THE CONTRIBUTION OF MARINE GEOLOGY TO THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF GREECE: MARINE RESOURCES, INFRASTRUCTURE, ENVIRONMENT SUSTAINABILITY, CULTURAL HERITAGE

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Sustainable Taro Culture in the Pacific: The Farmer's Wisdom

Updated by Kristie TsudaIn 1989, the US Department of Agriculture's Low-Input Sustainable Agriculture Program funded a study of taro production systems in the American-affiliated Pacific Islands.The primary purpose of the study was to document and test traditional or current methods of crop protection, soil conservation, and maintenance of soil fertility. Insect, weed, and disease checklists were compiled, as well as informal interviews of farmers, wholesalers, retailers, and others. This handbook summarizes the information that was gathered.Publication was supported in part by a grant from the USDA/CSRS Sustainable Agriculture Research and Educati on Program (formerly called LISA). Support was also provided by American Samoa Community College, College of Micronesia, Northern Marianas College, University of Guam, and University of Hawaii under the auspices of the Agricultural Development in the American Pacific (ADAP) Project. Funded by the United States Departme nt of Agriculture Cooperative State Resea rch, Education, and Extension Service Grant 99-38826-785

Effectiveness of Stricter Vaccine Mandates in Public Schools and Childcare Centers

Vaccines have been a controversial and frequently discussed topic the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The amount of readily available information on the internet - accurate or not – has led to many theories and opinions on whether to vaccinate and why, or why not. This article discusses these theories, as well as the benefits and consequences of vaccine mandates, with the help of examples from other countries. The author argues that a federal vaccine mandate should be implemented in the United States of America so as to encourage parents to protect children through scheduled immunizations

An evaluation of two distributed deployment algorithms for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks

Deployment is important in large wireless sensor networks (WSN), specially because nodes may fall due to failure or battery issues. Mobile WSN cope with deployment and reconfiguration at the same time: nodes may move autonomously: i) to achieve a good area coverage; and ii) to distribute as homogeneously as possible. Optimal distribution is computationally expensive and implies high tra c load, so local, distributed approaches may be preferable. This paper presents an experimental evaluation of role-based and behavior based ones. Results show that the later are better, specially for a large number of nodes in areas with obstacles.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

A study of the function of hnRNP A3 in the myeloid lineage and innate immunity

Η αντίδραση της φυσικής ανοσίας σε παθογόνα περιλαμβάνει την ενεργοποίηση προ-φλεγμονωδών αντιδράσεων οι οποίες πρέπει να λυθούν όταν η απειλή δεν είναι πια παρούσα . Η επιτυχής ρύθμιση αυτών των αντιδράσεων βασίζεται στην παραγωγή και μετα-μεταγραφική ρύθμιση των mRNAs που εκφράζουν κυτταροκίνες. Οι πρωτεΐνες που δεσμεύουν RNA είναι βασικά συστατικά του μετα-μεταγραφικού ελέγχου. Σε αυτή την εργασία μελετήθηκε ο ρόλος της hnRNP A3 στη φλεγμονή. Ποντίκια με έλλειψη της hnRNP A3 στα κύτταρα της μυελώδους σειράς, που περιλαμβάνουν πολλά κύτταρα του συστήματος φυσικής ανοσίας, μολύνθηκαν επίσης με βακτηριακά παθογόνα. Σε μοριακό επίπεδο, ενεργοποιημένα μακροφάγα από αυτά τα ποντίκια παρουσίασαν αύξηση τόσο στους προ-φλεγμονώδεις, όσο και στους αντι-φλεγμονώδεις δείκτες. Τα αποτελέσματα αυτής της μελέτης υποδεικνύουν ότι η hnRNP A3 είναι αρνητικός ρυθμιστής της ενεργοποίησης των μακροφάγων.The innate immune response against pathogens involves the activation of pro-inflammatory processes that need to be resolved once the threat is removed. The successful regulation of these responses relies on the production and posttranscriptional regulation of mRNAs encoding cytokines and RNA-binding proteins are major components of this posttranscriptional control. In this project, we studied the role of the RNA-binding protein hnRNP A3 under inflammatory conditions. Mice lacking hnRNP A3 in myeloid-lineage cells, which include many cells of the innate immune system, were also infected with bacterial pathogens. At the molecular level, activated macrophages from these mice displayed upregulation of both pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory markers. The results of this study indicate that hnRNP A3 is a downregulator of macrophage activation

Constellations and anti-corridors

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2012.Page 77 blank. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-69).To perceive the many stars in the sky, corridic logic would force one to view one star at a time, one after the other in a linear order. An anti-corridic logic, on the other hand, is non-linear and permits constellations to emerge: many stars can be perceived at once and the imagination can link them into any desired figure. The space of corridors is linear: rooms are perceived and passed in a fixed sequence of one space following another. The space of anti-corridors is non-linear: rooms are dispersed into a field. Many spaces can be perceived at once and one can pass through them in any order. Desired constellations can emerge. Airports and intermodal hubs typically follow corridic logic. An airport/intermodal hub that is anti-corridic disperses all spaces into a field of options whereby individuals with different itineraries can perceive and move through a field of spatial choices resulting in ideally perceived and desired spatial constellations. This thesis proposes a prototype for an anti-corridic airport/ intermodal hub.by Andrew Ferentinos.S.M