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Necessary, But Not Sufficient: Critiquing the Role of Information and Communication Technology in Putting Knowledge into Use

Abstract Purpose: This article reviews the experience of ICT applications as a tool for putting research derived knowledge into use for innovation in South Asia. Design/methodology/approach: The article uses the contemporary understanding of communication and innovation in reviewing the experience of ICTs in putting new knowledge into use in South Asia. Findings: The findings from this study suggest that ICTs in general have not contributed effectively to the challenge of putting new knowledge into use as they are mostly used to support traditional communication tasks — such as information dissemination and training. The article argues that this under-utilisation of the potential of ICTs could be due to: a lack of appreciation of the new communication-intermediation tasks required for innovation, underestimation of the roles of intermediaries and their capacities for innovation and lack of networks needed for communities to make use of the information provided through ICTs. Practical implications: Although the understanding of communication, innovation and extension has changed substantially in the past two decades, there is still a big gap between theory and practice. This article contends that this gap needs to be bridged if ICTs are to effectively contribute to putting new knowledge into use. Originality/value: The article manifests the necessity for ICT based initiatives to be embedded into the renewed understanding of communication and innovation and it moves ICT related debates from merely a success story to a pragmatic world of communication and innovation process.
315.3: Targeted Delivery of Galunisertib Attenuates Fibrogenesis in an Integrated Ex Vivo Renal Transplant and Fibrosis Model

: Normothermic machine perfusion is an emerging preservation technique for kidney 15 allografts to reduce post-transplant complications, including interstitial fibrosis and tubular 16 atrophy. This technique, however, could be improved by adding antifibrotic molecules to 17 perfusion solutions. We established Machine perfusion and Organ slices as a Platform for Ex 18 vivo Drug delivery (MOPED), to explore fibrogenesis suppression strategies. We perfused 19 porcine kidneys ex vivo with galunisertib—a potent inhibitor of the transforming growth 20 factor beta signaling pathway. To determine whether effects persisted, we also cultured
Mixing of Density-Stratified Fluid in a Cylindrical Tank by a Diagonal Jet

This study experimentally investigates the mixing of two-layer density-stratified fluid in a cylindrical tank by a diagonal jet. The upper and lower fluids are water and an aqueous solution of sodium chloride (NaCl), respectively, and the lower fluid issues from a nozzle on the tank bottom. The angle between the jet centerline and the tank bottom is 60°, and the mass concentration of the NaCl solution is 0.02. The mixing in cases that the Reynolds numbers of the jets are 713, 2319, and 3565 is investigated. The velocity fields in the central vertical cross-section are measured with a PIV (particle imaging velocimetry) system by tracing nylon particles with the diameter of 80 μm. The concentration fields in the section are visualized using Rhodamine B as the fluorescent dye. They are also measured using PLIF (planer laser induced fluorescence) from visualized images and the progresses of the mixing are evaluated quantitatively. The investigation clarifies the relationship between the mixing phenomena and the Reynolds number of the jet.
BEAT FREQUENCY AND VELOCITY VARIATION OF IONS IN A MAGNETIZED PLASMA SHEATH FOR DIFFERENT OBLIQUENESS OF THE MAGNETIC FIELD

Beat frequency and velocity variation of ions in a magnetized plasma sheath has been numerically investigated by using a kinetic trajectory simulation (KTS) model for varying obliqueness of the external magnetic field in presence of an electric field. Angular dependence of mean value, maximum amplitude, damping constant, frequency of oscillation and beat frequency have been studied. As the obliqueness of the field changes the mean values, beat frequency as well as the maximum amplitude of the velocity components also change but frequency of oscillation remains almost the same.
Engineering Geology and Construction

