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CHILDLESSNESS AND INVESTMENT IN NIECES, NEPHEWS, AUNTS AND UNCLES IN FINLAND

Kin selection theory predicts that individuals may increase their inclusive fitness by investing in their genetically related kin. In addition, according to the reproductive value hypothesis, individuals may increase their fitness more by investing in their kin in descending rather than ascending order. The present study uses the Generational Transmissions in Finland data collected in 2012 (n ¼ 601 women) and analyses whether childless younger women invest more in their kin than younger women with children. The study finds that childless women are more likely than mothers to invest in their nieces and nephews but not their aunts and uncles. Thus the results are in line with the reproductive value prediction.
Towards improvement of ruminant breeding through genomic and epigenomic approaches

More sustainable breeding programs and linked technologies need to be in line with social demand and to take into account genetic diversity as well as required adaption to climate change. Towards these aims, RUMIGEN will ensure engagement of a variety of stakeholders to assess social perception of breeding objectives and related technologies in ruminants. It will define “rooms of acceptance” which will be implemented in sustainable breeding scenarios that will then be assessed through multi-actor panels. To define new breeding programs, RUMIGEN, which brings together partners representing pan-European leaders on ruminant breeding, will question trade-offs and pleiotropic effects through adaptation to environmental stressors such as heat stress. Cosmopolitan and local dairy cattle breeds will be analysed evaluating mid to long term effects as well as impact on next generation (fetal programming). This work will rely on large-scale data from commercial farms combined with climatic data, taking advantage of the large panel of situations across Europe and of a unique design involving half-sister cows raised in contrasted conditions, Denmark and India. Diversity will be also studied with new breed genome assemblies. Methods will be developed to account for rare alleles and to maintain diversity. An epigenotyping platform will be designed to (i) explore sperm epigenome influences on bull fertility and progeny, (ii) decipher underlying mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance and (iii) evaluate how much epigenetic biomarkers improve phenotype prediction. RUMIGEN will answer questions on genome editing specificity and safety issues, assessing its potential to preserve genetic diversity and increase genetic gains. Overall, RUMIGEN will develop models combining genomics, epigenomics and biotechnologies to improve genomic selection, preserve genetic biodiversity and avoid genetic load. Improved phenotype prediction will pave the way to new management indexes for precision farming.
Morphological Characterization of Drupes Reveals a Higher Diversity of Phyllanthus emblica Germplasm in Anuradhapura, Kandy and Kurunegala Districts of Sri Lanka

Phyllanthus emblica L. is a commercially important fruit species and its plant parts are indispensable in indigenous herbal medicine. A total of 475 P. emblica drupes harvested from 66 trees in Anuradhapura, Kandy and Kurunegala districts of Sri Lanka were used for characterizing morphological features. For each drupe, seven morphometric data (height, width and weight of drupes, mesocarp thickness, width, height and weight of stones) were measured. Sixty one drupes were used for the quantitative analysis of the epicarp color of drupes. Bitterness, an organoleptic property was analyzed in relation to drupe size by using a taste panel of independent human subjects. The stone traits showed a lower correlation with other drupe traits suggesting that drupe and stone traits may be governed by two separate sets of genes. The cluster analysis based on drupe size traits characterized the P. emblica germplasm into four clusters. Number of cells in the mesocarp of smaller and larger fruits was more or less the same but the cell size was larger in larger fruits (p P. emblica gremplasm has a significantly higher morphological diversity in Sri Lanka but the drupe traits did not vary with respect to their locations or the climate. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/cjsbs.v43i1.7281 Ceylon Journal of Science ( Bio. Sci. ) 43(1): 125-135, 2014
Origen, evolución y caída del régimen de Mubarak

