Defensins knowledgebase: a manually curated database and information source focused on the defensins family of antimicrobial peptides

The defensins knowledgebase is a manually curated database and information source focused on the defensin family of antimicrobial peptides. The current version of the database holds a comprehensive collection of over 350 defensin records each containing sequence, structure and activity information. A web-based interface provides access to the information and allows for text-based searching on the data fields. In addition, the website presents information on patents, grants, research laboratories and scientists, clinical studies and commercial entities pertaining to defensins. With the rapidly increasing interest in defensins, we hope that the knowledgebase will prove to be a valuable resource in the field of antimicrobial peptide research. The defensins knowledgebase is available at

A Questionnaire on "Diaspora and the Modern"

The twentieth century was deeply grooved with the trodden pathways of mass migrations. These journeys were propelled by violence and historical cataclysm: pogroms and genocides; natural and unnatural famines and disasters; land dispossession, regimes of apartheid and forced labor; revolution, war, and occupation; colonization and decolonization; and the realignments that followed in their wake. The pioneering sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois may have been the first to herald the character of the new century: Already in 1903, in his treatise The Souls of Black Folk, he situated “the color line” as the defining “problem of the twentieth century” in relation to diaspora. Theorists and writers as diverse as Georg Simmel, Paul Gilroy, E?douard Glissant, Kobena Mercer, Tony Judt, Brent Hayes Edwards, Fred Moten, Krista Thompson, Huey Copeland, and Saidiya Hartman have offered frameworks for understanding diaspora as a cultural formation inextricable from modernity itself. As their work suggests, diasporic thinking puts pressure on the ways that we have understood—and often continue to understand—both modernism and the modern. It counters linear narratives of time, geography, and memory; identities defined by national boundaries; the absence of concerns about race and the complicity that modernisms have had with regimes of power; and a vision of the modern severed from heritage or tradition. Yet despite the diasporic displacements that define the modern period, modernist studies within art history have often favored bounded narrative formations still fundamentally shaped by ideas of the individual and the nation-state as well as taxonomic categorizations according to style, movement, medium, and period. In part, these narrative choices both produce and are symptomatic of a deeply siloed field, cleaved into regional micro-domains (Americanists, Mexicanists); medium specialists (photo people and print people); and the imagined ruptures between the mod- ern and the contemporary, the modern and the postmodern, and the Western and the non-Western. Departmental structures, journals, job markets, museums, and galleries are still siloed by race, siphoned into forms of intellectual segregation that are normalized to an extraordinary degree. Art history, in other words, is divided. Given this, what should we do with the modern? The questions are many: How does attention to diasporic thinking shift our understanding of the modern—or does such thinking invalidate its historical and epistemological claims? How do we create space for the unseen and unthought? How do we write history in a mode skeptical of grand narratives that takes account of darkness as well as light? Or, following Fred Moten's explorations regarding a Black avant-garde: How do notions of avant-gardism put pressure on the ways in which we continue to understand modernism? Does the term “modernism” itself have continued viability and usefulness? If so, to what degree is diaspora—the propulsive vectors and cultural effects of multiple mass migrations—integral to it? Or are modernism and the interests of diaspora antithetical frameworks for the history of art, given what the former has historically enabled and repressed? And, finally, what methodological approaches might reveal its structuring forces in our approach to the cultural objects of the modern period? (Leah Dickerman for the Editors.

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE: FAMILY-OF-ORIGIN'S INFLUENCE ON COGNITIVE AND BEHAVIOURAL EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING

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Teach one. heal many: An online volunteer recruitment campaign for Physicians for Peace - Philippines

Physicians for Peace - Philippines (PFPP) is a non-profit organization that aims to make a difference in people\u27s lives through their flagship programs. PFPP is kept alive through the kindness of their sponsors and through the volunteers that help them during medical missions. However, their efforts to recruit new volunteers are insufficient. The researchers conducted a series of in-depth interviews with existing and potential volunteers as well as a content analysis on their website and Facebook page. It was found that their volunteer recruitment communication materials and process were ineffective due to lack of information about their volunteer program as well as the current approach to recruit volunteers is not the preferred medium of the target audiences, aged 21-40. An online volunteer recruitment campaign was proposed as a solution to alleviate the organizational communication problem

