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The neurological basis of intelligence: Implications for education – An abstract

Field: Neuroscience (Life Sciences)

This editorial reviews the neurological research covered in this issue of Gifted and Talented. Professor Geake reflects that one of the greatest challenges for cognitive neuroscience is to understand how the brain is intelligent. He reflects on the varied approaches in neuroimaging that produce statistical data that may inform correlations between neural structures and aspects of cognition being investigated. He explains how interpretations of the data are complicated and warns against over simplistic accounts of brain functioning such as brain gym, left-right brain thinking or VAK cognitive styles. Instead, intellectual challenge and the connection of concepts in the curriculum may be more significant research issues in the neurological basis in education.
Can you be a compatibilist friend and an incompatiblist policy maker at the same time? Pragmatic meta-compatibilism: A statistical formalization of the free will and moral responsibility problem

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

This paper argues for a metacompatibilist approach to the free will problem. Adopting this view may resolve the cognitive dissonance some people may have because they hold seemingly contradictory intuitions about compatibilism (such as the usefulness of blame and punishment) as well as incompatibilism (that people often blame or praise others for things that are determined by factors, such as socioeconomic background, that are outside of their control).
Stage-wise nutrient status of leaf and soil of Alphonso mango grown in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra, India

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

For the present investigation, the soil and leaf samples were collected from four mango orchards of Ratnagiri district at five serial stages namely, after harvest of the fruits of previous season, after application of fertilizers, pre-flowering, full flowering and marble stage of fruit for two successive years. The soil and leaf samples were analyzed for nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium. Available phosphorous content in soil and total phosphorous and potassium content in leaf were observed to be ‘low’. The deficiency of phosphorous content of soil and leaf at all the locations and potassium content of leaf at Dapoli and Pangari locations suggested a necessity of an improved supply of these nutrients through application of additional fertilizers. From the investigation, higher nutrient content of soil and leaf was observed at orchards having higher and systematic application of nutrients. A decline of the soil nutrients and rise of leaf nutrients during pre-flowering, flowering and fruit developmental stages was noticed. This indicated that during reproductive stages, supply of nutrients through leaves would be more effective and efficient than through soil. In general, a positive and significant correlation between soil and leaf nutrients at various stages indicated a positive effect of applied fertilizers through soil in increasing the nutrient status of leaf. From the aforesaid findings, it can be concluded that the appropriate nutrient management in case of Alphonso mango is crucial for maintaining optimum nutrient status of soil and leaf.
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Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

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Estimation of Long-Term Profitability of Startups: An Experimental Analysis

Field: Decision Sciences (Social Sciences)

The objective is to assess the performance of different methods to derive an estimate of internal rate of return (IRR) for startups. Koyck transformation is first used to estimate the parameters of a distributed revenue lag model which are then used to derive IRR. For estimation different scenarios of artificial time series of expenditure and revenue are constructed to describe the early years of startups. These scenarios are based on different parameter values of the distributed lag function and are classified into nine experiments. The performance of the following six different estimation methods are compared with each other in these nine experiments: unrestricted OLS, OLS through the origin (RTO), restricted OLS, Least Absolute Deviation (LAD), Ridge Regression (RR), and restricted Maximum Likelihood (ML). The experimental results indicate that the most efficient estimation method is the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) method where the regression is forced through the origin (RTO). The least efficient method is the unrestricted OLS, which emphasizes the importance of RTO.
Performance improvement of the consortium blockchain for financial business applications

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

In preparation for improving the consortium blockchain’s performance for financial business applications, the current authors first surveyed typical records of transaction rates for various financial systems and the performance capacity of several known consortium blockchains at this moment in time. The blockchain itself does not offer any performance advantage, but rather sacrifices performance to achieve tamper resistance. The average transaction rates for blockchain technologies, however, are continuously improving and have already reached around 1,000–2,000 transactions per second (TPS), which is equivalent to the transaction rate for the Zengin System, the common name for Japanese Banks’ Payment Clearing Network. Next, the current authors analysed and improved the transaction rate for Hyperledger, a Linux Foundation Project, and Fabric, one of the open source software tools for implementing consortium blockchain. The current authors found that inefficient message transfer between the platform container and the application container was the main cause of Fabric’s performance bottleneck. Therefore, the current authors have introduced more efficient application programming interface (API) between the containers and improved the transaction rate from 725 to 1,350 TPS (an 86% increase). Finally, the current authors analysed Fabric’s performance under artificial network latency. This paper determines that Fabric running over a wide area network might be required to replace its consensus algorithm to improve its transaction rate because other causes of performance deterioration, including the consensus algorithm, seem to become dominant.
Mediating effects of students’ social bonds between self-esteem and customer citizenship behaviour in the context of international university branch campuses

