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Analysis Price Transmission of Cayenne Pepper In South Sulawesi Province

: This study aims to analyze the price transmission of cayenne pepper in South Sulawesi. This study uses a quantitative approach and is implemented in Enrekang and Maros Regencies, Location determination is done purposively. from February to March 2018. This study uses secondary data obtained from various government agencies in South Sulawesi. The data analysis used is the analysis of price transmission. The results showed that the price transmission that occurred in South Sulawesi in the long run had an IMC value> 1, so that the price in the local market (Maros Regency and Enrekang Regency) with prices in the reference market (Makassar City) was not integrated, This indicates that any price changes that occurred in the reference market (Makassar City) in the previous week did not affect the price of cayenne pepper at the local market level (Maros Regency and Enrekang Regency). While the price transmission in South Sulawesi is short-term integrated high for Enrekang Regency. This is because the value of b2 is close to 1 so the difference in price in the previous week in Enrekang Regency influences price formation in the reference market (Makassar City), Whereas in Maros Regency it was integrated low, which caused that the price difference in the previous week did not affect the formation of market prices in Makassar City.
Exposure to PM 10 , PM 2.5 , PM 1 and carbon monoxide on roads in Lahore, Pakistan

Particulate matter pollution is one of the major environmental concerns in Pakistan. Over the past 20 years there has been a considerable increase in the number of motor vehicles. The present study was conducted to assess journey time and roadside exposure to particulate matter and carbon monoxide along major roads of Lahore during November, 2007. Measurements of particulate mass and carbon monoxide were carried out continuously inside an air conditioned vehicle, while commuting, and outside the vehicle at 36 different locations in the city. Additionally, monitoring was undertaken at a background site throughout the period. The overall mean journey-time concentrations of PM10, PM2.5, PM1, PM10–2.5 and CO were 103 �� g/m 3 , 50 �� g/m 3 , 38 �� g/m 3 , 53 �� g/m 3 and 8 ppm, respectively. At the roadside average PM10, PM2.5, PM1, PM10–2.5 and CO concentrations were 489 �� g/m 3 , 91 �� g/m 3 , 52 �� g/m 3 , 397 �� g/m 3 and 4 ppm, respectively. The highest levels were found at the sites with traffic congestion reflecting, not only, the large contribution of automobile exhaust but also the resuspension of road dust. The majority of public transport vehicles in Lahore are not air-conditioned and it is very likely that commuters are exposed to the similar high levels of pollution.
Raspberry Pi Home Automation Using Android Application

The project presents a low cost and flexible home control and monitoring system using a Raspberry PI module and a Static Relay, with internet connectivity for accessing and controlling devices and appliances remotely using Smartphone android application. The proposed system does not require a dedicated server PC with respect to similar systems and offers a novel communication protocol to monitor and control the home environment with more than just the switching functionality. To demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of this system, devices such as Static relays and a wifi router can be integrated with the home control system.
Developmental plasticity for male secondary sexual traits in a group of polyphenic tropical butterflies

1812 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– © 2018 The Authors. This is an Online Open article This work is licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY) <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/>. The license permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Subject Editor: Jessica Abbott Editor-in-Chief: Dries Bonte Accepted 19 June 2018 127: 1812–1821, 2018 doi: 10.1111/oik.05291 doi: 10.1111/oik.05291 127 1812–1821
Enhancing Teachers' Knowledge of Students Learning by Using Research-Based Cases

ABSTRCT The study intended to use research-based cases to enhance teacher knowledge of students’ learning of mathematics. Teacher knowledge of students’ learning focused on anticipating students’ various solutions and arranging the order of students’ various solutions. There were five teachers participated in the case discussion groups. The decimals cases covered in a casebook were the intervention of the professional development program. The pretest and posttest were conducted for the participants. The result indicates that anticipating, categorizing, and sequencing students’ various solutions are the indicators of teachers’ knowledge of students’ learning. Teachers’ mstering in predicting students’ anticipated solutions is a strategy for improving teachers’ understanding students’ prior knowledge Ordering students various solutions for discussion was based on the degree of difficulty of problems.
Effects of retail display conditions on meat color.

