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The Horticultural Potential of an endangered species, the Freycinet Wax Flower from Eastern Tasmania

Surveys undertaken on the Freycinet Peninsula found over 100 plants of the critically endangered Freycinet Wax Flower (Philotheca freyciana). All plants are restricted to the Hazards, and a single plant is also known from nearby Cape Tourville. The Freycinet Wax Flower is restricted to skeletal soils derived from granitic rocks, and it often occurs in runnels and in vertical crack lines in the granitic terrain. The Freycinet Wax Flower is likely to be slow growing, although both young and mature plants were located, which indicates recruitment is occurring in the wild. As the species is critically endangered a number of propagation techniques were attempted, including seed, tissue culturing and standard vegetation propagation, to establish an ex situ population. Standard nursery vegetative propagation methods were found to be the most effective, and as a result the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (RTBG) now holds 70 cutting-produced plants in pots from various genotypes. The project has successfully established an ex situ collection of this critically endangered species at the RTBG. Tissue culture techniques have successfully resulted in shoot proliferation, but we have been unable to induce root initiation in explants to date. If we can successfully overcome this challenge it will become possible to explore the horticultural potential of this attractive species. Background The Freycinet Wax Flower (Philotheca freyciana) was described in 2001. This species, was at that time restricted to 3 known plants in the wild, all localised to the Hazards and Cape Tourville on the Freycinet Peninsula in eastern Tasmania. Because of its rarity and restricted distribution it was listed as critically endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. This study supported by the Australian Flora Foundation aimed to determine: (a) the distribution of the species by undertaking surveys in the Freycinet Peninsula and other areas of similar habitat, (b) commence life history studies to better understand the ecology of the species, and (c) attempt to propagate the species through a variety of propagation techniques. a. Survey To extend knowledge of the ecology of this species a systematic search of the Freycinet Peninsula was carried out in 2002, which located over a 100 plants in populations extending
The Relationship Between Intercultural Interactions at University and the Creativity of Russian Students: The Role of Intercultural Competence

This research studies the relationship between home country intercultural experience, intercultural competence and creativity among Russian students. We assume that students from culturally heterogeneous groups or/and students having a course dedicated to intercultural issues are more creative, as cultural diversity and cultural learning are associated with a higher level of intercultural competence, and intercultural competence may be positively related to creativity. The sample of the first study included 72 students and the sample of the second study included 272 students of HSE University. Creativity was measured by the indicators of creative thinking (fluency, flexibility, and originality) via "Many instances game" from the creativity test battery of Runco; intercultural competence was measured using "Assessment of intercultural competence" of Fantini & Tirmizi. Home country intercultural experience was operationalized via the presence of students from other countries in the study groups and via the inclusion of a Cross-Cultural Psychology course in the students’ curriculum. The results of the first study show that cultural learning in the home country institution leads to higher levels of creativity, while the cultural heterogeneity of the groups is associated with an increase in creativity only when cultural learning was applied. The results of the second study show such components of intercultural competence as attitudes and the adaptability of behavior play an important role in the creativity of Russian students: attitudes are positively and the adaptability of behavior is negatively related to creativity.
RISKS AND HEALTH EFFECTS FROM EXPOSURE TO ENgINEERED NANOSTRUCTURES: A CRITICAL REvIEw

Nanotechnology and engineered nanostructures (ENSs) are becoming part of everyday life, starting from industrial application, even in food products, to gene therapy. Thus, tons and tons of nanoparticles (NPs) enter the environment and indirectly or directly into the biological systems, including the human body. There are many controversial papers that describe interactions of the ENSs with biological systems and raise concern that intentional or unintentional human exposure to certain types of ENSs, may lead to significant health, i.e. toxicological effects. Because of our insufficient and contradictory knowledge about the health effects associated with the ENSs exposure, the aim of this paper is to summarize and systemize the already confirmed data and the latest found facts about ENSs and their health effects and to discuss the future opportunities and tasks in the field of nanotoxicology.
The analysis of prognostic factors in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer

Objective: To determine pathologic variables associated with overall survival and disease free survival of patients with epithelial ovarian cancer. Methods: Diesease free survival and overall survival of 80 ovarian cancer patients treated with primary surgery between January 1997 and December 2003 at our center were compared about various histopathologic variables. Survival analyses were performed by the Kaplan- Meier curves and the log-rank test. Independent prognostic factors were determined by Cox’s proportional hazards model. Results: With regard to disease free survival, univariate analysis revealed no significant differences in subgroups according to age category, histologic type and grade. However, significant differences in disease free survival were found in stage category and residual tumor volume. Among these significant subgroups, the Cox-proportional hazards model showed that residual tumor volume was the only independent prognostic factor. There were significant differences in the overall survival of patients in subgroups according to stage categoty and residual tumor volume. Multivariate analysis revealed that residual tumor volume was the only independent significant adverse prognostic factor. Conclusion: Our results showed that only residual tumor volume was the independent prognostic factor of disease free survival and overall survival in epithelial ovarian cancer patients.
Final report on the Australian Flora Foundation funded project: Lomatia tasmanica and Persoonia muelleri propagation and commercial horticulture

