The personnel policy program for the employees in studied municipality includes guidelines for the working environment, saying that health promoting activities is offered to all employees.                              Objective: To investigate how these activities were used and how the staff perceived the activities offered. The aim was also to find out how well the information about current health promotion efforts reached the staff.Method: A qualitative approach was used in the form of interviews. The sample consisted of municipal employees from seven different work sites.  A total of 12 women aged 32-52 years participated. The interviews were recorded and a hermeneutic theory was used to interpret the results.Results: The results showed that most informants used some form of fitness activity. In most cases health care-time was used for anything from walking to organized workouts. The great barrier was lack of information and lack of trained and dedicated health motivators. In several cases, informants had no knowledge about what a health motivator is supposed to do. The informants own suggestions for health promotion interventions included stress management and foot care.Conclusion: The survey showed that respondents were poorly informed about which wellness activities the municipality offered. The result could also be interpreted as a communication gap between the local authority, health motivators and the employees. A request for group activities was detected.

As is known to everyone, the popularity of soap drama breakthroughs the markets overseas, promoting the atmosphere of self-made soap drama indirectly. Many creators would like to join in the manufacture of soap drama, and it is believed that we can improvement the quality of the products.On the other hand, the manufacturing companines and the operators should make the integrated-strategy of production and marketing. To reform the development of Taiwan soap drama, first of all, we must enrich the quality and output of it, enhance the concept of integrated marketing and production, and produce requirement-oriented products. It is believed that we can learn from the implementation of South Korea's Valuation System to encourage corporations to join in television industry investment, finding funds, being independent. The government should guide enterprises to investment in television industry. The conclusion of this study are presented as follows: 1. Make use of the ability of Soap drama to create economic value. 2. Find some ways to seek funds and strengthen cross-border cooperation in Soap drama¡¦s producting. 3. Get rid of the reorganization from foreign country cartoons, and accumulate native experience of the manuscript creations.

The purpose of this study was to understand the difference of health-promoting life styles among the Fifth and Sixth grades students in Kaohsiung City, and analyze the related factors. A descriptive study design was chosen, and data was collected by self-reported questionnaires that include: demographic data, cues to self-efficacy of health behavior and health-promoting lifestyle profile. The number of subjects was 1164, consisting of 623 Fifth grade students and 541 Sixth grade students. The data collection was based on structural questionnaire method, and there were 1164 valid samples, which were then analyzed by SPSS for Windows 14.0. Results of this study include: 1. The average score was 157.93 in terms of overall scaling table. The highest score fell on health-promoting lifestyles, followed by daily life security habits ,then Self-Care habits, Stress & Sentiments Management, Recreation and Sport,and the lowest score was on eating habits. 2.The average score was 113.39 in terms of overall scaling table. The highest score fell on self-efficacy of health behavior, followed by health responsibility behavior, then stress management behavior, nutrition behavior, and the lowest score was on exercise behavior. 3.The result indicated that these background factors did show significant differences in health promotion life-style. 4. The result indicated that these background factors did show significant differences in self-efficacy of health behavior. 5. Health behavior self-efficacy were positively correlated with health-promoting lifestyles. ¡]r¡×.730¡Ap¡Õ.01¡^ 6. It was realized through hierarchical enter regression analysis that, health¡@responsibility behavior , stress management behavior, nutrition behavior, the gender ,results of study in class(last / middle), Father¡¦s occupation¡]field / general¡^ , Father¡¦s teach(democracy /abandon¡^ , exercise behavior, mother¡¦s level of education ¡]a primaryschool / a junior college¡^ and to stay with parent(yes / no¡^ and could explain to 59.7¢H total variance in health promotion life-style. Among these 10 factors, health responsibility behavior ,has the biggest influence; also, the research conclusions could serve as a reference for future health education and activities planning within the school.

