and investigating their influence on students’ comprehension in upper elementary classrooms. However, little is known about how early elementary teachers guide students’ participation in and learning from whole-group text-based discussions. Because of the potential value of such instruction for developing reading comprehension, this study examines how early elementary teachers used effective discourse moves to support students’ engagement with and understanding of texts. We developed and examined the validity of a measure comprising 10 research-based discourse moves called Support for Students’ Learning from Text (SSLT). It was used to code text-based comprehension lessons in second- and third-grade classrooms. Findings indicated significant associations between teachers’ everyday use of SSLT discourse moves and students’ comprehension and vocabulary achievement.