Vehicle insurance is a very important source of income for companies, and it closely related to the driving style performed by behavior. Different styles can better reflect risk than number violations, claims, other static statistic data. Subdivide vehicle market according personal characteristics habits insured vehicles, studying personalized products, will help companies improve their income,...

In this paper, we propose CIVE, context-based interactive system for distributed virtual environments that delivers contexts from real world to virtual environment and vice versa. The proposed system consists of ubi-UCAM for generating user’s contexts, NAVER for managing virtual environment, and Interface for linking ubi-UCAM with NAVER. The connection between real and virtual world through con...

The importance of the nitrate (NO3-) transporter for yield and nitrogen-use efficiency (NUE) in rice was previously demonstrated using map-based cloning. In this study, we enhanced the expression of the OsNRT2.1 gene, which encodes a high-affinity NO3- transporter, using a ubiquitin (Ubi) promoter and the NO3--inducible promoter of the OsNAR2.1 gene to drive OsNRT2.1 expression in transgenic ri...

'And have you the heart to apply the prosaic rules of evidence to a case which bubbles over with poetical emotion?': Strephon, an Arcadian shepherd, implores of the Lord Chancellor in Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe. To this impassioned pastoral entreaty, the Lord Chancellor replies robustly: 'Distinctly. I have always kept my duty strictly before my eyes, and it is to that fact that I owe my a...

We propose a novel interface in mobile environment called “Ubi-Finger” that realizes sensuous operations for PDAs and information appliances using gestures of fingers. In this paper, first, we propose the concept of Ubi-Finger. This concept enables users to sensuously control various devices in the real world. Since gestures are usual methods of nonverbal communications and enables sensuous ope...

The Serodia-HCV Particle Agglutination (HCV-PA) for the detection of HCV antibodies was compared with the Enzyme Immunoassay Test (UBI HCV EIA) for possible in-house use. A total of 150 specimens were analysed using UBI HCV EIA and Serodia-HCV PA. Of these, 80 (53.3%) were both PA and EIA positive and 59 (39.3%) were negative by both techniques. Eleven sera (7.4%) were found to be EIA-positive ...

Polygalacturonase (PG), one of the hydrolases responsible for cell wall pectin degradation, is involved in organ consenescence and biotic stress in plants. PG1 is composed of a catalytic subunit, PG2, and a non-catalytic PG1β subunit. OsBURP16 belongs to the PG1β-like subfamily of BURP-family genes and encodes one putative PG1β subunit precursor in rice (Oryza sativa L.). Transcription of OsBUR...

The reactive stroma surrounding tumor lesions performs critical roles ranging from supporting tumor cell proliferation to inducing tumorigenesis and metastasis. Therefore, it is critical to understand the cellular components and signaling control mechanisms that underlie the etiology of reactive stroma. Previous studies have individually implicated fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 (FGFR1) an...

There have been many studies on Schistocerca gregaria and Locusta migratoria, which are important grasshopper pests in many parts of the world. However, the main pest grasshopper species in Brazil, S. pallens, Rhammatocerus schistocercoides and Stiphra robusta, are very poorly characterized genetically. We adapted a permanent in situ hybridization method to extend the genetic characterization o...

Universal basic income (UBI) is a centuries-old policy proposal in which every citizen granted regular cash payment to provide security. One defining concept of UBI that it unconditional, unlike most modern social welfare programs. While decades pilot data suggest be superior traditional means tested assistance, public support divided and heavily based on stereotypes dependency negative consump...