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Exchanging emissions for biodiversity: In pursuit of an integrated solution in New Zealand

With New Zealand's recent ratification of the Kyoto Protocol (December 2002) we ask whether it might be possible to design a programme that reduces corporate New Zealand's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while also benefitting New Zealand's biodiversity in the many cases where emissions cannot be entirely eliminated. This article describes progress since 2001 in formulating and implementing a trial of such an integrated solution. We provide a description of the framework applied to date for integrating efforts by businesses and communities in both emissions reduction and biodiversity restoration, incorporating lessons that may help us refine our model.
IMPROVED C4.5 : AN AGENT-BASED SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

The supply chain management is an interesting and focused process at present. It has a lot of scope in the literature on SCM and there are a wide of models describing the Supply chain from different approach. The Supply Chain management system is the lowest possible cost and also meets the customer’s expectations on services like delivery precision and lead-time. In this paper, efficient decision based technique C4.5 is improved for the classification. The correlation coefficient of Kendall is used to improve supply chain management system. The accuracy of system is calculated by the sensitivity and specificity for the proposed and existing technique for the lowest textile dataset here. The result of system was proved by the proposed technique’s efficiency
Influence of some surfactants and related compoundson ligninolytic activity of Phanerochaete chrysosporium

Several surfactants were tested as possible stimulators of ligninase production in agitated culture of Phanerochaete chrysosporium. In addition to Tween 80 and Tween 20, surfactants already known to have a stimulatory effect, polyoxyethylene oleate (15EO)C18:1 and the hydrophilic fraction of Tween 80, were also found to enhance ligninase activity over 200-fold, indicating that surfactants as such may not be the true active substances. Cultures with increased ligninase activities exhibited preferential enrichment of total and polar lipids in palmitoleic acid and an increased unsaturation index.
Nutritional Interventions to Combat Heat Stress in Dairy Animals | VetScan 2012 Vol 7 No 1.docx

Stress due to stressful environmental conditions especially during peak summers affects the production ability in dairy animals and this situation is further aggravated by humid climate. Extent of heat stress can be measured by the temperature-humidity Index (THI). A THI level above 75 is considered stressful and requires urgent management. Nutritional interventions are one of the vital tools to combat the heat stress situation. Provision of clean drinking water round the clock is the most important and primary requisite of management. Feeding nutrient dense meals at cool hours of day will help to compensate the reduced feed intake. Altered nutritional requirement during summer stress could be taken care by maintaining proper mineral balance and a healthy ruminal environment. Increasing the DCAD of diet (optimum level +25 to +30 mEq/100 g DM) also enhances intake and improves blood buffering capacity to overcome acidosis. Antioxidant rich diet supplementation checks cortisol level and induces antioxidant enzymatic activity, thus reduces incidences of reproductive losses.
Low-power VLSI Design by using Dynamic-threshold Logic

– Power dissipation is a serious concern for circuit designers. In the last few decades due to the ever growing demand for portable and small sized devices, integrated circuits require electronic circuit design methods to implement integrated circuits with low power consumption. The ever-growing number of transistors integrated on a chip and the increasing transistor switching speed in recent decades has enabled great performance improvement in computer systems by several orders of magnitude. Unfortunately, such phenomenal performance improvements have been accompanied by an increase in power and energy dissipation of the systems. ” A conventional CMOS logic circuit design approach depends upon charging the output capacitive nodes to the supply voltage or discharging it to the ground. This is one of the most used methods in VLSI designs. There are various techniques to design low power circuits both at system level as well as at circuit level to reduce power consumption. Partially-depleted SOI provides a Dynamic Threshold MOS transistor that may be useful in reducing static power and dynamic power. DTMOS can be used to choke off leakage current and improve performance of transistors under lower voltage conditions, but suffers from high body contact resistance, Miller capacitance, area penalties, and limited operating voltage. Driving the body with a separate conditioning signal and careful design are proposed as ways to offset the above problems and still take advantage of DTMOS. A ring oscillator has been implemented to verify the use of this technology in various configurations. This information will be helpful in the design of circuits for data path elements.
The Concept and Design of a Productive Co-working System Based on Email Messaging

—As email exchange activity between companies and their customers continues to increase, issues of efficiency and communication quality are becoming more important. Many companies or organizations provide their representative email addresses to customers, partners, clients, or relevant others. The unified management of email messages is significant for productivity improvement, customer service quality, and effective internal controls. In this paper, we propose a software design of a unified management system of email messages and its web-based implementation. The application’s key concept is to provide productive co-working environments. Its capital features are ticket management with such attributes as status, assignees, custom fields, and their history references. Workers in organizations can access pieces of messages including their histories under appropriate access controls. The developed system is designed for a seamless and natural workflow with fewer custom configuration settings. The paper concludes with results about appropriately sharing information among workers the productivity and quality of organizations.
Reducing shell egg cholesterol content. I. Overview, genetic approaches, and nutritional strategies

