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The relation between personal property and IT and competitiveness in economy

In the current study, the economical analyses of the relation between IT, personal property and competitive policies are presented. This analysis deals with the issue how IT affected economical activities and the competitiveness between economical enterprises. It emphasizes on this issue that competition should be in the framework of intellectual property rules. By intellectual property rules, the progress in IT can cause variety in competitive strategies. Intellectual property rights have deep influence on competitive strategies in IT. Today, some companies to achieve the commercial advantages considered intellectual property rights. Thus, the intellectual property system performance should be as it can be effective in motivating the long-term competition innovations and it is developed as it avoids deprivation of innovations or damaging the customers. (Mansoureh Aligholi. The relation between personal property and IT and competitiveness in economy. Life Sci J 2013;10(7s):775-780) (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite. com . 123
MEASURING SERVICE QUALITY IN SCHEDULED BUS SERVICES

This article develops a stated preference model of service quality choice that provides the set of indicators required to represent a user based measure of service quality. The service quality index (SQI) provides an operationally appealing measure of service effectiveness to assist regulators in administering and monitoring a performance assessment regime and operators in improving customer service. SQI has been readily accepted by many bus operators in New South Wales, Australia as the preferred way of establishing and monitoring the effectiveness of service levels, in contrast to traditional stand-alone satisfaction scores based on independent assessment of each attribute in isolation from the entire service package that passengers actually experience.
Exploring Differences in the Perception of Business & IT Alignment

A key success factor for a successful company in a dynamic environment is effective and efficient information technology (IT) supporting business strategies and processes. In recent surveys however it is concluded that in most companies IT is not aligned with business strategy. The alignment between business needs and IT capabilities is therefore still a prominent area of concern. What is striking about these surveys is that they investigate the concerns of IT executives. The logic of business & IT alignment (BIA) however requires both IT and business executives to share this concern. Other research shows that business executives do not rank business & IT alignment very high in their concerns. This result raises the question whether BIA is an IT issue? And also: Do business executives perceive business & IT alignment differently than their IT colleagues? This paper investigates the difference in perception of BIA between business executives and IT executives. The paper presents an brief overview of the theory on BIA and reports an assessment of BIA maturity by business managers and IT managers in 12 Dutch firms.
Acoustic Analysis with Moving Window in Normal and Pathologic Voices

In this study, the most stable portion was identified using 5% moving window during /a/ sustained phonation in normal and pathologic voice signals and the perturbation values were compared between normal and pathologic voices at the mid-point and at the most stable portion using moving window, respectively. The results revealed that some severe pathologic voice signals can be eligible for perturbation analysis by identifying the most stable portion with Err less than 10. In addition, the perturbation acoustic parameters did not differentiate the pathologic voice signals from the normal voice signals when the mid-point was selected to measure the perturbation analysis(p>0.05). However, significantly higher %shimmer and lower SNR values were observed in pathologic voices (p<0.05) when the most stable portion was selected by moving window. In conclusion, moving window could identify the most stable portion objectively which can allow toget the minimum perturbation values (%jitter, %shimmer) and maximum SNR values. Thus, moving window technique can be applicable for more reliable and accurate perturbation acoustic analysis.
Syddansk Universitet Web-Based and Mobile Stress Management Intervention for Employees A Randomized Controlled Trial

