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Peter Hain, who was part of Mr Miliband's leadership campaign team, said an increase in tax on the wealthy would "square the circle", allowing Labour to avoid the Coalition Government's controversial cut to child benefit. His intervention comes as the new shadow Chancellor, Alan Johnson, prepares to make his first major speech in the role on Monday. Mr Johnson has also agreed to television interviews over the weekend.
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Mr Johnson will also be confronted about the disagreement between him and Mr Miliband over the introduction of a graduate tax. In an open letter to the newly elected leader before he was made shadow Chancellor, Mr Johnson urged him to drop the policy.
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A recent article on the ThinkProgress website has created something of a stir. The article asserts that China's recent grant to Donald Trump of a trademark in "Trump" is especially questionable under the Emoluments Clause because China violated its own law in granting the trademark, thereby making it clear that the trademark was a special favor to Trump: "The apparent preferential treatment for the U.S. president could land Trump in legal trouble back at home." Yesterday I received requests from people at two different Congressional committees asking for references to experts in Chinese trademark law who could clarify the issue, so people are definitely watching this closely.
The bottom line: It's implausible to say that China violated its own law here. Political factors may of course have played a role, but there's no violation of law that would constitute a smoking gun. Let me explain.
The claim that China violated its own law rests on a particular reading of China's Trademark Law and Trademark Review and Hearing Standards (TRHS). Article 10 of the Trademark Law says that a trademark may not be granted where it would harm social mores or have other bad influences (有害于社会主义道德风尚或者有其他不良影响的). Part 1, Sec. 9(2)(1) of the TRHS puts flesh on the bones of Art. 10 by defining trademarks having a "bad political influence" as, inter alia, those which are identical or similar to the names of leaders of states, regions, or political international organizations (与国家、地区或者政治性国际组织领导人姓名相同或近似的).
Seems pretty open and shut, right? Unfortunately, no -- and the authors of the article do not seem to have consulted a single expert on Chinese trademark law when they provided us with their interpretation of it. Talk about chutzpah. (They quote some language in a blog post by Mark Cohen, who is an expert, but all Cohen is doing is paraphrasing the legal standard, and in that blog post he specifically declines to opine on this particular case. They also consult and get some quotes from Matthew Dresden, a Chinese IP expert in Seattle, but Dresden never offers the opinion that the trademark grant violates China's own law.)
We had some discussion of this matter on the Chinalaw listserv the other day, and with the permission of Doug Clark, a barrister in Hong Kong specializing in Chinese trademark law, I reproduce his (lightly edited) view below. The main thing to note is that the intent of the prohibition is obviously to avoid offending foreign leaders and causing political problems by allowing others to trademark their names. Had the rulemakers contemplated that a foreign leader might be a celebrity wanting a trademark in their own name, surely they would have written that exception into the law. In addition, there are other obvious exceptions to what seems to be a rigid rule. The general point is that you should consult people who know what they are talking about before stating that some law requires some result.
I do not consider the decision to register Trump violates the standard. It is an application that has been pending for many years. It is not unknown for appellate bodies to disagree with lower-down decisions. Michael Jordan was also recently successful in some long drawn out trademark cases over the Chinese translation of his name. (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/business/international/china-michael-jordan-trademark-lawsuit.html)
The Trump application was also delayed because of a blocking registration.
The prohibition on registration of marks of political figures is to avoid disparaging trademarks being registered. It cannot be absolute. Some names are quite common (Ford, Bush, May) and you could not and should not block registration of all marks. (Should Ford Motors be stripped of its trade mark or not allowed to file new trademarks because Gerald Ford was president? No trademark for "Black Bush" Whiskey?) Trump falls in this category. It does have another meaning. In any event, in this case it is the Trump organisation (owned by Donald Trump) that is registering the mark and it is therefore not disparaging.
