ミャンマー南部沿岸に出現する植物プランクトン群集に関する研究 : 特に有害渦鞭毛藻に着目して

広島大学(Hiroshima University)博士(農学)Doctor of Agriculturedoctora

Expanding the Southern urban critique: Elite politics, popular politics, and self-governance in the wards of Mandalay

This article explores everyday urban governance and politics in Mandalay, Myanmar. We examine this through a focus on state-society interactions within Mandalay’s ward offices, which are the lowest tier of the administrative backbone of the Myanmar state known as the General Administration Department. This reveals the existence of three intertwined forms of urban ‘politics’ in Mandalay: elite politics, which echo the practices of civil society in the sense of Partha Chatterjee; popular politics, which echo the practices of political society; and self-governance, which is an approach to politics culturally and historically situated in Theravada Buddhism and Myanmar’s authoritarian legacies. The situatedness of the case prompts us to argue in favor of expanding the southern urban critique beyond its conventional focus on liberal democratic metropolises of the global South, in order to enrich our understanding of what constitutes postcolonial urban politics. We suggest this could be achieved, as we attempt here, by adopting collaborative research methodologies and by extensively building on southern area scholarship in ways that mediate epistemic expropriation

Analyzing the Factors Contributing to the Establishment of Thailand as a Hub for Regional Operating Headquarters

In June 2010, the Thai government proposed improved investment tax incentive schemes to attract more foreign companies to establish Regional Operating Headquarters (ROH) in Thailand. The major theme of incentive packages has historically been the waiving of income tax on ROHs locating in the Kingdom. In the wake of recent political crises, these tax benefits are considered as important measures in reinforcing the Kingdom’s position as an important manufacturing and service hub for the ASEAN region. While investor confidence was wavering because of the unstable political environment that has appertained since 2006, investors are weighing business continuity and safety concerns against the provided and proposed incentives. This paper briefly compares the original ROH tax incentives from 2002 with the new ones, examines the factors contributing to the establishment of Thailand as a hub for ROHs and analyzes the competitiveness of Thailand in comparison with Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia in the context of national competitiveness for establishing ROH. National competitiveness is measured by using the Double Diamond-based nine factor model (IPS Model) from the IPS national competitiveness research study

Solving Higher Education in Burma, the Global South, and Beyond

By introducing readers to a migrant student from Burma, the author unpacks the longstanding and increasingly complicated barriers to higher education, which many students face across the Global South. Readers are then introduced to one institution seeking to dismantle those barriers through innovation and expansive access, Parami University

Tagging Endogenous H2A.Z1 and H2A.Z2 Histone Variant Isoforms Using CRISPR-Cas9 and Identifying SUMOylated Proteins in Proximity to H2A.Z-Containing Nucleosomes

H2A.Z is a variant of the H2A core histone, and is well known to be important for transcriptional regulation in eukaryotic cells. It was recently discovered that higher eukaryotes have two almost identical isoforms of H2A.Z that differ only by 3 amino acids. Although current biochemical studies are unable to distinguish between the native H2A.Z isoforms, several studies have shown potential non-redundant functions between the two. For my thesis work, CRISPR-Cas9 was used to insert a small epitope tag to the C-terminus region of either H2A.Z1 and H2A.Z2 in 293T cells to allow us to study the two isoforms individually in their native states. We successfully generated 3 H2A.Z1-Strep and 3 H2A.Z2-Strep clones, and confirmed that there were minimal off-target effects by Cas9 nuclease. However, the H2A.Z1-Strep clones were found to have much lower than normal H2A.Z1 expression whereas H2A.Z2-Strep clones have normal levels of H2A.Z expression. Strep-tag ChIP data showed H2A.Z1 being enriched on the proximal region of the transcription start site (TSS) of the MTA1 gene compared to H2A.Z2. For a second project, an Avi-tag BirA system was used to test for SUMOylation of H2A.Z in mammalian cells. This method was also used to determine whether there are proteins in proximity to H2A.Z that can be SUMOylated. Our assay did not detect any H2A.Z SUMOylation; however, there were a few proteins within close proximity to H2A.Z that appeared to be SUMOylated. These putative SUMOylated proteins (which are biotinylated by the fusion H2A.Z-BirA) were purified by Streptavidin-coupled beads and awaiting identification by mass spectrometry

Response Detection of Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer to Clinically Utilised and Novel Treatments by Monitoring Phospholipid Metabolism

The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from Grampian NHS Endowment. The use of Professor Zanda’s and Jaspar’s NMR equipment and Russell Gray’s assistance are also gratefully acknowledged.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Objective assessment and feedback generation in dental surgical simulation : a framework based on correlating procedure and outcome

Fine motor skill is indispensable for a dentist. As in many other medical fields of study, the traditional surgical master-apprentice model is widely adopted in dental education. Recently, virtual reality (VR) simulators have been employed as supplementary components to the traditional skill-training curriculum, and numerous dental VR systems have been developed academically and commercially. However, the full promise of such systems has yet to be realized due to the lack of sufficient support for formative feedback. Without such a mechanism, evaluation still demands dedicated time of experts in scarce supply. With the aim to fill the gap of formative assessment using VR simulators in skill training in dentistry, this thesis presents a framework to objectively assess the surgical skill and generate formative feedback automatically. VR simulators enable collecting detailed data on relevant metrics throughout a procedure. Our approach to formative feedback is to correlate procedure metrics with the procedure outcome in order to identify the portions of a procedure that need to be improved. Prior to the correlation, the procedure outcome needs to be evaluated. The scoring algorithm designed in this thesis provides an overall score and identifies specific errors and their severity. Building upon this, we developed techniques to identify the portion of the procedure responsible for the errors. Specifically, for the errors in the outcome the responsible portions of the procedure are identified based on correlation of location of the error. For some types of feedback one mode may be more suitable than another. Tutoring formative feedback are provided using the video- and haptic- modalities. The effectiveness of the feedback systems have been evaluated with the dental students with randomized controlled trials and the findings show the feedback mechanisms to be effective and have potentials to use as valuable supplemental training resources

Combination treatment of cancer cells with pan-Akt and pan-mTOR inhibitors : effects on cell cycle distribution, p-Akt expression level and radiolabelled-choline incorporation

Open Access via Springer Compact Agreement Acknowledgements The University of Aberdeen Development Trust is gratefully acknowledged.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Vision Based Vehicles Detection for Intelligence Transportation Systems

Research in advanced driver help machine (ADAS) is a vital step towards accomplishing the intention of the autonomous smart automobile. ADAS is the machine to help the driver inside the using technique due to the fact maximum road injuries took place due to human blunders. Vehicle detection and distance estimation is a crucial solution for ADAS. This paper aims to reduce traffic accidents on the road using computer vision technologies and to implement the driver assistance system. In this paper, firstly, this system inputs the video and segments the videos as the frames. After segmenting the images, vehicle detection results are represented. In the experiments, own datasets are created by capturing videos in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar and detection results are described

CDP-choline accumulation in breast and colorectal cancer cells treated with a GSK-3-targeting inhibitor

Open via Springer Compact Agreement Funding from the University of Aberdeen Development Trust is gratefully acknowledged. Professor Zanda is gratefully acknowledged for the use of his NMR system.Peer reviewedPublisher PD