Background: Work-related stress is highly prevalent among employees and is associated with adverse mental health consequences. Web-based interventions offer the opportunity to deliver effective solutions on a large scale; however, the evidence is limited and the results conflicting. Objective: This randomized controlled trial evaluated the efficacy of guided Weband mobile-based stress management training for employees. Methods: A total of 264 employees with elevated symptoms of stress (Perceived Stress Scale-10, PSS-10≥22) were recruited from the general working population and randomly assigned to an Internet-based stress management intervention (iSMI) or waitlist control group. The intervention (GET.ON Stress) was based on Lazarus’s transactional model of stress, consisted of seven sessions, and applied both well-established problem solving and more recently developed emotion regulation strategies. Participants also had the opportunity to request automatic text messages on their mobile phone along with the iSMI. Participants received written feedback on every completed session from an e-coach. The primary outcome was perceived stress (PSS-10). Web-based self-report assessments for both groups were scheduled at baseline, 7 weeks, and 6 months. At 12 months, an extended follow-up was carried out for the iSMI group only. Results: An intention-to-treat analysis of covariance revealed significantly large effect differences between iSMI and waitlist control groups for perceived stress at posttest (F1,261=58.08, P<.001; Cohen’s d=0.83) and at the 6-month follow-up (F1,261=80.17, P<.001; Cohen’s d=1.02). The effects in the iSMI group were maintained at 12-month follow-up. Conclusions: This Weband mobile-based intervention has proven effective in reducing stress in employees in the long term. Internet-based stress management interventions should be further pursued as a valuable alternative to face-to-face interventions. Trial Registration: German Clinical Trials Register (DRKS): 00004749; http://drks-neu.uniklinik-freiburg.de/ drks_web/setLocale_EN. do (Archived by WebCite at http://www.webcitation.org/6e8rl98nl) (J Med Internet Res 2016;18(1):e21) doi:10.2196/jmir.5112
Shade Coffee: A Disappearing Refuge for Biodiversity Shade coffee plantations can contain as much biodiversity as forest habitats

T ithin the expanding agricultural frontier in the tropWics, one can find a variety of small, managed forest patches and traditional agricultural systems, which provide a refuge for forestdwelling organisms. These managed habitats are frequently overlooked as potential areas of biodiversity conservation (Pimentel et al. 1992). Furthermore, the conservation biology literature often refers to forest reserves as islands in a sea of devastation, in which the sea is formed by agriculture. Although chemically intensive monocultural systems may fit well with this perception of low The importance of
Prevalence and Pattern of Dermatological Lesions in Relationship to CD 4 Cell Counts among newly Diagnosed HIV Patients in Nigeria , West Africa

ENGLISH/ANGLAIS] Affiliations: 1 Department of Family Medicine Kwara State Specialist Hospital, Sobi, Ilorin, NIGERIA 2 Department of Internal Medicine University Of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, NIGERIA 3 Department of Family Medicine University Of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, NIGERIA 4 Department of ophthalmology, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, NIGERIA 5 Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, NIGERIA 6 Department of Microbiology & Parasitology , University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, NIGERIA 7 Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Kwara State Specialist Hospital, Sobi, Ilorin, NIGERIA 8 Department of Chemical Pathology, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, NIGERIA * Email Address for Correspondence/ Adresse de courriel pour la correspondance: oorelopehospital@gmail.com Accepted/Accepté: December, 2013 Full Citation: Shittu RO, Salami AK, Odeigah LO, Mahmoud AO, Adeniran AS, Nyamngee AA, Lawal IS, Billiaminu SA. Prevalence and Pattern of Dermatological Lesions in Relationship to CD4 Cell Counts among newly Diagnosed HIV Patients in Nigeria, West Africa. World Journal Life Science and Medical Research. 2013;3(1):26-32. HIV/AIDS is associated with protean cutaneous lesions which may be the first pointer towards the existence of the disease. The study sought to describe the hospital prevalence and clinical spectrum of cutaneous lesions of HIV/AIDS and the association with CD4 cell counts. This was a hospital based, cross sectional, descriptive study of 160 newly diagnosed adult HIV/AIDS patients attending the HIV/AIDS clinic of UITH. The prevalence of cutaneous lesions was 72%. The most prevalent was of inflammatory aetiology (67.8%) comprising of Pruritic Papular Eruption [PPE] (35%), followed by lesions of viral origin (17.4%) mainly Herpes Zoster [HZ] (10%). The study therefore reveals that there are myriads of cutaneous lesions associated with HIV/AIDS, occurring in patients with CD4 cell counts less than 200μl. Primary care physician can therefore help in the early diagnosis of HIV/AIDS by having a high index of suspicion.
SEXUAL DIMORPHISM ON CARCASS CHARACTERISTICS OF JAPANESE QUAIL (Coturnix coturnix japonica) REARED IN DERIVED SAVANNA ZONE OF NIGERIA

