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PARAMETER PENENTU PENGGUNAAN TRANSPORTASI UMUM DI PERKOTAAN PATI
Authors: Winarno Bekti , Manullang Okto Risdianto 
Published: March 2018

The research aims to analyze and assess determining parameters for public transportation usage for choice user group among the labours that work in Pati Urban Area; therefor the most dominant parameters will be known. User satisfaction recently used in public transportation researches and widely believed as determinant of mode choice. This research is using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) Analysis with 150 sampels of Pati Urban Area labours (including public servant and private workers) choosen by purposive sampling technique. The findings of the reasearh are : connectivity, accessibility and service quality have positive and significant impact toward user disatisfaction and user disatisfaction influences traveller behaviour to unuse public transportation services, while influence of travel cost couldn’t be explained and estimated. Finally, answering the research question, research reveals that connectivity’s parameters (0,563 influence rate), i.e waiting time, desireable arrival schedule and travel time, are the most dominant to determine public transportation usage with accessibility’s parameters (0,462) at the next ranking. At the lower rangking but also significant are service quality’s parameters with 0,451 influence rate.
Effect of distraction task on driving performance of experienced taxi drivers
Authors: Seo Sang-Hyeok , Kwak Seung-Hyun , Chung Soon-Cheol , Kim Hyung-Sik , Min Byung-Chan 
Published: March 2018

Abstract

Background
Driving performance is influenced by human, vehicular, and environmental factors.

Objectives
To investigate the effects of distraction tasks, such as sending a text message (STM) and searching a navigation device (SN), on the driving performance of experienced taxi drivers.

Methods
Twelve male taxi drivers (age: 56.3 ± 4.4 y; experience: 28.4 ± 6.4 y) and 14 female taxi drivers (age: 55.5 ± 3.5 y; experience: 19.4 ± 5.0 y) drove in a simulator at a constant speed (90 km/h) for 2 min while maintaining a gap of 30 m from the car in front, also traveling at 90 km/h. Participants were instructed to drive only for the first 1 min (control phase). For an additional 1 min (task phase), they were instructed to drive only, drive + STM, or drive + SN.

Results
Compared with driving only, during driving + STM or driving + SN, the drivers’ skin conductance level was relatively increased, suggesting that the distraction task increased the drivers’ workload and sympathetic nervous system activity. Compared with driving only, during driving + STM or driving + SN, the average distance from the car in front, speed deviation, and anterior–posterior and medial–lateral coefficients of variation increased, suggesting that maintaining the instructed gap and speed, and the longitudinal and transverse control of the car, was more difficult because of the distraction task.

Conclusions
Even for highly experienced taxi drivers, distraction tasks increased workload, increased the difficulty of vehicle control, and detracted from safe driving.
Plato’s Gorgias and the Power of Λόγος
Authors: Duke George 
Published: March 2018

Abstract:
Recent interpretations of the opening exchange between Socrates and Gorgias in Plato’s Gorgias have tended to focus on the question of whether the rhetorician believes that justice and injustice are the subject matter of rhetoric. This paper argues that Gorgias is interested in the just and the unjust only insofar as being a persuasive speaker on these topics is a prerequisite for the successful exercise of power in the political domain. Although Gorgias’ orientation by power and overestimation of the power of speech have been noted by many interpreters, my intention is to clarify Gorgias’ claims for the power of rhetoric and explain the significance of these claims for one important aspect of Plato’s broader condemnation of sophistry.
Note on the fast decay property of steady Navier–Stokes flows in the whole space
Authors: Nakatsuka Tomoyuki 
Published: March 2018

Abstract
We investigate the pointwise asymptotic behavior of solutions to the stationary Navier–Stokes equation in

{\mathbb{R}^{n}}

(

{n\geq 3}

).
We show the existence of a unique solution

{\{u,p\}}

such that

{|\nabla^{j}u(x)|=O(|x|^{1-n-j})}

and

{|\nabla^{k}p(x)|=O(|x|^{-n-k})}

(

{j,k=0,1,\ldots}

) as

{|x|\rightarrow\infty}

, assuming the smallness of the external force and the rapid decay of its derivatives.
The solution

{\{u,p\}}

decays more rapidly than the Stokes fundamental solution.
Features of globular cluster’s dynamics with an intermediate-mass black hole
Authors: Ryabova Marina V. , Gorban Alena S. , Shchekinov Yuri A. , Vasiliev Evgenii O. 
Published: March 2018

