Fetish

Fetish may refer to:

Anthropological uses

Sexual

Arts

Business

Fetish (album)

Fetish is a compilation album by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, released on June 8, 1999.

Track listing

References

Tara Moss

Tara Moss (born 2 October 1973) is a Canadian-Australian author, television presenter, journalist, former model and UNICEF national ambassador for child survival.

Biography

Moss was born to parents of Dutch descent – her grandparents had escaped from Nazi-occupied Holland – in Victoria, British Columbia, where she also attended school. Moss's mother Janni died of multiple myeloma in 1990 at age 43. Her mother was one of the first 100 patients in the world to be treated for the cancer with a bone marrow transplant. The main character in Moss's crime series, Mak Vanderwall, lost her mother to the same form of cancer.

Moss began modelling at age 14, with frequent trips to Europe from the age of 16, but did not stay long in the profession. At age 21, as detailed in The Fictional Woman (2014), she was raped in Vancouver by a known assailant, a Canadian actor. She recounts that she received little support. He was eventually charged with raping about a dozen women but was only convicted for another rape because his friends testified against him, then jailed for two years.

BSF

BSF may refer to:

BSF (time service)

BSF is the callsign of the time signal transmitter for Taiwan, which transmits time information on 77.5 kHz in the longwave range, and 5 MHz & 15 MHz in the shortwave range from Chung-Li. The transmitter, which uses a T-antenna is situated at 25°0′20″N 121°21′54″E / 25.00556°N 121.36500°E / 25.00556; 121.36500 (BSF Time Signal Transmitter).

Longwave transmitter

The longwave transmitter of the station uses 1 kW of power, achieving an effective radiated power of 460 W. 120 bits of information are transmitted each minute using amplitude-shift keying, whereby five basic states can be transmitted, encoding either pair of bits or a special synchronization mark:

Shortwave transmitter

The shortwave transmitter on 5 MHz operates continuously, while that on 15 MHz has an interruption between 35 and 40 minutes after the hour. The shortwave transmitters transmit during the five-minute intervals, with odd-count second pulses of 5 ms duration and 1 kHz modulation, and even-count second pulses of 5 ms without modulation. For 40 ms before and after the pulse, there is no modulation with the 1 kHz tone. Minute pulses have a length of 300 ms.

Interleukin 4

The interleukin 4 (IL4) is a cytokine that induces differentiation of naive helper T cells (Th0 cells) to Th2 cells. Upon activation by IL-4, Th2 cells subsequently produce additional IL-4 in a positive feedback loop. The cell that initially produces IL-4, thus inducing Th0 differentiation, has not been identified, but recent studies suggest that basophils may be the effector cell. It is closely related and has functions similar to Interleukin 13.

Function

It has many biological roles, including the stimulation of activated B-cell and T-cell proliferation, and the differentiation of B cells into plasma cells. It is a key regulator in humoral and adaptive immunity. IL-4 induces B-cell class switching to IgE, and up-regulates MHC class II production. IL-4 decreases the production of Th1 cells, macrophages, IFN-gamma, and dendritic cell IL-12.

Overproduction of IL-4 is associated with allergies.

Inflammation and wound repair

Tissue macrophages play an important role in chronic inflammation and wound repair. The presence of IL-4 in extravascular tissues promotes alternative activation of macrophages into M2 cells and inhibits classical activation of macrophages into M1 cells. An increase in repair macrophages (M2) is coupled with secretion of IL-10 and TGF-β that result in a diminution of pathological inflammation. Release of arginase, proline, polyaminases and TGF-β by the activated M2 cell is tied with wound repair and fibrosis.