A micropropagation method for the rare and endangered Proteacaea Lomatia tasmanica was developed using, micropropagation of the related Lomatia tinctoria as a model. Actively growing shoots of L. tinctoria were collected from the field or from potted plants, disinfected and introduced in tissue culture. A modified woody plant medium plus 1 μM benzylaminopurine and 0.1 μM indolacetic acid appeared to be the most efficient medium for shoot proliferation. Best rooting was obtained by dipping the basal end of shoots in a 1 mM solution of indolbutyric acid. Rooted plants were established in soil. Using the same protocol, a micropropagation method for L. tasmanica was set up from only 8 buds. Introduction Lomatia tasmanica is a small Tasmanian endemic tree occuring in mixed forest of the south west Tasmania. Only two populations are known, each one including approximately 100 plants (Lynch and Balmer, in prep). No seed has ever been observed from these trees, and propagation appears to be vegetative by rhizome (Brown and Gray, 1985). Tissue culture propagation would be of great importance for the
Structural basis for the redox sensitivity of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis SigK-RskA [sigma]-anti-[sigma] complex

# 2014 International Union of Crystallography The host–pathogen interactions in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection are significantly influenced by redox stimuli and alterations in the levels of secreted antigens. The extracytoplasmic function (ECF) factor K governs the transcription of the serodominant antigens MPT70 and MPT83. The cellular levels of K are regulated by the membrane-associated antiK (RskA) that localizes K in an inactive complex. The crystal structure of M. tuberculosis K in complex with the cytosolic domain of RskA (RskAcyto) revealed a disulfide bridge in the 35 promoter-interaction region of . Biochemical experiments reveal that the redox potential of the disulfide-forming cysteines in K is consistent with its role as a sensor. The disulfide bond in K influences the stability of the –RskAcyto complex but does not interfere with –promoter DNA interactions. It is noted that these disulfide-forming cysteines are conserved across homologues, suggesting that this could be a general mechanism for redox-sensitive transcription regulation. Received 17 September 2013 Accepted 3 January 2014
A Study Factors Influence on Organisation Citizenship Behaviour in Corporate Sector

Organizational citizenship is discretionary behaviour that is not part of an employee’s normal requirements from the employers but that nevertheless improves the effective functioning of the organization. Effective organizations need employees who will perform duties more than their normal job duties and provide performance that is beyond expectations. In order to achieve the organisational goal, the management need to fulfil employee’s job satisfaction, understand their motivation, and create suitable work environments are some of the important thing in management reality.
The Additivity of Traces in Triangulated Categories

We explain a fundamental additivity theorem for Euler characteristics and generalized trace maps in triangulated categories. The proof depends on a refined axiomatization of symmetric monoidal categories with a compatible triangulation. The refinement consists of several new axioms relating products and distinguished triangles. The axioms hold in the examples and shed light on generalized homology and cohomology theories. © 2001 Academic Press
Analysis on death causes and influential factors in coal workers with pneumoconiosis

Objective To discuss death cause of coal worker pneumoconiosis(CWP),so as to provide evidence for tertiary prevention of CWP.Methods The retrospective epidemiologic method was used to analyze the death causes of 825 CWP.Results The composition of the first four death causes was pulmonary heart disease,malignant tumor,pulmonary tuberculosis,pneumoconiosis in turn;with the increase of period stage of CWP,there was increasing tendency in case fatality of CWP,death rate caused by tuberculosis and malignant tumor.There were significant differences in case fatality among different types of work and mining areas.Conclusion The major cause influencing patients' health with CPW were the occurrence of various complication,the major death cause of patients with CPW was the complication.The case fatality among different mine areas were different because of the difference of coal and geologic structure.
Neurotrophin-3 mRNA expression in paravertebral muscles of patients with idiopathic scoliosis