In laying hens, cholesterol is primarily biosynthesized in the liver and incorporated into vitellogenin (VTG) and triglyceride-rich very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) particles, which are secreted into the bloodstream and subsequently taken up by growing oocytes via receptor-mediated endocytosis. VLDL and VTG are then intracellularly transformed into yolk, constituting ∼60% and 24% of yolk dry matter and ∼95% and 5% of yolk cholesterol, respectively. During the past four decades, research efforts directed toward reducing shell egg cholesterol content have centred on genetic selection or alteration of the laying hens' diet with various nutrients, natural products, non-nutritive factors, or pharmacological agents. The present paper will provide a justification for low-cholesterol egg production, primarily in the context of the heterogeneity of response to dietary cholesterol in humans, and will review cholesterol metabolism in the laying hen, avian embryonic cholesterol needs, and genetic and nutritional approaches to chicken egg cholesterol reduction. A subsequent paper will provide a comprehensive overview of the use of non-nutritive dietary factors and select pharmaceuticals as egg cholesterol-lowering agents, and will discuss emerging strategies for lowering the cholesterol content of shell eggs.
LACTIC ACID BACTERIA AND HUMAN HEALTH

This review will focus on the general considerations of lactic acid bacteria and what is known of their direct effect on human health. Much research, necessarily, has focused on in vitro or animal system development. These studies are an important first step in developing a sense of potential outcomes and mechanisms. However, these studies can always be criticised due to their questionable significance to human physiology. Therefore, this review will focus on studies which have been done in humans. These studies take two principle forms: epidemiological studies, which are rare, and direct clinical studies, which are diverse.
LIVED EXPERIENCES OF TEENAGERS WITH OVERSEAS FILIPINO WORKER PARENTS

This research endeavor used a phenomenological approach that looked into the lived experiences of teenagers with Overseas Filipino Worker parents. A purposeful sampling method was used to identify the ten (10) teenagers whose both parents are working abroad as the participants of this study. This study is anchored on the Attachment Theory of John Bowlby and Lazarus and Folkman Cognitive Stress Model. The data were gathered through a semistructured in-depth interview and observation to gather information of the participants. Following Creswell’s approach, the data were recorded, transcribed, analysed and interpreted by the researcher and verified by the professionals in the field of Psychology and Guidance and Counseling. The data obtained nine important aspects of these lived experiences (1) A vision for a better future (2) Acceptance being away from parents (3) Act of rebellion (4) Being envious of families who are complete (5) Companionship of friends (6) Feeling of extreme sadness (7) Isolation from others (8) Neglected as child (9) Self-reliance. This phenomenon was presented through thematic presentations of each participant’s lives, and results showed that teenagers have the tendency to be rebellious and envious to others. They tend to be alone, sad and feeling neglected. However, these teenagers have developed acceptance and understanding to their life situation. They wanted to have a better future not just for themselves but also for their future family to be stable and to avoid separation. These teenagers will have seminar-workshop, learning and group session at school.
Enhancement in the Detection of Atrial Fibrillation Arrhythmia For Health Monitoring System

In day to day life, continuous monitoring of medical data is essential for many individuals including patients with severe health risks and elderly people. In this paper, one such system is developed for continuous monitoring of Atrial Fibrillation abnormality. Electrocardiographic (ECG) signal monitoring plays a vital role in the management of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is a type of abnormality in heart, it causes during the AF electrical discharges in the atrium are rapid and results in an abnormal heartbeat. In this paper, ECG signals taken from the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database. After the signal is acquired, the hybrid filtering technique is used to remove the artifacts. Naturally, the ECG signal gets distorted by different types of artifacts which must be removed from the signal otherwise it will convey incorrect information regarding the patient’s heart condition. Efficient LMS and Normalized LMS adaptive filters are computationally used for cancellation of noise. Analyzing functions of the filtered signal is Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), Mean Square Normalized Error Performance (MSE), Maximum Square Error (MAXERR), the ratio of Squared Norms (L2RAT). The continuous health statistics will be given to individuals and caretaker in the remote location so that they can take necessary action to prevent from health issues. The paper will provide primitive solutions in the field of telemedicine using continuous health monitoring and medical data analysis of a particular individual.In future work, the ECG sensor will acquire the ECG signal and the acquired signal processed through the classification algorithm for classifying the signal into different categories. The biosensor is a combination of the biological element with the physiochemical transducer to produce an electronic signal which can be further converted, processed and transmitted for data analytics, processing, validation, visualization, interpretation, and data logging. Keywords— MIT-BIH arrhythmia database, Atrial Fibrillation, Health Monitoring, Telemedicine, Data analysis.
Private-kNN: Practical Differential Privacy for Computer Vision