Having said all that, it is very likely that the decision was politicised on the Chinese side. There can be no doubt it would have been raised right up to the highest levels. Any unfavourable decision would possibly provoke Trump and given him a reason to attack China, so allowing the registration is certainly good diplomacy and politics.
Needless to say, I am not an expert on Chinese trademark law. If anyone reading this has well-founded reasons for disagreeing with Clark's analysis, please let me know by email (dclarke (at) law.gwu.edu) and I'll be glad to give you equal time.
Kudos to the China Guiding Cases Project at Stanford and to American University's Washington College of Law for putting on what looks to be a very interesting seminar on Chinese guiding cases. It's on February 22nd. Information and sign-up here: https://cgc.law.stanford.edu/event/guiding-cases-seminar-20170222/
Here's a report on an interesting case in which a Chinese court (the Nanjing Intermediate-Level People's Court) enforced a Singapore court judgment.
Under China's civil procedure law, Chinese courts may enforce foreign judgments that are not fundamentally offensive in some way under two circumstances: (1) there is a treaty with the foreign country calling for mutual enforcement of judgments; or (2) on the basis of reciprocity, which has been interpreted to mean that the foreign country has a practice of enforcing Chinese judgments, or at least has done so before.
There is no Singapore-China treaty calling for mutual recognition and enforcement of judgments. The Nanjing court found, however, than in 2014 a Singapore court had enforced a Chinese judgment. On that basis, it decided to recognize and enforce the Singapore judgment (a default judgment against a Chinese corporate defendant).
The report does not claim, and I don't know for a fact, that this is the first foreign judgment Chinese courts have enforced on the basis of reciprocity. (It says it's the first enforcement of a Singapore judgment on that basis.) But I think it's fair to say that such cases are pretty thin on the ground.
The report lists cases where foreign courts have enforced Chinese judgments in the absence of a treaty, suggesting that a basis for reciprocity exists in those cases. The list includes the Robinson Helicopter case, one that I have always thought was a bad example, given that the defendant had already argued in previous US forum non conveniens proceedings that the Chinese legal system was just dandy, and so could hardly be heard to argue otherwise when it came time to enforce a Chinese judgment against it. But if I were trying to enforce a US judgment in a Chinese court, I'd certainly bring it up. To the best of my knowledge, Chinese courts have not yet enforced a contested US money judgment. (I'm attaching those qualifications because they may, for example, have recognized a US divorce decree for some purpose.)
I recently read (and highly recommend) HE Xin's "'No Malicious Incidents': The Concern for Stability in China's Divorce Law Practice," Social & Legal Studies, 2017, pp. 1-23. In it, he argues that (at least in the court he observed) the "law" of divorce is completely overridden by the perceived need to maintain stability, which in practice means never to give a verdict that will upset anyone who is credibly threatening violence. (Obviously, this gives grey hairs to judges in cases where both sides credibly threaten violence if the ruling doesn't go their way.)
As always, people will debate whether this phenomenon is marginal and trivial or instead says something fundamental about what the institutions of what is conventionally called the Chinese legal system are really all about. But this post is not about that. Instead, I want to use it to introduce an interesting source I just ran across: some big data analyses of Chinese divorce cases from Jan. 1, 2014 to Sept. 30, 2016.
First, the data confirms what He has told us elsewhere: it's much harder to get a contested divorce in China than you might think, given the surface permissiveness of the law. (After all, if one party insists that mutual affection has indeed broken down and no longer exists, on what basis could a court say that that's not true?) In fully 63% of cases, the court did not grant the petition for divorce. To that 63% of adjudicated cases, we should also add those cases where the court talked the petitioner into withdrawing the request for divorce.
To me the most interesting data - and the one that made me think of He's article - was on the educational level of couples involved in divorce disputes.
The graphic shows the educational level of one party on the Y axis and the other party on the X axis. The six categories from bottom to top and left to right are (1) illiterate/semi-illiterate, (2) primary school, (3) middle school, (4) high school, (5) technical/vocational/junior college, and (6) undergraduate and above.
