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Platylomia radha
No full text8. - Platylomia radha (Distant, 1881) Dundubia radha Distant, 1881 Cosmopsaltria radha (Distant), DISTANT, 1889; Platylomia radha, DISTANT, 1906); CHOU & LEI, 1997. Platylomia radha (tribu des Platylomiini) est une espèce de très grande taille (67 mm de longueur totale pour 127mm d'envergure), à teinte dominante brune et caractérisée, chez les mâles, par des opercules disproportionnés, en forme de gouges acérées, s'écartant largement de l'abdoipen, et qui sont recouverts d'une pruinescence d'un blanc immaculé; aussi sont-ils bien visibles au travers des ailes tout à fait transparentes (fig. 2, K). P. radha est une espèce dendrophile, d'assez haute futaie et principalement héliophile. Cette espèce est, littéralement, "vociférante" qui, de la même place haut perchée et installée tête en haut, fait entendre, de préférence sous le soleil, de longues et fortes séquences d'appel, entrecoupées de silences irréguliers dépassant souvent les 10 à 15 minutes. Sa cymbalisation comprend des périodes relativement courtes de haut sifflement (près de 2 s) relayées, après une brève coupure, par des périodes plus longues (8 à 9 s) de grésillements très rapprochés émis en alternance régulière. Sa carte d'identité acoustique (C. I. A), est analyséeci-dessous(fig. 11). a: oscillogramme d'une portion d'une vingtaine de secondes de la cymbalisation d'appel transcrite en temps réel et restituant deux séquences entières, Sql et Sq2. b: oscillogramme d'un espace-temps arbitraire étirant une seconde et demie du plein signal centrée, plage inversée en a, sur la transition entre les deux séquences: entre le train de modules sifflés (ms), identiques et très proches entre eux, qui terminent la séquence Sql, et le train de modules grésillés, mg, comprenant la répétition régulière d'un motif grésillé de 1 + 3 groupes de signaux lesquels débutent, après une brève baisse de tonalité (tf, pour tonalité de fond), la séquence Sq2. c: spectrogramme étiré suivant l'oscillogramme b et mettant en évidence les plages d'occupation fréquentielle relatives aux divers groupes de signaux et dont l'efficacité sonore est en relation avec la richesse formantique. Les modules sifflés, identiques entre eux, possèdent une échelle d'harmoniques montant jusqu'à près de 16000 Hz; la plage correspondant à la tonalité de fond (tf) ne dépasse pas 12500 Hz, tandis que le grésillement alternant est rendu par la succession régulière de motifs cons¬ titués parun module sifflé (1), riche en harmoniques, que suivent trois modules de fond (2, 3 et 4). d: tracé spécifique du spectre moyen. Femelle et accouplement non observés.Published as part of Boulard, Michel, 2001, Statut acoustique et comportement sonore de quelques Cigales thaïlandaises. Description d'une espèce nouvelle (Homoptera, Cicadidae), pp. 127-147 in Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 106 (2) on page 141, DOI: 10.3406/bsef.2001.16740, http://zenodo.org/record/712936
Universal Oneness as the Ulterior Motive of the Incarnation of Radha and Krishna
No full textMy Affair with Radha, the debut work of Kunal Desai is the dedication to his readers who firmly believe in the divine couple Radha and Krishna. The intention of the author was to spread the awareness of the significance of divine love to the world through the example of Radha and Krishna who remain to be the epitome of transcendental oneness. The human life that has been influenced in multiple ways throughout the life time, fails to overcome the temptations and eventually ends up in misery. A solution to all the misery in the world is to experience the feeling of oneness from within, which uplifts the individual from selfishness to selflessness and eventually the individual feels empathy towards all things. A world with such human beings with the feeling of oneness, will obviously be in harmony and without any miseries.