With increasing ethical and legal concerns on privacy for deep models in visual recognition, differential privacy has emerged as a mechanism to disguise membership of sensitive data in training datasets. Recent methods like Private Aggregation of Teacher Ensembles (PATE) leverage a large ensemble of teacher models trained on disjoint subsets of private data, to transfer knowledge to a student model with privacy guarantees. However, labeled vision data is often expensive and datasets, when split into many disjoint training sets, lead to signiï¬cantly sub-optimal accuracy and thus hardly sustain good privacy bounds. We propose a practically data-efï¬cient scheme based on private release of k-nearest neighbor (kNN) queries, which altogether avoids splitting the training dataset. Our approach allows the use of privacy-ampliï¬cation by subsampling and iterative reï¬nement of the kNN feature embedding. We rigorously analyze the theoretical properties of our method and demonstrate strong experimental performance on practical computer vision datasets for face attribute recognition and person reidentiï¬cation. In particular, we achieve comparable or better accuracy than PATE while reducing more than 90% of the privacy loss, thereby providing the “most practical method to-date” for private deep learning in computer vision.
Comparative evaluation of adjunctive use of four commercially available antimicrobial topical gels in chronic gingivitis: A clinical study

Aim: The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of four topical antimicrobial dental gels as an adjunct to mechanical plaque control in chronic gingivitis patients.Materials and Methods: This was a randomized four arm parallel study including forty systemically healthy patients with chronic generalized gingivitis (MGI>1). They were randomly assigned into four groups i.e, group oneCurcuma gel, group twoChlorhexidine gluconate gel group threePovidone Iodine gel, group fourMetronidazole gel. After a thorough scaling, the subjects were instructed to use the topical gel assigned to them twice a day for a period of three weeks. The clinical parameters viz. Plaque Index (PI), Modified Gingival Index (MGI) and Sulcus bleeding index (SBI) were recorded at baseline and at the end of the study period (three weeks). Intra and inter-group comparisons of clinical parameters were done using appropriate statistical tests. Results: No significant differences were seen among the four study groups with respect to mean PI and SBI scores at three weeks. However, there was significant difference with respect to mean MGI among the four study groups. Post-hoc analysis showed that group two had significantly lower reduction in mean MGI than Group one. Conclusion: In the present study the chlorhexidine group showed more reduction in MGI compared to other groups. Further studies with a larger sample size are required to attribute the effect of topical gel application on gingival status.
Issues in Information Systems

The two purposes of this research effort were (a) to determine if selected variables were significant predictors of student performance scores on the Educational Testing Service Major Field Test in Business (ETS-MFTB) and (b) to determine if selected variables explained a significant proportion of the variance in student performance scores on the ETS-MFTB in Business at an AACSB accredited institution. Variables examined in this research effort included age, gender, high school GPA, percentage of common courses completed online, race, and SAT superscore. The variable percentage of common courses completed online was of particular interest in this study given the steady growth in online courses and the limited literature including similar variables. Findings revealed that age, gender, high school GPA, and SAT superscore were significant predictor and explanatory variables of student scores on the ETS-MFTB. About 42% of the variance in student performance scores on the ETS-MFTB was explained by these four variables. An implication for practice was discussed. Recommendations for future research efforts were also offered.
Factors controlling the growth of Clostridium botulinum types A and B in pasteurized, cured meats V. Prediction of toxin production: Non‐linear effects of storage temperature and salt concentration

Summary While investigating the effects of potassium sorbate and pig breed, cut and batch of pork in a pork slurry system, non-linear effects of storage temperature and salt concentration on toxin production by Clostridium botulinum were detected. Predicted probabilities of toxin production after analysis by logistic regression, published previously, were re-examined and similar effects detected. Improved formulae for the probability of toxin production in a model pork slurry system are given and the implications of the non-linearity of storage temperature and salt concentration on the predicted probability of toxin production are discussed.
Compensatory alteration of inhibitory synaptic circuits in cerebellum and thalamus of γ‐aminobutyric acid type A receptor α1 subunit knockout mice