Note that the data aren't normalized to reflect the fact that there simply aren't a lot of people with a high educational level relative to those with a lower level, so this tells us nothing about whether people of a given educational level are more or less likely to get divorced. But the absolute numbers do tell us something interesting: that the practice of courts (after reading He's articles, I'm hesitant to call it "law") in contested divorces is driven heavily by people at the low end of the educational spectrum. Look at the size of the dots in the lower left section. This is a subject that might merit further study.
Just about everyone in the PRC law field knows about the contributions of Stanley Lubman (and if you don't, you should). Columbia Law School's Center for Chinese Legal Studies has now posted his entire oeuvre on its website. The collection includes articles, book chapter, op-eds, blog posts, and selected talks. Here's the link:
[NOTE: I just published a shorter version of this post (alternate link here) in Foreign Policy. Here's the longer and more academic version, with links to the original documents.]
[FURTHER NOTE: I have replaced the original blog post with this one, which incorporates some important points that were in the Foreign Policy piece but (I realized after posting) not in this one. My thanks to David Wertime at Foreign Policy for his very helpful editorial suggestions.]
China's Land Counterrevolution? Not Yet.
Both Chinese and western press reports over the last week (Caixin; New York Times; Financial Times) announced startling news about China's land regime: holders of 20-year residential leaseholds in the city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang province would see their leases renewed automatically and without charge.
If true, this news would be momentous: it would mean nothing less than the return of private land ownership in China. But in fact it looks like the leaseholders got nothing more than temporary squatters' rights. What's going on?
Since the early 1990s, urban land in China (all state-owned) has been available for sale in the form of long-term leaseholds called "land use rights" (LURs)—up to 70 years in the case of land designated for residential use. The original rule about what would happen when the leasehold expired was very clear: the land would go back to the landlord (in the case of China, the state). If leaseholders wanted to extend the lease, they would have to pay for it.
Although this rule was absolutely clear in legislation, leaseholders of course didn't like it. Proving the truth of Upton Sinclair's dictum that "it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it," a widespread belief grew up that the rules about renewal were either unclear or unfair. The picture was further muddied by the 2007 Property Law, which proclaimed that residential LURs would be renewed "automatically"—but without specifying what that meant, and particularly whether it meant "without charge." A prominent member of the drafting team later admitted that they had simply punted on the issue because it was too controversial. And the reason it was controversial is simple: to specify that a fee would have to be paid would have angered current LUR-holders—a vast and politically important vested interest group (probably 80 to 90 percent of urban families). But to specify that no fee need be paid would have meant overturning a sacred tenet of Chinese socialism: that private land ownership is anathema.
Why? Because a 70-year LUR that renews itself automatically and without charge is no longer a 70-year LUR. It is a permanent right to the land, indistinguishable in practice from the title known in American law as "fee simple"—the kind of title homeowners expect to get when they buy a house. Of course, the Chinese government can take the land (for a public purpose, and upon payment of compensation), it can regulate its use, and it can tax it. But governments in capitalist societies can do the same thing, and nobody has ever supposed that this means capitalist societies can't have private land ownership.
Whatever the ambiguity, it has not noticeably stifled China's residential real estate market, and real estate now accounts for more than 70 percent of overall household wealth – 80 percent in large cities such as Beijing or Shanghai. At the time of purchase, 70 years is a long way off – likely beyond the typical purchaser's lifetime, and almost certainly beyond the lifetime of the building in which the residence is located, given construction standards and the pace of urban change. So far rising prices have meant that even resales – which necessarily involve a shorter term than 70 years, since the term is not renewed at transfer – are often for more, sometimes much more, than the purchase price.
