USA v. Jong Shin

USDC for the District of New Jerse

Boston University Symphony Orchestra, April 27, 1993

This is the concert program of the Boston University Symphony Orchestra performance on Tuesday, April 27, 1993 at 8:00 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Pavane by Gabriel Fauré, Thrumpet Concerto in E-flat major, H. VIIe:1 by Franz Joseph Haydn, and Pictures at an Exhibition (Orchestrated by Maurice Ravel) by Modest Mussorgsky. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Tests of random walks and market efficiency in Latin American stock markets: An empirical note

This note examines the weak-form market efficiency of Latin American equity markets. Daily returns for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela are examined for random walks using serial correlation coefficient and runs tests, Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF), Phillips-Perron (PP) and Kwiatkowski, Phillips, Schmidt and Shin (KPSS) unit root tests and multiple variance ratio (MVR) tests. The results, which are in broad agreement across the approaches employed, indicate that none of the markets are characterised by random walks and hence are not weak-form efficient, even under some less stringent random walk criteria.Emerging markets, random walk hypothesis, market efficiency

Development of High-Yielding and Early-Maturing Korean Hairy Vetch

There are a number of forage cultivars recommended by the government, but only a few winter-spring legumes are available for the farmers in Korea. Hairy vetch has superior winter hardiness and produces high dry matter (DM) yield compared with crimson clover, Persian clover, rose clover, common vetch and Chinese milk vetch in Korea. However, under a double cropping forage production system an early maturing vetch cultivar was more productive than a late maturing one (Shin et al., 2000). The objective of this research was to develop a high yielding and early flowering new hairy vetch cultivar derived from an accession in Korea

ベトナム産 Kaempferia marginata 及び Crinum asiaticum の化学成分とNO生産抑制活性に関する研究

富山大学・富医薬博甲第423号・Kiep Minh Do・2023/03/23公表論文1.Do KM, Kodama T, Shin MK, Nu LHT, Nguyen HM, Dang SV, Shiokawa KI, Hayakawa Y, Morita H. Marginols A‒H, unprecedented pimarane diterpenoids from Kaempferia marginata and their NO inhibitory activities. Phytochemistry. 2022 Apr;196:113109. doi: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2022.113109. Epub 2022 Jan 25. PMID: 35091214.2.Do KM, Kodama T, Nguyen HM, Ikumi N, Soeda C, Shiokawa KI, Morita H. Seco- and isopimarane diterpenoids from Kaempferia marginata rhizomes and their NO inhibition activities. Phytochemistry. 2023 Jan;205:113510. doi: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2022.113510. Epub 2022 Nov 12. PMID: 36379318.3.Do KM, Shin MK, Kodama T, Win NN, Prema P, Nguyen HM, Hayakawa Y, Morita H. Flavanols and Flavanes from Crinum asiaticum and Their Effects on LPS Signaling Pathway Through the Inhibition of NF-κB Activation. Planta Med. 2022 Sep;88(11):913-920. doi: 10.1055/a-1585-5877. Epub 2021 Sep 2. PMID: 34474490.富山大

Colonial Modernity in Korea (Book Review)

Book review by Thomas D. Curran. Shin, Gi-Wook and Michael Robinson, eds. Colonial Modernity in Korea. Cambridge: Harvard University Area Center, 1999. ISBN 0-674-14255-1

How the Feres Doctrine Prevents Cadets and Midshipmen of Military-Service Academies from Achieving Justice for Sexul Assault

Sixty-seven years ago, Feres v. United States foreclosed service members from pursuing claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) for “injuries incident to their service.” The progeny of case law that has since developed, the basis for what is known as the Feres doctrine, expanded the scope of what the Feres Court originally articulated as an injury incident to service. Now, cadets and midshipmen of military-service academies who allege that the government (i.e., the administration of military-service academies) was negligent in handling their sexual assaults are precluded from bringing an FTCA claim because their injuries are classified as “incident to their service” under Feres. Cadets and midshipmen occupy an ambiguous status as both service members and students of military-service academies. Although cadets and midshipmen are considered service members under the law, they are also students of military-service academies where they will graduate with a bachelor’s degree and incur an active-duty obligation to serve in the officer corps of the U.S. Armed Forces after they graduate. This Note focuses on the ambiguous status of cadets and midshipmen and argues that they are more akin to students of civilian colleges than active- duty service members. Unlike cadets and midshipmen, civilian students can raise Title IX claims against their universities for student-on-student sexual harassment or assault. By comparing how claims fare for cadets and midshipmen under Feres to the same claims by civilian students under Title IX, this Note argues that cadets and midshipmen do not have the same opportunity to achieve justice as civilian students in like circumstances. This Note additionally examines the legal and policy arguments against extending the Feres doctrine to cadets and midshipmen. Considering the evidence that suggests when superiors allow sexual harassment it may lead to higher instances of sexual harassment and assault in the military ranks, this Note urges Congress to reexamine the FTCA to limit the scope of the judicially made Feres doctrine to exclude cadets and midshipmen from bringing FTCA claims for the negligent mismanagement of their sexual assaults by academy administration

Cell signaling promoting protein carbonylation does not cause sulfhydryl oxidation: implications to the mechanism of redox signaling

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been recognized as second messengers, however, targeting mechanisms for ROS in cell signaling have not been defined. While ROS oxidizing protein cysteine thiols has been the most popular proposed mechanism, our laboratory proposed that ligand/receptor-mediated cell signaling involves protein carbonylation. Peroxiredoxin-6 (Prx6) is one protein that is carbonylated at 10 min after the platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) stimulation of human pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells. In the present study, the SulfoBiotics Protein Redox State Monitoring Kit Plus (Dojindo Molecular Technologies) was used to test if cysteine residues of Prx6 are oxidized in response to the PDGF stimulation. Human Prx6 has a molecular weight of 25 kDa and contains two cysteine residues. The Dojindo system adds the 15 kDa Protein-SHifter if these cysteine residues are reduced in the cells. Results showed that, in untreated cells, the Prx6 molecule predominantly exhibited the 55 kDa band, indicating that both cysteine residues are reduced in the cells. Treatment of cells with 1 mM H 2O 2 caused the disappearance of the 55 kDa band and the appearance of a 40 kDa band, suggesting that the high concentration of H 2O 2 oxidized one of the two cysteine residues in the Prx6 molecule. By contrast, PDGF stimulation had no effects on the thiol status of the Prx6 molecule. We concluded that protein carbonylation is a more sensitive target of ROS during ligand/receptor-mediated cell signaling than sulfhydryl oxidation