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Cheung, I. Y., Y. Feng, K. Danis, N. Shukla, P. Meyers, M. Ladanyi i N. Cheung. "STEAP1: A potential marker of metastatic disease for Ewing family tumors". Journal of Clinical Oncology 25, nr 18_suppl (20.06.2007): 10028. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2007.25.18_suppl.10028.
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10028 Background: Ewing Family Tumors (EFTs) metastasize by hematogeneous spread. Because of its dismal cure rate, targeting subclinical disease is particularly relevant. Genome-wide gene expression array analysis can uncover novel genes differentially expressed in tumors over normal marrow/blood, which may have clinical potentials as markers of minimal residual disease (MRD). Methods: Gene expression array data were obtained on 28 EFT tumors and 10 EFT cell lines using the Affymetrix U133 gene chip. Ten genes with high tumor to blood ratios were identified. Quantitative RT-PCR was performed to study (1) the dynamic range of detection of rare tumor cells (frequency of 10-7 to 10-4), (2) the gene expression in normal blood and marrow samples, (3) the gene expression among EFT tumors, and (4) the prognostic impact of marker positivity in EFT patients with histologically negative marrows. Results: Of the 10 genes, 5 genes, namely six transmembrane epithelial antigen of the prostate 1 [STEAP1], cyclin D1 [CCND1], plakophilin 1 [PKP1], transmembrane protein 47 [TMEM47], and NKX2.2 transcription factor [NKX2.2] were chosen for further analyses. This was based on their steep linear dynamic range in tumor cells seeded in normal mononuclear cells and consistently high expression among EFT tumor samples. Among 53 EFT patients with histologically negative marrow samples, a marker was classified as positive if the gene transcript level was above the upper limit of normal, defined as mean + 2SD of 26 normal blood and marrow samples. Of the 5 markers tested, STEAP1 positivity in marrow samples was highly correlated with survival with new metastasis in Kaplan Meier analysis (p=0.001). Conclusions: This gene expression array-based approach identified STEAP1 as a promising surrogate MRD marker of metastatic EFT with potential prognostic importance. Its clinical utility will need to be further tested in large patient cohorts. No significant financial relationships to disclose.
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Mahadevan, Pushpa, Subramaniam Ramkumar i V. P. Gangadharan. "Adamantinoma-Like Ewing’s Family Tumor of the Sino Nasal Region: A Case Report and a Brief Review of Literature". Case Reports in Pathology 2019 (7.05.2019): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/5158182.
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Ewing's sarcoma family of tumors (EFTs) are malignant mesenchymal tumors with a predilection for bone and soft tissue. They are characterized by their monomorphic small blue round cell morphology. However rare morphologic variants of EFTs can also show overt epithelial differentiation in the form of squamoid differentiation along with strong cytokeratin expression. This particular subset of EFTs are known as adamantinoma-like EFTs which can be difficult to differentiate from epithelial head and neck malignancies. Here we report a case of sinonasal adamantinoma-like EFT in an 18-year-old male patient. The lesion differed from a typical EFT by means of overt squamoid differentiation which showed a basaloid appearance with peripheral palisading. The immunohistochemistry was positive for pan-cytokeratin, p40, p63, ERG, FLI1, and CK5/6. It was negative for actin, desmin, and WT-1. Initial diagnosis of a basaloid squamous cell carcinoma was made. Further molecular studies were also done due to the complex presentation of the tumor. EWSR testing with break-apart analysis confirmed EWSR1 and FLI1 rearrangements. Further confirmation was done with RT-PCR. The case was found to be positive for EWS-FLI-1 translocation. The revised immunohistochemistry panel showed CD99, ERG, FLI1, and synaptophysin positivity. The lesion was reclassified as an adamantinoma-like ES. Our case reinforces the fact that a subset of EFTs can show histomorphologic and immunohistochemical features of aberrant epithelial differentiation. These cases are difficult to differentiate from usual epithelial malignancies which occur in this region. This diagnostic pitfall can be avoided by the inclusion of CD99 and/or FLI1 in the immunohistochemical assessment of any round cell malignancy at any anatomic location. A strong and diffuse CD99 positivity should prompt molecular testing for the presence of EWSR1 gene rearrangements.
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Qiao, Peng, Wei Chen, Jun Zhao, Jingyi Gao i Guofang Zhai. "Factors Associated with Housing Damage Caused by an EF4 Tornado in Rural Areas of Funing, China". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, nr 21 (31.10.2022): 14237. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114237.
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Rural areas are vulnerable to natural disasters and tend to suffer severe losses. An EF4 tornado occurred in Funing on 23 June 2016, killing 99 people, injuring at least 846 people, and destroying more than 2000 houses. Using a multinomial logistic regression model, this study explored the influencing factors between housing damage and variables of building conditions, tornado intensity, and village environmental factors. The results show that 2-story houses and masonry houses were more likely to be slightly damaged or be in a dangerous state. Furthermore, the building area was positively related to houses in two categories: slight damage (SD) and dangerous and requiring immediate repair (DR), indicating that the larger or taller the house, the more severe the damage. In terms of tornado intensity, houses classified as SD were more likely to be hit by EF4 tornados than by EF3 tornados, and houses were damaged more by EF1 or EF2 tornados. This finding demonstrates that the level of housing damage was not strongly correlated with the tornado intensity. Slightly damaged houses exhibited the highest correlation with environmental factors. The proportion of slightly damaged houses was positively correlated with the water area in the village, unlike the proportion of houses in the DR and unable to be repaired (UR) categories. Moreover, the larger the water area of a village, the less housing damage it suffered. These findings provide new insights into minimizing housing damage in wind disasters to improve disaster prevention planning in rural areas.
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Enos, Gary A. "Always communicate a message of positivity". Enrollment Management Report 25, nr 7 (13.09.2021): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/emt.30842.