This paper describes in political, sociological and economic terms the origin and evolution of Mubarak’s regime till its fall, including Mohamed Mursi’s election as president of Egypt. First, it places Mubarak’s period in power in its historical context, following Naser and Sadat’s regimes. Then it describes the interaction between the new regime’s economic and political proposals and the political and parapolitical responses on the part of Egyptian society. Finally it shows how the relative stability of the regime, lasting over twenty years and built on a combination of coercion and selective permissiveness, began to collapse, partly as a result of the effects of the economic liberalisation started in the 1990s on
Anpassung von MAU feitio an das Paradigma der COVID-19-Pandemie

Einer der wichtigsten Referenzen von Coimbra für den Einzelhandel mit Kleidung und Requisiten, mit einem großen täglichen Kundenstrom und mit einem Layout, das so konzipiert ist, dass der verfügbare Platz maximiert wird. Mau feitio muss den Arbeitsplatz anpassen, extrem eng und ungeeignet unter den aktuellen Umständen.
SGLT2 Inhibition via Empagliflozin Improves Endothelial Function and Reduces Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress: Insights From Frail Hypertensive and Diabetic Patients

Frailty is a multidimensional condition often diagnosed in older adults with hypertension and diabetes, and both these conditions are associated with endothelial dysfunction and oxidative stress. We investigated the functional role of the SGLT2 (sodium glucose cotransporter 2) inhibitor empagliflozin in frail diabetic and hypertensive older adults.We studied the effects of empagliflozin in consecutive hypertensive and diabetic older patients with frailty presenting at the ASL (local health unit of the Italian Ministry of Health) of Avellino, Italy, from March 2021 to January 2022. Moreover, we performed in vitro experiments in human endothelial cells to measure cell viability, permeability, mitochondrial Ca2+, and oxidative stress.We evaluated 407 patients; 325 frail elders with diabetes successfully completed the study. We propensity-score matched 75 patients treated with empagliflozin and 75 with no empagliflozin. We observed a correlation between glycemia and Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) score and between glycemia and 5-meter gait speed (5mGS). At 3-month follow-up, we detected a significant improvement in the MoCA score and in the 5mGS in patients receiving empagliflozin compared with non-treated subjects. Mechanistically, we demonstrate that empagliflozin significantly reduces mitochondrial Ca2+ overload and reactive oxygen species production triggered by high glucose in human endothelial cells, attenuates cellular permeability, and improves cell viability in response to oxidative stress.Taken together, our data indicate that empagliflozin reduces frailty in diabetic and hypertensive patients, most likely by decreasing the mitochondrial generation of reactive oxygen species in endothelial cells.
Stemflow variation in Mexico’s northeastern forest communities: Its contribution to soil moisture content and aquifer recharge

Summary Stemflow hydro-ecological importance was measured in trees and assessed in Mexico’s northeast forest stands by answering three basic questions: (a) what are the intra and inter-specific stemflow variations; (b) is the stemflow coefficient constant from tree level to stand scales? and (c) what is the stemflow area and wetted soil volume in individual trees and the stemflow volume discharged at the stand scale in two plant communities of northeastern Mexico? Gross rainfall and stemflow flux measurements were conducted on 78 trees of semi-arid, sub-tropical (31 Diospyros texana; 14 Acacia rigidula; four Bumelia celastrina; five Condalia hookeri; three Cordia bioissieri; three Pithecellobium pallens) and temperate forest communities (six Pinus pseudostrobus Lindl. and 12 Quercus spp.). Stemflow was extrapolated from individual trees to the stand scale using 98 inventory plots (1600 m2 ha−1 each) placed in oak–pine forests and 37 quadrats (5 m × 5 m each) distributed across the Tamaulipan thornscrub forest range. Stemflow infiltration flux and infiltration area measurements assessed the wetted soil volume. Daily measurements were conducted from May of 1997 to November of 1998. Results showed that stemflow coefficients varied between plant communities since they averaged (confidence intervals, α = 0.05) 2.49% (0.57), 0.30% (0.09), and 0.77% (0.27) of the bulk precipitation for Tamaulipan thornscrub, pine, and oak forests, respectively. Intra-specific stemflow variations could not be identified in Tamaulipan although in temperate tree species. Basal diameter explained intra-specific stemflow variation in both plant communities. Stemflow increased threefold since it accounted for by 6.38% and 2.19% of the total bulk rainfall for Tamaulipan thornscrub quadrats and temperate oak–pine inventory plots, respectively. Small shrubs growing underneath large trees, in combination with the presence of small-diameter trees that recorded the largest stemflow coefficients appear to explain the increase of the stemflow coefficient from trees to stands. Stemflow replenishes soil moisture on the average 4.5 (1.4) times larger than does incident rainfall in open soils and appear to contribute to aquifer recharge in temperate forests due to a combination of shallow soils, high infiltration fluxes and the stemflow volume generated during rainfalls with depths >15 mm. Tracing studies should be conducted to test the hypothesis of the stemflow contribution to aquifer recharge in temperate forests of northeastern Mexico.
SURVEY — CUBA: DEVELOPMENT OF THE CUBAN MARKET

