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    Peranan Pejabat Pembuat Akta Tanah (Ppat) Dalam Pembayaran Pajak Bea Perolehan Hak Atas Tanah Dan Bangunan (Bphtb) Atas Transaksi Jual Beli Tanah Dan/atau Bangunan Di Kabupaten Samosir

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    Legal act on land and building rights acquisition must have AJB made by and before PPAT who has the authority to organize land and building transact. Based on Article 91, paragraphs 1 and 3 of Law on PDRD, a PPAT can only sign Transact Certificate after a taxpayer submits the evidence of tax payment. Otherwise, a sanction will be imposed upon him, based on Article 93, paragraphs 1 and 3 juncto Article 11, paragraphs 1 and 3 of Perda of Samosir Regency Number. 9/2011 on BPHTB. PPAT has to be liable for supervising BPHTB tax payment. the sanction when he fails to do his job in supervising of BPHTB tax payment in Samosir Regency varies. However, in Law Number. 28/2009 on PDRD juncto Perda of Samosir Regency Number. 9/2011 on BPHTB does not strictly regulate legal procedure on the sanctio

    Failure of vaccination to prevent outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease

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    Outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease persist in dairy cattle herds in Saudi Arabia despite revaccination at intervals of 4-6 months. Vaccine trials provide data on antibody responses following vaccination. Using this information we developed a mathematical model of the decay of protective antibodies with which we estimated the fraction of susceptible animals at a given time after vaccination. The model describes the data well, suggesting over 95% take with an antibody half-life of 43 days. Farm records provided data on the time course of five outbreaks. We applied a 'SLIR' epidemiological model to these data, fitting a single parameter representing disease transmission rate. The analysis provides estimates of the basic reproduction number R(0), which may exceed 70 in some cases. We conclude that the critical intervaccination interval which would provide herd immunity against FMDV is unrealistically short, especially for heterologous challenge. We suggest that it may not be possible to prevent foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks on these farms using currently available vaccines

    AdaGide: A Friendly Introductory Programming Environment for a Freshman Computer

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    We have recently transitioned the programming language in our In~oduction to Computer Science course at the U.S. Air Force Academy from Pascal to Ada. Providing an intuitive and straightforward Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Ada that is suitable for freshman use has been one of our greatest challenges. Although we recognize that a number of Ada IDEs are available, these IDEs do not seem to be designed for beginning programmers. Most of them are either too expensive for students to purchase or are designed for development of large programming projects, carrying significant overhead for the small programs we require in our freshman course. Error messages tend to be fairly complicated, assuming a relatively thorough understanding of the language syntax and semantics. Finally, both commercial and free IDEs can have extensive lead time for bug fix development and are not readily extensible. These concerns led us to develop a Windows 95 Ada IDE that is free to the students, contains the appropriate level of functionality for our freshman course, has a minimal, lead time for bug ~x development (since we maintain the code in-house), and can be easily extended to contain additional help for the students. Because we implemented this environment in Ada we can also demonstrate to our students that Ada is applicable to real, large projects, and its usefulness is not limited to the small programs they create in the freshman course. This paper describes our preliminary experrience with this environment. The next section briefly describes the IDE and the third section lists a number of issues we have faced trying to interface to Windows 95. The fourth and fifth sections discuss student and faculty reaction to and use of the environment. The final section presents our conclusions and our plans for future enhancements to the ]DE

    Two-dimensional core–shell donor–acceptor assemblies at metal–organic interfaces promoted by surface-mediated charge transfer

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    Organic charge transfer (CT) complexes obtained by combining molecular electron donors and acceptors have attracted much interest due to their potential applications in organic opto-electronic devices. In order to work, these systems must have an electronic matching – the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) of the donor must couple with the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) of the acceptor – and a structural matching, so as to allow direct intermolecular CT. Here it is shown that, when molecules are adsorbed on a metal surface, novel molecular organizations driven by surface-mediated CT can appear that have no counterpart in condensed phase non-covalent assemblies of donor and acceptor molecules. By means of scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy it is demonstrated that the electronic and self-assembly properties of an electron acceptor molecule can change dramatically in the presence of an additional molecular species with marked electron donor character, leading to the formation of unprecedented core–shell assemblies. DFT and classical force-field simulations reveal that this is a consequence of charge transfer from the donor to the acceptor molecules mediated by the metallic substrate

    Intra-articular Injection of HB-IGF-1 Sustains Delivery of IGF-1 to Cartilage through Binding to Chondroitin Sulfate

