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COVER-DEPENDENCY OF ANURANS IN THE RIVERSTONE, KNUCKLES MOUNTAIN FOREST RANGE, SRI LANKA

The species composition of anurans was studied in the disturbed and undisturbed sub-montane forest habitats in the Riverstone of the Knuckles Mountain Forest Range of Sri Lanka. Twenty one anuran species were encountered. The distribution pattern of collected anuran species was related to the percentage of vegetational cover and they were categorized in relation to dependency on the vegetational cover.
Comparative Bioinformatics and Experimental Analysis of the Intergenic Regulatory Regions of Bacillus cereus hbl and nhe Enterotoxin Operons and the Impact of CodY on Virulence

: Oridonin ( 1 ) is a complex ent -kaurane diterpenoid exhibiting remarkable antitumor activity. However, the detailed mechanism or cellular target that underlies this activity has not yet been identi ﬁ ed. Herein, we report an e ﬃ cient approach for exploring the anticancer mechanism of oridonin through development of the potent ﬂ uorescent analogues. A series of novel ﬂ uorescent oridonin probes linked with coumarin moieties were designed, synthesized, and characterized. Fluorescence microscopy and confocal imaging studies suggested that ﬂ uorescent oridonin probe 17d was rapidly taken up into tumor cells and the mitochondrion was the main site of its accumulation. Moreover, we con ﬁ rmed that cytochrome c played an important role in oridonin induced mitochondrion-mediated apoptosis and α , β -unsaturated ketone is the active moiety of oridonin, which is crucial to its uptake, localization, and cytotoxicity. Our results provide new insights on the molecular mechanism of oridonin and would be useful for its further development into an antitumor agent.
Urban Energy Consumptions: Its Determinants and Future Research

The population growth of those living in urban areas reaches 50% of the total population, causing air pollution and energy consumption, which is also due to the high density of urban activities. This gradual process of urbanization, which covers an area equal to 2% of the world, is responsible for about 75% of the total consumption of resources. Although cities are the place where there is a wide concentration of energy demand and consumption, the attention given to the implications of this phenomenon is still inadequate. These considerations allow to perceive that such things require a broader strategy to solve the problem, based on the integration of urban, transport and environment policies for sustainable development. According to this awareness, the National Operative Programme (PON) funded “Smart Energy Master for the management of territory” has been developed; it is aimed at supporting local authorities in the development of strategies and tools for the reduction of energy consumption through actions designed to change behaviour (in terms of use and energy consumption). This paper describes some of the first results of the project, to develop a comprehensive/interpretive model at the urban scale. The paper is divided into three parts: the first part describes the current consumptions and future trends of building and transport sectors, focusing the attention on urban areas; the second part offers an overview of the main studies related to physical/functional characteristics of the city, buildings and transport; and the third part offers some causes for reflection on the need to change the range of interventions, to reduce urban energy consumption.
El litoral castellonense: presente y futuro

RESUMEN La conservación de las playas de Castellón tiene una importancia fundamental para el entorno socio-económico y cultural de la provincia de Castellón. Esto se debe, entre otras consideraciones, a la atracción turística que éstas poseen, a la calidad y forma de vida de los habitantes de la zona y a los beneficios medioambientales que se obtienen. Es conocido que existe una problemática habitual en estas playas, debida por una parte a la localización de emisarios que contaminan el agua y por otra a la pérdida de arena. Para evitar este segundo problema, en muchas de estas playas se ubican pequeños espigones que permiten la acumulación de arena, consiguiendo de esta forma mejorar el atractivo de estas zonas. Sin embargo, esta retención no es suficiente, ya que periódicamente las autoridades se ven obligadas a gastar millones de euros en su regeneración. El desarrollo de modelos que permitan simular el comportamiento de las corrientes, el movimiento de sedimentos y prever la dinámica del litoral será muy útil para mejorar la ubicación de los emisarios, adecuar el tiempo de emisión con las corrientes, así como observar el lugar y la forma idónea de colocación de los espigones o cualquier otra actuación que consiga retener la arena de forma óptima. Es conocido que los modelos de aguas someras confirman que la geometría del dominio determina el movimiento del agua. En este sentido, sería recomendable utilizar estos modelos para averiguar qué actuaciones sobre la costa serían más idóneas para retener la mayor cantidad de arena posible y conservar el litoral.
Using Diffuse Field Theory to Interpret the H/V Spectral Ratio from Earthquake Records in Cibeles Seismic Station, Mexico City

