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Resonance raman characterization of the forms of ground-state 8-substituted 7-hydroxyquinoline caged acetate compounds in aqueous solutions
Monday Poster Session: Resonance Raman in Biological and Chemical Systems (MP22) - Poster Number: 0978-substituted 7-hydroxyquinolines, like 8-chloro-7-hydroxyquinoline (CHQ) and 8-cyano-7-hydroxyquinoline (CyHQ), are able to be useful for 1PE and 2PE and their acetate acids CHQ−OAc and CyHQ−OAc were also able to undergo photolysis reactions in neutral aqueous buffer solutions. To examine the substituent effect on the relative populations of the forms of the ground state species of 8-substituted 7-hydroxyquinolines, ultraviolet absorption and resonance Raman spectroscopy experiments were done for CHQ–OAc and CyHQ–OAc in differnt solutions.postprintThe 22nd International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS 2010), Boston, MA., 8-13 August 2010
The American lifestyle-induced obesity syndrome diet in male and female rodents recapitulates the clinical and transcriptomic features of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis
The pathogenesis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and the progression to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and increased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma remain poorly understood. Additionally, there is increasing recognition of the extrahepatic manifestations associated with NAFLD and NASH. We demonstrate that intervention with the American lifestyle-induced obesity syndrome (ALIOS) diet in male and female mice recapitulates many of the clinical and transcriptomic features of human NAFLD and NASH. Male and female C57BL/6N mice were fed either normal chow (NC) or ALIOS from 11 to 52 wk and underwent comprehensive metabolic analysis throughout the duration of the study. From 26 wk, ALIOS-fed mice developed features of hepatic steatosis, inflammation, and fibrosis. ALIOS-fed mice also had an increased incidence of hepatic tumors at 52 wk compared with those fed NC. Hepatic transcriptomic analysis revealed alterations in multiple genes associated with inflammation and tissue repair in ALIOS-fed mice. Ingenuity Pathway Analysis confirmed dysregulation of metabolic pathways as well as those associated with liver disease and cancer. In parallel the development of a robust hepatic phenotype, ALIOS-fed mice displayed many of the extrahepatic manifestations of NAFLD, including hyperlipidemia, increased fat mass, sarcopenia, and insulin resistance. The ALIOS diet in mice recapitulates many of the clinical features of NAFLD and, therefore, represents a robust and reproducible model for investigating the pathogenesis of NAFLD and its progression.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) affects 30% of the general population and can progress to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and potentially hepatocellular carcinoma. Preclinical models rely on mouse models that often display hepatic characteristics of NAFLD but rarely progress to NASH and seldom depict the multisystem effects of the disease. We have conducted comprehensive metabolic analysis of both male and female mice consuming a Western diet of trans fats and sugar, focusing on both their hepatic phenotype and extrahepatic manifestations
EVALUASI STRATEGI BERSAING HOTEL X BERDASARKAN ANALISIS THE FIVE MAJOR ELEMENTS OF STRATEGY STUDI KASUS
Dalam usahanya untuk bertahan dalam berbagai kondisi pasar, setiap
perusahaan atau organisasi seharusnya berusaha proaktif dan melakukan
pembenahan serta memformulasi strategi yang diharapkan dapat berfungsi secara
optimal mencapai tujuan organisasi. Setiap organisasi akan mengidentifikasi dan
mengeksploitasi sumber daya yang dimiliki serta kesempatan yang ada di pasar,
disesuaikan dengan kebutuhan dan tujuan masing-masing organisasi. Hal tersebut
berarti strategi yang berbeda akan dipilih oleh setiap organisasi yang berbeda
pula.
Setiap organisasi, dalam memilih strategi, akan menyesuaikan langkahlangkah
yang diambil untuk mencapai tujuan dengan sumber daya yang dimiliki.
Hotel X merupakan salah satu pemain dalam sektor perdagangan hotel dan
restoran di daerah Juanda, Sidoarjo. Hotel X merupakan hotel yang berdiri sejak
1993, hingga saat ini sudah menjadi hotel bintang tiga. Dengan usia hotel yang
sudah sekitar dua puluh tahun, Hotel X selama ini sudah berhasil menjaga
eksistensinya bahkan mampu berkembang cukup pesat dengan menambahkan unit
kamar dan investasi bangunan baru. Dengan kondisi saat ini berlebihnya jumlah
kamar hotel yang ditawarkan oleh hotel-hotel pesaing merupakan tantangan
tersendiri bagi Hotel X untuk mempertahankan eksistensi yang sudah cukup lama
terjaga.
Dewasa ini dampak dari perubahan kondisi lingkungan pasar mulai terasa
oleh Hotel X, diantaranya pendapatan usaha yang diperoleh mulai menurun,
meningkatnya biaya pemasaran, turnover karyawan yang meningkat, dan
perubahan lainnya yang menuntut Hotel X untuk segera menyesuaikan diri.