But although most Chinese residential leaseholds won't expire for a few more decades, dark clouds of uncertainty are already visible on the horizon. With the clock ticking ever downward, Chinese homebuyers are already starting to think about whether they will ultimately have anything left to pass on. They fear that as the end of their leaseholds approaches, they will find it more and more difficult to get a good price if they try to sell. Uncertainty about whether a homebuyer has a 70-year leasehold or a permanent fee simple doesn't much matter in year one, because the difference in value is tiny under any realistic set of economic assumptions. But if a Chinese leaseholder is trying to sell in year 40, the price buyers will pay for the 30 remaining years is a lot less than what they will pay if they are confident they are getting a permanent property interest. Even if buyers are foolish enough to be willing to pay a price that assumes they can keep the property permanently, they will have trouble getting mortgage lenders to be equally foolish – and that's bad for sellers as well. Once these problems start cropping up in earnest, leaseholders will start clamoring for certainty (in their favor, of course) decades before the leases are scheduled to expire.
Now let's go back to the Wenzhou LURs. Back in the mid-1990s, Wenzhou offered residential LURs on a number of land parcels for sale for varying terms—some for as many as seventy years, which has become the standard term, but some (about 600 parcels) for as few as twenty. These 20-year LURs, apparently the only ones in China sold in that era, are now coming due, and the leaseholders have been clamoring for a solution to their dilemma (their dilemma being the need to pay, and a solution being a free renewal of their lease).
On December 23rd, the Chinese government offered its response in the form of remarks by a Wang Guanghua, a vice minister of the Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR), at a press conference dedicated to an entirely different matter. If, as widely reported, Wang had said that the Wenzhou leaseholders would be allowed to renew their LURs indefinitely and at no charge, that would have been momentous news indeed, since it would have set an important precedent. After all, the Wenzhou leaseholders had the opportunity to pay for 70-year LURs and opted to buy only 20-year LURs at a lower cost. If they were to be given the windfall of perpetual free renewals, having paid for only twenty years, the case for giving perpetual free renewals to those who paid for seventy years would be much stronger. And perpetual free renewals are indistinguishable from full private ownership as understood around the world. Truly, one could have said that the urban land regime of the People's Republic of China had come full circle. (Rural land ownership in China is a subject to a completely different set of rules.)
But that is not exactly what Wang said. Instead, he referred to an official document issued by the MLR on December 8th in response to an inquiry from the Zhejiang provincial government about how to handle the Wenzhou LURs. Critically, that document does not grant a renewal of the LURs. A renewal or extension, to be meaningful, must specify either (a) a future date on which the new term ends, or (b) that the term continues indefinitely. The MLR document does not do this. Instead, it says: (a) that leaseholders need not apply for a renewal upon expiration of the LUR; (b) that local land administration bureaus shall not collect a fee, and (c) that when the LUR is transferred, normal procedures for titling and registration should be followed. This means that the transfer will not be disallowed, as it otherwise would have been, on the grounds that the LUR to be transferred no longer exists.
Most importantly, the document states that the specified term for the transferred LUR should be the original starting and ending dates, with a note added saying that "relevant procedures have been undertaken in accordance with" the MLR document.
In other words, what the current leaseholders have received is an assurance that for the time being they can stay in their homes without having to pay anything. What they did not get, however, is significant. They did not get a renewal: new LUR with a new expiration date twenty years or more from now. They had something saleable before, but do not have something saleable—something that a transferee would confidently pay money for—now. All they have to offer a transferee is an LUR with an expired term and a vague and cryptic annotation. Will anyone pay good money for that?
What happened in Wenzhou will, in time, become a full-blown national issue. In some 50 years, the first batch of 70-year residential leaseholds will start coming due. Well before that, however, leaseholders will start having problems with buyers who are unwilling to pay large amounts of money for a leasehold with only a few years left on it and no guarantee of renewal. The state will have to choose: enrage about 90 percent of China's urban population or admit that the 70-year residential leasehold is a mirage, an admission that would violate a core tenet of socialist rule.
