408 research outputs found

    Good Faith Principles Application in Property Trading Business Agreements

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    The business practice of property service users in Denpasar City makes an agreement that begins with a standard agreement of cooperation that does not provide a balance of interests for the parties leading to a reaction that leads to the need to be given a proper place for the existence of the principles of good faith and propriety in the making and implementation of the agreement. So it is necessary to conduct a study on 1) How to implement the application of the principle of good faith in the implementation of business agreements for trade intermediary business actors in the city of Denpasar and 2) What are the forms of legal accountability of trade intermediary business actors to the parties related to the default of business agreements in Denpasar City. The method used in this study is a type of empirical normative legal research with a direct review approach to the field. The application of the principle of good faith in business agreements in the property trading business in Denpasar City has not been carried out properly, as indicated by the existence of defaults. To overcome this, any problems that arise in the field of business agreements must pay attention to the terms of the validity of the agreement, and the principles or principles in contract law by applying the principle of good faith. Basically, the parties must apply the principle of good faith in carrying out business agreements in order to achieve a balance of interests between the two parties. Keywords: business transaction agreement; good faith; property; buy; sell DOI: 10.7176/JLPG/123-05 Publication date:August 31st 202

    The number of leydig cells, sertoli cells, and spermatogonia are lower towards a little rats that their parent given genistein during periconception period

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    The testis was composed by the cells of Leydig, Sertoli, and Spermatogenic. The cells formation itself was able to be disrupted by exposure to an endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC) since the prenatal period. The research was intended to prove that Genistein could obstruct the formation of Leydig cells, Sertoli cells, Spermatogenic of rats. The randomized post-test only control group design method was conducted towards white female Wistar rats, 12-13 weeks old, has been had one child, could normally eat and drink. The analysis unit was the child of mother rat treatment group that given Genistein of 10 mg/kg/day and the control group that received distilled water, each of them were 15. The research was done in the Laboratory of Faculty of Veterinary Medical, Udayana University, from January to July 2016. The computer was used for analyzing the data using, with ? of 0.05. The result was the Genistein child had an average of 5.464 Sertoli cell, 11.120 Leydig cell, and 48.427 spermatogonia, whereas, the control group had an average of 8.173 Leydig cells, 12.987 Sertoli cells, and 69.547 spermatogonia. There were significant differences between the two groups (p 0.000). The conclusion was that an average of Leydig cells, Sertoli cells, and Spermatogonia lower in children whose their parent rats given Genistein during periconception period

    Teaching Methodologies Regarding Palliative Care Competencies on Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Systematic Review

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    The teaching problem in undergraduate nursing students (UNS) is a lack of empirical evidence of teaching methodologies for achieving palliative care competencies (PCC). The purpose of this review was to synthesize the evidence of palliative care (PC) teaching methodologies for UNS and their effectiveness to achieve PCC. Four electronic databases were searched, including Scopus, ProQuest, PubMed, and CINAHL, from 2015 to 2020. Full-text available, published in peer-reviewed journals, written in English and aimed at verifying the effectiveness of teaching methodologies for achieving PCC were included. The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) checklist was used to appraise the trustworthiness, relevance, and the results of published papers. Five studies were considered relevant for this systematic review. The learning methodology carried out to achieve PCC for UNS varies from multimodality approaches, simulation-based experience to high fidelity simulation. Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory proved to be effective in improving students' PCC, especially in the aspects of knowledge, attitude, comfort, and selfawareness. The learning methodology identified in this review was proven to be effective to improve the PCC on UNS; simulation being the most widely applied method in teaching strategies

    Teaching Methodologies Regarding Palliative Care Competencies on Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Systematic Review

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    The teaching problem in undergraduate nursing students (UNS) is a lack of empirical evidence of teaching methodologies for achieving palliative care competencies (PCC). The purpose of this review was to synthesize the evidence of palliative care (PC) teaching methodologies for UNS and their effectiveness to achieve PCC. Four electronic databases were searched, including Scopus, ProQuest, PubMed, and CINAHL, from 2015 to 2020. Full-text available, published in peer-reviewed journals, written in English and aimed at verifying the effectiveness of teaching methodologies for achieving PCC were included. The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) checklist was used to appraise the trustworthiness, relevance, and the results of published papers. Five studies were considered relevant for this systematic review. The learning methodology carried out to achieve PCC for UNS varies from multimodality approaches, simulation-based experience to high fidelity simulation. Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory proved to be effective in improving students' PCC, especially in the aspects of knowledge, attitude, comfort, and selfawareness. The learning methodology identified in this review was proven to be effective to improve the PCC on UNS; simulation being the most widely applied method in teaching strategies