1. Land Evaluation and Site Investigation 2. Open Excavation and Slopes 3. Subsurface Excavations 4. Foundation Conditions and Buildings 5. Routeways 6. Reservoirs and Dam Sites 7. Hydrogeology 8. River and Coastal Engineering 9. Waste and its Disposal 10. Derelict and Contaminated Land 11. Geological Material Used in Construction.
Student-Teacher Relation in Blended Learning of Civic Education Based on Law-Related Education

The educational structure must be able to run dynamically so that it can respond to various challenges. This study aims to describe Student-teacher relations (STR) in the blended learning process in civic education which is integrated with law-related education (LRE). This research was conducted at SMA Negeri 27 Bandung and has the title of being a law-aware school. The case study method with a qualitative approach is used based on the peculiarities of the characteristics of the research location. The instruments used include observation, interviews, and documentation studies. The results of the study show that STR in LRE-based civic education lessons with a blended learning scheme works well because it is driven by (1) an element of proximity: the age gap between teachers and students is not too wide, and teachers are literate in information and communication technology to make the teacher and students close the better, (2) the element of conﬂict: when a problem occurs a negative relationship rarely occurs because the resolution and preventive efforts are carried out by carrying out prevention with the involvement of peers which cannot be separated from the guidance of the main elements, namely the teacher, homeroom teacher, and counseling and parents; (3) dependence, this aspect has actually been attempted with peer tutors. However, dependency still occurs due to the lack of independent learning of students and is exacerbated by the ratio of the number of students in one class to the less proportional teacher.
An Access Control Architecture for Securing Multi-Tenancy Cloud Environments

— In multi-tenancy cloud environments, physical resources are transparently shared by multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) belonging to multiple users. Implementing an efficient access control mechanism in such environments can prevent unauthorized access to the cloud resources. In this paper, we propose an access control mechanism called CloudGuard that provides scalable and secure access control to the cloud in the context of multi-tenancy cloud environments. Such a mechanism prevents malicious tenants from generating and sending unauthorized traffic to the cloud network. Numerical results show that CloudGuard offers better system throughput in critical or high-risk multi-tenancy cloud network environments, where the amount of intrusion traffic is high.
Risk Factors for SARS-CoV-2 Seropositivity in a Health Care Worker Population

Background: Protecting health care workers (HCWs) during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is essential. Serologic testing can identify HCWs who had minimally symptomatic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections that were missed by occupational screening based on daily symptom and temperature checks. Recent studies report conflicting results regarding the impact of occupational factors on SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity amongst HCWs. Methods: The study population included all hospital workers at an academic medical center in Orange County, California. SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity was assessed from a fingerstick blood specimen using a coronavirus antigen microarray, which compares IgM and IgG antibodies against a panel of SARS-CoV-2 antigens with positive and negative controls to identify prior SARS-CoV-2 infection with 98% specificity and 93% sensitivity. Demographic, occupational, and clinical factors were surveyed and their effect on seropositivity estimated using multivariable logistic regression analysis. Results: Amongst 1,557 HCWs with complete data, SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity was 10.8%. Risk factors for increased seropositivity included male gender, exposure to COVID-19 outside of work, working in food or environmental services, and working in COVID-19 units. Amongst the 1,103 HCW who were seropositive but missed by occupational screening, additional risk factors included younger age and working in administration. Conclusions: SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity is significantly higher than reported case counts even amongst HCWs who are meticulously screened. Seropositive HCWs missed by occupational screening were more likely to be younger, work roles without direct patient care, or have COVID-19 exposure outside of work.
Template for Submission of Scientific Information to Describe Areas meeting Scientific Criteria for Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas on

