Supporting the planning of a community fisheries monitoring and evaluation database: a collaborative project undertaken by CFDO, FLD, STREAM, VSO and AYAD

Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in the world; much of its population live in rural areas and many live below the local poverty line. The management of common property aquatic resources is of over-riding importance to food security and sustainable rural development in Cambodia. Aquatic resources are utilized principally by subsistence fishers and the landless, for whom aquatic resource use is an important livelihood activity. Subsistence fishers access mainly the rivers, lakes and inundated forests in Tonle Sap provinces, the lower Mekong and Bassac regions and the upper part of the Mekong. Freshwater capture fisheries probably contribute more to national food security and the national economy in Cambodia than in any other country in the world. (PDF contains 52 pages

Fe and N self-diffusion in non-magnetic Fe:N

Fe and N self-diffusion in non-magnetic FeN has been studied using neutron reflectivity. The isotope labelled multilayers, FeN/57Fe:N and Fe:N/Fe:15N were prepared using magnetron sputtering. It was remarkable to observe that N diffusion was slower compared to Fe while the atomic size of Fe is larger compared to N. An attempt has been made to understand the diffusion of Fe and N in non-magnetic Fe:N

ICP-OES Analysis of Samanya and Vishesha Shodhita Loha

Rasashastra is a science which deals with metals and minerals and their therapeutic effects. These can cause hazardous effects if not purified. Purificatory procedures can be generally classified into two, namely – Samanya Shodhana and Vishesha Shodhana. In this study, reference from Rasatarangini was adopted for Samanya and Vishesha Shodhana of Loha. The Analysis of Raw sample of iron, Samanya Shoditha Loha and Vishesha shoditha Loha was done to analyse the difference physically and chemically by ICP-OES method. The discussions are made on the Shodhana procedures and results obtained with giving probable reasons. From Samanya and Vishesha Shodhana of Loha it is evident that the particle size was reducing drastically after each procedure making it more brittle and fine. There were many changes observed from the raw sample of Loha to the Vishesha shodhita Loha physically and analytically. Thus we can adopt Samanya Shodhana, Vishesha Shodhana or together depending on the requirement

Scripts and Minoritarian Subjectivity: Examining Ambivalence and Asian Diasporas in Kim Jee-woon’s The Good, The Bad, The Weird, Kim Fu’s For Today I Am a Boy, and R. Zamora Linmark’s Rolling the R’s

This thesis explores the roles of scripts in shaping minoritarian subjectivity through Kim Jee-woon’s film The Good, The Bad, The Weird (2008), Kim Fu’s novel For Today I Am a Boy (2014), and R. Zamora Linmark’s novel Rolling the R’s (1995). In all three works, diasporic characters of Asian descent express ambivalence towards hegemonic forces and mimic existing film and television scripts that uphold whiteness and heterosexuality. However, rather than becoming whitewashed from mimicking those scripts, these characters retain their minoritarian subjectivity as exiles and racialized queer subjects. I argue that scripts do not necessarily trap minorities into normative structures, but instead the faithful reenactment of scripts through remaking films and mimicry can be used to undermine hegemonic forces when used to express Otherness and diaspora. In my first chapter, I link The Good, The Bad, The Weird’s ambivalent tone with melancholia related to the Korean diaspora. Using David Eng’s work on melancholia, I reveal how the film’s titular characters treat colonized Korea as a lost object in scenes where Korea is discussed or presented through flashbacks. Drawing from Constantine Verevis’ Film Remakes, I also explore how The Good, The Bad, The Weird is a transformed remake of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) and how changes to the latter’s semantic elements help incorporate the Korean diaspora into the former’s narrative. These changes demonstrate how cultural contexts could be transfigured between works to illustrate minoritarian subjectivity. In my second chapter, I examine how and why For Today I Am a Boy and Rolling the R’s racialized queer characters mimic white heterosexual scripts while also retaining their alterity and undermining those scripts. I pair Sara Ahmed’s The Cultural Politics of Emotion with For Today I Am a Boy to outline ways heterosexual scripts shape queer bodies through affect. I also use Homi Bhabha’s model of colonial mimicry to argue that white heterosexual scripts will partially fail when the Other tries to mimic normative film and television scripts. In my analysis of Rolling the R’s, I argue that the novel presents ways racialized queer subjects could disrupt normative spaces, appropriate white icons, and express same-sex desires through mimicry. Because these three works differ in form and relevant theories, this thesis presents a wide applicability of scripts in analyzing diaspora, melancholia’s ambivalence, and minoritarian subjectivity

