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    Kerjasama Antar Notaris dalam Bentuk Persekutuan Perdata

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    Berlakunya Undang-Undang Nomor 30 Tahun 2004 tentang Jabatan Notaris (untuk selanjutnya disebut UUJN) melahirkan perkembangan hukum di bidang kenotariatan yaitu perserikatan perdata sebagai bentuk kerjasama antar Notaris sebagaimana di atur dalam Pasal 20. Menindaklanjuti Pasal 20 ayat (3) UUJN, diterbitkanlah Peraturan Menteri Hukum dan Hak Asasi Manusia Republik Indonesia Nomor M.HH.01.02.12 Tahun 2010 tentang Persyaratan Menjalankan Jabatan Notaris Dalam Bentuk Perserikatan Perdata. Permasalahan muncul ketika diundangkannya Undang-Undang Nomor 2 Tahun 2014 tentang Perubahan Atas Undang-Undang Nomor 30 Tahun 2004 tentang Jabatan Notaris (untuk selanjutnya disebut UUJN-P) yang menghapus ketentuan Pasal 20 ayat (3) UUJN dengan menimbulkan akibat hukum bahwa ketentuan lebih lanjut sebagaimana Peraturan Menteri Hukum dan Hak Asasi Manusia Republik Indonesia Nomor M.HH.01.02.12 Tahun 2010 tidak lagi berlaku. Peraturan pelaksana ini sesungguhnya sangat diperlukan, mengingat dalam Pasal 20 maupun dalam Penjelasan Pasal 20 UUJN-P ini tidak memberikan definisi yang konkrit mengenai persekutuan perdata. Hasil dari penelitian ini dapat disimpulkan karakteristik persekutuan perdata Notaris yang diatur dalam UUJN-P adalah persekutuan yang bertujuan tidak menjalankan Perusahaan dalam artian komersil dan keuntungan bukan menjadi orientasi bagi para Notaris yang bergabung dalam persekutuan perdata Notaris. Persekutuan perdata Notaris ini merupakan kantor bersama. Klien yang datang pada persekutuan perdata Notaris, nantinya akan menghadap pada salah satu Notaris yang tergabung di dalam persekutuan perdata Notaris tersebut, sehingga yang bertanggung jawab terhadap klien tersebut adalah Notaris yang bersangkutan

    Changes in climate extremes, fresh water availability and vulnerability to food insecurity projected at 1.5°C and 2°C global warming with a higher-resolution global climate model

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    This is the final version. Available on open access from the Royal Society via the DOI in this recordData accessibility: This article has no additional data.We projected changes in weather extremes, hydrological impacts and vulnerability to food insecurity at global warming of 1.5°C and 2°C relative to pre-industrial, using a new global atmospheric general circulation model HadGEM3A-GA3.0 driven by patterns of sea-surface temperatures and sea ice from selected members of the 5th Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) ensemble, forced with the RCP8.5 concentration scenario. To provide more detailed representations of climate processes and impacts, the spatial resolution was N216 (approx. 60 km grid length in mid-latitudes), a higher resolution than the CMIP5 models. We used a set of impacts-relevant indices and a global land surface model to examine the projected changes in weather extremes and their implications for freshwater availability and vulnerability to food insecurity. Uncertainties in regional climate responses are assessed, examining ranges of outcomes in impacts to inform risk assessments. Despite some degree of inconsistency between components of the study due to the need to correct for systematic biases in some aspects, the outcomes from different ensemble members could be compared for several different indicators. The projections for weather extremes indices and biophysical impacts quantities support expectations that the magnitude of change is generally larger for 2°C global warming than 1.5°C. Hot extremes become even hotter, with increases being more intense than seen in CMIP5 projections. Precipitation-related extremes show more geographical variation with some increases and some decreases in both heavy precipitation and drought. There are substantial regional uncertainties in hydrological impacts at local scales due to different climate models producing different outcomes. Nevertheless, hydrological impacts generally point towards wetter conditions on average, with increased mean river flows, longer heavy rainfall events, particularly in South and East Asia with the most extreme projections suggesting more than a doubling of flows in the Ganges at 2°C global warming. Some areas are projected to experience shorter meteorological drought events and less severe low flows, although longer droughts and/or decreases in low flows are projected in many other areas, particularly southern Africa and South America. Flows in the Amazon are projected to decline by up to 25%. Increases in either heavy rainfall or drought events imply increased vulnerability to food insecurity, but if global warming is limited to 1.5°C, this vulnerability is projected to remain smaller than at 2°C global warming in approximately 76% of developing countries. At 2°C, four countries are projected to reach unprecedented levels of vulnerability to food insecurity. This article is part of the theme issue 'The Paris Agreement: understanding the physical and social challenges for a warming world of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels'.European Union FP7Joint UK BEIS/Defra Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programm

