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Anthropogenic Decline of Ecosystem Services Threatens the Integrity of the Unique Hyrcanian (Caspian) Forests in Northern Iran

The unique Hyrcanian (Caspian) forests of northern Iran provide vital ecosystem services for local and global communities. We assess the status and trends of key ecosystem services in this region where native forest conversion has accelerated to make way for housing and farm development. This is a mountainous forested area that is valuable for both conservation and multiple human uses including recreation and farming. It contains globally significant natural habitats for in situ conservation of biological diversity. A rapid, qualitative, and participatory approach was used including interviews with local households and experts in combination with assessment of land use/cover remote sensing data to identify and map priority ecosystem services in the Geographic Information System (GIS) Based on the interests of the beneficiaries, eight priority services (food production, water supply, raw materials, soil conservation, water regulation, climate regulation, biodiversity, and recreation) were identified and mapped. The results indicate the current typical spatial distribution of the provided services based on structural characteristics of the study landscape and their changing trends through a comparison of past, present and future land use, and land cover. Although food production and recreation have greatly increased in recent decades, the other services, in particular timber production, biodiversity, and water purification and supply are being gradually lost. The results of this study and of others elsewhere should raise awareness of ecosystem service status and trends and the value of examining these since they provide much of the information to inform natural resources policy and decision making. The declines in supply of key ecosystem services both within and outside the protected area are creating conflicts within communities as well as impacting on the integrity of the area and careful planning and conservation is required to provide win win opportunities.
The contents and pharmacology of Crotalaria juncea A review

The preliminary phytochemical screening of the Crotalaria juncea leaves revealed the presence of carbohydrates, steroids, triterpenes, phenolics, flavonoids, alkaloids, aminoacids, saponins, glycosides, tannins and volatile oils. The plant possessed hypolipidemic, reproductive, antioxidant, antibacterial, antifungal, antidiarrhoeal, anti inflammatory, hepatoprotective, and many other pharmacological effects. This review was designed to highlight the chemical constituents and pharmacological effects of Crotalaria juncea.
The mediating role of psychological empowerment and organizational justice in the relationship of servant leadership with job satisfaction, organizational citizenship behavior and organizational commitment

The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between servant leadership with job satisfaction, organizational citizenship behavior and organizational commitment by considering the mediating role of psychological empowerment and organizational justice in an industrial company.  This study used a correlative research method through structural equation modeling (SEM) For this study, 232 employees were selected by the Multi stage sampling method. The measures of this research included the Servant Leadership Questionnaire, Psychological Empowerment Questionnaire, Organizational Justice Questionnaire, Job Satisfaction Questionnaire, Organizational Citizenship Behavior Questionnaire and the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire. Data were analyzed through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and intermediate analysis. Analyses of the structural equation modeling supported the fitness of the proposed model with the data.  The results indicated a direct positive effect of servant leadership on job satisfaction, organizational citizenship behavior and organizational commitment and an indirect positive effect of this relationship through psychological empowerment and organizational justice.  It can be concluded that organizations may increase a sense of capability and perceived organizational justice in employees through absorbing, hiring, and training managers and promoting a servant leadership style in organizations and enjoy the benefit of the final result, like satisfied employees with high organizational citizenship behavior and organizational commitment.  Servant Leadership, Psychological Empowerment, Organizational Justice, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Organizational Commitment
Exploring the Relationship among Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Psychological Empowerment and Turnover Intensions with the Mediating Role of Affective Commitment

The paper aims to clarify the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior, psychological empowerment, affective commitment and turnover intensions along with mediating effects of variables. Main purpose of the study is to analyze the organizational citizenship behavior on the basis of five dimensions altruisem, courtesy, sportsmanship, civic virtue and conscientiousness and finding how OCB and psychological empowerment influence the affective commitment and turnover intensions of workers directly and indirectly. The paper opted for a causal study using the standardized questionnaire approach. Data set of 410 respondents, employees representing middle level management belonging to Hattar industry was studied. Analysis was conducted by application of SEM to explore the direct and indirect relationship among the constructs. The paper provides empirical insights about how variables influence each other and finally concluded that OCB with its five dimensions and psychological empowerment, both affect affective commitment positively in a respective manner while both the variables have negative impact on turnover intensions of employees. Research also resulted that Affective commitment acts as a mediating variable between OCB and Turnover intensions as well as psychological empowerment and turnover intensions of industry middle management workers.  Organization citizenship behavior, psychological empowerment, affective commitment, turnover intensions JEL Classifications: J10, M10
Well rounded lattices for reliability and security in Rayleigh fading SISO channels
Venue: 2016 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW)