This paper wil l deal with the effects of display conditions on meat color. Display is defined as the offering of product under lighting and at a refrigerated temperature, usually prepackaged. Display is not the same as storage, which I define as keeping cuts in the dark and not available to the pruchaser. Some studies use the word storage when they seem to mean display. I wi l l usually restrict this discussion to display, not storage, except where storage conditions have an effect on later display. Factors to be covered are type of display lighting, intensity o f lighting, temperature, packaging f i lm and atmosphere within the film package. I wi l l not deal with muscle characteristics affecting display color or shelf life or with processing, with the possible exception of modified atmosphere packaging.
The Black Sea populations of anchovy

The rational utilization of the main fishery resource of the Black Sea –the anchovy, whose total catch more than doubled in the last decade and reached the max. level of 606,000 tons (FAO data) in l984– is of utmost importance for the industrial fishery in the region. However, increases in anchovy catches alternated with sharp slumps, initiating the research presented in this paper. The main aim of the research was to reveal the range of each anchovy stock and to assess its biomass seasonally. To do this we explored methods of identifying races of fish and measuring stocks quantitatively.
The mother of all parasites

Evaluation of: Moore RB, Obornik M, Janouskovec J et al.: A photosynthetic alveolate closely related to apicomplexan parasites. Nature 451(7181), 959–963 (2008). Malaria and related apicomplexan parasites contain a relict plastid (apicoplast) that is a promising drug target. The apicoplast has been argued to derive from either an engulfed red or green alga. The discovery of the first photosynthetic apicomplexan, dubbed Chromera velia, with a fully functional plastid resolves the debate, clearly showing that the relict plastid is derived from a modified red alga. Intriguingly, C. velia is a coral symbiont and thus reminiscent of the closely related dinoflagellate symbionts (zooxanthellae) vital to corals and many other invertebrates. Symbiosis and parasitism are thus wide-spread in both the dinoflagellates and apicomplexans, suggesting that modern parasites like Plasmodium spp. and Toxoplasma likely started out as mutualistic symbionts that initially nourished their animal hosts before turning to parasitis.
Strategic Engagement of Policymakers Is Key to Advancing a Children's Health Care Coverage Policy Agenda. Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research, Urban Institute, and Center for Studying Health System Change

Policymakers can be critically important allies of children’s advocates. As part of an evaluation of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation’s Insuring America’s Children: States Leading the Way grant-making strategy, site visits conducted to seven states— Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, and Washington—found that the establishment of strong relationships between advocacy organizations and policymakers is central not only to moving children’s health care coverage agendas forward, but also to preserving previous coverage gains. Understanding states’ unique political environments is an important first step for advocates in developing effective strategies to engage policymakers and gain their support. Common strategies include identifying, nurturing, and supporting political champions; creating strategic linkages between grassroots organizations and policy advocacy groups; using effective messaging that appeals to policymakers; establishing advocacy organizations as the “go-to” resource for reliable data and information; and sharing ownership of agendas and successes. How advocates in the seven states have used these strategies provides useful lessons for other advocates pursuing expansions in health insurance coverage.
Antibiotics resistance and RAPD-PCR typing of multidrug resistant MRSA isolated from bovine mastitis cases in Thailand

