265 research outputs found
Analisis Penetapan NJOP terhadap Harga Pasar dengan Metode Assessment Sales Ratio dalam Kaitannya dengan Potensi Pajak Bumi (Studi Kasus Tanah di Kecamatan Serpong Utara, Kota Tangerang Selatan)
This research entitled “Analysis of Sales Worth for Taxable Properties Decision on Market Price with Assessment Sales Ratio Method in Accordance with Property Tax (Case Study in North Serpong Sub District South Tangerang City)”. The research aims to know whether assessment sales ratio has already appropriate with Property Tax Director decision, to know property tax potential that still can be collected by Regional Government, and to know whether Sales Worth for Taxable Properties has been equalize in all North Serpong Sub District area, in South Tangerang City. The research location was in North Serpong Sub District by using data of Sales Worth for Taxable Property and market price of land from 70 transactions in 2011. Descriptive was this research method by using simple random sampling as sampling method. By using assessment sales ratio analysis, central tendency, disperse coefficient measurement, and variation coefficientThe result shows that ASR value = 65.2%, which means ASR was not appropriate with standard from Property Tax Director and there was property tax potential for 14.8% up to 34.8% or for about Rp. 48,009,940.80 up to Rp. 113,099,860.80. COD variability measurement was 26.26% and COV was 34.51%, it means Sales Worth for Taxable Property of land in North Serpong Sub District was in unbalance standard.The implication was market price of land as the basic of Sales Worth for Taxable Property was dynamic and up-to-date, thus Serpong Tax Office Service (KPP) Pratama should making list of data, estimation, and reviewing individually. SO, the renewing and adjustment toward Sales Worth for Taxable Property decision based on market price should be observed to increase the property tax potential, and Serpong KPP Pratama should add estimating and data collecting officer in the field to balance the standard of decision on Sales Worth for Taxable Property
Mitigation of sociocommunicational deficits of autism through oxytocin-induced recovery of medial prefrontal activity: a randomized trial
IMPORTANCE: Sociocommunicational deficits make it difficult for individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) to understand communication content with conflicting verbal and nonverbal information. Despite growing prospects for oxytocin as a therapeutic agent for ASD, no direct neurobiological evidence exists for oxytocin's beneficial effects on this core symptom of ASD. This is slowing clinical application of the neuropeptide. OBJECTIVE: To directly examine whether oxytocin has beneficial effects on the sociocommunicational deficits of ASD using both behavioral and neural measures. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: At the University of Tokyo Hospital, we conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, within-subject-crossover, single-site experimental trial in which intranasal oxytocin and placebo were administered. A total of 40 highly functioning men with ASD participated and were randomized in the trial. INTERVENTIONS: Single-dose intranasal administration of oxytocin (24 IU) and placebo. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we examined effects of oxytocin on behavioral neural responses of the participants to a social psychological task. In our previous case-control study using the same psychological task, when making decisions about social information with conflicting verbal and nonverbal contents, participants with ASD made judgments based on nonverbal contents less frequently with longer time and could not induce enough activation in the medial prefrontal cortex. Therefore, our main outcomes and measures were the frequency of the nonverbal information-based judgments (NVJs), the response time for NVJs, and brain activity of the medial prefrontal cortex during NVJs. RESULTS: Intranasal oxytocin enabled the participants to make NVJs more frequently (P = .03) with shorter response time (P = .02). During the mitigated behavior, oxytocin increased the originally diminished brain activity in the medial prefrontal cortex (P < .001). Moreover, oxytocin enhanced functional coordination in the area (P < .001), and the magnitude of these neural effects was predictive of the behavioral effects (P ≤ .01). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: These findings provide the first neurobiological evidence for oxytocin's beneficial effects on sociocommunicational deficits of ASD and give us the initial account for neurobiological mechanisms underlying any beneficial effects of the neuropeptide. TRIAL REGISTRATION: umin.ac.jp/ctr Identifier: UMIN000002241 and UMIN000004393
2D and 3D Polar Plume Analysis from the Three Vantage Positions of STEREO/EUVI A, B, and SOHO/EIT
Polar plumes are seen as elongated objects starting at the solar polar
regions. Here, we analyze these objects from a sequence of images taken
simultaneously by the three spacecraft telescopes STEREO/EUVI A and B, and
SOHO/EIT. We establish a method capable of automatically identifying plumes in
solar EUV images close to the limb at 1.01 - 1.39 R in order to study their
temporal evolution. This plume-identification method is based on a multiscale
Hough-wavelet analysis. Then two methods to determined their 3D localization
and structure are discussed: First, tomography using the filtered
back-projection and including the differential rotation of the Sun and,
secondly, conventional stereoscopic triangulation. We show that tomography and
stereoscopy are complementary to study polar plumes. We also show that this
systematic 2D identification and the proposed methods of 3D reconstruction are
well suited, on one hand, to identify plumes individually and on the other
hand, to analyze the distribution of plumes and inter-plume regions. Finally,
the results are discussed focusing on the plume position with their
cross-section area.Comment: 22 pages, 10 figures, Solar Physics articl
Development of steady-state operation using ion cyclotron heating in the Large Helical Device
Using a handshake shape (HAS) antenna phasing dipole for ion cyclotron heating (ICH), the heating efficiency was higher than that using a previous poloidal array antenna in the Large Helical Device. In order to sustain the dipole operation, real-time feedback for impedance matching and maintaining the same phase and power was adopted during long-pulse discharge. The HAS antenna was designed to reduce parasitic losses associated with energetic particle and radio-frequency (RF) sheath effects by field-aligned current concentration on the midplane. Local hot spots and the inhomogeneity of the diverter heat profile in the toroidal direction were reduced. The long-pulse discharge with an electron density (n e0) of 1?×?1019 m?3, center electron temperature (T e0) of 2.5?keV, a plasma duration time (t d) of 19?min, and RF heating power (P RF ) of 1?MW was achieved by ICH and electron cyclotron heating