( in less than 150 words) The Orange River Mouth is a transboundary RAMSAR site under consideration as a Protected Area by SA and Namibia. The Orange is South Africa’s major river in terms of run-off to the marine environment. The estuary is biodiversity-rich but modified. The coastal area includes a critically endangered habitat type (Namaqua Sandy Inshore). The marine environment experiences slow, variable currents, and weaker winds making it potentially favourable for reproduction of pelagic species. Further, given the proven importance of Thukela River outflow for fish recruitment at the Thukela Banks (a comparable shallow, fine sediment environment), a similar ecological dependence for the inshore Orange Cone is likely. Comparable estuary/inshore habitats are not encountered for 300km south (Olifants River) and over 1000 km north (Kunene). In summary, it is considered to be highly relevant in terms of: ‘Importance for life history stages of species”, “threatened endangered or declining species and/or habitats’, and biodiversity.
A Moist Conceptual Model for the Boundary Layer Structure and Radiatively Driven Shallow Circulations in the Trades

A conceptual model is developed to analyze how radiative cooling and the effect of moisture and shallow convection modify the boundary layer (BL) structure and the strength of mesoscale shallow circulations. The moist BL allows for a convective mass flux to modify the BL mass balance, which enhances inversion entrainment compared to a dry case and acts as a moisture valve to the BL. The convective mass flux is found to be insensitive to the applied radiative cooling and in the absence of heterogeneities cloud-free conditions exist only for unusual large-scale forcings. The model is able to explain the moderate range of BL heights and humidities observed in the trades. In a two-column setup, differential radiative BL cooling causes a pressure difference, which drives a BL flow from the cold and moist column to the warm and dry column and couples them dynamically. The small inversion buoyancy jump of the moist BL yields a stronger BL flow of 4 m s−1 instead of 1 m s−1 in the dry case. For typical conditions of the subsidence-dominated tropical oceans, a radiatively driven shallow circulation is stronger than one driven by sea surface temperature (SST) gradients. While the strength of the SST-driven circulation decreases with decreasing SST difference, the radiatively driven circulation is insensitive to the radiative BL cooling difference. In both cases, convection is suppressed in the descending branch of the shallow circulation and enhanced in the ascending branch, resembling patterns of organized shallow convection.
"The headline was so wild that I had to check": A mixed-methods exploratory analysis of women’s health misinformation on social media

The circulation of health misinformation on social media is a growing socio-technical problem which has received considerable attention in recent years. However, despite evidence that misinformation affects women and men differently, the element of gender has largely been disregarded in existing HCI literature. This dissertation seeks to ameliorate the lack of scholarly work focusing on gendered health misinformation by conducting a multi-platform investigation into the topics, sources, and formats of women’s health misinfor-mation currently circulating online, and its impact on female users. First, a content analysis of 191 women’s health-related social media posts flagged as misinformation by fact-checking organisations is conducted. Then, a diary study is carried out with 19 female participants to investigate women’s encounters with misinformation on social media using Dervin’s sensemaking methodology as an analytical frame. Study 1 finds that most of the officially fact-checked women’s health misinformation is related to reproductive health, whereas Study 2 suggests that women are most likely to encounter and be negatively impacted by weight loss misinformation. Study 2 also reveals a breadth of strategies used by women to identify and make sense of health misinformation, finding that inter-subjective sensemaking is facilitated by socio-technical affordances, and features such as comment sections and engagement metrics. These results have the potential to inspire design interventions which support women in navigating health misinformation online.
Economics and marketing analysis of sheep production in Raichur district of Kalyana Karnataka, India