Incredibly, 68 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China and 38 years into the era of post-Mao economic reform, the Chinese government is still unable to state clearly what kind of residential real estate ownership system it wants to have. The system remains shrouded in uncertainty, and buyers cannot know for certain what they are getting. It's likely that when the time comes, the government will blink – if there are any arch-conservative defenders of old-school socialism left, they will almost certainly be LUR holders themselves. But it has not blinked yet; for the time being, uncertainty still reigns.
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Here's a list of approved (which I assume means, "received state funding") legal research projects from the MOJ that just came out: http://epaper.legaldaily.com.cn/fzrb/content/20161102/Articel03002GN.htm
My impression (possibly wrong) is that in past years, a number (still a minority) of such projects have been pretty non-academic, with topics such as "The Significance of Xi Jinping's Speeches on National Rejuvenation for the Legal System". This year, in a quick review I didn't spot a single such project. This is not to say that none have political implications – there's one, for example, on legal responses to radical separatists in Hong Kong – but they all seem to be the type of thing about which one could do serious research and thinking. They've even included some legal history projects – even on one Roman legal history.
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this is the list of the top 10 mambo voodoo priestess of new orleans. tenn hill billy, and as you can see, most of them are WHITE women. so there you have it, white people who not only prictice voodoo, but are some of the best in their spiritual field.
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last thing i will say on this tenn hillbilly, is when you see a black person envolve in voodoo, your looking at a black person who is a witch, a rose by another name is still a rose. witchcraft like voodoo, have its gods ad goddesses, they both practice spell work, they both are nature based, they are ancient, and they both have totemic meanings within its rites. you also have white voodoo practitioners all over the world, you have in new orlean, more white practitoners now, than blacks, blacks in america have mostly converted to christianity, or islam. i hope that i answered your age old question about african american witches, and white american voodoo practitioners.
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is there such things as black wiccans
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Of course there are, there are Wiccans of all sorts of shapes, sizes, skin tones, and ethnic backgrounds.
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You'd think a pagan would understand the importance of honoring one's ancestors, but I guess that just shows how many modern pagans are all just show-and-tell and actually know very little of the actual traditions they claim to believe and follow.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are not indigenous to their country, and as such our national identity is very much tied to our immigrant ancestors. We cherish the customs our ancestors have left with us and we take pride in learning about our roots. You seem to think that who we are and where we come from ends with ourselves and that we should ignore our ancestors completely, which is completely baffling coming from a self-identified pagan.
It might be hard for you to understand because it is not your culture. Regardless, you have no right to tell people how to define themselves, and maybe if you tried to understand the perspectives of others instead of criticizing what you don't understand you wouldn't come off as such an ass.
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After considering the fate of the downtown farmers market for close to 120 days, the Turlock City Council on Tuesday awarded the contract to a new operator: Peter Cipponeri and the Golden State Farmers Market Association. The controversial series of actions by the City - from conflicting street closure requests to the adoption of a Request for Proposals process that resulted in a change in farmers market management -has caused a rift in the Turlock community and may have significant ramifications for months or years to come.