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer empirical evidence on the role of self-esteem and social bonding in explaining citizenship behaviour of students at international university branch campuses (IBCs). Design/methodology/approach A sample of 400 students from four IBCs in Malaysia was administered in a questionnaire. Data were analysed using SPSS and partial least squares 3.0. Findings This research demonstrates that students’ self-esteem and social bonds have positive direct effects on customer citizenship behaviour (CCB). Moreover, self-esteem has an indirect effect on CCB via intervening of attachment, commitment and involvement of social bonds. Research limitations/implications CCB of IBC students can be explained by self-consistency theory via mediation of social bonds from social bonding theory. Practical implications To encourage CCB in IBCs, university management should target students who have high self-esteem, closely tied to parents and lecturers, committed to university, highly involved in co-curricular activities and comply with university regulations. Originality/value Greater understanding of students’ citizenship behaviour may help transnational universities to improve relationship marketing strategy and enhance students’ campus experience.
Cancer cachexia is regulated by selective targeting of skeletal muscle gene products

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)

Cachexia is a syndrome characterized by wasting of skeletal muscle and contributes to nearly one-third of all cancer deaths. Cytokines and tumor factors mediate wasting by suppressing muscle gene products, but exactly which products are targeted by these cachectic factors is not well understood. Because of their functional relevance to muscle architecture, such targets are presumed to represent myofibrillar proteins, but whether these proteins are regulated in a general or a selective manner is also unclear. Here we demonstrate, using in vitro and in vivo models of muscle wasting, that cachectic factors are remarkably selective in targeting myosin heavy chain. In myotubes and mouse muscles, TNF-α plus IFN-γ strongly reduced myosin expression through an RNA-dependent mechanism. Likewise, colon-26 tumors in mice caused the selective reduction of this myofibrillar protein, and this reduction correlated with wasting. Under these conditions, however, loss of myosin was associated with the ubiquitin-dependent proteasome pathway, which suggests that mechanisms used to regulate the expression of muscle proteins may be cachectic factor specific. These results shed new light on cancer cachexia by revealing that wasting does not result from a general downregulation of muscle proteins but rather is highly selective as to which proteins are targeted during the wasting state.
449 Invasive cervical cancer and pregnancy: a case report and review of the literature

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

Introduction/Background

The incidence of dysplasia during pregnancy is estimated at 1%, and that of cervical cancer at one in 10,000. Cervical cancer is one of the most frequently observed cancers during pregnancy.the objectives are twofold and sometimes antagonistic: to achieve a level of care that is closer to that of non-pregnant patients, and if possible, to maintain the pregnancy. but recent publications report cases of pregnancy preservation. This must not be to the detriment of the carcinological result.

Methodology

Patient aged 39, with a history of recurrent post-coital metrorrhagia for 04 years, neglected by the patient, admitted to the emergency department for delivery of a full-term pregnancy, with clinical examination revealing an ulcerating-bourging tumour of the uterine cervix. a caesarean section was performed, and cervical sampling confirmed the diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma

Results

The median age of parturients found in the literature was 38 years with extremes of 35 and 42 years and the average clinical size of lesions was 3 cm in diameter in our patient the size of the lesion was 06 cm, Anatomopathological examination showed squamous cell carcinoma. The disease was classified according to the FIGO 2009 classification as IIIB. Treatment consisted of RCC (concomitant radiochemotherapy) after the emergency caesarean section.

Conclusion

In parturients who have had little or no screening for more than two years, a Pap smear should be taken at the start of pregnancy to detect cervical abnormalities and to make patients aware of the benefits of screening. For dysplastic lesions in the absence of colposcopically-proven invasion, treatment can be deferred to the post-partum period, with close monitoring. In the case of invasive lesions, the work-up should be completed by MRI to better define the size of the lesion. Management will depend on term, stage of lesion and lymph node involvement.