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains are a global health concern in both human and veterinary medicine. In addition to -lactam resistance, MRSA can carry resistance to other commonly used antibiotics. The present study sought to determine the antibiotic susceptibility profile and genetic relatedness of strains emerging in Thailand. A total of 229 isolates of S. aureus obtained from 598 mastitis cases were investigated for their susceptibility to several antibiotics. Among 229 isolates of S. aureus, 27 were found to be methicillin resistant and multidrug resistant. Multidrug resistant MRSA infection was detected in 4 provinces including Lopburi, Udon Thani, Khon Kaen and Saraburi. Multidrug resistant strains exhibited several antibiogram patterns (antibiotypes I to XII). The most frequent pattern was antibiotype VII, i.e., resistance to most commonly used antibiotics. Based on random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD) technique and a combined amplicon-profile obtained with three primers, all isolates were grouped according to genetic similarity. Five different RAPD patterns (types I to V) were identified with 90% genetic similarity. The close genetic relatedness within RAPD type I was interesting because most RAPD type I isolates had antibiogram pattern III or VII. In addition, some isolates from different regions were identical in both antibiogram pattern and RAPD type. This revealed that some of the antibiotic-resistant isolates in our study were epidemic strains.
Is Appendectomy Necessary During Cesarean Section?

Objective: Acute appendicitis is the disease most frequently requiring non-obstetric surgical intervention during pregnancy. It is a condition threatening both mother and fetus lives and the prevalence in pregnant and non-pregnant women is identical, it is 0.1 % 0.2 %. The aim of this study is to investigate the approach for acute appendicitis in patients who underwent appendectomy during follow-up of pregnancy by retrospective data of last nine years. Materials and Methods: Data of 19 pregnant patients who underwent appendectomy during their pregnancy between January 2006 and November 2015 were retrospectively examined. Patients were evaluated with respect to age, age of pregnancy, clinical and laboratory signs, imaging results, surgical signs, postoperative complications, and pathological results. Results: At their admission, 63.1% of cases were at trimester 3, 21% were at trimester 2, and 33.3% were at trimester 1. In 19 patients, appendectomy was decided and performed during cesarean. Pathological results in 54.5% of these patients reported acute appendicitis. In pregnant cases with appendectomy, 10 patients (52.6%) had acute appendicitis, while 9 patients (47.3%) had normal appendix. Conclusion: We consider that in case of edema and hyperemia detected by visualizing appendix during cesarean, appendectomy must be performed.
Adaptation of a tropical butterfly to a temperate climate

Developmental plasticity enables organisms to cope with environmental heterogeneity, such as seasonal variation in climatic conditions, and is thought to affect a species’ capability to adapt to environments with novel seasonal and ecological dynamics. We studied developmental plasticity of the widespread tropical butterfly, Bicyclus safitza, which reaches the southern edge of its distribution in the temperate zone of South Africa. In wet–dry seasonal environments in tropical Africa, adults of Bicyclus butterflies are present all year round and exhibit discrete seasonal forms in alternating generations. We demonstrate that a population that colonized a more temperate climate region has adopted a different strategy to cope with the local environment. No active adults were encountered during the temperate winter. The flight season coincided with a period when evaporation stress was lowest and temperatures were higher in the South African population. Butterflies collected from the field did not express seasonal polyphenism or show full expression of the tropical wet season form phenotype. Reaction norm experiments comparing stocks from South Africa and Uganda indicated that local adaptation of this tropical butterfly to a more temperate climate involved changes in the degree of developmental plasticity, such that a more robust development in response to thermal variation was observed for a broad suite of morphological and life-history traits. Our findings have implications for understanding the mechanisms that facilitate expansion into a novel ecological niche in seasonally variable climatic conditions.
Combined Use of Neutron-Scattering, Fluid-Invasion, and Image-Analysis Techniques to Assess Pore Structure, Accessibility, and Connectivity in Tight Rock

