Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Maritime Technology and Research in 2020

The editorial team greatly appreciates the reviewers who have dedicated their considerable time and expertise to the journal’s rigorous editorial process in 2020, regardless of whether the submissions were finally published or not. In 2020, a total of 45 articles were submitted to the journal, with a median time to first decision of 50 days, and 71 days from submission to publication. The editorial team would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for their generous contribution in 2020: Agnieszka Lazarowska, Poland Akihiko Matsuda, Japan Aldo Chircop, Canada Anand Kumar, Malaysia Anastasia Christodoulou, Sweden Anthony Paul Sison Guerrero, United States Anthony Yaw Karikari, Ghana Arunachalam Ponshanmugakumar, India Asen Asenov, Bulgaria Birgit Pauksztat, Sweden Boris Svilicic, Croatia Carlos Efrén Mora Luis, Spain Chalermpong Senarak, Thailand Chandrashekher Umanath Rivonker, India Che Abd Rahim Mohamed, Malaysia Christiaan Adika Adenya, Kenya Christopher Nolan, United States Dimitrios Dalaklis, Sweden Dong-Taur Su, Taiwan Ergun Demirel, Turkey Fatima Zohra Bouthir, Morocco Florin Rusca, Romania Floris Goerlandt, Canada Fu Ming Tzu, Taiwan Geng-Ruei Chang, Taiwan George H. Kaplan, United States Giulio Dubbioso, Italy Hao Long, China Hong Oanh Owen Nguyen, Australia Jacopo Aguzzi, Spain Jagan Jeevan, Malaysia Jerónimo Esteve-Perez, Spain Jiangang Jin, China Jianjun Wu, China Jianmin Li, China Jiao Jialong, China Juan Carlos Astudillo, Hong Kong Jun Ando, Japan Kantapon Tanakitkorn, Thailand Kwan Ouyang Taiwan Laura Piñeiro, Spain Li Ye, China Lidong Fan, Australia M. P. R Prasad, India Maciej Reichel, Poland Mahinda Bandara, Sri Lanka María-Araceli Losey-Leon, Spain Marta Mańkowska, Poland Maruj Limpawattana, Thailand Masayoshi Doi, Japan Mate J. Csorb, Norway Ming-Cheng Tsou, Taiwan Mohammed Russtam Suhrab Ismail, Malaysia Mohd Hazmi Bin Mohd Rusli, Malaysia Moses Kopong Tokan, Indonesia Mumini Dzoga, Kenya Neil J. Douglas, New Zealand Nucharee Nuchkoom Smith, Thailand Oghenetejiri Digun-Aweto, South Africa Olabisi Michael Olapoju, Nigeria Olaf Chresten Jensen, Denmark Om Prakash Sha, India Paul Tae-Woo Lee, China Pengfei Zhang, United Kindom Peter RANERI, Sweden Peter Ralph Galicia, Philippines Phansak Iamraksa, Thailand Phatchara Sriphrabu, Thailand Proshanto Mukherjee, China Saikat Banerjee, India Sarinya Sanitwong Na Ayutthaya, Thailand Seonho Cho, Korea Sheree-Ann Adams, Grenada Supawat Chaikasem, Thailand Surasak Phoemsapthawee, Thailand Suresh Bhardwaj, India Thee Chowwanonthapunya, Thailand Vasilios D. Tsoukalas, Greece Wirachaya Chanpuypetch, Thailand Yodchai Tiaple, Thailand Yottana Khunatorn, Thailand

Acknowledgement: for the reviewers of Journal of Patan Academy of Health Sciences

We from the editorial team greatly appreciate the reviewers for your time and expertise to the journal’s rigorous editorial process, regardless of whether the papers are finally published or not in the JPAHS- Journal of Patan Academy of Health Sciences. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all the reviewers for your generous contribution.

Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Science & Technology Development Journal - Natural Sciences in 2020

The editorial team greatly appreciates the reviewers who have dedicated their considerable time and expertise to the journal’s rigorous editorial process over the past 12 months, regardless of whether the papers are finally published or not. The editors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for their generous contribution in 2020.

Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Science & Technology Development Journal - Economics - Law and Management in 2020

The editorial team greatly appreciates the reviewers who have dedicated their considerable time and expertise to the journal’s rigorous editorial process over the past 12 months, regardless of whether the papers are finally published or not. The editors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for their generous contribution in 2020.

Evaluation of the Cradle to Kinder programme for Aboriginal mothers and their children: perspectives from the women and their workers

This research was undertaken on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to Elders of the past, present and emerging, and also acknowledge the generous contribution to this research made by women and their families and Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA) staff. Aboriginal Cradle to Kinder (AC2K) is a home-visiting and advocacy programme focussed on promoting Aboriginal maternal and child health during both pre- and postnatal stages of parenthood which was delivered by VACCA, an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation. While there have been some feasibility assessments conducted on AC2K, no study to date has evaluated the impact of this programme from the perspective of neither the women nor the staff who deliver the programme. The aim of this study, therefore, was to evaluate how both the women and the staff evaluated the AC2K programme, namely the strengths, limitations and recommendations of the programme. Through consultation with VACCA, this study used a qualitative approach using interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore the processes underpinning the programme coupled with participants’ experiences of the programme. A co-design process was used in the development of interview questions, and a total of seven women and six workers participated in semi-structured interviews. The results revealed three superordinate themes across both participant groups: cultural connection (i.e. how well the programme facilitates cultural connection), system complexities (i.e. caseloads, staff turnover and child protection [CP] difficulties) and programme features (i.e. parenting enhancement and unique programme benefits). The processes, and the programme more broadly, were evaluated positively by both the women and staff who supported its delivery. Specifically, a greater connection to culture, increased parenting skills and unique programme benefits were reported. However, there were recommendations on how the programme could be further strengthened, including negotiable caseloads with the Department and improved partnership with CP. These changes can help to further improve the experiences of both the women and their workers when engaging in Aboriginal specific maternal health and well-being supports.

Fibs and fripperies: References to the real in digital illustration

This article considers the phenomenon of illustrators digitally mimicking traces of the handmade as ornament. It will explore whether these decorative tendencies are Adolf Loos' backward or degenerative tendency, or a generous contribution to our visual environment. It will ask why illustrators falsify the smudges, spills, textures and shadows of paper-based work within the digital workspace, what is gained and lost by doing so, and for whom? These questions will be explored in relation to interviews with two contemporary editorial illustrators and their work, to unpick the professional benefits of the phenomenon, coupled with a foray into theoretical perspectives on ornament. In this regard, the article will consider the benefit of treating ornament as labour, and also whether illustration is suffering from Herbert Read's horror vacui, in order to understand what happens when these terrifying empty spaces within images are filled with introduced artefacts. The discussion will also take skeuomorphism into account to explore the phenomenon, which then raises questions concerning illustration's 'usability'. The article draws upon wildly different perspectives and practices from other fields as it seeks to consider the pleasures and pitfalls of a richly-ornamented composition, and ultimately argues that making 'noise' can be seen as a generous, temporal and critical act.

An Interview with Wendy Brown: Redoing the Demos?

The following discussion with philosopher and political scientist Wendy Brown seeks to apply her provocative and indispensable ideas to recent political events and problems, in particular focusing on her work in Undoing the Demos (2015) and returning briefly to consider Politics Out of History (2001) in today’s context. The questions were collectively authored and the interview itself was conducted by Sebastian Raza via Skype on 23 May 2017. We would like to thank Wendy Brown for the generous contribution of her time and for answering the questions so directly and clearly.