    Crystal structure of the membrane attack complex assembly inhibitor BGA71 from the Lyme disease agent Borrelia bavariensis

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    Funding Information: This work was supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) grant Nr. 1.1.1.2/VIAA/1/16/144 “Structural and functional studies of Lyme disease agent Borrelia burgdorferi outer surface proteins to reveal the mechanisms of pathogenesis with the intention to create a new vaccine”. Diffraction data have been collected on BL14.1 at the BESSY II electron storage ring operated by the Helmholtz-Zentrum, Berlin. We would particularly like to acknowledge the help and support of Manfred S. Weiss and Christian Feiler during the experiment. Publisher Copyright: © 2018, The Author(s).Borrelia (B.) bavariensis, B. burgdorferi, B. afzelii, B. garinii, B. spielmanii, and B. mayonii are the causative agents in Lyme disease. Lyme disease spirochetes reside in infected Ixodes ticks and are transferred to mammalian hosts during tick feeding. Once transmitted, spirochetes must overcome the first line of defense of the innate immune system either by binding complement regulators or by terminating the formation of the membrane attack complex (MAC). In B. bavariensis, the proteins BGA66 and BGA71 inhibit complement activation by interacting with the late complement components C7, C8, and C9, as well as with the formed MAC. In this study, we have determined the crystal structure of the potent MAC inhibitor BGA71 at 2.9 Ǻ resolution. The structure revealed a cysteine cross-linked homodimer. Based on the crystal structure of BGA71 and the structure-based sequence alignment with CspA from B. burgdorferi, we have proposed a potential binding site for C7 and C9, both of which are constituents of the formed MAC. Our results shed light on the molecular mechanism of immune evasion developed by the human pathogenic Borrelia species to overcome innate immunity. These results will aid in the understanding of Lyme disease pathogenesis and pave the way for the development of new strategies to prevent Lyme disease.publishersversionPeer reviewe

    Coulomb breakup of neutron-rich 29,30^{29,30}Na isotopes near the island of inversion

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    First results are reported on the ground state configurations of the neutron-rich 29,30^{29,30}Na isotopes, obtained via Coulomb dissociation (CD) measurements as a method of the direct probe. The invariant mass spectra of those nuclei have been obtained through measurement of the four-momentum of all decay products after Coulomb excitation on a 208Pb^{208}Pb target at energies of 400-430 MeV/nucleon using FRS-ALADIN-LAND setup at GSI, Darmstadt. Integrated Coulomb-dissociation cross-sections (CD) of 89 (7)(7) mb and 167 (13)(13) mb up to excitation energy of 10 MeV for one neutron removal from 29^{29}Na and 30^{30}Na respectively, have been extracted. The major part of one neutron removal, CD cross-sections of those nuclei populate core, in its' ground state. A comparison with the direct breakup model, suggests the predominant occupation of the valence neutron in the ground state of 29^{29}Na(3/2+){(3/2^+)} and 30^{30}Na(2+){(2^+)} is the dd orbital with small contribution in the ss-orbital which are coupled with ground state of the core. The ground state configurations of these nuclei are as 28^{28}Na_{gs (1^+)\otimes\nu_{s,d} and 29^{29}Nags(3/2+)νs,d_{gs}(3/2^+)\otimes\nu_{ s,d}, respectively. The ground state spin and parity of these nuclei, obtained from this experiment are in agreement with earlier reported values. The spectroscopic factors for the valence neutron occupying the ss and dd orbitals for these nuclei in the ground state have been extracted and reported for the first time. A comparison of the experimental findings with the shell model calculation using MCSM suggests a lower limit of around 4.3 MeV of the sd-pf shell gap in 30^{30}Na.Comment: Modified version of the manuscript is accepted for publication in Journal of Physics G, Jan., 201

    Reassessing changes in diurnal temperature range: Intercomparison and evaluation of existing global data set estimates