THE PROJECT CONSISTS OF TWO STAGES: In UN * individual * LEGAL STRATEGIC WITH A DETERMINATION AND OPPORTUNITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE TARGET MARKER INDIVIDUAL, QUAL IS THE Cuban.   IN A SECOND STEP INSERTED AND ACCOMPANIED BY THE DEDICATED COMMERCIAL STAFF, THE COMPANY’S STANDARD SPECIALIST MET, L’AVV. ELENA ZAMBON, WHO WILL FACILITATE THE HOLDING ON FIRST ENTRY INTO THE TARGET MARKET, GIVING EFFECT TO THE SKILLS DEVELOPED IN THE FIRST PHASE.
PHOTOCATALYTIC PROCESS

A photocatalytic cleaner for air or water includes a photocatalytic material coating a substrate. An anode, positioned a predetermined distance from the substrate, includes a phosphor that emits ultraviolet light in response to bombardment by electrons from a field emission cathode emitting electrons in response to an electric field. The field emission cathode may be a carbon based field emitter material including incorporating carbon nanotubes.
SECRETED PROTEINS

The invention provides human secreted proteins (SECP) and polynucleotides which identify and encode SECP. The invention also provides expression vectors, host cells, antibodies, agonists, and antagonists. The invention also provides methods for diagnosing, treating, or preventing disorders associated with aberrant expression of SECP.
Era-Net for establishing synergies between the joint programming initiative on antimicrobial resistance research and horizon 2020

Antibiotic resistance is a global problem. It is considered by the World Health Organization as one of the three greatest threats to human health for the next decades. ’Enhanced coordination across national boundaries is needed to accelerate the efforts to tackle this grand challenge. Such synergies have been created among 19 countries in Europe and beyond through the EU JPI on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR). JPIAMR has developed a Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) which defines the strategic and scientific priorities benefiting from co-ordination and co-operation at the European level and mobilised national funds for two joint transnational calls (JTC) 2014 and 2015 based on this.
In the ERA-NET Cofund JPI-EC-AMR, an additional € 23 million of national funds will be combined with a highly incentivising EC top-up fund to support a new transnational research programme. The aim of this programme is to unravel the complex dynamics of selection and transmission of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) according to the One Health concept. A multidisciplinary approach is necessary to identify and characterise the determinants that contribute to the spread of resistance at genetic, bacterial, animal, human, societal, and environmental levels, in order to provide scientific knowledge to design and evaluate cost-effective strategies that can decrease transmission of AMR in society.
JPI-EC-AMR will launch additional JTCs without EC co-funding under the framework of the SRA. and perform additional joint actions in close collaboration with JPIAMR actions.
JPI-EC-AMR will provide a better, quantitative understanding of drug-resistant bacteria in animals, foods, and the environment and to what extent they contribute to the burden of antibiotic-resistant infections in humans. Research in this area is crucial in order to provide the robust scientific evidence needed to make informed decisions regarding interventions and policy measures in hospital, community, and agricultural settings.
Improvements in or relating to seal assemblies