206 ALPHA6, BETA1, AND BETA3 INTEGRINS EXPRESSED BY SPERM MAY BE INVOLVED IN CATTLE FERTILIZATION

Sperm-egg interaction is a complex molecular process leading to gamete fusion mediated by a series of molecular interactions. Some integrin subunits, which are adhesion molecules, are expressed on human and mouse sperm, but major questions about the roles of integrins in sperm-oocyte fusion remain unsolved. This study was conducted to determine the presence of integrin subunits on cattle (Bos indicus and Bos taurus) sperm, and whether fertilization might be affected by treating sperm with antibodies to integrin subunits. Frozen–thawed sperm, donated by ABS Pecplan, were centrifuged at 700g for 10 min and washed once in warm PBS (Nutricell®, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil). Sperm were resuspended in PBS and treated with an equal volume of cold 4% paraformaldehyde (prepared fresh from formaldehyde) for 15 min on ice. All subsequent steps were conducted at RT. Fixed sperm were washed twice with PBS (10 000 rpm, 5 min) in an IEC Micromax (Needham, MA), and the pellet was resuspended in PBS containing 5% BSA. Samples of 1 mL, each containing 5 × 106 spermatozoa, were incubated overnight at 4°C with a monoclonal anti-integrin α6 immunoglobulin G (IgG), monoclonal anti-integrin β1 IgG, and monoclonal anti-integrin β3 IgG (Chemicon®). The next day, sperm were resuspended in Alexa Fluor® 488 goat anti-mouse IgG (Invitrogen). After being washed 3 times in PBS-BSA as before, a drop of sperm suspension was smeared on a slide, air-dried, mounted with antifade reagent with 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (Invitrogen), and covered with a coverslip for analysis. Frozen–thawed spermatozoa were washed by a 45/90% layered Percoll gradient centrifugation and incubated for 1 h in fertilization medium (FM; 1), FM with a monoclonal anti-integrin α6 IgG (2), FM with monoclonal anti-integrin β1 IgG (3), and FM with monoclonal anti-integrin β3 (4). In vitro-matured cattle oocytes were incubated (39°C, 5% CO2 in air) with 10 × 104 washed pretreated spermatozoa per 25 oocytes for 18 h. The oocytes were fixed in acid alcohol, stained with 1% acetate-orcein, and observed to determine the presence of pronuclei. Immunoreactive α6, β1, and β3 were concentrated at the apical segment of the acrosome in all bulls tested. There was no detectable fluorescence in any of the controls, and not all the sperm in an ejaculate were immunoreactive. Addition of anti-integrin α6, anti-integrin β1, and anti-integrin β3 decreased fertilization (P < 0.05) compared with the control: (1) 91.2 ± 2.0%; (2) 17.4 ± 2.0%; (3) 14.3 ± 2.0%; (4) 24.3 ± 2.0%. These findings show that α6, β1, and β3 integrins are expressed by cattle spermatozoa and may be involved in sperm-oocyte fusion and fertilization. This study was supported by FAPESP grants (2007/00363-5 and 2006/06008-0, Brazil). We acknowledge Nutricell and ABS Pecplan for their generous contribution.

Classical Marbles: A Recent Bibliography

The bibliography that follows is the work of the Committee for the Study of Marble and Similar Stones in Antiquity.This committee was established in 1965 to serve as a centre for reference and for the exchange of information between all those persons and institutions who are concerned with the identification and study of the fine building stones and other decorative stones used in classical antiquity. It is sponsored by the International Association for Classical Archaeology, which in 1970/71 and again in 1971/72 has made a generous contribution towards its expenses. The committee's reference collection of quarry samples (see PBSR, xxxiv (1966), 79) is installed at the British School and growing satisfactorily, and several other projects are nearing completion. These include a survey of the Christian sarcophagi in the recently installed Museo Pio Cristiano, the former Lateran collections, now published in Repertorium der Christlich-Antiken Sarkophage ed. F. W. Deichmann, vol. i (1967), and another of the classical statuary currently on display in the Museum at Ostia.