Small ruminants play an essential role in the Indian economy and are a source of livelihood and employment to millions of rural households. Its share of agricultural G.D. P. is already 33 per cent and is quickly increasing. This growth is driven by the rapidly increasing demand for livestock products, this demand being driven by population growth, urbanization and rising incomes in developing countries. Sheep is predominantly maintained on natural vegetation on common grazing lands, wastelands and fallow lands, stubbles of cultivated crops and top feeds. The study examined the cost and return and marketing channel of sheep management practices in the Raichur district of Karnataka State in 2018-19. It focuses on the profitability of sheep farming in the study area. Data were collected from 120 sheep farmers employing a random sampling technique to which scheduled were administered. The net returns from sheep rearing were around Rs. 39, 455.32 per herd per year in the case of small farmers, followed by Rs. 94, 737.63 per herd per year and Rs. 129836.37 per herd per year in medium and large sheep farmers. It is also indicated that majority (71.67%) of the sheep farmers sold their sheep to sale producer-village trader-butcher-consumer (Channel II), followed by 54.17 per cent of the sheep farmers sale through producer-wholesaler-butcher-consumer (Channel III), 36.66 per cent of the farmers sale to Producer-village trader-wholesaler-butcher-consumer (Channel IV) and 29.16 percent of sheep farmers sold their sheep to producer-butcher-consumer (Channel I). A policy and research emphasis should be geared toward feeds production at an affordable price to the farmers and educated on how to formulate local feeds to reduce cost and access to meals for better efficiency.
P ARSE TREES , I NTERFERENCE , AND M IXED N ODES FOR C ONTEXT -F REE P ARALLEL C OMMUNICATING G RAMMAR S YSTEMS

Parallel Communicating Grammar Systems (PCGS) were introduced for a better understanding of concurrent systems on a language-theoretic level. Some research has been done regarding relationship between PCGS and practical computing systems, though this has not received sustained attention. In another more practical attempt, parse trees for PCGS have been investigated. It is relatively straightforward to construct a parse tree for every PCGS derivation, but going the other way around (reconstructing a derivation for every PCGS parse tree) is not always possible. The possibility of doing this has been found to depend on the property of interference in a PCGS. We reﬁne this result, showing that there is one extra property that needs to be taken into account. We show that even in the absence of interference there exist parse trees that cannot correspond to any derivation when strings containing nonterminals are communicated between PCGS components. This reduces the utility of PCGS parse trees even further than previously thought.
Characterization of the growth-inhibitory and apoptosis-inducing activities of a triterpene saponin, securioside B against BAC1.2F5 macrophages.

BACKGROUND: Since the growth state of macrophages in local pathological sites is considered a factor that regulates the processes of many disease, such as tumors, inflammation, and atherosclerosis, the substances that regulate macrophage growth or survival may be useful for disease control. We previously reported that securiosides A and B, novel triterpene saponins, exerted macrophage-oriented cytotoxicity in the presence of a L-cell-conditioned medium containing macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF), while the compounds did not exhibit an effect on macrophages in the absence of the growth-stimulating factors. AIM: This study was undertaken to characterize the growth-inhibitory and the apoptosis-inducing activities of securioside B, focusing on the effects of the macrophage-growth factor(s), and to examine the implication of a mitochondria pathway in apoptosis induction. METHODS: The effect of securioside B on a murine macrophage cell line (BAC1.2F5) was examined by MTT assay and lactose dehydrogenase release assay in the presence of L-cell-conditioned medium, M-CSF, or granulocyte-macrophage CSF (GM-CSF). RESULT: Securioside B inhibited the growth of the cells stimulated by recombinant M-CSF or GM-CSF, but it scarcely induced cytolysis of the cells under the same conditions. Moreover, securioside B did not induce cell death when the compound only was added to the cells. On the other hand, the compound extensively induced apoptotic cell death in the presence of L-cell-conditioned medium, suggesting that apoptosis induction by securioside B requires the additional factor(s) present in L-cell-conditioned medium. Securioside B plus L-cell-conditioned medium induced the activation of caspase-3 and caspase-9, but not caspase-8. In addition, cytochrome c release from the mitochondria into the cytosol, and disrupted mitochondria membrane potential, was also observed in the apoptotic BAC1.2F5 cells. CONCLUSION: These data suggest that securioside B has growth-inhibitory activity against growth factor-stimulated macrophages, and that it induces apoptotic macrophage death through the activation of a mitochondrial pathway in the presence of L-cell-conditioned medium.
Separation of Variables : New Trends