This study was conducted to determine the sexual dimorphism on carcass characteristics of Japanese quail (Coturnix courtnix japanica). A total of 180 quail chicks were used in the study; comprises 90 males and 90 female birds. The quail were kept on separate floor system and were feed ad libitum. Data were obtained on live weight, body weight, Drumstick weight, thigh weight, shank weight, breast weight, back weight and as well as inedible giblets such as heart weight, gizzard weight, liver weight and offal weight on both sexes of the birds. It was determined that there were significant (P < 0.05) difference between the carcass component and the sex of the birds. The female quail had higher significant values for live weight (139.43g), body weight (133.93g), thigh weight (11.40g) and shank weight (2.68g) than its counterparts male quail of 128.5g, 122.13g 10.55g and 2.60g for live weight, body weight, thigh weight and shank weight respectively. Meanwhile, the visceral organs were also significantly (P<0.05) differed among the sexes of the used quails. Higher values were obtained for female quails in respect of heart weight (1.33g), Gizzard weight (4.68g) liver weigh (5.15g) and offal weight (12.18) than the male quails. Consequently, it was concluded that quail breeding for carcass components both edible and visceral organs were favored for female Japanese quail and meat production female quails were better than the male quails.
Time to Efficiency of the French CAC 40 Index Options Market

In this paper, we use intradaily data and adopt an ex ante approach, replicating as closely as possible execution conditions available to traders on the CAC 40 option index contract between August 2000 and July 2001. Taking the ex post distortions to put-call parity as signals for the construction of ex ante arbitrage portfolios, we first compute the effective arbitrage profits accessible after fixed execution delays. These profits appear to be decreasing with the length of the delay. We further investigate the informational efficiency through the development of an original indicator we call time to efficiency, which is simply the time necessary for the market to meet prices compatible with no arbitrage once an ex post deviation has been identified. These dynamical approaches allow us to evidence the positive influence of ETFs on efficiency since the persistence time of deviation has been cut by half following their introduction on the French market.
Total Artificial Heart for end-stage heart failure : results from the pilot studyBioprosthetic Total Artificial Heart Pilot Study

Cite this article as: Christian Latrémouille, Alain Carpentier, Pascal Leprince, Jean-Christian Roussel, Bernard Cholley, Elodie Boissier, Eric Epailly, Antoine Capel, Piet Jansen and David M. Smadja, A bioprosthetic Total Artificial Heart for end-stage heart failure: results from the pilot studyBioprosthetic Total Artificial Heart Pilot Study, Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, http://dx.doi. org/10.1016/j.healun. 2017.09. 002
Franklin medal in life science is Presented to

The discovery of small RNAs that can turn off genes has given us a new way to think about how genes are regulated. These molecules are present in all complex organisms and are thought to regulate upwards of 30% of human genes. Due to their small size, their discovery was surprisingly recent and was underappreciated initially. Beginning with two back-to-back papers published in 1993, the labs of Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun reported the first small RNA (now known as a microRNA or miRNA) and how it regulated a target mRNA in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans through base-pairing interactions. It took until 1999 for another report to document novel small RNAs in complex systems, when David Balcoumbe discovered similarly sized molecules, now known as small interfering RNAs or siRNAs, that were associated with shutting off or ‘‘silencing’’ genes in plants. A frenzy of reports on small RNAs and their roles in turning off genes ensued with many researchers including Ambros, Ruvkun, and Baulcombe prominently participating. Almost instantly it became clear that small RNAs were not a quaint oddity exclusive to the worm, and molecular biology was never the same. Now we know that these molecules are critical for normal growth and development, are associated with cancer and other diseases, and have tremendous applied potential to improve agriculture and human health. & 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd. on behalf of The Franklin Institute. 2.00 & 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd. on behalf of The Franklin Institute. jfranklin.2010. 05.004 P. Green / Journal of the Franklin Institute 348 (2011) 500–505 501
Recidivism in Sexual Homicide Perpetrators The Utility of Risk Assessment Instruments for the Prediction of