Abstract In this paper, we address the question of how a central intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) in a globular cluster (GC) affects dynamics, core collapse, and formation of the binary population. It is shown that the central IMBH forms a binary system that affects dynamics of stars in the cluster significantly. The presence of an intermediate-mass black hole with mass ≥ 1.0-1.7%of the total stellar mass in the cluster inhibits the formation of binary stars population.
A FEROS Survey of Hot Subdwarf Stars
Authors: Vennes Stéphane , Németh Péter , Kawka Adela 
Published: March 2018

Abstract
We have completed a survey of twenty-two ultraviolet-selected hot subdwarfs using the Fiber-fed Extended Range Optical Spectrograph (FEROS) and the 2.2-m telescope at La Silla. The sample includes apparently single objects as well as hot subdwarfs paired with a bright, unresolved companion. The sample was extracted from our GALEX catalogue of hot subdwarf stars. We identified three new short-period systems (P = 3.5 hours to 5 days) and determined the orbital parameters of a long-period (P = 62d.66) sdO plus G III system. This particular system should evolve into a close double degenerate system following a second common envelope phase.We also conducted a chemical abundance study of the subdwarfs: Some objects show nitrogen and argon abundance excess with respect to oxygen. We present key results of this programme.
Spectral energy distributions and colours of hot subluminous stars
Authors: Heber Ulrich , Irrgang Andreas , Schaffenroth Johannes 
Published: March 2018

Abstract
Photometric surveys at optical, ultraviolet, and infrared wavelengths provide ever-growing datasets as major surveys proceed. Colour-colour diagrams are useful tools to identify classes of star and provide large samples. However, combining all photometric measurements of a star into a spectral energy distribution will allow quantitative analyses to be carried out. We demonstrate how to construct and exploit spectral energy distributions and colours for sublumious B (sdB) stars. The aim is to identify cool companions to hot subdwarfs and to determine atmospheric parameters of apparently single sdB stars as well as composite spectrum sdB binaries.We analyse two sdB stars with high-quality photometric data which serve as our benchmarks, the apparently single sdB HD205805 and the sdB + K5 binary PG 0749+658, briefly present preliminary results for the sample of 142 sdB binaries with known orbits, and discuss future prospects from ongoing all-sky optical space- (Gaia) and ground-based (e.g. SkyMapper) as well as NIR surveys.
John Lydus’ knowledge of Latin and language politics in sixth-century Constantinople
Authors: Dmitriev Sviatoslav 
Published: March 2018

Abstract
This article contextualizes an old debate about the extent of knowledge of Latin by John Lydus, a state official and an erudite from sixth-century Constantinople, within a broader issue of the role of Latin in early Byzantium. It is argued here that Lydus’ startling etymological explanations had no relation to his level of knowledge of Latin, but reflected the declining official use of Latin in Byzantium by resurrecting the theory about Latin as a dialect of Greek.
A Consequential Contingent Valuation Referendum: Still Not Enough to Elicit True Preferences for Public Goods!
Authors: Zawojska Ewa 
Published: March 2018

AbstractWhether respondents disclose their preferences truthfully in surveys that are used to assess the values of public goods remains a crucial question for the practical application of stated preference methods. The literature suggests that in order to elicit true preferences, respondents should see a valuation survey as consequential: they must believe in the actual consequences that may follow from the survey result. Drawing on recent empirical findings, we develop a model depicting the importance of the consequentiality requirement for truthful preference disclosure in a survey that evaluates a public policy project based on a referendum-format value elicitation question. First, we show that a respondent’s belief that his vote may influence the outcome of the referendum plays a central role for revealing his preferences truthfully. Second, we find that the subjectively perceived probabilities of the successful provision of the public good and of the collection of the payment related to the project implementation not only need to be positive but also to be in a particular relationship with each other. This relationship varies in respondents’ preferences towards risk.
Effect of Flammulina velutipes (golden needle mushroom, eno-kitake) polysaccharides on constipation
Authors: Xin Xin , Zheng Kangwei , Niu Yingying , Song Miaomiao , Kang Wenyi 
Published: March 2018

