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Recent scholarship about debt in early-modern Europe has replaced an old model of misery and exploitation with a new paradigm that emphasizes the entrepreneurial rationale for going into debt. Reassessment of these arguments on the basis of detailed information about 5,000 rural households in France finds that debt pos... |
Purpose |
This paper aims to make a comprehensive evaluation of the progress and achievements made by China and Japan in literature collection, publication and academic research of South Manchuria Railways Co (SMR) after the Second World War and points out the existing and urgent problems. |
Design/methodology/approach |
This paper adopts the methods of literature research, questionnaire survey, comparative analysis and expert consultation. |
Findings |
After the Second World War, both China and Japan made great achievements in the collection, publication and research of SMR data, as well as in the academic research of SMR. However, as a new research field, there are still some problems in deepening the excavation and utilization of SMR data, expanding the research fi... |
Originality/value |
SMR itself was the product of a war of aggression. Although it died with the defeat of the war of aggression, remaining SMR data also has very precious value, it records the history of Japanese aggression against China, is the biggest database for the study of the problems in China and northeast Aisa at that time. In a... |
Hairy root nodulation of Casuarina glauca: a system for the study of symbiotic gene expression in an actinorhizal tree. |
The purpose of this study was to establish a fast system for producing transgenic actinorhizal root nodules of Casuarina glauca. Agrobacterium rhizogenes strain A4RS carrying the p35S-gusA-int gene construct was used to induce hairy roots on hypocotyls of 3-week-old C. glauca seedlings. Three weeks after wounding, the ... |
Autoimmune myelofibrosis is a distinct clinicopathological entity that occurs with autoimmune disorders. We report the case of a 44-year-old woman admitted with pancytopenia and clinical features of systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjogren’s syndrome and antiphospholipid antibodies syndrome. Bone marrow biopsy showed decr... |
Is the appropriation of life and subjectivity in this context only possible on the condition of one’s death? Does resistance entail one’s physical disappearance from the world? Anderson explicitly rejects a narrative of self-starvation where death becomes the ultimate measure of meaning and success. Instead, his emphas... |
Melanins are one of the great natural pigments produced by a wide variety of fungal species that promote fitness and cell survival in diverse hostile environments, including during mammalian infection. In this study, we sought to demonstrate the production of melanin in the conidia and hyphae of saprophytic fungi, incl... |
I opportunity for like-minded people to discuss how the lack of conversations about race had detrimental implications for both minoritized researchers and participants, as well as our research outcomes. More importantly, this workshop allowed us to begin to assemble practical recommendations for those in this space. As... |
Large-scale emergencies, such as hurricane Katrina in 2005 that also damaged large parts of New Orleans or the 2013 Central European flood, have shown the importance of an appropriate warning as well as instruction of the affected people on-site. Nowadays modern mobile devices are widely spread throughout the populatio... |
Significance The canonical Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway is important for essential cellular functions and is implicated in many diseases. We introduce a new mathematical model that focuses on β-catenin degradation and protein shuttling between cellular compartments. We compare our model to others and show that all f... |
The experience at a single center with 297 consecutive cadaver renal transplants over the past 12 years is reviewed with special attention to acute post-transplant ischemic renal injury (ATN). Sixty-seven patients received kidneys which failed to function immediately (22.5 per cent). Twenty-five (8.4 per cent) never sh... |
DENIG P, Haaijer-Ruskamp FM, Zijsling DH. How physicians choose drugs. Soc Sci Med. 1988;27:1381-6. Observes that professional environment had a greater impact on physicians’ decisions than did the physicians’ expectancies and values about treatment outcomes; shows that drug preferences were more related to expectancie... |
There is now a wide range of international instruments from the United Nations, the Council of Europe and other bodies on children’s rights that explain state’s obligations to children in conflict with the law. This article – an introduction to a special issue on the application of international youth justice standards... |
Write for Success is a new volume in the professional writing series published by ISI Press. Improving the communication skills of professionals, as well as students embarking on professional careers, is the announced goal of the series. Although Barnes’s slim volume is by no means a complete textbook, it does a respec... |
The restoration of old movies using the newly developed rational functions filters is considered. After localization of the stationary and random defects, a spatial rational interpolator scheme is proposed to reconstruct the missing data. The experimental results demonstrate the usefulness of the rational interpolator ... |
Experiments detecting ambiguity aversion often rely on the assumption that probabilities are exogenously given for some uncertain events. However, the canonical models that accommodate ambiguity into economic theory, such as the maxmin expected utility (MEU) and Choquet expected utility (CEU) models, are purely subject... |
Summary It has recently been claimed that a pituitary peptide which inhibits several phases of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism is identical with the COOH-terminal 25-amino acid portion of human growth hormone. However, the active factor has always been obtained in low yield and impure condition. We have used cyanogen... |
The well-known methods for determining the slipping of the propulsion devices of agricultural tractors are described. A regression analysis of the traction characteristics of a wheeled tractor is performed. The equivalence of the method for determining the current slippage through the actual tractor speed and engine cr... |