For many wiretap channel models asymptotically optimal coding schemes are known, but less effort has been put into actual realizations of wiretap codes for practical parameters. Bounds on the mutual information and error probability when using coset coding on a Rayleigh fading channel were recently established by Oggier and Belfiore, and the results in this paper build on their work. However, instead of using their ultimate inverse norm sum approximation, a more precise expression for the eavesdropper's probability of correct decision is used in order to determine a general class of good coset codes. The code constructions are based on well rounded lattices arising from simple geometric criteria. In addition to new coset codes and simulation results, novel number theoretic results on well rounded ideal lattices are presented.
Well rounded lattices for coset coding in MIMO wiretap channels
Venue: 2016 26th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC)

The concept of well rounded lattices has recently found important applications in the setting of a fading single input single output (SISO) wiretap channel. It has been shown that, under this setup, the property of being well rounded is critical for minimizing the eavesdropper's probability of correct decoding in lower SNR regimes. The superior performance of coset codes constructed from well rounded lattices has been illustrated in several simulations. In the present article, this work is extended to fading multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wiretap channels, and similar design criteria as in the SISO case are derived. Further, explicit coset codes for Rayleigh fading MIMO wiretap channels are designed. In particular, it is shown through extensive simulations that sublattices of the well known Alamouti code and Golden code which meet our design criteria perform better than scalar multiples of the code lattice for the same parameters.
Face Recognition Based on Structural Incoherence and Low Rank Projection
Venue: IDEAL

To solve the problem that both training and test samples are corrupted due to occlusion and disguise during face recognition, a new method which is based on low rank matrix recovery with structural incoherence and low rank projection (LRSI_LRP) is presented. First, the training images are decomposed into a set of clean images and sparse errors via LRSI, and the derived clean images from distinct classes are forced to be as independent as possible by introducing structural incoherence regularization term into robust PCA. Then a low rank projection matrix is learned based on the original training images and the recovered clean ones, and this low rank projection matrix can correct corrupted test samples by projecting them onto their corresponding underlying subspaces. Finally, the corrected test samples are classified based on sparse representation based classification (SRC) Experimental results on AR and Extended Yale B databases verify the efficacy and robustness of the proposed method.
Predictive biomarkers for checkpoint inhibitor based immunotherapy.
Venue: The Lancet. Oncology

The clinical development of checkpoint inhibitor based immunotherapy has ushered in an exciting era of anticancer therapy. Durable responses can be seen in patients with melanoma and other malignancies. Although monotherapy with PD 1 or PD L1 agents are typically well tolerated, the risk of immune related adverse events increases with combination regimens. The development of predictive biomarkers is needed to optimise patient benefit, minimise risk of toxicities, and guide combination approaches. The greatest focus has been on tumour cell PD L1 expression. Although PD L1 positivity enriches for populations with clinical benefit, PD L1 testing alone is insufficient for patient selection in most malignancies. In this Review, we discuss the status of PD L1 testing and explore emerging data on new biomarker strategies with tumour infiltrating lymphocytes, mutational burden, immune gene signatures, and multiplex immunohistochemistry. Future development of an effective predictive biomarker for checkpoint inhibitor based immunotherapy will integrate multiple approaches for optimal characterisation of the immune tumour microenvironment.
Abstract B105: HSP90 inhibitor, ganetespib, enhances responses to cancer immunotherapy through increased expression of interferon response genes

Recently, T cell based immunotherapies have moved to the forefront of cancer immunotherapy with the success of Adoptive T cell therapy (ACT) and Immune checkpoint blockade. ACT, where patients are treated with tumor infiltrating T cells (TILs) conferred a clinical response rate of ~50% Treatment with anti CTLA4 therapy, Ipilimumab, conferred response rates of 10 20% greatly improving the overall survival of patients with advanced melanoma. Despite the encouraging outcomes, there are relatively low response rates coupled with the delay of weeks to months before tumor shrinkage can be appreciated. Thus, understanding mechanisms of resistance to immune therapies, to improve response rates, shorten time to treatment effect and developing predictive biomarkers of response are vital to the care of melanoma patients. In order to identify possible resistance mechanisms to immunotherapy, a high throughput in vitro screen with 850 different bio active compounds (Selleckchem) was designed to search for agents that could either increase or decrease the resistance of melanoma tumor cells to T cell mediated killing. Paired patient derived human melanoma tumor samples and TILs were used to assess which compounds when used to treat the melanoma cell lines can enhance the cytotoxic activity of the TILs against the paired melanoma sample, using a flow cytometry based assay in which active caspase 3 was used as a read out of apoptosis. We identified heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) inhibitors amongst the top compounds that improved T cell mediated cytotoxicity of treated tumor cells. We show that treatment with the HSP90 inhibitor ganetespib (Synta) greatly improves T cell mediated cytotoxicity of human cancer cells lines in vitro. Furthermore, in vivo murine studies using the MC38/gp100 tumor model show that ganestespib in combination with anti CTLA4, resulted in superior antitumor effect and survival compared to either treatment alone (Average tumor volume at day 21 of treatment: Vehicle 294.3mm3, a CTLA4 193 mm3, Ganetespib 237.5 mm3 and Ganetespib a CTLA4 105.8 mm3, P Citation Format: Rina M. Mbofung, Jodi A. McKenzie, Shruti Malu, Chengwen Liu, Weiyi Peng, Isere Kuiatse, Leila Williams,  HSP90 inhibitor, ganetespib, enhances responses to cancer immunotherapy through increased expression of interferon response genes   Translating Science into Survival; 2016 Sept 25 28; New York, NY. Philadelphia (PA) AACR;
Nursing care to psychiatric patients in a general hospital emergency Cuidados de enfermagem ao paciente psiquiatrico na urgencia de um hospital geral Atencion de enfermeria a los pacientes psiquiatricos em uma emergencia.