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Comparison between Karl Fischer and refractometric method for determination of water content in honey
Sanchez V.,Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina |
Baeza R.,Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina |
Ciappini C.,University of Latinamerican Education Centre |
Zamora M.C.,Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina |
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Food Control | Year: 2010
The aim of this work was to compare refractometric index (RI) and Karl Fischer (KF) titration methods for water content measurement in honeys. In addition, the effectiveness of two different solvents (methanol (M) and methanol:formamide in the ratio 1:1 (M + F)) was evaluated. Results indicated that RI and KF methods yielded similar results for water content determination in honeys; mainly, when the solvent M + F was used. This solvent mixture (M + F) also allowed a reduction in titration time which may be a potential advantage for measuring water content in honey. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Source
Zandron O.P.,CONICET |
Abecasis C.L.,University of Latinamerican Education Centre
Advanced Studies in Theoretical Physics | Year: 2010
From our family of first-order Lagrangian and applying the super-symmetric version of the Faddeev-Jackiw symplectic formalism for a t-J model, the constrained structure for triangular lattice antiferromagnetic is found. In this context, the Hubbard operators are used as field variables. In this approach the Hubbard X-operators are used as field variables, and they satisfy the commutation rules of the graded algebra spl(2,1). This model is also analyzed by using the path-integral formalism, and so the correlation generating functional and the effective Lagrangian are constructed. On the other hand, we must introduce appropiate ghost field in order to obtain a renormalizable model. It is shown how propagators and vertices can be renormalized to each order. In particular, the renormalized antiferromagnetic magnon propagator coming from our formalism is studied. As an example the thermal softening of the magnon frecuency is computed. Source
Cespedes M.,University of Latinamerican Education Centre |
Cardenas P.,University of Latinamerican Education Centre |
Staffolani M.,University of Latinamerican Education Centre |
Ciappini M.C.,University of Latinamerican Education Centre |
Vinderola G.,CONICET
Journal of Food Science | Year: 2013
The increase in vegetarianism as dietary habit and the increased allergy episodes against dairy proteins fuel the demand for probiotics in nondairy products. Lactose intolerance and the cholesterol content of dairy products can also be considered two additional reasons why some consumers are looking for probiotics in other foods. We aimed at determining cell viability in nondairy drinks and resistance to simulated gastric digestion of commercial probiotic lactobacilli commonly used in dairy products. Lactobacillus casei LC-01 and L. casei BGP 93 were added to different commercial nondairy drinks and viability and resistance to simulated gastric digestion (pH 2.5, 90 min, 37 °C) were monitored along storage (5 and 20 °C). For both strains, at least one nondairy drink was found to offer cell counts around 7 log orders until the end of the storage period. Changes in resistance to simulated gastric digestion were observed as well. Commercial probiotic cultures of L. casei can be added to commercial fruit juices after a carefull selection of the product that warrants cell viability. The resistance to simulated gastric digestion is an easy-to-apply in vitro tool that may contribute to product characterization and may help in the choice of the food matrix when no changes in cell viability are observed along storage. Sensorial evaluation is mandatory before marketing since the product type and storage conditions might influence the sensorial properties of the product due to the possibility of growth and lactic acid production by probiotic bacteria. Practical Application: Many probiotic cultures are available for application in dairy products. However, care must be taken before applying them to different foods and the necessary control of viable cells must be carried out in order to diversify the market of probiotic products with the present available commercial strains. © 2013 Institute of Food Technologists®. Source
Aimaretti N.R.,National University of Santa |
Aimaretti N.R.,University of Latinamerican Education Centre |
Ybalo C.V.,University of Latinamerican Education Centre |
Rojas M.L.,Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED) |
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Bioresource Technology | Year: 2012
A revalorization of discarded carrots as substrate for the production of second-generation ethanol is proposed. In order to increase the fermentable sugar concentration of the musts two strategies were studied: Strategy 1 consisted in the enzymatic hydrolysis of bagasse must and Strategy 2 by which carrots were milled, dropped into distilled water and hydrolyzed with different enzymes prior to compressing and filtering to obtain carrot must. By applying Strategy 2 using 0.05% (v/v) of the enzyme Optimase CX255 at 70 °C and pH 5.5 during 2.5 h, the fermentable sugars extracted increased 3.5 times. In this way, the production of 77.5 L of ethanol for each ton of discarded carrots was achieved. This process yielded bagasse as byproduct, which could be used for animal feed. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. Source
Optimization of ethanol fermentation from discarded carrots using immobilized Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Clementz A.L.,CONICET |
Aimaretti N.R.,CONICET |
Aimaretti N.R.,University of Latinamerican Education Centre |
Manuale D.,CONICET |
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International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering | Year: 2015
Discarded carrots are a valuable source of biomass amenable for valorization. Their use as raw material for ethanol production by fermentation, using yeasts immobilized in Calcium alginate, was proposed. The biocatalyst immobilization method, the existence of internal and external mass transfer limitations, the effect of the initial pH and the reuse of immobilized yeasts were particularly evaluated. Results indicate that beads made with a 2 % solution of Sodium alginate and a 30 % solution of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were strong enough to allow an efficient nutrient transfer into the matrix and to prevent cell leaking. A stirring rate of 200 rpm was needed to avoid external mass transfer limitations. These beads were used in three successive fermentations. An initial pH of 5.5 reached the best fermentation parameters. Non-enriched, non-sterile carrot must was fermented through immobilized yeasts; and values of ethanol concentration (29.9 g L−1), Yp/s (0.409 g g−1), and productivity (7.45 g L−1 h−1) were obtained. These values were similar to those registered when free cells were used. © 2014, The Author(s). Source


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This stugg really works to relieve joint and muscle pain and its warming the area as well. Arnica is so good at relieving soreness
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Irganic and natural rub balm with a very intense effect. Very suitable for arthritis and similar diseases. A very little ammount is enought to feel the hot at first and the painfull calming un a few minutes.