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Kuroda, Kyohei, Hazuki Kurashita, Tomoka Arata, Ayaka Miyata, Miyu Kawazoe, Masaru K. Nobu, Takashi Narihiro i in. "Influence of Green Tuff Fertilizer Application on Soil Microorganisms, Plant Growth, and Soil Chemical Parameters in Green Onion (Allium fistulosum L.) Cultivation". Agronomy 10, nr 7 (28.06.2020): 929. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10070929.
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Organic farming (OF) has been increasing in popularity over recent years, but unfortunately tends to have lower yield, due to lower nutrient availability and pest problems. To better understand how OF influences plant growth, we must elucidate the impact of such practices on the microbial community, an important factor in soil management. In this study, we examined the relationship between farming practice, changes in plant growth, and soil microbial community for green onion (Allium fistulosum L.) cultivated over 313 days in green houses with OF using composts with natural green tuff as soil conditioner (EF1) or inorganic fertilizer (EF2). Average yields of EF1 were generally higher than EF2, reaching up to 12% higher (p < 0.05; day 131). The observed soil microorganism phylotypes and phylogenetic diversity (Faith’s phylogenetic diversity (PD)) were both significantly higher (p < 0.05) in EF1 than EF2 on days 93, 191 (only for PD), and 261, based on microbial richness indices. Several phylotypes belonging to the Bacillus-related microbial order Bacillales were found at higher abundances in EF1 soils, positively correlated with specific soil properties (i.e., humus, ammonium, and pH), and may associate with plant growth promotion and/or fungal toxin degradation. These results point towards novel positive effects of OF and provide insights into the management of soil microorganisms using organic fertilizers.
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Pimdee, Paitoon, Sirinthorn Meekhobtong, Suwanna Bengthong i Aukkapong Sukkamart. "Antecedents to Thai pre-service teacher eco-friendly behavior: A confirmatory factor analysis". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 18, nr 12 (12.12.2022): em2200. http://dx.doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/12709.
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The research aimed to analyze the <i>eco-friendly behavior</i> (EFB) of Thai undergraduate pre-service teachers (PSTs). Multi-stage random sampling was used to select 211 individuals majoring in industrial education from four Thai universities. The second-order confirmatory factor analysis used LISREL 9.10 and SPSS for Windows 21 was used for the descriptive statistics. Furthermore, five elements were perceived to influence PST EFB positively. This included the product’s <i>eco-friendly price</i> (EFP), <i>eco-friendly safety</i> (EFS), <i>eco-friendly image</i> (EFI), <i>eco-friendly environment</i> (EFE), and finally <i>eco-friendly quality</i> (EFQ). Moreover, it was determined that a product’s EFI was most important to the PSTs, followed by its EFQ, EFS, EFE, and EFP. Moreover, of the 20 items the PSTs were asked about, they believed that non-plastic bag use for EFB was judged most important. However, at the other end of EFB was a product’s price importance.
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Tambunan, Marcelina Boru, Linda Suwarni i Selviana Selviana. "Effect of emotional freedom techniques on anxiety, depression and insomnia among COVID-19 patients". International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS) 12, nr 2 (1.06.2023): 545. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijphs.v12i2.22403.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a massive impact on various aspects, including mental health, especially for people confirmed positive for COVID-19. People who are positively confirmed for COVID-19 tend to experience decreased immunity caused by feelings of anxiety, depression, and insomnia. emotional freedom technology (EFT) therapy has been proven to reduce mental health disorders but has never been applied to people who are positively confirmed for COVID-19. This study aimed to examine the effect of EFT therapy on mental health disorders (anxiety, depression, and insomnia) in COVID-19 patients in Pontianak City. This research method is quantitative with a quasi-experimental design in the COVID-19 isolation area provided by the Pontianak City government, namely Upelkes and Rusunawa in June 2021. The total sampling was employed consisting of 42 people. A validated questionnaire on anxiety, depression, and insomnia was employed as a research instrument. A repeated ANOVA test was used to analyze research data. The results showed that EFT therapy was effective in reducing anxiety, depression, and insomnia scores in positively confirmed people for COVID-19 (p-value <0.05). EFT therapy can overcome mental health disorders experienced by people who are positively confirmed for COVID-19 and as an alternative therapy to speed up the healing process.
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Liu, Jiling, i Ping Xiang. "Expectancy-Value Motivation and Physical Activity- and Health-Related Outcomes among At-Risk Children and Adolescents". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, nr 13 (1.07.2023): 6273. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20136273.
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Despite a large amount of research having been done to examine and promote physical activity and health among adolescents and children, relatively little attention has been paid attention to underrepresented populations. In this study, we investigated the relationships between expectancy-value motivation and physical activity- and health-related outcomes among a group of at-risk boys at a summer sports camp. The total participants included 107 boys (Mage = 11.78 years, SD = 1.20). The boys’ perceived expectancy beliefs (EXP), importance (IMP), interest (INT), usefulness (USE), effort (EFT), and intention for future participation (IFP) were assessed using established questions on a five-point Likert scale, and a PACER test was performed to estimate their cardiovascular fitness (CVF). Through a path analysis, we found that EXP positively predicted CVF (β = 0.19, p < 0.01), IMP positively predicted EFT (β = 0.26, p < 0.01), and INT positively predicted both EFT (β = 0.34, p < 0.01) and IFP (β = 0.28, p < 0.01), while USE had no statistically significant effect on either EFT, IFP, or CVF. We discussed the limitations and implications of the present study. We recommend including a diverse sample and employing the expectancy-value model in future research, and advocating expectancy beliefs and task values, especially importance and interest, among participants during physical activity promotion.
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Turan, Yaşar. "The Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Fibrosis Score Is Related to Epicardial Fat Thickness and Complexity of Coronary Artery Disease". Angiology 71, nr 1 (24.04.2019): 77–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0003319719844933.
