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REVIEWS AND SYNTHESES Landscape perspectives on agricultural intensification and biodiversity - ecosystem service management

Understanding the negative and positive effects of agricultural land use for the conservation of biodiversity, and its relation to ecosystem services, needs a landscape perspective. Agriculture can contribute to the conservation of high-diversity systems, which may provide important ecosystem services such as pollination and biological control via complementarity and sampling effects. Land-use management is often focused on few species and local processes, but in dynamic, agricultural landscapes, only a diversity of insurance species may guarantee resilience (the capacity to reorganize after disturbance). Interacting species experience their surrounding landscape at different spatial scales, which influences trophic interactions. Structurally complex landscapes enhance local diversity in agroecosystems, which may compensate for local highintensity management. Organisms with high-dispersal abilities appear to drive these biodiversity patterns and ecosystem services, because of their recolonization ability and larger resources experienced. Agri-environment schemes (incentives for farmers to benefit the environment) need to broaden their perspective and to take the different responses to schemes in simple (high impact) and complex (low impact) agricultural landscapes into account. In simple landscapes, local allocation of habitat is more important than in complex landscapes, which are in total at risk. However, little knowledge of the relative importance of local and landscape management for biodiversity and its relation to ecosystem services make reliable recommendations difficult.
Optimization of evaporative cooling towards a large number of Bose-Einstein-condensed atoms

We study the optimization of evaporative cooling in trapped bosonic atoms on the basis of quantum kinetic theory of a Bose gas. The optimized cooling trajectory for {sup 87}Rb atoms indicates that the acceleration of evaporative cooling around the transition point of Bose-Einstein condensation is very effective against loss of trapped atoms caused by three-body recombination. The number of condensed atoms is largely enhanced by the optimization, more than two orders of magnitude in our present calculation using relevant experimental parameters, as compared with the typical value given by the conventional evaporative cooling where the frequency of radio-frequency magnetic field is swept exponentially. In addition to this optimized cooling, it is also shown that highly efficient evaporative cooling can be achieved by an initial exponential and then a rapid linear sweep of frequency.
Evaluation of nutrient quality of a short horned grasshopper, Oxya hyla hyla Serville (Orthoptera: Acrididae) in search of new protein source

The demand of protein rich feed stuffs has been escalated with the needs of feeds for aquaculture and live-stock management. Being nutrient rich, grasshoppers may be an alternative to resolve the problem. The present study evaluated nutrients quality in a grasshopper species, Oxya hyla hyla. Results revealed that this species contains about 64% protein, considerable amount of essential amino acids, unsaturated fatty acids, minerals and vitamins. On the other hand, anti-nutritional factors are detected to be negligible. These results suggests for considering O. hyla hyla biomass as an alternative protein rich feed ingredient in the feed of fish and livestock.
Plant Species Diversity along Road Reserve in Kisumu County- Kenya

Kisumu County has very minimal assessment of the local flora, with only scanty information from protected areas such as Ndere Island. There is no information on the roadside flora, yet road reserves are better conduit for biodiversity conservation due to limited human interference. This study assessed the role of a road reserve in conservation of floral diversity within Kisumu County. Species sampling was by transect method while percentage cover was by point quadrat method for grasses and herbs and total head count method for trees. Species identification was based on morphological attributes according to ICBN. A total of 133 plants were sampled from 45 families. The therophytes (19.8%) dominated in terms of cover, while, the microphanerophytes (18 species) dominated in species abundance. Fabaceae (20 species) had the highest number of species, though; Poaceae had the highest ground cover (15.7%).
Achieving Wellness through Tourism: Comparing International and U.S. Travelers

Health and wellness tourism has become an increasingly popular trend in recent years as many resorts and destinations now offer wellness activities and amenities. This study sought to investigate what might be significant predictors of achieving a high perceived wellness as a result of travel. The results revealed that for international travelers internal motivations of action related activities, the need to be with others, the size of their travel party and education were significant predictors. For domestic travelers, only their perceived physical wellness was a predictor or their overall wellness state. Future research could explore relationships between the domestic and international traveler.
Balance among gravitational instability, star formation and accretion determines the structure and evolution of disc galaxies