Targeted deletion of the α1 subunit gene results in a profound loss of γ‐aminobutyric acid type A (GABAA) receptors in adult mouse brain but has only moderate behavioral consequences. Mutant mice exhibit several adaptations in GABAA receptor subunit expression, as measured by Western blotting. By using immunohistochemistry, we investigated here whether these adaptations serve to replace the missing α1 subunit or represent compensatory changes in neurons that normally express these subunits. We focused on cerebellum and thalamus and distinguished postsynaptic GABAA receptor clusters by their colocalization with gephyrin. In the molecular layer of the cerebellum, α1 subunit clusters colocalized with gephyrin disappeared from Purkinje cell dendrites of mutant mice, whereas α3 subunit/gephyrin clusters, presumably located on dendrites of Golgi interneurons, increased sevenfold, suggesting profound network reorganization in the absence of the α1 subunit. In thalamus, a prominent increase in α3 and α4 subunit immunoreactivity was evident, but without change in regional distribution. In the ventrobasal complex, which contains primarily postsynaptic α1‐ and extrasynaptic α4‐GABAA receptors, the loss of α1 subunit was accompanied by disruption of γ2 subunit and gephyrin clustering, in spite of the increased α4 subunit expression. However, in the reticular nucleus, which lacks α1‐GABAA receptors in wild‐type mice, postsynaptic α3/γ2/gephyrin clusters were unaffected. These results demonstrate that adaptive responses in the brain of α10/0 mice involve reorganization of GABAergic circuits and not merely replacement of the missing α1 subunit by another receptor subtype. In addition, clustering of gephyrin at synaptic sites in cerebellum and thalamus appears to be dependent on expression of a GABAA receptor subtype localized postsynaptically. J. Comp. Neurol. 495:408–421, 2006. © 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Characterization of Salmonella Enteritidis isolates of chicken, egg and human origin from Turkey

Abstract The 82 local isolates of Salmonella Enteritidis from human, chicken and egg were characterized for their antibiotic resistance patterns, plasmid profiles, phage types (PT), outer membrane proteins (OMP) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) patterns. Relatedness of these characteristics for epidemiological analysis were assessed. Fifty-eight of 82 (71%) strains were resistant to one or more of the antibiotics employed and multi-drug-resistant strains constituted 35% of all isolates. A 54-kb plasmid was common and was harboured by 95% of the isolates. Most of the chicken and egg isolates showed rough type LPS whereas the human isolates mostly gave smooth LPS. Ten different phage types were identified within the 82 strains. Phage type 4 (PT4) predominated followed by PT6. Of the 82 isolates, 64·6% contained OMPs in a molecular weight range of 34·6–30·6 kDa. The data revealed a lack of correlation between the characteristics investigated.
Providing Enhanced Resource Management Framework for Cloud Storage

Data centers are progressively being re-intended for workload combination with a specific end goal to receive the rewards of better resource usage, control cost, and physical space investment cost. Among the strengths driving costs are server and storage virtualization innovations. A key understanding is that there is a more noteworthy cooperative energy between the two layers of storage and server virtualization to be application piece sharing data than was beforehand thought conceivable. In this segment, we display ERMF, a platform that is intended to have MapReduce applications in virtualized cost. ERMF gives a bunch file framework that backings a uniform record framework namespace over the group by coordinating the discrete nearby storage of the individual hubs. Our paper proposes ERMF accommodates the two data and VM resource assignment with contending requirements, for example, storage usage, changing CPU load and system connect limits. ERMF utilizes a stream arrange based calculation that can improve MapReduce performance under the predetermined limitations by starting situation, as well as by straightening out through VM and data relocation also. Moreover, ERMF uncovered, generally shrouded, bring down level topology data to the MapReduce work scheduler with the goal that it makes close ideal task scheduling.
PROTEIN POLYPEPTIDES CHANGES DURING DIRECT ORGANOGENESIS CULTURE STAGES OF Assistant Professor in Botany, PG and Research Department of Botany, Government Arts College, Dharmap

The present investigation was aimed to detect the specific protein polypeptide(s) appeared during the organogenesis stages of differentiation in internode showed good results for micropropagation. protein profiles were assessed from callus, organogenic calls, multiple shoots, root, and regenerated plants. The highest response of callus induction (92.8%) was observed in 2.5 mg/l of 2,4 dichlorophenoxyacetic callus induction was maximum (34.6%) in medium supplemented with 2,4 naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA) and 6 combinations wer multiple shoot initiation. The medium supplemented with 3.0 mg/l BAP with 3.0 mg /l of 2,4 showed better shoot multiplication (87.6%) and elongation. observed on medium supplemented with NAA (1.0 mg/l). Simultaneous induction of shoot and root (58.4%) was observed in MS medium supplemented with BAP 2.0 mg/l with NAA 1.0 mg/l. For best plantlet regeneration was achieved in (86.2%) medium sup 1.0 mg/l. a unique protein bands in tissues. Significantly different pattern and concentration of proteins were pattern of regenerated plants were different from naturally growing plants. When comparing the protein bands in cultures of each stage they were different to each other. The mo detected bands for all samples ranged from 62.66 to 86.51 KDa. Three similar culture specific Organogenic callus and root polypeptides (MW 86.65, 83.45 and 80.10 kDa) and four shoot specific polypeptides (MW 86.51, 83.25, 80.18, differentiation. Similarly, one shoot specific (MW 62.66 kDa) and two regenerated plants specific (MW 77.52 and 75.32 kDa) polypeptide band were appeared during differentiation in vitro regen plant specific polypeptides.