Low-permeability (unconventional) reservoirs exhibit heterogeneities at multiple scales that affect flow. While macro-scale heterogeneities are typically evaluated using welltest or production-analysis techniques, core-scale (and finer) analyses are relied upon to evaluate micro-and nano-scale heterogeneities. Pore structure is a known control on flow at the core scale; for unconventional reservoirs, however, pore-size distributions, pore accessibility, and connectivity are challenging to evaluate. In the present study, a combination of neutron-scattering methods, fluid invasion, and imaging techniques were used to evaluate the degree of pore accessibility and connectivity in a tight oil reservoir within the Cardium Fm. of western Canada. In previous work, cmto sub-cm scale variations in lithology (elementary lithological components, or ELCs) have been shown to affect flow at the core scale significantly and that reservoir quality varies with the ELCs. The fundamental controls on flow within these ELCs (i.e. at the pore scale), however, are poorly understood. The aim of the present study was to gain insight into these controls. Small-angle and ultra-small angle neutron scattering (SANS/USANS) has revealed that while the Cardium samples exhibit a wide range in pore-size distribution, the accessibility of pores varies significantly with pore size. In particular, the large pore fraction seems to be less accessible than the small pore fraction, which is counter-intuitive. Mercury intrusion data partially support this finding. High-resolution scanning electron microscopy (SEM) imaging suggests that pores within mineral grains may indeed be disconnected/isolated. The SANS/USANS interpretations are based on a simple 2-component (poresþ average mineral phase) model, however; detailed mineral mapping reveals that several components may affect significantly the scattering behavior which leads to the conclusion that a multi-phase model may be more appropriate, and that use of the conventional 2-phase model could lead to errors in calculated pore-size distributions and the percentage of disconnected porosity.
Trace me if you can: the use of intrinsic biogeochemical markers in marine top predators

Human activities have serious impacts on marine apex predators. Inadequate knowledge of the spatial and trophic ecology of these marine animals ultimately compromises the viability of their populations and impedes our ability to use them as environmental biomonitors. Intrinsic biogeochemical markers, such as stable isotopes, fatty acids, trace elements, and chemical pollutants, are increasingly being used to trace the spatial and trophic ecology of marine top predators. Notable advances include the emergence of the first oceanographic “isoscapes” (isotopic geographic gradients), the advent of compound-specific isotopic analyses, improvements in diet reconstruction through Bayesian statistics, and tissue analysis of tracked animals to ground-truth biogeochemical profiles. However, most researchers still focus on only a few tracers. Moreover, insufficient knowledge of the biogeochemical integration in tissues, fractionation and routing processes, and geographic and temporal variability in baseline levels co.
Hypermethylated promoter profiles for tumour supressor APC , p53, MSH6 and MGMT genes in CRC tumours

Accepted 20 th December, 2016 Abstract Background and Aim: Colorectal cancer (CRC) results from a multiple steps of genetic and epigenetic parameters that transform a normal cell into cancerous epithelium. Aberrant DNA methylation is a common epigenomic alteration in carcinogenesis. In the present study was aimed to investigate the possible DNA hypomethylation in three candidate tumour supressor (TS) genes in CRC tumours. Method: Twenty CRC solid tumours were analyzed in the current project by epigenetical profilling of target TS genes. Promoter methylation status was evaluated by MS-MLPA technique in current twenty CRC tumours for target p53, MLH6 and MGMT genes. Results: Results showed alterated methylation profiles for p53, MLH6 and MGMT genes in the current CRC tumours. Increased hypermethylation (HM) at different levels were detected all TS genes that examined in the current results. The HM percentages were; APC (20/100%), p53 (12/60%), MSH6 (12/60%) and MGMT (2/10%) respectivelly. No hypermethlation was detected for both BRCA 1-2 (control) genes in all tumoural samples that examined in the current results. Conclusions: Preliminary results from the current project suggest that altered DNA methylation status takes crucial role in CRC initiation and/or progression. Results need to confirm by large-scale of tumoural samples.
Complex Geometrical Optics and Calderón’s Problem