Prospects and challenges of NATO, UN and the EU in maintaining peace and stability in the post cold war international security environment

This thesis will endeavor to explain that an organization’s structure and principles, organizational funding, coordination and communication capability, military capability and relationship with the US can affect its competence in addressing the threats of terrorism. In lieu of this, three organizations and their missions will be examined namely, NATO in Afghanistan, UN in Iraq and EU in the London and Madrid Bombings

Advertising & promotion program for mediamagic

The success of a company does not just depend on developing the right product, selling it at the right price and place. Besides these, it needs to communicate its offers to the target market in order to persuade them to buy its products. Effective communication through an Advertising and Promotion (A&P) program is often a prerequisite for successful marketing. This program would distinguish the company’s products from its competitors’, which is important due to the intense competition it faces in the industry.BUSINES

A systems study on the production of battle dress attire of Sewingdale Philippines Incorporated

Executive Summary. Sewingdale Philippines Incorporated is engaged in the manufacturing of military products such as combat clothing and equipment. The study focuses on the Sewing Department particularly on the production of Battle Dress Attire. By means of the different problem analysis techniques, various areas for improvement in the company\u27s everyday operation have been identified. These are the defects, delivery delay of nylon, overdependence of AFP contracts and opportunity to export. After analyzing the problems, it was singled out that the occurrence of defects exceeds the 15% allowable rate by 4.44%. This has caused the company P 106,618.12 in terms of monetary losses from December 1998 to May 1999. In the analysis of the defect problem, it was determined that work-in-process (WIP) defects constitute 89.28% of the total number of defects from December 1998 to May of 1999. Pareto Analysis was used to address the top three defects that contribute to WIP defects. These are stitching, twisted and caught defects. The causes for stitching defects were then identified as incorrect thread tension, unacceptable cloth thickness and blunt needle, and for twisted and caught defects, the cause was incorrect machine speed. The general objective of this study is to lower the monthly defect rate such that it falls within the company\u27s allowable rate of 15%. After a thorough analysis of the results, the proposed systems that have to be adopted are new wage policy, double sampling inspection plan and maintenance schedule of needle replacement. With the proposed systems, the NPV computed using a period of 4 years, resulted to P 79,564.09

EFFECT OF AN OLIGOSACCHARIDE-PROBIOTIC PRODUCT ON THE GROWTH RATE OF PIGS IN THE PRESTARTER AND STARTER STAGES

Chua, Alfred; Aguirre, Luna; Esquivel, Cezar; Rosana, Albert; Gaza, Hazel; Abaoag, Angelito. (2008). EFFECT OF AN OLIGOSACCHARIDE-PROBIOTIC PRODUCT ON THE GROWTH RATE OF PIGS IN THE PRESTARTER AND STARTER STAGES. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/155296

Narrowband UVB-induced lichen planus pemphigoides

Lichen planus pemphigoides (LPP) is an autoimmune disease characterised by evolution of subepidermal blisters on normal and lichen planus affected skin. We describe a case of LPP in a 54-year-old Chinese woman. The patient presented with psoriasiform plaques and was diagnosed with guttate psoriasis. Narrowband ultraviolet B (NBUVB) therapy was commenced, and she experienced a generalised eruption of violaceous papules, bullae over the lower limbs, and Wickham’s striae over the buccal mucosa. Histology from a plaque revealed interface dermatitis, while a specimen from a blister showed subepidermal bulla. Direct immunofluorescence showed linear deposition of IgG and C3 along the basement membrane. A diagnosis of LPP was made on clinicopathological grounds. This is the first case report of NBUVB alone in unmasking LPP. In this case report, we describe the pathological mechanism of NBUVB in the development of LPP and key features distinguishing LPP from bullous lupus erythematosus, bullous lichen planus, bullous pemphigoid, and psoriasis