Abstract

Flammulina velutipes, (Curt. ex Fr.) Sing, a popularly edible fungus, has been widely used both as a restorative drug and a tonic food in China. In the current study, the effect of F. velutipes polysaccharides was evaluated with a constipated rat model induced by loperamide hydrochloride. The rats were divided into six groups: normal group, model group, positive control group, F. velutipes polysaccharides high, moderate and low dose groups. Rats were given 2 mL of Loperamide hydrochloride (3 mg·kg·d), by intragastric administration 2 times per day for 10 days. F. velutipes polysaccharides at the doses of 600, 400 and 200 mg/kg (1 mL/100g weight) were administered to treat rats with constipation for 7 days. The gastrointestinal hormones, including motilin (MTL), gastrin (GAS), substance P (SP), somatostatin (SS), and intestinal propulsive rate and feces weight at 24 hours after treatment were used as the indexes to evaluate the effects of F. velutipes polysaccharides on constipation. The levels of MTL, GAS and SP in serum significantly increased and the levels of SS in serum of rats significantly decreased after the treatment of rats with F. velutipes polysaccharides as compared with those of rats in the model group.
Experimental study on the regulation of the cholinergic pathway in renal macrophages by microRNA-132 to alleviate inflammatory response
Authors: Wu Ming , Li Nana , Xu Ji , Wu Lefeng , Li Mingli , Tong Huansheng , Wang Feng , Liu Wenlan , Feng Yongwen 
Published: March 2018

AbstractMicroRNA-132 (miR-132) is correlated with inflammatory response regulation, although its effect on acute kidney injury to provide protection against hemorrhagic shock remains currently unknown. AChE in macrophages of the kidney subjected under hemorrhagic shock is presumed to be regulated by miR-132 after its transcription to alleviate the inflammatory response accordingly. Antagonists such as acetylcholine (Ach) (concentration 10−4mol/L) and galanthamine (Gal) (concentration 10μmol/L) were added into separate groups 1 hour after the macrophages in the kidney were isolated and cultured to induce injury under oxygen and glucose deprivation (OGD) and then cultured for 24 hours. To analyze the effect of miR-132, we placed the renal epithelial cells transfected with miR-132 plasmids with stable expression over the renal macrophages to create a double cell culture system. The expression levels of inflammatory factors and apoptosis under OGD were significantly higher in renal macrophages than in other experimental groups. Moreover, the expression of miR-132 in macrophages of the double cell culture system showing stable expression of miR-132 increased, whereas that of several inflammatory factors was significantly inhibited. The expression levels of AChE mRNA and protein in the macrophages significantly decreased. The cholinergic antiinflammatory pathway in renal macrophages is regulated by miR-132 via inhibition of the hydrolytic activity of cholinesterase to alleviate inflammatory response, which may play a role in the prevention and treatment of kidney injury caused by hemorrhagic shock.
Prunus cerasifera Ehrh. fabricated ZnO nano falcates and its photocatalytic and dose dependent in vitro bio-activity
Authors: Jaffri Shaan Bibi , Ahmad Khuram Shahzad 
Published: March 2018

Abstract
Zinc oxide nano falcates of sickle shape have been synthesized from Prunus cerasifera pomological extract as a reducing cum stabilizing agent via novel, biomimetic and non-toxic route. Zinc oxide nano falcates were analyzed via ultraviolet spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared analysis, X-ray powder diffraction, scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy. Highly stable zinc oxide nano falcates synthesized at 200°C and 400°C calcination temperatures expressed intense UV-vis peak at 398 nm. Phenolic and amino groups were revealed by FTIR in pomological extract. Wurtzite crystalline structure of zinc oxide nano falcates was confirmed by XRD with average crystal size of 4.93 nm. SEM sizes ranged between 72.11-120 nm and 56.57-107.70 nm, respectively and shown higher polydispersity levels for two calcination temperatures. Augmented photocatalytic degradation of methyl red and bromophenol blue under direct solar irradiance shown pseudo first order kinetics (R2= 0.99 and 0.96). Furthermore, biomedical and agriculturally important pathogenic strains i.e., Xanthomanas axonopodis pv. citri and Pseudomonas syringae, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus fumigatus, Aspergillus terreus, Penicillium chrysogenum, Fusarium solani and Lasiodiplodia theobromae were remarkably inhibited. Enhanced photocatalytic and antimicrobial activity reveals zinc oxide nano falcates promising prospects in nano bioremediation of polluted water and conversion into green nano pesticides.
KLK5, a novel potential suppressor of vaginal carcinogenesis
Authors: Pampalakis Georgios , Zingkou Eleni , Sotiropoulou Georgia 
Published: March 2018

