This paper is foremost about experiments in embodying a transformative narrative of self that makes possible mutual collaborative practice with others. The focus less on what we ought to think or do, but rather subtracting, letting go, self-identities are no longer fit for purpose. We refer this as subtractive awareness by which mean becoming aware obstacles inhibit creative action In time when...

Vibriosis is one of the major diseases leading to massive fish mortality. Probiotics may provide a potential alternative method protect from pathogens and promote balanced environment minimizing use antibiotics chemotherapy. The aims this study were (i) isolate purify marine spore-former strains Sardine shrimp intestine, (ii) screen for bacteria with probiotic properties, (iii) carry out their ...

The 0908 typhoon “Morakot” heavily attacked Taiwan. It brought strong rainfall which not only caused water level rise in several reservoirs and rivers, but also triggered a large number of landslides, debris flow, collapse and other geological disasters. All of these changes resulted in flooding, and for the worst, several villages were buried. In this paper, using NDVI(Normal Differential Vege...

Support vector regression (SVR) is a learning method based on the support vector machine (SVM) that can be used for curve fitting and function estimation. In this paper, the ability of the nu-SVR to predict the catalytic activity of the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) reaction is evaluated and the result is compared with two other prediction techniques including: multilayer perceptron (MLP) and subtractiv...

In 1994, the bacterial parasite Mycoplasma gallisepticum expanded its host range and swept through populations of a novel host--eastern US populations of the house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus). This epizootic caused a dramatic decline in finch population numbers, has been shown to have caused strong selection on house finch morphology, and presumably caused evolutionary change at the molecular ...

let $r$ be a commutative ring with identity and $m$ be a unitary$r$-module. the primary-like spectrum $spec_l(m)$ is thecollection of all primary-like submodules $q$ such that $m/q$ is aprimeful $r$-module. here, $m$ is defined to be rsp if $rad(q)$ isa prime submodule for all $qin spec_l(m)$. this class containsthe family of multiplication modules properly. the purpose of thispaper is to intro...

The notion of a subtractive category, recently introduced by the author, is a “categorical version” of the notion of a (pointed) subtractive variety of universal algebras, due to A.Ursini. We show that a subtractive variety C, whose theory contains a unique constant, is abelian (i.e. C is the variety of modules over a fixed ring), if and only if the dual category Cop of C, is subtractive. More ...