Abstract It has been recently demonstrated that averaging the autocorrelations of fields produced by various almost‐vertical incoming elastic body plane waves upon a layered system approximately leads to the imaginary part of the corresponding 1D Green’s functions for deep sources located underneath the receiver (Kawase et al. , 2011). Thus, the ensemble of these waves from deep earthquakes recorded in a station located in the epicentral zone is interpreted as a diffuse field. In this short note, we extend the study to consider earthquakes recorded in a station located at epicentral distances of up to hundreds of kilometers. We consider the horizontal‐to‐vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) of the averaged P , S , and coda waves and full earthquake records at the Cibeles station (Mexico City Accelerometric Network) and compare these with the results obtained with the corresponding HVSR for the 1D (Kawase et al. , 2011) and the 3D (Sanchez‐Sesma, Rodriguez, et al. , 2011) diffuse fields models. Using the signals of 90 earthquakes recorded at Cibeles, we find that the experimental results have distinctive features compatible with the 3D signature of a diffuse field. We interpret this result as a consequence of the multiple paths that seismic waves undergo from the subducting slab to the Mexico City valley and to the multiple scattering in a complex tectonic environment. Our study strongly suggests that we can use strong‐motion records from earthquakes and apply similar techniques to the ones used to analyze the ambient seismic field. Online Material: Earthquake catalog.
Wave‐breaking hydrodynamics within coral reef systems and the effect of changing relative sea level

This paper considers the hydrodynamics of wave-driven flow across a coral reef and the resultant flushing of its lagoon. Current depth coefficients are introduced that describe the fractional change of across-reef and lagoonal current with change in the relative local sea level, i.e., the depth of water over the reef flat. The coefficients are derived from an analytical hydrodynamic model and compared with data from two reefs. The first is Ningaloo Reef in northwest Australia, which is a typical barrier reef with a narrow coastal lagoon, and the second is Kaneohe Bay in Oahu, Hawaii, where the reef is both unusually deep and wide. The current depth coefficients are shown to be sensitive to the form of the frictional law on the reef flat and can be deduced from measurements of the astronomical tidal currents in the lagoon. Both quadratic and linear friction laws are considered for the reef flat and good agreement obtained with a linear law based on the high-frequency motion due to surface gravity waves.
BOUNDARY EFFECTS ON CONFINED SWIRLING FLOWS WITH VORTEX BREAKDOWN

Confined steady swirling flows, driven by the end disks of a cylindrical/truncated conical enclosure have been numerically studied. Particular attention is focused on combined kinematics and geometric conditions of generation and control of the vortex breakdown phenomenon. First, the basic steady flow topology in a truncated conical cavity is described, which is shown to depend strongly on the direction as well as the rate of rotation of the end disks. For a set of governing flow parameters, the computations revealed the occurrence of bubble-like reverse flows, characterised by onaxis stagnation points. The present work, explores means of controlling the evolution of this physical phenomenon, by modifying the boundary conditions upstream the vortex breakdown. These means are found to either suppress or enhance the occurrence and size of the bubbles.
Sleep and Early Childhood Stressors in College Students: Sleep and Early Childhood Stressors in College Students: Examining Alcohol Use as a Moderator Examining Alcohol Use as a Moderator