 
Library Services to Aborigines in Melbourne : a pilot study
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DNA Triplexes in chemistry biology and medicine
No full textThe formation of DNA triple helices offers the possibility of selectively targeting specific genes to control their expression in vivo. This anti-gene strategy provides powerful tools for the development of therapeutics (anti-cancer drugs, drugs for viral infections) at the transcriptional level. DNA triplexes are formed when an oligonucleotide binds to the major groove of double helical DNA; the third strand can bind in either a parallel motif, or an anti-parallel motif. The requirement of low pH for the protonation of cytosine in the parallel binding motif makes the formation of triple helices difficult under physiological conditions. Described in this thesis is a novel method for the synthesis of the deoxycytidine analogue, 2-amino-3-methyl-5-(2’-deoxy-?-D-ribofuranosyl)pyridine (MeP). The phosphoramidite monomer of MeP was synthesised and incorporated as a “protonated” cytidine analogue into triplex forming oligonucleotides (TFOs). It was compared with other cytosine analogues, 5-methyl-(2’-deoxy-?-D-ribofuranosyl)cytosine (MeC), 2’-Omethyl MeP (MePOMe), and 2’-O-aminoethyl MeC (MeCAE). Triplex stability studies indicate that over the pH range 6.2-8.0, the general trend observed in terms of melting temperature (Tm) was as follows: MeP > MeC > MePOMe > MeCAE. DNase I footprinting studies indicate that at pH 7.5, MeP, when incorporated into the TFO, enhances the stability of the triplex by three-fold relative to MeC. In addition, UV melting, DNase I footprinting, and gel electrophoresis studies were carried out on a triplex formed by the binding of a TFO containing MeP and a 5’-Psoralen to a target duplex. This revealed the benefits of the combined modifications on the stability of the resultant triplex. “Soaking” experiments (in vivo) were also performed with this TFO on the organism C. elegans (the worms were soaked in solutions of the TFO for TFO delivery), to observe whether the TFO would induce loss-of-function phenotypes. Tm measurements indicated that in the pH range 6.6-8.0, photo-crosslinking of the TFO to the duplex created a shift in the triplex Tm of ~ + 26 °C when compared to the un-crosslinked triple
Introduction to the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC): A Conversation between Radha D'Souza and Jonas Staal
No full textIn "Introduction to the Court for International Climate Crimes (CICC): A Conversation between Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal" D’Souza and Staal discuss a wide range of issues from law, art, philosophy and social movements for the special issue of the Errant Journal on their project. The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (the CICC) is a project D'Souza and Staal initiated jointly and produced in collaboration with Framer Framed. The conceptual framework for the project is based on D’Souza’s book What’s Wrong With Rights? Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations (Pluto Press, 2018), which draws on her research project on “Rights and Social Movements”; and Staal’s visualisation of large-scale art installation and art works. The exhibition was hosted by the art space Framer Framed in Amsterdam from 25 September 2021 to 13 February 2022. It included a performative component in the form of a tribunal presided over by four judges including D’Souza which hear evidence on intergenerational climate crimes committed by corporations and states which was presented by prosecutors and witnesses from the Netherlands, Mongolia, Peru, Bolivia, India, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Republic of Cameroon, Federative Republic of Brazil, MedWatch, Global Legal Action Network, Libya and Yemen
Daily and seasonal variation in non-acoustic communicative behaviors of male greater short-nosed fruit bats (Cynopterus sphinx)
No full textDoss, D. Paramanantha Swami, Nagarajan-Radha, Venkatesh, Kandula, Sripathi (2016): Daily and seasonal variation in non-acoustic communicative behaviors of male greater short-nosed fruit bats (Cynopterus sphinx). Acta Chiropterologica 18 (1): 199-207, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.1.010, URL: https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/e73563db-4efc-3584-97be-210a9e5273aa
An ageing society and a shrinking workforce pool:how Japan is preparing to tackle an impending demographic time-bomb
