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DESCRIBING THE EDUCATIONAL ROLE OF NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS: AN ANALYSIS TOOL FOR PRE-SERVICE AND IN-SERVICE TEACHERS

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

This study presents a tool for description and potential analysis of the educational role of the Science and Technology museum. This tool has been constructed from the point of view of formal education and it is proposed as a framework for the approach of the science/technology museum from the teachers and education administrators. More specifically, the tool is, at first, described in terms of structure, content and functionality and, afterwards, examples are provided for cases of international, national and local natural history museums (Natural History Museum in Paris, Goulandris Natural History Museum in Athens and University of Patras Zoology Museum accordingly). Finally, there is a discussion regarding the suitability of this tool to inform, instruct and train future and in-service teachers in aspects of museum education. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0720/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>
Local modes of practice in an age of globalization: renegotiating national identity as enacted in South Korean advertising

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

This article examines broad discursive strategies as exemplified in South Korean advertising and how those meanings are produced within contemporary Korean society through cultural production and everyday practices. The central theme of this article is to discover the possibility of resistance and negotiation through the production and consumption of popular culture and to discover the field of cultural interpretations that are not yet integrated in the global market system and global culture. This article suggests that cultural power and autonomy are crucial in this age of globalization. One role of media representations in the process of constructing and articulating the national identity of South Korea is to make public those specific processes of negotiation and indigenization involving tensions between Korean identity and western influence. I argue that media (ads) can be central to this activity.
Study on Effects of Sambucus williamsii Total Glycosides Tablets on Fracture Healing and Inflammation:PartI

Field: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (Life Sciences)

OBJECTIVE:To study the effects of Sambucus williamsii total glycosides tablets on fracture healing and inflammation. METHODS:Rabbit fracture model was induced. 50 New Zealand white rabbits were randomly divided into normal control group(constant volume of normal saline),model group(constant volume of normal saline),Dieda pills group(0.28 g/kg),S. williamsii total glycosides tablets high-dose,medium-dose and low-dose groups(0.22,0.11,0.06 g/kg). They were given medicine via feedingstuff for consecutive 36 d. The bone mineral density(BMD),bone mineral content(BMC)and callus area(Area)were determined by dual energy X-ray absorptionmetry(DXA). The degree of fracture healing was observed by X-ray film. Anti-inflammatory effects were observed by mice ear swelling and rat foot swelling experiments;analgesic action was observed by hot plate method. RESULTS:High-dose,medium-dose and low-dose of S. williamsii total glycosides tablets could increase BMD and BMC in model group;the fracture site of model rabbit disappeared nearly,and periosteal reaction density increased and deepened. Medium-dose of S. williamsii total glycosides tablets could increase Area in model group. High-dose,medium-dose and low-dose of S.williamsii total glycosides tablets relieved mice ear swelling of model mice and foot swelling of model rats,and increased 1h pain threshold of normal mice. CONCLUSIONS:S. williamsii total glycosides tablets have good resistance to acute inflammation and analgesic effect and can promote the fracture healing.
Experimental Coxiella burnetii infection in pregnant goats: excretion routes

Field: Veterinary (Health Sciences)

Q fever is a widespread zoonosis caused by Coxiella burnetii. Infected animals, shedding bacteria by different routes, constitute contamination sources for humans and the environment. To study Coxiella excretion, pregnant goats were inoculated by the subcutaneous route in a site localized just in front of the shoulder at 90 days of gestation with 3 doses of bacteria (10$^{8}$, 10$^{6}$ or 10$^{4}$ I.D.). All the goats aborted whatever the dose used. Coxiella were found by PCR and immunofluorescence tests in all placentas and in several organs of at least one fetus per goat. At abortion, all the goats excreted bacteria in vaginal discharges up to 14 days and in milk samples up to 52 days. A few goats excreted Coxiella in their feces before abortion, and all goats, excreted bacteria in their feces after abortion. Antibody titers against Coxiella increased from 21 days post inoculation to the end of the experiment. For a Q fever diagnostic, detection by PCR and immunofluorescence tests of Coxiella in parturition products and vaginal secretions at abortion should be preferred to serological tests.
Chitosan-Based Thermogelling System for Nose-to-Brain Donepezil Delivery: Optimising Formulation Properties and Nasal Deposition Profile

Field: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (Life Sciences)