Early childhood stressors (ECS) consist of certain emotional, physical, or sexual experiences that may have long term consequences including sleep problems. Previous research has also found that alcohol use can negatively affect sleep; however, few studies have investigated alcohol use as a moderator of the relationship between sleep and other variables. In the current study, we examined whether the relationship between a general measure of ECS and sleep in college students may be moderated by alcohol use, a common psychoactive substance among this age group. Additionally, we examined this model with emotional abuse and neglect as a measure of ECS. Seventy-three undergraduate students wore an Actiwatch for approximately one week to measure sleep quality (i.e., sleep latency and wake after sleep onset). Throughout this time, participants also completed daily diaries to assess sleep duration. Participants also responded to the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) and the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT). In contrast to our predictions, alcohol use did not moderate the relationship between general ECS and sleep, or the relationship between the combined emotional abuse and neglect scales and sleep. Future research on the moderating effect of alcohol use within the relationship between ECS and sleep should be done with a larger and more diverse sample. Additionally, future research should consider measuring use of alcohol as a coping strategy for ECS, and sleep outcomes that may be associated with this specific form of alcohol use.
of HLA-I by the

Molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV) is a common cause of benign skin lesions in young children and currently the only endemic human poxvirus. Following the infection of primary keratinocytes in the epidermis, MCV induces the proliferation of infected cells and this results in the production of wart-like growths. Full productive infection is observed only after the infected cells differentiate. During this prolonged replication cycle the virus must avoid elimination by the host immune system. We therefore sought to investigate the function of the two major histocompatibility complex class- I-related genes encoded by the MCV genes mc033 and mc080. Following insertion into a replication-deficient adenovirus vector, codon-optimized versions of mc033 and mc080 were expressed as endoglycosidase-sensitive glycoproteins that localized primarily in the endoplasmic reticulum. MC080, but not MC033, downregulated cell-surface expression of endogenous classical human leucocyte antigen (HLA) class I and non-classical HLA-E by a transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP)- independent mechanism. MC080 exhibited a capacity to inhibit or activate NK cells in autologous assays in a donor-specific manner. MC080 consistently inhibited antigen-specific T cells being activated by peptide-pulsed targets. We therefore propose that MC080 acts to promote evasion of HLA- I-restricted cytotoxic T cells.
Low-cost Anonymous Timed-Release Encryption

We propose a new server-based efficient protocol for time-release encryption (TRE), or - as sometimes referred to - sending information "into the future". As with other recently-proposed schemes, ours is based on the use of bilinear pairings on any Gap Diffie-Hellman group, allowing absolute release time of the encrypted data. Our protocol possesses the required properties regarding user anonymity and server passivity. It also provides almost-costless scalability in settings with multiple time-servers, and improves significantly upon existing TRE schemes, in terms of computational and communication cost. This makes our approach well-suited to a number of emerging e-applications that require future decryption of confidential data.
Critical success factors for DevOps adoption in information systems development

Adopting DevOps is challenging since it makes a significant paradigm shift in the Information Systems Development process. DevOps is a trending approach attached to the Agile Software Development Methodology, which facilitates adaptation to the customers' rapidly-changing requirements. It keeps one front step by introducing software operators who support the transmission between software and implementation into the software development team by confirming faster development, quality assurance, and easy maintenance of Information Systems (IS). However, software development companies reported challenges in adopting DevOps. It is critical to control those challenges while getting hold of the benefits by studying Critical Success Factors (CSF) for adopting DevOps. This study aimed to analyze the use of DevOps approach in IS developments by exploring CSFs of DevOps. A systematic literature review was applied to identify CSFs. These factors were confirmed by interviewing DevOps practitioners while identifying more frequent CSFs in the software development industry. Finally, the research presents a conceptual model for CSFs of DevOps, which is a guide to reap the DevOps benefits while reducing the hurdles for enhancing the success of IS. The conceptual model presents CSFs of DevOps by grouping them into four areas: collaborative culture, DevOps practices, proficient DevOps team, and metrics & measurement.
Frequent failure of the continental slope: The Gela Basin (Sicily Channel)