Pertumbuhan usaha hotel terlalu tinggi yang tidak sebanding dengan jumlah
pertumbuhan wisatawan asing maupun lokal, merupakan tantangan tersendiri bagi
para pengusaha hotel dalam berkompetisi mendapatkan pelanggan, begitu juga
dengan Hotel X. Untuk dapat mencapai tujuannya Hotel X telah memiliki strategi
perusahaan, namun yang menjadi pertanyaan adalah, apakah strategi yang dimiliki
oleh Hotel X sudah dijalankan dengan baik dan sesuai untuk memenangkan
persaiangan.
Peneliti berinisiatif untuk melakukan penelitian melalui evaluasi strategi
yang disesuaikan dengan kondisi internal dan eksternal Hotel X dengan
menggunakan The Five Major Elements of Strategy. Sesuai dengan pendapat
Hambrick dan Frederickson (2001), The Five Major Elements of Strategy, strategi
yang dimiliki sebuah perusahaan sangat penting untuk memiliki elemen-elemen
turunan yang terpadu atau saling berkaitan sehingga dalam menjalankan strategi
tersebut, perusahaan dalam mewujudkan strategi yang telah dimiliki untuk
mencapai tujuannya
Mangarara Formation: exhumed remnants of a middle Miocene, temperate carbonate, submarine channel-fan system on the eastern margin of Taranaki Basin, New Zealand
The middle Miocene Mangarara Formation is a thin (1–60 m), laterally discontinuous unit of moderately to highly calcareous (40–90%) facies of sandy to pure limestone, bioclastic sandstone, and conglomerate that crops out in a few valleys in North Taranaki across the transition from King Country Basin into offshore Taranaki Basin. The unit occurs within hemipelagic (slope) mudstone of Manganui Formation, is stratigraphically associated with redeposited sandstone of Moki Formation, and is overlain by redeposited volcaniclastic sandstone of Mohakatino Formation. The calcareous facies of the Mangarara Formation are interpreted to be mainly mass-emplaced deposits having channelised and sheet-like geometries, sedimentary structures supportive of redeposition, mixed environment fossil associations, and stratigraphic enclosure within bathyal mudrocks and flysch. The carbonate component of the deposits consists mainly of bivalves, larger benthic foraminifers (especially Amphistegina), coralline red algae including rhodoliths (Lithothamnion and Mesophyllum), and bryozoans, a warm-temperate, shallow marine skeletal association. While sediment derivation was partly from an eastern contemporary shelf, the bulk of the skeletal carbonate is inferred to have been sourced from shoal carbonate factories around and upon isolated basement highs (Patea-Tongaporutu High) to the south. The Mangarara sediments were redeposited within slope gullies and broad open submarine channels and lobes in the vicinity of the channel-lobe transition zone of a submarine fan system. Different phases of sediment transport and deposition (lateral-accretion and aggradation stages) are identified in the channel infilling. Dual fan systems likely co-existed, one dominating and predominantly siliciclastic in nature (Moki Formation), and the other infrequent and involving the temperate calcareous deposits of Mangarara Formation. The Mangarara Formation is an outcrop analogue for middle Miocene-age carbonate slope-fan deposits elsewhere in subsurface Taranaki Basin, New Zealand
Moral enhancement: do means matter morally?
One of the reasons why moral enhancement may be controversial, is because the advantages of moral enhancement may fall upon society rather than on those who are enhanced. If directed at individuals with certain counter-moral traits it may have direct societal benefits by lowering immoral behavior and increasing public safety, but it is not directly clear if this also benefits the individual in question. In this paper, we will discuss what we consider to be moral enhancement, how different means may be used to achieve it and whether the means we employ to reach moral enhancement matter morally. Are certain means to achieve moral enhancement wrong in themselves? Are certain means to achieve moral enhancement better than others, and if so, why? More specifically, we will investigate whether the difference between direct and indirect moral enhancement matters morally. Is it the case that indirect means are morally preferable to direct means of moral enhancement and can we indeed pinpoint relevant intrinsic, moral differences between both? We argue that the distinction between direct and indirect means is indeed morally relevant, but only insofar as it tracks an underlying distinction between active and passive interventions. Although passive interventions can be ethical provided specific safeguards are put in place, these interventions exhibit a greater potential to compromise autonomy and disrupt identity
Conditioned stochastic particle systems and integrable quantum spin systems
We consider from a microscopic perspective large deviation properties of
several stochastic interacting particle systems, using their mapping to
integrable quantum spin systems. A brief review of recent work is given and
several new results are presented: (i) For the general disordered symmectric
exclusion process (SEP) on some finite lattice conditioned on no jumps into
some absorbing sublattice and with initial Bernoulli product measure with
density we prove that the probability of no absorption event
up to microscopic time can be expressed in terms of the generating function
for the particle number of a SEP with particle injection and empty initial
lattice. Specifically, for the symmetric simple exclusion process on conditioned on no jumps into the origin we obtain the explicit first and
