Accountability in the East Asian economic miracle, crisis and recovery

Despite claims that accountability enables 'good governance' proper, its specific origins, character and limitations are not yet fully clear. In order to explicate the nature of accountability better this paper will, therefore, formulate and apply its own comparative framework to the case of the East Asian economic miracle, crisis and recovery in particular. In so doing it finds that, even when accountability emerged as a mid-crisis issue that was dramatically reconfigured for any due recovery later, it was not itself then sufficiently explicated for all the implications and consequences to be realized fully. Once it is explicated more fully, however, the further implications and consequences of changing accountability for economic governance question precisely what is to be expected from accountability per se

Impact of Chlamydia trachomatis in the reproductive setting: British Fertility Society Guidelines for practice

Chlamydia trachomatis infection of the genital tract is the most common sexually transmitted infection and has a world-wide distribution. The consequences of infection have an adverse effect on the reproductive health of women and are a common cause of infertility. Recent evidence also suggests an adverse effect on male reproduction. There is a need to standardise the approach in managing the impact of C. trachomatis infection on reproductive health. We have surveyed current UK practice towards screening and management of Chlamydia infections in the fertility setting. We found that at least 90% of clinicians surveyed offered screening. The literature on this topic was examined and revealed a paucity of solid evidence for estimating the risks of long-term reproductive sequelae following lower genital tract infection with C. trachomatis. The mechanism for the damage that occurs after Chlamydial infections is uncertain. However, instrumentation of the uterus in women with C. trachomatis infection is associated with a high risk of pelvic inflammatory disease, which can be prevented by appropriate antibiotic treatment and may prevent infected women from being at increased risk of the adverse sequelae, such as ectopic pregnancy and tubal factor infertility. Recommendations for practice have been proposed and the need for further studies is identified

Théorie du renversement de l'aimantation dans un cas particulier de variation locale des constantes d'anisotropie magnéto cristalline

The influence of local change of the magnetocrystalline anisotropy coefficient on the coercive force and the nucleation field is studied with use of a model derived from that of Aharoni : an uniaxial single crystal of infinite dimension in the three directions of a frame of reference Oxyz whose Oz axis coincides with the direction of easy magnetization of the crystal is assumed. In a slab of width 2d, limited by two planes perpendicular to Ox, the direction of easy magnetization is parallel to Oy and the magnetocrystalline anisotropy coefficient is of the form — Kα, α being a new positive parameter. For reasonable values of d and α this model gives positive nucleation fields, in agreement with experimental data. A coercive force considerably reduced with respect to the theoretical value 2K/ls of perfect samples is found and this for relatively small dimensions of the defect, but this reduction is never more than a factor of 4.L'influence d'une variation locale des constantes d'anisotropie magnétocristalline sur le champ coercitif et sur le champ de nucléation est étudiée sur un modèle dérivé de celui d'Aharoni : on considère un monocristal uniaxe, de dimension infinie dans les trois directions d'un trièdre de référence Oxyz et dont l'axe Oz coïncide avec la direction de facile aimantation du cristal. Dans une tranche d'épaisseur 2d, limitée par deux plans perpendiculaires à Ox, la direction de facile aimantation est parallèle à Oy et la constante d'anisotropie magnétocristalline est de la forme — Kα, α étant un nouveau paramètre positif. Pour des valeurs vraisemblables de d et de α ce modèle permet d'obtenir des champs de nucléation positifs, en accord avec les données expérimentales. On calcule aussi un champ coercitif sensiblement réduit par rapport à la valeur théorique 2K|I s des substances parfaites et cela pour des dimensions relativement petites du défaut, mais cette réduction n'est jamais supérieure à un facteur 4

ATOMIC SHORT-RANGE ORDER IN CONCENTRATED CuMn ALLOYS

Atomic short-range order in CuMn alloys (5-30 at% Mn) in equilibrium state is studied as well as its effect on the magnetic behaviour and low temperature specific heat. Spin glass features are observed and the freezing temperature Tf appears to be not sensitive to SRO as well as the linear specific heat term γ*T whereas the amplitude of the susceptibility peak at Tf is drastically increased

On the exact origin of the 1n T dependence of the resistivity of dilute Cd-Mn alloys

The resistivity and susceptibility of dilute Cd.Mn alloys have been measured in the helium temperature range. Most of the previous existing data were taken on concentrated samples above the solid solubility limit and needed correction. The susceptibility follows a Curie-Weiss law with θ = 0.1±0.05°K and peff=(4.7±0.3)μB, yielding a Kondo temperature of the order of 25m°K. Even on dilute samples, the impurity resistivity exhibits no deviation from a 1n T dependence within the experimental accuracy. Such deviation from the Kondo 1n T term is expected if one takes into account the most divergent higher order terms in perturbation theory. It is in fact shown that, even for high 77 7K, a better understanding of the observed 1n T dependence can be obtained for instance with Hamann's expression of the resistivity.SCOPUS: ar.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

Molecular variation and evolution of the tyrosine kinase domains of insulin receptor IRa and IRb genes in Cyprinidae

The insulin receptor (IR) gene plays an important role in regulating cell growth, differentiation and development. In the present study, DNA sequences of insulin receptor genes, IRa and IRb, were amplified and sequenced from 37 representative species of the Cyprinidae and from five outgroup species from non-cyprinid Cypriniformes. Based on coding sequences (CDS) of tyrosine kinase regions of IRa and IRb, molecular evolution and phylogenetic relationships were analyzed to better understand the characteristics of IR gene divergence in the family Cyprinidae. IRa and IRb were clustered into one lineage in the gene tree of the IR gene family, reconstructed using the unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean (UPGMA). IRa and IRb have evolved into distinct genes after IR gene duplication in Cyprinidae. For each gene, molecular evolution analyses showed that there was no significant difference among different groups in the reconstructed maximum parsimony (MP) tree of Cyprinidae; IRa and IRb have been subjected to similar evolutionary pressure among different lineages. Although the amino acid sequences of IRa and IRb tyrosine kinase regions were highly conserved, our analyses showed that there were clear sequence variations between the tyrosine kinase regions of IRa and IRb proteins. This indicates that IRa and IRb proteins might play different roles in the insulin signaling pathway

Studies on species classification for genus Cranoglanis Peters with the method of morphometrics

The genus Cranoglanis Peters is a group of fishes only distributed in East Asia. They live in the drainages of Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Hainan and the Red River drainage in northern Vietnam. At present, there are only three species in this genus, named Cranoglanis bouderius, C. multiradiatus and C. henrici. However, the described species, Cranoglanis bouderius, only based on one picture then and the name of C. multiradiatus was also depended on only three specimens. So there are still some arguments on the validity of these species. Now there is still no study related to their morphometries within these species living in different environment. This article is about the research on the species classification of Cranoglanis Peters to clarify the confusion and form a better classification. The method of morphometrics was used on 43 measurements in 66 individuals collected from Zhujiang drainage, Yuanjiang drainage and Hainan Island. Then, the principle component analysis was conducted on these variables. The preliminary analysis result indicates that there are no prominent differences among the three species, so they could not be divided into three species. They should be considered as one species: Cranoglanis bouderius