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The Granja La Gormanderia II has space for up to 30 people in a central location in the parish of Escaldes-Engordany.
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This proposal uses the BIRT mechanism to initiate a collaboration between the PI of the parent R01, a biologist who studies bone healing, and the Co-PI, a physicist with expertise in medical imaging and computational image analysis. It addresses a major clinical problem: our inability to determine with precision when bone has healed. This has important implications both for the clinical management of trauma patients and for the implementation of randomized, controlled studies to evaluate new bone-healing methods. For the parent R01, the PI utilizes a rat, femoral, segmental defect model. This is well characterized and has generated a wealth of historical data, including radiographs, microCT and mechanical testing, concerning defects that healed, did not heal or partially healed.
In Specific Aim one, the Co-PI will use the historical microCT data and a software simulation technique to generate virtual radiographic images of the bone from different orientations. Using bone samples with known outcomes, the image acquisition geometry and software algorithms will be optimized to provide the maximum accuracy for detecting fractures, producing a metric that provides an accurate measure of bone healing probability. This will produce an algorithm that allows healing to be assessed on the basis of just two plain radiographs taken at different angles. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis will be used to quantify performance.
In Specific Aim 2, this metric will be tested empirically using data obtained from fresh rats whose defects are given different doses of BMP-2 that result in different degrees of healing, ranging from no healing to full healing. The performance of the metric will be evaluated by comparison with "bridging" healing, as measured independently by microCT, and "mechanical" healing, as measured by mechanical testing. If this project is successful, it will provide the trauma surgeon with a reliable, quantitative, objective, and inexpensive method for assessing bone healing. Although the algorithms involve sophisticated mathematical analyses, they run automatically and can be incorporated into digital radiography system equipment found commonly in most radiology departments. Because the technology uses existing hardware, clinical translation should be straightforward.
Surgeons are often unable to tell when a broken bone has healed. This can compromise clinical care and slow the development of better ways to heal bone. The proposed research will provide a new, reliable and inexpensive way to determine when bones have healed. Due to its accurate, inexpensive and easy to use mechanism, it should become widely available for clinical care efforts.