Donepezil nasal delivery strategies are being continuously investigated for advancing therapy in Alzheimer’s disease. The aim of this study was to develop a chitosan-based, donepezil-loaded thermogelling formulation tailored to meet all the requirements for efficient nose-to-brain delivery. A statistical design of the experiments was implemented for the optimisation of the formulation and/or administration parameters, with regard to formulation viscosity, gelling and spray properties, as well as its targeted nasal deposition within the 3D-printed nasal cavity model. The optimised formulation was further characterised in terms of stability, in vitro release, in vitro biocompatibility and permeability (using Calu-3 cells), ex vivo mucoadhesion (using porcine nasal mucosa), and in vivo irritability (using slug mucosal irritation assay). The applied research design resulted in the development of a sprayable donepezil delivery platform characterised by instant gelation at 34 °C and olfactory deposition reaching a remarkably high 71.8% of the applied dose. The optimised formulation showed prolonged drug release (t1/2 about 90 min), mucoadhesive behaviour, and reversible permeation enhancement, with a 20-fold increase in adhesion and a 1.5-fold increase in the apparent permeability coefficient in relation to the corresponding donepezil solution. The slug mucosal irritation assay demonstrated an acceptable irritability profile, indicating its potential for safe nasal delivery. It can be concluded that the developed thermogelling formulation showed great promise as an efficient donepezil brain-targeted delivery system. Furthermore, the formulation is worth investigating in vivo for final feasibility confirmation.
Lake Evaporation Estimation by Isotope, Energy Balance and Bulk Aerodynamic Methods

Field: Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)

Lake evaporation from a shallow lake in central Sweden has been estimated using three independent methods from measurements during summer 1995. The applied isotope method is a combination of the water and isotope mass balance. Its main feature is that inflows need not to be measured. Only knowledge of their isotopic content is sufficient. For calculations by the bulk aerodynamic method a computer program was applied, which takes into account the different conditions of stratification. The energy balance of the lake was determined by using the short and long wave radiation, heat storage and advective heat energy. Measurements were done on a small island and at a mast in the middle of the lake. Evaporation estimated by all the methods varied from -1.1 to 5.0 mm/d during the summer months 1995. Values estimated by the energy balance method agreed well with those from the bulk aerodynamic method. Evaporation estimates from the isotope method a showed fairly good agreement with the two other methods, excepting a few periods. It was found that both the isotope as well as the energy balance method are sensitive to errors in lake volume. Both methods carry some uncertainty due to their dependence on water balance components, some of which are difficult to determine. The bulk aerodynamic method is independent of the water balance of the lake. A good accuracy can be achieved using only four variables i.e. wind speed, relative humidity, skin and air temperature.
Factors that promote effective Communities of Practice (CoPs) in the context of a government agency.

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

This exploratory study looks at the problem of what factors to address, in order to promote effective communities of practice (CoP) that can be used to exploit tacit knowledge and sustain competitive advantage in an organization. It uses CoPs in a Singapore government project management agency in the science and technology sector as a case study (“Organization A”). In this study, I found that the factors that contribute to CoP success can be divided into two groups of importance: the first, more important group comprises high organization slack, facilitating environment, and small CoP size; while the second group comprises operational orientation, low boundary crossing, prior community experience, low cultural diversity, high topic relevance to members, low degree of reliance on IT, and clearly assigned leadership. The immediate usefulness of this study is that the knowledge management (KM) team in Organization A can prioritize resources and address the more important factors first when facilitating CoPs; while in the longer term, the findings from this study can be useful starting points to consider for Asian, project management, and/or science and technology organizations that are beginning to examine the use of CoPs. Keywords: Communities of practice, knowledge management, success factors, government agency.
Fermi energy control of vacancy coalescence and dislocation density in melt-grown GaAs

Field: Materials Science (Physical Sciences)

We have discovered a striking effect of the Fermi energy on the dislocation density in melt-grown GaAs. Thus, a shift of the Fermi energy from 0.1 eV above to 0.2 eV below its intrinsic value (at high temperature, i.e., near 1100 K) increases the dislocation density by as much as five orders of magnitude. Ther Fermi energy shift was brought about by n-type and p-type doping at a level of about 1017 cm−3 (under conditions of optimum partial pressure of As, i.e., under optimum melt stoichiometry). This effect must be associated with the fact that the Fermi energy controls the charge state of vacancies (i.e., the occupancy of the associated electronic states) which in turn must control their tendency to coalesce and thus the dislocation density. It appears most likely that gallium vacancies are the critical species.
Dicrocoeliidae Looss

Field: Veterinary (Health Sciences)

Family Dicrocoeliidae Looss Dicrocoeliids are parasites of terrestial mammals and birds, with mollucs and arthropods serving as intermediate hosts. Bats acquire these parasites by feeding on insects harbouring the metacercarial stage. 1. Testes oblique....................................................................... Metadelphis Travassos Species: M. alvarengai Travassos, 1955 - Testes symmetrical............................................................... Parametadelphis Travassos Species: P. c o m p a c t u s Travassos, 1955
Technical analysis : relationship between price change and trading volume in the Singapore equity market

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)