1,170,069. Centrifugal pumps. QUICKFIT & QUARTZ Ltd. and R.A. BUTTERY. Jan.11, 1967 [Jan. 17, 1966], No.57689/66. Heading F1C. [Also in Division F2] A pump impeller shaft 11 is sealed by means comprising a sleeve 17 having a first end portion 18 and a second end portion 19 joined by an axially compressible central portion 20, the portion 18 being a fluid tight fit on the shaft 11 and a surface 21 on the portion 19 being urged by a spring 22 into sliding sealing engagement with a surface on the pump housing 1, the portion 19 being drivably connected to the pump shaft driving means. The pump is driven by an electric motor 27 and used for pumping corrosive liquids, the housing 1, impeller 12 and shaft 11 being of glass and the latter being reinforced by an internal metal shaft 13. A gasket 168 is clamped between a flange 16a and an end 14 of the housing 1. The shaft 13 is coupled to the motor shaft 26 by a driving member 25 having clamped thereto one end of a metal casing 28, the other end of which has pins 32 engaged in slots in the portion 19. The spring 22 is compressed between a flange 24 of the member 25 and a retaining member-23 abutting the portion 19 and thereby urging the surface 21 against the gasket 168. The sleeve 17 is formed of a synthetic resin material, the surface 21 preferably being reinforced with glass. A carrying handle 40 is provided.
Lightweight Random Ferns using binary representation

In many applications which require real-time keypoint recognition such as Augmented Reality, Random Ferns (RF) is widely used due to its runtime performance. It relies on an offline training phase during which runtime computational burdens are delegated. This leads to robust, accurate, and framerate performance. However, it requires significant amounts of memory, and this has been an obstacle to its use in industry, especially in mobile environments. In this paper, we propose Lightweight Random Ferns to reduce the memory requirements of RF by modifying the representation of probabilities used in ferns to a single bit from floating point. As a result, the total memory requirements of RF are significantly reduced.
Mixing interfaces as reactive hotspots of porous media flows: theoretical upscaling, experimental imaging and field scale validation

In porous media, mixing interfaces such as contaminant plume fringes or boundaries between water bodies create highly reactive localized hotspots of chemical and microbiological activity, whether in engineered or natural systems. These reactive fronts are characterized by high concentration gradients, complex flow dynamics, variable water saturation, fluctuating redox conditions and multifunctional biological communities. The spatial and temporal variability of velocity gradients is expected to elongate mixing interfaces and steepen concentration gradients, thus strongly affecting biochemical reactivity. However, a major issue with porous media flows is that these essential micro-scale interactions are inaccessible to direct observation. Furthermore, the lack of a validated upscaling framework from fluid- to system-scale represents a major barrier to the application of reactive transport models to natural or industrial problems. 
The ambition of the ReactiveFronts project is to address this knowledge gap by setting up a high level interdisciplinary team that will provide a new theoretical understanding and novel experimental imaging capacities for micro-scale interactions between flow, mixing and reactions and their impact on reactive front kinetics at the system scale. ReactiveFronts will develop an original approach to this long-standing problem; combining theoretical, laboratory and field experimental methods.The focus on reactive interface dynamics, which represents a paradigm shift for reactive transport modelling in porous media, will require the development of original theoretical approaches (WP1) and novel microfluidic experiments (WP2). This will form a strong basis for the study of complex features at increasing spatial scales, including the coupling between fluid dynamics and biological activity (WP4), the impact of 3D flow topologies and chaotic mixing on effective reaction kinetics (WP3), and the field scale assessment of these interactions (WP5).
South Africa as a strategic operations destination for chemical manufactures