Objective:To investigate Neurotrophin-3(NT-3) mRNA expression in paravertebral muscles in idiopathic scoliosis(IS). Method:Muscle samples were harvested from 19 female IS patients(mean age 14.3 years,range 12~19 years) with Cobb angle from 42°~80°(average 54°). Muscle biopsies were taken bilaterally from the deep paravertebral muscle at the apex of the curve(T7~T10) during surgery,which was snap frozen in -80℃ and processed for semi-quantitation RT-PCR.Muscle biopsies were taken from two females and two male age-matched patients without scoliosis who were underwent spinal surgery for lumbar intervertebral disc herniation as control group.Result:Compared with control group,which had low level NT-3 mRNA expression(positive rate was 50% and comparative expression was 0.0237±0.0158),a increase of NT-3 mRNA expression(positive rate was 63.16% and comparative expression was 0.1213±0.0939) was found in IS group(P=0.051). The expression level of NT-3 mRNA in the patients with Cobb angle≤50°(positive rate was 80% and comparative expression was 0.1604±0.0895) was statistical higher than that in the patients with the Cobb angle50° or normal(P0.01). Conclusion:There is increasing expression of NT-3 mRNA in the paravertebral muscle in idiopathic scoliosis.
Ein Expertensystem für das Fachgebiet Neurologie - Möglichkeiten und Grenzen

We present an expert system Neurology, which was developed completely on basis of the commercial available data base program File-maker-7.0™. At present it covers approximately 400 diagnoses of neurological and psychiatric diseases. After the input of cardinal symptoms, course and localisation of the disease the program calculates a first set of possible differential diagnoses and asks for additional symptoms or the performance of apparative diagnostics to investigate the final diagnose. At first, the performance of the expert system was tested with 15 predetermined neurological case reports. Users with different previous knowledge of Neurology performed the input. In this test the program was able to identify the correct diagnose in nearly all cases and the diagnostic proposals were superior to those of the users with minor neurological training. In a second test with real patient data, the rate of correct diagnoses was approximately 80%. In summary, the used computer algorhythms proved as appropriate for the aim of giving Neurological diagnoses. Possible additional applications could be student training or the use as interdisciplinary reference work.
The rational approach to the estimation of the myocardial infarction size

The paper contains review of published data on various methods of quantitative assessment of myocardial infarction (MI) with demonstration of their advantages and drawbacks. Comparative analysis of applicability of existing biochemical markers of necrosis for measurement of the volume of myocardial damage is also presented. Troponin I level measured in 72 hours after onset of chest pain appears to be the most reliable predictor of MI size but its use is justified only in patients with restored perfusion. Troponin T level measured in 72 hours after onset of acute coronary syndrome also correlates closely with MI size but does not depend on the character of reperfusion. Estimation of MI size based on blood concentration of troponins is more precise than methods based on levels of creatine phosphokinase and its MB fraction.
Elemental Eating: Samoan Public Health and Valuation in Health Promotion

Abstract:In this article, we suggest that indigenous foods are valorized and expanded through their re-signification as nutritious in Samoan health promotion campaigns. These campaigns elucidate how public health selectively values culture while extending the category of indigenous food to include non-autochthonous fruits and vegetables, in turn reshaping meanings associated with indigenous foods in relation to health. We first present material that demonstrates the impact of health promotion materials on food knowledge. We then highlight how nutrition as a value dominates official accounts and explore health promotion tools that have encouraged audiences to deconstruct food into constitutive parts, particularly negative nutrients like fat and salt. We call this “elemental eating,” which mutes the distinction between imported, new foods and indigenous, local foods by foregrounding nutritional components. Finally, we examine a recent media campaign that presented a new food category, mea‘ai paleni, as a hybrid of indigenous and local foods. Health promotion in this context revalues indigenous foods, broadening the category by promoting a scientistic framework for understanding nutrition. This interpretive framework reorganizes food categories from strictly new, imported foods and local, indigenous foods to healthy and unhealthy foods, reflecting epidemic discourses in both local media and scholarship while also complicating the typical epidemiological representation of the nutrition transition.
Reinforcement learning of conditional computation policies for neural networks

Deep neural networks have achieved state-of-theart performance in many areas, in large part due to the learning of hierarchical feature representations; however, evaluating these models can be unfeasible on resource-constrained devices. We present conditional computation methods for increasing the computation speed in these networks, by learning policies that actively select which parts of a network to activate at a given time. We present results from Bengio et al. (2015) showing how this can be implemented in a fully-connected neural network by dropping out blocks of units at a time. We then propose novel policy parameterizations for convolutional neural networks, which learn to drop out entire layers at a time. Although these policies are trained using the straightforward REINFORCE algorithm, our results indicate encouraging speedups, and we believe further investigation in this area could lead to drastic improvements.
The Factors Affecting Decisions of Undergraduate Students on Taking Extra English Courses in Tutorial Schools in Muang District, Chiang Mai