    Development and Functional Analysis of Novel Genetic Promoters Using DNA Shuffling, Hybridization and a Combination Thereof

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    BACKGROUND: Development of novel synthetic promoters with enhanced regulatory activity is of great value for a diverse range of plant biotechnology applications. METHODOLOGY: Using the Figwort mosaic virus full-length transcript promoter (F) and the sub-genomic transcript promoter (FS) sequences, we generated two single shuffled promoter libraries (LssF and LssFS), two multiple shuffled promoter libraries (LmsFS-F and LmsF-FS), two hybrid promoters (FuasFScp and FSuasFcp) and two hybrid-shuffled promoter libraries (LhsFuasFScp and LhsFSuasFcp). Transient expression activities of approximately 50 shuffled promoter clones from each of these libraries were assayed in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum cv. Xanthi) protoplasts. It was observed that most of the shuffled promoters showed reduced activity compared to the two parent promoters (F and FS) and the CaMV35S promoter. In silico studies (computer simulated analyses) revealed that the reduced promoter activities of the shuffled promoters could be due to their higher helical stability. On the contrary, the hybrid promoters FuasFScp and FSuasFcp showed enhanced activities compared to F, FS and CaMV 35S in both transient and transgenic Nicotiana tabacum and Arabidopsis plants. Northern-blot and qRT-PCR data revealed a positive correlation between transcription and enzymatic activity in transgenic tobacco plants expressing hybrid promoters. Histochemical/X-gluc staining of whole transgenic seedlings/tissue-sections and fluorescence images of ImaGene Green™ treated roots and stems expressing the GUS reporter gene under the control of the FuasFScp and FSuasFcp promoters also support the above findings. Furthermore, protein extracts made from protoplasts expressing the human defensin (HNP-1) gene driven by hybrid promoters showed enhanced antibacterial activity compared to the CaMV35S promoter. SIGNIFICANCE/CONCLUSION: Both shuffled and hybrid promoters developed in the present study can be used as molecular tools to study the regulation of ectopic gene expression in plants

    Knowledge based identification of essential signaling from genome-scale siRNA experiments

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    <p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>A systems biology interpretation of genome-scale RNA interference (RNAi) experiments is complicated by scope, experimental variability and network signaling robustness. Over representation approaches (ORA), such as the Hypergeometric or z-score, are an established statistical framework used to associate RNA interference effectors to biologically annotated gene sets or pathways. These methods, however, do not directly take advantage of our growing understanding of the interactome. Furthermore, these methods can miss partial pathway activation and may be biased by protein complexes. Here we present a novel ORA, protein interaction permutation analysis (PIPA), that takes advantage of canonical pathways and established protein interactions to identify pathways enriched for protein interactions connecting RNAi hits.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We use PIPA to analyze genome-scale siRNA cell growth screens performed in HeLa and TOV cell lines. First we show that interacting gene pair siRNA hits are more reproducible than single gene hits. Using protein interactions, PIPA identifies enriched pathways not found using the standard Hypergeometric analysis including the FAK <it>cytoskeletal remodeling pathway</it>. Different branches of the <it>FAK </it>pathway are distinctly essential in HeLa versus TOV cell lines while other portions are uneffected by siRNA perturbations. Enriched hits belong to protein interactions associated with cell cycle regulation, anti-apoptosis, and signal transduction.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>PIPA provides an analytical framework to interpret siRNA screen data by merging biologically annotated gene sets with the human interactome. As a result we identify pathways and signaling hypotheses that are statistically enriched to effect cell growth in human cell lines. This method provides a complementary approach to standard gene set enrichment that utilizes the additional knowledge of specific interactions within biological gene sets. </p