The decision to expand the operational base of the company into developing markets is but one of the many decisions that executives of multinational companies should be considering in today’s age of increased globalisation. As foreign direct investment can provide excellent alternatives to formal development capital, developing economies are increasingly leveraging this option to develop their home economy and industries within it. This research paper investigates the determinants of foreign direct investment by multinational United States based chemical companies into the chemical industries of the world. This offers a potential solution as to what the strategic reasons for this investment may be, as well as determines what the local country can do better to improve its position. The research clusters 26 variables into five cluster groupings that include the value of human capital, level of country infrastructure, industry performance factors, governance indicators and environmental compliance indicators. The variables within the cluster groupings are subjected to a regression analysis with the investment of US multinational companies into worldwide chemical industries as the constant variable. The results yield a model with a R2 value for the regression of over 0.8 with six variables considered significant contributors to the model.
Impacts of Customers' Perceptions on Internet Banking Use with a Smart Phone

In recent years, a smart phone has become a useful platform to easily access banking services. However, compared to regular Internet banking using a personal computer, the adoption of a smart phone for Internet banking might be more vulnerable with regard to security. In this study, we first identify two dimensions: security and usability, and empirically test their role as determinants that affect Internet banking use with a smart phone (IBUS). Second, we investigate whether or not security and usage can possibly interact with each other to influence IBUS. Results indicate: (1) security issues were found to be a significant determinant of IBUS; (2) Perceived Usefulness (PU) and Perceived Ease of Use (PEU) as usability had significant effects on IBUS; (3) PU and PEU moderated the relation between users' perception toward security and IBUS; and (4) Users' perception toward security moderated the relation between PU/PEU and IBUS.
Applications of the Volume Averaging Theory to Momentum and Heat Transfer within Complex Flow Systems

The volume averaging theory (VAT) developed in the study of porous media is quite powerful in attacking difficult problems associate with momentum and heat transfer in complex fluid flow system, such as heat exchangers, combustors and engine nacelles. Applications of VAT to momentum and heat transfer within complex heat and flow systems are reviewed in this lecture. Such difficulties arise from geometrical complexities and conjugate heat transfer between fluids and solids. In order to overcome the difficulties, the set of the governing equations are integrated over a local control volume to obtain the macroscopic governing equations. The sub-scale (i.e. pore-scale) modeling is carried out to close the set of the equations. Subsequently, the unknown model constants are determined by conducting direct numerical simulations using a structural unit model. Various applications in heat exchangers, composting systems and human bodies are discussed to elucidate the validity of the present procedure.
Smart thermostat évolution

One of the main European challenges, included in the 2020, 2030 and 2050 objectives and frameworks, is the increase of energy efficiency. Buildings, responsible for 40% of total energy consumption can play a major role. 60% of the energy consumed in households is for space heating. Up to 45% of the total energy spends can be saved by using wisely a thermostat. The use of these systems in households is highly profitable for its occupants, as European families spend 5-7.5% of their incomes in the home energy bill. In this context, the European market of home energy management systems will obtain revenue for 415M€ by 2018 after a CAGR of 16% since 2013. 
QIVIVO is an SME that commercializes and serves intelligent thermostats in France since 2012, and has obtained 31% average energy savings for its users and a 13% of market share. Now it is developing a more advanced generation: Smarthé, with enhanced capabilities both for hardware and software, which will allow for an improved performance and more energy savings. QIVIVO has also developed formulas to reach the end-users through new business models (B2B). 
Smarthé is a thermostat for a wide range of heating systems (electric, gas, condensation), offering maximum comfort at minimum energy cost. This is achieved by: 1) Automatic learning of the particular comfort temperature and habits of the user, 2) Precise knowledge of how weather conditions (including wind) affect on the house, as Smarthé is characterizes thermal properties of a facility through multizone sensors (thermostat and pressure), and 3) A cloud-served smart suite to automatically manage home energy and assess in retrofitting operations. Home maintenance companies will distribute Smarthé and use another QIVIVO platform to manage renovation programmes in their users’ houses. The business opportunity of Smarthé has a payback period of 4 years and will become the flagship product of the company that will permit the increase of the company in 15 people.