This project focuses on the empirical studies of the relationship between volume traded with security price changes. It specially explores three areas. The contemporaneous relationship between trading volume and absolute price changes. Secondly, trading volume and price changes are asymmetric in equity markets (trading volume is greater when price ticks up than on price downticks). Finally, the contemporaneous relationship between trading volume and price changes per se. A sectoral breakdown analysis of the three relationships is also attempted. In the past, most academic research in the area of price-volume relationship were concentrated on the US markets with an exception of some studies based on the Hong Kong securities market. Hence, this project attempts to extend it to give a local context by focusing on the Singapore Equity market. This project covers a span of four years from 1987 to 1991 which is separated into two periods. Period 1 is from 1 July 1987 to 30 June 1988 and Period 2 is from 1 July 1990 to 30 June 1991. The study uses weekly data for twenty-three representative stocks chosen from the various sectors of the economy (namely industrial, hotel, finance and property). The results of this studies show a positive correlation between absolute price-changes and trading volume. Findings also suggest that there is no conclusive evidence on the existence of any relationship between trading volume and price change per se. The asymmetrical relationship between price and volume is also not supported.
COURT-ANNEXED MEDIATION IN RESOLVING DISPUTES RELATING TO FAMILY IN MALAYSIA: WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW BEFORE WE GO FORWARD

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

This article aims to, firstly, introduce court-annexed mediation in resolving family disputes in Malaysia. Secondly, it will attempt to identify the advantages and disadvantages of court-annexed mediation to resolve disputes relating to family matters, both in the Syariah and Civil Courts in Malaysia. Thirdly, it will provide recommendations to promote CAM. A study was made on the important aspects pertinent to the conduct of mediation in the form of sulh at the Syariah Courts in the State of Selangor which shares uniformed sulh processes used in other syariah courts from other states. Results of the study indicated that the current implementation of CAM in the Syariah Court is guided by a comprehensive set of statutory rules pertaining to sulh whereas the Civil Court is not guided even by a Mediation Act. In addition to that, the study also showed that there are similarities in terms of mediation process practiced in Majlis Sulh with the recommended practices of mediation.
Freedom, Power and the Crisis of Politics in Revolutionary Yemen

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

In the study of revolutionary events, it is often assumed that ‘political crisis’ attests to the failure of revolutionary ideals. Accordingly, revolution is understood as the pursuit of political consensus and the institutionalization of freedom and equality at the level of the state. In contrast, this article describes how, during the recent revolution in Yemen, revolutionaries actively negated proposals for a ‘political solution.’ It explores how the desire to contain power within the imaginary of ‘the people’ and safeguard revolutionary freedom produced instead an ethical charter for perpetuating a crisis of politics. As such, it argues that revolution should be understood less in terms of a seamless teleology of political development and more according to the immediate ethics of living a revolutionary life.
Using Language for Communication: The Picture Game

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

Communicative competence is becoming an important goal of language instruction. Instead of focusing exclusively on the students' knowledge of discrete grammar points which, when inadequately formed, do not necessarily impede communicating a thought, instructors are increasingly emphasizing the students' competence in communicating successfully a thought in the target language. Articles appearing in this journal and others recommend games and role-play, as well as personalizing the language content to the students' own lives to practice communication.' Simulation activities in the form of games and role-play present opportunities for target language use by creating in essence what Hymes called a speech event.2 This paper will explain and examine one such game, or speech event, for use in the German classroom.
Object recognition by machine vision to enhance scene interpretation in an underwater application

Field: Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

Collaborative work is going on between University College London and Sira Ltd. to introduce artificial intelligence in the vision system for an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV). Onboard vision systems act as a close-range navigating tool for docking the vehicle onto a remote structure, as well as allowing close-range visual inspection. As the underwater environment produces poor quality pictures, the real-world aim is to utilise object recognition by the machine vision system to aid scene interpretation for the operator on the surface. Multiple independent camera views are analysed for object recognition. The extracted features are matched to a computer 3D world model, incorporating a-priori knowledge of the surroundings. Intelligence is required to filter relevant data and upgrade the computer model as necessary. The complex process of data fusion from multiple sensors is addressed to improve object recognition and correlation between the real world and the computer model. The visual interface to the operator is to be enhanced using the clearer computer model, enabling a more precise position of the ROV to be determined.
Online preconcentration and determination of chondroitin sulfate, dermatan sulfate and hyaluronic acid in biological and cosmetic samples using capillary electrophoresis

Field: Chemistry (Physical Sciences)