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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a hepatic manifestation of the metabolic syndrome and is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD). The NAFLD Fibrosis Score (NFS) is an index used for the detection of liver fibrosis. We investigated the relationship between NFS and complexity of coronary artery disease (CAD). In this cross-sectional study, 109 patients with CAD and 50 patients without CAD were enrolled. Demographic data, laboratory parameters, epicardial fat thickness (EFT), NFS, and Synergy between percutaneous coronary intervention with Taxus and cardiac surgery (SYNTAX) score were recorded. Waist circumference, fasting glucose, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), EFT, and NFS were significantly higher in the CAD group ( P < .05). High-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and ejection fraction were significantly lower in the CAD group ( P < .05). The SYNTAX score was positively correlated with fasting glucose, LDL-C, EFT, and NFS and negatively correlated with HDL-C ( P < .05). The NFS was positively correlated with EFT ( P = .019). Multivariate linear regression analysis revealed that NFS ( P = .012), EFT ( P < .001), and LDL-C ( P = .001) were independently associated with the SYNTAX score. In conclusion, NFS, as a marker of NAFLD, could identify patients at higher risk of CVD.
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Wang, Hongyu, Apurbo Sarkar i Lu Qian. "Evaluations of the Roles of Organizational Support, Organizational Norms and Organizational Learning for Adopting Environmentally Friendly Technologies: A Case of Kiwifruit Farmers’ Cooperatives of Meixian, China". Land 10, nr 3 (10.03.2021): 284. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10030284.
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Environmentally friendly technologies have long been recognized as a widespread phenomenon working within the functions and performance of farms. Farmer’s cooperative organization might profoundly foster the environmentally friendly technologies (EFT) and availing competitive advantage to the farmer. Illustrated by the natural-resource-based view of the farm (NRBV), this study examined the influence of organizational support, organizational norms, and organizational learning on adopting EFT and proposed a model quantifying the impacts of these approaches towards availing competitive capabilities (i.e., cost, quality, flexibility, and delivery). The framework is empirically endorsed by employing the partial least squares approach to structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) with the help of a household survey from a spectrum of 292 farmers of 38 kiwifruit cooperatives of Meixian County, China, from August to September 2020. The findings demonstrate that organizational support, organizational norms, and organizational learning positively influence EFT. Moreover, the study found EFT positively impacts product cost, product quality, product delivery, and production flexibility. Interestingly, the relationship between the adoption of environmentally friendly technologies and the competitive capabilities of kiwifruit farmers of Meixian is positively significant. The study proposes several policy recommendations emphasizing the role of organizations in the form of farmer’s cooperatives in boosting farmers to engage in proenvironmental behavior and, therefore, shifting the trends of future research directions on the adoption of environmentally friendly technologies.
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Herson, Laurie A. "Brain-compatible research: using brain-based techniques to positively impact student learning". [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001668.
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Logan, Dustin Michael. "Error Awareness and Apathy in Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury". BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5530.
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Moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (M/S TBI) is a growing public health concern with significant impact on the cognitive functioning of survivors. Cognitive control and deficits in awareness have been linked to poor recovery and rehabilitation outcomes. One way to research cognitive control is through awareness of errors using electroencephalogram and event-related potentials (ERPs). Both the error-related negativity and the post-error positivity components of the ERP are linked to error awareness and cognitive control processes. Attentional capacity and levels of apathy influence error awareness in those with M/S TBI. There are strong links between awareness, attention, and apathy. However, limited research has examined the role of attention, awareness, and apathy using electrophysiological indices of error awareness to further understand cognitive control in a M/S TBI sample. The current study sought to elucidate the role of apathy in error awareness in those with M/S TBI. Participants included 75 neurologically-healthy controls (divided randomly into two control groups) and 24 individuals with M/S TBI. All participants completed self-report measures of mood, apathy, and executive functioning, as well as a brief neuropsychological battery to measure attention and cognitive ability. To measure awareness, participants completed the error awareness task (EAT), a modified Stroop go/no-go task. Participants signaled awareness of errors committed on the previous trial. The M/S TBI group decreased accuracy while improving or maintaining error awareness compared to controls over time. There were no significant between-group differences for ERN and Pe amplitudes. Levels of apathy in the M/S TBI group were included in three multiple regression analyses predicting proportion of unaware errors, ERN amplitude, and Pe amplitude. Apathy was predictive of error awareness, although not in the predicted direction. Major analyses were replicated using two distinct control groups to determine potential sample effects. Results showed consistent results comparing both control groups to a M/S TBI group. Findings show variable levels of awareness and accuracy over time for those with M/S TBI when compared to controls. Conclusions include varying levels of attention and awareness from the M/S TBI group over time, evidenced by improving awareness of errors when they are happening, but an inability to regulate performance sufficiently to improve accuracy. Levels of apathy are playing a role in error awareness, however, not in predicted directions. The study provides support for the role of attentional impairments in error awareness and encourages future studies to look for varying levels of performance within a given task when using populations linked to elevated levels of apathy and attentional deficits.
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Li, Wen. "Electrically charged sol-gel coatings for on-line preconcentration and analysis of zwitterionic biomolecules by capillary electrophoresis". [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001422.
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Zahed, Ahmadullah. "New tools to constrain EFTs and CFTs". Thesis, 2023. https://etd.iisc.ac.in/handle/2005/6201.
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In this thesis, we develop new methods for the S matrix bootstrap in the context of 2-2 scattering amplitudes and four-point correlators in conformal field theories (CFTs).
For 2-2 scattering in quantum field theories, we consider manifestly three-channel crossing symmetric dispersion relation (CSDR), unlike the two-channel symmetric fixed-t dispersion relation. We give simple derivations of certain known positivity conditions for effective field theories, including the null constraints, which lead to two-sided bounds and derive a general set of new nonperturbative inequalities. We derive the analyticity domain of the CSDR analogously to the Lehmann-Martin ellipse. We present a fascinating correspondence between an area of mathematics called geometric function theory (GFT) and the scattering amplitudes focusing on the case with O(N) global symmetry. We obtain two-sided bounds on Wilson coefficients of physical Pion amplitudes via positivity and GFT.