Abstract
Vaginal cancer is rare and largely unexplored. We found here that kallikrein-related peptidase 5 (KLK5) is coordinately expressed along with other KLKs in all stratified epithelia, including vagina, pointing to potential role(s) in differentiation. Further, we propose that KLK5 could be implicated in vaginal cancer development based on the fact that Klk5
−/− mice are prone to develop vaginal tumors when exposed to 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene. Nf-κb activation is markedly enhanced in Klk5
−/−, leading to increased resistance to apoptosis of mutated vaginal cells. This explains the higher tumor numbers observed in Klk5
−/− compared to wildtype. Thus, KLK5 may represent a putative suppressor of vaginal cancer.
Finite cognition and finite semiosis: A new perspective on semiotics for the information age
Authors: Shackell Cameron 
Published: March 2018

AbstractFor semiotics the precipitous arrival of the information age and the “attention economy” suggests a new theoretical standpoint: that semiosis is a function of thefinitenessof human cognition and theallocationof that resource. Proceeding on this basis, a model is presented that offers novel definitions of semiosis and semiotics. Inter-agent similarity of cognition and its mediation through artefacts are then introduced to suggest how finite cognition may be determined and equilibrated through reticular mechanisms. Finally, an explanation of how artefacts evolve to consume cognition based on Foucault’s concept of corpora of knowledge is broached.
From verb to noun and back again: Non-referential uses of nominalizations in Aguaruna (Chicham)
Authors: Overall Simon E. 
Published: March 2018

AbstractThe paper describes the reanalysis of deverbal nominalizations as verbal forms, allowing them to function as predicates of finite and dependent clauses. The paper questions how the reanalyzed forms mark verbal grammatical categories, and data is presented to show that verbal morphology may be marked on a copula, or in some cases directly marked on the nominalization, clearly showing that reanalysis has taken place. The paper also questions what happens to nominal morphology associated with a reanalyzed nominalization, and shows that this too can be reanalyzed and become functionally part of the verbal switch-reference system.
TEM, FTIR and Electrochemistry Study: Desorption of PVP from Pt Nanocubes
Authors: Safo Isaac A. , Dosche Carsten , Oezaslan Mehtap 
Published: March 2018

Abstract
Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) polymer is among one of the widely used surfactants to prepare nano-materials with desired particle shape and particle size. The critical challenge is to remove PVP polymer from the metal surface without loss of the surface arrangement and particle agglomeration. Here, we developed a strategy to remove the surfactant PVP which prefers to form a multi-layer shell and thus blocks the catalytically active surface of the Pt nanocubes (6–7 nm). Since PVP is partially soluble in polar solvents, we studied four different solvent mixtures (volume ratio), (i) methanol/ethanol (3:1), (ii) acetone/water (3:1), (iii) ethanol/chloroform (3:1), and (iv) aqueous 0.1 M acetic acid by using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and cyclic voltammetry (CV). Only, the washing process with methanol/ethanol and acetone/water generates Pt nanocubes with almost clean particle surface. Based on our FTIR results, a shift of the carbonyl band in IR spectrum was observed for methanol/ethanol-washed Pt nanocubes, indicating the coordination of the carbonyl oxygen of the PVP to platinum. The electrochemical experiments showed that the surface area of the methanol/ethanol-washed Pt nanocubes was increased by a factor of 14 compared to the unwashed, while an improvement of 11 times was achieved by washing in acetone/water. However, the CV profile still signifies the presence of strongly adsorbed PVP on the Pt surface. To remove the chemisorbed PVP, an electrochemical cleaning including 200 potential cycles between 0.06 and 1.00 V vs. RHE at 200 mV s−1 was applied. The potential cycling reveals the potential-controlled ad/desorption behavior of the PVP at the Pt surface. Altogether, we designed a cleaning procedure for surfactant-capped metal nanoparticles and provide insights into the interactions between the PVP and Pt surface.
Introducción
Authors: Corona Fernández Javier 
Published: March 2018