|Evans, Christopher (2014) Using genes to facilitate the endogenous repair and regeneration of orthopaedic tissues. Int Orthop 38:1761-9
|Ferreira, Elisabeth; Porter, Ryan M; Wehling, Nathalie et al. (2013) Inflammatory cytokines induce a unique mineralizing phenotype in mesenchymal stem cells derived from human bone marrow. J Biol Chem 288:29494-505
|Evans, Christopher (2011) Gene therapy for the regeneration of bone. Injury 42:599-604
|Evans, Christopher H (2011) Barriers to the clinical translation of orthopedic tissue engineering. Tissue Eng Part B Rev 17:437-41
|Nazarian, Ara; Pezzella, Lina; Tseng, Alan et al. (2010) Application of structural rigidity analysis to assess fidelity of healed fractures in rat femurs with critical defects. Calcif Tissue Int 86:397-403
|Evans, Christopher H (2010) Gene therapy for bone healing. Expert Rev Mol Med 12:e18
|Evans, C H; Liu, F-J; Glatt, V et al. (2009) Use of genetically modified muscle and fat grafts to repair defects in bone and cartilage. Eur Cell Mater 18:96-111
|Kwong, Francois N K; Hoyland, Judith A; Freemont, Anthony J et al. (2009) Altered relative expression of BMPs and BMP inhibitors in cartilaginous areas of human fractures progressing towards nonunion. J Orthop Res 27:752-7
|Kwong, Francois N K; Hoyland, Judith A; Evans, Christopher H et al. (2009) Regional and cellular localisation of BMPs and their inhibitors'expression in human fractures. Int Orthop 33:281-8
|Evans, Christopher H; Ghivizzani, Steven C; Robbins, Paul D (2009) Orthopedic gene therapy in 2008. Mol Ther 17:231-44
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text: Resources Prayers Prayers for Iraq FM IraqFM operates in an urban area of the country, providing a safe place for people to discuss social issues, and promoting peace between Christians and Muslims. God is clearly at work through the station and we should give thanks for this, while praying for a yet greater impact. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday SUNDAY 22nd May People in the local community say their biggest concern is to have hope for the future. Pray that IraqFM's listeners will find their hope in Jesus. MONDAY 23rd May Please pray for the IraqFM team as they work with other radio stations to persuade the government to reduce fees for broadcast licenses. TUESDAY 24th May The team believes there is a slight issue with a piece of studio equipment (used for pre-recorded shows) which is reducing the quality of the recorded material. Pray for them as they try to find the source of the problem. WEDNESDAY 25th May Pray for continued creativity for the IraqFM team as they produce new material for broadcast. Pray especially for the station manager as he adapts the broadcast schedule and adds in new programme formats. THURSDAY 26th May The team has trialled translating the audio on a Christian video and posting the dubbed version on their website. Pray this will receive a good response, and pray for the team as they hone their skills in this area. FRIDAY 27th May Pray for IraqFM as they look into ways of raising local funding and growing their long-term sustainability. SATURDAY 28th May There is still a high level of engagement from listeners, with many calling in and participating in the live shows. Praise God for this, and pray this engagement will easily lead to conversation around matters of faith.


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Packers' Ryan Taylor says $21,000 fine nearly killed him
profootballtalk.com Updated Nov 14, 2012
Packers tight end Ryan Taylor found out during the team's bye week that he had been fined $21,000 for an illegal block during Green Bay's game against the Cardinals. He was not pleased. In fact, Taylor said that when his agent informed him of the fineShare Tweet
Packers' Matthews (hamstring) out vs. LionsESPN.com profootballtalk.com Nov 14, 2012Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews will miss Sunday's game in Detroit with a hamstring injury.Share Tweet
Packers Lineman Gives One Hell Of An Answer To "Boxers Or Briefs?"deadspin.com Nov 14, 2012The great thing about Twitter is that you can ask an athlete anything-anything, truly-and you just never know when they're going to answer you and how. Take Packers guard Josh Sitton, for example, who held a little Q&A with his followers last night. SShare Tweet
Brewers OF Aoki to sit out WBC for JapanESPN.com Nov 14, 2012Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Norichika Aoki has decided not to participate in next year's World Baseball Classic, becoming the latest Japanese major leaguer to opt out of the tournament.Share Tweet
Bucks Win Second StraightNov 14Brandon Jennings and Monta Ellis both score 16 points in Bucks' win.
Countdown Daily Prediction: Packers-LionsNov 14The NFL Live crew makes their picks for Green Bay at Detroit
Countdown Daily AccuScore: GB-DETNov 14Prim Siripipat goes inside the numbers for the Packers-Lions