Then we consider Bell correlations in light-by-light (LbyL) scattering at low energies. The known contributions in the Standard Model (SM) lead to Bell violation at all scattering angles except for a small transverse region, leading to a fine-tuning problem. Incorporating a light axion/axion-like particle (ALP) removes this problem and constrains the axion-coupling--axion-mass parameter space.
In the second part of the thesis, we consider CSDR for Mellin amplitudes of scalar four-point correlators in conformal field theories. This allows us to rigorously set up the nonperturbative Polyakov bootstrap for the conformal field theories in Mellin space, fixing the contact term ambiguities in previous work. Our framework allows us to connect with the conceptually rich picture of the Polyakov blocks being identified with Witten diagrams in anti-de Sitter space. We also give two-sided bounds for Wilson coefficients for effective field theories in anti-de Sitter space. The derivation of the Polyakov bootstrap allows rigorous epsilon expansion solely from bootstrap principles.
Książki na temat "EFT positivity"
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Michel, Bourdeau, Clauzade Laurent i Dupin Frédéric 1979-, red. Cours de philosophie positive: Leçons 46-51. Paris: Hermann, 2012.
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Çalışkan, M. Turan. Kur'an ve pozitif bilim. İstanbul: KURAMER Yayınları, 2020.
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Baker, Lynne Rudder. Saving belief: A critiqueof physicalism. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1987.
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Saving belief: A critique of physicalism. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1987.
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Stanesby, Derek. Science, reason & religion. London: Routledge, 1988.
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Science, reason & religion. London: Croom Helm, 1985.
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Dale, Peter Allan. In pursuit of a scientific culture: Science, art, and society in the Victorian age. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
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Eat That Cookie Make Workplace Positivity Pay Offfor Individuals Teams And Organizations. Fire Starter Publishing, 2009.
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Positively beam...ing: A collection of newspaper columns. Lake Charles American press, 2003.
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An Examination of Logical Positivism (International Library of Philosophy). Routledge, 2001.
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Franceschini, Rita. "Le sfide a livello europeo: alcuni segnali positivi". W XXVe CILPR Congrès International de Linguistique et de Philologie Romanes, redaktorzy Maria Iliescu, Heidi Siller-Runggaldier i Paul Danler, 7–547. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110231922.7-547.
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Fukihara, Yōji, i Shin-ya Katsumata. "Generalized Bounded Linear Logic and its Categorical Semantics". W Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 226–46. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71995-1_12.
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AbstractWe introduce a generalization of Girard et al.’s called (and its affine variant ). It is designed to capture the core mechanism of dependency in , while it is also able to separate complexity aspects of . The main feature of is to adopt a multi-object pseudo-semiring as a grading system of the !-modality. We analyze the complexity of cut-elimination in , and give a translation from with constraints to with positivity axiom. We then introduce indexed linear exponential comonads (ILEC for short) as a categorical structure for interpreting the $${!}$$ ! -modality of . We give an elementary example of ILEC using folding product, and a technique to modify ILECs with symmetric monoidal comonads. We then consider a semantics of using the folding product on the category of assemblies of a BCI-algebra, and relate the semantics with the realizability category studied by Hofmann, Scott and Dal Lago.
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Van Praag, Lore, Loubna Ou-Salah, Elodie Hut i Caroline Zickgraf. "The Nexus Between Environmental Changes, Culture of Migration, and Migration Aspirations". W IMISCOE Research Series, 125–47. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61390-7_7.
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AbstractIn this chapter, I delve deeper into the role played by ‘cultures of migration’ in the development of migration aspirations in both Tinghir and Tangier, and how these cultures of migration interact with environmental factors. This chapter builds further on previous insights from migration systems theory, which posits that migration results in multiple flows of material goods, ideas and money (Mabogunje 1970; Levitt 1998). In other words, this theory states that migration results in more than exchanges and flows of people. By building further on the concept of ‘cumulative causation’ (Myrdal 1957), migration systems theory advances that migration results in the transformation of social and economic structures, facilitating more migration. This idea is crucial to fully understand the development of migration aspirations because it pays attention to how contextual feedback loops can either positively or negatively stimulate the further development of migration aspirations (De Haas 2010). Hence, cultures of migration are established through the information sent by emigrants that have left a given region and provide feedback on their migration experiences in the country of destination to their migrant networks living in their region of origin and which ultimately result in shared ideas and beliefs on migration in a particular region (Timmerman et al. 2014).
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Costa, Massimiliano, i Andrea Strano. "Boosting Entrepreneurship Capability in Work Transitions". W Employability & Competences, 389–98. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-672-9.43.
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Work personalization within cognitive capitalism (Alessandrini 2013) demands universities to certify competences that can promote new forms of employability (Boffo, Federighi, Torlone 2015), connected to global network innovation (Steiner et al. 2013). Personal entrepreneurship becomes the heuristic promoter of career changes (Federighi, Torlone 2013). This enables individuals to ask new questions, to provide innovative solutions, and to create endeavours that can extend the current limits of knowledge, or define new ones (Costa 2014). Methodology: The research analysed variables and, by doing so, strengthened entrepreneurial competence (Morselli, Costa 2015; Costa, Strano 2016) from an enabling perspective, involving more than one hundred people going through a career change (Sen 2000). Based on a mixed method (Ponce, Pagán-Maldonado 2015) the research was developed over four phases: 1) Self-assessment (Pittaway, Edwards 2012) of entrepreneurial attitudes; 2) Recognition (Federighi 2014) of emerging competences from global innovation networks; 3) Reflective thinking (Mortari 2003) and switching in terms of awareness (Mezirow 2003); 4) Capability (Sen 2006) of opportunities and resources for the instigation of entrepreneurial action (Costa Strano 2016). Results: The data observed show that during career changes the development of competences is positively linked to age, education, and experience, above all when combined with enabling processes. As for entrepreneurship, training contexts in the service industry prove strategic, even if still too focused solely on the technical-informative dimension. Furthermore, the results show that entrepreneurial training (Pittaway, Edwards 2012) becomes competence that can promote action starting from resources/opportunities in various career changes (Costa 2014)
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"BODY POSITIVITY DOESN’T MEAN “LET THEM EAT CAKE!”". W Good Sex, 105–14. Indiana University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2tp748h.15.