    Measurement of the Bottom-Strange Meson Mixing Phase in the Full CDF Data Set

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    We report a measurement of the bottom-strange meson mixing phase \beta_s using the time evolution of B0_s -> J/\psi (->\mu+\mu-) \phi (-> K+ K-) decays in which the quark-flavor content of the bottom-strange meson is identified at production. This measurement uses the full data set of proton-antiproton collisions at sqrt(s)= 1.96 TeV collected by the Collider Detector experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron, corresponding to 9.6 fb-1 of integrated luminosity. We report confidence regions in the two-dimensional space of \beta_s and the B0_s decay-width difference \Delta\Gamma_s, and measure \beta_s in [-\pi/2, -1.51] U [-0.06, 0.30] U [1.26, \pi/2] at the 68% confidence level, in agreement with the standard model expectation. Assuming the standard model value of \beta_s, we also determine \Delta\Gamma_s = 0.068 +- 0.026 (stat) +- 0.009 (syst) ps-1 and the mean B0_s lifetime, \tau_s = 1.528 +- 0.019 (stat) +- 0.009 (syst) ps, which are consistent and competitive with determinations by other experiments.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, Phys. Rev. Lett 109, 171802 (2012

    An Intergenic Region Shared by At4g35985 and At4g35987 in Arabidopsis Thaliana is a Tissue Specific and Stress Inducible Bidirectional Promoter Analyzed in Transgenic Arabidopsis and Tobacco Plants

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    On chromosome 4 in the Arabidopsis genome, two neighboring genes (calmodulin methyl transferase At4g35987 and senescence associated gene At4g35985) are located in a head-to-head divergent orientation sharing a putative bidirectional promoter. This 1258 bp intergenic region contains a number of environmental stress responsive and tissue specific cis-regulatory elements. Transcript analysis of At4g35985 and At4g35987 genes by quantitative real time PCR showed tissue specific and stress inducible expression profiles. We tested the bidirectional promoter-function of the intergenic region shared by the divergent genes At4g35985 and At4g35987 using two reporter genes (GFP and GUS) in both orientations in transient tobacco protoplast and Agro-infiltration assays, as well as in stably transformed transgenic Arabidopsis and tobacco plants. In transient assays with GFP and GUS reporter genes the At4g35985 promoter (P85) showed stronger expression (about 3.5 fold) compared to the At4g35987 promoter (P87). The tissue specific as well as stress responsive functional nature of the bidirectional promoter was evaluated in independent transgenic Arabidopsis and tobacco lines. Expression of P85 activity was detected in the midrib of leaves, leaf trichomes, apical meristemic regions, throughout the root, lateral roots and flowers. The expression of P87 was observed in leaf-tip, hydathodes, apical meristem, root tips, emerging lateral root tips, root stele region and in floral tissues. The bidirectional promoter in both orientations shows differential up-regulation (2.5 to 3 fold) under salt stress. Use of such regulatory elements of bidirectional promoters showing spatial and stress inducible promoter-functions in heterologous system might be an important tool for plant biotechnology and gene stacking applications

    Identification of novel targets for breast cancer by exploring gene switches on a genome scale

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    <p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>An important feature that emerges from analyzing gene regulatory networks is the "switch-like behavior" or "bistability", a dynamic feature of a particular gene to preferentially toggle between two steady-states. The state of gene switches plays pivotal roles in cell fate decision, but identifying switches has been difficult. Therefore a challenge confronting the field is to be able to systematically identify gene switches.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We propose a top-down mining approach to exploring gene switches on a genome-scale level. Theoretical analysis, proof-of-concept examples, and experimental studies demonstrate the ability of our mining approach to identify bistable genes by sampling across a variety of different conditions. Applying the approach to human breast cancer data identified genes that show bimodality within the cancer samples, such as estrogen receptor (ER) and ERBB2, as well as genes that show bimodality between cancer and non-cancer samples, where tumor-associated calcium signal transducer 2 (TACSTD2) is uncovered. We further suggest a likely transcription factor that regulates TACSTD2.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Our mining approach demonstrates that one can capitalize on genome-wide expression profiling to capture dynamic properties of a complex network. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt in applying mining approaches to explore gene switches on a genome-scale, and the identification of TACSTD2 demonstrates that single cell-level bistability can be predicted from microarray data. Experimental confirmation of the computational results suggest TACSTD2 could be a potential biomarker and attractive candidate for drug therapy against both ER+ and ER- subtypes of breast cancer, including the triple negative subtype.</p
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