To examine the predictive accuracy of four well established risk assessment instruments (PCL-R, HCR-20, SVR-20, and Static-99) in an important subgroup of sexual offenders, these instruments were assessed retrospectively based on information from forensic psychiatric court reports in a sample of 90 released male sexual homicide offenders (out of an original sample of 166) in Germany. Follow-up information about criminal reconvictions after release were obtained from the federal criminal records. Total scores as well as subscales and single items of these risk assessment instruments did not predict sexual recidivism, and only some of them had moderate predictive power regarding nonsexual violent recidivism. Possible explanations for these unexpected results are the retrospective study design with missing information about influences during the long duration of detention and time after release, the small sample size as well as the possibility that the risk assessment instruments investigated were valid for general sex offender Article at TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY on November 28, 2014 jiv.sagepub. com Downloaded from 3554 Journal of Interpersonal Violence 27(18) samples, but not for the particular subgroup of offenders with sexually motivated homicides.
Projected changes of future climate extremes in Malaysia

Mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change at regional level require downscaled projection of future climate states. This paper examined the possible changes of future climate extremes over Malaysia based on the IPCC SRES A1B emission scenario. The projected changes at 17 stations were produced by bias correcting the UKMO PRECIS downscaling simulation output. The simulation expected higher probability of rainfall extreme occurrences over the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia during the autumn transitional monsoon period. In addition, possible early monsoon rainfall was projected for certain stations located over East Malaysia. The simulation also projected larger increase of warm temperature extremes but smaller decrease of cold extremes, suggesting asymmetric expansion of the temperature distribution. The impact of the elevated green house gases (GHG) is higher in the night time temperature extremes as compared to the day time temperature extremes. The larger increment of warm night frequencies as compared to the warm day suggests smaller diurnal temperature ranges under the influence of higher greenhouse gases. Stations located in East Malaysia were projected to experience the largest increase of warm night occurrence.
Autumn warming and carbon balance of a boreal Scots pine forest in Southern Finland

We analyzed the dynamics of carbon balance components: gross primary production (GPP) and total ecosystem respiration (TER), of a boreal Scots pine forest in Southern Finland. Our aim was to study how these dynamics are related to di erent environmental conditions and how they a ect the inter-annual variation in the carbon balance 5 in autumn (September‐December). We used standard micrometeorological data and CO2 exchange measurements collected by the eddy covariance (EC) technique over 11years. The intra-annual relationships between the carbon balance components and the environmental factors were studied by the correlation analysis. Two models, a stand photosynthesis model and a generic dynamic vegetation model (ORCHIDEE), 10
Chick-rearing Crozet shags (Phalacrocorax melanogenis) display sex-specific foraging behaviour

We compared, for the first time the foraging ecology of both sexes of the blue-eyed Crozet shag (Phalacrocorax melanogenis), using ventrally attached time depth recorders to investigate differences in time-budget and diving behaviour between the sexes during the chick-rearing. Males were the only ones to dive over 55 m. Females dived mostly between 15 and 35 m, a zone poorly used by males. Females foraged mostly in the morning and males in the afternoon. Females also spent one hour longer diving per day compared to males. There were differences in diving strategies and diet, indicating that both sexes targeted essentially the same prey, but of different sizes, males specializing in bigger fish. Although the relationship between sexual dimorphism and diving depth was positive (larger animals diving deeper), evidence suggests that body size (in terms of oxygen storage capacity) is not sufficient to explain so many differences in foraging ecology. Instead, we propose prey size (possibly driven by a limitation of prey handling ability in relation to beak size) could be an essential factor in shaping the male/female behavioural segregation in the Crozet shag; future studies should concentrate on this particular aspect.
Design of Bandwidth Enhanced Circular Microstrip Patch Antenna with circular slot using partial ground plane technique for UWB applications.