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Jouanjan, Olivier. "Un positiviste dans la crise : Richard Thoma". W Crise et pensée de la crise en droit, 13–54. ENS Éditions, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/books.enseditions.37985.
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Perasso, Giulia, Grazia Serantoni, Carmela Lillo, Alessandro Maculan, Francesca Vianello i Tania Di Giuseppe. "Teaching with What you Are: The Importance of Teachers’ Positive Resources and of the Neuropsychopedagogical Training Envisioning the Future on Adolescents’ Well-Being. A Correlational and Analysis of Variance Study". W Human Development - Annual Volume 2023 [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.112437.
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The literature shows that teachers’ psychological characteristics can influence adolescents’ mental health. Additionally, neuropsychopedagogical interventions, like the Envisioning the Future (EF) training, can positively impact wellbeing. The study aims at: (i) exploring the relationships between teachers’ and students’ characteristics and (ii) investigating the impact of EF on students’ wellbeing. The sample consists of N = 113 Italian adolescents, whose data were matched with their teachers’ (N = 12). Participants completed validated self-report questionnaires on self-compassion, emotion regulation, resilience, and an ad-hoc scale of frequency of bullying episodes. Correlational analyses highlight that: teachers’ avoidance, social isolation, and self-judgment negatively correlate with the frequency with which students perceive bullying episodes; teachers’ self-kindness, optimism, and self-efficacy in regulating emotions positively correlate with the frequency with which the students’ perceive bullying; teachers’ cognitive focus positively correlates with students’ self-determination toward future decisions; students’ self-judgment negatively correlates with teachers’ resilience and self-efficacy in managing positive emotions, while it positively correlates with teachers’ avoidance. In addition, after EF training, students had improved in negative emotion regulation, frequency of perceiving bullying, common humanity, and self-determination. The study underscores the importance of the relationship between teachers’ and students’ resources and the impact of EF training on adolescents’ wellbeing.
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Tran, Thao Quoc, i Tham My Duong. "EFL Graduate Students' Intercultural Language Learning and Intercultural Competence". W Handbook of Research on Teaching in Multicultural and Multilingual Contexts, 302–18. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5034-5.ch017.
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Being able to function appropriately and effectively in multicultural situations is one of the must-have skills for the 21st-century citizens. Particularly, in the ambience of the international education in which the English language is employed as a mean of instruction, students should be fluent in the English language as well as interculturally competent. This chapter presents a study exploring EFL graduate students' perceptions of intercultural language learning and their level of IC at a multicultural higher education institution in Thailand. A cohort of 91 EFL graduate students of different nationalities (Cambodia, China, Thailand, and Vietnam) participated in answering the questionnaires. The findings revealed that EFL graduate students perceived the intercultural language learning positively and had a high level of IC. Additionally, a positive correlation between participants' perceptions of intercultural language learning and their level of IC. Nevertheless, they perceived the intercultural language learning similarly and possessed a similar level of IC regardless of nationalities.
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DOAT, David. "Entre opportunité et risque". W Intelligence(s) artificielle(s) et Vulnérabilité(s) : kaléidoscope, 29–44. Editions des archives contemporaines, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.17184/eac.3633.
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Contrairement aux conceptions prédominantes de la vulnérabilité dans les pensées du care, de la société du risque ou dans la littérature transhumaniste, cette étude défend l’intérêt et la nécessité d’une acception complexe et ambivalente de la vulnérabilité, qui en souligne non seulement la négativité, subversive des conceptions classiques du sujet moderne, mais aussi la positivité comme condition sine qua non de toute expérience d’autonomie effective. Une telle relecture philosophique du sens de la vulnérabilité n’est pas sans conséquences éthiques majeures aux plans juridique, social et politique.
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Kasami, Naoko. "Individual versus collective digital storytelling in EFL education in terms of student perceptions". W CALL for widening participation: short papers from EUROCALL 2020, 149–55. Research-publishing.net, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2020.48.1180.
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The purpose of this study was to explore students’ perceptions of individual and collective Digital Storytelling (DS). All participants were non-English major students in Japan. The study goal of the course was to acquire skills and knowledge to present ideas and messages effectively in English with the use of information communications and technology. Students in this study completed a single DS assignment under one of two different conditions; students adhering to the first condition created a digital story individually, whereas students who adhered to the second condition created a digital story collectively, in pairs or groups of three. While the analysis of the post assignment questionnaire showed that more than 90% of students under both conditions perceived the assignment positively, there are also some implications to consider for improving each approach.
Streszczenia konferencji na temat "EFT positivity"
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Wang, Xuan. "L2 vocabulary learning motivation by Chinese EFL learners". W 11th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics. ExLing Society, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36505/exling-2020/11/0054/000469.
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L2 motivation has been proved by a plethora of studies to positively affect various domains of L2 learning, among which L2 vocabulary learning is relatively underexplored in the literature. This study, therefore, explores the characteristics of L2 vocabulary learning motivation by Chinese EFL learners and investigates how motivation relates to self-regulated learning strategies. The study employs a mixedmethod approach with 47 Chinese EFL learners. Two instruments, the motivation questionnaire and the learning strategies questionnaire were employed, and ten participants were interviewed with regard to self-regulated vocabulary learning. The results reveal the instrumentality (i.e. promotion and prevention) of Chinese EFL learners in vocabulary learning, which is related to their learning strategies and selfregulation.