Objetivo: analisar o cuidado prestado pelo enfermeiro no atendimento ao paciente psiquiatrico em crise, em um hospital geral de urgencia. Metodologia: trata se de uma pesquisa de abordagem qualitativa, por meio de entrevista com 12 enfermeiros que atuam na urgencia de um hospital geral de um municipio de grande porte do Piaui, em 2014. Utilizou se de entrevista semiestruturada, a analise do conteudo e interpretacoes dos dados seguiram os preceitos de Minayo. Trabalho aprovado pelo Comite de Etica em Pesquisa (CEP) do Centro Universitario UNINOVAFAPI, por meio do CAAE 30353414.2.0000.5210, numero de parecer 665.726 em 26 05 2014. Resultados: os resultados revelam que os cuidados de enfermagem prestados ao paciente psiquiatrico encontram se fragmentados e revelaram alguns fatores que dificultam a assistencia, tais como a falta de preparo do enfermeiro em saude mental, bem como a negligencia do hospital para com esses pacientes. Conclusao: faz se necessaria educacao continuada para capacitacao da enfermagem, alem de uma estrutura mais adequada para o atendimento dos pacientes psiquiatricos.  Cuidados de Enfermagem. Transtornos Mentais. Hospitais Gerais. Emergencia.
Witnessing in the age of the database: Viral memorials, affective publics, and the assemblage of mourning

Many terms, such as spontaneous shrines, grassroots memorials and performative commemoratives, have been used to describe the collaborative on site and online memorials created following the deaths of national and global figures, as well as those of unknown victims of mass mediated disasters. I argue that the adjective "viral" better captures the temporality, spatiality, materiality, and mimeticism of these formations, as well as their frequent pathologization. Contemporary performative public mourning follows from mediated witnessing in the era of networked digital media, forming a witnessing/mourning assemblage. The corporeal testifying of the witness turned mourner contributes material derivatives to an affective network. Breaking from constative, narrative testimony and the exclusionary logic of the monument, these memorial aggregations emerge from processes of database (de)composition and network virality. Through the close analysis of a 2008 YouTube memorial video tribute for victims of a Greek bus accident, I consider shifts in public grieving and memorialization of catastrophic media events in relation to developments in web protocols and platforms.
Trashing the sectarian system? Lebanon's "You Stink" movement and the making of affective publics

During the summer of 2015, a garbage management crisis emerged in Beirut after Lebanon's main landfill was shut down without finding an alternative, and piles of trash grew bigger on the streets, triggering a wave of contentious politics. An activist movement emerged early during the ongoing crisis: called "You Stink," the movement is led by seasoned activists who display the usual social media savvy and artful protest tactics that echo activism in the Arab Uprisings. Based on a preliminary reading of the movement's actions and demands, and of the state's response, this article provides an exploratory analysis of the symbolic world of "You Stink," focusing on affect and the body, and proffers some initial observations on the extent to which "You Stink" may contribute insights into research on social movements.
Searching for Digital Citizenship: Fighting Corruption in Banten, Indonesia

The expansion of digital technologies and social media in Indonesia shifts practices of citizenship from a formal institutional level toward a more informal digital space. This paper presents the emerging results of research on digital citizenship in Banten, Indonesia, focusing on how new forms of citizenship are brought into being through digital acts that are defined as speech acts uttered through the use of social media. The paper follows digital acts of citizens in anti corruption campaigns against the patrimonial and clientelistic regime of Banten's political dynasty that are predominantly staged on Facebook and other online platforms. These digital acts produce and intensify affective publics through which forms of digital citizenship are enacted in opposition to the corrupt dynasty.
Ego noise reduction for a hose shaped rescue robot using determined rank 1 multichannel nonnegative matrix factorization
Venue: 2016 IEEE International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC)

A hose shaped rescue robot is one of the robots that have been developed for disaster response in times of large scale disasters such as a massive earthquake. This robot is suitable for entering narrow and dark places covered with rubble in a disaster site and for finding victims inside it. It can transmit ambient sound captured by its built in microphones to its operator. However, there is a serious problem, that is, the inherent noise of this robot, such as vibration sound or fricative sound, is mixed with the transmitted voice, thereby disturbing the operator's perception of a call for help from a disaster victim. In this paper, we apply the multichannel nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) with the rank 1 spatial constraint (determined rank 1 MNMF) which was proposed by Kitamura et al. to the reduction of the inherent noise.
A test sample oriented two phase discriminative dictionary learning algorithm for face recognition
Venue: Intell. Data Anal.