In this paper, design of Circular Microstrip Patch Antenna with circular slot is proposed for Ultra Wide Band Application. Microstrip feedline of 50Ω characteristic impedance is used to feed the patch. Partial ground plane technique is used to convert narrow band characteristics of Microstrip Patch antenna into wide band characteristics. FR-4 Epoxy Dielectric Substrate is used for design having r = 4.4 and having standard thickness of 1.58mm. The design was optimized by using CST Microwave Studio TM 2011 software to obtain most suitable configuration in terms of desired value of Return Loss, VSWR and Bandwidth for anenna.
Ge netic in sta bil ity of mouse em bry onic germinative G 1 cell line and disfunction of the mi totic check point and ð 53

The abil ity of cells of mouse G1 cell line to sur vive af ter treat ment with dif fer ent con cen tra tions of colchicine has been ana lysed. We have shown that G1 cells at 26 and 114 pas sages are less sen si tive to the treat ment with colchicine than BALB/c mouse em bry onic fibroblasts. These re sults in di cate at ten u a tion of the mi totic check point of G1 cells. The ex pres sion of p53 has been de tected at low lev els in cells of G1 cell line and its sublines G1-OA and G1-T by West ern blot ting. It has been shown by immunoprecipitation that G1 cells con tain wild type and mu tant p53 that could lead to the disfunction of p53. Ge netic in sta bil ity of G1 cell line is pos si bly as so ci ated with the fail ure of the mi totic check point and func tional in ac ti va tion of p53.
Phytochemical Investigation, in vitro Antioxidant and Anti-inflammatory Evaluation of Leaf Extracts of Solanum erianthum

Aims: Solanum erianthum has been used in the treatment of various diseases by traditional medical practitioners in south-western Nigeria. The leaf extracts of the plant have been shown to possess antimicrobial activities. However, very little exists in literature on the antioxidant and antiinflammatory properties of the plant. This study examines leaf extracts of Solanum erianthum for antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities. Methodology: Leaf extracts were subjected to successive extraction using hexane, ethylacetate and methanol. The extracts were screened for the presence of phytochemicals using standard procedures. The DPPH and Ferric Reducing Antioxidant Assays were used to evaluate the antioxidant properties of the extracts. The DPPH scavenging properties of the extracts were assessed by comparing their IC 50 values with that of the standard (Ascorbic acid). The ferric reducing properties of the extracts were determined as the concentration that gave a ferric reducing ability equivalent to that of ascorbic acid. The total phenolic content of the extracts was measured as milligram Gallic acid equivalent per gram of extract (mg GAE/g). The membrane stabilizing properties of the extracts were determined and used as a measure of their in vitro anti-inflammatory activities. The anti-inflammatory properties of the extracts were compared with that of the standard drug (Indomethacin). Results: Phytochemical screening showed that the extracts contain flavonoids, alkaloids, tannins, glycosides, saponins, terpenoids, phlobatannins, sterols and carbohydrates. In the DPPH assay, the extracts had IC 50 values ranging between 0.379 and 2.025 compared to the ascorbic acid with IC 50 value of 0.017. The ferric reducing properties of the extracts ranged between 1.187 and 6.743 mg ascorbic acid equivalent/g of sample. The methanol extract showed the highest DPPH and ferric reducing antioxidant properties. The phenolic contents of the extracts ranged between 3.039 and 4.196 mg GAE/g sample. In the in vitro anti-inflammatory assay, the ethylacetate extract, showed a membrane stabilizing property higher than that of Indomethacin at 0.2 mg/ml and 0.5 mg/ml. The anti-inflammatory activities of the hexane and methanol extracts are lesser than that of Indomethacin at all the test concentrations. Conclusion: The results showed that the leaf extracts of Solanum erianthum possess a broad range of medicinal properties. This could justify the use of the plant in the treatment of various diseases by traditional medical practitioners in Southwestern Nigeria.