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Minh, Dong Hoang. "EFL Students’ Motivation in English learning and Self-regulated Language Learning Habits: A Study at Hanoi Law University". W The 4th Conference on Language Teaching and Learning. AIJR Publisher, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21467/proceedings.132.9.
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Motivation and Self-Regulated Learning are two fundamental components that have consistently been found to account for learning achievement. Few studies have identified the assumed relationships between learner motivation and self-regulation in English language study. This study aims to investigate motivation in English learning as well as self-regulated language learning habits among EFL students from different majors of study at Hanoi Law University, and make some suggestions to improve students’ learning motivation and SRLLB. A total of 138 EFL junior and senior students from five majors at Hanoi Law University took part in the study. The research utilized an online questionnaire with sufficient reliability to gather data. The valid responses collected were analyzed to achieve the desired aims. The results indicated that the surveyed students had more intrinsic motivation than extrinsic motivation, showing that they had high self-efficacy and most of them were positively motivated and promoted to regulate English learning behaviors. In addition, some significant conclusions have been drawn from the research.
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Weerathai, Thanakorn. "THE EFFECTS OF ASYNCHRONOUS ONLINE PEER-TEACHER FEEDBACK IN A THAI EFL PUBLIC SPEAKING CLASS". W International Conference on Education and New Developments. inScience Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2022v1end102.
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"The teaching and learning of English speaking has recently posed several challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic. One of the challenges is that it is nearly impossible to conduct the teaching and learning in the physical classroom, affecting how students are given immediate feedback to. Teachers have to find different methods and techniques to use in their speaking classes during this situation, for example, giving live virtual presentations, pre-recording video clips and uploading them to online classrooms, giving online comments and feedback, and so on. In this mixed-methods study, the purposes were to investigate the effects of giving asynchronous online peer and teacher feedback to students after they had uploaded their three types of speech video clips, i.e., informative, persuasive, and entertaining, to the Google Classroom and to explore the students’ attitudes toward the two types of feedback. Participants were 25 fourth-year undergraduate students, majoring in English for International Communication at a university in northeastern region of Thailand. It was found that although the second speech video clip scores were higher than the first speech video clip scores, students still had difficulties in providing sufficient and specific peer feedback on the areas of organization and research citations, impacting growth in their speaking skills. Moreover, findings from the semi-structured interviews revealed that students viewed the two types of feedback positively. It helped them to gradually develop thinking and critiquing skills, and they also demonstrated increased confidence in speaking after they had received both types of feedback. This study proposes opportunities for discussion, i.e., providing sufficient peer feedback training and meaningful writing assignments, to hone students critiquing skills, especially on the areas of organization and research citations."
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Sotelo, Melissa, Dylan Richards, Matthew Pearson i Protective Strategies Study Team. "Self-Reported Symptoms of Cannabis Use Disorder (SRSCUD): Psychometric Testing and Validation". W 2020 Virtual Scientific Meeting of the Research Society on Marijuana. Research Society on Marijuana, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.26828/cannabis.2021.01.000.16.
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Findings from national surveys demonstrate that cannabis use peaks in young adulthood and that the annual prevalence of marijuana use among young adults (34.0%) is the highest it has been in decades (Johnston et al., 2016). We developed a 13 item measure designed to characterize the 11 symptoms of CUD as described in the DSM 5 (APA, 2013). To evaluate the performance of this Self Reported Symptoms of Cannabis Use Disorder (SRSCUD) measure, we examined its associations with other measures of CUD symptoms, negative cannabis related consequences, and other known risk factors for CUD (i.e., coping motives). Colleges students (n =7000) recruited from 9 universities in 9 states throughout the U.S. Our analyses focus on past month cannabis users (n = 2077). We split our sample in half to conduct exploratory factor analysis (EFA,n = 1011) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA, n = 1012). All items loaded saliently on a single factor of CUD symptoms in both EFA (.553 = λ = 805) and CFA models (.524 = λ = 830) (see Table 1). In our final model, we allowed correlated errors between the two indicators of tolerance (items 10 and 11) and the two indicators of withdrawal (items 12 and 13), and obtained acceptable model fit across most indices: CFI = .941, TLI = .927, RMSEA = .059, SRMR = .042. As shown in Table 2, the total score of the SRSCUD was strongly correlated with other CUD symptoms measures (.617 < r s < .697), demonstrating convergent validity. SRSCUD was moderately positively correlated with a well known risk factor for CUD (coping motives) and moderately negative correlated with a well known protective (cannabis protective behavioral strategies). We conducted receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve analyses to identify well how our continuous measure of CUD symptoms could identify individuals who exceed the cutoffs for probable CUD on these other symptom measures. For the most well validated measure (CUDIT R), we had excellent sensitivity/specificity (mean score of 1.5 on SRSCUD) for predicting probable CUD. Although more research evaluating performance of the SRSCUD compared to a clinical diagnosis is needed, we have preliminary evidence for construct validity of this measure.
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Li Shang Ly, Samie, i Raafat G Saade. "A Knowledge Management IT Tool: An Investigation within a Marketing Introductory Course". W InSITE 2017: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences: Vietnam. Informing Science Institute, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/3697.
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Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to shed light on how students learn within an environment tailored to knowledge creation. Background: We build on Nonaka, Toyama, and Konno’s three key elements: SECI model, Ba, Leadership as well as current knowledge management researchers critiques and improvements. Methodology: Based on an introductory marketing course, we used an in-house web based learning tool (peer-to peer) to capture score performances and perception surveys. The analysis was conducted through an exploratory factor analysis (EFA). Contribution: This study shed light on current knowledge management critiques by providing measures at the micro-level and community level. Findings: Perceptions of adaptability and usefulness change positively over time, while students’ repeated practice prepares them for different styles of questions as their performances increases over time. Recommendations for Practitioners: Organizations can understand how employees create knowledge through exchange of ideas, feedback, and common goals. Supervisor can understand their employees better and employees can gain a sense of control on their work. Recommendation for Researchers: The ability to capture information over time on the human and community level within a system allows further research to shed light on different variables of knowledge creation in the field. Impact on Society : An appreciation of the mechanism of knowledge creation can encourage organization to become more innovative and focus on people rather than material. Future Research: Measures such as the engagement level, the personality level, and compatibility level within a community to create knowledge are to be explored.