Abstract Capillary electrophoresis with large‐volume sample stacking using an electroosmotic flow pump was developed for the determination of chondroitin sulfate, dermatan sulfate, and hyaluronic acid. Central composite design was used to simultaneously optimize the parameters for capillary electrophoresis separation. The optimized capillary electrophoresis conditions were 200 mM sodium dihydrogen phosphate, 200 mM butylamine, and 0.5% w/v polyethylene glycol as a background electrolyte, pH 4 and ‐16 kV. Exploiting large‐volume sample stacking using an electroosmotic flow pump, the sensitivity of the proposed capillary electrophoresis system coupled with UV detection was significantly improved with limits of detection of 3, 5, 1 mg/L for chondroitin sulfate, dermatan sulfate, and hyaluronic acid, respectively. The developed method was applied to the determination of chondroitin sulfate and hyaluronic acid in cell culture media, cerebrospinal fluid, cosmetic products, and supplementary samples with highly acceptable accuracy and precision. Therefore, the proposed capillary electrophoresis approach was found to be simple, rapid, and reliable for the determination of chondroitin sulfate, dermatan sulfate, and hyaluronic acid in cell culture media, cerebrospinal fluid, cosmetic, and supplementary samples without sample pretreatment.
Alliance Management Capability: An Investigation of the Construct and Its Measurement

Field: Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)

This research conceptualizes and operationalizes alliance management capability. The authors develop alliance management capability as a second-order construct to capture the degree to which organizations possess relevant management routines that enable them to effectively manage their portfolio of strategic alliances. In addition to identifying and measuring specific organizational routines as critical dimensions of alliance management capability, the authors advance knowledge on the performance effects of dedicated alliance structures and alliance experience based on survey data from 204 firms. Their primary contribution is a theoretically sound alliance management capability measure that is reflected by five underlying routines: interorganizational coordination, alliance portfolio coordination, interorganizational learning, alliance proactiveness, and alliance transformation. One of the key findings is that alliance management capability has a positive impact on alliance portfolio performance and mediates the performance effects of dedicated alliance structures and alliance experience.
A New Edition of the Bunyan Church Book, 1656-1710

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

By Michael Davies, University of Liverpool The purpose of this edition (currently in preparation, and forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2015) is to provide literary scholars and historians, as well as students and general readers, with a scholarly yet accessible annotated edition of A Booke Containing a Record of the Acts of a Congregation of Christ in and about Bedford: the manuscript record of the Bedford congregation’s life during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Who th...
The Evolution–Rationality Connection

Field: Psychology (Social Sciences)

There are two related dimensions to the evolution–rationality connection. The first is the evolution of rationality itself, thought of as an actual phenotypic attribute of some organisms; the second is the use of rationality-inspired concepts to describe evolved organisms, as in agential thinking. Rationality may be understood either as consistency of choice or as having good reasons for beliefs/actions; these notions have distinct domains of application. The adaptive significance of rationality over arationality is clear; what is less clear is whether evolution would always favour rationality over irrationality. In a simple model, an evolutionary basis for the norms of Bayesian rationality emerges; however, the model relies on restrictive assumptions. The possibility of an evolutionary naturalization of traditional rationality norms, though philosophically coherent, appears empirically unlikely.
Characterization of a Naturally Occurring Mutation (Ile-358 to Thr) in Human Dihydrolipoamide Dehydrogenase of a Patient with Leigh Syndrome

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

E-mail: hjkim@daegu.ac.kr Received January 6, 2012, Accepted January 30, 2012Key Words : Dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase, Pyridine nucleotide-disulfide oxidoreductase, Site-directedmutagenesis, Dihydrolipoamide deficiency, α-Keto acid dehydrogenase complexesDihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase (E3) is a common flavo-protein component in three α-keto acid dehydrogenasecomplexes, such as pyruvate, α-ketoglutarate and branched-chain α-keto acid dehydrogenase complexes.
Daily Activity of Wild Bee Pollinators on Strawberry in Highland Agriculture, Eastern Slope of Mount Slamet, Central Java

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Abstract Wild bees have a vital role in complementing social bee pollination in an agricultural landscape. Pollination effectiveness of wild bee depends on the daily activity of individual bees visiting flowers. This research aimed to understand the activity of wild bees visiting and pollinating flowers of strawberry. A survey has been done from April to July 2018 using scan sampling in 30 plants of strawberry. The results showed that strawberry flowers were visited by five bee species ( Nomia melanderi, Campsomeris fasciata, Ceratina dupla, Amegilla zonata , and Lasioglossum malachurum ). The daily activity of wild bee showed significant differences between species (p<0,05), but all species have the same pattern of pollination activity. The highest activity found between 9.00 and 12.00 pm and tended to decrease at the end of the day. The activity of wild bees to visiting flowers affected by daily temperature (r = 0,86). The conclusion was that wild bee species are highly competitive in food resources at midday. Some species showed ecological separation throughout the day. This research found that wild bee species have an important contribution to cash crop pollination in the agriculture area.