Male-male marriage in Sinophone and Anglophone Harry Potter danmei and slash
The aim of this study is to compare Sinophone and Anglophone fan fiction consisting of female-oriented male-male romance: danmei and slash, respectively. To increase comparability, we analysed Harry Potter fan fiction in which the characters Harry and Draco are married. Male-male marriage was selected because our online Sinophone and Anglophone BL fandom surveys indicate this to be the most popular story element of the nine options we provided. We analysed five stories originally written in Chinese and five originally written in English which subsequently had been fan-translated into Chinese. Using Thematic Analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006) we found some robust patterns. In contrast to the Anglophone fiction, the Sinophone tended to: stress the importance of family approval for the marriage; incorporate a wedding ceremony; employ clearly gendered roles between partners; utilise extended, as opposed to nuclear, families; and showed the couple to produce children, particularly boys. Hence, the stories mirror the relative social conservatism and social liberalism of their cultures of origin. However, in reading and writing such danmei young Chinese women are still pushing at the boundaries of the traditional family
Parameters of the Magnetic Flux inside Coronal Holes
Parameters of magnetic flux distribution inside low-latitude coronal holes
(CHs) were analyzed. A statistical study of 44 CHs based on Solar and
Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)/MDI full disk magnetograms and SOHO/EIT 284\AA
images showed that the density of the net magnetic flux, , does
not correlate with the associated solar wind speeds, . Both the area and
net flux of CHs correlate with the solar wind speed and the corresponding
spatial Pearson correlation coefficients are 0.75 and 0.71, respectively. A
possible explanation for the low correlation between and
is proposed. The observed non-correlation might be rooted in the structural
complexity of the magnetic field. As a measure of complexity of the magnetic
field, the filling factor, , was calculated as a function of spatial
scales. In CHs, was found to be nearly constant at scales above 2 Mm,
which indicates a monofractal structural organization and smooth temporal
evolution. The magnitude of the filling factor is 0.04 from the Hinode SOT/SP
data and 0.07 from the MDI/HR data. The Hinode data show that at scales smaller
than 2 Mm, the filling factor decreases rapidly, which means a mutlifractal
structure and highly intermittent, burst-like energy release regime. The
absence of necessary complexity in CH magnetic fields at scales above 2 Mm
seems to be the most plausible reason why the net magnetic flux density does
not seem to be related to the solar wind speed: the energy release dynamics,
needed for solar wind acceleration, appears to occur at small scales below 1
Mm.Comment: 6 figures, approximately 23 pages. Accepted in Solar Physic
Characteristics of EUV coronal jets observed with STEREO/SECCHI
In this paper we present the first comprehensive statistical study of EUV
coronal jets observed with the SECCHI imaging suites of the two STEREO
spacecraft. A catalogue of 79 polar jets is presented, identified from
simultaneous EUV and white-light coronagraph observations, taken during the
time period March 2007 to April 2008. The appearances of the coronal jets were
always correlated with underlying small-scale chromospheric bright points. A
basic characterisation of the morphology and identification of the presence of
helical structure were established with respect to recently proposed models for
their origin and temporal evolution. A classification of the events with
respect to previous jet studies shows that amongst the 79 events there were 37
Eiffel tower-type jet events commonly interpreted as a small-scale (about 35
arcsec) magnetic bipole reconnecting with the ambient unipolar open coronal
magnetic fields at its looptops, and 12 lambda-type jet events commonly
interpreted as reconnection with the ambient field happening at the bipoles
footpoints. Five events were termed micro-CME type jet events because they
resembled the classical coronal mass ejections (CMEs) but on much smaller
scales. A few jets are also found in equatorial coronal holes. The typical
lifetimes in the SECCHI/EUVI (Extreme UltraViolet Imager) field of view between
1.0 to 1.7 solar radius and in SECCHI/COR1 field of view between 1.4 to 4 solar
radius are obtained, and the derived speed are roughly estimated. In summary,
the observations support the assumption of continuous small-scale reconnection
as an intrinsic feature of the solar corona, with its role for the heating of
the corona, particle acceleration, structuring and acceleration of the solar
wind remaining to be explored in more details in further studies.Comment: 20 pages, 7 tables of figures, 2 tables of plots, an appendix with
list event
Cyclic AMP Responsive Element Binding Proteins Are Involved in ‘Emergency’ Granulopoiesis through the Upregulation of CCAAT/Enhancer Binding Protein β
In contrast to the definitive role of the transcription factor, CCAAT/Enhancer binding protein α (C/EBPα), in steady-state granulopoiesis, previous findings have suggested that granulopoiesis during emergency situations, such as infection, is dependent on C/EBPβ. In this study, a novel lentivirus-based reporter system was developed to elucidate the molecular switch required for C/EBPβ-dependency. The results demonstrated that two cyclic AMP responsive elements (CREs) in the proximal promoter region of C/EBPβ were involved in the positive regulation of C/EBPβ transcription during granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF)–induced differentiation of bone marrow cells. In addition, the transcripts of CRE binding (CREB) family proteins were readily detected in hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells. CREB was upregulated, phosphorylated and bound to the CREs in response to GM-CSF stimulation. Retroviral transduction of a dominant negative CREB mutant reduced C/EBPβ mRNA levels and significantly impaired the proliferation/differentiation of granulocyte precursors, while a constitutively active form of CREB facilitated C/EBPβ transcription. These data suggest that CREB proteins are involved in the regulation of granulopoiesis via C/EBPβ upregulation
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