Raporty organizacyjne na temat "EFT positivity"
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Tea, Céline. REX et données subjectives: quel système d'information pour la gestion des risques? Fondation pour une culture de sécurité industrielle, kwiecień 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.57071/170rex.
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Le retour d’expérience est conçu, dans une vision classique, comme une démarche de gestion mettant à disposition les informations nécessaires aux managers pour piloter les systèmes et gérer les risques. Malheureusement, la réalité est moins simple. Les systèmes à piloter sont des systèmes socio-techniques complexes. Le futur n’est pas déterminé par le passé. Il s’avère nécessaire de compléter le système d’information supportant la gestion des risques. Le travail présenté propose de passer d’un système fondé sur des informations extraites des expériences incidentelles du système à piloter, vers un système d’information qui intègre au mieux l’expérience des gens qui le font fonctionner. Les connaissances tacites de ces personnes expérimentées doivent alors être élicitées. Le présent travail a permis d’expérimenter au sein de la SNCF une technique d’aide à la décision issue du courant de l’analyse de la décision. Cette technique de MAUT a été appliquée à l’analyse d’un changement de réglementation concernant la conduite des trains en cas d’alerte radio. Les décisions sont traitées ici non sous un angle individuel, mais comme l’aboutissement d’un processus construit au sein d’une organisation, mettant en jeu plusieurs décideurs et plusieurs enjeux (pouvant être partiellement contradictoires). L’apport de cette technique par rapport aux méthodes classiques basées sur les arbres de défaillance est discuté. Un second niveau d’étude de l’impact de cet éventuel changement réglementaire a consisté à analyser en profondeur les raisonnements et les connaissances utilisés par les acteurs pour construire le sens de leur action en cas d’alerte radio. En modélisant les discussions entre les différents acteurs impliqués et en restituant leur point de vue en situation, il est possible d’identifier les divergences éventuelles entre les représentations de différents acteurs concernant une même situation, ainsi qu’un possible écart entre les croyances des concepteurs et les utilisateurs de la règle. Cette seconde analyse s’appuie sur une théorie de la conception dite C/K, qui met en relation les connaissances et les concepts utilisés en situation. L’auteur suggère que l’application de ces méthodes permet de voir l’analyse de risques comme un lieu d’élaboration de sens collectif sur la sécurité du système, plutôt que (dans une vision plus positiviste de la connaissance) comme une activité qui révèle et approche la vérité sur les risques, en s’appuyant sur des données factuelles et objectives. Elle propose de développer l’ingénierie du subjectif pour permettre la construction d’un système de management au sein duquel la vision d’ingénieur de la gestion des risques et la vision inspirée des courants des sciences humaines et sociales pourront cohabiter.
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Williams, Cameron. Channel Islands National Park: Terrestrial vegetation monitoring annual report - 2020. National Park Service, sierpień 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/2299696.
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This report presents the data collected in 2020 as part of the long-term terrestrial vegetation monitoring program at Channel Islands National Park. The purpose of this monitoring program is to document long-term trends in the park’s vegetation communities. Data are collected from 30-m-long transects using a point-line intercept method. In the past, each transect was sampled annually. However, beginning in 2012 the program began adding randomly located transects to improve the representativeness of the sampling, and transitioned to a rotating panel design. Now only a core subset of the transects are surveyed annually. Non-core transects are assigned to one of four panels, each of which is surveyed once every four years. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused a global pandemic that prevented field data collection from most of the transects scheduled for 2020. As a result, just 29 of the 127 transects scheduled were visited, distributed as follows: Santa Barbara Island (n = 18), Santa Cruz Island (n = 11). The small size of this 2020 dataset offers limited comparisons to previous years. The program also planned to install 19 new transects on Santa Rosa and San Miguel islands to complete the probabilistic component of the study design (Tiszler et al. 2016a), but the safety response to COVID-19 did not permit these installations. Key 2020 results and interpretation: For the transects visited at both islands in 2020, a long-term decline in mean absolute cover, measured as the mean number of taxa intersecting each point along a transect, was apparent. Annual rainfall correlated positively with mean absolute cover of vegetation. Six vegetation communities were visited at Santa Barbara Island compared to nine at Santa Cruz Island, despite the smaller number of transects surveyed at the latter. Mean absolute cover at both islands together averaged 87%, with native plants covering 44% and non-natives covering 39%. Among vegetation communities, mean absolute cover ranged from a high of 137% in a Lyonothamnus grove to a low of 32% in a riparian community where few plants were encountered along one transect. Mean absolute cover was higher at Santa Cruz Island (105%) than Santa Barbara Island (77%), and mean absolute native cover followed the same pattern (57% vs 36%). For both islands combined, mean richness per transect was 11 taxa. Compared to Santa Barbara Island, Santa Cruz Island supported higher overall mean species richness (14 vs 9 taxa) and higher species evenness (0.70 vs 0.55). Santa Cruz Island’s higher absolute cover, higher native species cover, higher species richness, and higher species evenness indicate that its vegetation is in better overall condition compared to Santa Barbara Island, and that the rate of recovery after overgrazing is faster at Santa Cruz Island than Santa Barbara Island.
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Chamovitz, Daniel, i Albrecht Von Arnim. Translational regulation and light signal transduction in plants: the link between eIF3 and the COP9 signalosome. United States Department of Agriculture, listopad 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2006.7696515.bard.
