scholarly journals NBRC, a national biological resource centre of Japan

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Ken-ichiro Suzuki
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Information ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Biological Materials ◽  
Biological Resource ◽  
Biological Resource Centres ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
Microbial Cultures ◽  
The Government ◽  
Intellectual Properties

As defined in the OECD report issued in 2001, biological resource centres (BRCs) are an essential part of the infrastructure underpinning life sciences and biotechnology. A wide variety of biological materials such as microbial cultures, biomass, DNA, etc are supplied by BRCs. The databases available from BRCs are not only for the sales of materials, but also for those containing scientific information catching up with other advanced bioinformatics. In addition to these scientific contents, BRCs are expected to operate in the management of intellectual properties and promotion of the government?s policy on biosafety, quarantine, etc.

scholarly journals Quality management and biological resource centres

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Vera Weihs
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Final Stage ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Biological Resource ◽  
Culture Collections ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Service Culture ◽  
Biological Resource Centres ◽  
The Future ◽  
Traditional Service

The 2001 OECD report Biological resource centres: underpinning the future of life sciences and biotechnology resulted in the establishment of the Guidance for the operation of BRCs. This document still is in its final stage of discussions and has not yet been passed. Nevertheless, many traditional service culture collections already comply (or try to) with these guidelines in their daily work.

scholarly journals Biosecurity responsibilities of biological resource centres

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Ronald M Atlas
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Biological Materials ◽  
Health Protection ◽  
Microbial Culture ◽  
Biological Resource ◽  
Culture Collections ◽  
Biological Resource Centres ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Health Protection

Biological resource centres (BRCs), which house the world?s microbial culture collections, have emerging biosecurity responsibilities to prevent terrorists from acquiring dangerous pathogens that could be used to do harm. This presents a major challenge to the primary functions of BRCs, which are to supply biological materials for research, public health protection and economic development.

scholarly journals The three cornerstones for biological resource centres

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Virginie Storms ◽  
Philippe Desmeth ◽  
Jean Swings
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Great Effort ◽  
Biological Resource ◽  
Biological Resource Centres ◽  
The Future

Biological resource centres (BRCs) are an essential part of the infrastructure underpinning life sciences and biotechnology. The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) taskforce on BRCs (1999-2004), has put in a great effort of thought to define the new BRCs and forms the basis for the future development of the actual culture and reference collections. The effort, which has taken so many years and was, from the beginning, inspired by many WFCC members, has resulted in an important visionary document.

scholarly journals From culture collections to biological resource centres

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ipek Kurtböke
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Structural Information ◽  
Biological Systems ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Economic Cooperation ◽  
Living Cells ◽  
Biological Resource ◽  
Culture Collections ◽  
Biological Resource Centres

As defined by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), biological resource centres (BRCs) are an essential part of the infrastructure underpinning life sciences and biotechnology. They consist of service providers and repositories of living cells, genomes of organisms, and information relating to heredity and the functions of biological systems. BRCs contain collections of culturable organisms (e.g. genomes, plasmids, viruses, cDNAs), information on viable but not yet cultured organisms, cells and tissues, as well as databases containing molecular, physiological and structural information relevant to these collections and related bioinformatics.

scholarly journals Current situation and perspectives of ready-to-eat food/meal suppliers

2020 ◽  
Vol 78 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. 27-30
Author(s):  
Takashi Sakata ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Salt Content ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Whole Grain ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Dietary Reference Intakes ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
The Government

Abstract Working Group 2 of the Healthy Diet Research Committee of International Life Sciences Institute Japan (WG2) assessed the concept and practice of healthy eating in the ready-to-eat food/meal industry in Japan. WG2 interviewed 14 arbitrarily selected member companies that included “health” or “nutrition” in their management policy, and sent a questionnaire to 338 member companies of the Japan Ready-Made Meal Association. Ready-to-eat food/meal suppliers mainly referred to Dietary Reference Intakes for Japanese, the Japanese Food Guide, and/or Healthy Japan 21 for their menu construction. They increased dietary fiber, variety, vegetables, whole-grain cereals, millet rice, and soy bean products; and reduced energy, carbohydrates, and salt in “healthy” food. They tended to avoid making direct appeals to health. Many companies reduced the salt content without drawing attention to the practice. They continually strive to improve flavor as the single most important factor for selling healthy food. The cycling of menus is used to increase diversity in food consumption. These industries require both academia and the government to define priorities for increasing and decreasing particular nutrients as the main targets and to establish the maximum time for balancing each nutrient.