Human islets expressing HNF1A variant have defective beta cell transcriptional regulatory networks

Using an integrated approach to characterize the pancreatic tissue and isolated islets from a 33-year-old with 17 years of type 1 diabetes (T1D), we found that donor islets contained beta cells without insulitis and lacked glucose-stimulated insulin secretion despite a normal insulin response to cAMP-evoked stimulation. With these unexpected findings for T1D, we sequenced the donor DNA and found a pathogenic heterozygous variant in the gene encoding hepatocyte nuclear factor-1alpha (HNF1A). In one of the first studies of human pancreatic islets with a disease-causing HNF1A variant associated with the most common form of monogenic diabetes, we found that HNF1A dysfunction leads to insulin-insufficient diabetes reminiscent of T1D by impacting the regulatory processes critical for glucose-stimulated insulin secretion and suggest a rationale for a therapeutic alternative to current treatment

Nanocrystallization and Amorphization Induced by Reactive Nitrogen Sputtering in Iron and Permalloy

Thin films of iron and permalloy Ni80Fe20 were prepared using an Ar+N2 mixture with magnetron sputtering technique at ambient temperature. The nitrogen partial pressure, during sputtering process was varied in the range of 0 to 100%, keeping the total gas flow at constant. At lower nitrogen pressures RN2<33% both Fe and NiFe, first form a nanocrystalline structure and an increase in nitrogen partail pressure results in formation of an amorphous structure. At intermediate nitrogen partial pressures, nitrides of Fe and NiFe were obtained while at even higher nitrogen partial pressures, nitrides themselves became nanocrystalline or amorphous. The surface, structural and magnetic properties of the deposited films were studied using x-ray reflection and diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, polarized neutron reflectivity and using a DC extraction magnetometer. The growth behavior for amorphous film was found different as compared with poly or nanocrystalline films. The soft-magnetic properties of FeN were improved on nanocrystallization while those of NiFeN were degraded. A mechanism inducing nanocrystallization and amorphization in Fe and NiFe due to reactive nitrogen sputtering is discussed in the present article.Comment: 13 Pages, 15 Figure

Sprouty2 loss‐induced IL6 drives castration‐resistant prostate cancer through scavenger receptor B1

Metastatic castration‐resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) is a lethal form of treatment‐resistant prostate cancer and poses significant therapeutic challenges. Deregulated receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) signalling mediated by loss of tumour suppressor Sprouty2 (SPRY2) is associated with treatment resistance. Using pre‐clinical human and murine mCRPC models, we show that SPRY2 deficiency leads to an androgen self‐sufficient form of CRPC. Mechanistically, HER2‐IL6 signalling axis enhances the expression of androgen biosynthetic enzyme HSD3B1 and increases SRB1‐mediated cholesterol uptake in SPRY2‐deficient tumours. Systemically, IL6 elevated the levels of circulating cholesterol by inducing host adipose lipolysis and hepatic cholesterol biosynthesis. SPRY2‐deficient CRPC is dependent on cholesterol bioavailability and SRB1‐mediated tumoral cholesterol uptake for androgen biosynthesis. Importantly, treatment with ITX5061, a clinically safe SRB1 antagonist, decreased treatment resistance. Our results indicate that cholesterol transport blockade may be effective against SPRY2‐deficient CRPC

IoT and image processing Techniques-Based Smart Sericulture Nature System

Silkworms are reared for the production of raw silk in sericulture. Sericulture’s main tasks include growing food plants to feed silkworms, spinning silk cocoons, and reeling the cocoons to unwind the silk thread for value-added services such processing and weaving. The Smart Sericulture paper provides a clear picture of technical innovation in underperforming agricultural branches such as sericulture, as well as an explanation of the system and strategies that can be used to improve sericulture quality and production. The intricate procedure of monitoring environmental indicators such as humidity, temperature, and rain, as well as the health of the silkworm, will be presented in this brief communication