Disclosures

Authors declare no conflict of interest.
Online Regularization towards Always-Valid High-Dimensional Dynamic Pricing

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

Devising a dynamic pricing policy with always valid online statistical learning procedures is an important and as yet unresolved problem. Most existing dynamic pricing policies, which focus on the faithfulness of adopted customer choice models, exhibit a limited capability for adapting to the online uncertainty of learned statistical models during the pricing process. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for designing a dynamic pricing policy based on regularized online statistical learning with theoretical guarantees. The new approach overcomes the challenge of continuous monitoring of the online Lasso procedure and possesses several appealing properties. In particular, we make the decisive observation that the always-validity of pricing decisions builds and thrives on the online regularization scheme. Our proposed online regularization scheme equips the proposed optimistic online regularized maximum likelihood pricing (OORMLP) pricing policy with three major advantages: encode market noise knowledge into pricing process optimism; empower online statistical learning with always-validity overall decision points; envelop prediction error process with time-uniform non-asymptotic oracle inequalities. This type of non-asymptotic inference results allows us to design more sample-efficient and robust dynamic pricing algorithms in practice. In theory, the proposed OORMLP algorithm exploits the sparsity structure of high-dimensional models and secures a logarithmic regret in a decision horizon. These theoretical advances are made possible by proposing an optimistic online Lasso procedure that resolves dynamic pricing problems at the process level, based on a novel use of non-asymptotic martingale concentration. In experiments, we evaluate OORMLP in different synthetic and real pricing problem settings and demonstrate that OORMLP advances the state-of-the-art methods.
Temporal Control of Nuclear Envelope Assembly by Phosphorylation of Lamin B Receptor

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)

The nuclear envelope of metazoans disassembles during mitosis and reforms in late anaphase after sister chromatids have well separated. The coordination of these mitotic events is important for genome stability, yet the temporal control of nuclear envelope reassembly is unknown. Although the steps of nuclear formation have been extensively studied in vitro using the reconstitution system from egg extracts, the temporal control can only be studied in vivo . Herein, we use time‐lapse microscopy to investigate this process in living HeLa cells. We demonstrate that Cdk1 activity prevents premature nuclear envelope assembly and that phosphorylation of the inner nuclear membrane protein lamin B receptor (LBR) by Cdk1 contributes to the temporal control. We further identify a region in the nucleoplasmic domain of LBR that inhibits premature chromatin binding of the protein. We propose that this inhibitory effect is partly mediated by Cdk1 phosphorylation. Furthermore, we show that the reduced chromatin‐binding ability of LBR together with Aurora B activity contribute to nuclear envelope breakdown. Our studies reveal for the first time a mechanism that controls the timing of nuclear envelope reassembly through modification of an integral nuclear membrane protein.
Burkitt's lymphoma: The prevalence of HIV/AIDS and the outcome of treatment

Field: Medicine (Health Sciences)

CITATION: Hesseling, P. B. et al. 2018. Burkitt's lymphoma : the prevalence of HIV/AIDS and the outcome of treatment. South African Medical Journal, 108(2):84-85, doi:10.7196/SAMJ.2018.v108i2.12441.
Entrepreneurship as a legitimate field of knowledge.

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

Entrepreneurship as a research topic has been approached from disciplines such as economics, sociology or psychology. After justifying its study, we define the domain of the field, highlighting what has currently become its dominant paradigm, the process of the discovery, assessment and exploitation of opportunities. We then describe the main perspectives and offer an integrated conceptual framework that will allow us to legitimize the study of entrepreneurship as a field of knowledge in its own right. We believe that this framework will help researchers to better recognize the relations among the many factors forming part of the study of entrepreneurship. Lastly, we conclude with some brief reflections on the potential value of the framework presented.
Investigating risk behaviour in disaster preparedness