No full textBased on the findings of two research studies, conducted between 2014-2016 and 2017-2019, this chapter discusses current concerns around an ageing population, and care worker shortages in Japan. It highlights how the Japanese government has foreseen the impending demographic time-bomb, of a shrinking birth rate and an increasing elderly population, and predicted a future workforce crisis. In 2000, the government of Japan took a radical step: streamlining funding for the elderly and long-term care, and making provision for regulated professional cadres, Certified Care Workers (CCW) and independent care workers to provide long-term care. Since 2008, the country began recruiting foreign care workers under the bilateral Economic Partnership Agreement with neighbouring Asian countries. However, this resulted in only marginal benefits. Japan further expanded its international recruitment policy in 2017, making visa provisions for foreign Technical Trainee students in the care work sector. In 2019, it established another pathway for migrant care workers: a ‘specified skills worker’ visa. Overall, the government’s efforts to prepare adequate numbers of care workers, particularly CCWs and in their long-term care funding scheme, with the commitment of the care home sector, these have become the two major pillars in elderly care provision. This unique model is expected to provide some solutions to the current workforce challenges in Japanese long-term care.<br/
An ageing society and a shrinking workforce pool:how Japan is preparing to tackle an impending demographic time-bomb
No full textBased on the findings of two research studies, conducted between 2014-2016 and 2017-2019, this chapter discusses current concerns around an ageing population, and care worker shortages in Japan. It highlights how the Japanese government has foreseen the impending demographic time-bomb, of a shrinking birth rate and an increasing elderly population, and predicted a future workforce crisis. In 2000, the government of Japan took a radical step: streamlining funding for the elderly and long-term care, and making provision for regulated professional cadres, Certified Care Workers (CCW) and independent care workers to provide long-term care. Since 2008, the country began recruiting foreign care workers under the bilateral Economic Partnership Agreement with neighbouring Asian countries. However, this resulted in only marginal benefits. Japan further expanded its international recruitment policy in 2017, making visa provisions for foreign Technical Trainee students in the care work sector. In 2019, it established another pathway for migrant care workers: a ‘specified skills worker’ visa. Overall, the government’s efforts to prepare adequate numbers of care workers, particularly CCWs and in their long-term care funding scheme, with the commitment of the care home sector, these have become the two major pillars in elderly care provision. This unique model is expected to provide some solutions to the current workforce challenges in Japanese long-term care.<br/
FIG. 4 in Daily and seasonal variation in non-acoustic communicative behaviors of male greater short-nosed fruit bats (Cynopterus sphinx)
No full textFIG. 4. Seasonal variation in duration and frequency of A — scent marking, B — wing flapping and C — open wing gesture behaviors. Mean ± SEM of frequency and duration varying between observed months (from January to December 2012). Mean ± SEM of number of attempts and duration was calculated from seven observation sessions for each monthPublished as part of Doss, D. Paramanantha Swami, Nagarajan-Radha, Venkatesh & Kandula, Sripathi, 2016, Daily and seasonal variation in non-acoustic communicative behaviors of male greater short-nosed fruit bats (Cynopterus sphinx), pp. 199-207 in Acta Chiropterologica 18 (1) on page 204, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.1.010, http://zenodo.org/record/782313
FIG. 2 in Daily and seasonal variation in non-acoustic communicative behaviors of male greater short-nosed fruit bats (Cynopterus sphinx)
No full textFIG. 2. Inter-individual variation in the mean frequency of A — scent marking, B — wing flapping and C — open wing gesture behavior between mating and non-mating seasons. Data shown as the mean of number of attempts (± SEM) made by focal bats between two mating and two non mating seasons. Each data point represents individual focal bat (Animal ID — A to F)Published as part of Doss, D. Paramanantha Swami, Nagarajan-Radha, Venkatesh & Kandula, Sripathi, 2016, Daily and seasonal variation in non-acoustic communicative behaviors of male greater short-nosed fruit bats (Cynopterus sphinx), pp. 199-207 in Acta Chiropterologica 18 (1) on page 202, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.1.010, http://zenodo.org/record/782313
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