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Site-Specific Topoisomerase I-Mediated DNA Cleavage Induced by Nogalamycin: A Potential Role of Ligand-Induced DNA Bending at a Distal Site
No full textSai Peng Sim, Daniel S. Pilch and LEroy F. Li
Ethical approaches to family planning in Africa
No full textAfrica has historically provided the geographical flashpoint of ethical issues relating to family planning programs. Until recently in Sub-Saharan Africa, advocacy of family planning by non-Africans was unacceptable and by Africans politically inadvisable. This has changed in the 1980s. The health rationale for family planning is backed by strong evidence, especially in Africa, where infant and maternal mortality and morbidity rates are high. Population growth in many African countries impedes development, which cannot keep up with needs. Earlier attempts to offer family planning aid were often politically inept and endangered the needed partnership between donor and developing countries. Theoretical arguments and abstract demographic projections are less persuasive than carefully designed programs geared to the health and well-being of communitities that help plan them. Increased cooperation between donor and developing countries has helped resolve some of the ethical difficulties that beset family planning programs. This report summarizes many of the practical, ethical and cultural considerations in making family planning aid acceptable.Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Adolescent Health,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Gender and Health,Early Child and Children's Health
History of Ban Houei Sai
No full textTranscriptions of interviews of the elders and leaders in Ban Houei Sai.Khampheng interviewed elders and leaders in Ban Houei Sai community for their recollection
Relational power and communication: praxis for educational inclusivity
No full textEducational inclusivity (EI) is used in this chapter to explore inclusive education from the perspective of people living with disability in the Global South. The Kianh Centre in Vietnam is presented as an exemplar of the supportive role that specialist education settings can play for the development of equitable learning and participation. Focussing on the communication impairments of students, EI examines relationships of communication in localized experiences at the Centre, drawing specifically on Foucault’s concept of non-hierarchical power in its facilitation. This approach moves away from universal human rights for a critical southern theory approach. A framework of communication praxis is derived to explore how human and non-human contents, in fields of communication, affect interpersonal communication to effect inclusion. Proposed as such, communication praxis provokes the researcher to explore relationships at the Kianh Centre for EI pathways recognizing the importance of interpersonal communication in education
Notes on the Economy of Houei Sai
No full textReport on the economy of Houei Sai, a Lao village, examining their expenditures, exports, imports, and population
Field Trip to Ban Houei Sai
No full textA letter from James R. Chamberlain concerning a trip to Ban Houei Sai and contact with a rural group in Pha Te
Comparison between a phenomenological approach and a morphoelasticity approach regarding the displacement of extracellular matrix
No full textPlastic (permanent) deformations were earlier, modeled by a phenomenological model in Peng and Vermolen (Biomech Model Mechanobiol 19(6):2525–2551, 2020). In this manusctipt, we consider a more physics-based formulation that is based on morphoelasticity. We firstly introduce the morphoelasticity approach and investigate the impact of various input variables on the output parameters by sensitivity analysis. A comparison of both model formulations shows that both models give similar computational results. Furthermore, we carry out Monte Carlo simulations of the skin contraction model containing the morphoelasticity approach. Most statistical correlations from the two models are similar, however, the impact of the collagen density on the severeness of contraction is larger for the morphoelasticity model than for the phenomenological model.Numerical Analysi
Book review: “With heart and voice” (<i>Fred Sai remembers</i>) by Fred T. Sai
No full text“WITH HEART AND VOICE” (FRED SAI REMEMBERS)BY FRED T. SAIPublisher: Barton, 171 Sturton St. Cambridge CB1 20G, UK Year of Publication: 2010 Binding: Paper ISBN:978-0-9563387-3-0 Number of pages: 300+i-vii Price: GHS 30.00Copies available from the author, Professor Fred Sai or the publisher at [email protected]
[[alternative]]The study of the ocean sport’s attraction, service quality and behavioral consequences in Peng-hu
No full text[[abstract]]The main purpose of this study were to explore the relations between the ocean sport’s attraction, service quality and behavioral consequences in Peng-hu. The researcher applied the questionnaire of “the ocean sport’s attraction, service quality and behavioral consequences in Peng-hu “ and I drew 500 visitors as the research samples who participated in ocean sports in Peng-hu during August and September in 2005. The data collected from valid questionnaires were analyzed by descriptive statistics, Pearson’s product moment correlation, stepwise multiple regression analysis and canonical correlation analysis. The results are as followed:
1. The ocean sports in Peng-hu attracted visitors to a certain degree and the whole service quality is comfortable to them.
2. The relationship between the ocean sport’s attraction and service quality in Peng-hu was positive to a certain degree, and the higher service quality is, the greater ocean sport’s attraction in Peng-hu is.
3. Within each factors of the ocean sport’s attraction and the service quality, “the specialty of designing activity “and “the comfort of the environment “ had the best prediction to the loyalty of behavioral consequences; “advertisement and spread of the main activity” and “personal requirement” explain “better than any other factors.
4. The canonical correlation analysis of the study was the ocean sport’s attraction and service quality in Peng-hu have a high and positive correlation with the loyalty of behavioral consequences; the ocean sport’s attraction in Peng-hu has a moderate and positive correlation with the tendency of complaint of behavioral consequences.
Based on the results, we suggest the related organizations should:（1）strengthen the diversity of activity and develop package route of travel;（2）enforce the communication of information and promote the quality of complementary service;（3）integrate the resources and set up conservation area to build the continuous managing mold of ocean sport’s tourism.
For further research in the future: incorporate the follow-up issue of ocean sport’s tourism with profound interview and pay equal attention to qualitative research and quantitative research. Extending the subjects to related organization administrators、managers and dealers、local people and foreign tourist etc. and proceeding a comprehensive research.
Haphsa sita Wang & Peng & Wei 2021, comb. n.
No full text4. Haphsa sita (Distant, 1881) comb. n. Cosmopsaltria sita Distant, 1881: 636. Khimbya sita Distant, 1906: 141. Changa sita Lee, 2016: 596. Haphsa stellata Lee, 2009b: 335; Lee, 2016: 596. Distribution. China (Guangxi), India, Vietnam. Remarks. This species was formerly attributed to Changa as the type species by Lee (2016), and the same author synonymized H. stellata Lee, 2009 with Changa sita (Distant, 1881) (Lee, 2016). In the present paper, we remove it to Haphsa based on morphological characterization and phylogenetic analysis (Fig. 4). Lee (2016) also transferred H. jsguillotsi (Boulard, 2005) to Changa, but we confirm it is a member of Haphsa (see below). Accordingly, Changa Lee, 2016 syn. n. is synonymized with Haphsa.Published as part of Wang, Siyue, Peng, Xiaodong & Wei, Cong, 2021, A review of the cicada genus Haphsa Distant, 1905 with the description of one new species from China (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) and a phylogenetic analysis of Haphsa and its allies, pp. 523-538 in Zootaxa 4991 (3) on page 530, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4991.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/504258
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