[1] Evaluating the recurrence of sediment failure on continental margins is important to better understand the evolution of margins and to assess the geologic risk of slope failure and, possibly, tsunami hazard. This paper proposes an integrated morphological and stratigraphic reconstruction of slope failures to evaluate their timing, frequency, and responsible mechanisms. Data from seismic stratigraphy, sediment cores, and seafloor geomorphology document multiple slide scars as well as buried and exposed mass transport deposits that originated during the Quaternary period on the continental slope of the Gela Basin in the Sicily Channel (central Mediterranean). The very high resolution data provide clues to recognize (1) successive phases of failure that have impacted on the same location, (2) main geological factors conducive to recurrent sediment failure in the area, including, in particular, specific stratigraphic surfaces acting as glide planes and high pore pressure gradients likely generated by high sediment accumulation rates atop mass transport complexes, and (3) a set of failed sediments that have been deposited since the Last Glacial Maximum defining a return interval on the order of 3–4 ka.
Energy Dissipation and Constitutive Modeling for a Mechanistic Energy Dissipation and Constitutive Modeling for a Mechanistic Description of Pad Scratching in Chemical-Mechanical Description of Pad Scratching in Chemical-Mechanical Planarization Planarization

the linear tribometer travels in two directions along the same line of contact, wafer surface topography is measured parallel and perpendicular to the length of travel after planarization. After the total polish time equivalent to 250 wafers polished, average roughness along the length and across the width of copper wafer surfaces were an a erage of 0.026 μm and 0.06 μm, respecti ely. The four silicon dioxide surfaces began with an a erage surface roughness of 0.0 μm. After the total polish time equi alent to 250 wafers polished, a erage roughness along the length and across the width of silicon dioxide wafer surfaces were an a erage of 0.0 0 μm and 0.085 μm. These results indicate that there was a general smoothing of the surface across the length of travel, as expected with the pad material wearing the wafer in the same direction with each pass. An increase in the surface roughness perpendicular to the length of travel is a result of scratches formed during planarization.
PEMODELAN GENERALIZED SPACE TIME AUTOREGRESSIVE INTEGRATED DENGAN DIFFERENCING MUSIMAN PADA DATA NONSTASIONER

Bank sebagai lembaga keuangan, membantu negara dalam menunjang pelaksanaan pembangunan nasional ke arah peningkatan taraf hidup masyarakat yang lebih baik. Bank berfungsi menghimpun dana dari masyarakat dalam bentuk simpanan serta menyalurkannya kepada masyarakat dalam bentuk kredit. Dana simpanan bank terbesar berasal dari Dana Pihak Ketiga (DPK). Sedangkan, komposisi DPK terbesar pada Perbankan Nasional dimiliki oleh Bank Umum. Untuk mengetahui besarnya DPK Bank Umum periode yang akan datang, maka dilakukan peramalan dengan menggunakan model GSTAR-I. Terdapat lima lokasi yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini, yaitu Provinsi Jawa Barat, DKI. Jakarta, D.I Yogyakarta, Jawa Tengah dan Jawa Timur. Hasil uji korelasi menunjukkan bahwa lokasi-lokasi yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini mempunyai hubungan yang erat, dan hasil perhitungan indeks gini menyatakan bahwa karakteristik lokasi yang diamati bersifat heterogen. Dari hasil identifikasi, model GSTAR-I yang didapatkan adalah GSTAR (1,2,6,12 (1) )-I(1) 12 . Hasil pengujian menunjukkan bahwa model telah sesuai. Nilai residual memenuhi asumsi white noise dan normal multivariate . Hasil peramalan DPK Bank Umum satu periode kedepan (Bulan Maret 2014) untuk Provinsi Jawa Barat adalah sebesar 300.695 (Milliar Rupiah), Provinsi DKI. Jakarta sebesar 1.847. 303 (Milliar Rupiah), D.I Yogyakarta sebesar 37.735 (Milliar Rupiah), Jawa Tengah sebesar 169.074 (Milliar Rupiah) dan Jawa Timur sebesar 340.183 (Milliar Rupiah). Tingkat kesalahan dalam peramalan yang dihasilkan relatif kecil, yaitu 1.31% untuk data in sample dan 1.16% untuk data out sample , dan koefisien determinasinya sebesar 99% . Hal ini mengindikasikan bahwa peramalan dengan menggunakan model GSTAR(1,2,6,12 (1) )-I(1) 12 ini layak digunakan. Kata Kunci: Non stasioner, GSTAR-I
Ternary nucleation of H2SO4, NH3, and H2O in the atmosphere