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    Objective: Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) stimulates cartilage repair but is not a practical therapy due to its short half-life. We have previously modified IGF-1 by adding a heparin-binding domain and have shown that this fusion protein (HB-IGF-1) stimulates sustained proteoglycan synthesis in cartilage. This study was undertaken to examine the mechanism by which HB-IGF-1 is retained in cartilage and to test whether HB-IGF-1 provides sustained growth factor delivery to cartilage in vivo and to human cartilage explants. Methods: Retention of HB-IGF-1 and IGF-1 was analyzed by Western blotting. The necessity of heparan sulfate (HS) or chondroitin sulfate (CS) glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) for binding was tested using enzymatic removal and cells with genetic deficiency of HS. Binding affinities of HB-IGF-1 and IGF-1 proteins for isolated GAGs were examined by surface plasmon resonance and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Results: In cartilage explants, chondroitinase treatment decreased binding of HB-IGF-1, whereas heparitinase had no effect. Furthermore, HS was not necessary for HB-IGF-1 retention on cell monolayers. Binding assays showed that HB-IGF-1 bound both CS and HS, whereas IGF-1 did not bind either. After intraarticular injection in rat knees, HB-IGF-1 was retained in articular and meniscal cartilage, but not in tendon, consistent with enhanced delivery to CS-rich cartilage. Finally, HB-IGF-1 was retained in human cartilage explants but IGF-1 was not. Conclusion: Our findings indicate that after intraarticular injection in rats, HB-IGF-1 is specifically retained in cartilage through its high abundance of CS. Modification of growth factors with heparin-binding domains may be a new strategy for sustained and specific local delivery to cartilage.National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (U.S.) (Grant EB-003805)National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (U.S.) (Grant AR-045779

    Cyclic peptide production using a macrocyclase with enhanced substrate promiscuity and relaxed recognition determinants

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    This project was supported by grants from the ERC (no. 339367, MJ), BBSRC IBCatalyst (no. BB/M028526/1, MJ, WEH), BBSRC FoF (no. BB/M013669/1, MJ, WEH), IBioIC Exemplar (no. 2014-2-4, MJ, WEH), an AstraZeneca studentship (MJ, WEH, LT, KR), the Academy of Finland (no. 259505, DPF) and the SULSA leaders award (WEH). The authors like to thank the Aberdeen Proteomics Facility and the Aberdeen School of Natural and Computing Sciences MS Facility for LCMS analysis. Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Experimental section, Fig. S1–S60 and Tables S1–S3. See DOI: 10.1039/c7cc05913bPeer reviewedPublisher PD

    Cryotomography of budding influenza a virus reveals filaments with diverse morphologies that mostly do not bear a genome at their distal end

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    Influenza viruses exhibit striking variations in particle morphology between strains. Clinical isolates of influenza A virus have been shown to produce long filamentous particles while laboratory-adapted strains are predominantly spherical. However, the role of the filamentous phenotype in the influenza virus infectious cycle remains undetermined. We used cryo-electron tomography to conduct the first three-dimensional study of filamentous virus ultrastructure in particles budding from infected cells. Filaments were often longer than 10 microns and sometimes had bulbous heads at their leading ends, some of which contained tubules we attribute to M1 while none had recognisable ribonucleoprotein (RNP) and hence genome segments. Long filaments that did not have bulbs were infrequently seen to bear an ordered complement of RNPs at their distal ends. Imaging of purified virus also revealed diverse filament morphologies; short rods (bacilliform virions) and longer filaments. Bacilliform virions contained an ordered complement of RNPs while longer filamentous particles were narrower and mostly appeared to lack this feature, but often contained fibrillar material along their entire length. The important ultrastructural differences between these diverse classes of particles raise the possibility of distinct morphogenetic pathways and functions during the infectious process

    What Do We Think We Think We Are Doing?: Metacognition and Self-Regulation in Programming

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    Metacognition and self-regulation are popular areas of interest in programming education, and they have been extensively researched outside of computing. While computing education researchers should draw upon this prior work, programming education is unique enough that we should explore the extent to which prior work applies to our context. The goal of this systematic review is to support research on metacognition and self-regulation in programming education by synthesizing relevant theories, measurements, and prior work on these topics. By reviewing papers that mention metacognition or self-regulation in the context of programming, we aim to provide a benchmark of our current progress towards understanding these topics and recommendations for future research. In our results, we discuss eight common theories that are widely used outside of computing education research, half of which are commonly used in computing education research. We also highlight 11 theories on related constructs (e.g., self-efficacy) that have been used successfully to understand programming education. Towards measuring metacognition and self-regulation in learners, we discuss seven instruments and protocols that have been used and highlight their strengths and weaknesses. To benchmark the current state of research, we examined papers that primarily studied metacognition and self-regulation in programming education and synthesize the reported interventions used and results from that research. While the primary intended contribution of this paper is to support research, readers will also learn about developing and supporting metacognition and self-regulation of students in programming courses
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