The review is based on the author’s papers since 1985 in which a new approach to the separation of variables (SoV) has being developed. It is argued that SoV, understood generally enough, could be the most universal tool to solve integrable models of the classical and quantum mechanics. It is shown that the standard construction of the action-angle variables from the poles of the Baker-Akhiezer function can be interpreted as a variant of SoV, and moreover, for many particular models it has a direct quantum counterpart. The list of the models discussed includes XXX and XYZ magnets, Gaudin model, Nonlin
Evaluation of electron traps in SiNx by discharge current transient spectroscopy: verification of validity by comparing with conventional DLTS

Discharge current transient spectroscopy (DCTS) is a promising technique for detecting the trap level and density in dielectrics because it is based on a simple emission process. In order to confirm the validity of DCTS, we compare the results from the conventional deep-level transient spectroscopy (DLTS) technique for samples of CVD-grown silicon nitride (SiNx) films. Results indicated that a trap level, about 0.6 eV below the energy level of the conduction band edge in the SiNx thin films estimated by DCTS is in good agreement with that obtained from DLTS analysis, and it is found that the trap density increases with the decreasing N/Si ratio in the SiNx film. As a proposed estimation for energy level in defects, it will be originated from hydrogen-incorporated defects in the SiNx matrix. This study demonstrates that the DCTS method will be a useful electrical method for the evaluation of defects.
Changes in Soil Carbon Pools Induced by Substitution of Plantation for Native Forest

Changes in soil carbon pools under Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) and bamboo (Phyllostachyspubescens) plantations substituted for a native forest ( Quereus acutissima, Cyclobalanopsis glauca, Cas-tanopsis sclerophylla, Platycarya strobilacea, Lithocarpus glaber) were studied on the hills with acid parentrock and soils classified as red soils (Ferrisols) in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province of east China. It was foundthat total soil organic carbon (TSOC), easily oxidisable carbon (EOC) and water-soluble organic carbon(WSOC) under bamboo plantation were increased, but microbial biomass carbon (MBC) was decreased. Onthe contrary, Chinese fir induced declines of all fractions of C including TSOC, EOC, WSOC and MBC.The percentages of the active fractions of soil C (EOC and WSOC) were increased in the plantations ascompared to the native broad-leaved forest, but proportions of soil organic C as MBC were decreased. Itcould be concluded that bamboo plantation had a great ability of not only fixing C but also accelerating soilC pool cycle, improving nutrient and microorganism activity; therefore, it is a good ecosystem and could berecommended for wide development. Chinese fir would shrink the soil C pool and deteriorate soil biologicalfertility, so it did not benefit CO2 fixing and land sustainable utilization.
Experimental Evaluation of The Effectiveness of Orange Peel/ Chitosan Nanoparticles

Chitosan nanoparticles (CSNPs) are a useful vehicle for incorporating the highlysensi-tive components of orange peel extract. The aims of this study were to produce OPE - loaded CSNPs and characterize their physical, structural, antioxidant, and antibacterial properties. Chitosan ratios of 2:1 (v/v) allowed for the effective synthesis of physically stable CSNPs. A good mean diameter and a consistent zeta potential were seen in the size distribution profile of the OPE loading at chitosan nanoparticles. The OPE was physically entrapped within NPs because Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) examination of the OPE and OPE - CSNPs revealed no obvious spectrum changes, writing down no probable chemical interaction between the OPE and OPE - CSNPs. Furthermore, FTIR spectra of pure OPE and chitosan nanoparticles CSNPs loading of orange peel extract revealed that there was a slight shift in the peaks of the chitosan nanoparticles CSNPs loading of orange peel extract as compared to orange peel extract (OPE), as well as a slight decrease in the disparity of those peaks in the chitosan nanoparticles loading of orange peel extract, and it is clearly evident that the OPE - loaded with CSNPs, however, had more inhibitory antibacterial action as compared to OPE alone. This could mean that the OPE leakage from NPs is successfully constrained by loading of OPE into CSNPs.