Over the past 10 Gyr, star-forming galaxies have changed dramatically, from clumpy and gas rich, to rather quiescent stellar-dominated disks with specific star formation rates lower by factors of a few tens. We present a general theoretical model for how this transition occurs, and what physical processes drive it, making use of 1D axisymmetric thin disk simulations with an improved version of the Gravitational Instability-Dominated Galaxy Evolution Tool (GIDGET) code. We show that at every radius galaxies tend to be in a slowly evolving equilibrium state wherein new accretion is balanced by star formation, galactic winds, and radial transport of gas through the disk by gravitational instability (GI) -driven torques. The gas surface density profile is determined by which of these terms are in balance at a given radius - direct accretion is balanced by star formation and galactic winds near galactic centers, and by transport at larger radii. We predict that galaxies undergo a smooth transition from a violent disk instability phase to secular evolution. This model provides a natural explanation for the high velocity dispersions and large clumps in z~2 galaxies, the growth and subsequent quenching of bulges, and features of the neutral gas profiles of local spiral galaxies.
The Interleukin-17 Family of Cytokines in Breast Cancer

Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer in women worldwide and remains a major cause of mortality with an expected 137,000 death this year in Europe. Standard management of metastatic BC comprises hormonotherapy, chemotherapy, and targeted therapies. Cyclin dependent kinase (CDK) and mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitors have recently proved their efficiency in hormonal receptor expressing BC. Checkpoint proteins inhibition is being evaluated in phase 3 studies. Since inflammation is constantly present in cancers, research teams have focused their attention on the interleukin-17 (IL-17) family of proinflammatory cytokines. Preclinical experiments have reported both pro and antitumor effects depending on the conditions. In the present article, we review the accumulating evidences about the roles of IL-17 in BC and discuss whether this family of cytokines could be a new target in anticancer treatments.
LOFAR VLBI Studies at 55 MHz of 4C 43.15, a z=2.4 Radio Galaxy

The correlation between radio spectral index and redshift has been exploited to discover high-redshift radio galaxies, but its underlying cause is unclear. It is crucial to characterize the particle acceleration and loss mechanisms in high-redshift radio galaxies to understand why their radio spectral indices are steeper than their local counterparts. Low-frequency information on scales of similar to 1 arcsec are necessary to determine the internal spectral index variation. In this paper we present the first spatially resolved studies at frequencies below 100 MHz of the z = 2.4 radio galaxy 4C 43.15 which was selected based on its ultrasteep spectral index (alpha < -1; S-v similar to v(alpha)) between 365 MHz and 1.4 GHz. Using the International Low Frequency Array Low Band Antenna we achieve subarcsecond imaging resolution at 55MHz with very long baseline interferometry techniques. Our study reveals low-frequency radio emission extended along the jet axis, which connects the two lobes. The integrated spectral index for frequencies <500 MHz is -0.83. The lobes have integrated spectral indices of -1.31 +/- 0.03 and -1.75 +/- 0.01 for frequencies = 1.4 GHz, implying a break frequency between 500 MHz and 1.4 GHz. These spectral properties are similar to those of local radio galaxies. We conclude that the initially measured ultrasteep spectral index is due to a combination of the steepening spectrum at high frequencies with a break at intermediate frequencies.
Using Networks Towards Global Labor Standards? Organizing Social Responsibility in Global Production Chains **

The prosperity of spreading economic globalization often rests on subjecting labor to working conditions which violate elementary human rights. Political, and to a markedly les ser extent, academic controversies over counter-measures have developed with a primarily focus on cases of buyer-driven global commodity chains. With general and judicable global standards non-existent, consumer and shareholder pressure plus internal goals for setting labor standards have led some globally active enterprises to voluntarily adopt codes of conduct as a means of dealing with this problem all along the commodity chain. Using some basic tenets of structuration theoiy and insights based on an exploratory empirical analysis of three cases from the apparel industry, this paper looks at such codes as a tool of corporate social responsibility. From this, it goes on to ask whether the form and the shape of the inter-organizational network are conducive or a hindrance to achieving acceptable labor standards. Following a brief review of the problems associated with achieving generally recognized global labor standards, the paper concludes with an appraisal of the need to embed corporate social responsibility in a comprehensive institutional framework in the interest of human rights and global labor standards. Mit Hilfe von Netzwerken zu globalen Arbeitsstandards? Zur Organisation von sozialer Verantwortlichkeit in weltumspannenden Produktionsketten
Computational Modelingof Biochemical Processes and Cell Differentiation

We introduce various modeling approaches that can be used to understand structure, dynamics and function of regulatory cellular networks. These techniques comprise network representation with graphs, Boolean networks, piecewise linear differential equations, ordinary differential equations and stochastic modeling. Mathematical modeling has been successfully applied to elucidate different biological processes and properties. Here, we demonstrate how computational techniques can be exploited in the analysis of stem cell differentiation and cellular reprogramming.
Destination Development for Rural Tourism Area in Wanayasa, Puwakarta, West Java, Indonesia