Los tres trabajos que integran este dossier se inscriben en la reflexión sobre las maneras de actuar y de conocer propias de la sociedad contemporánea; éste reúne el trabajo de crítica que a partir de autores como Max Weber, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Antonio Negri, Michael Hardt, entre otros, nos ha permitido identificar categorías básicas para investigar y comprender la especificidad de nuestra época. En el marco de la sociedad de control y las peculiaridades del biopoder, el análisis de la situación presente nos lleva a pensar en torno a una forma categorial esencialmente incondicionada; esto es, al ser humano y la formación de su identidad, al individuo que vive en condiciones tanto de opresión como de crítica y de resistencia
Lo personal es político: un bebé en la sesión de constitución de las Cortes Generales. El tratamiento televisivo del caso de Carolina Bescansa y su hijo
Authors: Bernardez Rodal Asunción , Serrano Fuertes Marta 
Published: March 2018

En este artículo se analiza el papel que tienen los informativos televisivos en la construcción de la imagen de las mujeres en política. En concreto se trata el tema de Carolina Bescansa que acudió al Congreso de los Diputados con su bebé el día en que se constituían las Cortes el 13 de enero de 2016. El texto realiza un análisis de cómo se dio la noticia en las distintas cadenas televisivas generalistas en España: qué representantes de los partidos políticos intervinieron, cuánto tiempo se les dio la palabra, y cuál fue sobre todo el argumentario utilizado por los participantes sobre todo para descalificar la decisión de Bescansa. Este caso es un ejemplo no sólo de cómo las mujeres pueden ser descalificadas en la vida política por cuestiones privadas, sino también de cómo la maternidad y los cuidados son un tema a debate en nuestras sociedades. Un ejemplo que puede llevar a una eventual y necesaria discusión sobre la necesidad de replantear algunos aspectos de lo considerado aceptado y aceptable en sociedad: tanto en la palestra de los políticos como en la grada de los críticos. Puesto que ambos espacios, en cumplimiento de la norma democrática, se están abriendo cada vez más a un número creciente de personas, clases y trasfondos.
Establishment of Signaling Interactions with Cellular Resolution for Every Cell Cycle of Embryogenesis
Authors: Chen Long , Ho Vincy Wing Sze , Wong Ming-Kin , Huang Xiaotai , Chan Lu-yan , Ng Hon Chun Kaoru , Ren Xiaoliang , Yan Hong , Zhao Zhongying 
Published: March 2018

AbstractIntercellular signaling interaction plays a key role in breaking fate symmetry. Identifying such interaction at cellular resolution is technically challenging, especially in a developing embryo. To facilitate the identification of signaling interactions during Caenorhabditis elegans...
Seksistinių nuostatų reikšmė seksualinio priekabiavimo atpažinimui
Authors: Čeponytė Monika , Žardeckaitė-Matulaitienė Kristina 
Published: March 2018

Sexual harassment is one of the most commonly experienced forms of sex-based discrimination. Over 55 percent of women in Europe and over 35 percent of women in Lithuania endure any form of sexual harassment since the age of 15 (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights survey 2014). However, despite the frequent sexual harassment experience, in the past six years, only four sexual harassment complaints had been filed in Lithuania and to this day there isno information on men’s sexual harassment experience. According to the research, the lack of sexual harassment data and the low number of complaints can be related to the differences in perception of this phenomenon, which leads to a poor recognition of sexual harassment. There is a lack of data on the perception of sexual harassment and its related factors in Lithuania; therefore, the purpose of the study is to assess the relationship between sexist attitudes, gender,age, socioeconomic status and the recognition of sexual harassment of Lithuanian men and women. The research consisted of 345 participants (98 men and 247 women). The average age was 27.1 years (SD=8.478). Fourteen self-report vignettes were created based on the Bursik (1992) vignettes and consultations with the Office of the Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson to measure the participants’ perception of a hostile environment (Cronbach α 0.804) and quid pro quo(Cronbach α 0.728) sexual harassment. Sexist attitudes were measured using the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (Glick, Fiske 1996) (Cronbach α 0.943). Questions related to participants’ age, gender and socioeconomic status were also included in this survey. The results have shown that participants with higher ratings on the sexism scale were less likely to rate situations as sexual harassment than the participants with lower such results. It was found that men evaluate all types of sexual harassment situations as significantly less severe than women. All participants tend to evaluate situations where the victim is a female as more severe than situations where the victim is male. Hostile sexism was a major factor predicting lower ratings when evaluating the severity of quid pro quo and hostile environment sexual harassment situations.
Keywords: sexual harassment, perception of sexual harassment, sexism, sexist attitudes, gender differences