In the field of face recognition, conventional dictionary learning algorithms mainly focus on reconstructing the training samples and cannot directly associate the learning procedure with the test samples. Thus, they may not well represent the test samples and obtain unsatisfactory classification performance. In addition, though different training samples have various contributions to learn a dictionary, conventional dictionary learning algorithms cannot well exploit these contributions. In order to address these problems, we present a test sample oriented two phase dictionary learning (TSOTP DL) algorithm for face recognition. In the first phase of the TSOTP DL algorithm, we use all training samples to provide a linear representation of the test sample, and select K "important" training samples by using the variety of contributions. In the second phase of the TSOTPDL algorithm, a dictionary is learned for the test sample by using the selected K "important" training samples. The TSOTP DL algorithm utilizes the testing sample to select a subset of the training samples for learning a dictionary, which can reduce the influence of noise. Thus, the training samples are refined according to their contributions to the test sample in our algorithm, and it can improve the discriminative ability of the learned dictionary. In order to further improve the discriminative ability of the learned dictionary, a label embedding of atoms is constructed to encourage the same class training samples to have more similar coding coefficients than different classes. Experiment results demonstrate that our proposed algorithm achieves better classification results than some state of the art dictionary learning and sparse coding algorithms on four public face databases.
Separacao e identificacao de aditivos em tinta por TLC IR/ UATR e extracao seletiva

Various additives are incorporated into the paint formulations to prevent coating defects and improving the application performance, so it is a complex system. The characterization of the components present in this system can be performed by physical/ chemical separation and instrumental analytical techniques. Multi component analysis is used in the study of non compliance, forensic investigation and research and development of new products. The related research generally uses conventional methodologies, finding some limitations, which motivates the use of alternative techniques, including couplings, for additive analysis in paints. In this context, has been reported the coupling (off line) of thin layer chromatography (TLC) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT IR) (TLC IR) and selective extraction in the analysis of additives in ink containing polyurethane (PU) and nitrocellulose (NC) resin. One formulation was evaluated, by using three eluting systems, and one type of developer, Gibbs. The FT IR spectra were obtained by Universal Attenuated Total Reflection (UATR) The main results showed that the plasticizer Acetyl Tributyl Citrate (ATBC) as the majority additive was easily identified by TLC IR. The methodology allowed even detect and differentiate phthalates like dioctyl phthalate (DOP) and dibutyl phthalate (DBP) even in small amount of sample, and identify oleamide (slip promoter) by means of selective extraction and UATR.
High Speed Railway Communications: From GSM R to LTE R
Venue: IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine

High speed railways (HSRs) improve the quality of rail services, yield greater customer satisfaction, and help to create socioeconomically balanced societies  This highly efficient transport mode creates significant challenges in terms of investment, technology, industry, and environment. To handle increasing traffic, ensure passenger safety, and provide real time multimedia information, a new communication system for HSR is required. In the last decade, public networks have been evolving from voice centric second generation systems, e.g. Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) with limited capabilities, to fourth generation (4G) broad band systems that offer higher data rates, e.g. long term evolution (LTE) It is thus relevant for HSR to replace the current GSM railway (GSM R) technology with the next generation railway dedicated communication system providing improved capacity and capability.
A Low Profile Paper Substrate Based Dual Band FSS for GSM Shielding
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

A low profile dual band frequency selective surface (FSS) for shielding the GSM applications is presented in this paper. The proposed FSS contains the unit cell made of modified double square loop elements with paper as its substrate. The overall thickness of the proposed FSS measures only 0.55 mm. The FSS offers band stop response at 930 and 1720 MHz with 18 dB shielding effectiveness for a bandwidth of 100 and 173 MHz, respectively, thus shielding the GSM signals. Additionally, the modified double square loop element based FSS is symmetrical providing the advantage of polarization independency. It also exhibits angular stability up to 60deg for both the horizontal polarized electric field (TE mode) and vertically polarized electric field (TM mode) A prototype of the proposed dual band low profile FSS is fabricated. The simulation results are compared with the experimental results and are found to be in congruence with each other.