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The COP9 signalosome (CSN) is an eight-subunit protein complex that is highly conserved among eukaryotes. Genetic analysis of the signalosome in the plant model species Arabidopsis thaliana has shown that the signalosome is a repressor of light dependent seedling development as mutant Arabidopsis seedlings that lack this complex develop in complete darkness as if exposed to light. These mutant plants die following the seedling stage, even when exposed to light, indicating that the COP9 signalosome also has a central role in the regulation of normal photomorphogenic development. The biochemical mode of action of the signalosome and its position in eukaryotic cell signaling pathways is a matter of controversy and ongoing investigation, and recent results place the CSN at the juncture of kinase signaling pathways and ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. We have shown that one of the many CSN functions may relate to the regulation of translation through the interaction of the CSN with its related complex, eukaryotic initiation factor (eIF3). While we have established a physical connection between eIF3 subunits and CSN subunits, the physiological and developmental significance of this interaction is still unknown. In an effort to understand the biochemical activity of the signalosome, and its role in regulating translation, we originally proposed to dissect the contribution of "h" subunit of eIF3 (eIF3h) along the following specific aims: (i) Isolation and phenotypic characterization of an Arabidopsis loss-of-function allele for eIF3h from insertional mutagenesis libraries; (ii) Creation of designed gain and loss of function alleles for eIF3h on the basis of its nucleocytoplasmic distribution and its yeast-two-hybrid interactions with other eIF3 and signalosome partner proteins; (iii) Determining the contribution of eIF3h and its interaction with the signalosome by expressing specific mutants of eIF3h in the eIF3h- loss-of function background. During the course of the research, these goals were modified to include examining the genetic interaction between csn and eif3h mutations. More importantly, we extended our effort toward the genetic analysis of mutations in the eIF3e subunit, which also interacts with the CSN. Through the course of this research program we have made several critical scientific discoveries, all concerned with the apparent diametrically opposed roles of eIF3h and eIF3e. We showed that: 1) While eIF3e is essential for growth and development, eIF3h is not essential for growth or basal translation; 2) While eIF3e has a negative role in translational regulation, eIF3h is positively required for efficient translation of transcripts with complex 5' UTR sequences; 3) Over-accumulation of eIF3e and loss-of-function of eIF3h both lead to cop phenotypes in dark-grown seedlings. These results were published in one publication (Kim et al., Plant Cell 2004) and in a second manuscript currently in revision for Embo J. Are results have led to a paradigm shift in translation research – eIF3 is now viewed in all systems as a dynamic entity that contains regulatory subuits that affect translational efficiency. In the long-term agronomic outlook, the proposed research has implications that may be far reaching. Many important plant processes, including developmental and physiological responses to light, abiotic stress, photosynthate, and hormones operate in part by modulating protein translation [23, 24, 40, 75]. Translational regulation is slowly coming of age as a mechanism for regulating foreign gene expression in plants, beginning with translational enhancers [84, 85] and more recently, coordinating the expression of multiple transgenes using internal ribosome entry sites. Our contribution to understanding the molecular mode of action of a protein complex as fundamental as eIF3 is likely to lead to advances that will be applicable in the foreseeable future.
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Coyle, William, Mark Gehlhar, Thomas Hertel, Zhi Wang i Wusheng Yu. Understanding the Determinants of structural Change in World Food Markets. GTAP Working Paper, wrzesień 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.21642/gtap.wp02.
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This study assesses the interaction between climate change and agricultural trade policies. We distinguish between two dimensions of agricultural trade policy: market insulation and subsidy levels. Building on the previous work of Tsigas, Frisvold and Kuhn (1997) we find that, in the presence of current levels of agricultural subsidies, increased price transmission --as called for under the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture-- reduces global welfare in the wake of climate change. This is due to the positive correlation between productivity changes and current levels of agricultural support. Increases in subsidized output under climate change tend to exacerbate inefficiencies in the global agricultural economy in the absence of market insulation. However, once agricultural subsidies have also been eliminated, price transmission via the global trading system contributes positively to economic adaptation under climate change. products. This may partially explain the relatively slow growth of world grain import demand in recent years. In addition, bilateral agreements with East Asia, NAFTA, and the evolution of the CAP, have all had important impacts on the structure of world food and agricultural trade. The objective of this paper is to assess the relative role of each of the major forces-- consumer demand, factor accumulation, transport costs, and policy change--in driving changes in the composition of world food trade in 1980-1995. To do so, we employ a modified version of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model of world trade which permits us to isolate the contribution of each of these related factors to the changing composition of world food trade in a general equilibrium context. We evaluate the relative role of each of these factors by simulating the model backwards in time, from 1995 to 1980 under different assumptions. This general approach, termed “backcasting” (i.e. backwards forecasting), takes as exogenous the basic drivers of change and attempts to explain the resulting change in food trade composition. The model-produced changes in the composition of agricultural and food trade are compared with historical trade data, to determine the relative importance of each factor on the changing composition of food trade. Given limited space, our focus will be on explaining the changes in the global composition of food and agriculture trade. A natural follow-on effort would target specific markets in more detail. This type of backcasting approach was first employed by Gehlhar (1997) who sought to explain the shift in exports of primary commodities to manufactures in East Asia in the 1980's. He calibrated the GTAP model to 1992 data, then implemented shocks to factor endowments and economywide total factor productivity (TFP) in order to force each economy back to its 1982 levels of population, land, labor, human capital, physical capital and technology. By comparing actual and predicted changes in export shares in this period, he found human capital accumulation played a key role in explaining the change in the aggregate composition of East Asian exports. Gehlhar, Hertel and Martin (1994) built on this work in an effort to predict future changes in the pattern of agricultural trade from 1992-2002. They also emphasized the importance of supply-side determinants of agricultural trade. In this paper, we go beyond this earlier work in a number of ways. First, we focus on the composition of agricultural exports, rather than simply looking at the share of agriculture in total trade. Secondly, we incorporate the Cranfield et al. estimates of Rimmer and Powell’s recently developed, implicitly directly additive demand system (nicknamed AIDADS) into the GTAP model. This permits us to better capture the impact of demand-side changes on the pattern of global tr