Penilaian Kinerja Keuangan Koperasi di Kabupaten Pelalawan

This paper describe development and financial performance of cooperative in District Pelalawan among 2007 - 2008. Studies on primary and secondary cooperative in 12 sub-districts. Method in this stady use performance measuring of productivity, efficiency, growth, liquidity, and solvability of cooperative. Productivity of cooperative in Pelalawan was highly but efficiency still low. Profit and income were highly, even liquidity of cooperative very high, and solvability was good

Juxtaposing BTE and ATE – on the role of the European insurance industry in funding civil litigation

One of the ways in which legal services are financed, and indeed shaped, is through private insurance arrangement. Two contrasting types of legal expenses insurance contracts (LEI) seem to dominate in Europe: before the event (BTE) and after the event (ATE) legal expenses insurance. Notwithstanding institutional differences between different legal systems, BTE and ATE insurance arrangements may be instrumental if government policy is geared towards strengthening a market-oriented system of financing access to justice for individuals and business. At the same time, emphasizing the role of a private industry as a keeper of the gates to justice raises issues of accountability and transparency, not readily reconcilable with demands of competition. Moreover, multiple actors (clients, lawyers, courts, insurers) are involved, causing behavioural dynamics which are not easily predicted or influenced. Against this background, this paper looks into BTE and ATE arrangements by analysing the particularities of BTE and ATE arrangements currently available in some European jurisdictions and by painting a picture of their respective markets and legal contexts. This allows for some reflection on the performance of BTE and ATE providers as both financiers and keepers. Two issues emerge from the analysis that are worthy of some further reflection. Firstly, there is the problematic long-term sustainability of some ATE products. Secondly, the challenges faced by policymakers that would like to nudge consumers into voluntarily taking out BTE LEI

Severe early onset preeclampsia: short and long term clinical, psychosocial and biochemical aspects

Preeclampsia is a pregnancy specific disorder commonly defined as de novo hypertension and proteinuria after 20 weeks gestational age. It occurs in approximately 3-5% of pregnancies and it is still a major cause of both foetal and maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide1. As extensive research has not yet elucidated the aetiology of preeclampsia, there are no rational preventive or therapeutic interventions available. The only rational treatment is delivery, which benefits the mother but is not in the interest of the foetus, if remote from term. Early onset preeclampsia (<32 weeks’ gestational age) occurs in less than 1% of pregnancies. It is, however often associated with maternal morbidity as the risk of progression to severe maternal disease is inversely related with gestational age at onset2. Resulting prematurity is therefore the main cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity in patients with severe preeclampsia3. Although the discussion is ongoing, perinatal survival is suggested to be increased in patients with preterm preeclampsia by expectant, non-interventional management. This temporising treatment option to lengthen pregnancy includes the use of antihypertensive medication to control hypertension, magnesium sulphate to prevent eclampsia and corticosteroids to enhance foetal lung maturity4. With optimal maternal haemodynamic status and reassuring foetal condition this results on average in an extension of 2 weeks. Prolongation of these pregnancies is a great challenge for clinicians to balance between potential maternal risks on one the eve hand and possible foetal benefits on the other. Clinical controversies regarding prolongation of preterm preeclamptic pregnancies still exist – also taking into account that preeclampsia is the leading cause of maternal mortality in the Netherlands5 - a debate which is even more pronounced in very preterm pregnancies with questionable foetal viability6-9. Do maternal risks of prolongation of these very early pregnancies outweigh the chances of neonatal survival? Counselling of women with very early onset preeclampsia not only comprises of knowledge of the outcome of those particular pregnancies, but also knowledge of outcomes of future pregnancies of these women is of major clinical importance. This thesis opens with a review of the literature on identifiable risk factors of preeclampsia

Measurement of associated W plus charm production in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV

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Discutindo a educação ambiental no cotidiano escolar: desenvolvimento de projetos na escola formação inicial e continuada de professores

A presente pesquisa buscou discutir como a Educação Ambiental (EA) vem sendo trabalhada, no Ensino Fundamental e como os docentes desta escola compreendem e vem inserindo a EA no cotidiano escolar., em uma escola estadual do município de Tangará da Serra/MT, Brasil. Para tanto, realizou-se entrevistas com os professores que fazem parte de um projeto interdisciplinar de EA na escola pesquisada. Verificou-se que o projeto da escola não vem conseguindo alcançar os objetivos propostos por: desconhecimento do mesmo, pelos professores; formação deficiente dos professores, não entendimento da EA como processo de ensino-aprendizagem, falta de recursos didáticos, planejamento inadequado das atividades. A partir dessa constatação, procurou-se debater a impossibilidade de tratar do tema fora do trabalho interdisciplinar, bem como, e principalmente, a importância de um estudo mais aprofundado de EA, vinculando teoria e prática, tanto na formação docente, como em projetos escolares, a fim de fugir do tradicional vínculo “EA e ecologia, lixo e horta”.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació

Natural History, Systematics, and Taxonomy of the Termite Assassin Bugs (Reduviidae: Salyavatinae), Host Associations, Salivary Protein Evolution and Bacterial Symbionts of Kissing Bugs (Reduviidae: Triatominae) and Evolutionary Analysis of Microbiota of Miroidea and Largidae

While modern methods have helped to advance our understanding of biodiversity, large gaps in our knowledge remain, particularly with respect to non-model and tropical lineages. My research interests focus on the integration of evolutionary studies with modern methods for study of the biology of the diverse Heteroptera. In my first chapter, I used taxon-specific primers to assay the gut contents of the putatively strictly termitophagous Salyavatinae corroborating that these cryptic tropical predators appear to feed only on members of the family Termitidae. Next, I conducted a comprehensive taxonomic revision of this group of 107 previously described species, describing 15 new species and revising its classification based on a combined morphological and molecular phylogeny of this group and its close relative Sphaeridopinae. In studying the blood-feeding Triatominae, I combed the extensive literature and recorded known sylvatic host associations and added several new sets of observations using PCR on triatomine gut contents with vertebrate specific primers. I assembled and annotated the transcriptomes of 20 species of reduvioid including Triatoma protracta, in an effort to infer the evolutionary forces that acted on proteins which have been heavily modified from their ancestral form in the blood-feeding Triatominae to and aid in hematophagy. I next assessed the microbial associates of a variety of different Triatominae finding that symbiont identity in these insects varies much more widely than has been previously assumed. I also surveyed the microbiomes of two other groups of Heteroptera, Largidae and Miroidea, finding that Largidae reacquire a specific group of Burkholderia symbionts from the environment every generation while the herbivorous members of Miroidea seem to be able to circumvent the nutrient limitations of their plant diet without a symbiotic association with bacteria. These studies illustrate the use of modern molecular methods and archival specimens to understand not just evolutionary history and species diversity of groups of understudied organisms but to infer aspects of their biology such as their biotic interactions with prey or symbiotic bacteria

Natural History, Systematics, and Taxonomy of the Termite Assassin Bugs (Reduviidae: Salyavatinae), Host Associations, Salivary Protein Evolution and Bacterial Symbionts of Kissing Bugs (Reduviidae: Triatominae) and Evolutionary Analysis of Microbiota of Miroidea and Largidae

While modern methods have helped to advance our understanding of biodiversity, large gaps in our knowledge remain, particularly with respect to non-model and tropical lineages. My research interests focus on the integration of evolutionary studies with modern methods for study of the biology of the diverse Heteroptera. In my first chapter, I used taxon-specific primers to assay the gut contents of the putatively strictly termitophagous Salyavatinae corroborating that these cryptic tropical predators appear to feed only on members of the family Termitidae. Next, I conducted a comprehensive taxonomic revision of this group of 107 previously described species, describing 15 new species and revising its classification based on a combined morphological and molecular phylogeny of this group and its close relative Sphaeridopinae. In studying the blood-feeding Triatominae, I combed the extensive literature and recorded known sylvatic host associations and added several new sets of observations using PCR on triatomine gut contents with vertebrate specific primers. I assembled and annotated the transcriptomes of 20 species of reduvioid including Triatoma protracta, in an effort to infer the evolutionary forces that acted on proteins which have been heavily modified from their ancestral form in the blood-feeding Triatominae to and aid in hematophagy. I next assessed the microbial associates of a variety of different Triatominae finding that symbiont identity in these insects varies much more widely than has been previously assumed. I also surveyed the microbiomes of two other groups of Heteroptera, Largidae and Miroidea, finding that Largidae reacquire a specific group of Burkholderia symbionts from the environment every generation while the herbivorous members of Miroidea seem to be able to circumvent the nutrient limitations of their plant diet without a symbiotic association with bacteria. These studies illustrate the use of modern molecular methods and archival specimens to understand not just evolutionary history and species diversity of groups of understudied organisms but to infer aspects of their biology such as their biotic interactions with prey or symbiotic bacteria