Testicular fracture with or without rupture is a rare but serious complication of scrotal trauma. Sonography is well established as the gold standard for testicular injury in an acute setting. The normal testicular parenchymal pattern is homogeneous by gray-scale sonography and free of internal irregularities. The sono... |
OBJECTIVE |
To investigate the protective effects of protein kinase C (PKC) and mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) their and mechanisms in liver ischemic preconditioning. |
METHODS |
In rat models of liver ischemia-reperfusion (IR) and ischemic preconditioning (IP), the liver function was evaluated by examining serum alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase levels, and the morphological changes of the liver cells were observed under microscope. PKC activator phorbol 12-myristate 13-a... |
RESULTS |
Compared with the control rats, the liver function was best protected in rats of IP group, but not in those of IP group with PD98059 or CHE treatment. The rats in IR group showed improved liver function after PMA treatment. Similarly, the phosphorylation of PKC and P44/42 MAPKs was correlated with the liver function, a... |
CONCLUSION |
Phosphorylation of PKC and MAPKs plays a pivotal role in the preservation of the hepatocytes during IP.Demonstration of a nanoparticle-based optical diode. |
We present the operation of an optical device that exhibits diodelike properties based on two adjacent layers of quantum dots (QDs) encased in a fiber-optic jacket. The possibility of a multilayered device is also discussed. A significant change in the emission spectrum of CdSe/ZnS core-shell QDs was observed when exci... |
The number of scholars following the tempo approach in fertility continues to grow, whereas tempo-adjustment in mortality generally still is rejected. This rejection is irrational in principle, as the basic idea behind the tempo approach is independent of the kind of demographic event. Providing the first empirical app... |
At high concentrations, the tubule poison paclitaxel is able to kill cancer cells that express Bcl-2; it inhibits the antiapoptotic activity of Bcl-2 by inducing its phosphorylation. To localize the site on Bcl-2 regulated by phosphorylation, mutant forms of Bcl-2 were constructed. Mutant forms of Bcl-2 with an alterat... |
Demographic methods can translate toxicant effects on individuals into consequences for populations. To date few such studies have been conducted with longer‐lived invertebrates. This is because full life‐cycle experiments are difficult with such species. Here we report the effects of copper and cadmium on the key demo... |
Potential accidents and health problems related to fatigue remain a tremendous problem in commercial flight. This study was conducted to investigate fatigue risk factors among pilots in PT XYZ. There were 196 participants in the study. In order to gather more information, a questionnaire was administered, and a systema... |
The present invention provides a compound of formula (I) Z 1 A n Z 2 MX m (I) (However, Z 1 is a coordinating group containing a 6-.pi. electronic central group that directly coordinates to M, and the coordinating binding groups, saturated engaged at least one condensation or unsaturated C 2 - has a C 30 cyclic group, ... |
Mobile phones (cell phones) are a source of irritation for some but undeniably useful for many, and over 50% of the population of the United Kingdom possess one. Their use in hospitals, however, is mostly banned as they are considered potentially hazardous in medical environments. But the evidence for serious harm is f... |
So how dangerous are they? The evidence for harm is limited. Anecdotal reports exist of interference with medical electrical equipment, 1 2 which led to a study by the Medical Devices Agency in the United Kingdom.3 In this study, 4% of medical devices suffered from electromagnetic interference from digital mobile phone... |
The spatial-temporal variability characterizing the water quality of high Andean lagoons for tourist use was evaluated using multivariate statistical methods during 2017 and 2018. The water samples were collected from 14 sampling sites, with three replicates each. The water quality indicators determined were: pH, tempe... |
A single female specimen (25.6 mm in standard length) of the thread-like Indo-Pacific pygmy syngnathid Kyonemichthys rumengani Gomon, 2007 was collected from fringing reef at eight meters depth from Okinawa Island in the Ryukyu Archipelago of southern Japan. It represents the first specimen of this species to be housed... |
Accountability differs in its meaning, scope, and impact. Consequently, its expression as a value and an instrument of “good governance” differs across time within and between organizations. Through the prism of theories on public values, this article examines accountability as a value in the administration of the Euro... |
Since a large number of users of various social networking services post what they observe around themselves, what is going on around the world can be known in real time by extracting such real-world observations. Especially, observations covering miscellaneous areas of interest are posted to Twitter as short text mess... |
The alkaline phosphatase of human placenta differs from that produced by other organs in a number of physicochemical characteristics including heat resistance, substrate specificity, antigenic properties, electrophoretic pattern, and others [1-7]. The enzyme is produced by the fetal side of the placenta [6, 7]; it appe... |
Abstract Current approaches to humanizing members of an outgroup in contexts marked by protracted intergroup conflict see mixed success. In both Study 1, conducted on a random sample of Israeli Jews (N = 103), and Study 2, conducted on a nationally diverse sample of Israeli Jews (N = 670), we experimentally test the ef... |
Larvin, Ovasyn, and Curacron were applied aerially at 2 rates (0.14 and 0.28 kg (AI)/ha), 2 spray volumes (18.7 and 46.8 liters/ha), and 2 aircraft speeds (145 and 209 km/h). Cotton plants for the study were grown outdoors in 4 liter pots, 2 plants per pot, to an average height of 0.5 m. The test plants were transport... |
The objectives of this study were to explore how dentists with well-structured vs. not well-structured community-based dental education (CBDE) experiences differ in perceptions of their CBDE and its impact on their professional lives and in their professional attitudes and behavior related to treating patients from und... |
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