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Bacillus thuringiensis NEB17 is a plant growth promoting rhizobacterium that produces a compound that directly increases plant growth. The compound is a bacteriocin and we propose the name thuricin 17. Thuricin 17 is a novel peptide inhibiting the growth of Bacillus species/strains, displaying both bactericidal and static effects. Its molecular weight, estimated via SDS-PAGE and verified by MALDI-QTOF mass spectroscopy, is 3162 Da. The partial amino acid sequence was determined and is N-term---WTCWSCLVCAACSVELL, C-term-CAS. Heat and pH stability, production and susceptibility to proteolysis were conducted. Thuricin 17 is active in pH 1.00-9.25, stable above 60°C and produced in the late exponential growth phase. This is the first bacteriocin from a Bacillus PGPR and the first reported to increase plant growth. This work presents an original discovery regarding PGPR mechanisms.

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Salinity is one of the most severe environmental factors that limits global crop yield. Enhanced phytoremediation using plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) has proven to be an effective and environmentally responsible approach to remove salt from the surface soil and reclaim salt-impacted soil for crop production. PGPR enhanced phytoremediation systems (PEPS) were applied to two research sites, Cannington Manor North (CMN) and Cannington Manor South (CMS) in southern Saskatchewan. The sites were impacted by brine leakage during upstream oil and gas production. A salt mass balance study was performed based on data collected from these two sites. Both sites were planted in June. Soil samples were taken in June 2009 (beginning of the season), August (midseason) and October (end of the season). Soil salinity changes throughout the season were monitored by measuring soil electrical conductivity (EC). The average surface soil ECe decreased from 3.7 dS/m to 3.1 dS/m at CMN, and from 10.2 dS/m to 9.2 dS/m at CMS in 2009 season. Plant samples that were collected in August and October were analyzed for sodium and chloride concentrations. These values were then converted into predicted ECe changes for the soil to compare with the actual changes in soil ECe. Plant uptake of NaCl was calculated to account for 25.2% and 28.1% of the decrease in surface soil ECe at CMN and CMS, respectively. However, plant samples were washed prior to salt content analysis. A considerable amount of salt could have been lost during the washing process. Several plant samples from other salt-impacted sites in Saskatchewan and Alberta were selected to examine salt loss due to tissue washing. The salt ions lost by washing were determined to be 44.4% for Na+ and 63.8% for Cl-. After the adjustment of plant NaCl uptake data by the loss due to washing, plant accumulation of NaCl accounted for 59.9% of the decrease in surface soil ECe at CMN and 56.1% at CMS. When plant uptake of K+ and Ca2+ were also taken into consideration by a simulation study, the decrease in surface soil ECe that was caused by plant uptake of salt ions accounted for 107.5% at CMN and 117.5% at CMS. This indicated that plants can have a significant role in the remediation of salt-impacted soil. The effects of PGPR (Pseudomonas spp. UW4 and Pseudomonas corrugata CMH3) treatment on selected physiological indicators, such as proline, superoxide dismutase (SOD), membrane leakage and photosynthesis, were examined on annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum). Plants were grown under three saline conditions: non-saline topsoil, non-saline topsoil spiked with NaCl to 10 dS/m, and high saline soil collected from a salt-impacted site diluted with non-saline topsoil to reach 10 dS/m. The shoot fresh weight of plants grown in spiked salt soil decreased by 74% and in diluted salt soil by 44%, respectively, compared to control soil. Both types of salt soil increased SOD activities by approximately 50%, proline concentrations by 20 to 25 fold, and membrane leakage levels by 1.6 to 2.8 fold. Significant impairment of photosynthetic performances, as indicated by the decreases in the chlorophyll fluorescence parameters Fv/Fm, yield and qP, and a parallel increase in qN, was also observed using Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM) fluorometry for plants in diluted impacted soil. PGPR moderately increased fresh weight and SOD activity. Both UW4 and CMH3 significantly increased proline concentration and lowered membrane leakage relative to untreated plants. Therefore, PGPR improve plant performance under salt stress by elevating proline levels, which can act as a quencher of destructive reactive oxygen species. PGPR treatment also restored all the chlorophyll fluorescence parameters nearly to the non-stressed level, indicating protection of photosynthetic tissues of PGPR treated plants under salt stress. Overall, PEPS was successfully applied to the salt-impacted sites. Plant uptake of salt played a major role in the decrease of surface soil ECe. PGPR’s role in enhancing plant performance under salt stress was suggested by the elevated proline concentrations, the decreased membrane leakage levels and the restored photosynthetic activity.