This purpose of this paper is to elaborate the understanding of destination development of rural tourism in Wanayasa, Purwakarta, Jawa Barat. It has a rich potential for the rural tourism prosperity. Then author incorporates destination development through Butler‘s Area Life Cycle. Research was conducted in August 2015 with qualitative approaches i.e. interview and focus group discussion to 120 respondents which comprises representation from several different group. In addition, some of data also produced from secondary sources such as government regulation and official website. Findings show that Wanayasa possessed their ability in developing aspect of internal factors, attractions and accommodation facilities. Apart from that quality, it is obvious that their rural tourism development is lack of destination management and chaotic strategy marketing formulation as a result of disorganized planning processes. With those conditions, it will be tough for them to formulate the true competitive advantage as a basic foundation of their tourism development. This paper illustrates a detailed analysis of the destination‘s strengths and weaknesses, and a more distinctive understanding of what facilitates a destination‘s competitive position.
A study on the occurrence of bacterial isolation in mouth ulcer patients.

Objective: Aim of the study is to observe the occurrence of bacterial isolates from mouth ulcer swab specimens. Recurrent oral ulcer gravely frightens every day of patient’s life and health. This paper talks about the recurrent oral ulceration affecting the oral mucosa by bacterial infections. Methodology: The study was carried out between April 2016 and June 2016. Mouth ulcer swab specimens were collected aseptically from patients and cultured on the appropriate bacteriological media. Bacterial isolates were identified by biochemical tests and antimicrobial susceptibility by standard methods. Result: Out of 60 samples, 45(75%) specimens were found to have bacterial growth and 15 (25%) of them showed no growth. The prevalence of bacterial spp. isolated from the mouth ulcer swab are listed as follows Acinetobacter baumanii 17(37.8%), Klebsiella pneumoniae12(26.7%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa08 (17.8%), Staphylococcus aureus05 (11.1%), H.pylori 3 (6.6%). Conclusion: This study will be useful for prediction of the prevalence of pathogen in Mouth ulcer and also providing the alertness among the patients about its complications for control strategies of the pathogen.
Bad Smells in So ware Analytics Papers

CONTEXT: There has been a rapid growth in the use of data analytics to underpin evidence-based software engineering. However the combination of complex techniques, diverse reporting standards and complex underlying phenomena are causing some concern as to the reliability of studies. OBJECTIVE: Our goal is to provide guidance for producers and consumers of software analytics studies (computational experiments and correlation studies). METHOD: We propose using “bad smells", i.e. surface indications of deeper problems and popular in the agile software community and consider how they may be manifest in software analytics studies. RESULTS: We provide a list of 11 “bad smells" in decreasing order of severity and show their impact by examples. CONCLUSIONS: We should encourage more debate on what constitutes a ‘valid’ study (so we expect our list will mature over time).
Isolation of novel bacterial strains from contaminated soils for phenol biodegradation

Isolation and screening of novel strains of bacteria from natural sources for biotransformation studies were investigated. Two strains were isolated from different contaminated soils around lake side soils of Gandigudem, Isnapur and Kazipally in and around Hyderabad, India. These strains were identified at the Institute ofMicrobial Technology, Chandigarh, India, basing on physical and biochemical characterization assigned MTCC numbers. These two strains were designated as Kocuria rosea MTCC 8311 and Bacillus cereusMTCC8312. These strains were used for biodegradation studies.
‘You try to be a fair employer’: Regulation and employment relationships in medium-sized firms

In this article, we explore the dynamic, indirect effects of employment regulation through a qualitative study of three medium-sized enterprises and their ongoing, everyday employment relationships. Whereas owner–manager prerogative is generally associated with informality in small and medium-sized enterprises, we identify instances of formal policies and procedures implemented in response to regulation being instrumental in exerting this prerogative. Furthermore, employees reinforced this process by making judgements regarding the employment relationship in terms of their perceived informal psychological contract rather than external regulatory obligations. This article extends understanding of dynamic, indirect regulatory effects in relation to the interplay of informality and formality within psychological contracts in medium-sized enterprises.
Genetic evaluation of tropical popcorn inbred lines using BLUP.

The objectives were to identify superior inbred lines and single-crosses, predict untested hybrids and analyze the importance of pedigree information and the prediction efficiency. We analyzed 24 experiments in the incomplete block design, including 20 tests of hybrids and 4 tests of inbred lines. The expansion volume (EV) and grain yield were measured in each plot. The analyses were made using ASReml software. Analyses of the general combining ability (GCA) effects and the additive genetic values of the inbred lines, and the genotypic values of the hybrids in relation to EV showed that no inbred line selection strategy resulted in a set of clearly superior or inferior inbred lines and hybrids. Including pedigree information resulted in an increase in the variance of the GCA effects in relation to EV and a reduction in relation to yield. For both traits, there was an increase in the variance of the specific combining ability effects. The cross-validation study showed that the prediction of the genotypic value of a hybrid based only on the GCA effects is not efficient in the presence of dominance. With dominance, the efficiency of the hybrid prediction depends on the degree of relationship among the inbred lines.
Inverse pole figure mapping of bulk crystalline grains in a polycrystalline steel plate by pulsed neutron Bragg‐dip transmission imaging