second order expansion in of and also to first order in
the optimal microscopic density profile under this conditioning. For the
disordered ASEP on the finite torus conditioned on a very large current we show
that the effective dynamics that optimally realizes this rare event does not
depend on the disorder, except for the time scale. For annihilating and
coalescing random walkers we obtain the generating function of the number of
annihilated particles up to time , which turns out to exhibit some universal
features.Comment: 25 page
Orexinergic Input to Dopaminergic Neurons of the Human Ventral Tegmental Area
The mesolimbic reward pathway arising from dopaminergic (DA) neurons of the ventral tegmental area (VTA) has been
strongly implicated in reward processing and drug abuse. In rodents, behaviors associated with this projection are
profoundly influenced by an orexinergic input from the lateral hypothalamus to the VTA. Because the existence and
significance of an analogous orexigenic regulatory mechanism acting in the human VTA have been elusive, here we
addressed the possibility that orexinergic neurons provide direct input to DA neurons of the human VTA. Dual-label
immunohistochemistry was used and orexinergic projections to the VTA and to DA neurons of the neighboring substantia
nigra (SN) were analyzed comparatively in adult male humans and rats. Orexin B-immunoreactive (IR) axons apposed to
tyrosine hydroxylase (TH)-IR DA and to non-DA neurons were scarce in the VTA and SN of both species. In the VTA,
15.062.8% of TH-IR perikarya in humans and 3.260.3% in rats received orexin B-IR afferent contacts. On average, 0.2460.05 and 0.0560.005 orexinergic appositions per TH-IR perikaryon were detected in humans and rats, respectively. The majority(86–88%) of randomly encountered orexinergic contacts targeted the dendritic compartment of DA neurons. Finally, DA neurons of the SN also received orexinergic innervation in both species. Based on the observation of five times heavierorexinergic input to TH-IR neurons of the human, compared with the rat, VTA, we propose that orexinergic mechanism acting in the VTA may play just as important roles in reward processing and drug abuse in humans, as already established
well in rodents
CtGEM typing: Discrimination of Chlamydia trachomatis ocular and urogenital strains and major evolutionary lineages by high resolution melting analysis of two amplified DNA fragments
© 2018 Giffard et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Chlamydia trachomatis infects the urogenital tract (UGT) and eyes. Anatomical tropism is correlated with variation in the major outer membrane protein encoded by ompA. Strains possessing the ocular ompA variants A, B, Ba and C are typically found within the phyloge-netically coherent “classical ocular lineage”. However, variants B, Ba and C have also been found within three distinct strains in Australia, all associated with ocular disease in children and outside the classical ocular lineage. CtGEM genotyping is a method for detecting and discriminating ocular strains and also the major phylogenetic lineages. The rationale was facilitation of surveillance to inform responses to C. trachomatis detection in UGT specimens from young children. CtGEM typing is based on high resolution melting analysis (HRMA) of two PCR amplified fragments with high combinatorial resolving power, as defined by computerised comparison of 65 whole genomes. One fragment is from the hypothetical gene defined by Jali-1891 in the C. trachomatis B_Jali20 genome, while the other is from ompA. Twenty combinatorial CtGEM types have been shown to exist, and these encompass unique genotypes for all known ocular strains, and also delineate the TI and T2 major phylogenetic lineages, identify LGV strains and provide additional resolution beyond this. CtGEM typing and Sanger sequencing were compared with 42 C. trachomatis positive clinical specimens, and there were no disjunctions. CtGEM typing is a highly efficient method designed and tested using large scale comparative genomics. It divides C. trachomatis into clinically and biologically meaningful groups, and may have broad application in surveillance
In the best interests of the deceased: A possible justification for organ removal without consent?
Opt-out systems of postmortem organ procurement are often supposed to be justifiable by presumed consent, but this justification turns out to depend on a mistaken mental state conception of consent. A promising alternative justification appeals to the analogical situation that occurs when an emergency decision has to be made about medical treatment for a patient who is unable to give or withhold his consent. In such cases, the decision should be made in the best interests of the patient. The analogous suggestion to be considered, then, is, if the potential donor has not registered either his willingness or his refusal to donate, the probabilities that he would or would not have preferred the removal of his organs need to be weighed. And in some actual cases the probability of the first alternative may be greater. This article considers whether the analogy to which this argument appeals is cogent, and concludes that there are important differences between the emergency and the organ removal cases, both as regards the nature of the interests involved and the nature of the right not to be treated without one’s consent. Rather, if opt-out systems are to be justified, the needs of patients with organ failure and/or the possibility of tacit consent should be considered
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