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Today, the world is increasingly exposed to the uncertainties of disaster. Consequently, the role of governments, organisations as well as the community becomes progressively more complex and far-reaching. The failure to react promptly and efficiently to a disaster can leave a company, an industry and even an entire civilisation across a nation or region stricken with grief and devastation. As such, there is a need to understand people’s vulnerability to disasters and their resilience, as well as their risk behaviour and attitudes. Unfortunately in Singapore, despite regular efforts from the government to educate the public on being vigilant, the disaster preparedness level in Singaporeans has been limited. It is therefore essential to identify the primary elements responsible for the delayed reactions and to distinguish the various influences that is accountable for hindering recovery efforts of the individuals. Hence, by expanding and integrating on disasters and health studies, this report proposes the use of sociocultural models in determining disaster preparedness behaviour in individuals. Sociocultural models describes a developmental process that originates with factors that influences individuals to prepare, develops through the formation on intents, and culminates in judgements to prepare. Specifically, we defined an individual’s behaviour as a summative of five components: risk portfolio, perception, attitude, conduct and preparedness. In the form of a quantitative survey, people were asked about whether they were risk averse or risk seeking “in general”. The findings showed that demographic variables such as gender and age, have a significant impact on an individual’s risk attitude. Turning to other questions about risk behaviours in specific disaster contexts, we find similar results on the determinants of risk behaviours, and also shed light on the deeper question of consistency of risk behaviours across contexts.
Investigation into the scattering of light by human hair

Field: Chemistry (Physical Sciences)

We describe a general investigation into the scattering of light by human hair. The main features of the intensity distribution produced by light scattered by an individual hair are identified. Qualitative explanations for the features are advanced in terms of the arrangement of the outer structure of the hair and its level of pigmentation. Contrast gloss values are calculated in an attempt to quantify the appearance of hair. These values are found to depend not only on the properties of hair, such as color and condition, but also on the direction and polarization state of the incident light. In assessing the effects of cosmetic treatments on hair, gloss values are shown to be useful where readings from treated hairs are compared with those from a control sample investigated in the same conditions.
Floral morphology in rice grown under cold temperatures at booting and flowering and its effect on spikelet sterility

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Booting and flowering in rice (Oryza sativa L.) are considered to be the two most sensitive stages to cold temperature stress. The controlled temperature glasshouse experiment compared a population of 120 genotypes from F6 Kyeema//Kyeema/NorinPL8 (KKN) when exposed to cold air temperature at the booting and flowering stages. The study aimed to examine the relationship between percentage of spikelet sterility (SS) and floral characteristics, namely the number of dehisced anthers (NoDA), anther dehiscence length (ADL), the number of pollen grains on stigma (PoS) and the anther length (AL) when subjected to cold temperature at the two development stages. Two sets of genotypes were sown 18 days apart and grown at 28/21°C day/night controlled temperature glasshouse, and were moved to the cold room (21/15oC day/night) at heading (set-1) and at early booting stage (set-2). A highly significant genotypic difference existed in percentage SS in both flowering (ranged from 49-100%) and early booting (4-99%) with flowering stage having higher average SS (88 vs 57%). A significant positive association existed between SS of flowering and booting (r=0.39**) with five genotypes performing consistently well. Highly significant negative correlations existed in both flowering and booting stage between SS and all the floral traits measured. Furthermore, multiple regression analysis indicated that 37% of the variation in SS was explained by the number of dehisced anther, anther dehiscence length and anther length when exposed to cold at flowering stage, while at booting stage the number of dehisced anther and anther length alone explained 58% of the variation in SS. The importance of the number of dehisced anther in explaining variation in SS has been highlighted and plays a significant role in cold tolerance.
Womens Perception of Their Childbirth Expereinces: An Integrated Literature Review

Field: Nursing (Health Sciences)

Pregnancy and childbirth are a unique and sacred time in many womens' lives and the process of giving birth often leaves women and families in a vulnerable position.\nThis integrated literature review examined birthing experiences from the maternal perspective and focused on the short-term and long-term implications of negatively perceived maternal experiences. While there are several international studies, only a few have been published studies from the United States.\nThe integrated review showed a significant impact of provider-client communication and shared decision making on a woman's overall perception of her birthing experience. Reports of excess intervention, lack of informed consent, and a perceived disregard for embodied knowledge- all contribute to negative perception of the birthing women.\nImplications for nursing education, practice, policy, and research are discussed in depth with a focus on improving maternal perception of the birth experience.