A new mapping procedure for polycrystals using neutron Bragg-dip transmission is presented. This is expected to be useful as a new materials characterization tool which can simultaneously map the crystallographic direction of grains parallel to the incident beam. The method potentially has a higher spatial resolution than neutron diffraction imaging. As a demonstration, a Bragg-dip neutron transmission experiment was conducted at J-PARC on beamline MLF BL10 NOBORU. A large-grained Si–steel plate was used. Since this specimen included multiple grains along the neutron beam transmission path, it was a challenging task for existing methods to analyse the direction of the crystal lattice of each grain. A new data-analysis method for Bragg-dip transmission measurements was developed based on database matching. As a result, the number of grains and their crystallographic direction along the neutron transmission path have been determined.
Similarity of Inference Face Matching On Angle Oriented Face Recognition

Face recognition is one of the wide applications of image processing technique. In this paper complete image of face recognition algorithm is proposed. In the prepared algorithm the local information is extracted using angle oriented discrete cosine transforms and invokes certain normalization techniques. To increase the Reliability of the Face detection process, neighborhood pixel information is incorporated into the proposed method. Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) are renowned methods are implementing in the field of access control and security are utilizing the feature extraction capabilities. But these algorithms have certain limitations like poor discriminatory power and disability to handle large computational load. The face matching classification for the proposed system is done using various distance measure methods like Euclidean Distance, Manhattan Distance and Cosine Distance methods and the recognition rate were compared for different distance measures. The proposed method has been successfully tested on image database which is acquired under variable illumination and facial expressions. It is observed from the results that use of face matching like various method gives a recognition rate are high while comparing other methods. Also this study analyzes and compares the obtained results from the proposed Angle oriented face recognition with threshold based face detector to show the level of robustness using texture features in the proposed face detector. It was verified that a face recognition based on textual features can lead to an efficient and more reliable face detection method compared with KLT (Karhunen Loeve Transform), a threshold face detector. Keywords : Angle Oriented, Cosine Similarity, Discrete Cosine Transform, Euclidean Distance, Face Matching, Feature Extraction, Face Recognition, Image texture features.
A COMPARITIVE ANALYSIS OF AIRLINES EFFICIENCY: EVIDENCE FROM MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

Efficiency is a concept that has a long history in the sciences and its measurement and analysis is a vital importance for firms to achieve their best performance. Hence, the purpose of this study is to evaluate efficiency of airline members of international air transport association (IATA) in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) using non-parametric data envelopment analysis method. Data collected by statistical annual reports available in official airlines and air transport authorities websites for 20 airlines from 14 countries. These airlines have analyzed through three outputs including number of passenger carried, revenue passenger kilometre, revenue tone kilometre and three inputs namely available seat kilometre, available tone kilometre and size of fleet using two input orientation approaches of constant return to scale and variable return to scale. The results reveal that the average of efficiency in CRS and VRS models are 90% and 98% respectively. Moreover, according to nationals ranking based on airlines ratios for scale efficiency, United Arab Emirates and Sudan have gained superior and lowest situation respectively.
Subject Combination and Electrode Selection in Cooperative Brain-Computer Interface Based on Event Related Potentials

New paradigms are required in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) systems for the needs and expectations of healthy people. To solve this issue, we explore the emerging field of cooperative BCIs, which involves several users in a single BCI system. Contrary to classical BCIs that are dependent on the unique subject’s will, cooperative BCIs are used for problem solving tasks where several people shall be engaged by sharing a common goal. Similarly as combining trials over time improves performance, combining trials across subjects can significantly improve performance compared with when only a single user is involved. Yet, cooperative BCIs may only be used in particular settings, and new paradigms must be proposed to efficiently use this approach. The possible benefits of using several subjects are addressed, and compared with current single-subject BCI paradigms. To show the advantages of a cooperative BCI, we evaluate the performance of combining decisions across subjects with data from an event-related potentials (ERP) based experiment where each subject observed the same sequence of visual stimuli. Furthermore, we show that it is possible to achieve a mean AUC superior to 0.95 with 10 subjects and 3 electrodes on each subject, or with 4 subjects and 6 electrodes on each subject. Several emerging challenges and possible applications are proposed to highlight how cooperative BCIs could be efficiently used with current technologies and leverage BCI applications.