5 Complex Geometrical Optics Solutions for First Order Perturbations of the Laplacian 37 5.1 Intertwining property (part 1) . 37 5.2 Intertwining property (part 2) . 43 5.3 Intertwining property (part 3)–Some reductions . 49 5.4 Construction of pseudoanalytic matrices . 51
Demographic Parameters of Clients Undergoing Vasectomy in a Rural Hilly District in Nepal

Aim: Contraceptive prevalence is low in Nepal. Education is one of the factors that promote contraception. We aimed at determining the influence of education of the couple on permanent as well as temporary methods of contraception. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out on male clients attending mobile vasectomy camp organized at five different places of Jumla, one of the hilly districts of Nepal. Study was carried out in the month of February and March, 2009. 214 clients who underwent vasectomy during the camp were interviewed after taking informed consent. Results: Depo provera was the most used temporary contraceptives among the clients. Average family size of the clients was 3.54. Nearly one thirds were using contraceptives at the time of vasectomy. Contraceptive usage was higher in clients who had at least secondary level of education compared to illiterates and literates. Average family size was also smaller in that group. Conclusion: Use of contraceptive and awareness on permanent method of family planning was higher among the educated clients than among the uneducated ones.
Optogenetic investigation of B . subtilis sporulation network at the single cell level

Upon starvation, Bacillus subtilis cells will employ a sporulation mechanism to form spores that endure harsh environments. This mechanism is operated by a phosphorelay network, culminating in the activation of a master regulator, Spo0A. Sporulating cells display pulses of Spo0A that gradually increase in amplitude, but the purpose of these specific dynamics is unknown. Using recently developed optogenetic methods from our lab, we apply temporally varied Spo0A inputs to a population of cells. We assess the phenotypic response at the single cell level to determine the role of Spo0A pulsing in sporulation.
Hydrometeorological network for flood monitoring and modeling

Due to its highly fragmented geomorphology, Greece comprises hundreds of small- to medium-size hydrological basins, in which often the terrain is fairly steep and the streamflow regime ephemeral. These are typically affected by flash floods, occasionally causing severe damages. Yet, the vast majority of them lack flow-gauging infrastructure providing systematic hydrometric data at fine time scales. This has obvious impacts on the quality and reliability of flood studies, which typically use simplistic approaches for ungauged basins that do not consider local peculiarities in sufficient detail. In order to provide a consistent framework for flood design and to ensure realistic predictions of the flood risk –a key issue of the 2007/60/EC Directive– it is essential to improve the monitoring infrastructures by taking advantage of modern technologies for remote control and data management. In this context and in the research project DEUCALION, we have recently installed and are operating, in four pilot river basins, a telemetry-based hydro-meteorological network that comprises automatic stations and is linked to and supported by relevant software. The hydrometric stations measure stage, using 50-kHz ultrasonic pulses or piezometric sensors, or both stage (piezometric) and velocity via acoustic Doppler radar; all measurements are being temperature-corrected. The meteorological stations record air temperature, pressure, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, and precipitation. Data transfer is made via GPRS or mobile telephony modems. The monitoring network is supported by a web-based application for storage, visualization and management of geographical and hydro-meteorological data (ENHYDRIS), a software tool for data analysis and processing (HYDROGNOMON), as well as an advanced model for flood simulation (HYDROGEIOS). The recorded hydro-meteorological observations are accessible over the Internet through the www-application. The system is operational and its functionality has been implemented as open-source software for use in a wide range of applications in the field of water resources monitoring and management, such as the demonstration case study outlined in this work.
Physical, Cognitive and Contextual - the Gulf between Older People and Designers Experiences

We consider Designer Experience (DX) in the context of user experience and explain how we break experience down into its physical, cognitive and contextual aspects. We use this to develop an explanation of the challenges to understanding older users’ experiences and look at methods we have employed to increase our understanding. We focus on video creation, its similarity to therapeutic role play and its potential to facilitate DX. We conclude by speculating about the potential role of iterative participatory design in DX, particularly hard challenges to DX in the domain of design with older users and some of DX’s possible limitations.