Abstract The purpose of this study was aimed to study the factors affecting the decisions of under graduate students on taking extra English language courses in tutorial schools in Muang District, Chiang Mai, and the researcher adapted the factors based on the 8 Ps of services marketing by Lovelock and Wirtz (2007). The researcher collected data from 385 undergraduate students who were taking extra English classes in tutorial schools in Muang District, Chiang Mai during the second semester of the academic year 2014. The result was shown that all factors were very important in affecting the decisions of undergraduate students on taking extra English courses in tutorial schools in Muang District, Chiang Mai. However, the mean of people was the highest factor, followed by product elements, promotion, productivity and quality, place, process, physical environment and price, respectively. This study also showed that the mean of People was the highest factor for first and second year level of undergraduate students while the mean of Product Elements was the highest factor for third and fourth year or higher level of undergraduate students. The lowest factor for all year levels of undergraduate students was the mean of price.
Compliancy in splint-wearing behaviour of patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

: Forty-six patients with rheumatoid arthritis affecting their hands were questioned to establish whether or not they complied with the medical specialist's instructions about wearing splints. Only one-third of the patients appeared to comply. A high extraversion score (measured on the EPI questionnnaire) identified half of the patients who did not comply. All patients scored significantly lower then the population norm on the introversion-extraversion dimension, indicating that this dimension may be involved in the psychosomatic aspect of rheumatoid arthritis.
Risk factors in breast cancer.

: Various factors have been found to be predictors of the relative risk of breast cancer (Table 2). Epidemiologic variables influencing breast cancer risk include age, marital status, geographic location, racial or ethnic extraction, and socioeconomic status. The risk of developing mammary carcinoma is increased with advancing age, among unmarried women, in the United States and Europe, and among women of higher socioeconomic classes. Conversely, a decreased breast cancer risk is observed among fertile married women in Asian countries, among Oriental women, and in lower socioeconomic classes. Reproductive history plays an important role in determining breast cancer risk. The risk of developing mammary carcinoma is increased by an early menarche and decreased by delayed first menses. A late natural menopause increases breast cancer risk while an early oophorectomy offers protection. Hormonal factors are thought to play important roles in the etiology of breast cancer, but the contributions of estrogenic and androgenic influences to mammary neoplasia have not been delineated. Certain estrogen fractions have been implicated as mammary carcinogens, while certain adrenal androgenic steroids have been shown to be promotors of breast cancers. Chronic cystic mastitis is associated with an increased breast cancer risk. A positive family history increases the risk of developing mammary carcinoma and a past history of breast cancer markedly increases the possibility of subsequent breast neoplasia.
Optimization of pharmacotherapy system for treatment of thyroid diseases in Ukraine

with the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines was checked. Results. Comparative analysis of assortment dynamic of UNF medications for treatment and prevention of thyroid diseases showed that foreign drugs had an advantage of inclusion to formulary. The main difference between BNF and UNF is that drugs are brought in BNF only by original name. In UNF antithyroid drugs are presented by thiamazole which is absent in WHO Model List of Essential Medicines and BNF. Conclusions. We recommend to provide arguments concerning evidence of clinical and cost effectiveness of drugs included to UNF; to include drugs in UNF exclusively by original name; to include carbimazole and propylthiouracil medications into group of antithyroid drugs in UNF; to unite subsections 7.3. 2 and 7.3. 3 of UNF to one general subsection “antithyroid drugs”.
Divergent Mechanisms for PPARγ Agonism in Ameliorating Aging-Related Versus Cranial Irradiation-Induced Context Discrimination Deficits

A major aspect of mammalian aging is the decline in functional competence of many self-renewing cell types, including adult-born neuronal precursors in a process termed neurogenesis. Adult neurogenesis is limited to specific brain regions in the mammalian brain, such as the subgranular zone (SGZ) of the hippocampus. Alterations in adult neurogenesis appear to be a common hallmark in different neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We and others have shown that PPARγ agonism improves cognition in preclinical models of AD as well as in several pilot clinical trials. Context discrimination is recognized as a cognitive task supported by proliferation and differentiation of adult-born neurons in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus that we and others have previously shown declines with age. We therefore postulated that PPARγ agonism would positively impact context discrimination in middle-aged mice via mechanisms that influence proliferation and differentiation of adult-born neurons arising from the SGZ. To achieve our objective, 8-months old mice were left untreated or treated with the FDA-approved PPARγ agonist, rosiglitazone then tested for context discrimination learning and memory, followed by immunofluorescence evaluation of hippocampal SGZ cell proliferation and neuron survival. We found that PPARγ agonism enhanced context discrimination performance in middle-aged mice concomitant with stimulated SGZ cell proliferation, but not new neuron survival. Focal cranial irradiation that destroys neurogenesis severely compromised context discrimination in middle-aged mice yet rosiglitazone treatment significantly improved cognitive performance through an anti-inflammatory mechanism and resurrection of the neurogenic niche. Thus, we have evidence for divergent mechanisms by which PPARγ agonism impinges upon aging-related versus cranial irradiation-induced deficits in context discrimination learning and memory.