Classical theory of binary homogeneous nucleation is extended to the ternary system H2SO4-NH3-H2O. For NH3 mixing ratios exceeding about 1 ppt, the presence of NH3 enhances the binary H2SO4-H2O nucleation rate by several orders of magnitude. The Gibbs free energies of formation of the critical H2SO4-NH3-H2O cluster, as calculated by two independent approaches, are in substantial agreement. The finding that the H2SO4-NH3-H2O ternary nucleation rate is independent of relative humidity over a large range of H2SO4 concentrations has wide atmospheric consequences. The limiting component for ternary H2SO4-NH3-H2O nucleation is, as in the binary H2SO4-H2O case, H2SO4; however, the H2SO4 concentration needed to achieve significant nucleation rates is several orders of magnitude below that required in the binary case.
THE EVOLUTION OF TOTAL NUMBER OF FUNGI IN SOIL POLLUTED WITH CRUDE OIL

For bioremediation to be successful, the bioremediation methods depend on having the right microbes in the right place with the right environmental factors for degradation to occur. The right microbes are bacteria or fungi, which have the physiological and metabolic capabilities to degrade the pollutants. Recent studies have reported several bacteria and filamentous fungi species with the capacity to mineralize or to degrade petroleum hydrocarbons. Bioremediation can be done on site, is often less expensive and site disruption is minimal, it eliminates waste permanently, eliminates long-term liability, and has greater public acceptance, with regulatory encouragement, and it can be coupled with other physical or chemical treatment methods. Chemical pollution of the soil environment has become a major source of concern. Crude oil bioremediation of soils is limited by the bacteria activity in degrading the spills hydrocarbons. In this paper are presented the results obtained in a bioremediation laboratory experiment. The aim of this study is to enhance the bioremediation of soils polluted with crude oil by adding the natural biodegradable product and bacterial inoculum. A natural biodegradable product and bacterial inoculum was used for total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) removal from an artificial polluted soil. Soil polluted with 50000 mg/kg of TPH was treated with 0.25%, respective 0.5% and/or bacterial inoculum to increase the biodegradability rate. Also, the soil contaminated with 100000 mg/kg of TPH was treated with 0.5%, respective 1% and/or bacterial inoculum. The main objective of this work is to accelerate the biodegradation processes. The enhancement of petroleum hydrocarbons degradation was achieved under natural product treatment and bacterial inoculum. The bacterial inoculum was used to enrich indigenous microbes to enhance biodegradation rate in the green house experiment. In soil excessively polluted with crude oil, bacterial population size in conditioned variant with Ecosol maximum dose (1%) presented values comparable to those of inoculated variants, demonstrating the protective and stimulation effect of soil bacteria, including those involved in the degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons exercised by organic compound applied Ecosol. At each phase of the study, the natural biodegradable product was found to significantly enhance the biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons.
Synoptic aspects of the summer monsoon of southern Oman and its global teleconnections

[1] The interplay of El Nino–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Indian Ocean dipole (IOD) can lead to different patterns of sea surface temperature and outgoing longwave radiation anomalies over the equatorial Indian Ocean with corresponding implications for the monsoon system. This paper investigates the extent to which the climatic mechanisms generated by the identified Indian Ocean dipole and the Equatorial Indian Ocean Oscillation affect the interannual variability of Southern Oman Summer Monsoon (SOSM) rainfall. For this purpose, the monsoon data were analyzed for the period of 1985–2005. Generally, the paper presented the possible relations of the interannual variation in SOSM with atmospheric convection and circulation over the equatorial Indian Ocean and ENSO. It could be advocated that the IOD and ENSO have complementarily affected the SOSM during the last four decades. The IOD exercised a substantial role, first, through its influence as a modulator of the SOSM and, second, through its impact on the correlation between the SOSM and ENSO. The results of the study indicated that the ENSO-induced anomalous circulation over the Arabian Sea was either countered or supported by the IOD, depending on the state of the phase and the amplitude of the two.