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    Changes in diurnal temperature range (DTR) over global land areas are compared from a broad range of independent data sets. All data sets agree that global-mean DTR has decreased significantly since 1950, with most of that decrease occurring over 1960–1980. The since-1979 trends are not significant, with inter-data set disagreement even over the sign of global changes. Inter-data set spread becomes greater regionally and in particular at the grid box level. Despite this, there is general agreement that DTR decreased in North America, Europe, and Australia since 1951, with this decrease being partially reversed over Australia and Europe since the early 1980s. There is substantive disagreement between data sets prior to the middle of the twentieth century, particularly over Europe, which precludes making any meaningful conclusions about DTR changes prior to 1950, either globally or regionally. Several variants that undertake a broad range of approaches to postprocessing steps of gridding and interpolation were analyzed for two of the data sets. These choices have a substantial influence in data sparse regions or periods. The potential of further insights is therefore inextricably linked with the efficacy of data rescue and digitization for maximum and minimum temperature series prior to 1950 everywhere and in data sparse regions throughout the period of record. Over North America, station selection and homogeneity assessment is the primary determinant. Over Europe, where the basic station data are similar, the postprocessing choices are dominant. We assess that globally averaged DTR has decreased since the middle twentieth century but that this decrease has not been linear

    The bipolar disorder risk allele at CACNA1C also confers risk of recurrent major depression and of schizophrenia

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    Molecular genetic analysis offers opportunities to advance our understanding of the nosological relationship between psychiatric diagnostic categories in general, and the mood and psychotic disorders in particular. Strong evidence (P=7.0 × 10−7) of association at the polymorphism rs1006737 (within CACNA1C, the gene encoding the α-1C subunit of the L-type voltage-gated calcium channel) with the risk of bipolar disorder (BD) has recently been reported in a meta-analysis of three genome-wide association studies of BD, including our BD sample (N=1868) studied within the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium. Here, we have used our UK case samples of recurrent major depression (N=1196) and schizophrenia (N=479) and UK non-psychiatric comparison groups (N=15316) to examine the spectrum of phenotypic effect of the bipolar risk allele at rs1006737. We found that the risk allele conferred increased risk for schizophrenia (P=0.034) and recurrent major depression (P=0.013) with similar effect sizes to those previously observed in BD (allelic odds ratio ∼1.15). Our findings are evidence of some degree of overlap in the biological underpinnings of susceptibility to mental illness across the clinical spectrum of mood and psychotic disorders, and show that at least some loci can have a relatively general effect on susceptibility to diagnostic categories, as currently defined. Our findings will contribute to a better understanding of the pathogenesis of major psychiatric illness, and such knowledge should be useful in providing an etiological rationale for shaping psychiatric nosology, which is currently reliant entirely on descriptive clinical data

    An Integrated TCGA Pan-Cancer Clinical Data Resource to Drive High-Quality Survival Outcome Analytics

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    For a decade, The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) program collected clinicopathologic annotation data along with multi-platform molecular profiles of more than 11,000 human tumors across 33 different cancer types. TCGA clinical data contain key features representing the democratized nature of the data collection process. To ensure proper use of this large clinical dataset associated with genomic features, we developed a standardized dataset named the TCGA Pan-Cancer Clinical Data Resource (TCGA-CDR), which includes four major clinical outcome endpoints. In addition to detailing major challenges and statistical limitations encountered during the effort of integrating the acquired clinical data, we present a summary that includes endpoint usage recommendations for each cancer type. These TCGA-CDR findings appear to be consistent with cancer genomics studies independent of the TCGA effort and provide opportunities for investigating cancer biology using clinical correlates at an unprecedented scale. Analysis of clinicopathologic annotations for over 11,000 cancer patients in the TCGA program leads to the generation of TCGA Clinical Data Resource, which provides recommendations of clinical outcome endpoint usage for 33 cancer types

    Diversity and Relatedness Enhance Survival in Colour Polymorphic Grasshoppers

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    Evolutionary theory predicts that different resource utilization and behaviour by alternative phenotypes may reduce competition and enhance productivity and individual performance in polymorphic, as compared with monomorphic, groups of individuals. However, firm evidence that members of more heterogeneous groups benefit from enhanced survival has been scarce or lacking. Furthermore, benefits associated with phenotypic diversity may be counterbalanced by costs mediated by reduced relatedness, since closely related individuals typically are more similar. Pygmy grasshoppers (Tetrix subulata) are characterized by extensive polymorphism in colour pattern, morphology, behaviour and physiology. We studied experimental groups founded by different numbers of mothers and found that survival was higher in low than in high density, that survival peaked at intermediate colour morph diversity in high density, and that survival was independent of diversity in low density where competition was less intense. We further demonstrate that survival was enhanced by relatedness, as expected if antagonistic and competitive interactions are discriminately directed towards non-siblings. We therefore also performed behavioural observations and staged encounters which confirmed that individuals recognized and responded differently to siblings than to non-siblings. We conclude that negative effects associated with competition are less manifest in diverse groups, that there is conflicting selection for and against genetic diversity occurring simultaneously, and that diversity and relatedness may facilitate the productivity and ecological success of groups of interacting individuals
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