Editorial

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-95
Author(s):  
Charles E. Lyman
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Editorial Board Member ◽  
Initial Letter ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
National Library ◽  
The Past ◽  
Number Of Citations

Microscopy and Microanalysis has made significant strides forward over the past year, and I would like to comment on two of these. First, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) ranked this journal third among the nine microscopy journals it indexes. The ranking was in terms of ISI's Impact Factor, which tracks the number of citations to papers published in the journal. A strong Impact Factor indicates that information in the journal is of interest to other workers in the field. Second, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has selected Microscopy and Microanalysis to be indexed in MEDLINE (PubMed), beginning with the first issue of 2003. As any biologist will tell you, this listing is essential for the electronic visibility of papers in the fast-moving world of life sciences research. I thank Editorial Board member Dave Piston for his efforts in writing the initial letter of application to the NLM.

scholarly journals Seismic hazard on West Bandung district using non-linear earthquake response analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 331 ◽  
pp. 07003
Author(s):  
Anggun Mayang Sari ◽  
Afnindar Fakhrurrozi ◽  
Arifan Jaya Syahbana ◽  
Dwi Sarah ◽  
Bambang Setiadi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Information ◽  
Earthquake Ground Motion ◽  
Response Analysis ◽  
Building Structures ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Soil Response ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
The Government ◽  
Retail Company ◽  
Earthquake Response Analysis

West Bandung District is one of the government areas that grow rapidly in West Java. Here several infrastructures such as Highspeed Rail Development, Modern Residences, Tourist Attractions Area, and International Retail Company supply major contributions to economic development. Rapid construction in Bandung Basin caused the government to pay attention to risk factors, especially building structures. One of the natural hazards that must be considered is the presence of an active Lembang fault. Therefore, there is a need for a study that takes into account how the earthquake waves damaged the buildings. In this study, an analysis of the soil dynamics due to earthquake ground motion from bedrock was carried out. The analysis is carried out using the wave propagation method, which is a non-linear analysis of the soil response. The research was conducted at 12 points locations in West Bandung District. As the result, the location with the highest PGA surface value is in the Mekar Jaya area, while the lowest risk is found in the Cililin area. Furthermore, this study provides scientific information on seismic hazards to support government disaster risk reduction programs.

Catching-up and Leapfrogging in Key Manufacturing Sectors

2021 ◽  
pp. 136-155
Author(s):  
Keun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Cycle Times ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
Manufacturing Sectors ◽  
Market Regimes ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
The Government ◽  
High Degree

Chapter 6 assesses China’s catching-up and leapfrogging in key manufacturing sectors compared with the Korean experience. It explains the varying records of market catch-up by referring to diverse aspects of technological and market regimes, such as modularity, degrees of embodied technical change, tacitness of knowledge, knowledge accessibility, and frequency of innovations. Easy access to foreign technologies from developed countries (mobile phones vs. semiconductors), high degree of modularity (mobile phones vs. automobiles and semiconductors), and frequent changes in the generations of technologies or short cycle times of technologies (mobile phones and telecommunications systems vs. automobiles) generally help latecomers catch up. More importantly, sectors with a high degree of tacit knowledge (e.g., automobiles) tend to show a slower speed of catch-up than the manufacturers of telecommunications equipment with a high degree of explicit knowledge. Whether markets feature segmentation (or the existence of low-end niche segments for Chinese latecomers) seems to play an important role in the market regimes. Chinese firms manage to achieve initial success from a low-end market in segmented market conditions (e.g., telecommunications equipment and mobile phones) or markets protected by the government (e.g., telecommunications equipment). Conversely, they face high entry barriers in markets with no such segmentation (e.g., memory chips), which is one of the reasons for their slow progress in the memory chip sector (see also Chapter 4). These cases also suggest that technological regimes are not the only paramount determining factor; the outcomes are affected by the roles of actors, including firms and governments.

Role of Planning in Modernization Development: Evidence of the Republic of Korea

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-214
Author(s):  
Alla Rassadina
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Technological Transformation ◽  
Technological Basis ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
Technological Modernization ◽  
Planning Methods ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government

Active application of modern digital technologies is impossible without creating high technological basis for Russia’s economy, capable of effective implementation of such technologies. These processes assume the implementation of radical structural and technological modernization conversions applying different planning methods within the framework of state industrial policy. The most expressed forms of planning have been used by developed and «catching-up» economies primarily during radical modernization reforms. In this context, appealing to overseas planning experience seems to be of great interest. On the basis of foreign experts’ estimates, the author analyses the main directions in planning during the period of accelerated industrial-technological transformation in South Korea in the context of its possible use in Russia’s technological modernization. The experience of planning in South Korea is of special interest because it demonstrates the transformation in planning functions and methods according to the changes in socio-economic situation in the country and modernization goals set by the Government at different stages of development.

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